Notes
Ged Martin (see References) offers this brief biography: ‘For all Magdalene's mythic image as an upper-class playground, just thirteen members of the College held commissions in the elite Guards' regiments — compared with fourteen who were officers in the Royal Engineers, conventionally thought of as the brains of the Army. Closest to the caricature stereotype was Tom Musgrave, a 'youthful and charming' Etonian. After Cambridge, he was commissioned in the Irish Guards but went out to Kenya to become a farmer. He returned to his regiment when War broke out and arrived in France on 9 January 1915. Four weeks later, Musgrave out-ran his men as they attacked a German position, and was firing into the enemy trench from a parapet when a shot killed him instantly. 'He was very happy here — perhaps almost too happy to do much work!', remarked the Magazine of this 'simple, lively, and generous' personality, adding 'it is sad to think that we shall never see him here among us again.'