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THE BOND OF
SACRIFICE
A BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF .\LL
BRITISH OFFICERS ^^TIO FELL IN
THE GREAT WAR
VOLUME I
AUG — DEC, 1914
Military^ Edao/--
COLONEL LA. CLUTTERBUCIC
til association wit/j
COLONEL W. T. DOONER
Ahva/£ditor
COMMANDER the Honble CA.DENiSGN
(Title by Mr. Rudyard Kipling)
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FOREWORD
by
FIELD-MARSHAL the VISCOUNT FRENCH of YPRES,
g.c.b., o.m., g.c.\'.0., k.c.m.g.,
Colonel iqth Hussars, Colonel Irish Guards,
Colonel-in-Chief Royal Irish Regiment.
I HAVE been asked to write a foreword to
this deeplv interesting volume.
Its pages teem with deeds of gallantry and
devoted selt-sacrihce in the cause of King and
Countrv. The brief and concise narrative which
recalls the glorious ending of each separate life
must appeal with simple and pathetic grandeur
to every British heart.
If we search for the manv causes which have
made for the British Army so magnificent a
record, we will find amongst the most marked
and prominent is the close and cordial relation-
ship which has existed at all times between
Officers and men.
British soldiers have learnt from an experience
which now covers centuries that in their OfBcers
they possess leaders of indomitable courage,
determination and self-reliance. A mutual con-
fidence is established wliich has ensured many
FOREWORD
a glorious viclorv and often converted imminent
defeat and disaster into a brilliant success. The
Officers who have fallen in this great war have
splendidly maintained these traditions. This is
made abundantly evident to anyone who makes
a study of the Rolls of Honour which have filled
the columns of the daily paper.
Enormous beyond all precedent as these death
rolls have been it is a fatt that the proportion
of Officers to men is in excess of what it has
been in any former war. Deep as must ever be
the debt of gratitude which the Nation owes to
its soldiers in the ranks, at least the same is
owing to the devoted and intrepid leaders who
have so freely sacrificed their lives on these
blood-stained fields.
These volumes are indeed well calculated to
inspire the youth of this Countrv to maintain
and improve the attributes which have enabled
our fallen leaders to effecl such splendid results
for their Country and which, thank God, are
bred in them, and, so to speak, form part of
their flesh and blood.
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EDITORIAL NOTE
A few words are necessary to explain the system adopted
in compiling "The Bond of Sacrifice."
The publication will be issued in volumes, each covering
a period of, as nearly as possible, six months, and includ-
ino- the names of all Officers who lost their lives within
that period from causes directly attributable to active
service in the Great War.
When doubt exists regarding the fate of an Officer, his
name is not included until authentic confirmation ot his
death has been received.
Special volumes are in course of preparation for the Royal
Navv and for the Overseas Forces respectively, which it
is intended to publish after the conclusion ot the war.
The biographies are inserted in alphabetical order: in the
case of composite surnames (with or without hyphen) the
initial letter of the last name governs their place in the
book. Prefixes are treated as part of the surname.
Officers holding permanent commissions in the Royal
Marines will be included in the Naval Volume.
L. -A. CLUTTERBUCK
W. T. DOONER
MILITARY DESPATCHES
FROM THE
FIELD=MARSHAL COMMANDING = IN=CHIEF,
BRITISH FORCES IN THE FIELD.
War Office. September 9, 1914.
The following despatch has been received by the Secretary of State for ^^■a^ from the Field-
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, British Forces in the Field : —
7th September, 1914.
5Iy Lord,
I have the honour to report the proceedings of the Field Force under my command up to the time
of rendering this despatch.
1. The transport of the troops from England both by sea and by rail wa.s effected in the best order
and without a check. Each unit arrived at its destination in tliis country well within the scheduled
time.
The concentration was practically complete on the evening of Friday, the 21st ultimo, and I was
able to make dispositions to move the Force during Saturday, the 22nd. to positions 1 considered most
favourable from which to commence operations which the French Commander-in-Cliief, General
Joffre, requested me to undertake in pursuance of his plans in prosecution of the campaign.
The line taken up extended along the Hue of the canal from Conde on the west, through Mons and
Binche on the east. This line was taken up as follows : —
From Conde to Mons inclusive was assigned to the Second Corps, and to the right of the Second
Corps fi-om ^klons the First Corps was posted. The 5th Cavahy Brigade was placed at Binche.
In the absence of my Third Army Corps I desired to keep the Cavalry Di\-ision as much as possible
as a reserve to act on my outer flank, or move in support of any threatened part of the hne. The
forward reconnaissance was entrusted to Brigadier-General Sir Philip Clietwode with the 5th Cavalry
Brigade, but I directed General Allenh>y to send forward a few squadrons to assist in tliis work.
During the 22nd and 23rd these advanced squ^rons did some excellent work, some of them
penetrating as far as Soignies, and several encounters took place in which our troops showed to great
advantage.
2. At 6 a.m.. on August 23rd. I assembled the Commanders of the Urst and Second Corps and
Cavalry Division at a point close to the position, and explained the general situation of the Allies,
and what I understood to be General Joflre's plan. I discussed with them at some length the immediate
situation in front of us.
From information I received from French Headquarters I understood that little more than one,
or at most two, of the enemy's Army Corps, with perhaps one Cavalry Di\Tsion, were in front of my
position : and I was aware of no atteuipted outflanking movement by the enemy. 1 was confirmed
in this opinion by the fact that my patrols encountered no undue opposition in their reconnoitring
operations. The observation of my aeroplanes seemed also to bear out this estimate.
About 3 p.m. on Simday, the 23rd. reports began coming in to the effect that the enemy was
commencing an attack on the Mons line, apparently in some strength, but that the right of the position
fronrMons and Bray was being particularly threatened.
The Couunander of the First Corps had pushed his fiank back to some high ground south of Bray,
and the 5th Cavalry Brigade evacuated Binche, moving slightly south : the enemy thereupon occupied
Binche.
The right of the 3rd Division, under General Hamilton, was at ^lons, which formed a somewhat
dangerous salient : and I directed the Commander of the Second Corps to be careful not to keep the
troof>s on this salient too long. but. if threatened seriously, to draw back the centre behind Mons.
Tliis was done before dark. In the meantime, about 5 p.m., I received a most unexpected message
from General Joffre by telegraph, telling me that at least three German Corps, viz., a reserve corps,
the 4th Corps and the 9th Corps, were mo\Tng on my position in front, and that the Second Corps
was engaged in a timiing movement from the direction of Tom-nay. He also informed me that the
two reser\-e French Di^^sions and the 5th French Army on my right were i-etiring, the Germans having
on the previous day gained possession of the passages of the Sambre between Charleroi and Namur.
3. Tn view of the possibility of my boint; drivon from tlie Moiis position, I had previously ordered
a position in rear to be reconnoitreii. Tliis position rested on the fortress of Maubevine on tlie right,
and extended west to Jenlain, south-east of \'ivlenciennes, on the left. The position was repoited diHl-
cult to hold, liecause standing crops and buildings made the siting of trenehes very dillieult , and limited
the field of fire in !nany important localities. It nevertheless afforded a few good artillery positions.
\\'lien the news of the retirement of the p'ronch and the heavy German threatening on my front
ic.uhcd me. I endeavoured to confii-m it by aerojjlane reconnaissance ; and as a result of this I deter-
mined to elTeet a retirement to the Maubeuge position at daybreak on the 24th.
A certain amount of lighting continued along the whole line throughout the niglit, and at day-
break on the 21th tlie 2nd Division from the neighbourhood of llarmignit's made a powerful demon-
.stration as if to retake BinclK'. This was supported by the artillery of both the 1st and 2nd Divisions,
whilst the 1st Division took up a supporting position in the neighbourhood of Peissant. Under cover
of this demonstration the Second Corps retired on the line Dour-Quarouble-Frameries. The 3rd Division
on the right of the Corps suffered considerable loss in this operation from the enemy, who had
retaken Mons.
The Second Corps halted on tliis hnr. uliei-c tlicy |).irtially entrenelicd themselves, enal)ling
Sir Douglas Ilaig with the First Corps gradually to withdraw to the new jiosition ; and he effected
this without much further lo.ss, reaching the line Bavai-Maubeuge about 7 p.m. Towards midday the
enemy appeared to lie directing his principal effort again.st our left.
I had lucviously ordeied (ieneral AUenby with the Cavah y to act vigorously in advance of my
left front and endeavoiu- to take the press>U'e off.
About 7.30 a.m. (ieneral -Mlcnby received a message from Sir Cliarles Fergusson, counnanding
.5th Division, saying that he was very hard pressed and in urgent need of support. On receipt of this
message Geneial Allenliy dreu hi tlie Cavalry and endeavoure<l to bring direct .support to the oth
Division.
Duiing the couise of this operation (ieneral De Lisle, of the 2n(i Cavalry Brigade, thought he
saw a good opportunity to jiaialyze the tinlher advance of the enemy's infantry by making a mounted
attack on his (lank. He formed up and advanced for this purpose, but wa,s held up by wire about
500 yards fi-oiu his objective, and the 9th Lancers and 18th Hussai-s suffered severely in the retirement
of the Brigade.
The Unli liirantry Biigade. which had been guarding the Line of Communications, was brought
up by rail to X'alenciennes on the 22nd and 23rd. On the morning of the 24th they were moved out
to a position south of (^uarouble to support the left Hank of the Second Corps.
With the a,ssislance of the Cavalry .Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien was enabled to effect his retreat to
a new position : although, having two corps of the enemy on his front and one threatening his flank,
he suffered great losses in doing so.
At nightfall the position was occupieil by the Second C!orps to the west of Bavai, the First Corps
to the right. The right was protected by the Fortress of Maubeuge, the left by the 19th Brigade in
position between .Tenlain and Bry. and the Cavalry on the outer flank.
4. The French were still i-etiring. and I had no support except such as was afforded by the Fortress
of M.iubeiige : and the determined attempts of the enemy to get round my left flank assured me that
it was his intention to hem me again.st that place and surround me. I felt that not a moment nmst
be lost in retiring to another position.
I had every reason to believe that the enemy's forces were somewhat exhausted, and I knew that
they had suffered heavy losses. 1 hoped, therefore, that his pursuit would not be too vigorous to pre-
vent me effecting m>' object.
The operation, however, was full of danger and dillieult y. not only owing to the very superior
force in my front, but also to the exhaustion of the troops.
The retirement was recommenced in the early morning of the 25th to a position in the neighbour-
hood of Le Cateau, and rearguards were ordered to be clear of the Maubeuge-Bavai-Eth Road by
5.30 a.m.
IVo Cavalry Brigades, with the Divisional Cavalry of the Second Corps, covered the movement
of the Second Corps. The remainder of the Cavalry Division with the 19th Brigade, the whole under
the command of General AUenby, covered the west flank.
The 4th Division commenced its detrainment at Le Cateau on .Sunday, the 23rd, and by the
morning of the 25th eleven battalions and a Brigade of .Artillery with Divisional Staff were available
for service.
I ordered General .Snow to move out to take up a position with his right south of .Solesmes, his
left resting on the Cambrai-I^e Cateau Road south of La Chaprie. In this position the Division rendered
great help to the effective retirement of the Second and First Corps to the new position.
Although the troops had been ordered to occupy the Cambrai-Le Cateau-Landrecies position,
and the ground had, during the 25th, been partially prepared and entrenched, I had grave doubts —
owing to the information I received as to the accumulating strength of the enemy against me — as to
the nisdom of standing there to fight.
Having regard to the continued retirement of the French on my right, my exposed left flank,
the tendency of the enemy's western corps (II) to envelop me. and. more than all, the exhausted con-
dition of the troops, I determined to make a great effort to continue the retreat till I could put some
substantial obstacle, such as the Somnie or the Oise, between my troops and the enemy, and afford
the former some opporttuiity of rest and reorganisation. Orders were therefore sent to the Corps
Commanders to continue their retreat as soon as they possibly could towards the general line Vermand-
.St. Quentiu-Ribemont.
The Cavalry, under General Allenby. were ordered to cover the retirement.
Throughout the 25th and far into the evenins. the First Corps continued its march on Landrecies,
following the road along the eastern border of the Foret de ilomial. and arrived at Landrecies about 10
o'clock. I had intended that the Corps should come further west so as to flU up the gap between Le
Cateau and Landrecies. but the men were exhausted and could not get further in without rest.
The enemy, however, would not allow them this rest, and about 9.30 p.m. a report was received
that the -Ith Guards Brigade in Landrecies was heavily attacked by troops of the 9th German Army
Corps who were coming through the forest on the north of the town. This brigade fought most gal-
lantly and caused the enemy to suffer tremendous loss in issuing from the forest into the narrow streets
of the toma. The loss has been estimated from reUable soxu-ces at from 700 to 1,000. At the same time
information reached me from Sir Douglas Haig that his 1st Division was also heavily engaged south
and east of MaroUles. I sent urgent messages to the Commander of the two French Reserve Divisions
on my right to come up to the assistance of the First Corps, which they eventually did. Partly owing
to this assistance, but mainly to the skilful manner in which Sir Douglas Haig extricated his Corps
from an exceptionally difficult position in the darkness of the night, they were able at dawn to resume
their march south towards W'essigny on Guise.
By about 6 p.m. the Second Corps had got into position with their right on Le Cateau, their left-
in the neighbourhood of Caudry, and the line of defence was continued thence by the 4th Division
towards SeranvUlers, the left being thrown back.
During the fighting on the 24th and 2oth the Cavalry became a good deal scattered, but by the
early morning of the 26th General AUenby had succeeded in concentrating two brigades to the south
of Cambrai.
The ith Division was placed under the orders of the General Officer Conunanding the Second
Army Corps.
On the 2-lth the French Cavalry Corps, consisting of three divisions, under General Sordet, had
been in bUlets north of Avesnes. On my way back fi-om Bavai. which was my " Paste de C'ommande-
nient " during the fighting of the 23rd and 24th. I visited General Sordet, and earnestly requested his
co-operation and support. He promised to obtain sanction from his Army Conunander to act on my
left flank, but said that his horses were too tired to move before the next day. Although he rendered
me valuable assistance later on in the course of the retirement, he was vmable for the reasons given to
afford me any support on the most critical day of all. viz., the 2t>th.
At daybreak it became apparent that the enemy was throwing the bulk of his strength against the
left of the position occupied by the Second Corps and the 4th Division.
At this time the gims of four German Army Corps were in position against thenj. and Sir Horace
Smith- Dorrien reported to me that he judged it impossible to continue his retirement at daybreak
(as ordered) in face of such an attack.
I sent him orders to use his utmost endeavours to break off the action and retire at the earliest
possible moment, as it was impossible for me to send him any support, the First Corps being at the
moment incapable of movement.
The French Cavalry Corps, under General Sordet, was coming up on our left rear early in the morn-
ing, and I sent an urgent message to him to do his utmost to come up and support the retirement of
my left flank : but, owing to the fatigue of his horses, he found himself unable to intervene in any way.
There had been no time to entrench the position properly, but the troops showed a magnificent
front to the terrible fire which confronted them.
The Artillery, although outmatched by at least foiu- to one, made a splendid fight, and inflicted
heavy losses on their opponents.
At length it became apparent that, if complete annihilation was to be avoided, a retirement must
be attempted : and the order was plven to commence it about 3.30 p.m. The movenient was covered
with the most devoted intrepidity and determination by the ArtUlery, wliich had itself suffered heavily,
and the fine work done by the Cavalry in the fmlher retreat from the position assisted materially in the
final completion of this most difficult and dangerous operation.
Fortunately the enemy had himself suffered too heavily to engage in an energetic pursuit.
I cannot close the brief account of this glorious stand of the British troops without putting on
record my deep appreciation of tlie valuable services rendered by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien.
I say witliout hesitation that the saving of the left wing of the Army under my command on the
morning of the 2t>th August covild never have been accomplished unless a coininaiider of rare and
unusual coolness, intrepidity, and determination had been present to pei-sonally conduct the operations.
The retreat was continued far into the night of tlie 2(>th and through the 27th aiul 2Sth. on which
date the troops halted on the line Xoyon-Chauny-La Fere, having then thi-own off the weight of the
enemy's pursuit.
On the 27th and 2Stli 1 was nuich indebted to fieneral Sordet and the French Cavalry Division
wliich he commands for materially assisting my retirement and successfully driving back some of
the enemy on Cambrai.
General D'Amade also, witli the 61st and 62nd French Heserve Divisions, moved down from the
neighbourhood of Arras on the enemy's right flank and took much pressure off the rear of the British
Forces.
This closes the period covering the heavy fighting which commenced at Mens on Sunday after-
noon, 23rd August, and which really constituted a four days' battle.
At this point, therefore. I propose to close the present despatch.
I deeply deplore the very serious losses wliich the British Forces have suffered in this great battle ;
but the}- were inevitable in view of the fact that the British Army — only two days after a concentration
by rail — was called upon to withstand a vigorous attack of five German Anny Corps.
It Ls impossible for me to speak too highly of the skill evinced by the two General Officers com-
manding Army Corps : the self-sacrificing and devoted exertions of their .Staffs : the direction of the
troops by Divisional. Brigade and Regimental Leadei-s : the command of the smaller units by their
officers : and the magnificent fighting spirit displayed by non-commissioned officei's and men.
I wish particularly to bring to your Lordship's notice the admirable work done by the Royal
Flying Corps under Sir David Henderson. Their skill, energy and pei'severance have been beyond all
praise. They have furnished me with the most complete and accurate information which has been of
incalculable value in the conduct of the operations. I'lred at coivstantly both by friend and foe, and
not hesitating to fly in every kind of weather, they have remained luidaunted throughout.
Further, by actually fighting in the air, they have succeeded in destroying five of the enemy's
machines.
I wish to acknowledge with deep gratitude the incalcvdable assistance I received from the General
and Personal Staffs at Headquarters during this trying period.
Lieutenant-tieneral Sir .\rchibald .Murray. Chief of the General Staff ; Major-General Wilson, Sub-
Chief of the General Staff : and all under them have worked day and night uncea-singly with the utmost
skill, self-sacrifice, and devotion : and the same acknowledgment is due by me to Brigadier-General
Hon. W. Lambton, my Military Secretary, and the Pei-sonal Staff.
In such operations as 1 have described, the work of the Quartermaster-General Is of an extremely
onerous nature, Major-General .Sir V^'Uliam Robertson has met what appeared to be almost insuperable
difficulties with his characteristic energy, skill and determination ; and it is largely owing to his exer-
tions that the hardships and sufferings of the troops — inseparable fixjm such operations — were not
much greater.
Major-General Sir Xevil ilacready. the Adjutant-General, has also been confronted with most
onerous and difficult tasks in connection with disciplinary arrangements and the preparation of casualty
lists. He has been indefatigable in his exertions to meet the difficiUt situations which arose.
I have not yet been able to tomplete the list of officers whose names 1 desire to bring to your Lord-
ship's notice for services rendered diu-ing the period under review : and, as I understand it is of
importance that this despatch should uo longer be delayed, I propose to forward tliis list, separately,
as soon as I can.
I have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's most obedient Servant,
(Signed) J. D. P, FRENCH, Field-Marshal,
Commander-in-Chief,
British Forces in the Field.
TTar Office, October ISth. 1914.
The following despatches have been received by the Secretary of State for War from the Field-
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, British Forces in the Field : —
I, 17th September, 1914.
My Lord,
In continuation of my despatch of September 7th, I have the honour to report the further pro-
gress of the operations of the Forces under my command from August 28th.
On that evening the retirement of the Force was followed closely by two ot the enemy's cavalry
columns, mo\'ing south-east from St. Quentin.
Tlie retreat in this part of the field was being covered by the 3rd and 5th Cavalry Brigades. .South
of the Somme. General Gough. with the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, threw back the Uhlans of the Guard
with considerable loss.
Gener&l Chetwode, with the .5th Cavalry Brigade, encauntered the eastern column near Cerjzy,
moving south. The Brigade attacked and routed the column, the leading German regiment suffering
very severe casualties and being ahnost broken up.
The 7th French Army Corps was now in course of being railed up from the south to the east of
Amiens. On the 29th it nearly completed its detrainment, and the French 6th Army got into position
on my left, its right resting on Rove.
The 5th French Army was behind the line of the Oise between La Fere and Guise.
The pursuit of the enemy was very vigorovis : some five or six German corps were on the Somme,
facing the 5th Army on the OLse. At least two corps were advancing towards my front, and were
crossing the Somme east and west of Ham. Thi-ee or four more German corps were opposing the 6th
French Army on my left.
This was the situation at 1 o'clock on the 29th, when I received a visit from General Joffre at
my headquarters.
1 strongly represented my position to the PYench Commander-in-Chief, who was most kind,
cordial, and sympathetic, as he has always been. He told me that he had directed the 5th French Army
on the Oise to move forward and attack the Germans on the Somme, with a \"iew to checking pursuit.
He also told me of the formation of the Sixth French Army on my left flank, composed of the 7th Army
Corps, four Reserve Divisions, and .Sordet's Corps of Cavalry,
I finally arranged with General Joffre to effect a fvu1:her short retirement towards the line Com-
piegne-Soissons, promising him. however, to do n\y utnaost to keep always within a day's march of him.
In pursuance of this arrangement the British Forces retired to a position a few miles north of the
line Compiegne-Soissons on the 29th.
The right flank of the German Army was now reaching a point which appeared seriously to
endanger my line of communications «ith Ha\Te. I had already evacuated Amiens, into which place
a German reserve di^^sion was reported to have moved.
Orders were given to change the base to St, Xazaire. and establish an advance base at Le Mans.
Tlus operation was well carried out by the Inspector-General of Communications,
In spite of a severe defeat inflicted upon the Guard 10th and Guard Reserve Corps of the German
Army by the 1st and 3rd French Corps on the right of the 5th Army, it was not part of General
Joffre's plan to pursue this advantage, and a general retirement on to the line of the Marne was ordered,
to which the French Forces in the more eastern theatre were directed to conform.
A new Army (the 9th) had been formed from three corps in the south by General Joffre, and
moved into the space between the right of the 5th and left of the ith Armies.
Whilst closely adhering to his strategic conception to draw the enemy on at all points until a
favourable situation was created from which to assume the offensive. General Joffre foimd it necessary
to modify from day to day the methods by which he sought to attain this object, owing to the develop-
ment of the enemy's plans and changes In the general situation.
In conformity with the movements of the French Forces, my retirement continued practically
from day to day. Although we were not severely pressed by the enemy, rearguard actions took place
continually.
On the 1st September, when retiring from the thickly wooded country to the south of Compiegne,
the 1st Cavalry Brigade was overtaken by some German cavalry. They momentarily lost a Horse
Artillery battery, and several officers and men were killed and wounded. With the help, however, of
some detachments from the 3rd Corps operating on their left, they not only recovered their own guns,
but succeeded In captxiring twelve of the enemy's.
Similarly, to the eastward, the 1st Corps, retiring south, also got into some very difficult forest
country, and a somewhat severe rearguard action ensued at \'lllers-Cottercts, In which the 4th Guards
Brigade suffered considerably.
On September 3rd the British Forces were In position south of the Marne between Lagny and Signy-
Signets. Up to this time I had been requested by General Joffre to defend the passages of the river as
long as possible, and to blow up the bridges in my front. After I had made the necessary dispositions,
and the destruction of the bridges had been effected, I was asked by the French Commander-in-
Chief to continue my retirement to a point some 12 miles m rear of the position I then occupied, with
a view to taking up a second position behind the .Seine. This retirement was duly carried out. In
the meantime the enemy had thrown bridges and crossed the ilame In considerable force, and was
threatening the Allies all along the line of the British Forces and the oth and 9th French Armies,
Consequently sev'eral small outpost actions took place.
On Saturday, September oth, I met the French ("ommander-in-Chief at liis re(iuest. and he
informed me of his intention to take the offensive fortliwitli. as lie ((Hisidcred conditions were very
favourable to success.
General Joffre announced to me his intention of wheeling up the left Hank of the tJth Army,
pivoting on the Marne and directing it to move on the Oufcq : cross and attack the flank of the 1st
(ierman Army, which wa.s then moving in a south-easterly direction east of that river.
lie retjuested me to elTect a change of front to my right — my left resting on the Marne and my
right on the 5th Army — to fill the gap between that army and tlie litli. I wa.s f lieu to a<lvance against
the enemy in my front and join in the general olTeiusive movement.
These combined movements jiractically commenced on Sunday, September 6th, at suni-ise ;
and on that day it may be said that a great battle opened on a front extending from Ermenonville,
which was just in front of the left flank of the lith l'>ench .-Vrmy, through Lizy on the Marne, Mau-
perthuis, which was about the British centre. Court eeon. which was the left of the .^th French Army,
to Ksternay and Charleville, the left of the 9th Army under (ieneral I-'och. and so along the front of
the 9th, 4th, and 3rd French Armies to a point north of the fortress of \'erdmi.
This battle, in so far as the ()th French Army, the British Army, the 5th French Army and the
Oth French Anny were concerned, may be said to have concluded on the evening of September 10th,
by which time the Germans had been driven back to the line Soissons-Kheims, with a loss of thousands
of prisonei's, many giuis, and enormous masses of transport.
Aboxit the 3rd September the enemy appears to have diangod his plans and to have determined
to .stop his advance south direct upon Paris : for on the Jth .September air reconnaissances showed
that his main colunms were moving in a south-east eily direction generally ea.st of a line drawn through
Nanteuil and Lizy on the Ourcq.
On the 5th September several of these columns were observed to have crossed the .Marne : whilst
(ierman troops, which were observed moving south-east up the left bank of the Ourcq on the 4th,
were now reported to be halted and facing the river. Heads of the enemy's columns were seen crossing
at Changis, La Ferte, Xogent. Chateau Thierry and Jlezy.
Considerable (ierman colunuis of all arms were seen to be converging on .Mont luirail, \\ hiLsl before
sunset large bivouacs of the enemy were located in the neighbourhood of Coulommiers, south of
Rebais, La Ferte-Gaucher and Dagny.
I should conceive it to have been about noon on the (ith September, after the British Forces
had changed their front to the right and occupied the line .Jouy-Le Chatel-Faremoutiei's-Villeneuve
Le Conite, and the advance of the tJth French Army noith of the Marne towards the Ourcq became
apijarent, that the enemy realised the powerful threat that was being made against the flank of his
columns moving south-east, and began the great retreat which opened the battle above referred to.
On the evening of the (ith September, therefore, the fronts and positions of the opposing armies
were roughly as follows : —
Alues.
ath Frrnrh Anny. — Right on the Marne at Meux, left towards Betz.
British Forces. — On the line Dagny-Coulommiere-Maison.
alh Freiwh Army. — ^At Courtagon, right on Esternay.
Coiineati's Cavalry Corps. — Between the right of the British and the left of the French 5th Army.
Germ.\n.s.
ith liescrve and 2nd Corps. — East of the (jurcq and facing that river.
9</i Cavalry Division. — West of Crecy.
2nd Cavalry Division. — North of Coulommiers.
Ath Corps. — Rebais.
3rd and 1th Corps. — South-west of Montmirail.
All these troops constituted the 1st German Army, which was directed against the French 6th
Army on the Oui'cq, and the British Forces, and the left of the 5th French Army south of the Marne.
The 2nd German Army (IX, X, X.R. and Guard) was moving against the centre and right of the
5th French Army and the 9th French Army.
On the 7th September both the 5th and 6th French Armies were heavily engaged on our flank.
The 2nd and 4th Reserve German Corps on the Ourcq -vigorously opposed the advance of the French
towards that river, but did not prevent the 6th Ai'my from gaining some headway, the Germans them-
selves suffering serious losses. The French 5th Army threw the enemy back to the line of the Petit
Morin River after inflicting severe losses upon them, especially about .Montceaux, which was carried
at the point of the bayonet.
The enemy retreated before our advance, covered by his 2nd and Oth and (iuard Cavalry Divisions,
which suffered severely.
Our Cavalry act-ed vr\t\i great vigour, especially General De Lisle's Brigade with the 9th Lancers
and 18th Hussars.
On the 8th September the eaeiny continued his retreat northward, and our Anny was successfully
engaged during the day with strong rearguards of all arms on the Petit Morin River, thereby materially
assisting the progress of the French Armies on our right and left, against whom the enemy was making
his greatest efforts. On both sides the enemy was thrown back witli very heavy loss. The First Army
Corps encountered stubborn resistance at La Tretoire (north of RebaLs). The enemy occupied a strong
position nith infantry and gims on the northern bank of the Petit Morln River ; they were dislodged
with considerable loss. Several machine gims and many prisoners were captured, and upwards of
two hundred German dead were left on the ground.
The forcing of the Petit Morin at this point was much assisted by the Cavali-y and the 1st Division,
wliich crossed higher up the stream.
Later in the day a counter-attack by the enemy was well repulsed by the First Army Corps, a
great many prisoners and some gims again falling into our hands.
On this day (8th September) the Second Army Corps encountered considerable opposition, but
drove back the enemy at all points with great loss, making considerable captures.
The Third Army Corps also drove back considerable bodies of the enemy's infantry and made
some captures.
On the 9th September the Firet and Second Army Corps forced the pa.s.sage of the .Marne and ad-
vanced some miles to tlie north of it. Tlie Third Corps encountered considerable opposition, as the
bridge at La Ferte was destroyed, and tlie enemy held tlie towTi on the opposite bank in some strength,
and thence persistently obstructed the construction of a bridge : so the passage was not effected until
after nightfall.
During the day's pursuit the enemy suffered heavy loss in killed and wounded, some himdreds
of prisoners fell into our hands, and a battery of eight machine guns was captured by the 2nd Division.
On this day the 6th French Army was heavUy engaged west of the River Ourcq. The enemy
had largely increased his force opposing them : and very heavy fighting ensued, in which the French
were successful throughout.
The left of the 5th French Army reached the neighbourhood of Chateau Thierry after the most
severe fighting, having driven the enemy completely north of the river with great loss.
The fighting of this Army in the neighbourhood of MontmiraU was very severe.
The advance was resumed at daybreak on the 10th up to the line of the Ourcq, opposed by strong
rearguards of all arms. The 1st and 2nd Corps, assisted by the Cavalry Division on the right, the 3rd
and 5th Cavah-y Brigades on the left, drove the enemy northwards. Thirteen guns, seven machine
gims, about 2,000 prisoners, and quantities of transport fell into our hands. The enemy left many
dead on the field. On this day the French 5th and 6th Armies had little opposition.
As the 1st and 2nd German Armies were now in full retreat, tliis evening marks the end of the
battle which practically conmienced on the morning of the 6th instant : and it is at thLs point in the
operations that I am concluding the present despatch.
Although I deeply regret to have had to report heavy losses In killed and wounded throughout
these operations, I do not think they have been excessive in view of the magnitude of the great fight,
the outlines of which I have only been able very briefly to describe, and the demoralisation and loss
in killed and wounded which are known to have been caused to the enemy by the vigour and severity
of the pursuit.
In concluding this despatch I must call your Lordship's special attention to the fact that from
Sunday, August 23rd, up to the present day (September ITth), from Mons back almost to the Seine,
and from the Seine to the Aisne, the Army under my command has been ceaselessly engaged without
one single day's halt or rest of any kind.
Since the date to which in this despatch I have limited my report of the operations, a great battle
on the ALsne has been proceeding. A full report of this battle will be made in an early fiu-ther despatch.
It will, however, be of interest to say here that, in spite of a very determined resistance on the
part of the enemy, who is holding in strength and great tenacity a position peculiarly favourable to
defence, the battle which commenced on the evening of the 12th instant has, so far, forced the enemy
back from his first position, secured the passage of the river, and inflicted great loss upon him, including
the capture of over 2,000 prisoners and several guns.
I have the honour to be.
Your Lordship's most obedient Servant,
(Signed) J. D. P. FRENCH, Field- Marshal,
Commanding-in-Chief,
The British Forces in the Field.
My Lord, II. 8th October, 1914.
1 have the honour to report the operations in which the British Forces in France have been engaged
since the evening of the 10th September.
1. In the early iiiorning of the 1 Itli the furtlicr puisiiit of the enemy was coininenced : aiul the
three Corps crossed the Ourcq piaclically unopposcil. the Cavahy icacliin^; the Une of the Aisue Hivei- ;
the 3i'd and .")th Brigades south uS Soissons. the 1st. liml .ujil II h nn Ihc hii;h i;idiiiul at ( 'ouvii'lli-s and
Cerseuil.
On the afternoon of the llilli from the oppositinri iiicduutrrcd liy the litli t'lciicli Army to tlie
west of Soissons, hy the lird ('or|)s south-east of that place, hy the 2iid Corjjs south of Missy and X'aiUy,
and certain indications all alonj; the hne, I formed tlie opinion that the enemy had, for the moment
at any rate, arrested his retreat and wa.s prepaiin^; to ihspute the passage of tlie Aisne with some vigour.
South of Soissons the (iermans were holding Mont de I'aiis against the attack of the right of the
Fi'ench 6th Army when the 3rd Corps reached the? neighbourhood of Buzaney. sout h-ea&t of that place.
With the a.ssi.stance of the Artillery of the 3rd Corps the l-'reneh drove them liack across the river at
Soissons, where they destroyed the bridges.
The heavy artillery fire wliieli was visible lor several miles in a westerh- direction in the valley of
the Aisne showed that the lith Krench Army Wius meeting with strong opposition all along the line.
On this day the Cavalry under (leneral AUenliy reached the neighbourliood of Brainc and did good
work in clearing the town and the high ground beyond it of strong hostile detachments. The t^ueen's
Bays are particularly mentioned by the General a.s having assisted greatly in the success of this
operation. They were well siipported hy the 3rd Division, which on this night bivouacked at Brenelle,
south of the river.
The 5th Division approached .Missy, bvit were unable to make headway.
The 1st Army Corps reached the neighbourhood of X'auxccre without umch opposition.
In this manner the Battle of the Aisne commenced.
2. The Aisne Valley runs generally east and west, and consists of a flat- bottomed depression of
\\ idtli var>-ing from half a niile to two miles, down which the river follows a winding course to the
west at some points near the southern slopes of the valley and at othere near the northern. The high
groimd both on the north and south of the river is approxinaately 400 feet above the bottom of the
vaUey, and is very similar in character, as are both slopes of the valley itself, which are broken into
numerous rounded spm's and re-entrants. The most prominent of the former are the Chivre spur
on the right bank and Sermoise spur on the left. Near the latter place the general plateau on the south
Ls divided by a subsidiary valley of much the same character, down which the small River Vesle
flows to the main stream near Sermoise. The slopes of the plateau overlooking the Aisne on the north
and sf)uth are of varying steepness, and <are covei'ed with munerous jiatches of wood, which also stretch
upwards and backwards over the edge on to the top of tlie high ground. There are several villages and
small towns dotted about in the vaUey itself and along its sides, the chief of which is the town of
Soissons.
The Aisne is a sluggish stream of some 170 feet in breadth, but, being 15 feet deep in the centre,
it is unfordable. Between Soissons on the west and Villers on the east (the part of the river attacked
and secured by the British Forces) there are eleven road bridges across it. On the north bank a narrow-
gauge railway rims from Soissons to \'ailly, wheie it crosses the river and continues eastward along the
south bank. From Soissons to Sermoise a double line of railway runs along the south bank, turning
at the latter place up the Vesle VaUey towards Bazoches.
The position held by the enemy is a very strong one, either for a delaying action or for a defensive
battle. One of its chief military characteristics is that from the high groimd on neither side can the top
of the plateau on the other side be seen except for small stretches. This is chiefly due to the woods
on the edges of the slopes. Another important point is that all the bridges are under either direct or
high-angle artillery fire.
The tract of country above described, which lies north of the .:Visne, is well adapted to conceal-
ment, and was so skiLfully turned to account by the enemy as to render it impossible to judge the real
nature of his opposition to our passage of the river, or to accurately gauge his strength ; but I have
every reason to conclude that strong rearguards of at least three army corps were holding the passages
on the early morning of the 13th.
3. On that morning I ordered the British Forces to advance and make good the ALsne.
The 1st Corps and the Cavalry advanced on the river. The 1st Division was directed on ChanouUle
via the canal bridge at Bourg, and the 2nd Division on Courtecon and Presles via Pont-Arcy and on
the canal to the north of Braye via Chavonne. On the right the Cavalry and 1st Division met with
slight opposition, and found a passage by means of the canal which crosses the river by an aqueduct.
The Division was therefore able to press on, supported by the Cavalry Division on its outer flank,
driving back the enemy in front of it.
On the left the leading troops of the 2nd Division reached the river by 9 o'clock. The 5th Infantrj'
Brigade were only enabled to cross, in single fUe and under considerable shell Are, by means of the
liroken girder of the bridge which was not entirely submerged in the river. The construction of a
pontoon bridge was at once undertaken, and was completed by 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Oa the extreme left the 1th Guards Brigade met with severe opposition at CTiavonne, and it
was only late in the afternoon that it was able to establish a foothold on the northern bank of the
river by ferrying one battalion across in boats.
By nightfall the 1st DiNTsion occupied the area JEoulins-Paissy-Geny, with posts in the village of
Vendresse.
The 2nd Division bivouacked as a whole on the southern bank of the river, leaving only the 5th
Brigade on the north bank to establish a bridgehead.
The Second Corps found all the bridges in front of theui destroyed, except that of Conde. v^birh
was in possession of the enemy, and remained so until the end of the battle.
In the approach to >Iissy, where the .5th Division eventually crossed, there is some open ground
which was swept by heavy fire from the opposite bank. The 13th Brigade was, therefore, unable to
advance : but the 14th. which wa." directed to the east of Venizel at a less exposed point, was rafted
across, and by night established itself with its left at .St. Marguerite. They were followed by the 1.5th
Brigade : and later on both the 11th and loth supported the 1th Division on their left in repelling
a heavy counter-attack on the Third Corps.
On the morning of the 1.3th the Third Corps found the enemy had established himself in strength
on the Vregny Plateau. The road bridge at Venizel was repaired during the morning, and a recon-
naissance was made with a view to throwing a pontoon bridge at -Soissons.
The 12th Infantry Brigade crossed at Venizel, and was assembled at Bucy Le Long by 1 p.m.,
but the bridge was so far damaged that artillery could only be man-handled across it. Meanwhile
the construction of a bridge was commenced close to the road bridge at Venizel.
At 2 p.m. the 12th Infantry Brigade attacked in the direction of Chivres and Vregny with the
object of securing the high ground east of Chivres, as a necessary preliminary to a further advance
northwards. This attack made good progress, but at 5.30 p.m. the enemy's artillery and machii>e-gun
fire from the direction of Vregny became so severe that no further advance could be made. The
positions reached were held tiU dark.
The pontoon bridge at Venizel was completed at 5.30 p.m., when the 10th Infantry Brigade crt«sed
the river and moved to Bucy Le Long.
The 19th Infantry Brigade moved to Billy-siu--Ai5ne. and before dark all the artillery of the Division
had crosssed the river, with the exception of the Heavy Battery and one Brigade of Field Artillery.
During the night the positions gained by the 12th Infantry Brigade to the east of the stream
running through Chivres were handed over to the .jth Division.
The section of the Bridging Train allotted to the Third Corps began to arrive in the neighbourhood
of Soissons late in the afternoon, when an attempt to throw a heavy pontoon bridge at Soissons had
to be abandoned, owing to the fire of the enemy's heavy howitzers.
In the evening the enemy retired at all points and entrenched himself on the high ground about
two miles north of the river along which runs the Chemin-des-Dames. Detachments of Infantry,
however, strongly entrenched in commanding points down slopes of the various spurs, were left in
front of all three corps with powerful artillerj- in support of them.
During the night of the 13th and on the 14th and following days the Field Companies were
incessantly at work night and day. Eight pontoon bridges and one foot bridge were thrown across
the river under generally very heavy artUlerj' fire, which was incessantly kept up on to most of the
crossings after completion. Three of the road bridges, i.e.. Venizel. Missy and VaUly. and the railway
bridge east of VaiUy were temporarily repaired so as to take foot traffic and the Villers Bridge made
fit to carry weights up to six tons.
Preparations were also made for the repair of the Missy, VaiUy and Boui-g Bridges so as to take
mechanical transport.
The weather was very wet and added to the difficulties by cutting up the already indifferent
approaches, entailing a large amount of work to repair and improve.
The operations of the Field Companies during this most trying time are worthy of the best
traditions of the Royal Engineers.
4. On the evening of the 14th it was stiU impossible to decide whether the enemy was only
making a temporaiy halt, covered by rearguards, or whether he intended to stand and defend the
position.
With a view to clearing up the situation, I ordered a general advance.
The action of the First Corps on this day under the direction and coumiand of Sir Douglas Haig
was of so skilful, bold and decisive a character that he gained positions which alone have enabled me
to maintain my position for more than three weeks of very severe fighting on the north bank of the
river.
The Corps was directed to cross the line Moulins-Moussy by 7 a.m.
On the right the General Officer Commanding the 1st Division directed the 2nd Infantry Brigade
which was in billets and bivouacked about Moulins), and the 25th Artillery Brigade (less one battery).
uuilt'i' (ieiuTiil Bulliii, 111 iiii>\c I'oi-uaiil lirfoiv iljiylnvak. in milii' In piolvfl the advaiiuu uf tliu Divisimi
sent up the valley to \'endressc. An ollicei's' patrol sent mil li> Ihis Brigade reported a considerable
force of the enemy near tlie factory iioilli of Troyon, and the HriKadier acoordinely directed two regi-
ments (the King's Koyal Killcs and Uw Hoyal Sussex Hegimont) to move at '.i a.m. The Xortham|)ton-
shirc Regiment was ordered to move at 1 a.m. to occupy the sjhu' east of Troyon. The remaining regi-
ment of the Brigade (the Loyal North Lancashire Kegiment) moved at .5.30 a.m. to the village; of
\'endresse. The factory w sis found to be held in considerable strength by the enemy, and tlie Brigadier
ordered the Loyal North Lancivsliii-c Regiment to suppoi't the King's Royal Rifles and the Sussex
Regiment. Even with this svipixirt tlie force was unable to make headway, and on the arrival of
tlie 1st Mrigade the Coldstream (iuards were moved up to support the right of Die leading Hiigade
(the 2nd), while the remainder of tlie 1st Brigade supported its left.
About noon the situation was, roughly, that the wliole of these t«(> lirigades were exteiiiliil along
a line running east and west, north of the line Troyon and soutli of tlu: Chemin-des- Dames. A party
of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment had seized and were holding the factory. The en. in\ held
a line of entrenchments north and eiist of the factory in considerable strength, and every clTort to
advance against this line was driven back by heavy shell and machine-gun lire. The morning was wet
and a lieavy mist hung over the hills, so that the 2.')th Artillery Brigade and the Divisional Artillery
were mialile to render elTective support to the advanced troops until about !t o'clock.
By 10 o'clock the 3rd Infantry Brigade had reached a point one mile south of N'endi'esse, and
from there it was ordered to continue the line of the 1st Brigade and to connect with and help the right
of the 2nd Division. A strong hostile column was found to be advancing, and by a vigorous counter-
stroke with two of his battalions the Brigadier checked the advance of this column and relieved the
pressure of the 2nd Division. From this period until late in the afternoon the fighting consisted of
a series of attacks and counter-attacks. The counter-strokes by the enemy were delivered at fii'st
with great vigour, but later on they decreased in strength, and all were driven off with heavy loss.
On the left the 6th Infantry Brigade had been ordered to cross the river and to pass through the
line held during the preceding night by the 5th Infantry Brigade and occupy the Courtecon Ridge,
\\ hilst a detached force, cijiLsisting of the 4th Guards Brigade and the 36th Brigade, Royal l^'icld Artil-
lery, under Hrigadier-tieneral Perceval, were ordered to proceed to a point east of the village of Ostel.
'J'he (ith Infantry Brigade crossed the river at Pont-Arcy, moved up the valley towards Braye,
and at 9 a.m. had reached the line Tilleul-La Buvelle. On this line they came under heavy artillery and
rifle fire, and were unable to advance until supported by the 34th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, and
the 44th Howitzer Brigade and the Heavy ArtiUery.
The 4th (iuards Brigade crossed the river at 10 a.m. and met with very heavy opposition. It had to
pass through dense woods : field artillery support was dinicult to obtain : but one section of a field battery
pushed up to and within the firing line. At 1 p.m. the left of the Brigade was south of tlie Ostel Ridge.
At this period of the action the enemy obtained a tooting between the Fii'st and Second Corps,
aiul threatened to cut the communications of the latter.
Sir Douglas Ilaig was very hardly pressed and had no i-eserve in hand. I placed the Cavalry
Division at his disposal, part of which he skilfully used to prolong and secure the left flank of the Guards
Brigade. Some heavy fighting ensued, which resulted in the enemy being driven back with heavy loss.
About 4 o'clock the weakening of the counter-attacks by the enemy and other indications tended
to show that his resistance was decreasing, and a general ad\ance was ordered by the Army Corps Com-
mander. Although meeting with considerable opposition and coming under very heavy artillery and
rifle flre, the position of the corps Ut the end of the day's operations extended from the Chemin-des-
Dames on the right, through Chivy, to La Cour de Soiipir, with the 1st Cavalry Brigade extending to
the C'havonne-Soissons road.
On the right the corps was in close touch with tlie I'^rench Moroccan troops of the IStli Corps,
which were entrenched in echelon to its right rear. During the night they entrenched this position.
Throughout the Battle of the Aisne this advanced and commanding position was maintained, and
I cannot speak too highly of the valuable services rendered by Sir Douglas Ilaig and the Army Corps
under his command. Day after day and night after night the enemy's infantry has been hurled against
him in violent counter-attack which has never on any one occasion succeeded, whilst the trenches all
over his position have been under continuous heavy artillery flre.
The operations of the Firet Corps on this day resulted in the capture of several hundred prisoners,
some field pieces and macliine guns.
The casualties were very severe, one brigade alone losing three of its four Colonels.
The 3rd Division commenced a further advance and had nearly reached the plateau of Aizy
when they were driven back by a powerful counter-attack supported by heavy artiUery. The Division,
however, fell back in the best order, and finally entreiiclied itself about a mile north of N'ailly Bridge,
effectively covering the passage.
The 4th and 5th Divisions were unable to do more than maintain their ground.
5. On the morning of the loth, after close esanilnation of the position, it became cleai- to me that
the enemy was making a determined stand : and this view was confirmed by reports which reached me
from the French Armies fighting on my right and left, which clearly showed that a strongly entrenched
line of defence was being taken up from the north of Compiegne, eastward and south-eastward, along
the whole valley of the Aisne up to and beyond Rheims.
A few days pre\-iously the Fortress of Maubeuge fell, and a considerable quantity of siege artillery
was brought down from tliat place to strengthen the enemy's position in front of us.
Dm-ing the loth shells fell in our position which have been judged by experts to be thrown by
eight-inch siege guns with a range of 10,000 yards. Throughout the whole course of the battle our troops
have suffered very hea\Tly from this fire, although its effect latterly was largely mitigated by more
efficient and thorough entrenching, the necessity for which I impressed strongly upon Army Corps
Commanders. In order to assist them in this work all villages within the area of our occupation were
searched for heavy entrencliing tools, a large number of wliich were collected.
In view of the peculiar formation of the groimd on the north side of the river between Missy and
Soissons, and its extraordinary adaptability to a force on the defensive, the .5th Division found it
impossible to maintain its position on the southern edge of the Chivres Plateau, as the enemy in
possession of the ^-illage of Vregny to the west was able to bring a flank fire to bear upon it. The
Division had. therefore, to retire to a line the left of which was the \-illage of Marguerite, and thence
ran by the north edge of ML>sy back to the river to the ea«t of that place.
With great skill and tenacity .Sii- Charles Fergusson maintained this position thi-oughout the whole
battle, although his trenches were necessarily on lower ground than that occupied by the enemy on
the southern edge of the plateau, which was only -100 yards away.
General Hamilton with the 3rd Di\-ision vigorously attacked to the north, and regained all the
ground he had lost on the 15th. which throughout the battle has formed a most powerful and effective
bridgehead.
6. On the 16th the 6th Division came up into hue
It had been my intention to direct the First Coips to attack and seize the enemy's position on
the Chemin-des- Dames, supporting it with this new reinforcement. I hoped from the position thus
gained to bring effective fire to bear across the front of the 3rd Di\-ision, which, by securing the advance
of the latter, would also take the pressure off the oth Division and the Tliird Corps.
But any further advance of the First Corps would have dangerously exposed my right flank.
And. further. I learned from the French Commander-in-Cliief that he was strongly reinforcing the 6th
French Army on my left, with the intention of bringing up the Allied left to attack the enemy's flank,
and thus compel his retirement. I therefore sent the 6th Division to join the Third Corps with orders
to keep it on the south side of the river, as it might be available in general reserve.
On the 17th. 18th and 19th the whole of our line was hea\ily bombarded, and the Fu-st Corps was
constantly and hea%-ily engaged. On the afternoon of the 17th the right flank of the 1st Di\-ision was
seriously threatened. A counter-attack was made by the Xorthamptonshire Regiment in combination
with the Queen's, and one battalion of the Di^^sional Reserve was moved up in support. The North-
amptonshire Regiment, under cover of mist, crept up to witliin a hundred yards of the enemy's trenches
and charged %vith the bayonet, driving them out of the trenches and up the hill. A very strong force
of hostile infantry was then disclosed on the crest Une. This new line was enfiladed by part of the Queen's
and the Kill's Royal Rifles, which wheeled to their left on the extreme right of our infantrv line, and
were supported by a squadron of cavalry on their outer flank. The enemy's attack was ultimately
driven back with heavy loss.
On the ISth, during the night, the Gloucestershire Regiment advanced from their position near
Chivy, filled in the enemy's trenches and captured two Maxim guns.
On the extreme right the Queen's were heavily attacked, but the enemy was repulsed with great
loss. About midnight the attack was renewed on the Firet Di\Tsion, supported by artillery fire, but
was again repulsed.
Shortly after midnight an attack was made on the left of the 2nd Division with considerable force,
which was also thrown back.
At about 1 p.m. on the 19th the 2nd Di\-ision drove back a heavy infantry attack strongly sup-
ported by artillery fire. At dusk the attack was renewed and again repulsed.
On the ISth I discussed with the General Officer Conunanding the Second Army Corps and his
Divisional Commanders the possibUity of driving the enemy out of Coude, which lay between his
two Divisions, and seizing the bridge which has remained throughout in his possession.
As, however, I found that the bridge was closely commanded from all points on the south side
and that satisfactory arrangements were made to prevent any issue from it by the enemy by day or
night, I decided that it was not necessary to incur the losses which an attack would entail, as, in view
of the position of the Second and Third Corps, the enemy could make no use of Conde, and would be
automatically forced out of it by any advance which might become possible for us.
7. On this day iiiforiiiation reai'hed nip from licncial .lolTic that he had found it necessary to make
a new plan, and to attack and envelop the (Jerman right flank.
It was now evident to me that tlie hattlc in whicli we had been engaged since the 12th instant
must last some days longer vmtil the effect of this new flank movement could be felt and a wa\- opened
to drive the enemy from his positions.
It thus became essential to establish some system of regular relief in the trenches, and 1 have
used the infantry of the 6th Division for this purpose with good results. The relieved brigades were
brought back alternately south of the river, and, with the artillery of the 6th Division, formed a general
reserve on wliich I could rely in case of necessit>'.
The Cavalry ha-s rendered most elTicient and ready help in the ti-enches. and have done all they
possibly could to lighten the arduous and trying ta.sk whicli has of necessity fallen to the lot of tlie
Infantry.
On the evening of the I'Jth and throughout the 20th the enemy again commenced to show con-
siderable activity. On the former night a severe counter-attack on the 3rd Division was repulsed with
considerable loss, and from earlj- on Sunday morning various hostile attempts were made on thi- 1 renches
of the 1st Di^•^sion. During the day the enemy suffered another severe repulse in front of the 2nd
Di\"ision. losing heavily in the attempt. In the coui'se of tlie afternoon the enemy made desperate
attempts against the trenches all along the front of the First Corps, but with similar results.
After dark the enemy again attacked the 2nd DiNision, only to be again driven back.
Our losses on these two days were considerable, but the number, as obtained, of the enemy's
killed and wounded vastly exceeded them.
As the troops of the First Army Corps were mudi exhausted by this continual fighting, 1 reinforced
Sir Douglas Haig \\ ith a brigade from the reserve, and called upon the 1st Cavalry Division to assist them.
On the night of the 21st another violent counter-attack was repulsed by the 3rd Division, the
enemy losing heavily.
On the 23rd the four sis-inch howitzer batteries, which I had asked to be sent from home, arrived.
Two batteries were handed over to the Second Corps and two to the Fii'st Corps. They were brought
into action on the 24th with very good results.
Our experiences in this campaign seem to point to the employment of more heavy guns of a larger
calibre in great battles wliich last for several days, during which time powerful entrenching work on
both sides can be carried out.
These batteries were used «itb considerable effect on the 24th and the following days.
S. On the 23rd the action of General de Castelnau's .4rmy on the Allied left developed con-
siderably, and apparently withdrew coiLsiderable forces of the enemy away fi-om the centre and east.
I am not aware whether it was due to this cause or not. but until the 2t)th it appeared as though the
enemy's opposition in our front was weakening. On that day. however, a very marked renewal of
activity conunenced. A constant and vigorous artillery bombardment was maintained all day, and
the Germans in front of the 1st Division were observed to be " sapping " up to our lines and trying to
establLsh new trenches. Renewed counter-attacks were delivered and beaten off diu'ing the course
of the day, and in the afternoon a well-timed attack by the 1st Division stopped the enemy's entrench-
ing work.
During the night of 27th-28th the enemy again made the most determined attempts to capture
the trenches of the 1st Di\'ision. but without the slightest success.
Similar attacks were reported during these three days all along the line of the Allied front, and it
is certain that the enemy then made one last gi-eat effort to establish ascendancy. He was, however,
unsuccessful everywhere, and is reported to have suffered heavy losses. The same futile attempts
were made all along our front up to the evening of the 28th. when they died away, and have not since
been renewed.
On former occasions I have brought to yom- Lordship's notice the valuable services performed
diu'ing this campaign by the Royal Artillery.
Throughout the Battle of the Aisne they have displayed the same skiU. endurance and tenacity,
and I deeply appreciate the work they have done.
Sir David Hendei'son and the Royal Flying Corps under his command have again proved their
incalculable value. Great strides have been made in the development of the use of aircraft in the
tactical sphere by establishing effective communication between aircraft and units in action.
It is difficult to describe adequately and accurately the great strain to which officers and men were
subjected ahiiost every hour of the day and night throughout this battle.
I have described above the severe character of the artillery fire wliich was directed from morning
tUl night, not only upon the trenches, but over the whole surface of the ground occupied by our Forces.
It was not until a few days before the position was evacuated that the heavy gurus were removed
and the fire slackened. Attack and counter-attack occurred at all hours of the night and day throughout
the whole position, demanding extreme vigilance and permitting only a minimum of rest.
The fact that between the 12tli September to the date of this despatch the total numbers of killed,
wounded and missing reached the figures amounting to 561 officers, 12,980 men, proves the severity
of the struggle.
The tax on the endurance of the troops was further increased by the heavy rain and cold which
prevailed for some ten or twelve days of this trying time.
The Battle of the Aisne has once more demonstrated the splendid spirit, gallantry and devotion
which animates the officei-s and men of His Majesty's Forces.
With reference to the last paragraph of my despatch of September 7th, I append the names of
officers, non-commissioned officers and men brought forward for special mention by Army Corps
commanders and heads of departments for services rendered from the commencement of the campaign
up to the present date.
I entirely agree with these recommendations and beg to submit them for yourLordship's consideration.
I further xsish to bring forward the names of the following officers who have rendered valuable
service : General Sir Horace Smith- Dorrien and Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig (conimanding
First and Second Corps respectively) I have already mentioned in the present and former despatches
for particularly marked and distinguished ser\'ice in critical situations.
Since the conunencement of the campaign they liave carried out all my orders and instructions
with the utmost ability.
Lieutenant-General ^^^ P. Pulteney took over the command of the Third Corps just before the
commencement of the Battle of the Marne. Throughout the subsequent operations he showed himself
to be a most capable commander in the field and ha-s rendered very valuable services.
JIajor- General E. H. H. AUenby and Major-General II. de la P. Gough have proved themselves to
be Cavalry leaders of a high order, and I am deeply indebted to them. The undoubted moral superiority
which our Cavalry has obtained over that of the enemy has been due to the skill witli whicli they have
turned to the best account the qualities inherent in the splendid troops they command.
In my despatch of 7th September I mentioned the name of Brigadier-General Sir David Henderson
and his valuable work in command of the Royal Fljong Corps ; and I have once more to express my
deep appreciation of the help he has since rendered me.
Lieutenant-Cieneral Sir Archibald Murray has continued to render me invaluable help as Chief of
the Staff : and in his arduous and responsible duties he has been ably assisted by Major-General Henry
Wilson, Sub-Chief.
Lieutenant-General Sir XevU Macreadj' and Lieutenant-General Sir William Robertson have
continued to perform excellent service as Adjutant-General and Quartermaster-General respectively.
The Director of Army Signals, Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Fowler, has materially assisted the opera-
tions by the skOl and energy which he lias displayed in the working of the important department
over which he presides.
My Military Secretary, Brigadier-General the Hon. ^V. T^ambton, has performed liis arduous and
difficult duties with nmch zeal and great efficiency.
1 am anxious also to bring to your Lordship's notice the following names of officers of my Personal
Staff, who throughout these arduous operations have shown untiring zeal and energ>' in tl>e performance
of their duties : —
Aides-de-Camp.
I/ieutenant-Colonel Stanley Barry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Brooke.
Major Fitzgerald ^\att.
Extra Aide-de-Camp.
Captain the Hon. F. R. Guest.
Private Secretary.
Lieutenant-Colonel Brindsley Fitzgerald.
Major His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Connaught, K.G., joined my Staff as Aide-de-Camp
on the 11th September.
His Royal Highnes-i-'s intimate knowledge of languages enabled me to employ him with great
advantage on confidential niissions of some importance, and his ser\-ices have proved of considerable value.
I cannot close this despatch without informing your Lordship of the valuable services rendered
by the Cluof of the French ^Military Mission at my Headquarters, Colonel X'ictor Huguet, of the French
Artillery. He has displayed tact and judgment of a high ordei- in many difficult situations, and has
rendered conspicuous service to the AUied cause.
I have the honour to be.
Your Lordship's most obedient Servant,
(Signed) J. T). P. FRENCH. Field- Mai-shal,
Commanding-in-Chief,
The British Armv in the Field.
]Var Office, Surember IQih, 1914.
The following despatch has been received by the Secretary' of State for War from the Field-Marshal
Comnianding-in-C'hief, British Forces in tlio Field : —
General Headquarters,
20th November, !9U.
My Lord,
1. 1 have the honour to submit a further despatch recounting the operations of the Field Force
under my eonunand througliout the Battle of Ypres-Amientieres.
Early in October a study of the iieneral situation strongly impressed me with tin- necessity of
bringing tli(> greatc>st possible force to bear in support of the northern flank of the Allies in order to
effectively oulllank tlie enemy and compel him to evacuate his positions.
At the same time the position on tlie .\isne. .-is dcscril)ed in the concluding paragraphs of my last
despatch, appealed to uie to warrant a witlidrawal of tlio British Forces from the positions they then
held.
The enemy had been weakened by continual aVxirtive and futile attacks, whilst tlie fortification
of the position liad Ijeen much improved.
I represented these \-ie\\s to (ieneial .Toftre. wlio i\illy agreed.
Arrangements for withdrawal and relief liaving iieen made l)y the French General .Staff, tlie oper-
ation conunenced on the 3rd October : and the 2nd ("avah-y Division, under General Oougli. marelied
for Compiegne en route for the new theatre.
The Army Corps followed in .succession at intervals of a few da\s, and the move was completed on
the 19th Octobei-. when the First Corjis. under Sir Douglas Haig, completed iU detraiument at St. Omer.
That tliis dehcate operation was carried out so successfully is in great mea.sure due to the excellent
feeUng whicli exists between the French and British Armies : and I am deeply indebted to the Com-
mander-in-Cliief and the Freucli (ieneral Staff for their cordial and most effective co-operation.
As General Foch was appointed by the Conunander-in-Chiet to supervise the operations of all
the French troops north of Xoyon. I \isited his headquarters at Doullens on Sth October and arranged
joint plans of operations as follows : —
Tlie Second Corps to arrive on the line Aire-Bethune on the 11th October, to connect with
the right of the French 10th Army and. pivoting on its left, to attack in flank the enemy who were
opposing the Iflth French Corps in front.
The Cavalry to move on the noi-thern flank of the Second Corps and support its attack until
the Third Corps, which was to detrain at St. Onier on the 12th, should come up. They were then
to clear the front and act on the northein flank of the Third Corps in a similar Tiiaimer. pending
the arrival of the First Corps from the Aisne.
The 3rd Cavalry Division and 7th Division, under Sir Henry Rawlinson, which were then
operating in support of the Belgian Amiy and assisting its withdrawal from Antwerp, to be ordered
to co-operate as soon as circumstances would allow.
In the event of these movements so far overcoming the resistance of the enemy as to enable
a forward movement to be made, all the Allied Forces to march in an easterly direction. The road
running from Bethune to LiUe was to be the di\-iding line between the British and French Forces,
the right of the British Aniiy being directed on Lille.
2. The gi-eat battle, which is mainly the subject of ttiLs despatch, may be said to have commenced
on October 11th, on which date the 2nd Cavah'y Division, under General Gough, first came into contact
with the enemy's cavalry who ware holding some woods to the north of the Bethune-Aire Canal.
These were cleared of the enemy by our cavalry, which then joined hands with the Divisional Cavalry
of the tith Division in the neighbourhood of Hazebrouck. On the same day the right of the 2nd Cavalry
Di\Tsion connected with the left of the .Second Corps, which was moving in a north-easterly direction
after crossing the above-mentioned canal.
By the 11th October .Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien had reached the line of the canal between Aire
and Bethune. I directed him to continue his march on the 12th, bringing up liis left in the direction
of Jlerville. Then he was to move east to the line Laventie-Lorgies, which would bring him on the
immediate left of the French Army and threaten the German flank.
On the 12th this movement was commenced. The .5th Division connected up with the left of
the French .\rmy north of Amieqiiin. They moved to the attack of the Germans who were engaged
at this point with the F"rench : but the enemy once more extended his right in some strength to meet
the threat against liis flank. The 3rd Division, having ci-ossed the canal, deployed on the left of the
5th ; and the whole Second Corps again advanced to the attack, but were unable to make much
headway owing to the ditticidt character of the gi-ound upon wiiich they were operating, which was
similar to that usually found in manufacturing districts, and was covered with mining works, factories,
buildings, etc. The ground throughout this country Ls reiiiarkalily flat, rendering effective artillerj-
support, very difficult.
Before nightfall, however, they had made some advance and had successfully driven back hostile
counter-attacks «-ith great loss to the enemy and destruction of some of his machine guns.
On and after the 13th October the object of the General Ofticer Commanding the Second Corps
was to « heel to his rigljt. pivoting on Givenchy to get astride the La Bassee-Lille Road in the neigh-
bourliood of Foumes, so as to threaten the right flank and rear of the enemy's position on the high
ground south of La Bassee.
This position of La Bassee has throughout the battle defied all attempts at captxu-e, either by the
Frencli or the British.
On this day Sir Horace Smith- Dorrien could make but little progress. He particularly nientions
the fine fighting of the Dorsets. whose ComTiiandins Officer, Major Roper, was killed. They suffered
no less than 400 casualties. 130 of them being killed, but maintained all day their liold on Pont Fixe.
He also refers to the gallantly of the Artillery.
The fighting of the SecOTid Corps continued throughout the 14th in the same direction. On this
day the Army suffered a great loss, in that the Commander of the 3rd Division, General Hubert
Hamilton, was killed.
On the 1.5th the 3rd Division fought splendidly, crossing the dykes, with which this country is
intereected. mth planks, and driving the enemy from one entrenclied position to another in loop-
holed villages, till at night they pushed the Germans ofl' the Estaires-La Ba-ssee road, and establishing
themselves in the line Pont de Ham-Croix Barbee. •
On the 16th the move was continued until the left flank of the Corps was in front of the village
of Aubers, which was strongly held. This village was captured on the 17tli by the 9th Infantry
Brigade : and at dark on the same day the 1 jncolns and Royal Fusiliers carried the village of Herlies
at the point of the bayonet after a fine attack, the Brigade being liandled with great dash by Brigadier-
General Shaw.
At this time, to the best of oui' information, tlie .Second Corps were believed to be opposed by the
2nd, 4th, 7th and 9th German Cavalry Divisions, supported by several battalions of Jagers and a
part of the 14th German Corps.
On the ISth powerful counter-attacks were made by the enemy all along the front of the Second
Corps, and were most gallantly repulsed : but only slight progress could be made.
From the 19th to the 31st October the Second Corps carried on a most gallant fight in defence
of their position against very superior numbers, the enemy having been reinforced during that time
by at least one Division of the 7th Corps, a brigade of the 3rd Corps and the whole of the 14th Corps,
which had moved north from in front of the French 21st Corps.
On the 19th the Royal Irish Regiment, under Major Daniell, stormed and carried the ^•illage of
Le I'illy, which they held and entrenched. On the 20th. however, they were cut off and surrounded,
suffering heavy losses.
On the morning of the 22nd the enemy made a very determined attack on the 5th Division, who
were driven out of the village of \'iolaines, but they were sharply counter-attacked by the Worcesters
and Manchesters, and prevented from coming on.
The left of the Second Corps being now somewhat exposed. Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien withdrew
the line during the night to a position he had previously prepared, nuining generally from the eastern
side of (iivenchy. east of Xeuve Chapelle to Fauquissart.
On the 24th October the Lahore Di\'ision of the Indian Army Corps, under Major-fieneral Watkis,
having arrived, I sent them to the neighbourhood of Lacon to support the Second Corps.
\'ery early on this morning the enemy commenced a heavy attack, but, owing to the skilful
manner in which the artUlery was handled and the targets presented by the enemy's infantry as it
approached, they were unable to come to close iiuart^ers. Towards the evening a hea\'^- attack de-
veloped against the 7th Brigade, which was repulsed, with very heavy loss to the enemy, by the Wdt-
shires and the Royal West Rents. Later, a determined attack on the 18th Infantry Brigade drove
the Gordon Highlanders out of their trenches, which were retaken by tlie Middlesex Regiment, gallantly
led by Lieutenant-Colonel Hull.
The 8th Infantry Brigade (which had come into line on the left of the .Second Corps) was aLso
heavily attacked, but the enemy was driven off.
In both these cases the CJemians lost very heavily, and left large numbers of dead and prisoners
behind them.
The Second Corps was now becoming exhausted, owing to the constant reinforcements of the
enemy, the length of line which it had to defend and the enormous los.ses which it had suffered.
3. By the evening of the 11th October the Third Corps had practically completed its detrainment
at .St. Omer. and was moved east to Hazebrouck. where the Corps remained throughout the 12th.
On the morning of the 13th the advanced guard of the Corps, consisting of the I9th Infantry
Brigade and a Brigade of Field Artillery, occupied the position of the line Strazeele Station-Caestre-
St. Sylvestre.
On tliLs day I directed Oeueral Pulteney to move towards the line ^Xxnientiercs-Wytschaete,
warning him, however, that should the Second Corps require his aid he must be prepared to move
south-east to support it.
A French Cavalry Corps under General Conneau was operating between the Second aiul Tliiid
Corps.
The Fourth (ierinan Cavalry Corps, supported by some Jager Battalions, was known to be
occupying the position in the neighbourhood of Meteren : and they were believed to be further sup-
ported by the advanced guard of another (iennan Army Corps.
In pui'suance of his ordei's. fieneral Pulteney proceeded to attack the enemy in liis front.
The rain and fog which prevailed prevented full advantage being derived from our much superior
artillery. The count i-y was very much enclosed and rendered ditlicult by heavy rain.
The enemy were, however, routed, and the position taken at dark, several prisoners being
captured.
During the night the Third Corps made good the attacked position and entrenched it.
As Bailleul was known to be occupied by the enemy, arrangements wore made diu'ing the night
to attack it : but reconnaissances sent out on the morning of the 11th showed that they had with-
drawni. and the town was taken by our troops at 10 a.m. on that day, many wounded Germans being
found and taken in it.
The Corps then occupied the line St. Jans Cappel-Bailleul.
On the morning of the 15th the Third Corps were ordered to make good the line of the Lys from
Annentieres to .Sailly, which, in the face of considerable opposition and very foggy weather, they
succeeded in doing, the (ith l)i\-ision at Sailly-Bac .St. .Main- and the Ith Division at Xieppe.
The enemy in its front having retired, tlie Third Corp?; on the night of the 17th occupied the line
Bois Grenier-Le Gheir.
On the ISth the enemy were holding a line from Radinghem on the south, through I'erenchies
and Frelinghien on the north, whence the German troops which were opposing the Cavalry Corps
occupied the east bank of the river as far as Wer^•ick.
On this day I directed the Third Corps to move doH^l the valley of the Lys and endeavour to
assist the Cavalry Corps in making good its position on the right bank. To do this it was necessary
first to drive the enemy eastward towards LiUe. A vigorous offensive in the direction of Lille was
assumed, but the enemy was found to have been considerably reinforced, and but little progress
was made.
The situation of the Third Corps on the night of the 18th was as follows : —
The t)th Division was holding the line Radingham-La Vallee-Ennetieres-Capinghem-Preniesques-
RaOway Line 300 yards east of Halte. The 4th Di%-ision were holding the line from L'Epinette to
the river at a point 400 yards south of Frelinghein. and thence to a point half a mile south-east of
Le Gheer. The Corps Reserve was at Armentieres .Station, with right and left flanks of Corps in close
touch with French Cavalry and the Cavalry Corps.
Since the advance from Bailleul the enemy's forces in front of the Cavalry and Third Corps had
been strongly reinforced, and on the night of the 17th they were opposed by three or tour di\'isions
of the enemy's cavalry, the 19th Saxon Corps and at least one division of the 7th Corps. Reinforce-
ments for the enemy were known to be coming up from the direction of Lille.
4. Following the movements completed on the 11th October, the 2nd Cavalry Division pushed
the enemy back through Fletre and Le Coq de PaUle, and took Mont des Cats, just before dark, after
stiff fighting.
On the 14th the 1st Cavalry Division joined up. and the whole Cavalry Corps under General
Allenby, moving north, secured the high ground above Berthen. overcoming considerable opposition.
With a view to a further advance east, I ordered General Allenby, on the loth, to reconnoitre
the line of the River Lys, and endeavovir to secure the passages on the opposite bank, pending the
arrival of the Third and Fourth Corps.
During the 15th and 16th this reconnaissance was most skilfully and energetically carried out
in the face of great opposition, especially along the lower line of the river.
These operations were continued throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th : but. although valuable
information was gained, and strong forces of the enemy held in check, the Cavalry Corps was unable
to secure passages or to establish a permanent footing on the eastern bank of the river.
5. At this point in the history of the operations under report it is necessary that I should return
to the co-operation of the forces operating in the neighbourhood of Ghent and Antwerp under
Lieutenant- General Sir Henry Rawlin.son. as the action of his force about this period exercised, in
my opinion, a great influence on tlie course of the subsequent operations.
This force — consisting of the 3rd Cavalry Di\-ision. under Major-tieneral the Hon. Julian Byng,
and the 7th Division, under Major-Cieneral Capper — was placed imder my ordei-s by telegraphic
instructions from your Lordship.
On receipt of these instructions I directed Sir Henry Rawlinson to continue his operations in
covering and protecting the withdrawal of the Belgian Amiy, and subsequently to form the left column
in tlie eastward advance of the British Forces. These withdrawal operations were concluded about the
16th October, on which date the 7th Division was posted to the east of Ypres on a line extending from
Zandvoorde through Gheluvelt to Zonnebeke. The 3rd t'avalry Division was on its left towards
Langeniarck and PoelcappeUe.
In this position Sir Ilenry Rawlinson was supported by the S7th French Territorial Di\ision in
Ypres and \'laniertinghe, and by the S9th French Territorial Division at Poperinghe.
On the niglit of the llith I informed Sir Henry Rawlinson of the operations which were in progress
by tlie Cavalry Corps and the I'liird Corps, and ordered liim to confomi to tliose movements in an
easterlj- direction, keeping an eye always to any threat whicli might be made against liim from the
north-east.
A very difficult task was allotted to Sir Henry Rawlinson and his command. Owing to the im-
portance of keeping possession of all the ground towards the north which we already held, it nas
necessary for him to operate on a very wide front, and, untH the arrival of the First Corps in the
northern theatre — which I expected about the 20th — I had no troops available with which to support
or reinforce him.
Although on tliis extended front he had eventually to encounter very superior forces, his troops,
both Cavalry and Infantry, fought with the utmost gallantry, and rendered very signal ser%-ice.
On the 17th four French Cavalry Di\-isions deployed on the left of the 3rd Cavalry Division, and
drove back advanced parties of the enemy beyond the Foret d'Houthulst.
As described above, instructions for a vigorous attempt to establish the British Forces east of the
Lys were given on the night of the 17th to the Second. Third and Cavalry Corps.
I considered, however, that the possession of Menin constituted a very miportant point of passage,
and would much facilitate the advance of the rest of the Amiy. So I directed the Oeneral Olticer
Commanding the Fourth Corps to advance the 7th DivTsion upon Menin, and endeavour to seize that
crossing on the morning of the 18th.
The left of the 7th Division was to be supported by the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, and further north
by the French Cavalry in the neighbourhood of Roulers.
.Sir Henry Rawlinson represented to me that large hostile forces were advancing upon him from
the east and north-east, and that his left flank was severely threatened.
I was aware of the threats from that direction, but hoped that at this particidar time there was
no greater force coming from the north-east than could be held off by the combined efforts of the French
and British Cavalry, and the Territorial troops supporting them until the passage at ilenin could be
seized and the Fii-st Corps brought up in support.
Sir Henry Rawlinsoc probably exercised a wise judgiiicnt in not committing his troops to tliis
attack in their somewhat weakened condition : but the result was that the enemy '.s continued posses-
sion of the passage at Menin ceitainly facilitated his rapid reinforcement of his troops and thus
rendered any further advance impracticable.
On the morning of the 20th October the 7th Di\Tsion and 3rd Cavalry Division had retired to their
old position, extending from Zandvoorde through Kruiseik and Gheluvelt to Zonnebeke.
6. On the 19th October the First Corps, coming from the Aisne. had completed its detrainment
and was concentrated between St. Omer and Hazebrouck.
A question of vital importance now arose for decision.
I knew that the enemy were by this time in greatly superior strength on the Lys, and that the
Second, Third, Cavalry and Fourth Corps were holding a much wider front than their numbers and
strength warranted.
Taking these facts alone into consideration it would have appeared wise to throw the First Corps
in to strengthen the line ; but this would have left the country north and east of Ypres and the Ypres
Canal open to a Avide turning movement by the 3rd Reserve Corps and at least one Landwehr Division
which I knew to be operating in that region. I was also aware that the enemy was bringing large
reinforcements up from the east which could only be opposed for Several days by two or three tVench
Cavalry Di^^sions, some French Territorial tixDops. and the Belgian Army.
After the hard fighting it had undergone the Belgian Army was in no -condition to withstand,
unsupported, such an attack : and unless some substantial resistance could be offered to this threatened
turning movement the Allied llank must be turned and the Channel Ports laid bare to the enemy.
I judged that a successful movement of this kind would be fraught with such disastrous conse-
quences that the risk of operating on so extended a front must be undertaken ; and I directed Sir
Douglas Haig to move with the First Corps to the north of Ypres,
From the best information at my disposal I judged at this time that tlie considerable reinforce-
ments which the enemy had undoubtedly brought up during the lOth, 17th and 18th had been directed
principally on the line of the Lys and against the Second Corps at La Bassee : and that Sir Douglas
Ilaig would probably not be opposed north of \'pre.s by niucli more than the 3rd Reserve Corps,
which I knew to have suffered considerably in its previous operations, and perhaps one or two l^andwehr
Divisions.
At a personal interview with Sir Douglas llaig on the evening of the 19th October I communicated
the above information to him, and instructed him to advance with the First Corps through Ypres to
Thourout. The oliject he was to have in vie«' wiis to be the capture of Bruges and subseiiuently, if
possible, to drive the enemy towards (ihent. In case of an unforeseen situation arising, or the enemy
provingtobestrongerthananticipated.he was to decide after passing Ypres, according to the situation
whether to attack the enemy lying to the north or the hostile forces advancing from the east : I had
arranged for the Fi-ench Cavalry to operate on the left of the First Corps and the 3rd Cavalry Division,
imder (icncral Hyng, on its right.
The Belgian Army were rendering what assistance they could by entrenching themselves on the
Ypres Canal and the Yser River ; and the troops, altliough in the last stage of exliaustion, gallantly
maintained their positions, buoyed up with the hope of sulistaiitial British and French supjiort.
I fuUy realised the diflicult task which lay before us, and the onerous role which the British Army
was called upon to fulfil.
That success has been attained, and all the enemy's desperate attempts to break through our
line frustrated, is duo entirely to the marvellous fighting power and the indomitable coinage and
tenacity of ollicei'S, non-commissioned oflieei's and men.
No more arduous task has ever been assigned to British soldiers ; and in all their siilciulid history
there is no instance of their having answered so magnificently to the desperate calls w hich of necessity
were made upon them.
Having given these orders to Sir Douglas Haig, I enjoined a defensive role upon the Second antl
Tliird and Cavalry Corps, in view of the superiority of force which had accumulated in their front. As
regards the Fourth Corps, I directed Sir Henry Rawlinson to endeavour to conform generally to the
movements of the First Corps.
On the 20th October they reached the hue from Flverdinghe to the cross-roads one and a half
miles north-west of Zonnebeke.
On the 21st the Corps was ordered to attack and take the line Poelcappelle-Passchendaele.
Sir HeiU'y Kawliuson's Command was moving on the right of the First Corps, and French troojis,
consisting of Cavalry and Territorials, nioved on their left under the orders of fieneral Bidon.
The advance was somewhat delayed o« ing to the roads being blocked : but the attack progressed
favourably in face of severe opposition, often necessitating the use of the bayonet.
Hearing of heavy attacks being uaade upon the 7th Division and the 2nd Cavaky Division on
his right, Sir Douglas Haig ordered his reserve to be halted on the north-eastern outskirts of Ypres.
Although threatened by a hostile movement from the Foret d'Houthulst, our advance was suc-
cessful until about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the French Cavalry Corps received orders to retire
west of the canal.
Owing to this and the demands uiade on him b>- the Fourth Corps, Sir Douglas Haig was unable
to advance beyond the line Zonnebeke-St. Julien-Langemarck-Bixschoote.
As there was reported to be congestion with French troops at Ypres, I went there on the evening
of the 21st and met Sir Douglas Haig and Sir Henry Rawlinson. With them I interviewed General
De Mitry, Conunanding the Fi'ench Cavalry, and (ieneral Bidon, Commanding the French Territorial
Divisions.
They promised me that the town would at once be cleared of the troops, and that the French
Territorials would iumiediately move out and cover the left of the flank of the First Corps.
I discussed the situation with the General Officers Commanding the First and Fourth Army
Corps, and told them that, in view of the luiexpected reinforcements coming up of the enemy, it would
probably be impo.ssible to carry out the original role assigned to them. But I informed them that
I had that day interviewed the Fi'ench Conunander-in-Chief, General Joffre, who told me that he was
bringing up the 9th French Army Corps to Ypres, that more French troops would follow later, and that
he intended — in conjunction vidth the Belgian troops — to drive the Germans east. General Joffre
said that he would be unable to commence this movement before the 24th ; and I directed the General
Officer's Conunanding the First and Fourth Corps to strengthen their positions as much as possible
and be prepared to hold their ground for two or three days, until the Fi'ench offensive movement on
the north could develop.
It now became clear to me that the utmost we could do to ward off any attempts of the enemy
to turn our flank to the north or to break in from the eastward was to maintain our present very
extended front, and to hold fast our positions until French reinforcements could arrive from the
south.
During the 22nd the necessity of sending support to the Fourth Corps on his right somewhat
hampered the General Officer Commanding the First Corps ; but a series of attacks all along his front
had been driven back during the day with heavy loss to the enemy. Late in the evening the enemy
succeeded in penetrating a portion of the Une held by the Cameron Highlanders north of Pilkem.
At 6 a.m. on the morning of the 23rd a counter-attack to recover the lost trenches was made by
the Queen's Regiment, the Xorthamptons and the King's Royal Rifles, under Major-General Bulfin.
The attack was very strongly opposed and the bayonet had to be used. After severe fighting during
most of the day the attack was brilliantly successful, and over six hundred prisoners were taken.
On the same day an attack was made on the 3rd Infantry Brigade. The enemy advanced with
great determination, but with little skiU, and consequently the loss inflicted on him was exceedingly
heavy ; some fifteen hundred dead were seen in the neighbourhood of Langemarck. Correspondence
found subsequently on a captixred German Ofiicer stated that the effectives of this attacking Corps
were reduced to 2.5 per cent, in the course of the day's fighting.
In the evening of this day a division of the French Xinth Army Corps came up into line and
took over the portion of the line held by the 2nd Division, which, on the 24:th, took up the ground
occupied by the 7th Division from Poelzelhoek to the Becelaere-Passchendaele Road.
On the 2-tth and 2.5th October repeated attacks by the enemy were brilUantly repulsed.
On the night of the 2-lth-25th the First Division was reUeved by French Territorial troops and
concentrated about Zillebeke.
During the 2oth the 2nd Division, with the 7th on its right and the French 9th Cori)s on its left,
made good progress towards the north-east, capturing some guns and prisoners.
On the 27th October I went to the headquarters of the First Corps at Hooge to personally
investigate the condition of the 7th Division.
Owing to constant marching and fighting, ever since its hasty disembarkation, in aid of the
Antwerp Garrison, this division had suffered great losses, and was becoming very weak. I therefore
decided temporarily to break up the Fourth Corps and place the 7th Division with the First Corps
under the command of Sir Douglas Haig.
The 3rd Cavalry Division was similarly detailed for service with the First Corps.
I directed the Fourth Corps Commander to proceed, with his Staff, to England, to watch and
supervise the mobilisation of his Sth Division which was then proceeding.
On receipt of orders, in accordance with the above arrangement. Sir Douglas Haig redistributed
the line held by the First Corps as follows : —
(a) 7th Division from the Chateau east of Zandvoorde to the Menin Road.
(6) 1st Division from the Menin Road to a point immediately west of Reytel \"illage.
(c) 2nd Division to near Moorslede-Zonnebeke Road.
On the early morning of the 29th October a heavy attack developed against the centre of the
line held by the First Corps, the principal point of attack being the cross-roads one mile east of Ghelu-
velt. After severe fighting — nearly the whole of the Corps being employed in coimter-attack — the
enemy began to give way at about 2 p.m. : and by dark the Kruiseik Hill had been recaptured and
the 1st Brigade had re-established most of the line north of the Menin Road.
Shortly after daylight on the 30th another attack began to develop in the direction of Zandvoorde,
supported by heavy artillery fire. In face of this attack the 3rd Cavalry Division had to withdraw to
the Klein Zillebeke Ridge. This withdrawal involved the right of the 7th Division.
Sir Douglas Haig describes the position at this period as serious, the Germans being in possession
of Zandvoorde Ridge.
Subsequent investigation showed that the enemy had been reinforced at this point by the whole
German Active Fifteenth Corps.
The General Ofiicer Commanding First Corps ordered the line Gheluvelt to the comer of the canal
to be held at all costs. When this Une was taken up the 2nd Brigade was ordered to concentrate
in rear of the 1st Division and the -Ith Brigade line. One battalion was placed in reserve in the woods
one mile south of Hooge.
F\irther precautions were taken at night to protect this flank, and the Xinth French Corps sent
three battalions and one Cavalry Brigade to assist.
The First Corps' Conununications through Ypres were threatened by the advance of the Germans
towards the canal : so orders were issued for every effort to be made to secure the line then held, and,
when this had been thoroughly done, to resume the oS'ensive.
An order taken from a prisoner who had been captured on this day purported to emanate from
the German General, Von Beimling, and said that the Fifteenth German Corps, together with the 2nd
Bavarian and Thirteenth Corps, were entrusted with the task of breaking through the line to Ypres ;
and that the Emperor himself considered the success of this attack to be one of vital importance to
the successful issue of the war.
Perhaps the most important and decisive attack (except that of the Prussian Guard on 15th
November) made against the First Corps dimng the whole of its arduous experiences in the neighbour^
hood of Ypres took place on the 31st October.
General .Moussy, who coiuiiiamled the detachment wliich liad been sent by the French Ninth
Corps on the previous day to assist Sir Douglas Haig on the right of the First Corps, moved to the
attack early in the morning, but was brought to a complete standstill, and could make no further progress.
After several attacks and counter-attacks during the coui-se of the morning along the Menin-
Ypres road, south-east of (iheluvelt, an attack against that place developed in groat force, and the line
of the First Division was broken. On the south the 7th Division and (ieneral Bulfin's detachment
were being hea^-ily shelled. The retirement of the 1st Division exposed the left of the 7th Division,
and owing to this the Royal Scots FHisiliers, who remained in the trenches, were cut off and surrounded.
A strong uifantry attack was developed against the right of the 7th Division at 1.30 p.m.
Shortly after this the Headquartei-s of the 1st and 2nd Divisions were shelled. The General Officer
Conmianding 1st Division was wounded, three .Staff OtTicei-s of the 1st Di\'ision and three of the 2nd
Division were killed. The General Oflicer Commanding the 2nd Division also received a severe shaking,
and was unconscious for a short tune. General Landon assumed conmiand of the 1st Division.
On receiving a report about 2.30 p.m. from General Lomax that the 1st Di\'ision had moved back
and that the enemy was coming on in strength, the General Officer Commanding the First Corps issued
orders that the line, Frezenberg-Westhoek-bend of the main road-Klein ZUlebeke-bend of canal,
was to be held at all costs.
The 1st Division rallied on the line of the woods east of the bend of the road, the German advance
by the road being checked by enfilade fire from the north.
The attack against the right of the 7th Division forced the 22nd Brigade to retire, thus exposing
the left of the 2nd Brigade. The General Officer Commanding the 7th Division used his reserve, ah-eady
posted on his flank, to restore the line : but, in the meantime, the 2nd Brigade, finding their left flank
exposed, had been forced to withdraw. The right of the 7th Division thus advanced as the left of the
2nd Brigade went back, with the result that the right of the 7th Division was exposed, but managed
to hold on to its old trenches till nightfall.
Meantime, on the Menin road, a counter-attack delivered by the left of the 1st Division and the
right of the 2nd Division against the right flank of the German line was completely successful, and by
2.30 p.m. Gheluvelt had been retaken with the bayonet, the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment being to
the fore in this, adnurably supported by the i2nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. The left of the 7th
Division, profiting by their capture of Gheluvelt, advanced almost to its original line : and connection
between the 1st and 7th Divisions was re-established. The recapture of Gheluvelt released the 6th
Cavalry Brigade, till then held in support of the 1st Division. Two regiments of tliis brigade were
sent at once to clear the woods to the south-east, and close the gap in the line between the 7th Division
and 2nd Brigade. They advanced with much dash, partly mounted and partly dismounted : and,
surprising the enemy in the woods, succeeded in killing large numbers and materially helped to restore
the line. About 5 p.m. the French Cavalry Brigade also came up to the cross-roads just east of Hooge,
and at once sent forward a dismounted detachment to support our 7th Cavalry Brigade.
Throughout the day the extreme right and left of the First Corps' line held fast, the left being only
slightly engaged,- while the right was heavily shelled and subjected to slight infantry attacks. In the
evening the enemy were steadily driven back from the woods on the front of the 7th Di\Tsion and 2nd
Brigade : and by 10 p.m. the line as lield in the morning had practically been reoccupied.
During the night touch was restored between the right of the 7th Division and left of the 2nd
Brigade, and the Cavalry were withdrawn into reserve, the ser%'ices of the French Cavalry being dis-
pensed with.
As a result of the day's fighting eight hundred and seventy wounded were evacuated.
I was present vrith Sir Douglas Haig at Hooge between 2 and 3 o'clock on this day, when the
1st Division were retiring. I regard it as the most critical moment in the whole of this great battle.
The rally of the 1st Division and the recapture of the \-illage of Gheluvelt at such a time was fraught
with momentous consequences. If any one unit can be singled out for especial praise it is the
Worcesters.
7. In the meantime the centre of my- line, occupied by the Third and Cavalry Corps, was being
heavily pressed by the enemy in ever-increasing force.
On the 20th October advanced posts of the 12th Brigade of the 4th Division. Tliird Corps, were
forced to retire, and at dusk it was evident that the Germans were likely to make a determined attack.
This ended in the occupation of Le Gheir by the enemy.
As the position of the Cavalry at St. Yves was thus endangered, a counter-attack was decided
upon and planned by General Hunter- Weston and Lieutenant-Colonel Anley. This proved entirely
snccessfiil, the Germans being driven back with great loss and the abandoned trenches reoccupied.
Two hundred prisoners were taken and about forty of oiu- prisoners released.
In these operations the staunchness of the King's Own Regiment and the Lancashire Fusiliers
was most conunendable. These two battalions were very well handled by Lieutenant-Colonel Butler,
of the Lancashire Fusiliers.
I am anxious to bring to special notice the excellent work done throughout tliis battle by the Third
Corps under General Pulteney's coniniand. Their position in the right central part of my line was of
the utmost importance to the general success of the operations. Besides the very undue length of
front which the Corps was called upon to cover (some 12 or 13 miles), the position presented many weak
spots, and was also astride of the River Lys, the right bank of which from Frelinghein downwards
was strongly held by the enemy. It was impossible to provide adequate reserves, and the constant
work in the trenches tried the endurance of officers and men to the utmost. That the Corps was
invariably successful in repulsing the constant attacks, sometimes in great strength, made against
them by day and by night is due entirely to the skilful manner in wliich the Corps was disposed by its
Conmiander. who has told me of the able assistance he has received throughout from his Staff, and the
ability and resource displayed by Di\-isional, Brigade and Regimental leaders in using the ground and
the means of defence at their disposal to the very best advantage.
The courage, tenacity, endurance and cheerfulness of the men in such unparalleled circumstances
are beyond all praise.
E)uring the 22nd. 23rd and 24th October frequent attacks were made along the whole line of
the Tliird Corps, and especially against the 16th Infantry Brigade ; but on all occasions the enemy
was thrown back with loss.
During the night of the 25th October the Leicesterslvtre Regiment were forced from their trenches
by shells blowing in the pits they were in : and after investigation by the General Officers Conmianding
the 16th and ISth Infantry Brigades it was decided to throw back the line temporarily in this
neighbourhood.
On the evening of the 29th October the enemy made a sharp attack on Le Gheir, and on the line
to the north of it. but were repulsed.
About midnight a very heavy attack developed against the 19th Infantry Brigade south of Croix
Marechal. A portion of the trenches of the Middlesex Regiment was gained by the enemy and held by
him for some hours tiU recaptured with the assistance of the detachment from the Ar«ryll and .Sutherland
Highlanders from Brigade Reserve. The enemy in the trenches were aU bayoneted or captured. Later
information from prisoners showed that there were twelve battalions opposite the 19th Brigade.
Over two himdred dead Germans were left lying in front of the Brigade's trenches, and forty prisoners
were taken.
On the evening of the 30th the line of the 11th Infantry Brigade in the neighbourhood of St.
Yves was broken. A counter-attack carried out by Major Prowse with the Somerset Light Infantry
restored the situation. For liis ser\-ices on this occasion this officer was recommended for special reward.
On the 31st October it became nece-ssary for the -Ith Division to take over the extreme right of
the 1st Cavalry Division's trenches, although this measure necessitated a still further extension of the
line held by the Tliird Corps.
S. On October 20th, wliile engaged in the attempt to force the line of the River Lys, the Cavalry
Corps was attacked from the south and east. In the evening the 1st Cavalry Division held the line
St. Yves-Messines : the 2nd Cavalry Division from Messines through Garde Dieu along the Wambeck
to Houthem and KortewUde.
At i p.m. on the 21st October a heavy attack was made on the 2nd Cavalry Division, which was
compelled to fall back to the line Mes.sines-9th kilo stone on the Wameton-Oostaveme Road-Hollebeke.
On the 22nd I directed the 7th Indian Infantry Brigade, less one battalion, to proceed to Wul-
vei^hem in support of the Cavalry Corps. General Allenby sent two battalions to Wytschaete and
Voormezeele to be placed imder the orders of General Gough. Commanding the 2nd Cavalry Division.
On the 23rd, 2-lth and 25th several attacks were directed against the Cavalry Corps and repulsed
with loss to the enemy.
On the 26th October I directed General AUenby to endeavour to regain a more forward line, moving
in conjunction with the 7th Division. But the latter being apparently quite unable to take the offensive,
the attempt had to be abandoned.
On October 30th heavy infantry attacks, supported by powerful artillery fire, developed against
the 2nd and 3rd Cavalry Divisions, especially against the trenches about Hollebeke held by the 3rd
Cavalry Brigade. At 1.30 p.m. this Brigade was forced to retire, and the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, less
one regiment, was moved across from the 1st Cavalry Di\-ision to a point between Oostaverne and St.
Eloi in support of the 2nd Cavalry Division.
The 1st Cavalry Division in the neighbourhood of Messines was also threatened by a heavy infantry
colimrn.
General Allenby still retained the two Indian Battalions of the 7th Indian Brigade, although they
were in a somewhat exhausted condition.
After a close siu'vey of the positions and consultations with the General Officer Conunanding the
Cavalry Corps, I directed four battaUons of the .Second Corps, which had lately been relieved from the
trenches by the Indian Corps, to move to Neuve EgUse under General Shaw, in support of General Allenby .
The London Scottish Territorial Battalion was also sent to Neuve Eglise.
It now fell to the lot of the Cavalry Corps, which had been much weakened liy constant fighting,
to oppose the advance of two nearly fresh German Army Corps for a period of over forty-eight hours,
pending the arrival of a French reinforcement. Their action was completely successful. I propose
to send shortly a more detailed account of the operation.
^\fter the critical situation in front of the Cavalry Corps, which was ended hy the arrival of the
head of the French 16th Army Corps, the 2nd Cavalry Division was relieved by General Conueau's
French Cavalry Corps and concentrated in the neighbourhood of Bailleul.
The 1st Cavalry l)i\nsion continued to hold the line of trenches east of Wulverghem.
F^'om that time to the date of tliis despatch the Cavalry Di\asions have relieved one another at
intervals, and have supported by their artillery the attacks made by the French throughout that period
of ITollebeke. W>-tschaete and Messines.
The Third Corps in its position on the right of the Cavalry Corps continued throughout the same
period to repel constant attacks against its front, and suffered severely fi-om the enemy's heavy
artillery fire.
The artillery of the 1th Division constantly assisted the French in their attacks.
The General Ollicer Commanding Third Corps brings specially to my notice the excellent beha^•^our
of the East Lanca.shire Kegiment. tlie Hampshire Regiment and the Somei-setshire Light Infantry in
these latt«r operations ; and the skilful manner in which they were handled by General Hunter- Weston,
Lieutenant-Colonel Butler and the Battalion Commandei's.
9. The Lahore Division arrived in its concentration area in rear of the Second Corps on the 19th
and 20th October.
I have already referred to the excellent work performed by the battalioiLs of this Division which
were supporting the Cavalry. The remainder of the Division from the 25th October onwards were
heavily engaged in assisting the 7th Brigade of the Second Corps in fighting round Neuve Chapelle.
Another brigade took over some ground previously held by the French 1st Cavalry Corps, and did
excellent service.
On the 28th October especially the 47th Sikijs and the 20th and 21st Companies of the 3rd Sappers
and Miners distinguished thentselves by their gallant conduct in tlie attack on Neuve Chapelle,
losing heavily in ofHcers and men.
After the arrival of the Meerut Division at Corps Headquarters the Indian Army Corps took over
the line previously held by the Second Corps, which was then partially drawn back into reserve. Two
and a half brigades of British Infantry and a large part of the Artillery of the Second Corps still remained
to a.ssist the Indian Corps in defence of this line. Two and a half battalions of these brigades were
retvu'ned to the Second Corps when the Ferozepore Brigade joined the Indian Corjjs after its support
of the Cavalry fui'ther north.
The Secunderabad Cavalry Brigade arrived in the area during the 1st and 2nd November, and
the Jodhpvir Lancers came about the same time. These were all temporarily attached to the Indian
Corps.
Up to the date of the present despatch the line held by the Indian Corps ha.s been subjected to
constant bomljardment by the enemy's heavy artillery, followed up by infantry attacks.
On two occasions these attacks were severe.
On the 13th October the Sth Gurkha Rifles of the Bareilly Brigade were driven from their trenches,
and on 2nd November a serious attack was developed against a portion of the line west of Neuve
Chapelle. On this occasion the line was to some extent pierced, and was consequently slightly bent
back.
The situation was prevented from becoming serious by the excellent leadership displayed by
Colonel Norie, of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles.
Since their arrival in this country, and their occupation of the line allotted to them, I have been
much impressed by the initiative and resource displayed by the Indian troops. Some of the ruses
they have employed to deceive the enemy have been attended with the best results, and have doubtless
kept superior forces in front of them at bay.
The Corps of Indian Sappers and Miners have long enjoyed a high reputation for skill and resource.
Without going into detail, I can confidently a-ssert that throughout their work in this campaign they
have fully justified that reputation.
The General Officer Commanding the Indian Army Corps describes the conduct and bearing of
these troops in strange and new surroundings to have been highly satisfactory, and I am enabled,
from my own observation, to fully corroborate his statement.
Honorary Major-General H. H. Sir Pratap Singh Bahadur. G.C.S.I., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., A.D.C.,
Maharaja-Regent of Jodhpur : Honorary Lieutenant H. H. The Maharaja of Jodhpur : Honorary
Colonel H.H. Sir Ganga Singh Bahadur, G.C.S.I.. G.C.I.E., A.D.C., Maharaja of Bikanir : Honorary
Major H.H. Sir Madan Singh Bahadur, K. C.S.I. , K.C.I.E., Maharaja-Dhiraj of Kishengarh ; Honorary
Captain The Honourable Malik Umar Hayat Khan, C'.I.E., M.^■.0., Tiwana : Honorary Lieutenant
Raj-Kumar Hira Singh of Panna : Honorary Lieutenant Maharaja-Kiunar Hitendra Xarayan of
Cooch Behar : Lieutenant ilalik Mumtaz Mahomed Khan. Native Indian Land Forces : Eesaldar
Khwaja Mahomed Khan Bahadur, Queen \'ictoria'3 Own Corps of Guides : Honorary Captain Shah
Mirza Beg, are serving «"ith the Indian contingents.
10. Whilst the whole of the line has continued to be heavily pressed, the enemy's principal efforts
since the 1st Xovember have been concentrated upon breaking through the line held by the First British
and 9th French Corps, and thiis gaining possession of the town of Tpres.
From the 2nd Xovernber onwards the 27th. the loth and parts of the Bavarian 13th and 2nd Ger-
man Corps, besides other troops, were all directed against this northern line.
About the 10th instant, after several miits of these Corps had been completely shattered in futile
attacks, a division of the Prussian Guard, which had been operating in the neighbourhood of Arras,
was moved up to this area with great speed and secrecy. Documents found on dead officers prove
that the Guard had received the Emperor's special conmiands to break through and succeed where
their comrades of the line had failed.
They took a leading part in the vigorous attacks made against the centre on the 11th and 12th ;
but, Uke their comrades, were repvdsed with enormous loss.
Throughout this trying period Sir Douglas Haig, ably assisted by his Divisional and Brigade
Commanders, held the line with marvellous tenacity and undaunted courage.
Words fail me to express the admiration I feel for their conduct, or my sense of the incalculable
services they rendered. I vent\u« to predict that their deeds diuing these days of stress and trial will
furnish some of the most briUiant chapters which will be found in the military history of our tinie.
The First Corps was brilliantly supported by the .3rd Cavalry Division under General Byng. Sir
Douglas Haig has constantly brought this officer's eminent services to my notice. His troops were
repeatedly called upon to restore the situation at critical points, and to fill gaps in the line caused by
the tremendous losses which occurred.
Both Corps and Cavalry Division Commanders particularly bring to my notice the name of
Brigadier-General Kavanagh. Commanding the 7th Cavalry Brigade, not only for his skill but his
personal bravery and dash. This was particularly noticeable when the 7th Cavalry Brigade was brought
up to support the French troops when the latter were driven back near the %-illage of Klein ZLUebeke
on the night of the 7th Xovernber. On this occasion 1 regret to say Colonel Gordon WUson, Commandingl
the Royal Horse Guards, and ilajor the Hon. Hugh Dawnay. Conunanding the 2nd Lite Guards,
were killed.
In these two officers the Army has lost valuable cavalry leaders.
Another officer whose name was particularly mentioned to me was that of Brigadier-General
FitzClarence. V.C., Comnaanding the 1st Guards Brigade. He was, unfortunately, killed In the night
attack of the 11th November. His loss wiU be severely felt.
The First Corps Commander informs me that on many occasions Brigadier-General the Earl of
Cavan. Commanding the 4th Guards Brigade, was conspicuous for the skill, coolness and courage with
which he led his troops, and for the successful manner in wliich he dealt with many critical situations.
I have more than once during this campaign brought forward the name of Major-General Bulfin
to your Lordship's notice. Up to the evening of the 2nd November, when he was somewhat severely
wounded, his services continued to be of great value.
On the oth November I despatched eleven battalions of the Second Corps, all considerably reduced
in strength, to relieve the infantry of the 7th Division, which was then brought back into general
reserve.
Three more battalions of the same Corps, the London Scottish and Hertfordshire Battalions of
Territorials, and the Somersetshire and Leicestershire Regiments of Teomanry, were subsequently
sent to reinforce the troops fighting to the east of Ypres.
General Byng In the case of the Teomanry Cavalry Regiments and Sir Douglas in that of the Ter-
ritorial Battalions speak in high terms of their conduct In the field and of the value of their support-
The battaUons of the Second Corps took a conspicuous part in repulsing the heavy attacks deUvered
against this part of the Une. I was obUged to despatch them immediately after their trying experiences
in the southern part of the line and when they had had a very insufficient period of rest : and. although
they gallantly maintained these northern positions until relieved by the French, they were reduced
to a condition of extreme exhaustion.
The work performed by the Royal Flying Corps has continued to prove of the utmost value to
the success of the operations.
I do not con-sider it advisable in this despatch to go into any detail as regards the duties assigned
to the Corps and the nature of their work, but almost every day new methods for employing them,
both strategically and tactically, are discovered and put into practice.
The development of their use and employment has indeed been quit* extraordinary, and I feel
sure that no effort slio\il<l he sparod to iiuTea.«e their n\iiiibci-s and perfect their equipment anil
etTiciency.
In tlie period covered liy this despatch Territorial troops \in\r. been used foi' (he fii-st time in the
Army under my command.
Tlie units actually enf;ai;ed have been tlie Northiimherland, Northami)t()nshire, North Somei'set,
Leicestershire and Oxfordsliire HeKiments of Yeomanry Cavalry : and (lie London Scottish, Hert-
fordshire, Honourable Artillery Company and the (Queen's \\'estminstc>r Hattalioiis of Territorial
Infantry.
The conduct and bearing of these units under (iie :nid the ellicient manriei' in which they cairied
out the various duties assijined to lliem have imbued me with the higliest hope as to the \alue and
help of Territorial lroo])s generally.
Units which I have mentioned above, other than these, as liaving been also engaged, have by their
conduct fully justified these hopes.
Regiments and batt.alions as they arrive come into a temporary camp of instruction, which is
formed at Head(|uartci's, where they are closely inspected, their e(|uipment examined, so far a-s possible
perfected, and such instruction as can be given to them in (he biief time available in the use of machine
guns, etc., is im]5arted.
Several units have now been sent up to the fi(in( besides (hose I have already named, but have not
yet been engaged.
I am anxious in this despatch to bring to your Lordship's special notice the splendid work which
has been done throughout the campaign by the Cyclists of tlie Signal Corps.
Carrj-ing desjiatches and messages at all houi-s of the day and night in every kind of weather, and
often traversing bad roads blocked with transport, they havi' been conspicuously successful in main-
taining an extraoi-dinary degree of efficiency in the service of communications.
Many casualties have occurred in their ranks, but no amount of ditliculty or danger has ever checked
the energy and ardour which has distinguished their Corps throughout the operations.
11. As I close this despatch there are signs in evidence that we are possibly in the last stages of
the Battle of Ypres-Armentieres.
For several days past the enemy's artillery fire has considerably slackened, and infantry attack
has practically ceased.
In remarking upon the general military situation of the Allies as it appears to me at the present
moment, it does not seem to be clearly understood that the operations in which we have been engaged
embrace nearly all the Continent of Central Europe from east to west. The combined BVench, Belgian
and British Armies in the west and the Russian Army in the east are opposed to the united forces
of Gennany and Austria acting as a combined army between \is.
Our enemies elected at the commencement of the war to throw the weight of their forces against
the armies in the west, and to detach only a comparatively weak force, composed of very few first-line
troops and several corps of the second and third lines, to stem the Russian advance till the Western
Forces could be completely defeated and overwhelmed.
Their strength enabled them from the outset to throw greatly superior forces against us in the
west. This precluded the possibility of our taking a vigorous otTensive. except when the miscalculations
and mistakes made by their commanders opened up special oijport unities for a successful attack and
pui'suit.
The Battle of the ilarne was an example of this, as was also our advance from St. Omer and
Hazebrouck to the line of the Lys at the commencement of this battle. The role which our armies in
the west have consequently been called u]5on to fulfil has been to occupy strong defensive positions,
holding the ground gained and inviting the enemy's attack : to throw these attacks back, causing
the enemy heavy losses in his retreat and following him u]! with powerful and successful counter-
attacks to complete his discomfiture.
The value and significance of the role fulfilled since the commencement of hostilities by the Allied
Forces in the west lies in the fact that at the moment when the Eastern Pro\'inces of Germany are in
imminent danger of being overrun by the numerous and jiowerful armies of Russia, nearly the whole
of the active ai'my of Germany is tied down to a line of trenches extending from the Fortress of Verdun
on the Alsatian FYontier round to the sea at Nieuport, east of Dunkirk (a distance of 2(50 miles), where
they are held, much reduced in numbers and morale by the successful action of our troops in the west.
I cannot speak too highly of the valuable services rendered by the Royal Artillery throughout
the battle.
In spite of the fact that the enemy has brought up gims in support of his attacks of great range
and shell power ours have succeeded throughout in preventing the enemy from establishing anything
in the nature of an artillery superiority. The skill, courage and energy displayed by their conuiianders
have been very marked.
The General Officer Commanding Third Corps, who had special means of judging, makes mention
of the splendid work performed by a number of young Artillery officers, who in the most gallant
manner pressed forward in the vicinity of the firing line in order that their guns may be able to shoot
at the right targets at the right moment.
The Royal Engineers have, as usual, been indefatigable in their efforts to a-sstst the infantry in
field fortification and trench work.
1 deeply regret the heavy casualties which we have suffered : but the nature of the fighting has
been very desperate, and we have been assailed by vastly superior numbers. I have every reason to
know that throughout the course of the battle we have placed at least three times as many of the enemy
hors lie covibat in dead, wounded and prisoners.
Throughout these operations (ieneral Foch has strained his resources to the utmost to afford me
all the support he could : and an expression of my warm gratitude is also due to General D'Urbal,
Commanding the 8th French Army on my left, and General Maud'huy, Commanding the 10th French
Army on my right.
I have many recommendations to bring to your Lordship's notice for gallant and distinguished
service performed by officers and men in the period under report. These will be submitted shortly,
as soon as they can be collected.
I have the honour to be.
Your Lordship's most obedient Servant,
J. P. D. FRENCH,
Field-Marshal, Commanding-in-Chief,
The British Army in the Field.
The following Despatch was received on the 12th February. 1915 : —
From the Field-Marshal Comiiianding-in-Chief. The British Army in the Field.
To the Secretary of State for War, War Office, London, S.W.
General Headquarters.
2»rf Februari/. 1915.
My Lord,
I have the honour to forward a further report on the operations of the Army \mder my command.
1. In the period under reriew the salient feature was the presence of His Majesty the King in
the Field. His Majesty arrived at Headquarters on the 30th November, and left on the 5th December.
At a time when the strength and endurance of the troops had been tried to the utmost through-
out the long and arduous Battle of Ypres-Armentieres the presence of His Majesty in their midst
was of the greatest possible help and encouragement.
His ^Majesty visited all parts of the extensive area of operations and held numerous inspections
of the troops behind the line of trenches.
On the 16th November Lieutenant His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, K.G., Grenadier
Guards, joined my Staff as Aide-de-Camp.
2. Since the date of my la'-t report the operations of the Army under my command have been
subject almost entirely to the limitations of weather.
History teaches us that tlie course of campaigns in Europe, which have been actively prosecuted
during the months of December and January, have been largely influenced by weather conditions. It
should, however, be thorouglily understood throughout the coimtry that the most recent development
of armaments and the latest methods of conducting warfare have added greatly to the difficulties
and drawbacks of a vigorous winter campaign.
To cause anything more than a waste of ammunition long-range artillery fire requires constant
and accurate observation : but this most necessary condition is rendered impossible of attainment
in the midst of continual fog and mist.
Again, annies have now grown accustomed to rely largely on aircraft reconnaissance for accurate
information of the enemy : but the effective performance of this service is materially influenced by
wind and weather.
The deadly acciu-acy, range and quick-firing capabilities of the modern rifle and machine gim
require that a fire-swept zone be crossed in the shortest possible space of tune by attacking troops.
But if men are detained under the enemy's fire by the difficulty of emerging from a water-logged trench,
and by the necessity of passing over ground knee-deep in holding mud and slush, such attacks become
practicaUy proliibitive owing to the losses they entail.
During the exigencies of the heavy fighting which ended in the last week of November the French
and British Forces had become somewhat mixed up. entailing a certain amount of diflficulty in matters
of supply and in securing unity of conimand.
By the end of November I wa* able to concentrate the Army under my command in one area. and.
by holding a shorter line, to establish effective reserves.
By the beginning of December there was a considerable faUing off in the volume of artUIery fire
directed against our front by the enemy. Reconnaissance and reports showed that a certain .•Hiiouiit of
artillery had been withdrawn. We judged tliat thc^ eavjilry in oui' front, witli the exeepl-ion of one
Division of the Guard, had disappeared.
Tliere did not, however, appear to have been any great diminution in tlic mmil)crs of infantry
lioldiny; the trendies.
3. Altliougli l)otli ai-tilleiy and lillr lire were exelianged with tlie enemy every day, and siii])inf;
went on more or less contimionsly during tlie lioui's of daylight, tlie operations wtiiel\ called for special
record or comment are comparatively few.
During the last week in Novemlier some successful minor niglit operations were cairied out in
the Ith Corps.
On the night of tlie 23rd-24t.h Novemliei- a small party of the 2nd Lincolnsiiire Regiment, under
Lieutenant I'^,. If. Inipey, cleared three of the enemy's advanced trenches oppo.site the 2."jth Brigade
and withdrew without loss.
On the night of the 24th-2,5tli Captain .J. R. .Minsliull Ford, Royal Welsh Fusiliei's. and I^ieutenant
K. L. Morris, Royal Engineers, v\-ith 15 men of the Royal Engineers and Royal Welsli Fusiliers, success-
fully mined and blew up a group of farms immediately in front of the Gennan trenches on the Touquet-
Bridoux Road which has been used by German snipei-s.
On the night of tlie 26th-27th November a small jiarty of the 2nd Scots Guards, under Lieutenant
Sir E. 11. W. Ilulse. ]?art.. rushed the ticnclies opposite the 2(lth Brigade ; and after iiouring a heavy
fire into them returned with useful information as to the strength of the Germans and the position
of machine guns.
The trenches opposite the 25th Brigade were rushed the same night by a patrol of the 2nd Rifle
Brigade under Lieutenant E. Durham.
On the 23rd November the n2th Regiment of the 1 Itli (ierman Army Corps succeeded in capturing
.some SOO yards of the trenches held by the Indian Corps, but the General Offlcer Commanding the
jMeerut Division organised a powerful counter-attack, which lasted tliroughout the night. At day-
break on the 24th November the line was entirely re-established.
The operation was a costly one, involving many casualties, but the enemy suffered far more
hesivily.
We capt lu'ed over 100 prisoner, including 3 officers, a.s well as 3 machine guns and 2 trench mortars.
On Decemlier 7th the concentration of the Indian Corps was completed by the arrival of tlie
Sirliind Hi-igade from Egypt.
On December 9th the enemy attempted to commence a strong attack against the 3rd Corps,
particularly in fi'ont of the trenches held by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Middlesex
Regiment .
They were driven back with lieavy loss, and diil not renew tlie attempt. Our casualties were
very slight.
During the early days of December certain indications along tlie whole front of tlie Allied Line
induced the Frencli. Commanders and myself to believe that the enemy had withdrawn considerable
forces from the Western Theatre.
Arrangements were made with the Commander of the 8th French Army for an attack to be com-
menced on the morning of December 14th.
Opeiatioiis began at 7 a.m. by a combined heavy artillery bombardment by the two Frencli and
tlic 2nd Hriti.sh Corps.
The British objectives were the Petit Bois and the Maedelsteed Spur, lying respectively to the
west and south-west of the village of Wytschaete.
At 7.45 a.m. the Royal Scots, with great daph, ruslied forward and attacked the former, while
the fioi'don Highlandei-s attacked the latter place.
The Royal Scots, commanded by .Major F. J. Duncan, D.S.O., in face of a terrible macliine-gun
and rifle fire, carried the (ierman trencli on the west edge of the Petit Bois, capturing two machine
guns and 53 prisoners, including one ofificer.
The Gordon Highlanders, vrith great gallantry, advanced up the Maedelsteed Spur, forcing the
enemy to evacuate their front trench. They were, however, losing heavily, and found themselves
unable to get any further. At nightfall they were obliged to fall back to tlieir original position.
Captain C. Boddam-Whetham and Lieutenant W. F. R. Dobie showed splendid dash, and with
a feu- men entered the enemy's leading trenches, but tliey were all either killed or captured.
Lieutenant G. R. V. Hume-Gore and Lieutenant W. H. Patereon also distinguished themselves
by their gallant leading.
Although not successful, the operation was most creditable to the fighting spirit of the Gordon
Highlanders, most ably commanded by ^lajor A. W. P. Baird, D.S.O
As the 32nd I<^rench Di\ision on the left had been unable to make any progress, the further advance
of our infantry into the Wvi;schaete Wood was not practicable.
Possession of the western edge of the Petit Bois was. however, retained.
The ground was devoid of cover and so water-logged that a rapid advance was impossible, the men
sinking deep in the mud at every step they took.
The artiller\- throughout the day was very skilfully handled by the C.R.A.'s of the 3rd, 4th and
.5th Divisions : ^Major- General F. D. V. Wing, C.B., Brigadier-General G. F. MUne, C.B., D.S.O., and
Brigadier-General J. E. W. Headlani, C.B.. D.S.O.
The casualties during the day were about 17 officers and 407 other ranks. The losses of the enemy
were very considerable, large numbers of dead being found in the Petit Bois and also in the com-
municating trenches in front of the Gordon Highlanders, in one of which a hundred were counted by
a night patrol.
On this day the artillery of the 4th Division, 3rd Corps, was used in support of the attack, under
orders of the General Officer Conrunanding 2nd Corps.
The remainder of the 3rd Corps made demonstrations against the enemy with a view to pre-
venting him from detaching troops to the area of operations of the 2nd Corps.
From the 1.5th to the 17th December the offensive operations which were conunenced on the 14th
were continued, but were confined chiefly to artillery bombardment.
The infantry advance against Wytschaete Wood was not practicable until the French on our left
could make some progress to afford protection to that flank.
On the 17th it was agreed that the plan of attack as arranged should be modified : but I was
requested to continue demonstrations along my line in order to assist and support certain French
operations which were being conducted elsewhere.
4. In his desire to act with energy up to his instructions to demonstrate and occupy the enemy,
the General Officer Commanding the Indian Corps decided to take the advantage of what appeared to
him a favom^ble opportunity to launch attacks against the advanced trenches in his front on the ISth
and 19th December.
The attack of the Meerut Division on the left was made on the morning of the 19th with energy
and determination, and was at first attended with considerable success, the enemy's advanced trenches
being captured. Later on. however, a counter-attack drove them back to their original position with
considerable loss.
The attack of the Lahore Division commenced at 4.30 a.m. It was carried out by two companies
each of the 1st Highland Light Infantry and the 1st BattaUon. 4th Gurkha Rifles, of the Sirhind
Brigade, under Lieutenant- Colonel R. W. H. Ronaldson. This attack was completely successful,
two lines of the enemy's trenches being captured with little loss.
Before daylight the captured trenches were filled with as many men as they would hold. The
front was very restricted, comraunication to the rear impos-sible.
At daybreak it was found that the position was practicallr untenable. Both flanks were in the
air. and a supporting attack, which was late in starting, and. therefore, conducted during daylight,
failed, although attempted with the greatest gallantry and resolution.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ronaldson held on till dusk, when the whole of the captured trenches had to
be evacuated, and the detachment feU back to its original line.
By the night of the 19th December nearly aU the ground gained dxiring the day had been lost.
From daylight on the 20th December the enemy commenced a heavy fire from artillery and trench
mortars on the whole front of the Indian Corps. This was followed by infantry attacks, which were in
especial force against Givenchy, and between that place and La Quinque Rue.
At about 10 a.m. the enemy succeeded in driving back the Sirhind Brigade and capturing a con-
siderable part of Givenchy, but the 57th Rifles and 9th Bhopals, north of the canal, and the Connaught
Rangers, south of it, stood firm.
The 15th Sikhs of the Divisional Reserve were already supporting the Sirhmd Brigade. On the
news of the retirement of the latter being received, the 47th .Sikhs were also sent up to reinforce General
Bnmker. The 1st Manchester Regunent. 4t.h Suffolk Regiment, and two battaUons of French Ter-
ritorials under General Camegy were ordered to launch a vigorous counter-attack from Pont Fixe
through Givenchy to retake by a flank attack the trenches lost by the Sirliind Brigade.
Orders were sent to General Camegy to divert his attack on Givenchy Village and to re-estabUsh
the situation there.
A battalion of the oSth French Division was sent to Annequin in support.
About 5 p.m. a gallant attack by the 1st Manchester Regiment and one company of the 4th
Suffolk Regiment had captured Givenchy. and had cleared the enemy out of the two lines of
trenches to 'the north-east. To the east of the village the 9th Bhopal Infantry and 57th Rifles had
maintained their positions, but the enemy were still in possession of our trenches to the north of the
village.
General Macbean, with the Secunderabad Cavalry Brigade. 2nd Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles,
and the 47th Sikhs, was sent up to support General Brunker, who at 2 p.m. directed General Macbean
to move to a position of readiness in the second line trenches from Maris northward, and to counter-
attack vigorously if ojjportunity offered.
Some conhiderablc delay appeals to liave occurred, and it Uii-s not luitil 1 a.m. on the 21st lliat tlie
47t.h Sikhs and the 7th l)raf<oon Guards, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Lempriere,
D.S.O., of the latter regiment, were launched in counter-attack.
Tliey reached the eni-my's trenches, hut were driven out by enfilade fire, tlicii- gallant ( 'oiiiin.inder
being killed.
The main attack by tlie remainder of (ieneral Machean's force, with tlie rfinnanls of Lieutenant-
Colonel Lenipriere's detachment (which had again been rallied), was finally piLshed in at about
4.30 a.m., and also failed.
In the northern section of the defensive line the retirement of the 2nd Battalion, 2mi1 Cuiklia
Rifles, at about 10 a.m. on the 20th, had left tlie llatik of the 1st .Seaforth Ilighlaiuh'i-s. on the extreme
right of the Meerut Division line, much exposed. 'I'liis battalion was li-tt shortly afterwards comjiletely
in the air by the retirement of the Sirhind Brigadi>.
The oSth Rifles, therefore, were ordered to siipport tlie left of the .Seaforth lligldandei's, to fill
the gap created by the retirement of the Gui'kha-s.
During the whole of the afternoon strenuous efforts were made by the Seaforth Itighlandei'S to
clear the trenches to their right and left. The 1st Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles, reinforced the 2nd
Gurkhas near the oi'chard where the Germans weie in occnj^ation of the trenches abandoned by the
latter regiment. The (iarhwal Brigade wa.s being very heavily attacked, and their trendies and loop-
holes were much damaged : but the brigade continued to hold its frf)nt and attack, connecting with
the (ith Jats on the left of the Dehra Dun Brigade.
No advance in force was made by the enemy, but the troops were pinned to their groiiiul li> heavy
artillery fire, the Seaforth Highlanders especially suffering heavily.
Shortly before nightfall the 2nd Royal Highlaiidei's on the right of the Seaforth Highlanders
had succeeded in establishing touch with the Sirhind Brigade, and the continuous line (though
dented near the orchard) existed throughout the Jleerut Di%'ision.
Early in the afternoon of December 20th orders were sent to the 1st Corps, which was tluMi in
general army reserve, to send an infantry brigade to support the Indian Corps.
The 1st Brigade was ordered to Bethune, and reached that place at midnight on 2()th-21st
December. Later in the day Sir Douglas Haig wa-s ordered to move the whole of the 1st Division in
support of the Indian Corps.
The 3rd Brigade reached Bethune between S a.m. and !) a.m. on the 21st, and on the same date
the 2nd Brigade arrived at Lacon at 1 i).m.
The 1st Brigade was directed on Gjvenchy, via I'ont Fixe, and the 3rd Brigade, tliiough Gorre,
on the trenches evacuated by the Sirhind Biigade.
The 2nd Brigade was directed to suppoi-t. the Dehia Dun Brigade being placed at the disposal
of the General Orticer Commanding Meerut Division.
At 1 p.m. the General Officer Commanding 1st Division directed the 1st Brigade in attack fiom
the west of Givenchy in a north-easterly direction, and the 3rd Brigade from Festubert in an east-north-
easterly direction, the object being to pass the position oi-iginally held bj' us and to capture the German
trenches 100 jards to tlie east of it.
By .■) p.m. the 1st Brigade had obtained a hold in Givenchy, and the ground south as far as the
canal : and the 3rd Brigade had progressed to a point half a mile west of Festubert.
By nightfall the 1st South Wsiles Borderers and the 2nd Welsh Regiment of the 3rd Brigade had
made a lodgment in the original trenches to the north-east of Festubert, the 1st Gloucestershire Regi-
ment continuing the line southward along the track east of Festubert.
The 1st Briiiade had established itself on the east side of Givenchy.
By 3 j).m. the 3rd Brigade was concentr.ited at Le Touret, and was ordered to retake the trenches
whicli had been lost by the Dehra Dun Brigade.
By 10 p.m. the support trenches west of the orchard hail Ijeen carried, but the origuial tire trenches
had been so completely destroyed that they could not be occupied.
This operation was performed by the 1st Loyal North I^ancashire Regmient and the 1st North-
amptonshire Regiment, supported by the 2nd King's Royal Rifle Corps, in reserve.
Throughout this day the units of the Indian Corps rendered aU the a-ssistance and support they
could in view of their exhausted condition.
At 1 p.m. on the 22nd Sir Douglas Haig took over command from Sir James WiUcocks. The
situation in the front hne was then approximately as follows : —
South of the I^a Bassee Canal the Connaught Rangers of the Ferozepore Brigade had not been
attacked. North of the canal a short length of our original line was still held by the 9th Bhopals and
the .57th Rifles of the same lirigade. Connecting with the latter was the 1st Brigade holding the \illage
of Givenchy and its eastern and northern approaches. On the left of the 1st Brigade was the 3rd
Brigade. Touch had been lost between the left of the former and the right of the latter. The 3rd Brigade
held a line along, and in places advanced to, the east of the Festubert Road. Its left was in com-
munication with the right of the Meerut Division line, where troops of the 2nd Brigade had just relieved
the 1st Seaforth Highlanders. To the north, units of the 2nd Brigade held an indented line west of the
orchard, connecting witti half of the 2nd Royal Highlanders, halt of the list Dogras and the 1st Bat-
talion, 9th Ciiu-kha Rifles. From this point to the north the tith Jats and the whole of the Garhwal
Brigade occupied the original line which they had held from the commencement of the operations.
The relief of most units of the southern sector was effected on the night of 22nd December. The
Meerut Division remained under the orders of the 1st Corps, and was not completely withdrawn untU
the 27th December.
In the evening the position at Givenchy wa-s practically re-established, and the 3rd Brigade had
reoccupied the old line of trenches.
During the 23rd the enemy's activities ceased, and the whole position was restored to very much
its original condition.
In my last despatch I had occasion to mention the prompt and ready help I received from the
Lahore Di\-ision, under the command of Major-fJeneral H. B. B. Watkis, C.B., wliich was thrown into
action inunediately on arrival, when the British Forces were very hard pressed during the Battle of
Ypres-Armentieres.
The Indian troops have fought with the utmost steadfastness and gallantry whenever they have
been called upon.
Weather conditions were abnormally bad, the snow and floods precluding any active operations
during the first three weeks of January.
(Conlinued in Volume II.
REGIMENTALLY CLASSIFIED LIST
OF THE OFFICERS INXLUDED IN VOLUME I.
(The biographies of Officers with composite surnames will be found under the initial letter of the last name.)
COMMANDS AND STAFF
Major-General Hamilton, H. I. \V.. late Royal West Surrey Regiment. Divisional Commander.
Brigadier-General Findlay. X. D.. Royal Artillery, R..\. DiWsional Commander.
Brigadier-General Fitzclarence, C, late Irish Guards, Commanding 1st Guards Brigade.
Colonel Boileau. F. R. F.. late Royal Engineers, G.S.O. 1st Grade.
Kerr, F. W., late Gordon Highlanders, G.S.O. 1st Grade.
Marker, R. J., late Coldstream Guards, A. A. and Q.M.G.
Major Cavvley, J. S.. 20th Hussars. Brigade-Major 1st Cavalry Brigade.
,, Chenevix-Trench, F. M., Royal Field Artillery, Brigade-Major R.A.
,, Green, A. D., Worcestershire Regiment, Brigade-Major.
Paley. G.. Rifle Brigade, G.S.O. 2nd Grade.
(temp. Lieutenant-Colonel) Percival .\. J.-B., Northumberland Fusiliers, G.S.O. 2nd Grade.
Young, A., 1st Gurkha Rifles, Brigade-Major.
Captain Barker, R. V., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Staff Captain 22nd Brigade, Vllth Division.
Giffard. R.. Royal Field Artillery, Aide-de-Camp.
Hawley. C. F., Kings Royal Rifle Corps. G.S.O. 3rd Grade.
James. G. M.. East Kent Regiment. Brigade-Major, 22nd Infantry Brigade, \llth Division.
Jenkinson, J. B., Rifle Brigade, Brigade-Major, 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Division.
Neill, X., 13th Hussars, Brigade-Major, 6th Cavalry Brigade.
Stevens, R. W. M., Royal Irish Rifles, Brigade-Major, 9th Infantry Brigade.
Stewart, B., West Kent Yeomanry, attd. Intelligence Corps.
2nd Lf. Sang, A., (temp.) Intelligence Corps.
Seabrook, J. H., (temp.) Intelligence Corps, attd. Royal Engineers.
Smith. J. H. M., (temp.) Intelligence Corps, attd. 9th (Queen's Roj-al) Lancers.
ROYAL FLYING CORPS
Captain Crean, T., Xorthants. Regt.
,, Picton-Warlow, W., Welsh Regiment.
Lieut. Bayly, C. G. G.. R.E.
2ndLt. Perry, E. W. C.
Waterfall, V., East Yorkshire Regt.
CAVALRY
1st Life Guards
Lt.-Col. Cook, E. B.
Major Cavendish, Lord J. S.
Lieut. Levinge, Sir R. W., Bart.
2nd Lt. St. George. H. .\. B.
2nd Life Guards
Major Dawnay, Hon. H.
Captain O'Xeill. Hon. A. E. B.
Pemberton, F. P. C.
Lieut. Duff, Sir R. G. V., Bart., (attd.). Reserve
of Officers.
Smith, A. G. M.
2nd Lt. Petersen, W. S.
Royal Horse Guards
Lt.-Col. Wilson, G. C.
Lieut. Heath, V. P.
Naylor-Leyland, G. V.
Worsley, C. S. P. Lord
2nd Lt. Lambton. Hon. F.
1st (King's) Dragoon Guards
Lieut. Hawkins, L. H.
White, L. W.
2nd Dragoon Guards Queen's Bays)
Major Browning, J. A.
Captain Springfield, P. O.
Lieut. de Crespigny, C. X. C.
McGrath. N. G. S.
2nd Lt. Paul, G.
3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
C^iptain HmlgklnMin. J. K., Special Reserve.
Sailler. G. G.
Wright, K.
Lieut. Chapman, K. W.
Talbut, H. R.
4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
Captain Fitzgerald, G. H.
Oldrey, R. J. B.. Adjutant.
Lieut. Elmslie, K. \V.. Special Reserve.
,, Hiilman, J.
Ramsay, N. (attd.). Reserve of Officers.
2nd Lt. I'ciwell. H. ()., Special Reserve.
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
Dragoon Guards
Lt.-Col. Ansel!, G. K.
Captain Crawshay, M.
Paitridge, R. C.
2nd Lt. Pattcson. J. D.
6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
.NLij.ir Home. W. G.
Watson, W. E.
Captain Gwyer, A. G.
7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
Lt.-Col. Lemjirierc, H. A.
1st (Royal) Dragoons
Major Dorington. T. P. G.
Mercer-Xairne, Lord C. G. F.
Captain Charrington. A. C.
2nd Lt. Burn, A. H. R.
2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
Major Swetenham, F.
2nd Lt. Baillie, Sir G. G. S.. Bart.
3rd (King's Own! Hussars
Captain Sherlock, (j. L , (empl. Nigeria Regiment,
West African Frontier Force).
Lieut. Leechman, C. B.
2nd Lt. Gath, C. H.
4th (Queen's Own) Hussars
Lt.-Col. Hogg. I. G.
Major Gatacre. J. K.
Lieut. Levita, F. E.
Lonsdale, J. R. Mc.
North, K. C.
,, Schuster, A. F., Special Reserve.
,, Sword, J. H.
5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
Lieut. Juler, G. C.
Robinson, E. W.
Wordsworth, J. L.
6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
Captain Herringham, G. W.
9th iQueen's Royal) Lancers
Major -Abadie. E. H. E.
Brooke, V. R.
Captain Lucas-Tooth. 1). K. L.
Lieut. Allfrey F. de V. B.
2nd Lt. Garstin, C. W. N.
Harvey, D. L.
Taylor- Whitehead, G. E.
Xth iPrince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
Major Cadogan, Hon W. G. S.
Captain Annesley, Hon. A.
Peto. C. H.
Rose. Sir, F. S., Bart.
Lieut. Drake. R. F.
Turnor, C. R.
11th (Prince .Albert's Own Hussars
Captain Halliday, J. .A.
Lieut. Ainsworth, J. S.
Marshall, G. G.
2nd Lt. de Gunzburg, Baron A.
Lumley. R. J.
I2th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
Major Crawley, E.
Captain Michell, J. C.
Murray, F. W. S.
Lieut. Eden, J.
Leatham. E. H.
2nd Lt. Wroughton, M. C.
13th Hussars
Captain Neill, N.. Staff.
Lieut. Lawson-Smith, T. E.
15th (The King's) Hussars
Captain Walker. <). B.
Lieut. Hardinge, Hon. E. C.
Hoare, C. M.
,, Osborne, B.
Tylee, J. M.
Whittle, C. H. S.
16th iThe Queen's) Lancers
Captain Dixon, C. M., Special Reserve.
Macarthur-(])nslo\v, A. W.
2nd Lt. Macneill W. M., Special Reserve.
18th iQueen Mary's Owni Hussars
Lieut. Denroche-Smith, A.J.
2nd Lt. Nicholson, A. K.
19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal)
Hussars
Major McClure, C. R.
2nd Lt. Murray, E. D.
20th Hussars
Major Cawley, J. S., Staff.
Captain Christy, S. H., Reserve of Officers.
Lieut. Soames, H. M.
2nd Lt. Carew, F. L.
