Biography:
Claude John Pym was born 27 February 1893, the second son of Claude George Melville Pym of Canwick House, near Lincoln, and Lucy Victoria, daughter of Alexander Leslie-Melville. His elder brother, Alexander Ruthven Pym also came to the school (B 1905-1909).
Claude came to Winchester College from Fonthill School in East Grinstead in September 1906. He was in B House, Moberly's, and in his last year he stood on dress for OTH VI. He left Winchester in December 1909 for Trinity College, Cambridge in 1910 and in 1913, he left England for Canada to learn farming.
At the outbreak of war he enlisted as a Private in the Second Canadian Contingent and came over with them in May 1915. In the following October he obtained a commission in the 2nd Battalion Irish Guards, in which his elder brother was already serving. In April 1916 he left for France with his younger brother Lieutenant Francis Pym, who was in the same regiment, to join their battalion on the front. He died near Albert on 27 March 1917, of injuries sustained through an accidental explosion sustained a few days earlier.