World War 2 KIA Borne- Green

Lt Frederick Borne (4041)

Frederick Borne started College in 1932, leaving in 1941. Whilst at school he won the Brice Cup in the Officer Training Corps for the best recruit of the year 1937. He played for the colts’ cricket team. The following year he progressed to the 2^nd XI and in 1939 he played for the 1^st XI and was described as a promising batsman who saved the College from defeat in the second match v Victoria College. He was awarded his colours. In 1939 he was right back in the football team being a ‘very reliable player’ and awarded his colours.

His record in 1939 for cricket was:

EC 144-1 dnb F W Mourant 127-5

EC 70 6 GICC 95-4

EC 180 6 Vic Coll 35

EC 55 6 Commercial Lge 149-9

EC 176-6 2 HMS Vindictive 103

EC 163 10 Tauntons school 31

EC 109 14 Vic Coll 103

In 1940 he also featured at right back for the hockey team being the ‘mainstay of the defence’. During his last year at school in 1941 he was the captain of football as well as playing for the hockey and cricket teams. He was also in the music society.

In his military service he was promoted to a lieutenant in the 47^th Royal Marines Commando which was formed in Dorchester on 1^st August 1943 from selected marines of the disbanded 10^th Brigade. The 47^th was finally disbanded at Haywards Heath, Sussex on 31^st January 1946. He took part in the D-Day landings on 6^th June 1944 as part of Operation Overlord. Although they lost large amounts of weapons, equipment and men the survivors regrouped. On 7^th June they advanced on Port en Bessin but against all odds the commandos prevailed. The port was crucial as it was where PLUTO (pipeline under the ocean) came ashore which was to supply petrol needed to maintain the Allied advance.

On 11^th August 1944, aged 20, he was killed in action at Troarn, Normandy, and is buried in the Ranville War Cemetery just north of Caen.

2^nd Lt John Anthony Carey (4044)

John Anthony Carey was born in Uckfield, East Sussex to Lt-Col John Lionel Romilly Carey and Mary Gertrude Dobson of Jersey. John was the 3^rd generation of the Carey men to join the Royal Artillery. Grandfather Major General William Dobree Carey DSO was followed by his son John Lionel Romilly Carey who fought with distinction in the Great War also earning a DSO and his grandson John Anthony Carey. In 1939 John married Dorothy Margaret Shaw in Portsmouth. John was a 2^nd Lt service number 73053 First Medium regiment, Royal Artillery.

John played for the 1^st XI EC cricket team for three years from 1933 to 1935. His most successful match was in his opening year when against Victoria College he scored 107 and bowled 8-4-18-3 in their nearly 200 run victory.

His full record at cricket is:

1933

EC 145 18 GICC 153-5

EC 123-8 11 FW Mourants 116

EC 89-4 dnb HMS Kennett, Garry, Liffey 51 2-0-8-2

and 28-8 3-1-25-2

EC 220-9 65 Banks CC 93 3 for 14

EC 92-0 dnb VA Lewis 182 10-3-37-2

EC 270 107 Vic Coll 89 8-4-18-3

and 55-2 0 for 16

EC 185-7 24 GICC 187-3 2-0-17-0

EC 61 16 FW Mourant 237-6 5-0-24-0

EC 76 28 Commercial Lge 169-7 1-0-2-0

EC 68-2 0 GICC 155-8d 6-2-12-1

EC 49 0 RE Spencer 83 7-2-18-0

and 75-2 16

EC 182 2 King Edward 144

EC 60 7 Pilgrims 129

EC 98 4 GICC 190-8

EC 142 42 Commercial Lge 156-6

EC 185-9d 25 VA Lewis 145-4 4-0-30-2

EC 178 3 Vic Coll 160 6-2-13-3

EC 154-7d 10 FW Mourant 110-6 5-1-18-0

1934

EC 62 32 FW Mourant 162-4

EC 129 13 Commercial Lge 81

EC 110 4 Pilgrims 64

EC 172-7d 29 Banks CC 72

EC 147-4 72 FW Mourant 67

EC 128 94 GICC 50

EC 31 1 Pilgrims 109 4-1-3-4

EC 99 0 King Edward school 90 1-0-6-1

EC 162-5 4 VA Lewis 63

EC 72 26 Vic Coll 166 3-0-8-0

and 79-9 0

EC 82-9 24 VA Lewis 161

EC 132 45 Tauntons school 190

EC 132-8 66* GICC 165-2

EC 213 14 Vic Coll 118

He should make an excellent bat but must try not to be always LBW. Leg stump guard might help.

1935 captain

EC 113 64 GICC 121-6

EC 178-8d 114 GICC 184-4

EC 85 1 GICC 143-9

EC 64 17 VA Lewis 87

EC 46 5 Pilgrims 70 7-0-14-3

EC 125 7 Commercial Lge 133 6-0-17-3

EC 46 6 GICC 124-3 4-0-31-1

EC 124 6 Pessimists 91 2-0-13-0

EC 76 1 FW Mourant 156-9 0 for 19

EC 200-3d 103* VA Lewis 107

EC 212 69 Vic Coll 198 5-2-9-1

EC 157 2 Tauntons school 134-7 5-0-41-1

EC 157 77 Commercial Lge 136-7 2-0-10-0

EC 115 26 King Edward school 120

EC 174-8 81 Vic Coll 171

A good captain.

He was awarded his colours that year. The following year he played right back in the hockey team where he also gained his colours. The comments made about his cricket was that ‘he had batted well but must try not to be always out LBW’. In his last year he was made captain and was ‘still inclined to play across the ball’. He also played Old Siward in the school’s production of Macbeth.

As a member of the Royal Artillery John took part in the rear-guard action at Dunkirk. His regiment (1st Medium Regt. R.A.) was one of three ordered to hold, at all costs, and cover the embarkation of the British Expeditionary Force. It was in action for two days and nights, fired off all its ammunition, and then blew up its guns. John was wounded by shell splinters and died of wounds on the hospital ship at sea on 23 May 1940 returning from France. He had been seriously wounded in the Allied retreat towards Dunkirk. Both Calais and Boulogne were under siege at the time from German land and air forces. His sacrifice is commemorated on the war memorial in St Brelade, Jersey as well as St Thomas’ Church, Bedhampton.

Capt Eric John Crews (4072)

Eric John Crews attended EC from 1933 to 1936. He played for the 2^nd XI in 1935 and in his last year for the 1^st XIs in cricket, hockey and football. He was described as quite a good medium paced bowler.

His record in 1936 was

EC 165-8d dnb Commercial Lge 87-7 5-0-7-0

EC 112 1 GICC 113-8 3-1-14-1

EC 105-5 dnb Pilgrims 104 5-1-20-1

EC 63-8 dnb GICC 172-6 8-2-34-2

EC 116-9 6* FW Mourant 115 5-1-13-1

EC 122-5 dnb GICC 145-4 5-0-32-0

EC 104-9d 10* 2^nd Bn Sherwood F 88-6 1-0-7-1

EC 69-5 dnb GICC 165-5d 7-1-24-0

EC 127-9 4 VA Lewis 103-4 1-0-1-0

EC 131 8 GICC 135-7 5-0-39-3

EC 188 10 Vic Coll 189 9-4-26-2

EC 187 13 King Edward school 201-8d 8-0-26-2

EC 37 4* Tauntons school 115-8 10-3-27-3

EC 82 2 Vic Coll 95 3-0-23-0

and 134-6

EC 77 9 2^nd Bn Sherwood F 83-4 9-2-24-1

He passed his ‘A’ certificate in the Officers Training Corps

He was a lieutenant in the 69^th brigade of the East Yorkshire regiment, service number 137961. He was promoted to captain in the 5^th brigade and was mentioned in despatches. He saw service with the ‘Desert Rats’. On his return from North Africa he was chosen by the War Office to have his portrait painted as one of a group. This was put on show at ‘Salute the Soldier’ week in London and is now in the Imperial War Museum. He was involved in was service in Egypt, Cyprus, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Sicily and NW Europe.

After German citizens in Iran were expelled by Britain, German authorities retaliated by deporting those who were not born in the Channel Islands to Germany with their families. Some 2 200 people from the Channel Islands were removed to camps in Dorsten, Biberach, Wurzach, Laufen and Compiegne. Biberach became a civilian internment camp for people mainly from Guernsey until its liberation by French forces on 23 April 1945. Among those deported were Eric’s father William Henry and mother Edith.

Eric died of wounds he received in France on 11^th Sept 1944 and is buried in Leopoldsburg War Cemetery in Belgium with inscription ‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them’.

P/O Derek Gordon de Garis (4200)

Derek Gordon de Garis played cricket for the 2^nd XI during his time at College between 1936 and 1941. On leaving school he joined the RAF volunteer reserve and trained in Florida, service number 138197.

At 18.37 on 3^rd February 1943 he took off in his Stirling R9197 BU-V aircraft, as co-pilot, from Chedburgh, Suffolk to go to Hamburg. A major raid had been planned for that day and 214 squadron with 11 crews responding. Only 10 took off loaded with 1710 x 4 lb bombs and 90 x 4 lb ‘X’ incendiaries each. Two planes returned early with 6 returning after 5 or 6 hours. However, R9197 and R9282 failed to return. In total there were 263 aircraft dispatched to Hamburg with the eventual loss of 16 bombers. After a short but heavy aerial combat at 20:04 hours Knacke downed Short Stirling Mk I R9197. Gunner O’Neill had shot his last salvos from the Stirling which were fatal for the Messerschmitt and killing its pilot. The Stirling, with a crew of eight, 5 Canadians and 3 Britains, crashed between the Valleikanaal and the railway embankment (northwest of the Bruinenburger locks) in the vicinity of the Leusbroekerweg after the aircraft has released its dangerous bombload during an emergency procedure. During the combat with the Stirling the Messerschmitt Bf 110 with pilot Reinhold Knacke and navigator/gunner Kurt Bundrock was also hit and crashed in a meadow near the Modderbeek, at the Helweg, Achterveld. Bundrock survived the encounter by jumping from the aircraft with his parachute, but his commander perished.