21st (Empress of India's) Lancers
Lieut. Payne Galhvey, P. F.
Special Reserve
North Irish Horse
Lieut. Combe, S. B.
YEOMANRY
(Territorial Forcei
Buckinghamshire
Captain Grenfeli, R.\., attd. 9th Lancers.
West Kent
Captain Stewart, B , attd. Intelligence Corps.
Leicestershire
Captain Blackett, W. S B.
Lincolnshire
Captain Wyndham, Hon. \V. R., attd. 1st Life
(Juards.
2ad County of London
Captain Xorwood, J . attd 5th Dragoon Guards.
1st Lovat's Scouts
Captain Maxwell, A. E., {temp.) Lieut. -Col. Roval
Marines.
Oxfordshire
Captain Molloy, B. C. B.
North Somerset
Lieut. Davey. J. S.
Liebert. F. A. C.
Warwickshire
Captain Guernsey, H. G.. Lord. Reserve of Officers,
attd Irish Guards.
ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY
Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery
Major Baillie, G.
Bolster, G. E.
Chenevix-Trench. F. -NL, Staff.
,, England, R.
Holland, C S.
,, Johnstone, J. H. \V.
Mackivorth, F J A.
Maidlow, J. S.
Phillips. E H.
Smith-Rewse, H. B. \V.
Stapylton, G. J. C.
Wynter. H T
Captain Barber-Starkey, W. H. J.
Battersby, C. F. P.
Blathwayt, G. \V.
,, Blount,G H R , Adjutant XW'th Brigade.
Captain Bradbury. E. K.
,, Browning, C. H.
Buckle. H.
Charles, A. A. MacG.
Cree, W. C. H.
Fitze, G. G.
,, F'urse, G. A
Giffard, R., Staff.
Grayson, A. D.H. (attd.. Reserve of Officers.)
Jones, R. A.
Kerr, \V. C. R.
O'Brien, A. U. M.
Woodhouse, A. J.
Lieut. Bowles, J, A., Adjutant XWIIIth Brigade.
Campbell, J. D.
Clarke, J. E. L.
Davies, H. L.
Dennis, J. O. C.
Edwards, F. G. de B.
Forsyth, J. C
,, Gough, J. B.
Hosking, C. G.
Mundy, L F. H.
Nixon, G. F'.
Parker, R. E.
Pollard, G. B.
Simson, R. F.
Talbot, E. I.
Welch, \V. G. F.
Wissmann, J . R.
2nd Lt. Brown, J. \V.
Coghlan, \V. H.
Coxe, .\. N.
Farmer, J. D. H.
Fletcher, R. \V.
Gosset, W. B.
,, Harman, J. B
Morse, G. S.
Owen, N. M
Pilliner, R. C. L.
Rogers. C. H.
Tucker, J A.
Wright, X. J. R.
Royal Garrison Artillery
Major Chrystie, J.
.Massie, J. H.
Captain Dodgson. D. S.
Pierson, C. F. L.
Shedden, G. P.
Smyth, R. A. N.
Lieut. Caldecott, J. L.
2nd Lt. Scott, E. C.
Williamson, R. H.
Royal Field Artillery, (Territorial Forcei
Lieut. Clialmers, J. B.
CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS
Royal Engineers
Major Barstow, J. B.
Corry, J. B.
,, Douglas, W. S.
,, Gardiner, A.
attd. Indian Armv
Major Molcsworth, E. K.
Moore. J. O'H.
Neville. L. J. N.
North, C. N.
,, Ommanney, R.
Rose, L. St. V.
Tyler, A. H.
Captain Bamberger; C. D. \V
,, Carr-Harris, E. D.
Collins, A. E. J.
Cumine-Robson, R. G. (}., attd. Indian
Army.
Dawson-Scott. J. K.
Kelly, H. H.
,, McEnery. J. A.
McKay, H. M.
Moores, C. G.
Twiss, A. M.. attd. Indian .\rmv.
Wright. T.
Lieut. Bayly, C. G. G., attd. Royal Flying Corps.
Dewar, A., Special Reserve.
,, Egerton, R. R.
,, Hayes Sadler, E. J. B.
Hutton, G. A.
,, Schneider, H. H.
Smeathman, J. M.
Smith. A. G.
Tyler. A.
,, Wynne- Jones, M.
2nd Lt. Holl, H N., Special Reserve.
Manley, J. D.
•Miller, G. L.
,, Renny-Tailyour, H. F. T.
Royal Engineers, (Territorial Force)
East Lancashire Division
2nd Lt. Woods. B. H.
Major
FOOT GUARDS
Grenadier Guards
Colby, L. R. V.
(jordon-Lennox, Lord B. C.
Stucley, H. St. L.
Weld Forester. Hon. A. O. W. C.
Captain Cecil, Hon. W. A.
Cholmeley, Sir M. A R.
,, MacDougall. I.
Stephen, D. C. L.
Symes-Thompson, C.
Wellesley, Lord R.
Lieut. Antrobus, E.
,, Congleton, Lord H. B. F.
,, des Voeux, F. W.
,, Douglas-Pennant, Hon. A. G. S.
Lee Steere, J. H. G.
Manners. Hon. J. N.
Miller, F. W. J. M.
Stocks, M. G.
Tudway, H. R. C.
Tufnell, C. W.
Van Neck, P.
Welby. R. W. G.
2nd Lt. Cecil, G. E.
Pickersgill-Cunliffe, J. R.
2nd Lt. Somerset, N. A. H.
Vereker. R. H. M.
Walter S.
Special Reserve
■2nd Lt. Xevill, J. H. G., attd. 3rd Baitn.
Coldstream Guards
.Major Hamilton. Hun. L. d'H.
Markham. R. A.
Captain Banbury. C. W.
Campbell, G. A.
Dawson. R. L.. Reserve of Officers.
FuUer-Maitland, W. A.
Monck, Hon. C. H. S.
,, Stewart, G., Reserve of Officers.
,, Tritton, A. G.
Lieut. Bingham, D. C.
Douglas-Pennant, Hon. C.
., Gordon-Ives. V. M. G.
Graves-Sawle. R. C.
Hawarden, Viscount (Sir R C Maude)
,, Lambton, G.
,, Legge-Bourke, N. W. H.
Pollock, F. R.
Smith, G. K.-F.
Trotter, A.
,, Windsor-Clive, Hon. A.
Wyndham. P. L.
2nd Lt. de Wintun. W.
Freeman-Thomas, Hon. G. F.
Lock wood, R. W. M.
Tullemache. B. D.
Williams-Wynn, C. W.
Special Reserve
Lieut. Campbell, A. \V . G., attd. Ist Battn.
Wallis. H. D., attd. 3rd Battn.
2nd Lt Boscawen, Hon. V. D., attd. 1st Battn.
4tlt (Reserve) Battalion
Captain .Vdeane. H. K. A.. Reserve of Officers.
Lieut. Murray. C. J.
2nd Lt. Beauchamp, E. A.
Scots Guards
Major Carpenter-Garnier, J. T.
,, Eraser, Hon. H. J.
Captain Balfour. R. F.
Bulkeley, T. H. R.
Campbell. C. F. F.
de la Pasture, C. E. M,
Hamilt.m, C. F. P.
,, Kinnaird, Hon. D A
Smith, B. R. W.
Stephen, A. A. L.. .Adjutant.
Taylor. H.
Wickham, W. J.
Lieut Compton-Thornhill, R. A.
Cottrell-Dormer. C.
Drummond. D. R.
Gipps. R. N.
Hanbury-Tracy, Hon. F. C. H.
Hill-Trevor, H. G. E.
Holbech, W. H., Reserve of Officers.
Jones, H. R. 1.
Lawson, W. B. W.
Reserve of Officers
Bart.
Lieut. Loyd. G. A.
Macdonald, Hon. G. E. H
Monckton, F. A.
Nugent, R. F. R
OgiUy, Sir G. X
Ottley. G. C. L.
Stirling Stuart, J.
2nd Lt. Gibbs, R. C. -M.
Houldsnorth, \V. G.
Special Reserve
Lieut. Gladwin. R. H. F.. attd. 1st Batin.
Irish Guards
Lt.-Col. Morris. Hon. G. H.
Major Crichton, H. F.
Herbert-Stepney. H. A.
Tisdall, C. A.
Captain Berners. H. H.
Gough. E. J. F.
Hay. Lord A. V.
MulhoUand. Hon. A. E. S.
StaflFord-King-Harman. E. C.
Lieut. Brooke G.. Reserve of Officers.
Coke. L. S.. Reserve of Officers.
Hope. W. E.
Woodroffe. X. L.
Special Reserve
Captain Hamilton. Lord A. J., attd. 1st Battn.
Lieut. Mathieson. K. R., attd. lit Battn.
Lieut.
2nd Lt.
Strong. H. B.
Thomas. A. C.
Wilson, D. R.
Ive. D.
Schunck. R. H.
INFANTRY
The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment
Captain Hewat. A. M. C.
Price, C. L.
Shafto. A. Duncombe
Lieut. Thompson. G. M.,(empl. Gold Coast Regt.)
3rJ Battalion
Captain Bruce, Hon. H. L., attd. 2nd Battn.
Lieut. Trotter, A. N., attd. 2nd Battn.
2nd Lt. Cowan, R. C, attd. 2nd Battn.
Hewitt, W. G.
Kerr, D. A., attd. 2nd Battn.
Snead-Cox, R. M., attd. 2nd Battn.
8th Battalion {T.F.)
Captain Todrick, T.
Lieut. Burt. A.
The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regimenti
Lt.-Col. Pell, B. T.
Pilleau. H. C.
Warren. D.
Captain Foy, M. V.
Wilson, C. E.
Lieut. Bird, J. G. H.
Eastwood, F. M.
Haigh. C R , Adjutant.
Henriques, R. L. Q.
Ingram. G. S.
Oldfield. G. C. O.. (empl King s African
Rifles).
Special Reserve
2nd Lt. Holmes, T. S., attd. 1st Battn. East Kent
Regiment.
Pound, M. S., attd. 1st Battn.
The Buffs (East Kent Regimenti
Captain James, G. M., Staff.
Lieut. McDougall, R.
Philips, J. D.
2nd Lt. Xoott, M.
Stock, H. R.
3rJ Battalion
Captain Chichester. E. B.
Wells, W. X., attd. 1st Battn.
Lieut. Glyn. R. S., attd. 1st Battn.
2nd Lt Cronk. W. G.. attd. 1st Battn King's
Royal Rifle Corps
Lev. M. A., attd. 3rd Battn.
The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt.)
Lt.-Col. Dykes, A. McX.
Major Lysons, N. L. S.
Morrah. J. H.
Captain Clutterbuck. H.
Sparenborg. H. R.
Theobald. F. G.
Lieut. Aitchison, R. A. C.
Morris, .\. G. A.
Steele-Perkins. C. S.
Thorn vcroft. E. G. M.
Rifles I.
Wiiodgate. L. S.
■2nd Lt. Heanev, P. O.
empl King's.^frican
3rd Battalion
Captain Lendon, P. B.. attd. 1st Battn.
Lieut. Brockelbank, L. S.
2nd Lt. Waterhouse, A., attd. 1st Battn.
The Northumberland Fusiliers
Major itemp. Lieut. Col.) Percival. A J.-B.. Staff.
Captain Fletcher, R. S.
Matthews, J. H.
Selby, B. H.
Toppin, H. S.
2nd Lt Boyd, E. F.
Laws, A. V.
Tottie. E. H.
3rJ Battalion
Captain Lamb, E. J., attd. 2nd Baitn. King's Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry
Lambert. J. M.. attd. Isi Battn
Lieut. Coles, D. M.. attd. 1st Battn.
Leather, C. attd. 1st Battn.
Xunneley, C. F., attd. Ist Battn.
Van Neck. C. H., attd. 1st Battn.
Willans, R. St. J., attd. 1st Battn.
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Lt -Col. (temp.) Hrcwis, K 11 W
l.oring, W. L
Majiir Christie, W. t'.
Captain Bentlcy. C. A. C.
Brownfield, K. J
Gilliat, C. G. I'.
Methuen. C. OH 11.
,, Taylour, G. K.
Lieut. Bernard, B. K. 1*.
Knapton, I). A.
Ratclifif, J. E.
Stainforth, K. T.
2nil T.t. Deane, 1).
Monk, G. B. Y .
,, I'earce, G . V.
,, Standring, B. A.
3rd Battalion
Captain Crowe, \V. M. C, attd. 1st Battn.
Hodgson, C. A. R.
4th Battalion
Captain McCormick, J. H. G., attd. 2nd Battn.
2nd Lt. Campbell, B., attd. 2nd Batln.
\aclier. G. 11., attd. 2nd Battn.
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.)
Lt.-Col. McMahon, N. R.
Captain Attwood. A. F.
Bowden-Smith, W. A. C.
Brand, K. S. (empl. West African Regt).
Byng, A. M.
Carey, L. \V. le .M.
Docker, G. A. M.
Forster, F.
Puzey, A. K.
Steele, F. \V. A.
Lieut. Oease, M. J.
,, Ldngman, F.
2nd Lt. Gorst. V.. W.
Hodges, S. H., Reserve of Orticers, attd.
Mead, J. F.
Undery, J. A.
Special Reserve
Lieut. Johnstone, W. (i. T. H., attd. 4th Battn
2nd Lt. Hardman, F. McM., attd. 4th Battn.
5tli Battalion
Captain Shaw, H. J., attd. 1st Battn.
2nd Lt. Rennie. D. W., attd. 1st Battn.
Stables, H. R., attd 1st Battn. Cheshire
Regiment.
6th Battalion
Captain Waller, Sir F. K., attd. 4th Battn.
Lieut. Combe, B. .A., attd. 4th Battn.
Lieut.
7th Battalion
Fcrrier, G. C. C, attd. 4th Battn.
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Lt.-Col. Bannatyne, W. S.
Captain Batten, J. H. S.
Kyrke-Smith, A.
Marshall, F.
Tanner, R. E,
Lieut. Doll, P. W. R.
Furneaux, P. T.
2nd Lt. Denny, B. M. R., Reserve of Officers.
Wallace, H. B.
Ward. A.
Jrd till I til I ion
Lieut. Baker, E. B., attd. 1st Battn.
Swcet-Escott, M. R., attd. 1st Hattn
4th Battalion
Lieut .Andrews, F. G., attd. 2nil Battn, Sfjutli
Lancashire Regiment.
10th [Scottish) Battalion. T.F.
Captain Tuentyman, A.
Major
Captain
Lieut.
Lieut.
The Norfolk Regiment
Orr, J. B.
Cresswell, F. J.
Foley, T. A. F.
Openshaw, H. M.
3rd Battalion
Teeling, A. M. A. I. de L.
The Lincolnshire Regiment
Captain Dawson, H. E.
Drake, R. E.
King, R. N., Reserve of Officers.
Lyall, C. G., Reserve of Officers.
Lieut. {temp. Capt.) Holmes. C. C.
Huntington, J. N. S.
\W^lchnian, \i. L.
2nd Lt. Barnes, E.
Wade, S. S. A.
Willis, R.
.h-d Battalion
Lieut. Bransliury, \'. D. B,, attd. 1st Battn.
Owen, E. H.,attil. 1st Battn. South Wales
Borderers.
The Devonshire Regiment
Captain Besly, B. H.
Elliot, H. G.
, ,
Featherstone, R. B.
Spencer, C. J.
Whipple, H. C.
Lieut.
Dunsterville, G. E.
Hancock, R. E.
2nd Lt.
Ainslie, D. A. L.
Jrd Battalion
Captain
Chichester, H. A.
,.
Quicke, E. O. St. C. (J.
Lieut.
Toms, A. W., attd. 2i
attd. 1st Battn.
The Suffolk Regiment
Lt.-Col. Brett, C. A. H.
Captain Reid, E. H.
Temple, A. H. W., Reserve of Officers.
Lieut Payne, G. H.
3rd Battaiion
Captain Pollock-Hodsoll, G. B,, attd. 1st Battn.
Cheshire Regt.
Winn, A.
Lieut. Myddelton, E. G., attd. 2nd Battn.
2nd Lt, Wilder, R. C. P., attd. 2nd Battn,
Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry:
Major Thoyts. F. G. G.
Captain Bradshaw. F. S.
Maud. C. C.
Lieut. Moore. R. L.
Parr. G. R.
2nd Lt. Read. A. B.
Special Reserve
2nd Lt. Filleul. L. A., attd. 1st Battn.
Henson. S. B., attd. 1st Battn.
3rd Battalion
Captain Orr, R. C . attd. 1st Battn.
The Prince of Wales's Own
(West Yorkshire Regiment
Major Cooper-King, R. G.
Ingles. A. W.
Captain Clothier. J. K.
Fisher. M.
Welchman. E. T.
Lieut. Costin. B. D.
Eliot. W. L.
Laxvson-Smith, J.
[temp. Capt.) Loveband. .A. R.
,. Meautys, T. G.
Shaw. B. H. G.
Thompson, O. C. W.
2nd Lt. Carew, J.
Wilson, E. W.
3rd Battalion
Major Cliff. H. T.. attd. 1st Battn.
Captain 1' Anson. J. F., attd. 1st Battn.
4th Battalion
Major Slade, C. G. M., attd. North Lanes. Regt.
Captain Smart, G. H., attd. 1st Battn.
The East Yorkshire Regiment
Lt.-Col. Benson. RE
Major Campion, W. E.
Captain Edwards. E. L. P.
Hind, F.
Lawrence, B.
Maxwell. P. B.
Wilson. A. H.
Lieut. Cosens, H. S. F.
2nd Lt. Bottomley, T. R.
., EIrington, G. G. C.
Studley. L.
Special Reserve
2nd Lt. Pease. M. R . attd. 1st Battn.
3rd Battalion
Captain Walker, E. W.. attd. 1st Battn.
Wood, C. S., Res. of Off., attd. 1st Battn.
2nd Lt. Waterfall, V., attd. Royal Flying Corps.
The Bedfordshire Regiment
Major Stares, R. P.
Traill, J. M.
Captain Garnett-Botfield, C. S.
Hall, A. G,
Ker. C. H.
McCloughlin, R. J.
Lieut. Bastard. W.
Punchard. E. E.
2nd Lt. Bell. CO.
Fernandes, D. L. de T.
,, Paterson, J. A.
Rendell. L. W.
Stafford. C. C. ReserveofOfiScers.
Wright, G. D. C.
3rd Battalion
Lieut. Downes, V. C, attd. 1st Battn.
Edwards, E. A. J., attd. 1st Battn.
Graves, W. F , attd. 1st Battn.
Shippey. J. R.. attd. 1st Battn.
4th Battalion
Captain Baird. W. F. G., attd. 1st Line. Regt.
Lieut. Charlton, St. J. A., attd. 1st Battn.
Harding. R. D. S., attd. 1st Battn.
The Leicestershire Regiment
Captain Grant, H. A.
Gruchy. F. le M.
Hawes. R. F.
,. Puckle. T. X.lempl. West African Frontier
Force) .
,, Tristram, L. B. C.
Viney, P. E.
Lieut Dods, W. H. G.
Prain. T.
Seton-Browne, M. W.
,. Smeathman. C.
Wateridge, E. L.
2nd Lt. Bowley, T. H., attd. Border Regiment.
3rd Battalion
Lieut. Vandeleur, J. B., attd. .Srd Battn. Wore.
Regiment.
2nd Lt. Farrar. H. R., attd. 2nd Battn. Man. Regt.
Hutton. R., attd. Royal Warwick. Regt.
The Royal Irish Regiment
Major Daniell, E. H. E.
Capt. (Bt. Maj.) Panter-Downes, E.M., (empl. West
African Frontier Force).
Mellor. W.
Lieut. Brown, H. W.
Rushton, F. H. L.
Tandy, A. M. S.
2nd Lt. Howard, P. E. N.
Shine, J. D.
3rd Battalion
2nd Lt. Anderson, A. J. R.. attd. 2nd Battn.
Smyth, J. R., attd. 2nd Battn.
Alexandra. Princess of Wales's Own
Yorkshire Regiment
Colonel King. C. A. C.
Major Walker, W. B.
Captain Broun, E. S.
Jeffery, C. G.
Lieut. Brooksbank, H. G.
Ledgard, F. C.
Phayre, R. H.
Walmesley, R.
2nd Lt. Hatton. F. C.
The Lancashire Fusiliers
Captain M.H,d\ , R. II. M.
,, Sideliuttom, R Y.
Ward, A. C.
Lieut. Boyle, D. E.
Stuart. C. E.
I'nd l.t. Humfrcy, \V, K.
Paulson, J . S.
3rd Battalion
Captain Bass, C. IL, attd. 2nd Battn.
Lucas-Tooth, S. L., attd. I'nd Battn.
4th Battalion
Captain Barnsley, A., attd. 1st Xortliunili. V\\>.
Sneyd, T. H., attd. 2nd Battn
The Royal Scots Fusiliers
Captain Barrett, C. J. C.
Boyle, The Hon. J.
Briggs, Ct. C.
,, Fairlie, F.
Hurt. S. F. A. A.
Tullis, J. n.
Young, J. F.
Lieut. Alston, C. McC.
,, Henderson. \. W. A.
,, Kennedy, N.
Lyon, C. J.
,, Mackenzie, C. G. G.
Thomson, K. C.
2nd Lt. Anderson, E. L. L.
Barton, H. W. F.
3rd Battalion
Lieut. Ness, G. S., attd. 1st Battn
2nd Lt. Cozens-Brookc, J. G. S., attd. UK Battn.
The Cheshire Regiment
Captain Forster, L. A., Reserve of Officers.
Hartford, H. 1. St. J.
Jones, E. R.
Mahony, F. H.
Nicholson, H. \V.
Rich, W. S.
Lieut. Campbell, C. A.
Maitland-Addison, A. C.
2nd l.t. Hownes, A. C
3rd Battalion
Lieut. Frost, K. T.
2nd Lt. Anderson. G. R L., attd. 1st Battn.
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Lt.-Col. Cadogan, H. O. S.
Captain Barker, R. V., Staff.
,, Jones-Vaughan, E. N.
,, Kington, W. M.
Lloyd, M. E.
Philips, R. N.
Stable, L. L.
,, Vyvyan, \V. G.
Lieut. Ackland-Allcn, H. T.
Chance, G. O. de P.
Dooner, A. E. C. T., Adjutant.
,, Egerton, R. le B.
„ Hoskyns, E. C. L.
2nil l.t. Collingwood-Tliiinipson, F. J. \ .
,, Ciore, G. R.
SneadCox, G. P. J.
Stone, E. R. C.
Jrd Battalion
Captain Brennan, J. 11., attd 1st Battn.
Prichard, T. L., attd. 2nd Battn.
The South Wales Borderers
Major Lawrence, \V. L.
Welby, G. E. E.
Captain Curgenven, W. C.
,, Paterson. C. J.
,, Peel, A. R. (cnipl. Nigeria Regiment).
,, Y'eatman, M. E.
Lieut. Blackall-Sinionds, G. P., Reserve of Officers,
attd.
C.ker, J. C.
Homfray. .1. R.
Johnson, .M . T.
2nd Lt. Farrier, A. M.
Pryce-Jenkin, R. D.
Silis, C. C.
3rd Battalion
Captain Maxwell, L B., attd. 1st Battn.
Lieut. Sparrow, L. G., attd. 2nd Battn. K.O S.B.
2nd Lt. Watkins, H. H., attd. 1st Battn.
The King's Own Scottish Borderers
Major Leigh, C.
Captain Turnbull, H. V. C.
Lieut. Holme, R. H. P.
2nd Lt. Amos, G. S.
Bayley, G. B., attd 2nd Battn. Royal
Scots Fusiliers.
Gillespie, T. C.
HamiTiond, G. P.
Woollcombe, C. S.
Hon. Capt. and Quartermaster Murray. A.
3rd Battalion
Major .-XUan. \V. L. C, attd. 2nd Battn
Lieut. Cox. G. H., attd. 2nd Battn.
2nd Lt. MacRae, L A., attd. 2nd Battn.
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Captain Gilkisun. L). S.
Gordon, J. F.
Fusiliers
Ritchie, A. G.
Rose, R. H. W.
Lieut. Dunn, T. K. I).
Hewitt, J. F.
Hopkins, C. R. I.
attd. Roval Scots
4th Battalion
Lieut. Miller, C. R. E., attd. King's Own Scottish
Borderers.
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Captain Auchinleck. D. G. H.
,, Geoghegan, J. R.
Lloyd, E. R.
Ponsonby, G. M.
Roe, S. G.
Lieut. Dunlop, C.
2nd Lt. Boyd. H. A.
Miller. I. F. R.
Thomas. J. G. B.
Special Reserve
2nd Lt. Aplin. K. S.. attd. 2nd Battn.
Roberts. A. G. ^L. attd. 2nd Battn.
The Gloucestershire Regiment
Major Gardner, R. >L S.
Rising. R. E.
Captain McLeod. A. A.
Pritchett. \V. P.
,, Shipuay. G. NL
Temple. W. .\. .\L
Lieut. Danckwerts, R. W.
Holme. A. C.
,, Stewart. A. H., empl.^^'est African Frontier
Force.
Yalland. W. S.
2nd Lt. Foster. H. K.
,, {temp. Lieut.) Wiggin. D. H.
Special Reserve
2nd Lt. Hippisley, H. E.. attd. 1st Battn.
3rd Battalion
Captain Duncan, S., Reserve of Officers.
Lieut. Hickling. E. R. E., attd. 1st Battn. Loyal
North Lancashire Regiment.
Swanwick. R. K.. attd. 1st Battn.
2nd Lt. Walters, E. C. attd. 1st Battn.
4th Battalion
Lieut. Harding. A. D., attd. 1st Battn.
The East Lancashire Regiment
Lt.-Col. Le Marchant. L. St. G.
Captain Aubin, A. C.
Cane, L. A. F.
Clayhills, G.
,, Coventry. E. E.
Warner, H. M.
Lieut. Chisholm. W. M.
Hughes. F. D. (empl. West African Frontier
Force).
Mathews, T. H.
Waud, L. D.
2nd Lt. Stanley, G. H.
3rd Battalion
Captain Preston, T. H., Lieut. Reserve of Officers.
The East Surrey Regiment
Captain Benson, J. P.
Burn, A. G. McC. attd. 1st Battn. Glou-
cestershire Regiment.
Hopkinson. C. R. T. (empl. 1st Battn.
Nigeria Regiment).
Whish. J. K. T.
2nd Lt. Relton, G. L.
Ward. N. L.
Special Reserve
Captain Maclean, A. de V.
3rd Battalion
Lieut. Benning, ^L S., attd. 1st Battn.
Bridgland, N. L., attd. 1st Battn.
Simpson, W. H. 'SI., attd. 1st Battn.
4th Battalion
2nd Lt. Housecroft. H.. attd. 1st Battn.
The Worcestershire Regiment
Major Bacon. B. K. W.
Green. A. D.. Staff.
Captain Carr. M. R.
Eliott, H. R.
Hughes. T. H.
Lea, G. E.
Nesbitt. A. S.
Pepys, R. W.
Underhill, W. A.
Lieut. Clarke, M. E. L. H.
Gilmour, H. J. G.
Goldsmid, S. A.
,, Harrison, C. C.
Hartnoll, H. P.
,, Henry, C.
., Lowe, H. S.
Northey. A.
Pope. C. M.
Slater. R. M.
2nd Lt. Battle. E. C. V.
Curlier. F. G. O.
Darby. F.
Hastings-Medhurst, F. L.
Smythe. F. F.
5th Battalion
Lieut. Hudson, A. W.
6th Battalion
Captain Graham, A. G. -NL, attd. 1st Battn. Loyal
North Lancashire Regiment.
2nd Lt. Gallon, T. H., attd. 3rd Battn.
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Captain Olivier. R. H.
Passy, L. D.
Romilly. A. H.
Lieut. Garsia, O. D. M.
2nd Lt. Crane, C. E.
Elliott, P. L.
The Duke of Wellingtons
(W'est Riding Regiment)
Major Strafford, P. B.
Captain Denman-Jubb, C. O., Adjutant
Lieut. De Wend, D. F.
Russell, L. E.
Thompson. J. H. L.
3rd Battalion
Lieut. Wilhamson, G., and. 1st Battn.
The Border Regiment
Major Allen, W. L.
Captain Andrews, C. G. W., .Adjutant.
Askew, H. A.
,, Cholmondeley. C. A. J.
Gerrard, H. \'.
,, Gordon, R. N.
,, Lamb, C.
Lees, E. H. H.
Molyneux-Seel. L. E. H.
Radcliffe, >L
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Lieut. t'om-li. f. R.
., Kgcrtnn, r .1.
Hodgson, <; W II.
Warren, .1 H 1!
2nd I.t. Clancey. T. J.
Surtees. C. G. \'.
.)></ lialtalion
Capt.iin I'vman, J., attil. L'nil B.itin. .M.incliester
Regiment.
The Royal Sussex Regiment
Lt.-C'dl. Crispin. 11. T.
Montresor, K. II.
Major Cookson. M. 1''.
Captain Aldridge, R. J. V. 1).
Crawlcy-Boevey. K. M.. attil. 4tli Battn.
Royal Fusiliers.
Jemmctt- Browne, A. K.
Slati-r. I,.
Lieut. Oaun, K. C.
Lousada, K. A.
Pelham, The Hon. H. L., Adjutant.
Rainsav, D.G., attd. Royal West Surrey
Regiment.
\'crrall, C. F.
L'nd Lt. Croft, L. R.
Hughes, W. S.
Marillicr, F. C. J.
Moore, G.
Special Reserve
l'nd Lt. Shaw, C. F., attd. 2nd Battn.
Silvester, A. 1,., attd. 2nd Battn.
3rd Battalion
Lieut. Duke, B. P., attd. 2nd Battn.
The Hampshire Regiment
Major Parker, (J. II.
Captain {temp. RLijor) Connellan, P. NL
Dolphin, J K. W.
Harland. R. W. (attd. I
Lieut. F"ostcr, A. C. H. (cmpl. King's African
Rifles).
Kent, E. NL S.
Trimmer. W. I). M.
2nd Lt. Cowan, 1). H.
3rd Battalion
Lieut. Griffith, (i.
Harington, H. A. B., attd. 1st Battn.
3rU Bitttitlion
Lieut. Archer Shee, CJ., attd. 1st Battn.
Fitzpatrick, I). T. F., attd. 2nd Battn.
Robinsl^n, F. l... attd. 2nd Battn
///( Battalion
Captain Campliell, 1). W. A., attil. 1st B.ittn.
SluTwooil l''orcsters.
The Dorsetshire Regiment
Major Mercer, A. A.
Roper, R. T.
Captain Davidson, W. T. C.
Cieorgc, A. K. D.
Middlcton. I',
Moffat, A. L. N. M.
Parkinson, J. A. F.
Priestley, A. B. (cmpl. West African Fron-
tier Force).
Roc, A. R. M.
Lieut. Pitt, J. M., Adjutant.
2ncl Lt. Smith, T. S.
3rit Battalion
Lieut. Bishof), l:. M.. attd. 2nd B.ittii K.O.
Yorks. I.. I.
Turner, .1. K. (Spec. Kcs.),attd. 1st Battn.
The Prince of Wales's Volunteers
(South Lancashire Regiment)
Lt.-Col. Green, M. C. .\.
Captain Robson, K.
,, WeschS, E. B. (cmpl West African Frnn-
tier Force).
Lieut. Fulcher, B. V.
Gebbie, J. F. R.
Hadfield, W. J. M.
Hewitt, G. H.
2nd Lt. Birdwood, G. A. B.
Mitchell, E. A.
Spendlove, G. T.
Waldy, C. T.
Wallace, D. S.
Watson, K. G.
Special h'cseri'e
2nd Lt. Widd.nvson, A. .1. II. K.
3rd Battalion
Lieut. Gibson, A. T., attd. 2nd B.ittn.
The South Staffordshire Regiment
Major Loder-Symiinds, .1. F.
Captain Dunlop, J. S. S.
Powell, H. M. (empl. West African Regt.).
,, Ransford, C. G.
Thomas, C. H.
\'allentin, J. F.
Lieut. Bean, C. R. C.
Bower, H. R. S.
Crousaz, C. V.
Fost-r, W. A. P.
,, Holmes, ¥. L.
,, Hume, C. G.
Moor-Radford, L. C.
Tomlinson, F. R. J.
2nd Lt. Scott, B. J. H.
The Welsh Regiment
Lt -Col. Morland, C. B.
Major Kerrich, J. H.
Captain Davies, H. C, (attd.) Reserve of Officers.
I'Vrrar, W. H., Adjutant.
Haggard, M.
Moore, W. A. (}.
Picton-Warlow, W.. attd. Royal Flvins
Corps.
2nd Lt. Weeding, .1. R. B.
3rd Battalion
Captain F'itzpatrick, (.}. R., attd. 2Tid Battn.
Herd, H. F., attd. 2nd Battn.
Lieut. Cornelius, C. V. P.. attd. 2nd Battn.
2nd Lt. Nicholl, J. W. H.. attd. 2nd Battn.
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The Black Watch iRoyal Highlandersi
Lt.-Col. Duff, A. G.
Captain Dalglish, C. A. de G.
Strahan, C. E.
Urquhart. E. F. M.
Lieut. Cumming, L. R.
Poison. G. W.
Wilson. E. H. H. J.
2nd Lt. Blair. P. E. A.
Boyd, N J. L.
Law son. A. S.
,, McAndrew, A.
,, Stirling-Smurthwaite, D. S.
3rd Battalion
Captain Boddam-Whetham. C. atid. Ist Battn.
Gordon Highlanders.
Moubray, P. L.. attd. lit Battn.
Parker, A. £., attd. 2nd Battn. Seaforth
Highlanders.
Stewart-Richardson. Sir E. A., Bart., attd.
Ist Battn.
Lieut. Lyon, C. L. C. B.. attd. 1st Battn.
Nolan, R. P. D.. attd. 1st Battn.
2nd Lt. Webster, J. F.. attd. Ist Battn. Gordon
Highlanders.
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry
Captain Evelegh, R. C.
Harden, A. H.
Lieut. Mockler-Fcrryman. H.
Murphy, C. F.
Worthington. R. G.
2nd Lt. Barrington-Kennett, A. H.
Girardot, P. C.
Jones. J.
Marshall, J. S. C.
Pepys, F.
Ward, J. B. M.
Lieut.
3rd Battalion
Turbutt. G. ^L R.. attd. 2nd Battn.
The Essex Regiment
Captain Vandeleur. W. M. C.
Lieut. Round, A. F. H.
Vance, J.
3rd Battalion
Captain Rose, A. H. P., attd 2nd Battn.
The Sherwood Foresters
(Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.'
Captain Frend, W. R., Adjutant.
Lieut. Ash. B. C.
Bernard, L. A.
DiKvorth, M. P.
Murray. P. M.
2nd Lt. Browne, A. G.
Harris, L. G. H.
Milner, R. D. P.
,, Ruegg, K. S.
Smalley, W. M.
Special Reserve
2nd Lt. Atkin, J. NL. attd. Worcestershire Rcgt.
Smith, H. L. C. attd. 2nd Battn.
The Loj-al North Lancashire Regiment
Lt.-Col. Knight, G. C.
Lloyd. W. R.
Major Braithwaite. F. J.
Carter. A. J.
Captain .-\llason, L. T.
.■\llen, J. F., Adjutant.
Helnie, H. L.
Prince, A. L.
Lieut. Dickson, C. G.
Loomes. H. R.
Mason, R. C.
2nd Lt. Calrow. W. R. L.
Einem-Hickson. S. V.
Kingsley, G. C.
Lieut, and Quartermaster Wilkinson, E.
3rd Battalion
Captain Miller, E. C attd. 1st Battn.
The Northamptonshire Regiment
Major Norman, H. H.
Captain Bentley, G. M.
Crean. T.. attd. Royal Flying Corps.
Gordon. R. E.
Parker, R. B.
Russell, W. R.
Savage, J. A.
Watts. C. H. R.
White, E. E.
Lieut. Paget. G. G. B.
Rastrick. C
Vandell, H. I., (attd. I. Reserve of Officers.
2nd Lt. Gordon, C. G.
Jarvis, A. S. G.
Sherriff, A. N.
Wainwright. G. C.
Princess Charlotte of Wales's
(Royal Berkshire Regiment)
Captain Shott. H. H.
Steele. O.
Lieut. Garnett, P.N. ^empl. King's African Rifles).
Perro'.t. A. H., Adjutant.
2nd Lt. Knott. T. A.
Perkins. R. G. B.
Lieut.
3rd Battalion
Nicholson, L. C. attd. 1st Battn.
The Queen's Own
(Royal West Kent Regiment
Maj..r Buckle, M. P.
Hastings, P.
Pack-Beresford, C.G.
Captain Fisher. F.
Keenlyside, G. F. H.
Legard, G. B.. Adjutant.
PhUHps, W. C. O.
Lieut. Ames. W. K.
Gore, S. K.
Pringle. R. S.
Vicat. H. J.
2nd Lt. Broad wood. M. F.
Harding, J. ^^
,, Thompson, ^L N.
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Sficcial Reserve
2rul I.t. Mcnonafjli. I'.. Md. Siiff.ilk Kcf,nniciu
Jril liattcilioit
Captain Hattershy, li. M., attd. 1st Baltn.
Beeman, A. C attd. 1st Battn.
Lieut. .\ndcrson, C. K., attd. 1st Battn.
Scwell, D.. C. C, attd. Ist Battn.
2nd Lt. Waghurn, I.. 1'.. attd. Berks. Rcgirnunt.
Whitehiiiisp, 1'. J., attd. Northants. Kefft .
The King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Majdf Yate, C. .\. L.
Captain Simpson, J. K.
Smyth, A. B.
2nd Lt. Criibh, I,. K. P.
Pepys, J.
Ritchiu, A. V.
3rd Battalion
Captain Richmond, T. H., attd. 2nd Battn.
2nd Lt. Carsuell, R. N., attd. 2nd Battn.
The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)
Major Maseficid, R.
Captain Miles, R. P., attd. Royal Irish RiHes.
Lieut. Ilcrilman, A. \V.
Jenings, (j. P. C.
,, Verncr, K. C.
Jrtl Battalion
Captain Mitchell, J. A. S.
The Duke of Cambridge's Own
(Middlesex Regiment)
Lt.-Col. Ward, B, E.
Major Ahell, W. H.
Bentley. G. W.
Captain Evatt, (.'i. R. K.
Know Ics, J. E.
Roy, K.J.
Skaife, A. F.
Tullnh, C. K.
Wordsworth, A. G.
Lieut. Harvey, C. M.
Henstock, K. P.
,, Tagg, H.A.
,, Trewman. A. B.
Wilkinson. J. R. M.
2nd Lt. Morse, G. T. H.
,, Savers, R.
3th Battalion
-Major Corcoran, W. J.
2nd Lt. Bosanquet, S. C, attd. 1st Battn.
Hilton, H. D., attd. 4th Battn.
Hughes, G. W., attd. 4th Battn.
Rohinson-Pastfield, J. T., attd. Northants
Regiment.
,, Shawyer, M. A. P., attd. 1st Battn.
6th Battalion
Lieut. Sneath, C. 1)., attd. 4th Battn.
2nd Lt. Coles, S. H., attd. 4th Battn.
The King's Royal Rifle Corps
Major Foljambe, H. F. F. B.
Captain Cathcart, A. E.
Hawlcy, C. F.. Staff
Lieut. Battenberg, 11. H. Prince M. V. 1). ol
Bond, R. II.
Pleydcll-Bouvcric, J. E.
2nd Lt. Anderson, C. A. K., attd. R. Si
Barclay, R. H. M.
,, Casey, J.
Crossman, \\^ K. M.
Davison, S.
Dean, F.
Forster, J.
,, Lawrence, C. H .
,, Thompson, G. S. R.
Tindall, E. V.
Kus
2nd Lt. Wai
5th Battalion
v.. R., attd. 1st Battn.
6th Battalion
Captain Spottiswoode, J., altd. 2nd Battn.
2nd Lt. St. Auliyn. The Hon. P. S.. attd. 2nd
Battn.
The Duke of Edinburgh's
(Wiltshire Regiment)
Major Roche, T.
Captain Browne, G. S., .Adjutant 1st Battn.
Carter, C. G. .M.
Dawes, W. R. A. A.
Formby, M. L.
,, Grimston, H. S.
Stoddart, F. W.
Lieut. Spencer, E.
2nd Lt. Chandler, C. H.
Shccial Reserz'e
2nd Lt. Roseveare, H. \V., attd. 1st Battn.
Jrd Battalion
Captain Magor, A. C, attd. 2nd Battn.
Reynolds, H. C. C.
Wyld, G. R.. attd. R. Berkshire Regiment.
Lieut. Cruikshank, F. O.
2nd Lt. Burges, E. L. A. H., attd. 2nd Battn.
Campbell, W. P., attd. 2nd Battn.
,, Gee, R. E. McL.,attd. 1st Battn.
The Manchester Regiment
Captain Creagh, L.
Dunlop, F. C. S.
Fisher, H.
Fowke, M. C.
Mansergh, W. G.
Xisbet, F. S.
Trueman, C. F. H.
Lieut. Caulfeild, J. C.
Connell, S. D.
Davidson, R. 1. M.
,, Norman, S. S.
Reade, J. H. L.
{local Capt.) Wickham, T. S.. (empl. West
African Frontier Force).
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2nd Lt. Bentley, C. L.
Chittenden, A. G. B.
Smith. J. H. M.
Walker, R. F.
3rJ Battalion
Captain King-Peirce. W. G.. attd. 2nd Battn.
Tillard. A. G.. attd. 2nd Battn.
Lieut.
Jth Battalion
Horridge. R.. attd. 2nd Battn.
The Prince of Wales's
(North Staffordshire Regiment
Captain Hume-Kelly. G. H.
Reid, E. B.
Lieut. Leggett. A. R. A.
Royle. A. C. F.
3rd Battalion
Lieut. Hill. W. E., attd. lit Battn.
2nd Lt. Chester, G. A. B.. attd. Ut Battn.
Hughes. L. H.. attd. 1st Battn.
Jth Battalion
Lieut. Meakin, S. A., attd. 1st Battn.
The York and Lancaster Regiment
Captain Sandys. M. K.
Lieut. Hardy. V. H..attd. lit Battn. Lincolnshire
Regiment.
jrd Battalion
Lieut. Peace. H. K.
Ripley. C. R.. attd. 2nd Battn.
The Durham Light Infantry
Major Blake. E. A. C.
Mander. VA. W.
Xorthey. W.
Robb. A. K.
Captain Hare, H. V.
Lieut. Parke. W. E.
Swetenham, E.
2nd Lt. Marshall, R.
Stanuel. C. M.
Storey. H. H.
The Highland Light Infantry
Captain Cameron. \\ . H. \ .
Chichester. R. G. I.
Pringle, L. G.
Lieut. Cornish. C. L.
Dickson. A. J.
Fergusson. J. A. H.
Gibson-Craig. Sir A. C. Bart.
Hall. G. P.
Kerr. H. R. G.
Mackenzie. C. L.
Pitts-Tucker. CM.
2nd Lt. McBride. A.
Macdonald. E. R. H. K.
Mears. J. W.
Powell, R. C. ff.
3rd Battalion
2nd Lt. MvUes. J. R. J., attd. 1st Battn. Gordon
Highlanders.
The Seaforth Highlanders
(Ross-shire Buffs, the D'uke of Albany'si
Lt.-Col. Bradford, Sir E. R., Bart.
Major Stock well. C. L
Captain Forbes-Robertson, K.
Mackenzie. K. B.
Methven. D. G.
St. Clair. The Hon. C. H. M.
Wilson. R. S.
Lieut. Macandrew. I. M.
2nd Lt. Hepburn. M. .A.
Special Reserve
2nd Lt. Williamson. A.J.N.
3rd Battalion
2nd Lt. Maitland. W. E.. attd. 2nd Battn.
The Gordon Highlanders
Captain Brooke, J. A. O.. Ass. Adj. 2nd Battn.
Hamilton, M. J., Reserve of Officers.
Ker, A. M.
Lumsden, C. R.
Eraser, J. H.
Graham, A. S. B.
Latta. C. K.
Lyon. A. P. F.
MacWiUiam. J. J. G.
Richmond. L.
Sandeman. W. A. F.
Trotter. J. K.
McGrigor, J. X. G.
Pine. A.
Lieut.
2nd Lt.
Jrd Battalion
Major Buckingham, A. W.. attd. 1st Battn.
Captain Gordon-DuflF, L.. attd. 1st Battn.
Murray. W. E..attd. Seaforth Highlanders.
2nd Lt. Fraser, The Hon. S.. attd. 2nd Battn.
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Major Maitland, The Hon. A. H.
Captain Brodie, E. J.
Cameron, A. G.
Cameron. X. C. G.
Home. A.
Miers. D. X. C. C.
Orr. J. A.
Robertson. L.
Lieut. Johnstone. R. F. L.
Macdonald. R. -M
Meiklejohn. K. F.
Sprot. I. B.
2nd Lt. Gearey. E., attd
Light Infantry.
McAuliffe, G. H.
.\djutant 1st Battn.
1st Battn. Highland
The Royal Irish Rifles
Captain Kennedy. H. -A.
Master. C. L.
Stevens. R. W. M.. Staff.
Whelan, J. P.
Lieut. Rea. V. T. T.
Whitfeld. A. X.
2nd Lt. Swaine. H. P.
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Captain AI1{;c"hI. B.. altJ. 1st Battn.
Keynolds, T. J., attd. 2nd Battn.
2nd I.t. Magenis, R. H. C.
Jth Battalion
Captain IJavis, H, O., attd. 2nd Battn.
Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
.Majnr l'hihli.s. \V. G. B.
Captain Carbery, M. B. C.
Lieut. Wakefield, R. O. B.
2nd Lt. SaiDuels, A. M.
3id Battalion
Lieut. Crynible, C. R., attd. 1st Battn.
The Connaught Rangers
Mii'yir SarsHeld, W. S.
Captain Armstrnng-Lushingtcm-Tullcch. (J. Dc M.
Hack, C. E.
,, -lack son, F. H.
Leader, F. W. M.
Lieut. Abbott. G. ]).
Blacker, C. F.
,, de Stacpoole, R.A.
,, Fenton, G. K.
.. Fraser. J,
George, F. R., .Adjutant 1st Battn.
Henderson, R. .M. H.
,, Ovens, J. R.
(temp.) Spreckley, R. L. *
Thomas, R. I.
2nd Lt. Benison. R. B.
,, Lentargne, \'. A.
Mallins, C. J. O'C.
,, Vaughan, H. R.
,, Winspear, A.
Jrd Battalion
2nd Lt. Montgomery, A., attil. 2nd Battn.
Jth Battalion
Captain .Saker, F. H.
Lieut. Wickham, A. T. C, attd. 2nd Battn.
Princess Louise's
(Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
Major Maclean, A. H.
Captain Bruce, The Hon. R., Master of Burleigh.
Fraser, J. A,, 2nd Battn.
Henderson, W. A.
Kennedy, A. E.
Lieut. AytouTi, R. M. G.
Burt-.Marshall, \V. M.
,, Gilkison, J. ]) ,
MacLean, A. K.
Rose, J. C. R., 2nd Battn.
nil Battalion
Captain Thomas, D. C. W., attd. 1st Battn
Gordon Highlanders.
The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiinent
(Royal Canadians)
Captain Maffett. H. T.
Captain .Montgomeric. W. G.
Lieut. Cormac-Walshe, E.J.
Gaitskell, C. E.
Lecky, A.
2nd Lt. Eldred, J. S.
The Royal Munster Fusiliers
Major Charrier, P. A.
Oay, F. 1.
Thomson, E. P.
Captain Barrett, P. G.
O'Brien, H. C. H
Pemberton.O., attd. Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Simms, G. N.
Lieut. Banning, P. S.
Chute, C. F. T.
O'Brien, J. F.
Phayre. C. F.
Styles, F. E.
2nd Lt. Aw dry, C. E. V.
Cro^ier, J. C. B.
Sulivan, P. H.
Young, R. A.
Jrd Battalion
Captain Durand, F. W., attd. 2nd Battn.
Reymes-Cole, W. E , attd. 2nd Battn.
Jth Battalion
Cajitain Tra\ers, H. M., attd. 2nd Battn.
The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Major (fciiip. Lieut. -CipI.) .Maclcar, P. (cmpl.
West African Frontier Force).
Lieut. Philby, U. D., attd. Royal Munster
Fusiliers.
2nd Lt. .McGuire, B.
Special Reserve
2nd Lt. Ounlop, J. G. .M., attd. 2nd Battn.
The Rifle Brigade
(The Prince Consort's Own)
Lt.-Col. Alexander, R.
Major Harman, G. -M. X.
Paley, G., Staff.
Percival, C. V. N.
Rickman, S. H.
Captain Gilliat, O. C. S.
Grenvillc, The Hon. R. C, . (.',. M.
,, Jenkinson, J. H., Staff.
Leslie. N. J. B.
Toynbce, (i. P. R.
Whitaker, H.
Lieut. Landale, D B.
Jth Battalion
Captain Prittie, Hon. F. R. D., attd. 1st Battn.
2nd Lt. Uaniell, A. S. L., attd. 1st Battn.
6th Battalion
Captain Turner, B. A., attd. Kings Royal Rifle
Corps.
Lieut. Bradley. G. M., attd. 2nd Battn. Welsh
Regiment.
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INFANTRY TERRITORIAL FORCE
The Monmouthshire Regiment
2nd Battalion
2nd Lt. Paton. J. E
The London Regiment
County of London Battalions
74th London Scottish
2nd Lt. Gulland. R. G. K.
The West India Regiment
2nd Lt. Williams. A. J. F. de C. attd. 4th
Battn. Middlesex Regiment.
INDIAN ARMY
INDIAN CAVALRY
14th Murray's Jat Lancers
Captain Bradshau . A. E.. attd. l.Sth Hussars.
18th King George's Own Lancers
Lieut. RaiUton. S. J. NV.. attd. 4th Dragoon
Guards
19th Lancers (Fane's Horse)
Captain Blane. H. S.. attd. 5th Dragoon Guards.
Hunt. F. \V.
20th Deccan Horse
Captain McEuen, J. S.
The Army Service Corps
2nd Lieut. Walker. W. A. B.. and. 2nd Battn.
Bedfordshire Regiment.
Royal Army Medical Corps
Lt.-Col. Dalton. L .
Major Steel. E. B
Captain Conyngham. C. A. T.
Forrest. F.
Glanvill. E. M.
Kinkead. R. C. G. M.
Leckie. M.
Lochrin, ^L J.
Macnab. A.. Territorial.
Nolan. R. H.
O'Brien-Butler. C. P-
O'Connor. R. D.
Phillips. T. McC.
Ranken. S.
Scatchard. T.
Lieut. Armstrong. A. K.
Ball. W. O. W.
Chisnall. G. H.
Crocket. J.
Hopkins, H. L.
Huggan. J. L.
lies. C. C Special Reserve.
OConnell. J. F.
Porter. RE.
Richardson. M. J.
Rintoul. D. W.
Shields, H. S. J.
Army Veterinary Corps
Lieut. Fox. V.
Jones. S. K.. Special Reserve.
21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry
(Frontier Force/ iDaly's Horse
Captain Whitchurch. L. S.
26th King George's Own Light Cavalry
Captain Chaytor. H. C.
27th Light Cavalry
Major Henderson. A. F.
34th Prince Albert Victor's Own
Poena Horse
Lt.-Col. Snanston. C. ().
Lieut. de Pass. F. A.
37th Lancers Baluch Horse
Major Loring. C. B., attd. Poona Horse.
INDIAN INFANTRY
Captain Birdwood, R. L.
6th Jat Light Infantry
Captain Anderson. A. C.
Dudley. L. G.
Lieut. Liptrott. E. C.
9th Bhopal Infantry
Lt.-Col. Anderson. H. L.
10th Jats
Captain Mortimer. G. H. W.. attd. 9th Bhopal
Infantrv'-
13th Rajputs The Shekhawal Regimenti
Captain Clothier. R. F.
Lieut. Day. M. C.
West African Regiment
Captain Brand. E. S.. Royal Fusiliers.
Powell. H. M., South Staffordshire Regt.
20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry
iBrownlow's Punjabis
Major Ducat. R.
Rome, H. C.
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31st Punjabis
Lieut. Reilly, R. A., attd. 5Sth Wiughan's Rifles.
97th Deccan Infantry
Captain Cavendish. G. L. J.
34th Sikh Pioneers
Lt.-Col. Kelly, G. H. K.
Captain Mackain, J. F.
,, Masters, A.
,, \'auglian-Saw yer. G. H.
35th Sikhs
Captain Buchanan, C. G., attd. Sth Gurkha Rifles.
36th Sikhs
Captain Padday, W. H.. attd. 47th Sikhs.
38th Dogras
Captain Waller, R. H.
39th Garhwal Rifles
Captain Robertson-Glasgow, A, \V.
41st Dogras
Captain Marsh. G. H. .M.
98th Infantry
Captain Hall. li. H.
101st Grenadiers
Major Tatum, H.
Captain Brookes, H. R.
Brown, K. G.
Hogg, I. D. M.
Lieut. Hughes. R. P.
107th Pioneers
Major Bruce, J. M.
Lieut. Burridge, H. G.
108th Infantry
Lieut. Hanier, H. J. T., attd. 101st (Jrenadiers.
127th Queen Mary's Own Baluch
Light Infantry
Major Humphreys, G. (i. P.
46th Punjabis
Captain Gilchrist. R. C.
47th Sikhs
Captain McCleverty. R.J.
54th Sikhs (Frontier Force)
Captain Kt-11. M. .A. R..attil. ,>Sth Vaughans Rifles.
57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force)
Major Barwell. E. E.
Captain Gordon, R. S.
Shepherd, G. A. G.
Craig, J. M.
58th Vaughan's Rifles Frontier Forcel
Lt.-Col. Venour, W. E.
Captain Baldwin. H. L. C.
Black. W. McM., Adjutant.
Lieut. Gaisford. L.
59th Scinde Rifles i Frontier Forcel
Lt.-Col. Fenner, C. C.
Captain Lee, H. N.
Scott, W. F.
Lieut. Atkinson, J. C.
Bruce. W. A. McC.
129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis
Captain Adair, \V. F.
Hanipe-\"incent. P. C.
,, Ussher, S.
1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles
(The Malaun Regiment-
Major Bliss, C.
,, Young, A., Staff
Captain Burke, T. C.
Duff, B. O.
Money, H. I.
Lieut. Rund:dl, L. B.
2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles
(The Sirmoor Rifles)
Major Becher, H. S.
,, ^lacpherson, N.
Ross, F. G. C.
Captain Barton, F. H.
Lieut. Innes, 1. C.
Reid. J. L. I.
2nd Li. Walcott, J. H. L.
3rd Queen Alexandra's Own
Gurkha Rifles
.Major Drumnicjnd, E. G. (attd.). Res. of Officers.
,. Manners-Smith. F.
61st King George's Own Pioneers
Captain Hart. L. G.
Manson, B. E. A.
4th Gurkha Rifles
Captain Inglis, D.
Rundall. A. M.
83rd W'allajahbad Light Infantry
Captain Fuller. J. H. M., attd. fiSrd Palmacottah
Light Infantry.
Sth Gurkha Rifles 'F"rontier Force)
Captain Graham, A. M., attd. King Edward's
Own Gurkha Rifles.
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7th Gurkha Rifles
Major Elliott. R. W. S.
Lieut. Macpherson, D. S. R.
Rogers, L. C. C.
8th Gurkha Rifles
Major Wake. H. St. A.
Captain Davidson. D. B.
Hartnell, H.
Hayes Sadler. E. R.
Stack. E. H. B.
Wright. H. S. N.
Lieut. Maxwell, C. W.
9th Gurkha Rifles
Lieut. Baillie. D.
Walton. R. C.
Supply and Transport Corps
Major Logan. L. S.
WEST AFRICAN FRONTIER FORCE
Nigeria Regiment
Major (^em^. Lieut.-Col.) Maclear. P.. R. Dublin
Fusiliers.
Captain Hopkinson. C. R. T.. East Surrey Regt.
,, Peel. A. R.. South Wales Borderers.
Priestley. A. B.. Dorsetshire Regiment.
(temp. Ma'jorj Puckle. T. N".. Leicestershire
Regiment.
,. Sherlock, G. L. E.. 3rd Hussars.
Wesche, E. B.. South Lancashire Regt.
Lieut. (local Capt.) Wickham. T. S.. Manchester
Regiment.
,, Hughes, F. D.. East Lancashire Regiment.
Stewart. A. H., Gloucestershire Regiment.
Gold Coast Regiment
Bt. yiajoT ttemp. Lieut. -Col. I Famer-Dounes. E.M.
Royal Irish Regiment.
Lieut. Thompson. G. M.. Royal Scots.
Unattached List for Indian Army
2nd Lt. Mercer. E. C.attd. Rnyal Dublin Fusiliers.
Tucker. A. R. L., attd. 4th Royal War-
wickshire Regiment.
Indian Medical Service
Major Atal. P. P. L.
Captain Singh, K.I.
THE KING'S AFRIC.\N RIFLES
Lieut. Bowen. C. E. L. (attd. J. late Royal West
Surrey Regiment.
Garnett. P. N.. 1st (Central .Africa) Battn.,
Royal Berkshire Regiment.
Oldfield. G. C. O.. 4th (L'ganda) Battn..
Royal West Surrey Regiment,
(local Capt.) Thornycroft. E. G. M.. 4th
(Ugandal Battn. Royal Lancashire Regt.
THE BIOGRAPHIES
MAJOR EUSTACE HENRY AGRE-
M O N T A B A D I E . D . S . O. , p. s. c. ,
9th OLE ENS ROYAL) LANCERS,
is reported to have
been killed In action
at ilessines in Octo-
ber, 1914. Hewasat
first officially report-
ed to be a prisoner of
war ; as no official
confirmation of his
death has been re-
ceived, and as noth-
ing has been heard of
or from him since, it
must be unhappily
assumed that the gallant officer has lost his life.
He was the elder surviving son of the late ilajor-
General Henry Richard Abadie, C.B., 9th
Lancers, whose death occiured after that of his
son, and was born on the 24th January, 1877,
He joined the 9th Lancers in August, 1897,
becoming Lieutenant in Jlay, 1899. He
served with much distinction in the South
African War. having taken part in the advance
on and relief of Kimberley, including the actions
at Belmont, EnsUn. and Jlagersfontein ; he was
present at operations in the Orange Free State,
and at Paardeberg. including actions at Poplar
Grove. Driefontein, Karee .Siding, Houtnek
(Thoba Mountain), Vet River and Zand River,
between February and May, 1900 ; at opera-
tions in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria ; and
in the Cape Colony between November, 1900,
and May, 1902. He was mentioned in Des-
patches, " London Gazette," 10th .September,
1901, was awarded the D.S.O., and received the
Queen's medal with eight clasps, and the King's
medal with two clasps. It is beheved that no
other officer received more than eight clasps with
the Queen's medal, in that campaign.
Major Abadie, who was a -Staff College Graduate,
was promoted Captain in March, 1904 ; from
FeVjruary, 1906, to August, 1907, he was
Adjutant of liis Regiment, and he received his
ilajority in March, 1912. For his services in
the Great War he was mentioned in Sir
John French's Despatch of the 14th January,
1915,
It is an interesting fact, illustrating how the
name of the same familv recurs in military
history, that the first name in " The Last
Post," a work containing biographies of officers
who lost their lives in the South African War,
which commenced fifteen years before the
present war, was also that of a cavalry
officer named Abadie, viz., Lieutenant H, B.
Abadie, 11th Hussars. That officer was Major
E. H. A. Abadie's eldest brother ; and another
brother. Captain G, H, F, Abadie, late 16th
Lancers, died of fever in February, 1904,
at Kam, West Africa, where he was serving
as Resident, after having been awarded the
C.M.G. for his services in the Kam-Sohoto
Campaign.
ilajor-General Abadie, the late officer's father,
also had a most distinguished mihtary career
of 46 vears.
LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY DYETT
ABBOTT, 1st BATTN. CONNAUGHT
RANGERS.
who was born on the
12th October, 1891.
at .Srinagar, Kasli- ^3i*~
mir, was the son ot B
the late Colonel _ ^
Frank Abbott, late
37th Lancers
(Baluch Horse), and
a grandson of the
late Lieutenant-
Gene ral H, D.
Abbott, C.B., and of
Major-General J. C. Berkeley, CLE.
He was educated at Cheltenham College and
the K.M.C.. Sandhurst. Having been gazetted
to the Connaught Rangers in March. 1911, he
served with the 1st Battalion in India, and
was promoted Lieutenant In June, 1914.
He was a good shot, and played football,
cricket, billiards, and tennis,
Lieut, Abbott was killed in action at Laventie,
France, on the 2nd November, 1914. His
Company Commander sent the following
account of the circumstances : —
" On the 2nd instant (November, 1914) we
went to relieve the 2nd Gurkhas and came
under rather heavy fire crossing an open place.
It was in the above open place he was
killed."
ABE— ADE
MAJOR WILLIAM HENRY ABELL,
4th BATTN. DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S
OWN (MIDDLESEX REGIMENT),
who was stated in the
Casualty List pul)-
lished by the War
Office in the Novem-
ber Army List to
liave l)een " report e<l
killed in action," it is
l)elicved at Oboiirg.
near Jlons, was the
second son of the late
ilartin Abell. of Nor-
ton Hall, Worcester-
shire. He was born
on the 20th September, 1873, and joined tlie
Middlesex Regiment from the Militia in Decem-
ber, 1896, becoming Lieutenant in October, 1S99.
JIajor Abell served in St. Helena during the
South African War from March to May. receiving
the Queen's medal. From .September. 1907, to
March, 1908, he was an Adjutant of Volunteers,
and from April, 1908, to March, 1910, an Ad-
jutant of the Territorial Force ; he was promoted
to his Majority in Sepi ember. 1912. Major
Aliell left a widow.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM FINLAY ADAIR,
129th DUKE OF CONNAUGHT'S OWN
.. B A L U C H I S,
was born at Mauch-
line. Ayrshire. Scot-
land, on the 21sl
September, 1877, the
youngest son of the
late Major Wallace
Adair. Xorthumljer-
land Fusiliers (the
" Fighting Fifth ").
He was educated at
the French College at
- - - - St. Serven. Brittany,
and afterwards in Jersey. He obtained his
commission as unattached Second Lieutenant
in January. 1897, joining the Indian Stafi' Corps
in March, 1898, in which he became Lieutenant
in July, 1899, and Captain in January, 190(5.
He saw most of his service with the 1.30th
King George's Own Baluchis. of which for some
years he was Adjutant, being transferred to
the 129th, on promotion, as Double Company
Commander, and lie was also qualified as a
First Class Interpreter in French. He served
in China in 1900 and received the medal ; in
the operations in Somaliland, 1902, receiving
the medal and clasp, and in operations in the
interior, Aden, 190.3-04.
He was a member of the Junior Army and Navy
Club, and of the Bath and County Club, Bath.
Captain Adair was killed on the 30th Octolier,
1914, at Hollebeke, Belgium, having been, at
his own request, l.^ft mortally wounded in a
trench when his men had to retire. The follow-
ing account of the circumstances was received
by his relatives : — " On October 30th, 1914. at
Ifnllcbcke, Belgium, Captain .Adair had orders
fnini Ills General to retire, as the Germans were
close up ; while giving instructions to his men
he was shot high up under the arm. The native
Corporal wished to carry him away, but he
refused, fearing to delay them, and so insisted
on being left in the trench alone. The Germans
came up almost immediately, and nothing
further has been heard. The Corporal, who
said Captain Adair was mortally wounded and
could not have lived long, led the men back
to a safe position already prepared, without any
loss, and so the sacrifice was not in vain."
Captain Adair was mentioned in Sir .Inlin
French's Despatch of I Itli .Tanuary. 1915.
LIEUTENANT .\LEC CRICHTON
MAITLAND- ADDISON, 1st B.\TTN.
THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT,
born at Brighton in IS.SO, was the son of .Major
A. Maitland-Addi.son, late 71st Highlanders; he
was a great grandson of Charles Bisset, 42 nd
Highlanders (mentioned in " Lives of Eminent
.Scotchmen ") and closely connected .vith the
family of the poet Joseph Addison.
He was educated privately, and was gazetted
to the Chesliire Regiment in .September, 1914,
as Second Lieutenant.
Joining the Royal Flying Corps, he landed in
France in August, 1914. and served continuously
till the time of his death, having been promoted
for distinguished service in the Field. He was
wounded at Ypres on the 25th October. I!!M.
and died at Boulogne on the 27th October. 1911.
Lieutenant Maitland-Addison was a fine man
— 0 feet 3 inches in height, and broad in pro-
portion— extremely powerful, and without fear.
CAPTAIN HENRY ROBERT
AUGUSTUS ADEANE, COLDSTREAM
GUARDS,
son of the late
Admiral Edward
Adeane and the late
Lady Edith Adeane,
was born at 28,
Eaton Place, London.
onthe31stJuly,1882.
He was educated at
Winchester, and the
R.ir.C, Sandhurst,
and was gazetted to
the Coldstream
Guards in 1902. becoming Lieutenant in 1905,
and Captain in 1912, retiring in .May, 1913.
At the outbreak of the war, he was voluntarily
in the Reserve of Officers, and joined his
regiment for service at the front. He was killed
near Ypres on the 2nd November, 1914.
AIN— ALE
Captain Adeaiie married in 1909. Victoria
Eugenie Bigge. daugliter of Lieutenant-Colonel
Ijord Strtiufordham. and left one son, Miiliael
Edward, liorn :inth Sei)teml)er. 1910.
2nd LIEUTENANT DENYS ALFRED
L.\FONE AINSLIE. 1st B.\TTN. DEVON-
SHIRE REGT.,
who was killed in
action on the 21th
^^^ ^^^ October. 1911, in
I^^^B ^^^1 France, was the third
'^^^^ "^ "^ ^^^^ son of ilr. and ilrs.
W. L. Ainslie, of
Hanworth House,
Harrow Weald.
He was educated at
Wellington, where he
was in the Talbot
from 1906 — 1910.
He was gazetted to the 3rd Battalion of his
regiment in April. 1913, and was granted a
commission in the Ist Battalion in Aug\ist. 1914.
LIEUTEN.\NT JOHN STIRLING
AINSWOR IH. nth PRINCE ALBERT'S
OWNi HUSS.\RS,
who was killed in
action on the 14th
October, 1914, was
the second son of
J. S. Ainsworth,
Ardanaiseig, Argyll-
shiri", and of 55,
Eaton Place,London,
S.W. ; his mother.
Margaret Catherine,
being a daughter of
K.R.Macredie, D.L.,
J. P. tor x\rgyUihire and Cumlierland, and M.P.
for the first named County from 1903. He was
born on the 9th November, 18S9, and joined
the 11th Hussars in April, 1909. Lieutenant
Ainsworth. who reached that rank in November,
1912, was mentioned in .Sir John French's
Despatch of the Sth October. 1914.
LIEUTENANT RONWLD .\NDRE\V
COLQUHOUN -MTCHISON. 1st BATTN.
THE KING S OWN ROYAL LANCASTER
REGIMENT,
who died on the 14th
September, 1914, of
wounds received in
action, was the son
of G. Colquhoun
Aitchisou, of South
Collingham, Newark.
He received his com-
mission inSeptember,
1913, and was promo-
ted Lieutenant on the
1 51 h November, 1914
CAPTAIN REGINALD JOHN PETTY
DEVENISH ALDRIDGE. 2nd BATTN.
THE ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT,
was born on the 7th ,. . - — r;
September, 1877, at
Poole, Dorset, and
was the son of the
late Reginald Ald-
ridge, solicitor, and
Mrs. Aldridge, of
Parkstone, Dorset.
He was educated l)y
a private tutor, and
at ^i\'orcester College.
Oxford.where hetook
hisB.A. degree ; won
some prizes for Athletics, and wa,s an Oxford
Blue for Foot ball. He was also a hockey player.
In May, 1900, he received his commission in
the Royal .Sussex Regiment, in which he became
Lieutenant in March, 1903. In 1902 he was
Instructor of Signalling at Kasauli. India, and
in 1004 he conmianded a Comjiany of Mounted
Infantry in Malta. He was attached to the
West .\frican Regiment from 190.5-08, being
appointed Assistant -Adjutant and Quarter-
master in January, 1906. From January. 1908,
to January. 1912, he was Adjutant of the
Guernsey Light Infantry, and then rejoined liis
liattalion at Woking, becoming Captain in
April. 1910.
At the Battle of the .Aisne he was killed Ijy a
shell on the 7th October, 1914, and was buried
at Troyon.
Captain Aldridge married, in ilay, 1908. Mabel
Dulcibella. daughter of the late Rev. J.
Padmore Noble, \'icar of Childs Ercall. ilarket
Draj-ton, from 1876-96, and left two children,
Dulcibella Noble, born 24th December, 1909,
and Reginald Charles Petty, born 24th Decem-
ber, 1914.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL REGINALD
ALEX.\NDER, 3rd B.\TTN. RIFLE
BRIGADE,
(lid on the 29th
December,1914, from
ivouuds received in
action. He was born
on the 6th Sept em- ^K^ ' *
lier. 1867. and joined
the Royal West Kent
Regiment from the
Militia in January.
1889. In December. ^^^^ ^^^-m
1891. he was trans- |^|^_^ ,J^!^C3al
ferred to the Rifle
Brigade as Lieutenant, anil from 1894-98 was
Adjutant of his Battalion.
He was a fair cricketer, very fond of racing and
of a most cheery disposition.
ALL
He served in the South Afruaii War. takiui;
part ill operations in Natal, ineUuling the action
at Laing's Nek ; ia the Transvaal east of
Pretoria, including action at Belfast, l)ein^'
severely woundeil. Ijater he was Cominandaiil
at Uitkyk, and afterwards at Olifant's Hivcr.
lie was twice mentioned in Despatelies ("London
Gazette," 10th September. 1901. and 29th .Tuly.
1902), and received the Queen's and the King's
medals, each with two clasps.
He obtained his Majority in Api-il. HMI.">. ami
succeeded to the command of his Hattali'in in
October, l!)i:i.
MAJOR WILLIAM LEWIS CAMPBELL
ALLAN. 3rd a t t d. 2ndi BATTN.
KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS.
was killed in action
on the 12th October.
1914, near Cuinchy,
La Bassee, France.
He was the eldest
son of Major-General
l^ 't^l^ ^^^B William Allan.
Colonel of the Welsh
rJegiment, of Hill-
side. Edinburgh, and
Bidborougb. Kent,
and was born at
Dalhousie, India,
on the Cth July. 1871.
Major-General Allan, the late officer's father,
had himself a \'ery distinguished military
career, for he served in the Crimea with the
41st Regiment — now the Welsh Regiment —
taking part in the battles of the Alma and
Inktrman, both the assaults on the Redan,
and was present at the siege and fall of
•Sebastopol : his services were recognised by
the award of the Briti.sh medal with tluve
clasps, the Turki.sh medal, and by his being
appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honour.
.Major Allan n'as educated at Wellington College,
where he was in the Hopetown from 1885-1889,
and at Erase nose College, Oxford. He joined
the 3rd Battalion King's Own Scottish Bor-
derei-s in November. 1890. and served in the
South African War of 1900-1902, being Station
Start' Officer on the Lines of Communication
at Modder River (graded as a .Staff Captain)
from the 21.st ilarch, 1900. He was present
at operations in Cape Colony, and for his
services received the Queen's medal with two
clasps, and the King's medal with two clasps.
He was at the School of Musketry and went
through the Machine Gun course at Hythe,
and received the rank of Hon. Major in June,
1899.
Major Allan was fond of cricket, shooting and
fishing, and was a member of the Conservative
Club, Edinburgh, and of the Junior Carlton
Club, London.
C.\PTA1N LIONEL THEOPHILUS
ALL.\SON, 1st BATTN. LOYAL
NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT,
fourth sun of the
late Alfred Allason.
Esq., of Randolph
Crescent. Lonrlon.
W., was born on the
3rd February, 1877,
and was educated at
iMihvich College ami
liy private tviiticui
aliroad.
He joined the 3rd
(Militia) Battalion
East Lancashire
Regiment, and served with it. when cmliodied.
in the .South African War; he was Station
StatT Officer at Vet River. an<l was i>rcsent al
operatioiLS in Cape Colony south of Orange
River, in the Orange River Colony in 1900,
and again in both Colonies in 1901 and 1902.
Before that war was over he was gazetted to
the Loyal North Lancashu-e Regiment in Jidy.
1901. For his .services he received the
Queen's and the King's medals, each with two
clasps.
Captain Alla.son, who was promoted Lieutenant
in September. 1904. and Captain in November.
1912, was qualified as a first-class Inter-
preter in German, but above all he was a regi-
mental man who took keen interest in all the
sports and doings of his regiment.
He was killed by shrapnel on the 7th Octoljer.
1914, at Veudresse. near Troyon. and was
buried there. He was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 8th October, 1911.
LIEUTENANT HUGH THOMAS
AC K L A N D A L L E N, 1st BATTN.
ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS,
who was killed in
action on the 23rd
October, 1914, was
the only son of
C. Ackland- Allen, of
.St. Hilary Manor,
Cowbr.idge, South
Wales. IJeuteuant
Ackland-^Vllen was
educated at Welling-
ton College, where he
was in tlie Beresford
from 1907-1910. pro-
ceeding to the B.M.C.. .Sandhur.st. in 1912.
He received his commission in the Royal Welsh
Fusiliers in September, 1913; the battalion
went to Malta in January. 1914, i-eturned to
England in .September, and went out with
the Vllth Division on the 4th Octol)er.
He was 21 years of age when he was killed near
Zonnebeke on the 23rd October, 1914.
ALL
CAPTAIN AND ADJUTANT JOHN
FRANCIS ALLEN. 1st LOYAL
NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT,
son of William Henry
Allen, J.P., D.L., of
Bromhain House,
Bromhani. near Bed-
ford, was horn at 10,
Greville Road, Kil-
burn. X.W., on the
0th October, 1881,
and was educated at
Repton School.
He obtained his com-
mission in 1899 in
the Loyal North Lan-
cashire Regiment from the Militia during the
Boer War. He served with the 2nd Battalion
in Malta, (iibraltar. South Africa, Mauritius,
and India, and was transferred to tlie 1st
Battalion, in winch he became Captain, in
April, 1912. He received the South African
War (Mediterranean) medal ; also the Delhi
Durliar medal whilst he was A.D.f. to Jjurd
Sydenham. Governor of Bombay.
Captain Allen left Aldershot August. 1914,
attached to the 1st Division Staff, and was
appointed Adjutant in September, 1914. He
took part in all the engagements in Belgium
and France, froni the commencement of lios-
tilities up to the time of Ins death, which
occurred on the 4th November, 1914, from
wounds received near Ypres, while in the act of
I'escuing two men who had been buried by
earth tlirown up by a shell.
Captain Allen was a good all-round sportsman,
interested in all forms of sport, and also in
amateur theatricals. He was not married.
MAJOR WILLIAM LYNN ALLEN,
D.S.O., 2nd BATTN. BORDER REGT.,
who was kiUed in
action on the 25th
October. 1914. was
the son of the late
Bulkeley Allen. E.scj.,
.T.P., and Mrs.
Bulkeley Allen, of
West Lynn, Altrin-
cham, Cheshire. He
had two .soldier
brothers : the late
ilajor K. Lynn Allen,
Royal War^-ickshire
Regiment, p.nd Major A. Lynn Allen, A.P.U..
formerly in the Suffolk Regiment ; and his
cousin, Captain J. Derwent Allen, C.B., R.N.,
is now commanding H.M.S. " Kent " ; while
another cousin is ilajor W. A. Frere Jones,
R.F\A , also on Active Service.
He was born on the Sth ilaj-, 1871, and was
educated at Rugby (Rev. C. Elsee's house), to
which he went in 1885. He joined the Border
Regiment from the ililitia in September, 1893,
becoming Lieutenant in 1896. From August,
1901, to August, 1904, he was Adjutant of his
tiattalion. He served all through the South
.:\irican War, being present at operations in
Natal in 1899 ; at the Relief of Ladysmith,
including action at Colenso, and the actions at
Spion Kop and Vaal Krans : operations in the
Tugela Heights and action at Pieters Hill ;
operations in the Orange Free .State, in the
Transvaal east and west of Pretoria, in the
Orange River Colony, and in Cape Colony
north and south of Orange River. During the
latter part of the war he was Adjutant of his
Battalion. For his services he was twice men-
tioned in Despatches (■• London Gazette," 10th
.September, 1901, and 29th July, 1902), was
awarded the D.S.O.. and received the Queen's
medal with five clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
From September. 1905. to .September. 1909,
Major Lynn Allen was Adjutant of the Discharge
Depot, and he received his Majority in October,
1913, in the 2nd Battalion, in which he had
commanded a Company.
The circumstances under which Major Lynn
Allen met his death were as follows : —
On the evening of the 25th October, about 7.30.
he was holding a point between the villages of
Kruiseik and America, about 4| miles from
Y'pres. For the previous seven days Jlajor Lynn
Allen had been occupying with his men a salient
point at the extreme left of his regmient, and
his Company was badly in need of reinforce-
ments. On that particvUar night about 100 of the
enemy made their way over trenches occupied
by a neighbouring battahon, and appeared in
the viciiuty of a farmhouse in the rear of the
Borderers. These men were at first mistaken
for Belgians sent in support, but the error
having been realised they were fired upon
and a considerable number killed. Immedi-
ately afterwards the remainder signified their
wish to surrender and asked for an English
Officer. In response Major Lynn Allen left his
trench with two men. and had hardly advanced
more than a step or two l)efore the enemy
treacherously opened Are, and he fell back
mortally wounded.
Colonel Wood, the Commanding Officer, in a
letter to Mrs. Lynn Allen, and subsequently at
a personal interview with a brother of the
deceased officer, paid a high tribute to his
value as an officer, to his popularity with the
men of the regiment, and to the splendid
example he set them by his coolness under fire.
Major Lynn Allen married Adeline Miriam,
thu'd daughter of the late Isaac Carbutt
Dickinson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and leaves
two sons and one daughter.
ALL AME
LIEUTENANT FREDERIC DE VERE
BRUCE ALLFREY, 9th LANCERS.
wild was tin- sdii iif
Mr. and .Mrs. V. Xno.
.\llfr.'y. of WokiiiK-
liani. ReaditifT, was
[■•■ported \i IK >l1iria 1 1 y
as havinjr lii'cii killi-d
ill actimi in Srj.tciii-
l.er, I'Jll.
Lieutenant .Mlfny
was liorn on tlic 21st
Septeinlicr. 1. Si) Land
was educated at Wel-
lington College, his
father having been at the same school.and was in
Brougham's and Upcott's from 1905-09, going
to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1910, from which he
passed into the 9tli Lancers in Fel)ruary. 1911.
lie was promoted Lieutenant in .January. 1913.
Since the unoBicial report of his death it lias
transpired that after a charge of the 9tli Lancei's
on the 6th September, 1914, near Provins,
Lieutenant Allfrey dismounted to help a
wounded lirother officer, and was himself shot
and killed by a wounded (ierinan.
C.\PT. BERTRAM .\LLGOOD, ROYAL
IRISH RIFLES,
who was killed in
action on the 7th
Decemlier. 1914. was
the second son of the
late ilajor-Ocneral
Allgood, C.B., Indian
Army, latterly Chief
Constable of North-
umberland.
1 le was born on the
1 1th February. 1ST4.
was educated at Eton
and received liis commission in the Royal Irish
Rifles from the Militia in May, 1,897, becoming
Lieutenant in the following year and Captain
in February, 1904. At the tim»; =of the Soutli
-Vfrican War he was serving with the 1st
Battalion at Calcutta, and so did not take part
in that campaign. He continued to serve in
India till 1905. when he came home for duty
at the Depot at Belfast. He returned to India,
but again came Ijack to Belfast, and then served
for a time in the 2nd Battalion at Dover. In
1912 he was appointed Adjutant of the 4th
Battalion, which appointment he gave up on
retiring from the .\rniy in February. 1914. when
he joined the Reserve of Officers. On the out-
break of the war with Germany he was called
vip for service with the 3r(l Battalion, but later
went to the F>ont with liis old battalion, the
1st, on the 7th November, 1914. He was shot
through the heart on the 7th December, 1914.
while seeing his men into safety on returning
to the trenches ne;ir Vpres, and was Imried In .-i
I enietery at Estairi's.
He was very fond of hunting, polo, and all sport,
and wasamemberof theXavaland .Military Club.
Captain Allgood married in .\in-il. lOl.'i. ]sa
Cochrane, daughter of the late .\rthur Bayley
and Mi's. Herbert Lyde, and left a dau-liter.
burn August. 1914.
LIEUTENANT CL.\UDE McCAUL
ALSTON, 2nd B.\TTN. ROY.\L SCOTS
FUSILIERS,
who was reporte<l as
wounded and mis-
sing, no news being
subsequently re-
ceived for many
months, is now le-
ported to have been
killed near Vpres, in
Flanders, while with
the \IIth Division
about the 27th
October. 1914.
He was the only son of C. Ho» Al-t<in.
Barrister-at-I>aw. and Mrs. Ross Alston. Alla-
habad, India, and nepliew of Ceo. R. Alston.
Rosemount. Chislehurst.
Lieutenant Alston was liorn on the 29tli Sep-
tember. 1,S92. was educated at Charterhouse,
and re<'eived his commission in the Royal .Scots
Fusiliers in Septemlier. 1912. He was gazetted
Lieutenant, to date from the 27tli October.
1914, the day on which he \\as killed.
LIEUTENANT \VILLI.\M KERR .\MES,
1st B.\TTN. ROYAL %VEST KENT
REGIMENT.
who died of wnunds
in hospital at Com-
piegne on the 17th
September. liMl.
being then just 23
years of age. was the
youngest son of the
late Mr. Thomas
Ames, Huish House,
Kilmersdoon. Somer-
set, and of Mrs. Ames.
29. Clifton (iardens,
Folkestone. He was bia-ii at llui^li iiuuse,
Southampton, on the 6th September, 1891.
He was educated at Dover College, and by an
Army coach, passing into the R.M.C., .Sand-
hurst, whence he joined the ^^'est Kent Regi-
ment in -March. 1912.
He was sliot through both legs at Crepy. near
Compiegne, during the retirement from Mons,
on the 1st .September. 1914. His Company
Officer had been killed, and Lieutenant Ames
had tlxen assumed command of the Company,
when he too was hit.
AMO— AND
2nd LIEUTENANT GILBERT
STRATTON AMOS, 2nd BATTN.
KINGS OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS,
who was killed in
action at the battle
of the jVisne on the
UthSeptember.1914,
a few days before he
had completed his
19th year, was the
only son of Major
Amos. D.S.O.. late
Kind's Own Scottish
Borderers, of St . I bbs,
Hit chin.
Second Lieutonant
Amos was educated at Wellington College,
where he was in 51r. L'peote's House from 1909-
1912. when he went to the R.il.C. Sandhurst,
whence he was gazetted to the Kiiisj's Own
Scottish Borderers in February. 1914.
CAPT.\IN ALEXANDER CL.\IR.
MONTE ANDERSON, 6th JAT LIGHT
INFANTRY.
'' son of Lieutenant-
Colonel A. Anderson.
late K.A.M.C.. was
born at Muttra.
Xorth-West Pro-
vinces. India, on the
28th April, 1885.
After his education
at Kelly College,
Tavistock,
and the
Sandhurst,
ceived his comnii>siijii
Devon,
K,M,C,,
he, re-
Second Lieutenant in
the Royal Sussex Regiment in January, 189,5.
joining the Indian Army in 1907, and becoming
Captain in January, 1911,
He was killed in the trenches at Festubert.
near Betluine, France, on the 22nd November,
1914, by the premature explosion of a hand-
bomb which he was about to tlirow.
Captain Anderson was a member of the Junior
Army and Navy Club, He was not married,
2nd LIEUTENANT ALAN JAMES
RA.MS.W ANDERSON, 3rd B.\TTN,
ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT,
was tne third son
of Robert Andrew
Ander.son. .Secretary
of the Irish Agricul-
tural Organisation
Society, and was born
at Donerailc. Co,
Cork, Ireland, on the
1 5th Decern ber, 1 89 1 .
He was educated at
Bedford Grammar
School, and Univer-
.sity College, Oxford, He won Ihir Public
Schools Boxing Championship. Feather Weights,
in 1909, and was the Oxford LTniversity Boxing
Club Light Weight in 1912, 1913, and 1914.
He was a meinljer of Vincent's Club, Oxford
University, and of the Oxford Union ; Secre-
tary of the Oxford University Boxing Club,
and President of .St. Patrick's Club, Oxford ;
he was also a member of the Royal Dublin Golf
Club.
Applying through the Oxford University O.T.C.
on the outbreak of tlie war. he was given a com-
mission in the Royal Irish Regiment in August,
1914.
He was killed at Le Pilly. near Aubers. Lille.
on the 20th October. 1914. his second day in the
firing line. His battalion had carried Le Pilly
with the bayonet, when it was cut oil and sur-
rounded, and Second Lieutenant Ander.son was
shot through the head in the front trench,
2nd LIEUT, CHARLES ALE.YANDER
KENNETH .\NDERSON, 1st BATTN.
THE KING'S ROV.\L RIFLE CORPS.
aged 21, was the ordy
son of A. R. Ander-
son. Esq.. F.R.C.S,,
of Nottingham,
He was educated at
.Stanmore Park, and
at Harrow (Mr. iloss,
1907-1911). After
leaving Harrow he
went to Pembroke
College, Cambridge,
and w^as gazetted to
the 1st Battalion
The Royal Scots Fusiliers as a University
Candidate on the 4th August, 1914. On the
14th August he was gazetted as Second Lieu-
tenant to the King's Royal Rifle Corps, but
having already left England with the Royal
Scots Fusiliers, he remained attached to that
regiment throughout the campaign.
He took part in the successive engagements at
Mous, the Marne, the Aisne. and lastly on the
Franco-Belgian frontier in the first battle of
Vpres, He was killed in action about 3 a,m.
in the 12tli November, 1914, while leading his
men in a night attack on the German trenches,
lieing at that time in command of half of "C"
Company, 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Second Lieutenant Anderson was a member of
the University Pitt Club. Cambridge.
LIEUTENANT COLIN KNOX
ANDERSON, 3rd BATTN, THE
QUEEN'S OWN (ROYAL WEST KENT
REGIMENT), who.se name appeared in the
tirst list of British losses issued by the War
Otlice on the 1st .September, 1914, as killed in
action, was the youngest son of G. K. .Vnderson,
AND
truant in .\]>iil. lli| 1.
Esq., D.h.. (if ]{riil-r Hill, n.-ar Cantcrliuiy.
Lieutenant Anderson, who was 20 yeai-s of afje
.•\t tlif time of his
d.-ath. was (Mhicatcd
at .Malvi-ni ('ollct;i'.
wliere lie was a
s(lHn,l I'l-effct. in
tlie Ciitket XI, and
Football XXII.
Lieut onaiit Anderson
joined the iiid Bat-
talion Royal West
Kent Regiment, in
December, 1908, and
was promoted Lieu-
W'lien war was declared
he was employed on civil work in Rochester,
but at once o(Tere<l his .services whicli were
accepted. lie was then attached to the 1st
Battalion of his regiment and proceeded with
it to France.
lie was good at all games, but chiefly excelled
at cricket, being a .successful fast bowler, lie
was well known in regimental cricket and with
the Kent Amateurs "The Baml of Brothers."
2nd LIEUTENANT ERNEST LIONEL
LANE ANDERSON, 1st BATTN.
ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS.
who was killed in action oji the lOth-llth Nov-
ember, 1914, aged 20, was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lane Andei\sou, of The Drive, Hove.
He was born on the 24th December, 1893, ami
went to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1912, l)e-
coming an under-oHicer and winning tlie sword
for drill, lie joined the Scots Fu.siliers in
February, 191:5, and went to the Continent
with them at the beginning of the war, being
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
8th October. 1914.
2nd LIEUT. GERARD RUPERT LAURIE
ANDERSON, 3rd BATTN. CHESHIRE
REGIMENT,
who \ras kUled in
action on the 8th
Xovember, 1914,
aged 25, was the
son of I'rebendary
and Mrs. Anderson,
of 20, Chester Street.
London, S.W., and
u'randson of Sir
l-.milius Laurie, Bart.,
of Maxwelton House,
Dumfrieshire.
He was educated at Eton, where he estab-
lished a reputation as an athlete, especially
in Fives and the Field game. He was
captain of the Oppidans, President of the
Eton Socief y, and Keeper of the Field ; lie
won the School 1-ives and House Fives each
three times, anil the Hurdles also lliiice. lie
won a scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford,
where he took first classes in " Mods " and
" Greats," and was President of the Universitj-
Athletic Club, being finally elected a Fellow of
All Souls in 1913. He continued his athletic
successes at the '\'arsity, where he ran in the
quarter and half miles and Hurdles, also com-
peting in 1911 for Oxford and Cambridge
against Yale and Harvard. He twice won the
English, and once the Scotch, Chamiiionsliip
over hurdles, and made his final appearance in
the athletic field at Stockholm.
After leaving College he entered the firm of
Cammell Laird, at Birkenhead, and on the out-
break of the war with Crermany, applied for and
was given a commission on probation in the
3rd Battalion Cheshire Regiment on the 14tli
August, 1914, and was attached for active
service to the 1st Battalion of that Regiment,
sailing for France on the 21st September.
Mr. Anderson was twice wounded at La Bass<>e,
l)ut remained on duty, and was shot through the
heart on the 8th Xovember, 1914. while leading
a charge against the German trenches. For
his services he was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HENRY
LAWRENCE ANDERSON. SECOND IN
COMMAND, 9th BHOP.\L INFANTRY,
INDIAN ARMY,
wlio died on the
L'.sth-29tli October,
lull, of wounds re-
ceived in action, was
the son of the late
General R. P. and
Mrs. Anderson, Hol-
land Road, Kensing-
ton.
He was born in June.
1807, and was gaz-
etted to the York-
shu-e Light Infantry in August, 188S. He « as
promoted Lieutenant in March, 1890, and in the
follo«ing month was transferred to the Indian
.Staff Corps. He was promoted Captain in the
Indian Army in August, 1899. and in 1903-4
saw active service in Tibet, for which he riTei\ i-d
the medal.
liieutenant-Colonel Anderson, who left n \\ idow,
obtained his Majority in August. 1900, and was
promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in August, 1914.
CAPTAIN CHARLES GEORGE WIL-
LIAM ANDREWS. ADJUTANT 2nd
BATTN. BORDER REGIMENT,
who was killed in action on the 2Sth October,
1914. leaving a widow, was the only child
of the late G. J. W. Andrews, of Dorchester,
anil of Mrs. Andrews, of Bedford. He was born
AND ANS
on the lOtli -May, ]t>78, and joined the
Border Regiment from the Militia in May,
1898, becoming
Lieutenant in August.
1901. He took part
in the South African
War, heing present
at operations in
Xatal. at the Ke-
Hef of Ladysmith
(wounded on the 21st
January,1900): at op-
erations in the Orange
Free .State,the Trans-
vaal, Orange River
Colony, and Cape Colony, south and north of
Orange River. He received the Queen's medal
with four clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
From Xovember. 1905, to November, 1910, he
was an Adjutant of Volunteers and of the
Territorial Force, having been promoted Cap-
tain in his regiment in April. 1909. In De-
cember, 1911. he was appointed Adjutant of the
2nd Battalion of his regiment, and held that
position when he was killed.
His battaUon formed part of the 20th Brigade
of the memorable Vllth Division which left
hyndhurst for Belgium on October 4th. and
Captain Andrews was with it in aU the fighting
which took place in the retirement from
Bruges and Ghent, to Ypres, and feU in the first
battle which took place to the east of that t own.
LIEUTENANT FREDERICK GEORGE
ANDREWS. 4th B A T T N . THE
KINGS LIVERPOOL REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 21st
October, 1914, at the
age of 43, was born
in New Zealand, and
educated at Christ
College, WeUington.
WTien the war with
Germany broke out
he was living at
HaUaton. ilarket
Harborough. Lei-
cestershire, where
he had resided for several years.
He received a commission as Lieutenant in the
Liverpool Regiment in August, 1914, and was
attached to the 2nd Battn. South Lancashire
Regiment when he was killed.
C.\PT.\1N THE HON. ARTHUR
A N N E S L E Y, 10th PRINCE OF
WALES'S OWN ROYALi HUSSARS.
was the sou and heir of Arthur. 11th Viscount
^'alentia, and was bom at Bletchingtou Park,
Oxford, on 24th August, 1 SSO. His next brother.
w ho is now heir to the title. Ls a Lieutenant in
the Oxfordshire Light Infantry. He was
educated at Etoi
and received hi
couimission in tli
10th Royal Uussar-
from the 3rd (Militi;. ^
Oxfordshire an ^^^ ^^
Buckinghamshii
Light Infantry ii
April. 1900. U.
became Lieutenaii'
in Xovember, 1901. ,r
With his regiment he I'
served in the South
African War from 1900 to 1902, being present
at operations in the Transvaal and Cape Colony,
for which he received the Queen's medal with
tliree clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps. He also received the Coronation medal
of King George V.
Having obtained his Captamcy in 1907, he
served as Adjutant of his regiment from 3Iay,
1907. to December, 190S, andin Xovember, 191 2,
was appointed A.D.C. to the General OfBcer
Commanding in Egypt, an appointment he was
holding when the Great War broke out.
He was kUled in action by a sniper at Zillebeke,
near Ypres, on the 16th Xovember. 1914.
Captain Annesley was a meiuber of the Cavalry
Clul), and his recreations were hunting and polo.
L I E U T F N A N T- C O L O N E L GEORGE
KIRKPATRICK ANSELL. p.s.c. COM-
-M.\NDING 5th PRINCESS CH.VRLOTTE
OF WALES'Si DRAGOON ^ GUARDS.
son of the late
Colonel R. Ansell.
Royal Marine Artil-
lery, was born at
Fort Cumberland .
near Portsmouth, in
1872.
He was educated at
WeUington College,
and joined the 0th
(InniskiUing) Dra-
goons from the
Mihtia in April. 1894.
becoming Ijeutenant in September, 1895, and
Captain in July, 1001. He served with dis-
tinction in the South African War as Regimental
Adjutant, which appointment he held with the
break of a few mouths from 1897 to 1902, after-
wards acting as Brigade-Major to General
Rimington. He took part in operations in the
Transvaal, east of Pretoria, including actions
at Reit Vlei and Belfast, and in operations in
Cape Colony, south of Or^ange River, including
the action of Colesberg. For his services he was
twice mentioned in Despatches, received his
ANT ASK
10
BrcNi'l M^iionty. tlii' (Juccn'-; iikmI.-iI \\itli tliicc
clasps and tlic Kind's iiicilal witli (\m) iliis|)s.
Lieutenant-ColoiiolAiLscU also hold (lie 1 )iaiii(>iicl
Jubilee modal, 1897, and the Boy.al Iliiniaur
Society's liion/i' humImI for saving a lif<' in Soul li
Africa.
Lieulonaiit-Coloml AiimII was not only qiialifii^d
for Stall' ciuijloynicrd in lonscqupnco of service
on llie Stall' in the I'^icld, Imt be was also a
fri'aihiate of tbe SlalT Colii'^e, where he passed
till' llnal e\aniinat ion in 1!)0:!, receiving the
ajipointnient of Hrinade-Major, :5rd f'avahy
JJriKade, in lilOl. and retaining it till 1!)07.
lie lield an api)ointnient as General SI a II
Onicer. L'nd Grade, at the War Office froni IHHI-
I'.lll. ill .\u;^usl of ulurli year lie was sel iled
for the (cminiauil of tbe.'itli I Iragoon Guards.
Ho was a iioli'd ]miI(i playei- and fornieil one of
tlio regimental (earns of the InnisUillings and
(he .5tb Dragoon Guards, lieing in the winning
team of Ibo former when they won the Inter-
regimental Cup in 1897, 1898, and 190.5 ; he was
also in the team when the same regiment won
the Army Cup in 1899. He won several point-
to-point races with his horses — Glencoe, Absa-
lom, Newboy, and Napper Tandy.
Just lieforc the war with Germany broke out
he had been olTerod the appointment of Com-
mandant at (ho Cavalry School, but this
po.vition, of course, was not taken up. He was
killed on (bo 1st September. 1914. while leading
his regiment. I'Vir his services in (his wai' he
was mondoned in Sir .John French's Despalch
of 8th October, 191 J.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ansell married in 1S99.
Kathleen, daughter of .T. P. Cross, of Catthorpe
Towers, Kugby, and leaves a son and a daughter.
LIEUTENANT EDMUND ANTROBUS,
1st BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS,
who was killed in action on the 24th October.
1914, was the only son of Sir Edmund Antrolwis,
4th Baronet, of Antrobus, County Chester, and
Rutherford, County Roxburgh, at one time
commanding 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards.
Lieutenant Antrobus was born on the 2;ird
December, 1886, and received his commission
as Second Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards
from the .Militia in May, 1908, being pro-
moted I..ieutonant in November, 190S.
The 1st Battn. Grenadiei Guards foimed
]>ar( of (he 20th Brigade of the \IIth Division
which was in the centre of our line at the first
Battle of Ypres. On (he 24(h October the
Germans made a determined effort to break
through on the left of the Grenadiers near
Kridsoik. and No. 4 Company, (o which
Lieu(. Andobus belonged, made a counler-
attack, ilriving back the enemy. He was
killed while gallantly fighting with bis platoon,
only one officer and forty-five men of (he
Company rodirning unhur(.
2nd LIEUTENANT K . S . .\ I' L I N
attd. 2nd BATTN. ROYAL INNISKII.-
LING FUSILIERS,
ulio «as killed in
action on (he ls(
\o\criiber. 191 1. was
(lie son of Mr. and
.Mrs. J. Sliorland
Aplin, of ICnglefiold
Green, and Yeovil,
and was born in 1 892.
]\i- was (>(lucated at
Mill Hill School.
London, and at
Worcosler College,
Oxford. lie \\a^ ap]iiuntod to (he Special
Reserve. Uoyal InnisUjUing Fusiliers, on pro-
balion. on (be 0(h .\ugiis(. lilb!. his connnis-
sion being linally da(ed (be 27tli .luiic'. 1911.
LIEUTENANT (temp.) ARTHUR KEITH
ARMSTRONG, ROYAL ARMY MEDI-
CAL CORPS,
wbo was killed in
arlioii on (he llitb
September, 1914,
aged 33, leaving a
widow, was the
only son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. Armstrong.
42, Dartmouth I'ark
Road, I^ondon,
N.W. He was
gazetted Temporary
Lieutenant in (be
R.A.M.C. on (be l.")(li Aiigus(. 1914.
LIEUTENANT BASIL CLAUDIUS
ASH, THE SHERWOOD FORES-
TERS (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND
DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT),
who was killed in action on the 20tli September,
1914. was the son of Claudius James Asli, of
Blakeney, Norfolk, and 2, Parkhill Road,
Hampstead,and was born on the2.'>th April, 18h(i.
He joined the Sherwood Foresters from
(he MilKia in March, 1907, and became Lieiiten-
antin Jime, 1909. I'Vom October of that year (ill
the Great War broke out, he was emjiloyed
with the Nigerian Regiment, West African
Frontier Force.
CAPTAIN HENRY ADAM ASKEW,
2nd BATTN. BORDER REGIMENT,
was the sf^n of the late Canon Edmund Adam
Askew, Rector of Greystoke, Cumberland, u lieic
he was born on the 8th September, 1881 ; he
was a grandson of Mr. Askew, of Burwood I'ark.
■VValton-on-Thames.
Captain Askew was educated at Aysgarth
Sehooh Harrow, and the R.M.C., Sandhurst ;
he obtained the Gvmnastic Cerdficale at
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Alilerslio!, 11)08. and that for the Mounted Infan-
try previously at Bulford. He joined the Border
i.,i„i Regiment in 1901. and
with it served in the
Soutli African War,
having been present
at the operations in
the Transvaal, receiv-
ing the Queen's medal
with five clasps.
Among other ap-
poiutnients he held
that of Assistant
.S \i p e r i n t e 11 d e n t
of Gymnasia at
Devonport for four years.
Captain Askew only obtained promotion a few
days before the battalion left for Flanders ;
he went out as an Olificer in charge of the
regimental transjiort. and wa< twice mentioned
in Despatches. 1-ith January and 31st May.
191.T. He was one of the 44 officers remaining
of the Vllth Division after the heavy fighting
at Ypres, and one of the five left of the 2ud
Battn. Border Regiment ; he then became
Adjutant, and also, for about a fortnight,
held command of the Borderers and the
Gordon Highlanders, which position he occupied
at the time ot the King's visit.
He was killed on the 19th December. 1914.
while leading an attack on a German trench,
and was buried by the enemy, who, as a tribute
to his bravery, erected a cross inscribed with
the words. " To a brave British OfTicer. Captain
Askew."
He was a keen sportsman, horse master, and
gymnast. He married in 1908, Winifred Lucy,
daughter ot the late Colonel and Jlrs. Irwin, of
I/ynehow, Cumberland, and left a daughter,
Anne, age 4 years, and two sons, Cuthbert
and David, age .5 years and 1 year respectively.
MAJOR PANDIT PIARAY L.\L ATAL.
I N D 1 .\ N MEDICAL SERVICE,
attd. to the 129th DUKE OF
CONNAUGHT'S OWN BALUCHIS,
was born on the 2iul
August. 1872. He
was the son of Pandit
Kishan
formerly
Secretary
^laharaja
pore and
lal Atal.
Private
to the
of Jodh-
afterwards
to the ^Maharaja of
Jaipur State, and was
a grandson of the
late Dewan Pandit
Motilal Atal, Prime
Minister of Jaipur State. Rajput ana.
He was educated in the ilaharaja's Collegiate
School, Jaipur, until matriculating, when he
entered the Jledical .School, Lahore. After
studying there for three or four years he came
to England, and passing the competitive
examination for the I. M.S. in May. 1898, was
appointed I>ieutenant in February. 1899. After
serving in India he returned to England and
specialised in diseases of the nose, throat and
ear. during the year 1912.
While in the Army he served in China in 1900,
receiving the medal for his services. After a few
years he left the Military and was employed
in the CivU Service, but was again, a few years
later, transferred to the military side.
When at school he was fond of cricket, and later
was a well-known cricketer in the teams of the
States in which he was employed. He was a
member of several clubs in the Madras Presidency .
Jlajor Atal was killed on the 2;5rd November,
1914, by the destruction of the ^lilitary Hos-
pital from the effects of shell fire while he was
attending to a wounded officer. Previously he
had escaped unhurt wliile attending wounded
in the field under heavy fire.
He married Mrs. Raj Atal. daughter of the late
Pandit Sri Kishan Kichloo, Extra As.sistant
Commissioner of Ferozepore, Punjab, and only
granddaughter of the late Judicial Commis-
sioner, Pandit Bihari Lal Kichloo, Rai Bahadur.
Major Atal left five children : three sous, Hiralal
born January. 1904, Ram Xath born August,
1908, and Kanahiya Lal born December, 1912,
and two daughters, Kamlapati born December,
1910, and Brijpati born December 1911.
He was promoted Captain in 1902 aiifl IMajor
in 1911. and was shortly to be promoted to the
rank ot Lieut. -Colonel. He was in his 43rd
year when he met liis death.
2nd LIEUTENANT JESSE .M.\RSON
.\TKIN, SHERWOOD FORESTERS
(NOTTINGHAMSHIRE & DERBYSHIRE
REGIMENTi. attd. 3rd BATTN.
WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the youngest sou
of Mr. H. Atkin, of
New West wood, Not-
tingham, where hi-
was born on the 23r(l
September, 1S91.
After a very success-
ful career at the Not-
tingham Mundella
School he studied at
the University, ob-
taining his B.A. at
the age of 20. Wliile
there he joined the O.T.C. and was offei-ed and
accepted a commission, being gazetted to the
Special Reserve of his Battahon in May, 1913.
On taking up a scholastic position at Bourne-
mouth he took a very prominent part with the
O.T.C. in connection with lus school.
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lie joiiK'd tlic I'lxpfditionnry Fdicc in l^'iniuc
on the 25th October, 1914, and was killerl on tlic
7(h Novrmlior in the s.-iino yoar at l*Io('K<stooH..
LIEUTENANT JOHN CYRIL ATKIN-
SON. 39th SCINDE RIFLES iFRON-
TIER FORCEi.
elder son of .Alajor-
freneral J. R. B.
Atkinson, Indian
Army (retired) and
Mrs. Atkinson, was
liorn on the :iOth
December, 1888, at.
Rajanpur, Xorth
West Frontier, Trans
Indus. India.
He was educated at
Chfton College, and
the R.M.C..Sandluu-.-t, at which he was a King's
Indian Cadet. He joined the Army in Novem-
ber, 1908, being attached at first to the West
Yorkshire Regiment in India, and being
appointed to the 59th Scinde Rifles Field
Force in December, 1909. He was promoted
Lieutenant in December, 1910.
Fond of all sports, ho spent his leave in India
shooting in Kashmir and Ladak. He was a
member of the East India United Service Club.
Lieutenant Atkinson landed at Marseilles witli
the Indian Expeditionary Force in September.
1914, and went to the front the following month.
He was killed in action on the 19th December.
1914, on the parapet of a German trench near
La Bass^e, F''rance. The Officer Commanding
his regiment thus described his death : — " He
had led his platoon right up to the German
trench and was shot dead on the parapet.
His action could not have been more gallant."
The Ortioer Commanding also referred to liim
as " a most gallant officer and a very well-loved
comrade."
The Officer commanding his Company, who sa«-
him killed, wrote : — " He was such a fine fellow
in every way, and we all loved liim. He was
most hardworking and efficient as Quarter-
!Master in this war. and he was always keen on
any dangerous or difficult job."
.Another brother officer wrote : — " .Since I have
been in the regiment there has never tieen
anyone who was more popular, not only « ith tlie
officers, but also with the men. We have lost a
splendid Officer and a good friend."
CAPTAIN ALGERNON F O U L K E S
ATT WOOD, 4th BATTN, ROYAL
F'USILIERS, was the only son of Mr. Llewellyn
C. F. Attwood, J.P., and Mrs. Rachel Edith
Attwood (nee Corsellls). of Pandy, near
Abergavenny, ilonmoutlLshire. and was liorn on
the 17th May, 1880.
He was educated at Haileybni y. and Chri>-t
1 a Iniv irsily
Alriran War.
( 'liurch. ( )xt(iril. « hiir he accept
I'linunission during the South
He was gazetted
Second Lieutenant
in the 4th Battalion
Royal Fusiliers in
.May, 1901, became
Lieutenant in 1904,
and Captain in March ,
]!tl2. In the spring
111' 1 !l 1 4 he underwent
a course of instruc-
tion in aviation at
IJpavon, and was
recommended for an ^ ^
appointment In the Royal Flying ('(jrjis. but
rejoined his liattalion on nioliilisation in
August. This was one of the first units of tlie
British Expeditionary Force to arrive on tlir
Belgian frontier in that month.
He fought at the battle of Mons.and took |i,irt
in the retirement to the Maine and in the sub-
sequent advance to the Alsne. but on the 11th
Septemljer he was reported severely wound e< I
and missing, and it has since been ascertained
that at Vailly, near Soissons, at the battle of
the Aisne " while skilfully and gallantly with-
drawing his men from an advanced position
which could not be held, he was hit twice in
rapid succession and fatally wounded."
He «as unmarried and was the otdy male rep-
resentative of the last generation of the family
of Attwood, formerly of Hawne House, Coi-n-
greavesHall, and The Leasowes, Worcestershire.
CAPTAIN ALFRED CH.\RLE.S .\IBIN.
EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT,
who was reported in
the War Office
monthly Casualty
List published in
Xovemlier. 1914. as
having been killed
in action at Garua
on the 30th .August.
191 4. was l)orn on
tlie 16th October.
1878.
He joined the East
Lancashire Regiment ■"
from the .Militia in April. IIMKI. He served in
tlie .South .Vfrican War, where he was employetl
with the Mounted Infantry, and acted as
Railway Staff Officer for a short time ; he «as
present at operations in the Transvaal and
( trange River Colony, receiving the Queen's
medal with three clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
From July, 1904, to February, 1909, he was
employed with the West African Frontier Force,
and was again appointed to that Corps in
Jan\iary, 1911.
Ki
AUC-AWD
CAPTAIN DANIEL GEORGE HAROLD
AUCHINLECK, 2nd
1 N N I S K 1 L L I N G
BATTN. ROYAL
FUSILIERS,
\\ Iio wa-; killril in
action on tliH '2\<t
Ootober, 1911, while
gallantly leading his
Company asrainst the
■ neniy. wlio had
liioken through our
trenches at Ploeg-
steeit, Belgium, was
the only son of the
late ilajor Thomas
Auchinleck. D.L., of
Crevenagh, t'ounty
Tyrone, and Sliannoch Green, County Fc: -
managh, and succeeded his father in 1S93.
He was born on the 18th September, 1,S77, and
was educated at Winchester and Trinity College,
Oxford. He joined the Army in September,
1898, and became Lieutenant In March, 1900.
In the South African War of 1899-1900 he was
present at the Relief of Ladysmith as Divisional
Loot Officer, and at the actions at Colenso and
Spiou Kop ; at operations on the Tugela
Heights, in Xatal, and the Transvaal east of
Pretoria, including the actions at Belfast and
Lydenberg : also at operations in the Transvaal
from November, 1900, to Fel)ruary, 1901. He
received the Queen's meilal with five clasps.
He was promoted Captain in January, 1904,
and from October of that year to March, 1908,
was an Adjutant of ilOitia.
Captain Auchinleck married in 1902 iladoline,
only daiighter of the late Robert .Scott, Esq.,
formerlj' of Bloomhill, County Tyrone.
2nd LIEUTENANT CAROL EDWARD
V E R E A W D R Y , 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
, — ^^:^ born at Broad liiu-
I^^^^^H^^^H^H; ton
don, Wilts, on the
nth June, 1894, was
the son of the Rev.
^'ere Awdry, Vicar
(since 1895) of Amp-
field, Hants. and Mary
Louisa (n^e Man), his
second wife. He was
also related to the
late ^lajor-Cieneral
Webber Desborough
Harris, who commanded Second Lieutenant
Awdry's battalion when it was the 104th
Bengal F-usiliers.
Second Lieutenant Awdry was cdu<ated at
Marlborough House, Hove (Mrs. Wolsey White
and Rev. T. BuUick), from 190:5 to 1907 ; he
was then a Foundation Scholar at Marlborough
College from 1908 to 1912, in June of which
year he ent.'i'ed the R.M.C., .Sandhui-st, passing
ou in June, 1913. He was gazetted to the Mun-
stei- Fusilie s in September and joined the 2nd
Battalion at Aldershot in October, 1913. With
it he left for the front on the 13th August, 1914.
He was killed in action on the 27th August,
and Captain Jervis, the senior surviving officer
of the battahon, wrote the following account
to .Second Lieutenant Awdry's father, when
he liimself was a prisoner in th2 hands of the
Germans : —
"In order to better safeguard the withdrawal of
part of our Army, the 2nd Royal Munster Fusi-
liers were occupying an important position and
were attacked on three siiles, and when finally
ordered to withdraw found themselves cut off
from the main body. Faced by odds of ^ix or
eight to one they put up the best fight they could,
till the fire from all sides compelled a surren-
der. Second Lieutenant Awdry's Company was
chosen to watch the right rear, and that Officer
was selected to take his platoon to an exposed
position at the far end of a village named
Fesmy, through which the line of retreat lay.
He performed this duty in a most able manner,
and holding on in face of a heavy fire, rejoined
the main body with his little force intact. It
was a commendable performance, worthy of one
of far greater age and experience. Later on
C Company (Second Lieutenant Awdry's) was
detailed to act as rearguard, and again through
their gallantry, the battalion was able to safely
withdraw, Second Lieutenant Awdry's party
being the last to come in. It was then about
6 p.m., and it was found that the battalion was
cut off from the main body. The battalion
extended in an endeavour to break through,
every officer doing good work. Second Lieu-
tenant Awdry, with drawn sword, led his men
in support of the attack that was in progress,
and fell, shot tlu'ough the lungs, as he advanced.
His death was painless and practically instan-
taneous."
His brother Officers and all his Company
expressed their deepest sympathy. By Second
Lieutenant Awdry's death they lost a cheery
companion, an honourable gentleman, and an
Officer of distinct promise. He was liuried
with eight of his brother Officers who fell the
same day, in a grave near the railway station
of Etreux, a service being read over the grave
at the time.
One of Second Lieutenant Awdry's platoon,
who saw him actually fall, stated that " at one
time during the last stand this platoon of 54
men all told, held 500 Germans back for full
three-quarters of an hour. Only 17 of them
got away." He states that Second Lieutenant
Awdry was kneeling behind a mound with
his revolver levelled and actually giving the
command *' Open fire on the Cavalry," when
he was shot through the chest.
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LIEUTENANT ROBERT MERLIN
GRAHAM AYTOUN, 2nd BATTN.
PRINCESS LOUISE'S (ARGYLL
AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS,
who had Inen previously rupoitcd uuonicially
as killed in action, died, as has since been
ascertained, in liO Cateau Town Ilospital
(French Red Cross), on the 2Tth August, 1914,
of wounds received the previous day while
leading his platoon.
He was the only child of Lieutenant-Colonel and
Mrs. Andrew Aytoun, and was born on the 19th
January, 1890.
He was gazetted to the .Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders in May. 1910. and wa.s promoted
Lieutenant in July. 191:i.
MAJOR BASIL KENRICK WING
BACON, 1st BATTN. WORCESTER-
SHIRE REGT.,
born at Eastliourne,
Sussex, on tlie 2Sth
May, 1872, was the
son of Kenriclc Veru-
lani Bacon. Esq., J.P.
for Surrey, formerly
Captain 1st Batta-
lion Worcestershire
Heeiment, of The
I .odge. Hale, Farn-
hani. He was edu-
cated at the United
Services ('ollege, W est ward Ho ! North Devon.
Jlajor Bacon joined the Worcestershire Kegi-
incnt from the Jlilitia in October 189;-!, liecoming
Lieutenant in 189(i. Captain in February, 1900,
and ^lajor in April, 1909. He served in the
South African War from 1899-1902 ; being
present at operatioiLs in the Transvaal and
Orange Kiver Colony, including actions at
Bethlehem and Wittebergen, and at operations
in Cape Colony, including the action at Colesberg
For his services he was mentioned in Despatches,
and received the Queen's medal with three
clasps, and the King's medal with two clasps.
He wa,s serving with Ids })attaIion when he
was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle,
France, on tlie 13th December, 1914. A
Memorial Brass has been erected to his memory
in Hale Church by the non-commissioned
officers and men of his Company.
Major Bacon was a member of the Junior United
Service Club.
LIEUTENANT DUNCAN BAILLIE, 9th
GURKHA RIFLES, INDIAN ARMY,
who was killed m action on the 4th November.
1914. was the eldest son of Sir Duncan Colvin
Baillie, K. C.S.I. , lately acting Lieutenant
Governor of the United Provinces.
He was born on the 23rd .September, 1889, at
.MuzzafVarnagar, India, and was educated
at Cliarterhouse and the li.M.C., Sandhurst.
oug
He
at both of whicli lii' wa- di-l iiiii\n>liiil ;is a
distance runner, gyiiui.ist. ami suiniim-r.
passed first out of
Sandhurst, and re-
ceived the Sword of
Hono\ir. He oljtain-
ed liis fii-st commis-
sion in September,
1909, !ind wasselected
for the Indian Arniv.
After being attached
for a veartotheHigh-
land Light Infantry
at Lucknow, he was
posted in October.
1910. to the 2, 9tli Ciiiklia Itill.-. in whicli he
became Lieutenant in liill. He was attached
for active service in the wni- (o the 1st Battalion.
The following account nl the circiunstances
attending his death and u( the remarks upon
him. was received from IJeutenant-General
Sir James Willcocks. Commanding the Indian
Expeditionary Army Corps : — " The evacuation
of Xeuve Chapelle left the trenches of the 2nd
Gurkhas in a very vidnerable salient wliich was
enfiladed by a German mortar at a range of 400
yards. The three right double Companies w'ere
in a short time blown ovit of their ti'enches.
A movement in relief was organised and Duncan
Baillie was .sent with two platoons of the 9th
to help. All his brother officers were unanimous
in their praise of the manner in which he took
up his men. After he had accomplished this he
proceeded to recomioitre to ascertain the exact
situation amongst the 2nd Gurkhas. Whilst
running acro.ss a road towards the 2nd Gurkha
trenches he was hit by a rifle bullet thro\igh the
temple and killed instantaneously. Although
still quite a junior officer in the 9th Gurkhas he
had already made hLs mark as a first-iate
soldier, beloved alike Ijy officers an<l men."
MAJOR GEORGE B.\ILLIE,
46th BATTERY ROYAL FIELD
ARTILLERY,
who was killed near
Ypres on the 18th
Novemlier, 1914, was
born at Mhow, Cen-
tral India, on (he
2,Srd Xovember,1870,
son of the late Cap-
tain George Baillie,
Bengal Artillery, and
Mrs. Baillie. of Meon-
stoke, Hants, and
nephew of ^fajoi-
General John Baillie, Bengal Staff Corps.
Educated at Cheltenham College, and t)ie
R.M..\.. Woolwich, anil joined the Royal
Artillery in ls9li. liecoming Lieutenant in 1893,
Captain in 1900, and .Major in lOOS He served
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in the South African War from November, 1899,
to May, 1902, at first with " P " Battery,
Royal Horse Artillery, and then on promotion
to Captain in 1900 in fljing columns with
Pompom Section F. He was present at the
Relief of Kimberley and took part in the follow
ing operations : in the Orange Free State from
February to May. 1900. including the operations
at Paardeberg (17th to 2i5th February) and the
a'-tion at Driefontein. He was aLso present at
operations in the Transvaal in May and June,
1900, including the actions near Johannesburg
and Diamond Hill (11th and 12tli Jime). He
afterwards took part in further operations in
the Transvaal, to the west of Pretoria from
July to November, 1900, and in operations in
the Orange River Colony, including the action
at Wittebergen (1st to 29th .July). Finally he
was present in subsequent operations in the
Transvaal and Orange River Colony. For his
services in the campaign he received the Queen's
medal with six clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps.
Colonel Carey. Royal Field Artillery, wrote the
following account of Major BaiUie"s death : —
" He was a most gallant soldier, and had always
set such a good example to those about him for
courage, and kindness, and thoughtfulness for
others. I saw him only a few minutes before his
death. We had been rather heavily shelled
in our cottage, and he came down from his
battery to see how we were. While we were
talking the shelling began again, and we moved
our headquarters to a safer place, while he
walked away towards his battei-y, and was
killed about 100 yards from the hoiise. I am
glad to think that he suffered no pain, as he was
kiUed instant.aneously. His death has caused a
gap in the 39th Brigade which it will be im-
possible to fUl. All the Officers of the Brigade
and the men in his l>attery were devoted to him,
and his loss is very keenly felt by all. He was
always thinking of others, and what he could do
to make things pleasant for everybody : to
soldier with him was a real pleasure."
A jjinior Officer wrote : — " He was beloved by
everyone. Officers and men, and their grief was
pitiable to behold when I returned to the battery,
as I had been away at the time of the sad event."
Major Baillie married IxjuLse Isabel (who died
6th December, 1904), daughter of the late
Major Phillipp, of Barham. Suffolk, and left one
son, bom 6th December, 1904.
2nd LIEUTENANT SIR GAWAINE
GEORGE STUART BAILLIE. BART.. 2nd
DRAGOONS ROYAL SCOTS GREYS.
of Polkemmet, Whitburn, Linlithgowshire, boru
on the 29th May, 1893, was the elder son of Sir
Robert Alexander Baillie. fourth Bart., B.A.
(Oxon.), late Major Commanding the Australian
Squadron The King's Colonials, Imperial Yeo-
manry, whom he succeede<l as fifth Baronet in
1907, and of Lady Isabel Baillie, daughter of
David Elliot Wilkie,
of Ratho Byres. Mid-
lothian.
.Sir Gawaine Baillie
was gazetted 2nd
Lieutenant in the
Royal Scots Greys
in September. 1912.
That regiment went
to Flanders in the
early stages of the
Great War and was
present at the retire-
ment from Mons, and in the subsequent fighting
at the Mame and round Ypres. 2nd Lieutenant
Sir Gawaine Baillie was killed in action in
France on the 7th -September, 1914. He was
sncceeiled in the baronetcy by his brother. Sir
Adrian William Maxwell Baillie, for whom the
property is held in trust until he attains the age
of twenty-two yeais.
CAPT. WILLIAM FRANK GARDINER
BAIRD. 4th BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE
REGIMENT, attd. 1st BATTN. THE
LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the second son of
Sir William .James
Gardiner Baird.eighth
Bart., of Saughton
Hall, Midlothian, for-
merly Lieutenant 7th
Hussars, late Lieu-
tenant - Colonel and
Honorary Colonel
Lothians and Ber-
wickshire Imperial
Y'eomanry. and of
the Honble. Arabella
Rose Evelyn Hozier, eldest daughter of the
first Baron Newlands. He was horn on the
ISth Afiril. 188.5, and was educated at Eton and
the R.M.C.. -Sandhurst, and served for a time in
the 7th Dragoon Guards and Scots Guards, after-
wards retiring from the active list and joining
the Reserve of Officers as Second Lieutenant,
from which he was gazetted Captain in the
4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment on the
11th August, 1914. He went to the front
attached to the 1st Lincolnshire Regiment,
was wounded in the British attack on Xeuve
ChapeUe on October 27th or 28th, and died on
the 5th November. 191 4. in hospital at Boulogne.
Captain Baird. who was a memlier of the Cavalry
Club and of the New Club. Edinburgh, married
in 1910 Violet Mary, daughter of Richard Croft
Benyon, D,L., of Fanhams Hall, ^\'are. Herts,
and left three children : James Richard Gardiner,
bom 1913, lihas Mary, born 1911, and William
Henry Gardiner, bom 1914.
BAK BAL
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LIEUTENANT EDWARD BENJAMIN
BAKER, 3rd lattd. Isti BATTN. THE
KINGS (LIVERPOOL REGIMENT),
r ' "as born at Cainp-
I.
Ipore,
Piinjali.
Iridiii. on the
.Inly. l.S!»-|, Ih,.
sou of the
uul>-
late
Edwar.l Baker, Kx-
Engiiieer, Indian
State Eaihvay. and
Mrs. E. .1. Boyle,
now the wife of
.Tosepl) Barnes Boy le,
Barrister-at-liaw.
Lieutenant Baker
was educated at (iienville Sehool, Guildford,
afterwards joininp: the Special Reserve King's
Liverpool Regiment, from which he was attached
to the 1st Battalion for service in the Great War.
He was killed on the 20th October, 191 1, while
leading his platoon in an attack on a village.
The following letter was received from his
Commanding OHicer : —
" Ijieutenant Baker had done so well with the
regiment since he joined, and his name had
gone up for mention in despatches."
Lieutenant Baker has since been mentioned in
Sir .Tohn French's Despatch of :ilst May. 1915.
CAPT. HUGH LAURENTS CHENEVIX
BALDWIN, 58th VAUGHAN'S RIFLES,
INDIAN ARMY,
ixtrn on tlie Kith
June, 1878, at the
t'astle, Cape Town.
W.1S the son of the
late Major F. Chene-
vix Baldwin, the
Connaught Rangers
(the old 88th Regi-
ment), and Jlrs.
Baldwin, of Lance-
field, Cand)erley.
'~~' He \vas educated at
Ilaileybury, and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, He
received his commission in July, 1898, being
first attached to the Jliddlesex Regiment, and
entered the Indian Aiuuy in 1899, joining the
27th Madras Infantry, in which he became
Lieutenant in October, 1900. He was trans-
ferred to the 58th Rifles in 1901, and olitained
the " Distinguished " Musketry certificate in
1906, and the " .Special " Signalling and
Mounted Infantry certificates in 1903.
In 1901-02 he served in the Waziristan Expedi-
tion on the North- West Frontier (operations
against Darwesh Khel \V'aziris) for which he
received the medal, with cla.s]) for Waziristan.
On the outbreak of the Great War he was on
leave in England, and, having volunteered for
active service, was appointed a Company Com-
mander in the 7th Battalion Ritle Brigade of
the New Army (Service Battalion). He brought
the oflicers and men uinh'r hiiu to a high state
of ellicicncy diu'ing the time he was with them.
On the (ith November, 1914, he received orders
to rejoin his own regiment at the front, where
they had arrived a month previously, and left
England the next day. On the 23rd of that
month he was killed while leading a charge on
the German trenches near Festubert, Pas de
Calais. He «as mentioned for his services in Sir
John French's Despatch of 14th January, 191.5.
Captain Baldwin was a good hockey and football
player, having been captain of the regimental
team on several occasions. He was the keenest
of soldiers, and a general favourite.
CAPTAIN ROBERT FREDERICK
BALFOUR, 1st BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS,
was the eldest son _ ^
of Edward Balfour,
J. P., D.L., and Mrs.
Balfour, of Balbirnie,
Fifeshire, and a
grandson of the lati'
Colonel John Balfour
and Lady Georgeina
Isabella, second
daughter of the first
Earl of Cawdor. Cap-
tain Balfour's uncle,
Brevet-Colonel A. G.
Balfour, late Highland Light Infantry, served
in the Great War as Assistant Embarkation
Commandant, to which position he was ap-
|jointed in August, 1914.
Cajitain Balfour' was born on the Kith Alarch,
1883, and was gazetted to the Scots Guards as
2nd Lieutenant in Janiuiry, 1903, becoming
Lieutenant in J\me, 1904. From July, 1907, to
August, 1910, he was Adjutant of liis battalion,
and he was promoted Captain in ,Tanuary, 1913.
His Staff Appointments included one as A.D.C.
to the General Ollicer Conunanding the Vlth
Division of the Irish Couunand from 1st Ainil,
1912, to 17th January, 1913.
In the Great War the 1st Battalion Scots
Guards formed part of the 1st Infantry Brigade,
1st Division, whicli was the first portion of the
Expeditionary Foice to leave Great Britain,
being present at the fighting from the very
connnencement of the \\'ar. Captain Balfour
was killed in action at Gheluvelt. near Vpres,
on the 28th October, 1914.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM ORMSBY
WYNDHAM BALL, ROYAL ARMY
MEDICAL CORPS, born at 5, Palmer.ston
Park, Dublin, on the 27th September, 1889,
was the son of the late Henry Wyndham
Ball, Registry of Deeds Office, Dublin, and
Mrs. Ball, of the above address. He was a
step-brother of I>ievitenant-Colonel A. A. Seeds,
BAM BAN
R.A.il.C, now serving with the Expeditionary
Force in France, and of the late Captain J. T.
-Seed-s. 5th Battilion
Royal Irish Rifles,
^ho died on active
-•p-r^-icc in the South
Airican War.
Lieutenant Ball re-
eived i be degrees of
M.B. and B.A. at
I >ubl;n UnveKity,
:ia%-ing been a resi-
• lent Student in Sir
Patrick Dun's Hos-
pital in 1911-1912.
where a tablet has been erected to his memory.
He obtained his colours in the University
Hockey XI. in 1909 and 1910, and represented
Ireland in the six International Hockey
matches in 1910 and 1911.
Receiving his commission in the R.A.3I.C. in
January, 1913, he was stationed in the Aldershot
command till the war broke out, when he was
attached for active service to the 2nd Battalion
South Staffordshire Regiment. He arrived in
France on 13th Atigust. was present during the
retirement from Mons to the Mame. and was
killed by a shell while attending to the wounded
under fire, at .Soupir, on the Aisne, on the 26th
September. 1914.
CAPTAIN CECIL DAVID WOODBL RN
B.\MBERGER. ROYAL ENGINEERS,
who was killed in
action on the 20th
December, 1911, was
the eldest son of Mr.
Louis Bamberger, of
Lancaster Road. Bel-
size Park, London.
X.W.
He was bom on the
22nd December. 18S3,
and was educated at
ITniversity College
School, whence he
passed into the R.3I.A., Woolwich, in 1901.
He was gazetted to the Royal Engineers in
March. 1903. l)ecoming Lieutenant in December.
1905.
He served in India, where he wa< employed on
the Eastern Jumna Canal Works, and with the
Mishmi Road Work party. Sadiya. -\ssam. In
1913 he was in charge of the Jhansi Division
Betwa CanaL and was promotetl Captain in
Jl.irch. 1914. On the outbreak of the war with
Germany he joined the Meerut Division of the
Indian Expeditionary Force, and was killed
while helping to build a barricade in a trench
that had been captured from the Germans.
CAPTAIN CHARLES WILLIAM
BANBURY. 3rd B.\TTN. COLDSTREAM
G U A R D S ,
was the son of Sir
Frederick Banbury,
Bart., 31.P.. of
Wameford Place,
Highworth, Wilts,
and was bora at 19,
Grosvenor Street,
London, on the 11th
February, 1.S77.
He was educated at
Eton and Oxford, at
both of which he
rowed, in the Eton Eight m l.'*91. ami
in the University College boat at Oxford
iu 1896. .Joining the Coldstream Guarvls in
August, 1899. he soon saw active service in the
South African War, during whicli he took part
in operations in Cajie Colony, south of Orange
River ; and in the Transvaal, at the end of
the year 1900 : also at operations in the
Orange River Colony in November, 1900, and
at further operations in Cape Colony between
November, 1900, and May, 1902: for his
services he received the Queen's medal with
three clasps, and the King's medal with two
clasps. He was promoted Lieutenant in Feb-
ruary. 1901, and Captain in March, 1909. In
the latter year he was appointed A.D.C. to
the General Commanding in Chief, Eastern
Command, and in April, 1912, A.D.C. to the
late Lieutenant-General Sir J. M. Griersoa,
K.C.B., C.T.O., C.M.G., and was with that
Officer when he die<l suddenly in France in
August, 1914. He accompanied Lieutenant-
General Grierson's body to England, and
attended the military funeral at Glasgow.
Captain Banbury retimied to France on the
23rd August, and joined the 3rd Battalion of his
Regiment, forming part of the 3rd Brigade, on
the 30th of that month. He was twice woun-
ded, the second wound received on the 14th
September, 1914. while he was in command of
the 2ud Company of his battalion, proving
tatal ; from the effects of that wound he died
on the 16th of the month at Soupir. He was
burie<l. with several other officers of the Brigade
of Guanls. in the little graveyard at Soupir.
Captain Banbury, who was known to all his
friends as " Cakes." was a very successful rider,
winning both the Grand Military and the
Household Brigade Cup in 1909-1910 on
■" Sprinkle Me.'' He was a member of the
Guards' and the Turf Clul>s.
He married Josephine Jlarguerite, daughter of
Don Jose Reisach. aiwl left two children : Mary
Heritage, bora 28th March, 1914. at Woflley
Manor. Faringtlon. Berks, and Charles WiDiani.
bom after Lis father's death, on tl:e ISth 3fay.
1915, at 19, Queen Street, Mayfair, London.
BAN -BAR
LIEUT.-COLONEL WILLIAM STIRLIN(;
BANNATYNE. p.s.c, COMMANDING
1st BATTN. THE KING'S LIVERPOOL
REGIMENT.
was the sou of
Lieutenant - Colonel
John >nilar Banna-
t_\ lie, late of (he same
regiment, who served
throiigli the Indian
Mutiny, and was
lioi-n at Farme,
Lanarkshire, Scot-
l.ind. on the 9th
Deii-niber, 1868. He
was a nephew of
Lieutenant-Colonel ^^'ilHalll Bannatyne, also of
the same regiment.
