CYRIL HURDMAN, Second Lieutenant, 1/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, son of Mr G E Hurdman of Paget Road, Wolverhampton, entered the school with a scholarship in January 1907 and left in July 1915 to take up a Mathematical Scholarship at St. John’s College, Cambridge.  His course up the school was rapid and marked by a series of notable successes in the Cambridge Local Examinations and the maturer test of University Examinations.  For his last year he was Head Boy and Senior Prefect, and he had given himself unstintingly to all the pursuits of the school, filling the offices of Librarian, Secretary and Chairman of the Debating Society, Secretary of the Games Committee and Editor of The Wulfrunian.  He also held the captaincy of the school in cricket and football, and was a member of the Running VIII.  In all he showed conscientious and thorough devotion and a capacity for leadership.  Joining the O.T.C late, he reached no higher rank than that of Lance-Corporal, but his military aptitude was proved by his being gazetted to a commission in the Special Reserve of Officers even before he left the school.  After a year’s training with the 3rd Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment, he was transferred to the Warwickshire Regiment, and in June this year he was sent to France.  On July 20th he was reported missing.  The action was a night attack at Laventie, and the young officer was last seen on a German parapet 30 yards in advance of his own line.  There is, unhappily, little doubt that he was killed.  His Colonel has written of the energy and devotion to duty that, in the space of but a few weeks, had already gained for him the respect of the whole battalion.  His age was just 20.