Notes
Ged Martin (see References) offers this brief biography: ‘Ivan Garnett, a Harrovian, spent two years at Magdalene before joining the Shropshire Light Infantry in October 1914, and was granted his BA on the basis of special War regulations soon after. He was sent to France as a Second Lieutenant in July 1915, and killed by a direct hit from a German shell the following February. Regimental tributes stressed the 'charming disposition' of the twenty-three year-old. 'He was such a nice boy and was so good with his men,' wrote one fellow officer. 'I have often felt sorry for him out here, as I know it was a terrible strain on him to keep going at all,' another wrote to Garnett's mother. 'It is a pretty ghastly life this for anyone, but I am afraid it was even more ghastly for your son than for some others of us.''