The suhjeet of this memoir was educated
privately in Switzerland, and passed first into
the 1{.,M.C.. Sandhurst, obtaining his commis-
sion in the King's in .\ngust, 1888, becoming
Lieutenant in Jlay. 1890, and Captain in June,
189ti. He served in the South African War,
1899-1902, being present at operations in
Natal, including actions at Riettont-ein and
Lombard's Kop ; the defence of Ladysmith,
including the sorties of 7th and 10th December,
1899, and the action of 6th January, 1900 ;
operations in Northern Natal, inchiding the
action at Laing's Nek ; operations in the
Transvaal east of Pretoria, including actions at
Belfast and Lydenberg, and elsewhere in the
Transvaal. From ;March, 1900, to October,
1902, he was employed as Provost-^Marshal,
first on General Lyttleton's staff and then at
Middelburg. For his South African services
be was mentioned in Despatches (8th February,
1901). and received the Queen's medal with
three clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
He was Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General
anil General Staff Officer (2nd grade) at Gibraltar
from 1903 to 1907, having become a Major in
February, 1904 ; served on the General Staff
(2nd grade) under the late Sir Charl&s Douglas
from April to November, 1910, and was General
Staff Officer (2nd grade) to the 2nd London
Division, London District, from January, 1911 —
February, 191 2. He succeeded to the command
of his battalion in the latter nionth and left
England with it on the 12th August, 1914. He
took part in the Battle of Mons, the retirement
towards Paris, the battles of the Marne and the
Aisne, and finally in the actions in Flanders. For
his services he was mentioned in Field-Marshal
Sir John French's Despatch of September, 1914.
He was killed in action near Ypres on the 24th
Octolier, 1914. being shot through the heart from
a loop-holed house in the village of Nord West-
hoek, aljout five miles from Ypres, which village
bis battaUon had received orders to clear of
(icrmans. He was again mciitioiKiI in Dcs-
liatihcs of 14th January, 1915.
Lieutenant-Colonel Bannatyne, who was an
ollicer of the highest merit, married in 1889
Ktliel Louisa, daugliter of the Kev. II. H.
W'inwood, of Bath, and sister of Lieutciianl-
Colonel W. Q. Winwood, D.S.O., 5th (Princess
Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards. He loft
no chihlieii.
LIEUTENANT PERCY STUART BAN-
NING, 2nd BATTN. ROY.\L MUNSTER
FUSILIERS,
who was killed in
action on the 4th
November, 1914, was
liorn on the 22n(l
June, 1887.
He obtained his first
appointment in the
Army in September,
1908, when he was
gazetted 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the Royal
MuiLster Fusiliers and
was posted to the 1st Battalion of that
Regiment. His promotion to Lieutenant was
gazetted in Jfarch, 1910. For active service in
the Great War, Lieutenant Banning accom-
panied his battalion to France, wIhic he took
part in operations in October. 191 I.
2nd LIEUTENANT RAFE HEDWORTH
MYDDELTON BARCLAY. 3rd BATTN.
KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS,
wfi.s born in London on the Ulh Xo\ ember,
1892, and was the only son of ilajor Hedworth
T. Barclay, Leicestershire Y''eomanry, of the Turf
Club, London, W. He was educated at Rugby,
and at the Military College, Farnham (R. C.
Welch, Esq.). 2nd Lieutenant Barclay joine<l
the 8rd BattaUon. Duke of Edinburgh's (Wilt-
shire Regiment), in which he became Lieutenant
in Augast, 1913, and was transferred as Second
Lieutenant to the King's Royal Rifle Corps in
June, 191 1. with which he served in the Great
War. He was reported "missing" on the 11th
September, 1914, the first day of the battle of
the Aisne, near Troyon. and was subsequently
reported by a Court of Inquiry as killed.
Lieutenant Barclay was a member "f White's
Club.
CAPTAIN RICHARD VINCENT
BARKER, 1st BATTN. ROYAL WELSH
FUSILIERS, liorn at Middleham, Yorkshire,
was the son of the late Rev. Frederick Barker,
Rector of Wimljorne St. Giles ; wa.s a Scholar
of Winchester, and subsequently went to New
College, Oxford.
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BAR
Entering the Army tlxroiigh the Jlilitia iii
January, 1901, he served from that date in
the South African
War as Second T^ieu-
tenant in the Royal
Welsh Fusiliers, being
present at operations
in the Transvaal and
Orange River, for
which he received the
Queen's medal \vith
tour clasps. He was
Adjutant of his bat-
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ talion from July,
^^^^"^^^^^^^" 1901, to January,
1909, and of the West African Frontier Force
from April, 1909.
Ho was a fine tider to hounds, and was well
known in the South of Ireland with the United
and other Hunts.
When the Great War broke out. Captain Barker
was with his battaUon in Malta, and, upon
returning to England, was appointed Staff
Captain to the 22nd Brigade, Allth Division,
under Brigadier (Jeneral Lawford. On the
31st October, 1914, at the Battle of Ypres,
after very severe fighting for two days — when
nearly all the regimental officers were killed
and some men were faUing back — Captain
Barker, who was then attending to wounded
men under a heavy fire, a.'sked permission to
rally them, and while leading them forward,
fell shot tlu-ough the chest.
His Brigadier reported of him " Quite excep-
tional, a good friend and splendid officer, no
matter how hard the work and discomforts
great, he was always cheerful."
Captain Barker was mentioned, after his death,
in Sir John French's Despatch of the 14th
January, 1915.
2nd LIEUTENANT ERIC BARNES. 1st
BATTN. LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the son of John
Barnes. Sohcitor, and
grandson of the late
John Carter Holding,
of Kingsclei-e. Hamp-
shire, and .Southsea.
He was born at
Kingsclere on the
26th October, 1S94.
and was educated
at Bruton (Kins's
School) from 1904-
1912. The Head-
master's report of him was "' an admirable
specimen of the best type of all-round useful-
ness at athletics and of good intellectual attain-
ments."
He passed through the R.M.C., Santlhurst, and
was gazetted to the 1st Lincolnshire Regiment
as Second Lieutenant on the 1st February, 1914.
He had been in the fighting line from the com-
mencement of the War till he fell. He was
killed on the 1st >>ovember, 1914. while leading
his men in an attack to take the village of
Wytschaete, near Ypres. Belgium, from the
enemy. The Commanding Officer of his regi-
ment wrote the following account of the action: — •
" He fell whilst gallantly leading his Company
in the attack on a village called Wytschaete
which the regiment had been ordered to take.
He was struck bj- a bullet and died immediately.
He died, as he had Uved, upholding the best
traditions of the regiment he loved so well,
and his loss is deplored by us all."
Another brother officer wrote : — •
" Eric wa^ near me in the advance, and when
I got up to take a few men forward, he was
the nest to come, but as he stood up from
the ditch where we had been lying, to lead his
men under very heavy fire forward, he was shot
straight through the head and died immediately.
He was so plucky, always eager and active in
the firing line."
His friends expressed their appreciation of the
young Officer as follows : —
" There are some who possess a certain indefin-
able charm which makes them general favourites.
Barnes was one of these. Strangers took a fancy
to him and the longer one knew him, the more
one liked him. One of the traits which made
liim such an attractive character was his cheer-
fidness ; he was a born optimist, and genuine
optimism is infectious. Another was the frank-
ness so clearly expressed in his features. A third
was the keenness he displayed in everything he
took up. The fact that he enjoyed life
immensely heightens the tragedy of his early
death."
C A P,T A I N ALAN B A R N S L E Y. 4th
BATTN. LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS.
who was killed m
action on the 27th
October, 1914, aged
37, was the youngest
son of the late Jlr.
Arthur Barnsley, of
Southward Road.
Liverpool.
He served with the
Imperial Yeomanry
in the South African
War, during 1900 and
1901, being present
at operations in the Transvaal and the Orange
River and Cape Colonies ; he was twice
mentioned in Despatches and was granted the
Queen's medal with two clasps. On entering
the Lancashire FiLsiliers he was given the rank
of Honorary Lieiitenant in the Army front
December, 1902. While serving Captain
BAK
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ISariLslcy U>ok tUu oppiutuiiity of luiDiuin.;
profu-iont in many military subjects : In; liacl
pa=;sed for the ranJv of Captain, lie was
(lualilieil as an officer of Militia in military
siihjccts, and at a School of .Musketry, had
obtained a certificate in Transport (A.S.C.)
duties, and was fjiuilificd as an Instructor in
Signalling.
On the outbreak of the war with Germany.
Captain Harnsley. who attaineil that rank in
JIay. 1S!)0, was Instructor of MiLsketry of his
battalion. For active service he was attached
to the 1st Battn. Xorthumljerland Fusiliei's.
and was serving with that Corps when he
was killed.
CAPTAIN CHARLES JOHN CHARD
BARRETT. ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS,
who Wivs killed in
action at Hooge, near
^^^^ Ypres. on the 14th
JM^Bk November. 1914, was
^y^^^k ''orn on the 2(>th
I ^ flft August, 1873. He
'■ 4^^f "as the youngest son
^^B of the lat<? Major
^flH^^^^^ Barrett, and of Mi-s.
^M^^^^^^^^^^ Barrett.
I^^^^^^^^^H Taim-
and a nephew of
Colonel J. R. M. Chard. V.C. R.F,., the hero of
Korke's Drift, fie married, in 1904. Lena,
daughter of tlie late Albert Vaucamps. Esq.
He was educated at Eton, and the R.M.C.,
Sandhm'st, where he won the riding prize
(the saddle) in July, 1894, and the billiard cue,
and whence he passed out third. He was
gazetted Second Lieutenant in the Royal Scots
Fusiliers in Octolier, 1894. becoming Captain
in 1900. Three years later (in 1903) he was
appointed Adjutant of the 1st Battalion,
which he was leading when he fell.
He served in the South African \\'ar. cuiii-
niencing with the operations in Natal in
March. 1900 : also in operations in the Trans-
vaal, the Orange River Colony, and the action
of Kuidani. He raised a Company of Moimted
Infantry on active service, and gained the
(Jueen's medal with three clasps. He was
Adjutant of the 1st Volunteer Battalion the
Welsh Regiment from .Tannary. 190.5 — 1908.
While stationed in Dublin with his regiment in
1909 lie won the IrLsh Grand Military at
Punchestown with his horse " Scarlet Runner."
He had nearl>- completed four years as an
Officer of Gentlemen Cadets at Sandhurst, and
had raised a new Company (L Company),
which he was commanding, when he was called
on to join the 1st Battalion Royal .Scots
Fusiliers at the front.
He was killed iliiiiiig the attaek of the
Prussian Guard, when the Royal Scots Fasiliers
held them back so splendidly, and was in
temporary command of his battalion at the
time ho fell. He was mentioned in Sir John
I'Vench's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
Capt. Barrett was a good all-round sports-
man : played polo, cricket, was a good shot
and a very line ritler to hounds. He won
several races in India, including his regi-
mental Cup (the St. Andrew's Cup), and was
very keen on pig-sticking.
GODFREY B.\R.
ROYAL MUNSTER
CAPTAIN PHILIP
RETT. 2nd BATTN.
FUSILIERS,
who is believed to
have been killed in
action in November,
1914, was liorn on
the 17th April. 1870.
He received his com-
niLssion in the Royal
.Munster Fusiliers
from the ililitia in
April, 1900. He pro-
ceeded almost at
once on active
service in the .South African W i 114 )>i.siiit
at operations in Cape Colony in September,
1900, for which he received the Queen's medal
with two clasps.
lie was promoted Lieutenant in March. 1902 ;
from November. 1907. to Septemlier. 1908, he
was an Adjut.int of Militia and of the Special
Reserve, and was promoted Captain in Augast,
1908.
M.\JOR JOHN BAILLIE BARSTOW, ROY-
AL ENGINEERS,
\\\\o was killed in
action at Bailly on
the 31st August,
lit 14. was the eldest
son of Henry C.
Barstow, Hazelbush.
York. He was fiorn
on the 31st Octolier,
1.S72. and was edu-
cated at Clifton
College, and the
R.M.A., Woolwich,
entering the Royal Engineers in
He became Lieutenant in July,
promoted Captain in July. 1902.
his Majority in July, 1911.
Major Barstow left a widow and four <hiMren.
He was a member of the Army and Navy Club,
and of the Royal and Ancient (St. Andrew's)
Golf Club.
July. 1891.
1894. was
and obtained
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BAR BAS
CAPT. FRANCIS HEWSON BARTON,
2nd BATTN. 2nd
OWN) GURKHA
KING EDWARDS
RIFLES THE SIR
MOOR RIFLES),
\\)io was killed in
action, it is l)elieved
on the 2nd Xoveni
ber, 1914,was born on
the 10th June, 1880.
After ser^^ng with
the embodied ililitia
for a year and three-
iliiarters, he joined
tlie Royal Irish
Rifles in October.
1901. entering the
Indian ^Vrmy in Xovember, 1!J0:>.
He served in the South .Vfrican War. Vteing
present at operations in the Transvaal, Orange
River Colony and the Cape Colony. He wa.s
mentioned in Despatclies (" London Gazette,"
10th September, 1901) and received the Queen's
medal tvith three clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
He received his promotion to Lieutenant in
January, 1904. and to Captain in February,
1909.
2nd LIEUTENANT HAROLD WILLIAM
FERGUSON BARTON. 1st BATTN.
ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS,
«lio was reported as
" missing " in Octo-
ber, 1914, is .since
reported to have
been killed near Lille
on the 18th of that
month.
He was the younger
son of the late Mr.
^^'. S. Barton, and
Mrs. Barton, of
Woodstock, Camber-
ley, and grantlson of
the late Dean of Moray and Ross. He was
Viorn on the oth September, 1893, at Morriston.
Elgin, .Scotland, and received his education at
Stratheden House, proceeding to Radley College
and the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He received his
commission in August. 1914.
Mi-s. Barton received a letter from a German
ollicer, saying : — " Dear ilrs. Barton, Yovu- son
tell on the field of honour against our regiment.
I admired his courage after a very hard struggle
against us. Your son will be buried in the
near {sic) of Castle Warneton, near Lille."
(Signed) Ewald, Lieutenant Feldart.. Regiment
No. 7.
MAJOR EDWARD E G E R T O N
BARWELL, 57th WILDE'S RIFLES
(FRONTIER FORCE 1, who was kille.l in
action aliout the :>Oth Octoljer, 1914, was the
youngest son of the late General Charles Arthur
Barwell, C.B., who
served all through
the Indian Mutiny,
ilajor Barwell was
born at Harrow on
the 20th May, 1872,
and was educated at
Harrow,beinga Home
Boarder from 1880
to 1889, and at the
R.M.C., Sandhurst,
where he was a
Queen's India Cadet.
After receiving his commission in September.
1892, he was attached for a year to the East
Lancashu-e Regiment at Lucknow, and joined
the Indian Staff Corps in December, 1893, being
attached to the 9th Gurkhas for two months,
and then transferred to the 4th Punjab
Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force, now the .57th
Rifles Frontier Force. He liecame Lieutenant
in that regiment in December, 1895, and served
with it for 20 years.
Major Barwell had seen a good deal of war
service : he took part in the Waziristan
Expedition, 1894-5, receiving the medal and
clasp ; was at Tochi, Xorth-West Frontier of
India, in 1897-8. again receiving a medal and
clasp ; in China in 1900, for which he received
the medal, and again in 1908 — haWng l)een
promoted Captain in SeptemV>er. 1901 — on the
North-West Frontier of India, serving on the
Staff during operations in the /akka Khel
country, and at operatiorLS in the ilohmand
counti-y, including engagements at Malta and
Kargha. In the latter expeditions he served as
Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master-General of the
1st Brigade, was mentioned in Despatches
(" London Gazette," AvigiLst, 1908) and received
the medal with clasp.
Major Barwell. who received Ids ^lajority
in September, 1910. went to Belgium with his
regiment as part of the Indian Expeditionary
Force. He was killed at Messines, whilst leading
his men into action.
He married in 1902 ^lary Cicely, eldest
daughter of H. Tunstill, Esq.. Thornton Lodge.
Aysgarth. Yorkshire, and left three children :
James William, born Decemlier, 1903. Eric,
born June. 1908. and Cicely Egerton, Viorn
August. 1909.
CAPTAIN CHARLES HAROLD BASS,
3rd BATTN. L.\NCASHIRE FUSILIERS.
who was stated in the Casualty List issued by
the War Office in May, 1915, to have been
" un-offlciaUy reported killed or died of
wounds," was the only child of the Rev. Charles
and Annie Bass, Steeple Claydon Yicarage.
BAS BAT
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Bucks. Captain Bass, who was 24 years of
age at the time of his death, was educated
t il at Oanleigh Seliool,
Surrey, where he was
a nieiiiber of the
Officers' Traiiiinj;
Corps.
lie joined the Special
Heserve of OtTiccrs in
HlOS, and received
lii-; coniniLssion in
tlie l,ancashire FiLsil-
icrs in May. 1909.
I becoming Lieutenant
in 1911. He was
gazetted Captain in .Tannary. 1915.
He was wounded on the 26th August, 1914,
during the retirement from Morts, four days after
Ills liattaliou landed in France. No news of
him could he obtained until his identity disc was
received, in !March, 1915, from the American
Ambassador in London. It appears tliat a
British Sergeant, who was a prisoner of war at
Dobei-itz, had given it to his Camp Commandant,
who in bis turn forwarded it to the Ambassador
in Berlin. Later, a postcard was received from
a Corporal of the Lancashire Fusiliers, a
prisoner at Doberitz, saying " Lieutenant Bass
is dead." From the same source it has since
been ascertained that Captain Bass was wounded
in the Battle of Cambrai on August 26th, 1914.
tiled of wounds the same day, and was buried
in a chm'chyard, together witli Lieutenant-
Colonel Dykes, of the King's Own Regiment,
and Lance-Corporal Sturgess, of the Essex
Regiment. The writer adds : — " There was also
a Captain of our regiment buried there, and I
know it was not Captain Sidebottom, because
he was buried in the same trench where he
feU."
A superior ollicer wrote to Captain Bass's
friends : — " I cannot find words to say all 1
should like ; but this I can say, that Harold's
example, whether in his life or his death, will be
to me a great help. Those of us who knew and
loved him realise what an example such a life
as his can be."
A former schoolf(^llow and friend writes from
Ceylon : — " I always valued Harold's friendship,
and I valued it especially liecause he was, to my
mind, a splendid type of a God-fearing man,
botli mentally and physically."
Another friend in the regiment, when writing
after Captain Bass was wounded, said : — " It
Is very hard luck that he has been wounded
before he had time to show what a fine officer
he was."
LIEUTENANT WILLL\M B.\ST.\RD,
2nd BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGT.,
bom on the 20th April, 1891, at Coltscombe,
Slapton, near Kingsbridge, South Devon, was
the son of William and Helen Bastard, an<l a
nepliew of Dr. Adkins, Medical Officer for
the County of Devon.
Educated at Blun-
dell's School, Tiver-
ton, he won the
" Spurway " medal,
and «as one of the
cadet \\-innei's of the
Devon Count y.Slneld,
1910. Proceeding to
Exeter College.
Oxford, he obtaineil
the degree of B.A.,
and received his
commission in the Bedfordshire Regiment in
January, 1912, becoming Lieutenant in Sep-
tember, 1914. He served with his battalion in
South Africa, and, returning to England in
Septeml)er, joined the Expeditionary Force in
Belgium on the 4th October, 1914.
On tlie 26th October he was in the trenches
directing the fire of his platoon to help tlie
advance of another battalion, when a German
machine gun opened fire and killed liim instantly.
This occurred at GheluveU, aboutsix miles from
Yprcs. He was mentioned for his services in Sir
John French's Despatch of 14th January, 1915.
His Colonel wrote of him : — " Fi'om the day he
joined I recognised that your son was one of the
best types of officers ; very keen on his work,
thoroughly sensilile, and wUling to take res-
ponsibility. I always had him in my eye as
being well fitted for the Adjutancy later on.
He was very popular with botli officers and men,
and I can assure you his loss to the Battalion is
very, very great."
His Company Sergeant-Major and Quartei-
master-Sergeant also WTote expressing the
regard which not only his platoon, but the whole
of his Company had for this young Ofiicer, who
died gallantly, rifle in hand, and who was always
soUcitous for the welfare of his men. whom he
led in battle without fear.
C.\PTAIN JOHN HENRY STRODE
BATTEN, 1st BATTN. THE
KING'S (LIVERPOOL REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action on the 26th
October, 1914, was
the son of Colonel J.
ilount Batten, C.B..
Mornington Lodge,
West Kensington,
and was born on the
23rd December. 1875.
He was educated at
RossaU, and Trinity
Hall, Caml)ridge,
where he took his
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BAT
B.A. degree, and joined the Lherpool Regiment
in May, 1899, becoming Lieutenant in March,
1900. He took part in the South African War,
being employed with the Mounted Infantry,
and was present at operations in Xatal, in-
cluding actions at Rietfontein and Lombard's
Kop, the defence of Ladysmith, including
action on 6th January, 1900 ; operations in
Xatal, the Transvaal, and Cape Colony ; from
June to October, 1001, he acted as Supply
Officer. He received the Queen's and King's
medals each with two clasps. He was pro-
moted Captain in December, 1909.
He was shot through the heart at Zonnebeke,
death being instantaneous.
He was a member of the Junior Army and Xavy
Cluli, and was married, but left no familv.
LIEUTENANT HIS HIGHNESS PRINCE
MAURICE VICTOR DONALD OF
BATTENBERG, K.C.V.O., 1st BATTN.
KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS,
who died of wounds
received in action on
the 27th October,
1914, was the youn-
gest son of H.R.H.
Princess Henry of
Battenberg (Princess
Beatrice of England),
daughter of Her late
Majesty Queen Vic-
toria, and was bom
at Balmoral on the
3rd October, 1891.
His father, 1^'ince Henry of Battenberg, died of
fever contracted in the Ashanti War in 1896.
Prince Maurice's two elder brothers are in the
Ai'my. Prince Alexander in the Grenadier Guards,
and Prince Leopold in the King's Royal Rifle
Corijs.
He was educated at Wellington and the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, where he was a Sergeant, from which
he was gazetted to the King's Royal Rifle Corps
as second Lieutenant in March, 1911, being
promoted Lieutenant in February. 1911.
The following account of his death was pub-
lished in the WeUington Tear Book of 1914 : —
" He met his death leading his men against a
German position. On the advance, they came
to a wood which was too thick for them to get
through conveniently, and they had to cross an
open field. Prince ^Maurice was leading his men
across this open space when a shell fell and burst
right by him. He knew that his injuries were
mortal. He was carried to a field dressing room,
but died before it was reached." He was buried
in the cemetery at Tpres.
Prince Jlaurice was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 8th October, 1914.
CAPTAIN CHARLES F R E M O U L T
PRESTON BATTERSBY, 113th
BATTERY, XXVth BRIGADE,
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
who was kUled bv a
shell at Ypres on the
4th XovemDer, 1914.
was the only diild
of Major - General
Thomas Preston Bat -
tersby, late Royal
Artillery, now Princi-
pal Ordnance Officer,
of "Cromlyn,''
Westmeath, Ireland.
He was born at the
Castle Barracks, Eu-
niskiUen, on the 11th July. 1887. and was
educated first at a preparatory school at
Colchester. He gained the Probationers' and
Junior Scholarsliips in Classics at the King's
.School, Canterbury, and passed direct from the
Army Class to the R.M.A. Woolwich. He re-
ceived his commission in the Royal ArtiUery in
June, 1907, becoming Lieutenant in June, 1910,
and obtaining his Company in October, 1914.
He was very keen on all games and sports, and
though not distinguished in any, could play a
good game of cricket, football, golf, and tennis ;
was fond of hunting and shooting, and very
keen on his profession, in which he won the
liking, respect, and confidence of the officers
and men with whom lie served.
M.\V B.\TTERSBY,
BATTN. ROYAL
R E G I .M E N T .
CAPTAIN ERIC
3rd lattd. Isti
WEST KENT
was the third son of
Worsley Battersby,
Esq.. J. P., for
West Somerset, of
Knowle DunsLer,
and of his wife Jessie
Battersby.
He was educated at
Sherborne, and
joined the 3rd
(.Alihtia) Battalion
of the Regiment in
1903, resigning with
the rank of Lieutenant in I'.inr.. WhentheW'ar
broke out he at once volunteered liis services
in his old battaUon, and was sent out to France
in command of a draft on the 19th September,
being promoted Captain a week later.
He fell in the action at Xeuve ChapeUe on the
28th October, 1914. Brigadier F. W. X.
McCracken, C.B., D.S.O., said to Captain
Battersby on that day : — " Tour regiment has
done splendidly ; you wiU hear more of it."
Captain Battersby was then in couunand of the
BAT— BAY
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battalion, and was killed a few hours after-
wards. He was 30 years of age, and was not
married .
2nd LIEUTENANT EDWARD CHARLES
VULLIAMY BATTLE, 3rd BATTN.
WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the elilest son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
W. H. Battle,
R.A.-ALC. (T.F.), and
was born in London
on the 17th Novem-
ber, 1894.
He was educated at
]\Ialvern College,
where he was a Cor-
poral in the OfYicei-s'
Training Corps and
■ ■ a memljer of the
College Eight, making the highest possible score
in the Public Schools Competition at Bisley in
1912.
In .Septeml)er, 1913, he entered the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, where he became Sergeant of his
Company, and in August, 1914, was gazetted to
the Worcester.rliire Regiment as Second Lieu-
tenant. He went to France at the beginning of
September ; on the 21st October, at lUies, near
La Bass^e, he was shot through the shoulder,
and after getting his men to bandage him, he
went on fighting. He got into a trench \vith
another officer and some men, making a gallant
attempt to repulse the Germans, who came up
in great numbers in front and on the flank,
when he was shot through the head.
Much regret was expressed at his death by the
officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of
his battalion, who had learned to know him,
and appreciated hLs constant cheerfulness and
brave endurance during the trying night marches
of the Brigade on the way from the Aisne to the
North of France.
2nd LIEUTENANT
BAY LEY, 2nd B
OWN SCOTTISH
to till' I'lC'lll. at llic euuim
He was slightly wounded
GEORGE BAIRD
ATTN. KING'S
BORDERERS,
son of I. F. Bayley,
Halls, East Lotliian,
was born there on
the 1st July, 1894.
After receiving lus
education at Chel-
tenham College, and
the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, he was gaz-
etted to the Scottish
Borderers in Janu-
ary, 1914, and went
«ith his battahon
mcement of the War.
during the retirement
from Mons on the 2(5th August at Le Cateau,
and after being invalided home for a few weeks
returned to the front with the Vllth Division,
attaclied to the 2nd Battalion Koyal Scots
Fusiliers. It was wliile serving with this
battahon that he met his death at the Battle of
Ypres on the 24th October, 1914.
On the morning of that day the Royal Scots
Fusiliers were holding a line of trenches running
from the Y'pres-Menin road northwards to-
wards the village of Reutel, Second-Lieutenant
Bayley's Company being in reserve. On the
Germans breaking through the line, his com-
pany was ordered up in support, and while
running forward to the trenches he was shot,
death being instantaneous. He was mentioned
in Sir John French's Dcsiiatches of 17th
February, 1915, for gallant and disliiit;uislii-(I
service in the field.
LIEUTEN.\NT CHARLES GEORGE
GORDON BAYLY. 56th FIELD CO.
ROYAL ENGINEERS, AND No. 5
SQUADRON ROYAL FLYING CORPS.
was born at Ronde-
bosch. Cape Colony.
South Africa, on the
30th May, 1891. He
was the only son of
the late Brackenbury
Bayly, Memb. Inst.
Elec*-. Eng. (died 4th
August, 1914), of the
Cape Civil Service,
who saw service as a
civilian under the
uuUtary authorities
in the Zulu War of 1879, for which he
received the War medal and clasp ; he also
served in the Tembu Campaign of 1881, for
which he received the General Service medal
and clasp.
Lieutenant Bayly came of mihtary stock : one
grandfather was the late Major Neville Saltren
Keats Bayly, R.A., who served in the Crimean
War and Indian Mutiny, and was wounded
at Aden ; the other is Colonel William Jesser
Coope, late Captain .57th Regiment, who also
served in the Crimea and Mutiny, for which he
received the medals ; and in the Ru-sso-Turkish
War of 1878 with the Red Cross, when he was
taken prisoner of war at the fall of Plevna, as
he was an officer in the Imperial Ottoman
Gendarmerie at the time ; for these services he
received Turkish orders of two degrees, and
afterwards took part in the South African War,
1899-1902, for which he received the King's and
the Queen's medals. Lieutenant Bayly was also
a great-nephew of General Charles George
Gordon of Khartoum, his grandfather (Major
Bayly) having married General Gordon's sister.
Lieutenant Bayly was educated at the Diocesan
BEA— BEC
College School. Rondebosch, Cape Colony ; St.
Ediuund's Preparatory School, Hindhead,
Surrey ; St. Paul's School, Hainmersniith. and
finally at the Royal Military Academy, Wool-
wich. At all of them he took a prominent place
in athletics and sports, as well as on the
academic roll : he won the Rifleman's Certificate,
and was in the cricket and football teams of his
earlier schools : at .St. Paid's he won a senior
scholarship, got his football and cricket colours,
was Sergeant in the School Cadet Corps, taking
certificate A, and gained the School Exhibition
for Woolwich : he was proficient at boxing, in
which he represented his School House ; and
later won his coloiu^ in the Rosslyn Park
Football Team. At the Royal .Military Academy
he unfortunately broke his wrist during his
first season and was therefore unable to play
football for Woolwich, but he won several prizes
for other forms of athletics, including the
swinnning obstacle race in 1910, and he was
twice in the leading team of the swimming
relay race : he was also one of the twelve
select-ed to compete for the saddle awarded to
the best rider of the cadets receiving commis-
sions. He passed seventh out of Woolwich, and
was gazetted to the Royal Engineers in August,
1911, as Second Lieutenant. Proceeding to the
School of ilihtary Engineering at Chatham, he.
while there, passed the test for a Pilot's Certifi-
cate at the Hendon Aerodrome in March, 1913,
and after attaining what was then considere<l the
good altitude of 100 feet, and making good land-
ings,he received hisA%-iator's Certificate(No.l4]).
He obtained his football colours in the Royal
Engineers and played cricket for the Corps.
Passing out of Chatham he was gazetted Lieu-
tenant on 2nd August, 1913, and was posted to
the 56th Field Company st-ationed at Bulford
Camp. He rode in the Royal Artillery Han-lers'
Point -to -Point Lightweight Hunt Cup. winning
second prize, 1914. He joined the Royal Flying
School, Upavon,in May, 1911, and on leaving —
having been highly reported on as Pilot and
Observer — on the outbreak of the War was
gazetted to Xo. 5 Squadron Royal Flying Corps,
dating from June. 1911. He was entrusted with
varioiLs duties prior to his flight to France on
the 12th August, reaching Amiens the same day,
and flying thence to Maubeuge.
He was killed on the 22nd August, 1911, wliile
on reconnaissance duty, fi>"ing over the German
lines in the neighbourhood of Enghien-Rassily
as Observer, with Second-Lieutenant Waterfall
a.s Pilot. They were fired at by a column of
infantry, and finally brought do\vn by anti-
aircraft gun fire. They were hastily bui-ied by
the Germans under 10 centimetres of soU. and the
Belgians covered the grave with flowers. Later,
the owner of the park where they were buried,
exhumed the bodies and placed them in zinc-lineil
coffins, in order to give them more decent burial.
LIELTENANT CH.\RLES REGINALD
CHAMBERLAIN BEAN. 1st BATTN.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was officially re-
ported to be wounded,
in the middle of
November, 1914,
but whose death was
unofficially con-
firmed, and who is
now reported to have
been killed on the
26th October, 1914.
was born in 1892.
He was educated at
Sherborne School,
on the Continent, and at Sandhiu-st, joining the
South Staffordshire Regiment in January, 1913,
and becoming Lieutenant in September. 1914.
It was stated in " The Times " that, having
gone to the front early in October, he was, on
the 25th of that month, sent to support a hotly-
pressed trench near Ypres. and, after fighting
aU night, was wounded on the morning of the
26th. Although pressed to leave the trench for
medical aid, he refused, and was killed shortly
afterwards, his body having been last seen
lying on the parapet of the trench.
2nd LIEUTENANT EDWARD ARCHI-
BALD BEA UC HA MP, attd. 3rd
BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
was the elder son of
.Sir Edward Beau-
champ, Bart., M.P.
for Lowestoft, .Suf-
folk, J.P. for Nor-
folk, and his second
wife Betty Campbell,
daughter of Archi-
bald Woods, of
Columbus, Ohio.
U.S.A.
Born on the 5th
AprU, 1891, he was
educated at Eton, and joined the Special Reserve
of the Coldstream Guards in February, 1914,
being gazetted as Second Lieutenant in that
regiment in November, 1914. After being
wounded near Ypres in November he came to
England, but on his recovery returned to the
front and joined the 1st Battalion, when he
again received wounds from the eflects of which
he died on the 22nd December. 1914.
.MAJOR HENRY SULLIVAN BECHER,
1 2nd KING EDWARDS OWN GURKHA
RIFLES THE SIRMOOR RIFLES),
who was killed in Flanders on the 2ud November,
1914, was the only son of the late Colonel SidUvan
Becher and ilrs. Becher, of Kingswood House,
Wotton - under - Edge, Gloucestershire. The
BEE— BEL
2H
regiment in wliich ho
by his lather in 1,S84.
served was raised
He was horn on the
9th April, 1S71S, and
was educated at
^hirlliorongli I'roin
1888-1892, in tier-
man \. and at lie-
li.Al.C, Sandlun'.^.
He received his com-
mission as Second
Lieutenant (unat-
tached) in .lanuar\ .
1S90, and joined the
Indian Stall' Corps
in April, 1897,
becoming Lieutenant in the Indian Army in
April, 1898. and Captain in January, 1905.
He ser\ed in operations on the Samana, North-
West Frontier of India in 1897, receiving the
medal with two clasps. He also took part in the
Tirah Expedition, 1897-98, and was present at
the actions of Chagru Kotal and Dargai, tlie
capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes :
at operations in the Waran and Bara Valleys,
and action of the 10th November, 1897 ; opera-
tions at and round Dwatoi and action of the
24th November, 1897 ; also operations against
the Khani Khel Chamkanis, and in the Bara
Valley in December, 1897, receiving a clasp to
his medal. He took part in the Waziristan
Expedition, North- West Frontier, of 1901-02,
receiving an additional clasp.
From November, 1909, to September, liill, lie
was A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief, lOast
Indies, which appointment he gave up to rejoin
his regiment in 1912, to take part in the
Expedition to the Abor Country, foi' \\liich
campaign he received the medal and was
mentioned in Despatches. He was promoted
Major in January, 1914.
"The Times" of the 11th Noveml)er, ION.
pul)Hshed the following letter from one who
knew him well : —
" Sullivan Becher's was a personality widely
known and universally beloved. He lived in and
for, and has died, as he would have wished, lead-
ing the gallant (inrkhas of the regiment whieli
his father. Colonel Sidlivan Becher (who was re-
commended for the \'ictoria Cross for his gallan-
try at the Battle of Kandahar), raised in 1884."
CAPTAIN A. C. BEEMAN, 3rd (attd.
1st) BATTN. THE QUEEN'S OWN
(ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT),
who was killed on the 26th October, 1914,
joined the 3rd Battalion in September, 1899,
as Second Lieutenant, being promoted Lieu-
tenant in June, 1900, and reaching the rank of
Captain in his regiment in May. 1902.
He served in the South African War, having Ix-en
present atoperations in Cape Colony in :May.l902,
receiving the Queen's medal with two ilasps.
2nd LIEUTENANT CHARLES OCKLEY
BELL, 2nd BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE
REGIMENT,
was born in 1891 at
(irinisby, tlie son of
Alfred [''rederick
and Sarah Susanna
Bell. He was edu-
cated at Alford
(irammar School.
Lincolnshire.
This yovmg ollirer
served in the ranks
of the South Staf-
fordshire Regiment
for four and a half years, and when lie had
attained the rank of Corporal his conspicuous
ability was rewarded by his being selected
for a commission as Second Lieutenant in
the Bedfordshire Regiment, which ho received
on the 20th May, 1914. He was, it is believed,
the first officer to gain his commission from
the ranks vmder the new regidations in-
troduced in 1914.
He proceeded to South Africa to join his new
regiment, and returned to go to the front with
it at the commencenaent of the War. 1 1 e was
killed on Sunday, the 18th October. 1911. and
was buried at Le Touret.
His mother's father was an Indian Mutiny
veteran. Jlr. and .Mrs. Bell had the lionour of
receiving the following telegram on the occasion
of their son's death : —
" The King and Queen deeply regret the loss
you and the Anny have sustained by the death
of your son in the service of his country. Their
^Majesties tridy sympathise with yon in your
sorrow." — Priv.\te Secretary.
Second-Lieutenant Bell was unmarried.
CAPTAIN MALCOLM ARTHUR
RUSSELL BELL, OF THE
54th SIKHS, FRONTIER FORCE,
born in Kdiubm-gh
in 1880, was the
eldest son of the late
Russell Bell, Advo-
cate, Sheriff-Substi-
tute of Stirlingshire,
and the late ]Mrs.
Russell Bell, of The
< 'lose, Salisbviry : his
brothers are in the
Services, Lieutenant-
Commander Norman
Leven Russell Bell,
R.N., H.M.S. " Vanguard," and Second-Lieu-
tenant Gerald Ilallam Russell Bell. 3rd Bat-
talion King's Own Scottish Borderers ; he was
a nephew of Mr. H. D. Bell, of Peehvalls, Ayton,
Berwickshire.
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BEN
Captain Bell was educated at St. Salvators, St.
Andrews, Fettes College, and the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst. In 1900 he was appointed to the
King's Ovm Scottish Borderers, and two years
later was ransferred to the Indian Army, in
which he was promoted Captain in January,
1909. He was on active service on the Xoi-th-
West Frontier in 1902, being present at opera-
tions against the Darwesh Khel Waziris, and in
1908 at operations in the Zakka Khel Country,
and m the ilolvniand Country : for his ser\-ices
he received the medal with cla.sp.
Captain Bell volunteered for service in the
Great War in November, 1914, and was attac-hed
to the 58th RiHes, Frontier Force, Meerut
Di\ision ; he was killed in action in France on
the 26th December, 1914. He had lieen ordered
up to support a part of the line where the enemy
had broken through, and was leading his men
towards the German trenches when he was shot
through the head, dying almost immediately.
He was buried by the Divisional Chaplain, the
Rev. R. Irwin, close to Le Touret, four miles
east of Bethune. on the Bethime-Richebourg
Road, at a little burial ground, where some .50
other officers are laid. A cross is erected at the
spot.
Captain Bell was a member of the Junior Army
and Xavy Club, and his recreations were golf
and polo.
2nd LIEUTENANT ROBERT
BURTON BENISON, 2nd B.\TTN.
THE CONN AUGHT RANGERS,
who was kUled in action on the 20th Sep-
t-ember, 1914, was the youngest son of the late
Mr. T. T. Benison, of .Slieve Russell, BaUycon-
nell, Co. Cavan.
He was born in 1891, and entered the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, in Augtist, 1910, being gazetted
to the Connaught Rangers in September, 1911.
LIEUTEN.\NT MURR.W STU.\RT
BENNING, 3rd BATTN. EAST SURREY
REGIMENT,
was Ijorn at Dun-
stable, Bedfordshire,
on the 23rd Augvist,
1894, the youngest
son of Mr. Charles
Crichton Stuart Ben-
ning. Town Clerk, of
The Limes, Dun-
stable. Among his
relatives are ilajor
A. C. S. Benning,
Bedfordshire Yeo-
manry, Lieutenant-Commander C. S. Benning,
Sul)marine E.5. and Flight-Lieutenant Brian
Stuart Benning, Royal Naval Air Service.
I^ieutenant Benning was educated at Dunstable
Grammar Sdiool, and at Uijpingham, where he
was in the Officers' Training Corps. He
was gazetted to the 3rd Battalion, Ea.st Sun-ey
Regiment in December, 1912, being promoted
Lieutenant on the 5th August, 1914.
In the Great \\'ar he was attached to the
1st BattaUon and was wounded at Richebourg
L'Avouc on the 28th October, and died
at ChrLstol Hospital, Boulogne, on the 1st
November, 1914. The following is extracted
from an account of the circumstances published
in the " Bedfordshire Standard " of 13th
November, 1914 : —
" From a letter received from a Ijrother officer,
it appears that the Surreys had been subjected
to tremendous shell and rifle Are for three days
by greatly superior numbers of the enemy, but
held their own. On this particular day the Ger-
mans poured shot and shell at them in a perfect
storm, and men who have been at the front all
the time say that it was the hottest fire they
ever saw. Lieutenant Benning was on the right
of the trench, and was very cool, but a bullet
caught him in the head. It was too hot to
remove him from the trench, as by that time
the Germans had got within about 150 yards,
and were actually shelling them with the siege
guns they used at Antwerp. Another officer
knelt beside him to protect him from injury by
shrapnel, and it was lucky he did, as a piece of
shell quite six inches in length fell and caught
him instead of striking the wounded Lieutenant
in the face. At last he was got under cover
until a stretcher arrived to take him out of the
fu-ing line. He was operated on at Boulogne
and seemed to be going on well, untU a relapse
occurred."
At the time he answered the call to serve his
country. Lieutenant Benning was the repre-
sentative of Messrs. Wright & Co., rubber
brokers, and, although a very young man, was
already well known among Mincing Lane
brokers. HLs comrades in the field have spoken
of him as being wonderfully cool and brave in
the firing Une. He was one of the earliest of
many members to go to the front from ilincing
Lane.
CAPTAIN JOHN PENRICE BENSON
1st BATTN. EAST SURREY REGIMENT.
who was born at
Kil\TOugh, Glamor-
ganshire, on the 1st
October, 1877, was
the son of Judge
William Denman
Benson and Jane
Penrice his wife. He
had several relations
in the Army and
Navy, among them
his grandfather, the
late General H. R.
BEN
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Benson, CH., ITIli Lnnoors ; Coliniil II. W.
Benson, D.S.O. : CnhMnl S. .\l. Hcnson, ITtli
Lanrers ; Colonc^l 1!. 10. Benson, lOast Voiksliiii'
J{(^ginient, also killed in this war, and Admiral
of the Kleet, fSii- A. I>yons G.C.Ji.
Captain Benson was cdueatcd at Chaiti'ilioiisc
and tlie [{..M.C, Sandluirst. havinji Ixu^n at liotli
a cricketer and a fo()tl)aller. He roceiv(;d liis
commission in llie Kast Surrey Regiment in
IS!)7. and s(i\i'd with it through the wholr nl'
till' South Atri'-an War. having l)een WDiiinlrd
on I'ietcr's Hill, at the Belief of l,adysniit.h.
He received the (Queen's medal with five clasps
and (lie Iving's medal with two clasps.
In September, 10(12. lie was appointed Adjulanl
of his battalion and sidisequently passed to the
Reserve of Ollicrrs ha\ ing become a Captain in
()ctol)er, lllOl.
On the outbreak of the war he rejoined his old
regiment, and went with it to the fiont. At the
Battle of Mons he was wounded by a machine
gun whi'.e fighting in the first line of trenches
on the 23rd August : he was taken down to a
convent school hospital at Boussu. left there on
the retirement, and died there. prnl)ably on (h<>
21th August, 1914.
Captain Benson, who was a meniljcr uf the
Army and Navy Club, married Laura Annette
Rideout. daughter of General Rideout and
grand-daunhter of tlie late Admiral Montresor.
He left two children, William Frank ^Montresor,
born 7th October, 1907, and Jane Penrice, born
2nd .lanuarj-, 1915.
LIEUTENANT - COLONEL RICHARD
ERLE BENSON,
BATTN. THE
COMMANDING 1st
EAST YORKSHIRE
REGIMENT,
was the son of
General H. R. Ben-
son, C.B., 17th Lan-
cers, grandson of Sir
William W^ightnian,
one of Il.M.'s .Judges,
and a nephew of
Father Eicliard il.
Benson,
Father.
a Cowley
The family
in
I^^^^HtT ^^ residence was
""-"' — ■■:^-=^ Glamorganshir, .
Lieutenant-Colonel Benson was born on the
4th October, 1802, and was educated at Eton,
where he was in the College Boats.
He joined the East Yorkshire Regiment in May,
1SS4. became Captain in 1891, and Major n
1903. He was twice Adjutant of his battalion,
from 18S5-188G, and again from 1891-lS;i4.
and wa^i specially employed with the Bechviana-
land Police from July, 1889-May, 1890. He
was also Adjutant of the 4th Battalion East
Surrey Reuiment tor five years from 1899. After
the embodiment of the Battalion in December,
1899, he accompanied it to South Aiiica in 19(12,
for tlie Boer War ; he received th(^ (Queen's medal
with three clasps, and was recomnieiidiHl for the
M.S.O., but it was tlecided not to give that
decoration for services after a certain date, so
he was precluded from receiving it.
Major Benson, as he then was, accompanied
the 2nd Battalion of tlie regiment to Binnia
in 19()(i, and afterwards to Fyzaljad. wliere he
allied as Second in Command ; in 1 9 II he was
transferred to the 1st Battalion, and im (he
l.")tli of August of that year succeeded to the
Command of the Battalion. An a))i)re-
ciativo notic(> of Lieutenant-Colonel Hiii-.(in
appeared in tlie monthly journal ol the
regiment, tlie " Snapper," for October, 191 I.
S|)ecial mention is therein made of the very
liigli state of efficiency to wtueli Lieutenant-
Colonel Benson had lirought his battalion, and
in whicii it embarked for the front in tlie Great
War It says : — " His period of command
will long lie known as one of the brightest chap-
ters in the history of the 1st Battalion .
wherever he went his popularity with all ranks
was soon sesn."
While leading his battalion in a charge at tlu;
Battle of the Aisne Lieutenant-Colonel Benson
was wounded, on Sunday, the 20th Septendier,
1914, and died in the Australian Hospital, St.
Nazaire, on the following Sunday, the 27th
September.
A brother t^fficer wrote of him : — " He was so
magnificent, so full of energy and courage — al-
ways in the front — and the men would have fol-
lowed him anywhere. Even after he was woun-
ded he would not be brought in till he knew t he
other wounded were safe, and his one thought
was for the safety and welfare of his regiment."
Lieutenant-Colonel Benson was keenly in-
terested in all sporting matters connected with
his l)attalion, and was a member of tlie Xaval
and Jlilitary Club.
He married Florence, daugliter of M. W.
Armour, Esq., and left three cliildren — two
girls, Rita and Jlolly. and one hoy, .Tack.
CAPTAIN CHARLES ARTHUR CAMP-
BELL BENTLEY, 1st BATTN. ROYAL
WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the eldest son of
Dr. George Herbert
Bentley, of Kirklis-
ton, Linlithgow-
shire, and his wife
Anna Campbell of
Edinburgh, and
grandson of Cajjtain
C. S. Bentley, 31st
Regiment ; he was
born at Kirkliston,
Linlithgowshire, on
the 24th March, 1879.
■ ;.^^
'
Am •;. I
m^
^\l
BEN
After his school edui-ation he matrk-ulateil at
Edinburgh University, and studied for the
Jledical Profession. When a medical student
at the University he enlisted in the S<-ots Greys,
in 1898, and served with them through the Boer
War, having been present at the Relief of
Kimberley, operations in the Orange Free State,
including actions at Paardeberg and Driefon-
tein ; in the Transvaal, in actions near Johan-
nesburg and Wamond Hill, and in the Transvaal
East of Pretoria, including the action at Belfast.
He received the Queen's medal with six cla.sps.
and the King's medal with two clasps.
In April, 1902, he received his commission as
Second Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire
Regiment, becoming Lieutenant in October,
1905, and Captain in June. 191-1.
In 1910 Captain Bentley was selected as
Staff Officer of the Local Forces and Adjutant
of Constabulary at Trinidad, with the local rank
of Captain, carrying on his duties to the entire
satisfaction of the authorities. He returned to
England at the expiration of his appointment,
early in 1914. It is a remarkable coincidence
that his grandfather. Captain Bentley. of the
51st Regiment, also did good service in Trinidad
when he was Adjutant of his regiment in 1837.
and acted very bravely in helping to suppress a
meeting of the Xative Troops, as recorded by
Charles Kingsley in his book '" At Last."'
Captain Bent'ey went with his battalion to the
front in August, 1914, and was in the retirement
from lions, and in the subsequent advance,
and on the 23rd October, 1914, was killed
while gallantly leading his company at
the captiu-e of an entrenched village close to
-\rmentieres ; he was buried in the cemetery
at that place. He was mentioned in P'ield-
Marshal Sir John French's Despatch. January.
14th. 1915. •■ for gallant and distinguished
service in the field."
The following is an abbreviated account of his
death, given by a Private of his Battalion: —
"Captain Bentley always went ahead 'of his
men, cheering them on. He did not seem to
know what fear was. and that made them all
brave, too. The Warwicks were told a little
village near Armentieres must be taken at any
cost, and Captain Bentley's Company had to
lead the four Companies sent out. Two hundred
and seventy set out to do it. and when t hey took
the place there were only 20 left : 100 were
killed, and 150 wounded. Tee Captain was at
the head of the 20 when he fell, sniped in three
places. He never seemed to think of his
wounds, but went on cheering the men, and
almost the last words he said were : ' Go on,
my men ; keep up the good name of the
Warwicks : don't give in.' He lived for a few
hours after he was wounded."
Three days after the publication of the article
referring to his death, in the " Daily Graphic,"
the " Times " printed a touching poem, " After-
math," prol>ably inspired by the " DaQy
Graphic " notice ; at all events, the poem's
opening Lne; were perfectly true as regards
Captain Bentley : —
•" Slain by a Prussian bullet, leading the
men who loved him.
Dying, cheered them on."
Captain Bentley married Geraldine Sadleir,
daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel F. S. "Stoney,
J.P., late R.A.. of The Down^. Delgany, Co.
Wicklow, and left three young children : Charles
Francis Campbell, born 1907 ; Sybil llojrra,
bom 1908 ; and Hester Dorten. born 1912.
2nd LIEUTENANT CL.\RENCE LESLIE
BENTLEY. 2nd B.\TTN. MANCHESTER
REGIMENT,
was born at York on
the 8th August. 1894,
and was the youngest-
son or Mrs. Bentley.
of Fulford Grange.
York, and of the late
Alderman Bentley.
J.P. He was a
nephew of the lat>-
Colonel J. W. Came-
ron, of the 4th Dur-
ham Artillery, West
Hartlepool. Second Lieutenant Bentley's
eldest brother is a Captain in the West Riding
Heavy Artillei^ Batter}-, now on the Humber
Defences : and his second brother Ls a Lieutenant
in the 2nd Battalion A.P.W.O. Yorkshire Regi-
ment (■■ Green Howards '"). and was wounded
in the great advance at Neuve Chapelle on the
11th March, 1915, having since recovered from
his wounds and returned to the front.
Second Lieutenant Bentley was educated at
Bootham School. Y'ork. and Mill Hill School.
London, X.W. ; afterwards he went to the
R.M.C.. Sandhurst. At school he took all his
colours, and at Sandhurst took his " blue " for
hockey. He received his conunission on the
8th Augxist. 1914. his twentieth birthday, and
was with the 3rd Battalion of his regiment on
the Humber Defences for a short time. He
then took a draft across to the Continent, and
joined his own battalion at the front. He saw
a good deal of fighting all along the Y'ser and
Marne. and was killed in action near Ypres on
the 29th October. 1914. A sniper shot him
through the head when directing his men in a
supporting trench, the front trenches having
been rushed by the Germans.
2nd Lieut. Bentley was buried in a garden at the
back of a farm on the west side of La Quinque
Rue. A little cross over the grave marks his rest-
ing place. His Company's Captain, in expressing
the regret he felt at his loss, spoke of him as being
of an exceptional and outstanding character.
BEN BER
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CAPTAIN GEOFFREY MALCOLM
BKNTLKY, 1st BATTN. NORTH-
AM P 1" O N S H I R E REGIMENT,
wild (lii'd (111 llir
2!)tli October, UH I.
of wounds receiv('<l
ill action, was llu;
fifth son of Lieii-
tonant-Colonel A. W.
Bentley, V.l)., J.l>..
I The Grove, ^Ioiik<>n
Hadley, Middlesex.
He was liorn on the
:ird May, 18s:5, and
was edvicated at Wel-
lington C'ollefje. where
he was in (he I'ieton from 1897-1900. After
serving with the embodied Militia for a year
and a half, he joined the Northamptonshire
Regiment in January, 1903. He took jiart in
the South .Vfrican War, being present at opera-
tions in Cape Colony from June, 1901, to
January, 1902, and served in St. Helena from
January to May, 1902, receiving the Queen's
medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in December.
1904, and Captain in May, 1910.
In the Great War he had taken part in the
retirement from Mons, and the battle of the Aisne,
and was shot by a sniper while handing over
the trenches to the French troops at Pilkem.
He was mentioned in Sir John French's Des-
patch of the 14th January, 191.5.
His elder brotlier, Major Gerald W. Bentley,
Jliddlesex Regiment, died of wounds received
in this war on the 14th October, 1014.
Captain GeolTrey Bent!ey married Edith Marie
(nee Galway). Belgravia, Bangor, Co. Down,
and left an only daughter, Maureen Sheila.
MAJOR
BENTLEY,
GERALD WILSON
MIDDLESEX REGIMENT,
who was shown in the
monthly War Office
Casu-olty List, puli-
lished in November,
1914, as having been
killed in action be-
tween the 12th-14th
Octolier. 1914, died
on the latter date at
Croix Barbee of
wounds received in
action. He had
been at Mons and
j-ucreedin^' ill- ji-iriii-iits Until his death.
He was the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel
A. W. Bentley, J.P., of The Grove, Monken
Hadley, Middlesex, and was born on the 1st
August, 1879, and educated at Haileybury.
He joined the Jfiddlesex Regiment from the
-Militia in May. IS99, liecoming Lieutenant in
.\l:uvh. IllOil. and Caiitaiii in Octolier, I'.HII.
His rapid promotion was due to the South
Afiican War. in which he served from 1S!I9—
111(12. He was present at the relief of L.idy-
smith and the action at Spion Kop, where hi^
was severely wounded ; at operations on th(^
Tugela Heights, and action at Pieter's Hill ;
operations in Natal, the Transvaal, East of
Pretoria, and in Cape Colony, Sovith of the
Orange River in 1899-1900, and again in the
Transvaal from 1900-1901. II,. i,-,rivicl the
Queen's medal with four clasps, and the King's
medal with two clasps. In .\pril, 1012. he was
appointed Superintendent of Gymnasia. Nin-
therii Connnand, which appointment lir luM
till the outbreak of the Great War.
His younger lirother. Captain GeolTrey M.
Bentley. Northamptonshire Regiment, died of
wounds on the 29th October, 1914. Major
Bentley, who was unmarried, was promoted
temporarily to his rank in October, 1914.
He won the light and heavy-weight boxing
competitions at the Army and Navy Boxing
Championships in 1910.
MAJOR CHARLES GEORGE PACK-
BERESFORD, 1st BATTN. THE QUEEN'S
OWN (ROYAL WEST KENT REGT.),
was born on the 21st
of November, 1809,
and was the son of
Denis W. Pack-
Beresford, Esq.. J.P.,
D.L., M.P., Co.
Carlow, of Fenagh
House, Bagnalstown.
Ireland, and grand-
son of ilajor-General
Sir Denis Pack,
K.C.B.
He was educated at
WelUngton College and the R.il.C, .Sandhur.st,
joining the Royal West Kent Regiment as
Second Lieutenant in November, 1889, be-
coming Lieutenant in February, 1893. From
December, 1890, to March, 1900, he was Adju-
tant of his Battalion, having become Captain in
December, 1899, and Major in March. 1908.
Major Pack-Beresford was employed on the
North-West Frontier of India, 1897-98, having
been in Malakand and the action at Landaki ;
at operations in Bajaur and in the JIamund
country ; at Buner in the attack and captur(! of
the Tanga Pass. For these services he leceived
the medal with clasp.
He also served in the South African War from
1900-02, and was engaged in operations in
the Orange River Colony, in 1900 ; in the Trans-
vaal and Cape Colony in 1900 and 1901. He
was mentioned in Despatches (" London
Gazette," September, 1901). and received the
(Queen's medal with four clasps.
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BER— BES
From 1905-09 Major Pac-k-Beresford was
Officer of a Company of Gentlemen Cadets at
the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He commanded the
Depot of Ills regiment at Maidstone from 1910
to 1914.
He was killed in action at Wasinies, near Mons.
on the 24th August, 1914. He was not married.
LIEUTENANT BERNARD FREDERICK
PAUL BERNARD. 2nd B A T T N .
ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in Lleceml)er. 1914. at the
age of 20, wa.s the only son of Colonel E. E.
Bernard, C.M.G.. Financial Secretary to the
Sudan Government.
He only joined the Army in October, 1914.
and, on the 20th December, was promoted
temporarily to Lieutenant.
LIEUTENANT LAURENCE ARTHUR
BERNARD. 2nd BATTN. THE SHER
WOOD FORESTERS NOTTlNGH.\M
SHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT),
was liorii un the
27th August, 1886,
at Copdock, Ips-
wich, Suffolk, the
son of Arthur !Mon-
tague Bernard, J. P.
tor Suffolk.
Lieutenant Bernard
was educated at
Bradfield College,
Berkshire, and at
the Koyal Military
College, Sandhurst.
At both Colleges he was in the cricket and
football first XIs, and gained the Marksman.ship
Badge at Sandhurst. He joined the Sherwood
Foresters in 1906, and was stationed at
Bangalore till 1909. During the following four
years he was seconded for sen'ice with the
S. Nigeria Regiment W.A.F.F., ■with wliich he
served in the Expeditions at Munshi, Agoni,
and Sontwala.
On the outbreak of the War his battalion
joined the Expeditionary Field l-'orce ; on
Sunday, 20th September, 1914, Lieutehant
Bernard vas killed near Troyon wliile leading
Ills men to recapture trenches taken by the
Germans in the battle of the Aisne. This
action was successful and most important
in preserving intact the British Line.
CAPTAIN HAMILTON HUGH BER
NERS. 1st BATTN. IRISH GUARDS,
who was killed on the 14th September, 1914.
was the son of Charles Hugh Berners, Esq..
and his late wife Mary, daughter of Sir Ralph
Anstruther. He was borninlS81 at Longcross,
Surrey, England, educated at Eton, and, joining
the Irish Guards from the Militia in
November, 190.5, was promoted Lieutenant in
April, 190(5, and Cap-
/
J
tain in December,
1912. At the time
of his death Captain
Berners was second
in command of his
battaUon, owing to
the heavy casualties
which had occurred
in the battalion
at Villiers Cotteret.
Five minutes before
he was killed he
carried into safety, under heavy fire, one of his
men badly wounded by a shell. He was in the
act of raising his field glasses to locate the
source of the enemy's fire, when he was shot
through the chest and body, and died in a few
minutes.
The following account was given by a Corporal
of the Guards : —
" Captain Berners, of the Irish Guards, as at the
depot, was the hfe and soul of our lot. When
shells were bursting over our heads he would
buck us up with his humour about Brock's dis-
plays at the Palace. But when we got into
close quarters it was he who was in the thick
of it, and didn't he fight !
" He was one of the best of officers, and there
is not a Tommy who would not have gone under
for him."
Captain Berners married Edith Mary Georgina,
daughter of the late Charles Sandham, Esq., of
Rowdell, Pulborough, Sussex, and of Evelyn
Sandham, of 13, Egerton Place, London, and
grand-daughter of the late Right Hon. Sir
Walter Barttelot, Bart., M.P.. of Stopham.
Pulliorough, Sussex.
C.\PT.\IN BARTON HOPE BESLY. 1st
BATTN. DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action at Givenchy
on the 2oth October,
I9I4, was the only
sur\iving son of the
late Rev. W. Blundell
Besly and Mrs. Besly,
of Ivedon, Honiton.
He was born on the
2Sth February, 1879.
and was educated at
Bradfield College.
Berks, from 1891 to
1897. He joined the Devonshue RegiiiiL-nt
from the Mihtia in May, 1899, liecoming Lieu-
tenant in Aprn. 1900.
He took part in the .South African War. being
employed with the Mounted Infantrj- from
BIN-BIR
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OctoliCT, VMM, to .May, l'M2. ami being present
at the relief of Ladysmitli, including the action
at Oolenso ; the actions at Spion Kop and ^'aal
Krans ; op<a'atioiis on the TuK<'la Hcii;ht>< ami
action at rictcr's Hill ; operations in Natal,
iiuludint; the action at Laing's Xolc ; operations
in tlie Transvaal. Orange River Colony, on tin-
'/ululand frontier of Natal, including the
defence of Forts Itala and Prospect. He received
the Queen's medal with five clasps, and the
King's medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Captain in I'llmiary. 1901).
He was a good rider, fond of hunting and polo,
and a Iceen all-round sportsman.
Captain Besly took part in the liattle of the
Aisne, and in the operations around T.,a Bassi^e.
He was mentioned for his services in Sir .Toliu
French's Despatcli of the 14th January. 10 1.').
LIEUTEN.\NT DAVID CECIL
BINGHAM, 3rd BATTN. COLDSTREAM
GUARDS.
who was killed in
action on tlu- 1 Itli
.S e p t e m b e !■ , 1 !U 1 .
during the battle of
the Aisne, was the
younger son of Major-
General the Hon.
C. E. Bingham,
C.V.O., C.B. (second
son of the 4th Earl of
Lucan), now Com-
manding the 1st
Cavalry DivLsion, British Expeditionary Force.
He was born on the 18th March, 1887, and was
educated at Eton, and the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
receiving hi? commission in the Coldstream
Guards in August. 190(>, and becoming Lien-
tenant in JIarch, 1909. In July. 1911, he was
appointed .\iljutant of his battalion.
Lieutenant Bingham married, in 1912, Lady
Rosabelle ^lillicent St. Clair-Erskine, only
daughter of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn. and left a
daughter. Rose, born 1913.
LIEUTENANT JOHN GREVILLE
HOBART BIRD, 2nd BATTN. THE
QUEEN'S (ROYAL WEST SURREY
REGIMENT),
liorn at Wolver-
hampton on the 11th
November, 1888, was
the only son of ilr.
William Ilobart Bird,
-M. Inst..'\l. E., The
Gate House, Coven-
try, and grandson of
Alderman IMaycock,
.T.I'., a former Mayor
of Coventry.
He was educated at
Eversley House, SouthwoKI, and privately,
receiving his commission in The Queen's in
June, 1913. He came, at the commencement
of the war with Germany, with his regiment
from South Africa, and proceeding to the
front, was shot dead in the desperate fighting
near Ypres on the L'llth ()<t(.liiT. 1911:
he had been sent with his platoon to defend
a trench at a spot where the enemy's firing
was particularly severe, and while directing
his men's return fire, he was told that one of
his best men had been hit. and in trying to go
to his aid he was instantaneously killed.
His promotion to Lieutenant. Ici lake ilircl
from the 21.st October, 1914, was nut ill. d
in the "London Ga/ette," of 22nd .Ma\ . lUl.").
2nd LIEUT. GORDON ALIC BRODRICK
BIRDWOOD, 2nd BATTN. THE PRINCE
OF WALES'S VOLUNTEERS
(SOUTH LANC.\SHIRE REGIMENT),
born at Mhow. India,
on the 22nd Dece
ber, 1895, was
son of Colonel
liam S. Bu'dwood,
Indian Army (re-
tired). General Officer
Commanding the
Baroda State Army,
and a grandson of
General Christopher
Birdwood, Bombay
Staff Corps, and of
George Frederick Sheppard, Esq., Indian Civil
Service ; he was also related to Sir George
Birdwood, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Lieutenant-General
Sir William R. Birdwood, K.C.S.I.. C.B..
CLE., D.S.O., and to Colonel S. H. Sheppard,
R.E., D.S.O., and was a nephew of Herliert
MUls Bu-dwood, C.S.I., I.C.S., who is the
father of the present Lieutenant-General .Sir
William R. Birdwood, Commanding the
Australian and New Zealand Contingents at
the front.
Educated at Mr. Bickmore's. Yardle> Coiu't.
Tonbridge, and at TonViridge School. Kent,
at both of which he won prizes for running
and swimming, he proceeded to the ILM.C,
.Sandhurst, where he was a Prize Cadet, and was
gazetted to the 2nd Battahon The Prince of
Wales's \'olunteers (.South Lancashire Regi-
ment), in August, 1914. three months before he
would liave been in ordinary circumstances.
-Vfter a short preliminary training at Liver-
pool, he left England to join his battalion in
France on the 8th .Septeinber, reaching liis
Corps on the 17th of the month. On Sunday,
the 20th Septeml)er, the battalion was in
support, in rear of two other battalions of the
lirigade, in a thickly-wooded bill side, when
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at .■) p.m. the Germans Iiroke through the two
battalions. The So\ith Lancashire.s charged
and the hill was retaken, bnt at the cost of seven
officers killed (of whom Second Lieutenant Bird-
wood was one) and wounded, hi-; own company
losing three officers and 66 of the rank and file,
including the Company Sergeant -Major and
three platoon Sergeants. One of the men.
who was subsequently wounded and who
helped to carry Second Lieutenant Birdwood
from the battlefield, described the fight to an
Officer, who conrmunicated the account to
Second Lieutenant Birdwood's grandfather.
He said " the extreme gallantry of your grand-
son seems to have been the cause of liLs early
death," and then quoted the words of the
wounded man : " There was a young Officer
who joined us, called Lieutenant Birdwood, he
was almost too brave, and as a matter of fact
it eventually got bun knocked over.
Lieutenant Birdwood led a brUliant bayonet
charge, and it was mainly due to liiiu that this
was successful, and that this part of the position
was captured." It appears some of the enemy
surrendered, and the Crermans tittned their
machine guns on their surrendering couu'ades,
and. Lieutenant Birdwood being riddled by
their bullets, must have died instantaneously :
his body was recovered next day and bui-ied
near where he fell, with two other officers.
Second Lieutenant Birdwood «as a member of
the " Old Tonbridgians' Society."
CAPTAIN RICHARD LOCKINGTON
BIRDWOOD. INDIAN ARMY,
who wa.s kUIed on
the 17th November,
1914. in the attack
on Basra, in the
Persian Gulf, was
the youngest son of
the late Herbert. M.
Birdwood, C.S.I.,
Jiidge of the High
Court, and Member
of Council. Bombay.
Captain Birdwood
was Ijorn on the 7th
September, 1879, and was educated at Clifton
College, and the E.M.C.. Sandhurst, receiving
his commission as Second lieutenant, un-
attached, in .July. 189S. In November of the
following year he joined the Indian Start Corps,
becoming Ijeutenant in January, 1901.
He served in the Tibet Expedition of 1903-04.
for which he received the meilal. and obtained
his Captaincy in Jiily. 1907. His service was
chiefly in the Political Department, and before
the war he was Assistant Political Agent in the
Persian Gulf.
1912, becouiins
LIEUTENANT E. MAURICE BISHOP,
SrdBATTN. DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT.
was the son of
Edwin and Janettc
Bishop, of The
Lawns, .Swanwick.
near Southampton.
and was born on the
19th June, 1891. at
Gosport, -\lverstoke.
He was educated at
Bradfield College,
Berks, and was
gazetted to the 3rd
Dorset Regiment as
Second Lieutenant in June,
Lieutenant in >Iay, 1913.
In the Great War he was attached to the King's
Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from September,
1914, and was serving with the 2nd Battn.
of that regiment when he was killed at lilies.
Fiance, on 18th Octo))er. 1914, while gallantly
leading his platoon to the attack.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM McMILLAN
BLACK. ADJUTANT 58th VAUG-
H.\NS- RIFLES FRONTIER FORCE
INDIAN ARMY,
who was killed in
action on the 31st
October, 1914. was
the elder son of the
late Rev. \\-.
:McMillan Black and
Mrs. Black. He was
born at iVnwoth
!Manse, Gatehouse
of Fleet, Kircud-
brightshire. on the
1 2th Septeml )er. 1 883,
and was educated at Edinburgh Academy,
where he was Captain of the 2nd Football XY.,
and won prizes for atliletics.
He joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers from the
Jlilitia in May, 1902. In November of the
following year he was transferred to the Indian
Army, becoming Lieutenant in August. 1904,
and Captain in May. 191 1.
He served with the 111th Mahrattas in Hong-
Kong, and was transfeiTed to the 58th Yaughans'
Rifles in June. 1900.
Captain Black had qualified in Musketry and
Transport Work, and could speak many of the
Eastern tongues, having passed the Higher
.Standard in Baluchi, Cliinese (Pekingese
dialect), ifaratlii and Phuhtu, and the Lower
Standard in Persian.
He was a very keen sportsman, fond of polo,
shooting and other sports, and won several
Cups in point-to-point i-aces.
The following account of the circumstances of
his death was given br a senior brother-officer : —
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" We liail lii'cii ordered ti> drive tlic (ierniau^
from a position they liad cai)turt'd a day Ix'foic,
and yoiu- son and I had crawled forward to
reconnoitre the jjosition, wbicli we had difliculty
in making out in the dark. We managed to get
within some twenty yards, and were then dis-
covered. Your son \\ as shot tlirough the heart
and ileath was instantaneous. We brought
hack his liody. and lie is li\iriod in a httle village
near here. . . . We shall miss your son
in the regiment very much. He was always
most popular with everyone, and a great loss to
us. In my report on the operations, in which
we lost some one hundred killed and wounded,
I am specially mentioning your son's name for
the skill and daring he displayed yesterday :
the brUUant success we achieved was mainJy
due to the excellent manner in which lie guided
us to tlie position we had l)een ordered to
attack."
A lirother-officer says : — " He was uinrvellously
cool and plucky, and lus example all through tlie
night did much to cheer up the men through
the trying conditions of their first fight. He
worked like a slave all night, and met his death
in a very dangerous but necessary piece of work
wMch he undertook as he was going oft to
moinit a guard."
Captain Black was only one night in the firing
line and w-as mentioned in Sir John Frencli's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
LIEUTENANT CECIL FRANCIS
BLACKER, 2nd BATTN. CONNAUGHT
RANGERS,
was the son of Major
F. H. Blacker, late
4th Queen's Own
Hussars, and IMrs.
Blacker, and was
liorn at Scaftworth
Hall, Bawtry, York-
shire, on the 1.5th
May, 1889. '
He was educated at
ilr. A. E. TiUard's
School at May Place,
Malvern Wells, at Wellington College, and at
the B.M.C., Sandhin-st.
Lieutenant Blacker received liLs commission as
Second Lieutenant in the Connatight Bangers
in November, 1909, and was promoted Lieu-
tenant in Januai'y, 1911.
He was severely wounded at the Battle of
Mons on the 23rd Augvist, 1914, and died at
Netley Hospital from the effects on the 6th
September, 1914. At the time he was woimded
he was serving in the Brigade Cycling Corps.
Ijeutenant Blacker was a good rider, and won
several races at Punchestown and other places
in 1912-1.3.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM STEWART
BURDETT BLACKETT attd.
LEICESTERSHIRE YEOMANRY, for
merly 3rd GRENADIER GUARDS,
(of Arbigland. Dum-
fries), was born in
1873, and was the
only son of Com-
mander A. S. Blac-
kett, R.N. Captain
Blackett was the
nephew and heir of
his uncle. Colonel
Blackett, of Arbig-
land, Dumfries.
He was educated at
Wellington College,
and at the R.jNl.C, Sandhurst, and joined
the Grenadier Guards in May. 1S95, being
promoted Lieutenant in February, 1898,
and Captain in May, 1900.
With the 3rd Battalion he served during the
wliole of the South Afriian ^^'ar, for which he
received the Queen's meilal with three clasps,
and the King's medal with two clasps.
In the Great War he was attaclied for service
to the Leicestershire Yeomanry, and died on
the 24th November, 1914, from wounds received
at Ypres on the 20th Noveml)cr.
Captain Blackett was a keen fisherman and
cricketer, and fond of liunting and shooting.
He was a member of the Guards', Bachelors',
and Army and Navy Clubs.
He married Kathleen Prudence Eirene, yoimgest
daughter of B. F. Bagenal, D.I^., of Benekerry,
Carlow, and left one son, C. W. S. Blackett,
born 1908.
2nd LIEUTENANT PATRICK EDWARD
ADAM BLAIR, 2nd BATTN. THE BLACK
W.\TCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS),
was the elder sou of Jlr. A. S. Blair, Writer
to the .Signet, Ediuliurgh. who as l>ieutcnant-
Colonel Commanding the 9t)i Battalion (High-
landers) Royal Scots, is himself taking part in
the war with Germany.
Second Lieutenant Blair was born in June,
1893. and was educated at Cargilfield School,
Midlothian, and Malvern College. He was
gazetted to the Black Watch from the
Special Reserve, in June, 1914, and accom-
panied the 1st Battalion to the front in
August. Early in November Second Lieu-
tenant Blair was reported " missing," but
is now stated to have lieen killed near
Gheluvelt on the 29th October, 1914.
MAJOR EDWARD ALGERNON
CLEADER BLAKE, 2nd BATTN.
DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY,
was the younger son of the late Mr.
Samuel PVederick Blake, of Great Budbridge
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Manor, and Shanklin. ble of Wight, and
was bom on the 27th Aogost, 1871.
m -^^^^ - - ^=r^ He was educated at
IJH^^^PJ^^^H (niiitelaw).
which he entered in
1S86. He receive<l
his commission in
the Durham Light
Infantry from the
Militia in April. 1S93,
licing posted to the l.st
Battaiion.and became
Lieutenant in May,
1S96, and Captain in
February, 1900.
He served in the South African War while
Adjutant of his battalion, an appointment he
held from April, 1901, to April, 1904, and was
present at the relief of Ladysmith, including
action at Colenso. the action at Vaal Krans,
where he was severely wounded, and at opera-
tions in the Transvaal from Xovember, 1900,
to 3Iay, 1902. For his ser\'ices he was men-
tioned in Despatches (" London Gazette,"' 29th
July, 1902), received his Brevet Majority 22nd
August, 1902, and the Queen's and King's
medals, each with two clasps.
He was Adjutant of the 3rd (Special Reserve)
Battalion of his regiment at Newcastle from
August, 1912, to Jvdy. 1913. when he obtained
his substantive Majority.
3fajor Blake, who was not married, was fond
of all kinds of sport, especially hunting, shoot-
ing and golf, and extremely popular with all
ranks in his regiment. He was killed at
Ennetieres, France, while gallantly leading his
men on the 20th October, 1911. and by his
bravery and good leadership drove back a
strong attack of the enemv.
CAPT.\IN' HUGH
19th LANCERS
SEYMOUR BLANE.
FANES HORSE.
INDIAN ARMY.
'.va.- the youngest son
of Mrs.KodneyBlane.
Montpelier Street,
London, and of the
late Captain Rodney
Blane. Commander
R.N. Captain Blane's
eldest brother is
Sir Charles Rodney
Blane, who succeeded
his uncle as fourth
Baronet in 1911.
He was bom on the 2nd February. 18S.o, and was
educated at Aldenham. and after receiving his
commission in August, 190.5, was attached to
the Wiltshire Regiment for a year before he
joined the 19th Lancers, Indian Army, in
Xovember, 1906.
He was promoted Lieutenant in November,
1907, and Captain in August, 191-1. In June.
1907, while in India. Captain Blane was shot
at and wounded in a train by Pathans, but
recovered after being in King Edward VTI
Hospital in Grosvenor Gardens.
He was a good polo player ; in 1913 he was
Captain of the Regimental Polo team, and
acted as umpire at Hurlingham in the summer
of 1911. He was a member of the Cavalry
Club. He married in April, 191-t, Molly.
daughter of ilrs. OX'allaghan.
For active service Captain Blane was attached
to the .5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
Dragoon Guards. He was wounded on the 31st
Octol)er and lay in the trenches for sixteen
hoius before he was moved to the Field Hos-
pital, where he died on the morning of 1st
Noveml>er, 1914. He was buried at Neuve
Eglise. The man who carried him out of the
trench received the D.C.M. for the action.
C .\ P T A I N G E R .\ L D W Y N T E R
B L A T H W A Y T . ROYAL FIELD
.\ R T I L L E R Y.
was bom at Belve-
dere, Kent, on the
30th June, 1879.
being the son of
Arthiu- P. Blathwayt,
Esq., of Northwood
Grange, Middlesex.
He was educated at
Aldenham School,
Herts.
In 1896 he received a
coQunission in the
Kent Artillery 3Iilitia, and having passed the
qualifying examination obtained a commission
in the Garrison Artillery in 1S9S, and was trans-
ferred to the Royal Field ArtiDery on the out-
break of the South African War. to which he
went in the specially formed Royal African
3Iounted Rifles. For his services he received
the South African medal, with three clasps.
On his return to England he was appointed
Adjutant of the 49th Brigade Royal Field
Artillery, and subsequently Garrison Adjutant
at ^\'oolwich. having become Captain in July,
1906. On expiration of his Staff appointment
in February, 1914. he joined the 56th Battery,
44th (Howitzer) Brigade, at Brighton.
On the first day of the Battle of the ^isne,
14th September. 1914, he was killed by the
bursting of a shell, and his body was buried
in the garden of the Chateau Vemeuil. in the
village of that name. Major Barker, Com-
manding the 56th Battery, wrote : — " In him
the .\rmy has lost a gallant Officer, and myfelf
and his other companions in the Brigade a
beloved conuade and friend."
Captain Blathwayt was for some years Honorary
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Secretary of tlu; Garri-~iiii Cricket Chili, Wodl-
\\i<li; lie was a iiieiiilier of the " Baiul of
Urol hers," and of tlie .Tii iiioi'l "nit eil Service (Miili,
He married .\lari;are( Ahiie, chuij^iiter of Hie
hile C. PiclcersfiiJl-Ciiiiline, of Beacon Hill Park,
Hindhead, and of Mrs. I'ii Icers^ill-CuiiJilTe,
of CoIiIp Court. CooHiaiii. Su.«.sex, and li-fl tun
daiiyhlers, .Madeleine .Marijarel. and ICli/.aheHi,
aged two years and one >ear respeitively at
Hie lime of Hieir father's death.
MAJOR CHARLES BLISS, CLE., 1st
BATTN. 1st KING GEORGE'S OWN
GURKHA RIFLES (THE MALA UN
REGIMENT),
w lio died on tlie 22nd
December, 1914, at
I.illers, France, of
wciunds received on
tlie 20tll Decemlier,
was the second snr-
vivint; son of Sir
Henry William Hliss.
K.C.l.l':.. Indian
Civil Si'ivice (re-
tired), and was born
on the I'Otli Decem-
ber 1S71, at Hindi-Ill. .Madiir;i District.
^ladras Presidency, India.
He was ediicateil at Clifton College. Neuenlieiin
College, and the 1{..\[.C., Sandhurst, and
received his first commission in the North
Staffordshire Kegiinenfc, to which he was
gazetted in 1S!)1. Two years later he was
transferred to the Derbyshh'e regiment, in
which lie became Lieutenant in ISiKl. In
DecemVier of the latter year he joined the
Indian Statf Corps and was appointed to the
■11th Gurkh.i l?ifles. Having been promoted
Captain in llinl. In- was Deputy Assistant
Adjutant-tleiiei'al for ilusketry in l!tO:i, an
apjiointment he gave up to rejoin his regiment
for service in Tibet : he took part in the
action at Niani, the operations at anel around
Gyantse, and the march to Lhasa, during \\hich
he was wounded. He was mentioned in
Despatches ("London Gazette," 13th Deccmbei',
inOl). and received the Tibet medal and clasp.
From 1907 he was seconded for service with the
Assam MOitary Police, and commanded several
small expeditions on the North-East Frontier ;
he received the CLE. and the Police medal
and also had the Durbar medal, 1911, ami
Abor medal.
He was appointed to the 1st Gurkha Rifles in
1908, but only joined hi.s regiment in August,
19 U, just before it left India for the front.
He was mentioned in Sir .Tohn French's
Despatch of 31st :\Iay, 19].-,.
Major Bliss married Mabel Kmmeline, daughter
of Colonel Jfaxwell, late Derbyshu-e Pegimeiit,
and left one daughter, aged nine years.
CAPTAIN GREVILLE HUBERT ROBINS
BLOUNT, ROYAL ARTILLERY,
son of the late .Major
11 11 Ipert Blount.
Koyal Artillery, wlu.
died of fever on -.i-r
\ ice ill till' South
African W.ir. was
Ijorn at Wdolw irh on
the 23r(l l''i'lii'u.'ir\'.
1883.
He was educated at
Harrow, and the
B..M.A.. Woolwich.
and joined the Royal
Field Artillery as Second l.ii-uteiiant in August,
19(»tl. becoming Lieutenant in Auu;nst. 1903,
and Ca])tain in Kovember. 1911. Ilr was
ap])ointed Adjutant of the :!."itli Hiig.ide at
Farnlioroiigh in .liily, 1913.
Captain Blount died on the 2:ird September.
1911. of wounds received in action.
He mari'ied (iladys, younger daughter of t he
Bev. Canon Wilson, of Jlilchain. and left an
orphan boy four years old.
CAPTAIN EDWARD MARTIN
CRA WLEY-BOEVEY, 1st BATTN.
ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT,
nas the second son
of Sir Thomas Hyde
Crawley-Boevey, .5 th
Baronet, t)t Flaxley
Abbey, Newnham,
Gloucestershire, am 1
\\as born at Maxley
on the 2t>tli March,
1S73.
He was educated at
Hugby, and the
H.M.C.. Sandhurst,
joining the Royal
Ifegiment as
Sussex
March.
Second Lieiil
189-). becoming Lieutenant
•naiit m
in .Inly.
1897, and Captain in December. 1902. He
served with liLs battalion in the South African
War, taking part in actions at Iloutnek, Vet
River, Zand River, Pretoria. Johannesburg,
Diamond Hill. Wittebergen, and Ladybrand.
He received the Queen's medal with four clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
As a Lieutenant Captain Crawley-Bocvey was
sent from South Africa to England with some of
the battalion to represent the Royal Su.ssex
IJegiment at the Coronation of H.JI. King
Edward ML
Captain Crauley-Boevey was killed in the
trenches near Bailleul. on 24th December. 1914.
while attached for duty with the 4tli Battalion
Hoyal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment),
when he was trying to shoot a sniper.
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Captain Crawley-Boevey was a member of the
Junior Army and Xavy Club. He was fond of
.shooting and all sport. He was a particularly
trifted draughtsman and good shot with both
revolver and rifle. Most of his service was
spent in India with the 1st Battalion.
He married Rosalie Winifred, daughter of
Colonel Sartorius, C.B., and granddaughter of
Sir George Rose Sartorius, K.C.B., late Admiral
of the Fleet, and left one son, Ric-hard Martin,
bom 31st Jidv. 190S.
COLONEL FRANK RIDLEY FARRER
B O I L E A U. p. s . c . . LATE ROYAL
ENGINEERS.
died on the 27th
August, 1914, of
wounds received at
Ham, France.
He was the eldest sur-
\"iving son of Colonel
F.W. BoUean.C.B.,of
Elstowe, Camberley,
was born on the 29th
November, 1S67, and
was educated at
Cheltenham CoDege.
He joined the Ko>'aI Engineers in February,
1887. becoming Lieutenant three years later.
In 1S92 he took part in the Lushai ExpecUtion,
for which he received the medal and clasp,
and in 189.5 was employed with the Relief Force
in the Chitral Expedition, receiving the medal
and clasp. In July. 1897. he was promoted
Captain. From April, 1898, to February. 1900,
he was Assistant Commissioner, Anglo-German
South-East African Boundary Commission.
From June to November, 1900, he was Deputy
Assistant Adjutant -General in South Africa,
and took part in the Boer War, being present
at the advance on KJmberley, including actions
at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magers-
fontein ; operations in the Orange Free State,
and at Paardebei^ ; actions at Poplar Grove,
Driefontein. Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet
and Zand Rivers ; in the Transvaal, with
actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and
Diamond Hill ; at fiu^her operations in the
Transvaal west of Pretoria, including action
at Zihkats Nek. For his services he was men-
tioned in De-patches (London Gazette, Sth
February. 1901), given his Brevet Majority
November, 1900, and received the Queen's
medal with six clasps.
From ilay, 1901, to .luly, 1905. he was Deputy-
Assistant Adjutant-General, Royal Engineers,
at Head Quarters of the Army. In addition to
being a Staff College Graduate, Colonel Boileau
was a second-class Interpreter in French. He
received his substantive Majority in August,
190.5, and in March, 1906, was given a half-pay
Lieutenant-Colonelcy, with the appointment,
of Professor at the Indian Staff College, which
he held till January, 1910. He was promoted
Brevet-Colonel in March, 1909, anfl a sub-
stantive Colonel on the 21st January. 1910,
going on half -pay till July, 1910, when he was
appointed a General Staff Officer, First Grade.
Ilird Division, Southern Command. This
appointment he was holding when the war
broke out, and he then became Chief .Staff
Officer of the Illrd Division Expeditionary
Force, and was so ser\"ing when he receive<l
the injuries from which he died.
He married in 1902, Mary, daughter of Preben-
dary Tudor, LiLstleigh, Devon, and leaves three
sons.
MAJOR GEORGE ENIL BOLSTER.
ROYAL FIELD .\RT1LLERY.
was born at Dagshai,
India, on the 21st
July, 1876, the son
of Surgeon-Major T.
G. Bolster, .M.D.,
F.R.C.S., A.M.S..
anil Mrs. Bolster, of
Twickenham. and
grandson of Brevet
Lieutenant - Colonel
J. F. Nembhard.
Bengal Army.
His early years were
spent at various places at home and abroad,
where his father was stationed. After coming
to England in ISSS, he was educated at Ipswich
Grammar School, whence he passed direct into
the Royal Military Academy in 1893, and in the
passing out examinations gained the sixth place,
and the prize for Artillery.
He was gazetted to the Royal Artillery in
November, 1895, became Lieutenant in Novem-
ber, 1898, Captain in September, 1901. and
Major in February, 1912. Much of his early
service was spent in India. In 1903 he was ap-
pointed Adjutant of the 35th Brigade Royal
Field Artillery, and held the position for over
three years. In 1909 he was appointed Staff
Captain, Vth Division, Irish Command, and
left that post on being nominated for the Staff
College in 1911. On completion of his course
there in 1914, he joined the 106th Battery
in South Africa, and returning home he em-
barked for the Front with the 106th Battery,
22nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, forming
part of the Vllth Di\-ision of the Ex-
peditionary Force.
He took part in the heroic stand made by
that Division at Tprcs, until the 1st Army
Corps came up from the Aisne on the 21st
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October. On the 2:U(1 ()(t<>l)iT, I'.lll, uliilr
taking up an observation jiost in ad vauio of liLs
battery, a high explosive shell bui-st closer to
him, and he was killed instantaneously by the
shock, there being no external wounds. Ills body
\va« buried in the portion of the Aluiiicipjd
Ceiiiet<'r> , Ypres, set aside for Britisli Ollicers,
a wooden crcs.s with his name lieing erected
over his grave by the Officer who succeeded liiiu
in the command of the l)ntlery.
.\ distinguished Officer of Head Quarters wrote
to his mother, saying : " 1 cannot tell you how
sorry I was to hear that George had lieen
killed . . . we all mourn his loss. In
George not only the regiment but the army-
has lost a. most able OlTicer and also a most
staunch friend . . . Ion ed by all who have
had to serve with him."
Sliortly before leaving for the front, Major
Bolster's engagement to a da\ighter of Colonel
T. J. de Burgh, of Oldtown, Naas, had been
publicly announced.
.Major Bolster was a keen huntsman, and rode
in several point-to-point races. He was well
known with the Kildare and Huhallow Hunts.
He «as also a hockey player and often joined in
games \\ it h bis men.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT HAROLD
BOND, 2nd BATTN. KING'S
ROYAL RIFLE CORPS.
was t>orn at Akler-
shot in 1882, only son
of Colonel B. J.
Bond, B.E., of
jNIoorefield, Co. Kil-
dare, Ireland, and
nephew of General
Bond, C.B.
He was educated at
Wellington College,
where he was Head
of his House.
He joined the King's
Itoyal Rifie Corps in 1003 from the I.,eicester-
shiro .Militia, and N\as promoted to his
Lieutenancy in 1007, serving in India
till 1909, and then at Shornchffe and Black-
down.
He was killed on the 14lh September, 1014,
in tlw Bailie of the Aisne. In the early morn-
ing of that day Lieutenant Bond's company
were in a brilliant action in which they lost all
their officers killed or wounded, as well as
many riflemen, but held their position most
gallantly.
Lieutenant Bond was a keen soldier, line horse-
man and athlete, being a very good long dis-
tance runner.
2nd LIEUTENANT SIDNEY COUR-
THOPE BOSANQUET, 5th BATTN.
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S OWN (MID-
DLESEX REGT.l,
who was killed in
trciiib fighting at
lloupliues, near
Aiinentiferes, on the
KithDei'ember.lOl 1.
wa> the elder si>n
of Chai'les John
Bosanquet, M.S.A.,
A. il. I. E. E.. o f
" Stokesay," BlacU-
heath, and a nephew
f)f Samuel Courthopir
Bosamjuet, I]sq., of 1 )ingestow Court, Monmouth.
He was educated at St. LaN^Tence College,
Ramsgate. He was fu'st given a commission
in March, 191;!, in the 5th Battalion Middlesex
Regiment, and went throiigh his training and
the manceuvres of that autumn. Later he
resigned his commission and went into the
Ironworks of David Bridge & Co., Castleton,
Lancashire. On the mobilisation for the war
he at once offered his services and was gazetted
Second Lieutenant on probation in his previous
battalion on the 15th August, 1914. He was at-
tached to the 1st Battalion while on active service.
He was in his 21st year, having lieen born at
Belvedere on the loth July, 1894.
2nd LIEUTENANT the Honble. VERE
DOUGLAS BOSCAWEN, COLDSTREAM
GUARDS (SPECIAL RESERVE),
whose death was
notified in the official
monthly list pub-
lished in January,
1915, but who i.s
believed to have been
killed on the 29th
October, 1914, was
the third son of the
seventh Viscount Fal-
mouth, K.C.V.O.,
C.B.
It was stated in the
" Times " of the 21st December, 1914, that,
071 the 29th October four companies of the
Coldstream Guards were completely siu-rounded
. and that Mr. Boscawen, refusing to sur-
render, fell fighting against overwhelming odds.
Second Lieutenant Boscawen was born on the
3rd August, 1890, and was attached to the 1st
Battalion Coldstream Guards in March, 1914.
CAPTAIN CHARLES SIDNEY
GARNETT-BOTFIELD, 2nd BATTN.
BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
son of the Rev. C. R. Garnett-Botfield, M.A.,
Moreton Vicarage, near Oswestry, was born
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BOT— BOU
at Rochdale on the 5th October, 1887. He
was educated at Bossall School, ami the
R.M.C, Sandhurst.
He joined the Bed-
fordshire Keginient
as Second Lieutenant
in February. 1908.
becoming Lieutenant
in .March. 1910. and
t'aptain in Septem-
ber. 1914.
In the Great War
W^-^ . '^^^^^B Captain Garnett-
llT j \ *' J^^^^l Bot field was wounded
"^ in the elbow at Ypres
on the 80th October, 1914, but contiiuied
fighting, till later his right thigh was shattered.
He was removed to the ChrLstol Base Hospital.
Boulogne, where he died on the 14th December,
1914.
Captain Garnett-Botfield, who was said to be
one of the finest 3Iachine Gun Officers, was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of
14th January, 1915, for gallant and distin-
guished service.
2nd LIEUTENANT THOMAS REG-
INALD BOTTOMLEY. 1st BATTN.
THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT.
was born at Rippon-
den, Yorkshire, on
the 17th October,
1887, the son of
Thomas and Ellen
Bottondey, now of
Thornton Heath,
Surrey, formerly of
Belle Vue, Barkis-
land, Halifax, Y'ork-
shire. He was edu-
cated at Rishworth
Grammar School
from 1S98 to 1903, at the Halifax Technical
College till 1907, and subsequently at St.
John's College, Battersea, and Bh-kbeck College,
London, till 1914.
Second Lieutenant Bottondey olitained many
academic distinctions, including the degree of
B.A., London University (as an Internal
student), in 1913, and the Teachers' Diploma
of the Board of Education ; moreover, after
joining the Army he passed successfully exam-
inations for promotion and in Physical drill.
In athletics also he won prizes, including the
College mile and half mile : was a member
of the St. John's CoUege First XV., and of
the South London Harriers.
Mr. Bottomley had intended to adopt the
Teaching profession as his career, and on leaving
St. John's College was appointed Teacher by
the Croydon Educational Committee. He was
acknowledged by aU who knew him to have
had an enormous influence for good over boys
under him. preferring to teach by example
rather than by precept alone. One o! his
Headmasters said of him : " His life was a
pattern — steel true and blade straight."
UTule at London L'niversity, Mr. Bottomley
joined the Officers' Training Corps, in which he
spent three years, up to April. 1914, when he
received his commission as .Second Lieutenant
in the 1st Battalion East Y'orkshire Regiment
(.Special Reserve), joining in June for liis first
year's period of training. Pre\-iou.sly he had
served as cadet and sergeant in the 10th
(Territorial) Battalion Duke of Cambridge's
Own (Middlesex Regiment) from 1908-11.
On September 7th .Second Lieutenant Bottom-
ley accompanied his l)attalion to the Continent,
and three days after arriving in the fighting
line, was killed by shell, in a trench, early on
the morning of the 23rd .September. 1914.
A senior Officer gave his widow the following
account of his death : — " The whole company,
officers and men. deeply sympathise with you
in your loss ; he was our loss too, as we all
admired and respected him. He feU in the
trenches, hit by the first shell of the day ;
he could not have suffered at all. The nearest
village to the place is Vendresse, and the
trenches were on the ridge north of the village.
He was l)uried near Troyon, a cross marking his
grave."
Second Lieutenant Bottomley had married on
the 29th August, a few days before leaving for
the front, Evehne ilary. only daughter of
W. H. Gibson. Esq.. of Sowerby Bridge, and
sister of Doctor Gibson, I'rofessor of Engineer-
ing. .St. Andrew's University, now serving as
Lieutenant in the 2nd Highland Brigade. Royal
Field Artillery (Territorial ).
LIEUT. NIGEL WALTER HENRY
LEGGE-BOURKE. 2nd BATTN. COLD-
STRE.\M GUARDS,
was the only son of
Colonel the Hon.
Sir Harry Legge,
K.C.V.O., late Cold-
stream Guards, and
Lady Legge, and was
born at 45, Gros venor
Square, London, on
the 13th November.
1889.
He was educated at
■Evelyns" (Mr. G. T.
Worsley's) from April, 1 899. to August, 1902, and
at Eton (Rev. U. T. Bowlby's) from September,
BOU -BOW
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1902— Deccmhci-. I'.IUT. aiul cnlei-c.l the Royal
Military CdllcLrt', Saiulhui'st, afU-r attaining
the ajjo of IS in .lanuary, 1908. From Sanil-
liui-st he received hLs commission in the 1st
Coldstream Guards in February, 1909, l)ecoming
Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion in .Tune, 19l().
IIo left with liis battalion for tl\e front on the
12th August, 1911. On the 4tli Dctober his
name was sei\t in for mention " tor his ver\'
excellent work and exceptionally ^oo<l leading
of his platoon on all occasions up to the batth'
of llie Aisnc."
lie was killed in aiiion on the Hdtli ()(lolirr.
1914. while in euinniaud of a platoon of No. 1
t'oniiKUiy. holding advanced trenches in Hiiit.il
Wood, near Ypres.
Lieutenant Legge-Boiuke married on linl .lune.
1913. at the Guards' Chapel, Wellington
Barracks, Lady Victoria Carrington. daughter
of the Marquis of Lincolnshire, and left one
son, Kdward .Mexander Henry, l.diii Kith
31ay, ]91.-,.
LIEUTENANT JACOB EDWARD
PLEYDELL-BOLVERIE, 2nd BATTN.
KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS.
who died in hosjiital
at Boulogne on the
1st November, 1911.
was tlie only son of
the late Hon. Diui-
condje Pleydell-Bou-
verie. second son of
tlie fourth Earl of
Radnor, and his wife,
Marie Eleanor I'lej-
dell-Bouverie, of
Coleshill House.
Higliworth. Berk-
shire, daughter of Sir Edward Hulse..')tli Baronet.
He was horn on the 12tli July, 1SS7, and
was educated at Eton and the R.il.C.,
Sa'idhurst, from wliicli lie was gazetted to tlie
King's Royal Rifle Corps in February, 1908.
behsg posted to the 1th Battalion. In 19(19 he
went to India witli his battalion, and having
been piomoted Lieutenant in January, 1911,
soon after leturned to England and wa^^
stationed at the Rifle Depot, VMncliestev, until
the war broke out.
Lieutenant Pleydell-Bou\ erie, u ho was a
member of the Batli Club, was a keen cricketer
and played frequently for the Green Jackets
and Free Foresters.
At the end of August, 1914, he left Sheerne-s
with a draft, and joined the 2nd Battalion of
his regiment on the 20th Septendier, taking
command of tlie 13tli and 14th platoons. He
was mortally wounded at Gheluvelt on tlie 31st
October during tlie German attack on Ypres.
and died early next morning in No. lii
Stationary Hospital at Boulogne.
LIEUTENANT CUTHBERT EDWARD
LATIMER BO WEN. attd. to the
KING'S AFRICAN RIFLES,
son of the ]{ev.
Thomas James and
.Susan Elvina Bow en.
was born at .Vll
.Saints' ^'i<•arage.
Sw ansea, on the 2:!rd
•Septemljer, 1881.
He received his eilu-
eation first at .Mr.
I'ridden's Prepara
lory Seliool. Grovi-
Ibiu>e. Boxgrove.
(iiiildford, ami after-
wards at Rugby (.Mr. .Stallard's House). in
1902 he entered the Queen's Royal West Surre\
Regiment (.Militia) and served with it in South
Africa. After the Boer War he ent(>red the
Regular Army, being gazetted to the Queen's
Own Royal West .Surrey Regiment, January,
1903, and joined tlie 1st Battalion at Peshawar,
India. Leaving the Army in lOO.j, he accepted a
[lost under the Colonial Office as Assistant IMs-
ti'ict Inspector of Police in British East .\frica.
.\t the time of his deatli. whieli occurred 1st
December, 1911, he was operating on the
border of tlie KLssi District under .Major Ross,
with half a company of the King's African
Rifles, to which regiment he was then attaclied,
and some thirty European Scouts. A day or
two previously he had captured a Gernian, and
on the day lie was killed news was l)rought in
concerning two more GermaiLs. 1 le obtaine<l per-
mission to go out and endeavour to capture
them, and left with an officer of the King's
-Airican Rifles, some men of the regiment, and
some police. The Germans were located on
a stony hill and tlie Otlicer of the King's .\fi-ican
Rifles went up one way. Lieutenant Bowen
another, the latter apparently reaching the
top fii-st with his Sergeant, a Corporal, and other
police. On meeting the enemy a fight ensued
in wiiich Lieutenant Bowen and some of liis men
Were killed, liut tlie Germans were eventually
driven out of tlie position. His body and those
of the men killed were recovered next morning
and buried at the foot of the iiill.
The General Officer Commanding, on hearing
of the death of Mr. Bowen and the men of the
East Airican PoUce, desired to express his
regret, adding that Mr. Bowen evidently lost liis
life in a gallant attempt to take Susuni Hill,
and Major Edwards, Inspector-General of PoUce,
added : — " I feel I have lost both a gallant and
loyal friend. The Police intend at the end of
the war to erect a memorial, either over the spot
wliere he rests, or ekewherc, in memory of a
brotlier officer who died so gallantly, and whose
name wiU always be amongst those most
lionourcd by us."
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BOW— BOY
LIEUTENANT HENRY RAYMOND
SYNDERCOMBE BOWER. 1st BATTN.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was kUleil in
action at the age of
20, was the eld&st
son of Mr. H. G. S.
Bower, of JIainhiill.
Dorset.
He was educated at
a jiieparatory scliool
at IJepton, then at
Repton School itself,
and the R. M. C.
.Sandhurst. He re-
ceived his commis-
sion in September, 1913, and was promoted
Lieutenant in Xovember, 1914.
Lieutenant Bower was killed on the 20th
December, 1914. while helping a wounded
soldier to shelter. ha\ing ah-eady brought in
several others safely. He had himself been
previously wounded ou the 2lith October at
Y"^pres, where his battaUon formed i)art of the
famous VJIth Division.
His recreations were cricket, tennis, hmiting and
hockev.
L 1 E U T E N .\ N T
BOWLES. ROYAL
J .\ M E S ARTHUR
FIELD ARTILLERY,
was born on ilarch
9th, 1883. and was
;i5« the son of General
rfC^JA . F. A. Bowles, C.B.,
f ^ M Royal ^Vitillery. and
was educated at
Boxgrove School.
Guildford, Surrey ;
Clifton College, and
the Royal 3Iilitaiy
Acailemy.
He obtained his fii-st
Commission in the
Royal .Aitillery in Jidy. 1902. From 1909-12 he
served ou the Stail' as A.D.C.to his father. General
F. A. Bowles, when commanding at Devonport.
In April. 1912, he joined the 28th Brigade
Royal Field Ai'tiUery, and in the same year
was appointed Adjutant of the Brigade.
Previous to this he had served with the 132nd
Battery at Fermoy, and in the Royal Horse
.Artillery at the Depot, Woolwich.
He was killed in action at Le Cateau, France,
on the 26th August. 1914.
He married Dorothy Emily, youngest daughter
of Mrs. Bainbridge and the late Rear-Admiral
.T. H. Bainliridge, of " Elfordleigh," Plympton.
South Devon, and " Frankfield," Cork. Ireland,
and left two children. Rose Ella .Moina.
born 2(jth June. 1912. and Ruth Kathleen,
born 2(ith September, 1913.
Lieutenant Bowles was a member of the Junior
Armv and Xavv Oub.
2nd LIEUT. THOMAS HENRY BOWLEY.
1st BATTN. LE IC EST FR S H I R F
REGIMENT,
who is i>resumed to i
have been killed on
20th October, 1914,
was boru at Huggles-
cote, Leicester, on
18th May, 1875, the
son of John Wel-
borue Bowley (be-
lieved to be from
the French name de
Boulay) of Ashby dc
la Zouche.
After receiving the usual elementary education
he joined the Border Regiment, and served in its
ranks for just twenty-one years, including the
South African War, for his services in which he
was made King's Sergeant, was mentioned in
Despatches for captiu'ing a " Commandant "
and taking a Boer position, after his Officer
had been killed, and received the King's and
Queen's medals with seven clasps ; he also
held the Grood Conduct medal, and almost
every certificate, including " D." in JIusketry,
which It was possible for a soldier in his position
to obtain. He was an all-round sportsman
and was noted for the remarkalile control he
exercised over his men.
On the 10th October, 1914, while on active
service la the Great War, he was gazetted to a
commission in the 1st Battalion Leicestershire
Regiment, but never joined liis new Battalion,
continuing to serve, till his presumed death,
in his old i-egiment. Though endeavours have
been made to obtain authentic information
about lilni through the usual official chaimeLs,
the Red Cross Society and the American
F^mbassy, they have unfortunately been unsuc-
cessful.
More than one account has been received from
men of the battahon who professed to be able
to give information, but the accounts dlflfer so
materially that it is feared little reliance can
be placed on them.
Second Lieutenant Bowley married Louisa S.,
daughter of the late John Thomas Palmer, of
Camberwell, and left three children, Violet
Lydia. born in Burmah in September, 1903,
Ronald Graham, born in India in February,
1905, and Leslie \A'elborne, born iu Carlisle in
May. 1908.
2nd LIEUTENANT EDWARD FENVVICK
BOYD, 1st BATTN. NORTHUMBER-
LAND FUSILIERS, killed in action at the
battle of the Aisne on the 20th September,
1914, was the only .sou of the late Rol)ert
Fenwick Boyd, of Houghton-le-.Spring, Co.
Durham, and of !Mrs. Boyd, of Hill House.
Wadhurst. Sussex.
BOY
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lie was horn in 1890, and educated at Rugby,
where he was Cadet OITiccr in the Offii-<'rs'
Training Corps, and
1 ' won liis foot liall
colours in 1912 ; and
I ' 11 i ver^ity College,
( )xford, where lu^ w as
a nicniberof Vincent's
Chill. lie ])lay(Ml
t'ootliall for Black -
heat h fortwoseasons.
and for 'the Army r.
Navy in 191 1.
Mr was gazetted
Si-iiiiid Lieutenant
in tin- Xiirt liuiiilicrland I'u.siliers in Septenilier.
I'.il:^. Second Lieutenant Boyd went out
to l''raucc witli llic Isl liattaliou on the
l.'lth Aiiuust. 1914, and was nientioncd
in Sir .tolm l-'iciich's Despatch of the Stli
Octolicr. nil 1.
2nd LIEUTENANT HAROLD ALEXAN-
DER BOYD, 2nd BATTN. ROYAL
INNISKILLING FUSILIERS,
«a.s the only son of
,^^m-^^m^^^^^ Dr. A. J. Boyd, The
I^^Bbm^^^^H^I Manor House, Ware.
Herts, and was born
there on the 19th
January, 189.'). Mrs.
Boyd was a daughter
of the hate B. C
Berkeley, of Collet t
Hall. Ware. Dr.
Hii\il had served in
tlir 1st (Herts) Vol-
unteer Battalion Bed-
foi'dsliiiv Kegiment. retiring as Captain in 1902.
Second laeutenant Boyd was educated at
Bugby, and Trinity College, Camliridge. where
he was a niemljer of the First Trinity Boat Cluli.
He joined the Ariny in the Special Beserve in
April, 1913, and on the outbreak of the' war was
first stationed on coast defence duty at Lough
Swilly. Co. Donegal, and in August. 191-t. pro-
ceeded to France with the 2nd Battalion Boyal
Inniskilling FusiUers, in which he had been
appointed Second Lieutenant.
A corporal of the battalion gave the following
account of Second Lieutenant Boyd's death,
which occurred on the 7th September. 1914 : —
" In the evening the Inniskillings had to fiiiil
the outposts at a village to which we had come :
. . . the shelling was terrific and we had
no artillery with us. Our officers were trying
to find the range, and had no cover from the
shells, thus exposing themselves, notably
Mr. Boyd, who was standing l>y an apjilc
tree. He was struck by shrapnel and killed
instantly."
2nd LIEUTENANT NIGEL JOHN
LAWSON BOYD, OF THE 1st BATTN.
THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGH-
LANDERS),
was born at Edin-
biir'j;h on the 1 Ith
Seplciidier, 1894, the
son (<( William Boyd.
Fs(|., Writer to the
Signet. Edinburgh.
Member of the King's
Body Guard for Scot -
laud (H.C.A.). ami
his wife Laura,
(laughter of the kite
.lohn Crerar, Esq., of
Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a grandson of
Sir John Boyd, of ^laxpoffle, Boxbui'ghshire.
and great grandson of John Ijawson, Esq.,
1 llh 1/aud of Cairninuir, Peebleshire, Scotland.
Secojul Lieutenant Boyd was educated at
Cargilfleld School, iVlidlothian : Winchester
College, and the Royal JMilitary College, Sand-
hurst. In passing into Sandhurst he obtained
a Prize Cadetship. and in passing out was
fourth on the list. From his earliest childhood
it had been his ambition to lie in the Black
Watch, and he was gazetted to that distin-
guished regiment in Februaiy, 1914. Accom-
panying it to France at the beginning of August,
1914. he took part Mith it in all the fighting
ill wliich it was engaged, including the memor-
able retirement from Mons to the .Marne. until
the Battle of the AJsne. Here, on his birthday,
he received the wound which proved fatal.
From a description he gave his father, when in
hospital at Rouen, it seems that early in the
morning of that day the Black Watch, in con-
cert with the Cameron Higldanders, found
themselves on the banks of the ^Usne, opposed
by a strong force of Germans. Second Lieu-
tinant Boyd had been directed to take up a
position with his platoon and li.ad been in-
structed to hold it at all costs. The enemy
pressed him in overpowering numbers, till they
were within 100 yards. Second Lieutenant
Boyd, having fired ten rounds from a rifle,
afterwards emptied his revolver at them.
He had stood up to give an order to those of
his men who were left, and had drawn his
claymore, when a bullet struck the scabbard,
and. glancing off it, entered the left hip and
lodged in the bladder. The position was then
rushed liy the enemy. The young Officer and
his men had luiquestionalily upheld the best
traditions of the grand old regiment to which
he was so proud to belong.
While lying wounded, he asked a passing
Geiinan for assistance, who replied \^ith a
threat to shoot him ; after this he pre-
tended to be dead when GermaiLs passed. At
last Captain Napier Cameron, of the Cameron
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BOY— BRA
lli^lilaiulers. liappened to sec liiiii, ami tarneil
liiin, under fire, to shelter in the rear. At the
time this undoubtedly saved his life, ^^^lilo
lying wounded he had most of his lielongings
stolen, revolver, field glasses, flask, and money.
He lay where Captain Xajjier Cameron had
placed him for 10 hours in the rain, and was
then found by a stretcher party and carried to
the Field Hospital. .Subsequently, at the
Hospital in Rouen, he was operateil on. and
throughout behaved with the greatest fortitude,
being held up as an example to men less severely
hurt than himself. Great hopes were enter-
tained of his recovery, but in the early morning
of the 12th October, he suddenly succumljed.
the iuunediate cause of deatli being a blood clot.
Thus ended a young hfe, not, we may be s\U'e,
given in vain for his country. His Ijody was
brought to .Scotland and interred with niiUtary
honours in the Dean Cemetery. Edinbiirgh, on
the 19th October, 1911.
From the Head Master, his Ho\ise llaster at
Wincliester, an-l other sources, came striking
testimony to the respect and aflection in which
he had been held there.
A Senior Officer of his regiment wrote that
" He was very popiUar with ail ranks."
He was keen on aU outdoor sports. At Win-
chester he played in the " Hou^e^ Fifteen "
matches, was a fan* cricketer, and Scratch Golf
player ; a good rider, keen fisherman and
excellent shot ^vith gun and rifle. He shot for
Winchester at BLsley in 1911 for the Cadet
Trophy, and was again at Bisley in the Win-
chester " Eight " in 1912.
LIEUTENANT DAVID ERSKINE
BOYLE. 2nd B.\TTN. LANCASHIRE
FUSILIERS,
who was killed in
J^^ action near Cambrai,
1^^ on the 2(ith August,
^J 191 !, was the son of
^f, the late Rear
' Admiral Robert
r^ Hornby Boyle.
r^^^ He was born on the
9th .September. 1.S.S9.
and was educated at
ilalvern College
(Swann, 1903-08),
where he was a school prefect, head of his house,
in the cricket XXII. the football XI. and in the
Officers' Training Corps.
He entered the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in .Septiun-
ber, 1908, became a Colom--sergeant in 1909. was
gazetted Second Lieutenant in September of that
year, and promoted Lieutenant in January. 1911.
Wlien he was killed he was in the act of sum-
moning aid for a fellow officer wlio had just Ijeen
wounded. He was buried by liis own men
close to where he fell.
CAPT.\IN the Honble. JAMES
BOYLE. 1st BATTN. KOY.\L SCOTS
FUSILIERS.
thu'd son of the 7th
Earl of Glasgow, was
Viorn at Shewalton
on the 11th March,
1880. He was edu-
cated at Wanganui.
New Zealand, ai\d
Trinity Hall. Cam-
bridge.
He joined the Ajt-
slure Mihtia in 1S90.
and served with it in
the South African War 1901-02. for which he
received the Queen's medal with five clasps.
In 1903 he was transferred to the Royal Scots
Fusihers : from October, 1908. to AprU. 1911,
he was exti-a A.D.C. and A.D.C. to the Governor
of Victoria. He became Captain in April. 1912.
In that year he was appointed A.D.C. to
General Su- H. Smith-Dorrien till Apiil. 19U,
when he became Adjutant of his battaUon. and
proceeded with it to Fi-ance in August.
He was killed onthel 8th Octolier. 1 9 1 4 . at Chateau
Warneton.nearLa Bassee. while charginga trench.
Captain Boyle, who nas a memlier of the
United Service and Caledonian Clubs, married
in 1908 Katherine Isabel Salvin, daughter of the
late Edward Salvin Bowlby, of GUston Park,
Herts, and Knoydart, Inverness ; he left three
children. Patrick John Salvin, liorn April. 1910,
Edward James, born February, 1912, and
Belinda Margaret Graeme, born December, 1913.
CAPTAIN EDWARD KINDER BR.\D-
BURY, V.C., ROYAL HORSE
ARTILLERY, ..
wlio was killed in
action at Nery in
.September, 1914, was
born on the 16th
August, 1881, and
was educated at
Marll>orough and the
R.M.A.. Woohrtch.
He joined the Royal
Artillery in May,
1900. and was pro-
moted Lieiitenant in
April, 1901. Pi-om .January to Octol)er. 1902.
he was employed with the Imperial Yeomam-y.
He served in the South African War, being
present at operations in Cape Colony in 1902.
and received the Queen's medal with two
clasps. From FeViruary. 190.5, to ;March, 1907,
he was employed with the King's African Rifles,
and was promoted Captain in February, 1910.
He was a member of the .Junior Xaval and
MiUtary and of the Royal Automobile Clubs,
and was a well-known follower of hounds in the
.South of Ireland, and a keen fisherman.
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Captain HiMillmiy was one i>f tlir (illim-s of the
famous '• L" Battciy, Hoyal Iloise Artillery, all
the olTirors and men of Avhich have gained
undying fame for their gallantry mi the 1st
Septemher, Mill. ("aptain Bradbury was
awarded the X.C. for his part in this aetion,
the following being the oflReial reeord in the
•■ London Gazette"- of the 25th Noveinlier. 1911:
— " l''or gallantry and ability in organising the
defence of ' L ' Battery against heavy odds
at Nery on 1st September, 1914."
A General Officer referring to the incident
wrote : — " Poor Brad was killed yesterday ;
he knocked out eight German guns first and we
got his gun and the German ones afterwards.
I have sent Brad's gun to Paris with
three of the ones he knocked out. A foot of the
nnizzle of his own gun was blown ofl witli
mehinite. and it shows what work he had done."
Another General, writing of Captain Bradbiu'v,
said : " I nuist tell yon how deeply we all in
the .\rtillery of Vlth Division sjanpathise with
you in the loss of your sou. He was simply
belo\cd by us all. from me, his General, to the
last joined subaltern. He was very nearly
four years under my command, and I looked
upon him as one of the most brilliant officers
I had ever come across, one who, had God
willed it, had a great career in front of him,
and the manner in which he met his death
fighting a single gun to the end after the loss
of one leg. was worthy of him."
An Officer of the Queen's Bays wrote : — " Yoiu"
son died the bravest of the brave, he served tlie
last gun himself when all his battery were
either killed or wounded."
The following account of " L " Battery's fight
at Xery has been published : —
" The battery got into bivouac after dark on
the night of August 31st, near the little callage
of Nery, altout twelve miles south-west of
Compiegne. A squadron of the Queen's Bays
were bivouacked in the same field. In the
morning, while the men were having their
breakfasts, and before the rivei" mists had yet
cleared away, the camp was startled by the
sound of guns very close to. Soon the shells
began to fall among the teams harnessed up
ready to march. In two minutes there was imt
a hoi-se living in the field, and many men were
lying about killed and wounded. Captain
Bradbury, Royal .Vrtillery, and Lieutenants
John Campbell, Mundy, and Gififard each tried
to bring guns into action against the Germans,
who had eight guns and were only 500 yards
away Captain Bradbury succeeded in getting
his gun into action and seeing there was no
chance of the other guns being brought to bear
he called their detachment over to lend a hand
to his gun. Lieutenant Giffard was wounded
in four places, getting across to the gun. The
detachment then consisted of the three officers,
Sergeant-Ma jor Dorell. a sergeant and a gunmr
and driver, every other on the lield being killed
or wounded. Unfortunately they could not get
an anuuunition wagon alongside the gun, so
had to cany up each round separately. Captain
Bradbury early in the fight had had one leg
I aken oft by a shell, but insisted on still direct ing
the fire of the gun. Lieutenant ,Iohn Cami)bell
liehaved in the most gallant way. bringing up
anuuunition, and was kiUed Just as he had
1 nought up the last round from the wagon.
Lieutenant !Mundy had his leg partly taken olT
liy a shell and has since died. He could not se(!
how tin- fire was going, so he stepped out to have
a lietter look, saying. ' They can't hit me.' and
(ben he stayed observing till a shell wounded
liini. But still the light wiMit on. .Sergeant -
Major Dorell, aided by the sergeant and the
gunner and driver, lirought up animnnition
from another wagon, and then poor Bradljiuy,
who refused to give in, was struck by another
shell. This gun did not cease fire till they had
used every round of ammunition in the wagon,
and alone it succeeded in knocking out four guns
of the Germans. ' I ' Battery finally arrived, and
with the help of a machine gun of the Bays
silenced the other four German guns, the eight
being captured. It is an open secret that Cap-
tain Bradbury was to have had the X.C. had he
lived, and were postliumou«V.C.'s given, both he
and Ivieutenant John Campbell would certainly
get them. Ijieutenant Mundy was re<ominended
for the V.C., but died from liis wounds. Lieu-
tenant Giii'ard, the sole surviving officer, has
been awarded the French Order of Merit.
"Sergeant'MajorDorell and thesergeant have bof 1 1
been recommended for the X.C. and the gunner
and driver for the I)istinguishe<l Conduct .Medal,
■■ Though ow ing to the German fire the battery's
guns are never likely to be of use again, they
are at the base for a memorial to the gallant
officers and men. No better trophy will ever
be shown than these six Indlet -riddled, guns."
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR EVELYN
RIDLEY BRADFORD, BART,, p,s,c,,
COMMANDING 2nd BATTN, SEA-
FORTH HIGHLANDERS iROSS-SHIRE
BUFFS, THE DUKE OF ALBANY'S),
\\as the second son
of the late Colonel
Sir Edward R. C.
Bradford, Bart.,
some time Commis-
sioner of Police, and
was Ijorn on the l(5t!i
April, 1809,
Educated at Eton
and the R,M. C.
Sandhurst, he was
gazetted to the Sea-
fortli Highlanders in
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August, 1SS8, becoming LiuuU'iuuit in June,
1890, and Captain in July, 1895. As an Officer
qualified lor Staff employment in oon'sequence
of service on the Staff in the Field, and as a Staff
College Graduate, he had consideral)le Staff'
service at home and abroad, in peace and in war.
lie served with his battalion in the Xile Expedi-
tion of 1898, being pre.-;ent at tlie battles of
Atbara and Khartoum. From .May, 1899, to
January. 1900. lie was A.D.C. to the Governor
and Commander-in-Cliief. .Malta. He also went
through the South African War. partly with liis
battalion, and during 1901 — 1902 a^ a SlalT
Olliier and as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-
General, being pre.sent at operations in the
Orange Free State from February to Jlay, 1900,
including actions at Pophir Grove and Driefon-
tein : at operations in the Orange River Colony
from May to November, 1900, including action
at WitteViergen. and again from the latter date
to January, 1901 ; at operations in Cape Colony
from ]"'ebruary to ilai'ch. 1901. For his ser-
vices he was twice mentioned in Despatclies
(•" London Gazette."7th May and 10thSei)tendHr.
1901 ). was placed on the list of Officers (jualified
for Staff employment, and received his Brevet
-Majority June, 1902, the Queen's medal with
four clasps and the King's medal with t«o
clasps. After returnins to England lie lield
appointments as Brigade-JIajor at Aldershol,
Commander of a Company of Gentlemen Cadets
(General Staff Officer second grade), and a
General Staff Officer at Head- quarters of the
-Army, War Office.
He obtained his substantive majority in March.
1905. and reached the ranli of Lieutenant-
Colonel in May, 1913, succeeding to the com-
iiKind of the 2nd Battalion of Ins regiment in
June. 1913. He took his battalion to the front
in August, 1914. For his services in the earlier
part of the war he was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of 8th October, 19 U. He
was killed in action by a shell on the 14th
September, 1914, at the battle of the Aisne.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir E. Bradford was a
cricketer, and played for the county of Hamp-
shire, and for the Army.
He married in 1909. Elsie Clifton, daughter of
Colonel J. Clifton Brown, v,\\o survives him. and
left three sons. Edward Montagu Andrew, born
Xovemlier, 1910 — who succeeds to the title —
I!i(llc\ Lewkenor, born April, 1912, and Donald
Clifton, liorn May. 1914.
LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY MONTA
GUE BRADLEY, 6th BATTN. RIFLE
BRIGADE (THE PRINCE CON-
SORT'S OWN), born at Dover in F.-bruary.
1893, was the third son of Edwin Bradley. J.l'.
for the Comity of Kent.
lie was e<lucated at Dover College and Jesus
College, Cambridge, where he gained a classical
scholarshi]), and grailuated H.A., second class,
in the Classical Tripos : at Cambrid<_"' In- u a-
Captain of the Uni-
versity ShoothigVl 1 1 .
in 1914. was a meiii-
l)er of the first Ruglix'
footliall teanr of his
College, and was
a keen Lacrosse
player.
On the outbreak of
the War he was
given a commission
ill the 6th Bat-
talion Rifle Brigade,
and went to France in .\i)\ cMilu-r. 1914, being
attaclied to the 2nd Battalion Welsh Regiment.
He was promoted Lieutenant in December.
1914, and was mentioned in Sir John I-^-ench's
Despatch of the 31st .May. 1915. for his eallantry
at Festubert on the 21st December. 191 t. the
date of his death, which occurred during a
night attack.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR EDWIN BRAD-
MURR AYS J.\T
15th H U S S .\ R S ,
SH A W. M.A., 14th
LANCERS, attd.
who was killed in
action on the 13th
October, 1914, leav-
ing a widow (Flor-
ence Mary, sister of
Sir William Price, of
( juebec, Canada). « as
the youngest son of
Surgeon Major-Geiie-
ral Sir A. Frederick
Bradshaw. K.C.B..
K.H.P., and Lady
Bradshaw, of Oxford.
He was born on the 20th March. 1882, and was
educated at ^farlborough College. 189(5 — 99.
and at the R.il.C, Sandhui-st. On his mother's
side he came of a family which had seen service
at the Battle of Plassey and in almost every
Indian campaign since then. His father seived
in India for thirty-five years from 1 1S57. ami in the
Mutiny, Afghan, Zhob and Hazara campaigns.
Captain BratLshaw entered the Ainiy as Second
Lieutenant in the Bedfordshh-e Regiment in
May. 1901 ; in December, 1902. he joined the
Indian Army, 14th Jat liancers, becoming
Lieutenant in August, 1903. and Captain in
-May, 1910. He was Adjutant of his regiment
for several years and qualified as a second-da.ss
Interpreter in French. While on leave in
England he entered Worcester College and
obtained the degree of .M..\. in June. 1914.
In the following Septemlier he was sent to
France and was killed during a reconnaissance
in the village of Bout de Ville, Pas de Calais.
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CAPTAIN FRANK SEYMOUR BRAD-
SHAW. 1st BATTN. PRINCE ALBERT'S
(SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY),
son of iMajor Frank
Boyd Bvailsliaw, for-
iiicily of theSomerset
l.ii;ht Infantry, who
ilii'd of fever in the
ISurmeseWar in July,
18,S(), and a great
grandson of General
Lawrence Bradshaw,
w lio conimanded the
loth Foot in Egypt
in 1S(K), was l)orn at
Weston -super - JIare,
S(iiiii-r-.|. nil ili(. Iih Deeemher, 188;$.
lie was educated at Temple Grove, East Sheen,
at Harrow, and the R.JI.C., Sandhurst ; lie
was good at all sports, hunting and shooting,
and especially polo.
He joined tlie Somerset Light Infantry in
Januaij-, 1904. and went to India, where he
served till 1908, having been promoted Lieu-
tenant in June, 1906 ; on returning to England
he was stationed at Portland, and in 1911 went
to the Depot at Taunton.
In 1914 he rejoined the 1st Battalion at Col-
chester and accompanied it to France in
August ; he was promoted Captain (tem-
porarily) in November, 1914.
He took part in the action at Le Cateavi (huing
the retirement, in the subsequent advance to the
Aisne and in the Battle of the JIarne. He was
slightly wounded on the 2nd November, 1914,
l)ut returned to duty on the 22nd of the month.
On the 19th December his battalion attacked
some Saxon trenches in front of Ploegsteert ;
Captain Bradshaw's company was in reserve,
but seeing Lievitenant I'arr killed at the head
of his platoon. Captain Bradshaw at once left
his trench and took command of Mr. Parr's
men. He was shot almost immediately and
died in a few minutes.
MAJOR FRANCIS JOSEPH BRAITH-
WAITE, 2nd BATTN. LOYAL NORTH
LANCASHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in action in East Africa at the
end of the year 1914, was the eldest son of
the late F. J. Braithwaite, R.D., Rector of
Great Waldingfield, Sudbury, .Suffolk.
He was born on the 5th December, 1872,
and joined the North liancashire Regiment
in January, 189.'!, becoming Lieutenant in
February, 189,5, and Captain in !May, 1901.
He served in the South African War, being
employed with the Mounted Infantry, and for
his services was mentioned in Despatches
('■London Gazette," 10th .September, 1901), and
received the Queen's and King's medals, each
with two clasps.
.Major Hiaithuaitc afterwards served on the
Claims Conmiission Hoard of the Orange River
Colony, and latterly was stationed in India.
Major Braithwaite, wlm uas promoted to that
rank in I'^'bruary. 1911. U-I't .i widow .nul I'oui-
<-liiIdren.
CAPT.\IN ERNEST STANLEY
BRAND, ROYAL FUSILIERS
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action while serving
with the West Afri-
can Keginient in the
Cameroons, ^^■est
Africa, wa.s the son
of W. B. Brand.
Esq., late of The
Grange, Finchley.
and Boxwood, Herts.
He was born on the
3rd December, 1878,
at Stoke Newington,
and was educated at Arlington House, Brighton,
and Charterhouse, joining the iird Battalion
Royal Fusiliers from the Militia in January,
1897, becoming Lieutenant in January, 1900.
He served in Malta, Gibraltar, and China for
five years, and while at the latter obtained his
Company in October, 1904, and passed in the
Chinese language.
From July, 190(>, to December, 1910, he served
with the West African Regiment, to which he
was transferred in September, 1912, and w-itli
wliich he did nseful work untU he was killed.
He was ordered to the Cameroons on the out-
break of the war an<l was acting as Second-in-
Command, West African Regiment, when he
was shot in the neck and killed instantaneovLsly
in the attack on Yabassi on the 8th October,
1914.
Captain Brand was a member of the .Timior
Naval and Jlilitary and Sports Clubs, and his
recreations were steeplechasing, shooting, hunt-
ing, and polo.
LIEUTENANT VERNON DUDLEY
BRAMSDON BRANSBURY. 3rd
lattd. 1st) BATTN. LINCOLNSHIRE
REGIMENT, _^^^^^____^___^
born in 1883, at
Soutlisea, Hants, was
the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Brans-
bury, of Holme
Chase, Putney, and
a nephew of Sir
Thomas Bramsdon,
late M.P. for Ports-
mouth.
He was educated by
private tutors, and
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at Clifton College, and received a commission in
the Royal Irish Rifles, being suljeequently
appointed to the 3rd Battalion (Special Reserve)
Lincolnshire Regiment, in June, 1913.
He was killed at Xeuve ChapeDe on the 25th
October, 1914 : while trying to locate a machine
gun which had been firing on his trench, he was
struck by a bullet in the temple and killed
instantaneously.
Lieutenant Bransbury married in February.
1908. Zoila Kathleen Mary, daughter of Dr.
Ponsonby Widdup, late Medical Service British
Guiana, and left two sons, Stuart Ponsonby
Bramsdon. bom May, 1910, and John Brian.
»x>rn June. 1913.
C.\PTA1N JOHN HENRY BRENNAN.
3rd BATTN. ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS.
was Ixirn on the 14th
3Iay. 1869, only son
^^^^^ of the late T. C.
^^^^H^^^^ Brennan,
^^tK^^^^f treal, Canada.
^•^ fci^ He was a Dublin
" ^^^^ man, and was edu-
cated at St. Colum-
ba's, matriculating
thence at Dublin
University, where he
was a prominent
member of the
Cricket Team, and after leaving, played in
matches with the Long Vacation Team.
In 1902 Captain Brennan joined the -1th (VoL)
Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, becoming
Captain in the 3rd Battalion in June,
1903, and seriously devoted himself to his
military duties ; at the Hythe Musketry Course
he obtained special distinction. In civil life
he was a prominent member of the Irish Land
Commission, a body from which many meml>ers
have joined the colours for this war, on the
outbreak of which Captain Brennan was
attached to the 1st Battalion of his regiment,
with which he proceeded to the front.
While gallantly leading his men across an open
plain at Zonnebeke on the 19th October, 1914,
he was shot through the head.
A sergeant in Captain Brennan's company,
himself wounded on the same date, gave the
following account of his Officer's death : " He
fell gallantly cheering on his nxen. and had just
said, ' Come on boys, we will show them the
way to Tipi)erary,' when a shell burst and he
was killed instantly."
Captain Brennan was a member of the Hibernian
United .Service, Yeomanry, and Ean^town Golf
Clubs. He married ^liss K. C. Murray, daughter
of the late T. Murray, of Millmount. Co. West-
meath, and left three children. Gladys Evelyn H.,
age 16, S. Charlotte, age 14}, and T. Henry
L'Estrange, age 11}.
LIEUT.-COLONEL CHARLES ARTHUR
HUGH BRETT. D.S.O.. COMM.\NDlNG
2nd BATTN. SUFFOLK REGIMENT,
was lx»m at Muttra,
India, on the 2»th
March, 1865, the
eldest son of Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Arthur
Brett, A.P.D., for-
merly of the 2nd
Dragoon Guards
(Queen's Bays), and
his wife Georgina.
daughter of Hugh
Hannay. Paymaster,
Royal Navy.
Lieutenant-Colonel Brett came of an old Anglo-
Irish family, having been a grandson of Mr.
Curtis Brett, of Oadby HalL Leicestershire,
whose ancestors came from Ireland : his
mother was a member of an old Wigtownslure
family, formerly the Hannays of Sorbie Castle
(a baronetcy now in abeyance), many meniljers
of which were in the Royal Navy ; his maternal
grandfather and great-uncle were in the wars
against Napoleon,
After being educated privately, Lieutenant-
Colonel Brett proceeded to the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, from which he was gazetted to the
Suffolk Regiment in 1885, in which he obtained
his Company in 1894. From 1895-99 he
was Adjutant of the 1st BattaUon, and from
1900 was Adjutant of the 4th (Territorial)
Battalion at Ely, Cambridge. He served with
the Hazara Expedition of 1888, receiving the
medal and clasp, and was again on active
service in the .South African War. taking part
in the operations south of the Orange River in
1899-1900, including the action at Colesberg.
where he was severely wounded, and taken
prisoner by the Boers while unconscious, being
afterwards sent to Pretoria. An officer, who
was his subaltern on this occasion, said that,
though shot through the lungs, he kept com-
mand of his company, and actaaDy charged
the Boer trenches in this state, till he fell
exhausted from loss of blood, adding that "his
comrades of that night will always rememl>er
him as one of old England's most gallant 50ns."
Later he was present at operations in the
Transvaal east of Pretoria, and in the Orange
River Colony. He was mentioned in Des-
patches, awarded the D.S.O. for his gallantry
at Colesberg, and received the Queen's medal
with three clasps.
Lieutenant-Colonel Brett was toni oi travel,
and interested in astronomy, and while on leave
in 1904. joined Sir W. Christie's party, going to
Sfas, Tunisia, to observe the eclipse, and
recaved the thanks <^ the Admiralty for his
assistance to the Astronomer Royal. He also.
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at other times, visited Mesopotanii;i. and
engaged in explorations in .Muscat. Busia.
Bagdad and Babylon ; liis visits were the more
interestini; from thi^ fact that he was a good
water colour artist, a talent possibly inherited,
for his \mcle ,Tohn Brett. A.R.A., was celebrated
as a sea painter, and his avmt, Rosa Brett,
A.R.A., was also a well-known artist in her
time.
Very early in the Great War. Lieutenant-Colonel
Brett took liis liattalion abroad as part of the
Expeditionary Force. He was killed at I.e
Cateau, France, on the 26th August, ION.
after the retirement from JIon.s.
Lieiitonant-Colonel Brett married in January.
1009, Enid Geraldine. daughter of the late
Lieutenant-Colonel Harry llamer.sley .St.
George, Senior Oi-dnance Officer, Scottish
District ; lie left one daughter. lone MoncrietT
St. George, born October, 1909.
Jlrs. Brett received a great number of letters
of sympathy and appreciation of her late
husband from comrades of all ranks. Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Brett seems to have been the
possessor of a peculiar " magnetism" whidi
attracted and endeared him to all who met him.
