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Eton College Library includes letters and plans for a memorial for Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Gunther MC, Grenadier Guards, who left Eton in 1917. He was killed in action with 3rd Battalion near the village of Villers-Pol going to the assistance of a wounded officer on 4th November 1918, a week before the Armistice was proclaimed. He was an aspiring artist who had hoped to go to art college after the war. The papers, which include the Gunther Memorial Prize for art, still awarded to Etonian artists every year, were given by his mother, Alice Gunther, in 1919.
On Monday 12th November 2018, Eton College held a Remembrance Service for the 1,158 old boys and masters who died in the First World War. Of the 203 Grenadier officers who were killed or died of their wounds, 96 were Old Etonians. Their names are commemorated on a marble plaque erected ‘To the Glory of God and in proud remembrance’ by their Etonian brother officers on the wall of Lupton’s Tower. Before the Service, three Old Etonians, Major Lord Valentine Cecil, Major Grant Baker, and Captain Alan Ogden laid a wreath in their memory on behalf of the Grenadier Guards.
A Remembrance Philip Wright
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