OLD SHIBURNIAN NAVY & ARMY LIST (1914-18)

This is a valuable tool for genealogists and medal researchers. It contains the war service record of all past pupils of Sherborne College, Dorset, who served in the Great War. Names are arranged alphabetically and for each entry the information given includes the years he was at the college, his house, his service details, any awards and if a casualty the nature and circumstances. One entry at random: “Betts, 2nd Lieut.C.C. [student] 1913-1917. Killed April 17th 1918, (in the Aegean Sea owing to engine trouble) while on his way to bomb the Goeben..” There is a consolidated Roll of Honour at the end listing 221 names