A brother officer «Tote : "I don't suppose
there was a single Commanding Officer in the
ser\-ice more beloved by the ofTicere aufl men ;
his loss to the regiment is absolutely u-repar-
able." In another letter a brother officer, who
ha,s himself since fallen on the field of honour,
says : — " If ever there was a commanding
officer tliat I would wish to liave gone on
service \vith, it was he whose loss we now
mourn. The one consolation is that he tell
as a soldier at the head of his regiment for
which he did so much, and every man of which
looked up to him, admired liim and tried
to follow liis grand example in everjthing. His
life was uoVile and straiglit and his death was
tlie same. We of the regiment, or what is
left of it, mourn his loss a^s the best of com-
rades."
A Private states : — " He was a hero to the
last in the way he encouraged the men."
Lieutenant -Colonel Brett was in command of
the Depot. Bury St. Edmunds, from 1909 till
1912. At a meeting of the Bury St. Edmunds
Town Council, the Jlayor refen-ed to the death
in action of Lieutenant-Colonel Brett, and said
that he knew he was voicing the feelings of all
the Council in suggesting tliat they should pass
a vote of condolence with ^Mrs. Brett in the
great loss she had sustained, coupled with an
expression of their deep respect and admiration
of that gallant soldier. The Council signified
their agreement by standing.
Lieutenant-Colonel Brett's name was men-
tioned in .Sir John French's first Despatch, 8th
October, 1911.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ROBERT
HENRY W.\TKIN BREWIS. 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REfilMENT,
w.is burn at liowliery I'ark, Walliiigtord. on (he
29th September. lS7:i, and was the eldest son
of the late .S. R. Brewis, of Il)stone, Bucks, and
.Mrs. Brewis, of SO, Cromwell Koad, S.W. On
the maternal side. Lieutenant-Colonel Brewis
was a great-grandson of the Right Hon. Sir
Henry Watkin Williairus Wynne. .Minister
I'lenipotentiary to the Court of Denmark. an<l of
Hester.daughterof Hobert . 1st Baron Carrington.
He was educated at Harrow, and at Jesus
College. Cambridge, subsequently joining the
4th BattaUon Oxford Light Infantry (.Militia)
in .March, 1892: from it he obtained his com-
mission in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment
in 1.S95, becoming Captain in 1900. and .Major
in December, 1912.
Lieutenant-Colonel Brewis .served in the Nile
Expedition of 1S9.S. and was present at the
battles of Atbara and Khartoum, receiving the
Queen's medal with two clasps, and the ICtrvp-
tian medal. From lilOT — 1910 he was .Vdjutant
of his battalion, and in.Vpril of the latter year
was appointed .-Vdjutant and Quartermaster at
the .Staft" College. On the 19th August. 1914.
he was appointed to the Staff of the I^Ixpedi-
tionary Force as I)e))uty .VssLstant .\djvitant-
Geueral. and on the 14th October was pro-
moted to Assistant -Vdjulant-General with the
temporary rank of Ideutenant-Colonel. Tliis
appointment he resigned in order to rejoii\ his
battalion, which he was commanding when he
fell on l<Sth December, 1911, at Sailly. near
.Vrmentieres. where he was buried.
Lieutenant-Colonel Brewis was not married.
LIEUTEN.\NT NEVILLE LINTON
BRIDGLAND. 3rd B.-VTTN. EAST
SURREY REGT.,
was born at Graves-
end, Kent, on 9th
August, 1894, and was
the son of ilr. and
itrs.Loftus Frederick
Linton Bridgland. of
The Cedars. Graves-
end. He was a great
gi'andson of William
Alchin, of Court
Lodge Farm. Linton.
Kent.
Lieutenant Bridgland was educated at Ivinc's
.School, Rocliester. Ivent, where he attaineil dis-
tinction as a cricketer, having been in the 1st
XI. from 1909 to 1912 inclusive. In playing
for liis school against St. LawTence's College,
Ramsgate. in partnership with liLs brother, he
scored 110 runs, not out. out of 201 for one
wicket in an hoiu--and-a-haIf. He was also in
the first Football XL Playing for his regiment
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BRI— BRO
ill June, 1914, at .Shorncliffe, lie mado :i(tO runs
for eight innings, an average of 37 odd.
lie «as gazetted to the Special Reserve of
Otticer.s as Second Lieutenant 3rd East Surrey
I'l'iriiucut in November, 1912, doing his six
iiKiutlis' probationary training with the 1st
Battalion in Dublin. lie was coiifirnu'd in his
rank in April, 1913, and promoted Lieutenant
in March, 1914.
On the 11th September, 1914, he took a draft
of the 1st Battalion to Fi-ance, and was in
several engagements ; he was killeil on the
22nd October, 1914, at Lorgies, near La Ba-ss(?e,
and was buried in the garden of a hoase in that
village. The church and churchyard were under
the fire of German guns, thus preventing lus
being buried in the churchyard.
Possessed of charming manners, he was like<I
and loved both by his friends in private life
and also by his lirother ofiicers and men. His
Colonel wrote of him very highly at. the time of
his death, and liis soldier servant, ATOting at
the same time, said "he was a brave officer and
a gentleman, he led his men into action without
any f<'ar. and hLs heart was in the right place."
CAPTAIN GEORGE CLARK BRIGGS.
1st B.\TTN. ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS,
born at Trinit>.
Edinburgh, on 4th
^larch, 1878, was the
onh son of Francis
Briggs. of Hunting-
ton, Haddington, and
a grandson of the
late Dr. Munro of
JloOat.
He was educated at
Edinburgh Academy,
Malvern College, and
Clare CoUege, Cam-
Ipiidge. and joined the Royal Scots FiisUiers in
May, 1899, six months before the outbreak
of the Boer War. through which he served ;
during the latter part of the war he «as chosen
for duty with the 2nd Mounted Infantry,
lie was present at the attempt to relieve
Ladysmith. being taken prisoner at Colenso.
After his release he escorted Boer prisoners to
Ceylon. He received the Queen's medal with
four clasps and the King's medal with tA\o clasi^s.
Serving with hLs battalion in the Great War.
lie w as mentioned in Sir- John French's Despatch
of stli Octolier, 1914, for his services during the
retirement from Mons, and was killed at the
Itattle of the .\isne on 14th Septemljer, 1914.
His company had to retire and he waited to
sec all his men a\\ay before he left the position ;
he was hit and fell, and was at first reported
missing on 19th September, but subsccjuently,
on the 6th October, as having been killed on the
date mentioned.
2nd LIEUTENANT MAXIMILIAN
FRANCIS BROADWOOD. 1st BATTN.
THE QUEENS OWN ROYAL WEST
KENT REGT.I,
was the son of
Francis and JIary
Sylvestre Charlotte
(nee Dalison) Broad-
\\ood. and was born hb^ gm:
at Hove. .Sussex, on
the 1st April, 1893.
He w as a grandson of
the late Thomas
Broadwood, of Holm-
bush, SiLssex, and of
the late M. H.
iJalison, of HamptoiLs. Kcul.
Second Lieutenant Broadwood was educated at
" Evch-ns " (G. T. Worsley, Esq.), 1902-06 ;
Wellington CoUege (T. A. Roger's House), 1906
-11 ; passing from there into the Royal Mili-
tary College, Sandhurst, he ol)tained his commis-
sion in the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regi-
ment) on the 12th September, 1912, and joined
the 1st Battalion in Dublin the following month.
He was killed in action at Wasmes. near !Mons,
on the 24th AugiLst, 191 1.
Second Lieutenant Broadwood was a memlier
of the Royal Aero Chili.
LIEUTENANT LAWRENCE SEYMOUR
BROCKELB.\NK, 3rd B.\TTN.
(RESERVE! THE KING'S OWN (ROYAL
LANCASTER REGIMENT),
«ho is lielieved to ha\-e been killed at the end
of the year 1914, though his name has not
appeared in the official Casualty Lists, was
educated at King's College and entered the
Theological Faculty in 1910. He left in 1914.
and shortly afterwards received a commission
as Second Lieutenant in the Special Reserve.
On the outbreak of the war he was appointed
Second Lieutenant on probation to the 3rd
Battalion Royal Lancashii'C Regiment and was
promoted Lieutenant in I*'eliriiaiy. lOl.'S. there
evidently having been some doubt of his death.
CAPTAIN EWEN JAMES BRODIE (of
Lethen), 1st BATTN. THE QUEEN'S
OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS,
liorn 17th July, 1878,
was the son of the
h-.te J. C. J. Brodie.
of Lethen. Lord
Lieutenant of the
County of Nairn.
Captain Brodie suc-
ceeded to Lethen on
the death of his
brother in 1908.
He was educated at
Harrow and Cam-
bi-idge, joining the
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iind f':ini('r(Mi 1 li';lilaiii!cis in M;iy, 11111(1, liniii
till' Militi;i, liccoiiiiiiii; l,ir\itrii.ui1 in Fcliruiu-v,
1!)()2, and <'ai>taiii in .May. I'.U 1. lie .served in
the ^loditiM-ranean, .\fiiia. and t'liina. in
lilOO he was appointed Adjutant to the Lo\.it
Scouts, an appointment he held for lour xcar,
when lie rejoined his battalion and jell witli
it for the front in August, 191-1.
After having l)eeu through the Battle of the
Aisno and all the suliseqiient fisihting in Belgium
he \va.s killed at the Battle of Yprcs on the 11th
November, 1914, the day of the tremendous
assault of the I'russian Guard on our thin line.
He fell in the Nonne Boseh Wood, having
succeeded in driving back the last survivor.^
of the Guard with a handfid of transpoi't
drivers, cooks, and other details. Captain
Brodie had acted as Adjutant of his battalion
since 25th September, 1914, and ho and two
other officers were at tlie time of his death the
sole survivors of the thirty officers \\ho left
Kdinbnrgh Castle in August.
Captain Brodie married in 1911 jSliss Stirling,
of ]'"airburn, and left two sons and a daughter.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE BROOKE, RE-
SERVE OF OFFICERS, IRISH GUARDS.
was serving with the 1st Battalion <if that
regiment when he met his death.
He was the eldest son of Sir George Brooke,
Bart., and his first wife Anna, daughter of
GeolTrey Shakerley, and niece of Sir Charles
Shakerle)-, Bart. ; he was also related tf)
Viscount Monck, and Sir Basil Brooke, Bart.
He was horn on the 10th June. 1877, at Smii-
merton, Co. Dublin, educated at Eton, and last
resided at Ballyford, Coolgreaney, Co. Wexford,
During the South African War he served with
the ll.imp.shire Regiment, and obtained the
South African n\edal with three clasps. He was
one of the first group of officers appointed to the
Irish Guards when that regiment was raised
in 1900.
He «as mounded near the trenches at the
Battle of the Aisne on the 7th October, 1914,
when with the Irish Guards, and died of his
wounds on the 9th October, 1914.
At one time he kept hounds in Wexford, and
was much interested in the breaking-in of dogs
for shooting. He was a member of the Kildare
St. Club, Dulilin. and the Guards' Club, London.
He married, in 1907, Nina, daughter of the
Right Hon. Lord Arthur Hill, P.C., and left
a daughter, Nancy -Myra, the only child who
survived him.
CAPTAIN JAMES ANSON OTHO
BROOKE, V.C, ASSISTANT ADJU-
TANT 2nd B.\TTN. THE GORDON
HIGHLANDERS, was born at Fairley,
Coiintesswells, Aberdeenshire, on the .Srd
February, 1S84, and was the son of Captain
. D.l I' Faii-lry. and
Brooke, Hart., AM",
Many V'esey Brooke, .1.1'.
graiKlson of .Sir .Vi'tliui
of Colebrooke, Co.
■■'rrmanagh, Ireland,
and great grandson
of General Sir Geoi'g(!
.\nson, G.(!.B.
Ca])tain Brooke, V.C,
was educated at
Winton Hoilsc, Win-
1 he,ti T : Wellington
College, and the
R..M.C., Sandhurst.
where he was Senior
I'nder Officer in 1905.
lie was also Captain of the Shooting lOight. was
in the Football team, won the Obstacle race.
tied for the saddle, and on leaving was the
cadet selected for the Sword of Honour.
He joined the 1st Battalion of his reginu'iit at
Cork in November. 1905, and was transferred
to the 2n<l Battalion in 1900. serving with it in
India and Egypt till the outbreak of the Great
\Var. He was one of the officers to ri'ceive the
new colour's of the i-egiment from ll.M. the
King at Delhi, and received the Durliar medal.
He was killed on the 2!)th October, 1914. and
was awarded the V,C. after his death " for
conspiiuous bravery and great ability near
Gheluvelt on 29th October, in leading two
attacks on the German trenches under heavy
lire, regaining a lost trench at a very critical
moment, and thus saving the situation."
In the "London Gazette " of the llith March.
1915. he was promoted temporary Captain.
such promotion to take etTect from the lltli
September, 1914.
Captain Brooke, V.C, was a good shot, rider,
and golfer : he procured many head of l)ig game
in India and Arabia, including ibex, bison, and
samboc,
MAJOR VICTOR REGINALD BROOKE,
CLE., D.S.O., p.s.c, 9th LANCERS,
a notification of whose death on the 29th
August, 1914, was included in the monthly
Casualty List published by the War Office in
September, 1914, was born on the 22nd .lauu-
ary, 1873, and was the fifth son of Sir \'icfor
Alexander Brooke, 3rd Bart. He joined the
9th (Queen's Royal) I^ancers in December,
1S94, becoming Lieutenant in .\pril. 189(5, and
Captain in May, 1901.
He served in the South African War, taking part
in the advance on and relief of Kimberley,
including actions at Belmont, Enslin, IModder
River and Magersfontein ; was present at
operatioi^s in the Orange Free State and at
I'aardeberg, and actions at Poplar Grove and
Karee Siding. From November, 1901, to
September, 1902, he served as A.D.C. to the
Chief of the Staff in South Africa ; he was then
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at operations in the Transvaal. He was slightly
wound e<l in the war. and for his services was
twice mentioned in Despatches ("London
Gazette,"' 16th April. 1001. and 29th July, 1902),
was anarde;i the D.S.O. and receivefl the
Queen's medal with four clasps, and the King's
medal with two clasps. From Xovember. 1902,
to December, 1905, he was A.D.C., and from
1905 to May, 1907, Assistant ilihtary Secretary
and Interpreter to the Commander-in-Chief,
East Indies, and from June, 1907, to Xovember,
1910, ililitary Secretary to the Ticeroy
of India. He received his Brevet ilajority
in June, 1905, and his substantive rank in
February, 1907.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN GILBERT
SOMERSET COZENS-BROOKE. 3rd attd.
1st BATTN. ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS,
who was killed in action on the 18th October,
1914. aged 20 years, was the only son of Ernest
and Isabel Cozens-Brooke, of 6, ColUngham
Road, London, S.W.
He joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers as 2nd
Lieutenant in April. 1912, becoming Lieutenant
in August. 19U.
CAPTAIN
BROOKES.
HENRY RICHARD
101st GRENADIERS.
INDIAN ARMY,
was Viorn at Port
Blair, Andanians, on
10th January, 1SS6,
and was the youngest
son of Octavius
Henry Brookes, of
Chaucer Road. Bed-
ford, and a grandson
of the late Colonel
\MUiam Brookes,
Gordon Highlanders,
formerly tlie 75th
Stirlingshire 1' _ t
Captain Brookes was educated at Bedford
and entered the Bedfordshire Regiment from
the iliUtia in 1905. being transferred two years
later to the Indian Army and ))ecoming Lieu-
tenant in 1908. His promotion to Captain,
dating from 29th November, 1914. was not
gazetted until ilarch, 1915. He was a member
of the Sports Club, Bangalore.
In the Great War Captain Brookes w as serving
in German East Africa when he met his
death. After the unsuccessful attack upon
Tanga on the Ith November, 1914, he was
reported missing;, and, as no definite news has
been received since, liis parents have been
reluctantly bo\ind to assume that he was killed
on that dav and buried bv the Germans.
The landing and attack were carried out under
great difflcidties, after giving notice of the
intention to bombard what was believed to be
an open and undefended towm. Owing to the
dense bush it was almost impossible to use
artillery, and when the advance began, our
troops came under a heavy fire from rifles and
macliine guns.
The 101st Grenadiers, making a fine effort to
fill a gap in the firing line due to the difficulty of
advancing in line through the dense bush came
under exceedingly heavy cross fire of rifles
and machine guns, and were unable to advance,
liut tenaciously held their own. Darkness
coming on brought the action to a conclusion,
after which our troops withdrew unmolested to
an entrenched position a quarter-of-a-niile in
the rear. In \-iew of the extreme difticulty of the
counti-y in the vicinity of Tanga it was judged
inadvisable to attempt a second attack without
adequate reinforcements. Orders for embarka-
tion were accordingly issued, and this was
carried out without any interference on the part
of the enenw.
LIEUTENANT HUGH GODFREY
BROOKSBANK, 2nd BATTN. ALEXAN-
DRA PRINCESS OF WALESS OWN
YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, known in
the Service as the " Green Howards,"
was born on the 24th :
November, ISO.'J, at
Healaugh Old Hall,
Tadcaster, and was
the son of Edward
CUtherow Brooks-
bank liy his wife
Katherine Graham,
daughter of H. M.
Lang, of Broad-
meadows, Selkirk-
shire.
Lieutenant Brooks-
bank was educated at Radk-y. ami joined the
Y'orkshire Regiment in Felmiary. 1913. be-
coming Lieutenant in October, 1914. While
serving with his battaUon in the Great War. he
was severely wounded at the Battle of Ypres.
on the 1st November, 1914, and died from the
effects on the 16th December, at 26, Park Lane,
London.
He was mentioned in Sir John French's Des-
patch of 14th January. 1915. for gallantry in the
battle in which he was wounded. His relatives
received the foUowing tribute to his memory
from a senior officer in the battaUon : — " A
braver lad never stepped the earth ; he was left
in command of " B " Company when all Ms
seniors had been shot. He commanded it Uke a
veteran, and on two occasions he was largely
responsible for the regiment being saved."
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CAPTAIN ERNEST SCOTT BROUN,
2nd BATTN. ALEXANDRA PRINCESS
OF WALES'S OWN (YORKSHIRE
REGIMENT),
u)io was lepcirted in
Hi'cember, 1914, as
liaving been killed
in action near Ypres,
was the youngest son
I if the late James
liroiin. of Orchanl.
(avhike, Lanark-
^liire. and only son
of ih-s. Broun, of St.
Mary Abbot's Ter-
race, Kensinfiton.
He ^\a■- Im.iti c.ii th, 7th December, 1S79, was
educated i)rivately, and ioined the Yorkshire
IJegiment from the :MiUtia in February, 1899,
becoming Ijeutenant in December, 1900. He
served in the South African War, bein^; jn-esent
at the relief of Kiniberley, at operations in the
Orange Free State, and at Paarilel)erg ; actions
at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, \'et and Zand
Rivers ; in the Transvaal, including action-^
near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill,
also east of Pretoria, including action at Belfast ;
and Cape Colony, including action at Cole-sberg;
and further operations in the Tran-svaal in 1900
and 1902. He received the Queen's medal with
six clasps, and the King's medal with two clasps.
Having been promoted Captain in April, 1906,
he was appointed A.D.C. to the Go\ernor and
Commander-in-Chief, Barbados, in July, 1911.
He was fond of shooting, and was a member of
the United Sei ^ ice and Sports Clubs.
Captain Broim was killed instantaneously by a
bullet wliile looking over a parapet on the 30th
October, 1914. He was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 31st INfay. 1915.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK GEORGE
BROW^N, 101st GRENADIERS, IN-
DIAN ARMY,
who was killed ou the
2nd Novemlicr, 1914,
was born on the 7th
December, 1881, and
joined the Royal
InnLskilling Fusiliei-s
from the 4th Batta-
lion Royal Dublin
Fusiliers in October,
1901,
He served in the
South African War.
being present at operations in the TraiLsvaal,
and in the Orange River and Cape Colonies,
receiving the Queen's medal with four clasps,
and the King's medal with two clasps. He was
promoted Lieutenant in January, 1904. joining
the Indian Army in June of the same year,
and was promoted Captain in October. 1910.
LIEUTENANT HUBERT WILLL\M
BROWN, 2nd B.\TTN. ROYAL IRISH
REGIMENT, _ _
who died in .Sei)ti-m-
l)er, 1914. of wounds
received when fight-
ing in the Cameroons.
was the son of the
late John Mosse
Brown, and was born
at Greenville, \\ ater-
ford, on the 11th
January, 1890.
He was educated at
^Vravon, Bray, St.
Faughnans College. Co. Cork, and Cheltenham
College, where he was a prefect, and in the
cricket XI. He joined the Royal Irish Regi-
ment in XovemI)er. 1909, becoming Lieutenant
in September, 1911.
No details of Lieutenant Brown's death havi-
been procurable.
2nd LIEUT. JAMES WILLIAM BROWN,
X .\ %• t h BRIGADE R O Y .\ L FIELD
ARTILLERY,
was born on tlie
26th May, 1888, at
Upper Dean, Bed-
fordshire.
He joined the 117th
Battery, l{o\al Field
-Vi'tillery, as a gunner
in 1907, While in
the ranks he ob-
tained a First Class
Certificate, 1909, and
passed through the
School of (iimnery at Shoebiiryness in t li
year. He left Aldershot witli the
Battery 26th Brigade, on the 16th August,
1914, and while on service was given his
commission on 1st October, 1911, being trans-
ferred to the 2.jth Briga<le Ammunition Cohuun.
He was wounded on the 31st October anil died
from the effects on the 2nd November, in
Xo.- 5 Field Hospital.
The ^lajor of his old battery, the 117th, wrote
to Ills widow : " Before he left the liattery he
dined with us in our mess (an old liarn) as a
farewell. 1 cannot tell you what a help he was
to the \arious Battery Commanders of the
117th Battery during his time in it, as he was
such a capable chap at his work ; always willing
to do anything for us, and we sliouhl all have
been pleased indeed if he had l)een posted to
the battery as an officer. I. of course, had known
him the longest, and knew what it was to have
such a good and capable man at one's elbow.
" The battery had seen a great deal of
fighting before your husband left us, and I
sent his name in to my Colonel for his good
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work Jill tin- time, especially at tlie loii^ battle
of the Aisne, w here he mended a telephone wire
for us at a particularly nasty time."
The Officer Commanding the Ammunition
Column wrote : "As far as I know, the circum-
stances are these. The Sussex Regiment had
had both their machine guns put out of action
in a hot attack, and we were told to get another
one through to them as soon as possible, as it
might be the means of saving the situation.
Your luLsband went up to try and get into
coranumication with the Sussex Regiment, and
I much regret dial he was wounded, gallantly
cloing his duty."
CAPTAIN ANTHONY EDWARD
JEMMETT-BROWNE, 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT,
younger son of Lieut.
Colonel and Jlrs.
Edward Jemmett-
Browne, of 50, Elm
Park Gardens, Lon-
don, S.W., was horn
on the 2Gtli January,
18S2.
He was educated at
Wellington, being the
younger of two
lirothers who were
in the .Anglesey
1895-98. Thence he went to the R.JI.C,
.Sandhurst, and in August, lUOO. joined the
1st Battalion l?oyal Sussex Regiment, in
which, when it was the 35tli Royal Sussex, his
father had served for many yeare.
Ue served in the South African War lOlil-ni'.
being present at operations in the Cape and
Orange Ri\er Colonies and in the Transvaal,
receiving the Queen's medal with two clasps.
He liecame Lieutenant in July, 1903, and on
obtaining his company in April, 1910, was
transferred to the 2nd Battalion of his regiment.
Captain Jemmett-Bro^^Tie, w-ho was a member
of the United Service Clul), was most active in
promoting .sports in his battalion, and the best
men — two of whom were Army Champion
runners — belonged to his company.
He was killed on the 10th September. 1914.
the last day of the battle of the ]\Iarne, at Priez.
leading the front platoon of the advance guard
of tlie division into action, and was buried
that evening at the spot where he fell.
2nd LIEUTENANT A. G. BROWNE, 2nd
BATTN. SHERWOOD FORESTERS
(NOTTINGH,\MSHIRE AND
DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT),
who was unofficially reported to have died of
womids received in action on the 201h October,
lOU, was gazetted to his regiment on the Itith
Septendier, 191 4.
CAPTAIN GORDON STEWART
BROWNE. 1st BATTN. THE DUKE OF
EDINBURGH'S (WILTSHIRE REGT.i,
died on the 27th
November, 1914, at
the Allied Forces
Base Hospital,
Boulogne, from the
effects of wounds
received in action
near Y'pres on the
1 7th November, after
being previously
wounded on the
fourth day of the re-
tirement from ^lons.
He was the fourth son of .Mr. lb my J. Browne,
of Grosvenor IIoiLse, Faversham, and wa,s born
on the 15th May, 1890. He was educated
at Hailoybury College, and Sandhurst, from
which he was gazetted to the Wiltshire Regiment
in September, 1909, becoming Lieutenant in
January, 1911. He wa^ promoted Captain
after his death, to date from October, 1914,
and was Adjutant of his battalion, having
been Assistant Adjutant since April. 1913. He
was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of 14th January, 1915, for gallant and dis-
tinguished service in the field.
He served w'ith his battalion for three and a halt
years in South Africa, was captain of the
regimental rifle team wliicli won the ifethuen
Cup, and was A-ssistant Commandant, and
then Commandant of the School of Signalling
at Rolierts Heights, Pretoria, in 1912-13.
Captain Browne was a member of the Junior
Army and Navy Club. He was a keen cricketer
and golfer, was fond of hunting, and was a good
game shot. He was not married.
The following is an extract from the letter of
the Commanding Officer of the Gordon High-
landers to Captain Browne's father, which led
to his mention in Despatches : —
" When the brigade, of which the Wiltshires
and my own regiment formed part, was ordered
to take over the trench lines near Y'pres, I
happened to be. temporarih'. in command of it,
and was lucky enough to obtain the services of
your son as stall' officer during the few days
that I was in command. Not only did your
son do yeoman service during those few days
when he was acting as staff officer for me, but
throughout the very trying period which
followed, it was easy to see what sterling stuff'
he was made of. . . . Y'oiu: son's gallant
behaviovir will live long in the memory of others
beside those of his own particular brother
officers, and I considered it my duty to bring to
the official notice of our Brigadier the very
splendid way in which he had performed his
duties during those strenuous days near Y'pres."
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LIEUTENANT MONTAGUE WILLIAM
S ETON -B ROW NE, 2nd BATTN.
LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT,
- \\liri was liorii at
(iiriiada, British
West Inilies, on llio
ITtli February, lS9:i,
w as the son of G. S.
Siton-Browne, Esq.,
Mriutier of the Ex-
iMiitivo and Legishi-
tivc t'oiincils, .T.P.,
Grenada ; ho was
related to M a j o r
S e t o n - B r o \v n e.
I). .S.O.. Indian Army.
He was educated at a private school at (^ron-
il.dl. Surrey, and at Berkhajnpstead School,
Herts, being gazetted to the I^eicestersliire
Regiment as Second Lieutenant in September,
1913, and joining it in India two months later.
With it he went to Fi'ance for the Great War,
and was kille,<l while leading an attack on
German trenches at Kiclieliom'g I'Avou(i, on the
24thNovember,1914. The attack was successful,
and Second Lieutenant Seton-Browne's name was
mentioned for his gallantry in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 14th .January, 1915. Jle was
gazetted Lieutenant on the 1st November, 1914.
The following account of his death was received
from a brother officer : — '" I joined our 2ncl
Battalion on getting home and have the same
Company " B " that your son was in and
Captain Grant. My Company Sergeant-Major
was with your son w lien he was killed in action.
They had got into a German trench at night
anil your son was getting on to a traverse with
Gei'mans on the other side. He was wounded
and called out to the men and lay still ; before
they coidd get him back he was hit again and
killed. They got him back amongst them into
the trench. . . . He was very well thought
of by all ranks, and the men would have
followed him anywhere."
Lieutenant Seton-Browne was a memlier of the
Junior United Service Club.
CAPTAIN REGINALD JOHN BROWN-
FIELD, 2nd BATTN. ROYAL
WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
the .son of Douglas
Harold Brownfield,
was born at Hem-
Heath, Trentham,
S t ii If ords li i re, in
April. 1886. Captain
Brownfield was a
cousin of Major Ed.
Etches, many years
at tlie School of
.Musketry, Hytlie,
and one of the best
shots in the Armv.
Caiitaiii lirciu iifield joined (he Koy.'d Waiuicks
in August, 19(15, being promoted Lieutenant in
.lanuary, 1909. With his regiment he served at
dilTerent ]>laces in iMigland, and in I'esliawar.
In 1913 he I'etired from the regular Army an<l
joined (he l(h Ha((ahoii. the old lind Wainvick
■MiUlia. On Ihe outbreak of the war he rejoined
the Llnd Battalion of his regiment, and was
serving with it when he was killed outhe 1 St h
December, 1914.
An Officer of the 1st Battalion sent the following
account of his death: — " They had to attack
the German trenches, and he, followed by three
subalterns and 30 men, went for a machine gun
— a plucky thing to do — and every one of them
were killed within five yards of the German
trenches. The three subalterns were killed,
and I believe they all lay in a heap. They tell
me that it was a very fine effort to take the
maxim, and would have greatly helped the rest
of the attack ; but tmfortunately they were
just killed before they got there. They all
thought the world of liim." He was a
splendid athlete.
The action was also descril>ed as follows : —
" On December 18th the W^arwicks attacked
the main German trenches at Houge Bancs,
near Armentieres. They were double trenches,
and were held in imexpected strength. It was
a desperate and bloody business, for there were
wire entanglements and the enemy had guns in
the trenches. ... In that action 13 out
of 17 officers were killed, and more than half
tlie rank and (He of the regiment."
CAPTAIN CHARLES HUNTER
BROWNING, 124th BATTERY, XXVIIIth
BRIGADE, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
son of Captain Hugh
Rdmond Browning,
late of the 2nd
Dragoons {Royal
Scots Greys) of Clap-
ham Park. Bedford-
shire, was born at
The \\' o o d 1 a n d s,
Clapham, Bedford,
on the 9th April,
1878.
He was educated at
Eton, where he was
captain of the School in laUl . and in tlie Eton
XI (kept wicket) in 1896 and 1S97. Proceed-
ing to the Royal Jlilitary Academy, Woolwich,
he ol)tained his commission in the Boyal Field
Artillery in June, 1898. beconnng Lieutenant
in February, 1901, and Captain in ^larch, 1908.
He served in the South African War, taking
part in operations in the Orange Free State,
in< hiding engagements at Poplar Grove and
Driefontein, from February to May, 1900,
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subsequently ^ecei^^ng the Queen's medal with
two clasps.
Captain Browning was killed on the 2(5th
August at Le Cateau. wliile his battery was
under very hea\-y fire.
He was the prospective Liberal candidate for
Windsor at the next election.
MAJOR JAMES ALEXANDER
BROWNING. 2nd DRAGOON GUARDS
(QUEENS BAYSi,
u ho was killed in
action on the 31st
October. 1914. was
born on the 25tli
June, 1878. and
joined the 2nd Dra-
goon Guards in May.
18 9 8, becoming
Lieutenant on the
loth August, 1899.
From March, 1900,
to November, 1901,
he was A.D.C". to the Inspector General of
Ca\alry in Great Britain and Ireland.
He served in the South African War. 1901-<12.
being present at operations in the Transvaal,
Orange River and Cape Colonies, and received
the Queen's medal «-ith five clasps. He was
promoted Captain in September. 1001. From
July, 1906 to July, 1909. he was Adjutant
of his regiment, and obtained Ms Majority
in July. 1911.
CAPTAIN THE HON. HENRY LYND-
HURST BRUCE. 3rd lattd. 2nd)
B.\TTN. ROYAL SCOTS iLOTHIAN
REGIMENT),
wa-s the eldest son
of Henry Campbell.
2nd Baron Aberdare
of Duf^'ryn, Jloun-
tain Ash. Glamorgan,
and was liorn on the
25th :May, 1881, at
42, Lowndes Street.
I^ o n d o n , S. W.
Through Us mother
he was related to the
late Lord Lyndhnrst,
anil tlie great |..niit.i. J. S. Copley.
He was educated at Winchester, and New
College, Oxford, and was gazetted Lieutenant
in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion the Hampshire
Regiment in 1903. and in May, 1906. became
Captain in the 3rd (Special I{eserve) Battalion
Royal .Scots.
Captain Bruce was very fond of polo, shooting,
and motor racmg, and was a member of the
Royal Automobile Chib. Pall :Mall. He
married in October, 190(i. Camilla, daughter
of the late Hej nold Clillord ; their daughter,
Margaret, born in August, 1909, died t«o days
after her birth.
In the middle of December, 1914, the Royal
Scots had been for several weeks in the neigh-
bourhood of Ypres, holding back the enemy :
all through that time Captain Bruce and his
men had been under almost continuous fire,
and had taken part in many brUliant l)ayonet
iharges. During the greater part of that time
Captain Bruce was acting as Second in Com-
mand of the battalion.
On the 14th December came the order for the
olfensive movement that proved successful,
and of which Captain Bruce partly planned
the attack. He led his men most gallantly
against the enemy over the intervening ground,
which had become a swamp, ankle deep in
mini, in face of a terrible fire. They captured
the trench they were attacking, taking 59
prisoners and several guns. Captain Bruce
was shot in the forehead by a German con-
cealed in a dug-out while he was climbing out of
the captiu-ed trench to leadliismenontotheuext
line of trenches. He was buried where he fell.
The battaUon received the congi-atulations of
Sir John French and Sir H. Smith-Dorrien,
and the charge was described as magnificent.
General Haldane also wrote saying how much
Captain Brace's services had been appreciated,
and what skiU and bravery he had displayed.
He was greatly beloved by his men, and Ids
death was a real sorrow to them and to his
brother officers. He had written most interest-
ing letters home, always cheerful and never
complaining. In one letter he said. "It is
the finest lite I have ever lived."
Captain Bruce was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
His daring conduct on the night of the 24th
October had attracted the attention of the
Officer in Command of the battalion, and
there is little doubt but that had he lived he
woidd have received some recognition of it, as
well as of his gallantry on the 14th December,
in addition to being mentioned in Despatches.
MAJOR JONATHAN
BRUCE, 107th P
INDIAN ARMY,
liorn at Dliarmsala,
Punjab, India, on
the 22nd June, 1873.
was the eldest sou of
Richard J. Bruce,
CLE., of Quetta.
Teddington, a direct
descendant of the
Bruces of Miltown
Castle, County Cork,
Ireland (whose
genealogy is given
in Burke's Landed Gentry).
M A X W
1 O N E E
BRU
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.Mmjcip Hi-iHO w.-is fiUicalcd at ][aile\ Imi-y
and tlur H.M.C., Saiidluii-st, ivceiviiiK liis fii'st
loiniiiissiou in Jiinuary, IS!).'), hefoniing Licu-
tfiiaiit in the following year, and Captain in
1001, liaving joined the Indian Army in ISOd.
In 1908 he was appointed Double Company
Commander in tlu- IHTtli I'ioneers. ![<■ saw
active service on- the NUi lU-W est Frontier of
India in 1S97-9S, and was present at the
relief of Malakand, receiving the medal and
two clasps.
Having obtained hLs Majority in 1913, he was
serving «ith his regiment when he was killed
on the 24th November, 191-1, in the desperate
lighting whicli look place on that day between
Ypres and Bellume ; he was biu'ied at Betluine.
Major Bruce, \\ho was a very keen sportsman,
good at polo and otlier games, was a member of
the East India United Service Chib. .St. James's
.Squai-e, S.W.
lie married in SeptemVier. 1905. Mabel Walrond,
youngest daughter of Hem-y Trengrou.se, Ksq.,
J.V.. of Che.sfield, Teddington, and left two
girls : Mary Aileen. born May. 190S. and
Barbara Maxwell, born ]\larch, 191(1.
CAP T.\ IN the Honble. ROBERT
BRUCE, MASTER OF BURLEIGH,
PRINCESS LOUISE'S (ARGYLL
AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS),
\\ ho waj? killed at
Le Cateau on the
2Cth August, 1914,
was the elder son of
Lord Balfoxu' of Bur-
leigh, lie was born
on the 2r)th Septem-
ber, 1880, in Edin-
burgli, and was
i-diicalcd .-it Horris
Hill (.Mr. A. 11.
Evans) and at Eton.
Cajitain Bruce joined
tlie :;i-d Hallali.in i.l tb.- Argyll and .Sutlierland
Highlanders in 1898. and aecou>panied the II li
BattaMon to South Africa in Jamiary, 1900 ;
in April of the latter year he was transferred
to the 1st (Regular) Battalion, and vnth it
served throiigli the South .\frican War. He
was present at o|)erations in the Orange Free
State, in the Transvaal, in Orange River
Colony, and t\ipe Colony ; he received the
Queen's medal with three clasps, and the
King's medal with two clasps. Subsequently
Capfain Bruce joined the 2nd Battalion and
served with it in India and South Africa. In
March, 1910, he was attached to the Egyptian
-Army, with the rank of Bimbashi, and in
September of that year became Captain in the
British Army. In 1912 he took part in an
expedition against certain tribes between the
sources of the Wliite and the lUiie Nile, receiving
a niidal Idi- his services. In tbc following
year he w;is Intelligence Ollicer to the force
wliich accoini>anied the Joint Commission sent
to delimit the boundary lietween the Soudan
and I'ganda. i-eceiving for his sci-vic-es the
1th Cl.-\ss Order of the Medjidie.
Captain Bruce proceeded on active service at
the very commencement of the Great War,
and w ,-i~ line nf tlu- otlii-ers killed ^omi aflrr
lliu British Force entered the field. Only a
short time before the outbreak of the wai-. the
engagement had lieen announced of the Mastei'
of Biuleigb to .Miss Cicely Blair, only daughter
of Colonel and .Mrs. Blair of Dairy, .\yrsliire.
In Clackmannan Church on the .'>tli Xiiveniber,
the Rev. A. Irvine Robertson. D.l'., in tlu-
course of liLs address, made sympathetic
reference to the loss that parish and the country
had sulTered through the untimely death of
this young ollicer, representative of a family of
whom it can be said " that no name for the
last six centuries has stood higher in the esteem
of Scotland than the name of Bruce."
In a report received a few days after the
arrival of the Argyll and .Sutherland Highlanders
at the front, reference was made to the blaster
of Burleigh : — " There the same spirit of
brotherly helpfulne.ss that had always urarked
otir friend once more manifested itself. He
would not l>e content w ith supervision ; he
would share the laliours of the lads he com-
nian<led ; and so doing, with rille and bayonet
in hand, leadint; on his men against over-
whelming odds, Robert Bruce met a hero's fate."
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM ARTHUR
McCRAE BRUCE, 59th SCINDE RIFLES,
FRONTIER FORCE, INDIAN ARMY,
only son of Colonel
Andrew 31 c C r a e
Bruce, C.B., Indian
Army, and Mrs.
^IcCrae Bruce, of
Roche d'Or Samares,
Jersey, was born in
Edinhurgh on the
15th June, 1890.
He was educated at
Cliir House School,
Southbourne. Hamp-
shire, antl Victoria
College, St. Helier, Jersey, from whicli he
jjroceeded to the R.iJ.C, Sandhurst, where lie
was a King's Indian Cadet, and a Corporal.
Passing out of .Sandhui'st, he received his
commission as Second Lieutenant in January,
1910, and, leaving for India the following
month, was attached for a year to the 1st
Battalion Noi-thumberland Fusiliers : in Mai-ch.
1911, he joined the 59th Scinde Rifles F.F..
and became Lieutenant in April, 1912. Ho
BUG
was good at golf and cricket, and a keen
hockey player.
When the war broke out Lieutenant Bruce
was at home on leave, and, being ordered to
rejoin liLs regiment in India, sailed from
England on the 11th August. On reaching
Egypt he received orders to proceed to Cairo
and await the arrival of his regiment there :
in September he landed with it in France.
Ijeing tlie first part of the Indian Expeditionarj-
Force to arrive.
He was killed in a German trench to the east
of Givenchy. near La Bassee, on the 19th
December, 191-t ; he was in command of a
bombing party of his regiment in a night
attack on a Grerman trench, was wounded on
the way up to the trench but continued to
lead his men, and was the first man to get
into the trench : shortly afterwards he was
shot through the chest, being killed instan-
taneously
C .\ P T A I N CLAUDE GRAY
BUCHANAN, p.s.c. 35th SIKHS, attd. Sth
GURKHA RIFLES,
who was kUled on
the -Ith November.
191-t. having pre-
%-iously been reported
missing, was the
eldest son of Lieut-
enant-Colonel M. R.
Gray Buchanan.
Ettrickdale, Isle of
Bute.
He was bom on the
11th February. 1S7S,
iiiiil was cducatetl at Harrow (Small Houses
and The Park) from 1892-96, afterwards
going to the K.M.C., Sandhurst. He passed
first out of the latter and was gazetted to an
unattached Second Lieutenancy in July, 1S9S,
and served his probationary period with the
Hampshire Regiment at Limdi Khotal (Khyber
I'ass) and on the North- West Frontier of India,
joining the Indian .Staff Corps in 1809. He
served in the Waziristan Campa^n, North-
West Frontier, of 1901-02. recei\-ing the medal
with clasp.
He was promoted C'aptain in Jidy. 1907, and
passed out of the Staff College, Quetta, in
December, 1913. In August, 1914, he was
appointed to the Headquart-ers Staff of the
Royal Flj-ing Corps, Expeditionary Force, and
in November was attached to the Sth Gurkha
Rifles-
Captain Buchanan married in July, 1914. Jane
CecUia Hope, only daughter of >lr. Rol>ert
Elmsall Findlay. of Boturich, Dmiibartonshire.
JIany of the above details were printed in the
'■ Harro\-ian War .Supplement " for November,
1914.
MAJOR A U B REV WEBSTER
BUCKINGHAM. 3rd attd. 1st BATTN.
GORDON HIGHL.\NDERS.
of Harrietsham
Manor, Kent, who
was killed in action
on the 17th Novem-
•>er, 1914, near
Tpres. was the son
of the late J. H.
Buckingham, of Lan-
caster Gate, and was
bom in 1870.
He was educated at
Elstree and Harrow
(Rendalls 1884 —
1SS7), and served in the South African War,
being present at operations in Natal in 1899.
He was in command of Volunteer details, and
afterwards Garrison Adjutant at Green Point
Camp, near Capetown, For his ser\-ices he
received the Queen's medal with three clasps,
and the King's medal with two clasps. He
also had the Coronation medal. 1911.
Major Buckingham was a member of the Junior
Athenaeum Club, and of the 3I.C.C. He was
promoted honorary Captain in the Army in May,
1901, and honorary Major in January. 1902.
He married Mabel Felizarda. daughter of the
late Colonel Walter Rudge, R.A.. Stede Court,
Harrietsham. Kent.
V BUCKLE.
A R T I L I. K R V ,
CAPTAIN H E N R
ROYAL FIELD
who died in a Ger-
man Hospital on the
4th October. 1914.
from blood poisoning
following a wound
received at Cambrai
on the 26th August,
was the elder son of
>fr. Henry Buckle.
British Burma Com-
mission, retired.
He was bom on the
24th August, 1880,
and educated at Clifton CoUege and the K.M.A..
Woolwich. He was gazetted to the Royal
Artillery in June, 1S99, becoming Lieutenant
in 1901. He took part in the South African
War and was present at operations in the Orange
Free State Ln 1900 ; in the Transvaal, including
actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill :
in the Orange River Colony May to November,
1900, including action at Wittebergen : in
Cape Colony. South of Orange River. He was
also present at later operations 1900-02, in
Orange River and Cape Colonies. For liis
services he received the Queen's medal with four
clasps, and the King's medal with two clasps.
Captain Buckle was promoted to that rank in
April, 1906.
BUC-BUL
MAJOR MATTHEW PERCEVAL
BUCKLE, D.S.O., p.s.c, 1st BATTN.
THE QUEENS OWN (ROYAL WEST
. , _ KENT REGT.),
w as th
Adiiiiial
Huikle,
House,
S]iil-il)iiry.
sliin
coiul soil of
and .Mrs.
Tlic Ktil
Kaithby.
Ijiucoln-
aud was lioru
oil till' 29th Septeni-
liLi', 1809, at VViay
Cottage, Amble.side,
He was educatod at
Siminierfiold. Ox-
lord, a 11 d w a s
ga/.ftti-d to the Hoyal We.st Kent Regiment in
April, 1889, becoming lieutenant in December,
1892. From June, 1897, to August, 1901, he
was Adjutant of liis battalion, having been
promoted Captain in ,Tuly, 1898. He took part
in tlie Soutli Afiiian War, while Adjutant, and
was present at operations in tlie Orange Free
State in 1900, being severely wounded ; at
operations later in the year in the Orange River
Colony, including the action at Wittebergen ;
operations in Cape Colony and the Transvaal ;
later operations in the Orange River Colony, and
on the Zululand frontier of Natal in 1901.
He was mentioned in Despatches ("London
Gazette," 10th September, 1901), was awarded
the D.S.O,, and received the Queen's medal
with four clasps and the King's medal witli
two clasps.
In 1903 he passed out of the StafT College
with distinction, and from January, 1904, to
January, 1906, he was Staff Captain {>lol)ilisa-
tion) at Headquarters, War Office, and from
January, 190t). to January, 1908. Brigade-Major
at Aklersliot. IMajor Buckle, being a Stal't
College Graduate and a qualified Second Class
Interpreter in French, was appointed in March,
1909, Professor at the Staff CoUege, India, later
General Staff Officer, Second Grade, Staff
College, Quetta, with the temporary rank of
Lieutenant- Colonel from July, 1909. Pie o)i-
tained his Majority in the Army in March. 1907.
On the outbreak of hostilities Major Buckle
was about to start for Albania to take up a
Staff appointment at Scutari for which he had
been specially selected, but his orders were
cancelled and he rejoined his regiment as
second in command, at Richmond Barracks,
Dublin, from which place he sailed on the 1.3th
August, 1914. en route for FVance. He was
present at the retirement from ilons and in
the battles of the Jiarne and the Aisne. He
was twice mentioned in Despatches, viz,, that
of the 8th October, 1914, and Utli January,
191.5.
He was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle
on the 27th October. 1911. while in command
of his liattalion. 'Pin- Hoyal West Kcnls held
their iiosition at this time for eight days without
losing a trench. Tlu' following memoir from
the ]ien of Hiigadiei-ticiiiT.il (Jrove was pub-
lished ill '•'The Queen's Own' Gazette": —
" The regiment has sustained a grievous loss
in the death of Major Buckle. He was quite
the finest type of ollicei- that c;in lie met.
Thoroughly knowing his duty anil very strict in
the performance of it, he was at the same time
always gentle and courteous. He was most
conscientious, and never spared himself as long
as there v^•as work to do. It may well be said
of him that he was " sans peur et sans reproche,"
-Major Buikle married in 1909, -Marjorie Ethel
Grace, elder daughter of Col. C. A. Swan, C.iM.G..
and left two children, Margaret Elizabeth,
born January, 1910, and Peter Claude Matthew,
liorn May, 1914,
lie was a member of the Army and Xavy Club,
and a Fi-eemason. belonging to the following
Lodges : Old Wykehamists (London), Shake-
speare (Spilsby), and the Baluchistan (Quetta,
India).
His recreatioas were cricket, shooting. ]ioloand
race] nets,
CAPTAIN THOMAS HENRY
RIVERS BULKELEY, C.M.G.. M.V.O.,
SCOTS GUARDS,
born on the 23rd
.lime, 187(5, was the
son of Colonel C.
Kivers Bulkeley,
C.B., and was kiUed
in action on the 22nd
October, 191 1.
He was educated at
Eton, and joined the
Oxfordshire Militia
in 1894, becoming
Captain in 1897. In
January, 1899, he was transferred to the Scots
Guards as Second I,ieutenant, becoming Lieu-
tenant in Apiil, 1900; from July, 1901-04
he was Adjutant of his battalion, liecoming
Captain in July of the latter year. He served
in the South African War, taking part in the
advance on Kimbeiley, including the action at
Belmont, ^\■here he was wounded ; operations
in the Orange Free State, and at Paardeberg ;
actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Vet River
and Zand River ; operations in the Transvaal,
including actions near Johannesburg. Pi'etoria
and Diamond Hill : operations in the Trans-
vaal, including action at Belfast. For these
services he was tlu'ee times mentioned in
Despatches, and received the Qvieen's medal
with six clasps, and the King's medal with two
clasps.
From 1904-05 Captain Rivers Bulkeley was
A.D.C. and Comptroller of the HovLsehold to
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Lord Cur/.oii. N'iforoy of India ; from 1900-07
he held the same poots under Lord .Minto. In
the latter year he was appointed A.D.C. to
Field ilarshal H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught.
Inspector General of the Forces, and High
Coininissioner in the Jlediterranean, and more
lately Governor General and Commander-in-
Chief in Canada. In October, 1909, Captain
Bulkeley was appointed Equerry to H.R.H.
the Duke of Connaught and was Comptroller
of his Household in Canada.
On the outbreak of the Great War. Captain
Rivers Bulkeley resigned his appointment on the
StaiT of His Royal Highness, and rejoined his
regiment, lieing in command of the left flank
Company of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards,
forming part of the Vllth Division. He was
killed while leading his Company to ftU a gap
in the fighting line.
Captain Rivers Bulkeley was a member of the
Guards', Carlton, Junior Carlton, and Shrews-
bury County Clubs. He married in 1913,
Evelyn, daughter of Lady Lilian Yorke, Lady-
in-Waiting to H.R.H. the Duchess of Con-
naught, and the late Su- Henry Pelly, 3rd
Baronet, and leaves a son, Itorn in January.
1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT ERIC LAURENCE
ARTHUR HART BURGES, 3rd
(attd. 2nd) BATTN. THE DUKE
OF EDINBURGH'S (WILTSHIRE REGT.),
was the younger son
of the late Rev. .T.
Hart Surges, D.D.,
Rector of De^'^zes,
and of Mrs. Burges,
81. Hmnber Road,
Blackheath. and
grandson of the Rev.
W. C. Burges, M.A..
first cousin and
Domestic Chaplain
to the Earl of Rosse.
He was born at
De\-izes and educatrd at St. Ednuuid's School,
Canterbury, and at St. John's College, Oxford,
where he graduated B.A. in 1913, with Third
Class Honours in Jlodern History. In August,
1914, he had just completed bis studies
at the University, taking with distinction the
Diploma in Economics and Political Science,
and the Certificate in Social Training. He was
also a keen member of the Oxford University
Officers' Training Corps, holding the rank of Cor-
poral and having qualified for Cei-tiflcate " B."
Wlien war was declared he at once applieil for
a commission, and was gazetted to the 3r<l \\ ilts.
I^ater he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion,
and sailed for Belgium on the 4th October.
His battalion was attached to the " Immortal "
Vnth Division, and took part in its magnificent
stand near Ypres against overwhelming numbers.
He was killed by shell fire near the village of
Reutel on the morning of the 23rd October,
1914 — his 23rd birthday — the day before the
1st .\rmy Corps came to their relief.
CAPTAIN THOMAS CAMPBELL
BURKE, 1/lst KING GEORGES OWN
GURKHA RIFLES (THE MALAUN
REGIMENT),
in which he was a
Douljle Company
Commander, was the
son of Joseph Francis
Burke and Kate
ilarlow Burke, and
was Iiorn on the
27th :May. 1877, at
Stratford-on-Avon.
He was educated at
Trinity College,
Stratford - on - Avon,
and at the R.il.C, Sandhurst. After passing
out of Sandhiu'st he was, in August, 1897,
attached to the Royal Irish Rifles for a year,
receiving his commission in the Indian Staff
Corps in October, 1898, when he was gazetted
to the 12.5th Napier's Rifles. In 1900 he served
in the Boxer Rebellion in China with the 122nd
Rajputana Infantry, receiving the medal. On
returning from Hong Kong Tie was appointed
Adjutant of his regiment, the 125th Napier's
Rifles, a position he held for three years,
earning a reputation as a hard worker and a
conscientious and reliable officer. Fi-om 1904 —
1907 — being promoted Captain in AugiLst, 1906
— he was Assistant Inspecting Olficer with the
Imperial .Service troops (Rajputana Infantry),
his itinerary of inspection including the native
States of Gwalior, Alwar and Bhurtpore, and
for some time the Bikaneer Camel Corps. For
most of this time, owing to the absence through
illness of his senior officer. Captain Burke had
to assume fvdl control and responsiliilities. He
was an excellent Hindustani scholar, and. while
being a strict disciplinarian, earned the esteem
and regard of the native officers and men by
his wisdom, patience, and tactful handling of
many a difficult situation.
From April. 1909. to Jlarch. 1913, he was
Adjutant of the Bangalore Volunteer Rifles,
during which time he started the first corps
of Boy Scouts in India. He then returned to
his own regiment as Double Company Com-
mander, rejoining at Dharnisala.
Captain Burke was a good all-round sports-
man ; he was a member of the Jmiior Naval
and JUlitary Club.
On the outbreak of the \\'ar, the 1st Gurkhas
were ordered to the front, but were detained
in Egypt for ten weeks to guard the Suez
Canal, arriving eventually in FVance in
BUR
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NovcTiilii'i'. I'.ll I. MS part of tlic Sirkiiiil Urisadc.
On tlu' ISlh DcciMnbfi'. I'.ll 1. tlir Gurkhas
Hcrr ill action at Fcstiil)i'rt : mi tlu; lOtli
Captain Biirkc. with 70 iiicn, was onlerod to
effect, a lodgment in the German Are trench,
and, in attempting to carry out the order, was
killed within twenty yards of the British trenches.
The official report on the incident was as
follows : —
•■The attack failed, hoth omceis— Captain
Burke and Lieutenant I'lindall — being killi-.l
and more tlian 50 per cent, otlier ranks being
hit. It should, however, be recorded that all
ranks showed the gi'eat&st gallantry in resolutely
attempting sucli an operation in daylight."
The Brigade- ^lajor, referring to the occurrence,
wrote : —
" As regards Burke I tliink everyone was
absohitely unanimous in rating what he did
as one of the most gallant deeds imaginabli',
and he and Rundall and tlie men who followed,
cannot be thought of except as ranking with
the bravest."
The Officer Commanding 1/lst Gurkhas wrote
of him : — '* The action was most gallant and
w^ell worthy of the Victoria Cross."
A Captain of his regiment wrote : — " His loss
is greatly felt by us. His sound conimonseiose,
keenness and professional ability were recognised
by all of us and I am very sorry w-e shall see
him no more."
And an Officer who was his subaltern, wrote : —
" I cannot say how much we liked him and
feel his loss. Having worked with him all
Ms time here I found him one of the soundest
and best officers I know, and his loss to the
regiment is great. His death was a fine
example of sacrifice to duty and obedience to
orders which he knew could not be carried out."
Captain Burke married in 1900, Ada ^lary.
daughter of the Rev. Thomas WaU Langshaw,
of West Grinstead Rectory, Sussex.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR GEORGE
McCAUSLAND BURN, 2nd
BATTN. EAST SURREY REGT.,
attd. 1st GLOUCESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT,
born at Dorunda.
Cliota Xagpore, In-
dia, on the 22nd
December, 1882, was
the only son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
A. G. Burn, Indian
.<f^'. , Army, of Mansel
Lacy, Hereford. He
/ .. vmf yyg^^ descended from
a long line of soldiers
on both sides : on
his father's side he was the fifth soldier in direct
succession, liis great-great-grandfather having
been Lieutenant -( 'oloncl (afterwards (inicral)
William liurn, who in 1 S(i I sine essfiilU liild
Delhi against llolkar.
Captain Burn was educated at ^^■ellingtoll
(.Mr. Ilardinge) from 1807- lOOO, wlu'ii.'e he
passed direct into tin' H.M.l'.. Sandhurst, at
the age of 18. In tlu- lirst Army examination
lie did well, taking the 17th place in the llonoiu's
list, with the prize for ^lilitaiy Engineering.
He was gazetted in January, 1002, to the East
Surrey Regiment, joining the 1st Battalion
in India shortly afterwards, lie was promoted
l^ieutenant in January, lOOl. and Captain in
March. 1910.
Captain Burn, wiio was a nieiiibfr of the .luiiior
Army and Navy Club, was a great shot and a
keen sportsman. He did a good deal of big
g;ime shooting in India and Burmah, his
trophies including elephant, tiger, bison. Set-.
When war broke out he was at home on leave
from India, and being ordered to join the 1st
Battalion Gloucestershire Kegiment iminedi-
ately, proceeded with it as part of the Expedi-
tionary Force to France, and took part in the
retii'ement from Mons. A brother officer writing
of this time said that Captain Burn was not
very well at the beginning of the war, l)ut stuck
to it pluckily during the retirement, and was of
the greatest help to his Company Commander.
He afterwards went through the liattles of the
^larne and the Aisne, and was killed on the
20th October, 1914, in the first liattle of Ypres.
At 5.30 a.m. on that morning the enemy began
to attack, and the Gloucesters were ordered to
advance, the fighting taking place on the
Gheluvelt-Menin road, about half a mile from
the former village. Captain Burn was shot
and killed instantly while leading his men
against the enemy, who were only 50 yarils
from them at that point. An officer to whom
he had just before given a message WTote :
" He was very cool, and sent to the Jlajor to
let lum know that there were Germans working
round our flank," and continued, " he always
showed to advantage under fire, apparently
quite indifferent to bullets and shells, and had
a wonderfully steadying effect on the men."
His Colonel WTote : — "We all had a very high
opinion of Captain Burn's worth as a leader
and we all deplored his great loss ; we. indeed,
felt we had lost one of us, although he belonged
to another regiment and was at first a stranger."
2nd LIEUTENANT ARTHUR HERBERT
ROSDEW BURN, 1st (ROYAL
DRAGOONS), who was killed in action on
the 30th October, 1914. at the age of 22, was
the eldest son of Colonel Charles R. Bm-n,
A.D.C. to the King, IM.P., and the Hon. :\Irs.
Burn, of 77, Cadogan Square, S.W., and
Stoodley Knowie, Torcjuay.
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He was a grandsou of Ix)rd Leitli of Fyvie.
2nd Lieutenant Bum was educated at Ludgrove.
Eton, and f'hri«t
CTiurch. Oxfonl, and
was a member of
Bullingdon and tlie
Bachelors' Chilis.
He obtained his
commission as a
University candidate
on the Kith August.
1914. Colonel Burn
Is himself serving in
tlie war as a General
Staff Officer.
LIEUTENANT
DINER BURRIDGE.
HENRY G A R -
107th PIONEERS.
INDIAN ARMY,
who was shot
through the head
near La Bassee on
the 16th November,
1914, while examin-
ing the damage done
I>y German shells,
was the son of the
late Lieutenaut-
Colonel F . J .
Bun-idge. R.A.. and
was l)orn on the
20th January. 1S90. at Bareilly. Xorth-West
Provinces. India. He was a gi-an<lson of the
late William Biuridge. Bradfoi-d Court, Taunton.
.SomeKet.
Lieutenant Bun-idge was educated at Wintou
House. Winchester, and Wellington College,
where he was a prefect, was in the first fifteen
and first eleven, was a gentleman of the Hunt,
and where he won the Challenge Cup in 1906 :
he also broke the College record in 1908 by
ninning the half-mile race in two minutes one
second. In 1909 he joined the Infantry Com-
pany at the K.M.A., Woolwich, and there he
won the mile race, was second in the two mile,
and third in the half-mile, in the sports between
the R.M.A. and the R.M.C.
On joining the Army he was attached to the
North Staffordshire Regiment for his year's
training, beir^ then posted to the 1.5th
Ludlilana .Sikhs, and. two years later, to the
107th Pioneers, in wliich he ranked as Lieutenant
from December, 1911. He was known to all
his friends as " Lai."
LIEUTENANT ANDREW BURT.
8th BATTN. THE ROYAL
SCOTS. LOTHIAN REG1MENT^
who was killed in action near Armentieres
between the 18th and the 20th October. 1914,
became lieutenant in his regiment in Jfay.
1913. and had qualified for the rank of Captain.
CAPTAIN CH.\RLES PAGET
OB R 1 EN -BUTLER. ROYAL ARMY
MEDICAL CORPS,
born at TheCurragh,
Ii-eland, on the 19th
July. I8S1, wa.s the
son of Major I'ierce
OBrien-Butler, 00th
Rifles, and a great- ;
great -gi'andson of
Edmund Butler.
Seventeenth Baron
DunbojTie.
He was educated at
Belvedere College, '"
Dublin. He was a good footljaller. playing in
the Monkstown eleven, Ireland, but gave up
football for racing, in which he soon became
famous as a gentleman rider : he rode for His
^lajesty the late King Edward VII, was
head of the list of wiiining riders in Ireland in
1907, and won races for many well-known owners
in England, Ireland, India, and on the Conti-
nent, both on the flat and over country. His
brother. Pierce O'Brien-Butler, was an Inter-
national football player, and lost his life in the
Boer War.
After qualifvTng he entered the Army in Jidy,
1907, becoming Captain in January. 1911. He
left for France, attached to the 5th I>aiicer-s, in
August. 1914, and was mentioned in .Sir John
French's Despatch of Sth October. 1914. On
the 1st Xovemljer. 1914. he was shot down by
maxim gun fire when going across an open space
to help some wounded comrades.
Captain O'Brien-Butler married Winifred
O'Brien, and left one son, Terence, born at
Poona in August. 1911.
MA I TL AND
FUSILIERS
REGIMENT),
CAPTAIN ARTHUR
BYNG, 4th ROYAL
CITY OF LONDON
was the son of Major
A. H. Byng, late of
the Prince of Wales's
Leiuster Regiment,
and formerly Lieu-
enant Royal Xavy,
and was related to
the Viscount Tor-
rington. He was
bom at Southsea on
the 26th October.
1872.
Captam Byng was
educated at " The Grange," Cowes, and by an
Army Tutor at Caen. In Septemljcr. 1S9.5. lie
was gazetted to the West Indian Regiment.
and served in it till March, 1901, being pro-
moted Captain in June, 1900 ; he was trans-
ferred to the Royal Fusiliers, as Captain in
March, 1901. He served in the South African
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War ill I '.Ml I ami I'.KIL'. liaviiit; ln'iTi eiii|ilii\ nl
with till' .Mounted Infantry, and lioius; pi'iwcnt
at operatioiLs in the Transvaal. ()rani;e Kivcr
Colony and Capo Colony. lie rriciMvl tin-
(iucon's modal with four elasi)s.
From 1903-0") he was einplojed with the
Egyptian jVi'my aiul was Adjutant in the
Special Reserve from 1908-1912. At llouns-
low he inaufiurated a Labour Department
for Old Soldiers who were out of v\ork, and set
on foot schemes for the social improvement
of Army dependents, and amongst other things
had such soldiers' wives as wished it, taught
to cook properly.
Captain Byng was killed at ^'ailly, at the
battle of the Aisne, on the 14th September.
1914, while looking through his field glasses ;
he was shot in the throat and killed instan-
taneously.
Brother officers gave the following account of
him and his work during the early part of the
war : — " He has done very ivell w'M\ his
Company ; no man could have done more.
He was our great interpreter, being
\ery good at French." Again : " He was
always taking risks and lea\ing the trenches
with a rifle to walk about in front."
Cai)tain Byng was a member of the IM.C.C.
and had played both cricket and football
for Hampslure. He was a fine all-round
cricketer, being a clean and effective bowler,
with very deceptive pitch and pace, and a
polished and punishing bat. He had taken
many wickets and made hundreils of runs for
the Roval Fusiliers.
LIEUTENAN T-C OLONEL HENRY
OSBERT SAMUEL CADOGAN,
ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS,
was serving at Malta
in command of the
1st Battalion when
war was declared.
It was shortly after-
wards decided to
order this Unit to
England , to form
part of the Vllth
Division, which was
to be organised for
active service as
quickly as possible.
The Battalion arrived at Southampton on the
15th September, 1914, and was then sent to
Lyndhurst to prepare for embarkation for the
Continent, and left for the seat of war on the
4th Octolier. Having disembarked at Zeelirugge,
the Division moved in the direction of Ghent,
the Royal Welsh Fusiliers taking up a position
in front of that town on the 9th October. Here
a scene of great confusion was noticeable, as
tile iiibaliitaiits were fleeing in a westerly
directiiiri in order to escape^ from the ailvanciiig
(Jernians.
On the night of the 11th the Battalion moved
liack with the Division through Roulers to
Ypres, which was reached on the 14th, and on
the 19th was heavily engaged in front of
Dadizeele against vastly superior iiuinliers.
Severe fighting continued daily until the 30tli
October, on which date the battalion — owing
to casualties — had been reduced to about three
hundred officers and men, and formed part of
the Vllth Division line in front of Zandvoorde.
The long line from near the Menin Canal to
Zonnelieke was thinly held, and the enemy in
very superior strength was endeavouring to
capture Y'pres, and thus penetrate to Calais.
On the 30th the attack was renewed, and some
dismounted cavalry on the right of the Welsh
Fu..iliers having suffered severe losses were
forced back, thus leaving the battalion open
to a flank attack. Seeing this danger, the
Adjutant (Lieutenant Dooner) rushed across a
fire-s«'ept piece of ground — the trenches were
not continuous — to give some instructions to
the company on the right, and was returning to
rejoin his Commanding Officer when he was
seen to fall. Survivors of the regiment, now
prisoners in Germany, state that Lieutenant-
Colonel Cadogan at once ran out of the trench
to his Adjutant's assistance, and while stooping
over him was shot down and, they believe,
killed. Shortly after, the remnant of the batta-
lion, many having been killed or wounded, was
surrounded and captured. Only one officer —
Captain Parker — and eighty-six men, answered
the roll-call that evening.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cadogan was a member of
a \\'elsh family formerly settled for many
generations in Monmouthshire, and was the
only surviving son of the late Rev. Edward
Cadogan, Rector of Wicken, Northamptonshire.
He was born in 1868, was educated at the Royal
Military Academy, Gosport, and, joining the
Royal Welsh Fusiliers from the Militia in 18S8,
was promoted Captain in 1890, Major in 1907,
and succeeded to the command of the 1st
Battalion in 1912. He had been Assistant-
Commandant, Indian ^Mounted Infantry School,
from 1900 to 1908. and commanded at Kasauli
in 190S and 1909. lie served throughout the
Hazara Expedition in 1891, being granted the
!Medal, and in the China Expedition and relief
of Pekin in 1900, receiving the Medal and clasp.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cadogan was twice men-
tioned in Sir John French's Despatches (14th
January and 31st May, 1915) for his gallant
and distinguished conduct during the eleven
days' fighting from October 19th to 30th.
He married in 1906 Evelyn, daughter of the
late H. T. Ross, and leaves one ;^on born in 1908.
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CAD— CAM
31rt January,
Eton, joining
Lieutenant in February.
Lieutenant in January,
the South African War.
MAJOR THE HON. WILLIAM GEORGE
SYDNEY CAUOGAN. M.V.O.. 10th
PRINCE OF WALESS OWN ROY.\L
HUSSARS.
who was killed in
action on the 14th
November, 1914,
while in command of
his regiment, was the
fifth son of the fifth
Earl Cadogan and
Countess Cadogan.
fourth daughter of
the second Earl of
Craven.
He was Iiorn on the
lb~9, and was educated at
the 10th Hussars as Second
1899, and becoming
1900. He served in
being present at the
relief of KlmVierley. operations in the Orange
Free State, and at Paardeberg ; actions at
Driefontein, Poplar Grove, Houtnek (Thoba
ilountain). Vet and Zand Kivers : in the
Transvaal, 1900 and 1901. and in Cape Colony,
1901 and 1902. He received the Queen's medal
with four clasps, and the King's medal with two
clasps.
In 1906 he was awarded the M.V.O., and he also
received the Cross of Honour of the Order of
the Crown of Wiirtemberg. He was promoted
Captain in March. 1904. Major in January.
1911. and in 1912 was appointed Equerry to
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Prior to this he
was A.D.C. to His Royal Highness during his
Indian Tour, 1905-06.
Major Cadogan was a member of the Turf and
Whites Oubs.
LIEUTENANT JOHN LESLIE CALDE-
COTT. ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY,
was reported as killed in action in Xyassa-
land in September, 1914.
He was born on the 7th August, 1886, and
joined the Royal Artillery from the Militra in
February. 1908. becoming Lieutenant in Feb-
ruary. 1911. In August. 1913. he was appointed
A.D.C. to the Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of Nvassaland at Zomba.
2nd LIEUTENANT W1LLL\M ROBERT
LAUNCELOT CALROW. 1st BATTN.
LOYAL NORTH L.\NC.\SHIRE REGT..
was born at San .\ntonici. Texas. U.S.A., on the
12th March, 1895. His parents were both EngUsh,
Gerald Walton Calrow. and Mabel Calrow,
daughter of the late Edmund King. He was a
great-grandson of the late WUliam Calrow. Esq.,
J.P., D.L., of Walton Lodge. Lancashire.
Second-Lieutenant Calrow lost his mother when
he was only a year-and-a-half old, and hav-
ing come to England with his father was
brought up by his
grandmother, ^Irs.
Calrow, and educated
in England. He was
first at a preparatory
school at Seascale.
Cumberland, then at
the School House,
Rugby, and finally
at the R.M.C.. Sand-
hurst. He was
gazetted to the Army
in September, 1913,
and joined at .\ldershot, where he remained
till the 12th August, 1914, when he accompanied
his battslion to France for the Great \^"ar. He
was present at the battle of 3Ions. in the retire-
ment thence, and in the battles of the .\isne
and the Marne.
He was killed instantaneously by high-explosive
sheU on the 7th October, 1914. Both officers
and men testified in the highest terms to his
courage, coolness and efficiency, and to his
kindness and consideration for his men. Only
on the morning of hLs death one of the latter
said to the Officer commanding hLs company :
" Young Mr. Calrow is a hero, if ever there was
one." The same Officer, in writing to his Aunt
said : " Calrow liehaved perfectly splendidly ;
he was wonderfully cool and collected." While
yet another wrote : "A thoroughly efficient
young officer, as brave as you make them, and a
great loss to us."
Second-Lieutenant Calrow was very fond of
hunting and was a fearless rider from early
I)Oyhood. His recreations also included camp-
ing out, and walking among the mountains of
Wales. Cumberland, and Switzerland, where
he enjoyed ski-ing.
C.\PTA1N ALL.\N GEORGE CAMERON.
1st BATTN. THE QUEENS OWN
C.VMERON HIGHL.\NDERS,
who was liorii al
Achnacarry on the
27th July. 1880. was
the third son of the
late Lochiel and
I^dy Margaret
Cameron, daughter
of the fifth Duke of
Buccleuch.
He was educated at
Eton (where he was
in the "Field" XII.
whence he passed
direct into the R.M.t.. Siuiiiiiui-st. having
previously been gazetted to the Royal Scots
3Iilitia, with which regiment he served during
CAM
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Olio annual training. Captain Canioron was
gazctti'd Sccond-Ijioutenant in OctolnM', IS!)!),
and joined the 2nd Battalion of liis rogitnont
at (iiliraltai-. i)i-o(e('ding witli it to Crete, .Malta,
ami Sniitli Alriiji. He was promoted Lieutenant
in lllKl and Captain in May, 1910. He was
Adjutant of the lut Lovat's Scouts from 1907 —
1911, when he joined the 1st Battalion of his
regiment at Aldershot and went with it to
l''ranee in August, 1914.
lie was killed on the li.'.th Septemljer. 1911,
ne;ir Beaulne. north of the river Aisne. Being
the senior unwounded otlieer at the moment,
he was sent for to take over command of the
battalion : he walked to Headquarters through
heavy shell lire. and as he entered the cave, where
the regimental Headquarters were, a high-
explosive shell blew it in. and he and thirty
others were killed, only one man getting out
alive. He was buried at Bourg, on the Aisne.
Captain Cameron possessed in a marked degree
the qualities of chivalry and courage that have
been characteristic of his family ; tall, hand-
some, and of martial bearing, while modest and
genial in manner, he was extremely jiopidar. .\
hard worker himself, he expected those under
hhn to maintain a high standard of eniciency.
He was a good piper, and rifle shot, winning the
Officers' aggregate for the highest niunber of
points at the Scottish Command Rifle ileeting
in 1913, and being third in the individual
aggregate of all ranks. At Sandluu'st he was
in the revolver team and at Alalia rowed stroke
in the OlTficers' Ijoat race. He was fond of
stalking, and all kinds of shooting. In 1902
he received the Koyal Humane Society's
Certificate for jumping into the sea off
the embankment at Olian and saving a
child's life.
Captain Cameron married in Uctolier, lUUS.
Hester Vere, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel
and the late Mrs. Fraser-Tytler, of Aldourie,
and left one son, Angus Ewen, born 20th
Januarv, 1914. -
CAPTAIN NAPIER CHARLES GORDON
CAMERON, 1st BATTN. THE QUEEN'S
OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS,
was born at Gibraltar
on the 14th Decem-
ber, 1870, being the
son of the late
General Sir William
(iordon Cameron,
G.C.B..ot Nea House,
Christchuv<-h, Hants,
who served in the
Crimea.
( 'aptain Cameron be-
gan his military
cireir by joining
Sfrathcona's Horse in 19(10 ; in (lie lollowing year
lie received a commission in the S<(i(tish Horse,
and served with them during the reMi.-iindev of
tint South African wai', in which he w.is
wounded. For liis services \\r was mentioned
in I )esp,itrhes .-ind I'eceivcd tile (Queen's medal
«itli foul- clasjis. Ill .liHir, 1!)(I2, he was
ga/.elted to thtt Xortluimberhiiid l''usillrrs. and
when the battalion was disbMndeil in lildS.
obtained a commission in the Ut. li.itt:ilioii
Cameron Highlanders as a Liiuiti'uant.
With this battalion he served in the (ireat W.ir,
luMug promoted Captain in September, 1911.
On the 1 Ith of thai month he was n^ported
wounded and nussing, but rejoined his regiment
after two days. On this occasion he owed his
escapit from capt nri' by t lie ( iermans by leigning
death, and lay lor some time on tin' ground
while (iernian soldiers cnf oil his belt .■iiid
removed his claymore and ri^volver. I.;iter on,
while waiting till darkness to return to the
regiment, with some private soldiers, they heard
an ollicer of the Black Watch calling for help,
and Captain Cameron witli a private, in th<,'
Camerons went out and lironi.dit him in under
heavy fire.
He was killed in action at the Battle of the
Aisne on the 2.")th September, 1914.
On the 4th November, 1913, Captain Cameron
married Constance Geraldine, eldest daughter
of Captain Hai-ry Brooke, D.L., late (iordon
Highlanders, of Fairley, Countcsswells, Aber-
deenshire, and grand -daughter of the late Sir
Arthur Brooke, Bart., of Colebrooke, County
Fermanagh, Ireland, and left one child. Honor
Napier Gordon Cameron, liorn on the :!lst
Decendier, 1914, after her father's death.
Captain Cameron was a mendier of the llniti'd
Service Club. He took his Flying ( Crtitieale
at Brooklands in ,Iulv, 1913.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY VEITCH
CAMERON, 1st BATTN. (attd,)
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY,
is believed to have been killed in action on
the 20th December, 1914, near Feslnberl.
lhi>ughhis name had not been iniliidid in the
iiKnithly official casualty lists up to June, 191.").
He was the second son of the late Sir Ewen
Cameron, K.C.M.G.. and of Lady Cameron, of
39, Hyde Park Gate, London. S.W.. and was
born (111 the Ith February, 1883. He joined
Hie Highland Light Infantry in May. 1901.
becoming Lieutenant in .July, 1900.
He served in the Smith African Wai-. being
present at operations in the Cape Colon\ from
October, 1901, to May, 1902, receiving the
Queen's medal with three clasps. From .August,
1908, to .\iigiist, 1911, he was Adjutant of his
battalion, and was promoted Captain in
September, 1912.
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LIEUTENANT ALLAN WILLIAM
GEORGE CAMPBELL, SPECIAL RE-
SERVE, COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
who died of wounds
ri'coived at the battle
' if the Aisne on the
L'llth September,
11J14, was the only
-on of Mr. and Mrs.
Allan Campbell, of
21. LTpper Brook
Street, London.
He was born in
London on the 20th
October, 1884, and
was educated at E. P.
Ai-nold's \\'ixenford Preparatory School, where
he was in the school XI. for cricket and foot-
ball : at Eton, and New College, Oxford. He
was gazetted to the Coldstream Guards as
Second-Lieutenant in February, 1908, becoming
Lieutenant in October. 1910. In August, 1913,
he joined the Special Reserve of the 2nd
Battalion Coldstream Guards
When at Eton he was captain of, and played
cricket and football for his House, Mr. A. A.
SomervUle's, was a leading member of the
Musical Society, and won a cup for fives ; he
was a member of the Volunteer Band and was
" sent up tor good " several times (original
Greek and Latin verse), and won the Head-
master's Prize. Later in life he frequently
played cricket for the Household Brigade. His
recreations were cricket, shooting, fishing, golf,
tennis, billiards, racquets and motoring. He
was also very fond of music, and was a good
musician, being able to play liy ear an}i:hing
he heard, including operas. While at Oxford
he conducted a small orchestra of his own.
He was a memlier of the following clubs : the
Guards', Lord's, Travellers', Bath. Junior
Carlton, United Empire, Royal Automobile.
Prince's, Queen's, Alpine Sports ; Worpleston
and Harewood Downs Golf Clubs, and of the
Free Fore.sters and Eton Ramblers.
In June, 1914, he was accepted as Unionist
Candidate for the Doncaster Division of
Yorksliii-e.
On the outbreak of the war lie rejoined his
regiment, and was one of three officers to take
out the first draft to the front. He was
serving with the 1st Battalion when he was
mortally wounded at the Aisne on tlie 19th
September, 1914, and succumbed to his wounds
next day. He was buiied in Troyon Chiu'ch-
yard.
Lieutenant Campbell married on the 1.5th
February, 1912. Lady Moya ilelisende Browne,
second daughter of the sixth Marquess of .Sligo,
and Agatha Stewart, daughter of .1. Stewart-
Hodgson of Lythe Hill, Haslemcre, and left a
son born October, 1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT BRABAZON CAMP-
BELL, 4th BATTN. ROYAL WARWICK-
SHIRE REGT., ,
was the only son of
Mr. and Mrs. Braba-
zon Campbell. The
Xorthgate, Warwick,
and was 21 years of
age at the time of
his death, having
been born on the 3rd
March, 1893, at The
Northgate, Warwick.
He was educated at
Repton and Queen's
College, Oxford, where he had nearly com-
pleted his second year when war broke out.
He was given a commission in the Royal War-
wickshire Regiment on the 15th August, 1914,
joining it in the Isle of Wight, and on the 26th
November was sent out to the 2nd Battalion.
He fell on the 18th December, 1914, with three
other officers of his battalion. The senior
Officer left of this battalion gave the following
account of the circumstances : —
■' May 1 be allowed to express on behalf of
all ranks our deep sympathy with you in the loss
of your son. He died a gallant death when
within a few yards of a machine gun in the
enemy's trenches, together with four officers
and 32 men. It was obvious that the party
was trying to capture the gun when they were
kUled. It may be some consolation for you to
know that the General Officer Commanding 4th
Army Corps has issued an order praising in the
highest terms the effort made to captiu'e the
enemy's trench, an effort in which your son
took a very prominent and gallant part."
LIEUTENANT CHARLES ARTHUR
CAMPBELL. 1st BATTN. CHESHIRE
REGIMENT,
was born in London
on the 3rd June, 1891,
the son of Arthur
Campbell, of Wye
House, West \\'orth-
ing, and grandson of
the late Robert
Campbell, of Buscot
Park, Berkshire.
He was educated at
Downside School
from 1901 to 1909,
when he passed into the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He received his commission in October, 1911,
and served with his battalion in Ireland until
the war broke out, when it was one of the first
to go to the front.
He was a keen motor-cyclist, and captain of
the regimental hockey team.
Lieutenant Campbell, who was promoted in
AprU, 1914, took part in the fighting at Mons
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on the 21th August and was shot through the
head while leading his men, and kUled instantly.
He was Iniried in the cemetery at Andregnics.
CAPTAIN COLIN FREDERICK
FITZROY CAMPBELL, 1st BATTN.
SCOTS GUARDS,
was killed in action
nt'ar ^'pres on the
l^'.nh October, 1914.
He was the only son
oE Major-General F.
Lorn Campbell, High-
field House, West
Byfleet, Surrey, of
the Melfort family,
Ai'gyllshu'e, and was
born on the 29t.h
September, 1880.
He joined the Cameron Highlanders from the
ililitia in .January. 1901, l^ecoming Lieutenant
in August. 1904. He was transferred to the
Scots Guard in ^March, 1905, and from Septem-
ber, 1 9 11 , to September, 1 9 1 3 . was Adjutant of the
Guards' Depot. Captain Campbell was gazetted to
his rank on the 29th October,the dateof hisdeath.
He married on the 11th Jxme, 1914, Helen
ilargaret, eldest daughter of ^Ir. C. J. and
Lady ilary .Stewart. He was a member of the
Guards' and Caledonian Clubs.
CAPTAIN DONALD WILLIAM
AUCHINBRECK CAMPBELL, 4th BATTN.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
third son of the late Kev. W. P. A. Campbell,
Rector of Fladbury Worcestershire, was born
on the 20th March, 1S72.
Educated at Clifton College he was gazetted to
the 1st Battalion .South .Staffordshire Regiment
in June, 1892, serving with it at home and in
Egj-pt until 1899 ; in that year he was appoin-
ted Adjutant of the 3rd V.B. South Stafford-
shire Regiment, retaining the appointment till
1903. He then resigned his commission in the
Regular Army and joined the Special Reserve
of his regiment, which, however, he left In 1913.
On the ovitbreak of war with Germany he
vohmteered for service, and rejoined the 4th Bat-
talion in August ; in October he volunteered for
active service with the Vlllth Division, and was
attached to the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters
with which he went to France early in November.
Captain Campbell was kUled at Neuve Chapelle
on the 22nd November, 1914, in an attempt to
recover the body of the machine-gun officer,
which lay a short distance in front of his trench ;
he had made an unsuccessful attempt alone the
previous night, and at daybreak tried again with
two volunteers, one of whom also lost his life.
He was mentioned for his gallant conduct in Sir
John French's Despatch of 14th January, 191.5.
Captain Campbell married, Helen Gertrude
Philpott, and left two daughters.
C.\PTAIN GEOFFREY ARTHUR
BATTN
GUARDS
CAMPBELL
COLDSTRE
killed in action on
the 29th October,
1914, at Gheluvelt,
Flanders, was tlie
youngest son of !Mr.
and the Hon. Mi-s.
George Campbell, 40,
Wilton Crescent,
London, S.W., and
Market House,
Brackley, and was
born on the 8th
January, 1885.
He was educated at Eton and joined his regi-
ment in February, 1907, became Lieutenant in
June, 1909, and was appointed Battalion Adju-
tant in January, 1912. He was a member of the
Guards' Club, and was fond of himting and polo.
He was mentioned in Sir John French's Des-
patch of the 14th October. 1914, and was
promoted temporary Captain.
DAVIES
ROYAL
CAMP-
HORSE
LIEUTENANT JOHN
BELL, "L' BATTERY
ARTILLERY,
was born at Tacna,
ChUe, .South America,
on the 1st March,
1883, the son of J. D.
Campbell, Esq., of
H o w d e n Court,
Tiverton. Devon.
He was educated at
Cheltenham CoUege,
and the R.M.A.,
Woolwich, entering
the Royal Artillery in
190 1 ,and becoming Lieutenant in December, 1 904.
He was killed on the 1st September, 1914,
at Nery, near Compiegne, France, during " L "
Battery's glorious stand at that place (see
Captain E. K. Bradbury, V.C).
2nd LIEUTENANT WILLIAM PERCY
CAMPBELL, 3rd RESERVEi attd. 2nd
BATTN. THE DUKE OF EDIN-
BURGH'S (WILTSHIRE REGIMENT),
was the second son
of John Edward
Campbell, Esq.,
F.B.S., Fellow and
Bvirsar of Hertford
College, Oxford.
He was born on the
2nd May, 1894. and
was educated at the
Oxford Preparatory
School and at Clifton
College, of which he
was a scholar. He
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gained a scholarship at Hertford College, where
he had been in residence a year, studying medi-
cine, when the war broke out. He at once
volunteered and was gazetted in August, 1914,
to the Wiltshire Regiment, proceeding to the
front with the Vllth Division at the beginning
of October.
It is believed that he was killed on the morning
of Saturday, the 24th October, 1914, a few
miles East of Ypres. in an attempt to bring a
wounded comrade to a place of safety.
MAJOR WALTER ERNEST CAMPION.
1st BATTN. EASl YORKSHIRE REGT.,
son of Henry Cam-
pion, Esq., Bletsoe
^j|^."» Castle, near Bedford,
^r^ \ "^* born at Dean.
f jnl^ , Bedfordshire, on 9tb
' ''- August, 1871, and
was educated at the
ilodem School, Bed-
ford.
He was gazetted to
the 2nd Battalion
East Yorkshire Regi-
ment from the
iliiiii.i 111 L>.i .luiii-i-. Ii.y4, becoming Captain in
May, 1900, and Brevet-Major in August, 1902.
After serving in Ireland, he went through the
.South African War, where he was employed
with the Mounted Infantry, and was slightly
wounded. He was present at operations in the
Transvaal, including actions near Johannesburg,
Pretoria and Diamond Hill ; operations in the
Orange River Colony, including actions at
Wittebergen. Bothaville, and Caledon River,
and the action at Frederickstad. He was twice
mentioned in I)espatches, "London Gazette,"
10th September. 1901, and 29th July, 1902.
promoted Brevet-Major and received the
Queen's medal with four clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps.
Suljsequently he served in Burma and India.
He was a keen sportsman, hunt«d with the
Oakley and won many races in Ireland, England,
South Africa and India, including the Army Cup
in 1910.
In the Great War he was wounded on 20th
.September, 1914, but returned to the front,
and was killed in action near Lille on the 28th
October, 1914.
CAPTAIN LIONEL ALFRED FRANCIS
C.\NE. 1st BATTN. EAST LANCASHIRE
REGIMENT, son of the Reverend A. G. Cane,
Mcar of Great Paxton. formerly Chaplain to
the Indian Government, and Mrs. Cane, was
born at Poona on the 19th December, 1884.
He was first cousin to Lieutenant-Genera'
Sir E. Allenby, K.C.B. Captain Cane was edu-
cated at Haileyl)ury, and joined the .Sherwood
Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire
Regiment) in Feb-
ruary, 1903, being
transferred to the
2nd Battalion East
Lancashire Regiment
in December, 1904.
From 1910 to 1913,
when he was pro-
moted Captain, he
was Adjutant of his
battalion at the
Cape, South Africa.
On the expiration
of his Adjutancy he returned to England on
leave and was, almost at once, posted to the
Depot at Preston. While serving there the
war broke out, and he applied to join the 1st
Battalion in the field.
He was ordered to the front at the end of
September. When Major Green was wounded.
Captain Cane took charge of his two Companies,
"C" and "D." and was in command of them
when he fell, on the 7th November, 1914, while
leading them to att-ack a trench, which was
captuired just after he was kUled.
Captain Cane won the Himt Point-to-Point and
the Regimental .Steeplechase at Wj-nberg, South
Africa, in 1914, riding his own horse.
CAPTAIN MILES BERTIE CUN-
N I N G H A M E C A R B E R Y. 1st
BATTN. PRINCESS VICTORI.\S
(ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS;.
who was killed in
action on the 17th
October, 1914, in
France, was the son
of the late William
Carbery, Esq.. and
Mrs. Carbery, of 17.
Hartington Man-
sions, Eastbourne.
He was bom on the
6th June, 1S77, and
joined the Royal
Irish Fusiliers from
the iUlitia in December, 18!i7, becoming
Lieutenant in December, 1899. He served in
the South African War, being present at
operations in Natal, including the action at
Talana, where he was dangerously wounded ;
he received for his services the Queen's medal
with clasp.
He got his Company in February. 1903, and
from 1910 to 1913 was an Adjutant of the
Territorial Force.
Captain Carbery married a daughter of the late
Right Honourable Thomas Sinclair.
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2nd LIEUTENANT FRANCIS
LUDOVIC CAREW, XXth HUSSARS.
was the son of
Charles Carew, Esq..
of Collipriest, Tiver-
ton, and was born
there on the 4th
March, 1895.
He was educated at
Winchester College,
and the R.M.C..
Sandhurst, receiving
his commission in
the 20th Hussars on
the 24th March, 191 4.
He was kdled in the trenches at Oosttaverne.
near Ypres, on the 30th October, 1914.
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT JASPER CAREW,
1st BATTN. PRINCE OF WALESS OWN
(WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT).
who was killed in action on the 14th October.
1914, was the younger son of the late Rev. Henry
Carew and Mrs. Carew of Airlea, South Brent.
Devon. He was born at Rattery Vicarage, Devon,
in 1894, and was educated at Blundell's School.
Tiverton, and the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, joining
the West Yorkshire Regiment in January. 1914.
He fell while leading his platoon in an advance
guard action near Hazebrouck, where he was
killed instantaneously by machine gun fire.
CAPTAIN LEICESTER WILLIAM
LE MARCH ANT CAREY. 4th
BATTN. THE ROYAL FUSILIERS
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT),
who had been report-
ed wounded and mis-
sing, is believed to
have been killed on
the 20th October,
1914, near Kerlies.
hut his name had not
been included in the
monthly official
casualty Usts up to
June, 1915.
He was the only son
of the late Major-
General C. 1'. Carey, R.E., C.B., and of Mrs.
Carey, and was born on the 12th Xovember,1877.
He joined the Royal FusUiers in February, 1908,
becoming Lieutenant in November of the same
year, and Captain in July. 1901. He served in
the South African War taking part in the rehef
of Ladysmith, including the action at Colenso ;
he was present at operations in the Transvaal
in 1900 and 1901, in the Cape Colony, north of
the Orange River in April and IMay. 1900. in-
cluding the action at Ruidam, and again in
Cape Colony between January. 1901. and March,
1902 ; he received the Queen's medal with five
clasps anil the King's medal with two clasps.
From July, 1903, to October, 1910, he was em-
ployed with the Egyptian Army, and from March
to August. 1912, was A.D.C. to the General Officer
Commanding-in-Chief, .Southern Command.
Captain Carey, who was married, was qualified
as an interpreter in French, and was entitled
to wear a foreign order.
CAPTAIN MARTIN RAYMOND CARR,
2nd BATTN. WORCESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action at the battle
of the Aisne on the
18th September,
1914, was born on
the 8th July, 1877.
and joined the
Worcestershire Regi-
ment from the Mili-
tia, in January, 1899,
becoming Lieutenant
in February. 1900.
Captain Carr served in the .South AfiicanWar.
in which he was wounded, being employed with
the Mounted Infantry ; he was present at
operations in the Orange River Colony in
1900, 1901 and 1902, and in Cape Colony,
1901 and 1902. receiving the Queen's medal with
foiu- clasps and the King's medal with two clasps.
Captain Carr. who reached that rank in
December, 1901, after rather less than three
years' service with the Regular Army, married
Gwen, second daughter of T. Putnam, Esq., of
Greylands. Darlington, who survives him.
2nd LIEUTENANT ROBERT NEVIN
CARSWELL, 3rd BATTN. THE KING'S
OWN (YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRYi,
was the eldest son —.^ , -
of John George UPW^SW^^
Carswell and his wife
Sarah Constance (nee
Bell) and was born
at Shortlands, Kent,
on the 31st August,
1889.
He was educated at
Blundell's School,
Tiverton, and Shef-
field University. At
the University he was
Quarter-Master-Sergeant of the Officers' Traming
Corps and received his commission in the 3rd
(Reserve Battalion) of the King's 0\\^l Yorkshire
Light Infantry on 15th August, 1914, sailing
from Southampton for France on 7th October.
He was killed, shot through the head, on 26th
October. 1914. when, leading a bayonet charge
at La Bass^e. he met a body of Germans coming
down the road. He was buried by his own men
in the orchard of a farm at Richebourg I'Avoue.
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MAJOR AUBREY JOHN CARTER,
D.S.O., LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE
^.^^^^^^ REGIMENT,
II^^^^H^^^^^^^H the
^^^^^^^^^^^ the late T. A. Carter,
Esq., Shottery Hall,
Stratford-on-Avon.
He was born on the
18th January, 1872,
and was gazetted to
the Loyal North
Lancashire Regiment
in January, 1892,
liecoming Lieutenant
in >lay, 1893, and
Captain in February, 1901.
He served in the South African War as a
Railway Staff Officer from Deceml)er, 1899, to
March, 1900, and as a Brigade SignaUing Officer
from October, 1900, to March, 1901 : he was
mentioned in Despatches, " London Gazette,"
10th September, 1901, was awarded the D.8.O.,
and received the Queen's medal witli five clasps.
From December. 1905. to December. 1909.
he was an Instructor at the School of Musketry,
where with Lieutenant-Colonel Norman
Jlcilahon he was largely responsible for the
revolution in the musketry training of the
Army, and in July, 1911, having obtained his
Majority in February, 1910, was appointed
Commandant of the School of Musketry, South
Africa, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel. His services in this post were recog-
nised in the following extract from a letter
signed by Lord Gladstone : " In a special
measure. Ministers ask me to record their
gratefid acknowledgement of the services
rendered by Lieutenant-Colonel Carter, Com-
mandant School of Musketry, Tempe, and
his Staff."
He was subsequently placed in charge of
musketry in the Irish Command, and eventually
proceeded to France to take command of the
1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
It fell to him to lead the Battalion in a charge,
which is well described by a brother officer : —
" The men meant business this time. I looked
into their faces and could see a sort of didl.
fierce look. After the many days of l>eing
cooped up in the trenches before we ever arrived
in this portion of the theatre of war, it was a
real joy to them to be on the move and on the
attack. They longed to get at them, and
gradually, without a word of command being
given, you could hear the click of the liayonet
as each man fastened it to liis rifle. Suddenly
the cry arose, ' Come on. my lads, now for the .
trenches.' The cry went along the line. Everj"-
one started yelling above the din of battle.
We charged yelling, shouting, screaming, rushing
madly forward at the enemy. How it looked
from the German side I do not know, but it was
grand, simply magnificent from our side. We
crossed two hundred yards of root field at a
steady run under fii-e. We leapt into the
enemy's trenches, bayoneted those who were
still living, and then rushed on to another line
of trenches in front. The whole of my battalion
were in it. It was our show."
He was killed in action near Ypres on November
4th, 1914. and the following tribute to him
voices the opinion of all of his many friends : —
" He was a tall soldier-like figure, standing
six feet fom- inches, and straight as the pro-
verbial pine. His was a soldier's end. He
went out from the trenches to direct the
machine-gun fire, but fell, shot dead, as the
enemy retired. He was a gallant commander,
and a great leader under \\hom it is an honour
to have served."
Major Carter married in 1900, Edith Mary,
daughter of the late Rev. G. H. Rigl)y, and
niece of the late Right Hon. Sir John Rigby.
CAPTAIN CLEARY GEORGE MOLY-
NEUX CARTER, 2nd BATTN.
THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S
(WILTSHIRE REGIMENT),
who was killed in action on the 23rd October,
1914, was born on the 3rd January, 1882,
and was educated at Marlljorough College
(Star) from 1893-1900.
He was gazetted to the Wiltshire Regi-
ment in May, 1901, and took part in the
South African War, where he was employed
with the Mounted Infantry, being present at
operations in the Transvaal, Cape Colony, and
Orange River Colony, receiving the Queen's
medal with five clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in Septeml)er,
1903, and from September. 1908, to September,
1911, was Adjutant of his Battalion, obtaining
his Company in ^larch, 1910.
2nd LIEUTENANT JAMES CASEY, 1st
BATTN. THE KINGS ROYAL
RIFLE CORPS, —
was born in London
on the 30th Novem-
ber, 1879, the son of
the late James Casey,
formerly a Corporal
in the same Corps.
2nd Lieutenant Casey
joined the 1st Batta-
lion King's Royal
Rifles in 1897, and
served through the
South .African War "
with the Mounted Infantry. H.- \\j- pi iri.,, iied
Sergeant for conspicuous gallantry on the field
at Balkerlaagte. Transvaal, on the 30th Octo-
ber, 1901, and was mentioned in Despatches,
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in .Taniiary, 1902, for distinguislied gallantry.
IIo recoivoil the Queen's medal with four clasps,
and the King's medal with two clasps. After
the South African War he rejoined his Battalion
and went to France with tli(' Kxpeditionary
Force of which it formed part.
On Octolicr 1st he was promoted Second-
l/ieutonant for gallantry, and was killed in
action on tlie SOth October, 1914, and was
mentioned in 8ir John French's Despatch of
14th .Tanuary, 191.").
2nd Lieutenant Casey was married in 1912 to
Daisy Casey, and left two children, Ronald
.Tame^ Spion. age two years, and Thomas
Henry, age one month, at the time of their
father's death.
CAPTAIN AUGUSTUS ERNEST CATH-
CART, 2nd BATTN. KINGS ROYAL
RIFLE CORPS,
who was killed in
action on the 14th
8epteml)er, 1914,
was born on the 4th
March, 1875, and
joined the K.B.R.C.
from the Militia in
.Tanuary, 1897, be-
coming Liexitenant in
February. 1899.
He took part in the
South African War
as a Special Service Officer (including service
as Station Staff Officer from February, 1901),
and was also employed with the Mounted In-
fantry. He was present at operations in the
Transvaal and Orange River Colony, receiving
for his services the Queen's medal with three
clasps, and the King's medal with two clasps.
Captain Cathcart obtained his Company in
.January. 1902.
LIEUTENANT JAMES CROSBIE CAUL-
FEILD, 2nd BATTN. MANCHESTER
R E G I M E N T,
who was killed in
action on the 18th
November, 1914,
was the youngest son
of Brigadier-General
(Commanding Sth
Reserve Infantry
Battalion) and Mrs.
James E Caulfeild,
of Corozal. .Jersey.
' "■"' 21st February, 1892,
and was educated at Bradfield College, where
he became a Prefect, from 1905 to 1910. He
joined the Army Service Corps as Second
lieutenant in September, 1911. from the
R.M.C., Sandhui'st, becoming Lieutenant in
September, 1911. He was tr.-uisferred to the
Manchester Regiment in Octoljer, 1914.
He was struck by a high explosive shell while
in command of a company of liis battalion in a
front trench nrai' W'uh erglieni, Heluiuiii.
CAPTAIN GODFREY LIONEL JOHN
CAVENDISH, 97th DECCAN INFANTRY,
born at Eastbourne
on the HOth March,
1 8S4 , was the son of
Reginald R. F.
Cavendish, and
grandson of the late
Francis W.H. Caven-
dish, D.U, J.P., of
St. Margaret's, East-
bomiie. He was a
kinsman of the Duke
of Devonshire, and a ^^^^Kf\~
great-grandson of
General the Hon. H. ¥. C. Cavendish, and of
the third Earl of Clare.
Captain Cavendish was e(hicatcd at Frandiiig-
ham College, Suffolk, where he showed liimself
a good swimmer and cricketer. He received his
commission in April, 1903, being gazetted to the
Manchester Regiment, joining the 1st Battalion at
Singapore, and later was transferred to tlie 2nd
East Surrey Regiment. After a prol)ationary
period with the S3rd Wallajahbad Light In-
fantry, he was finally appointed to the 97th
Deccan Infantry. His own regiment remaining
in India, Captain Cavendish was, at his request,
attached for active service to the Reserve of
OtTicers for " A " Force ; on arrival at Mar-
seilles he was attached 1/9 Gurkha Rifles, and
a few days later again transferred to 9th
Biioi)als. which had lost very hea%aly, joining
them on the 15th December, 1914. He was
wounded on the 20th of that month and died
two days later in a Field Hospital, after having
lieen aliout three weeks at the front.
The following accoimt of the circumstances
is taken from a brother officer's letter : —
"Onthe 17th December the half -battalion which
Captain Cavendish was commanding was
ordered up to support the trenches at Givenchy.
He remained in these trenches in support till the
20th. when he was ordered to take his connnand
up to support a regiment in front which was
lieing attacked. On the way up he received an
order to halt in the support trenches, and he
went a few yards ahead to find out what was
wanted when he was hit by a rifle Indlet. which
entered his neck. His wound was tied up and
his comrades and himself thought the wound
was not serious, so he walked back about two
miles to hospital. His brother officers were
much distressed to hear a few days later that the
wound had proved fatal. He was always very
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cheery under fire, and helpful by his good
spirits."
Captain Cavendish married in March, 1911, Cora
Grace Graham Cavendish, and left two sons, God-
trey Herliert Richard, liom January, 1912, and
Hubert Gordon Compton, born February, 1913.
MAJOR LORD JOHN SPENCER
CAVENDISH. D.S.O.. 1st LIFE GUARDS.
who was killed in
action on the 20th
October, 1911, was
the third son of the
late Lord Edward
L'avendish and Lady
Edward Cavendish,
and grandson of the
-eventh Duke of
Lievonshire.
He was bom on the
27th March, 1872,
and joined the 1st
Liie (juards from the Militia in February, 1897,
becoming Lieutenant in April, 1S98. He
served in the .South African War, where he was
Divisional and Brigade .Signalling Officer from
October, 1899, to October, 1900, and was
present at the relief of Ladysmith, including
action at Colenso ; at the actions of Spion Kop
and Vaal Krans : operations on the Tugela
Heights and action at Pieter's Hill ; in the
Orange Free .State, and action at Zand River ;
in the Transvaal, and actions near Johannes-
burg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill ; also in the
Transvaal. West of Pretoria, including actions at
Elands River : in the Orange River Colony,
including actions at Bethlehem and Witte-
bergen. He was mentioned in Despatches
(•• London Gazett-e." 1st February, 1901), was
awarded the D.S.O.. and received the Queen's
medal ■ivith sis clasps.
He was promoted Captain in August, 1902,
and from June. 1907, to September, 1910. was
employed with the West African Frontier Force,
obtaining his Majority in April. 1911.
MAJOR JOHN STEPHEN CAWLEY.
p.s.c. 20th HUSSARS. BRIGADE
MAJOR 1st CAVALRY BRIGADE,
quaUfled as second-
class Interpret-er in
French, was the son
of Sir Frederick
Cawley, Bart., M.P..
of Berriugton Hall.
Leominster, and was
liorn at Crunipsall,
Lancashire, on the
27th October, 1879.
He was educated at
Ix>ckers Park, at
Hugby, and at the
R.M.C, .Sandhurst, and obtained his commission
in the 20th Hussars in 1898, joining them at
3Ihow, India. He became Lieutenant in
January, 1900, and obtained his Troop in
October, 1906. He served in the South
African War, going to the Cape in 1901, where
he was Signalling Officer to General Low's
column, being present at operations in Orange
River Colony and Cape Colony ; he received
the Queen's medal \vith four clasps. He subse-
quently served in Egj'pt, where he became
Adjutant of his regiment. Having passed
through the StaflE College, he became Instructor
at the Cavalry School at Xetheravon in 1911,
and in 1912 was appointed a General StaflE
Officer at the War Office. In 1913 he was
appointed Brigade Major of the 1st Cavalry
Brigade at Aldershot, and accompanied it to
France for ser\-ice in the Great War.
Major Cawley was a good all-round sportsman ;
he was in the Rugby football team and shoot-
ing eight at Sandhurst ; was in the hockey
team and was whip to the drag at the .Staff
College ; played for his regiment at polo
when they won the Inter-regimental Cnp in
India (Meerut), 1901 ; the Clements Polo Cup
in South Africa (Pretoria), 1903 ; and the
Inter-regimental Cup (Hurlingham). 190ti and
1907. He won the Officers' riding and jumping
prize at the Royal 3Iilitary Tournament in 1905,
and was well known with the North Hereford
and \^"^laddon Chase Hunts.
Major Cawley was killed in action in the
retirement from Mons on the 1st September,
1914, at Xery, and was buried there. A
brother officer gave the following account of
his death : —
" Oiu- Brigade was attacked soon after dawn
at Xery by a force double our number — a
Cavalry Division with 12 gxms. Owing to
thick mist they managed to get within 600
yards of us ; 350 horses of the Bays stampeded
and their men went after them, and the ' L '
Battery was cut to pieces. The occasion was
one which caUed for personal example, and
Major Cawley, by permission of the General,
went to help to restore order and get the
broken remnants in their places. The situation
being met and everyone being in his place, he
joined the advanced line and was almost
immediately killed by a piece of shell. The
splendid manner in which he met his death
in deliberately facing the awful fire to help
others when he really need not have done so.
is only what his whole Ufe has led us to expect."
General Briggs, commanding the Brigade,
wrote of biin : — ' He has been a true friend
and a loyal conscientious Staff Officer to me
for nearly two years, and it is needless to
say how much I feel his death. He proved
himself to be a real fighter in war and was
alwavs cool and collected."
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2nd LIEUTENANT GEORGE
EDWARD CECIL, 2ml BATTN. GRENA-
DIER GUARDS,
wlio was reported
iu the niontlily
Casualty List pul)-
lished ill DeceiiUier,
1914, to have died of
wounds received in
action, was the only
son of l>ord and
Lady Edward Cecil,
He was liorn on the
t)th Septenil)er, 1895,
■"■ at 20, Arlington
Street, the house of liis grandfather, the
Marquess of Salisbury. He was educated at
Winchester, and the B.M.C., Santlhurst, where
he took a prize cadetship. and from whicli lie
was gazetted to the Grenadier Guards iu
February, 1914. In that year he qualified as
a second-class Interpreter in French.
His battalion was among the first troops of
the Expeditionary Force to proceed to the
Continent, and at the battle of Landrecies
Second-Lieutenant Cecil acted as Cnh'rly
Ofticer to a General Officer.
CAPTAIN the Honble. WILLIAM
AMHERST CECIL. 2nd BATTN. GRENA-
DIER GUARDS,
was born in London
on the 30th June,
isyo, the eldest son
of liOrd William
Cecil, G r e n a d i e r
Guards, anil Lady
William Cecil,
Baroness Amherst of
Hackney, and heir
to tlie Barony.
He was educated at
Eton, and joined the
Grenadier Guards in August, 1907, becoming
Lieutenant in July, 1908.
For his services in tlie Great War he was
mentioned in Sir .lolin French's Despatch of
the 8th October, 1914, was awarded the j\lili-
tary Cross, and recommended for the Legion of
Honour. He was promoted Captain on the
9th September, 1914. Captain Cecil was at
Landrecies in command of the Machine Gun
Section of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards,
and was killed at tlie Battle of the Aisne on the
lOtli September, 1914.
Captain Cecil was very keen al>out his profession,
especially everything in relation to machine
guns ; he was a clever draughtsman and took
a special interest in Egyptology, in which he
was an expert. He was very musical, played
the piano, and also the bagpipes. He was also
fond of all sports, particularly cricket, hunting.
ya<'litiiig, and shooting. He was a nieinber of
tlie Guards' and the Junior Carlton clubs.
Captain Cecil married in 1910, Evelyn Gladys,
only child of Henry Baggallay, Esq., of Heathcr-
liurst (irange. Friniley. Surrey, and left two
sons, William Alexander Evering, liorn May.
1912. aud Henry Kerr Auchnuit/,. born April.
1914, the elder of whom becomes licir to the
Barony of Amherst of Hackney.
LIEUTENANT JOHN BINNY CHAL-
MERS, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY (T.F.)
of Moor Court, Sid-
mouth, only son of
the late Mr. J. H.
Chalmers, C!.E., and
grandson of the late
.Mr. John Binny
( 'lialmers, of the
Diplomatic Service,
and of The Elms,
Ilighgate, and
Westnuiir, Forfar-
shire, was born in
August . 1 S89, and
educated at Ovingdean Hall, Sussex.
After completing his period of attachment to
the Scots Greys and South .Staffords. he resigned
his comuiissiori and went abroad. He returned
immediately on the outbreak of hostilities and
received a temporary commission in the Royal
Field Artillery.
Hi' was killed by a fall from bis horse in Octolier,
1914.
He was a tine horseman and hunted with the
East Devon and Cobleigh packs ; was also a
splendid shot, an ardent angler, and devoted
to all outdoor sports.
LIEUTENANT GUY OGDEN DE
PEYSTER CHANCE, 1st BATTN.
ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS,
who was killed in
action on the 19th
October, 1914, was
the yoimgest son of
Mr. W. E. Chance.
Thurston Grange,
Bury St. Edmunds.
and was born on the
28th February, 1892.
He entered the Arm\
in September. 1911.
becoming Lieutenant
in April, 1913.
He accompanied his battalion — which formed
part of the Vllth Division — froui Lyndhiirst,
disembarking at Zeetirugge, and was killed in
the severe fighting near Dadizeele on the date
mentioned.
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2nd LIEUTENANT CLIVE HEREWARD
CHANDLER, 1st BATTN. THE DUKE OF
EDINBURGH'S (WILTSHIRE REGT.).
was liorii at Exeter
on the ISth July.
1884.
He was for many
years in the Wilt-
shire Regiment, and
when he accom-
panied it to the front
was Sergeant-Drum-
mer of his Battalion.
He was a noted
athlete and when
stationed at Pretoria
won thu liliu yards, and other events, at the
Army Championship Sports in October. 1910.
He had a number of civilian as well as military
friends in Maritzburg, and has been descrilied
as one of the best all-round Army athletes in
South Africa.
During the Great War he was given his com-
mission as Second-Lieutenant for service in the
field on the 1st October, and was kiUed in the
firing line on the Yser. on the 17th November.
1914.
One of his senior Officers sent the following
account of the circumstances to his widow : —
" It is with the deepest regret I have to send
you the sad news that your husband was killed
in action on the 17th instant (November). Your
poor husband was killed by a bullet wound in
the head when defending the trenches. I only
saw him half an hour before, as I was command-
ing the trench at the time. He was a Virave
fellow and was doing so well ; it is sad that his
life should have been forfeited so soon."
Second-Lieutenant Chandler, two of whose
brothers are now serxnng in the Army, married
Olivia May Court, and left one daughter. Ethel
Muriel, born at Maritzburg. Natal, in .Septem-
ber. 1912.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD WYNNE
CHAPMAN, 3rd PRINCE OF
WALESS) DRAGOON GUARDS,
was the eldest son of
the late Edward
Chapman of Spring-
bank, New Zealand.
He was born in 1887
and educated at
Christ's College. He
held comniLssions as
Lieutenant in the
College Cadets and
later in the Christ -
church Mounted
Rifles.
Ue came to England in 1909 and was attached
to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Aldershot during
the following year, becoming 2nd Lieutenant in
May, and Lieutenant in November, 1911.
In 1912 he married Elvii'a Maude, second
daughter of H. W. Henderson of Serge HUl,
King's Langley, Herts, and went to Egypt,
where the Regiment was stationed at Abbasiyeh,
Caiio, till the war broke out.
Arriving in England on the 20th October, he
went straight to the front, and was killed in
action on the 17th November, 1914, near Ypres,
being mentioned in Su- John French's Despatch
ot the 14th January, 1915. for conspicuous
bravery. He was biu-ied in the cemetery at
Ypres.
Lieutenant Chapman leaves a daughter, born
in March, 1915.
CAPTAIN ANGUS ALAN M.\CGREGOR
CHARLES, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
who was killed in
action on the 20th
December, 1914,
while on observation
duty near Cuinchy,
was the son of
Deputy -Surgeon
General Thomas Ed-
mondston Charles,
Indian Medical De-
partment, M.I).,
Edin.,K.H.P.,LL.D.
(Edin.), and Ada Hen-
rietta,eldest daughter of General Kuiulall. t'.S.I..
Royal Engineers ; he was a grancison of the
late Rev. James Charles. D.D.. of Kirkcowan,
Wigtownshir e .
Captain Charles was born on the 8th .September,
1887, and was educated at Winchester College,
where he obtained a scholarship in 1901, passing
thence direct into the R.M. A. .Woolwich, in 1906.
PYom Woolwich he was gazetted to the Royal
Field Artillery in December, 1908, and was
posted to the 97th Batt-ery in which he served
for about five years Ln South Africa and ^Madras.
At the outbreak of war he was transferred t<j
the 73rd Battery then at Lucknow, with which
he proceeded to France, and with which he
was serving when killed.
An Officer under whom he was serving wrote :
•• He was shot at our most dangerous job, i.e..
Observation Officer, and had just finished an
excellent piece of work, having silenced a
German Battery."
The following account of the circumstances was
received : —
" Sergeant Harrell was by his side when he was
killed. They were observing the fire of the
Battery from a position in the advanced
infantry trenches. ... A telephone wire
connected him with his battery, which was
about three-quarters of a mile further west, and
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he was tclfphouiiiy the riwultj^ of tin- liring.
He ami the .Sergeant went to this position at
ll.:JO a.m. on Deeeuiher 20th; the Sergeant
was grazed in the hand by a rifle bullet. He
saiil soiuethiug about the Sergeant being the
first man in tlie t)attery to be hit when his
sentence was out short and he fell against
the Sergeant . . . who saw he had been
hit just above the right eye liy a liidlit. killing
him on the spot."
The Madras Correspondent of the Calcutta
" Statesman " wrote : — " Lieutenant A. A. ^I.
Charles, OTth Battalion, Royal Field Ai'tillery,
who has been kUled in action, is well remem-
bered as a fearless and dashing rider and bold
sportsman."
Captain Charles was gazetted Captain after his
death, but to rank from the 18th December,
1914. and was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatch of 31st :\lay, 1915.
LIEUTENANT ST. JOHN A. CHARL-
TON. 4th (attd. Isti BATTN.
BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action at the Battle
I if the Aisne on the
•-'.")th— 26th October,
1914. was the only
son of St. John
Charlton and Elis-
^^^^^^^ ^^^^H alii'th B r o n n e n.
Robert and Lady
Florentia Hughes, of
Kinniel Park, Xorth
Wales.
He was l)orn on the 17th November, 1889, and
was educated at Eton. He became Lieutenant
in hLs Regiment in December, 1911. He was a
member of the Junior Carlton Club, and was
fond of shooting and hunting.
MAJOR PAUL ALFRED CHARRIER, 2nd
BATTN. ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
who is believed to
have lieen killed in
action near Etreux,
France, on the 27th
August, 1914, was
the only son of the
late il r . Paul
Antoine Charrier, of
Dinapore, India.
He was born on the
•Srd December, 1868,
and joined the Royal
Munster Fusiliers
June, 1890, becoming
1892. From AprU to
November, 1899, he was employed with the
Central Aliican Kcgiuirut. and finin I iccenilnT.
1900, to October. 1901 — having been promoted
Captain in March, 1900 — he was Adjutant of
the West African Regiment. Wliile liolding
this position he saw active service in West
Africa, being present at operations in Ashanti.
where he was slightly wounded, and for his
services was mentioned in Despatdies •• London
Gazette," 8th Marcli. 1901.
He also served in tlie South African War, being
employed with the Imperial Yeomam-y, and
was present at operations in Cape Colony in
Jlay, 1902, for which lie received the Queen's
medal with two clasps. ^Major Charrier again
saw service in 1903-04 in East Africa, where
he was employed on the Staff (Special Service
Officer), and on Transport duty from November,
1903, receiving the medal with clasp.
CHARRING TON,
DRAGOONS,
from the .Militia in
Lieutenant in AprU,
CAPTAIN A. C.
1st (ROYAL
was bom on the 17th
May, 1882, at Marten
Ash, Ongar, Essex,
the son of N. Edward
Charrington, ICsq., of
Bures Manor, Rei-
gate.
He was educated at
Eton, and enteretl
the King's Royal
Rifle Mflitia in 1902,
being transferred to
the 1st (Royal) Dra-
goons in 1903, and obtaining his Troop in April,
1910. In India he served on the .Staff of the
X'iceroy, Lord Minto, and of the Conimander-
in-Chief, Sir O'Moore Creagh.
Captain Cliarrington — who was known to his
friends as " Kid " — was a fine hocseman ;
he won many races in India, rode the winner of
the Ai-my Cup in 1909 and 1910, of the Grand
Annual in 1910, and tlie Indian Grand National
1911. He made a wonderful record at Simla
in 1909, where he rode in twenty races in four
days, %\-inning thirteen, coming in second in
tliree and third in one.
He was instantaneously killed liy bullet or sliell
on the 20th October, 1014, and was buried in
the cemetery at Y^pres.
Captain Charrington was not married.
CAPTAIN HUGH CLERVAUX
CHAYTOR, 26th KING GEORGE'S
OWN LIGHT CAVALRY,
secon<l son of the late Mr. Clervaux Darley
Chaytor, of Spennithorne HaU, Y'orkshire, was
born there on the 28th Novemlier, 1883. He
was a cousin of Sir Edmund Chaytor, Bart.,
of Croft.
CHE— CHI
He was educated at Clifton College, and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst. On passing out of the
latter into the Indian
Army he was at-
tached for the usual
probationary period
of a year to the >Kd-
dlesex Regiment,
joining the 26th Kin^
George's Own Light
Cavalry in April.
1904. and getting his
?tep in 1905. In
February, 1911, he
became Adjutant
in Januarv. 1912.
and
of his Regiment,
became Captain. In 1913-1-1 he was Com-
mandant of the Bodyguard of the Governor
of Madras.
While in India he did much pig-sticking, and
was also in his regimental polo team, helping
to win many tournaments. When the war with
Germany broke out. he was at home on leave
and at once applied to be sent on active service.
l>eing attached to the 11th Hussars. He was
killed in action at Messines on the 31st October,
1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT GREVILLE ARTHUR
BAGOT CHESTER. 3rd attd. 1st BATTN.
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT.
was lK)m on the 3rd
April. 1891. at
Pyrton. Oxfordshire,
the son of the Rev.
John Greville Chester.
Vicar of Gilling. and
grandson of Colonel
C. M. Chester. D.L..
J.P.. Chicheley Hall.
Newport Pagnall.
Bucks. He was edu-
cated at Rossall
School, and St.
John's College. Oxford.
He was appointed to the 3rd (Reserve) Batta-
Uon North StafTordshire Regiment in Februarj-.
1913, and on the outbreak of the war was
attached for service to the 1st BattaUon of the
Regiment.
He was killed in action on the 13th October.
1914. during an attack on a German rear guard
at Oultersteen, a smaU village near Hazebrouck.
His company was in front and carried out the
chief attack. The Colonel of his battalion and
the Captain of his company testify that " he
behaved exceedingly well and showed not only
courage but common sense in leading his
platoon. . . . He had the makings of a
first rate officer — ^wflling. keen, and reliable. "'
He was not married.
CAPTAIN EDMUND BASIL CHICHES-
TER. 3rd BATTN. THE BUFFS
EAST KENT R E G 1 M E N T j ,
who died on the 7th
November, 1914, of
wounds received in
action, was the fifth
son of the late 3Iajor
Xewton Charles
Chichester and Mrs.
Chichester, of Clay-
ton House. Lech-
dale.
He was Ixim on the
6th February, 1S81.
and joined the Army
in 1900. retiring from the East Kent Regiment
with the rank of Lieutenant in September,
1909. He served in the South African War,
being present at operations in Cape Colony, the
Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal,
receiving the Queen's medal with five clasps.
One of Captain Chichester's brothers. Captain
C. O. Chichester, is now serving in the Oxford-
shire Light Infantry, and one. Lieutenant J. F.
Chichester, is in the Royal Navy ; two of his
brothers died on active service, one in 1898.
and the other killed in action in .Somaliland in
1902.
CAPTAIN HENRY ARTHUR CHICHES-
TER. 3rd BATTN. DEVONSHIRE
REGIMENT SPECIAL RESERVE,
was l>om on the 17th
August, 1SS2. at
Stowf ord House .
Swimbridge. North
Devon, son of the late
Colonel Chichester,
of Kerswell House.
Broad Clyst. near
Exeter, and of Stow-
ford House. XortL
Devon, and Mrs.
Chichester, of Wood-
hayne. Culmstock.
Devon. He was a first cousin of Brigadier-
General A. A. Chichester, now serving in the
war.
Captain Chichester was educated at Crewkeme
Grammar School, and joined the Exeter
Volunteers in 1900 : the following year he
joined the ilditia. serving for twelve months
in Jersey, and then proceeded to South Africa
with the 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regi-
ment, to take part in the Boer War. for which
he received the medal. He afterwards joined
the Special Reserve and was called up for duty
on the outbreak of the war with Germanv,
on the 7th August. 1914. and was killed in
action at Canteleux, near La Bassee. on the 20th
October, 1914.
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CAPTAIN ROBERT GUY INCLEDON
CHICHESTER, 2nd BATTN.
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY,
who was killed in
action near Ypies on
the 13th NovemVier,
1914, leaving a
widow, was the
second s(ni of the
Hev. Richard Chi-
cliester. Rector of
D r e w s t e i g nto n .
Devon, and was born
on the 2St.h January,
1873.
He joined the High-
laml Ijight Infantry from the .Militia in May,
1895, becoming Lientenant in September. 1898.
He was on active service on the North-Wcst
Frontier of India in 1897-98 with the Malakand
and Buner Field Forces, and was present at
the attack and capture of the Tanga Pass,
receiving the medal with clasp. In the South
African War he was employed with the Mounted
Infantry, and was present at operations in
Cape Colony, January to March, 1901, Orange
River Colony 1901-02, and in the Transvaal
in April and -May, 1902, receiving the Queen's
medal with five clasps. He was promoted
Captain in ^larch, 1901.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM MALCOLM
CHISHOLM, 1st BATTN. EAST LANCA-
SHIRE REGT.,
born on the 25th
February, 1892, at
1 39. Macqnarie Street,
Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia, was
the son of Dr.William
and Isabel Chishohn.
and great great-
grandson of Gabriel
Louis Marie lluon de
Keriliau, of St. Pol-
(le-L^on. Brittany.
He was educated at Sjdncy Grammar Sdiool,
and the R.IM.C., Sandhurst ; at Sydney he was
a Lieutenant in the Senior Cadets of the Gram-
mar School, and afterwards a Lievitenant in
the Scottish Rifles, Sydney. He entered Sand-
hurst in 1911, and on passing out was gazetted
to the East Lancashire Regiment in Septem-
ber, 1912 ; he became Lieutenant in Decemlier,
1913.
The 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
formed part of the 11th Infantry Brigade,
IVth Division of the Expeditionary Force,
which Lieutenant Chisholm accompanied to
l''i'ance. He was shot through the abdomen
on the 20th August, 1914, and died on the
following day at Ligny, France, where he was
buried. He had only detrained at Le Cateau at
about 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the 25th August,
was in action at 4 a.m. on the 20th, and was
wiiuiided at aliout 3 p.m. that day.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE HENRY CHIS-
NALL, ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL
CORPS, attd. for duty to the 1st
BATTN. CAMERON HIGHLANDERS,
was born at Great
Bentley, Essex, on
the 4th April, 1880,
the son of Charles
Hemy Chisnall, of
Frating Abbey, near
Colchester. He was
educated at Fram-
lingham College, and
the London Hospital
Medical College ; he
held the degrees of
M.B., B.S. London, '-
and the diploma of F.R.C.S., England.
He volunteered for active service on the (ith
August, 1914, immediately on the outbreak
of the Great War, and left England on the
14th August. He was wounded by shell fire
on the 23rd October, while attending to a
wounded man in the open, during an engage-
ment between the villages of Bixschoote and
Langemarck, and died the next day. He
was buried in Elverdinghe churchyard.
Lieutenant Chisnall was a plucky rider with
the Essex and Suffolk foxhounds. He was
not married.
2nd LIEUTENANT ARTHUR GRANT
BOURNE CHITTENDEN, 2nd BATTN.
THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT,
who was reported as
having died of
wounds received in
action, in France, the
actual date of his
death not being
known, was the
youngest son of the
late Charles Grant
Thomas FaithfuU
Chittenden, and of
Mrs. Chittenden,
Steyning. .Sussex.
Second Lieutenant Chittenden, who was (mly
twenty years old when he died, was gazetted
to the Manchester Regiment on the 24fh
Januai-y, 1914.
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CAPTAIN SIR MONTAGU AUBREY
ROWLEY CHOLMELEY, 4th BARONET,
(of Easton Hall, Grantham, and Norton,
Place, Lincoln), 3rd BATTN. iRESERVE
OF OFFICERS), GRENADIER GUARDS,
who \vas killed in
action near La
Bassde on the 24th
December, 1914, was
born on the 12th
June, 1876, in
London, and lived at
Easton Hall, Grant-
ham. He succeeded
his father in 1904.
After his education
at Eton he joined the
South Lincoln
Militia, and Iruiu that regiment entered the
Grenadier Guards in 1896. Two years later he
became Lieutenant, and in 1904 obtained his
Company. While in the Guards he was blaster
of the Household Brigade Draghounds at Wind-
sor from 1899 until he went to Soutli Africa.
He was particularly fond of hunting, being a
fine and fearless rider. He was Master of the
Burton Hounds from 1912 to 1914 and won
the Burton Hunt Members' Race in 1913 on
" Cardinal." He was also fond of shooting
and fishing.
He was on active service in the South African
War, and also in the Expedition to Kliartoum,
for which he held the British and Egyptian
medals. Retiring from the active list of the
Army, he entered the Reserve of Officers as a
Captain in 1906, and in civil life took an
interest in all local affairs of his county, being
a member of the Lincoln-shire Territorial Force
Association, Chairman of the Grantham and
District Agricultural Association in 1906, and
had been ^'ice-President of the Lincolnshu-e
Agricultural Society since 1907, and Chairman
of tlie Liucolnsliire Chamber of Agriculture, on
the Council of which body he continued to serve
after his period of office as Chairman had ex-
pired. He entered the Kesteven County Council
without opposition in 1907, and was also a
member of the Grantham Board of Guardians
and Rural District Council, and was a J.P.
for the Parts of Kesteven. He was also deeply
interested in the Boy Scout Movement, and,
as Chief Commissioner of the organisation
in Lincolnshire, rendered it highly valuable
service. On the eve of his departure for the
front he wrote a characteristic letter to the
Scouts of Lincolnshire, expressing a sense
of his good fortune in being able to go where
he knew they would all wish to be. and urging
them to respond loyally to their countrj-'s call
when occasion arose.
On the outbreak of the war with Germany he
was called up for service with the 3rd Battalion
of his regiment, taking precedence as Captain
from the 6th August, 1914. The following
account of his death was received from an
officer of the Grenadier Guards : — " Captain
Cholmeley was in command of Xo. 1 Company,
2nd BattaUon Grenadier Guards, and they were
attacked in the trenches on the 24th December.
The Germans blew up one of the trenches
further along the line, so that they could fire
down his line of trench. Captain Cholmeley dur-
ing an attack rushed forward towards the flank of
the company which was threatened, and was shot
tiu-ough the head and killed instantaneously."
He married in 1903. Mabel Janetta, eldest
daughter of Montagu Richard Waldo Sibthorp,
Canwick Hall, Lincoln, and left two children,
Hugh John Francis Sibthorp, Ijorn February,
1906, and Rosamund .Mary Edith.
CAPTAIN CHARLES ALMERIC
JOHN CHOLMONDELEY, 2nd
BATTN. BORDER REGIMENT,
who was killed iu
action on the 28th
October, 1914, was
the younger son of
the late Lord Heiu-y
Vere Cholmondeley,
and grandson of the
third Marciuess of
Cholmondeley, and
was born on the 5th
March, 1880.
After serving nearly
four months with
the embodied ililitia he joined the Border Regi-
ment in April, 1900, becoming Lieutenant^ in
January, 1902, and Captain in AprU, 1910.
On war being declared Captain Cholmondeley
was serving with his battalion at Dublin. It
afterwards formed part of the 20th Brigade.
Vllth Division, which embarked for Belgium
early in October, and fought in the first battle
of Ypres, near which town Captain Cholmon-
deley was killed.
MAJOR WILLIAM CHARLES
CHRISTIE, 1st BATTN. ROYAL
WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the son of the
late Mr. John Robert
Christie, Shipowner,
of Cardiff.
He was born on the
13th December, 1872,
and was educated at
Rugby, where he was
in Elsee House,
entering the School
in 1887. There he
proved himself an
all-round athlete,
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setting up a nuinbor of records for the long-
distance runs lor wliit-h tlu; public scliool is
famous, anil winning the well-known " ("ricU
run (12i miles) twice in succession, in ISIHI
and 1891 ; this in addition to obtaining
honours at football and gymnastics. Prom
HugliN- he entered the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
thirly-lifth out of eleven hundred conipetitt>rs,
passing out fourth in the honoiu' list, and again
represented his College for football (being
Captain of the Rugby football team), and also
for athletic sports against Woolwich.
He joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in
Octolier, 1893, becoming Lieutenant in Feliruary
1898. In that year he served in the Nile
Expedition, being present at the liattles of
Atbara and Khartoum, for which he was
mentioned in Despatches, " London Gazette,"
;50th September, 1898, received the Egyptian
medal with two clasps, and the fourth class
of the iMedjidieh. During this campaign he
acted as Orderly Officer to the late General
Wauchope. and later as Galloper to General
Gatacre.
lie next saw active service in the South African
War, where he was employed with the
Mounted Infantry ; he was present at operations
in the Orange Free State in the early part of
1900, including the actions at the Vet and
Zand Rivers ; at operations in the Transvaal
in May and June, 1900. including actions near
Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill ;
operations in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria,
including the action at Belfast. For his services
he was mentioned in Despatches, " London
Gazette," 29th July, 1902, was given his
Brevet Majority (August, 1902), and received
the Queen's medal with five clasps, and the
King's medal with two clasps. From 1904
to 1907 he was an Adjutant of Militia, and in
November, 1912, was appointed Adjutant
(attached to General Staff) of the Officers'
Training Corps, Birmingham University, Bristol
University, and the Royal Agricultural t'ollege.
Cirencester. He was promoted Substantive
Major in November, 1912.
Major Christie was the author of a text book
on Tactics, which is widely used by Officers'
Training Corps, and has reached its fifth
edition. His recreations w'ere steeplechase
riding, hunting, and polo.
For his services in the Great War he was twice
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatches,
8th October, 1914, and 1-lth January, 191.5.
He was killed on the 13th October, 1914, while
leading an attack to the right of the village of
Meteren on the Belgian Frontier, having been
shot in six places. The Officer Commanding
the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regi-
ment, wTote : —
" Charles Christie was one of the bravest
soldiers in the British Army and his loss to
us is irreparable. .\s my Second in Command
during tlie past two months, he lias been simply
in\aluable."
.Major Christie luai-ried Fli)n'n<e Violet,
daughter of WilH.uu N'crnou IJidcn. of Gosport,
Hants.
MAJOR JOHN CHRYSTIE, ROYAL
GARRISON ARIILLERY, 3rd SIEGE
BATTERY, 3rd DIVISION.
was the second son of __^
Intlian Army, who
served in tlie Indian
Mutiny, and Helen
Anne Tliomasiue
Clu-ystie, n6e Myers,
and was born at
Mangalore, India, lui
9th March, 1872.
Major Chrystie's
great-uncles. Lieuten-
ant John Chrystie,
R.N., and Captain Thomas Chrystie, R.N.,
served under Nelson ; the former was on the
" Victory " immediately before Trafalgar, but-
was transferred on promotion; the latter was
at Trafalgar in H.M.S. " Defiance." His twin
brother. Major George Chrystie, 25th Cavalry,
Frontier Force, Indian Army, was killed in a
raid on the North-West Frontier of India on
the 2nd May, 1913.
Major Chrystie was educated at Surrey County
School, and Portsmouth Grammar School, and
joined the Royal Artillery from the R.M.A.
Woolwich, in 1891, becoming Lieutenant in
1894, Captain in 1899, and Major in 1911. He
served in India, and on the West Coast of
Africa, and received the Delhi Durbar medal,
1903, being on the Staff fin- the Durbar.
From 1905-07 he served as Adjutant of
Volunteers.
He was killed in the Great War on the 17tli
Novemlier, 1914, when eveixing was closing in,
by a shell from a German heavy gun, whicli
exploded close to him and rendered liiiu un-
conscious, death occurring soon after.
Major Chrystie was a keen soldier and sports-
man, enjoying pig-sticking and l)ig game
shooting. He married, in .January, 1913,
.Mignonne Muriel Mavide, only daughter of Mr.
C. L. Bruce Gumming, Indian Civil Service
(retired), and left one daughter, Leslie Mignonne
Comyn. born 6th .Tune. 1914.
