Fesche, HAM
(1893 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
5th August 1893
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1908 - 1910
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
2 Warwick Gardens, Kensington
REGIMENT
2nd Battalion, Auckland Regiment, New Zealand Infantry
FINAL RANK:
Private
DATE OF DEATH:
31st August 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
25
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Ypres
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Bancourt British Cemetery. I B 14
Private Harry Augustus Mark Fesche
Frank, as he came to be known, was born on August 5th 1893. He joined Dulwich in September 1908, not long after his fifteenth birthday, and went on to be at the College for the next two years. During this period he was living with his aunt, a Mrs. Roskell, in Kensington. He left Dulwich in the summer of 1910, whilst a member of the Science 5th, and not long afterwards moved out to New Zealand.
Frank was serving as a farm hand when war compelled him to join the New Zealand Infantry, and in September 1916 he came back to Europe as part of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, arriving that November. Almost two years later, on August 31st 1918, he was killed in action at Bapaume, and latterly buried in the British Cemetery at Bancourt. He was survived by his widow Ida, and their son Harry.