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

by Matthew Dixon and Simon Batten

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