"Rugbeians in the Great War is a testimony to the generation of Rugbeians who served in the First World War and those
who had important roles at home...there is much of interest here."

Guards Magazine, Winter 2021 - 2022

Rugby School gave the civilized world Rugby Football but important though that was to history, the school did so much more in service of nation and Empire. The British Public School system misnamed because it was a private schooling system, was primarily geared to turning out the administrators and soldiers who kept the Empire together and the nation working. – Most Highly Recommended.

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Firetrench

Imagine my amazement at learning of the brilliant men who originated from Rugby and went on to play major roles in government and inventions and who took part in the first world war. This is an extraordinary account of some of the most famous individuals from our nation's history. It seems we have plenty to thank Rugby school for after all...

Books Monthly

Well written. 9/10

The Great War magazine, March 2020

I would say that the author has gone to great concentration and written an excellent and very detailed book. There is no other thing to do but to recommend this book, a really excellent book.

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UK Historian

I have a growing interest in public school contributions to the war effort and as far as Rugby School is concerned, I was already very familiar with the seven volumes of "Memorials of Rugbeians who fell in the Great War" which were published between 1916 and 1923. Indeed, most of the men whose portraits feature in those seven volumes also appear on my British Army Ancestors website. The Memorials volumes are extraordinary tributes to those Rugbeians who died in the service of their country during the First World War, and whilst this new volume from Pen & Sword draws on some of these biographies, and uses some of the photos, the scope is far wider and in places much more detailed; putting the service of individual Rugbeians into the context of the war as a whole.

There are helpful appendices and a useful index and bibliography; essentials in my book but sadly often overlooked these days. The author, a former teacher, has obviously also had access to the school archives and there are some, I'm guessing, previously unpublished photos of pupils and staff which add to the book's overall appeal.

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Army Ancestry Research, Paul Nixon

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