CAPTAIN STEPHEN HENRY CHRISTY,
D.S.O., late LIEUTENANT 20th
HUSSARS, RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
was the youngest son of the late Mr. .Stephen
Christy, of Highfield, Bramall, Cheshire.
He was born in 1879 and was educated at
Harrow (Mr. B. Smith's, 1893-97), and Christ
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Church, Oxford. He joined the 20th Hussars
in 1S99. and took part in the South African
War. being on the
staff as Signalling
' "tBcer from March
to May, 1902. and
was present at opera-
■ ions in the Transvaal
iiid in the Orange
River Colony from
January to April.
: 902. He received
i he Queen's medal
with four clasps.
Captain Christy also
served in West Africa (Xorthem Nigeria) in
1903, taking part in the Sokoto-Burmi opera-
tions, during which he was slightly wounded.
For his services he was mentioned in Despatches
(••London Gazette." 24th January. 190-5). was
awarded the D.S.O.. and received the medal
with clasp.
At the beginning of the war he rejoined his
regiment with the rank of Captain, on the 16th
August. 191-1, and was killed in action on the
3rd September, 1914. at ITssy-sur-Mame.
He married in 190-5 a daughter of the late Mr.
W. ChapeU-Hodge. of Pounds, South Devon,
and retired from the active list of the Army in
1906, voluntarily entering the Reserve of
Officers. After retiring he became Master of
the South .Shropshire Foxhounds.
LIEUTENANT CHALLONER FRANCIS
TREVOR CHUTE. 2nd B A T T N .
ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS.
third son of the late
Mr. F. B. Chute, of
Chute Hall. Tralee
• "ounty Kerry, and
■f Mrs. Chute. 22
Ashburton Road.
Southsea. was bom
on the 2nd April.
18S5.
He joined the Royal
Munster Fusiliers
from the Militia in
November, 1905, be-
coming Lieutenant in February, 1908, and
l)ecame known as " Chuty " among the officers
of his battaUon.
He was killed in action on the 27th August
1914. the following abbreviated account of the
circumstances having been received from
Captain Jervis, the senior surviving officer of
the battaUon, Lieutenant Chute having been
in charge of the machine guns : —
"" The Regiment was left in a somewhat
exi)Osed position, and Lieutenant Chute, with
his guns, covered the withdrawal of Captain
Jervis's Company at mid-day. It was pouring
with rain and with entire disregard to personal
comfort, he lay down in six inches of water
to manipulate his guns the l>etter. The
Germans were crossing the front, and he never
neglected an opi>ortunity of delaying their
advance.
•• The withdrawal continued through a village,
and on the other side he came into action again
firing dowTi the road, on both sides of which
a company was withdrawing. Owing to the
help of Lieutenant Chute's guns, the company
got safely through. The enemy was now on
three sides, and their artillery opened fire.
Lieutenant Chute brought his machine guns
Iiack at the gallop along the road under a
positive hail of lead. It was a splendid feat
anl was successfully accomplished, and once
agai" the guns were placed in position. We
were now completely surrounded and Lieutenant
Chute crossed the road to try and find a target
to aim at. As he crossed he was shot in the
right side and thigh and fell dead." Captain
Jervis went on : — ■" Up to the last he was
cheery and full of spirits as ever, in fact the
life and soul of the mess. He will leave a large
gap not only in the reginxent but in each and
aU of his brother officers" hearts.
■■ On the 28th August, the Germans allow^ed
a burial party to go out. and they found Lieu-
tenant Chute, who was buried in a grave with
eight other officers of the battalion."
Lieutenant Chute married, in June. 1911. Maud
Emily .St. Clare, only child of the late Edward
O'B. Hobson. and left two children.
2nd L1EUTEN.\NT TREVOR JOHN
CL.\NCEV. 2nd B.\TTN- THE BORDER
REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 24th
October. 1914 — the
War Office Casualty
List giving the date
as the 28th October
— ^was bom in June,
1893.
He was educated at
•Stoneyhiu^. and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst,
out of which he
pa-ssed at the end of 1912. and in February.
1913. he received his commission as Second
Lieutenant in the Border Regiment, being
posted to the 2nd Battalion, with which he
proceeded to France soon after war was declared.
In the Great War his Battalion formed part of
the Vllth Division, and on it feU the brunt of
the fighting in the earlier stages of the first
battle of Ypres. Second Lieutenant Clancey
was killed by shrapnel a short distance south-
east of Ypres-
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LIEUTENANT JOHN EDWARD
LANGTON CLARKE. ROYAL FIELD
ARTILLERY,
was the eldest son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
Sir Edward H. St.
Lawrence Clarke,
fourth Baronet, of
IJossmore. Co. Cork ;
lie was born at
Barkhill. .Ajgburth,
Iviverpool, on the
"_'2nd Xovenilier,
1SS9, and was
educated at Clifton
ililitary Academy,
the Roval
College, and
Woolwich.
Lieutenant Clarke joined the ,50th Battery,
XXXIVth Brigade, Royal Field ArtUlery, as
.Second Lieutenant, in JvUy, 1909, and was
promoted Lieutenant in July. 1912. During
the summer of 1914 he acted as Extra A,D.C,
to Lieutenant-General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
commanding Southern Command.
He accompanied his Battery to Fiance in
the Great War. and. for his services np to the
battle of the ^Visne. was mentioned in Sh
John French's first Despatch and awarded the
distinction of the ilihtary Cross, his name
appearing in the list of 1st January. 1915, after
his death on the field of battle, which occurred
while he was in a<-tion at iloussy-sur-Aisne on
the 14th September, 1914.
LIEUTENANT MORDAUNT EDWARD
LEONARD HANN.\M CL.\RKE, 3rd
BATTN. WORCF,STERSHIRE REGT.,
son of Colonel F, C.
Hannam Clarke,
C.M,G„ B.A., Sur-
veyor-General of
Ceylon, was born at
Bath, Somerset, on
tlie 30th October.
ISN4.
He wa.s educated at
Marlborough, and
I'nlversity College,
Oxford, and after
serving for a year in
t;azetted to the Worces-
May, 1907, becoming
1910. He was a keen
cricketer, and was very musical indeed : played
the violin and sang well, having an excellent
baritone voice.
He was shot tlirough the head by a bullet from
a shrapnel shell at Caudry, near Cambrai, on
the 26th August, 1914, during the retirement
from Mons. He was carried to a civil hospital
near, where he died without recovering con-
sciousness, and is believed to be buried there.
the Kent .Vili.l ; . --:l^
tershire Eegiment in
Lieutenant in October,
CAPTAIN GEORGE CLAYHILLS, D.S,0„
1st BATTN. EAST LANCASHIRE
REGIMENT,
was born at Darling-
ton, the son of
Thomas Clayhills. of
Invergowrie. For-
farshire, and a
nephew of the late
Captain Clayhills-
Henderson, R.X., of
Invergowrie, and of
Colonel Clayhills-
Henderson, who
served in the Cri-
mean War with the 93rd Highlanders.
Educated at Cheltenham, and Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, he received his commission in the
Ea.st Lancashire Regiment from the ^Militia in
January, 1S99. From April, 190(i — April, 1909,
he was Adjutant of his Battalion.
\Miile serving in the South African war with
the 8th Mounted Infantrj-, he was present at
the actions of Poplar Grove. Driefonteiii. Karee
.Siding. Paardeberg. Vet River. Zand River,
and tho.se near Johannesburg and Pretoria.
For his services he was twice mentioned in
Despatches, awarded the D.S.O., and received
the Queen's medal with four clasps, and the
King's medal with two clasps. He obtained
his Company in 1908.
In the Great War his Battalion formed part
of the 11th Infantry Brigade, IVth Division,
and with it Captain Clayhills was present in
the retirement from Mons and the subsequent
advance, including the battles of the Mame
and the Aisne.
He was kUled in action at the battle of Y'pres,
while his battalion was holding the line three
miles north of Armenticres, in Belgium, on
2nd Xovember. 1914.
MAJOR H. T. CLIFF
THE PRINCE OF W
(WEST YORKSHIRE
was killed in action
on the 13th October
1914.
He entered liis regi-
ment as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in October,
1900,' becoming Lieu-
tenant in April, 1901,
and Captain in
August of the same
year.
He served in the
ilediterranean dur-
ing the South African War,
medal. He became Major in
of his regiment in May. 1913.
to the 1st Battalion when he
. 3rd BATTN.
.\LESS OWN
REGIMENT).
and received the
the 3rd BattaUon
and was attached
was killed.
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LIEUTENANT the H o n b 1 e.
ARCHER W I N D S O R - C L I \' E , 3rd
BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
who \yas killed iu
action at Landrecies
oil the uight of the
25th August, 1914,
was the tliird son of
the Earl of Plymouth
and was born on the
(ith November, 1890.
He was educated at
Eton, where he was
iu the XI for two
years, and at Trinity
College, Cambridge.
His conunission as Second Lieutenant in the
Coldstreana Guards dated from the Sth
.September, 1911, and he was "promoted
Lieutenant in November, 1913.
He was a member of the Guards' Club and was
a keen sportsman.
On the occasion of his death, the Guards were
defending the village of Landrecies, successfuUy
held at liay. and eventually drove off a greatly
superior force of German';, thereby playing
an important part in securing the safety of the
British Armv in the retirement from ilons.
CAPTAIN JOHN KEITH CLOTHIER,
2nd BATTN. THE PRINCE OF \V.\LES'S
OWN WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT ,
I^^^^^^^^HjB^BBM who was killed in
^^^^^^^^^^^^^1 on the
December, 1914, was
the youngest son of
Henry Clothier, M.D.
(London), of Inner-
wykc Manor, Felp-
ham, Sussex, and
was born at High-
gate, Middlesex,where
his father formerly
practised, on the 25th
.September, 1881,
He was educated at Highgate School, and the
U .M.C. .Sandhurst, from wliich he passed out
twelfth, taking the prize for Tactics, and where
he was Corporal of his Company. He joined
the West Yorkshire Regiment as Second
Lieutenant in March, 1901, becoming Lieutenant
iu .September, 1903. He served in the South
African war. being present at operations in the
Transvaal from June, 1901, to March, 1902,
for which he received the Queen's medal with
clasp. In 1907 he was employed with the
King's African Rifles, with the local rank of
Captain, and acted as Adjutant. In the
Somaliland operations 1908—10, he did useful
service, and was mentioned in Despatches,
receiving the medal and clasp. He obtained
1^.
his Company in June, 1911. and, on rejoining
at Bombo as second in conunand of the 4th
King's African Rifles, was given the temporary
rank of Major.
In the summer of 1914. while holding that
appointment, he was invalided home, and on
the outbreak of the Great War he rejoined his
old regiment and volunteered for active service
with the Expeditionary Force. For some time
he was engaged with a new battalion of the
regiment in Y'orkshire. l)Ut eventually went to
the front. He was looking through a loop-
hole in the trenches when he was struck by a
bullet in the head, and died about two houi-s
afterwards without recovering consciousness.
He was buried at La \'isee. a little village south
of Armentieres.
CAPTAIN ROBERT FRANK
CLOTHIER, 13th RAJPUTS THE
SHEKHAWATL REGT.. INDIAN .\RMY.
who was killetl in
action on the 2nd '
November, 1914, was
born on the 7th
Septsmber, 18S4, and
received an un-
attached .Second-
Lieutenancy in
January, 1904. In
March of the follow-
ii^ year he joine<l
the Indian Army,
and became Lieu-
tenant in April. 190<>. Captain Clolliier, who
reached that rank in .lanuary. 1913, was
Adjutant of his regiment when he was killed.
CAPTAIN HENRY CLUTTERBUCK.
1st BATTN. THE KINGS OWN
ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT),
was the son of the
late James Jacques
Clutterbuck. Esq..
and was born at
Chacewater. Corn-
wall, on the 23rd
January, 1874. He
was educated chiefly
at King Edward's
School, Birmingham. J I
Captain Clutterbuck ||
enlisted in the
Coldstream Guards
in 1893, and after having served in the ranks
of that regiment for rather more than seven
years, he received a commission as Second
Lieutenant in the King's Own Y'orkshire
Light Infantry in August, 1900. He was
given accelerated promotion to Captain into
the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
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COG COK
S2
ill Xoveiiilior, 1!)07. lie served in the South
African war, 189!t-1902, and fought through
all the fierce battles wliich marked Lord
.Methuen's advance to the relief of Kim-
herley, including the actions at Belmont,
Enslin, Jlodder River, and .Magersfontein. He
was present during tlie operations in the Orange
Free State, February to .May, 1900, including
those at Paardeberg, February 17th — 26th ;
actions at Poplar Grove, Diamond Hill, Drie-
fontein, Karee .Siding, Vet River, and Zand
River, also the operations in the Transvaal,
May to September, 1900, and from Xovember,
1900, to May, 1902. During the latter stages
of the war he was attachetl to the Army Service
Corps. He received tlie Queen's medal with
six clasi)s and the King's medal with two
clasps.
Captain ('lutti'rl)uck was Adjutant to the King's
Own Malta Regiment of Militia from .Txine, 1904
— July, 1909. He served in India .ind laboured
for the welfare of the soldier, and encouraged
temperance and thrift, being commended by
the Commander-in-Chief in India for this work.
He wrote a book of ilusketry Lectures in 1913,
which was very well reviewed.
He had been appointetl Garrison Adjutant at
Bordon, from October 1st, 191-t, but as war broke
out he left for France with his regiment on
August 19th, 1914. Captain Clutterbuck was
mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French's
Despatch, October Sth, 1914, for his con-
spicuous bravery under heavy shell fire and his
gallantry in leading bayonet charges. He was
killed on the 26th August, 1914, at Haucourt,
France, only seven days after he had arrived
in that country, and the following account
of the circumstances under which he gave
his life were furnished by a brother-officer : —
" On the fateful 26th August Captain Clutter-
buck and myself were in a village, and about
8-30 p.m, about 150 Germans made a night
attack on us. Just when the attack was
starting Captain Clutterbuck canie up with
about 50 men to help me, as things looked bad.
Captain Clutterbuck then performed an act of
great gallantry : he personally led 15 men
to drive about 50 of the Germans away from a
church wliere our wounded were. They called
upon Captain Clutterliuck to surrender, but he
would not, and was then instantly killed. This
act of Captain Clutterbuck's was most gallant.
He would not entertain the idea of anybody
doing the noble work which he did. thereby
saving the lives of most of us. Xobody could
have died a more noble death."
Captain Clutterbuck married Cora Gwendoline
Rafaela, youngesst daughter of the late Gerard
Jlyburgh, Esq., of Orange Grove, Cape Town,
Consul-General of the Netherlands in South
Africa.
HUM
FIELD
2nd LIEUTENANT WILLIAM
PHREY COGHL.\N, ROYAL
ARTILLERY,
born on the 9th Jiilyi
1890, was the ton
of Colonel Charles
Coghlan, C.B., D.L.,
of Ashfield, Head-
ingley Hill, Leeds.
He was educated at
the Oratory School.
Edgbaston, near
Birmingham. of
wliich he was Captain
for two yeai-s, antl
then went to Univereity College, Oxford, lb-
joined the West Yorkshire Brigade. Royal
Field Artillery (Territorial Force), and, after
serving a year at Woolwich, received a com-
mission in the Royal Field Artillery and joined
the 11th Battery at Kildare.
In the war he fought from JloiLS to Le Cateau,
where, after being wounded many times, he
was killed in action on the evening of the 2litli
August, 1914.
LIEUTEN.\NT L.\NGTON
SACHEVERELL COKE. J. P.,
1st BATTN. IRISH GUARDS,
RESERVE OF OFFICERS,
owner of Brookhill Hall, Alfreton, Derbyshire,
was the eldest son of the late Colonel Coke,
J. P., D.L., 4th Light Dragoon.s, of that place,
whom he succeeded in 191.3. This property
has been in the family direct from fathei- to
son for twenty - three generations; one of
Lieutenant Coke's ancestors was Sir John
Coke, Secretary of State to Charles the First.
Lieutenant Coke was born on the 25th
January, 1878, and was educated in Germany
and France.
He joined the Irish Guards in 1901, after
serving for a short time with the Warwickshire
Regiment. He was seconded for service with
the Egyptian Army for two years, and in 1908
he left his Regmient, joining the Special Re-
serve. Intending to take up a political career,
he obtained the appointment of Private Sec-
retary to Mr. Hobhouse, Postmaster-General
in 1913. On the outbreak of the Great War
he rejoined his old regiment, and went to France
on the 11th September.
He was killed at Klein Zillebeke, near Ypres,
on the 31st October, 1914, a critical day on
which the Germaas nearly broke through our
lines.
Lieutenant Coke, who was a member of the
Travellers' and Guards' Clubs, was a good big
game shot, fisherman, and motorist.
He married in Xovember. 1908, Dorothy Maye,
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ilaughter of Captain George Hiiiitiiigtord, R.N..
and left a daughter, Elizabeth Joan, born
August, 1909. and a son, Roger Sacheverell,
born October, 1912. who succeeds to the
Brookhill estate.
LIEUTENANT JOHN CAD-
WALLADER COKER, 2nd BATTN.
SOUTH WALES BORDERERS,
... . ., ^,, ,. who was killed in
action at the Battle
of the Aisne on the
2()th September,
1914, was (lie young-
est son of Colonel ]j.
K. and Mrs. Coker,
of Bicester House,
Oxfordshire.
He was born on the
20th January, 1887.
Mud joined the South
Wales Borderers in
Lieutenant in .Tune,
August. 1908, becoming
1911.
Lieutenant in .Tanuarv,
MAJOR LAWRENCE ROBERT
VAUGHAN COLBY, 1st
BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS,
who was killed on
the 24th t)ctober,
1914. was the only
son of Mr. and Jlrs.
Colby of Ffynone,
Pemlirokesliire. He
was liorn on the 3rd
\pril. ISSO. and edu-
cated at Eton, join-
ing the Grenadier
(iuards in February,
1899, and becoming
1900.
He took part in the South African War. being
present at operations in the Orange Free State.
April to May. 1900 : Orange River Colony, May
to November, 1900. including actions at Bid-
ilulphsberg and Wittebergen, and again in the
same Colony from the end of 1900 to May, 1902.
He received the Queen's and the King's medals,
each with two clasps.
He became Captain in September. 1905. and
obtained his Majority in September, 1914. He
was a member of the Guards' Club and was
unmarried.
In the action in which he lost his life, .Major
Colliy was valiantly leading his men in a charge
near Gheluvelt. and he was buried in a soldier's
grave on the fleUl of Ijattle close to where he fell.
For his services in his last fight he was men-
tioned in Sir .John French's Despatch of the
14th Januarv. 191.').
CAPTAIN WILLIAM ELMER REYMES-
COLE, 3rd (attd. 2nd) BATTN.
ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
who was killed in
action on the 11th
Novembei", 1914, was
the eldest son of the
late Thomas Elmer
Cole, of Doddington,
( 'ambridge, and
W'ingland, Norfolk.
Captain Reymes-
Cole served for some
years in various
Government posts in
British East Africa.
among them that of District Commissioner at
Gondokoro. On account of ill-health he had to
give up tropical service, and he then became
Agent to the Hemsted Estate in Kent.
When the war broke out he rejoined his ohl
regiment, in which he had become Captain in
April, 1900.
LIEUTENANT DONALD M. COLES.
3rd BATTN. NORTHUMBERLAND
FUSILIERS (SPECIAL RESERVE),
who was appointed 2iid Lifutenant on prolia-
tion in June, 191:5, was killed in action the
27th October, 1914. He became Lieutenant in
September, 1914, and was attached for active
service to the 1st Battalion of his i-cgiment.
2nd LIEUTENANT SIDNEY HAR-
COURT COLES, 6th (attd. to
4th) BATTN. DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S
OWN (MIDDLESEX REGIMENT).
wlio was killed in
action on the 12th
October, 1914, aged
24, was the fourth
son of Major and
Mrs. Lewis Harcoiu-t
Coles, Windsor Road.
Denmark Hill.
Second Lieutenant
Coles joined the
Middlesex Regiment
in September. 1913.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR EDWARD JEUNE
COLLINS, ROYAL ENGINEERS.
eldest son of the late Arthur Herbert Collins.
Esq., Indian Civil Service, was born on the
18th August, 1885, in India.
He was educated at CUfton College, and while
there, astonished the cricket world in 1899.
at the age of 14, by scoring 028 not out in a
.Junior House Match between Clarke's House
and North Town. When in the Senior School,
he was in the 1st Cricket XL, the l.st Football
COM CON
W.. Ilii' Isl r;irq\iet pair, ami rc])resoiilcil tlif
scluml in IcMtliorweiglit boxiii}; at the I'vililic-
Scliools Compi^titidu
at AUlci'sliot. lliMvas
Head of his House,
and at the age of 17
passed into Wool-
wich, taking thi-
fourth place in IIh'
list of successful
candidates.
He joined tlie Hoyal
Hngineers in Decem-
ber, 1!)04, and at the
ag(i of 21 went to
India, where he was stationed till .\pril,
U)14. when he came home and was jiostcd to
.Vldershot .
In India he played polo, racquets, and tennis.
but on returning to England took up cricket
again, jilaying for the Royal Engineers at
Aldersliot and at Lords against tlie Hoyal
Artillery.
In August, 1914, he went to the front with tlii>
otli Field Company. Royal Engineers.
On the 11th November his Company, of which
he was then in command (his Senior Ollicers
having been killed or wounded), was called \ip
to lielp thrust the enemy back at Polygon
Wood, near Ypres. It was whilst signalling for
reinforcements during this action that he was
killed.
He was mentioned in Sir John French's Des-
patch of tlie 14th Jamuxry. 1915, and was
gazetted Captain after his deatli. to date from
tlie 30th October, 1914.
( "a]it ain Collins, who was a member of the Junior
Army and Navy Club, married in April, 1914,
Etliel, d.augliter of the late .Stanley Slater, and
granddaughter of the late Colonel .Slater. S2nd
Regiment.
LIEUTENANT BOYCE ANTHONY
COMBE. 6th (attd. 4thl BATTN.
ROYAL FUSILIERS CITY OF LONDON
REGIMENT).
w as the s e c o n d
son of Harvey Tre-
wythen Brabazon
Combe. late 3rd
Rattalion. Royal
Sussex Regiment,
of Oaklands, Sedles-
combe, Sussex.
He was born in 1889
and was educated at
Clieltenham. He be-
came Lieutenant in
his regiment in June, 1913, and was killed in
action on the 11th November, 1914.
LIEUTENANT S. B. COMBE, NORTH
IRISH HORSE (SPECIAL RESERVE),
w lio was reported in ^^_
October, 1914, to iO
have been missing,
was since shown in
tin- otiicial lists as
liaving biM'ii killed in
action on the Isl
October, 1914.
He was tlie third son
of Abrani Comix".
J.l'.. Donaghcloney
House. Donagh-
cloney. Co. llnwn.
and .Master of tin- t 'i
I low u Slaghounds
and
was
was born on the 20tli January. 18S(I. H
educated at Rugby and in France, and became
Lieutenant in tlieNortli Irish Horse in April. 1913.
He was a member of tlie Ulster Club. Belfast.
and the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, and was fond
of polo and hunting.
'I'he following particulars were obtained from
his Alajor. Lord >Iassereene. and a brother
oflicer : — He received StatT orders to ascertain
if the Germans were liolding a position near
Conde Bridge on the .\isne. Knowing tlie
great danger, he left his men in liiding and pro-
ceeded aK)ne on foot. He was discovered and
fell lighting, tlie shots revealing the presence of
the enemy.
From the German officer, l)y whose men he was
shot, it was subsequently learned tliat, admiring
Ills pluck, the Germans gave him ceremonial
burial inside their lines at Cond^, and marked
his grave by a cross bearing liis nanu' and llir
words " Pro Patria."
LIEUTENANT HENRY BLIGH FORTES
CUE PARNELL. 5th B.\RON CONGLE-
TON. AND A BARONET OF IRELAND.
2nd BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS,
was the first member
of the :
to b(
Great
ceeded Ills father in » ^^ " "t
1901).
Lieutenant LordCon-
gleton was the eldest
son of ilajor-General
Lord Congleton.
C.B., a distinguished
officer, and was born
on the 6th Septem-
ber, 1890, at Annerville, Clonmel, u hcii hif~
father was in command of that District ; lii^
was a grandson of a naval officer who had
five sons in the jVrmy and Navy. He was also
related to the poet Parnell, a friend of Addison,
et al., and was a distant cousin of Cliarles
Stewart Parnell, the famous Irish politician.
the first member ___^
e House of Peers I
le killed in the t i
t War ; he sue- {
ed his father in ;
CON
He was educated at Eton (Somerville's) and
New College, Oxford, where he took very good
second class Honours for History; and was also
Master of the New College and JIagdalen
Beagles. He joined the Grenadier Guards as a
Uruversity candidate in 1912. but his having
taken honours at the University gave him many
months' seniority, and his commission was ante-
dated to July, 1911. He was promoted Lieu-
tenant in March, 1913.
Lord Congleton was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 191.'j.
for gallant conduct and skilful handling of his
platoon against terrific odds on the 6th
November, 1914, thereby saving the British
line at that point. He was kUled in action near
Ypres on the 10th November, 1914. and was
Ijuried in ZUlebeke Churchyard.
Lord Congleton was a gifted and many-sided
man : a keen sportsman, a good shot (small and
big game), and, as a traveller, he had hoped to
go with Stackhouse to the Antarctic. He wrote
articles in magazines and in " The Field " on
sporting subjects over the signature of " Con."
He was a polo player, an ardent Tariff Reformer
and student of social prolilenis. but had joined
no political party, though he was often in the
House of Lords as a listener. He also took an
active interest in Rural Housing, etc. By his
death his famUy. his regiment, and his country
sustained a great loss. Memoirs of his career
have been published in " The Field," " The
World." " Truth," " Country Life." " British
Sports and Sportsmen," " The Tramp." and in
several of the daUy papers.
Lord Congleton was not married, and his
lirother. the Hon. J. B. ^I. Parnell. a Lieutenant
in the Xavy. succeeds him in the title.
LIEUTENANT SYDNEY DENNIS
CONNELL, 1st BATTN. THE MANCHES-
TER REGIMENT,
II l)orn on the 11th
June. 1S94. at Alla-
lialjad. India, was
the son of Major
C o n n e 1 1 , Royal
Horse Artillery, and
Mrs. Connell. His
elder brother. Jjieu-
tenant V. .T. A. Con-
nell, is in the 13th
Lancers of 1 he I n<lian
Army.
Ill- wa- I (liirat.il at Queen Elizabeth's School.
Cranbrook. from 190S-12, where he won his
football and cricket colours, was in the Bisley
Team 1910-12, captain of the Gymnasium and
of the Cricket XI in 1912, and represented the
School at Aldershot 1911-12. He became a
Sergeant in the Officers' Training Corps in 1011.
He passed into the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1912,
and received his commission, on passing out, in
the Manchester Regiment, in January. 1914,
joining his battalion in India in March, and
proceeding to France in .Vugust. with the Ex-
peditionary Force.
He was kUIed on the 28th November, 1914,
after successfully destroying a (ierman sap-head
in a night attack. The following account of the
circumstances was received from the Adjutant
of his battalion : —
" Lieutenant Connell was kUled just north-east
of the cross roads at La Quinque Rue (which
is about one mile north-east of Festubert),
having most gallantly attacked a sap-head.
The sap-head was a double one, and came up
to 20 to 25 feet from our fire trench. He went
out that night with 20 men, he going with
10 men to one head, and a colour-sergeant with
10 men to the other. They all got in and found
the Germans at work and killed 10 of them,
two or three escaping down the communicating
trench. They then went down the communi-
cating trench, and when coming back along it.
found that more Germans had been sleeping
in dug-outs at the side. These they also killed
as they returned, and it is estimated that they
accounted for over 40 altogether. When on the
way back, the Germans opened a machine gun
on the party he was leading. He and five men
were killed and three wounded. . . . ^Ve
were most awfully cut up aliout it."
He was mentioned in Sir .Tohn French's Des-
patch of the 14th .January. 1915. for his services
in the Great War.
CAPTAIN (TEMPORARY MAJOR)
PETER MARTIN CONNELLAN, 1st
BATTN. HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action on the 20th
October, 1914. was
the only .son of Major
J. H. Connellam,
D.L., Coolmore, Co.
Kilkenny, Ireland.
He was born at Sale,
('he.shire, on the 19th
February, 18S2. was
educated at Newton
.Vbbot College and at
Harrow. and he
entered the Army, unattached, in [January,
1901, joining the Hampshire Regiment as
Second Lieutenant in March of that year, be-
coming Lieutenant in November, 1003. In
that and the following year he took part in
operations in the interior near Aden, acting as
Brigade Signalling Officer to the Aden Boundary
Delimitation Column. Fi-om 1906 to 1909 he
was Adjutant of Ids battalion, having Vtecome
Captain in May, 1907, and subsequently was
CON— coo
Sfi
appointed Adjutant, Special Heserve, in Janu-
ary, 191 1 . He was awarded the Royal Humane
Society's medal for saving the life of a drowning
soldier in 1900. He was very fond of hiinting,
salmon fishing, and tennis, and played in liis
Regimental Polo Team.
He rejoined his battalion in 1914, went to the
front with it as part of the IVth Division, and
was present all through the retirement from
Mens. For some weeks he was in command
of his battalion during the Battles of the Marnt-
and the Aisne, being mentioned in Sir Jolm
French's Despatches of the 8th October, 1914.
and 11th January. 1915. He was recommended
by liis Brigadier for promotion and reward.
He married in 1911, Winifred, tliird flaughter
of the late Arthur Xiblett. Esq.. of Haresfield
Tourt, Gloucestershire.
CAPTAIN CECIL A
CONYNGH.WI, M.B.,
LLEN TAYLOUR
ROYAL .\R.MY
MEDICAL CORPS,
who was killed in
action on the 4th
November. 1914, was
the fourth surviving
son of Mr. Hem-y
( 'ouyngham, of Dub-
lin, and was born on
the nth May, 1883.
He was educated at
St. Andrew's College,
and at Trinity Col-
lege. Ilnlilin, where
111- iilitaiiii-d his degree of M.B., joining the Army
in.fuly. 1907. He was a keen athlete, and swam
for Trinity, wlien the}' won the Senior Water
Polo Cup in 1903; he was also in tlie Wan-
derei-s Rugby Football Cup Team, wlien they
won the LeiiLster .Senior Cup in 1900.
['romoted Captain in January. UMI, he was
stationed at Bangalore when tlie war broke
out, and was sent to British East Africa, acting
as Medical Officer to the Loyal North Lancashire
Regiment. Tlie Officer Commanding tlie 2nd
Battalion of that regiment gave the following
account of his death : —
" Captain C. T. Couyngham. R.A..M.C.. was
attached to this battalion, and was killed in
action at Tanga, German East Africa, on 4th
November, 1914, while attending our wounded
under fire. He behaved with great courage
under very trying and dangerous circumstances,
and was mentioned by me for devotion to duty
in my Report.
" We were unable to bury any of our killed, as
the action was a reverse, and 1 conclude the
Germans buried them all close to Tanga Town,
where the fight was. . . . Your son was
much liked by all of us, both professionally and
socially. Please accept our deep sympathy in
your great loss."
.Vnother more detailed account .said :
"With his regiment he advanced frnni tin-
beach towards tlie town of Tanga. which was
partly occupied. Tlie heavy fir<' to which the
battalion was .subjected is evidenced by tin-
casualty list, as the regiment lost. 1 think
140 men killed and wounded. During the
course of the second day we were unable to hold,
the- town, as the Germans had such a prejion-
deranee of machine guns; the Loyal North
Lancashires. therefore, fell back and occupied
a position near a railway embankment. There
were several men on the railway line who wen-
wounded, and your brother most gallantly
climbed down the steep bank and attended to
them. It was under such conditions that h<-
was killed. Had he survived . . he
would most certainly have been singled out for
distinction, as all ranks spoke in very glowing
terms of his coolness and gallantry. I heard
from the German Commandant that all the men
killed down on the railway line were buried in
the ' Sliamba." on the outskirt of the town.
1 lia<l an opportunity of finding this out, as I was
myself taken prisonerwithsomeof our wounded.
1 am afraid, therefore, 1 can give you no hope
of his having survived. Couyngham was a fine
officer and a very gallant gentleman, and Ik- was
killed aclually at his work."
LIEUTENANT CHARLES ROLLO
COOCH, 2nd B.\TTN'. THE BORDER
REGIMENT.
was born at Leam-
ington on the 3rd
October, 1894, the
.son of .Major C. E. H.
Cooch, Reserve of
Officers, the Border
Regiment, and Mrs.
Cooch. He was a
grandson of Colonel
Charles Cooch,
.M.V.O.. the King's
Bodyguard, and lat^
of the 02nd Regiment, and a great-nepliew of
General Robert Rollo Gillespie, i'.H.
Lieutenant Cooch was educated at the Victoria
College, Jei-sey, from 1904— 8,when he went to the
Imperial .Service College, Windsor, till 1913, en-
tering the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in February, 1914.
He played hockey for the Imperial Service
College in 1913, and was also in the Rugby
Football XV and the School Cricket XI in the
yeai-s 1912-13.
On 1st October, 1914, he received his commis-
sion in the Border Regiment, and was promoted
Lieutenant on the 14th December, only three
days before his death. He was killed in the
trenches near Armentieres on the ITtli
December, 1914, when serving with his battalion.
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COO COR
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL EDWIN
BERKELEY COOK, M. V. O., COM-
MANDING 1st LIFE GUARDS,
who died on tlic -Itli
Xovemljer. 1914, at
.Sussex House, Re-
gent's Park, from
woiuids received in
action neai' Messines,
Bel5<iuin. on tlie 21st
October, 19U, was
the elder son of tlie
late Major Edwin
Adolphus Cook, 11th
Hussars, of Eoydon
Hall, Tonbridge,
Kent, and was born on -Jth May, IStiSt, in London.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cook, who was educated
at Eton, was gazetted to the 1st Life Guards
from the ^Filitia in ISIKI, becoming Captain in
1S94, Major in 1903, and Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel in January, 1909. He served as A.D.C.
and Acting Military Secretary to General Sir
G. Luck in India from 189S to 1903, and suc-
ceeded to the command of his regiment in
Xovember, 1910.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cook, who was a memVier of
the Bachelors' and Arllnu's Clubs, was un-
married.
MAJOR MOSTYN EDEN COOKSON,
2nd BATTN. ROYAL SUSSEX REGT.,
of which he was the
senior ^lajor, was
the son of the late
ilajor William Cook-
son, 80 th Foot, and
was bom on the
1st January, 1868, at
Skipton - in - Craven,
Yorkshire.
He joined the Royal
Susses Regiment in
February, 1887, be-
coming Lieutenant
in August, 1890, and Captain in May, 1893.
He was a member of the Xaval and Military
Club, and of the .M.C.C.
He was killed on the 14th September. 1914. by
shrapnel at the Battle of the Aisne.
Major Cookson, who obtained his Majority in
September, 1904. married Josephine, daughter
of W. G. Finder, and left no issue.
MAJOR WILLI.\M JOSEPH CORCORAN,
5th BATTN. THE DUKE OF C.\M-
BRIDGES OWN MIDDLESEX REGT.).
died on the 25th October. 1914, of wounds
received in action. He was educated at St.
Paul's School for two years, and then at .St.
Edmund's College, Ware. He became Captain
in the Middlesex Regiment in March, 190ti. and
his promotion to .Major was gazetted after his
death, to date from the 7th September, 1914.
LIEUTENANT CECIL VICTOR POWELL
CORNELIUS. RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
3rd B.\TTN. THE WELSH REGIMENt!
son of \Valter .lohii .
Cornelius, was born
at Dehra Dun, U.P..
India, on the 14th
April, 1889. He was
educated at .St .
George's College and
York House, Mus-
soorie, India, and at
Wren's Coaching
Establishment, Bays-
water, London.
Lieutenant Corne-
lius, who was a member of the Athenaeum
Club, and by profession a barrister, joined the
Reserve of Officers in March, 1912, becoming
Lieutenant in December of that year. He was
attached for -active service to the 2nd Battalion
of his regiment.
He was killed on the 12th Xovember, 1914, at
Klein Zillebeke, near Ypres, being engaged with
the enemy at close quarters. Captain Venables,
of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, had been wounded
there, and Lieutenant Cornelius was crawling
down at the back of the trench to see if he could
help him. when he was shot through the heart.
The officer commanding the battalion wrote :
" He was only with us a short time, but im-
pressed himself on me as a gallant leader and
a brave man."
LIEUTENANT CHARLES LAWSON
CORNISH, 2nd B.\TTN. HIGH-
LAND LIGHT INFANTRY,
son of Henry Cor-
nish and Emily Hen-
rietta Cornish, of
Glastonbury, .Sur-
biton, was born at
Brighton on the 13th ^ .
August. 1887.
He was educated at
.Stoke House.
.Slough, at Charter- _ ^i^h^^^^hh >
house, and Trinity ^C ^1^^^^^^^^
College, Cambridge,
where he took the
degree of B.A. (iazetted to the 2nd Battahon
Highland Light Infantry in 1910, he became
Lieutenant in 1912, afterwards resigning his
commission, and voluntarily joining the Reserve
of Officers in the spring of 1914. On the out-
break of the war he rejoined his battalion, which
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was one of tlic first units of tlie First .\riii\'
Corps to go to tliu relief of tlio ^'IItll Division
near Ypres, and was almost continuously en-
gaged till the oneniy's assaults were broken in
November. Lieutenant Cornish took part in
the retirement from Mons, and tlie Battles of
the JIarne and the Aisne, being killed at last
by a shell in the Battle of Ypres on the llitli
November, 1911, while his company was taking
up its position in tlie trenches. He was bmieil
alongside tlu> I'asschendaele-Becolaere Road.
MAJOR .lOHN BEAUMONT CORRY,
D.S.O., ROYAL ENGINEERS,
r^— ^— -- who was killed by
shell near Sailly->vir-
1 a - L y s, No r t h
France on the Itli
November, 1 !l 1 1 .
while serving with
the 3rd (Bombay)
Sapjiei's and Miners,
^^^^^^ was the son of
^^•■y^ )\^^^^^^K»| the late Job n
•^ Vv XIM^^Bt Corry, Esq., .T.P..
of Croydon. Surrey,
and was born there
on the 21st August, 1871. He was educated at
St. Paul's School, Kensington, where he held a
scholarship,and from there passed second into the
E.M. A., Woolwich, and became Pollock medallist.
He was gazetted to the R.E. in 1894, joined the
Bombay Sappers and ^Miners, and became
Lieutenant in February, 1897. In the latter
year and in 1898 he served on the north-west
frontier of India, taking part in the operations
on the Samana and in the relief of (Uilistan, for
which he received the medal with two clasps.
He took part in the Tirah Campaign of 1897-98,
being present at the capture of the .Sampagha
and Arhanga Passes, and at ojierations in the
Waran Valley, Bazar Valley, and other places.
For these services he received the clasp. In
1901 he took part in the .Mekran Campaign,
led the attack on Nodiz Fort (which was cap-
tured), and w-as severely wounded. For this
campaign he was mentioned in Despatches,
and was awarded the D.S.O.
Major Corry received the Delhi Durbar medal,
1902-03, having helped to construct the light
railway, and became Captain in 1904. He was
also sent to Somaliland to strengthen the de-
fences of Berbera, and in 1912-13 was employed
in building roads and bridges in the ]\Iishini
country. In 1914, in which year he obtained
his Majority, he was appointed to the Military
Works, Bannu, North Western Province, receiv-
ing his orders for the front in the Great War
at the end of August. He was delayed for some
t ime at Karachi and at the base, linally reaching
the fighting line onh- two days before he was killed.
Major Corry was a member of the Army and
Navy Club and of the Alpine Club, and had
climbed in the Alps, in Cashmir. and in the
mountains near Ouetta : he was also a member
of the Poona Rowing Club.
LIEUTENANT HARROLD STANLEY
FREDERICK COSENS. 1st BATTN.
EAST YORKSHIRE ^iREGIMENT,
was born on tlu'
2nd December. 1889.
at Observatory Ave-
nue. Kensington.
W., and was the
son of Frederick
fieorge Cosens. of
Hacton, Norfolk, and
late of Airlie Gar-
dens, Kensington,
and Mrs. Cosens (nee
Ambrose), of Cop-
ford. Essex. He was
a grandson of the late F. W. Cosens, Esq.. of
" The Shelleys," Lewes, Sussex.
Lieutenant Cosens w'as educated at St. Paul's
School. Kensington, and at the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst. He was a prominent supporter of the
Boy Scout movement, and a year or two ago,
during his leave, gave up every evening to go
down to different troops in the East End to
teach the boys signalling. He was remark-
able for his patience and good temper, and the
success he had with boys, even those who were
not brilliant. Some of those instruct<xl by him
are now non-commissioned ollicers in the Army
an<l Navy, " as a result of his self-sacriflcing
laliour." At the end of his leave he was given
a supper, at which nearly seventy- boys, who
were said almost to worship him, were present.
The above particulars are taken from a report
of the ^'icar of St. Agatha's Church, Finsbury
.\ venue, E.C.,ol the Boy Scouts" Association. The
Secretary of St. Barnabas Troop also wrote ex-
pressing how much they owed to the young officer.
Lieutenant Cosens was gazetted to the East
Yorks as 2nd Lieutenant in September, 1909,
and promoted Lieutenant in February, 1912.
He was for a time with the Mounted Infantry
at Longmoor and Strensall Camps. He passed
\\ith distinction his examinations for pro-
motion, including Army signalling.
He was killed on tlie 2Sth October, 1914, during
the struggle for Calais, while retaking trenches
from the Germans near La Bassee. He had led
his men successfully in accomplishing the work,
and was actually in the trench when he was shot
by a sniper and instantly killed.
COS— cow
L I E L T E N A N T B R L C E D L F F V S
COSTIN. 1st BATTN. PRINCE OF
WALESS OWN WEST YORKSHIRE
R E G I M E NTi.
son of Adele Hob-
son. Tan-y-Bryn.
Bani:or. was bom in
Australia on the
20th June. 1S.S9.
He was educated at
Bedford, and passing
throush the R.M.C..
Sandhurst, ob-
tained his couuiiis-
sion as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the West
York.-!.-: 1, -iriient in 1909. joining his bat-
talion in India, w^here he served two years,
being promoted to his Lieutenancy in April,
1910.
When at Bedford, Lieutenant Costin played in
the Ruuby XV, and also in the Sandhurst
XV, where he was in the winning teams for
rifle and revolver shooting and riding. He
played footbaU occasionally for Rosslyn Park,
and was cai>tain of the battalion football
team.
While on active service in the Great War.
during the Battle of Ypres-Armentieres, he
was brought in wounded on the 20th October
from the West- Yorkshires' trenches between the
cross roads at Le Paradis and Ennetieres.
Four days later he died in hospital at Botdogne,
and was buried with military honours in the
cemetery there on the 25th October, 191-1.
His Colonel being wounded, the officer com-
manding wrote of him as follows to his mother :
■■ You know without niy telling you what a
favourite he was with all ranks of the regiment,
and how we shall all miss him. He had done
splendidly throughout the war, and was in-
valuable to us. He was always cool and cheery
under fire, qoite fearless, and had done very
well on the 20th under an appalling shell fire.
He is a great loss in every way to the regiment
and the mess, so keen on both work and play,
and the Rugby team will be nothing without
him."
The Chaplain to the Forces, who saw him
when he was brought in wounded, wrote : "I
had many opportxmitics for forming an estimate
of his character, for I knew him well, and I know
he was a man of highest qualities and ideals,
brave and honourable, respected by all who
knew him, and loved by his brother officers
and men under his command. TTis loss is a
loss to the whole Army, and the cutting off
of a keen soldier who had promise of a brilliant
career."
1897, becoming lieu-
C.\PT AIN EDG.\R ERNEST COVENTRY-
1st BATTN. EAST LANCASHIRE REGT.,
who was killed in
action on the 1st
November. 1914. was
the fifth son of
the late ilr. Edward
Coventry, of Boling-
broke Grove.
Wandsworth Com-
mon, and was bom
on the 11th Sep-
tember, 1876. H'-
joinedthe East Lan-
cashire Regiment
on the 20th February.
tenant in 1899.
He took part in the South African War, being
present at operations in the Orange Free State
in the eariy part of 1900, including actions at
Karee Siding and the Vet and Zand Rivers :
also at operations in the Transvaal and Orange
River Colony, November, 194X). to May, 19«J2.
He received the Queen's medal with three clasps,
and the King's medal with two clasps. He
obtained his Company in July. 1900.
2nd LIEUTENANT DOUGLAS HEN-
DERSON COWAN. 1st B .\ T T N.
THE HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT,
son of David T. Cowan, .M.A.. Director of
Education for Hampshire, of The Castle,
Winchester, was bom at Beceles, Suffolk,
on the 10th October, 1890. He was educated
at a private school at Winchester, and at the
Orammap .School, Bedford.
Joining the 3rd Hampshire Regiment as 2nd
Lieutenant in February. 1910. he became Lieu-
tenant in the following year, and in May, 1912.
was transferred to the 1st (Regular) Battalion as
2nd Lieutenant. He left England with the Ex-
peditionary Force on the 22nd August, 1911, and
was killed at Cambrai on the 20th of that month,
only four days after reaching the scene of action.
2nd Lieutenant Cowan was a good all-round
athlete, a first class swimmer, played cricket
and Rugby football, while his strongest game
was hockey, at which he represented his county.
2nd LIEUTENANT ROBERT CRAIG
COWAN. 3rd attd. 2nd BATTN. THE
ROYAL SCOTS LOTHIAN REGT..
born on the .5th March. IS't'l. at Craigiebield.
Penicuik, was the eldest son of Mr. R. C. Cowan,
of Elskiiill, Inveresk, Midlothian, and grandson
of Mr. C. ^'. Cowan, D.L., Dalhousie Castle.
He was educated at Cargilfield, Cheltenham
College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge,
and, having been in the O.T.C., was gazetted to
his regiment at Glencorse eariy in August. 191-t,
cox CRA
iW
being sent to Franco with :i ilial't in Siplinilj.-i-.
rie was killoil on the 2Jtli OcIdIht. I'M I. at La
PliiK-lic. near Neuve
('liapcllo. Mis C'om-
nianiliiit; Otiicer
\\n>lc : •■ W'l- miss
liiiii. not (inly as a
('(>iiM'aclc.)>iit as a very
^'allant Ijii\ \\Iiii lias
set a iiolilc cxaiiiiilf ol
courage and fearless
exec II t ion of tiis
iliity."
Mr. Couaii's recrea-
tions were fisliinj;, shootiiisi. ami lout hall.
LIEUT. GEORGE HENRY COX, 3rd lattd.
2ndi BATTN. KINGS OWN SCOTTISH
BORDERERS,
( >f l{ eeilhani.Norfol k .
was killed in action
in France on the
:«lth-:Ust October,
Ml 14. Jle became
Lieutetiant in his
re)iiment in Jidy.
1913. having re-
ceived his commis-
sion as l!nil Lieut-
enant in .May. IHKI.
2nd LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY PHILIP
JOSEPH SNEAD-COX, 1st BATTN.
ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS.
who was horn on
the 20th February.
18i).">, was the second
son of .John Snead-
("ox, of Broxwood
Court, and Eaton
Bishop. llereford-
sliire. Lord of the
.Manor of Broxwood,
and late of Souldern
.M anor.Banbury ,also
of 38, Egerton Gar-
dens. I^jndon, S.W.
1 1<- w ^1- I iliii .il . il .it I ii .wnside School, near Bath,
and passed intotheK..M.C., Sandhurst, in 1912, ob-
taining his commis.sion in September, 1913. After
joining he qualified as an interpreter in French.
At the outbreak of the war his battalion was
in Malta, but was ordered home, and it formed
I)art of the 22nd Brigade of the " immortal "
Vllth Division, which left England on the 4th
October, and landed at Zeebrugge.
2nd Lieutenant ,Snead-Cox was shot through
the head on the 21st October, 1914, in the fii-st
part of the Battle of Y'pres, where his battalion
'■ fought itself to a standstill."
2nd LIEUTENANT RICHARD .MARY
SNEAD-COX. 3rd BATTN. THE
ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENTi.
born on the 2.5th
November. 1892.
was the eldest son
of .John Snead-f'ox.
of Broxwood Court .
and Katon Bishop,
i lerefiirdshire. L<n(l
of the -Manor ol
Broxwood.
He was educated at
Downside School,
near Bath, and Xew
t'ollege, Oxford,
where he wa-s reading for Honours when war was
declared. He inunediately offered liis services,
and on the 7th Augu.st, 1914. was given a com-
mission in the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots. After
seven weeks' training he was sent to St. Nazaire.
Fi'ance, and thence, on the 7th October with
seven other officers and a draft of ninety-foiu'
men. to reinforce the 2nd Battalion at the front .
His battalion was ailvancing near Xeuve Chapelle
on the 28th October, 191 I. uli.n 2n(l l.i>utenant
Snead-Cox was shot through the heart as he
was leading his platoon to take a (iermaii trench.
2nd LIEUTENANT ARTHUR NELSON
COXE, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
who died on tlie 3rd
November, 1914, of
wounds received in
action, aged nine-
teen years, was the
tliird son of Mr.
.Tustice Coxe, I.C.S..
Judge of the High
Court, Calcutta and
of Mrs. H. ]?. ir.
Coxe, of Therfield.
Farnhani. He onh --— — ~ 1
joined the Army in August. 1914.
LIEUTENANT SIR ARCHIBALD
CHARLES GIBSON-CRAIG, 4th BART,
lof Riccarton, Midlothian!. 2nd, BATTN.
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY.
who is shown in the
official monthly ca-
sualty list published
in October, 1914, as
having been killed
in action, no date
or place being re-
corded, was the
third surviving son
of .Sir James Henry
Gibson-Craig, Bart.,
and Julia Lady Gib-
son-Craig, daughter
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of Archibald Buchanan of Currieliill. Mirllotliian.
He succeeded his fatlier in lOUS. His elder
Iji'other, Robert James, Lieutenant 3rd Battalion
no\al Scots, died of dysentry in South Africa,
in April. 1900, at the age of seventeen.
He was born on the 24th August. 1883, and was
educated at Harrow (Head Master's House, 1890
-1901). From there he went to Trinity College.
Cambridge, where he took his degree of B.A. in
1905. He joined the Highland Ligiit Infantry in
.hily. 1906. becoming Lieutenant in April, 1909.
In August, 1914. Sir Archibald Gibson-Craig
was in Colonial employment with the Nigeria
Heginient, West African Frontier Force, to
which he was appointed in Jlarch. 1913.
The following account of the circumstances
attending his death was published in "The
Harrovian" of November, 1914: —
" ' Gibson-Craig was shot,' says a narrator,
whose communication has been forwarded to
the "Morning Post." ' wliile leading his men to the
attack on a German machine gun, which was
hidden in a wood. He located the gun, and
asked our Second-in-Command whether he
might take his platoon (about twenty men)
and try to capture the gun, which was doing a
lot of damage to our troops at the time. The
Major gave his consent, and Gibson-Craig went
off to get the gun. . . . He and his men crawled
to the top of the hill, and found themselves
unexpectedly face to face with a large body of
Germans. Our men fired a volley, and then the
Lieutenant drew his sword and rushed forward
in front of the troops, calling to them, "Charge,
men ! At tliem ! " He got to within ten yards
of the enemy and then fell. The Germans held
>ip flieir hands, but our men were so mad at
their otticer being killed (and also suspected
treachery, as the Germans had not tlirown down
their arms) that about fifty Germans were killed
on the spot. By his gallant action Gibson-
Craig did a great deal to assist the general
advance of the regiment, and. indeed, tlie whole
of the troops concerned. The remaining men
silenced the gim, and brought their comrades
(two killed and three wounded) back to their
lines — two miles, under shell fire the whole way,
and not one was touched ! One of these, a
Private now in hospital in this country, said
that if the Germans had ke|)( cool and used their
gun they nuist have wiped out the whole of the
little band of Britishers.' "
Sir Archibald Gibson-Craig was unmarried, and is
succeeded in the liaronetcy by his brother, Henr\
Thomas, late Lieutenant 3rd Battn. Royal Scots.
He was a member of the Carlton and Royal
Automobile (^lubs. London, and of the New
Club. Edinburgh.
LIEUTENANT JOHN MAC-
ADAM CRAIG. 57th WILDE'S
RIFLES (FRONTIER FORCEl,
who was killed in action on the 2nd November.
1914, was the youngest son of Dr. and Mi-s.
.Tames Craig, late of Beckenham. Kent.
He was born on the 1 1th May. ISSli. and was
a Queen's scholar of Westminster: he was
gazetted to the Seaforth Highlandei-s in Octoliei-.
lOOf). was promot«d Lieutenant in .January.
1909, and transferred to the Indian Aiin> in
September of that year.
He saw active service on the north-west<-rn
frontier of India in 1908, taking part in opera-
tions in the Mohmand country, for which lie
received the medal with clasp.
2nd LIEUTENANT CHARLES EDWARD
CRANE, 1st BATTN. THE DUKE OF
CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY,
was born on the
18th February, 1892,
at the Manor House,
Birlingham. Worces-
tershire, the son of
Cliarles Arnold and
Georgina C!rane.
He w-as educated at
Oakfield, Rugby,
from 1902-0(5, Chel-
tenham College
from 190(5-10. and
the R.M.C., .Sand-
hurst. 1911-12. At Cheltenham and Sandhurst
he was in (he Rugby Football X\'. and also in
the hockey team at Sandhurst.
2nd Lieutenant Crane received his connnissiun
in the D.C.L.I. in September, 1912. The
battalion assembled at tlie Curragh, was (,'m-
jjloyed at Fermoy during the Home Rule
excitement in Ulster in March. 1914.
On the 14th September, 1914. at the Battle of
( he Aisne, while on his way back from success-
fidly locating — while alone and imder heavy
lire — a tnaxim gun. he W'as wounded, and dieil
from the effects on the 18th September. 191 1.
His body was buried at the Farm. Mont de
.Soissons. with a very impressive service, during
which there happened to be a lull in the light ing.
A temporary wooden cross was erected over his
grave by his brother officers.
His Commanding Officer, Lieutenant -Colonel
M. N. Turner, C.B., D.C.L.I., wrote to his mother
of him as follows : " Your boy was absolutely
brave and good. We were all so very fond of
him. and he was such an excellent officer :
he was absolutely fearless, and one of the best."
A young brother otTicer wrote : " The cause of
yourson's death was a very valiant (lieceof work."
.Several of his non-commissioned officers and
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men also sent their tribute to 2nd Lieutenant
Crane's worth, among them Lance-Corporal
J. IToran. who wrote to the following effect :
■■ His kindness wiU always live in my memory :
he picked me up when I was lying beside the
road one night, and put me, with a private,
in an ambulance wagon. We both owe our lives
to him. He was most kind and considerate,
and n ould never ask his men to go to any place
where he would not go himself. I have seen him
carrying the men's rifles."
MAJOR EUSTACE CRAWLEY, 12th
(PRINCE OF WALESS ROYAL)
LANCERS,
who was killed neai-
Ypres on the 2nd
November, 19 14,
«as born on the
Kith April. 18()S,
third son of the late
Baden Crawley.
He was educated at
Harrow, and joined
the 1 2th Lancers
from the llUitia in
August, 1889, be-
corniui,' I.i.ui.nant i'l |s!)l, and Captain in
November, 1897. JIajor Crawley saw much
active service. In 1898-99 he took part in
operations at Sierra Leone, West Coast of
Africa, for which he received the medal and
clasp. Again, in 1899 he was in command of
the Bula Expedition in Nigeria, being men-
tioned in Despatches by General Wilcox, in
December, 1899. He commanded the Nigeria
Company Constabulary from the latter date.
In 1900-02 he was appointed a Special Service
Officer in the South African War ; was D.A.A.O.
Ridley's Corps of Movmted Infantry from April
to December, 1900 ; took part in General Ian
Hamilton's march, being present at the actions
of Diamond HiU, Johannesburg, and Witte-
bergen ; and also at operations in Cape Colony
under General French : he was Intelligence
Officer to Capper's Column at the end of 1901,
and Staff Officer to Doran's Column from
December, 1901, to .May, 1902. For his services
he was mentioned in Despatches by Lord
Roberts, 4th September, 1901, given the
Brevet rank of Major from November, 1900, and
received the Queen's medal with four clasps,
and the King's medal %vith two clasps. From
May to November, 1902, he was D.A.A.G. on
the stafi of Colonel Hickman, commanding the
troops at ^liddelburg. Cape Colony.
In 1902—03 he again saw service in Nigeria,
being in command of a column in the Kano
Expedition, for which he received the medal and
clasp. In 1903 he commanded Moimted In-
fantry, in India, and obtained the substantive
rank of Major in July. 1905. In 19015-07 he
was ollkiating Brigade-Major of the Ainballa
Cavalry Brigade and to the Inspector-General
of Cavalry in India.
.Major Crawley married, in December, 1904,
Lady Violet Ella Finch, elder daughter of the
eighth Earl of Aylesford.
CAPTAIN MERVYN CRAWSHAV,
5th (PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF
WALES'S) DRAGOON GUARDS.
who was killed in
action on the 31st
October, 1914, wa-s
the son of T. Craw-
shay, Esq., of Dim-
lands, (ilamorgan-
shire.
He was born on the
4th .May, 1881, and
after serving with
the embodied ^lilitia
and being attached
to the Regulars for
a year, received his commission in the \\'oi(cster-
shire Regiment in .\pril, 1902. He became
Lieutenant in that regiment in November, 1904,
having served with it in the South African War,
being present at operations in the Cape Colony,
for which he received the Queen's medal with
two clasps.
In February, 1908, lie was transferred to the
5th Dragoon Guards, in which he became
Captain in .\pril, 1911.
Captain Crawshay was noted as a fine horse-
man, representing England in the Military
Tournaments in .-Vmerica in 1913, and winning
the Gold Cup in the competition open to the
world. He also won the King George Challenge
Cup at the International Military Tournament
in the same year.
CAPTAIN LEO CREAGH, 1st BATTN.
THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 20tli-
21st December, 191 4.
was the eldest son of
Brigade-Surgeon W.
Creagh (retired) and
of Jlrs. Creagh, of
Grangewood Ix)dge,
Lullington near
Burton-on Trent.
He was born on the
20th October, 1878,
and was educated
at Stonyhurst College, Blackburn. He joined
the .Manchester Regiment from the Jlilitia
in January, 1899, becoming Lieutenant in
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September of the same year, and Captain in
Xovember. 1901. He served in tlie South
African War, being present at operations in
Xatal. including the action at Lombard's Kop
in 1S99. and taking part in the defence of Lady-
smith, including the sorties of the 7th and 10th
December, 1S99. He i-eceived thi- Quf-cn's med.il
with clasp.
The following account of the circumstances
attending his death is taken from the "Stony-
hurst Magazine," of February, 1915: —
" Captain Creagh fell in the heavy fighting
that took place near Givenchy on the 20th and
21st December. His battalion had only left
the trenches on the 17th when they were ordered
out again on the 20th. Tliey attacked a village
and some trenches in the afternoon, during which
action Captain Creagh was reported to have
done good work. On the morning of the 21st
tlie attack was renewed at daybreak, and
Captain Creagh was shot down in front of the
enemy's trenches. A sergeant, who was with
him at the time, said he was leading his men with
conspicuous gallantry. The above details were
received from his Colonel, who, writing to
Captain Creagh's mother, expressed his deep
regi-et at the loss of so gallant and capable an
officer."
Captain Creagh had been at home on short leave
a few davs before his death.
In the (ireat War Captain Crean was attached
to the Royal Flying Corps, and was shot down
on the 26th October, 191-1, while signalling from
an aeroplane to tlie Royal Field .\j'tillery.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM CECIL HOLT
CREE. 71st BATTERY. ROYAL II KID
ARTILLERY,
who died of wounds
on the 24th October.
1914, in hospital at
Boulogne, was the
son of the Rev.
WilUam Cree. M.A..
St. Matthias. Ken-
sington.
He was bom on the
4th August. 1882,
at MUton Abbott,
Tavistock, Devon,
and went to Marllwrough College in September,
1895, proceeding to the R.M.A., Woolwich, in
January, 1900. He joined the Royal Artillery
in July, 1901, becoming Lieutenant in .luly.
1904. In July, 1909, he was appointed an
Adjutant of the Territorial Force, and attained
the rank of Captain in July 1914.
He married, in 1910, Avis, daughter of the Rev.
Canon T. S. Hichens, Guilsborough, North-
ampton.
CAPTAIN THEODORE CREAN.
1st BATTN. NORTHAMPTON-
SHIRE REGIMENT, a 1 1 d . ROYAL
FLYING CORPS.
was the son of Mrs.
Crean. of Chester,
and of the late
R. Crean, M.D.. and
was bom at Man-
chester on he 23rd
October, 1880. He
was educated at
Stonyhurst College,
and at Gonville and
Caius College, Cam-
bridge.
Captain Crean joined the Lancasliire Fusiliers
from the Militia in April, 1902, becoming Lieu-
tenant in ilarch, 1906. He served in the South
African War. having been present at operations
in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and
Cape Colony, for which he received the Queen's
medal with five clasps. He was employed with
the West African Regiment and the West
African Fiontier Force for several years, and
transferred to the Northamptonshire Regiment
in May, 1908, being gazetted Captain in June,
1913.
CAPTAIN FRANCIS JOSEPH
C R E S S W E L L. ADJUTANT 1st
B.\TTN. NORFOLK REGIMENT.
son of George and Eva Cresswell, was bom
on the 15th July, 1883, at King's Lynn,
Norfolk, and was educated at Radley CoUege.
He served with the 3rd Battalion in the South
African War, 1901-02, taking part in operations
in the Orange River Colony and in Cape Colony,
for which he received the Queen's medal with
four clasps. He was given his commission in
the Norfolk Regiment from the Militia in
October. 1902, serving with the 1st Battalion
in India, and with the King's African Rifles in
British East Africa. He was promoted Lieu-
tenant in Febmary. 1905, and Captain in
March, 1912, and passed the examination for
liis ilajority, gaining also the special Signalling
Certificate. In August, 1913, he was appointed
Adjutant of his battalion.
Captain Cresswell was killed during the retire-
ment from Mons on the 24th August, 1914,
while he was taking a message to a battery of
Royal Field Artillery.
He was a member of the Isthmian Club, and
a Freemason. His favourite sport was shooting,
and he had killed elephant, lion, rhinoceros,
and buffalo in Africa.
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He married Barbara, niece ui Sir \V. H. B.
Ffolkes, Bart., ami left two (lau<;litei's. Barbara,
age three years, and Eve, age eleven weeks,
at the time of his death.
M.\JOR HUBERT
TON. 1st BATTN.
FRANCIS CRICH-
IRISH GUARDS,
son of Lieutt-nant-
Coloni'l the Hon.
Charles C'richton and
Lady Madeline
Crichton. and a
nephew of the Earl
of Erne and of the
present Marquis of
Headfort, was born
in London on
the 17th December,
1874.
He was educated at
Eton, and the K..M.C'., Sandhurst, receiving
his commission m the Grenadier Guards in
1896. With his battalion he served in the Nile
Expedition of 1S9S, being present at the Battle
of Khartoum, receiving the British medal and
the Egyptian medal with clasp. When the Irish
(iuards were formed in 1900 he was transferred
to them, and was appointed Adjutant in May,
1900. He went to South Africa for the Boer
War with the 29th Battalion Imperial Yeo-
manry, taking part in the operations in Cape
Colony. For his services he received the Queen's
South African medal with two clasps. In 1903
he was A.D.C. to the Commander of the 1st
Army Corps at Aldershot.
Having obtained his Majority in March. 1908,
Major Crichton accompanied his battalion to
Fi'ance in Augu.st, 1914, where he was killed,
on the 1st September, in the rearguard action
of the 12th Infantry Brigade, the Irish Guards
forming part of the 4th Guards' Brigade. He
was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of 8th October, 1914.
Jlajor Crichton, who was a member of the
Guards' Club, Bachelors', and Pratt's Clubs,
was a keen fisherman, a good shot, and played
polo. He married, in July, 1903, Esther,
daughter of Captain and Lady Rachel Saunder-
son, and left two daughters, Doris, born in
May, 1904, and Enid, bom in February, 1907.
LIEUTENANT - COLONEL HUGH
TREVOR CRISPIN. COMMANDING 2nd
BATTN. THE ROYAL SUSSEX REGT..
was the eldest son of the late Trevor Crispin,
of His Majesty's Treasury (Legal Department),
and was born in London on the 18th Sep-
tember, 1868.
He was educated at Bradfield College : Trinity
College, Cambridge, where he obtained the
degree of B.A.: and at the K.M.C. .Sandhurst.
Lieutenant-ColonelCrispinobtaineil his first com-
mission in the Prince
of Wales's Leinster
Regiment (Royal Can-
adians) in May, 1892,
being transferred to
the Xorthumberland
Fusiliei-s. in whicli
nearly all his Army
service was spent, in
December of the same
year. He became
Lieutenant in July.
189.5: Captain in February, 1900: Bi.\ it- NUijim
for war service in South Africa in November, 1 900:
and Substantive Major in February, 1911.
Lieutenant-Colonel Crispin served with the
Xorthumberland Fusiliers in the Nile Expedition
of 1898, being present at the Battle of Omdur-
man, afterwards receiving the Queen's medal
with clasp and the Khedive's medal. He also
served in Crete during the suppression of the
disturliances there. In the Soutli African War
he served with the ilounted Infantry in ISilll-
1000, and was present at the advance on
Kimberley (severely wounded), and in actions
at Belmont. EnsUn, and Modder River. He was
present at operations in the Orange Free State
from February to May, 1900, when he com-
manded a battalion of Mounted Infantry,
including actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove,
Driefontein, Vet River, and Zand River. He
was also present at operations in the Transvaal
in May and .Tune, 1900, including actions near
JohannesbiH'g. Pretoria, and Diamond Hill,
being again severely wounded. For these
services lie was mentioned in Despatches
("London Gazette," 10th .September, 1901), pro-
moted Brevet-ilajor, and received the Queens
medal with sis clasps.
Prom 1901-02 Lieutenant- Colonel Crispin was
A.D.C. to the Major-General Commanding an
Infantry Brigade at Aldershot, and from 1902-
04 was A.D.C. to the Major-General Command-
ing a Division of the 1st Army Corps. He com-
manded the 6th Regiment of Mounted Infantry
in South Africa in 1907-08. and was Adjutant
at the R.M.C., Sandhurst, from 1910-14.
Lieutenant-Colonel Crispin was selected to
command the 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment on
the 14th .September. 1914, and, while in com-
mand, was killed in action, near Ypres, on the
30th October, 1914.
Lieutenant-Colonel Crispin, who was unmarried,
was a member of the Army and Navy, and of the
Roval Automobile Clubs.
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LIEUTENANT JOHN CROCKET.
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS,
who was boin on
the 3rd August.
188(5, was the son
of William Crocket,
Head >I aster
Sciennes Public
School, Edinburgh.
He was a cousin
of the late S. K.
Crockett, the novel-
ist.
After Ills education
at George Watson's
College, Edinburgh, he qualified as a medical
man, and held the appointment of resident
House Surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal In-
firmary, and afterwards at the Eoyal Hospital
for .Sick Children and Chalmers Hospital,
Edinburgh. At the University he took a
prominent part in the Dumfries and GaUoway
Literary Society, of which he wa.s President
for a time, and was one of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Students' Representative CouucU.
AMaen at the L'liivei-sity he played golf and
tennis.
He entered the R.A.M.C. in 1913, and took the
degree of M.D. at Edinburgh University in
July, 1914. After joining the Army he was
attached to the 1st Battalion Cameron High-
landers at Edinburgh Castle, and left there for
the front in August, 1914.
During the Battle of the Aisne on the 2.5th
September, 1914, Lieutenant Crocket was in a
cave used partly as headquarters and partly as
a collecting base for the wounded. Just after
he had fimshed dressing a soldier's wound the
roof, having been struck by two shells, fell in,
. kUling him, together with five Staff officers
and about thirty men. The officers were buried
at Bourg. It was supposed that the exact
locality of the cave had been ascertained by
spies and communicated to the enemy, who
were thus able to find the exact range.
The following extract is from the " Educational
Xews " : — " Lieutenant Crocket was a pupil of
George Watson's College, and a student of
Edinburgh University. As pupil and student
his career was most briUiant, and gave promise
of a highly successful future in his chosen
profession. Add to his academic record the
fact of his bright manner, his winning
personality, liis almost boyish smile, liis un-
failing good nature, lit up with a touch of ready
humour, and readers can conjure up a picture
of one who was beloved by all who knew
him, one of whom the nation might well be
proud."
2nd LIEUTENANT LESLIE ROBERT
CROFT, 2nd BATTN. ROYAL SUSSEX
REGIMENT;,
youngest son of
-Major G. Croft, late
Y'orkshire and Royal
Sussex Regiments,
and of Mrs. Croft,
of ilanor House.
Hale, Famham, Sur-
rey, was bom in
1892, and was edu-
cated at the Fam-
ham Grammar
School. The Head
Master, the Rev. G. Priestley, writing of him
says : " All the boys of his time \vill remember
his . . . unfailing cheerfulness . . . and his
absolutely sterling character."
He received his commission in the Koyal Sussex
Regiment from the ranks of the Chesliire
Regiment in September, 1912.
The following account of his death was received
from a Sergeant who was with him at the time :
Lieutenant Croft was in command of Xo. 10
Platoon, which was leading " C " Company of
his battalion on the 30th October, when advanc-
ing against the Germans tlirough a pine wood.
As the enemy was found to be in force Lieu-
tenant Croft sent for reinforcements, and a few
minutes after was wounded in the head. The
Sergeant bandaged his head and selected a
way for liim to get away safely. Lieutenant
Croft, however, refused to leave, saying. " I
must see thLs job finished first." These were
his last words, for as he raised his head to give
some command he was mortally wounded in
the neck, death bemg pi-actically instantaneous.
" We all felt," said the Sergeant, " that we had
lost, not only an officer and a leader, but a great
friend."
2nd LIEUTENANT WILLIAM
CRONK. THE BUFFS EAST
REGIMENT,
the son of William
Henry and Winifred
Ruth Cronk. was
bom ' at .Suflolk
Place, Sevcnoaks,
Kent, on the 28th
AprU, 1893.
Educated at Eton
and the Royal
^Military Academy,
Woolwich, he was
gazetted to the
Buffs on the 14th
attached to the 1st
GUY
KENT
March, 1914. He wa.s
Battn. K.R.B.C. in the
Great War. and was killed on the 24th October,
CRO
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111] J, al.iout two and a half iiiilfs sfnitli-cast of
Zonnebeke, while leading his platoon to take a
Oeinian trench, when he came under the
lire of a niacliino jjnn at short range.
nis recreations were huntinir. i)olo. cricket, and
tennis.
2nd LIEUTENANT WILLIAM RONALD
MORLEV GROSSMAN. 2nd BATTN.
KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS,
who was killed in
action at Veldhoek.
in Flandere, on the
"2nd Noveniber.1914,
was horn on the tith
.September. ISiU. at
(ioswick House,
Beal, Xorthumber-
land. He was the
younger of two sons,
both in the Army, of
the late ilajor Law-
rence ilorley
('iii^>inan, J.l'.. a freeman of Berwick and
Lord of the .Manor of Holy Island, and
Mrs. ^lorley Crossman, of Cheswick House.
Beal. 2nd Lieutenant Crossman was a grandson
of the late Major-General Sir William Cross-
man, K.C.M.O., R.E., sometime member of
Pai'liament for Portsmoutli.
2nd Lieutenant Crossman, who was educated
at Lyndhurst, ^Yellingtou College, and the
R.JI.C, Sandhui'st, only received his commission
in the K.R.B.C. in Febniary, I'JIL
LIEUTENANT CECIL FRANCIS
CROUSAZ. 1st B.\TTN. THE SOUTH
STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the youngest son
of \\'. de P. Crou-
«« saz. Jurat of the
'^ Koyal Court of
(iiiernsey, and was
* ; boi n in that island
_ j on the 7th Hecem-
: ber. 1SS8.
^ .. He was educated at
Elizabeth College,
(iuernsey, and the
Ij R.M.C., Sandhurst.
entering the South
StafTordshire Hcgiment in Xovember, 1000. and
becoming Lieutenant ni March, 1912.
He served with liis battalion in Soutli Africa
and Gibraltar from 1910-1-1. He won the
Featherweight Aimy Boxing Cup at Aldeishot
in 101.3.
He was killed in a trench at Zonnebeke, near
Ypres, by shell on the 31st October, 1914.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM MAYNARD CAR-
LISLE CROWE, RESERVE OF
OFFICERS, ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE
REGIMENT,
was the son of
Major-General
Thomas Carlisle
Crowe, R.H.A. (re-
tired), and was born
at the Curragh
Camp, Ireland, on
the 11th September,
1870.
He was educated at
St. Paul's School,
and the R.A.M.C.
Sandliuret, obtaining liis commission as 2 ml
Lieutenant in the Royal Warwicks in July,
1891. He became Captain in September, 180,s,
and retired in August, 1907, joining the Heserve
of Officers.
In the Great War Captain Crowe was attachetl
to the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regi-
ment, when he was killed near Ypres on the
8th Xovember, 1911.
Captain Crowe was a member of the United
Ser\ice Club, and of the Swiss Alpine and
Swiss Ski Clubs. He married, in 1901, Eliza-
beth Hannah Stanley, widow of C. Archer,
Esq.
2nd LIEUTENANT J.\MES CYRIL
B.\PTIST CROZIER. 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL M U N S T E R FUSILIERS.
who was born at
Bowden, Cheshire, '
on the 24th October, ^^^
1890, was the son ^r^ j
of the late Rev. ^ ^ $
Henry Wilcox Dtoi *^ ^
Crozier (brother of
the .Vrchbishop of
Arnuigh, Primate of
All Ireland), and of
.Susannah M. .M.
.Spence, daughter of
the late James
.Spence, well known in Liverpuul ami Uii keiiluad.
He was educated at Loretto School, where he
was in the XV, and at Edinburgh Univereity,
where he also played for the 'Varsity XV. At
the latter he had studied medicine for two
years, when he appUed for a commission in the
3rd Battalion Royal .Scots, Special Reserve. He
was gazetted to the Royal .Munster Fusiliers in
June, 1914.
He was killed on the 27th August, 1914, near
Etreux, when the battalion was nearly sur-
rounded, and no fewer than eight of its ollicei's
were killed
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CRU— CUN
LIEUTENANT E. O. CRUIKSHANK,
3rd BATTN. THE DUKE OF EDIN-
BURGHS (WILTSHIRE REGIMENT),
was killed in action on the I'Jth September,
1914. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on
probation in December, 1912. and promoted
Lieutenant in July. 1914.
LIEUTENANT CECIL REGINALD
CRYMBLE. D.Sc. 3rd B.\TTN. PRINCESS
VICTORIAS ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS),
was the youngest
son of the late Mr.
George G. Crymble,
of Gordon House,
Annadale, and was
bom at Belfast on
the 6th April, 1885.
He was a graduate
of the Queen's Uni-
versity, Belfast, of
which he was one
of the most popular
and brilliant
students. His most marked abilities were shown
in chemical work, in which he gained several
distinctions. He was the students' repre-
sentative in the Senate, and a prominent
member of the O.T.C. He held the " Andrews "
.Scholarship and the 18.51 Exhibition for re-
searcli work for three years, and obtained his
degree of D.Sc. with the gold inedal. For
several years lie was also demonstrator of
chemistry at Queen's College. Besides being a
student of conspicuous ability, he took an
active part in the social life of the University,
and was President of the Students' Union
and of the Students' Kepresentative Council.
He was aLso one of the prime movers in the
formation of the O.T.C, and from that Corps
was one of the first to join the 3rd Battalion
Royal Irish FnsUiers, as 2nd Lieutenant in
December, 1910, and in which he became Lieu-
tenant in August, 1912. After leaving Belfast
in 1910, he proceeded to University College,
London, where he worked under Sir William
Ramsay, and subsequently obtained an appoint-
ment a.s Lecturer in Biological Chemistry in the
physiological department at University College.
On the outbreak of the Great War he was
attached for active service to the 1st Batta-
lion of his regiment, and was .serving with it
when he was shot by a sniper while working
at a trench near Armentieres on the 20th
November, 1914.
LIEUTENANT LEWIS ROBERTSON
GUMMING. 1st BATTN. THE BLACK
WATCH ROYAL HIGHLANDERS,
who was bom on the 5th October, 1892, was
the eldest son of John Fleetwood Cunmiiug,
J.P.. late Captain X.B. Seaforth Highlanders,
of " The Dowans," Aberlour. Banffshire.
He was educated at
Rugby, where he
played for his House
XV, and at tlie
R.M.C., Sandhurst,
where he rode for the
.Saddle. He was a
member of the Cale-
donian Club, and was
fond of hunting,
shooting, and golfing.
Ha\'ing been gazet- ^
ted to the Black Watch in February. ' .-j.
coming Lieutenant in ^lay, 1914, he left with
the Expeditionary Force in August, 1914, was
present in the retirement from Mons and the
Battle of the Mame. and was killed at the
Battle of the Aisne on the 14th September, 1914.
The following account of his death was given
by brother officers : " Lewis was, as you know,
.Scout Officer of the regiment. After the battle
started there was no work for the Scouts, and
Lewis was at the headquarters of the battalion
with Colonel Grant Duff and the Adjutant.
AU the time he was anxious to go forward,
but was kept back. Eventually, when the
Colonel went forward himself at a time when
things were not going very well. Lewis collected
as many men as he could find, formed them into
a platoon, and went fonvard with them, taking
wliat ammunition he could get to those in
front. . . . There was a heavy fire from
front and flanks, and Lewis and his men were
practically annihilated."
Lieutenant Cuniniing's body was found by the
Gloucestershire Regiment, with those of two
officers of the Cameixin Highlandei^, and the
three were buried together near the woods to
the north of Chivv.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN REYNOLDS
PICKERSGILL-CUNLIFFE, 2nd
BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS.
who was included as
killed in action in
the War Office
casualty list issued
on the 9th October,
1914, but whose
death had been an-
nounced on the 21st
September, was the
only son of Harry
PickersgUl - Cunliffe.
of Haughton ilanor.
St. Xeot's, and 27,
Beaufort Gardens, London
S.W.
CUR DAL
liiid I.icntcn.-inl I'ickersgill-C'uiililVr. who was
only nineteen years of age, was gazetted to llu'
Grenadier Guards on the 17th September, llll:!.
2nd LIEUTENANT FREDERICK
GWATKIN OLDHAM CURTLER, 2nd
BATTN. WORCESTERSHIRE REGT.,
who was killed in action on the 21st October,
1914, was the only son of Mr. Frederick Lewis
Curtler, of Bevere House, Worcestershire,
lie was educated at Rugby, which he entered
in 1907.
2nd Lieutenant Curtler, who was twenty-one
years old when killed, first entered the Army
in the .'jth Battalion Worcestershire Regiment,
as 2nd Lieutenant in April. Ill 12. being pro-
moted Lieutenant in December, 1013, and
afterwaids transferred as 2nd Lieutenant to
the Regular Battalion in October, 1914.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM CHARLES CUR-
GENVEN, 1st BATTN. SOUTH WALES
BORDERERS.
the son of Cliarles
James Curgenven,
Paymaster-in-Ch;ef,
R.X., was born at
Great Missenden,
Bucks, on the 7th
November, 1876.
He was educated at
Hazlehurst School,
Frant, and Repton ,
j^^^BBQ^H^^^^Bi where he was cap-
tain of both the
cricket and football teams, and was also Repton
member of the " Hampshire Hogs " and In-
cognito Cricket Clubs.
He joined the South Wales Borderers from the
Militia in December, 1897, and became Lieu-
tenant in April, 1899. He served in the South
African War, where he was slightly wounded,
taking part in operations in the Orange Free
State, including actions at Karee Siding, Vet
River, and Zand River ; in the Transvaal,
including action near Johannesburg ; in the
Transvaal, west of Pretoria; and in Orange
River Colony. He received the Queen's medal
with three clasps, and the King's medal witli
two clasps. He was Adjutant of his battalion
from February, 1906, to February, 1909, and
from 1909-13 was Instructor of Topography at
the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
In the Great War he was in command of No. 4
Company South Wales Borderers, when the
regiment was attacked by the enemy near the
village of Langemark, on the 21st October,
1914 ; and, while leading the company under
a hot fire, was wounded in the arm, and almost
immediately after was shot through the head.
Captain Curgenven was a first-rate all-round
athlete, and was a member of the Junior Army
and Xavy Club.
He married the elde.st daughter of the late
Henry Forrester, Esq., of " Woodfield," Colin-
ton, Midlothian, and left a daughter, Angela
I'^mily Muriel, born at the Royal Military Col-
lege in August, 1912.
CAPTAIN CHARLES ANTOINE DE
GUERRY DALGLISH, 1st BATTN.
THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL
HIGHLANDERS! ,
\x lio dird on the 9th
.September, 1914,
of wounds received
in action at Sablon-
niercs, was the third
son of the late J. C.
Halslish. Wandara.
(a>ull>urn. X.S.W.,
and of .Mrs. Dal-
glish. Bellasis, Sun-
d o r n e Castle,
Shrewsbury.
He was born on the 11th February, 1SS3, and
was educated at the Oratory School, I'^lg-
baston. He joined the Royal Higlilandcrs
from the Militia in January, 1901, becoming
Lieutenant in October, 1903, and Captain in
January, 1910.
Captain Dalglish served in the South African
War from 1901-02, being present at operations
in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, and
received for his services the Queen's medal with
foin- clasps.
He was a member of the Caledonian Chili, ami
married Carline de Burgh Purves, daughter of
(ieorge Purdis Purves, ^Middle Temple, son of
James Purves, of Chintin and Glen Isla, Cape
Sliank, Australia, and late of .Mosspennock,
(ireenlaw, Berwickshire ; he left three daughters :
Rosemarie Constance Dorothy, born January,
1908 ; CarUne Frances, born November, 1910 :
and Margaret Veronica de Lauret, born Feb-
ruary, 1912,
LIEUTENANT - COLONEL CHARLES
DALTON, ROYAL ARMY MEDI.
CAL CORPS,
the second son of
John Edward Dal-
t o n. J. P., and
Katherine Dalton,
was born at Golden
HiUs, County Tip-
perary, on the 3rd
May, 1867. He was
a grandson of Ed-
ward Dalton, of
Ballygriffin, County
Tipperary.
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Lieutenant- Colonel Dalton was educated at
Clongowes Wood College, to which he went in
1879, remaining there four years, where he is
remembered as a steady worker, a leading spirit
in all games, and as an influence which, for his
age, was almost uni({ue and altogether good.
In 1883 he began the study of medicine at the
Carmichael Medical School, DubUn, where,
again, in work and play he made his mark.
He rowed for the Pembroke Rowing Club,
helping more than one boat to victory ; and
as a football player is remembered in the Monks-
town Football Club, of which he was vice-
president at the time of his death. When in
India and on tlie West Coast of Africa he did
some big-game shooting, but it was his hunting
and racing career which showed the real grit
of the man. Charley Dalton was the first
member of the R.A.M.C. to win a military
steeplecliase in Ireland, and he added to the
already high sporting status of the corps when
lie carried off the Irish Grand !MiUtary on
" Thowl Pin " in 1912. He took the diploma
of tlie Royal (Colleges of Physicians and Sur-
geons, Ireland, in 1888. At the end of that year,
wishing to see the world, he took the appoint-
ment of Ship's Surgeon on the R.M.S. " ^Magel-
lan," sailing to Valparaiso, and repeated the
trip in March the following year in R.M.S.
Cotopaxi." This vessel sank after a collision
with a Ciermau steamer in the Straits of Magel-
lan. Though badly damaged, the " Cotopaxi "
continued the voyage through a narrow channel
instead of the ordinary route, hoping to escape
bad weather. After a week she struck an
unknown rock in mid-channel and sank in eight
minutes, just giving the passengers and crew
time to get into the boats. Everything was lost,
and the party landed on the shores of Patagonia,
living for four days on mussels and some casks
of tallow that floated ashore. On the fourth day
t hey were rescued by a Oerman steamer. During
the sinking of the ship Lieutenant-Colonel
Dalton behaved with great gallantry in rescuing
two of the passengers who were paralysed —
one completely so — carrj'ing them up on deck
and putting them into a boat. The French
Government awarded him a silver medal of the
1st class, and the Royal Humane Society con-
ferred on him their gold medal for saving lite.
He was also awarded the Albert medal.
After his return to Dublin, Lieutenant-Colonel
Dalton was appointed Resident Surgeon to
Jervis Street Hospital, and in June, 1891, com-
peted successfully for a commission in the
H.A..M.C. lie proceeded very .shortly to India,
and while there served in the Kachlin Hills
I'^xpeditioii in Burma, receiving the medal and
clasp. Afterwards he saw service on the north-
west frontier of India, 1897, receiving a second
medal with clasp. In November of the same year
he returned from India, and was stationed at
Belfast till March, 1898. when he left England
for Sierra Leone, and took part in the Karene
Expedition. For his services there he was
mentioned in Despatches, receiving a medal
and clasp. The following was the report
made by the Officer Commanding the column : —
I wish to specially mention the following
ollicer : Captain C. Dalton, R.A.M.C, who dis-
played conspicuous bravery in attending to
Lieutenant Craig-Brown, who was dangerously
wounded, under an extremely heavy fire from
a stockade a few yards away. While he was
binding up this officer's wounds four or Ave
carriers who were lying close by at the time were
killed. It was entirely owing to Captain Dalton's
coolness and courage that Lieutenant Craig-
Brown is now alive."
On another occasion Captain Dalton (as he was
then) went out and brought back a private under
lioavy fire. Tlirough some mischance, the
original reports of Captain Dalton's conduct on
these two occasions, sent in March, 1898, were
not forwarded to or received by the proper
authorities, and it was not till tliree years later
that the information was furnished.
Lieutenant-Colonel Dalton returned from Sierra
Leone in March, 1899, and in November of that
year was posted to the 14th Hussars, then under
orders for the South African War, in which he
took part, being present at operations in Natal,
1899, the Relief of Ladysmith, including opera-
tions of 17th -24th January, 1900 (severely
wounded on the 23rd January) ; in the Orange
Free State, February- May, 1900, including
actions at Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet
River, and Zand River : and in Orange River
and Cape Colonies. For these services he re-
ceived the Queen's medal with three clasps,
and was mentioned in Despatches. Having
obtained special permission to go and attend
the wounded under heavy fire, he himself was
dangerously wounded in nobly doing his duty
as a good soldier surgeon. Soon after he
returned home in 1901, he was awarded the
Arnott gold medal for distinguished gallantry
in the field by the Irish Jledical School and
Graduates' Association, this being the fii'st
award made.
After a year at home he went a second time to
Sierra Leone, and in 1905 to India, where he
did some valuable plague work in Pindi, and
was selected, " for distinguished service in the
field, for appointment as Honorary Surgeon to
His Excellency the Viceroy " in May, 1908.
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Dui'ing his next period of home service he
filled the position of D.A.D.M.S., Irish Com-
mand, and on the outbreak of the Great War
he embarked on the 18th August, 1914, with
the Expeditionary Force in charge of No. 1
General Hospital. On the Sth September
he joined the headquarters, Ilnd Division 1st
Army Corps as A.D.il.S.. at iloussey. The
follo«-ing account of his fatal injury is
from a statement of an eye-w"itness : —
" Dalton and Bostock went up with G.S. of
Ilnd Division to Verneuil hot-shelled. Teams,
etc., knocked about, and nobody but Dalton
and Bostock to do the carrying. Dalton did
all he coxild in personally carrying wounded into
A'erneuil Chateau. In doing this he got hit in
the back (shell). As he lay on the ground a
stampeding gun limber bmised his left hip.
Rescued by Persell, of Signals, who just pulled
him out in time. Was paralysed by concussion
of spine, only pain round chest (girdle), but
thought he was dying. On admission to the
temporary hospital, where he was under the
care of Colonel Copeland and Captain Carter,
it was found that he was paralysed from the
waist downwards. There was a wound between
his shoulders ; also some small wounds on his
head and face. He considered that the paralysis
was caused by the shell before the limber passed
over him. Was not too hopeful of his chances,
but was very calm, and suffered very little
pain. He remained two days in the temporary
hospital (a chateau), and while there was
visited by Father Dey, the Army Chaplain,
who administered to him the last sacraments.
Throughout this time Dalton was cheerful,
and more anxious as to how others were faring
than troubled about himself. He appeared to
do fairly well at first, improved as regards
sensation and movement, and got more hopeful.
Spoke of going to Paris in a motor-car, and then
on home. As the chateau became too dangerous
to be continued as a hospital (it was under very
heavy shell fire), Major P. Davidson decided to
evacuate it, and risk a journey down the hill,
back across the Aisne in the dark, to the next
temporary hospital at Vieil Arcy. Dalton stood
the journey fairly well, and was pleased to
leave Verneuil, but was a bit coUapsed at the
end. Next morning, at 6 a.m., it was found he
had developed gangrene of the hip (where he had
been bruised only), and he became comatose
and died on the 18th September. He had a
peaceful death. Although the injury was so
grave the hopes raised by his cheerfulness and
great powers of endurance gave an unexpected-
ness to this early termination. He was buried
in the churchyard of Vieil Arcy, near Braisne,
by lu\ther Dey, the Roman Catholic Chaplain,
Oth Field Ambulance. There was a big attend-
ance of the R.A.M.C., with shells falling about
all the time."
Lieutenant- Colonel Dalton was mentioned in
Field- Marshal Su- John F'rench's Despatch of
the Sth October, 1914.
During his expeditions abroad Lieutenant-
Colonel Dalton wrote home interesting letters
describing his various experiences, some of
which were published in a memoir in the
"Journal of the R.A.M.C." for January, 1915,
from which many of tlu' details given above
have been obtained.
RICHARD WILLIAM
THE GLOUCESTER.
LIEUTENANT
DANCKWERTS,
SHIRE REGT.,
born in London on
the 16th June, 1893,
was the youngest
son of the late ilr.
W. O. Danckwerts,
K.C., and of Mrs.
Danckwerts, of 22,
Orsett Terrace,
Hyde Park, London,
W.
He was educated at
Winchester and L^ni-
versity College, Oxford, and was gazetted to
the Gloucestershire Regiment in August, 1914,
being promoted temporary Lieutenant on the
15th December. He was mortally wounded in
action at Festubert, in Flanders, on the 22nd
December, 1914, and died the same day of his
wounds.
When at the 'Varsity he rowed for his College
in the Torpids in 1913 and 1914, and was a keen
cricketer.
2nd LIEUTENANT ARCHIBALD
STEUART LINDSEV DANIELL, 5th
(attd. Isti BATTN. RIFLE BRIGADE
(THE PRINCE CONSORTS OWN).
was the only child ___
of Lindsey and
-Marion Daniell, and
grandson of Sir
Steuart Colvin Bay-
ley, G. C.S.I. He was
born on the 6th June,
1895, and was edu-
cated at Winchester.
He joined the .Special
Reserve of Officers
in June, 1914, and
was gazetted to the
5th Battalion Rifle Brigade, and attached to
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the 1st Battalion, which he joined at the front
at the end of August, 1914. He was killed
while leading his platoon into action at Ploeg-
steert on the 19th December, 1914, and was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
14th January, 1915.
MAJOR EDWARD HENRY EDWIN
D.\NIELL. D.S.O.. p.s.c. 2nd
BATTN. ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT,
who is believed to have been killed in 1914. was
bom on the 5th June, IStiS, and joined the Royal
Irish Regiment from the ^lilitia in April, 1892,
becoiidng Lieutenant in June, 1S94, and Captain
in October, 1S99. He had a long and varied
cai-eer on the Staff at home and abroad, and on
active service.
In 1897-98 he was present at operations on the
.Samana. north-west frontier of India, for which
lie received the medal with two cla.sps.
He took part in the South African War, being
Assistant Provost-Marshal (graded as D.A.A.(J.)
from October, 1900, to May. 1901. and being
pi-esent, in 1900. at operations in the Orange
Free State, the Transvaal east of Pretoria,
including actions at Belfast and Lydenberg ;
at operations in the Orange River Colony,
including actions at Betldeheni and Witte-
bergen : at operations in Cape Colony, south of
the Orange River, including actions at Coles-
berg. He was afterwards employed with
Damanfs Horse (formerly Remington's Guides).
He was also present at later operations in the
Transvaal and Orange River Colony between
1900 and 1902. For his services he was twice
mentioned in Despatches — " London Gazette,"
the 10th September, 1901, and the 29th July, 1902
— was awarded the D.S.O., was placed on the
list of officers qualified for Staff employment
in consequence of service on the Staff in the
Field, and received the Queen's medal with
three clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps. Subsequently he passed through the
Staff CoUege.
From June. 1902. to May. 190.3, he was Adjutant
of his battalion : from August, 1903, to August,
1907, he was D.A.A.G., D.A.A. and Q.M.G.,
North China : from October. 1909. to November.
1911. he was employed as a General Staff Officer
at Headquarters, War Office : and in November.
1911, was appointed General Staff Officer,
2nd Grade, at Malta, an appointment he held
till 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT FREDERICK
DARBY'. 1st BATTN. WOR-
CESTERSHIRE REGl.MENT,
bom at Birmingham on the 23rd March, 1880,
was the son of Mr. Joseph Darby, of that city.
2nd Lieutenant Darby enlisted in the Wor-
cestershire Regiment in June, 1898, and with
it served through the
South African War.
At the defence of
Ladybrand. accom-
panied by a patrol
who volunteered, he
went out to mislead
the enemy, and
carried out the action
with conspicuous
enei^y and skiU.
subsequently dLstin-
guisliing liimself in leadiii_' latnils at Bethle-
hem. For the Ladybrand action he was
awarded the D.C.il. on the 10th December,
1900. and for his services in the war generally
he was promoted Sergeant in the field, mentioned
in Despatches, and received the Queen's and the
King's medals with five clasps. In 1908 he was
advanced to the rank of Company Sergeant-
Major. and was given his commission as 2nd
Lieutenant on proceeding to France in
November, 1914.
He was killed on the morning of the 29tb
November, and was buried at Neuve Chapelle.
The exact circumstances attending his death
have not been ascertained. Both in the ranks
and for the very short time he lived to serve as
an officer, 2nd Lieutenant Darby enjoyed the
esteem and i-espect of both officers and men,
and in the Great War had been noticed for his
skill and absolute fearlessness. One of the
officers of the battalion spoke of him as "' an
officer they could ill afford to lose."
The Commander of the Division in which 2nd
Lieutenant Darby was serving, in a letter of
sympathy to his widow, said : " It may perhaps
be some consolation to you to know that he had
won golden opinions from his brother officers
of all ranks, and that ever since we began to
take our part in active operations he had been
conspicuous for his gallant conduct."
2nd Lieutenant Darby was a good all-round
sportsman, and an especially good hockey player.
He married Alice, third daughter of Mr. Joseph
Kirkhain. of Brookfields. Birmingham, and
left four children : Joseph, bom April. 1908 :
Alice, born November, 1909 : Winifred, bom
March, 1911 : and Evelyn, bora May. 1913.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD CHARLES
DAUN, 2nd B.\TTN. ROYAL SUSSEX
REGIMENT, who was bom in June. 1885,
at .Streatham, Surrey, was the only son of
Charles James Daun, Esq., and Ada Margaret,
Ids wife, daughter of the late Lieutenant-
General E. A. WiU:ams, C-B., Colonel Com-
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iiiiuniant of tile Hoyal Artillery. lli' came of
inilitaiy stoek. arTiont; his iiuinediate relatives
and ancestors beinj;'
I lieutenant - C o 1 c j i n • I
i:.(i.Willianis,C..M.O.,
( 'oninianding the 1st
Battalion Devonshire
Regiment in the pre-
sent war; Lieutonant-
(ieneral Sir II. F.
Williams, K.C.B.,
Colonel Royal Sussex
Hegiment, and after-
wards Colonel Com-
mandant 3r(l K.R.K.C. ; Colonel Henry
Williams, R.A.. who was present at Waterloo :
Captain G. B. Williams, R.N.. and others more
remotely connected .
Lieutenant Daun was educated at Sunningdale
School and Harrow, and joined the 3rd Battalion
Royal Sussex Regiment in 11104, being gazetted
to the 2nd Battalion in 10O.j. and beconung
Lieutenant in November, 1909. He served with
liis battalion in the Mediterranean and in In-
land (including the Belfast riots). He had been
Instructor of :Musketry and of Machine Gunnery,
and also Assistant Adjutant.
He fell at the Battle of the Aisne on the Uth
September, 1914, the following account of the
occurrence appearing in the "Sussex Daily
News" of the Uth January, 191.5 :—
" On reaching the top of the ridge ' A ' Company
came imder rifle fire from the trenches near
the Chenun de Uames. ' B ' Company and the
machine gun came up, and a strong firing line
was built up. Soon a white flag was seen dis-
played by the Germans, and large numbers of
them came forward to surrender. Shortly
a heavy rifle and artillery fire was opened by the
Germans upon the assemlded mass of friend and
foe. Under this fire ' A ' Company suffered
heavily, and it was during this time tliat . . .
Lieutenant Daun was killed."
A Captain in his company wrote : " He was a
splendid officer, and worked night and day for
the good of his regiment and his company,
and had a great future before him. He was
to have been our next Adjutant, and will be
a great loss to the regiment."
Lieutenant Daun was a member of the United
Service Club and of the M.C.C. He was a good
rifle shot, winning the Officers' Cup at the Alder-
shot Command Meeting in 1912 and 1913,
securing second place in 1914.
LIEUTENANT JOHN STANLEY
DAVEY, NORTH SOMERSET
Y'EOMANRY, who was killed in action
near Ypres on the 17th November, 1914, was
llie youngest son of the late .Mr. 'I'luimas Davey
and Mrs. Davey, of Bannerleigh, Leigh Woods,
Bristol.
He was born on the
12th July, 1881,
and was educated
at the Rev. S. Cor-
nish's School, Wal-
lon Lodge, Clevedon,
and at Charterhouse
((iirdlestonite).
In 1S97 he entered
the business of
Franklyn, Davey &
Co., which subsequently l)ecaiiie a branch of
the Imperial Tobacco Coiii|)any of (ireat
Britain and Ireland, Ltd. lie was fond of
shooting, fishing, hunting, and polo,
lie joined the Somerset Yeomanry in .Vpril,
111(19, and became Lieutenant in August, 191 I.
CAPTAIN DOUGLAS BYRES DAVID-
SON, 8th GURKHA RIFLES,
of whicli he was Ad-
jutant, who was re-
ported as " missing,
believed killed," in
1014, was the eldest
son of the late Lieu-
terianl-Colonel D. C.
Davidson, I. M. S.,
and Mrs. Davidson,
78, Lexham Gardens,
Kensington. He
was born on the
15th September,
1895, and was a grandson of the late General
John Clarke, formerly Comnnssioner in Oudh,
Sitapiu".
He was educated by tutors and at (he H..\I.C.,
Sandhurst. After passing out of Sandhurst
he was attached for a year to the K.R.R.O.,
and joined the Indian Army in April. 1900.
He was promoted Lieutenant in April, 1907,
and Captain in January, 1014.
He was a very good game shot, and played polo
and football.
He was last seen on the 30th October, 191 1 ,
leading a charge at Festubert to save a picket,
U'ith ten volunteers, only one out of the party
returning. He is supposed to have fallen,
wounded, into the enemy's trench.
His younger brother. Lieutenant R. I. .M.
Davidson, Manchester Regiment, died on the
24th November, 1914, of wounds received in
action at Festubert.
LIEUTENANT RALPH IVAN MEYNELL
DAVIDSON, 1st BATTN. MANCHESTER
REGIMENT, born at Satara, Bombay, on
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the 12th Jiine, 1SS9, was the second son of the
late Lieutenant-Colonel D. C. Davidson, I. M.S.,
Bombay Presidency,
and 3Irs. Davidson,
Lexham Gardens.
Kensingrton. He was
a jirandson of the
late General John
Clarke, 25th Bengal
Native Infantry,
f omierly C o m ni i s -
sioner in O u d h ,
Sitapur.
He was educated at
Temple Grove, East
Hheen. at Cnt-iteiuiaiu College, and at the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst. He was gazetted to the Manchester
Regiment in September, 1909, and was pro-
moted Lieutenant in July, 191.3. While serving
in India he passed the Higher Standard in
Hindustani, Pushtu, and Punjabi. He was
present at the Delhi Dunbar, 1911, for which he
received the medal.
He played Rugby football, hockey, and cricket
for his regiment.
While giving orders to his men the previoiLS
day, at Festubert, about repairing a damaged
trench, he was shot through the head, and died
of his wounds on the 21th November, 191-1.
He was buried at Locon, France.
Lieutenant Davidson's elder brother. Captain
D. B. Davidson, Indian Army, is believed to
have been killed at Festubert on the 30th
October, 191-1, on which day he was last seen
alive, and no news has since been heard of
him.
C.\ P T A 1 N \\ I L I. I A M T H O M A S
CHORLEY DAVIDSON. 1st BATTN.
THE DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT,
bom on the .5th
January, 1875,
was the son of
Thomas Davidson.
M.B.. Oson., and
grandson of Thomas
Davidson, M.D.,
Oxon.
He was educated at
Marlborough f r o lu
1887 to 1891, and
joined the Dorset-
shire Regiment as
2nd Lieutenant from the ililitia in May, 1897,
becoming Lieutenant in October, 1899.
He served in the South African War, 1899-
1902, taking part in the relief of Ladysmith,
including the action at Spion Kop : was present
at the action at Vaal Krans, and at operations
on the Tugela Heights and action at Pieter's
Hill ; operations in the Transvaal, Natal.
with actions at Laing's Nek and Orange River
Colony in 1900 : again, at later operations, in
the Transvaal and Orange River Colony in 1901
and 1902. He received the Queen's medal
with five clasps and the King's medal with two
clasi)s.
He was kiUed at Givenchy on the 13th October,
19U.
Captain Davidson, who was a member of the
United Service and Ranelagh Clubs, attained
the rank of Captain in October, 190-1.
C.\PTA1N H.\ROLD C AS AM A JO R
DAV'IES of Warniil Hall, Mildenhall,
Suffolk,. RESERVE OF OFFICERS,
having volunteered
for service, was killed
in action on the 2tith
September, 19 14.
while attai-heil ti>
the Welsh Regiment.
He was the fourth
son of the late Major
T. H. Davies. of
Odiham Close.Hant s.
and was born on the
27th February, 1879.
.Joining the Welsh
Regiment from the Militia as 2nd Lieutenant
in March. 1900, he became Lieutenant in
February, 1902. He served in the South
African War, being present at operations in
the Transvaal, 1900-02, and receiving the
Queen's medal with three clasps.
LIEUTENANT HARRY LLANOVER
DAVIES. ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY',
who died oa llie 2t)th October, I'Jll, from
wounds received in action, was the youngest son
of the late Theo. H. Davies, of Craigside,
Honolulu, and of Tunbridge Wells.
He was bom on the 29th January, 188.5, and
joined the Royal Horse Artillery in July, 1904,
becoming Lieutenant in July, 1907.
CAPTAIN HENRY
5th attd. 2nd B
IRISH RIFLES,
born at Holywood,
County Down, Ire-
land, on the 15th
September, 1 8 S -I,
was the eldest son
of the late Henry
Davis and Mrs.
Davis, of Holywood,
and a great-grand-
son of the late Major-
General .Sir Ralph
Ouselev.
OUSELEY' DAVIS,
ATTN. R O Y .\ L
DAV DAW
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lie was educated at Portora Royal Sehool.
l')niiiskilleii, and Campbell College, Belfast,
from wliieh he passed direct into the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst. lie was gazetted to the Royal
Dublin l-'usiliers in August, 1905, and posted
to the 2nd Battalion, becoming Lieutenant in
June, 190S. His recreations were cricket and
golf.
He resigned liis coMiniissiou in lUlO, and on
the outbreak of the war was gazetted Captain
in the .5th Battalion T?oyal Irish Rifles at the
end of August. 1914, being attached to the 2nd
Battalion for active service in September.
He was killed in action by shrapnel on the 27th
October, 1911, in the trenches before Neuve
Chapelle.
2nd LIEUTENANT STUART DAVISON.
3rd BATTN. THE KING'S ROYAL
RIFLE CORPS,
son of Colonel '1'.
Pavison, late com-
manding the 16tli
Lancers, was born
at Lea Park, Godal-
ming, Surrey, on the
2nd July, 1895.
He was educated at
Wellington College,
and the R.il.C,
Sandhurst, where he
won the mile and
two-mile races, and the Victor Ludorum medal
in 1913, for winning tlie cross-country and tsvo-
nule race.
Joining the King's Royal Rifle Corps in Feljru-
ary, 1911, lie was killed on the Uth September,
1911.
2nd Lieutenant Davison won the regimental
point-to-point race (heavy weight) in 1914 on
" Nutmeg."
CAPTAIN WALTER RICHARD
AUGUSTUS ASTON DAWES, 1st
BATTN. THE DUKE OF EDIN-
BURGH'S (WILTSHIRE REGIMENT),
who was killed on
^- -— — I j^j^g 24th August,
1914, was well
known in Salisbury,
liaving been born
there on the 26th
April, 1S78, and
lieing the son of the
late Mr. Frederick
A s t cj n D a w e s,
()l1icial Receiver of
(hat town.
He was educated at
Salisbury, t lien spent some years in his father's
olTice, and subsequently had a varied military
career. In 189(3 he joined the 1st Wilts Rifle
X'olunteers as a Private, being appointed 2nd
Lieutenant in the same corps in .Inly, isitll.
a position he resigned in 1900. He tlien enlisted
in I lie X'olunteer Service Company of tlie Wilt-
shire Regiment, and proceeded with that unit
to South Africa for the Boer War, becoming
successively Lance-Corporal, Corporal, ami
Lance-Sergeant during the year 1900. Then for
about five months he served as Sergeant -.Majoi'
of .Mounted Infantry, as well as Quartermaster-
Sergeant and Sergeant of Military Police at
various times. For that war he received the
King's medal with four clasps. Returning from
South Africa with the Volunteer Company in
1901, he was, in June of that year, given a com-
mission in the Wiltshire Regiment, serving witli
it in India from 1901-09.
l"'rom 1900-08 he was Station StalT OlVicer and
Cantonment Magistrate at Dagshai, for part of
wliich time he was in charge of the Dagshai
.Military Prison. In 1909 he was posted to the
deijot of his regiment at Devizes, remaining
there till he obtained his promotion to Captain
in .January, 1911, when he joined the 1st Bat-
talion in Natal.
He was killed when serving with his battalion in
the Gi-eat War, one of his Company oflicers
giving the following account of the circuni-
stances to his widow : " 1 was quite near at the
time. . . . Your husband's death occurred near
!Mons on Monday, Augu.st 24th, somewhere be-
tween 7 and S a.m. ' A ' Company was occupy-
ing a line of trenches which we dug the previous
afternoon, and from daylight that morning till
the time we retired at about S o'clock we were
under a very heavy shell Are, with no chance of
replying, as the enemy's guns were a long way
off, and completely hidden from view. Your
husband was in Mr. Loder-Symonds's trencli,
quite close to him, and a shell burst light over
them, killing your husband and one other man
and wounding several. As far as I could gather,
he was lying on his back at the time, chatting to
.Mr. Loder-Symonds (of course there was no-
thing to be done at the time), and a fragment
of tile shell pierced his heart, death being quite
instantaneous and painless."
Some men of the Wilts Regiment, who were
taken prisoners and kept in the Doberitz Camp,
spoke to an officer there, who wrote home
in very highest terms of Captain Dawes, sa\ing
they owed their lives to his courage and cool-
ness.
A very great number of Captain Dawes's re-
latives and ancestors have been, and are, in the
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services, four, if not more, being at present
figliting iu the Great War in different parts of
the world, while others are serving at home.
Captain Dawes married !^^u^iel Gertrude, eldest
daugiiter of Adam Scott Rankin, Esq., and
left two children : Isobel Mary, born November,
1!J12 ; and Richard Arthur Aston, born Decem-
ber, 1!)14.
MAJOR the Honble. HUGH DAWNAY,
D.S.O., p.s.c, 2nd LIFE GUARDS,
- who was killed in
action on the 6th
Xovember, 19 1 4,
was the second son
of Viscount Downe.
Fie was born on the
lOtli September,
1875, and received
his conunission in
the Rifle Brigade
in October, 1895,
becoming Lieuten-
ant in January,
1899, to November,
1898
190n.
from February,
he was Adjutant of his battalion. He
became a Captain in the Rifle Brigade in March,
1901, and in February of that year wa.s ap-
pointed A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief,
retaining the position till February, 1904,
and from April, 1904, to January, 1905, was
A.D.C. to the G.O.C., North West District.
He took part in the Nile Expedition, being
present at the Battle of Khartoum, and being
mentioned in Despatches, " London Gazette,"
30th September, 1898 ; received the medal, 4th
class of the Order of ^Fedjidieh, and the
Egyptian medal with clasp.
He next served in the South African War,
1899-1900, whOe Adjutant of liis Battalion,
being present at operations in Natal, including
actions at Lombard's Kop ; the defence of
Ladysmith, including sortie of the 10th Decem-
ber, 1899, and action of the 6th January, 1900.
He was twice mentioned in Despatches ( "London
Gazette," 8th Februarj^ and 10th September,
1901) ; was awarded the D.S.O., and received
the Queen's medal with clasp.
He also served in East Africa, Somaliland Ex-
pedition, 1908-10 for which he was mentioned
in Despatches (" London Gazette," 17th June,
1910), and received the medal with clasp.
In the Great War, Major Dawuay was serving
as General Staff Officer, 2nd grade, and was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
8th October, 1914.
Major Dawnay married, in 1902, Lady Susan
Beresford, daughter of the fifth Marquess of
Waterford, and left four sons.
CAPTAIN HERBERT EDWARD
DAWSON, 2nd BATTN. THE
LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT,
who is believed to have been killed in action
at the Battle of the Aisne on the 14th Septem-
ber, 1914, was the only child of Colonel and
Mrs. H. C. Dawson, and was married.
He was born on the 3rd May, 1881, and joined
the Lincolnshire Regiment in January, 1900,
becoming Lieutenant in October, 1901. His
military career began on active service, for
he took part in the South African War, being
present at operations in the Orange Free State
from February to May, 1900. He was also at
operations in the Transvaal from November,
1900, to !May, 1902, and received the Queen's
medal with three clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
He became Captain in February, 1906, and
from ilay of that year to May, 1911, was an
Adjutant of Volunteers and of the Territorial
Force.
CAPTAIN RICHARD LONG DAWSON,
3rd BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS
(RESERVE OF OFFICERS),
who was killed in
action on the 20th
November, 1914, at
Zillebeke, was born
on the 23rd June,
1879, the only son of
the late ITonble.
Richard M. W. Daw-
son and Mrs. Daw-
son, and a grandson
of the first Earl of
Dartrey.
In 1898 he recoi\ ed
his first appointment in the Army when he
was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Coldstream
Guarfls. He was advanced to the rank of
Lieutenant in 1899 and was promoted Captain
in 1907. Four years later, in 1911, he volun-
tarily joined the Reserve of Officers with the
lank of Captain.
While on the active list he served in the South
African War, being present at operations in the
Orange Free State, 1900, including actions at the
Vet and Zand Rivers ; at operations in the
Transvaal in May and June of the same year,
including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria,
and Diamond Hill : operations in the Transvaal,
east of Pretoria, and in the Orange River
Colony between July and November, 1900 ;
and operations in Cape Colony from 1900-02.
He received the Queen's medal with four clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
He rejoined the Coldstream Guards, as Captain,
in August, 1914, on the outbreak of the war.
DAY
l()(i
MAJOR FRANCIS INNES DAY, 2iid
BATTN. ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
was born at Fort
(iomer on the 21st
Jaiuiary, 1870, and
was tlio son of llu'
1 a I (' l.ii'Ulriiant-
(' o 1 o 11 (■ 1 11 (• II r y
.Tames Day, U'.ltli
K e g i 111 e n t, ami
grandson of the laic
Colonel Thomas
Shadforth, 59th
Regiment, an d
the late Colonel
II. J. Day, until Hc-t;iiiif'nt, and great-grandson
of Lieutenant and Adjutant Joliii Hay, :!ltli
Regiment.
Major Day was educated at a graniiiiar school,
and was an example, now becoming more com-
mon, of an officer attaining a high position
after serving in tlie ranks, thus introducing a
very valuable element into the service.
He was for six years in the ranks of tiie
Middlesex Regiment before obtaining his com-
mission in the South Wales Borderers in
February, 1895. He received special extra-
regimental promotion to Captain in the !Middle-
sex Reghnent in September, 1902 ; and, again,
extra-regimental promotion to iMajor in the
Royal Munster FusUiers in June, 1913.
Major Day served under the Royal Niger
Company in West Africa, as a Sub-Com-
mandant, from September, 189(3, to June, 1898,
and in the course of active service was present
at the captvire of Bida and of Ilorin, and took
part in operations on the Niger in 1898. For
these services he received the Royal Niger
Company's medal with clasp and the West
African medal with clasp. j\Iajor Day also
served in the Uganda with the punitive exj^e-
dition against the Wa Nyangori tribe in 1900.
In the South African War he served in Cape
Colony in 1902, in command of a squadron of
Imperial Yeomanry, and received the (Queen's
medal with two clasps.
After the conclusion of the war Major Day
remained in command of a squadron of Imperial
Yeomanry, and afterwards was employed with
the Army Service Corps for two years, 1904
to 1906.
He received the Delhi Durbar medal during the
visit of Their JIajesties the King and Queen to
Calcutta in 1913.
In the Great War he was with the Expeditionary
Force from the 13th August, 1914, till he was
kUled in action, while commanding his company
in a bayonet charge at Givenchy, on tlie 22nd
December, 1914.
.Mrs. Day was the recipient of many sympathetic
letters from ollicers and others. A senior ollicer
of the R.A..M.C. wrote : " So poor Day lias
gone at last ; died like a gallant soldier. The
Munsters behaved magnificently."
Another ollicer wrote : " I have seen many
Munster men w'ho were close by your husband,
w ho was leading the charge which has won the
admiration of all. They all speak of his gal-
lantry, lie died hai)py — no suffering."
A later letter from the same ofticer says : "He
was rallying his men for a second attack when he
was sliot in the face and legs. A Private Wills,
who was just behind him, turned him over,
and called some men to carry him away, but
he said, ' (Jo on, lads ! Don't waste your time
on mo ! Here, Wills ! take this revolver and
give it to my wife, and tell lier 1 died happy.'
Is it not very sad ? Was it nut a true soldier's
death ? "
Major Day married Florence, daughter of Mr.
O. U. D. Stokes, of Tenby, and left two children :
Catherine, age ten and a IimII years : and
Francis, eight and a half years.
LIEUTENANT MAURICE CHARLES
DAY, I3th RAJPUTS, INDIAN ARMY,
who was killed in
action at Tanga,
German East Africa,
on the 3rd Novem-
ber, 1914, was the
eldest son of the
Very Rev. JIaurice
W. Day, Dean of
W a t e r f o r d, and
Katherine L. F. Day,
and was born at
The i'alace. Water-
ford, on the 2f)th
February, 1891.
He was educated first at Aravon, Bray, and
subsequently had a brilliant college and uni-
versity career at Marlborough and Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge. At the former he won Found-
ation, Senior, and Leaving Scholarships, and
at the latter an exhiliition and scholarship,
together with Bell's University Scholarship.
and his Wranglership in 1913.
He received a University nomination for the
Indian Army, in which he obtained a commis-
sion as 2nd Lieutenant, dated 13th August,
1913, but to rank from September, 1911. He
served his probation with the Royal West Kent
Regiment from November, 1913, to September,
1914, when he was promoted Lieutenant and
joined the 13th Rajputs.
The following account of Lieutenant Day's
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death was received by his father from the
Colonel commanding the 13th Rajputs : " It
is with profound regret that I write to inform you
of the sad news of the death in action of your
son, 2nd Lieutenant 31. C. Day, at Tanga,
German East Africa, on the 3rd November,
1914. The Commandant, Lieutenant-Colonel
H. W. Codrington, and the Adjutant, Captain
R. Clothier, and Major R. Corbett were all hit
at the same time and place. Yoiir son was
buried by the Germans subsequently. Mr.
Day joined us just before we came on service,
and when we landed was acting as Brigade
Transport Officer. Dvu'ing the short time he
was with us we realised what a keen and promis-
ing officer he was. Tliere can be no doubt
that he would have made a name for himself and
that soon. Please accept the sincere condo-
lences of all ranks of the regiment."
A second letter from a brother officer gave the
following details : "I was with him when he
was killed. Colonel Codrington, the Adjutant,
your son, and myself had just got on to a small
hillock to have a look round when a machine
gun opened on us at close range, and the first
three named went down instantaneously. Your
son was killed outright. I cannot tell you how
very deeply we mourn his loss : for, although
he had been with us such a short time, we knew
him for a brave, capable, and resourceful boy.
Our casualties at Tar^a on the 3rd and 4th
Xovember were heavy, and the fact of our at-
tack being unsuccessful makes them feel hea^^er
still. Our regiment lost two officers killed and
seven wounded, including myself."
2nd LIEUTENANT FRANK DEAN, 2nd
B.\TTN. KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS,
was bom at Widnes, Cheshire, on the 28th
August, 1876, and enlisted in the K.R.R.C.
in October, 1898. He ran through the non-
commissioned ranks, becoming Colour-Sergeant
in September, 1910, being given his commission
during the war on the 1st October, 1914, in
his old regiment.
He had served in the Boer War, where he was
present at the reUef of Ladysmith, at the action
on the Tugela Heights and in the Transvaal and
Cape Colony.
He was killed in action on the 3Ist October,
I9I4, near Gheluvelt in the Battle of Ypres,
and was mentioned in Sir John French's Des-
patch on the Battle of the Aisne, dated the
7th September, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant Dean was a good shot, and
took an active interest in the sports of the
battalion, especially cross-country running.
2nd LIEUTENANT DENIS
D E A N E , 2nd B A T T N . ROYAL
WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action on the 23rd
October, 1915, was
the son of Major C.
L. Deane, " The
Lodge," Kent Road,
Fleet. Hants.
2nd Lieutenant
Deane, who was just
eighteen when he wa«
killed, was educated
at Wellington (where
he was in the
Combennere) and at the R.M.C., .Sandhurst, at
both of which he distinguished himself as a
footballer.
He was gazetted to the Royal Warwickshire
Regiment on the 15th August, 1914.
LIEUTENANT MAURICE JAMES
DEASE, V.C. 4th BATTN. THE ROYAL
FUSILIERS iCITY OF LONDON REGT.),
was the son of Ed-
mund FitzLawrence
Dease, Esq., and
was born on the
28th .September,
18S9, at Gaulstown,
Coole, County West-
meath. He was edu-
cated at Stonyhurst
College, at Wimble-
don College, and at
the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst.
Lieutenant Dea.se, ^'.C., joined the Royal
Fusiliers at Aldershot in 1910. becoming
Lieutenant in April, 1912. In October. 1910,
he was selected by his Commanding Officer
to attend a class, which was being held in North
Wales by an officer of the Indian Army, to
instruct officers in the art of mountain warfare,
and subsequently he was Scout Officer of the
battalion : also Machine Gun Officer and at
different times Acting Adjutant.
On the 23rd August, 1914, as MacMne Gun
Officer he was defending the Canal Bridge at
Ximy. near Mons, and for his gallantry was
mentioned in Field Marshal Sir John FYench's
Despatch of the 18th October, 1914; he was
one of the first ten to be awarded the coveted
distinction of the Victoria Cross in the Great
War. The following is the official record of
the circumstances : —
■■ For Valour.
War Office, November 16th, 1914.
His Majesty the King hais been graciously
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108
pleased to approve of Uio tyrant of thr \'i(t()ria
Cross to the iinder-iiieiitioiied otticcr lOr con-
spicuous bravery whilst siTviiit: witli the Kx-
peditionary Force :
Lieutenant Maurice James Dease,
4th Battalion the Royal Fusiliers.
Though two or throe times badly wouihI<iI.
he continued to control the fire of his niacliine
guns at ]Mons on the 23rd August until all liis
men were shot. He died of his wovinds."
Lieutenant Dease was heir to his uncle. Major
Gerald Dease, D.L., of Turbotston. Comity
Westmeath, who liad liiiiiselt served in llir
Ttoval Fusiliers.
LIEUTENANT CLAUDE NORMAN
CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY, 2nd
DRAGOON GUARDS (QUEENS BAYSl,
was born at Soutli-
sea on the 11th
.Tune, 1888, the
fifth son of Sir
Claude Champion dc
Crespigny.Bart., and
Lady Champion de
Crespigny.
He was educated at
Hawtrey's, where he
was the swimminfj;
ilianipion ; Clielten-
ham College, wlicre
hewontlie (|uartiT-niile under sixteen; and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst. At the latter he won the
saddle, and was a representative of the College
in Athletics r. Woolwich.
Lieutenant Champion de Crespigny entered the
1st Dragoon Guards in February, 1907, becoming
Lieutenant in .January, 1908, and. after a short
period on half-pay, joined the Queen's Bay.s in
November, 1910. He had been awarded the
Emperor of Austria's decoration. He was killed
at Compiegne on the 1st September, 1914, the
following account of the action being given by
General AUenby to his parents: "I and the
whole Cavalry Division sympathise with you,
and we deeply feel Norman's loss, but I must
tell you he died a hero's death. The brigade
was hotly engaged, and on the ' Bays ' fell the
brunt of the fighting on September 1st. Norman,
with a few men, was holding an important
tactical point, and he held it until every man
was killed or wounded. No man could have done
more ; few would have done so much."
Letters from others present went to show that
his sortie from the right of his regiment saved
the " Bays " from being outflanked and wiped
out, and enabled them to charge and capture
eleven guns.
Lieutenant Champion de Crespigny was men-
tioned posthumously in Sir .Tohn French's
Despatch of the 8th October, 1911.
Ilis body was exhmnod from the cemetery of
Nery, a village at the south-western corner of the
Forest of Compiegne, and placed, uiih military
honours, in the ^lausoleuin at Cli;ini|iioii Lodge,
on the 12th November, 1911.
He married, in September, 1913, Rose, daughter
of Captain Gordon, of Roberts' Horse, a son of
the late Sir Henry Gordon, K.C.B., and elder
lirotlier of (ieneial Charles (iordon, C.R., of
Khartoum.
BARON ALEXIS DE GUNZBURG, 2nd
LIEUTENANT 11th (PRINCE
ALBERT'S OWN) HUSSARS,
who was given ids
commission at the
beginning of Sep-
tember, 1914, and
was subsequently
attached as Galloix r
and Interpreter to
tlle Hi.vmI llol'se
(iuards (7th Cavalry
Brigade), was born
on the <)th May,
1887, and was the
youngest son of the "^"^^
late Baron and of Baroness de (imizburg, of
Paris. He was related to ilrs. Bischoffsheim.
to the Dowager Countess of Desart, and to Sir
^laurice and Lady Fitzgerald. He was a
member of the St. James's and Bath Clubs.
Baron de Gunzburg, who was Russian by birth
and was educated at Eton, was naturalised in
order to enlist in the British Anny on the out-
break of the war witli Germany, He left Eng-
land with his regiment at the Ijeginning of
October, 1914, proceeding directly to the
firing line in Belgium, where, by his bravery
and coolness under fire, he attracted the favour-
able attention of both officers and men. He was
ever ready to undertake dangerous missions, and
always cheery. It was I'elated of him how lie
left the trenches at great risk to fetch a doctor,
after he had himself attended to a wound re-
ceived by Lord Alastair Innes Ker.
He was killed near Ypres on the lith November.
1914. At the time he was witli the Life Guards,
and was sent with three other young officers,
who had constituted themselves a little band
they called " The Fire Brigade," to bring up
the Royal Horse Guards to support an attack
at Zillebeke. They veere all on foot, and safely
carried out their mission, having had to run
across an open field for some two hundred yards
under fire, but on the way back were shot.
2nd Lieutenant de Gunzburg was buried with
Colonel Gordon Wilson, Royal Horse Guards,
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Major Dawnay and Captain Wj-ndham, Life
Guard?, who were killed on the same day,
in the churchyard at ZUlebeke. During the day
he was killed he had been carrying messages
under heavy fire to all parts. Several officers
who served with him wrote to his aunt. Mrs.
Bischofisheim, most appreciative accounts of
the young officer's conduct, and the Baronet
de Ounzburg received a telegram from Their
ilajesties the King and Queen expressing tlieir
sympathy, and adding : " His Majesty has
learnt how gallantly Baron de Gunzburg fought
with his conu^des of the Royal Horse Guards,
although his duties as interpreter did not
necessitate his presence in the firing line."
CAPTAIN CHARLES EDWARD M. DE
L.\ P.\STURE. 1st BATTN. SCOTS
GUARDS,
who was killed in
action near Ypres
on the 29th October.
1914, but whose
name has not ap-
peared in the official
casualty lists, was
the eldest son of the
Marquis de la Pas-
ture, Cefn, Fsk.
Monmouthsliire.
He was bom at
Caley Hall. Otley. Torkshire. on the 1.5th
.September, 1S79, and was educated at Downside
Abbey, Bath. After serving with the embodied
Militia for nearly three months he was gazetted
from it to the Derbyshire Regiment in April.
19CHJ. Later in the year, being in South Africa,
he joined Plumer's Force as a trooper for the
relief of Mafeking. and was also present at
operations in Rhodesia from October, 1S99, to
.May, 19(m;) : he received the Queen's medal
with two clasps. In September, 1900, he was
gazetted to the Scots Guards, becoming Lieu-
tenant in April, 190.3. and Captain in June, 1907.
From June. 1907, to August, 1910. he was A.D.C.
to the late General .Sir Frederick Forestier Walker.
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar.
Captain de la Pasture, who was a memljer of the
Ciuards' and Travellers' Clubs, married, in
April, 1914, Agatha, second daughter of Alex-
ander Mosley, Esq., C.M.G., of Gibraltar.
He left early in August, 1914, with the Ex-
peditionary Force for France, and was in com-
mand of the right flank Company, 1st BattaUon
Scots Guards, « ben he was killed. He was men-
tioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
14th January, 191.5.
He was officially reported missing on the 29th
October, 1914, and has since been unofficially
reported killed on that date.
LIELTENANT JAMES OWEN CUN-
NINGHAME DENNIS. 12th BATTERY,
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
who was killed in action on the 24th October.
1914. was the only son of Mrs. Dennis, Cumber-
land Mansions, London, W.. and of the late
Colonel Dennis, 6th Dragoon Guards iCara-
biniers).
He was bom on the 5th August, 188S, and was
educated at Malvern College from 1903 to
1907. There he was a school prefect, head of his
house, in the Shooting VTII, 1906-07, and in
the House Football XI. He then went to the
R.M.A., Woolwich, and entered the Royal
Artillery in July, 1909, becoming Lieutenant
three years later.
The following account of the circumstances
attending his death wa.= published in "The
Malvemian '" for December, 1914 : —
" Owen Dennis was kiQed by a shell when he
was directing his battery fire from the infantry
trenches. His Alajor states that he considered
him to be his smartest officer. Throughout the
time that he was at the front he displayed un-
flinching bravery. This was quite in accordance
with what we noted in him at schooL"
2nd LIEUTENANT BARRY M A Y-
N A R D R Y N D DENNY. 1st
BATTN. THE KINGS LIVERPOOL
REGIMENT, SPECIAL RESERVE.
who died on the 2i)th October froru wounds
received on the 24th October. 1914, was the
third surviving son of the Rev. Edward Denny,
of Drumlone. Southbome. Bournemouth. At
the time of his death he was twenty-nine years
old, and was gazetted to the Special Reserve
of the King's in April, 1011.
LIEUTENANT FRANK. ALEXANDER
DE PASS. V.C. 34th PRINCE ALBERT
VICTORS OWN . POONA HORSE,
son of EUot Arthur
and Beatrice de Pass,
was bom in London
on the 26th April.
1SS7. He was edu-
cated at the Abbey j /^
School, Beckenham, i
and Rugby, from
which he passed di- ■ '—^ '
rect into the R.M.A.. -Jl.
Woolwich .being third
on the list of success-
ful candidates.
He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the R.F.A.
in December, 19<)0. and Lieutenant in March,
1909. In the latter year he exchanged into the
Poena Horse. From November, 1913, till the
outbreak of the war he was Orderly Officer.
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with the local rank of Captain, to Sir Percy
Lake. K.C.:M.(;.. C.B.. Chief of the Staff in
India.
Lieutenant dc I'ass, \'.('., was killed on tlie 2,'jlh
November. 191 1. near Festubert. On the 2-lth
he had brought in a wounded sepoj^ with the
assistance of Trooper Cook, of the 7th Dras^oon
Ciuards ; next day he was shot by a German
sniper while at the head of a sap supervisini;
repairs.
Lieutenant de Pass was awarded the ^'.C. for
his bravery, the following being the otiirial
account in tlie "London Gazette" February ISth,
1915 :—
" For conspicuous bravery near Festubert, on
the 21th November, in entering a German sap
and destroying a traverse in the face of tlie
enemy's bombs, and for subsequently [i.e., iic.rt
day. Ed.] rescuing, under heavy fire, a woiuided
man who was lying exposed in the open.
Lieutenant de Pass lost his life on this [i.e.,
'lath, Ed.] day in a second attempt to capture
tlie afore-mentioned sap, which had been re-
occupied by the enemy."
The whole circumstances, as detailed by the
Captain of the squadron, were as follows:
The enemy, by means of a sap, had blown in
the main parapet of a trench, causing a breach
which left the trench exposed to rifle fire from
the sap. Sowar AbduUah Khan volunteered
to enter the sap : he returned and reported
that the enemy had erected a sandbag traverse,
about ten yards fioui the trenches, and that a
man with a rifle was at the loophole. At daylight
on the 23rd November the enemy commenced
throwing bombs into our trenches, which con-
tinued all day, causing many casualties. Eai-ly
on the morning of tlie 24th, Lieutenant de Pass,
accompanied by Sowars Fattle Khan and Fir-
man Shah, entered the enemy's sap, and, pro-
ceeding along it. Lieutenant de I'ass placed a
charge of gun-cotton in the enemy's loopliole
and fired the charge, completely demolishing
the enemy's traverse, and rounding off the bend
sufficiently to expose to our rifle Are the sap for
some thirty yards. This action of Lieutenant
de Pa.ss stopped all bomb throwing during the
24th. The next day Lieutenant de Pass, ac-
companied by a trooper of the 7th Dragoon
Guards (Trooper Cook), went out in broad day-
liglit and brought in a sepoy of the 58th Rifles,
who was lying wounded in the rear of our
trenches at about 200-ft. distance. Lieutenant
de Pass again volunteered to enter the enemy's
sap and blow up the traverse, which the enemy
had replaced during the night, but permission
was refused. About 3 p.m. on the 25th the
bomb-throwing by the enemy became worse.
and Lieutenant de Pass went to the head of the
sap to supervise repairs to our defences, which
had been seriously impaired. lie endeavoured
to shoot the enemy's sniper thi'ough a loophole,
and in so doing was himself shot tlinMit;h tlie
head.
Sowars Abdullah Khai\. l''attle Khan, and
Firman Shah were all a« aided the Indian
Distinguished Service medal.
Lieutenant de Pass was a member of the Cavalry
Club. He played polo, and was a successful
rider, winning several flat races and steeple-
cliases in India.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT ANDREW
OE STACPOOLE, 2nd BATTN.
THE CONNAUGHT RANGER S',
who was killed at
\'erneuil. on the
Aisne, by rifle fire
on the 20 th Sep-
tember, 1914, was
the fourth son of the
Duke de Stacpoole,
J. P., County Gal-
way, late Lieutenant
3rd Battalion York-
shire Regiment.
He was born at
Mount Hazel, Co.
(ialway, on the 24th May, l.S!»2, and W"as
educated at Downside School, Wimbledon
College, and the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He was
gazetted to the Connaught Rangers in Sep-
tember, 1911, and was promoted Lieutenant
on the 22nd August, 1914.
Lieutenant de Stacpoole was a keen lider to
liounds, and hunted with the Galway Blazers,
and with the Kildare Hounds when ipiartered
at the Curragh.
