Notes
The College website (see References) carries this short biography of him: 'Theodore Kenneth Barlow, Lieutenant of the South Staffordshire Regiment, started a degree in Classics at Magdalene in 1915 but received his commission into the army shortly afterwards. Theodore was both ‘town’ and ‘gown’; having grown up in Cambridge, his name appears on both the Cambridge Guildhall War Memorial and on the memorial in the College Chapel. He was wounded at the Battle of Ypres, but proceeded to see action leading his men in the attack at the Battle of the Somme. The report read: “He lay in a shell hole, cheering on his men, when a bullet hit his chest. Still he kept his head above the shell hole to urge his men on to greater effort; a third wound put him out of action.’ His men succeeded in taking their objective but Barlow died of his wounds in hospital six days later. He was only 20 years old.'