The Archive · 1921

An Heroic Son of Shanghai

Lieut. Selby Moore

On Tuesday another name wis added to the honours board that now stands in the Cathedral School. Already 10 names of those who died in the Great War had been written upon it. The latest Old Boy to win a hero's death is Clement Selby Moore, 1/10th Ghurka Rifles. He was one of the first scholars to enter the school when it opened in 1906 and won his class prize when only seven years of age. From the Cathedral he went to Charterhouse and from there to Sandhurst, and to-day his name is remembered at his public school as a gallant officer whose initiative and pluck were—instrumental in extricating a column of British and Indian troops who were held up by the Arabs in an endeavour to relieve an isolated and invested garrison at Rumaitha in Mesopotamia. Tuesday was the first anniversary of his death.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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