Remember Him at the Altar: Bloxham School and the Great War

by Matthew Dixon and Simon Batten

Book Overview

On 22 July 1916 Lieutenant Arthur Stevens of the 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, sat down to write a letter to the chaplain of his old school, Bloxham School in Oxfordshire. Informing him of the death of Gordon Peecock, an officer in the same battalion as well as a contemporary at Bloxham, he had a favor to ask of the Rev. Hugh Willimott: 'As his closest friend out here, I would like to ask you to remember him at the altar.' Peecock was killed by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915113644
• ISBN13: 9781915113641
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 236 Pages