An eye-witness relates:

‘I was sitting at the table with my mother in the kitchen of our farmhouse, sorting beans. I was 6 at the time. There was a tremendous noise and then suddenly quiet. We were so afraid that we did not go out but stayed inside. Mt father was among those who saw the burning wreckage. Villagers tried to approach the plane but Nazi troops surrounded it. The next day I watched as troops salvaged the engines and other parts.’

The crash site is now a meadow near a trail that was once a railway line. A book belonging to the German navigator Bundrock was found and translated. He details how they had shot down the RAF Stirling R9197 above Lausden and the crash of his own Messerschmitt.

F/O Henry Dale Green (3584)

Henry Dale Green was born in Lahore, India and attended EC in the early 1920s. In 1923 he played for the 1^st XI, received his colours and was defined as a ‘much improved batsman with excellent style but often threw his wicket away’. He was the school bantamweight boxing champion in 1923 and 1924. In 1924 he was in the hockey team and was the captain of cricket, the year the pavilion was completed. In his last year, 1925, he became a top order batsman and useful bowler.

His record is;

1923

Played outside left in the hockey team; ‘good and clever with the stick, and will improve when he grows older and stronger’

EC 116 21 Sporting Club 93 1 for 12

EC 53 FE Fulford 87 3 for 15

EC 59 FW Mourant 103 4 for 24

EC 78 17* Vic Coll 187 1 for 43

and 77 5

EC 110-9 Manchester Regt 156 4 for 52

EC 105 30* FW Mourant 114-7 3 for 34

EC 85 GICC 179 3 for 35

EC 128 49 GACC 130-5

EC 86 and 44-5 Manchester Regt 97 1 for 14

EC 127 22 Vic Coll 200 0 for 21

and 69-6 19

1924

EC 23 and 63-4 Manchester Regt 79 6 for 25

EC 86 GICC 138 11-1-36-3

EC 66 GW Stone 117-2 5-0-20-0

EC 66 4 Vic Coll 207

and 58 2

EC 63 2 Vic Coll 89 1-0-10-0

and 106 24

A much-improved bat with an excellent style, but often throws his wicket away by trying to cut rising balls. The cut is a stroke that can be overdone and it is often safer to leave rising balls on the off side. A fair change bowler and a good field.

1924

EC 23 Manchester Regt 79 6 for 25

63-4

EC 86 GICC 138 11-1-36-3

EC 66 4 Vic Coll 207 1 for 51

58 2

EC 63 2 Vic Coll 89 1-0-10-0

106 24 97-2 2-0-14-0

1925 captain

EC 84 2 GICC 96-4 5-0-22-0

EC 72 6 EB Waite 116

EC 103 1 GW Stone 55 6-1-8-4

EC 58 3 FW Mourant 63 6-0-19-3

EC 56 1 DCLI 64

EC 78 18 GICC 92 4-0-14-1

EC 141 1 FW Mourant 76-4 2-0-6-0

EC 172-6 24 Coll Masters 49

EC 71 2 DCLI 128 11-2-30-4

EC 75 26 Vic Coll 187 5 for 26

140 10 32-2 2 for 16

EC 155-8 10 DCLI 144 0 for 19

EC 113-4 40 FW Mourant 85 5-0-12-2

EC 72-4 16 DCLI 135 8-0-28-1

EC 210 44 Vic Coll 247 2 wkts

He was part of 224 squadron coastal command, with service number 39155. The plane was on search operation and was a Lockheed Hudson Mk1 based at RAF Leuchars, Fife, Scotland.

The pilot, P/O HD Green took off at 17.10, dived into the sea at 22.10. The official record is:

Lockheed Hudson Mk.I N7247 “QX-G” of 224 Squadron RAF. Dived into the North Sea on 7/9/39, 4 miles north-north-east of the North Carr Light Vessel, which was moored off Fife Ness, the easternmost point of Fife. Despite a prolonged search by the Broughty Ferry lifeboat, and Avro Ansons on 220 Squadron, RAF, no trace of the aircraft or the crew was ever found. Two months later a cowling panel from the aircraft was recovered from the sea in the crash area.

One of the panels at Runnymede Memorial near Slough showing Sgt H D Crews