Oxbridge Boat Race Teams & The Great War

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"As millions of viewers tune in for the famous Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race along the Thames today, the tragic stories of 42 rowers who lost their lives in the First World War have been revealed in a new book.
The Great War inflicted devastating carnage on the intelligent and athletic university students and graduates.
Five men from the 1914 race alone were slaughtered in battle while an Oxford rower who competed at the Olympics was killed while leading his men on an assault of a German machine-gun position.
Five members of the 1914 Boat Race - four from Cambridge and one from Oxford - were killed during the war.
Another tragic story is of Lieut-Commander Frederick Septimus 'Cleg' Kelly who took part in the 60th Boat Race on April 1, 1903.
He was a student at Balliol College, Oxford, and that year his team lost by six lengths.
The rower went on to win a gold medal in the 1908 Olympics Games held in London and during the war he served in the Royal Naval Division (Hood Battalion).
It was there that he befriended esteemed writer Rupert Brooke who penned the poem The Soldier in 1914.
He was with Brooke when he died in April 1915 and was part of the poet's burial party when he was laid to rest on the Greek island of Skyros.
Kelly, later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions in Gallipoli, was killed while leading his men in a frontal attack on a German machine-gun position at Beaumont-sur-Ancre, in north-east France."
Heroism of 42 Oxbridge Boat Race rowers killed in WWI | Daily Mail Online