LIEUTENANT FREDERICK
WILLIAM DES VOEUX, 2nd
BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS,
u lio was killed in
action in France at
tlie Battle of the
■Visne, was the youn-
ger son of the late
Sir O. William des
Voeux.G.C.M.G.,and
Lady des Voeux, of
35, Cadogan Square,
.S.W.
He was born on the
2 9 til November,
1889, and received
his commission in the Grenadier Guards from
the Special Reserve, in May, 1910, becoming
Lieutenant in October, 1911.
Ill
DEW— Die
LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER DEWAR.
ROYAL ENGINEERS SPECIAL
RESERVE!,
who died on the 21st
December. 1914.
aged 29. of wounds
received in action,
was the elder son of
Mr. John Dewar.J.P..
Villa Rosa. Trinity.
Edinburgh.
He was educated at
the Edinburgh
Academy from 1894-
1904, ending up as
Dux of the Upper ilodem Class, and head boy of
Scott House in 1904. He won the Weir Class Es-
say Prize, and was a most consistent and earnest
worker. Endowed «ith a fine physique, hetrained
indetatigably, and besides winning his X^' cap,
he won the open mile, 100 yards, and quarter-
mile races. He took his degree of B.A. at Clare
College. Cambridge, and won the Robert
Greene Cup, and was captain both of his College
XV and Eowing VIII. After gaining extensive
experience in civil engineering at Glasgow,
he served one year with the Royal Engineers
at Chatham, on probation, and obtained his
commission in the Special Reserve of Officers,
He subsequently received a good Government
appointment in Egypt, and was employed in
operations connected with the draining and
reclamation of waterlogged districts in the Nile
Delta. His work had already received recog-
nition from Lord Kitchener, and a bright and use-
ful career had dawned for him, for which he had
schooled himself by a wide and thorough training.
Shortly after the outbreak of war he was posted
to the 15th Field Company Royal Engineers,
and crossed to France with the Vlllth Division
early in Xovember. On the 21st December,
in the afternoon. Lieutenant Dewar was engaged
in making a sketch of the ground on the German
side of the British trenches. In order to do this,
he made use of a periscope, which enabled him
to see the desired ground without exposing
himself. He was shot in the trenches, and
received, two bullet wounds, one in the left
forearm and one in the abdomen. He was
immediately taken to the dressing station,
after wliich he was brought to the hospital,
where he died about ten o'clock in the evening,
without recovering consciousness.
Lieutenant Dewar was higlily spoken of by his
brother oflBcers. In the official report by the
Brigadier-General in whose lines he was working,
reference to his death was made as follows :
" The Brigadier wishes to say how very sorry
we all are to hear this news. He has done such
verv excellent work for us."
The Commanding Officer, in a letter to Lieu-
tenant Dewar"s father, says : " Tour son
devoted himself heart and soul to his work,
and never spared himself. He was never fool-
hardy, but brave to excess."
He was mentioned in Sir John French's Des-
patch of the 14th January. 191.5.
LIEUTENANT DOUGLAS KENTON DE
WEND. 2nd B.\TTN. THE DUKE OF
WELLINGTONS WEST RIDING
REGIMEN T),
who was killed in
action on the 10th-
11th Xovember,
1914, aged twenty-
four years, was the
surviving twin son
of the late Colonel
Douglas de Wend.
1st Battalion Duke
of Wellington's Regi-
ment, and of Jlrs.
de Wend (ne'e Ches-
ter), of Aislaby Hall, Sleights, Yorkshire.
Lieutenant de Wend's grandfather served in the
44th Regiment, and his great-grandfather in the
60th Rifles.
He was educated at Wellington College, where
he was in the WeUesley from 1904-08, and where
he was a prominent member of the Rifle Club.
In 1908 he went to the R.M.C, Sandhurst,
from which he obtained his commission in his
father's old regiment in December, 1909,
becoming Lieutenant in January, 1914.
He was fond of football and hunting, and was a
member of the PubUc Schools Club.
Lieutenant de Wend was killed wliile fighting
the Prussian Guard at the great Battle of Ypres.
2nd LIEUTENANT WALTER
D E W I N T O N . 3rd B A T T N .
COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
joined the regiment in February, 1913.
He was unofficially reported as having been
killed in action on the 6th September, 1914.
LIEUTENANT ALAN JAMES DICKSON.
2nd BATTN. HIGHLAND LIGHT
INFANTRY,
who was killed on
the 16th Xovember.
1914, was the son of
Patrick Dickson,
J.P., of Bamhill.
Kincardineshire, and
Mrs. Dickson, of
Sunnyside House,
ilontrose, and was
born at Laurence ■
kirk,.Scotland, on the
2Sth February, 1892.
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lie was (•(liicatctl at Kottes Collcso, I'Aliiilmitjli.
and .Mei-ton CoUcsc. Oxford, wlu-rc hi- obtaiiuil
the degice of H.A. in \'.ni. lie received his
commission as 2nd Lieutenant from the Uni-
versity O.T.C. in July, UM 1, was ordered In tlir
front in August, and was promoted Lieutenant
in November.
Lieutenant Dickson was killed in tlie trenches
by a sni|ier. when Inokinj; out to try and locate
him.
LIEUTENANT CYRIL GARLIES
DICKSON, 2nd BATTN. LOYAL
NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in action in East Africa at Ihi-
end of 1914, aged twenty-four, was the son of
James F. O. Dickson, Nuthurst, Avondale Road.
Croydon. He joined the T-oyal North Lan-
cashire Regiment in February, l!n2, and became
Lieutenant in March. I'.IM.
LIEUTENANT MACLEAN PROCTOR
DILWORTH, 1st BATTN. SHERWOOD
FORESTERS (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
AND DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action on the 20th
November, 1914.
was the only son of
.Mr. and Jlrs. Proctor
Dilworth.St.Alban's
Mansions, Kensing-
ton Court, London,
W.
He was liorn on the
2tJth April, 1S.SS,
was educated at
Harrow (The Knoll,
1 '.101-05). and joined the Army in Jlay, 1907,
becoming Lieutenant in February, 1910.
APTAIN CLIVE MACDONNELL
IXON, 16th LANCERS (SPECIAL
RESERVE),
of Chapel-Garth,
Stokesley, Y' o r k-
sliire, who was killed
in action near Y'pres
on the 6th Novem-
ber, 1914, was the
eldest son of the late
Sir Raylton Dixon,
D.L.. of Ciunnergate
Hall, :\I i d d 1 e s -
brough.
Captain Dixon, who
as born in February, 1870, was educated at
Kugby. which he entered in 1884. He joined
the llilh Lancers in October, 1890, was pro-
moted Lieutenant in Januai-y, 189:?. and Captain
tix years later; and, from August, 1898, to
March, 1900, was Adjutant of his regiment.
He .served in the Chitral Campaign, and took
part in the South African Wnv. being iii<-sent
at the defence of Ladysmilli : he was
mei\tioncd in Despatches, given 1 hi' brevet of
.Major. .November, 1900, and received the
Queen's and King's medals with seven clasps.
He retired from the active list in 1902,
joining tlie Reserve of Officers. On the out-
break of this war he was posted to his old
regiment, of which he was in temporary com-
mand when he was killed. Captain Dixon was
a keen sportsman and a clever artist, having
often exhibited in the Royal Academy.
He married a daughter of the late Mr. .lolui
Bell, of Rushpool. and left six children.
CAPTAIN GEORGE ARTHUR MURRAY
DOCKER, ROYAL FUSILIERS,
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT),
who was born on the
ISth N o V e m b e r.
1870, was the elder
son of A r t h u r
Robert Docker, late
of Sydney, New
South Wales. He
was at Oriel College,
Oxford, where he
studied Law, and
passed the Law Pre-
liminary Examin-
ation, but did not
take his degree, as he proceeded to Soulli Aliiea
with the 3rd (Militia) Battalion King's Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment.
He received his commission in the King's
(Liverpool Regiment) in 1900, becoming Lieu-
tenant the same year : he was transferred
to the Royal Fusiliers in 1901 as Lieutenant,
and was promoted Captain in 1908. Captain
Docker served during the South African War,
where he raised and commanded a section of
Jlounted Infantry at Zand River, and fought
in the engagement there on the 14th June. 1900.
Shortly after this, he was on the Staff of
Lieutenant-Colonel White, R.A., for two months,
while the latter was in command of a flying
column sent in pursuit of De Wet in the Orange
Free State, and also took part in the action
at Ladybrand. 2nd to 7th September, 1900.
In October, 1900. he joined the 1st Battalion
King's at Machadodorp, in the Transvaal.
From there he went to Balmoral, under Briga-
dier-General Barker, and was in several
engagements, including an attack on Balmoral
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on the 19th November. 1900. Subsequently
he had charge of a Mounted Infantry detachment
at wage Bivor. He was invalided home in
June, 1901, having had a very severe attack of
rheumatic fever. For his services he received
the Queen's medal with four clasps.
In 1902, after six months' sick leave, he went
to Burma to join the 1st Battalion Royal
Fusiliers. In March. 1901, he was posted to the
Depot at Hoonslow. He rejoined the 1st
Battalion at Parkhnrst, Isle of Wight, in March.
1906. In that year he went through the
musketry and Maxim gun courses at the School
of Musketry, Hythe, passing out well in both
examinations. From the 16th April, 1907, to
the 31st July, 1911 , he was Instructor of Military
Law and Administration to "F" Company at
the R.M.C., Sandhurst, which appointment he
held three months beyond the usual term.
In June, 1910, he passed with honours his
examination for promotion. On the expiration
of his appointment at -Sandhurst, he was
sent to the 1th Battalion of his regiment at
Aldershot, pending absorption, and was ulti-
mately posted to the 3rd Battalion in India.
He returned home in April, 1912. to take up
the apiKjintment of Adjutant of the 10th
Battalion (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex
Regiment. While Adjutant of this battalion.
Captain Docker did a great deal to enable it
to gain the reputation it has earned since its
formation by Colonel St. Leger Glyn (late
Grenadier Guards) in 190S.
When the 10th Middlesex were mobilised on the
outbreak of the war with Germany, they were
sent to Sittingboume. and very shortly after
that, as both the Colonel and the Second- in-
Command had to go on sick leave. Captain
Docker was for some time in temporary com-
mand of the battalion, as well as being Adjutant,
and his untiring zeal helped to bring it to a
high state of efficiency, while his personal
influence did much to raise the whole morale
of the corps. At the end of October the
battalion was ordered to proceed to India. They
had actually embarked, and the ship was on the
point of leaving, when Captain Docker was
recalled by telegram for service with the
Expeditionary Force, and was ordered to take
out a draft of the 3rd King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment to the 1st Battalion of that
regiment in Flanders.
He left England with the draft on the Sth
November, and reached the 1st Battalion on the
15th November, 1914. The following evening
he went into the trenches, and he was killed next
morning, the ITth November, at Le Touquet,
near Amientieres. He was buried near the
station there, where there were already many
graves of officers and men of the King's Own.
Captain Docker married in 1903 Anna Louisa
Maud Josephine, daughter of the late Louis
Arthur Goodeve, Barrister-at-Law, and left
four children : Arthur Guy. born November,
1904 ; Peter Goodeve. bom June, 1908 ; ilichael
Lee, bom November, 191 1 : and Alison Everilda
Josephine, born February. 1914.
Captain Docker was well known as a cricketer.
He was a member of the M.C.C., the Free
Foresters, and the Oxford University Authentics,
and was one of the M.C.C. team sent to the
West Indies in 1913. He represented his
college in cricket, football, and athletics, and
played polo and cricket for his regiment. He
also won many prizes for athletics and golf.
He was a member of the Inner Temple, and was
called to the Bar in June, 1914.
CAPTAIN DAVID SCOTT DODGSON.
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY,
was the son of the _ ^ .
late General Sir
David Scott Dodg-
son, K.C.B., who
served through the
Indian Mutiny, and
of Lady Dodgson,
of Southsea.
He was bom on the
24th November.
1SS4. and was edu-
cated at Summer-
fields, near Oxford,
at Harrow (The Grove, 1S9S-1901), and the
R.M.A.. Woolwich, receiving his commission in
December. 1904, becoming Lieutenant three
years later, and Captain on the 30th October,
1914. He left for the front on the 17th Septem-
ber, 1914, and was in the ammunition column
attached to the 1st and 2nd Siege Batteries
of the First Siege Brigade.
He was shot by a German sniper at Gorre.
near Bethune, on the 14th November, 1914,
and killed instantaneously. It was found
necessary to lay a telephone cable for his
battery, a task which invariably exposes those
employed on it to considerable danger from
snipers. Captain Dodgson bravely volunteered to
do this work, though it was not part of his
duties, and was shot while attempting to
carry it out. For his gallantry he was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of
January, 1915.
Captain Dodgson married in 190S Blanche
Mary, youngest daughter of the late Dr. and
Mrs. Leacroft, of Derby, and left one son,
David Scott, bom in January, 1913.
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LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HENRY
GORDON DODS. 1st BATTN.
LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action on the 22nil
October, 19U, was
the son o[ JIajor
William San d a r s
Dods, formerly in
the Norfolk Regi-
ment, of Uvedale,
Norfolk.
He was born on the
27th October. 1S91.
and joined the
Leicestei-shire He<ri-
nient as 2nd LieiiU-nant in September, liUI.
getting his step in May, 1913.
LIEUTENANT PHILIP WALTER
RUDOLPH DOLL. 1st BATTN. THE
KING'S (LIVERPOOL REGIMENT),
was killfd in aitioii
near Ypre.^ on the
31st October, 1914,
having previously
been reported as
missing.
He was the fourth
son of -Mr. Charles
FitzRay Doll, J.P.,
and Emily Fi-ances,
his wife, of Hadham
Towers, .Much Had-
ham, Herts. He was
born on the 28th May, 1890, and was edu-
cated at Charterhouse, where he was in the
Cricket XI, and at the R.M.C., .Sandhurst,
where he was in the Football Team ; he played
both cricket and football in the Army, and at
the Army Rifle Association meeting won Lord
Roberts's prize for machine-gun practice with
his squad. He entered " The King's " in
November, 1909, and was promoted Lieutenant
in AprU, 1910.
CAPTAIN
DOLPHIN.
JOHN ERIC WESTERN
1st BATTN. THE HAMP-
SHIRE REGT..
was the son of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel H. E.
Dolphin, Royal
Artillery (retired),
and was born at
Queenstown on the
27th December,
1SS5. He was edu-
cated at Stubbing-
ton, and the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst.
Captain Dolphin re-
ceived his commission in the Hampshire Regi-
ment in 190(). becoming Lieutenant iu M.-irch,
1909, and being promoted Captain 21st October,
1914.
He was treacherously shot by the Germans
on the 8th November, 1914, after they had
called out " Don't shoot," near Ploegsteert,
about four miles north of Arnicntieres.
Captain Dolphin was a good shot and rider, and
a fair golf player.
LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT
ALFRED EDWIN CLAUD TOKE
DOONER. 1st BATTN. ROYAL WELSH
FUSILIERS.
third son of Colonel
William T o k e
Dooner, of Ditton
Place, near Maid-
stone, Kent, was
born at Victoria
B arrack s, Ports-
mouth, on the 3rd
April. 1892. His
great - grandfather.
Major Lawrence
Dundas, served in
the Peninsula in the 5th Fusiliers, gaining the
medal with cla.sps for Corunna, Albuhera,
Badajos, and Busaco. Lieutenant Dooner was
educated at Tonbridge School, having obtained
a scholarship there in 1905 from the King's
School, Rochester. At Tonbridge he was in the
Shooting VIII during 1907-10, and won the
Warner Challenge Cup in 1908-09, helping also
to win other trophies forliLs House. In 1910 he
represented his school in the contest for the
Spencer Cup, and he was also in the School XV.
From Tonbridge he passed tliird into the
R.il.C, .Sandhurst (Woolwich Company), in
1910, and there gained the prizes for drill and
German, and the 1st prize for revolver shooting.
He was gazetted to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers
ill .September, 1911. In 1912 he passed as a
first class Interpreter in German, having in
1908; when at Tonbridge, gained the first prize
in that language in an examination open to all
the public schools.
In September, 1912, he was promoted Lieu-
tenant, and in July, 1914, he was appointed
Adjutant of his battahon at the early age
of twenty-two years and three months. Lieu-
tenant Dooner was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
Conflicting reports as to the actual circumstances
of his death have been received, he ha^^ng
at first been reported as missing on the 30th
October, 1914, but since that date a Ust of dead
has been received from the German Government,
through the American Embassy, in which Lieu-
tenant Dooner is included as having been
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killed, about the date mentioned, at Zaiidvoorde,
near Ypres.
It would appear, from reports received from
otlicers, non-commissioned otficei-s, and men,
now prisoners of war, who were present at the
fighting on the 30th that the Germans were then
making a severe struggle to get through to
Calais, and on the riglit of the Royal Wel-li
Fusiliers, who held part of a very extended line,
were some trenches occupied by dismounted
cavalry. Nearly all the latter were killed or
wounded, and the trenches taken, thus leaving
the right flank of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers open
to an attack. Lieutenant Dooner, seeing the
danger, ran across an open piece of fire-swept
ground to tlie company on the right, and. having
given his instructions, was returning to rejoin
his Commanding Officer, when he was seen to
faU, it \vas believed, woimded. Lieutenant-
Colonel Cadogan, couniianding the battalion,
ran to his assistance, accompanied, it is stated,
by Sergeant Evans, now a prisoner at .Miinster.
They found Lieutenant Dooner had been killed,
and as they were returning. Sergeant Evans
states, Lieutenant-Colonel Cadogan was himself
shot down and killed, and thus lost his life
in a brave and noble attempt to assist a brother
officer and comrade.
The previous fighting, from October 19th, had
been incessant, and the Royal Welsh Fusiliers
had suffered very severely. A letter to the
Vicar of Carnarvon from a survivor stated that
the Colonel and Adjutant appeared " to bear
charnied lives, and did splendid work, and were
the talk of the Division." On the evening of the
30th only one officer (Captain Parker) and 86 non-
conimissioned officei-s and men answered the roU-
caU out of a total of 31 officers and 1,100 men
who had left Lyndhurst on the 4th October.
Lieutenant Dooner was a member of the
.Junior United Service Club, and his name
appears on the Roll of Honour in the entrance
hall of that club.
MAJOR THOMAS PHILIP GODMAN
DORINGTON, 1st (ROYALi DRAGOONS,
who was killed in the
trenches near Ypres
on the 12th Xovem-
ber, 191-1, was the
third son of the
late ilajor-General
R. Temple Godman
and Mrs. C. .M. God-
man, of llighden.
Pulborough, Sussex,
and assumed the sur-
name of Dorington.
He was born on the
T2nd May. 1S77. and was educated at Harrow
(.Small Houses and Druries) from 1(591 to 1894,
joining the 1st Dragoons in AprU, 1897, and
becoming Lieutenant in July, 1S99. He served
m the South African War, taking part in the
relief of Ladysmith, including the action.s at
Colenso. Spion Kop. \'aal Krans, Tugela
Heights, and Pietei-s Hill : operations in Natal,
1900 ; in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony,
and Cape Colony, from May, 1901, to May, 1902.
He received the Queen's medal with five clasps
and the Kmg's medal with two clasps.
Major Dorington was gazetted to his Majority
on the 31st Octolx-r. 1914.
LIEUTENANT CLEMENT COTTRELL-
DORMER, 2nd BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS,
the elder son of - - -
Captain and .Mi's.
Cottrell- Dormer, uf
Rousham, came of
a family wliich had
been settled in Ox-
fordshire for over
four centuries, and,
through his mother,
he was a great-
grandson of David,
eighth Earl of Leven
and seventh Earl of
Alehille. The fli'st of his name to acliieve
distinction was Sir Michael Dormer, Lord
Alayor of London in l.jll. Possibly one of
the most famous of the family was James
Dormer, born in 1079, who served under
Marlborough at Blenheim, and was engaged at
the sieges of Mons, Liege, and Namur. He also
commanded a brigade in tlie ill-starred Jacobite
rismg in 1715.
Lieutenant CottreU-Dormer, who wa.s born
in February, 1891, was educated at Mr.
Lionel Helbert's Preparatory School. West
Downs, near Winchester, from 1901. His
Eton life commenced in 1905 at Mr. J. H. M.
Hare's House. He rowed in the Junior House
P'our, and became a member of the boats,
lowing in the " Alexandra." He joined the
Eton Volunteer Band, and became a member
of the Corps itself. He was very keen on
beagUug, and was an expert carpenter. He
al-so joined the Eton Debating Society. After
leaving Eton in 1910 he went for a short time to
-Mr. William Trevor's. Lathbury Park : and in
-May, 191(1. he was given a commission in the
Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussai's, the Duke of
-Marlborough being Ms Colonel, and Major the
Hon. Eustace Fiennes his Squadron Commander.
The latter wrote of him : " Clement is a first-
rate officer, and w-ill make an Al soldier." He
was gazetted to the .Scots Guards on probation
in 1911. His ever bright and cheerful dis-
position made him the idol of his brother officers
DOU DOW
llfi
and nu'ii : and. being a 'Jiiil l.iculi'iiaiil , lliu
liciiuiui 1(1 lariy the Colours I'cll tn liiin in llic
('oiona(i(iM I'loi-cssion, 1911. lie wa.s linally
gazottcd to tlio Scots Guards in Kchmary, lillli.
l'revio\is lo llu' outbreak ol' hostilities lie liad
undertaken a course of sif;nallin';, as a help to
liis I'utMie career, and worked liard all day loni;.
He was vei-y keen, and liad been promised the
post of A.ssistant Ailjutant .'il lbcnc\t \ac.iiicy.
Lieutenant Cottrell-Dornier, who was pro-
moted to that rank on the 2:ird October, 191 I.
was killed in action three day.s later at Kruiseik.
ueai' ^■pres. A member of the regiment wrote
that he was defending his trench when struck
by a shell and killed, adding ; " lie was splen<lid
in front of his men." The Conmiamling Ollicer
of his battalion — now a prisoner of war — wrote :
" We weie captured the same day that yoiu'
boy was killed wdiilst gallantly defending his
trenches against repeated and most determined
attacks in foice. He was one of the verj- ))est
and bravest of regimental ollicers 1 have evei'
.seen on active service, besides being most
jiopular with all his brother ollicers. 1 1 is
Captain — C. Fox — could not say enougli. ln'
told me. to express bis tliorougli cf)nfidence in
him on all occasions, wliieli confidence was
always justified up to the hilt in everything
he most cheerfidly did so well. It will, 1 hope.
comfort you a little to know this, and liou
dreadfidlj we all deplore his los.s." A Brigade-
^lajoi' \\ rote : •■ I lis men loved him : yet he was
strict with I hem. and always upheld discipline
liefore everything. He was just the bravest
boy we had : and. though little more than a
boy, he set every ofificer an example of wliat a
soldier should be. He died as he had lived —
a soldier and a man."
Lieutenant Coltrell-Doruier, who was devoted
to liunting and a very- good ridei-, had lumted
all his life with tlie Bicester and Ileytln-op
Hoimds. He was a member of Wliite's and of
the (iuards' Chilis.
MAJOR WILLIAM SHOLTO DOUG-
LAS, p.s.c. ROYAL ENGINEERS.
whodieilat Bmdogne
on the 14th Novem-
ber. 191 1. of wounds
received in action
near ^ijre.s on tlie
2nd of that month,
leaving a widow, was
the only son of
Colonel and Mrs.
Douglas, Lansdowne
House, Bath.
He was born on the
1 Sth .September.
lS75.and joined tin; Koyal luigineers in October.
I.SOo. becoming Lieutenant in October. lSi)S.
He saw much Staff service, chieflv with the
Intelligence Department, being a StatT College
graduate and a first-class interpreter in French,
rntm Decembei', ISilO, to September, 1899.
he was sjiecially employed with the Egyptian
Ainiy. and from December. 1900, to September,
1901, in the Intelligence Departiiieid at head-
(piarlersof the Army, l>ecoming in ( )ctober in the
latter year Staff Captain (Intelligence) at head-
i|narters,and remaining so emi)loyed till. May, UKIti
having been promoted Captain in October, 1901.
In 1910 he was ajipointed Assistaid T)irecloi'
of Army Signals. II nd Division .\ldershot Com-
m.ind. and in the (ireat War he wa.s employed
as a General Stall' Oflicer, 3rd grade. He was
ga/.etted lo tin- r.ank of Major after his death,
to date from the :iOth October. 1911.
2nd LIEUTENANT ARCHER CHER-
NOCKE DOWNES. 1st BATTN. CHE-
SHIRE REGT..
was the son of the
late Lieut enant-
Colonel C. Villiers
Downesand of Mrs.
\illiers Downes. of
Aspley lIous<',.\spley
( i uise, Beds, and was
boiii there on the
.'ith August, 1S92.
He was educated at
W i n c h e s t e r and
Trinity College, Ox-
ford, receiving his
O.T.C. on the 4th
through th
1914. Pro
October, h
commission
of Augu.st,
ceeding to the front early in
was himself wounded at Neuve lOglise, near
Bailleul, while attending to a wounded man of
his regiment, and died in hospital at Poporinghe,
West Flanders, on the 20th of November, 1914.
His bidtlier. Lieutenant V. C. Downes, 1st
Battalion Bedfordshire Begiment, was wounded
near Ypres, and died in hospital, at St. Omer,
on the KSth October, 1914.
.\t Trinity College 2nd Lieutenant Downes was
('ajifain of the Hockey Club.
BREVET-MAJOR EDWARD MARTIN
PANTER - DOWNES, ROYAL IRISH
REGIMENT,
was liorn at Bush-
ford Bectory, Nor-
folk, on the 3rd
December, 1S73, tlie
son of Captain Ed-
w a r d Banter-
Downes. R.N. He
was educated at
Clifton College and
the B..\I.C., Sand-
hurst, distinguishing
himself at both
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places in athletics and football. He won the
gold medal for the half-mile against the R.M.A..
Woolwich, and many other races.
He served with his regiment through the South
African War, and was for some time on the
Staff of Sir Horace .Smith-Domen. He was
present at operations in the Orange Free .State.
in the Transvaal, including operations at Belfast
and Lydenberg : in the Orange River Colony,
including actions at Bethlehem and Witte-
bergen : and in Cape Colony, including the action
at Coles berg. For his services he was twice
mentioned in Despatches (" London Gazette,"
10th September, 1901. and 29th .July, 1902),
promoted Brevet- Major for distinguished con-
duct in the field, and received the Queen's medal
with three clasps, and the King's medal with
two clasps. He was also awarded the Royal
Humane Society's medal, the official record of
which runs as follows : —
• At 7.30 a.m. on the 2.5th August. IS9S, a
man. who was bathing in the sea at Kilkee.
could not regain the shore, the sea being very
rough with a heavy swell on. Lieutenant
E. M. Panter-Downes, 1st Battalion Royal
Irish Regiment, plunged in, and with difficulty
succeeded in bringins him to the ladder, where
they were both helped out.
" Bronze medal awarded 17th October. 1898."
From 1903-06 he was an Adjutant of ililitia,
and from September, 1909, was employed with
the West African Frontier Force, with the
temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel from
.September, 1911.
In the Great War he was mortally wounded
during the retirement from >tons, and died on
the field on the 26th August. 1914. The bat-
talion was cut off at Mons, not having received
the order to retire, and as nearly all who were
with him were Idlled it has not been possible
to procure authentic details of the circumstances.
Major Panter-Downes married Kathleen Cowley,
and left one daughter.
After leaving Oxford Lieutenant Downes was
for a time at the Royal Agricultural College,
Cirencester, where he studied farming and
agriculture. In September. 1 9 1 1 , he was gazetted
to the 3rd Battalion of his reaiment as 2nd Lieu-
tenant, and became Lieutenant in .July, 1913.
Lieutenant Downes joined the 1st Battalion of
his regiment from the 3rd Battalion on the
•5th August, the day of the public announcement
of a state of war between this country and Ger-
many, and proceeded to the front soon after.
He was with this battalion in the retirement
from Mons.
In the fighting near Ypres he succeeded in saving
three Maxim guns, was wounded there later
on, and died of his wounds in hospital at St.
Omer on the 18th October, 1914.
CAPTAIN ROBERT EDWARD DRAKE.
ADJUTANT 1st BATTN. LINCOLN-
SHIRE REGT..
son of the Rev.
John Drake, was
bom at Great Wrat-
ting. Suffolk, on the
4th .January, 1878.
He was educated at
Lancing College.
Sussex, and was in
the .3rd Battalion
Suffolk Regiment
(.Militia) from 1899-
1900. In April of '^"^
the latter year he received a commission as
2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Lincolnshire
Regiment, becoming Lieutenant in May, 1902,
and Captain in August, 1912. He was appointed
Adjutant of his battalion in November, 1913.
He was serving as Adjutant when he was mor-
tally wounded at the Battle of the >larne on
the 8th September, 1914, during a successful
attempt made by the battalion to capture a
German batterv. and died the same day.
LIEUTEN.\NT VILLIERS CHERNOCKE
DOWNES. 3rd attd. 1st B.\TTN. THE
BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT.
was the son of the
late Lieutenant-
Colonel C. Villieis
Downes and Mrs.
C. Villiers Downes,
of Aspley House,
Aspley Guise, Bed-
fordshire, and was
bom there on the
.5th March, 1891. He
was educated at Win-
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Chester and Trinity
!S^^^^^^^^^^ College, Oxford.
LIEUTENANT
DRAKE. X t h
WALES'S OW^N
who was killed near
Ypres on the 17th
November. 1914.
aged twenty - two,
was the third son of
ilr. and Mrs. J.
Ramsay Drake, of
Batch Wood, near
St. Alban's.
He was educated at
Eton and the
R.3I.C.. Sandhurst.
At the former he was
ROBERT FLINT
PRINCE OF
ROYAL HUSSARS.
DRU DUG
IKS
in the Field, Oppidan Wall, and President o{ tlie
Eton Society : and at the latter he was a
Colour-Sergeant .
He was gazetted to the loth Ilussaw in Septem-
ber, 1912, and became Lieutenant on the 27lh
October. 1!U 1. having been gazetted after his
death.
LIEUTENANT D.W'ID ROBERT
DRUMMOND, 2nd
BATTN. SCOTS
G U .\ R D S .
born on the 30tli
October. 1SS4. at
14, Belgi-ave Square.
London. S.W., was
the second son of
George James
Druniniond, Esq., of
.Swaylands House,
Pensliurst.
After being educated
at Harrow, he joined
the 3rd Battalion
Black Watch (.Militia), from which he was trans-
ferred to the Scots Guards in 1904. He after-
wards voluntarily joined the Reserve of Officers
and. in July, 1911, the Special Reserve of the
Scots Guards. He held that position when the
war broke out, and rejoined the 2nd Battalion
of his regiment for active ser\-ice.
He was killed at Ypres on the 3rd November,
1914. having been shot in the head by a German
sniper.
Lieutenant Druiiuiiond, who «as a member of
the Carlton, Guards', and Royal Automobile
Clubs, was fond of cricket and shooting. He
married, in 1907, Hilda Margaret, daughter of
Alfred Harris, Esq., of Donnington. Chichester,
and left three daughtei-s : Joan Cecile, born
1909: Violet Hilda, born 1911 : and Winifred
Pansy, bom 1914.
M.\JOR ERIC GREY DRUMMOND, LATE
4th attd. 3rd GURKHA RIFLES,
wlio was killed in action on the 14th November,
1914, was the foiu'th son of the late ilajor-General
Henry Drummond, and a grandson of Colonel
.John Drummond, of Strageath. Perthshiiv.
He wa-s born on the 10th September, XSl^t,
and was educated at Bedford College, joming
the Prince Albert's (.Somerset Light Infantry)
in September, 1895. In November, 1898, he
was transferred to the Indian Army as Lieu-
tenant, and was pi-omoted Captain in 1904.
He saw active service on the nortli- western
frontier of India, in the ilohmand Campaign,
I897-9.S, including the engagement near Shab-
kadr on the 9th August, 1897, where he was
severely wounded. For that campaign he
received the medal with clasp. He retired in
Xovemlier. 1913, and was appnintcil a King's
Foreign Messenger, but on tin- outbreak of
war with (iermany rejoined the Army, being
attached for duty to the ."ith Hattatinn King's
|{oyal Rifle Corps as Major.
For active service he was attached to the 3rd
(inrkha Itilles, which regiment he joined in the
trenches on the Frith November. I'.M I. 'I'hi-sami-
evening, after one attack by our troojjs had
failed, he was standing by the Commanding
Officer, who had kept him near him owing to
his bemg new to the trenches. Major Drum-
mond volunteered to lead a second attack, and
permission being granted he fell mortally
wounded while gallantly leading his n\en.
He was a member of the Caledonian Club.
St. Janips's Square, and was unmarrii'd.
MAJOR RICHARD DUCAT. 2nth
INFANTRY. INDIAN .\ R M V .
born at Ahmed-
nuggar. India, on
12th July, 1871. was
the son of the late
-Major-tieneral C. M.
Ducat, and a grand-
son of Mr. Hugh
Ilamersley, .1. P.,
D.L.. Pyrton Manor,
Oxfordshire.
He was educated at
a private school, and
at the R. M. C,
Sandhurst, joining the Duke of Cornwall's
Light Infantry in August. 1S!»2. Four yeai-s
later, having received his ]>romotion to Lieu-
tenant, he joined the Indian Army, in whicli he
obtained his Company in 1901 and his Majority
in 1910.
Major Ducat saw active service on the north-
western frontier of India. 1897-98, and was
present at actions at -Malakand and Utman
Khel. and at the capture of the Tanga Pa-ss.
For his services he received the Frontier medal
with, clasp. He also saw service in China and
Thibet, receiving the China medal (lOOli)
and the Thibet medal (1903-04).
Major Ducat fell mortally wounded at Fao. in
the PeiNian Gulf, on the 11th November, 1914.
He was leading an attack again.st the enemy,
enabling the other i-egiments to make a flanking
movement, which was entirely successful. His
Colonel wrote the next day, saying : " You will
like to know that in the position which your hus-
band's companies occupied when he fell he was
rendering me an invaluable service in protecting
the left of the regiment, and leaving me free to
operate with entire confidence on the right."
Major Ducat was a member of the Jiniior
United Service Club.
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CAPTAIN LEONARD GREY DUDLEY,
6th JAT LIGHT INFANTRY, IN-
^ D I A N ARMY,
^■■I^^^^^^IIBI' Adjutant
inent at the time
of Ills cleat li, was
Ijorn on Kaster Day,
2.')th March, 1S8:!.
at Poena, India, the
son of Brigade-
Surgeon Lieutenant-
Colonel \V. K.
Dudley, A. .M.S., of
Sion Hill, Bath, and
Teinpleinore, Ire-
land. Ill' \\ a-~ a grandson of General George
I'rince Sealy, Royal (late Bombay) Artillery,
and had two brothers serving in the Army.
He was educated at Bath College, where he was
Captain of the Cricket XI for two years, and
from which he entered the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
in 1901. Passing out in the Honours list in 1902,
taking the third place, and the prize for military
history, he was appointed to the Indian Army,
and on arriving in India was attached for his
probation to the Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers (the old 93rd) at Calcutta, moving with
the battalion to Poona in 1903. In December,
1903, he was gazetted to the (ith Jat Light
Infantry, and joined his regiment at Meerut.
After two years they moved to .Thansi, where
they remained tour years, and then went to
Secunderabad, from which they went to France
in ()cto))er, 1914. He had become Lieutenant
in 1904, and had been appointeil Adjutant of
Ills regiment in 1911.
Captain Dudley died on the 24th Xnvember,
1914, from wounds received four hoiu's pre-
viously, when in action at Festubert, in Flanders,
resisting the German attempt to break through
to Calais.
the Tirah Exjiedition in Peshawar, and received
lor his services tl\e thanks of the highest
military authoritii^s in India, ami the Tirah
medal with clasp.
He served in the South African War from
.January, 1902. till the end. being present at
operations in the Transvaal and Orange River
Colony, for whicli he received the Queen's
medal with two clasps. In 1904 he graduated
at the Staff College, and from 190.5-09 was em-
ployed at the War Office as Staff Captain,
D.A.Q.:M.G., and General Staff Officer, 2nd
grade, obtaining his Majority in December, 1907.
He also qualified as an Interpreter in French.
From 1910-13 he was Assistant .Military Secre-
tary to the Conmiittee of Imperial Defence,
being awarded the C.B. in the latter year. He
succeeded to the command of the 1st Battalion
the Black Watch in May, 1914. and took it to
the front for the (ireat War.
He was killed at the Battle of the Aisne on the
14th September, 1914. Some time after tiie
regiment had been deployed and engaged, it
became imperative that a certain locality should
be held against the German counter-attack.
Having none of his battalion now left in reserve,
Lieutenant-Colonel lirant Duff, collecting all
available men, personally led them forward, and
held this important position, but shortly after-
wards was mortally wounded. At the Battle
of the Marne, on the 8th September, 1914, he
had commanded the advanced guard of the
1st Division with great ability.
Lieutenant-Colonel Grant Duff married, in
1900, the Hon. Ursula Lubbock, daughter of
the first Lord Avebury, and left four children :
.Tean, born November. 1907 ; Ursula Fiona,
born December, 1908 : Xeill Adrian Mount-
stuart, born October, 1910 : and Shiela. born
.\Iav, 1913.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ADRIAN
GRANT DUFF, C.B., p.s.c, 1st BATTN.
THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGH-
L A "N D E R Si ,
was the son of the
Right Hon. Sir
Mountstuart Kli)hin-
stone Grant Duff.
G.C.S.I., and was
born on the 291 h
•September, 1809.
He was educated at
\\'ellington College
and the R.M.C..
Sandhurst, from
w h i c h he w a s
gazetted to the Black Watch in March, 1889,
becoming Lieutenant the following year. In
1897-98 he was in charge of the Base Depot of
CAPTAIN BEAUCHAMP OSWALD
DUFF, 1st KING GEORGE'S OWN
GURKHA RIFLES (THE MALAUN
REGIMENTl, attd. 2n
EDWARD'S OWN G
RIFLES (THESIRMOOR
who was killed in
action on the 7 1 1 1
November, 1914.
was the elder son
of General Sir
Beauchamp Duff.
(i.C.B.. Commander-
in-Chief in India,
and Lady Duff, lie
was born on the
8th 8 e p t e m b e r.
1880. and was edu-
cated at Clifton
d KING
U R K H A
RIFLES),
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CoUffro and the R.M.r., Sandhurst. He received
an vinattaihed 2iid liieutctiaiicy in .Tuly, 1000.
and joined the Indian StafT Corps in October,
1001. beconiini; Lieutenant in October, 1902.
He served on the noi-th-western frontier of
India in the Waziristan Expedition. 1901-02.
receiving the medal witli clasp. He also saw
active service in East Africa in 1903, takini^
part in operations in Somaliland, where he was
a Special Service Ollicer : was employed under
the Director of Supplies and Transport, and
was present at the action at Jidballi. He re-
ceived the medal with two clasps.
Captain Duff was promoted to liis rank in tlie
Indian Armv in .Tulv, 1909.
CAPTAIN LACHLAN
3rd BATTN. GORDON
St. David'.s, Keigate (\V,
(Miss Evans's House).
GORDON- DUFF,
HIGHLANDERS,
born in Edinburgli
on the 17th January,
1880, was the eldest
son of Thomas Goi'-
don Duff, D.L., of
Drummuir.and I'ark.
Banft'sliire, by his
lirst wife, Pauline
ICmma, daughter of
Sir Charles Tennant,
Bart., of " The
Glen." Peble.s.shire.
He was educated at
11. Churchill), at Eton
and at the R.^LC.
Sandhurst. He joined the 1st Battalion (iordon
Highlanders in August, 1899, in Edinburgli, an<i
served witli them tlirough the South African
War, taking part in actions at Paardeberg,
Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Houtnek, Vet and
Zand Rivei-s, Belfast, and Lydenberg. He re-
ceived the Queen's medal witli five clasps and
the King's medal witli two clasps. He was
promoted Lieutenant in .Taiinary, 1900, and
Captain in February, 190-1.
In Augiist, 1909, he retired from the Regular
Army, and voluntarily entered the Special Re-
serve, 3rd Battalion Gordon Highlanders, in
w hich his rank of Captain was dated the 12tli
August, 1909. Captain Gordon-Duff was a
good shot and rider to hounds, and won several
point-to-point races. In 1907 he won Lord
(irenfell's Cup for lightweights, Irish Army
Point- to- Point, at Knocklong, on his own mare,
" .Tuanita."
On retiring from the Army he had settled at
Park House, Banffshire, and occupied himself
with county work, being a J.P. and D.L. of
Banffshire, and taking an interest in the
Boy Scouts movement.
He left Aberdeen on the 7th October, 1914, for
the Great War, for which he was attached to the
1st Battalion, and was killed on the 24th of the
same month. The battalion occupied trenches
near Neuve Chapelle. .lust after dark a German
attack temporarily broke through, and Captain
(iordon-Duh' was shot in the struggle to regain
the line.
He married, in 1908, Lydia Dorothy Muriel,
daughter of Joseph Pike, D.L., of Dunsland.
Co. Cork, and left three children : Frances
Pauline, born 1909 : Thomas Robert, born
1911 : and Lachlan Cecil, born 1914.
LIEUTENANT SIR ROBERT
(ROBIN) GEORGE VIVIAN DUFF,
BART., RESERVE OF OFFICERS,
attd. 2nd LIFE GUARDS,
ulio was killed in action on the 16th October,
1914, was the only son of Sir Charles Garden
Assheton-Sniith, first Bart., of Vaynol Park,
Bangor, County Carnarvon, but retained the
surname of Duff. He was born on the lltli
November, 1876 ; and, having served for two
months in the embodied Militia, was appointed
to the 2nd Life Guards in July, 1900, being pro-
moted Lieutenant in September, 1901. After
serving in the 2nd Life Guards, of which lie was
for a time Adjutant, he voluntarily joined the
Reserve of Officers.
Sir Robert Duff married, in June. 1903, Lady
(Gladys Mary) Juliet Lowther, only daughter
of the fourth Earl of Lonsdale, and left two
children : a daughter, Victoria Maud Veronica,
liorn September, 1904 ; and a son, Charles
.Michael Robert Vivian, born ^lay, 1907, who
succeeds him in the baronetcy.
LIEUTENANT BARRY PEVENSEY
DUKE, 3rd (attd. 2nd) BATTN.
ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 3rd
Novenilier, 1914, was
the eldest son of
I iieii t enant-C o 1 o ne 1
O. T. Duke and :\Ir.s.
HuUe. B o u V e r i e
Road, W., Folkes-
tone. He was born
on the 5th Septem-
ber, 1889, and was
educated at Welling-
ton College, where
he was in the Murray, 1900-04, was captain of
the shooting eight, and passed tlience into the
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He was gazetted to the Royal Sussex Regiment
in October, 1906, and became Lieutenant in
December, 1909.
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DUN
CAPTAIN STUART DUNCAN.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT.
killed in action at
Hooge on the 13th
November. 1914.
wa-s bom in London
in 1S65, the youngest
son of the late Dr.
.James Duncan and
Mrs. Duncan, of 24.
Chester Street.
Grosvenor Place,
S.W.
He was educated at
Marlborough College,
and obtained his commission in 1S84, becoming
Captain in 1891. With his regiment he served
in the South African War, taking part in
operations in Natal, including actions at Riet-
fontein and Lombard's Kop, where he was
slightly wounded. He was also at operations in
the Transvaal and Orange River Colony. He
received the Queen's medal with three clasps.
In 1904 Captain Duncan left the Army and
joined the Reserve of Officers, Gloucestershire
Regiment. He had therefore been retired from
the active list for ten years when the Great War
broke out, but at once patriotically volunteered
for active service, and was posted first to the
3rd Battalion of his old corps, from which he
was sent out to the 2nd Battalion South Lan-
casliire Regiment at the front, but wlien killed
was serving with the 4th Battalion Middlesex
Regiment. He behaved with great gallantry
during the war, particularly on the day of his
death, when he had been ten days in the
trenches, continually shelled, and was shot down
wliile leading his men, by whom he was specially
beloved. Captain Duncan left a large circle of
friends to deeply mourn his loss. He was
unmarried.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES DUNLOP. 2nd
BATTN. ROYAL
I N N 1 S K 1 L L I N G
FUSILIERS.
who died at Ver-
sailles on the 22nd
October, 1914. from
wiiunds received at
tlie Battle of the
Ai.sne, was the elder
son of Fleet Siirge<'>n
James Duulop. K.N..
of Eden Perry House.
Ballylesson. Ireland.
He joined the Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers
in January, 1913, and was promoted Lieutenant
in September, 1914.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK CLEAVE
STRICKLAND DUNLOP. 1st
BATTN. MANCHESTER REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the Sth
November, 1914,
was the fourth son
of Andrew Dunlop.
M.D.. of St. HeUer. , — "' >
Jersey, and was born
there on the 14th
December,lS77. His
brother. Captain
J. S. S. Dimlop. 1st
Battalion .South
.Staffordshire Regi-
ment, was killed in action on the 24th October.
1914: while another brother. Lieutenant (now
Captain) W. H. .S. Dunlop. 3rd East .Surrey
Regiment, was wounded on the 2.5th AprU. 191o.
Captain Dunlop was educated at Victoria Col-
lege, Jersey, afterwards entering the Royal
Jersey Jlilitia, from wliich he became 2nd
Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment in
December, 1S97 ; Lieutenant in March, 1)>99 :
and in which he obtained his Company in March.
1901. He served in the Boer War, taking part
m the defence of Ladysmith, and being present
at operations in the Transvaal, February to
August, 1901, for which he received the Queen's
medal with three clasps. From 1902-05 Captain
C)unlop was Adjutant of the 4th Battalion
Manchester Regiment, and from 190(5-11 of the
Malabar Volunteer Rifles.
He married Maud, daughter of the late .Surgeon-
(ieneral Williams, Heathfield, Jersey, and left
two children : ilavis, born 100.5 : and Andrew,
bom 1907.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN GUNNING
MOORE DUNLOP. SPECIAL RESERVE,
2nd BATTN. ROYAL DUBLIN
FUSILIERS,
was the third sou
of the late Archibald
Dunlop, Esq.. M.D.,
and was bom on
the 14th December.
1885, at Holywood.
Co. Down.
He was educated at
Summerfields, Char-
terhouse, and Caius
College, Cambridge,
where he obtained
the degree of M.A., and was a member of the
O.T.C. He joined the Special Reserve in Sep-
tember, 1910 ; and, being called up for active
service in the Great War, he was killed in action
at Clary, France, on the 27th August, 1914.
while directing part of the firing line.
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CAPTAIN JULIAN SILVER STRICK-
LAND DUNLOP. 1st BATTN. SOUTH
S T A I I O R O S H 1 R K REGIMENT,
r u ho was killfil « liilc
lc-.i(lin<; a bayoiift
iliMiKf on the 2llh
OctolHT. 1911. was
hiiiii al SI. HchiT.
.Icl'sc\ . nil Ihi- l.'.lh
Sc|)lfiiil)cr. ISTli.
Iho son of An(hi'W
hiinlop. M.It,. ol' SI.
Ilchci-. On.- ol' his
hiol hers. Captain
!■'. ('. S. Umilop.
Maiii'hcstiT KcKi-
Mient. was killed in action on the SI h .Xoveinber,
I'.tl 4. and another, Lieuteiiaid \V. U.S. Dnnlop,
:!rd Jvisl .Sin'i'ey Hoi;inient, was wimnded on the
2.-)th .\piil, 1!11.").
Captain Duidop Has educated at \'ictona Col-
lege, .lersey, and entered the South StalTord-
shire Heginient, I'loni the Hoyal .Jersey .Militia,
in USil.T, heeoniins a Lieutenant in KS9.S and a
Captain in I'.Mi I.
From isil!) to l!Mi:; he was .\.|).C. to the Lieu-
leiiant-(Jovern<ir of Burma, and was Adjutant
of the South Staffordshire .Militia from 1905-10.
He reeei\ed the Delhi Iturliar decoration
awarded in lill I .
For his services in the (ireat War he was men-
tioned, after his <leafh. in Sir .John French's
Despatch of the I jth .lanuar>-. lill.'i.
Captain Dunlop was a polo i)layer. and was for
some lime .Secretary to the (iarrison Beagles at
l.iclillehl.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS EDWARD
DONCASTER DUNN, 2nd BATTN. THE
CAMERONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLES),
who died on the
21st \j e c e m 1) e r.
1914, of wounds re-
ceived in action, was
tlie eldest son of
the late Lieutenant-
Colonel Duncan
Dunn, Hampshire
Koginient. and Mrs.
Duncan Dunn, of
:! I. Hill Street,
Knightshridge.
He was born on the
:^(ith .lune. IsOd.and was educated at Wellington
College, where he was in the Wellesley from
I9(l4-0ii. passing into the H..M.C., .Sandhurst,
in the latter year. He was ga/.etted to the
.Scottish Hilles in .April. 191(1. and was promoteil
Lieutenant in Febniarv, lit I:!.
LIEUTENANT GRAHAM EARDLEY
DUNSTERVILLE, 1st BATTN.
DEVONSHIRE R E (i 1 M E N T ,
was the younger son
ot Colonel Knighlle\
Dunsterville. late
H.A.. ( iu) ers I louse.
Corsh.im. Wiltshiic
lie was liorn on
th.' 9lh .hdy. IS.sj,
educated at Chelten-
ham College, and
joined the Devon-
shii'e Regiment from
the .Militia in .lun<'.
I!t0 I. hecoming Lieu-
tenant in the .\rMi\ in Septeml>er. I90(i.
and being transferred to the Indian ,\iin\ in
.Septend)er. 190.S. In the s.niie niordli of the
latter year he joined the iTidian .Vrmy, with which
he .served till 1910, when he rejoined the Devon-
.shire Regiment a.s Lieutenant from .July, 1 9 Hi.
He was ;i born fighter an<l all-round athlete,
especially fond of boxing, football, and all
military sports and physical exercises, lb- iliil
well in the fencing tournaments at The Hague,
and twice in Paris. At the Naval and .Military
Tovuiiami'nt at Olympia, in the years 1911-14,
he won six challenge cups for otticers for all the
four dismoinitt'<l events — bayonet fighting,
sabres, epees, and foils — and for two ot the
mounted events — sword v. sword and sword
c. lance. These si.v wins uith six different
weapons is quite a record.
He was in connnand of " A " Coni|iany in the
trenches at Festubert, when, on the29tli October,
1914, hearing a wounded man crying out for
water, he went out to bring him in, and was
killed in the attempt by a bullet in the head.
Mr. Dunsterville married Eveline, daughter of
F. Hastings Coldney, lisq,, J.l*., of Corsham.
in Wiltshire, and leaves a daughter, I'etronilla.
1)0111 the 7th ,Iul.\, 19l:>: and a son, Hugh
(iiaham ICvelvn, hoiii the "JOth December. 1911.
CAPTAIN FRANCI
DURAND, 3rd BATTN.
STER FUSILIERS,
was born on the
29th January, 187o,
at Earley Vicarage,
Berkshire, the .son
of the Rev. Havil-
land Durand, ^I..\.,
Vicar of Earley. He
was educated at
Elizabeth College,
(iuernsey, where he
won the quarter-
mile, and was .second
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ROYAL MUN-
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DYK EAS
in the one hundred yards race in 1889, xvinning
two cups.
Captain Durand was gazetted to the 3rd Royal
fiuemsey Light Infantry (Militia) as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in 1891, and in 1895 he joined the
Rhodesian Horse. He served in the Matabele-
land campaign with the (iwelo Field Force.
i-ecei\'ing the Matabeleland medal. 1896 : and
in the Mashonaland campaign with the Mashona-
land Field Force, receiving the clasp for
.Mashonaland, 1897.
From 1899-1901 he was employed in the African
Transcontinental Survey through German East
Africa, and in 1901-02 with the Tanganyika
Concessions Expedition to Katanga, Congo Free
.'^tate. In 1903 he served in the Zanzibar
Protectorate under the Foreign Office, being
Secretary and A.D.C. to the First Minister.
In 190(5 he was promoted Captain in ttie 3rd
Munster FusUiers. remaining seconded for
duty under the Foreign Office. In 1907 he was
Acting Commandant of the Zanzibar Military
Police, and Acting Governor. Centi-al Jail.
In this year he received the Zanzibar Order of
" El Aliyeh.'
Returning to England he, in 1908, passed the
School of Musketry at Hythc. In 1909 he was
again in civil employment in Zanzibar, as 2nd
na.ss ^lagistrate and Governor of the District
.lail, and in 1911 was second in command of
the Zanzibar Armed Constabulary. In 1912 he
passed in all subjects for promotion to the rank
of Field Officer, being one of only five officers
specially mentioned in the Examiner's Report
(May. 1912) to the Army Council. In 1914 he
received the decoration of the 3rd Class BrilUant
Star of Zanzibar.
On the mobilisation for the Great War, the .")th
August, 191-1, he joined the 3rd Battalion Royal
Munster FusiUers. and went to Bere Island. On
tlie 8th September he joined the 2nd Battahon
in Fi-ance. and was pi-esent at the Battles of
the Aisne and the Marne. He was killed on
the 22nd September, 191-1. while leading his
men in an attempt to retake trenches between
(iivenchy and Festubert. near La Bassee.
Captain Durand was a member of the Xaval and
Military and of the Sports Clubs. While in
Africa he enjoyed much big-game shooting.
He married, in 1903. Geraldine Vesey. daughter
of the late Rev. John W. Hawtrey, of Aldin
House, Slough, and St. Michael's, Westgate-
im-Sea.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALFRED
M c N A 1 R DYKES. p . s . c. . 1st
B A T T N . THE KINGS OWN
ROV.\L LANCASTER REGIMENT.
who was killed in action on the 20th August,
1914. was the son of the late William Alston
Dykes and of Mi-s. Dykes of the Orchard. Hamil-
ton.Si-otland. He was
born on the L^th
March, 1874. an<l
joined the Royal
Ijancaster Regiment
from the Militia
in December. 1894.
He became Lieu-
tenant in November.
1896, and from
November. 1897.
to November. 1899.
was Adjutant of
the 2nd Battalion : becaine Captain in Feliruary.
1900. and. again. Adjutant of liLs battahon from
.January, 1900. to July. 1902. He served in the
South African War as a Special .Service Officer
from November. 1S99, to January, 1900 ; wae
present at the relief of Ladysmith and opei-a-
tions in January, including the action at Spion
Kop, where he was severely wounded : opera-
tions in Cape Colony, north of Orange River,
November, 1899. to January, 1900, and in the
Transvaal, September to November. 1900 : also
fiu-ther opei-ations in the Ti'ansvaal and Oranse
River Colony in 19<il.
For his services he was twice mentioue;! in
Despatches (•'London (iazette." 10th .September,
1901. and 29th .July. 1902) : received the
Brevet of Major, the Queen's medal with four
cla-sps and the King's medal with two clasps.
Lieutenant-Colonel Dykes, who left a widow,
succeeded to the command of his. the 1st
Battahon. the King's Own. on 1st August,
1913.
LIEUTENANT FRANK MOLYNEUX
EASTWOOD. 1st BATTN.THE QUEENS
ROYAL WEST SURREY REGIMENT,
who died on the
30th October, 1914.
of wounds i-eceived
at Gheluvelt, near
Ypres, on the even-
ing of the same day.
was the fourtli son
of John Edmund
and Ethel Eastwood,
of Enton, Witley.
He was bom in
November, 1892. and
was educated at .Mr.
Arthur Dunn's, Ludgixjve: a't Eton: and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst. He received his com-
mission in the Queen's Royal West Surrey
Regiment in .September, 1912. becomimr Lieu-
tenant in .September. 1914. He was a member
of the Conservative Club.
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124
and till- R..M.r
He wont out with the rcgimpiit on tlie outbreak
of the war, was at the Battle of Mons and
tlirough the retirement, and at the Battles of
the Marue and the Aisne.
LIEUTENANT JOHN EDEN, 12th
PRINCE OF W A L E S ■ S ROYAL)
LANCERS.
I'Idest son of Sir
William and Lady
IMin. was born on
Hu' iUh October,
isss. and was killed
uhilc on patrol duty
near \V<rve((|. on
theSth()ctober,l'J14.
He was buried near
^a^^^^fc^tev. the small village of
^^F^SR^ ' l^^si*^^ America, in Belgium.
'^"' I'^ducatod at Eton
Sandhurst, he joined the 12tli
r..ancers in India, in .lanuary. UlOi). and became
Lieutenant in May. 1914. He went to France
with liis regiment in .\ugust, 1914 : was at
the Battle of Mons. through the retirement:
the Battles of the .Marne and the Aisne, and
the first Battle of Ypres.
LIEUTENANT EDWIN ALLEN JAMES
EDWARDS. 3rd B.^TTN. BEDFORD-
SHIRE REGT..
was born at Brixton
on the 13th March.
I.S95, and was the
^^, youngest son of Mr.
^' and Mrs. H. Ed-
wards, of Suva.
(Uenbuck Eoad, Sur-
y ^^^^^^^_ liiton, Surrey. His
'•' ^ Al^H^B^^ t «o brothers are
serving their coun-
try, one in the
Boyal Navy and
one in a London regiment.
He was educated at St. John's College, Brixton,
and Dulwich College, matriculating in June.
1911. At Dulwich he was in the O.T.C.. and in
the Army qualifying examination passed at
the top of the list, being gazetted to the Bed-
fordshire Regunent in June, 1913, and getting
his step in June, 1914. He was a good
left-handed tennis player, and was fond of
boating.
He went to France witli the 1st Battalion in
August, 1914, and fought with it at the
Battles of the Marne and the Aisne. He was
wounded on the 15th October, while gallantly
leading his men at Givenchy, and died from
his wounds on the 31st December, 1914, in the
Fishmongers' Hall Hospital, London Bridge.
CAPTAIN ERIC L E .\ PRIEST-
LEY EDWARDS. 1st BATTN.
EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT,
born at .Scarborough on the 2nd March, 1S77,
was the son of Lea Priestley Edwards, Ks(|..
of Warberry Coiu't, Torquay, Devon, and grand-
son of the late Sir Henry Edwards, Bart., C.B.
Having been educated at Harrow and the
Royal .Military College, Sandhurst, he joined
the East Y'orkshire Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant
in February, 1897, becoming Lieutenant in
July, 1898, and Captain in May, 1903.
Captain Edwards served in the Tirah Cam|)aign
of 1S97-9S. and was present at operations in tlie
Bara \'alley. receiving the medal with two
clasps.
He was killed in the Battle of the Aisne on
the 20th Septemhcr. 1914.
LIEUTENANT FRANK GLEN-
CAIRN DE BURGH EDWARDS
ROY.\L HORSE
ARTILLERY.
was born on tlie 9tli
June, 188.5, and
entered the Boyal
Artillery from the
.Militia in May, 1907.
being promoted
Lieutenant in May.
1910.
He was killed in
action on the 12tli
Oct* her. 1914.
LIEUTEN.\NT PHILIP JOHN EGER-
TON, 1st BATTN. BORDER REGIMENT,
who died of wounds
on the 1 7th October.
1914. was the elder
son of Hul)ert D.
and Annie ICgerton.
St. .Michael's Lodge.
C h i s I e h u r s t . anf 1
was b'orn on the
lOlh April. 1SS2.
He fiist joined the
3rd{.Militia)Battalion
W e s t Y o r k s h i r e
Regiment, in Janu-
ary. 1901. being promoted Lieutenant in the
following August, and was given a commission
as 2nd Lieutenant in the Border Regiment,
on the 29th July. 1903. becoming Lieutenant
in June, 1905.
During tlie .South African War, 1901-02
Lieutenant Egerton served in the Mediterranean,
receiving the medal. In October, 1910, he was
appointed Adjutant of liis battalion, wliieh
appointment he held till September, 1913.
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EGE ELI
LIEUTENANT R O %%' L A N D L E
BEL WARD EGERTON. 2nd attd.
1st) BATTN. ROYAL WELSH
FUSILIERS,
BF ' whose name has not
yet appeared in the
official lists as killed,
lost his life on the
30th October. 1914.
beint; killed in action
near the village of
Zonnebeke on that
date.
He was the younger
(twin) son of Sir
Philip Henry Brian
Grey-Egcrtou, twelfth Bart., of Egerton and
t)ulton, fount y t'hester. and was boi'n on the
4th April, 1S95. He was educated at Wellington,
where he was in the Talbot from 190S-12. and
went to the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, in 1913. He
joined the Royal Welsh FusUiers in August,
1914. and was gazetted Lieutenant on the 24th
( )ctober. He was fond of cricket and shooting.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT RANDLE
EGERTON, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
who was killed iu
action on the 15th
November. 1914,
was the only son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Egerton. of Stansty
Lodge. Wrexham.
He was born on the
20th :March, 1888.
and was educated at
Clifton College and
the R.M.A., Wool-
wich, from wlijch he
passed into the Royal Engineers in December,
1908, becoming Lieutenant in February, 1911.
Lieutenant Egerton was a cricketer and hockey
player, having twice played cricket for his corps
against the R.A., and twice as goalkeeper at
hockey for Army v. Xavy. He was aLso a good
revolver and rifle shot, having won the Army
championship for the former, and having often
shot at Bisley in the Army Eight. He also
held the Royal Humane Society's certificate
for saving a man from drowning.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN STURGESS
ELDRED. 2nd BATTN. THE
PRINCE OF W^ A L E SS L E I N S T E R
REGIMENT iROYAL CANADIANSi.
born at Sheerness-on-Sea on the 19th Sep-
tember, 1894, was the second son of Fleet-
Paymaster Ed%vard H. Eldred. R.X.. and a
grandson of Edgar Eldred, Esq., of Petersfield,
and of the late Commander Richard Sturgess.
He was educated at Weymouth College (Junior
.ScIkmiI). old Catton, Xor\rich, and the R..M.C.
Saudhiu^t. He was gazett«»d to the Leinster
Reg i ment in
August, 1914, and
served for a short
time at Tipperary
and Cork, being then
attached to the 2nd
Battn. Royal Irish
Rifles in the North
of France.
He died at Boulogne
on the 27th Novem-
ber of wounds
received at Ypres on the Sth November, 1914.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM LAURENCE
ELIOT, 1st BATTN. PRINCE OF
WALES'S OWN WEST YORKSHIRE
REGIMEN Ti.
who was killed in
action on the 20th
.September, 1914, in
France, was the son
of Commander Lau-
rence Eliot, R.N.,
and ilrs. Laurence
Eliot, ilullion, Corn-
wall, and was born
on the 9th July.
1890.
A brother of Lieu- *"
tenant Eliot's, Laurence Charles I)rake Eliot
served in the war as a Private in Lord Strath-
cona's Horse, Royal Canadians, and was killed
in action on the 22nd May, 1915. Another
brother is in training as a 2nd Lieutenant in
the Royal ^larines : while another is serving as
Second Officer on a transport in the Dardanelles,
Mediterranean Station.
Lieutenant W. L. Eliot was educated at Fal-
mouth Grammar School and Exeter School,
and joined the West Yorkshire Regiment in
October, 1910, becoming Lieutenant in Sep-
tember, 1912.
C.\PTAIN HUGH RUSSELL ELIOTT.
3rd BATTN. WORCESTERSHIRE REGT..
was the son of the
late Major-General
William Russell
EUott, grandson of
the late Sir Daniel
Eliott, K,C.S.I., and
a descendant of
General Eliott Lord
Heathfleld, defender
of Gibraltar, and
was born at -South
Kensington on the
lOth.February, 1873.
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He was filucated at WfUiiiijtoii College, anil
joined Ihe ;5id Battalion lioyal Welsh Fusiliers
in 1899, being attached to the 2nd Battalion
Hie BufTs (Kast Kent Regiment) iu 1900:
he was giveti a commission as 2nd Lieutenant
in the Woi-ccstershire Regiment in April, 1900.
and served witli it through the .South African
War. In that year he was present at operations
in the Orange Free State, in the Orange River
Colony, including the actions at Bethlehem and
Wittebergen : and operations in the Transvaal
West of Pretoria. In 1901-02 he took part in
further operations in the Transvaal and Orange
River Colony : he received the Queen's medal
with three clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps. He was promoted Lieutenant in
November, 1900, and attained the rank of
Captain in November, 1904.
Captain Eliott served with the Southern
Nigerian Force from 1903-05, receiving the
medal with two clasps, and subsequently was
appointed Adjutant to the 7th Royal War-
wickshire Regiment (Territorial! from 1910-13.
In the (ireat War he was in the retirement
from .Mons, Le Cateau. the Battles of tlie
Rivei-s Marne and Aisne, and La Couture. He
was killed in action, on the 12th October at
Hicheboiu'g .St. Vaa.st, while leading his Com-
pany against the Germans at the beginning of
the struggle for Ypres.
He w-as a member of the Junior Army and
Navy Chill, and his recreations were fishing and
hunting.
Captain Kliott married Constance Mary, daugh-
ter of the late A. O. Sedgwick, Esq.. North End
House, Watford, Herts.
C.\PT.\IN HENRY GRATT.\N ELLIOT.
1st B.\TTN. DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT,
born on the 21st
.Tune. 1881. was the
son of the late
Colonel G. A. EUiot
and ^Irs. Elliot, of
" The M a r c h e s,"
I.eatherhead, Sur-
rey, and a kinsman
(if the Earl of Min-
li>. He had a very
large lunnber of rela-
lions in the ser%-ice,
including two
brothei-s. one of whom. Captain G. A. Elliot,
of the Royal Irish Regiment, was taken prisoner
at Canibrai, and was one of the thirty-nine
British officei's subjected to reprisals by the
German Government on account of our differ-
ential treatment of officers of German submarines
who sank unarmed vessels. Another brother.
t'a]itaiii I'. 15. Elliot, is serving in the Princess
Charlott.' ol Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regi-
ment), (ienerals William Elliot and W. ().
Barnard were his uncles, and an ancestor was
General G. A. Elliot, afterwards Lord Heath-
field, the defender of (iibraltar in the great siege.
Educated at Wellington College and the R..\LC.,
.Sandlnu-st. he joined the Devonshire Regiment
in December. 1S99, serving with it through the
Soutli African War, and being present at the
relief of Ladysmith. action at Vaal Krans,
operations on the Tugela Heights, and action
at Pieter's Hill : operations in Natal, including
actions at Laing's Nek and in the Transvaal.
He received the Queen's medal with five and the
King's medal with two clasps. On his return he
was appointed A.D.C. to General Sir O". Moore
Creagh, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., Commander-in-Chief
in India, subsequently serving in Ci'ete. On
the outbreak of the Great War he was Adjutant
at the depot of his regiment at Exeter, and
proceeded to the front with his battalion.
Captain Elliot was killed in the trenches at
\'ailly during the Battle of the Aisne on the
19th September, 1914.
He was a member of the .Tunior Army and Navy
Club, and was unmarried.
2nd LIEUTENANT PHILIP LLOYD
ELLIOTT. 1st BATTN. DUKE OF
CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY,
who was killed in action on the 20th October-
1914, in his nineteenth year, was the second son
of the late GUbert Lloyd Elliott. D.C.L.I.. and
13th Hussars, of Dolhaidd. Carmarthenslure,
and of Mrs. Lloyd Elliott. He was educated at
Cheltenham and the R.M.C., Sandliurst, and
was gazetted to his regiment in .\ugust, 1914.
MAJOR R E G I N .\ L D WIL-
LIAM SIDNEY ELLIOTT, 1st
BATTN. 7th GURKHA RIFLES,
was born at Johns-
town Hovise. County H
Carlow, on the 18th
April. 1874, son of
Nicholas G. Elliott.
Esq., late of the
(52nd Regiment, and
a grandson of the
late Captain .Sir
Thomas Ross, R.N,
Major Elliott went
to Cheltenham
College in 1887, and
gained a cla.s.sical scholarship there in 1888.
and the Schacht German prize in 1891. He was
in the College boat, and in the football NV
in 1891, in which year he also passed into the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, taking the seventh place.
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He received an unattached coiainission in 1893,
and in the following year joined the Indian
Army, becoming Lieutenant in 1895, Captain
in 1902, and Major in 1911.
He fell at Festubert on the 23rd November.
1914, while leading part of the 2nd Battalion of
the Sth Gurkha Rifles in an attack to recover
lost trenches.
Major Elliott married Mary Emilia. >-oungest
daughter of the late Captain Robert H. Swinton,
R.X., and left one son, Robert Allen, born May,
190«5.
LIEUTENANT KENWARD WALLACE
ELMSLIE. 4th ROYAL IRISH DRA-
GOON GUARDS SPECIAL RESERVE).
who was killed in
action on the 4th
Xovember, 1914,
aged twenty - seven
years, was the seconil
son of -Mr. ami Mi-s.
Kenward Wallace
£lnislie. of .May
Place. Hampton
Wick. Middlesex.
Lieutenant Elmslie.
who was an LL.B..
Cambridge, joined
the Special Reserve in May, 1909, and became
Lieutenant in May. 1914. In the war he wa-s
in command of a inai-liine-gun section.
2nd LIEUTENANT GERARD GORDON
CLEMENT ELRINGTON. 1st BATTN .
E.\ST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT.
who was born on
{^^■^■j^^^^H the
late Captain Gerard
Gordon Elrington.
Doi'setshire Regi-
ment, and of Mrs.
Miles, and stepson
of (ieneral Miles,
Indian Army.
He was educated at
Cranleigh School,
Surrey, where he
was a Corporal in the Cadet Corps. He received
his commission in the 3rd Battalion. East
Yorkshire Regitnent, in October. 1912, and in
August. 1914, was transferred to the 1st
Battalion.
He went to the front in charge of a draft for
the 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regi-
ment, and on arrival was attached to that
regiment. He was killed at Festubert on the
.30th to 31?t October, the officer commanding the
battalion to which he was attached giving the
following account of the circumstances : after
saying that this young oHicer bad on previous
occa.sions during the fighting on the Aisne
and north of Arras shown conspicuous gallantry,
cheerfulness, and disregard of danger, he con-
cluded : ■■ Near Festubert, on the night of the
.30th to 31st, a company of this battalion was
ordered to co-operate with the .Sikhs in recover-
ing a trench captured by the Germans the
previous night. 2nd Ueutenant Elrington was
leading his platoon in this attack, and was
shot through the head within a few feet of the
trench. The trench was not taken, but I assured
myself later that he was quite dead, and his
burial was carried out by the ofiRcers of the
Sikh (o8th Rifles) Company in the trench later
on."
M.\JOR RAYMOND ENGLAND.
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY',
who was killed in action, it is stated, on the 2t}th
Augu-st. no date being given in the official
casualty list issued in October, 1914, was the
fourth son of 3Ir. Nicholas England, The
Gables. Colne, Lancashire. He was bom on
the 31st May. 1871. and joined the R.A. in
February, 1891. beconung Lieutenant in Feb-
i-uary, 1894, and Captain in February. 1900.
He served in the South ^Vfrican War, in which
he was slightly wounded, being present at
operations in the Orange Free State, including
actions at Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet and
Zand Rivers : in the Transvaal, including
actions near .Johannesburg, Pretoria, and
Irtamond Hill. He received the Queen's
medal with four clasps. From November, 1901,
to June, 190.5, he was an Adjutant of his
reginjent, and he obtained his ^lajority in
June, 190S.
LIEUTENANT MURRAY ROBERTSON
SWEET-ESCOTT, 3rd attd. 1st BATTN.
KINGS LIVERPOOL REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action near Jlissy,
on the .Aisne. on
the 20th September,
19 14. was the
younger son of the
Rev. E. H. and Mrs.
Sweet - Escott, of
Dulwich CoUege, and
H a r t r o w ilanor.
Taunton. Somerset.
He was bom on
the 14th December,
ISS7, and educated
joined the 3rd Battn. of the King's in Novem-
ber. 1909. became Lieutenant in Februai-y, 1911,
at Marlborough. He
EVA FAR
12S
and, in January, 1012, was appointed A.D.C.
to Sir E. B. .Swcet-Escott, Governor and f'oin-
niander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands, wliioli
position he lield till September, 1913.
Me was twenty - seven years of age at the
time of his death.
CAPTAIN GEORGE RALEIGH KERR
EV.\TT. 1st B.\TTN. THE DUKE OF
C.\MBR1DGKS OWN MIDDLESEX
R E G I M E N T I,
whii was killed in
aattion in Franee on
the l:5th Noveml)er.
It.U. was the only
son of .Surgeon-
General G. .T. H.
Evatt, M.D.. C.B..
Army Medical St a IT.
retired, and Mrs.
Evatt. of Wayside.
Camherley, Surrey.
He was born on the
30th September, 18S3. and joined the Mid-
dlesex Regiment in March, llldl. becoming
Lieutenant in May, 190(i. From April.
190i), to December, 1913. he was employed
with the West African Frontier Force, and was
promoted Captain in .September. 1911.
CAPTAIN ROSSLYN CURZON EVE-
LEGH, 2nd BATTN. OXFORDSHIRE
.\ND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT
INFANTRY.
who was killed in
action at the Battle
of the Aisne on the
1 9th September,
1914 was the elder
son of the late
Colonel Frederick
Kvelegh, formerly in
the ffind (Oxford-
shire) Light In-
fantry, and of .Mrs.
E V e 1 e g h. Elder
Wick, >^li..t(iv.i-iiill. near Oxford.
Captam Evelegh was bom at Eccles, Lancashire,
on the 13th May, 1885, and was educated at
Hinwick House, near Welhngborough : at
Rugby: and the R.M.C., Sandhiu'st. He joined
tlie Oxfordshire Light Infantry, becoming Lieu-
tenant in the combined Oxfordshire and
Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in December,
1905. He played Rugby football, and was good
at all sorts of gymnastics.
From November, 1906, to November. 1909.
he was A.D.C. to the G.O.C., Mauritius. He
was qualified as an interpreter in both French
and German.
His fatal wound was caused by a piece of shell
striking him over the heart. He had been
wounded by shell in five places tliii'c days
before, but remained on diil\ .ind atlriiil.il Ici
his wounded conu'ades.
RLIE, 2nd
FUSILIERS.
C.\PTA1N FRANK FAl
BATTN. ROYAL SCOTS
who was killed in
action on the 23rd
Octolier. 1914. at
Gheluvelt, while tak-
ing a house at the
head of his men, was
bornonthe 17th .lan-
uary, 1S7S, and was
educated at St. Paul's
School, to which he
went in 1893.
He was appointed
liieutenant in the "
3rd Battn. Scottish Rifles in February. 19n|.
and after serving for nearly eight months with
that battalion when embodied, was given a
commission in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in
October, 1901. He served in the South .Xfrican
War, 1899-1901, being present at operations in
the Orange Free State : in the Transvaal, west
of Pretoria, including actions at Frederickstad :
and in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River,
receiving tlie Queen's medal with foiu' clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in June, 1905.
and from 1911 to 1913 was employed with the
West African Frontier Force.
Captain Fairlie. who was married, att-ained his
lank in .lamiary. IVI12.
2nd LIEUTENANT JAMES
DOUGLAS HERBERT FARMER,
ROYAL FIELD .\RTILLERY,
who was killed in action on the 4th November.
1914. at the age of twenty-one. was the second
son of .Tames Herbert Farmer, of Fairfield.
Mundjesley, Norfolk, and a grandson of the late
.James Farmer, Esq., .LP., and of the late Sir
George Harris. J.P.. L.C.C.
2nd Lieutenant Farmer was the second of three
brothers educated at .St. Paul's, all of whom were
keenly interested in the school games : he was a
member of ilr. Cholmeley's House, and playi^d
occasionally tor the First XV.
He was gazetted to the Royal Artillery in July.
1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT HERBERT RON,\LD
FARRAR. 3rd BATTN. LEICESTER-
SHIRE REGIMENT, attd. 2nd BATTN.
MANCHESTER REGIMENT,
who was killed on the 24th December, 1914,
at the age of twenty-seven, was the elder son of
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the Rev. H. W. and Mrs. Farrar, All Saints'
Vicarage. Woolwich.
2nd Lieutenant Farrar. who was a B.A. of
Cambridge (Queens' College), was for some years
in the O.T.C.. and received his commission on
probation in the Leicestershire Regiment in
August. 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT ARCHIBALD
MANATON FARRIER. 1st BATTN.
SOUTH jWALES BORDERERS.
was born at .South
Molton. Devonshire,
on the 13th July,
1S91, and was the
son of Richard and
Lucy Farrier, and
a grandson of WU-
liam and Belvedera
Manaton. He was
at an early age
adopted by his aunt,
Mrs. Edwards, of
Dulverton, who
brou^t him up. TTjg brother is now serving
in the Royal Navy.
2nd Lieutenant Farrier was educated at Devon
County School, where he showed considerable
abilitry, for he took a silver medal at the age
of ten, and when eleven years old won a
scholarship of £30.
In 1907 he joined the 2nd Battalion Devonshire
Regiment, with which he served in Crete, Malta.
Cyprus, and other places. WhUe in the ranks
he earnestly applied himself to his work and
duties, obtaining a first-class (highest) certificate
of education in October. 1910, and in August.
1911, as a Lance-Corporal, he obtained the
certificate qualifying bim to teach, among other
subjects, map-reading, English history, and
physical exercises, and he acted for some time
as Assistant Schoolmaster of his battalion. For
his success he was congratulated by General
Kelly Kenny, then commanding in the district
in which he was serving. He did not neglect
the physical side of his education, for in 1911
he received a regimental certificate for swim-
ming one mile while stationed at Pembroke
Barracks, 31alta.
He returned to England in August, 1914.
having received his commission in the South
Wales Borderers, and joined the 1st Battalion
eariy in November.
He was wounded on the 2Sth December, 1914.
and died the following day " somewhere in
Flanders.'' Major Reddie, commanding the
battalion at the front, writing to his relatives to
express his sympathy in a letter dated the 29th
December, gave the following account of
the circumstances attending his death : —
" Last night he was sent out with a party
to dig some trenches, was wounded in three
places, and unfortunately died from his wounds
this morning. . . . During his short stay with
the regiment he made himself very popular
with all ranks, and did not seem to know the
meaning of the word 'fear.' . . . We feel his
loss very much. I am unable to mention places
in letter."
He was buried in the grounds of Chateau Gorre.
Another comrade wrote saying how cheerful
be always was. and that the men formed a high
opinion of him at once. He was always ready
to undertake little odd jobs that could only
be carried out with danger, whenever an officer
was required. " If Farrier goes on like this
hell be getting the D.S O.." one of the officers
remarked on the evening before he died. A
Captain of his battalion said : " He was a
feariess officer, and will be missed by us all who
had grown to like him so much."
CAPTAIN REGINALD BENJAMIN
FEATHERSTONE. 1st BATTN. DEVON-
SHIRE REGT..
bom at Anerley,
Surrey, on the 2Sth
November, 1 S S 1,
was the son of the
late Benjamin
Feat herst one, Esq.,
of Adelaide, South
Australia, and Tork
House, Blenkame
Road, Wandsworth
Common, S.W.
He was educated at
Westminster School, and after serving with
the embodied 2klilitia for a year and two months
joined the Devonshire Regiment in December,
1901, becoming Lieutenant in December, 1904.
He took part in the South African War. being
present at operations in the TraasvaaL Orange
River Colony, and Cape Colony in 19')2. He
received the Queen's medal with four clasps.
Afterwards he served with the 1st Battalion of
his regiment in India, subsequently being posted
to the depot at Exeter, where he did duty with
the 3rd Battalion. In November, 19«)9, he was
appointed Adjutant of the 5th (Prince of
Wales's) Battalion (Territorial Force) of the
Devonshire Regiment. Later he served in Egypt,
and was promoted Captain in October, 1914.
He went to Flanders with the 2nd Battalion
in November, 1914. and was killed near Neuve
Chapelle on the ISth December, 1914.
Captain Feat herst one married FUizabeth, daugh-
ter of Ernest Robinson, Esq., and left two
children : Betty, bom October. 1910 : and
Jack, born May. 1912.
FEN
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CLAUDE
CAMBRIDGE FENNER, COMMAND-
ING 59th SCINDE RIFLES, FRON-
TIER FORCE, INDIAN ARMY,
^^^^^^1^^ was the only son of
jSj^^^P^ Mr. H. A. Shrapnel
IHpW^^R^P ll Department, Iiuli.-i
^^^a ^ (rotirofl). of (i, Eliot
**■ Hill, Hlackhealh,
a u ll was killed
at K i c ll e bo u r g
I.'A\(uir. France, in
the forty-seventh
year of his age ; he
was Imrieil at Le
■JMUi.t. Itu.- .lu Im.i-.
lie was gazetted to the 1st Battalion, Dorset-
shire Kegiinent (the old 39th) from Sandhurst
in February, 1888, and served with that regi-
ment for about two and a quarter years, when
he was transferred to the Indian Army, lie
obtained his ijromotion to Lieutenant in 1889,
Captain in 1899, Major in 1901), and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel in August, 1913, when he became
Commandant of the 59th. With the exception
of a short time spent in the 24th Bombay
Infantry (now the 124th Duchess of Connaught's
Own Beluchistan Infantry), his entire service in
the Indian Army was with the r.9th. In 19(12
the 59th Kifles (then the tith Punjab Infantry)
gained under his instruction the distinction of
being second in all India in Musketry, Colonel
Fenner himself being a marksman.
In 1903-<ll he was on active service in Somali-
land as Second-in-Conunand of the 52nd Sikhs,
F.F.. his linked battalion. He connnanded the
regiment at the Battle of Jidballi, where it
formed the front of the square when attacked
by the Mullah and his hosts. He was attached,
with some four hvindred of his men, to a force
of Mounted Infantry, the whole under the
command of Colonel Kenna, \'.C., which force
went through incredible hardships from hunger,
thirst, and long marches in intense heat,
(leneral Sir Charles Egerton, K.C.B. — himself
an old frontier officer — mentioned him in his
sjjccial despatch, and he received the medal
and two clasps. In 1908 he took part in the
ojierations against the Zakka Khel tribesmen
who inhabit the mountains near Peshawar, and
which led to a rising of the Kyber Pass tribes
and the great Mohmand tribe. He received a
medal and clasp lor these services.
Lieutenant-Colonel Fenner spent a month in
the trenches in France, with the exception of
a few hours, during most of which tinie his
regiment held neai-ly a mile of the line. He
was killed instantaneously by a bullet from the
German trenches, while standing up directing
operations. He was mentioned in Sir .Tolm
Freurh's Despatch of :;is( Al.-iy. IIH."., the
.'>'.ith having the sail and imii|ue <listinction of
liaving three Connnanding Ollicers mentioned
in that one despatch. Colonel Fenner, under
whose conunand they went to France, being
tlie first to fall. The 59th was one of the llrst
Indian Regiments to land in I'rance.
Colonel Fenner was a gallant gentleman, if
we may use the term, which denotes so mueli.
Dauntless and brave, his numerous letters home
are full of thought for his men and tlieir comfort,
and recognition of the services of the splendid
European officers in his regiment. Many of
his native officers and men he nmst have known
for years, and they were as comrades to him.
lie was a keen sportsman and an expert rifle
shot, much big game having fallen to his gun.
He played back tor his regiment at polo, and
had a handicap at three at golf.
Colonel Fenner married on the 27th Maich.
1899. Louise ^'ictoria MacMahon, daughter of
the late Major O. F. W. MacMahon. 1, ,\..
and grand-daughter of the late General W. I'.
MacMahon.
LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY RUSSELL
FENTON, 2nd BATTN. CONNAUGHT
RANG E R S, ^,„^,_ _
who was killed in
action at the Battle
of the Aisne o n
the 20th September,
1914, was the son of
William Russell
Fenton, of Ardag-
howen, Sligo, and
was born on the
7th November,
1889, at Sligo.
He was educated at
Cheltenham College and the R.JM.C, Sandhurst,
and joined the Connaught Rangers in September'.
1909, becoming Lieutenant in February, 1910.
He was a keen all-round sportsman, a good
shot and fisherman, and constantly rode to
hounds when stationed in Ireland.
Lieutenant Fenton joined his battalion with
a draft in August, 1914, during the early part of
the retirement from Mons, in which therefore he
took part, and subsequently in the advance to
the Aisne, where he was killed within about
three hundred yards of the Herman trenches.
The Observation Officer of his platoon was
killed by a sniper, and Lieutenant Fenton at
once took his place, and was shot through the
brain a few minutes later. This occurred before
the use of periscopes by our men, who were
thus left at a great disadvantage compared with
the enemy's snipers, who were using telesco|iic
sights.
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LiiMitcnant I'Viitoii iiiairicd in Octolicr. I'Jl'J.
.Millicent, elder daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel
v.. H. Montresor, Royal Sussex Regiment, who
also was killed at the Battle of the Aisne on
the 14th September. 1911.
LIEUTENANT JAMES ADAM HAMIL-
TON F E R G U S S O N. 2nd B A T T N.
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY,
wa.s the son of Sir
James Fergusson.
Bart., of Spital-
liaugh. West Linton.
Peeblesshire, and
was born on the
22nd >Iarch. l.Sfl2.
at Curzon Street,
Mayfair. London.
He was educated at
Ardvreck, Pert li-
shire : Winchester
College ; and the
Hoyal ililitary College, Sandhurst. He joined
the Highland Light Infantry as 2nd Lieutenant
on the 14tli February, 1912. and was promoted
Lieutenant in August, 1914.
At the Battle of the Aisne on the 20th Septem-
ber, 1914, he had Ijeen kneeling while attending
to a wounded man, and on rising a bullet
struck him in the forehead and killed him
instantaneou'-ly.
He was a keen sijortsman. an exceUent shot,
and a good golfer.
■' He was an affectionate and dutiful son."
2nd LIEUTENANT DUDLEY LUIS DE
TAVORA FERN ANDES, 2nd BATTN.
BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
wlio was killed in
action on the 23rd
October, 1914, aged
twenty-one, by the
_ _ ^^ binsting of a shell,
l^r |P5^' 5i.^ """^ *'^® ^'^^ °^ ^^'■- '''•
W. L. Fernandes, of
Scarborough. He
was educated at St.
Peter's .School, York,
and theR.M.C, Sand-
hurst, from which he
was gazetted to the
Bedfordshire Regiment in September, 1913. He
joined his battaUon in South Africa, coming
to Europe with it in the autumn of the year
1914 for active service.
CAPTAIN WALTER HUGHES FERRAR,
,\DJUTANT 2nd BATTN. THE W'ELSH
REGIMENT, who was killed in action on
the 31st October, 1914 (according to the oflicial
lists), was the youngest son of the late A. il.
]"(ri-ar. Fs(j.. n.Iy.,of Torwood. Belfast. He wa.s
born on the 29th June. 1 STfi. and « ;is ediical i-d nf
Marlborough College
(Crescent, 1889-93).
jolixing the Welsh
Regiment from the
:Militia in May. 1S97.
becoming Lieutenant
in June, 1S99.
He took part in the
South African War.
(hu-ing which la-
served with tlie
Mounted Infantry,
and was present
at the relief of Kiiiiljerle> . at i.iHiai imj^
in the Orange Free State and Paarde-
berg, actions at Poplar Grove, Karee
Siding, lloutnek (Thoba Mountain). Vet and
Zand Rivers : operations in the Transvaal,
including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria,
and Diamond Hill ; operations in the Orange
River Colony, including actions at Wittebergen
and Witpoort : in Cape Colony, soutli of the
Orange River : again in the Orange River and
Cai>e Colonies in 1901, and in tlie Transvaal,
1901-02. He received the Queen's njedal
with five clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
Captain Ferrar, who reached that rank in
^larch, 1904, was employed with the Egyptian
Army from May of that year to July, 1911,
during which time he again saw active service,
takmg part in operations in the Soudan in the
Jebel Nyinia District of Southern Kordofan.
for which he received the medal with clasp,
and the 4th class of the Osmanieh.
He was killed whilst leading a charge on the
village of Gheluvelt, and was mentioned in .Sir
John French's first despatch of the 8th October,
1914.
He was a member of the Army and Xavy
Club, Pall Mall, and was not married.
LIEUTENANT GILBERT COLIN
CUNNINGHAME FERRIER, 7th
BATTN. ROYAL FUSILIERS
CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT).
about whose fate there was for a long time some
uncertainty, was included in the casualty list
published by the War Oflfice in May, 1915. as
" unofficially reported killed or died of wounds "
on the 11th November, 1914.
Lieutenant Ferrier was appointed to his regi-
ment, on probation, from the Xew Zealand
Defence Forces, in August. 1914, and was
attached for service to the 4th Battalion of his
regiment when he died. While his death was
still in doubt, he was promoted Lieutenant,
to date from February, 191.5.
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LIEUTENANT HUGH MOCKLER-
FERRYMAN, 2nd B A T T N. OX-
FORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAM-
SHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY,
was the son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
A. F. Mockler-FeiTy-
nian, late Oxford-
shire Light Infantry,
and of Evelyn L.
Jloekler - Ferryman,
daughter of the late
Sir C. 'UTutehead,
and was bom at
Maidstone on the
8rd May, 1892.
Lieutenant Mockler-
Ferryman was educated at Wellington College,
Berkshire, where he was in the Cricket XI
in 1909-10, and at the Royal Jlilitary CoUege,
Sandliurst. He received his commission as
2ud Lieutenant in .September, 1911, and became
Lieutenant in April, 1914. Pi-oceeding abroad
with the Expeditionary Force in August, 1914,
he was present in the retirement from :Mons
up to the Battle of the Aisne, where he was
killed near La Soupir on the 16th September.
1914.
Lieutenant ilockler-Ferryman played cricket
for Berkshire, the Aldershot Command, and in
other club teams. Among his other recreations
were Alpine sports and curling, he having been
a member of the Caledonian (Curling) Club.
2nd LIEUTENANT LEONARD AMAURI
FILLEUL, B.A., SPECIAL RESERVE,
SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY,
was the son of the
Rev. Philip William
Girdlestone PiUeul,
Rector of DcAnzes,
Wiltshire, and was
born at St. .Tames's
Lodge, Bath, on the
lith February, 1888.
"-'nd Lieutenant
I'illeul wa.s a relative
of the late Dr. Valpy,
of scholastic fame,
whose daughter was
his grial-j;raiidinother. and to Canon Robert
Girdlestone, formerly Principal of Wycliffe Hall,
Oxford.
2nd Lieutenant Filleul was educated at the
Preparatory School, Cleveland Hnuse. Wey-
mouth : and at Trent College, Derbyshire ;
afterwards proceeding to Lincoln College,
Oxford. At the University he rowed for four
years in his college eight. While he was Secre-
tary and Captain the College boat rose to fifth
on the river. In 1910 he rowed in the \vinning
Trial Eights. He was in his .School Cadet Corps,
winning tlie National .Service League gold
medal for proficiency, and was in the Oxford
University Officers' Training Corps. On leaving
the 'Varsity he, in January, 1912, received a
commission in Prince Albert's Regiment (.Somer-
setshire Light Infantry), with which he trained
for three weeks each year during his vacations.
He was a master at ilonkton Combe .School,
Bath, until the war broke out. For two years
he was Captain of the Football Club at Trent
College, and an oarsman at Oxford : «hile at
Monkton Combe School he greatly developed
the School Rowing Club.
He left England at the end of .September, 1914,
with a draft of the Oxfordshire and Buckingham-
shire Light Infantry, to which regiment he
was then attached. On the 21st October, 1914
(Trafalgar Day) he was engaged in an attack
on German infantry in the great Battle of
Ypres, near St. Julien. During a rush forward
in the early morning over some open ground
he was struck by a bullet near the heart, d>-ing
instantlv.
BRIG.\DIER-GENERAL NEIL DOUG-
LAS FINDLAY, C.B., p.s.c, COMM.\ND-
ING ROYAL ARTILLERY 1st DIVISION,
was killed in action
near C o u r c h a m ps,
Fi-ance, on the 10th
September, 1914,
whilst directing the
fire of his guns.
He entered the
R.M.A., Woolwich,
on the 19th January,
1877, and was com-
missioned into the
Royal Artillery as
Lieutenant on the
18th December. 1878. He l»-caiiii- ( aiitaiii on the
28th April. 1887 : .Major on the 21st December,
1896 ; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on the 29th
November, 1900 : Lieutenant^Colonel R.A. on
the 1st September, 1904 : Brevet-Colonel on
the 15th October, 1905 : Substantive Colonel
on the 2nd March, 1908 ; Brigadier-General
on the 14th July, 1910. He pa.ssed the final
examination Staff College. 1897. He held the
following Staff appointments: Adjutant R.A..
1st March, 1894, to 14th January. 1896 : Staff
Officer R.A.. 1st Army Corps, and Brigade-
Major R.A., Aldershot. oth March. 1901, to
14th April, 1904: A.A.G., headquartei-s of
Army and A.A.G., War Office, 2nd March.
1908, to 13th July, 1910 : Commanding R.A.,
1st Division Aldershot Command. 14th July.
1910.
His war services included the Hazara Expedition,
1888, for which he was mentioned in despatches
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and received the medal with clasp. He als«i
took part in the South African War, 1899-19IX),
being present at operations in Xatal in Decem-
ber, 1899, at the reUef of Ladysmith, at further
operations in Xatal from March to June, 1900,
at operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria,
July to Xoveniber. 19W. For these services
he was mentioned in Despatches " London
Gazette," 8th February, 1901 ; (Sir R. H.
Buller, 30th March and 9th November. 1900) ;
and '■ London Gazette," 22nd February, 1901 ;
and received the Queen's medal with six clasps
and the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Brigadier- General Findlay was the second son
of Thomas Dunlop Findlay, of Easterhill,
Lanarkshire, and married, in 1892, Alma,
daughter of Thomas Lloyd, of Minard, Argyll-
shire.
CAPTAIN FRANK FISHER. 1st BATTN.
ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT.
who was killed in
I action on the 13th
September, 19 14,
whilst leading his
company when ad-
vancing to the Aisne,
was the younger son
of Frederick
j ^^^^^^ Fisher. of Ttilse
jA ^ ^hP^^ Hill. London, S.W.,
|H|t . yf^- ^^1 ^'^'^ ^^^ bom in
IHB^^^^^M|&j^^ London on the 23rd
^ December, 1883.
He was educated at Chaiterhouse and the
R.M.C, .Sandhxirst. and joined the Royal West
Kent Regiment in October, 1903, becoming
Lieutenant in January, 1906. He was promoted
Captain on the 5th August, 1914.
Captain Fisher was a member of the Junior
Naval and MiUtary and the Royal Automobile
Clubs, and was unmarried.
CAPTAIN HAROLD FISHER. D.S.O.,
1st BATTN. MANCHESTER REGT..
— _.,_ — , — _ - was the son of the
Rev. Canon F. H.
Fisher, Church Croft,
Hemel Hempstead,
and was bom at Ful-
ham on the 3rd
March. 1877.
He was educated at
Haileybury. and first
joined the Suffolk
Artillery Militia, in
October, 1895, enter-
ing the Manchester
Regiment in April. 1898, becoming Lieutenant
in May, 1899, and Captain in July, 1901.
With his battalion he served in the South
African War. being present at operations in
Natal and the Transvaal, includuig action at
Belfast : again at operations in the Transvaal,
1901—02. For his services he was mentioned in
Despatches ('" London Gazette," 8th February,
1901 : Sir G. S. White. 2nd December. 1899.
and 23rd March. 19W : and "London Gazette,"
10th September, 1901). He was awarded the
D.S.O.. and received the Queen's medal with
three clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
He was killed in action near La Basseo on the
16th December. 1914.
CAPTAIN MORTIMER FISHER. 1st
BATTN. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S
OWN WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT),
was the son of
Frederick Charles
Fisher, Esq.,
F.R.C.S., and was
bom at King's
Langley, Herts, on
the 24th March.
1883.
He was educated at
Aldenham .School,
Elstree, Herts, and
joined the 3rd (then
IMilitia) Battalion of
the West Yorkshire Regiment in April. 19tX»,
and, having passed third in his examination
was transferred to the 2nd Battalion in June,
1901. He joined his battalion in .South Africa
on active service in October, 1901, remaining
there over two years, during which he held the
posirion of Acting Adjutant, and. as he held
the Hythe certificate. Musketry Instructor. He
was present at operations in the Transvaal,
November, 1901 — May, 1902, receiving the
Queen's medal with three clasps.
In 1905 he exchanged into the 1st BattaUon
and went to India, where he went tlirough the
Mohmand Campaign. 1908. receiving the medal
with clasp.
On promotion to Captain in July, 1910, he
joined the depot of his legiment at York.
Captain Fisher accompanied his battalion to the
Continent for active service in the Great War
and took part in some of the s?vere fighting in
the early stages of the campaign.
He was killed on the 20th September, 1914,
near Troyon, but it has not been possible to
obtain particulars of the occurrence, as so
many of the battalion were killed, wounded, or
missing.
He married Margaret Sarah, daughter of C. H.
Bailey, Esq., of Charlcombe, Watford, and left
one son, Richard Mortimer, bom 3rd February,
1913.
He played football, golf, and polo.
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FIT
BRIGADIER-GENERAL CHARLES
FITZCLARENCE, V.C., p. s.c,
IRISH GUARDS. COMMANDING
T H,E 1st GUARDS BRIGADE,
was the sou of the
late Captain the
lion. George Kit/.-
Clarence, R.N. , third
son of the first Earl
of Munster, and was
born on the 8th
May. 180."). at
Bishop's 0 o u r t,
Comity K i 1 d a r e.
Ireland. All four
sons of the Eai-1 of
.M u n s t e r served
either in the Xavy or Aruiy, the youngest dying
of wounds received in the attack on the Kedan
in the Crimea. A t\rin brother of Brigailier-
General FitzClarence served with distinction
in the Egyptian Army, and was killed at Abu-
Hanied in 1897.
Brigadier-General FitzClarence was educated
at Eton, and Wellington CoUege, and joined the
Army, in which he had a most distinguished
career, by entering the Royal Fusiliers (City
of London Reghuent) from the Militia in
November, 188(5, as Lieutenant, lie became
Captain in that regiment in AprO. 18U8, and was
transferred to the Irish Guards on the formation
of that regiment in October, 1900.
In the South African War Brigadier-ticneral
FitzClarence earned the X.C. for three distmct
acts of great bravery, durmg the siege of Mafe-
king, on separate dates, he having gone to
South Africa on special service in July, 1899.
His gaUantry and daring throughout the siege
had become proverbial, and earned for lum the
sobriquet of " The Demon " among his men.
Three specific acts of valour are officially re-
corded in connection with the award of the ^^C.,
the first having been at Five jVIile Bank. The
armoured train had gone out on the 14th Octo-
ber, 1899, and had got into difficulties. Captain
FitzClarence took about fifty men of the newly
formed Protectorate Regunent — which he had
himself helped to raise — to its assistance. It
was their first engagement, but starting at
one thousand yards FitzClarence advanced them,
under a very heavy fire, to a distance of between
four and five hundred yards from the train. At
one time the squadron was nearly surrounded,
but the Captain's perfect coolness and clever
handhng effected the object in view, with a
loss of only two killed and fifteen wounded,
they having succeeded in killing fifty of the
enemy, besides wounding a large number.
They were supported by No. 2 Troop, and a part
of "D" Squadron covered their retirement,
but the moral eflect upon the enemy was very
great.
The second occasion was a idtch-dark night,
on the 27tli October, when he led about sixty
men, supported by a handful of police, in a
sortie to attack the Boers' main trench to the
east of the town. So cautiously did they work
that they came on the enemy sleeping, and
attacked them with bayonet and butt end of
rifles. FitzClarence was the first man in.
sword in hand, and is said to have killed four
himself. The Boers in the rear fired on the
trench indiscriminately, and when the whistle
sounded to retire the Uttle party return..!,
leaving six dead and nine wounded.
The third time was on the 23rd December, when
he greatly distinguished himself by his courage
and dasli in the action at Game Tree, being
himself shot through the leg and seriously
wounded.
Fi-om August. 1900. to February. 19(11. having
received his Brevet .Majority in November,
1900, he was Brigade-Major in South Africa.
For his war scrNice she was mentioned in Des-
patches ("London Gazette," Sth February,
1901 ), and in addition to being awarded the V.C.
and his brevet promotion he received the Queen's
South Africa -Medal with three clasps. From
April. 1903, to March, 1900, he was Brigade-
.Major of the 5th Brigade at Aldershot. He
received his substantive Majority in the Irish
Guards in May, 1904, and succeeded to the
command of the 1st BattaUon in July, 1909.
In 1913 he was appointed to the command of
the regiment and regimental district, a post he
held till the outbreak of the war with Germany,
when he took over command of the 29th Brigade,
Xth Division, at the Curragh till the 22nd
September, and on the 27th of that month he
took conmtand of the 1st Guards Brigade of the
Expeditionary Force, wliich he held till his
death in action at Ypres on the night of the
11th November or early morning of the 12th
November, 1914, leading the 1st Guards' Brigade
against the Prussian Guard.
At the time of the fighting near Gheluvelt on
the 31st October, 1914, w^hen the Germans
had broken the line of the 1st Di\-ision and
taken the vUlage, Sir John French, in his
Despatch pubU.shed on the 30th November,
1914, referring to this incident, says: "Per-
haps the most important and decisive attack
(except that of the Prussian Guard on the
10th November) made against the 1st Corps
during the whole of its arduous experiences
in the neighbourhood of Ypres took place
on the 31st October. After several attacks
and counter-attacks during the course of
the morning along the Menin- Ypres Road,
south-east of Gheluvelt, an attack against that
place developed in great force, and the line of
the 1st Division was broken. .Aleantime. on the
Menin Road, a counter-attack delivered by the
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FIT
left of the 1st Division and the right of the Ilnd
Division against the right flank of the German
line was completely successful, and the 2nd
Worcester Regiment was to the fore in this.
I was present, with Sir Douglas Haig, at Hooge
between two and three o'clock on this day
when the 1st Division was retiring. I regard it
as the most critical moment in the whole of this
great battle. Tlie rally of the 1st Division and
the recapture of the village of Gheluvelt at such
a tuue was fraught with momentous conse-
quences. If any one unit can be singled out for
especial praise it is the Worcesters."
Sir John French, in a speech he made to the
Worcesters on the 26th Xovember, 1914. which
appeared in " The Times" of the 14th December.
1914. praising the Worcesters for what they had
done on the 31st October, said : "I have made
repeated enquiries as to what officer was re-
sponsible for the conduct of thus counter-attack
on October 31st, but have never so far been
able to find out."
It has since been officially established that it
was Brigadier-General FitzClarence. V.C.. who
was responsible.
In his despatch of the 20th November, 1914,
Sir John French made the following reference
to the late officer : " Another officer whose
name was particularly mentioned to me was
that of Brigadier-General FitzClarence, V.C.,
commanding the 1st Guards' Brigade. He was
unfortunately killed in the night attack of the
11th Xovember. His loss will be severely felt."
Brigadier-General FitzClarence was a military
member of the London Territorial Force Asso-
ciation, and a member of I Zingari, the Guards',
and the Naval and ililitary Clubs.
He married, in April, 1S9S, Violet, youngest
daughter of the late Lord Alfred Spencer
Churchill, son of the sixth Duke of Marlborough,
and left a son and a daughter : Edward Charles,
born October, 1899 : and Joan Harriet, bom
December. 1901.
CAPTAIN GERALD GADSDEN FITZE.
"C" BATTERY. ROYAL HORSE
ARTILLERY,
who is believed to
have been killed
whilst reconnoitring
on or about the
28th October, 1914,
at or near Zand-
voorde, Belgium,
was the elder son
of the late 5Ir.
.Samuel Fitze, of
Trevanion. East-
bourne, and of !Mrs.
Fitze,Trehayne, Ashburnham Road, Eastbourne.
Bom at 56 Kensington Park Road, London. W.,
on the 11th January, 1886, he was educated at
Lambrook, Bracknell, and at >Iarn)orough
College, proceeding afterwards to the R.M.A..
Woolwich.
He received his first appointment in the Army
in July, 1906, when he was gazetted 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the Royal Field Artillery ; and in
January, 1907, he joined the 31st Battery at
Kilkenny, Ireland. He became Lieutenant
two years later, and in 1912 was posted to
" C " Battery. Royal Horse Artillery. His
promotion to Captain was gazetted to date from
the 30th October, 1914, after his presimied
death.
Captain Fitze, whose favourite recreation was
hunting, was a member of the Junior Army
and Navy and ilarlborough Clubs.
CAPTAIN GERALD HUGH FITZ-
GERALD. 4th ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON
GUARDS,
born at Johnstown
Castle, Wexford,
Ireland, on the 11th
April, 1S86. was the
only son of the late
Lord Maurice
FitzGerald, second
son of the fomth
Duke of Lein.ster.
and Lady Adelaide
Forbes, eldest
daughter of the
seventh Earl of Granard. K.P.
He was educated at Eton, and joined the Royal
North Devon Hussars (Yeomanry), from which
he was gazetted to the (Royal Irish) Dragoon
Guards in December, 1907, obtainiiig his troop
in November, 1913.
He was shot through the head while taking
machine-gun observations on the 13th Septem-
ber, 1914. at Bourg-et-Comin (Aisne).
Captain FitzGerald belonged to the Cavalry
Club, and his recreations were hunting, shooting,
polo, and cricket.
He married, on the 6th August, 1914, Dorothy,
youngest daughter of Spencer Charrington, Esq.,
of Winchfield. Hampshire.
LIEUT. D. T. F. FITZPATRICK. 3rd attd.
2nd I BATTN. SOUTH STAFFORD-
SHIRE REGT..
was killed in action
on the 27th October.
1914. He was edu-
cated at .Stonyhurst,
and joined the 3rd
Battalion .South
.Staffordshire R e g i -
ment, on probation,
in March, 1913, be-
coming Lieutenant
in February, 1914.
FIT FOL
1,16
CAPTAIN GABRIEL ROY FITZ-
PA TRICK. 3rd lattd. 2nd) BATTN-
T H F.
WELSH
REGIMENT,
was born at Chelsea,
London. S.W.. on
(he 20tli October.
1883. and was the
son of J. F. .1.
Fitzpatrick, Esq., of
Ilij^h^iatt'. He was
educated at tlie
.result C.illiL.'c.
.Stamford Hill, and
Ratcliff CoUege. He
served in the Oity
Imperial Yeomanry
from 19(ll-(l2. in the .3rd Essex Regiment from
1905-09, and became Lieutenant in the 3rd
Battalion Welsh Regiment in August, 1909.
He also served with the British Ea-st Afi'ican
Police from 1909-12.
He was with the 2nd Battalion Welsh Regiment
in this war. being present in the retirement from
Mons to the Marne, was promoted Captain on
the 1st .Septeniber, 1914, and was killed on the
14th of that month at Beaulne, in the Battle
of the Aisne.
Captain Fitzpatrick married May. daughter of
the late Rev. W. F. Attenborough. Vicar of
Fletching, and adopted daughter of the late
Henry North, Earl of Sheffiel.l. of Slieltield
Park. Sussex. He left no family.
CAPT.\IN ROL.\ND S.\CKVILLE
FLETCHER, 1st BATTN.
NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS,
born in London on
the 24th .March.
18S2, was the second
son of LionelFletcher
and Eleanor Mary,
his wife {»ec Stop-
ford Sack\Tlle), of
Ehusf^roft,We.st Far-
leigh, Kent, and a
nephew of Colonel
.Stopford Sackville,
of Drayton House,
Xorthants.
He was educated at Charterhouse, and entered
the Northumberland Fusiliers from the North-
amptonsliire Militia (with which he served when
it was embodied for nearly nine months), in
January, 1901, becoming Lieutenant in Febru-
ary, 1902, From November, 1904, to January,
1910, he was seconded for employment with the
North Nigeria Regiment. West African Frontier
Force, under the Colonial Office, and was pro-
moted Captain in. .September, 1912.
On arrival at the front on the 29th October he
wa.s sent on the 1st November, 1914. \vith his
company to help in holding Wytschaete against
an overwhelming force of tlio enemy. He was
seen to fall on the morning of the 1st November,
after which he was not seen again, but the news
of his death on the following day was obtained
from one of the prisoners in a (ierman cam]) in
.lune, 1915.
Captain Fletcher was of a very literary turn
of mind, and several articles by him. chiefly on
his exjieriences in Northern Nigeria, appeared in
■• Blackwood's Magazine." He made a great
study of the language and customs of the
natives, and published a book called " Hausa
.Sayings and lAjlk-loic." lie was ([ualified as
a first-class Inlerpreler in llausa. In 1912. as
part of his examination for tlie .St.ilT College.
He was a member of the Wellington Club, and
was very fond of sports and games.
2nd LIEUTENANT REGINALD WILLL\M
FLETCHER, ROY AL FIELD ARTILLERY,
who was killed in
action on the 31st
October, 1914, at the
age of twenty-two,
was the youngest son
of C. R. L. Fletcher,
Esq.. Norhani End,
Oxford, and was born
on the 19th March,
1892. He was edu-
cated at Eton, where
he was a scholar, and
was a commoner of
Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford he was in
the Artillery Section of the O.T.C. He rowed
in the Leander Four at Henley Regatta, 1913.
and in the Oxford University Eight in 1911.
and was also for some years stroke of his
college boat,
fie was gazetted to the R.A. in Decemln-r. 1912.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS .\LGERNON
FITZGERALD FOLEY, 1st B.\TTN.
THE NORFOLK REGIMENT.
who was born on
the 2i)th December,
1889, at Egerton
Gardens, London,
S.W., was the only
son of the late Vice-
Admiral Francis
John Foley,
grandson of Admiral
the Hon. Fitzgerald
A. C. Foley, a grand-
nephew of Colonel
the Hon. Augustus
Frederick Foley, Grenadier Guards, and of
General the Hon. Sir St. George Gerald F^oley,
and a cousin of the present Baron Foley.
He was educated at Eton 0<lv. F. H. Rawlins' and
Mr. H. de Havilland's Houses), to which he went
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in 1904. There he was in the Army Class, took
prizes for history, mathematics, etc.. and was
In the O.T.C. From Eton he passed direct into
the R.M.C., .Sandhurst, in 1908. pas-^ing first in
order of merit in the Junior Trials. He was in
the revolver team in 1909, which won many
competitions, and he himself made the liighest
score against Woolwich. He passed sixth out
of .Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant
in the Xorfolk Regiment in September. 1909,
joining his battaUon at Brentwood, from which
it went to Aldershot. There he shot successfully
in several of the Aldershot rifle meetings, and was
in his company's team for the Inter-Begiiiiental
firand Challenge .Shield, which they retained.
He was promoted Lieutenant in October, 1911.
and on the 3rd August. 1914, his battalion being
then at Holywood, Belfast, was sent to take
charge of Grey Point Fort. On the 6th he was
recalled to his battalion for mobilisation,
and sailed with it for the front on the 14th
August, landing at Havre. Within a few days
the battalion was in action at Dour, in Belgium :
and. beginning with the retirement from Mons,
Lieutenant Foley was in every action till he
fell at Festubert on the 2.5th October, 1914.
The following account of the circumstances
was given by the Colonel and others : — " He
had just made a most gallant advance to
the trenches with his men under a very hea^"y
fire, and had reached there safely. He was in
the very foremost of the British lines when he
fell, and he died at the head of his men, driving
back a most desperate attack by overwhelming
numbers of the enemy. He was buried, like a
soldier, where he fell. The actual place where he
was laid to rest is close to the most advanced
trenches, as our line in that part of the battle-
field has not advanced a yard since the day when
he fell, gallantly defending it."
Lieutenant Foley was a keen soldier, an excellent
shot and horseman, his chief recreation having
been hunting.
His mother received several letters from soldiers,
showing that they held their late officer in srreat
esteem .
MAJOR HUBERT FRANCIS FITZ-
WILLIAM BRABAZON FOLJAMBE.
2nd BATTN. THE KINGS ROYAL
RIFLE CORPS,
who was bom on
the 16th November,
1S72, was the son
of the Eight Hon.
F. J. S. Foljambe
and the Lady Ger-
t r u d e Foljambe.
daughter of the third
Earl of Gosford, of
Osberton. Notting-
hamshire.
He was educated at
Eton, and joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps
from the Militia in March, 1>>9.5. becoming
Lieutenant in February, 1898. and Captain in
July, 1901. He served in the .South African
War, being present at operations in Natal in
May, 1900, and in the Transvaal from November,
1900, to May. 1902. He was Commandant at
Helvetia for some time from December. 1901,
and for his services he received the King's and
the Queen's medals, each with two clasps.
Major Foljambe was a member of the Army and
Navy Club. He was a good rider, a very keen
cricketer, a good shot, and fond of racquets.
He played cricket for the Eton Ramblers,
Free Foresters, and the '" Green .Jackets."
He was kiUed on the 14th September. 1914,
while leading his company up the heights of
the Aisne. near Troyon.
Major Foljambe, who was promoted to that rank
in July, 1912. married Gladys, daughter of
General and ilrs. Bewicke-Copley. of Sprot-
borough. Torkshii-e, and left one son, John
Savile. bom October. 1911.
MAJOR the Honble. ARTHUR ORLANDO
WOLSTAN CECIL WELD FORESTER.
M.V.O.. 1st B.\TTN. GRENADIER
GUARDS. COMMANDING THE KING'S
COMPANY, _
died at King Ed- '|
ward VII Hospital.
London, from
wounds received
near Ypres, Bel-
gium, on the 29th
October, 1914.
having gone out with
the \ 11th Division.
He was the fifth son
of Cecil, fifth Baron
Forester, and wa>
bom in London on tl. •- i^TT.
He was educated at Harrow, and joined the
Grenadier Guards from the 3rd Shropshire Light
Infantry Olilitia) in December, 1897, becoming
Lieutenant in October, 1899. With his battalion
he served in ^lalta. and subsequently, under Sir
Leslie Bundle, in the Vlllth Division through
the Boer War, receiving the Queen's medal with
three clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps. He was promoted Captain in the 3rd
Battalion in .January. 190.5. of which he was
Adjutant from January. 1907, to 31st Decem-
ber, 1909. From 1910 to 1912 he was A.D.C.
to Ix)rd Hardinge. Viceroy of India, and was
awarded the M.V.O. for his services in that
position during the visit of King George V.
In 1912 he obtained his Majority, with the
command of the King's Company of his regiment.
Major Weld Forester was a member of the
Guards' and Turf Clubs, played cricket and
golf, and was fond of hunting and shooting.
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CAPTAIN MYLES LONSDALL FORMBY,
1st BATTN. THE DUKE OF EDIN-
BURGH'S (WILTSHIRE REGIMENTi,
■ — who was killeil in
action at Ncuve
J^f^L Chapcllc on tlu' 2titli
^^^S Octobci-, 1914, was
' <^ m^ ' t he son of tho late
.Myles L o n s d a 1 1
iMiiniby. .T.I'.. I>.L.
Uiv I'lsscx. forinciTy
of the Carabinieis,
and Mrs. F''onnljy,
llaydown, (ioiing,
Oxfordsliire. He was
born on the 15th
IJeeeniber, 1874, and was educated at Newton
College, Newton Abbot, South Devon.
He first served in the Wiltshire .Militia, from
which he was gazetted to the Wiltshire Regiment
in December, 1896, joining the 1st Battalion in
Karachi, India. During the South African War
he was sent from India to South Africa with a
draft ; so, being in the Transvaal while hos-
tilities were proceeding, he received the Queen's
medal. He was sent home to the depot, and
afterwards to ]Mullingar as Adjutant of the
13th Provisional Battalion. He was promoted
Captain in February, 1902, and from October,
1903, to September, 1908, was Adjutant of the
\\'armiuster Vohmteers.
He went to the front in August, 1914, and was
all through the fighting at, and the retirement
from, Mons, gaining the reputation of a brave
officer, beloved by his men.
Captain Formby married, in April, 1903,
Winifred I'owys, daughter of Percy Stone, Es(j..
Mer.ston, Isle of Wight. She died in June, 1914,
leaving two children : a son, Myles Lonsdall :
and a daughter, Winifred Joan.
CAPTAIN FRANK FORREST
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS]
born at Blackburn
on the 21st ^biy.
1<S79, was the son of
Dr. Forrest.
He was educated at
Clitheroe Grammar
School. Blackburn,
.1 nd at Owens College,
Mancliester. After
qualifying in medi-
cine he passed into
the H.A.M.C. in
.laimai'y, 1900, be-
coming Cajjlain in July, 1900. In 1914 he
passed the Captain's course, obtaining a
" special " in pliysical training.
He was killed on the 13th September, 1914, by
a shell bursting whUe he was attending to
wounded men under heavy shell fire.
Captain l''(iri'c.st inarrii'd. in .Srplcmbci-. 1913,
.\Iauil. (laughter of .I(ih]i .nid Amelia Chilii.
He left no family.
He belonged to the .Tmiior Army and Navy Club,
was a very keen sportsman, very good at foot-
ball, cricket, and billiards, and won many cups
at lawn tennis.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK FORSTER, 4th
BATTN. THE ROYAL FUSH^IERS,
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT),
was the sec()n(l son
of the late I'anl
Forster, of ^lalver-
leys. East Woodhay,
Hants, was born
on the 24th Decem-
ber, 1879, and edu-
cated at Eton and
Trinity College, Cai n-
bridge.
He joined the
Royal Fusiliei'S in
May, 1900, becoming ^" ' ^^-.-.
Lieutenant in April, 1902. He was employed
with the West African Frontier Force from
April, 1904, to January, 1907, during which
time he saw active service in Northern Nigeria
in 1900, receiving the medal \\ ith clasp.
He was promoted Captain in April, 1909, and
in October, 1910, was appointed Adjutant of
the 1st Battalion, an appointment he held till
September, 1913. In April, 1914, he was
appointed Adjutant (attending General Staff)
of the O.T.C.'s of the LTniversities of I^eeds,
Manchester, Sheffield, and Nottingham.
On the outbreak of the war Captain Forster was
ordered to join the ith Battalion of his regiment
at Newport, Isle of Wight, and proceeded with
it to France on the 13th August, 1914.
At the beginning of the year 1915 it was .stated
in the casualty lists that Captain Forster had
been " unofficially reported killed or died of
wounds," but it has since been ascertained that
he died on the 23rd August, 1914, two hours
after he was wounded. He was wounded three
times while defending a bridg(> on the canal at
Nimy, a subiu'l) of Mons, and was buried on the
battlefield.
His recreations were hunting and shooting, and
he was a member of the LTnifed .Service Club,
London, and of the Kildare .Street Club, 1 )ubliu.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN FORSTER, 2nd
BATTN. KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS,
who \\'as killed in action at the Battle of the
Aisne on the 14th September. 1914. at the age of
twentj'-one, was the elder son of ]\Ir. H. M.
Forster, M.P., and the Hon. .Mrs. Forster, of
1 1 Hans Place, S.W.
He obtained his commission in the K.R.R.C. in
September, 1913.
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FOR— FOS
CAPTAIN LIONEL ARCHIBALD
FORSTER. RESERVE OF OFFICERS attd.
1st BATTN. CHESHIRE REGIMENT.
who died on the -tth November, 1914. at the
Lycee Hospital. Douai. of wounds received in
action, but whose name has not appeared in the
official casualty lists, was the youngest son of
the late Ri^ht Hon. William Forster. M.P.. and
of Maud Foi-ster. of Bomhill, Bramford Speke.
Devon. (•"Times" Obit. Notice.)
He was born on the Itjth March. 1S79. and joined
the Army in August, 1S9S. He served in the
South African War, in the course of which he
acted as Station Stafif Officer and as Garrison
Adjutant. He took part in operations in the
Orange Free .State, and in the Transvaal
between 19W and 1902. including actions at
Karee -Siding, Vet and Zand Rivers, and near
.Tohannesburg. He received the Queen's medal
with three clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps.
Captain Forster, who was married, obtained
his Company in October, 190.5, and retired from
the active list with that rank in January. 1914.
L I E L T E N A N T JOHN C L S .\ C K
FORSYTH. ADJUTANT 23rd BRIGADE.
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
was the son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel
Frederick Arthm- Forsyth, late Northumberland
Fusiliers, and of Mrs. EUen Sanford Forsyth, of
Leamington. He was bom at Leamington
Spa on the 2nd November, 1883, and was
educated at Wellington College from 1897-1900,
and the Royal Jlilitary Academy. Woolwich,
from 1900-1902.
He received his commission in the Royal "Field
Artillery in 1902, becoming Lieutenant in
December, 1905. He was appointed Adjutant
of the 23rd Brigade in August. 1912.
In this war he served with the 3rd Division at
Mons. Le Cateau, the Battles of the Mame
and the Aisne. and was mentioned in Field-
Marshal Sir John French's Despatch of the Sth
October, 1914.
He was killed in action on the 22nd September.
1914, at BreneUe, during the Battle of the Aisne.
Lieutenant Forsyth was a member of the
Caledonian Club, and urmiarried. His recrea-
tions were hunting and racing.
LIEUTENANT .\RCHIB.\LD COURTE-
NAY HAYES FOSTER. H A M P -
SHIRE REGIMENT, attd. 4th BATTN.
THE KINGS AFRIC.\N RIFLES,
of which he was commanding "" A '' Company
when killed, was the fourth son of the late Mon-
tagu H. Foster, of Stubbington House, Fareham.
and of Mrs. Foster. The Lodge. .Stubbington.
He was bom at Stubbington House on the 19th
May, 1SS6, and was educated at Stubbington and
at Cheltenham College. He received his conuiiis-
sion in the Hampshire Regiment in January,
lyiO. becoming Lieutenant in October, 1907.
In October, 1913, he was seconded in his regi-
ment for employ-
ment with the 4th
(Uganda) Battalion
King's African Rifles,
with whom he was
serving at the time of
his death. He had
only recently retur-
ned from an expe-
dition in Jubaland.
He was killed in
action on the 19th
September, 1914. at
Campi ya Marabu.
Africa, gallantly urging on his men after he
was hit. The following account of the action
forwarded by the General Officer commanding
troops. British East Africa and L'ganda Pro-
tectorate, to His Excellency the Governor and
Commander-in-Chief, East African Protectoi^
ate, was published in the " East African
Standard "of the 14th October. 1914: —
■' Campi ya 3Iarabu.
'• This little action was fought with spirit and
determination. Lieutenant Foster died a gal-
lant death, and the British officers and rank and
file of the Somali section and 'A' Company
K.A.R. gave him courageous support."
Tsavo, British East
HERBERT
1st BATTN.
REGIMENT.
2nd LIEUTENANT
K N O L L Y S FOSTER.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Ijorn at All Saints'
Vicarage. Gloucester,
on the 18th October.
1895, was the son of
the Rev. Canon and
Edith Susan Foster.
St .Thomas' Vicarage.
Groombridge, Tun-
bridge Wells.
He was educated at
ilarlborough College
and the R.M.C..
.Sandhvu^st, and was
gazetted to the Army in Angnst. 1914.
2nd Lieutenant Foster Is believed to have been
killed at Gheluvelt. in Flanders, on the 29th
October, 1914.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM .\UGUSTUS
PORTMAN FOSTER. 1st BATTN. THE
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT.
eldest .-ion of Colonel .Sir William Yorke Foster.
Bart., and of Lady Foster, daughter of the late
Colonel Augustrus Berkeley Portman, Bomb.iy
Staff Corps, was born on the 2nd June. 1887. at
Hardinghain, Norfolk.
He was educated at Wellington College,
where he was in the Blucher from 1901 to 1905,
FOW FOY
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and at tla- H.M.l'.. Saiidliuist. Gazt-ttcil to tlie
South Staffoi'dsliire Hegiiiicut in Febi'uary, 1908,
he l)cc-aint' Lieutenant
in September of tlie
same year. He served
with tlie2ndBat t alion
in South Africa and
subsequently in Gib-
raltar, and again in
South Africa ; then
with the 1st Bat-
talion, with which,
after its return to
England to form part
of the immortalVIIth
Division, he saUed for Belgium in October,
1914.
After many days of continuous fighting, being
the last officer left with his company, he was
severely wounded on the 31st October, 1914,
while holding liis position with the remnants
of his battalion towards the end of the first
great Battle of Ypres. Having lain on the
field for two days and nights, he fell into the
hands of the Germans and died of his wounds
in hospital at Frankfurt-on-Maine on the 11th
November, 1914.
Lieutenant Foster was devoted to polo, and a
fine racquet player, playing both games for his
I'egiment. With Lieutenant Nay lor, of the
battalion, he won the tiarrison Racquet cup at
Gibraltar in 1912.
CAPTAIN MANSERGH CUTHBERT
FOWKE, 2nd BATTN. MANCHESTER
REGIMENT,
«hose name is shown
in the monthly
casualty list jnib-
lished in June, 191.5.
as having been killed
in action, no date
being given, is be-
Ueved to have died
in AugusL1914, after
liaving been severely
w o u n d e d at L e
t'ateau.
He was the elder son of C. H. F. Fowke, Esq., of
Wolverhampton, and was born on the 14th
May, 1882, at Codsall, Staffordshire. He was
educated at Clifton College, and joined the Man-
chester Regiment from the Militia in January,
1901, becoming Lieutenant in October of the
same year.
He took part in the .South African War, being
present at operations in the Transvaal in July,
1901, and in the Orange River Colony from July
1901, to iMay, 1902. He received the Queen's
medal willi three clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps. From November, 1908, to
November, 1913, he was employed with the
King's African Rifles, and took part in operations
in Soinaliland, 1908-10. for wliiih lie received
the medal with clasp.
He was given the local rank of Captain in
January, 1911, and was promoted Captain in his
regiment in December, 1912. He was a member
of the Sports Club and was not married.
Captain Fowke was reported missing after the
engagement at Le Cateau on the 25th August,
1914, and official confirmation was received
on the 18th May, 1915, by his name appearing
in the German lists, as dead and buiied at a
place unknown.
LIEUTENANT V. FOX,
ARMY VETERINARY CORPS,
was killed in action on the 2(jth .\ugust, 1914.
CAPTAIN MARTIN VICTOR FOY, 1st
BATTN. THE QUEEN'S (ROYAL WEST
SURREY REGT.),
who was killed in
the trenches on the
13th October. 1914.
was the son of the
late John Foy, and
was born at Edith
Grove, Chelsea, on
the 20th June, 1884.
He was educated at
Bradfleld College,
where he was in
the Cricket XI, and
at the R.M.C.. Sandhurst.
Captain Foy was gazetted to the Queen's in
1903, becoming Lieutenant in May. 1909. He
served in India and at home, and was Assistant-
Adjutant of his battalion. He played cricket for
his regiment, and was good at all games. In
1914 he took part in the final lawn tennis doubles
in the Army Championship.
He left Bordon Camp for the front on the 12th
August, 1914, and became Captain on the 8th
October, 1914, only a few days before he was
kiUed.
The General commanding his Brigade wrote as
follows of C'aptain Foy : —
" To the grief of all, your gallant husband was
killed in the trenches last evening by some one
of the enemy, who have been picking off anyone
whom they could see. The trenches are so
close to each other that the risk has been ever
present. He was shot through the head and died
very soon afterwards. He had done no well,
always cheerful and ready for anything. His
sad death is felt by all to be an irreparable
loss. It must in time be a source of pride that
your husband has given his life for his country,
and that all who knew him loved and respected
him as an example of bravery which must be a
lasting help in enabling us to bring this war to
an end."
The following account was given by a Sergeant
of the Queen's, and was published in the
•• Hindhead Herald " : —
■' Captain Foy was, as usual, looking after the
comfort of his men, and was just asking if
Xo. 4 platoon had had hot tea, when he in-
cautiously stood up in the trench and was picked
ofif by a sniper. He was buried the following day.
and I acted as one of the bearers."
A brother ofBcer wrote : —
" I wish you could have seen Martin one day
— about the thiid day on the Aisne. My half-
company was in the trenches in support, when
the front line was frightfully hea\-ily attacked,
and we were wanted badly. Martin came
doubling back through an absolute had of stuff
and got us up. It was grand to see him shoving
the men on through it."
.MAJOR the Honble. HUGH
JOSEPH FRASER. M.V.O., 2nd
BATTALION SCOTS GUARDS,
who wa.« killed in
action at Ypres on
the 27tli October.
IfiU, was the third
and second surviv-
ing son of Simon
Fraser, thii-teenth
Baron Lovat, and
the Dowager Xady
Lovat {nee Alice
Weld BlundeU). and
brother of the pre-
sent peer.
He was bom on the (jth Jidy. 1874. at Phoiness,
Beauly, Inverness-shire, was educated at St.
Benedict's Abbey School, Fort Augustus,
Scotland, and joined the Scots Guards from
the Militia in December, 1894. becoming
Lieutenant in November, 1897.
He took part in the South African War, being
present at operations in the Orange River
Colony from ilay to November, 1900. including
actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen,
and at operations in the Transvaal and Orange
River Colony from November. 1900, to May.
1902. He was mentioned in Despatches (" Lon-
don Gazette," 10th September, 1901), and
received the Queen's medal with three clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Captain in Jlarcli. 1901 :
fifjni April. 1903. to July. 1907. he was an
Adjutant of Imperial Yeomanry : and from
November. 1910. to 1913 A.D.C. to the Viceroy
of India. At the time of his death he was Second
in Command of his battalion.
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LIEUTENANT JOHN FRASER, 2nd
BATTN. THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS.
was the sou of John
Fraser, Esq., J.P.,
of Riversdale, Boyle,
Ireland, and was
bom at Tientsin,
China, in 1884.
He was educated at
Mr. Bookey's School,
Bray, County Wick-
low, and at the
Royal ^Military Col-
lege. Sandhurst,
whence he obtained
his commission in the Connaught Rangers in
January, 1905. becoming IJeutenant in April.
1906.
After tlu-ee years' ser\"ice in India he was
employed with the King's African Rifles in the
operations in Somaliland from 1908 10. For his
services he received the Somaliland medal.
For some time he acted as A.D.C. to the Gover-
nor and Connnandei^in-Chief in Uganda.
At the Battle of the Aisne he was wounded
while attempting the rescue of a wounded
brother officer, and died from the effect of his
wounds on the 14th September, 1914. The
notebook of the late ^lajor Sarsfield, who com-
manded the 2nd Battabon Connaught Rangers,
which has been discovered, contains a note,
mentioning Lieutenant Fraser. 2nd Connaught
Rangers, for his coolness under lire, and his
efficient leading of his men at all times,
especially at the action of La Cour de Poupiere
on the 14th of September, where he behaved with
conspicuous gallantry, and was very dangerously
wounded.
Lieutenant Fraser was a keen soldier, fine
sportsman, and a very successful big-game
hunter. He was a niember of the Junior
United Service Club.
CAPTAIN JOHN ALEXANDER
FR.\SER. 2nd BATTN. PRINCESS
LOUISES ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND
HIGHLANDERS .
who was killed at
Le Cateau on the
26th August. 1914.
was bom in India
on the 2Sth October.
1S72, son of John
Alexander Fraser.
and a nephew of
Sir Thomas Fraser.
of Edinburgh.
Captain I^Yaser
served in the rank>
with Lumsden's Hor-^ .:. ;.. „... , ,.
South African War, having joined that
corps in
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Calcutta whon tlie ISoi r War broke out. Ik; was
present at operations in tlie Orange Free State,
iniUulin^ actions at Karee Sidins, Hontnck
(Thoba Mountain), Vet River, atid Zand IJivcr.
In the same year — 1900 — he was in the Trans-
vaal, taking part in actions near Johannesbxirg-
and Pretoria. He .received the Queen's medal
with three clasps. In .Inly. 1900, he was pro-
moted from the ranks of Lumsden's Horse,
and given a commission in the West India
Ucginicnt, in which he becan\e Lieutenant in
I'Vbniary, 1901. Subsequently he was trans-
ferred to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
in which he obtained his company in April.
1909. He served as an Adjutant of the
Territorial Force forthi-ee years from February,
1911. He was a very keen sportsman.
Captain Fraser married Mary Claudine Stij'ling.
daugliter of the late Colin Dunlop Donald, and
left two daughters : Mai'garet Stirling, born at
Bloemfontein. July, 1909 : and Alexandra Mary
Agnes, born at Nairn, September. 1914.
LIEUTENANT JAMES HOWIE FRASER,
2nd BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS,
son (if Edward
('leather F rase r,
C.M.G.. M.L.C. of
ilauritius, was born
at Blackheath on
the 4th April, 1888.
He was educated at
Rugby, and was
gazetted to the (ior-
don Highlanders in
October, 1907. lb-
served with his bat-
taUon in India and
Egypt, and was promoted Lieutenant in March.
1909.
