Great War Portraits

Lt Andrew Hunter Herbertson - K.R.R.C. - Only son of A. J. Herbertson, professor of Geography, was born 1894. came to Dragon School 1902, left 1907, Day-boy. He was absent form school several terms, partly owing to illnessand partly travelling with his father. We have vivid recollections of his complete indifference to the chance of punishment, his aptitude for getting into and out of scrapes, his quick brain, and his obvious gift of commanding a following, and we have not been at all surprised at his successful career as a soldier. He won an Exhibition at Magdalen College School in 1909, and won the School Prize twice for English Literature, and he always showed much capacity in the things that attracted his intellectual interests. He entered Balliol in 1912, taking history nd Classical 'Great'. He was in the middle of his career when war broke out, but joined up at once, and was wounded in October 1915; then he took up very successfully the duty of training of recruits, and returned to the front as Acting Captain in the spring of 1917. He was killed on night patrol, near Chérisy, about 4 miles from Courtrai, on the 18th May 1917. For a long time he was reported missing. His colonel wrote: 'He had only been a short time with the battalion, but we were all impressed by his character both as a man and as a capable officer.' - Taken from 'Memorials of Old Boys and Masters of the Dragon School, Oxford Who Fell in the Great War' 1922