Sargood, HF
(1898 - 1917)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
14th February 1898
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1911 - 1915
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
The Nest, Stanley Road, Sutton
REGIMENT
16th (Public Schools) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
10th May 1917
AGE AT DEATH:
19
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Monchy le Preux
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Arras Memorial. Bay 7
2nd Lieutenant Hugh Frank Sargood
Hugh was born on Valentine’s Day 1898, the youngest of three children born to Customs Officer William Sargood and his wife, Alice. He began at the Prep before later transferring to the College in May 1911. Whilst at Dulwich he was a keen member of the O.T.C. and after four and a half years as a pupil left at the end of 1915, at which point he was a member of the Classical Lower Fifth.
After leaving Dulwich Hugh joined the Artists Rifles and was sent over to France to participate in an Officer Training programme in March 1916. After a year of training, during which he did not see any time on the actual front line, he was granted his commission in the Public Schools Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment at the start of April 1917. Not long afterwards, on May 10th, he was involved in trench digging at Monchy-le-Preux, near Arras, when he was killed, at the age of just 19.