Lieutenant Fraser was killed on tlie :!Otli
October, 1914. wiiile advancing on Klein
Zillebeke Farmhouse. For his services he was
mentioned in .Sir John French's Despatch of the
14th .January, 191.5.
2nd LIEUTENANT the Honble.
SIMON FRASER, 3rd (attd. 2nd)
BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS,
who was killed in action near Ypres on the
29th October, 1914, was the third son of the
eighteenth I^ord Saltoun, of Abernethy.
He was born on the 7th September, 1888, and
was educated at Winton House, Winchester
(preparatory school), and at Charterhouse.
He received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant
in the 3rd Battalion Gordon Highlanders on the
7th September. 1914, and at the end of that
month was attached to the 2nd Battahon,
leaving with it for the front on the 4th October,
1914.
2nd Lieutenant Fraser was a menilier of tlie
Stock lOxchange. Two of liis lnntlieis are
serving in the (iordon Highlanders as Lieuten-
ants : the :Master of Saltoun and the Hon.
Williiiiii Fraser.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM REGINALD
FREND, ADJUTANT 2nd BATTN. SHER-
WOOD FORESTERS (NOTTINGHAM
SHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT),
was killed in action
at the Battle of the
Aisne on the 21st
September. 1914.
lie was born a1
Mambledon, Henley-
on-Tliames, on the
Sth May, 187.5. tin-
second son of the
late Edwin Fi'end,
Esq.. of Brighton,
and was educated at
H a i 1 e y b u r y , anil
Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the
Derbyshire Regiment in November, isits.
becoming Lieutenant in the amalgamated
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment in
.May, 1900.
He took part in the South African War. being
present at operations in the Orange Free .State.
including actions at Houtnek (Thoba ilountain).
Vet River, and Zand River : also at operations
in the Transvaal and Cape Colony, and received
the Queen's medal with three clasps and the
King's medal with two cla.sps. He also served
with the 1st Battalion in China.
Becoming Captain in September. 19111, he was
from April, 1906, to December. 1910. Adjutant
nt a battalion of Volunteers, afterwards the
.5th Territorial Battalion of his own regiment :
while in December, 1912, lie was appointed
Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion.
Captain Frend married, in July. 1907. Phyllis.
.second daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. T. H. Mills,
of White Bank House, Stockport, Cheshire,
and leaves two children : Richard William,
born June, 1009 : and Dorothea Eli/.alieth.
born November, 1911.
LIEUTENANT K. T. FROST, 3rd
BATTN. CHESHIRE REGIMENT,
whose name was included in the monthly
casualty list published in October among
officers ■■ reported (unofficially) killed, or died
of wounds received in action," no date being
given, became Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion
Cheshire Regiment in June, 1913, having joined
in September of the previous year.
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FUI FUR
LIEUTENANT BERNARD VINCENT
FLLCHER. 2nd BATTN. THE PRINCE
O E \\- A L E S • S VOLUNTEERS
SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT .
was bom at Lome
House, Gi-eat Yar-
mouth, on the 22nd
January. 1S92. and
was the son of Wil-
liam Popplewell
Fulcher and Alice,
his wife, of '" Wal-
ton." Wimbledon
Hill Road, Wimble-
don.
He was educated at
Wimbledon College,
and was at King's College School from 1906
to 1910, where he was Captain of the VIII
(shooting), and was also in the First XV (foot>-
baU) in 1909 10. He was a member of the
OfKcers' Training Corps, and was " efficient "" for
three years, holding the "' A " certificate.
Lieutenant Fulcher went to the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, in 1910, and received lus eonuuission in
1911, becoming Lieutenant in Jtdy, 1913.
He was present %vith his battahon in the Great
War from August tUl the day he died. He was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatches of the
8th October, 191i. and of Uth January, 1915,
and was awarded the IMiUtary Cross in the latter
month, but he did not hve to personally receive
the decoration, for he had been kUled in a dug-
out by shell on the 17th November, 1914, at
Ypres, being at the time the only surviving
otficer left of his battahon.
Major Baird, commanding 1st Battahon Gordon
Highlanders, who was for fifteen days, between
the 5th and 20th November, in command of
the line of trenches in which Lieutenant Fulcher
was kiUed, wrote to his mother saying : " I
wish to teU you how nobly your boy was doing
his duty when he met his death. . . . Your son
was quite indefatigable in doing his duty under
conditions the difficulties of wliich can never be
fully realised except by those who were there.
. . . Often I used to feel that he was destined
to go far in our profession. . . . None of us
who served together in those fifteen strenuous
days will ever forget his splendid work. As
officer commanding that particular section of
the trenches, I have officially bi-ought to notice
the very splendid way in which his conduct was
distinguished."
The late Head Master of King's College School
aLso wrote saying : " He was with us just the
best kind of English boy. straight and loyal and
keen, . . . with a healthy influence with his
friends and all the school."
The Adjutant and other officers, and al.so men
in the ranks, wrote most feelingly, saying how
all appreciated his courage and capacity.
C.\PTAIN JOHN HENRY MIDDLETON
FULLER. S 3 r d W.\ L L A J A H B A D
LIGHT INF.\NTRV attd. 63rd PALAM
C O T T A H LIGHT INFANTRY),
who was killed in ,.,
action in German
East Africa, was the
son of Deputy
.Surgeon - General
John Charles Fuller,
and was born at
Ealing on the 19th
November, 1879.
He was educated at
Banister Couit
School, Southamp-
ton, and received
his commission fi'om llic lauka in I'^^njl, being
transferred to the Indian Army two years later.
He served in the South African Wai-. for wliich
he received the Queen's medal with tlu-ee clasps.
He also had the Durbar medal, 1912, for his
services during the Royal visit while fulfilling
the appointment of Garrison Quartermaster of
Fort WUham, Calcutta.
Captain Fuller was made an honorary member
of Bisley in i-ecognition of his success in shooting,
and in training the S8th Carnatic Infantry
Rifle Corps, who won the Cubbom Cup on several
occasions for their regiment.
He was shot on the 4th November, 191-1, at
Tanga, German South East Africa, while showing
one of his men how to fire to the best advantage.
Captain FiiQer married \"iolet Overton daugh-
ter of Brevet- Colonel Frederick Smith, D..S.O.,
R.A.M.C, on the 31st October, 1912 ; and left
one daughter, Jean Violet Overton, born at
Fort William, Calcutta, in March, 1915, after
her father's death.
LIEUTENANT PHILIP TEMPLER
FURNEAUX. 1st BATTN. THE
KINGS LIVERPOOL REGIMENT),
who was killed in action on the 2iJth October,
1914, in Belgium, was the only son of the Rev.
Walter Furneaus, Vicar of Dean, Bedfordshire,
formerly Chaplain to the King's Regiment,
Mian ^lir, and gi-andson of the late Colonel
Templer, Lyndridge, South Devon.
He was born on the 23rd September, 1889,
was educated at Rossall (S.E., 1905-08), and
joined the Liverpool Regiment in September,
1909, becoming Lieutenant in May, 1910.
At the time of his death he was Assistant
Adjutant of liis battalion.
C.\PTAIN GEORGE ARMAND FURSE.
ROYAL FIELD .\RT1LLERV.
was bom on the 21st February, 1881, in the
United States of America. He was the son of
Edmund Furse, Esq., of Alphington, Frindey,
Surrey, and nephew of the late Colonel G. A.
Furse. C.B.. The Black Watch.
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He was educated at Cheltenliaiii and the Royal
Militaiy Academy. Woolwich, and received his
lirst commission in
December, 1898 , being
promoted Captain in
April. 1907. He was
appointetl to the
Royal Horse Artillery
ill 1900, and was
again appointed a-s
a Captain to the
K.H.A. in 1909. He
1 wice qualified for the
.StafT College, and hatl
served twelve years
in India. Captain Furse had just completed the
gunnery course when war broke out, and was
posted to the <30th Battery, 40th Brigade, R.F.A.
He embarked with the first portion of the British
Expeditionary Force, and was killed at the
Battle of the Aisne on the lOth September. 1914.
Captain Furse married Hazel, daughter of the
late Elton Forrest (Conservator of Forests),
son of Captain J. H. Forrest, who was tor many
years Chief Constable of Hampshire, and grand-
daughter of the late Rev. Fi-ederick Wickhani,
well known as a blaster of Winchester College.
He leaves three daughters : Lilian, born 1906 :
Aileen, bom 1910 ; and Melanie, born 1912.
LIEUTENANT LIONEL GAISFORD,
58th VAUG HAN'S RIFLES, FRON-
TIER FORCE, INDIAN ARMY,
was born at Quetta,
Baluchistan, India,
on the 21st June,
1888, the son of the
late Colonel Gilbert
Gaisford, Indian
Army, Political
Agent, Balucliistan,
who was murdered
by a " Ghazi " on
the frontier in
March, 1898, and a
grandson, on the
maternal side, of the late General C. W.
Hutchinson, R.E. (Bengal).
He was educated at Brighton College and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, and qualified as 1st Class
Interpreter in French in June, 1914. He obtained
his commission as a King's Indian Cadet in
August, 1906, and joined the Boyal Irish
Regiment at Rawal Pindi in October of that
year, being transferred to the 58th Vaughan's
Rifles in April, 1907. With this regiment lie
formed part of the Expeditionary Force to
Prance during the Great War. Previously he
had served in the ilohmand Expedition of 1908,
lor which he received the Indian Frontier medal.
He was killed in an attack on German trenches
in the La Bassee district, France, on the 24th
November, 1914, and was buried in Bethune
Cemetery.
Lieutenant Gaisford was a uriiiIm r nl the Junior
Army and Navy Club.
LIEUTENANT) CYRIL EGREMONT
GAITSKELL, 2nd BATTN. PRINCE OF
WALES'S LEINSTER REGT. (ROYAL
CANADIANS), __„__»_^_.^_
was born at Chel- fl
tenhain on the
15th November,
1892, the son of
Major Charles
GaitskeU, late Lin-
colnshire Regiment,
and a grandson of
the late Lieutenant-
Colonel GaitskeU, of
W a 1 d o n House,
Cheltenham.
He was educated at Heidelberg, Germany, and
at Cheltenham College. He joined the Leinster
Regiment from the R.il.C. Sandhurst, in
September. 1911, and became Lieutenant in
January, 1913.
At Armentieres, France, while gallantly leading
Ills men to attack a position, he was mortally
wounded on the 19th October, 1914. He was
interred on the same day in a temporary
cemetery, called " Le Maroc." in the quarter
" Cit6-Bon-Jean " at Armentieres.
Lieutenant GaitskeU was a good all-round
athlete, fond of golf and boxing.
LIEUTENANT PHILIP
F R A N ■
GALLWEY, 21st
INDIA'S) LANCERS,
CIS PAYNE
(EMPRESS OF
\\as born on the 7th
March, 18 9 4, at
Kirby Knowle Rec-
tory, near Thirsk,
Yorkshire, and was
the son of the Rev.
Francis Henry Payne
Gallwey, Rector of
Sessay, Thirsk. He
«as cousin to Sir
Ralph Payne Gall-
wey, Bart., and a
nephew of General
A. Lowry Cole, C.B., D.S.O. He was educated
at West Downes, Winchester College, and the
R..M.C., Sandhurst. Lieutenant Payne Gallwey
joined his regiment in September, 1912, becom-
ing Lieutenant in March, 1914.
On the outbreak of the war, being on leave at
home from Rawal Pindi, India, where his
regiment was stationed, he was attached for
service to the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers.
He was killed near ilessines, in the Battle of
Ypres, on the 31st October. 1914.
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GAL-GAR
2nd LIEUTENANT THEODORE HUGH
G ALT ON. 6th attd. 3rd BATTN.
WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT.
who wa^ killed in
action on the 21st
October, 1914, was
the eldest son of
Major Galton, late
R.A., and Mrs. Gal-
ton, of Hadzor,
Droitwich. and was
bom on the 20th
October, ISSS.
He was educated at
the Oratory School,
Edgbaston, and
Exeter College. Oxford. He ofifered his services
a-s soon as the war broke out, and was gazetted
to the Worcestersliire Regiment on probation
in August, 1914, joining the 3rd Battalion in
October. He had been attached to the Irish
Guards for a year in 1911, and was a member
of the Windham Club.
When he was killed the German trenches were
attacked at 7 a.m. : at about S a.m. the enenay
began to retire, and 3Ir. Galton — the foremost
of the party that advanced to cut them off —
was shot through the heart.
MAJOR ALEC GARDINER. ROYAL
ENGINEERS,
was the elder son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
R. Gardiner. R.E.
(retired), 2S, Barks-
ton Gardens. Lon-
don, S.W.. and
grandson of the late
Major-General
Irving. C.B., R.A.
He was bom on the
2Sth June, 1S73. at
Ulwar, Rajputana,
India, and educated privately, mainly under
Dr. Stevenson Jellie, of Clifton.
After passing successfuDy through the R.M.A..
Woolwich, he gained a commission in the Royal
Engineers in July, 1891, becoming Lieutenant
three years later. Captain in April, 1902, and
Major in July. 1911. He took part in the ex-
pedition to the Soudan in 1S96 as Assistant Field
Engineer with the force at Suakin. for which
he received the English and Egyptian medals.
Major Gardiner proceeded to India in 1S93,
and after a short period on military works
joined the Railway Department of the Govern-
ment of India, and with ^ome short intervals of
military duty continued serving on the survey
construction and administration of Indian
railways up to the outbreak of the Great War,
when he was holding the appointment of
Agent (Chief Administrative OfiBcer) of the Oudh
and Rohilkhand South Railway. Previously,
in 1909, ilajor Gardiner had been appointed
Lieutenant-Colonel Conunandant of the Oudh
and Roliilkhand Railway Rifle Volunteers,
a corps which he brought to a high pitch of
efficiency, devoting special attention to ar-
moured train working and fighting.forwhichthey
offered their services on the declaration of war.
Major Gardiner's services were placed at the
disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of India
in October, 1914, and he was ordered to proceed
to England, but was intercepted in the Mediter-
ranean, and directed to join the Indian
Expeditionary Force in Northern France. He
was serving as a Field Engineer with the Lahore
Division when he fell in the fighting before
Givenchy on the 20th December. 1914.
He was at first rei>orted as missing, and it
was hoped that he might be alive as a prisoner
of war in Germany, but all enquiries proved
fruitless. His fate was not definitely set at
rest until the 25th July. 1915. when his body
was found during mining operations near
Givenchy, it having been exposed by the
explosion of a German shell. The body was
subsequently buried near the Red House on
the Sunken Road. Givenchy. some four hundred
yards north-east of the Church.
Letters from the officers under whom Major
Gardiner served at the front testify to the high
esteem in which he was held, and express
admiration of the skill, devotion, and gallantry
with which he carried out all the duties entrusted
to him. Diuing the short time he was serving
in France he was several times specially reported
upon, and subsequently to his being killed his
name appeared amongst those mentioned in Sir
John French's Despatch of the 31st May, 1915.
On his death being confirmed his widow
received from the King and Queen a telegram
expressing their deep regret at the loss the
Army had sustained by the death of her husband
in the service of his country, and adding Their
Majesties' true sympathy in her sorrow. Lord
Kitchener also, through the ilUitary .Secretarj",
conveyed his sincere sympathy : and the Rail-
way Board of India, in recording their very
great regret at his death, remarked that he was
an officer of whom the Board entertained the
highest opinion.
Major Gardiner, who was keen on the training of
his men in rifle shooting, and captained the
regimental team on two occasions, being also
successful himself in individual competitions
with both the rifle and revolver, was an executive
member of the CouncU of the Bengal Presidency
Rifle Association. He was conspicuous in
connection with the work of the St. John
Ambulance Association in India, especially as
regards the instruction of the men under his
command. In recognition of his services he
was appointed a serving brother of the Order
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of St. John of Jerusalem, and received the (!<'-
coration of the Order from the ^'iceroy of India.
He was an Assoeiate of the Institution of Civil
Enfrineei-s, and also of the Institute of Electrical
Enjjineei-s, and was known in the English rail-
way world as the inventor of a system of
engine cab signals and for the automatic control
of moving trains.
JIajor (iardiner married, in ISli". Ivlith, daugh-
ter of .Mr. Campbell Thomson. M.I.C.E., late
Chief Engineer of the North West Railway of
India, and left two sons and a daughter. He
devoted most of his spare time to his ^'olunteer
and Ambulance work. He was a good rifle
shot, and won several prizes. His recreations
were shooting, rowing — the E.E. crew, under
his leadei-ship, being several times successful
in local regattas — tennis, etc.
MAJOR ROBERT MACGREGOR
STEWART GARDNER. 1st BATTN-
GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action on the 31st
October, 1911. was
t he second son of
the late Mr. \\'illian\
Gardner and Mrs.
Gardner, of Thorpe.
S u r r e y, and a
nephew of Cieneral
Sir Robert Stewart.
(i.C.B. He was born
on the 2oth August.
1870, and joined the
Gloucestershire Regiment from the Militia
in February, 1891, becoming Lieutenant in
May, 1892, and getting his company in Feb-
ruary, 1900.
He served in the South African War. being
present at the relief of Kiiuberley, at operation-
in the Orange Fi-ee State, at Paardeberg, and
at the actions of Poplar Grove and Driefontein :
also at operations in Natal and Cape Colon\ .
He was mentioned in Despatches ("London
Gazette," 10th September. 1901). and received
the Queen's medal with four clasps. He was
promoted Major in July, 1914.
He proceeded to France with his regiment at
the beginning of the Great War. On the 31st
October his company was ordered to retake
a trench the Germans had captured at Gheluvelt.
He led his men close up to the Germans, and
assembled for a further advance in a sunken
road. There Major Gardner gave the order to
advance and to charge the Germans. He was
first up the bank, and was immediately mortally
wounded in the arm and side. On the previous
day he had led a counter-attack with what was
described as " reckless bravery," and those
with him said he seemed that day to bear a
charmed life.
Major (iardner married May. daughter of "Sir.
Charles Whitchmch Wasbrough, of Clifton,
and left two daughters, the younger of whom
was born, after her father's death, on the 11th
February, 1915.
LIEUTENANT PHILIP NIGEL GAR-
NETT, PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF
WALES'S (ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGT.I.
who died of wounds received in action in
Xyassaland, probably in September, 1914, was
boi'non the 4th November, 1886, and jniind tin-
Royal Berkshire Regiment in JIa\. IIMIT. Im-
coming Lieutenant in .September, 1911.
In October, 1913, he was seconded in his
regiment for service with the 1st (Centra!
Africa) Battalion, the King's African Rifles.
MAJOR JOHN TREFUSIS CARPENTER-
GARNIER, 1st BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS.
was the eldest son
of .John Carpenter-
(iarnier. Esq., J. P..
D.L.. M.P. for South
Pevon. 1873-84. and
tlie Hon. ^lary
Louisa Carpenter-
Garnier, daughter of
the nineteenth
Baron Clinton. He
was born in 1874
at R o o k e s b u r >•
Park. W i c k h a m.
Hants, and was educated at Harrow and Clirist
Church, Oxford.
He first served in tlie Royal .Scots .Militia from
1.S94-96. In August of the latter year he joined
the Scots Guards, and .served in the .South
African War for two and a half years in General
Rundle's Di^^sion, being present at the actions
of Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen, receiving
tlic Queen's medal with three clasps and the
King's medal with two clasps.
From 1903-00 he was Adjutant of his bat-
talion, and Regimental Adjutant from 190(>-
1909. In August, 1914, he was appointed
second in command of his battalion. In the
Battle of the Aisne he was struck by shrapnel
on the 14th September, and died of his wounds
on the following day. His body was buried
in ^'endi-esse Churchyard.
Major Carpenter-Gamier was a member of the
(iuards' and Bachelors' Clubs, and was a keen
cricketer, belonging to tlie M.C.C. and I Zin-
gari. He also played polo, and was fond of
hunting and shooting. He was not married.
LIEUTENANT OLIVER DUNHAM MEL-
VILLE GARSIA, 1st BATTN. DUKE
OF CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY.
born at Riccarton, Cliristchurch, New Zealand,
on ISth November, 1885, was the fourth son of
Captain Christopher Garsia, for many years
associated with the promotion of Art in
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Christchurch as Hon. Secretary of the
Canterbury Sot-iety of Arts.
He was educated, like
his four brothers, at
the Christchurch
Boys' High .School,
and all five entered
the services. The
eldest. Haly, who was
in the Durham Light
Infantry, was killed
i n India ten years ago :
I 'live, in the Hainp-
-hire Regiment.is now
a General Staff Officer
at the ti-ont : auothHr. Eric, served in the .South
African War : Rupert, in the Royal Xavy.
now in H.M.A..S. " Sydney " ; and Oliver,
who was in the Duke of Cornwall's Light
Infantry — a proud record for their gallant
father, himself a veteran of the Mutiny, and for
fourteen years A.D.C. to Sir William O'Grady
Haly. Lieutenant-Colonel Garsia. C.B.. Com-
missioner of Prisons, Inspector-General of
ililitary Prisons, who initiated in them valuable
reforms, was a member of the same family.
The subject of this memoir joined the Duke of
Cornwall's Light Infantry as Second- Lieu-
tenant in 1907, being promoted Lieutenant in
November, 1908. For a short time he was
A.D.C. to .Sir Thomas Gibson Camiichael
(now Lord Carmichael), and he had been to
Russia to study the language, as he was con-
vinced that the two countries would sooner or
later be drawn together in a common defence.
Lieutenant Garsia was killed at the Battle of
the Aisne on the ISth September, 1914. One
who knew him well said he was as staunch and
sincere as he was brave and fearless, a true
soldier, and a very gallant gentleman.
A Private of his battalion, writing some time
after, said : " I don't think there are more than
sixty or seventy of us left in the battalion that
came out first. . . . My section had to advance
up a slope or hill, and my Lieutenant. Mr.
Garsia, got shot through the neck."
2nd LIEUTENANT C. W. N. G.\RST1N,
9th QUEEN'S ROYALi LANCERS,
whose name is in-
cluded in the month-
ly official list pub-
lished in October,
1914, as having been
killed, no place, date,
or circumstances
being given, joined
the 9th Lancers in
February, 1913.
He was qualified as a
2nd Class Interpreter
in German.
MAJOR JOHN KIRWAN GATACRE,
4th O C E E N • S OWN H L S S A R S,
younger son of the
late Major-General
Sir Williani Gatacre.
K.C.B., D.S.O.. was
bom in Dublin on
the 6th September,
1883.
He was educated at
Rugby and the
R.M.C.. Sandhurst,
from which, after
being attached for
a time to the 2nd
to
Battalion The Black Watc;.. ..< ..^.^ post..!
the 11th (K.E.O.) Lancers, Indian Army.
He was a member of the Jvmior Army and
Navy Club. When in India he was known as
a sportsman, winning the Kadir Cup (pig-
sricking), 1912, and as one of the best polo
players in India. He was also a gifted water-
colour artist.
Being on leave in Europe on the outbreak of
the war with Germany, he was attached to the
4th (Queen's Own) Hussars, and in .September,
1914, was promoted Major in that regiment.
He was killed at the attack on the Mont des
Cats on the 12th October, 1914. He had been
previously awarded the French decoration of
the '" Croix de Chevalier " of the Legion of
Honour.
2nd L I E L T E N A
N T
CHARLES
HENRY G A T H .
3rd
HUSSARS.
who was killed in
action on the 30th
^m
^^^i^hi
October, 1914, at
Wr
^■9i^^H
Klein Zillebeke.
W i
f ^^^M
Belgium, was born
wi^ IH
in London in Sep-
-. ^
tember, 1882. In
K '
■k i^^H
1899 he joined the
■L
,^^^ ^^^B
ranks of the ISth
Hi
i "^ ^^^1
Hussars, with whom
■
^^^^^^^H
he served in the
■
kkU^^I
South African War
^
^H^HI
for two vears, re-
ceiving the Queen's and King's medals with
clasps.
He was afterwards transferred to the 3rd
Hussars, accompanying them to India, where
he remained fovu- years, and then retm-ned to
Pretoria, South Africa, for a further three years.
In 1911 he retvuned to England for a course of
instruction at the Cavalry School, Xetheravon.
At the outbreak of the war he went to the front
with the Expeditionary Force, and was given
his commission on the 1st October, 1914.
Mr. Gath was not married.
GEA GEO
1-lS
2nd LIEUTENANT EDWARD GEAREY.
1st BATTX. OL'EENS OWN CAMERON
HIGHLANDERS, attd. 1st BATTN.
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY.
who had previously
been reported mis-
sing, was atterward-i
reported to ha\e
lieen killed on the
2()th De(eniber.l914.
near Festubtrt. He
was the eldest son of
the late James
Gearey, Sergeant-
Ma jor.Highland Light
Infantry. (Blyths-
wood). and wa? born
at .Maryhill Barracks on the 26th April, 1881.
Educated at .Meadowpark School, Dennistown.
Citasorow, ilr. Gearey joined the ranks of the
Highland Light Infantry in 1895, and serve<l
until 1809 with the 2nd battalion in India.
After serving for a few years at home, he re-
turned to India in 1907 to join the 1st battalion
of his regiment, and at the outbreak of the war
\vith Germany he was stationed at Ambala, and
had risen to the rank of Company .Sergeant-
ilajor. His battalion formed part of the
Lahore Division, and proceeded with it to
France. In December, 1914, Mr. Gearey re-
ceived his commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the
Cameron Highlanders, but was attached to his
old battalion. He was reported missing on the
20th December. 1914. and hopes were enter-
tained of his safety, until, in September, 1915.
a returned prisoner of war brought evidence of
his death, and it wa.s concluded he had been
killed on that date.
2nd Lieutenant Gearey. who held the Long
Service medal and the Delhi Durbar Decoration,
married Helen, daughter of Thomas Drawbell,
Edinburgh, and left two sons, James and Thomas
Drawbell, age respectively seven and four years.
LIEUTENANT JAMES FUANCIS ROY
GEBBIE, 2nd B.\TTN. THE PRINCE OF
WALESS VOLUNTEERS SOUTH LAN-
CASHIREREGT.)
>■
was the son of Mr.
James Gebbie, of
Xetherfleld, Strath-
aven, Lanarkshire,
Scotland, and was
born there on the
27th June, 1888. He
was educated at
Bath College, and
at the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, where he was
in the revolver team.
Lieutenant Gebbie was gazetted to the Soutli
Lanca-shire Regiment in September, 1908,
becoming Lieutenant in January, 1910.
While serving with the 2nd Battalion he was
wounded on the 19th September when leading
a bayonet charge on the heights of \'ailly, and
died of his wounds on the 4th October, 1914,
at St. Nazaire, France.
Lieutenant Gebbie was a iiienibi-r of tlic Junior
United Service Club.
OF EDIN-
REGIMENT).
2nd LIEUTENANT ROBERT
FR.\NCIS McLean gee, 3rd (attd. 1st)
BATTN. THE DUKE
BURGH'S iWILTSHIRE
wlio died at Net ley
Hospital on the 27tli
October, 1914, from
wounds received in
action, aged twenty,
was the eldest son
of Mr. and ^Irs.
( ■ . F. Gee, of
Williiigton, X e w
Zealand. and of Te
Whare. Eastbourne.
He was a great-
great-grandson, on
his mother's side, of Captain William Buckley,
Royal Scots Regiment, who w'as killed at
Quatre Bras ; a great-grandson of Captain
William Henry Bucklej, S2nd Regiment ; and
a grandson of the late Hon. George Buckley, of
Christchurch, Xew Zealand. His younger brother
is a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery.
He was educated at Wellington, New Zealand,
and at Eastbourne College, and had entered at
Trinity College, Cambridge. He was in the
O.T.C. ; and, ha^Tng volunteered his services
at the outbreak of the war, was given a com-
mission in the 3rd Wiltshh-e Regiment. He
joined on the 3rd September, and after four
weeks' training at Weymouth was transferred
to the 1st Battalion and sent to Fi-ance.
He received his fatal wounds — a sniper's bullet
in the head — a few days after his arrival
at the firing line, during an attempt to captm-e
tlie village of Hies. His body is buried in the
Ockljnge Cemetery, Eastbourne.
CAPTAIN JAMES RANDOLPH
GEOGHEGAN. 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL INNISKILLING FUSILIERS,
who was killed in .^_
action on the "tli
November, 19 14.
was the son of
Samuel Geoghegan.
Esq., C.E., and was
born in Dublin on
the 27th ^[arch.
1886.
He was educated at
Cheltenham College,
and joined the Royal
Inuiskilling Fusiliers
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from the Wicklow Militia in May, 1906. In
January, 1910, he ■nas detached for employ-
ment with the West African Frontier Force,
with the local rank of Lieutenant, being pro-
moted to that rank in his regiment in February,
1910.
He retiu-ned from Xorthem Nigeria in April,
1914, and rejoined his regiment. He was pro-
moted Captain on the 22nd October, 1914.
LIEUTENANT ATHELSTANE KEY
DURANCE GEORGE, 1st BATTN.
DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT,
was born at Bever-
stone House,
Brixton, Surrey, on
the 25th of March,
1SS7, and was the
son of Arthur
Durance and Char-
lotte Ada George,
of Alderholt,
Bournemouth
(West), grandson of
Jonathan Muckle-
ston Key, D.L. of
City lit' London, ^liddlesex, great-nephew of
Sir Jolin Key, Bart., and direct descendant,
through the female line, of Sir William Bloet,
who came over with WUliani the Conqueror in
106(5.
Lieutenant George couunenced his education
at Hailey. Boiu'neinouth, going afterwards to
Tonbridge .School : thence to Caius College,
Cambridge.
He began liis military career in the King's
(Liverpool Regiment), joining subsequently the
2nd Battalion Dorsetsliire Regiment at Madras.
While in India he served on the Staff as A.P.C.
to Lord .Sydenham, Governor of Bombay,
and Sir 3Iaurice Hammick, K.C.M.G., Governor
of Madras. He returned to England in Marcli,
1913, and joined the 1st Battalion of his regi-
ment at Belfast, from which station he proceeded
with it to tlie front.
He was shot tlirough the head at Bezu-le-Query
on the 11th September, 1914, wliile in the
trenches, urging his men not to expose their
heads. He was carried to the Hospice at
Coulommiers, where he died on the 14th
September, never having regained conscious-
ness, and was buried, with military honours, in
the cemetery of that towTi.
Under date 10th March, 1915, Brigadier-
General Bols, D.S.O., then commanding the
battalion, wrote : —
" I ara glad that you have written to me, as
I have often wished to tell his friends and
relatives how deeply every officer and man of
the Dorsets grieved with you at the loss of your
dear son.
" During the period which followed our fights
on the Mame there was Utile time to write,
or even to think. Then came the rush north-
wards, and the great fight of the battalion at
Givenchy, where we lost three-quarters of our
men, and all but four of our original corps of
officers, and then I had to spend ten weeks in
England recovering from wounds.
" I first met your son about last May when he
returned to Belfast after going through a course
of flying, and I think that a month later he
returned to England to begin a course of
signaUing, from which he returned just before
mobilisation, so that I did not get to know him
well tiU the beginning of the war. During
those first six weeks he was — I think there Ls
only one word to describe him — magnificent.
Always cheerful ; always caring for others ;
watching over his men, no matter how weary :
never sparing himself. To my mind he w£is the
ideal of a British officer, gallant and brave, of
course, but in addition tireless in helping others
who did not possess liis powers of mind and body.
" That fight near Bezu, on the JMame, cost us
dear, for with your dear son fell Captain Roe
and Captain Priestley. The next morning all
were seen, and hopes were given that all would
survive, but in each case our hopes were dashed.
I fear tliis is a poor sketch to give you of one who
earned our love and esteem to so great a degree.
I know liis memory will live long in the Dorsets."
Captain and Adjutant Ransome, under date
January ISth, 1915, wrote : —
" May I, even at this late date, offer my sym-
pathy to you in the loss you have sustained ?
I knew yovir son well, and am only too conscious
of what a loss he is to the battalion. He was an
exceptionally good officer — one of those whose
influence did much towards bringing the
Dorsets to the standard which this war has,
I think, proved them to have reached."
Lieutenant George was a member of the Junior
Naval and Military Club, and was unmarried.
LIEUTENANT FREDERICK RALPH
GEORGE. ADJUTANT 1st
BATTN. THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS.
who was killed on
the 5th November,
1914, son of the
late BaiTy George,
13th Foot, was born
at Mountshannon
House, County
Clare, the residence
of his uncle, on the
9th September, 1883.
He was educated at
Abbey School, Tip-
perary, and Trinity
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College, Dublin, wliere he was presented with
Professor John \\'ardell's sword.
He joined the Connaught Rangers in January,
190t), became Lieutenant in January, 1909, and
was appointed Adjutant of his battalion in
June, 19U.
He was very fond. of all kinds of sport, polo,
hunting, shooting, fishing, and football. He
played Rugby football for Trinity. He was
also fond of saUing.
Lieutenant George volunteered to take part in
a bayonet attack on the night of the oth
November, and was shot during the charge.
CAPTAIN HARRY VERNON GERR.\RD.
2nd BATTN. THE BORDER REGT..
born in DubUn on the 18th April, 1878, was the
r'on of Thomas Gerrard, of DubUn, Crown
.SoUcitor for Queen's County and Carlow.
Captain Percy N. Gerrard. M.D.. Malay States
Volunteers, killed in the Indian Riots at Singa-
pore on the 15th February, 1913, was his
brother, and other brothers are John D. Gerrard,
Resident ilagistrate, Ireland, now a temporary
Lieutenant in the A.S.C., Wing Commander
E. L. Gerrard, B.N. A.S., while another relative is
Fhght Sub- Lieutenant T. F. N. Gerrard, R.N.A.S.
Captain Gerrard wa? educated at King's
School, War^vick. and Tipperary Granuiiar
School, at both of which he took part in athletics.
He joined the -tth Battalion Royal Dublin
FusUiers (iliUtia) in April. 1900, and was at-
tached to the A.S.C. In August. 1902, he was
gazetted to the 2nd BattaUon Royal Garrison
Regiment (formed during the .South African
War), of which he was Adjutant from May.
1904, till July, 1905. when he was transferred
to the 2nd Border Regiment as Lieutenant. He
served tlu-ee tours with the West African Fron-
tier Field Force, Southern Nigeria, and was pro-
moted Captain in October. 1914.
Captain Gerrard was killed in action on the
2nd November, 1914, by a shell while command-
ing his company at or near Ypres. His
battalion was complimented by the Commander-
in-Chief for their behaviour at this battle. For
his services Captain Gerrard was mentioned in
Sir John French's Despatch of the 14th Jan-
uary, 1915, referring to his Despatch of the
20th November, 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT RONALD CH.\RLES
MELBOURNE GIBBS, 2nd BATTN.
SCOTS GUARDS, bom at " SaUsbury," Mel-
bourne, Australia, was the son of the late Hon.
Henry Lloyd Gibbs and Alice Mary, daughter
of the late General Charles Crutchley, of Sun-
ninghill Park, Ascot, and nephew of the second
Lord Aldenhatn, Aldcnham House, Elstree.
He was educated at Wellington House, Westgate-
on-.Sea (Rev. Her-
bert Bull), and at
Eton (P. V. Broke's
House). At the lat-
ter he was in the
O.T.C., and obtained
his "A" certificate.
He rowed in the
boats on the 4th
June, 1913, and was
in the procession of
boats when Their
Majesties King
George and Queen Mary visited Eton.
He received a commission in the Special Reserve
of Officers in .September, 1913, and joined the
1st Battalion Scots Guards at Aldershot in
October. He passed the Army examination in
June. 1914, joining the 3rd BattaUon of his
regiment on the 5th August, and exchanged
into the 2nd BattaUon at Lyndhurst in .Sep-
tember, proceeding with it to the front on the
4th October.
He was killed in action at Vpres on the 28th
October, 1914. his battalion forming part of the
20th Infantry Brigade. Vllth Division, and was
buried at the Chateau, Gheluvelt.
2nd Lieutenant Gibbs was a member of the
Guards' Club.
L I E U T E N .\ N T .\ T H O L T H O M .\ S
GIBSON. 3rd attd. 2nd BATTN.
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VOLUN-
TEERS SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGT. ,
who was kiUed in action on the 21st October,
1914, was the son of the late Thomas Gibson,
of Penarth, South Wales, son-in-law of J. W.
Pyman, Penarth. He was only appointed to
his regunent after the outbreak of the war. and
was promoted Lieutenant in September, 1914.
CAPT.MN ROBERT GIFFARD, ROYAL
FIELD ARTILLERY, A.D. C. TO
M.\JOR GENERAL LO.M.W. COM-
M .\ N D 1 N G THE 1st DIVISION.
BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,
son of Henry Rycroft Giffard. of Lockeridge
House, WUts. was bom at Wilton Street, Lon-
don. S.W.. on the 27th June. 1884.
He was educated at Marlborough College and
the R.M.A., Woolwich, where in his second
year he was in the Cricket and Hockey
XI's. Joining the R.A. as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in December, 1903, he became Lieu-
tenant in December, 1906, and Captain
in October, 1914. He served at Bulford,
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Horfield, and Aldershot. being in August, 1910,
appointed A.D.C. to ^Major-General Loniax,
then commandingthe
1st Division of the
Field Troops at
Aldershot, and ac-
c o m p a n i e d him
when the Expedition-
ary Force proceeded
to the Continent for
the war.
He was wounded at
Hooge, nearYpres, by
the bursting of a shell
in Divisional Head
Quarters on the o 1 si < teiolier.and died November
1st, 1914. Many of the Staff of the 1st Division
were killed or wounded on the same occasion.
Lieutenant-General Loinax, who had received
his promotion in October, was among the
wounded, and, as in the case of his A.D.C,
his wounds proved fatal, although he lingered
until the spring of the following year.
Captain Giffiard, who was a member of the
I Zingari and Free Foresters' Cricket Clubs,
married Janet Haig Boyd, of :Moor House.
County Durham, and left one daughter, Robina,
in lier third vear when lier father was killed.
CAPTAIN ROBERT CROOKS GIL-
CHRIST, 46th PUNJABIS, INDIAN ARMY,
son of Brigadier-
General R. A. Gil-
christ, Indian
Army, was born at
Aurungabad. Dec-
can, India, on the
24th June, 1878.
Educated at Dover
College and the
R.M.C., .Sandhurst,
he was appointed to
the Indian Army
from the latter in
August, 1890, and reached the rank of Cap-
tain in August, 1906. Lieutenant-Colonel G.
Mockler, Comniandant 46th Punjabis, mentioned
that he was a most exceptionally fine officer,
and thoroughly deserved the esteem in whicli
he was held by all ranks — British and Indian —
of the regiment. He served for five years in
the Burmah Jlilitary Police on the frontier,
for wluch he was awarded the Police medal.
Tlie D.I. General of ililitary Police, Burmah,
Colonel J. ffrench-MuUens, wrote : " He served
under me for five years, and on two expeditions,
so 1 had occasion to know of his sterling qualities
and character."
He was killed in the Great War on the 19th
December, 1914, the official report from the
officer commanding .59th Rifles, Frontier Force,
stating : " Captain Gilchrist, attached to us,
was killed yesterday morning, the 19th Decem-
ber, 1914, in a night attack on the German
trenches. He was most gallantly leading a
storming party up a Cierman sap under heavy
fire when he was hit in the head by a rifle bullet."
The engagement was at La Bassee, France.
Captain Gilchrist played polo, hockey, and
other games with his regiment, and when he had
opportunities in India and Cashmere he went
in for shooting. He was not married.
CAPTAIN DUGALD STEWART
GILKISON, p.s.c, THE C A M E-
RONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLESi,
who was killed in
action at the Battle
of the Aisne on the
20th September,
1914, was the elder
son of Mr. D. S. and
Mrs. G i 1 k i s o n, of
Wimbledon and Dal-
quharran, Ayrshire.
He was bom on the
5th ilarch, 1880, and
was educated at
Rugby, which he en-
tered in 1894, and from which he went to the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1897. He joined the
Scottish Rifles in February, 1899, becoming
Lieutenant in December of the same year. He
took part in the South African War, 1899-1902,
being present at the reUef of Ladysmith, includ-
ing the action at Colenso, at the operations of
17th to 24th January, including the action at
.Spion Kop. He also took part in the opera-
tions of 5th to 7th February. 1900, and the
action at Vaal Krans, in the operations on
Tugela Heights, 16th to 27th February, 1900,
and the action at Pieter's HUl : at operations
in Natal and the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, in
1900; again in the Transvaal, and in the Orange
River Colony from November, 1900-02. He
received the Queen's medal with five clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Captain in January, 1905,
and from July, 1906, to July, 1909, was Adjutant
of his battalion. Captain Gilkison was a Staff
College Graduate, and was appointed Staff
Officer at York in 1911, and Brigade-Major,
5th Infantry Brigade, Ilnd Division, Aldershot
Command, in April, 1912.
His younger brother. Lieutenant J. D. Gilkison,
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed
in action on the 26th August, 1914, at Le Cateau.
Captain Gilkison married, in 1905, Kate, daugh-
ter of the Rev. I. Harcourt- Vernon, of Cocaban,
Orange Rivtr Colony, .South Africa.
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LIEUTENANT JAMES DAVID
GILKISON, 1st BATTN. PRIN-
CESS LOUISES ARGYLL AND
SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS).
who was reported missing after the Battle of
Le Cateau on the 2Cth August, 1911, and since
stated by an officer., who is a prisoner of war,
to have been killed on that date, was the younger
and only surviving son of D. S. and ilrs. Gil-
kinson, of Wimbledon, and Dalquliarran, Ayr-
shire. He was born on the 1st August. 1S84,
and was educated at Bugby (Donkin House)
and Ti-inity College, Oxford, which he entered
in 1903. He was called to the Bar (Inner
Temple) in January, 190G. He joined the Argyll
and Sutherland Ilighlandei-s from the Mihtia
in December. 1907, becoming Lieutenant in
:March, 1910.
Lieutenant GUkison's elder brother, Captain
D. S. Gilkison. p.s.c. the Cameronians (Scottish
Rifles), was killed in action on the 20th Sep-
tember, 19U.
2nd LIEUTENANT THOMAS CUNNING-
HAM GILLESPIE. 2nd BATTN. KING'S
OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS,
was the son of T. P.
Gillespie, Longcroft.
Linlithgow, and a
gi-andson of the late
Alexander Gillespie,
of Biggar Park,
Lanarkshire, and of
the late Thomas
Chalmers, of Long-
croft. He was born
at Clanna Cottage.
Al^•ington, Glouces-
tershire, on the 1-lth
December, 1892.
2nd Lieutenant GUlespie was educated at Car-
gilfield .School, Cramond Bridge, at Winchester
College, and at New College, Oxford, which he
entered in 1911, and where he took his degree
in June, 1914. He was a fine athlete, and rowed
three years in the New College eight, twice
keeping liis boat the head of the river. He also
was one of the Xew College Olympian crew at
Stockhobu in 1912.
At Winchester and at the University he was
a member of the Officers' Training Corps, and
intended to make the Army his career. He
obtained a University conunission. and on the
outbreak of the war was gazetted to the
King's Own Scottish Borderers, joining his
regiment in France in time to take part in the
advance from the Mame. He was in the
trenches at Missy-sur-Aisne, took part in the
movement towards the Belgian frontier, and
was killed in action near Quinchy on the 18th
October, 1914.
Militia in
CAPT.\IN CECIL GLENDOWER PER-
C I V A L G I L L I .\ T . 1st BATTN.
ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
who died on the 14th ^ -_— — — ,
October, 1914, of
wounds received in
action, was the eldest
son of Cecil and Mr-s.
Gilliat. of Arch Hall.
County Meath, Ire-
land. He was born
at Arch Hall on
the 6th December.
1884, was educated
at C h e 1 1 e n h a m,
and joined the Royal
Worcestershire Regiment fioiii tho
November, 1905.
He served in operations in the Zekka Khel
country, north-western frontier of India, in
1908, receiving the medal with clasp. He
became Lieutenant in AprU. 1900. and was
gazetted Captain, after his death, on the 29th
October, 1914, to date from the 12th September,
1914.
A brother officer wrote : "" We were attacking
a village called ileteren. My company was
next to ' Glennie's ' when I fell. He saw at
once, and ran to me with two of his men, and
started bandaging my wound. It was a very
plucky tiling to do, as I was lying in a very
exposed place, and the Germans were firing at
me all the time. Glennie left me after he had
put the dressing on, and said he would send
some men to carry me back, but he was killed
himself — shot through the forehead — when
he got back to the trench."
CAPTAIN OTHO CLAUDE SKIPWITH
GILLIAT. 1st BATTN. RIFLE BRIGADE,
(THE PRINCE CONSORT'S OWN),
born on the 7th
December, 1881, at
Buckingham Gate,
London. S.W., was
the son of the late
Howard Gilliat, of
Abbot's Ript on Hall.
Huntingdon, and of
ilrs. Howard Gilliat.
He was educated at
Golden Parsonage,
Cheam ; and at
Eton, where he was
in the Cricket XI in 1899, andjin the Field]XI
in 1898 and 1899. He was also a member of
the Free Foresters, I Zingari, Eton Ramblers,
and Green Jackets Cricket Clubs.
Proceeding to the R.M.C.. .Sandhurst, he joined
the 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade in January,
1901. He served in the South African War,
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being present during operations in the Orange
River and Cape Colonies, receiving the Queen's
medal with three clasps. From 1908-09 he
was A.D.C. to Admiral Sir F. Bedford, in
Western Australia, and to Earl Dudley.
Governor-General from 1909-11, in wliich year
he became Captain. He retired from t he Regular
battalion, and joined the 5th Battalion : but on
the outbreak of the Great War he rejoined
the Regular Army, proceeding to France with
the 1st Battalion. He was shot through the
heart by shrapnel bullet on the 3()th October,
1914.
Captain Gilliat, who was a member of the Army
and Navy Club, was a golf jjlayer, handicap
" .scratch." He was uninarried.
LIEUTENANT HERBERT JAMES
GRAHAM GILMOUR, 3rd BATTN.
WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT,
„,.i,i. I,., ,111,1, M| was the son of .Mrs.
I ^^_^^ % Price Huglies, of
R e d h i 1 1, near
Worcester, and her
first husband, the
late James Graham
Gilmour, of Whit-
ttngton Lodge, near
^^^^^^^^ Worcester : gran d-
fl^^^sB^^ ^°" ^^ '^'"^ Rev. .7.
'-J,';i^ r' Cook, Peopleton
Pershore. He was
born on the 2nd
August, 1883, at Southport, Lancashire, and
was educated at Hartford House, Winclifield,
and Radley College, Oxford.
He was gazetted to the Worcestersliire ililitia
in December, 1900, and sei'ved in the South
African War from January to .May, 1902, for
which he received the Queen's medal with two
clasps. After the war he, in January, 1903,
received a commission in the 3rd Battalion of
the regiment.
On the outbreak of the Great \\'ar he was at home
on leave from the 4th Battalion, then stationed
at Bareilly, India. He joined the 3rd BattaUou,
and accompanied it to the front, being present
with it in all engagements up to the time of his
death. This occiu-red on the 19th September,
1914, when he was kOled in action at Vailly, in
France, while trj'ing to save his men who were
under heavy fire.
He was a member of the Junior Naval and ilili-
tary and of the Worcestershire County Clubs.
He was also a member of the Worcestershire
County Cricket Club and St. John's, Worces-
ter, playing frequently for both. lu his reghnent
he was chosen as one of the twelve shots for
England, and was in the regimental Cricket XI.
He was a keen sportsman and fine rider, having
won many races in India, and m 1912 was third
in the .\rmy Cup on " Exchange."
LIEUTENANT REGINALD NIGEL
GIPPS, 1st BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS,
son of the late
General Sir Regi-
nald Gipps, G.C.B..
of Sycamore House.
F a r n b o r o u g h ,
Hants, who served
in the Crimea, was
born in London on
tlie 22nd November,
1891.
Educated at Wel-
lington College and
the R.M.C, Sand-
hurst, he joined his father'.-s old regiment, the
Scots Guards in February, 1911, becoming
Lieutenant in January, 1913. In that year he
went with his battalion to Egypt, and accom-
panied it to France, as part of the Expedi-
tionary Force, in August, 1914. He was killed
in action near Ypres on the 7th November, 1914.
Lieutenant Gipps was a member of the Guards'
and Boodle's Clubs. He played polo for his
battalion in 1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT PAUL CHAN-
COURT GIRARDOT, 1st BATTN.
OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCK-
INGHAMSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY,
only child of the
late Lieutcnant-
Colonel J. F.
Girardot, 43rd Light
Infantry, Colston
Hall, Nottingham-
shire, was born on
the 17th November.
189.5.
He was educated at
A s h a m p s t e a d
School, Eastbourne,
and C h e 1 1 e n h a m
College, and was gazetted to the Aiiny in
February, 1914. He was an all-round sports-
man, and shot three years ruiming in the Bisley
Eight.
He was killed in action on the Kith September,
1914, near Soupir-sur-Ai.sne, by the bursting of
a shell while resting in a quarry with his
company. The same shell killed three subalterns
of his battalion, vvounded several others, and
killed and wounded forty of the rank and fUe,
and fifty of a company of the Coldstream
Guards, whom they were relieving.
LIEUTENANT RALPH HAMILTON
FANE GLADWIN, 1st BATTN. SCOTS
GUARDS, LATE LIEUTENANT
SCOTS GUARDS, SPECIAL RESERVE,
was ollicially reported as missing in November,
1914, but has since been stated to have been
GLA
1^
killed near Ypres on the 2t>th October, 1914.
He was the youngest son of tlie late Mr. Hanulton
Fane Gladwin, of Seven Springs, Gloucester-
shire, and was born on the Ith October,
1885. He joined the Scots Guards in Feb-
ruary, 1907, becoming Lieutenant in November,
1909. Subsequently he retired from the Army,
but on the outbreak of the war with Germany
was gazetted to the Special Reserve of the regi-
ment in August, 1914, joining the 1st Battalion
for active service.
CAPTAIN ERNEST MLRE GLANVILL.
M.B.. ROYAL ARMY MED1C.\L CORPS,
who was killed in
action on the 2nd
November, 191-1,
wa- the only son of
Henry Glan%'ill. late
Registrar of the In-
land Revenue.
Estate Duty Depart-
ment, and was bom
in Edinburgh on the
14th November,
l.>77.
He qualified in
medicine at Edinburgh University in 1901,
and joined the R.A.JI.C. in August, 1903, being
promoted Captain in February, 1907. He
passed through the Army iledical College,
-Milbank, in August, 1911. with six months'
acceleration for promotion to JIajor, and would
have attained that rank in February, 1915,
had he not been killed.
He went to France in August. 1914, as Medical
Officer in charge of the Scots Greys, and was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
14th January, 1915, having shown .great cool-
ness and conspicuous bravery on many occasions.
Captain Glanvill left a widow and two children,
a boy and a girl.
CAPTAIN ARCHIBALD WILLIAM
ROBERTSON-GL.\SGO\V. 2 39th
GARHWAL RIFLES. INDIAN ARMY.
who was born on
the 24th May, 1880,
at Montgreenan,
Kilwinning, A y r -
shire, was the fourth
and youngest son
of the late R. B.
Robertson -Glasgow.
Esq.. D.L., of Mont-
greenan, formerly in
the 7th Highland
Light Infantry.
The late Colonel
J. C. Robertson-Glasgow, of the Suffolk Regi-
ment, was his uncle.
He was educated at Wellington House School.
Westgate-on-Sea. from 1889 to 1894. and at
Marlborough College from 1894 to 1897. In
the latter year he pa.ssed the entrance examin-
ation for the R.M.A., Woolwic'n : and later in
the same year that for the R.M.C.. Sandhurst,
which he entered in January. 1898. He was
gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in January, 1899 :
and. having pa.ssed for the Indian Army, was
attached for a year to the Royal Scots in India.
He joined the Indian Staff Corps in April.
1900, becoming Lieutenant in the 16th Bombay
Infantry in April, 1901.
He took part in the operations against the
Ogaden .Somalis in Jubaland, British East
Africa, 1901, receiving the medal with clasp.
After the return of the expedition he was
transferred to the 2 , 39th Garhwal Rifles, in
which he became Captain in January. 1908.
Captain Robertson-Glasgow, who was a member
of the Junior Naval and iliUtary Club, was a
keen sportsman, a fine fisherman, and good shot
with both gun and rifle. During two years
when serving in Chitral he made some successful
shooting trips into the hills, securing a number
of fine heads of varioiLS sorts. He commanded
the machine-gun section of his battalion, and
in 1913-14 was Captain of the " Empire Day "
Battalion Shooting Team.
He left India for France in September, 1914,
with his regiment, which formed part of the
Yllth (Meerut) Division, detailed for service
with the Indian Expeditionary Force.
Captain Robertson-Glasgow was officially re-
ported as ■' missing " after a local attack upon
the enemy's trenches, some miles east of
Bethime. on the 13th November, 1914. From
that date till the 25th December. 1914. his
actual fate was unknown, but on that day,
during a short informal truce, the intervening
ground between the lines was searched, and his
body was found under the parapet of a German
trench, which he alone of the party he was
leading seemed to have reached. He was
buried in a graveyard reserved for British
officers near the village of Le Touret, a short
distance east of Bethune.
The letters of brother officers all bear witness
to the cool and cheerful daring displayed by the
late officer during the period of trench fighting
which preceded his death. On one occasion he
went to the rescue, under shrapnel fire, of
some of his men who had been buiied by the
explosion of a shell which destroyed part of
their trench, his work being done in full \-iew
of the enemy. His example in such pecuharly
trying circumstances as these was of inestim-
able value in encouraging his men to face the
ine\-itable dangers to which they were exposed.
He was exceedingly popular with all ranks,
and his influence on those who came in contact
with him was of the very best.
Captain Robertson- Glasgow married, in January.
GLY— GOR
liUl, Philadelphia Constance Violet Flora
JIacdonald, daughter of JIajor F. Fraser, of
Tornaveen, Aberdeenshire, and niece to the late
Lady Robertson, of Forteviot, and left one son,
Arclul)ald Francis Colin, born July. 1914.
LIEUTENANT RICHARD SPENCER
GLYN, 3rd BATTN. THE BUFFS
(EAST KENT REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action on the 20th
October, aged
twenty-two, was the
son of Lewis Ed-
nnnid Olyn, K.C.,
ot Bexley. Kent, and
Tliistlewood. Car-
lisle.
He was educated at
K i n g's School,
Canterbury, where
he wasintheO.T.C,
iiinl rii(.i..d the Army in 1911), being promoted
Lieutenant in Januarj-. 1913.
Lieutenant Olyn, who was fond of shooting
and fishing, afterwards entered at the Middle
Temple. London, for the study of law.
For active service he was attached to the 1st
Battalion of Ids regiment, and was with it
when lie was shot through the heart at Rading-
liam while directing the fire of his men.
LIEUTENANT SYDNEY ALEXANDER
GOLDSMID, 3rd BATTN. WORCESTER-
SHIRE REGT.,
was born at South-
s e a, Hampshire,
on the 6th May,
1.S93, the only sur-
viving son of the
late Sydney Gold-
sinid. and .step-son
of Colonel Annesley-
Smith. late Worces-
tershire Regiment
11 and A. P. D. He was
second cousin to the
late Sir Julian Goldsmid, Bart., and was related
to the late Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. Bart.,
and the late Sir Francis Goldsmid, Bart.
Lieutenant Goldsmid was the last of the male
line of the Goldsmid family. According to
a family legend, there was never to be a direct
heir to the baronetcy, which is now in abeyance,
and the family in the direct male line has now
become extinct.
Lieutenant Goldsmid was educated at the
United Services Colleges, now called the Imperial
Services College, Windsor, and entered Sand-
hurst in 1911, obtaining his commission in the
3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, then
at Tidworth, in 1912. He became Lieutenant
in September, 1914. He was spoken of by his
Colonel as a most efficient and promising young
officer.
During the Great War he was mentioned in
Field - Marshal Sir John French's Despatch
of the 8th October, 1914, for important recon-
naissance work. He was shot near Ypres on the
7th November, 1914, while holding a trench
u hich the Germans rushed during a fog.
Lieutenant Goldsmid was a keen soldier and
a good shot ; his favourite pastime was riding,
and he was fond of sport.
2nd LIEUTENANT COSMO GEORGE
GORDON. 1st BATTN. NORTHAMPTON-
SHIRE REGT.,
born on the 7th May.
1894, at the Royal
.Marine Barracks,
Walmer, Kent, was
the son of Major-
General and Mis.
Gordon, of Culdrain,
Gartly, Aberdeen-
shire ; a grandson of
General Gordon,
R. v., and great-
grandson of Colonel
Gordon, 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders.
He received his education at Warden House,
Deal, and Cheltenham College. After passing
through the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, where he was
known as a good football and hockey player
(which latter game he also played for his
regiment), he joined the 1st Battalion North-
amptonshire Regiment six months before he
left with the Expeditionary Force for the
Continent on the 12th August. 1914. He had
already passed his examination for promotion.
On the 17th September, 1914, whUe holding
some trenches which the Northamptons had
attacked and taken against great odds, he was
mortally wounded, and died in a few hours.
2nd Lieutenant fiordon was a keen sportsman,
a marksman with the rifle and a good game shot.
CAPTAIN JOHN F R'E D E R I C K
HE
.ES.
STRATHEARN
CAMERONIANS i
who was killed in
action, near Y'pres,
on the 13th Novem-
ber, 1914, was the
younger son of the
late General Sir John
Gordon, G.C.B., and
a grandson of the
late Lord Gordon, of
Druinearn.
He was born on
the 19th May, 1882.
and joined the Royal
GORDON. T 1
SCOTTISH RIFLI
GOR
156
Scots ill August, 1900. lie served in the South
African War, being present at operations in the
Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Cape
Colony, between March, litOl, and May, 1902,
receiving the Queen's medal with five clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in December, 1902,
and from November, 1904, to July, 1910, was
employed with the King's African Rifles, being
promoted Captain in the Royal Scots in April.
1910, and in September of the same year was
transferred to the Scottish Rifles.
Captain Ciordon was qualified as an Interpreter
in French and in Swaliili. In April, 1913. he
was appointed Assistant District Ollicer in
Nigeria, Northern Pro\-inces.
CAPTAIN ROBERT EDDING-
TON GORDON, 1st BATTN.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT,
tlie son of George
Gordon, M.Inst.C.E..
was born at EUer-
slie, Toorak. Mel-
bourne, Australia,
on the Sth February,
r^g 1877.
He was educated at
Tooi-ak College, Mel-
bourne, and by
private tutoi-s at
Edinburgh, return-
ing afterwards to
Australia, where he was appointed 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the Military Forces, Victoria. In
December, 1897, he was gazetted 2nd
Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment,
and joined the 1st Battalion at Peshawar.
He was pixjmoted Lieutenant in January, 1900,
and Captain in August, 1905. In that year
he left India to join tlie 2nd Battalion of Ms
regiment, then in England. Captain Gordon
applied for foreign ser\'ice. and from November,
1907, to December, 1911, he was employed witli
the West African Frontier Force, afterwards
rejoining his own regiment in England.
Captain Gordon went to France with the 1st
Expeditionary Force in August, 1914, and was
with the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire
Regiment in the retirement from !Mons, and in
subsequent fighting until the Battle of the Aisne.
He was killed on the 15th September, 1914,
as he was advancing, trying to get his company
into a more advanced position during an attack
by the enemy. He was shot in the head and
body, death being instantaneous.
CAPTAIN ROBERT NORMAN GORDON,
1st BATTN. BORDER REGIMENT,
son of John and Harriet Gordon, now residing
at Didmarton, Tunbridge WeUs, was bom at
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America, on the
18th June, 1875, and was educated at the
I'reparatory School of Captain Lewin. Frant,
Sussex, afterwards going to Repton.
He was gazetted to the Border Regiment in
September. 1895, becoming Lieutenant in
April. 1898. and obtaining his company in AprU,
1904. He served with his regunent in India,
Burma, and the Cape.
He was killed by the explosion of a shell at
Ypres, on the 26th October, 1911. wlien leaving
the trenches.
Captain (iordon mamed Miss Klioda JefTei-son,
and left one boy, born the otli May. 1912.
CAPTAIN RONALD STEL.\RT
GORDON. 57th WILDE'S RIFLES (FRON-
TIER FOR C El,
fifth son of the lat.
John Lewis Gordon,
of West Park, Elgui.
Scotland, was boin
there on the 24tli
November, 1870.
He was educated at
Trinity College,
(ilenalmond, Perth-
shire, and passed
into Sandhui-st in
July. 1895. receiving
an unattached 2nd Lieutenancy for the Indian
Army in January, 1897. He joined the latter
in !March, 1898, serxdng for a short time in the
Cist Pioneers, and being transferred later to
the 57th Wilde's Rifles. He served as Adjutant
of Ills regiment, and was promoted Captain in
January, 1906.
He was on active service in China in 1900,
receiving the medal with clasp, and again on
the north-western frontier of India in 1908,
taking part in operations in the Mohmand
country, and the engagements of Karglia and
ilatta. For these services he was mentioned in
Despatches (''London Gazette," 14th August,
1908), and received the medal with clasp.
W^len at Sandliui-st he won the bronze medals
for cricket and Rugby and Association football.
He was a very fine shot and keen fisherman.
In India he helped to win many cups for polo,
football, golf, and cricket, being a good all-
round atlJete and sportsman. He was a member
of the Caledonian Club, London.
Captain Gordon married on the 6th August,
1914, at St. Peter's. Melbovu-ne, Ruby Mary,
eldest daughter of Hem-y Byron Moore, Mel-
boxirne, AustraUa, and sailed the following day
for India to rejoin his regiment.
He was killed in action at Messines on the 31st
October, 1914, the following account of the cir-
cumstances being received from an officer of a
British regiment who was present : " He did
the most gallant thing I have ever seen : he
took a platoon and went forward to check the
advance of the Germans to cover the retirement
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GOR— GOS
of the rest of Ms conipany. tliou^h he must have
known it was certain death. While advancing
he was shot through the head and died instan-
taneously."
Another officer wrote : " He was the best
olTicer I liave ever known. He was extraordi-
narily popular witli the men, and I have never
seen them so cut up about anything as they
were when they came in."
2nd LIEUTENANT GERARD RIBTON
GORE. 1st BATTN. ROYAL WELSH
FUSILIERS,
who died on the
2nth December.
1914, fi'om wounds
received in action on
the pre^-ious day,
was the only son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
Kibton Gore, late
1st Royal .Sussex
Regiment Thorn-
fields, County
Limerick.
He was born on the 2nd May, 1893, and was
educated at Cheltenham CoUege.
He was appointed to the 3rd Battalion of his
regiment in March. 1914, and was attached
to and accompanied the 2nd Battalion to
France at the commencement of the war, being
wounded during the retirement from Mons.
He afterwards served with the 1st BattaUon
in Flanders, where he was fatally wounded,
having been gazetted to the K.W.F. and
posted to the 1st Battalion, La December, 1914:
and was especially recommended for transfer
to the Regular Battalion by his Conuuanding
Officer and the General commanding the Division.
LIEUTENANT SYDNEY KINGSTON
GORE. 1st BATTN. THE QUEENS OWN
ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action on the 28th
October, 1914, was
the son of Dr. A. J.
Gore, of Kingston,
CheiTV Garden Ave-
nue, Folkestone, and
was born at Barry,
Glamorganshire, on
the 12th July, 1889.
He was educated at
the Folkestone
Graimnar School
and by private tuition, and entered the Army
from the Special Reserve in December, 1912,
becoming Lieutenant in September, 1914. He
was a member of the United Service Club :
played cricket for the Kent 2nd XI and Band
of Brothers, and was wicket-keeper of his regi-
mental team. He was also Captain of the
Irish Army football team, 1913-14, and played
centre-forward for Army officers against Dutch
officers at Aldershot in 1914.
He went out with the British Expeditionary
Force in August, 1914, and was present at the
Battles of Mons, the Aisne, and Xeuve ChapeUe.
The following details of liis death were furnished
by a sergeant of the Royal West Kent Regi-
ment in his evidence in relation to another
officer of the same regiment : — " It was
the same action where we lost Lieutenant
Gore. He was shot right through the brain.
We were surrounded. The right front was
held by the K.O.Y'.T-.L. the left by the
\^'ilts. One platoon advanced and took up
flaidi fire. Others went off, and I did not see
them till nightfall. Lieutenant Gore went on
with Sergeant-ilajor I'enney. Their bodies
were found on the road. I saw them the same
night when I was guiding a Major of the Bed-
fords across to defend our left flank. I don't
know about yii: Gore's biuial, but would like
to say how pluckily we thought he died."
2nd LIEUTENANT ERIC WILLIAM
GORST. 4th BATTN. THE ROYAL FUSI-
LIERS (CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT,
who was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle
on the 2tith October, 1914, aged twenty-one,
but whose name has not appeared ia the official
casualty lists, was the eldest surviving son of
the late T. W. Gorst.
He was gazetted to the Royal Fusihers on the
14th August. 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BERES-
FORD GOSSET, 115th B.\TTERY
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
born at Farm Hill,
in the Blue 3Ioun-
tains of Jamaica, on
the 17th November,
1893, was the son of
the Hon. Beresford
Smyly Gosset, Gus-
tos Rotidorum of
St. Andrew, .la-
maica. and liis wife,
^lary Jean Gosset.
He was educated at
Ascham House
School, Eastbourne, where he was captain of
games, and at Clifton CoUege, where he was in
the Second XI. He then proceeded to the
R.M.A., Woolwich, in 1911, from which he
obtained his commission in the R.F.A. in
December, 1912, going to the front with his
battery in August, 1914.
He was killed in action near Ypres on the 1st
November. 1914, when he had gone out of his
trench to see what was wrong with a telephone,
messages having ceased to come in. He was
buried, with Lieutenant Tucker, the officer who
GOU GRA
i,s,s
had bfi'ii wiirkiiifi the toliplionc, and wlio was
killi'tl just liiliirc liiiH, in ^ jiiis Churchyard, the
si'i'vicebeingconducU'd byAiinyCliaplainCieorge.
The Captain of tlif 115tli Battery wrote to liis
parents: " Your brave boy was killed on tin-
1st November. He had gone forward into the
trenches to observe fire, and was killed by a
shell close to the trenches while returning to
the battery. One of our gunners was with him
at the time, and death was quite instantaneous.
His friend. Lieutenant Tucker, was killed on
the same day. 1 Ijrought back his body that
evening, find we buried him with Lieutenant
Tucker in the cemetery at Ypres the following
day. We put up two crosses o\er their graves.
. . . Your son was a most valuable and useful
otTicer, always ready and eager for every kind
of work, and always too much inclined to rim
into danger. We all were devoted to hiui, and
the loss of two such young and brave lives iu
one day was a great blow to us."
Another account said that when Lieutenant
Tucker's telephone messages stopped, Gosset
went to see why, and found the telephone cut.
Under a terrible shell fire he calmly went down
to it, and was hit by a shell and killed instan-
taneously.
CAPTAIN ERIC JOHN FLETCHER
GOUGH, 1st BATTN. IRISH GUARDS,
was born on the
20th November,
isss, the only son of
tlie late Major
Thomas Armstrong
tiough, and of Mrs.
Claude Langley,
of 0 , Onslow
Crescent, S.W. . He
was a member of
the Irish family of
(iough, which has
contributed so many
(listinguisheil soldiers to the Army.
Captain Cough was educated at Mr. Hawtrey's
School at Westgate and at Eton. He joined
the (then) 7th BattaUon Rifle Brigade (Special
Reserve) in 1906, and was gazetted to the Irish
(iuards in 1909, becoming Lieutenant in Novem-
ber, 1911, and Captain in September, 1914.
He went to PVanee with his battalion on the
12th August, 1914, and was present at the
retirenu^nt from Mons, the actions at \'illers Cot-
terets, the JIarne (where he acted as Adjutant),
the Aisne, and the fighting at Ypres in the early
days of November. He was killed in the trenches
between Bethune and La Bassee on the 30th
December, 1914, when a life full of promise was
cut short. He was mentioned in Sir .T(j1iii
French's Despatch of the 31st May, 1915.
Captain Cough was a member of the Guards'
Indian Army,
ill the (iwalior
and I'ratt's Clubs. His recreations wci-c lacing,
shooting, (isliing. and golf.
LIEUTENANT JOHN BLOOMFIELD
GOUGH, ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY,
wild was killed iu . _
action on tlie 8tli
September, 1914,
was the eldest son
of Colonel Bloom-
field (iough, formerly
of the 9th Lancers,
and of Mrs. Gough,
of Belchester, Ber-
w i c k s h i re. 11 i s
grandfather. Genera 1
Sir .Tolin Bloom-
field Gough, was a
distinguished officer u! tlie
who fought at Sobraon and
campaign, member of a family which has given
so many ofTicers to the Army.
Lieutenant Gough, who was born mi the "JItli
July, 1886, was educated at Ilaileybuiy. and
received his commission in the Boyal Artiller\-
in December. 1906, becoming Lieutenant in
December, 19(19.
He was an all-i'ound sportsman, very good lid.i'
in races, first-class man to hounds, and a most
successful pig-sticker.
The following account of tin- lirrunistances
attending his death was given by the .Major of
his battery ; —
" Wlien I was hit he ran up to take my place
and command the battery, and was hit by the
very next shell as he reached me. What liis
loss means to me and to the old tioop 1 cannot
at all express, nor can I ever forget. He has
been magnificent all thi'ough our very trying
reai'guard ordeals. As Battery Leader he was
quite invaluable, and so very clever at using
ground, which probably saved us heavier lo.sses
on mmierous occasions."
CAPTAIN ALEC G. M. GRAHAM, 6th
BATTN. WORCESTERSHIRE REGI-
MENT, attd. 1st BATTN. LOYAL
NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT,
was killed in action
on the 22nd Decem-
ber, 1914.
Captain Graham
was promoted to
that rank in the
Worcestershire Regi-
ment in August,
1914, having first
entered the fith
Battalion in Decem-
ber. 1901 ; with it
he served in the
South African War. being jjresent at operations
in Cape Colony from January to JNlay, 1902
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CAPTAIN
GURKHA
attd. lad
GURKHA
ALAN
RIFLES
KING
RIFLES
MOIR GRAHAM. 5th
FRONTIER FORCE .
EDWARD'S OWN
SIRMOOR RIFLES .
who was killed on
the 21st December.
1911. was the
younger son of
-Major-General Sir
Thomas Graham.
K.C.B.. of Heather-
dale Lodge. Cani-
tierley. Bom on the
2.5th .June. 1878.
he was educated at
HaUeybuiy and the
R.M.C.. -Sandhurst,
on passing out of which he received an un-
attached 2nd Lieutenancy in August. 189T. and
served his probationary period with the Devon-
shire Regiment.
In Xovember, 1898, he was gazetted to the
Indian Staff Corps, became Lieutenant in
the Indian Army in .Tuly. 1900, and was pro-
moted Captain in August. 190ti. He was in
command of the Military Police Escort to a
SiUTeying Party in the iliri country in 1912.
and was granted the King's Police medal for
conspicuous gallantry in repelling an attack.
Captain Graham also commanded the ililitary
PoUce diuing the Akha Expedition in the early
part of 1914. and obtained the medal.
He was killed on the 21st December, 1014. while
covering the retreat of his company from an
attack which had taken it in flank at Festubert.
Captain Graham, who was a member of the
.Junior Xaval and Military Club, married Edith
Margaret, second daughter of Stafford F. Still.
LIEUTENANT ARCHIBALD STUART
BULLOCH GRAHAM. 2nd BATTN.
GORDON HIGHLANDERS.
bom on the 28th
April, 1891, was the
-on of Archibald
Bulloch Graham. 3,
E'ark Gardens.
I ilasgow, \V., for-
riierly Captain in
the Glasgow High-
landers, T.F.
He was educated at
irlasgow Academy.
RossaU School, and
the R.M.C.. Sand-
hurst, from which he was gazetted to the Gordon
Highlanders in March. 1911. joining the 1st
Battalion at Colchester. In October. 1911. he
was transferred to the 2nd Battalion at Cawn-
pore, India, from which place the battalion
went to Cairo in December. 1912. He was pro-
moted Lieutenant in Jtdy, 1914.
He left Cairo with his battalion for Southampton
in September. 1914. and after a few dajrs at
Lyndhurst they left for Zeebrugge as part of the
\TIth Division. Dtiring the latter days of Octo-
l>er. Lieutenant Graham frequently attracted
attention by his bravery and cheeriness under
trying conditions, and especially in the charge
after which he was treacherously killed. Several
officers wrote saying how well he had done, and
in 191.5 his father received a parchment cer^
tificate to the effect that Lieutenant Graham's
conduct on the 29th-31st October, 1914, had
been brought to the notice of the Commanding
Officer, who had had much pleasnre in bringing
it to the notice of higher authority.
He was killed on the afternoon of the 31st
October. 1914. the following account having
been received from his soldier servant : " At
the time of his death he was one of three officers
left with the remains of the battalion, which
after the recent severe fighting had been
largely reduced in numbers. They were ordered
to take a wood, and this they did in such a
manner that the enemy thought they were over-
powered by numbers, and threw up their hands
to surrender. While the officers were seeing
that the enemy's arms were given up a wounded
German officer, pretending to be dead, waited
till Lieutenant Graham was close in front of
him, and then shothim in the back of the head
with his revolver. Our men were so enraged that
they gave the Germans no quarter."
His Commanding Officer, writing on the 12th
November. 1914. said : " The Gordons had
charged through the Germans, and had them in
full retreat when your boy (Stuart) was hit
from behind, and has not been heard of from
that time. I can tell you that he was a splendid
officer and a great loss to his country, the Army,
and his regiment. When he had to do a thing I
knew it would be well done, and it always was well
done. I cannot tell you ho w much I regret his loss."
And writing again on the 1.5th he said : "" His
popularity with the men was very great, and he
proved himself a bom leader of men. He Ls a
great loss to us and the Army at large."
C .\ P T A I N HUBERT A N,T H O N V
GRANT. 2nd BATTN. LEICESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT,
son of the Reverend
('anon Grant, and
grandson of Arch-
deacon Grant, both ^^^
formerlv of Avles- ^^^m ^>
ford. Kent, was bom
there on the 16th
-January, 1878.
He was educated
at Marlborough ^^^^^^^1^^ \
Collie, and joined
the Leicestershire 1-
GRA-GRE
IHO
lU-giinent, fioui tin- K.-M.C. Sandliurst. in .May,
1898, becoming Lieutenant in 1900. He served
ill the South African War, 1900-02, being present
at operations in Natal, iiKhitling the action a1
Laings Nel< : in the Tiansvaal. inchuling
actions at Bellast aiul 1,.\ denburg : in the Orange
River Colony ; and on tlie Zululand frontier of
Natal. For his services he received the Queen's
medal and the King's medal, each with two clasps.
Captain Cirant was serving with his battalion
«lu-n he was killed on the 24th November,
mil. The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding
his battalion gives the following account of the
circumstances : —
" We had been out of our trenches for some days
to have a rest, and on the night of the 2:3rd-
2'lth November we were ordered to go in support
of another brigade on our right. The enemy had
taken, early on the 23rd, a part of the trench
belonging to this brigade, and the order came
that this treneli was to be retaken at any cost.
It was a most important and \u-gent task, and
half of our battalion was told oft' to attack a
certain point in the line. ' B ' Company,
commanded by Captain Grant, was leading, and
he led his men with great dash right into the
enemy's trench, and as he got there was shot
through the head. The men followed and took
the trench, with the result that the Germans
were routed, and over one hundred prisoners
and other things, such as machine guns, rifles,
etc., were captured, and a good many of the
enemy were killed. The Army Corps Com-
mander and the Commander-in-Chief both
congratidated the troops concerned in the
action, and Captain Grant's name was brought
to notice for gallantry. He died a fine death
for a soldier at the head of his men, leading them
to the enemy. His death was instantaneous.
" He was buried by Kev. Irwin, our Cliaplain,
in consecrated ground, which we have bought
for the burial of officers and men of our regiment,
in the presence of the officers and as many men
as could be spared from the regiment. He will
be long remembered in the regiment, lor all
loved him, and will feel his loss very much.
" He will be remembered as one of the best of
comrades and kindest of men. He was loved by
his men, and, as you know, all of us ofllcers
mourn his loss deeply."
Captain Grant was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 18th February, 191.5,
for his gallantry.
He married in January, 1906, Cara (iillespie,
daughter of the late Major-General Robert
Rollo (iillespie, C.B., and grand-daughter of the
late Admiral John Townsend Coffin.
LIEUTENANT WALTER FRANCIS
GRAVES. 3rd (attd. 1st) BATTN.
BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killeil in action on the 9th November,
till 1. at tin- age of I w cnt y-ninc. was the eldest.
sou of .Mrs. \V. (iravcs. Sands c I'lace, S;indy.
Bedfordshire.
He was appointed Lienten.uit in tli.' :'.rd i!al-
talion of his regiment in ScptmilMT. liHI.
having previously been a lind hicnlriKinl ni
the same battalion.
Lieutenant Graves was a iiu-mlicv of tlic Cardilt
City Council and of the Coal K.xchangc. and was
interested in education.il woi'k.
CAPT. AMBROSE DIXON HALDREGE
GRAYSON, RESERVE OF OFFICERS,
attd. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
who was killed in
action near Festu-
bert on tlie \'Mh
October. 1914, was
the third son of
the late Henry H.
and Mrs. Grayson.
12, Bolton Gardens.
London, S.W.. and
was born on the
14th May, 1874.
He was educated at
Wellington College
and the R.M.A., Woolwich, from which he was
appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the R.A. in IS'.U,
Lieutenant in 1897, and Captain in No\ rmi.er,
190(1. He served with both horse and lield
batteries, and in 1901-02 took part in the Aro
Expedition, Southern Nigeria. He was a mem-
ber of the Naval and Military Club, and played
polo, tennis, and golf. In March, 190H, he
retired from the Army for family reasons, but
at the outbreak of the war Captain Grayson
was again emplo>ed with the Royal Field
Artillery, ranking as Cai)tain from the 30th
August, 1914.
MAJOR ARTHUR DAWSON GREEN,
D.S.O., p.s.c, THE WORCESTER-
SHIRE REGT.,
son of the late Henry
Green, Esq., of
Blackwall, Old
Charlton, was born
on the 13th April.
1874, at Belvedere,
Kent, and was
educated at Hailey-
bury College, wheiv
he had a reputation
as a good athlete.
He joined the Lst
Essex Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant in 1894,
and in the course of his military career obtained
many decorations and distinctions. He became
Lieutenant in 1897, and served with the West
African Regiment in the Sierra Leone Hut Tax
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GRE
Rebellion and in the Sierra Leone Hinterland
Expedition, under the late General Sir E. R. P.
Woodgate, from April, 1S9S, to Jane, 1S99.
For these services he received the West African
medal and two clasps. He was promoted to a
Captaincy in the Worcestershire Regiment on
the 20th June. 19fXi. From January, 1903,
to February, 1907, he was employed with the
West African Frontier Force. For his Nigerian
service in 190tJ he was mentioned in Despatches
(Major Goodwin, 1.5th ilarch : and Colonel
Cole, 20th May, lOOti : recorded in " London
Gazette" of the 2nd July, 1907) and received
the medal with clasp.
From 1S99-1902 he served hi the Boer War
with Thomeycroft's Mounted Infantry : was
present at the rehef of Ladysmith : at operations
on the Tugela Heights, and al.so in Xatal,
including the action at Laing's Nek. He also
took pari: in operations in Cape Colony, Orange
River Colony, and the Transvaal. For these
services he was mentioned in Despatches by
General Sir Redvers Buller on the 19th Jvine
and the 9th November, 1900 ("London Gazette''
of the 29th July, 1902) ; was decorated with the
D.S.O., and received the Queen's medal with six
clasps and the King's medal with two clasps. He
was appointed Brigade- Major of the ITth Infantry
Brigade in the Irish Command in June, 1911.
^XTien he met his death he was reconnoitring
with his General in the trenches at Soupir,
and was shot through the heart by a sniper on
the 2Sth -September. 1911.
He was fond of hunting, was Master of the
Staff College Drag Hounds in 1909-10. and was
a member of the Army and Navy Club.
He married Isabella Margaret, second daughter
of the late William Lindsay Stewart, Esq.. of Stan-
more. Lanarkshire. N.B., and left a son, Henry
James Lindsay, born 2-tth September, 1911.
L I E UTEN ANT-C O L O N E L M AL C OLM
CHARLES ANDREW GREEN. PRINCE
OF WALES'S VOLUNTEERS
SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT..
who was killed in
the trenches near
Ypres on the ITth
November, 19 14,
•Aas bom at St.
li eorge's Road,
London, S.W., on
the 2nd July, 1871,
the son of the late
I'olonel Malcolm S.
i>reen, C.B., of 3rd
Scinde Horse, and a
grandson of Admiral
Sir Andrew Pellet Green, who couuuanded
H.M.S. ■• CoUingwood'' at Trafalgar.
Lieutenant-Colonel Green was educated at the
Oxford Military CoUege and at the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, receiving his commission in the
South Lancashire Regiment (the old S2nd)
in 1891, becoming Lieutenant in 1891, Captain
in 1900, and obtaining his Majority in ilay,
1909. He served in India and in the South
African War, being present at operations in
Natal, including the action at Laing's Nek
and operations in Cape Colony. He received
the Queen's medal with four clasps.
On t lie outbreak of the Givat War Lieutenant-
Colonel Green was serving at Tidwortli. having
just previously been in command of the depot
of his regiment at Warrington with the newly
formed Army, but received his orders to proceed
on service to take command of his battaUon.
Lieutenant-Colonel Green, who was a member
of the United Service Club, Pall Mall, married
iliss Elsie BLsdee, and left three sons, age
five, three, and two years respectively, at the
time of their father's death.
CAPTAIN RIVERSDALE NONUS
GRENFELL. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
YEOMANRY ROYAL BUCKS HUS-
9th
LANCERS
S A R S I , a 1 1 d .
was killed in action
on the Uth Sep-
tember, 1911, at the
beginning of the
Battle of the Aisne.
He was the ninth son
of Mr. Pascoe Dupre
GrenfeU, of Wilton
Park. Beaconsfleld.
Bucks, and a nephew
ofField- Marshal Lord
Grenfell. He was
bom on the 1th
September. 1880, was educated at Eton, and
joined the Royal Bucks Hussars in Septem-
ber, 190S, becoming Captain in August, 1911.
He was well known as a fine polo player, and
was a member of the " Old Etonian " team
that won the Champion Cup in 1907. While on
a visit to his twin brother in India he won the
Kadir Cup. Captain Grenfell was a member of
the Turf and Bath Clubs, was very interested
in philanthropy, and organised a branch of the
Invahd Children's Aid Association at Islington.
One of his brothers. Lieutenant R. S. Grenfell,
12th Lancers, was killed in action at Omdurman,
and his twin brother. Captain Francis Octavius
Grenfell. V.C., 9th Lancers,after being twice woun-
ded, fell in action at Y'pres on the 21th May, 1015.
CAPTAIN the Honble. RICHARD
GEORGE GRENVILLE MORG.\N
GRENVILLE. Master of K i n 1 o s s.
1st BATTN. RIFLE BRIGADE.
was the son of Major Morgan Gren\"ille, late of
the Y'ork and Lancaster ^lihtia. and the
Baroness Kinloss. He was a grandson of the
late Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.
GRI GRU
182
("aptaiTi .Mor>;;m (Jrciivillc was Ijorn on the
2.">tli SciilciiihiT. 1SS7. and was cUucated at
KtonandtheR..\I.( '..
Sandhui-st. obtaining
liis connnission in tlio
Kilk- Hiigadoin li»ni>.
licciiinini; I>ie\itcnant
in .January, 1910.
a n d Captain i n
August. I'.M 1.
lie was killi'd in
actional I'loej^'stfoit.
.*^^| ncai- Arnientieres,
when serving with
his battalion on the
lltth December, 1011. having been twice
previously wounded, his name having appeared
hi the casualty lists published on September
loth and November Kith. He Wiis mentioned
in Sir Jolin French's Despatch of the 8th
October. 1914.
He was a mendjer of tlie liatli Club. Londdii.
Captam the Hon. Richard (i. (i. .Morgan
(irenville having been the eldest son, liis
brotiier, the Hon. Luis Chandos Francis
Tenii)le, becomes heir to the barony. Another
brother. Lieutenant tlic Hon. T. O. B. .Morgan
(iienville. is also serving in the Rifle Brigade.
LIEUTENANT GERALD GRIFFITH,
.^rd BATTN. H.\MPSHIRE REGIMENT,
younger son of 1 >r.
and Mrs. P. Ci.
Criffitli. St. Colomb.
W'alton-on -Thames,
was born at Pur-
n e a u X P e 1 h a ni.
IIiTtfordshire, on
llic 14th July. I,sy3.
He was educated at
P i n e w o o d, Farn-
boiiough, Hants, and
at Blundell's School.
Tiverton. He was
gazetted to the Hampshire Regiment in .Sep-
tember. 1911, and was promoted Lieutenant
in January, 1914.
Lieutenant Griffith went to the front ou tlie
21st August. 1914, and was unofficially reported
as liaving been killed in action soon afterwards,
no definite news being obtained for some time.
\t last it was ascertained tliat he was wounded
and left behind in the trenches on the 26tli
August, 1914, and it must unhappily be assumed
that he died on or about that date.
A brotiier officer wrote of him : " He was
killed and left behind in the trendies he had
helped to Iiold so gallantly. He was a gallant,
cheery lad, and we can ill spare such boys. He
was much liked bv his brotiier officers and men."
.r til
CAPTAIN HOR.XCF SYLVESTER
GRIMSTON. 2nd B.\T TN. THE DURE
OF EDINBURGH'S (WILTSHIRE REGT.i,
was born on the
27th October, 1S9I,
at Xewera Elixa.
Ceylon. He was the
son of I'Alward .lolin
(irimston, of Ram-
l)odde, Ramboda,
Ceylon, and his
second wife. Toonie
Clara (iie'i- Wood-
lioiise). and was a
grandson of tlie Hon.
and Rev. Francis
Sylvester (irimston, and great-grands
second Earl \erulaiii.
Cajitain (irimston was educated at .St. I-Mward's
School. Xewera Kliya, Ceylon, at CUfton College
and the R..M.C., .Sandliurst.
He joined the 2nd Battalion VViltsliire Hegiment
as 2nd Lieutenant in .\pril. 1911; liecame
Lieutenant in March. I '.HI. .likI wa.? promoted
Captain on the battlefield in (Jctolier. 1914.
Captain (irimston was sliot through tlie temple
in tlie trenches at Reutel, near Ypres, on the
2:?rd October, 1914. His battalion formed part
of the Vllth Division, wliich has since been
named " The Immortal Divtsion." because of
the glorious stand it made in fiont of Ypres.
lie was a keen polo player and gentleman jockey.
and was a member of the United Service Club.
2nd LIEUT. LAWRENCE ERNEST PEL-
HAM GRUBB, THE KING'S OWN
(YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRYi,
was killed in action
on the loth Xovem-
ber. 1914.
He was born in 1.S92
at Wembley. Middle-
sex, the ordy son of
Ernest Pelham
firubb. gentleman,
and Emily Mary
(irubb. He was a
great-grandson o f
Mr. Richard (irubl).
of Cahir Abbey,
County Tipperary. He was educated at Rugby
(Town House), whicli he entered in 190(3. and
proceeded with an exliibition to Brasenose
College. Oxford, in 1911. There he obtained
his degree with honours in 1914. A\'hen war
was declared he threw up an excellent post
abroad, and, having belonged to the O.T.C..
went out as a despatch rider. He received his
commission a few weeks before his death, which
he met while leading a cliarge against a chateau
near Hooge on the night of the 1.5tli Xoveml)er.
1914.
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in Jersey and England.
CAPTAIN FRANK. L E M A I S T R E
GRUCHY, 1st BATTN. LEICESTER-
_ SHIRE REG T.,
was the son of the
late (ieorge Oruchy.
Esq.. and Mrs.
(iruchy. of Rouce-
\ille. .St. .Saviour's.
Jersey, and was boi-n
there on the 23rd
.January, 1S76.
He wa.s educated at
\'ictoria College.
.Jersey, and also
studied with tutoi-s
For two years he was
in the Jersey Militia, and joined the 2nd Bat-
talion Leicestei'shire Regiment in 1S98, being
subsequently transferred to the 1st BattaUon.
in which he became Captain on the 3rd March.
1903. being at the time of his death the senior
Captain with the battalion.
He served at various stations in Ireland, and
went to South Africa in February, 1900. with
the 2nd ilounted Infantry, remaining there till
the end of the Boer War, during vvMch he was.
in December, 1901. wounded in the knee.
For his ser\-ices he wa.s mentioned in Despatches,
and received the Queen's and the King's iiiedals.
with five clasps. Afterwards he served in
India, and later at the depot at Leicester and
i>ther English stations.
While leading his men towards the enemy he
was shot through the heart, and died instantane-
ously, on the 23rd October. 1914. His body was
buried near La Houssaie, close to the Armen-
tieres-Ecquinghem Railway, west of Lille.
Ills battalion formed part of the 16th Brigade.
\'Ith Division, of the Expeditionary Force.
Captain Gruchy rode well and hunted. He was
also a very good ski runner and fond of all
athletic sports. He was unmarried.
C.\PTAIN HENEAGE GREVILLE,
LORD GLERN.SEV. IRISH GUARDS.
was the eldest son
of the eighth Earl
of Ayle.sford and
Lady Aylesford.
daughter of the third
Lord Bagot, and was
born in London on
the 2nd .Tune, 1883.
He was educated at
Eton, and fh^t joined
the 3rd Battalion
Wiltshire Regiment
in August. 1901, with
which he served in the .South African War.
receiving the South African medal. He was
then for a short time in the Tth Ilussai-s, and
in .June, 1902, was gazetted to the Irish
(iuards. He was on the .Staff as A.I^.C. to the
(iovernorof Gibraltar in 1905. In 1911 he was
on duty at the Coronation of Their ilajesties
King George and Queen ilary, and received
the Coronation medal. He also served in the
Warwickshire Yeomanry, in which hLs com-
mission as Captain was dated the 17th August.
1910. and subsequently pa-ssed into the Reserve
of Omcei-s on April, 15th, 1914.
In the Great War Lord Guernsey was leading
his men to an attack at Soupir on the 14th
.September, 1914, when he was shot.
Lord Guernsej-, who was a member of the
Turf Club and of White's Club, married on the
11th June. 1907. the Hon. Gladys C. G. Fellowes,
second daughter of the second Baron de Ramsey,
and left a son, .Michael Charles Heneage Finch,
born 1908, who succeeds as next heir to his
grandfather, and foui" other children — two
daughtei-s and two sons.
2nd LIEUTEN.\NTREGIN.\LD GLOVER
KER GULLAND. 14th COUNTY OF
LONDON BATTN. THE LONDON
REGIxMENT (LONDON SCOTTISH).
was born in London
on the 2nd Decem-
ber, 1885, and was
the son of James Ker
Gulland, M.I.M.E.,
F.G.S., and F.S.A.
He was educated at
Clifton College and
the Central Techni-
cal College, London,
becoming afterwards
a civil and mecha-
nical engineer. At
Clifton he was in the Cadet Corps, and joined
the "electrical engineei-s " while at college in
190 L was transferred to the London .Scottish
in 190.S, and received his conunission in July,
1910.
lie pa.ssed through niuskeUy and machine-
gun courses at Hythe, and was appointed
Instructor of Musketry and .Machine (inn
Officer to his battalion.
His chief hobby was rifle shooting. He was a
member of the National Rifle Association and
the North London Rifle Club. In 1910 he was
in the " Thing's Hundred." and shot for .Scotland
in the National Challenge Trophy Competition
in 1911 : was again in the " King's Hundred,"
and also in the final stage for the .St. George's
Vase in 1914. He was also in the Old Cliftonian
team for the Public Schools' Veterans' Challenge
Trophy on many occasions.
He was hit by a sniper on the 1 1th November,
1914. while in command of his macbine-gun
section near Ypres, and died early next mormng.
Lieutenant Ker (iulland married, in June. 1914.
Miss Beatrice E. Welch.
GWY— HAD
l&t
CAPTAIN ALEXANDER
GRANT GWYER, 6th DRAGOON
GUARDS (CARABINIERSi,
killed in action on the 22ud October, 1914,
was the younger son of tlie late Cecil I-'. Gwyer
and Mrs. Gwyer, of Croftinloan, I'itloclirie.
He was bom on the 10th May, 1883, and joined
the 6th Dragoon Guards in January, 1902,
becoming Lieutenant in September, 1903, and
Captain in May, 190S.
He had retired from the active list, and had
voluntarily entered the Reserve of Oflicers,
rejoining his old regiment on the outbreak of
the war.
CAPTAIN CHARLES EDWARD HACK,
Istil^BATTN. CONNAUGHT RANGERS,
was the second son
of the late William
Lionel Frederick
Hack, Esq., of Silk-
Willoughby, Lin-
colnsldre, and of
:Mi-s. Hack, Thrus-
ton. Hampshire, and
was born at Silk-
\A'il]oughby on the
29th August, 1S77.
He was educated at
Bedford Granmiar
School, and joined the Connaught Rangers
from the Sligo ^lilitia in December, 1897,
being posted to the 1st Battalion, with which
he remained for all his service. He was pro-
moted Lieutenant in April, 1900, and Captain
in :May, 1904.
He had a fine record in South Africa, where he
put in over two and a half years of active ser-
vice, being present at a large number of import-
ant actions, including those of Colenso, Spion
Kop, Vaal Krans, Pieter's HUl, and Biet ^'lei.
He was with Hart's Irish Brigade in Natal,
in the forcing of Fourteen Streams and the
relief of Mafeking. He was also present at
operations on the Tugela Heights, including
the assault on Hart's Hill, where six hundred
of liis battaUon fell, and at other operations in
the Orange Free State, the Transvaal, Cape
Colony, and Orange River Colony. For his
services he was mentioned in Despatches
("London Gazette," 10th September, 1901),
received the Queen's medal with five clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps. He
also received the Durbar medal, 1911.
In June, 1911, he was appointed Adjutant of
his battalion, holding the appointment till
June, 1914. In July he came home on a year's
leave, but on the outbreak of the war he
rejoined his regiment. He was at first re-
ported as wounded and missing after an action
on the 4th-5th November, 1914, and as his bodj'
was not recovered hopes were entertained that
he might be alive. A Court of Enquiry sub-
seiiuently foiuid that he had been killed in an
attack on the enemy's trenches that night.
It seems that a trench which had been vacated by
our troops had been occupied by the Germans,
and Captain Hack's company was ordered to
retake it and fill it in. The attack was delivered
soon after nudnight on the 4th November, and
the company was filling in the trench when the
enemy retiu-ned in overwhelming numbers, and
the company was forced to retire, having lost
its three officers. Captain Hack wa-s using his
revolver and giving orders when he fell.
Captain Hack was an excellent sportsman,
especially fond of polo and hunting, and always
took a great interest in his men's games.
A good liorseman, a keen soldier, and a staunch
friend, he will be missed by a large number of
friends, as well as in his regiment.
In announcing liis death a brother officer wrote :
" To all of us he represented, as it were, the
battalion."
LIEUTENANT WILFRID JOHN MAC-
KENZIE HADFIELD, 2nd BATTN. THE
PRINCE OF WALES'S VOLUNTEERS
(SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT),
was the son of
Major-General C. A.
Hadfield, and was
born at Southsea on
the 11th January,
1889.
He was educated
first at Mr. Norman's
Preparatory School,
Sevenoaks ; then at
Repton ; and at
"The Army School,"
Stratford - on- Avon,
whence he proceeded to the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He joined the 2nd Battalion .South Lancasliire
Regunent on the 6th November, 1909, becoming
Lieutenant on the 17th .\pril. 1912.
He was Assistant Adjutant of his battalion,
and. embarked with it for the Continent as
Regimental Transport Officer.
On the 6th September, 1914, he was severely
wounded at the Battle of the ilarne, ha\-ing
been ambushed whilst accompanymg his bat-
talion at dusk on outpost duty. He was sent
to the base in a hospital train, but on the
journey he was taken from the train, on the
10th September, 1914, to a ci%'il hospital for an
operation, and died there the same day. He
was buried at Angers, with fuU military
honours, by the French garrison.
Lieutenant Hadfield was a member of the Junior
Army and Navy Club. He was a keen rifle
shot and winner of the first prize at the Officers'
Competition, Salisbirry Plain Rifle Meeting,
in 1914.
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HAG HAL
C A P T AI N M A R K H A G G A R D, 2 n d
BATTN. THE WELSH REGIMENT,
b o r 11 in 1 S 7 li ,
was the son of the
late Bazett ^lichael
Haggard, of Kirliy
("ane, Norfolk, and
of Mrs. Lofthouse,
of Sliipdham and
Hemsby, Norfolk.
He wa.s a nephew
of Sir W. D. Haggard
and of Sir Eider
Haggard, and was
educated at Trinity
Hall, Cambridge, where lie obtained the degree
of B.A. He served with the Cyclist Section,
Inns of Court. R.V., C.I.V., and in the South
African War vrith that Corps in 1900, receiving
the Queen's medal with four clasps. Subse-
quently he served with the Welsh Regiment in
India and South Africa. For the latter services
he received the South African medal \^ith
four clasps.
In 3Iay, 1910, he was appointed Adjutant of
the Welsh Regiment (Territorial) at Cardiff, and
became Captain in the Welsh Regiment on the
1st January, 1911.
He was wounded when leading a charge at
Chivy in the Battle of the Aisne, and died of
his wounds on the loth September, 1911.
Captain Haggard was fond of football, polo, and
boxing, having been a lightweight boxer at
Cambridge and in the Army. He married, on
the l.jth October, 1913, Elizabeth, elder daugh-
ter of Colonel Ed\^■ards Vaughan, of Rheola,
South Wales.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES RODERICK
HAIGH, ADJUTANT 2nd B.\TTN. THE
QUEEN'S (ROYAL WEST SURREY
REGIMENT),
who was born on the
3rd September, 1888,
was the elder son of
the late Mr. Ai-thur
j;iam Haigh, M.A..
Fellow and Tutor
of Corpus Christ i
College, Oxford, and
a nephew of ilr. and
Mrs. G. T. Pilcher,
Godahning.
He was educated at
the Oxford I'repaiatory School, at Winchester
College, ^^ here he won an exhibition: and at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took
the B.A. degree.
He was given a commission as a University
candidate in the Queen's (Royal West Surrey
Regiment) in February, 1911, becoming
Lieutenant in April, 1912, and was gazetted
Adjutant of his battalion in January, 191-1.
He was killed near Y'pres on the 7th November,
1914, while " gallantly leailing a charge against
overwhelming odds."
CAPTAIN ARTHUR GORDON HALL,
2nd BATTN, BEDFORDSHIRE REGT.,
eldest son of Ed-
ward Hall, Escj.,
coffee planter, of
Santaveri, Mysore,
and ;\Irs. Edward
Hall, both now re-
siding at 17, South-
fields Road, East-
bourne, \\as born on
the 20th Novem-
b e r, 18 7 9, at
" Sliimogah," in the
Pi'o\'ince of Mysore,
a Native State of India.
Educated at Bradfleld CoUege, Berks, where
he was good at school games, he first joined the
Militia, and through it the Bedfordshire Regi-
ment in 1899, becoming Lieutenant in 1900,
and obtaining his company in December, 1906.
In 1909 he was appointed Adjutant of his
battalion. After serving at the depot of Ms
regiment he was with his battaUou in Gibraltar,
Bermuda, and South Africa during the Boer
War from 1899-1902, being employed with the
Mounted Infantry. He was present at opera-
tions in the Orange Free State and in the Oi-ange
River Colony, including action at Colesberg.
P"or his services he was mentioned in Despatches
('•London Gazette," 10th September, 1901), and
received the Queen's and the King's medals, each
with two clasps.
In the Great War he was shot by a stray bullet
at Gheluvelt, Flanders, in the Battle of Y'pres,
on the 2(5th October, 1914. The following
account of his death was furnished to his
relatives : " He was waiting with his company,
in support at the time, ha^^ng just come
down from a chateau close by, and had sent a
junior officer to the rear to ask for the orders
of the day. Wliile looking through his glasses
to locate snipei'S he was liimself shot by one in
the neck, and fell at once without any pain.
The officer who had gone for orders found Cap-
tain Hall dead on his return and had him buried,
with great reverence, in the trench in which he
fell at Gheluvelt. He was much beloved by his
brother officers and men. An officer of much
ability was lost to the Army by his death."
Captain HaU was a member of the Junior Naval
and ilUitary Club, fond of sport, especially
polo (in which he excelled), shooting, and
fishing. He played football for liis regiment,
taking part in the final for the Army Football
Cup in 1907, When in the ^Mounted Infantry
at Bordon he was in the winning polo team
HAL HAM
166
in till- lntiT-( 'oiiipMHN ■ri)inii.iiiicnt of I'.Ml.").
and ill I'.m'J ".is in the uimiinL,' Icaiii nl' (lie
(iibi-aitar I'uln Cluli (»)irii 'riiurnaiiii-nl . In
South Al'iica be raplaiiiL-d the team «liii-li wmi
tlic Poll) Cup pifsciitcd by Lord (iladstiinc in
a banilira)) I ournaincnt at .lobaniirsliuft;'.
CAPTAIN BURTON HOWARD MALI,,
98th INFANTRY, INDIAN ARMY,
wlio was killed in action in Ea>st Africa on the
2nd November. l!ll t. was the younger son of
the Hcv. S. Howard Hall. M.A.. Hector of
Sproatley and Chaplain. Isl class CI". I''.) ."itli
Battalion Duke of W'ellin.uton'.s \\ est Hiding
Regiment.
He was educated at Haileybury and the IL.M.C,
.Sandhurst, and passed for the Indian Army,
being ga/.etted as unattached 2nd Lieutenant
in .January, 1901, and becoming 2nd Lieutenant
in the Y'orkshire Begiment in March of the same
year. He was promoted Lieutenant in the
Yorkshire Regiment in February. llNij. .ind
in the following .May was ti'ansfeired to the
Indian Army, in which he became Captain in
.Tanuary. lit Id.
LIEUTEN.\NT GERALD PERCY HALL,
2nd BATTN. HIGHLAND LIGHT
INFANTRY,
son of Mr. and .\lr^
^^^^y Hall, of Olenniervyn,
^^^^^^^ Clan mire. County
^ ^ I Cork, was born thert
1% «C^ I o» I'll" lltli Febru-
ary, 1894, and was
educated at Cliftori
College.
J \ ,^^^^^ He receixcd bis
^/^ ^^^^^^^^"^ commission
Augu.st. 1914. and
was k i 1 1 I- (1 n I- a r
Y'pres on the 1.3th November, 1914.
Lieutenant Hall was fond of all sport, especially
hunting, shooting, and fishing.
CAPTAIN JOHN ALEXANDER
HALLIDAY, llth HUSSARS,
son of the late .lohn
Ualliday, of Chick-
lade House. Salis-
bury, was born in
London on the 10th
April, 187.'). He was
educated at Harrow,
where, in 1893, he
« as in the School
Cricket XI, in 1892-
93 in the Football
XI, won the .second
pri7.(> for heavy-
weight boxing in the Public Schools' Competition
in 1893, and the first prize for the same in 1894.
He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge.
while be Willi the ll.l 1 1 1 II lel-t ll li iw illg pri/.c al
Ihe Intei-'N'arsily Sports in IS'.IT.
C.ipt.iin ll.illiday joinnl the lllh llii---.ais in
March. I SOS. becoming Lieutenant in .March.
1000. and obtaining his troop in .March. 100.').
He took part in the South .Vfrican War in lOOl
on special .service, and afterwards on the Stall',
.IS signalling ollicer. He wa.s present at o])era-
tions in the Transvaal, Orange River and Cape-
Colonies, receiving the (Queen's medal with li\e
(4asi)s. From A|)ril, 190S. to February. 10 11.
he was Adjutant of his regiment, and Iriuii
March. 1011. to February, 1011. Adjutant ol
the Leicestershire Yeomanry.
In the Great War he was with his regiimnl din-
ing the retirement from .Mons, and wa.s fatally
wounded at .Messines on the 31st October,
dying from the effects in the Duche.ss of \\ i>t-
ininster's Hospital at Le Touquet on the llJIh
November, 1914.
C.iptain Halliday. who was a menibi-i' of the
(a \ airy Club and of the .M.C.C. and I Zingari,
was well known in the hunting field in Ireland,
where he hunted for twelve consecutive seasons.
LIEUTENANT HUBERT JAMES TUDOR
HAMER. 108th INFANTRY, INDIAN
ARMY, attd. 101st GRENADIERS,
born at ( dan-vr-afon , . -
II a 11, O s w e s t r y ,
Shropshire, on the
12th F"' e b r u a r y .
1883, was the son of
the late .John Parry
Hamer. ,1.1'.. for-
merly of the .Sth
(tlie King's) Regi-
ment, and of Mrs.
Hamer. Two of his
brut hers are serving :
Captain J. L. P.
Hamer, M.A. Oxon. .LP., in the 9th King's
.Shropshire Light Infantiy : and F'lag-
Lieutenant-Connnander R. L. Hamer. R.N.
He was educated privately, and in September.
1902, he received a connnission as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the Hh Battalion Royal Welsh
Fusiliers, and in 1904 enlisted in a Regular
battalion of that regiment, serving in the ranks
for three yeai's.
In August. 1907, he recidved a connnission in
the King's Liverpool Regiment, and was
transferred to the Indian Army in February.
1909, becoming Lieutenant in Novendjer of
that year. In 1911 he was .shooting in Somali-
land and Aby.s.sinia, and procured nian\ liin'
heads, some of which are on loan to the .Junior
Army and Xavy Club, of which he was a mem-
ber, and were noticed and much admired by the
late Field-Marshal l-^arl Roberts shortly before
the latter's death. He was also a hockey and
polo player.
167
HAM
He was killed in action at Tanga, German East
Africa, the following account having been
received fronn the India Office : —
" As an important German railway terminus was
reported to be weakly held, a force was sent from
British East Africa to seize it. On the evening
of the 2nd November one-and-a-half battalions
were landed within two miles of the place, and
at once advanced. This small force became
heavily engaged just outside the town, but as
the enemy were in much superior strength it was
compelled to tall back and await reinforcements.
" At 11 a.m. on the 4th the attack was renewed.
When within eight hundred yards of the position
the troops engaged came under very heavy
fire. On the left flank, in spite of heavy casual-
ties, the 101st Grenadiers actually entered the
town and crossed bayonets with the enemy.
The North LancasWre Regiment and Kaslunir
Rifles on the right pushed on in support under
very heavy fire, and also reached the town,
but found themselves opposed by tiers of fire
from the houses, and were eventually compelled
to fall back to cover, five hundred yards from
the enemy's position.
" The losses were so heavy and the position so
strong that it was considered useless to renew
the attack, and the force re-embarked and re-
turned to its base to prepare for future opera-
tions. From recent reports just received
the total casualties in this unsuccessful opera-
tion were seven hundred and ninety-five,
including one hundred and forty-one British
ofiicers and men. The wounded are mostly
doing weU, and many are convalescent. The
above casualties were included in the statement
recently made by Lord Crewe in the House of
Lords.
" There is no information available other than
that contained in the above statement."
An officer of his regiment gave the following
additional details, writing from !Mombassa on
the 10th November, 19U :—
" The regiment was widely extended, and we
were on opposite flanks, so that I can only give
you hearsay news about your son ; and, as
after the engagement — which was extremely
heavy — we had to retire, we were unable to
recover our dead, who were buried by the
Germans (who treated our wounded with the
greatest courtesy and kindness). I could not
see his body.
" We lost seven British and six native officers
killed, but one of the native officers who was
with your son escaped, wounded. He tells me
your son was leading his men on when he was
shot in the throat and died instantaneously.
" We all feel his loss exceedingly, as a more
perfect gentleman and better soldier one could
not find, and everyone who knew him Uked him.
I never met anyone who had not always the
highest praise for him.
" Keen in his work and keen in his play, he was
the very ideal of the best tj-pe of British officer,
and his loss to us is indeed irreparable.
'■ In these few lines I am not giving only my
opinion, but that of all his brother officers,
both in tliis regiment and in our own."
The Lieutenant-Colonel of his own regiment —
the lOSth Infantry — also wrote saj'ing : — " He
was not only popular «-ith all ranks, but
a very able and zealous officer, and it is only
a few weeks ago that the good work done by
him in the training of the regimental signallers
was the subject of favourable comment in
regimental orders. As his Commanding Officer,
I always found him keen on liis work and honest
and straightforward in all liis actions ; in fact,
a true officer and a true gentleman, whose loss
wUl be deeply felt by the regiment."
CAPTAIN LORD ARTHUR JOHN
HAMILTON, attd. 1st BATTN. IRISH
GUARDS SPECIAL RESERVEi,
DEPUTY M.\STER OF HIS MAJESTY'S
HOUSEHOLD,
was included in the
War Office montldy
casualty list pub-
lished in February.
191.5, as ■" unolli-
cially reported
killed," no date being
given. He had been
officially reported
as missing, but later
in the same year it
was heard from a
German officer that he had been killed early in
September, 191L
Lord Arthur Hamilton was the second son of
the second Duke of Abercorn. and was born on
the 20th August, 1883, and educated at Wel-
lington, where he was in the Benson from
1898-1900.
After serving with the embodied ^lUitia for
seven or eight months, he received a commission
as 2nd Lieutenant in the Irish Guards in Decem-
ber, 1901, becoming Lieutenant in August,
1904, and Captain in December, 1909. Retiring
from active service, he joined the Special Reserve
as Captain in March, 1913, and was appointed
Deputy Master of the Household in that year.
CAPTAIN CECIL FIFE PRYCE HAMIL-
TON, 1st BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS,
who died at Y'pres on the 27th October, 1914,
of wounds received in action, was the only
child of Mr. and Mrs. Pryce Hauulton, of Sea-
ford. Ryde, and Villa Valetta, Nice. He
was born on the 9th October, 1879, and, after
serving with the embodied Jlilitia for nearly
a year, he was gazetted to the Scots Guards in
May, 1901.
HAM
168
He served in the South African W'av, being
present at opei-ations in ("ajje Colony ami the
Orange River Colony in l!)()(l. receiving the
Queen's medal with three clasps. He liecanie
Lieutenant in June, liHCi. and lioiii October,
1907, to November, 1S)UI. he was Adjutant at
the School of Instruction foi' X'olunteer Inlantry
(later Territorial Force) Ollicers at Chelsea
Barracks.
In February. 1 ill 1, he was appointed Kegimental
Adjutant Scots fiuards, and was promoted
Captain in January, 1912.
MAJOR-GENERAL HUBERT
ION WETHERALL HAMIL-
TON. C. V. O.. C. B., D. S. O., p. s.c,
wlio was killi'd in
action on the 14th
October, 1911, and
who, when the Great
War Ijroke out, was
commanding the
Ilird Division Field
Troops (Regular) at
Bulford. was the
third son of Major-
( ieneial Henry ileade
IlamiUon, and a
Ill-other of (ieiieral
Sir Jiruce Hamilton. K.t.B.. K.C.V.O.
He was born on the 27th June, 1861, and entered
the 2nd Foot (now the Royal West Surrey
Regiment) in ISSO, and was Adjutant of his
liattalion from 18S6 to 1890. Major-General
Hamilton, wlio was a Staff College graduate,
had seen much active service, and held several
Staf¥ appointments. He served in the Burmese
Expedition, 188(5-88, recei\ang the medal with
two clasps. He was A.D.C. from 189tJ-97 to
the ilajor-General, 3rd Infantry Brigade.
Aldershot, and to the Lieutenant- General, In
fantry Division, South Afi-ica, from 1899-1900.
He was with the Nile Expeditions of 1897 and
1898, including the Battles of Atbara and
Khartoum, for the first of which he received the
Egyptian medal with clasp, and for the second
was mentioned twice in Despatches, and had
two additional clasps.
From 1897-9 he was employed \\ ith the Egyptian
Army, in the latter year as D.A.G. in operations
in the first advance against the Khalifa, re-
ceiving the D..S.O. and an additional clasp to
his Egyptian medal. He was on the StafT as
D.A.A.G., A.A.G., and Military Secretary to the
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the Forces
in South Africa from January, 1900, to June
1902, during the South African War, being
present at operations in the Orange Free State,
including operations at Paardeberg, in the
Transvaal, including actions near Johannesburg
and Pretoria : at further operations in the
Transvaal, Orange River Colony, Cape Colony,
and on the Ziduland frontier of Natal. He was
mentioned tlnee times in l)es|5atches and pro-
moted to a half-pay Lieuteiiant-Cnlonclcy. He
also received the Queen's medal with four cla-sps
and the King's medal with two clasps. During
the year 1902 he was emjiloyed specially at the
headquarters of tlic Anny. and as Military
Secretary to the Conmiander-in-Chicf, East
Indies. lu June of the same year he was
appointed .\.D.C. to the King.
From 1900-09 he served as Brigadier- (ieneral
7th Brigade, Southern Command, and Major-
General on tlie General Staff in the Mediter-
ranean. In January. 1911, he was appointed
(i.O.C., North Midland Division, Nortliern
Command, and in June, 1914, to tlie counnand
at Bulford.
In the Great War .Major-General Hamilton com-
manded a Division. The following account of
his death was published in •'The Times" as given
by a distinguished ollicer and personal friend : —
" (ieneral HamOton w^as standing with a group
of others in a covered place when a shell burst
about one hundred yards off, and he was hit on
the temple by a bullet and killed on the spot.
No one else was touched. It was a fine death,"
adds the writer, " but I know how he would
feel that he was taken before his work was done.
All day we could not get near the place where he
was lying owing to heavy shell fii-e, but at dusk
we went out and carried him to a little church
near by. .lust as we got there the attack began
violently, so that we could not hear the Chap-
lain's voice for musketry and pom-pom fire
close by. Flashes from the guns lit us up now
and then, but no other light than a tiny torch
for the parson to see to read by. He was doing
so splendidly that it was cruel luck that he
should have been the one taken out of the group."
Major-General Hamilton was mentioned in Sir
John Fi-ench's Despatch of the 14th .January,
1915.
A brass tablet to his memory is placed in the
chancel of St. Peter's Cluirch, .Marcliington,
Lfttoxeter.
MAJOR the Honble. LESLIE
D'HENIN HAMILTON, M.V.O., 1st
BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
was killed in action
on the 29th October,
1914.
He was tlie third
son of the first
Baron Hamilton of
Dal z ell, County
Lanark, and was
heir-presumptive to
the title.
He obtained liis
commission in
March, 1893. and
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HAM— HAN
became Lieutenant in April, 1S9T. He took
part in the South African Wsir. being present at
the advance on Kunberiey, including actions
at Behuont. EnsUn. Modder River, and Mageirs-
fontein, and at operations in Cap>e Colony,
receiving the Queen's medal with four clasps.
He was promoted Captain in February, 19til,
and Major in January. 1910.
CAPTAIN MERVYN JAMES HAMIL-
TON. 1st BATTN. GORDON HIGH-
LANDERS RESERVE OF OFFICERS.,
of C o r n a c a s s a ,
County ilonaghan,
who died of wounds
on the 2Sth Novem-
ber, 1914, was the
only son of the late
Mr. Dacre Hamilton,
of Comacassa.
He was bom on the
12th December,
1S79, and was edu-
cated at Winchester
College. While there
he saved a boy from drowning, and was awarded
the Royal Humane Society's certificate.
He joined the Lancashire Fusiliers from the
Militia in May, 1899, being promoted Lieutenant
in February. 1900, and served in the South
African War. dming which he was Adjutant of
a Mounted Infantry Battalion from April to
December, 1901. He was present at operations
in the Orange River Colony. July^to November,
1900, including actions at Bethlehem. Witte-
bergen. and Witpoort, and at operations in the
Orange River Colony till May, 1902. For his
services he was mentioned in Despatches ("Lon-
don Gazette," 10th .September, 1901), and
received the Queen's medal with two cla-sps and
the King's medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Captain in November, 1903,
and from August, 19<35, to October, 1907, was
employed with the Egyptian Army. He was
transferred to the Gordon Highlanders in May,
1908, and retired from the active list in May.
1914, passing to the Reserve of Officers, from
which he was called up on the outbreak of thewar.
He was at first appointed Assistant Provost-
Marshal at Plymouth, but in response to re-
peated appUcations to be sent to liis old
regiment i-eceived his orders to proceed to the
front in October. 1914. joining his battalion
on the 25th of that month.
He was wounded in the head and hand by shell
on the 17th November in a dug-out, and
was moved to a convent at Popperinghe, where
an operation was performed in the hope of
saving hi? life, but he gradually lost con.scious-
ness and died on the 2Sth November, 1914.
He made himself very popular with liis men,
always showing keen personal interest in their
circumstances and welfare, though at the same
time requiring strict attention to duty.
The following account of the manner in which
he received his wounds was given by a Sergeant
of his company : " On the morning of the 17th
November the enemy started to shell a wood in
which the company was resting about a mile
and a half behind the main trenches. Captain
Hamilton and another officer were in a dug-
out, when after the burst of a shell someone
said, ' The Captain is struck ! ' On going to
him it was foimd that, while his companion
had got off with a bruising and temporary
suffocation. Captain Hamilton was wounded in
the head. The company stretcher-bearers
were called up, and he talked sensibly while
Ijeing put on the stretcher. On the Sergeant
shaking hands with him his last words were,
• .Stick it, " C " Company ! '"
He was a keen sportsman and shot big game, once
securing by himself at fifty yards a very fine lion.
Captain Hamilton married, in 1909, Hildred
Laura, daughter of General the Hon. B. Ward.
C.B., of Staplecross, Christchurch, Hants, and
left a daughter, Phrebe Maxwell, bom 1911.
2nd LIEUTENANT GILBERT PHILIP
HAMMOND. 2nd BATTN. KINGS
OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS,
eldest son of the
late Frederick
Hammond, Esq., of
• The Bank," New-
market, and Plor-
ence Amy Holland,
• The Cottage," Fin-
borough Stow-
market, whose name
appeared in the fii-st
list of British losses
issued by the War
Office on the 1st
.September, 1914, was killed in action at the
age of twenty-two.
He obtained his commission in Ids regiment in
December, 1912, from the .Special Reserve.
LIEUTENANT RALPH ESCOTT HAN-
COCK. D.S.O.. 2nd BATTN. DEVON-
SHIRE REGT..
was bom at Llan-
daff. South Wales,
on the 20th Decem-
ber. 1SS7, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Fi-ank
Hancock, of Ford.
W i velisc o mbe,
Somerset.
He was educated at
Connaught House
Preparatory School,
Portiiiore, Wey-
HAR
170
mouth, and at l{ugb\ , wliore he phiyod for the
1st Cricket XI in 1905 and 1906, and from whicli
he passed du-ect into the R..M.C., Sandhui'st.
in August, 190(i. He was ftazetted to the 2nd
Battalion Devonshire Ref;i'i"^"t. then stationed
at Devouport, in January, 1908, becoming
Lieutenant in February, 1911, and served with
it at Crete, Malta, and Ah'xandria from 1909-12.
He was then at the depot. Kxetcr, for two veal's,
and on the 30th August, 191 4. left with a (haft
to reinforce tin; 1st BattaHon in France.
During the war lie was awarded the l)..S.()..
the following being the otHcial record from the
" London Gazette " of 1st December, 1914: —
" T^ieutenant Balph Escott Hancock, 1st Bat-
talion Devonshii-e Regiment, on October 23rd
displayed conspicuous gallantry in leaving
his trench under very heavy fu-e. and going back
some sixty yards over absolutely bare groimd
to pick up Corporal \\'arwick. who had fallen
whilst coming up with a party of reinforcements.
Lieutenant Hancock conveyed this non-conunis-
sioned officer to the cover of a haystack, and then
returned to his trench. (.Since killed in action.)"
He was kUled on the 29th October, 1914. and
was subsequently mentioned in Sir .lohn
French's Despatch of the 14th January. 191.j.
Lieutenant Hancock was a good athlete and
rider. At Malta he played in the polo team
that won the regimental cup, and captained the
Ai-my polo team v. the Navy. He also won
several prizes for shooting. He played cricket
and football for the County of Somerset : won
the East Devon Hunt heavj-weight Point-to-
Point in 1913 and 1914 on hoi'ses taught and
trained by himself ; and was a well-known
follower of the \\'est Somerset and East Devon
Foxhounds.
Lieutenant Hancock married Mary Hamilton,
younger daughter of the Rev. P. P. Broadmead. of
Olands. Milverton. .Somerset, in September. 1913.
and left one son. Patrick Frank, born June. 1914.
CAPTAIN ALLAN HUMPHREY
HARDEN. 2nd BATTN. OXFORDSHIRE
AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT
^ I N F A N T R Y,
I ^^^^^^^^|H^^| i was born
Middlesex, on the
23rd March, 1881,
and was the son of
the late Lieutenant-
^^^^^ ^^^^^ Colonel .1. E. Har-
ii '^^^* ^^M den. KUst and 109th
Regiments(since
named Royal Mnn-
ster F^isiUers and
Leinster Regiment),
being a grandson of
the late .Tudge Harden, of Chesliire, and, on his
mother's side, of the late fieneral Atkinson,
Madras Arm v.
He was eduiali-d at I hdu icli College, and
joined the Oxford and Uucks Light Infantry
from the .Militia on the .'ith January, 1901.
becoming Lieutenant in .September, 1903, and
Captain in January. lOlii. From 19IIS to 1912
Captain Hardi-n was Adjutant to tlie tith (Teiri-
torial) Battalion .South St.ilTordshire Regiment,
lie served throughout the .South African War.
being present at operations in the Orange
River Colony and Cape Colony, receiving the
(Queen's medal and King's medal, each with
two clasps.
In the Great War. during tlie operations round
Ypres, Captain Harden was, on the 21st
October, 1914, in command of his company in
extended position in close contact with the
enemy. He was taking ordei-s from his Colonel
when he was shot thi'ough the head by a rifle
bullet. His body was carried to a farm building
close by, which, being shortly afterwards set on
fire by the enemy's shells, was totally consumed,
and so formed a funeral pyre for a brave soldier.
Captain Harden, for his gallantry in this war.
was mentioned in Field-.Marshal Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January. 191.5.
His widow received several highly appreciative
lettei-s of sympathy, showing the high esteem
in which her late husband was held.
Lieutenant-Colonel Davies, commanding the
battalion, wrote : "■ Your husband's death is a
great loss to the regiment. He was one of the
best company commanders we had. ... I Uked
him so much pei-sonally. His death was quite
instantaneoui^ I wa.s talking to him at the
moment that he was shot, and I feel sure that
lie felt nothing. We have lost a very good
soldier, and all of us feel nuich for you in your
sorrow."
Lieutenant-Colonel Waterhouse. conmianding
the Territorial Reghnent. with which he had
served, wrote : " His great example will be
before us to try and follow. He was one of
the finest men I ever knew."
A junior officer of the battalion, who had been
with him throughout the war, wrote : " He
was never downhearted in the depressing days
of that retirement from Mons. and was so brave
and capabli-. ... I sliall always be proud to
have served under him. '
A Major of his battalion said : " Your husband's
death is a very real loss to all ranks of the
regiment."
Captain Harden married, in .luly. lOO.j, Daisy,
only daughter of the late Captain George
Thomas Scott (Scots Greys) and .Mi-s. G. T.
.Scott. 07. ?'gerton (Jardens. London, .S.W.,
and grand-daughter of the late John Howe.
Esq.. J. P., D.L., Ballycross House, County
Wexford, and a cousin of the Right Honouratde
tlie l>ord Muskerry, Spiingfield Castle. Drum-
collogher. County Limerick, and left a son and
a daughter.
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LIEUTENANT ARTHUR DENNIS
HARDING, 4th lattd. 1st! BATTN.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT,
_^-- - - — - who died oil tlie uUlli
^^H^^^^^^^l the
^^^■^ ^^^^H' on the previous day.
^^H^y ^fS^^^^H ^^as the only son of
^K ^H the Major A.
^^L ^^ Harding, R.A.M.C,
^^^^ and of Mrs. Harding,
^^^H^ ^^^^^Bl ^'^'^ ^ grandson of
U.. M.L.I. He joined
the Gloucestershire Regiment in September, 19 12.
and was promoted Lieutenant in August. l!ll I.
2nd LIEUTENANT JACK MAYNARD
HARDING, 1st BATTN. QUEENS OWN
(ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT),
_^^_____^___^____ ^ son of [vieutenant-
• (' o 1 o n c 1 .\I a y n a r d
Ffolliott Harding,
conuiianding 69 th
Punjabis, was born
at B e r h a m p o r e,
India, on the 4th
October, 1.S94.
Educated at Fel.sted
School, he repre-
sented his school for
gymnastics at
Alder.shot, and for
nuisketry at Bisley. He proceeded to the
K.JI.C, Sandhurst, where he was in the gym-
nasium team, 1913, and won his Blue. From tlie
R.M.C. he received his commission in the West
Kent Regiment in August, 1914, after the
outbreak of the war. After spending two weeks
at the depot he joined his battalion in France
on the lltli September, and was killed in action
on the 2(Hh October, 1914. at the Battle of
Y'pres, while gallantly encouraging his men to
hold a trench which was under a heavy con-
tinuous fire of high-explosive shells,
LIEUTEN.\NT ROBERT DENIS
STEWART HARDING, 4th lattd. Isti
BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT.
wlio was killed in
action near Y'pres on
the 7th November.
1914, aged twenty-
eight, was the only
son of Mr. and Mi-s.
S. G. Harding, of
15, Lowndes .Square,
S.W.
He was educated at
Harrow (Kendall's.
1889 - 1903) and
Christ Church, and
«
joined the 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment
in 1912, becoming Lieutenant in March, 1913 ;
on war breaking out he offered his services
a;id was attached for duty to the 1st Battalion.
The following accoimt of the circumstances
attending his death was pubhshed in the " Harro-
vian War Supplement " for December, 1914: —
"■ His Captain writes : ' The enemy had broken
through the line of trenches held by a battaUon
on our left, and its break caused a part of our
trenches to be vacated also. Our company was
in reserve, and we formed up, and brought off
an entirely successful countei--attack, driving
the enemy back, killing many, and capturing
twenty-five prisoners. It was in this cotinter-
attack that Harding fell, leading his men up a
lightly wooded hill. I did not see him fall, but
missed him when we got to the ridge, and on
going back found him (juite dead. Death had
evidently been instantaneous. I had fornacd a
very high opinion of his gallantry and coolness.
I could rely on him always, and he had gained
the confidence of his men, though he had only
been with his company about a month. He was
always bright and cheei-y, and it was a real
pleasure to have his company on the line of
march or in the trenches.' "
He was a member of the B.ith Club.
LIEUTENANT the Honble. EDWARD
CHARLES HAR DIN GE, D. S. O.,
15th (THE KINGS) HUSSARS,
was the elder son
of Charles Baron
Hardinge of Pens-
hurst, P.C, G,C.B,,
(i.C.S.I., G.C.M.G.,
(l.C.I.E.. G.C.V.O.,
I,S,0., Viceroy and
(iovernor - tieneiiil
of India, and wa-
born at Constant i-
nople on the .3rd
May, 1892. He was
a nephew of ^'is- ^
count Hardinge. A.D.C., and of Lord AJington
Lieutenant Hardinge was educated at WeUing-
ton College, and while there was a Page of
Honour of His late Majesty King Edward VII,
and afterwards went to the R.M.C., Sandhui-st,
receiving his commission in the 15th Hussars
in September, 1911, in December of which year
he was Honorary A.D.C. to the Viceroy during
the Durbar. He joined his regiment In .South
Africa in .January, 1912, and became Lieutenant
in August, 1914.
Lieutenant Hardinge rode with distinction in
the International Horse Show at Ohniipia,
1914. winning full marks in the London to
Aldershot ride. He was a member of the
Cavalry Club, a very keen rider to hounds, and
won the Subalterns' Point-to-Point Race at
the regimental races in January, 1914.
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He served with his regiment in the Great War,
and died on the ISth December, 1914, from
blood-poisoning caused by a very severe wound
in the right arm, received on the 27th August,
near Le Cateau, eight bullets from a machine
gun tract lu'ing tlie bone. He had already
done good work before being wounded, for
which he was awarded the D.S.O., HLs Majesty
the King-Emperor gi'aciously notifying the award
to Lord llardinge in the following telegram : —
■■ 1 have had great pleasure in conferring the
Distinguished Service Order on yoiu' son for
al)iUty and gallantry in reconnaissance under
great diflficulty and machlne-giui fire on tlu-ee
successive days, when he was severely wounded.
Glad to say he is progressing satisfactorily."
The following details of two conspicuous acts of
great bravery and gallantry by Lieutenant the
Hon. E.C. Hardinge have been recorded, the latter
beingthe occasion on which he received hiswound.
(1) On August 23rd, about 9.30 p.m.. Lieu-
tenant Hardinge was sent out from Kouveroy
on a most difficult and dangerous night recon-
naissance towards Binche, to ascertain move-
ments of the Germans, of whicli information
was very urgently needed. He succeeded in
reaching the village of Estinne Hud- Mont.
Having avoided Tlilan patrols, and having
hidden his small patrol in a stone electric
machinery building, he chmbed the chiu'ch
tower with a sergeant, and waited for dawn to
break. Whilst waiting a Uhlan patrol entered
the village, and others came round it. He re-
mained quietly in observation, and they failed
to discover him or his patrol. In the early
morning he was able to locate German batteries
in position south-west of Binche. a brigade of
cavalry moving due west from that place, and
their infantry massing near a wood south of it.
His difficulty was then to get away, being sur-
roimded, but fortunately another patrol, under
Lieutenant Nicolson, loth Hussars. seeing his pre-
dicament, came to his assistance by firing on the
Lilians, and then by withdrawing drew them off
and so enabled Lieutenant Hardinge to get through
with his most valuable information. He was
very highly complimented and noted for reward.
(2) On August 27th two troops (Lieutenant
Hardinge's being one) were sent out at i a.m.
from Oisy on rearguard work, his troop recon-
noitring and obser\"ing on the right front, and
right of the rearguard position being held.
German columns were reported advancing,
and about 10.30 a.m. the patrols were driven
in by German infantry. The attack gradually
developed, and shortly before 1 p.m. became
very heavy, and the flanking company of the
Koyal Munster FusUiei-s, near Bergues, was in
difficulties. Lieutenant Hardinge, with his
troop, was sent to their assistance, and came
into action on their left, opposite three machine
guns, which he located and tried to silence. A
fourth then came into action, outflanking him,
and. causing some casualities, forced him
to i-etire. Realising that the position of the
.Munstere was untenable (who had to hold on
to prevent the rest of the battalion being cut off)
unless this machine gun was put out of action,
he led a few men up again most gallantly to try
and capture it. Whilst trying to locate it
exactly he had to stand up and use his glasses,
and so became exposed to its fire. He was very
severely wounded, his arm l>eiiig badly shat-
tered. ,\fter having it temporarily bound up,
he told his men to hold on as long as they could,
and to help the ilunstei's out, and then quite
calndy walked back to where his horses were,
and was then taken into the ambulance.
For these actions he was awarded the D.S.O.
The above details were confirmed by Major
Pilkington, of the loth Hussars, who was
Lieutenant Hardinge's squadi-on leader, and
endorsed by Major Courage, second in command
of the squadron at the time.
2nd LIEUTENANT FREDERICK
McMAHON H.\RDM.\N, SPECI.\L
RESERVE, attd. 4th B.\TTN. THE
ROYAL FUSILIERS CITY OF LONDON
R E G I -M E N T i,
who was killed in
action between the
2.5th and 27th
October, 1914, at
the age of twenty-
four, was the oidy
son of the late
Captain Hardman,
the Royal Dragoons,
who died for his
country in the South
African War, and of
ilrs. Hardman, Castleton, Sherborne, Dorset.
He was a grandson of the late General Sir
Thomas ilcilahon, Bart., C.B.
He had only joined the Special Reserve of his
regiment in .July. 1912.
LIEUTENANT VICTOR HARRIOTT
HARDY. 1st B.\TTN. YORK .\ND
L.\N CASTER REGIMENT. attd.
1st BATTN. LINCOLNSHIRE REGT.,
«ho was killed in
action on the 27th
October. 1914, at
Xeuve Chapelle,
was the youngest
son of the late Cap-
tain Harmer Hardy,
who served with the
97th Regiment in
the Crimea, and wa.^
afterwards in the
18th Hussare, and
of Jlrs. Arthur
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Nightingale, of West Hill, Sandown, Isle of Wight .
