Name
Cecil Joseph Boyes-Varley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/07/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
1717
Manchester Regiment
1st/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY
D. 58.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Edmunds College Memorial, Old Hall Green
Biography
The following text was transcribed from the The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College:
Cecil Varley, with his brother Errol came to St. Edmund's in September 1903. Whilst at the ColIege he played an important part in the life .of his companions, and was distinguished among them in those ways in which Britishers from the Colonies usually become marked in the eyes of Englishmen at home. In the playing fields, and in the play room, he contributed considerably to the "life " of the House, and was by no means lacking in ability in the schoolroom. But his companions remember him best on the cricket field, and in the billiard-room.
He was the son of Mr. 3. G. Boyes-Varley of Krugersdorp, Transvaal. When he left the College in 1906, his. time was divided between practical experience in South African mines, and studies at Westinghouse Works, Manchester. On the outbreak of war be joined the Manchester Regiment, and went to the Dardanelles in the early autumn of last year. His regiment suffered heavily, and with many others, Cecil \Parley there made the great sacrifice. And this sacrifice is all the greater in that he leaves to mourn his loss, a widow and two children, to whom all who knew Cecil Varley are constrained to offer their deep sympathy. Nor do we for¬get Mrs. Varley, his mother, who in similar position, has lost her eldest son; to her, and to Errol, his brother, we offer sincere condolence.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Di Vanderson, The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College
