Farrar, HR
(1887 - 1914)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
25th July 1887
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1898 - 1906
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Wavertree, 66 Thurlow Park Road
REGIMENT
3rd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
24th December 1914
AGE AT DEATH:
27
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Ypres
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Dranoutre Military Cemetery II K 10
2nd Lieutenant Herbert Ronald Farrar
Ronald was born on July 25th 1887 in South Shields, the second child of the local vicar, also called Herbert Farrar, and his wife, Florence. Having begun his education at Carlisle Grammar School, in 1898 the family moved south to London, where he soon started at the College. He went on to be a pupil for the following eight years, with his younger brother, Sydney, joining him the year before he left. Ronald went on from Dulwich to Queens’ College, Cambridge, and whilst there he was a sergeant in the University’s O.T.C. After graduating with a B.A. in 1910 he began working as a prep school teacher, spending the next several years employed at schools in Ripple, Kent, and Windlesham, Sussex. In the spring of 1914 he went travelling, and over the next several months went first to the South of France, then Egypt, before returning through Italy.
He had not long returned when war was declared, and he soon signed up, at first as a member of the Public Schools’ Battalion. Shortly after this Ronald was given a commission, and transferred across to the Leicestershire Regiment. He went to France on October 27th, and was attached to the Manchester Regiment, with whom he was serving near Ypres when he was killed on Christmas Eve, 1914.
