Ronald Gurner

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Stanley Ronald Kershaw Gurner M.C. M.A. (1890-1939) was a headmaster and writer who was born in London. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London, Gurner went to Oxford University, where he was a classics scholar at St. Johns. He gained a First in honour moderations and won a university Latin prize. After illness in his final year he was awarded an aegrotat degree. He took up part time teaching positions at Haileybury College in 1912, before moving to Clifton College in 1913, and to a permanent post at Marlborough College in September 1913. In 1914 he was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade and served two years in the trenches before being wounded at Arras (where he won the Military Cross) in 1917 by a sniper.