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Marlborough College in the Great War in 100 Lives

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Although a relatively short book, and one of specialist interest, Marlborough College in the Great War in 100 Lives is large in format, concept and quality in its telling of the lives and deaths of former students in the Great War. Written by former pupils and staff and illustrated in colour and monochrome, the book underlines the often–undervalued…


21 February 1915 : Lieut. David Ronald Cross M.C.

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   Parents were Adam P. Esq. and Annie Cross of Brixworth Hall.  David went to boarding prep school at the Manor House, Great Haseley, Oxfordshire followed by Marlborough College from April 1903 to July 1908. He then read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. As a young man Lieutenant David Cross rode to hounds and was well known to Py…