Eagle House Roll of Honour 1914 – 1918

An examination of the Eagle House Book of Remembrance and the school magazine’s summer 1920 issue’s list of ‘Our Noble Dead’ gives a de-duplicated total of 51 military fatalities among its old boys during the First World War. This is a strikingly higher figure than that suffered during the Second World War, as the 1946 issue of the school magazine lists 17 military fatalities between 1939 and 1945.
It has to be remembered, however, that the total number of British military fatalities during the First World War (886,000) was more than double the figure for the Second World War (382,600.) The number of boys at the school at the start of both world wars was a fraction of the number of pupils now
– 53 in the summer of 1914 and 55 in 1942. (The latter date was the first time that the numbers were shown after 1935.)
The First World War fatalities among old Eagle House boys were spread across the five years of the conflict, although nearly half were in the five months of 1914 after war was declared and during 1915. All 51 fatalities were officers and their ages when killed predictably varied, but a sad figure of nearly a quarter were aged 20 orunder.
What we do not know, of course, is whether all the fatalities among old Eagle House boys were reported back to the school. In compiling these short biographies, we have examined all the sources we could find. If you have any additional information that could be included or that corrects the information here, please contact the Old Eagle House Society.

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