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He enrolled at Worcester College, Oxford in 1911 and the college archive states: 'Pringle Rae was born in South Africa in 1892 and entered Worcester College in 1911 with a classics scholarship. While at the College he was a member of the Philistines Club (an undergraduate literary society). Pringle Rae had completed his third year at Oxford and was preparing for the Indian Civil Service examinations when, upon the outbreak of war, he joined the Officer Training Corps at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Pringle Rae obtained his commission in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in September 1914 and went to the Front in July 1915, serving with the same battalion until his death. Major J. E. Pringle Rae was killed in action at Les Rues Vertes, Cambrai, on 30 November 1917.