Lieutenant, Straits Settlement Volunteer Force
Born: March 3rd 1915
Died: February 15th 1942
Age at Death: 26
Killed at Singapore, February 15th 1942
House Prefect 1932
School Prefect 1933
Head of House 1933
3rd 15 1933-1934
Laurence Pontifex Sly was born in Reigate, Surrey, on 24 March 1915, the son of Harold Sly, a stockbroker, and his wife Mildred (née Shattock). Laurence attended the College on an exhibition, and won the Lower Fifth English prize.
He rose eventually to be Head of House, editor of the school magazine and Under Officer in the Officer Training Corps. On leaving school he worked for a trading company involved in rubber plantations in Malaya, where in September 1941 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Armoured Car Regiment. He died on active service during the fall of Singapore to the Japanese on 15 February 1942 and is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial.