Lives of the First World War

known 1918

The Late Major H. W. F. B. Farrer, M.C. Major Henry Wyndham F. B. Farrer, M.C., with two bars, R.F.A., killed instantaneously by a shell on Oct. 30th, was the second son of Canon and Mrs. Farrer, of South Canonry, The Close, Salisbury, and grandson of Mr. Edward Blackburne, K.C., Rathfarnham Castle, Co. Dublin. He was educated at Sandroyd and Bedford School, where he was a mathematical scholar. At both schools he obtained first colours for cricket and football, and, developing into a fine athlete, he got his cap for Dorset cricket, playing the last three seasons before the war, and while still at school being asked to play in the Midland Counties Rugby XV. against the N.Z. All Blacks. He passed 28th into Woolwich in December, 1912, and immediately got his Rugby XV. colours. Owing to the war, he was given his commission in August, 1914, and went to France in the following October, serving there continuously till he was killed. He was three times mentioned in dispatches, and received the Military Cross and two bars, immediate rewards for gallantry in the field. In 1917 he was presented with the Belgian " Croix de Guerre, " and also held the 1914 Star. He had been wounded on six occasions, four times seriously.—The Times. Reproduced by kind permission of Bedford School.

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