over-miserable on his account. His last letter
gives a perfect picture of his mind and character. I really
believe that he did welcome the war, not as a war, but because it
gave him, as well as others, the chance of seeing things in their
true light.... When I saw Mrs. Bamkin a few weeks ago we talked
very intimately about Paul. She knew him only through her own boy
who was killed in July, 1915, and through what other fellows and
myself had said--and we came to the conclusion that Paul's was
one of the finest characters of my time at school.... He inspired
in me all the highest feelings. His example will help us on and
he will live among us still.

A young German, Mr. Gerald Roederwald, a fellow-student with my son in
the Modern Sixth, wrote:

I did not think that Paul would ever be able to get into the
firing-line at all, but it was just like him to seek the thick of
danger. Reading his last letter it seemed to me just as though we
were still at school together in the midst of an argument. Often
have I thought of "H. P. M." as we used to call him at school. We
all liked him. What a career his would surely have been! It was
an accepted tradition amongst us that old "H. P. M." would one
day astonish the world. Those who knew him well derived great
benefit from his cultured mind. I myself owe more than I can
express to your son's influence over me. No one who came near him
could help coming under the spell of his personality. His
remarkable intellectual gifts made us feel that he was our
superior. Not only that, his great stature seemed to be the
essence of his whole being. I mean that everything about him was
on a large scale. Nature had gifted him with a generous, open
mind, which was incapable of taking in anything that was small or
mean. Whenever Paul spoke to me his eyes seemed to probe into the
depths of my whole being. As long as I live I shall never forget
him. His spirit is with me always, for it is to him that I owe my
first real insight into Life.

From Mr. Raymond T. Young, Felsted School:

I knew Paul as a small boy at Brightlands ten years ago. He was
in my form and had already begun to show great promise
intellectually and as a sound and splendid boy. Afterwards I came
across him when he played such a fine game for the Dulwich Rugger