2nd Lieut. Lancelot John Austen (Jack) Dewar 2nd Royal Marine Light Infantry, Royal Naval Division 13th November 1916, aged 20, Holy Trinity Lieutenant Lancelot ‘Jack’ Dewar, Royal Marines, had been prefect, Head Boy, rugby colour, cricket colour and cricket captain of Oakham School. Later, another son, commodified by Kipling as “two thousand pounds of education”, was again not spared when the Reverend, his wife Annie and daughter, Grace, lost Lieutenant David ‘Sonnie’ Dewar B.A. L.L.B.. He died in March 1918 at the Battle of St Quentin (page 113) his dream of being a missionary unfulfilled. In a happier spring-time it was written, “in the Lent Race of 1914, when the Downing boat made five bumps, he rowed bow.”
Leicester Road c.1900. The red brick house on the right is Holy Trinity Vicarage where Jack and Sonnie Dewar lived with their father, the Revd. David Dewar. (Courtesy Graham Hulme)
A picture presented to Lancelot’s parents of David and a memorial plaque from Holy Trinity to Jack are at the Carillon museum.
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