Contemporaneous inscription: "Gerald Mears from H.T.C.I. Oct. 36"

"Arthur Hugh Sidgwick, born October 2nd, 1882. Oxford Preparatory School : Scholar of Winchester and Balliol : Fellow of University College, Oxford. Civil Servant, Board of Education, 1906-1916. Died of wounds in France (Captain and Adjunct, R.G.A.), September 17th, 1917." -- Prefatory Note, p.vii