Elizabeth College Cricket XI, 1913
Four of these boys died in the First War. Photograph from the Library Collection.
WWI
Local recruiting, January 1915
From The Star, January 6th 1915. The number of men enlisted in this Island since August 4th, 1914, is 338. Ninety-six have joined the Regular Army and 242 have enlisted in the New Army.
Enlistments: November 28th 1916
From The Star.The following have enlisted in the Guernsey Service Company:
Roll of honour: the last hours of Rifleman E S Gard, 1916
The Reverend J Gard has received the following letter from the Wesleyan Chaplain attached to the Hospital in which his son, Rifleman Ernest Stanley Gard, died last Thursday. The telegram here referred to was sent by the Reverend J Gard and was in the following terms: 'Loving sympathy Hearts best Love God's Blessing. Mother and Father.' From the Star, October 24th, 1916.
Corporal Edwin Carter, Rifle Brigade, 1916
From the Star, 25 November 1916.
Lieutenant-Colonel Elkington and the retreat from Mons, 1916
'How an Old Elizabethan made good: the stirring story of Lieutenant-Colonel Elkington.' The Star's take on a notorious incident, published in September 1916.
Lieutenant Auguste Bulteau, 1916
We regret to record the death of Lieutenant A. Bulteau, 7th French Colonial Infantry Regiment, and proprietor of the Caves de Bordeaux, Upper Mansell Street. which occurred on June 16 at Hai-Phong, Tonking, China, from abcess of the liver. [The Star.]
Captain Francis George Mockler, DSO, 1916
The Star, July 7th, 1916: We deeply regret to announce the death in action of Major F G Mockler, DSO, Royal Irish Regiment, which occurred on Sunday, July 2nd.
Lance-Corporal Henry J Bisson
From The Star, September 14, 1916: Lance-Corporal H J Bisson, son of Mr H F Bisson, monumental mason, St Julian's Avenue, writes home to his wife, who lives at L'Islet, that he has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
In death undivided: Alexander Herries
From the Star. The Library has in its collection a biography of Captain Herries, A young Borderer: a memoir of Alexander Dobrée Young-Herries, Captain, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, by David Frew, published in 1928.