Notes
A former pupil of Shrewsbury, Francis Orme had abandoned his attempt to read Medicine and determined to join the Army on the eve of the War. Commissioned in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, he was reported missing on 7 November after leading an attack that captured six German machine guns. He was last seen 'lying in some dense undergrowth ... wounded in the head and body, and scarcely breathing'. Hope for the survival of this 'cheerful and popular character' was abandoned early in 1915.[28] His body was never recovered, and his name was recorded on the Menin Gate among the 54,000 Commonwealth dead who have no known graves.