make himself the most perfect defender of his country
and how ardently he strove with a hero's heart to place his
glorious gifts upon the altar of his country. He was all that the
most exacting paternal standards could demand. Now that his sun
has gone down while it is yet day, with all its brilliant past
and all its brilliant prospects, I join with your many friends in
the sincere and heartfelt hope that the courage, consolation and
pride which come to those who have "nurtured the brave to do
brave things" may be yours in largest measure in your hour of
sore trial.

From Mr. Lionel Jones, Science headmaster, Birmingham Technical
School:

I believe ours was the first house Paul visited, and I have
followed his career with interest and with, indeed, a sense of
pride. We had expected him to do great things; yet he has done
greater, for his last letter shows he had grasped the inner
meanings of Life and Death more clearly than we do, and was
content to sink the lesser in the greater Being.

From Mr. Hugh Spender, Parliamentary correspondent of the _Westminster
Gazette_:

I had the privilege of meeting your son, and I shall always carry
a very lively recollection of him. He was so modest that I did
not realise what a distinguished college career he had had. But
he impressed me very vividly with the strength of his
personality, remarkable in one so young. There was an air of
radiant gaiety about him which sprang from a pure heart and a
lofty purpose. I realised that he must have had a very great
influence for good. This thought must be a great consolation to
you in your grief. Here was a life "sans peur et sans reproche,"
a light to brighten the footsteps of every man who knew of him.

A well-known Professor, himself a Balliol history scholar, wrote:

I only met your son once, but I liked him much, and from the time
he got the Brakenbury the promise of his future career at Balliol
had a very special interest for me. I felt sure he was destined
to do great things. It is tragic to know that that destiny will
now never be realised; but he has done greater things; he has
done the greatest thing of all. That he should have joined the
Army so early and pressed for transfer to the machine-gun
corps--a unit which occupies posts of the greatest danger, and is