Captain Aubrey Noel CAREW HUNT (1911)

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Born 27 January 1892 in Wandsworth, London
Killed in action 5 June 1916, aged 24
Buried at Écoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St-Éloi, Pas-de-Calais, France.

Aubrey Carew Hunt was one of three sons of Revd Robert Walter Carew Hunt and Mildred Mary Hamilton, née Bryans, of Albury Rectory, Tiddington, Wheatley, Oxfordshire.

He was educated at St Edward’s School, Oxford, where he was a member of the 1911 Elite Rowing IV. (Two of the other rowers and the cox lost their lives in the war, and the fourth was severely wounded and had a leg amputated.) Whilst at Merton he rowed in the College VIII for two years, and was President of the Stubbs Society; he took a second-class degree in Modern History in 1913.

He was gazetted (as Second Lieutenant) on 21 August 1914, and served in France. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Loos, and only returned to France a week before his death.

On his first night in the trenches since his return, he was killed by a stray bullet whilst superintending the erection of some wire netting, on 5 June 1916.