Lieutenant Hardy belonged to a family of
vshicli many members have done, and are doing,
memorable service for tlieir country. His
grandfather was one of a small body of English-
men who held the Fort of Roseau, Dominica,
West Indies, in 1804, when the French landed,
until relieved by the British fleet, under Nelson.
His uncle, General Fred. Hardy, C.B.. is Colonel
of the York and Lancaster Regiment, and has
several sons and sons-in-law serving in tlie King's
forces. Great-uncles of his served in the Afghan
wars at Bhurtpoor and in the Jlutiny, all of
whom have descendants now serving.
Lieutenant Hardy was born on the 2()th .Tune.
18S7, and was educated at Farnborough Park,
and at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy. He
was gazetted to the York and Lancaster Regi-
ment from the Special Reserve in March, 1909,
and was at Blackdown with the 2nd Battalion
of the regiment until .Septend:)er of the same year,
when he sailed for India to join the 1st Battalion
at Quetta. After three years he came home on
leave, having become IJeutenant in October,
1911. He returned to India in September,
1912, and after serving another year thei-e he
was invalided home, his health having been
affected by the climate. He passed liis examin-
ation for promotion to Captain in 1914.
Ha\-ing recovered his health he was about to
rejoin his regiment in India when the war broke
out, and he at once rejoined at home, being
first sent to the regimental depot at Pontefract,
afterwards being posted for duty to the 0th
Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment at
Belton Park, near Grantham. I^ater lie was
sent to the front with a draft of tlie 1st Lin-
colnshire Regiment.
It is believed he was killed in an attack on a
strong German position across a tract of open
country under Ilea vy fire, the attack being entirely
successful, the Lincolnshires driving the Germans
out of their trenches at the point of the bayonet.
Lieutenant Hardy was reported to have been
buried at Neuve Chapelle, but owing to another
otlicer's effects having been sent home in mis-
take for his, tliere was for a time some doubt
as to his death, it being hoped he might have
been a prisoner of war. It is now feared the
report received from the Adjutant of the bat-
talion that he was killed on the 27th October
must be accepted as correct.
While a boy Lieutenant Hardy won the first
prize at Sandown in a demonstration to cele-
brate King Edward's Coronation in 1902. He
was keen on sport of all kinds, especially riding,
and was very fond of animals. While in the
Reserve he secured the Regimental Cup in the
officers' races, and when a 2nd Lieutenant
carried the King's colours on the occasion of
the visit of King George and (Jueen Mary to
India for the Coronation Durbar.
CAPTAIN HARRY VIVIAN HARE, 2nd
BATTN. DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY,
born at Folkestone
on the 10th June,
1881, was the son
of Admiral the Hon.
Ricliard Hare and
grandson of the . ^^ ^ _
second Earl of « V
Listowel, being thus
a nephew of the
present Earl of Lis-
towel.
He was educated at
Harrow, and after
passing through tlie R..M.C., Sandhurst, re-
ceived his commission in the Durham Light
Infantry in Augxist, 1900, becoming Lieutenant
in February, 1902, and obtaining his company
in March, 1912. From 1911 to 1913 he was
Adjutant of his battalion.
Captain Hare was killed on the 20th September,
1914, wliile leading his company in an attack
just above Troyon.
He was a keen all-round sportsman, a good
tennis player, and in the hockey team of his
regiment when they won the Army Cup in 1911.
His favourite sport, however, was hunting, and
he was a very fine point-to-point rider, winning
several races on his own and other people's
horses.
Captain Hare married EUen L. .M., daughter of
the late Sir Edward Hudson-Kinahan, Bart.,
and left two children : Richard George Wind-
ham, born July, 1910 ; and Emily Lavender,
born April, 1912.
LIEUT. HERBERT ANDRZEJ BIER-
NACKI RARING TON, 3rd (attd. 1st)
BATTN. HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the only son of the late Herbert Septimus
Harington, Director-General of Railway Con-
struction in India, and a grandson of the late
Colonel Thomas Lowth Harington, 5th Light
Cavalry, who had the medals for Cabul, Sobraon,
Gujerat, and Chillianwallah, where he was
wounded.
Lieutenant Harington was born at Doonga
Gali, Murree Hills, Punjab, India, on the 3rd
August, 1888. He inherited his father's ability
as a mathematician. He also, even as a boy,
showed great mechanical and scientific talent,
and studied practical chemistry and elec-
tricity. After completing his education, which
was carried out privately, because he was rather
delicate — though eventually attaining over six
feet in height, and being broad in proportion
— he served on the Indian State Railways
with his father for three years, and also sur-
veyed the Shan States Railway in Burma and
the Kyber Pass.
He joined the 3rd Battalion Hampshire Regi-
ment in September, 1911, being promoted
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Lieutenant in June. 1913. He was attaclied Ut
the 1st Battalion for active service, and went
to the fi-ont in the autumn of lid I. He was in
several small ensiageiiients. and was iinally
wounded at St. Yves, between Ypres and
^Vrmentieres, on the 31st October. Writing
home, he made light of his wound, but he died
on the 9th November, 1914. at Alexandra
Hospital. Cosham. Portsmouth.
He was wounded in the left hip in the morning,
and having been taken out of the trench it is
reported that he struggled back to rally his
men, and even after being put on the stretcher
tried to get back, saying his duty was with his
men.
Lieutenant Harington was a good rider and
polo player, and keen on all sports, and when
with the 1st Battalion of his regiment at Alder-
shot helped to train it tor the cross-country
race, which it won. He was a great favourite
in Simla when he was in India.
CAPTAIN REGINALD \V 1 C K. H A M
H A R L A N D. a 1 1 d . 1st B A T T N.
HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action on the 30tli
October. 1914. was
the seventh son of
the Rev. Albert A.
and ^Irs. Harland,
Harefield Vicarage,
Jliddlesex.
He was born on the
10th November.
1SS3, and was edu-
cated at Wellington,
being the youngest
of thi-ee brothels who were at the same school,
the second of whom was killed in the South
African War. He left in 1902, and entered the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, where he won the prize
for battalion drill. He was gazetted to the
Hanipshiie Regiment in October. 1903. becom-
ing Lieutenant in December. 190.'5. and Captain
in August. 1911.
CAPT
FORD
\1N EDWARD CHARLES STAF-
KING-HARMAN. IRISH GUARDS.
of Rockingham Ire-
land who was killed
in action on the
6th November. 1914,
was the eldest son
of Sir Thomas and
Lady .Stafford, and
grandson of the late
Colonel the Right
Honble. Edward
Kiug-Harman, il.P.
He was born on the
13th April, ISSl. and
was educated at Stone House. Bi-oadstaii-s. and
svibsequently at Eton and the R..M.C., Sand-
hui-st. .\t Eton he was for two yeai's a member
of the .Shooting VIII. He was gazetted to the
Irish Guards in .September. 1911. and was pro-
moted Lieutenant in June. 1912. He was a
keen sportsman, hunted his own jiack of
harriers in Ireland, and played polo for his
regiment, and was a good shot with both ritle
and gun.
He went to Flanders in September. I'.il I.
and was reported missing after the fighting at
Klein ZUlebeke on the (ith November, 1914.
when his company, under the command of Lord
John Hamilton, was holding the forward trench,
and it was surrounded and cut ofT fi-om the main
body. It is reported that he and Ix>rd .Tohn
Hamilton were killed while defending this
trench against an overwhelming force of the
enemy.
Captain .Stafford-King-Harman was promoteil
to the temporary I'ank of Captain, dating fi-oin
the loth November, there having been some
doubt as to his death.
He married, in July, 1914. Olive, only daughter
of Captain Henry Pakenham Mahon. of Sti'okes-
town Park. Ireland, and 33. Pont Street. I-on-
don. S.W.. and left one daughter. Lettice .\lar>.
born April. 191.").
Captain Staftord-King-Harman was a member
of the Carlton, the Guards', and Boodle"s
Clubs : and of the Kildare Street Club. Dublin.
MAJOR GEORGE M.\LCOLM NIXON
HARMAN. D.S.O., 2nd BATTN. RIFLE
BRIGADE,
who was killed in
action on 27th No-
vember, 1914, was
the eldest son of
the late Lieutenant-
General Sir George
Harman. K.C.B.
He was born in Lon-
don on the 11th
November," 1872 :
was educated at
Marlborough College
from lSiS6-90 : and joined the Rifle Britjade
in November, 1891. He became Lieutenant in
October, 1S93, and Captain in January, 1898.
From 1900-04 he was employed in the Uganda
Protectorate and with the King's African
Rifles. He took part in 1901 in the expedition
into the Lango country, being for Ivis services
mentioned in Despatches (" London Gazette."
12th .September, 1902), and awarded the D..S.O.
and the medal with clasp.
From 1902 04 he was employed on the Anglo-
German Boundary Commission, west of \ic-
toria Nvanza. After East Africa he served in
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.\I;illii and Alexandria with tin- Itli Battalion:
and, havin)^ obtained lii;^ .Majority in June,
1907, he joined the 2nd Battalion in Calcutta.
When war was declared the battalion was in
Kawal Pindi, and was then ordered to France.
Major Hai'nian was killed by a sliell at Levantie.
He married, in 1913, .May, elde.st daughter of
E. D. Jones, Esq., of Addison Road, W., and
Pentower. Fishguard. He was a iuenil)er of the
Xaval and .MOitarv Club, Piccadilly.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN BOWER
HARMAN. 29th BATTERY, 42nd BRI-
GADE. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
was included in the monthly official casualty
list published in October, 1914, as having been
killed in action, no date being given.
He was the only son of the late Colonel .1. F.
Harman, H.A., of 22, Kgerton Terrace, London.
and was twenty-one \'ears of age when he was
killed.
He joined tlie H.F.A. in .July. 11112.
LIEUTENANT CYRIL CAZALET HAR.
RISON, 3rd BATTN. THE WORCESTER.
SHIRE REGT.,
w as b (J r n i ii
Colombo, Ceylon, on
the 1.3th .July, 1.S91.
the son of the late
1 1 any Cazalet and
Hilda B. Harrison,
and grandson of
Lieutenant - Cieneral
.M. W. Willoughby.
C..S.I.. Indian Army.
I'Mucated at Dun-
church Hall, near
Rugby, Uppingham, and the K..M.C.. .Sandhuist,
he obtained his comndssion from the latter in
the Worcestershire Regiment on the 4th March.
1911, becoming Lieutenant in August, 1914.
In the Civ.it War, during the Battle of the
Aisne, he had, with his platoon, reinforced the
Irish Rifles, and, while observing and directing
his men's fire from a trench, «as shot through
the head on the 20th September, 1914.
CAPTAIN ERNEST DALE C A R R-
HARRIS, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
killed in action on tlic 3rd November, 1911. in
East Africa, was born on the 14th February,
1878, and joining the Royal Engineers in .Tune,
1899, became Lieutenant in December, PMU.
He saw active service in China, 190(1. for which
he received the medal with clasp, and was pro-
moted Captain in June, 1908. When war
broke out he was at the .Staff College, Quetta,
for which lie had been specially nominated.
2nd LIEUTENANT LESLIE GEORGE
HAMLYN HARRIS, 2nd BATTN. THE
SHERWOOD FORESTERS NOTTING-
HAMSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE REGT.),
_ _-_ . - o ' "' 'i '^' "^ '"^ "
obituary notice ap-
peared in "The
Times." saying tliat
he was killed in
action at Y'pres on
the 2nd November,
1914, at the age of
nineteen, but whose
name has not been
included in tlie
m o n t h 1 y o f f i e i al
" casualty lists, was
till' -'111 oi I lie late Major-General Noel Harris
and Mrs. Xoel Harris, of 13, Brechin Place.
South Kensington.
He was educated at Wellington, where he was
in the Picton. and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant
in the Sherwood Foresters in August, 1914.
m^i
CAPTAIN LAURENCE GEORGE HART,
6lst KING GEORGES OWN PIONEERS,
INDIAN ARMY,
son of the late Col.
Horatio Holt Hart,
Royal Engineers,
who lived in Kash-
mir, was born on the
10th. \ugust, 1877. at
Sialkot. He was the
nephew of Jlajor-
General Fitzroy
H a r t - S y n n o t ,
C.B.. C.:M.0., and
General Sir
Heginald Clare Hart. V.C., K.C.B.. K.C.V.O.
Captain Hart was educated at Wellington Col-
lege, where he got his cap, and proved himself
a good all-round athlete : he joined the East
Yorkshire Regiment from the Jlilitia in August,
1899. becoming Lieutenant in July, 1900. He
was transfeired to the Indian .\rmy in Decem-
ber. 1901. and took part in the Thibet Expedi-
tion, 1903-04, for which he received the medal.
He was killed at the attack on Tanga, East
Africa, on the 3rd November. 1914. the Lieut. -
Colonel conunanding the regiment giving the
following account of the circumstances : " At
daybreak on the 3rd November, 1914, the 13th
Rajputs and three companies of the 61st K.G.O.
Pioneere made an attack on Tanga. We were
met by a very superior force of the enemy,
and were driven back with heavy losses to« ards
our landing place. At about 8.30 a.m. Captain
Hart landed with No. 1 Double Company of the
tjlst K.G.O. Pioneers, and he immediately
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pushed forward to our assistance. Tliis he did
in a most gallant manner, leading his men to
where the fight was thickest, and where help
was sorely needed. In my opinion, it was his
timely help in coming in wliere he did that pre-
vented many of the enemy from following us
up, and this saved us many more casualties.
It was about 9 a.m. that he met his death at
the liead of his men, while liolding the enemy
back, and giving what remained of those under
me time to collect and re-form."
Many of Captain Hart's other brother oflicere
wrote saying that, in their opinion. Captain
Hart had saved the situation and their Uves.
He married Winifried Beatrice Florence Breit-
haupt, wliose great-grandfather was wounded
at the Battle of Waterloo.
CAPTAIN HUGH IRVING ST. JOHN
HARTFORD, 1st BATTN. CHESHIRE
REGIMENT, is beUeved to have been killed in
action at ^"iolaines, near La Bassee, on the
22nd October, 1914, but his name had not
appeared in the monthly official casualty lists
up to Jime, 1915. He was the only son of the
late Major Irving St. John Hartford, 22nd
Regiment, and grandson of the late Captain
Augustus Hartford, 59th Regiment, of Port-
arlington. Queen's County, Ireland.
He was born on the 11th January, 1SS3, and
joined the Cheshire Regiment in December,
190-t, becoming Lieutenant in January, 1906,
and being promoted Captain in September,
1914.
Captain Hartford proceeded to the Continent
shortly after the outbreak of the Great War
and was present with his battalion during
some of the severe fighting which occurred
in the earlier stages of the Campaign.
LIEUTENANT HUGH PETER H.\RT-
NOLL, 1st BATTN. WORCESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT,
wlio was killed in
action on the 12th
December, 19 14,
near Xeuve ChapeUe,
was the third son of
Sir Henry HartnoU.
of Rangoon.
He was born on the
16th September,
1S93, and joined the
Worcestershire Regi-
me n t from the
R.M.C., .Sandhurst, in September, 1913, and
was promoted Lieutenant on the 15th November,
1914.
CAPTAIN H.\RRY H.\RTWELL. 2nd
BATTN. 8th GURKHA RIFLES,
born at Lucknow
on the 2nd Decem-
ber, 1880, was the
son of the late
Charles Elphinstone
Hartwell and grand-
son of the late Sir
Brodrick Hartwell,
Bart. His inunedi-
ate ancestors
achieved fame in the
annals of British
India. His great-
grandfather. General i-'red.Tick Young,
n.E.I.C.S., whose name is associated with the
raising of the Sirmoor Battalion of the tiurkha
Rifles, served with distinction under I,Kjrd Lake
in the early part of the nineteentli century,
being mentioned in Thornton's " History of tlie
British Empire in India " in connection with
the Xepaidese ^'ar. .Subsequently he imported
at his own expense a pack of hounds from Eng-
land, planted the first potatoes grown in the
Himalayas, and started the first tea plantation
in India, which he siurendered to the Govern-
ment on being given the choice of keeping his
appointment as Political Resident or his plant-
ation.
Captain HartweU's maternal grandfather.
Colonel J. Hadow Jenkins, Madras Staff
Corps, served in the 44th Xative Infantry, a
gallant Sepoy regiment that remained loyal to
England dm-ing the great Indian Mutiny of
1857. He also saw active service, and held
high civil appointments in India.
Captain Hartwell was educated at Haileybury,
and entered the Army from the ililitia, being
gazetted to the Welsh Regiment in April, 1900,
and transferred to the Indian Army in 1903.
He served in the Thibet Expedition, 1903.
for which he received the Army medal, and
also that conferred by the Chapter General of
the Order of the Hospital of St. John of .Jeru-
salem, for distinguished acts of gallantry in
saving life at inuninent personal risk on the
occasion of the disastrous earthquake at Dliuria-
sala, in the Punjab.
Captain Hartwell, who liad only arrived at tlie
front on the 29th October, 1914, was killed next
day near Festubert.
He was a member of the United .Service Club.
Captain Hartwell married EmUy Maybell,
second daughter of Joseph Dobbs, CoolI)awn
House, Castleconner, and left one daughter,
Evelyn Patricia, born March, 1913.
L I E U T E N .\ N T CHARLES MILNE
HARVEY, 2nd BATTN. THE DUKE OF
CAMBRIDGE'S OWN MIDDLESEX
REGIMENT), born at Spanish Town, Jamaica,
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HAR-HAT
West Jiidies, on the lOtli Octoher. 1(S'J2. was the
son of Thomas Lloyd Harvey, of Kingston,
Jamaica, and a
ifi'andson of Charles
Ilarvey.of ("ampbell-
town, Argyllshire.
He was educated at
Mereliiston Castle
School, Edinburgh,
and entered the
Sandhurst Company
at Woolwich in Sep-
tember, 1910, being
gazetted to the ilid-
dlesex Regiment in
Septemlier, 1911. and serving with it at Bordon
and Warley Camps. 1912: at Jlalta in 1913. and
proceeding with his battalion as part of the
I'^xpeditionary Force to Fiance in the Great War.
Lieutenant Harvey was killed on the 23rd
November, 1914, in action near Estaires. An
officer, writing from the trenches, gave the
following account of the occurrence : " Harvey
went out about 4 p.m. on the 23rd November
with about a dozen men to round up a party of
snipers who had stolen round behind oiu'
trenches, and were taking pot-shots at us in our
backs as we went about our various jobs.
He rounded them up all right, but he was hit
just as he was leading his men in a final charge
on the house in «hich the enemy were located."
The doctor said death must have been in-
stantaneous. He was buried next evening, the
Chaplain holding a brief ser^-ice whUe the
enemy's bullets were actually humming round —
a fitting burial for a soldier.
Lieutenant Harvey's Colonel wrote of him :
" We are all terribly cut up at this sad loss, as
he had endeared himself to all ranks in the
regiment, and was such a promising young
olticer. .May I convey to you the sympathy
of the whole regiment in your .sad loss ? "
One of the ilajore of the Middlesex Regiment,
describing eai-lier events, said : " Only this
day month I sa«- him in action at a place not
many miles from liere, and as 1 remarked then,
and al-^o officially reported, nothing could have
siu'passed the cool and admirable way in which
he commanded his men. He was one of whom
every regiment might well have been proud, and
indeed a loss."
Tomlin prize for matliematics, and became an
Exhibitioner of Trinity College. Camliridge.
taking a Qisi class ^
in the history tripos
in 1914.
He held a commis-
sion in the Cambridge
O.T.C. Cavalry, and
was attached to the
9th Lanceis, with a
view to passing into
the Reserve of Offi-
cers, when the war
broke out. In Ma.y,
1914, he was ap-
pointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Keserve and
went to the front with the regiment in August.
1914. being pre.sent in all their engagements
up to the time of his death.
Mr. Harvey was a member of the Conservative
Club, and his recreations were polo, shooting,
and hunting.
MAJOR PERCY HASTINGS. 1st
B.\TTN. THE QUEEN'S OWN
(ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT),
«ho is believed to
have died from
wounds on the battle-
field in France on the
1st .September. 1914.
was the eldest .son of W ' i*
W. S. Hastings, of
2, The Grange, Wim-
bledon, and was born
on the .5th October,
1872.
HejoinedtheK.W.K.
Regiment in March,
1894, becoming Lieutenant in March. 1898, and
Captain in .Tuly, 1902. Reserved on the nortli-
western frontier of India, at Malakand. and
the action of Landakai : also at operations in
Bajaur and in the Mamund Country : Buner,
and the attack and capture of the Tanga Pass,
receiving the medal with clasp. Major Hastings
had served as an Adjutant of \'olunteers and
the Territorial Force for five years from
August, 1906, and obtained his rank in .March,
1912.
He left a widow.
2nd LIEUTENANT DOUGLAS LENNOX
HARVEY, 9th (QUEEN'S ROYALl
LANCERS, who was killed by a shell in the
trendies on the 3rd November, 1914, was the
second son of the Rev. E. D. L. Harvey, Beeding-
wood, Horsham. Sussex.
He was born on the 22nd October, 1892, and
took a .scholarship at Eton, but entered .Mr.
Byrne's House as an Oppidan. He won the
2nd LIEUTENANT FREDERICK
CHARLES HATTON. ACTING .\DJU
TANT 2nd BATTN. A L E X .\ N D R .\
PRINCESS OF -VN^.^LES'S OWN
(YORKSHIRE REGIMENT),
born at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, on the 9th
.\pril, 1878, was the son of Alfred Charles Hatton,
part founder and at one time editor of the
"Yokohama Press." Japan, and Canteen Steward
of the 2nd Yorkshire Regiment. He was also
HAW
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lvl,lll-(l t(
Di. W. A. Ilatton and U> Siv Westby
rcival. K.t'.-\l.(i., late Ai,'>"iit-(ioiu-ral
for New Zealand.
He was educated
privately, and ob-
tained his couiinis-
sioii from the ranks
in October, 19U.
having pre\'iously
(illed several regi-
Miental positions,
including that of
Gymnast icinst ructor.
Depot Drill Instruc-
tor, Pay Sergeant,
Ui.li ii> liuuui Sergeant, Canteen Accountant,
Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant, and Regi-
mental Sergeant-Major, finally being appointed
Acting Adjutant after receiving his connmssion.
He served in the South African War, being
seriously wounded at the Battle of Driefontein
while Section Leader. He received the Queen's
medal vrith three clasps, and had also been
awarded the medal for long service and good
conduct.
He was killed on the 30th October, 1911. at
the Battle of Ypres, while acting as Adjutant,
by the side of his Coimnanding Olficer, Colonel
C. A. C. King, who was also killed.
For some time he was Secretary of the " Green
Howards " Old Comrades' Association, and a
contributor to tlie " "Green Howards ' Gazette."
He wa-s also Sergeant- 11a jor of the same regi-
ment's "Old-time Firing and Hand-grenade
Display."
2nd Lieutenant Hatton married Klsie, daughter
of the late Quartermaster-Sergeant Thewlis,
a brother of Akleruian Tliewlis, late Ix)rd Mayor
of .Manchester, and left one son, I'"rederick
Arthur, age twelve >-ears.
LIEUTENANT VISCOUNT HAWARDEN
SIR ROBERT CORNWALLIS MAUDE ,
1st B.XTTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
Baron de .Montalt,
in Ireland, and a
Baronet, of Hawar-
den. County Tip-
]) e r a r y , son of
Robert Hem-y, fifth
N'iscouut Ha warden.
Baron de Montalt ,
and a Baronet, was
l)om in London on
tlie 6th September,
Ill^^mjimiJI^J ' i^'M. He succeeded
liis father as sixth
Viscount in 1908. The present Lord Dunalley
(through his grandmother, the Hon. Martha
Prittie) was Viscount Hawarden's first cousin
once removed.
He was educated at Winchester and Christ
Churcli, Oxford, where he took his degree,
lie joined the Coldstream (iuards a.s 2nd
l.iiiitenant in tlie spring of 1912. becoming
Lieutenant in September, 1913. He accom-
panied his battalion to Fi'ance, as part of the
ICxpeditionary Force, on the 12th August, and
was killed by shell at Landrecies on the night
of the 2.5th-2l)th August, 1914.
CAPTAIN ROBERT FRANK HAWES,
1st BATTN. LEICESTERSHIRE REGT.,
who was killed in action on the 23rd .September,
liUL was the younger .son of Mr. G. C. and Mi's,
llawes, of Lindfield, Sus.sex. He was born
on the i8th April, 1883, and joined the Leicester-
shire Regiment in October, 1902, becoming
Lieutenant in September, 1905, and Captain
in May, 1910.
In September, lull, he was appointed an
Adjutant of the Territorial Force.
Captain Hawes married, in 1913, a daughter of
-Mr. and .Mrs. Hyden, of Awbrook, Scaynes Hill.
LIEUTENANT LIONEL HOPE HAW-
KINS. 1st iKING'S) DRAGOON GUARDS,
was born at Cliiches-
ter on the 28th July,
188(5, and was the
son of Isaac Thomas
Hawkins, late
Colonial Civil Ser-
^■ice, and Mi-s. Mary
Hope Hawkuis. He
was related by the
marriage of a great-
aunt to the Berkley
family, and was thus
a cousin of the late
Captain H. Berkley. R.N., and of the late
Francis Berkley, Esq., Secretary, War Office.
Lieutenant Hawkins wa.s educated at Wayn-
fiete. Winchester College, and the R.M.C.,
Sandliui'st. Early in his school days he showed
an aptitude for athletics, as a runner and
cricketer. At Winchester he won the steeple-
chase for his House, and distinguished himself
as a footballer and Fives player.
While at .Sandhurst he was asked to join the
King's Dragoon Guards, owing to his excelling
in games and sports, and was gazetted to that
regiment in February. 1907, becoming Lieu-
tenant in February, 1908. He had pa.ssed for
his Captaincy two years previously, and would
soon have been promoted.
With his regiment he served in India, and
received the Delhi Durbar medal. He competed
with his troop for the shield in the regimental
polo team, and was a regular polo player, being
considered by some the best No. 1 there had
been in the regiment for years, and helped it
to win the Patiala Cup and many others.
For two years Lieutenant Hawkins was Signalling
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HAW— HAY
Officer of the Anibala Cavalry Brigade, and
the remarks of the General C'oumiaiiding on the
report of the inspection were : " An excellent
report, which reflects great credit on Lieutenant
Hawkins, the Signalling Otticer."
On the outbreak of the war he was at home on
leave from India, and was attached for active
ser\dce to the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniei-s),
and was killed in an attack by the Germans on
a line between Messines and Wytschaete,
Belgium, on the night of the 31st Octobei^lst
Xovember, 1914.
The Adjutant of the Carabiniers. writing on
the 13th Xovember, gave the following account
of the circumstances : "It appears that after
the enemy had penetrated our Une a party was
observed by your son approaching the trench
which he held with his troop. He ordered fire
to be opened on them, but they shouted, ' Don't
fire ! We are the Scottish ! ' and he ordeied his
men to cea.se fire, and himself bravely, but
incautiou-sly, got out of the trench and went
towards them. He had gone about thirty yards
when the Germans — for it was the Germans,
and not the London Scottish — opened fire,
and your son was seen to fall. Two men at
once went out and brought hina back to the
trench. He was seen to be badly wounded in
the right side, and he was carried back by oirr
men and the London Scottish towards Kemmel.
On reaching a place of comparative safety
two of the men went off to try and find a
stretcher, and two remained with your son,
who died very shortly afterwards. He had been
unconscious from a few minutes after he had
been hit, and pa.ssed quietly away. The men
were unable to bury him then, and weie obliged
to leave him covered with a blanket at the edge
of a wood, where I have no doubt he has since
been buried. But as, unfortunately, the
Germans now hold that piece of ground it has
not been possible to do what otherwise would
have been done. You have lost a gallant son,
and we a brave and weU-loved conu'ade who
showed military qualities of a liigh order."
The General commanding the 4th Cavalry
Brigade wrote of him : " During the retirement
and subsequently he had several difficult patrols
to carry out, and he always did his part with
conspicuous success. He was a very brave
man, and was careful of the lives of his men."
The Carabiniers were in such fierce fighting
that at one place after a night attack, on 31st
October-lst Xovember, the Fi-ench, when
advancing, counted three thousand five hundred
dead in front of the trenches of the London
Scottish and Carabiniere only.
Mrs. Hawkins received a telegram and letters
of sympathy from the whole of her son"s regi-
ment. At school Lieutenant Hawkins had
received many nicknames indicative of his
fleetness of foot and atliletic prowess, such as
College (Xo. o.
" Agag " and " Diabolo." In the Army he was
very popular with Ms men, and the officers of
his regiment \\Tole saying : " He is a great
loss to us."
He was a member of the Junior Army and Xavy
and the Junior Xaval and Military Clubs, and of
Hmliagh.im and Kanelagh.
CAPTAIN CYRIL FRANCIS HAWLEY,
KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS,
wlio was killed in
action on the 2nd
Xovember, 1914.
was the second .son
of the late Sir Henry
Hawley. Bart., and
Frances Lady Haw-
ley, of Leybourne
Grange, Kent,
and brother of the
present Baronet. He
was born on the
24th June. 1878. and
was educated at Malvern
1892-94). Army Side.
He joined the K.R.K.C. from the Militia in
February, 1899, and became Lieutenant a
year later. He took part in the South African
War. being present at operations in Xatal in
1899, including actions at Elandslaagte, Riet-
fontein, and Lombard's Kop : at the defence
of Ladysmith, including the action of the 6th
January, 1900 ; in Xatal, in the Transvaal,
east of Pretoria, including actions at Belfast
and Lydenberg ; in the Transvaal between
Xovember. 1900, and May, 1902 ; in the Orange
River Colony and Cape Colony, 1901 and 1902.
For his ser\-ices he was mentioned in Despatches
(" London Gazette," 10th September, 1910), and
received the Queen's medal with five clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Captain in Xovember, 1005,
and in the Great W'av was acting as a (ieneral
Staff Officer, 3rd grade, which appointment he
received on the 5th August, 1914.
CAPTAIN LORD ARTHUR VIN-
CENT HAY, IRISH GUARDS,
was born on the
16th March, 1886.
and was the second
son of the tenth
Marquess of Tweed-
dale, K.T.
He was educated at
Eton, and joined tlie
Cameron H i g li -
landers from tlie
Militia as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in June, 19(15.
being transferred to
the Irish Guards
December, 1905.
HEA HEL
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ill- rclii'cd from tho regiiiK^nl with tin' I'link of
Captain, and on tlu' mil break of I In- « ai- re-
joined tlie refririirnl ciri tile loth Au^;ii>.t . lie
was killed on tlie 1 llli September, liMl, while
forcing the passage of the river Aisne at
("havonne.
1,(11(1 Arllnir lla>' married Mciida. daughter of
the lion. .Mrs. Kdward .Stonor and the late A. .1.
Halli, Ksq.. and left one daujihtcr. .lean, lioni
Auiiusl. 1111 I.
2nd LIEUTENANT PAUL OTREN
HEANEY, 1st BATTN, KING'S OWN
(ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT),
son of I'atiiek and
Elizabeth Heaney,
and grandson of
Hichard .Alorris. of
" N e w T o w 11,"
W'aterford, was born
at W'aterford on the
27th October, 1871).
He was educated at
.St. Francis Xavier's
School. Liverpool,
and enlisted in the
King's Own in 1894.
lie served through the South African War,
during which he gained the Distinguished
Conduct Medal. Prior to the outbreak of the
(heat War he was on the Army Gymnastic Staff
as Company Sergeant-Major, and was Instructor
to the Middlesex Regiment at Mill Hill.
As a Company Sergeant- Major he had been in
the firing line since the first shot of this war was
fired. He was a capable and clever soldier,
thought ful for the needs and trials of those uniU'r
him, with whom he was very popular. His
battalion and others were holding an advanced
line, and were subjected to ceaseless artillery
lire, which rendered the ground immediately
behind them too dangerous to be crossed.
The battalions were thus isolated, and before
long realised that they were out of reach of
the deUvery of supplies. The situation was
desperate, and Sergeant Heaney, going to t he
-Major of the A.S.C. offered to go across the
zone of danger and bring back food. " Sheer
madness ! " declared the ofTlcer, but Sergeant
Heaney did not waver. He collected wagons,
drivers, and men. and w-ent. They traversed
four miles under continuous shell and rifle
fire, and at last reached the camp, loaded up,
and started on their return journey. They got
through and reached their position, and brought
food, not only to their own battaUon, but to
the whole brigade, thus saving the advanced
line and the situation.
Many of the above details are taken from
"T.P.'s .Journal of Great Deeds of the Great
War" of December 2(itli, liill.
For his gallantry Sergeant Heaney was, in
Sejit ember, 101 J. given a commission, an honour
he was not to enjoy long, for on the 21.st October
he was killed in action. II h.is not been possible
to ascertain the exact circumstances attending
his death.
LIEUTENANT VOLTELIN PERCY
HEATH, ROYAL
was the son of Sir
,Tames Heath, Hart.,
of Oxcndon Hall,
.Market Harboi'ough,
and was born at
Clayton Hall, Staf-
fordshire, on
the lOtli .Tanuary.
ISS!).
He was educated at
Kton and Magdalen
C'ollege, Oxford. At
the University he
had a brilliant career,
in literature, jiolitics
HORSE (;U,\RDS.
haviii
and
sp.
'(■II prdiiiineiit
it. He was
.Master of the
President of the Bullingdon (In
Drag Hounds, and Captain of the Polo Team
(afterwards playing in the polo team of his
regiment), and finished his Oxford career by
taking a good second in the final History
Schools.
He received his commission in the Royal
Horse Guards in October, lull, becoming
Lieutenant in April, 1912.
.Serving with his regiment at the frcjiit, he was
wounded in the retirement from .Mons, and died
from the effects at the Chateau Baron, France,
on the 4th September, 191 I.
Lieutenant Heath was a member of the Marl-
borough and Bachelors' Clubs, and also of
Hiirlingham and Ranelagli.
He was unmarried.
CAPTAIN HAROLD LUTWYCHE
HEL ME, 1st BATTN. LOYAL
NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT,
liorn at Treuyii.
H e !•(• f o r d s h i re,
on the 3rd August.
1878, was the son of
Harold and Mary 11.
Helme. of King's
Thorne, Hereford-
shire, and a nephew
of John W. Helme,
of Broadfield Court,
Herefordshire.
Educated a t
Haileybuiy College,
he first joined the Worcestershire .Militia, and
from it obtained his 2nd Lieutenancy in the
Loyal Xortli Lancashire Regiment in 1S99,
becoming Lieutenant in Febru.ary, 19(M, and
obtaining his Company in December, 19119. He
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HEN
served in the South African War in 1901, in
which he was wounded, having been present
with Mounted Infantry at operations in the
Orange Free State and Cape Colonies, receiving
the Queen's medal with three clasps. He also
took part in the operation of the Irua Patrol
in the west of the Niger with the Onitsha
Hinterland Expedition; in West Africa (South
Xigeria). 190.5-0(5; and with the Bende-Onitsha
and Hinterland Expedition, receiving the medal
with clasp.
In the Great War he was killed at the Battle
of the Aisne on the 14th September, 1914,
under the following circumstances : TTis batta-
lion (mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of the Sth October, 191-1) had been ordered to
take a factory north of Troyon to support the
Sussex, who were being hard pressed, and
during the action Captain Helme was killed,
and nearly all the officers of the battalion were
killed, wounded, or reported missing, including
the Colonel and senior Major, both of whom
were killed.
MAJOR ARTHUR
SON, p.s.c, 27th
FRANCIS HENDER-
LIGHT CAVALRY.
. INDIAN .\RMY.
who was kUled in
action near Sois-
-ons. France, on the
1 2th September,
1911. was the third
son of Mrs. Hen-
derson. .51, Lexham
fiardens. London.
W., and the late Dr.
Henderson, of
Shanghai, and was
(x>rn at Shanghai on
tlic "il^t Noveiiibcr. l.^T-t. He was educated
at Haileybury and the R.M.C.. Sandhm^.
He received an unattached 2nd Lieutenancy in
June, 1895. and joined the Indian Staff Corps in
March, IS90. He became Lieutenant in the
Indian Army in 1897, and Captain in January,
1904.
Keenest of sportsmen, he was beloved in the
regiment by all ranks for his zeal with horse and
hound and spear. He whipped for the Poona
Hunt for two seasons, and could have hunted
the pack the following year had he been able to
take it on. He was best man-at-arms at Banga-
lore in 1911. and again at Lucknow in 1913.
Major Henderson, who had passed through the
Staff College, was appointed a Brigade-Major
in India in February. 1909, and was promoted
Major and Squadron Commander in the 27th
Light Cavalry in January. 1913. when, in the
absence of the Colonel and the Second in Com-
mand, he commanded the regiment for eight
months, coming home on leave in March, 1914.
He was to have acted as an umpire in the
autunm manoeuvres of that year, and was work-
ing on the Staff at Aldershot,when war broke out.
He was appointed extra Cypher Officer at 1st
Army headquarters, left England on August
12th. and was afterwards transferred to General
Headquarters.
On September 12th. 1914, Major Henderson was
appointed General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, to
General John Gough, and left that morning for
Cavalry Headquarters, near Soissons. There he
received definite information that General
Gough had crossed the Aisne, by Conde Bridge,
and, joining Colonel Danby Christopher, AJk..
and Q.M.G., they proceeded by motor towards
Conde, bat were held up by the enemy near
the bridge. Colonel Christopher being badly
wounded and thrown out of the car. Major
Henderson and Colonel Christopher's servant
put up a very gallant fight, one with re-
volver and the other with rifle ; and it was
when he returned to the car to try and rescue
Colonel Christopher (presumably when they
had exhausted their ammunition) that !Major
Henderson was shot at about eighty yards
range. The servant was also kUIed, and Colonel
Christopher was taken prisoner. His grave is
where he fell, by the roadside on the way to
Conde Bridge, south of the Aisne.
In 1910 Major Henderson married Muriel,
daughter of the late Capel Hanbury and 3frs.
Hanbury. of " The Knoll," Penn, Bucks.
L1ELTEN.\NT NORMAN WILLIAM
.\RTHUR HENDERSON. 1st BATTN.
ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS,
who was killed in ^,— _
action on the 10th
November, 1914,
was the eldest son
of Arthur Henderson
and his wife,
Gareth, late of Fair-
mile Court. Cobham,
Surrey.
He was bom at
Rosary Gardens.
South Kensington.
on the 23rd October,
1891, and was educated at Rugby (S.H.),
to which he went in 19*16. Proceeding to the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1911. he entered the
Army in February. 1912. and joined his regi-
ment in South Africa, being promoted Lieu-
tenant in June, 1913. He left South Africa in
February, 1914, and went to the front on the
12th August.
He was in the retirement from Mons, and took
part in the Battle of Cainbrai. le Cateau. and
also in the Battles of the Mame and the Aisne.
He was killed in the wood of Herenthab
Chateau, at Tpres, whilst leading, his platoon.
An attack was made bv the Prussian Guard ;
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soiiio of the trt'iiolic's had to be retaken by a
counter-attack, and it was dvn-ing this attack
that Lieutenant Henderson was killed.
Several of the few remaining officers of liis
regiment have testified in letters to liis bravery
and splendid qualities as an officer.
LIEUTENANT R.WMOND MONT-
GO M ERIE HUME HENDERSON,
2nd BATTN. CONNAUGHT RANGERS,
was born at Fort Belgaum, India, on the 13th
August, 1884, the son of Colonel Hume Hen-
dereon, I.M.S., retired, and grandson of the
late Dr. Gordon, Hume .Street, Dublin.
Lieutenant Henderson was educated at King's
.School, Canterbury, and obtained his com-
mission in the Connaught Rangers from the
.Militia in 1907. being promoted Lieutenant in
February, 1910. From December, 1909, to
March, 1914, he was employed witli the Gold
Coast Regiment.
Beturning to England he acconii)anied his
battalion to the front in the great war. and was
killed in action on the 21st September. 1914,
at the Battle of the Aisne. Tilleul Hill.
His recreations were shooting, football, and
tennis.
Lieutenant Hendei'son married Zillah Edith,
eldest daughter of Vere D. U. Hunt, Esq., of
Carnahalla, Doon, County IJmerick.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM ALEXANDER
HENDERSON. 2nd BATTN. PRINCESS
LOUISESi.\RGVLLANDSUTHERL.\ND
HIGHLANDERS),
was born at I'^din-
burgh on the 20tli
r)ecember, 1876, the
son of the late Alex-
ander Edward Hen-
dei'son, Advocate,
Slieriff - Substitute
of the Lothians, and
iif 5Irs. Henderson,
]\Ianor Place. Edin-
biu'gh .
He was educated at
>ry School, St. Andrews.
Oriel College, Oxford,
St. Salvator'- I'n-parat
Loretto School, and
where he took his B.A. degree, and played golf
for the L^nivei-sity. He entered the 1st Batta-
lion Argyll and .Sutherland Highlanders in
February, 1900, and served in the South African
War, being a Station Staff Officer from July.
1901. He was present at operations in tlie
Transvaal, east and west of Pretoria, from July
to November, 1900, including the action at
Zilikat's Xek : at further operations in the
Transvaal, April, 1901. to May, 1902: and in
Cape Colony in the latter month. He received
the Queen's luedal with three clasps and the
King's medal with two clasps.
Captain Ilendei-son was .\djutant of the "ith
Seaforth 1 1 iglilandei-s from 191(1 l:i. when he
returned to the 2nd Battalion of his regiment,
lie was at first reported woimded and
missing after a niglit attack on a (iennan
trench at Ploegsteert Wood, near .\rmen-
tieres, early in the morning of the 10th
November, 1914. He was in conunand of tlie
attack which has been described as a very
gallant one. Over one Inmdred and thirty
men of his connnai\d were killi-d, wnuiichd.
or missing after the attack. On tliv 2iUh
December. 1914. during the unofficial armistice
at Christmas, his body, with fifteen Ijodies of
his men, was found by the British and iden-
tified by the name in the coat, the identity
disc and other articles having been taken by
tlie Germans.
He was a keen cricketer and a well-known
golfer, being a member of the Koyaland Ancient
(iolf Club, St. Andrews. In 1909 he defi-ated
.T. O. Travei-s, the American champion, in the
fii-st round at Muirfield in the Amateur (iolf
Championship. He was a member of the Royal
Automobile Club.
Captain Henderson married Constance May
Chambei-s and left one son. Alexander Edward
William, born June. 1912.
LIEUTENANT R O N .\ L D L U C .\ S
OUIXANO HENRIQUES, 2nd
BATTN. THE QUEEN'S (ROYAL
WEST SURREY REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action in France on
the 14th .September,
1914, was the second
son of the late David
Quixano Henriques
and of Mi-s. Henri-
ques, 17, Sussex
Square, Hyde Park,
W.,and was bom on
the 8th June, 1884.
He was educated at
Harrow (Mr. Stog-
don's House) from 1898 to 1901, and obtained
his commission in the R.W.S. Regiment in
October, 1903, beeomintr Lieutenant on the 4th
December, 1907.
The following account of his death, derived from
a letter from a private of his regiment, was
published in the " Harrovian War Supplement "
of November, 1914 : —
" It was on September 14th. We had just come
through — I think it was the \-illage of Paisy —
on to some very high ground. We halted, and
we were told that the enemy were entrenched
on the hills in front of us, and we were to drive
them out. We started the advance, my platoon
about thirty yards behind, Jlr. Henriques
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HEN- HEP
ill sujiiicut. We had just come out of a valley
when the Germans opened fire on us. However,
we kept on advancing until we were about thirty
yards from the enemy. We were all up in line,
and I wa-s the thud man from llr. Henrique.s.
He just raised his head and shoulders and said,
' Advance ! ' when he was shot through the
centre of the forehead, killing him instantly."'
LIEUTENANT CLAUDE HENRY. 3rd
BATTN. THE WORCESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT,
was Ixirn at Brigh-
ton in July, 1S^!1,
being the son of
.Tames and Evelyn
Henry, of Ling-
mell. Putney Heath,
grandson of the late
Sir J. H. Pelly,
Bart., formerly of
Warnham Court,
Su.'isex. and of the
late Captain J.
Henry, formerly of Blackdown House. Sussex.
He was educated at Bradfleld College and
Exeter College, Oxford. He joined the 3rd
Battalion Worcestershire Eegiment as 2nd
Lieutenant in .January, 1903, becoming Lieu-
tenant in December, 1906. and served for three
years in the West African Field Force on the
fiold Coast, rejoining his battalion in June.
191 1. accompanied it to the front, and fell
on the 20th September, 1914. near Vailly-sur-
Aisne.
He was a member of the Wellington (iub and
was unmarried.
2nd LIEUTENANT STANLEY
BENSKIN HENSON, SPECIAL RE-
SERVE, attd. 1st BATTN. PRINCE
ALBERT'S (SOMERSET LIGHT
INFANTRY),
who was killed in
action at the end of
the year 1914, aged
twenty-seven years,
was the only son
of Dr. and ilrs.
Henson, of 2, Derby
Street, ^Mayfair, and
of Elmsett HaU,
Wed more.
He was educated at
King's School,
Brulon. and Pembroke College, Oxford, and
olitaiued an appointment in the Colonial Police
some six years before his death, being stationed
in Singapore and Penang.
Soon after the declaration of war he resigned his
appointment and retmned to England. He had
joined the Special Reserve of his regiment as
2nd Lieutenant on probation in September, 1913,
and in November, 1914, was attached to the
1st BattaUon of liis regiment on going to the
front.
The officer conunanding the battahon gave the
following details : "As to the manner of your
son's death, I can only tell you that he died
as a very brave man. He was leading his men
in the attack on the German trenches, and had
outstripped the rest of his company by about
twenty yards, when he was shot through the
heart and killed instantly. Those of his company
who wei'e fortunate enough to come out of^the
action ahve speak in the highest terms of your
son's courage. He is a great loss to the regi-
msnt."
LIEUTENANT KENNETH PARNELL
HENSTOCK, 4th BATTN. THE DUKE
OF CAMBRIDGE'S OWN (MIDDLESEX
REGIMENT/, . . .,._ ^_,. __
was born at Up I'ark
Camp, Jamaica,
West Indies, on the
19th July, 1893, the
son of Colonel F. T.
Henstock, late West
India and West
African Regiments.
He was educated at
Bradfield College,
Berks, where he was
in the First Cricket
XI. and at the R.M.C., Sandhurst, t'i'om which
he received his commis.sion in the Middlesex
Regiment in August, 1912, becoming Lieutenant
on the 11th August, 1914.
His amusements were hunting and shooting.
He fell leading his platoon on Sunday, the
23rd August, 1914. at the Battle of Mons,
when it was said to have been completely
annihilated.
2nd LIEUTENANT MALCOLM ARNOLD
HEPBURN, 2nd BATTN. SEAFORTH
HIGHLANDERS iROSS-SHIRE BUFFS
THE DUKE OF ALBANY'S))
was born at Hamp-
stead, London, on
the 8th January.
1892, and was the
son of the late llr.
and Mrs. Hepburn,
of 13, Well Walk,
Hanipstead. His
elder brother. Cap-
tain W. D. Hep-
burn, now Adjutant
.■)tli Battalion Royal
.Scots (Queen's
HER
184
Iulinl>urL;li liilirs), is also in the Seaforfli Ili^h-
laiiiliTs.
"ind LiiMitciiaril ll.'|iljuru was educated at
Ueddoii Comt I'lvparatory School. Ilainpstcad.
wliciico 111' obtaiiu'd a scholarshi]) at .\hilvcrn
College in 1905. Subsequently he <)l)taiiu>il a
Classical Exhibition at .Magdalene College.
Cambridge, whein; he rowed in the College Lent
boat in 1911 ; was in the College Tennis VI :
and won his colours for Association football.
He joined the Reserve of Officers in the spring
of 191.3. and did his special training with the
2nd Battalion Seaforth Higlilanders. to whicli
he was afterwards gazetted, and with which he
was serving in France when killed. He was sliot
while superintending sapping operations in
trenches near Messines on the 30th Xoveinber,
loll, and was h\irie(l in I'loegsteert Wood.
CAPTAIN HORACE F.\LKLAND HERD.
3rd (RESERVE) BATTN. THE WELSH
REGIMENT.
youngest son of
.Major W. G. R.
Herd. late 95th
(now Nottingham-
shire and Derby-
shire) Regiment,
was born at
Han well, Middlesex,
on the 13th .luly.
1883.
He was educated at
Monmout h G rammar
School, and after joining the Army in .March.
1901, served in the South African War, being
present at operations in the Transvaal and
Orange River Colony in 1901, and in Cape
Colony from June, 1901, to Februai-y, 1902,
X'eceiving the Queen's medal with five clasps.
He was promoted lieutenant in FeV)ruai'y.
1902, Captain in May, 190-1, and had qualified
at a scliool of musketry, as "well as having
obtained a first-class certificate in gymnastics,
and in supply duties at the A.S.C. Training
Establishment at .\ldershot.
Captain Herd was a good Rugby football player.
and made a reputation at school as a three-
quarter back, but had little time for the game
afterwards, as he went practically from the
playing field to South Africa for the Boer War
at the age of eighteen.
In December, 1914, he went to France with a
draft of reinforcements for the 2nd Battalion
Welsh Regiment, and almost immediately was
engaged in fighting with that battalion, having
been put in command of a company.
He was killed in the very heavy fighting in
front of Festnbert on the 27th December, 1914,
by a bomb from a trench mortar, and was buried
in a little cemetery to the west of Festubert.
LIEUTENANT ARTHUR WIDDRING-
TON HERDMAN, 1st BATTN, KING'S
OWN (SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY),
late of Fwhurst
I'lacc, East Sussex,
only son nf tlie late
Rev. H. \l. llenl-
man, \'icar of Holy
Trinity, North
Shields, and of .Mrs.
llerdman, Sunny
Holme, Ripen, was
born on the .31st
.lanuary, 188t;, at
Holy Trinity Vicar-
age, North Shields,
He was educated at Trent College, and was a
graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford,
Lieutenant lleidman (irst joined the Royal
Sussex Regiment (Militia), and passed into the
Regular Army in September, 1909, becoming
Lieutenant in October, 1913,
On the outbreak of the Great War his battalion
«ent firet to Queenstown in August, and two or
three weeks later embarked at Sovithampton
for the Continent, landing at St, Nazaire, in the
Bay of Biscay, Thence they proceeded by
train to Paris and marched to Crecy. Diu-ing
tlie Battle of the Aisne the battalion was in the
trenches at VaUly for nearly a month.
Lieutenant Herdman was kiJled near Lille on
the 25t1i October, 1914, His body was found
l)y his orderly — Griffiths — who was himself
wounded in the arm when looking for his late
master.
Major Luard, of his battalion, \\ rote : " He is
indeed a great loss to the regiment, and was very
popular. The men of his platoon would have
done anything he asked of them."
By his will Lieutenant lleidman. who was very
popular with all who knew him, left three
acres of land for a recreation ground for the
village of Ewhurst, and in addition the Parish
Council received a sum of £300 for fencing and
laying out the land, and to jjiovide for the
upkeep, aftd gifts to the school (•liil<lr<-n at
Christmastime,
CAPTAIN GEOFFREY WILMOT
HERRINGHAM, p,s,c,, 6th
(INNISKILLING) DRAGOONS,
was the son of Sir Wilmot Ilerringhani, JLl),,
and Christiana Jane, daughter of T, W, Powell,
Esq. He was born in London on the Ttli .\ugiist.
1883.
Captain Herringham was educated at Eton
and the R.M.A., Woolwich. He joined the
Royal Artillery as 2nd Lieutenant in 1900,
became Lieutenant in 190.3, and was trans-
ferred to the (ith Dragoons in November
1900, becoming Captain in Marcli. lOKL He
passed the Staff College in 1912.
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Captain Herringham was shot at ilessines on
the 31st October, 1914, while in coinniand
of the machine-gun section of the 5th Dragoon
Guards, to which regiment he was attached at
the time.
CAPTAIN ANTHONY MORRIS COATS
HEWAT. 2nd BATTN. THE ROYAL
SCOTS iLOTHI.\N REGIMENT;.
wlio wa.s killed on
the 8th September,
^^|A> 1014. at the battle
|RBe^^ of the ilame, was
'Q^^^ the son of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel
Henry Roper-C^u-zon
Hewat, late Royal
Scots Fusiliers, and
of Mi-s. Jessie Mc-
Kenzie Hewat.
He was born at
Secunderabad.
India, on the 27th October, 1884, and was
educated at Victoria College, Jersey, and the
R.il.C. Sandhurst. He entered the Army in
May, 1903. becoming Lieutenant in March.
1905. and Captain in July. 1913.
Captain Hewat married SteUa Eleanora. daugh-
ter of the Rev. Rhys Bishop, and left a daugh-
ter, Diana Gei-aldine Eleanora, born August,
1913.
He wa-s keen on all kinds of sport, both at home
and in India, especially hunting, polo, sliooting
(large and small game), and fishing.
LIEUTENANT GORDON HUGHES
HEWITT. 2nd BATTN. THE PRINCE OF
WALESS VOLUNTEERS SOUTH LAN
CASHIRE REGT.j
was bom at 25,
Argyll Road. Ken-
sington, W., on the
26th January. 1S92.
being the son of the
late Captain Percy
Hughes Hewitt, 6th
Dragoon Guards
(Carabiniers). He
was a relative of
the late General
Gordon. The late
Captain Hewitt had raised at his own expense
the first CycUst Corps in the Army (the 26th
Middlesex Cyclist Corps), for wliich he received
the honorary title of Major.
Lieutenant Hewitt was educated at \'ictoria
College, Jersey, from 1901-05 : then at Hadey-
bury till 1909, subsequently, after private
tuition and coaching, entering the Royal Mili-
tary Academy at Woohvidi as a Sandhurst
cadet in 1911. and iiointr to .Sandhurst itself in
1912. He received Ms comniission in the South
Lancashire Regiment in January, 1913.
At the Battle of the Aisne, on the 19th Septem-
ber, the South Lancashires, when in reserve,
were informed that the Germans had broken
tluwugh our line, about half a mUe away, and
were in a wood to the right of the battaUon.
Two companies were ordered to dislodge the
enemy fi-om this wood, which they did at the
point of the bayonet. It was during tlus opera-
tion that Lieutenant Hewitt was hit by shrapnel
in four places, one Ijullet injuring the spine. He
was taken to the dressing station at Vailly, and
thence at night to the Field Hospital at Braine.
It was there found that he was very seriously
injured, being completely paralysed from the
waist down. On the 21st he seemed better,
and at his own special desire was sent down to
the Base Hospital at Versailles, where he died
on the 24th .September. 1914, of septic pneu-
monia. He was buried with full mihtary honours
in the Cimetiere des Gouards, X'ereaiUes, the
guard being furnished by a detachment of
French cavalry, and many French ofticei-s being
present, including a representative of the General
commanding the district.
Lieutenant Hewitt had been awarded the
decoration of the Legion of Honour (Croix de
Chevalier) at the end of August, but it has not
been possible to ascertain from the British or
the French Government for what particular act
of gallantry in the retirement fi-om ilons the
award was made. He was promoted Lieutenant
on the 11th September. 1914.
Lieutenant Hewitt was a member of the
Primrose Chib..St.. James's, S.W. His recreations
were hockey, tenius. and billiards. He was
unmarried.
LIEUTENANT JAMES FRANCIS
HEWITT, 1st BATTN. THE
CAMERONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLES),
son of the Hon.
W. J. Hewitt, of St.
C o 1 m e House,
Aberdour, Fife, was
born at Gatehouse of
Fleet, Galloway, on
the 23rd January, t
1S88, and was edu- |^
cated at Winton *
House, Winchester :
Haileybury College :
and the R.^^C..
Sandhurst.
In February, UlOiS, hu \va,~ -rizrtl.jd and
attached to the 2nd BattaUon Scottish Rifles
until the trooping sea-son, when he joined his
own battaUon at Cawnpore, becoming Lieu-
tenant in March, 1910. He proceeded to .South
Africa in December. 1909, and was with the
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was HlliiKelhei' a iiinsi li'HKie alTair."
2fHl I.IKU TKNAN r SAMIJKI- VIJtNON
KINI.M-IIICKSON, 2ii(l HA'l'I'N. I.OVAI,
NOK'I II I.ANCASIIIKK K l'.(; IM l':N I',
who uas killed in
acl inn in l'',asl Al'iira
Inual'.ls III.' end nl'
Mil I. Ihe a.'liuil ilal.'
.111.1 pl.'i.'.' ..I .l.'alh
mil having heell I'e-
p.lll.'.l, WHS III.'
I'l.l.'sl s I' Cdlnliel
,S. A. I'). Ili.'ksnil,
|).,S.()., IM')., nl'
i) 1 n's U n H d,
Itiihni.in.l, .S.ii'i'.'>,
and washni'ii In I.Hl);i.
II.' was .'.III. 'III. '.I hI W.llinul.in. \\l..'.'.' I..' was
11, II,.' |lnp.'l..iiii II' 1''"!^ nil' He wan
^.a/.'ll.'.l 1.1 II..' I..i>al Nnllh l„in('a-liil.' IfeKI-
nl as .S.'.'.in.l I .i.iil .iia nl in S.'pl .'iiih.'i'. I!M2.
I.IKUIKNAN'r WAI.I'KK I'.DW'AUI)
Hill, 'lid IJA'I'I'N. NOK'III .SIAII OKI)
SINK K K l.(; 1 .,
w .1 ' I III' n..l,\ s.ili nl
111.' lal.' Cniinii lt..u
l.'llld lllll. K.'.lnl nl
ll.>l> 'I'lillilN, llnl
.hesler, and \\h:
hn... nil Ihl' I'llh
s.'pi.'iiih.'i'. ix'.<-^.
II,' vMi-, .'.hi.al.'.l al
liiirnlnid ll.l. IS.'.
I.an^^l.iii ,\lal i'H\ el's.
I In I'se I s II i re. a II d
W illi'llesl.T Cnll.'H.'.
HIL HOA
lie was for Ihnv yoars in tlio Norlli sijilToni-
sliii\> 3r»l IJjJttn. (Sjxvial KosiTvo), lu-iiii; pro-
mototl l.i<Mit;>ni>nt in April. liM;^, ami wns
attaoluni to tho 1st Itattnlion of tlu> r»'iiinu<nt
on tho oulhriNfik of the «-ar, procinnlins with
it to tho t\intinont.
Ho was kilKnl at tho Hattlo of tho Aisno on tho
2.">th S,>ptonilH-r. 1!>H.
I.ioiitonaiit Hill was a nionihor of tho t'avon-
lUsh fluli ami of two atitoinohilo olul>s.
:iui in I 11 NAN r iii nk\ nKNNE
HI I ION. 5>ih !Ul.1. 4ih U\rTN.
1 U I. DtkK OF C AM 1U< 1 nc. KS
OWN (MIDDLESEX REGIMENTt.
who was kilUnl in action on tho l!Mh Pooonihor.
IIIM. was thesouof tho lato Kov. H. M. Hilton.
soinotinu> HiH-tor of Itrliniitniry. Norlhants.
\\f was o<lnoated at Hailoylnn-y and Trinity
("olloiK-. I'anibridiio.
At tho ontbnvik of tho war Ijoutonant Hilton
was a master at l'»iversity College Sohotil.
Hanipstoa«l. \vhor»- ho was an oflU-or in tho
O.T.t'. Continiront. (t\Mi\ which ho was iRizotlod
to tho Mi<l<llos«>x Koginiont. in .*>opt iMnhcr. ISM I.
CAP IAIN lK\Mv HIND, 1>I HAT IN.
EAST YORK SHIRK REGIMENT.
who (lio<l in tho
Wiirtomhori: I'iold
Hi>spital. Hanhonr-
(lin. near l.illo. as
a prisoner of war. on
thi- 2!tth tlctobor.
Ill I I. front wonnds
ivcoivoil on the 20th
of tho s;»nie month,
was tho fonrth son
of tho lato \Villian\
Kvoratt Hind.
Ho was l>orn at
n.n\<lon. Yorkshin-. on tho 21th Septoinhor,
1S7!). and after hoini; attached to the Hoiiulars
for nearly a year ivoeivod his conm\ission from
the 1st V.H. Kinii's (Iwn Yorkshiiv l.iijht
Infantry in tho East Yorkshin> Uosiinient in
.l.-imiary, 15)01. He stTVinl in the South .\frienn
War. in which he was live times soveryOy
wounded, and was pivsent at operations in the
Oniniio Kr<-e Stat<-. the Transvaal (west of
I'n-toria). and the On^niro Uiver t\ilony. inchid-
inji actions at l.indley. Uothleheni. and Witto-
horvron in IttOO. and ajrain in the Orani;o Hiv<-r
Colony fr^mi .Tuly. 1!»01. to May. li»i>2. 11.
roceivi'Hl tho Queen's medal with four clasps
and the Kind's niediil with tw<i clasps, and was
one of tho very few vohn\toer oHiccrs who
earned six clasps. From Aiijriist. 1!I0:{. to April.
IIIOS liavini; luv^n promoted Lieutenant in
Manh, litOI ho served with the West African
lieginient nt .Sierra IjOjine.
He ri-Hu'ned to l''n>;land ni 1!">>. .md was pro-
moted Captain in .s,>picniher. ISUO. (>)ptain
Hind w;»s woimd<-tl thr«v times, hut ixintinvu><l
to lead his nu>n in a charyi' on the 20th Dcto-
lH»r. 1!U4. dyinv; fr«in> his womtds as al>ove
stat.Hl.
He m.irritHl, in t!>l 1. Constance Evelyn. younjnT
dausthtor of Kdnnind Harrison. l.-mipton,
Hoston.
2nd lllCrKNANl" IIAROIO KOWIN
HllMMSl 1 Y. SIM C lAl RKSKRNl :Uid.
1st BAT FN. i; 1 i> I CESTK R s 11 I R 1
REGIMEN r .
wjws iKtrii at Wells,
Somerset, on tho lin\
Septomhor, I.>*S)0.
jind was tin- son o(
Mr. W. .1. and Mi^.
11 i p p i s 1 e y. of
Northant House.
Wells. Somerset . Ilc
was educat<Ml at
K i n t: ■ s .S c h o o 1 .
Ihiiton. Somci-sol.
and matrie\ilat»'^l at
lAmilon Cniversity. Wo w;>s also a niomher ol
the Uoyal A>;ric\dtm-al CoUejjo. Cirvncestor,
wher»> he was i^dd m<>ilallist (Estjito Manasr<^
mont and I'oivslryK and irainod tho National
Piploma of Aiiricultuiw He w.as also a Cr«>-
fessional .\.ssociate of the Surveyors" Institution.
At Cir\Micoster ho was in the t>.T.C.. and suh-
seiiuontly joined the SpiH-ial Hoserve of Oflicors.
t>n the despatch of the Kxptslilionary Force
he left for France with the ;!ril Hritrtxlo. 1st
Pivision. as a 2nd Lieutenant in the (ilovicester-
shiiv Hoiiimont.
He was killed on the 2:?r.i Octoher, ION, at.
1-anireniaivk. Heli:imn, whei-o he was in com-
mand of on<- of the two platoons which success-
fully held an exposal tri>nch aisiinst a lai-jjc"
fon-o. despite the loss of all tho olVicers and
sixty per cent, of the men.
At Kinsi's .School Mr. Hiiipisley was Captain of
the cricket and football teams, and at t^ir<<n-
cestor of the cricket and hookey teams. He
playinl cricket and hockey for his county, and
cricket for the rnitod Services.
2nd Lieutenant llippisley married Ivy tiwendo-
line. daughter of tho late Mr. .1. llusssey (\wper
and Mrs. llussey Cooper, of " The T/idiji"',"
Whoatlcy, Oxfonl.
IIFCPENANT C.llARl KS MOHtiAN
IKV\RK. ISth rilK KINtrS IIISSARS.
who was killed al the age of Iwfnty-one. w.is
the son of Charles Tw ysdon lloaii', of IJiiinell
I'ark. Hicestcr. and the Hon. Ulanehe IVancos
Hoan-. daught<-r of the lii-st Haron Tivdegjir.
He was oducatcil at (Isborne and Partmouth,
HOD
18S
it having Ik-oii intcmled that hi- should go into
the Hoyal Navv. He.
however, decided to
enter tlie Army, aiul
was gazetted to the
\r,{\\ llii^saisiii Dec-
.•iiihei. lill:i. He was
loud of polo, hunting,
and point - to - point
lacing.
He was killed on Ih.-
•2.5th August, ISIll.
diu'ing the retire-
ment from Mons.
while coveringthe in-
fant rv near Blautiies.
2nd LIEUTENANT SYDNEY HOWARD
HODGES, RESERVE OF OFFICERS,
attd. 4th BATTN. ROYAL FUSILIERS
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENTi,
who wa.s killed in
action on the 17th
October, 1914, was
the son of W. D.
and Mary Hodges,
Alexander .Square.
.South Kensington,
and was born in
London on the lith
July. l.SOl. He was
educated at Kokeby
School, \Vimhledon,
and at Monkton
Combe Seh(iol. Hath. On leaving school he
studied for the medical profession at King's
College. London, where he gained the ^Varnford
Scholarship in 1910, and took the degree of
B.Sc. with fii-st-class honoui-s in 1913.
The following are selected from a large number
of letters received from those who knew him : —
From his CO., Lieutenant-Colonel .McMahon.
who wa-s killed in action on the 11th Novem-
ber, 1914 :
" You will have received or read tlie ollicial
report of your son's death in action. « hich took
place the day before yesterday in a successful
attack on a village.
" He was leading his platoon forward at the
time in splendid fa.shion. came under machine
fire, and was shot through the heart.
" He was buried in a farm enclosure aliout one
mile north of the village.
" Your son's loss will be deeply felt by myself
and all the l)attaUon, for he was most keen and
energetic, and had a high sense of duty.
" He has done valuable work since he arrived,
and was in all re.spects brave and efficient.
" Please accept my deepe.st sympathy and
convey same to his relations."
FYom the Dean of Medical Science, King's
College, University of London :
'■ 1 would ask you to accept tliis expression of
tlie very deep and real sympathy whicli is felt
lor you by the members of the Staff of lliis
College in the loss of your son.
" He was, I Ihhik. the best studiiil ol nuiUcine
I have ever had here. It was to rm- a real and
great pleasvu'e to help him in an\ «a\ 1 could
in his work, and his inlluence among the other
students was the very be.st. The memoi-y of hi.s
l>iiinant work and of his character will last a
long time here, and will be an exampU; for good
to many of Ills fellow-students.
■■ 1 feel I have lost a very dear friend and |)upil,
and 1 realise something of wliat liis parents nmst
feel."
l'rofe.s.sor llaUiburton, of King's College, wrote
of him to his family : " Xo news has grieved
me more than the death of your gallant son.
I got to know him so well during his work in
my laboratory, and learnt, not only to value
his liigh endeavours, but to regard him as a
friend."
SPECIAL
CAPTAIN JOHN FRANCIS HODGKIN-
SON, 3rd iPRINCE OF WALES'S)
DRAGOON GUARDS
RESERVE),
was born on the
•2.">th July, l.s-9. at
Baslow, Derbyshire,
the son of the late
.1 o h n ('• r u n d \
Hodgkinson, of Bas-
low. He was also
related to the late
Kdmimd Hodgkin-
son. J. P., of Baslow.
and to Lieutenant
S. C. L. Hodgkin-
son, of the Royal Australian Xavy.
He was educated at Mount St. Mar\ s College,
Chesterfield, from 1890-95, earning the admira-
tion and affection of his companions. On leaving
school he took to farming, but while so occupied
lost no opportunity to educate himself in ev'ery
way, becoming eventually an accomplished
scholar, with a knowledge of the Kussian,
Spanisli. and French languages, and a working
knowledge of Kaffir and Hindustani. Xor
did he neglect the physical side of life, for he
was a keen fisherman, a good game shot, a good
bat at cricket, and an excellent polo player.
Captain Hodgkinson commenced his military
career in the ranks of the 2nd Volunteer Bat-
talion Sher«ood F^oresters for one year ; in
March. 1902. he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant
in that battaUon, and in 1905 Captain. In the
following year he was transferred to the 4th
BattaUon Royal DubUn FYisUiers. He devoted
himself seriously to his military duties, and
obtained nearly all the special certificates
possible, including his qualification for
IS
HOD
promotion to Captain in the Regular Army :
certificates for attendance at the Infantry School
at Chelsea (1903) and Dublin (1907), from which
he passed first with " special " certificate ;
the School of Musketry. Hythe (1904 and 1909) :
Sisniallinsr. Aldershot (1905), with Instructor's
Certificate : .Military Engineering, Chatham
(1906) : Veterinary School, Aldershot (1908) :
Equitation, Dublin (1907) : and a machine-gun
course at Vickeps, Sons i Maxim's (1909).
He also pa-ssed the preliminary examination
for Army Inteipreter in Eussian. He had hoped
to serve in the South African War, but was
not then thought sufficiently experienced,
having only joined the Army in 1901.
In March. 1906, Captain Hodgkinson was trans-
feiTed, at his own request, to the 4th Royal
Dubhn Fusiliers (MUitia) as a Captain, and did
much useful work in the training of men and
horses at Woolwich while detached from his
regiment. In 1910 he was transferred to the
3rd Dragoon Guards, and served with that
regiment in Egypt.
On the outbreak of the war with Germany the
regiment was recalled to serve in France, and.
after a short period of preparation in England,
left for the front. A few days after arrival
there Captain Hodgkinson, while in charge of
the regimental machine guns, was severely
wounded in the head by a bullet at ZUlebeke,
and died at Boulogne on the 10th November.
1914. from the effects.
Captain Hodgkinson was a splendid type of
man, standing 6 ft. 4i in. in height. Once,
when on duty as a Guard of Honour, he was
specially noticed by King Edward VII. He was
modest and rather reserved in manner.
After his death a solenui Requiem Ma.ss was
celebrated at the Roman Catholic Cliapel at
Hassop. wliich Captain Hodgkin.son used to
attend when living at Baslow, the Rector of his
old college — Mount St. Mary's — being the
celebrant .
CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER ANTONY
ROWL.\NDSON HODGSON. 3rd B.\TTN.
THE ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGT..
was the son of
Arthur Pemberton
Hodgson, I.C.S., and
was bom in 1873.
He was educated at
Worcester College.
Oxford.
He joined the 3rd
Battalion (then the
5th) Warwickshire
Regiment in Decem-
ber. 1S99, being
promoted Lieuten-
ant ui .July. lUiMi. and becoming Captain in
March, 1901. During his service he qualified
at the School of Musketry, obtained a certificate
in A..S.C. duties, and was attached to the
Regular F'orces. obtaining a satisfactory report
for the rank of Field Officer.
In the South African War Captain Hodgson
served with the Remoimt Department before
1901. After being invalided home he returned
there in the same year with the Royal War-
wickshire Regiment, remaining tUI 1902. For
bis services he received the Queen's medal with
foiu- clasps. In the Great War he was with a
Regular battalion when killed on the ISth
December, 1914. near Flem-baix (district of
Annentieres ).
The following account of his death was given
by an officer who was near him at the time :
"He went out in front of everyone, with a wire-
cutter in each hand, and cut away through that
zone of hell that Ues between the two lines of
trenches. He was not killed untU he had got
right up to the German trench, but liis work
was done, and the way was clear. So far as I
can hear, he never said anything — he just went
and did it. though he knew fuU well that nothing
could save him, and that he would be dead in
ten minutes. His name deserves to be written
for ever on the RoU of Heroes."
Captain Hodgson married, in 1913, Miss " Alec "
Hely, daughter of C. Wisdom Hely, Esq., of
Dublin. He left no family.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE W1LL1.\M
HOUGHTON HODGSON. 2nd BATTN.
THE BORDER REGIMENT,
who died on the
6th Xovember, 1914,
of woimds received
a day or two pre-
viously, was bom
on the 21st October,
1888, at The Rec-
t o r y, Distington.
(Cumberland, the son
of the late Rev.
W. G. C. Hodgson,
J.P.. M.A., of
Hougliton House,
Cumberland, and of Mi-s. Hodgson,
ter of the late William Harrison,
law, of Bishop Yards, Penrith,
nephew of the Bishop of Edmundsbury and of
Com-tenay Hodgson, Esq., Clerk of the Peace
for the County of Cumberland.
Lieutenant Hodgson was educated at West-
min.ster School and Trinity College. Cambridge,
where he took his degree in 1912. and where he
was in the ArtUlery O.T.C. He joined the
Boi-der Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant in Septem-
ber, 1911, and became Lieutenant in October,
1914, duiing the war.
Lieutenant Hodgson die<l in the Boulogne Hos-
pital on Friday, the 0th Xovember, 1914, of
only daugh-
bai-rister-at-
He was a
HOD— HOG
190
wounds received on the 2nd of that month.
L)unnt; the figliting immediately preceding that
date his battalion had lost heavily, and had
repeatedly earned the admiration of the Bx-iga-
dier and otlier senior officers in the brigade.
He was mentioned in Sir John French's De-;-
patcli of the 14th January, 1915.
Captain Askew, of the Battalion, liimself
subsequently killed in action, wi-ote the follow-
ing account of the death of Lieutenant Hodgson :
" We were holding a section of an entrenched
position on the 2nd, and your son's company,
' D,' was on the right of our line .... and
the Germans (took) an opportunity to make a
very strong attack upon our right. So well were
our men kept in hand by your son and the late
Captain Gerrard (killed the same day) that they
hung on for several hours unsupported, and
even after both officers were hit they fought
splendidly. The result was the German attack
failed, and there is no doubt that this was due
to the splendid example set by yoiu' son. He was
directing the fire of liis men when he was hit in
the neck by a IjuUet."
Lieutenant Hodgson was a keen soldier and
sportsman, and when at Cambridge was cox-
swain of the third Trinity boat.
CAPTAIN GEORGE BERTRAM POL-
LOCK-HODSOLL. 3rd BATTN. SUFFOLK.
REGIMENT,
born on the ISth
June, 1875, at Loose
Court, Loose, near
<^^^^K ^^^H Maidstone. Kent,
' ^^^^^^" '^*^ ^^^* was descended
from the old Kent
family of ■' Hodsoll "
— Mandy Hodsoll, of
Hol^^veU, and the
HodsoUs, men of
Kent, were of con-
siderable note in the
Army of Edward the Black Prince — and was
the second son of Charles ilaxfleld and Georgiana
Mary Hodsoll. His mother was the elder
daughter of George Kennet Pollock, grand-
daughter of Sir David PoUock, Chief Justice of
Bombay, and grand-niece of Sir Frederick
Pollock, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and of
Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, " of the
Khyber Pa.ss."
He was educated at Maidstone School and
University College, Oxford, and was an energetic
speaker for the Unionist Party and for universal
military service.
Captain Pollock-HodsoU received his com-
mission in the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment
(Cambridgeshire MUitia) in December, 1902,
being subsequently transferred to the 3rd
Battalion (Special Reserve), in which he was
promoted Captain in August, 1914. He was
attached for active service to the 1st Battalion
Cheshire Regiment, with which he was serving
when he was killed in action on the 7th Novem-
ber, 1914, while gallantly leading a counter-
attack on the enemy near Ypres.
Captain Pollock- Hodsoll was a member of the
Jimior Xaval and ililitary Club, antt was well
known as an Association football player, having
for many years played for the Casuals and
the Corinthians, and having captained the
Army team on several occasions.
He married, in June, 1914, OUve Jlai-garet,
eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Milne Hae, of
Edinburgli.
DAYRELL MERE-
GRENADIERS, IN-
CAPT.\IN IVAN
DITII HOGG, 101st
D I A N A R M Y,
who was killed in
action on the 4th
November, 1914,
during the attack on
Tanga, East Africa,
was the third and
youngest son of the
late General George
Forbes Hogg, C.B.,
and of Mrs. Hogg.
Cromer H o u s e,
Brentwood.
He was born on the 2nd April, ls>l. al '.i2,
Oxford Gardens, London, W., and was educated
at the United Ser\-ices College, Westn-ard Ho !
After passing for the Indian Army, he received
an unattached 2nd Lieutenancy in January,
1903, and carried out his probationary period
with the 2nd Oxford Light Infantry, and then
with the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers, joining the Indian Army on the 8th
April, 1904. He became Lieutenant in April,
1905. and was promoted Captain in January, 19 12.
Captain Hogg married, in December, 1911,
Bridget Eyre, youngest daughter of the late
William H. Lioyd, of Barham House, Droitwich,
LIEUTENANT
GRAHAM HOGG.
OWN HUSSARS.
was the son of Qirin-
tin Hogg, Esq., the
founder of the Poly-
t e c h n i c. Regent
.Street, London, an
institution known
throughout the
E n g 1 i s h-speaking
world. He was born
on the 2nd Febru-
ary, 1875, at Rich-
mo n d Terrace,
Whitehall, and was
the Roval Militarv
-COLONEL IAN
D.S.O., 4th OLEENS
educated at Eton and
College, S.indhurst, and
191
HOL
subsequently passed through the Staff College.
He entered the Army in 189(i, and had a long
record of war services.
From 1900-0.5 he was employed with the West
African Frontier Force, during which period
he was in command of several punitive expe-
ditions, and for his services received the dis-
tinction of the D.S.O., the rank of Brevet-
Jlajor, and the West African war medal. In the
Boer War he served on the .Staff of General
Sir Bruce Hamilton, and was present at engage-
ments in the Cape Colony, Transvaal, and Orange
Elver Colony, He received the Queen's medal
with four clasps.
After leaving the Staff College he held a tem-
porary Staff appointment at the War Office,
and was promoted to the command of his regi-
ment in 1913, which he took to the Continent on
the outbreak of the Great War. He was engaged
in wood fighting just north of the village of
Haramont, north-west of Villers Cotteret, on the
1st September, 1914, when he was shot, and suc-
cumbed to his wounds twenty-four hours later.
In the retirement from Compiegne he had
commanded the rearguard, and insisted on
being the last man to leave. When actually
shot he was standing in an open clearing, signal-
ling with his cap for some men to retire.
He was a good polo player, and had won several
cups, and was a member of the Cavalry and
Ranalagh Clubs.
He was not married.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HUGH HOL-
BECH, 2nd BATTN.
RESERVE OF
tenant in :\Iarch, 1904. Hi
of Officers in Febniarv, 190
SCOTS GUARDS,
OFFICERS,
who died in hospital
at Woolwich on the
1st November. 19 U,
of wounds received
in action on the
25th October near
Ypres, was born in
August, 1882, and
was appointed 2nd
Lieutenant to the
Scots Guards in
January, 1902, being
promoted Lieu-
joined the Reserve
MAJOR CHARLES STEWART HOL-
LAND, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
the son of Charles and ^Irs. Holland, of 7, The
Grange, Wimbledon, was born on the 28th Decem-
ber, 1875. He entered the Royal Artillery in
November, 1895, becoming Lieutenant in Novem-
ber, 1898, and Captain in November, 1901.
Major Holland served in the South Afi'ican
War in 1902, being present at operations in the
Orange River Colony, for which he received the
Queen's medal with four clasps.
From February, 1905, till January, 19117, and
again from July, 1909, till June, 1911, he was an
Adjutant irx his regi-
ment. He obtained
his Majority in May.
1912.
il a j o r Holland's
name apj^eared in the
first list issued by
the War Office on
the 1st September.
19U, of British losses
as killed in action in
the Great War.
^'bM
LIEUTENANT JOHN HOI. MAN, 4th
(ROYAL IRISH) DRAGOON GUARDS,
was the second son
of the late John H.
Holman, of Tre-
genna, Camborne,
Cornwall, senior
partner of the well-
known engineering
firm of Holman
Bros., and was born
at Camborne on the
5th December, 1894.
Lieutenant Holman
was educated at
Blundell's School from 1904-12, after which he
entered the R.Jl.C, Sandhiu^t. After a year's
training there he obtained his commission in
the 4th Dragoon Ciuards in September, 1913,
becoming Lieutenant in July, 1914, subse-
quently leaving for France on the 15th August.
He was wounded on the 29th October, 1914, in
action near Armentieres whUe helping a wounded
brother officer, and died next day at the Base
Hospital, Boulogne.
Many letters were received by his mother from
brother officers speaking highly of Lieutenant
Holman's devotion to duty, and bearing testi-
mony to the great affection and esteem which
was felt for him, and specially mentioning his
constant care and thought for others, animals
as well as men.
LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER CHARLES
HOLME, 1st BATTN. GLOUCESTER-
SHIRE REGT.,
son of Charles H.
Holme, of Rawburn,
Duns, Scotland,
was born at Mus-
sooi'ie, North West
Pro^^nces. India, on
the 26th September,
1888.
He was educated at
Charterhouse a n d
the R.M.C., .Sand-
hurst. He joined
HOL
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the (Moiiccslcrsliirc Hr<;iniciit in Maicli, I'.Mi'.i.
bccoiiiiiif; I.ii'ulciiatit in .ruly, lull ; and scivicl
in India with his hattalion. lie then volun-
tcinil lor service in Southern Nigeria, and wa.s
killed in action against the Germans at Nsaiia-
kang, Canieroons, on the 6th September, 191 I.
Lieutenant A. C. Holme's brother — Lieutenani
R. H. P. Holme. 2nd Kins's Own Scottish
Borderers — died on the ilth XoveMd>er, 1!)14, of
wounds received on the :^lst Octolier.
LIEUTENANT RONALD HENRY
PAULL HOLME, 2nd BATTN. THE
KING'S OWN SCOTTISH
BO RDER ERS.
son of Charles II
Holme. of Kath-
burne. Duns. Scot-
land, was born on
the 1st January.
ISiiO. at Kurki.
North West Pro-
vinces, India.
He was educated at
Haileybury Collefie
and the H.M.C..
Sandhurst, oVitain-
iiig his commission in the K.O.S.B. in October,
1910, and beeonunji Lieutenant in February,
1914.
He was statiom-d witli his battalion at Belfast
and Dublin, and while serv-ing with it on the
Continent in the Great War was present at
the Battles of Mons. the Aisne, and the Marne.
He was wounded by a fragment o' shell at
Messines on the 31st October, and died from
the effects in London on the 9th Novendicr.
19U.
Lieutenant R. II. P. Holme's brother — Lieu-
tenant A. C. Holme, 1st Gloucestershire Regi-
ment— was killed in action against the Germans
in the Cameroons on the 6th September, 1911.
LIEUTENANT (temp. CAPTAIN)
CECIL CRAMPTON HOLMES, 1st
BATTN. LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT,
was shown in the
monthly ollicial
casualty list pub-
lislied in May, 191.5,
as having })een
'■ unollicially re-
)iorted killed or
<lied of wouiuls," no
place or date being
i;i\i'n. )iut he is
liclii-\rd to have
died about the 26th
August, 1914, from
wounds received in action at Frameries, near
Mons.
He was the second surviving son of Captain
11. W. Holmes, of Rockwood. (ialway. and Ariri.i
llolhies. daughter of the late Edniond (ori-
canon. of Waterloo, County fialway. He was
born on the 21st .January. 1S8S. an<l was
educated at Bedford (ir.iniinar School, ubeic
he distinguished himself as an athlete, getting
bis colours for rowing, water |)olo. and Kugby
football. He passed into the K.M.C. Sand-
hurst, and was a Sandhurst cadc't ;il Wool-
wich, where he played in the Hugby team, and
came second of his year in the boxing teini.
On passing out of Sandhurst . he was specially
commended for riding, ami got his conunission
in the 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regimeid in
October, 1907. He spent five years in India,
becoming Lieutenant in November, 1911. and
wa> given the temporary rank of Captain in
November, 1914, before his death was con-
firmed.
He left for the front on the 13th August. 1911.
as .Machine (iim OHicer, and took j^art in the
Battle of ilons. The following day. at I'ra-
meiies, he was wounded while working his
guns w^th such coolness and bravery that he
was mentioned in Sir .John French's Desjiatch
of the 8th Octob.-i-. 1911,
The news of his death was not received till
the 17th February, 191.). In a letter from
Captain Rose, of his regiment — a prisoner in
Germany — to his wife, he said : " I'oor old
Holmes was in my hospital, but not in the same
ward. He died two days after he was admitted,
and was buried in the cemetery at Frameries,
near Mons."
He was a great favourite with olliccrs and nn-n
in his regiment. His late Colonel, now Brigadier-
(ieneral R. ^laxwell. wrote «hen his fate was
uncertain : "I fear there is no hope. It gives
me the greatest grief to have to write this. He
was such a good fellow, a fine officer, and a
great personal friend, and 1 cannot tell you
how grieved I am, and all llie regiment who are
left (alas ! they ar<' verv few. 1 fear) will be.
He was a gallani oilier and beloved by all."
LIEUTENANT FRANCIS LENNOX
HOLMES, 1st BATTN. SOUTH
STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action at the fii'st
Battle of Ypres on
the 23rd October,
1914, was the youn-
ger son of the late
.\lajor-(ieneral P, P.
Holmes, R..M.L.I..
and of Mrs. B. G.
Harrison, Evesham
House, Cheltenham.
He was born at
Stoke, Devoni)ort,
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HOL— HOM
on the 11th October. 1.S87. and was educated
at Cheltenham College. He passed through
the R.M.C., SandhiUBt, and was gazetted to
the 1st South Staffordshire Regiment in Sep-
tember, 1908, becoming Lieutenant in July,
1909. He was a member of the Public Schools'
Club.
He joined the battalion at Devonport, and
went with it to Gibraltar, and afterwards to
Pietermaritzburg, Xatal. On the outbreak of
the war with GenuanT he was ordered home for
active ser%-ice and went with his battalion to the
front.
The following entry relating to his death was
found in his Colonel's diary : " Lieutenant
Holmes was killed this day. He was taking
observation and instructing the men where and
when to aim. He was in couimand of a half of
' B ' Company, and had been doing excellent
work the whole day. He had been looking
after and superintending a machine gun, which
did very good service. He also had done a lot
of very dangerous work in scouting through the
wood in front of his section of trenches, and had
sho«Ti much pluck and coolness."
A Lance-Corporal gave the following details :
■' On the 22nd October, 1914, I was working
my machine gun when Mr. Holmes came up to
me, and acted as my number two, and also as
mj" observer, as the Germans were only five
hundred yards from us, and he was quite excited,
as I was mowing them down in hundreds, and
we got over that day all right. On the 23rd
October he visited me again, and 1 shifted my
position close to where Mr. Holmes was killed
about three o'clock. He was in a trench
just in front of some cottages — four of them I
believe. He was at the back of his trench,
taking cover at the back of a bag of potatoes,
bandaging up Private Mills, who had his three
fingers blo\vn off. After that he was taking aim
at the Germans, and he was just going to pull
the trigger when a bullet hit Ivim straight
between the two eyes. . . . He never spoke at
all : he died instantly. He was carried into
some cottages at the back. ... I wish he had
lived. 1 shall never forget him as long as I live.
He was a hero."
Lieutenant Holmes came of a fighting family.
His father — ^Major- General Ponsonby Ross
Hohiies. R. M.L.I. — fought in the Baltic : his
uncle — Captain F. Holmes, of the 20th Regi-
ment— was wounded at the Redan, and served
in the Indian ^lutiny ; and his grandfather —
Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Holmes — was at
the Battles of Fuentes d'Onor and Salamanca,
and was particularly mentioned in Despatches
by the Duke of Wellington for having led a small
party into the enemy's works at the Siege of
Burgos. He was also present at the Battle of
Waterloo as Major of Brigade to General
Mackenzie.
2nd LIEUTENANT THOMAS SYMONDS
HOLMES. THE QLEENS ROV.\L
WEST SURREY REGIMENT,
who was killed in action on the 11th November,
1914, in France, aged twenty-two, was the
only son of Commander Thomas Holmes. R.X.,
Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, and of Mrs Thomas
Holmes. He was a grandson of the late Admiral
of the Fleet Sii- Thomas M. Sj-monds, G.C.B.,
and of Dame Prestwood Mary, his wife.
2nd Lieutenant Holmes joined the Special
Reserve of his regiment, on probation, in July,
1914, and. for active service was attached to
the 1st Battalion East Kent Regiment.
2nd LIEUTENANT H. WILFRED HOLT,
55th COMPANY. ROYAL ENGINEERS
iSPECIAL REVERVEi, was killed in action
at Mons on the 24t)i August. 1914. He was
the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Holt,
of 1.5. Kensington Court. London, W., and
joined the Special Reserve (Supplementary
OiHcers) Royal Engineers on the 25th June, 1910.
MAJOR WALTER GABRIEL HOME.
bth DR. \ GOON GUARDS THE
CARABINTERSi. is beUeved to have died on
the 13th November, 1914, of wounds received
in action near Messines, France, on the 31st
October. 1914.
He was born on the 2oth October, 1872, and
received hLs commission in the Carabiniere from
the iMUitia in October, 1892, becoming Lieu-
tenant in May, 1897. and Captain in July, 1900.
He served in the South African War, in which
he was on the Staff as Brigade Signalling Officer
from December. 1899. to November, 1900 :
Divisional Signalling Officer from December,
1901. to August. 1902 : and also served as
A.D.C. to the Officer Commanding Cavalry
Brigade. He took part in the relief of Kimberley,
and was present at operations in the Orange
Free .State : at Paardeberg. in the Transvaal :
east and west of Pretoria : and in Cape Colony,
including actions at Poplar Grove. Driefontein.
Karee Siding. Zand River (near Johannesburg),
Pretoria, Diamond Hill. Riet Vlei. and Belfast.
He was twice mentioned in Despatches C Lon-
don Gazette," 10th .September, 1901, and 29th
July. 1902): was promoted Brevet-Major (22nd
August, 1902): and received the Queen's medal
with six clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
He obtained his substantive Majority in Novem-
ber. 1905.
\'ery soon after the outbreak of the Great War
.Major Home proceeded to the Continent for
active service, and wa^ present at much of the
fighting during the early stages of the Cam-
paign, including the Battle of the Aisne. He
was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of 8th October, 1914.
HOM-HOP
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LIEUTENANT JOHN RICHARDS
HOMFRAY, 1st BATTN. SOUTH WALES
BORDERERS.
who was killed by
shell al Zillebeke.
Belgium, on the lltli
Xo vein ber, 1011,
T ^^^K W!is; the second son
* •*< of Colonel and Mis.
Herbert Hoinfray,
of Penllyn Castle,
Cowbridge, .South
Wales, and w as Ijoiii
lliere on the 18th
Detober. ISO!!: he
was a nephew ol ( ai.iam .J. G. H. Homfray.
He was educated at Haileybury College. Herts,
and the E.^I.C. Sandhurst, from which he was
gazetted to the .South Wales Borderers in
September. 1012. getting his step in September.
1914.
LIEUTENANT WILLI.\M EDW.\RD
HOPE, 1st B.\TTN. IRISH GUARDS,
son of the late Wil-
_. liam Hope. M.D.,
^^^^r 1 and )[rs. WlUiaui
^^^ ^^J Hope, 18, Carlisle
^f /^^^^ Mansions, London.
~" S.W., was born on
the 28th February.
1S87. at .56, Curzon
Street, ilayfair. W.
Kducated for a short
I hue at Beaumont.
Windsor, and sub-
sequently by Army
tutors, he, at the age of seventeen, joined the
3rd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light In-
fantry, being transferred to the Irish Guards
in January, 1910. He remained in the battalion
for three yeai's, when he left it to go on the
SiJecial Reserve of tlie battalion, and was
appointed A.D.C. to the Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland, in December, 1912.
On the outbreak of war he rejoined the Irish
Guards, and proceeded with the Expeditionary
Force to France in August. 1914. He was pre-
sent at every battle from Mons up to the action
at Klein Zillebeke. where he fell on the 0th
November, 1914.
The Major commanding the battalion said that
Lieutenant Hope made many valuable sketches
of the enemy's position under fire.
He went in ff>r sports generally, was a member
of the Gxiards" Club, and was unmarried.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES RANDOLPH
INNES HOPKINS. 2nd BATTN. THE
CAMERONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLESI,
who was killed in action on the 18tli Decem-
Oer, 1914, aged twenty-one years, was the
Iniiis
col II-
thiid son of Lieutenant - Colonel C. H
Hopkins (late 2nd Scottish liillist
ma tiding IstTyneside
.Scottish, and Mrs.
Hopkins, " T h e
Towers." Hytoii-oii-
Tyne.
He was a cadet at
the B.M.C.. Sand-
hurst, where he was
a member of the
hockey team and
Crick.-t XI. II.-
joined the Aini\
in September, 1912.
becoming Lieutenant in (Jctober. l!li:).
LIEUT. HERBERT LESLIE HOPKINS.
M.D., ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS,
who was killed in action on the 19th .Scptemlji-r.
1914, was only gazetted to the K.A..M.C.
with the temporary rank of Lieutenant on the
1.5th August, 1914.
He carried out his medical studies at Guy's
Hospital, and took his degrees at the Txmdoii
University about 1911. After qualifyiii'.: lie
was for some time House Physician at the
Derbv Koval Infirmary.
CAPTAIN CHARLES REGINALD
THOMPSON HOPKINSON.
E.\ST SURREY REGIMENT AND 1st
BATTN. N I G E R I .\ REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action in the Cam-
eroons on the lith
September, 1911,
was the son of the
late C. R. Hopkin-
son, Acomb Lodge,
and Mrs. E. Hamil-
ton Hurst, Hurst
(irove, Bedford, and
a grandson of the
late C. X. Hopkin-
son, Clifton, Y'ork.
He was born at Y'ork on the ::iMli .I.uhi.hn.
1880. and was educated at Bedford Grammar
School. He joined the Lancashire Pusiliei's
as 2nd Lieutenant in February, 1900 : became
Lieutenant in June of the same year, and
Captain in November, 1907. In May, 1908, he
was transferred to the East .Surrey Regiment,
He took part in the South African War, being
present at operations in the Ti-ansvaal in 1900 :
in Natal, including the action at Laing's Nek :
in the Orauge River Colony : and at further
operations in the Transvaal from January,
1901, to May, 1902, He received the Queen's
medal with three clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
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HOR— HOS
From July. UMil, to Octobi-r. l!)il,s, lio was
L'liiployed with the West African Frontier Force
in Southern Nigeria, being mentioned for his
services in Despatches (" London Gazette."
i;5th March, 190S), and recei\'ing the medal
with clasp. In May, 1910, he was again detached
for service with the VS'est African Frontier Force,
and was ser\"ing with it when he was killed at
Nsanakan. After that place had been taken two
com|)anies of British troops were left there,
and early in the morning of the (jth Septsniber,
l!tH. were suddenly attacked by the enemy,
who had raised strong reinforcements. This
attack wa.s repulsed, but a second one was made
at 5 a.m.. and the place surrounded by some
seventy white German officer's and about seven
himdred men. Though overwhelmed, o\ir men
continued firing till their ammunition was
exhausted, when they fixed bayonets and
charged the enemy. Two officers — Captain
Hopkinson and Lieutenant Holmes, Gloucester
l?egiment — were killed, \vhile three others were
wounded and taken prisoners.
Captain Hopkinson's relations received from the
late officer's servant a letter giving some per-
sonal details of his death.
Captain Hopkinson was fond of polo, cricket,
I'tiolball. and shooting, and was a member of the
Jimior Xaval and Military Club,
lie married, in 1909, Beryl, daughter of the
late David Stewart, of Edinburgh, and left
one son.
CAPT.\IN ALEXANDER HORNE. 1st
BATTN. THE QUEENS OWN CAMERON
HIGHL.\NDERS,
' • «as the fourth son
of the late Thomas
Elliot Ogilvie
Home, Writer to
the Signet, of
Edinburgh, and was
born there on the
30th September,
187.5. He was fir.st
cousin of Major-
General H. S. Home,
R.H.A., and of Lieu-
tenant-Culoiiel E. W. Home, 3rd Battalion
Seaforth Highlandei-s.
Captain Home was educated at St. Ninian's
Preparatory School, ^Moffat, and at Charter-
house.
He fii"st served in the Seaforth Higldanders
(Militia), and obtained his commission in the
1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders in 1897.
With it he served in Egypt in 189S. being present
at the Battle of the Atbara and Omdurman.
for which he received the Egyptian medal
with two cla.sps and the Khedive's medal, and
proceeded to Fa«hoda with his company as
escort to Lord Kitchener.
With his battalion he served in the .South African
War, 1901-1)2. being present at operations in
the Transvaal. Orange River Colony, Cape
Colony and on the Zululand frontier of Xatal,
being awarded at its conclusion the Queen's
medal with three clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
\Miile serving in France in the Great War he
was severely wounded on the 14th September,
1914, near Vendi'esse, in tlie advance on the
Troyon Ridge, and while lying in the Are zone
was shot dead by the enemy at clcse quarters,
as was also Private Finnie, of liis company,
who was attending him.
Captain Home was a keen rider to hounds ; he
won the Irish Army Point-to-Point race for
lieavyweights in 1906, and ran third for light-
weights.
He was a member of the Automobile and Cale-
donian Clubs, London, and was unmarried.
LIEUTENANT R.
lattd. 2nd BATTN.
R E G I M E N T ,
was kiUed in action
on the 17tli Novem-
ber, 1914. He joined
his regiment as 2nd
Lieutenant in Octo-
ber, 1911, and was
promoted Lieuten-
ant in July, 1914,
proceeding to the
seat of war soon
after the outbreak
of hostilities.
HORRIDGE. 4th
MANCHESTER
CYRIL GORDON
A L ARTILLERY,
LIEUTENANT
HOS KING, ROY
who was killed in
an aeroplane acci-
dent, was the son of
Edward Hosking,
I.C.S.
He was born at
Karachi, Sind, India,
on the 30th July.
1890, and was edu-
cated at Durham
School and the
R.M.A., Woolwich.
He entered the
Royal Artillery in July, IDlu. l.Ltua.ii.g Lieu-
tenant in July, 1913, and in the latter year he
joined the R.F.C., Military Wing, as Fl>ing
Officer. WMle at Durham he was Captaui of
the School Boats, and was al.so Honorary
Secretary of the .Military Sports, R.F.C.,
Netheravon.
During a reconnaissance on the German Unes
at Gheluvelt on the 2(ith October, 1914, he was
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196
pilotincr a machine with Captain Crpan, North-
iiinberland Fusiliers a-s observer, uhen the
aeroplane was fired at and shot down. It fell
in our own lines, both officers being killed.
They were buried together where they fell by
two brother officers while under .shell fire.
LIEUTEN.\NT EDWIN CECIL LEIGH
HOSKYNS. 1st B.\TTN. ROYAL WELSH
FUSILIERS,
who wa.s killtd in
action on the 20th
October. 1911. wa.s
the only son and
heir of Sir Leigh
noskyns. Bart..
Barrister - at - Law,
.1.1'. for Oxford and
High Sheriff, 1907,
formerly Crown
Prosecutor of
Griqualand W est,
who succeeded his brother as eleventh Bait, in
July, 19U.
He was bom at Iffley, Oxfordshire, on the 22nd
.September, 1890, and was educated at Eton
and the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, joining the R.W.F.
in September. 1911. and becoming Ijeutenant
in April. 1913. He was fond of hunting and polo.
Lieutenant Hoskyns was killed near Y'pres
when the gallant ^"IIth Division, of which his
battalion formed part, without any reser\-es.
held in check nearly one hundred thousand
Germans.
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT WILLI.XM GILBERT
1st B A T T N .
SCOTS GUARDS.
H O U L D S W O R T H.
was the only sur\"iv-
ing son of the Rev.
W. T. and Mrs.
Houldsworth, of 44.
I^nnox Gardens,
lyondon. and Cran-
ston. Xorth Berwick.
He was born on the
17th May, 1891, and
was educated at
Wellington House.
W e s t g a t e-o n- Sea
(li.v. H.H..it Uulli: at Eton (The Dame"s, and
on her death ilr. HUl's House) ; and Magdalen
College, Oxford. There he took his B.A. degree
in March, 1914. He held the rank of 2nd Lieu-
tenant on the unattached list of candidates of
the University O.T.C.. and in May. 1914. he
went to Aldershot and served with the 1st
Battalion .Scots Guards tiU .July. On the 4th
August he received his commission in the Scots
Guards as 2nd Lieutenant, with the prescribed
eighteen months' seniority as a L'niversity
candidate, and left with his battalion for France
on the 13th of the month.
He fought at Mons: was in the retirement from
there, and in the sub.sequent advance, taking
part in the engagements on the Marne and the
Grand and Petit Morin. On the 13th .September,
at the commencement of the Battle of the Aisne.
he was wounded at the %'illage of Vendresse.
and died in the .\merican Hospital at XeuiUy.
I'aris. on the 23rd .September, 1914.
His CO. paid a warm tribute to his leading
of his platoon, and expressed his deep regret at
the loss the regiment had sustained in the death
of so promising a young officer.
Mr. Houldsworth was a member of the Bache-
loi-s" and Conservative Clubs. lx)ndon. and of
the Xew and Tantallon Clubs. Xorth Benvick.
He was a keen sportsman, a powerful golfer,
a good horseman, and very popular with both
officers and men.
2nd LIEUTENANT HAROLD HOUSE-
CROFT. 4th attd. 1st B .\ T T N .
EAST SURREY REGIMENT,
bom on the 22nd
.September. 1893. at
Mayflower Road,
Clapham. .S.W., was
the son of Harry and
Eniia Housecroft,
and a relative of the
Rev. T. Housecroft.
Limpenhoe Rectory,
Reedham, Xorfolk.
He was educated at
the City of London
School, and gained
a first cla.ss at the College of Preceptors. He was
a .Sei'geant in the Cadet Corps.
He joined the Army immediately war was de-
clared, his commi.ssion in the 4th Battalion,
to which he was appointed on probation, being
dated the 1.5th August. 1914, and joined the
battalion at Plymouth. For active service he
was attached to the 1st Battalion, and left
Devonport for PYance to join it at La Bassee.
Early in the morning of the 19th Xovember,
1914, he left the front firing trench to visit
a support trench in order to arrange a better
distribution of rations. Sniped at all the
way, he reached the trench, and was shot in
the mouth while giving instructions to a
sergeant.
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT PERCY EDGAR
NAPIER HOWARD. 2nd B.\TTN. ROYAL
IRISH REGIMENT, son of William Ivinc
Howard. Customs Service. Chittagong. India,
was bom at Darjeeling. India, on the 23rd
Xovember, 1894.
2nd Lieutenant Howard, who was a relative
of Mrs. Broucke, of Earlham. Parkstone,
Dorset, was educated at Taunton and Eliza-
beth College. Guernsey, joining the latter school
in order to studv for the Arm v. While there he
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HUD— HUG
made a reputation as an athlete, being a keen
footballei- and excellent cricketer. Atter leaving
^ _ _ Guernsey he entered
_ _^ . ^., ^^^ R.M.C., Sand-
hiust. from which he
received lii* commis-
sion in the Royal Irish
Regiment in August,
1914.
He died on the
night of the IJtth-
2(ith October, 1914.
having been mortally
wounded by bursting
~ shell when his bat-
talion, on the 19th, stormed and took German
trenches at Le PUly. He was carried to the
rear and died some hours later. It has not
been possible to obtain any authentic details.
for it; is believed that only one man of 2nd
Lieutenant Howard's party escaped ; but it
was reported that officer was connnanding
the leading platoon when he was badly hit in
Ix)th legs.
LIEUT. AUBREY WELLS HUDSON. 5th
BATTN. WORCESTERSHIRE REGT..
who was killed at
the Battle of the
Aisne on the 26th
September, 1914,
aged thirty-one, was
the youngest son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
A. H. Hudson, of
Wick House, Per-
shore. His rank of
Lieutenant in liis
regiment dated from
August. 1909.
LIEUTENANT JAMES LAIDLAW
HUGGAN, ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL
CORPS, attd. to the 3rd BATTN.
COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
was the son of the
late Mr. Robert
Huggan, and was
bom at Jedburgh
on the 11th October.
1S88.
He was educated at
Darlington Graui-
m a r School,
where he was Cap-
tain of the " Soccer '"
team, before going
to Edinburgh
Uiijvei>iiy i4i^uia> 1 1 If liicine, where he obtained
first-class honoirrs ui surgery. He was a noted
.Scottish International Rugby football player.
Before joining the L'niversity he used to play
for the Jed Forest RugVjy Club, and aftenvards
played twice for the Army t: Navy, and evi-ntu-
ally got his Scottish cap in March, 1914.
After qualifying he was gazetted t<i tije
R.A.M.C. in July. 1912.
He was killed in action on the River Aisne on
the 16th .September, 1914. The Colonel of
the Coldstream Guards wrote of him as follows :
'"If I ever met a brave man, he was. At
Landrecies. when we were under a heavy fire
for some hovirs during the night, he remained
up in the front the whole night, helping and
dressing the wounded as coolly as if he were in
a hospital in time of peace. At Tillers Cot-
terets he was conspicuous for his bravery.
This was a reai^ruard action, and the line was
being pushed back: but he was always in the
rear, and sometimes even nearer to the enemy,
dressing the wounded and helping them back.
At the Battle of the Aisne he was most con-
spicuous everywhere. On the day on which he
was killed he again did a very brave action.
There were in a bam about sixty wounded
Germans. They were all cases that could not
move without help. Tlie Germans shelled this
bam and set it on fire. Y'our brother, in spite
of shot and shell raining about him, called for
volunteers to help him to save these wounded
men from the burning building, and I am glad to
say that it was greatly in consequence of his
bravery that they were all saved. After he had
run this great danger successfully he moved
many of his wounded men to a quarry in rear
when a big shell came into it and killed him and
many others. He was buried, near where he
fell, in the garden of La Cour de Souplr Farm.
The whole battahon regretted his loss, as we
had all got very fond of liim, and admired him
as a really brave man. always ready to sacrifice
himself for the good of those who should happen
to fioiae under him for treatment."
The Town Cotmcil of Jedburgh, his birthplace,
have given pennission for the erection of a
memorial stone near the Abbey, close to the
High Rampart.
LIEUTENANT FREDERICK DEETON
HUGHES, EAST LANCASHIRE REGT..
who was killed in
action on the 21st
October. 1914, by
l>eing shot through
the head while lead-
ing his platoon in
Flanders, was the
seventh and young-
est son of the late
R. D. Hughes, SoU-
citor. Royston, and
a grandson of Cap-
tain Samuel Hughes.
50th Madras Native Infantry
HUG 198
He was bom on the 10th January, 1888, at
Royston, Herts, and after his education at
Mercers' School, Holborn, and the R.M.C.,
Sandhui-st, he entered the West India Regi-
ment in Febniary, 1909, becoming Lieutenant
in February, 1911. In Aiigiist of the latter year
he was transferred to the Kast Lancashire Regi-
ment, and in June, 1913, was appointed to the
Xigeiia Regiment, West African Frontier Force.
Mr. Hughes was a member of the Junior Army
and Navy Club, and his recreations were tennis
and cricket.
2nd LIEUTENANT GLV WILEY
HUGHES. RESERVE OF OFFICERS,
attd. 4th BATTN. THE DUKE OF
CAMBRIDGES OWN MIDDLESEX
REGIMENT),
was the son of
George Hughes,
Esq., and was bom
at Bxishey Heath on
the 26th February,
1892.
He was educated at
Charterhouse ,
where he was Moni-
tor of Gownboys,
and leaving there in
191 1 he proceeded to
the South Eastern Agiicultural CoUege, Wye,
as his taste lay in the direction of agriculture,
and he intended to take to it as a profession.
Here he became Head Student, and gained great
popularity among all with whom he came in
contact there. He regularly represented the
College at Association football, having been
Captain of the team in his last year, and also in
lawn tennis. As proof of the general confidence
reposed in him he was elected .Secretary of the
Union Society of the College in his final year.
He obtained his diploma in 1914.
Having taken his '" A " certificate at Charter-
hoxise, he joined the Reserve of Officers, and on
the outbreak of the war he was called up
for service and attached to the 4th Battalion
Middlesex Regiment, proceeding with it to the
Continent on the 1.5th October, 1914.
He was killed when looking for a missing piivate
outside his trench on the 31st December, 1914,
and was buried in a churchyard at Bailleul. His
father received many appreciative letters from
those with whom 2nd Lieutenant Hughes had
been associated, including his House blaster
at Chaiterhouse, the Principal and other
authorities of Wye College, and the ^■ica^ of Wye.
His Colonel wrote : " He was very popular with
us all, and as an officer most reliable and keen, and
one in whom I had the most perfect confidence."
His ilajor, the Captain of his company (himself
wounded), and his Company Sergeant- Major
also sent letters of sympathy and regard.
2nd LIEUTENWNT LIONEL HOLFORD
HUGHES. 3rd attd. 1st BATTN.
THE PRINCE OF WALESS NORTH
STAFFORDSHIRE REGI .M,E N T i ,
who was killed in
action on the 29th
October, 1914, aged
nineteen yeaiis, in the
trenches south of
Armentiei-es. wa.s the
only son of Allan
Edward and Evelyn
Emma Hughes, of
Cintra, Budleigh
Salterton.
He joined the
North Staffordshire
Regiment in April.
1913.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT PEYTON
HUGHES, ADJUTANT 101st
GRENADIERS. INDIAN ARMY,
who was killed in
action on the 2nd
November, 1914, was
the son of Dr. and
Mre. Hughes. Down
House. Whitchurch.
Ta\-istock. He was
bom on the 5th
March, 1882, and
was educated at
ilarlborough
(Mitre) from 1901 to
190(5.
After passing for the Indian Army, he received
an unattached 2nd Lieutenancy on the I7th
August, 1907, and joined the Indian Army in
December, 1908, becoming Lieutenant in
November, 1909.
CAPTAIN THOM.\S HECTOR HUGHES,
3rd B.\TTN. WORCESTERSHIRE REGT.,
was the son of Fred- ^_^
erick and Alice Ellen
Hughes, and was
born at Reigate on
the ItJth July, 1881.
He was educated at
Repton .School from
1895 to 1900, where
he was in both the
Cricket and Football
XI"s, and joined the
3rd Worcestei-shire
Regiment at Alder-
shot in 1901, beconung Lieutenant in May,
1903, and Captain in June, I9II. From 1910
to 1913 he was Adjutant of his battalion.
He was shot on the 15th October, 1914, whUe
leading a company outside the village of Riche-
bourg St. Vaast. For his services he was
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mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of
the nth January, 1915.
Captain Hughes was a member of the Ai'my and
Navy and Incogniti Clubs. He was fond of all
winter sports, which he enjoyed in Switzerland.
He married Gertrude ^Nlary, daughter of C. F.
Dobson, Esq., of Xottingham, and left a
daughter, Joan, born in June. 1912. and a
son, born in March, 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT WILLIAM SLADEN
HUGHES, 2nd BATTN. ROYAL SUSSEX
REGIMENT.
who was horn at
Blackrock. Count >■
Dublin, on the 17th
September, 18S9,
was the son of A. F.
Hughes, Esq., Hill-
brook, Birr, King's
County, formerly of
Cappy, Enniskillen.
He was a nephew of
Colonel E. A.
Hughes. 2nd
Queen's : Colonel P. J. Hughes, Cameronians :
and Colonel G. A. Hughes. R.A.M.C.
2nd Lieutenant Hughes was educated at Aravon,
Bray, and Sedbergh, Yorkshire, and was pre-
pared for the Service examination by Army tutors.
He completed two trainings with the Innis-
killing Fusiliers, afterwards being attached on
probation for one year to the 2nd Royal Sussex
Regiment, in which he received his commission
as 2nd Lieutenant on the 22nd May, 1912.
He was killed at Vendresse in the Battle of the
Aisne on the 14th September, 1914.
2nd Ijieutenant Hughes was a member of the
^Vanderers' Football Club. Dulilin. and of several
golf and cricket clubs.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES GEOFFREY
HUME, 1st BATTN. SOUTH STAFFORD-
SHIREREGT.,
wild was killed on
thr 2(i(h October,
1914, was l)orn on
the .'ith .luly. l.S9(),
at Oallands. near
Weyliridge. Surrey,
the son of Edward
Hume, Barrister-at-
L a w, and Agnes
Mary Hume.
He was educated at
St. Aubyn's, Rot-
tingdean ; at Malvern College (the Rev. H.
Foster's House) ; and the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He obtained his commission in the South
Staffordshire Regiment in 1910, and was
promoted Lieutenant in .January. 1913. He
was fond of polo and sailing.
When he was killed in action near Ypres,
his battalion formed part of the Vllth Di\-ision,
and as the senior officers had lieen killed he was
leading his company.
2nd LIEUTENANT WILLIAM KNOX
HUMFREY, 2nd BATTN. LANCASHIRE
FUSILIERS,
born at Nar borough,
Leicestershire,
on the 14th May,
1891, was the son of
Colonel B. G. Huiu-
frey, Leicestershire
Regiment, who re-
tired after twenty
years' service, and
then commanded the
3rd Battalion in the
S o u t h A f r i c a n
War. Colonel Humfrey's father, Captain John
Keys Humfrey. served for many years in the
5(5th Regiment : and his grandfather was in the
45th Regiment, in which he served all through
the Peninsular War, recei\ang a medal with
nine clasps, so the young officer who gave his
life in this Great War was one of a long direct
line of soldiers.
He was educated at Bedford Grammar School
and the R.il.C, Sandhuist, representing his
School as a middleweight boxer, and getting
into the finals in the Public School Boxing Com-
petition at Aldershot in 1909. He also «on the
cup for the ol'ticers' middle\\eights at the South-
ern Command Boxing Tournament in 1912.
2nd Lieutenant Humfrey was gazetted to the
2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers in October,
1910, and was serving with them when killed in
action at Le Cateau on the 2(ith August, 1914,
while in command of a machine-gun section.
He was a member of the Cavendish ( 'lull. London.
MAJOR GEORGE GEOFFREY
PRENDERGAST HUMPHREYS, 127th
QUEEN MARY'S OWN BALUCH
LIGHT INFANTRY. INDIAN ARMY,
who died of wounds
received in action at
HoUebeke, Belgium,
on the 31st October.
1914. and was buried
i.n Kemmel Ceme-
tery, was the 'young-
est son of the late
T. W. D. Hum-
phreys, Esq., J.P.,
D o n o u g h m o r e
House, Castlefinn,
County Donegal, Ire-
land, and a nephew of the late WilUam Alex-
ander. Primate of Ireland. His grandfather,
the late Major .7. Humphreys, served under
Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen.
HUN HUR
"2(10
lie was boin at Miltowii Hoiisf, Slrabaiic.
County Tyrone, on the ITtli February, 1S7I!, and
was educated at AUballows School, Honiton.
Ticvon. where ln' was Captain of the Footl)all
X\'. and in tlir Cricket XI. He then went to
tlie U.JI.C, Sandluust, I'ronx wliicli lie was
gazetted to tlie Welsh Heginient in July, l.S!)2,
and hi .Inne, 1895, was transfei-red to tlie 127th
Ci..\1.0. IJaluch Light Infantry with the rank of
Lieutenant.
In 1897-98 lie was on active service in the
l^ganda Campaign, East Africa, and with tlie
Ciiiiia Field Force in 1901, in ,fuly of which year
lie was pionioted Captain. He received the
Uganda medal. From December, 1911, to
.Taim.iiy. 191i!. he acted as extra A.D.C. to
His .Majesty the King-Einperor in India, and
received the Coronation Durbar medal, 1911.
For his services in the Great War he was
mentioned in Sir .lolni I'^icneirs Desi)atcli of
the 14th .lanuar.N , 191.").
Major Humphi'eys married, in .Xovember.
1903, Olive :\Iuriel, only .laughter of .Major-
General Sir James Bell, K.C.V.O., and left tliree
children: Patrick William, bc.in .Ma\. 19(l.">:
Olive Phyllis, born .July. 191)9 ; and Loina
Lsabel, born May, 191.3.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK WILLIAM
HUNT, I9th LANCERS (FANES HORSEl,
LATE 19th BENGAL LANCERS,
who was killed in action on the 31sl October
1914, was the second son of the late Rev.
William Cornish Hunt, of Odell Rectory,
Bedfordshire, and of .Mrs, Hunt, of The Warrens,
Ferring, Essex.
He was born on the 22nd December, 1880, and
was educated at Marlborovigh College (Slai)
from 1894 to 1897.
He joined the Leicester Regiment Irom the
Militia ill Ajiiil. 1900, becoming Lieutenant in
.Iiiiic. 1901. In .July, 1903, he was transfevreil.
with the same rank, to the Indian .\riiiy. In
April. 1907, he was seconded for eniployinent
with the King's African Rifles, and was pro-
moted Captain in A]iiil. 1909.
LIEUTENANT JOCELIN NIGEL SEAR-
ANCKE HUNTINGTON, 2nd BATTN.
LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT,
born on the 12tli
K^ff^ ^^3 Rangers, Dursley,
nM^^^ M (doucestei'shire. w°as
the son of .Major
Herbert Hunting-
ton, Rifle Brigade,
and Alice Elizabeth
Huntington, daugh-
ter of F. J. Sear-
ancke, Esq., of The
Rangers, Dursley.
He was educated at
Lady Cross, Bournemouth, and Beaumont
('(illege, Windsor, and was gazetted to the
litli Battalion Hide Mrigade (Special Reserve),
.111(1 attachi'd for duty to the 3rd Battalion at
TipprraiN . In December, 1912, he was gazetted
to the Lincolnshire Regiment, in which he
became Lieutenant in .July, 1914. He served
with his battalion at Gibraltar and Bermuda,
.icting as .Adjutant at Boaz Island, As Ollicer
Commanding a detachment of the (ith Battalion
Rifle Brigade, he received the Coronation medal.
His recreations were hunling, lencing, tennis,
and amateur theatricals.
Lieutenant Huntington went to France in
November, 1914, and was killed in action on the
17th of that month, his battalion forming part
of the \'llltli Kivision commanded by General
Lowry Cole. ( ".B. His Colonel and .senior olticers
wrote saying they considered him a most pro-
mising young officer; and the .Xdjiitaiit,
u riling of him to his father, said : " Directly
your son joined the regiment he became a great
favourite with ollicers and men. His keenness
for his work and his cheeriness at all times
seemed to infect us all, and we shall in every
way feel his loss most deeply. We can ill afford
to lose such a promising young officer. He wa.s
one of those who had that great gift of at once
yetting hold of his men, and they would do
auvlhing for him."
CAPTAIN SEYMOUR FREDERIC
AUCKLAND ALBERT HURT, 1st
BATTN. ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS,
was the second son
of the late Albert
Frederick Hurt, J.P.,
1 ). L., of Alderwasle\ .
1 ici'by shire, anil
Alice his w i f e ,
daughter of F. P.
Deliiie - Radcliffe.
Fsc|.. of Hitchin
Priory, Herts. .Mr.
A. F. Hurt served
as a Lieutenant K.X.
in the Baltic and
Crimea, 18.54-5.'>. commanding a gunboat in the
Sea of Azov, tor which he received the Older
of the Medjidieh.
Captain Hurt was born at The Out woods.
Duffield. Derbyshire, on tlie ISth October, 1879.
Two of his ]iateriial uncles were killed in (he
( 'rimoa : Francis Hurt, at .Sebastopol. and Henr\
Hurt, of the s.ame regiment as himself (the
old 21st), was mortally wounded at Inkerman.
A maternal uncle — F. P. R. Delme-Radclifl'e,
of the 23rd Foot — was killed at the Alma :
another — H. Delme-Radcliffe, of the same regi-
ment— received bayonet wounds in both thighs
when at the top of a scaling ladder at the
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Redan, and afterwards served through the
Indian Mutiny. A third — S. Delme-Radcliffe,
R.X. — served in the Black Sea and the Baltic,
and afterwards in the Indian Mutiny, landini;
with the Naval Brisiade from H.M.S. ■" Pearl."
and was promoted Commander for his services,
receiving all the four medals. He died on his
return from the effects of sunstroke contracted
on active ser\-ice.
Captain Hurt was educated at Hazelwood.
Linipsfield. .Suriey. from 1889—03. when he
went to Harrow (J. Stogdon's House) till 1898.
There he was in the Cricket and Football
XI's in 1897 and 1898. He received his com-
mission in the Militia in October. 1899, and
passed into the Royal Scots Fusiliers in May,
1900. From that year till 1908 he served in
India, and then in Burmah till 1910. subse-
quently in .South Africa, and at the depot.
Ayr, tiU 1914. When in India he was selected
to be Brigade .Signalling Officer for service on
the frontier.
He was a keen sportsman, enjoying big-game
shooting, pig-sticking, and polo in India :
while, when at home, he acted as Field Master
to his brother's (Mr. Hurt's) foxhounds in
Derbyshire.
He was promoted Captain in January, 1911. and
in .September. 1914, took a draft from the depot
to his battalion in France, being mentioned for
his services there in -Sir John French's Despatch
of the 14th January, 1915.
Captain Hurt, who was unmarried, was killed
in action near La Bassee on the ISth October,
1914, his thirty-fifth birthday, while leading his
company in an attack.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE ADOLPH
H U T T O N , ROYAL ENGINEERS,
was the younger son of William H. Hutton and
Lucy Fiennes Hntton, of 8, The Ropewalk,
Nottingham.
He was bom on the 10th May. 1891. and joined
the Royal Engineers in Deceuiber. 1910. becom-
ing Lieutenant in December. 1912.
Lieutenant Hutton was drowned while attetnpt-
ing to swim across the River Aisne with a signal
cable on the 20th September, 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT RICHARD HUTTON.
3rd B.\TTN. LEICESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT, attd. 2nd BATTN. ROYAL
WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was reported wounded and missing, and is
beheved to have been killed on the 7th Novem-
ber, 1914, aged twenty-three, was the youngest
son of the late Rev. J. H. Hutton, of West
Heslerton, Yorkshire.
He was educated at Chigwell and Marlborough
College. From the latter he won a scholarship
at Merton College, Oxford.
He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on probation
on the 1.5th August, 1914, and for active service
was attached to the Royal Warwick-shire
Regitnent.
CAPTAIN J. F. lANSON. 3rd BATTN.
THE PRINCE OF WALESS OWN
WEST YORKSHIRE REGI.MENTi,
was the eldest son
of Colonel J.
I' Anson, of
Howe, near Thirsk,
Yorkshire, and
was bom there on
the 1st June, 1883.
Captain I ' Anson's
family have
been connected with
the West York-
shire Regiment since
the Crimean War,
when a cousin — ^Major Baron Grant de Vaux —
served with the old 2nd West York Militia {now
the 3rd West Yorkshire Regiment) on its
embodiment for garrison duty at Gibraltar.
Colonel J. I' Anson was himself for twenty-three
years in the West Yorksliire Regiment, having
been Second in Command on his retirement froni
the Service. His second son — Captain I'anson's
younger brother — is now serving with the 2nd
Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in British
East Africa.
Captain I' Anson was educated at Ripon Gram-
mar School, and joined the 3rd Battalion West
Yorkshire Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant in
March, 1904. He became a Captain in the
Special Reserve in January. 1907. On the out-
break of the war Captain 1 'Anson volunteered,
on the 5th August. 1914, for active service,
and joined the 1st Battalion of his regiment
the next day at Lichfield, and. after accompany-
ing it to Dimfenidine and Cambridge, left for
the front on the 7th September. 1914, and was
killed at the Battle of the Aisne on the 20th
of that month.
The following account of the circumstances
was given by three privates of the battalion :
" The battalion had taken up a position in the
trenches, reUeving the Coldstream Guards,
on the evening of the 19th .September, and held
it till dawn. Then an order was given for a
section to advance across a field to draw the
enemy's fire. As a result only three out of a
section of a sergeant and thirteen men got back
to their trenches. Soon after one a.m. on the
20th the Germans got through on the right
flank, and came up with a white flag. Think-
ing that the men had surrendered, a young
oflicer gave the order ' Cease fire ! ' When the
enemy were about twenty yards from the
British position they opened fire with Maxim
nuns, and mowed the West Yorks men down.
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wlion fortunately the Sherwood Foresters came
to their aid. and as the West Yorks had lost all
their otlicere one of the Sherwood officers took
command, and they fought luitil the position
had been made secure."
Captain I'Anson, who was familiarly known to
his friends in the Thii'sk district as Captain
" Jack." was very popular for his frank, open-
hearted character and his love for children.
He was an enthusiastic soldier and a keen
supporter of the cause of the National Service
League. He was a very keen sportsman, an
excellent shot, and good across-country, hunting
with the Bedale hounds.
He was a member of the .Junior Naval and
MUitarv Club, and was unmarried.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES COCHRANE
ILES, M.D., D.P.H.. D.T.M., F.C.S..
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
SPECIAL R E S E R V E I , attd. to the
2nd BATTN. EAST LANCASHIRE
REGIMENT,
was born at Welling-
ton, New Zealand.
on the 12th !March
1886, the second son
of Walter lies, of
• Ngatapa, Gisborne.
N.Z.
Educated at Otago
University,
Dunedin, N.Z., and
Edinburgh Univer-
sity.he took his medi-
M.B.. Ch.B. Edinburgh.
December. 1910 : Diploma for Ti-opical Jledi-
cine (D.T.M.), Liverpool, 1911 ; M.D., Edin-
burgh, December, 1912 : acted as Assistant
Tuberculosis Officer at the Dispensary for Pre-
vention of Consumption, Bennondsey, London,
S.E., from August. 1912. to September. 1913 :
obtained the D.P.H. at Dublin in November,
1913, afterwards acting as Assistant Pathologist
to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brigh-
ton, fi-oui November, 1913, till he joined the
R.A.M.C. On the (Hh December. 19U. he was
elected a Fellow of the Chemical Society,
Burlington House, London.
He volunteered for active service at the begin-
ning of the war, receiving his commission as
Lieutenant in September, 1914, in the R.A.M.C..
and was sent to France on the 23rd November,
proceeding at once to the trenches in the firing
line. In the early morning of the 19th Decem-
ber, 1914, he was struck by a bullet wliile walk-
ing on a road near Estaires, which was thought
quite safe, and for some little time was able to
speak. Unfortunately he died on the after-
noon of the same day in the 25th Field Am-
bulance of the ^Tllth Division, and was bm-ied
nest day in the Cemetery at Estaires, France,
cal degrees as follows :
his funeral being attended by the whole of the
three Field Ambulances at that place, numbering
some four or five hundred men, the remains
being taken to the cemetery in an ambulance
wagon.
The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 2nd
Battalion East I^ancashire Regiment, writing
to his widow to express on behalf of his
brother otBcers and himself their deep sym-
pathy, spoke of Lieutenant lies' care of the
men in his charge having been unremitting.
He was hit in the abdomen while going in
rear of the battaUon to their new trenches at
about 1.30 a.m. on the morning of the 19th
December. He evidently knew he was seriously
wounded. There happened to be a motor
ambidance near, into which he was put and
taken straight back to the nearest Field Hos-
pital. The bullet that struck him nmst have
been fired from some distance and unaimed,
tor the battalion was not really under fire at
the time, though occasional bullets fired at
troops on the right were coming over.
Lieutenant lies married ilargaret Ross at
St. Clary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, on the 24th
.May, 1907. and left one child. Howard Vernon
D'Arcv. born Mh .Marcli. 1908.
MAJOR ALEXANDER W I G H -
TON INGLES. 1st BATTN.
PRINCE OF W A L E S • S OWN
WEST YORKSHIR E REGIMENT),
was killed in action
at the Battle of the
Aisne on the 24th
September, 1914.
The Germans
treacherously ad-
V a n c e d under
cover of the white
rt a g , and with
stretchers under
which machine guns
were hidden, and
opened fire. Majoi-
Ingles called out. " AM who will not surrender,
follow me ! " and was shot while leading those
who responded.
He was the only son of the Reverend Canon D.
Ingles, Vicar of Whitham, and Canon of St.
Alban's, and was born on the 20th ilay, 18(59.
He was educated at Haileybury ; then entered
the Louth Rifles ^Militia, from which he joined
the West Yorksliire Regiment in March, 1892,
becoming Lieutenant in February, 1894, and
obtaining his Majority in March, 1914.
Major Ingles served in the South African War,
being present at operations in the Transvaal
from October, 1900, to December, 1901, and
received the Queen's medal with clasp.
He married Eugenia Ellen, third daughter of
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Major-General C. H. Owen, late Royal Artillery,
of Hanley, Caiiiberley, Surrey.
He was a keen shot, a good rider, and a member
of the Yorkshire Gentlemen's Cricket Chib.
CAPTAIN DAVID INGL
T A N T 14th GURKHA
wlio
action on
December,
S, A D J U-
RIFLES,
was killed in
the 21st
19U, at
France,
youngest
and Mrs.
Givenchy,
was the
son of JNIr
Robert Inglis, of
Lovestone, Gu-van,
A yi-shh-e, and was
boin there on the
21st April, 1884.
An ancestor. Colonel
Inglis, fell at the
Battle of Waterloo. Captain Inglis was edu-
cated at Bedford and the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
and on pa.ssing out of the latter he received
an unattached 2nd Lieutenancy in August.
1903, joining the Indian Army in December of
the following year, having served his probation-
ary period in India with the Northamptonshire
Regiment.
He was promoted Lieutenant in November.
190.5, and Captain in August, 1912.
His Commanding Officer gave the following
account of his death : "A portion of the bat-
talion was detailed for a night attack on the
German trenches ; and, though it was not his
duty to be there, he begged me to aUow him to
go with them. I gave him permission, and he
led the charge, which captured the German
trenches. I cannot express to you what a loss
he is to me personally and to the battalion
generally. Apart from our great personal
friendship, lie has always been my right-hand
man in all regimental matters : keen and
thoroughly up in all his work, with a knowledge
of, and influence mth, the men that no other
officer possessed. His was one of those gallant
natures that would have won the Victoria
Cross sooner or later if he had lived, for he would
always have volunteered for the most dangerous
tasks ; and there are few mdeed like lum. and
his loss is irreparable. AU his brother officers
ask me to send their sincere sympathy."
For his services in the war he was mentioned in
Sir John French's Despatch of the 31st May,
1915. An elder brother of Captain Inglis was
killed in the South African War.
He was a keen golfer and fisher, and a member
of the Tumberry Golf Course.
LIEUTENANT GERALD SCL.\TER IN-
GRAM, 2nd BATTN. THE QUEEN'S
(ROYAL WEST SURREY REGIMENT),
who was killed in action near Ypres on the 21st
October, 1914, was the only cluld of the late
WUliam and ilrs. WiUiam Ingram, 77,Eccleston
.Square, London, S.W.
He was born in July, 1890, and was educated
at \\inchester and Christ Church, Oxford. He
was gazetted to the Queen's as 2nd Lieutenant
on the 3rd .September, 1912, and was promoted
Lieutenant in September, 1914.
LIEUTENANT IAN CHARLES INNES,
2 2nd KING EDWARD'S OWN GURKHA
RIFLES THE SIRMOOR RIFLESi,
wlio was killed in
action on the 2nd
November, 1914, was
the only surviving
son of the late
Cliarles and ilrs.
I n n e s, Bishops-
tliorpe, Inverness.
He was born on the
23rd October, 188.5,
and joined the East
Kent Regiment from
the MUitia in Janu-
ary, becoming Lieutenant in June, 1910. II.'
became a Double Company Officer in the
2nd Gurkha Rifles in November, 1912.
2nd LIEUTENANT DAVID IVE. 2nd
BATTN. THE QLEEN'S ROYAL WEST
SURREY REGT.l.
born on the 27 th
May, 1894, at Ken-
sington, was the son
of Ernest I v e ,
Assoc. M. Inst. C. E.,
of "The H e r -
mitage," Meadvale,
Redhill, Surrey, and
a nephew of Row-
land Ive, •' The Wal-
lands," Bedford
Grove, Eastbourne.
He was educated at Reigate tirammar .School,
and joined the O.T.C. from its inauguration,
obtaining the " A " certificate in May, 1912.
.Subsequently he received private tuition by
tutors in Eastbourne and London.
He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the 3id
Battalion of the Queen's in October, 1913, and
passed the Army entrance examination in the
following montli, receiving liis probationary
training with the 1st Battalion at Bordon.
and being transferred to the 2nd BattaUon as
2nd Lieutenant in September, 1914.
He left England for the front with his battalion,
which formed part of the ^nith Division, on the
4th October, and landed at Zeebrugge. He was
fatally wounded by a shot in the abdomen in
the fighting before Ypres on the 23rd October,
1914.
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LIEUTENANT VICTOR MAYNARD
GORDON GORDON -I \'ES. 3rd
BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS.
(lied on the lljtli
.September, 1914, of
wounds received in
the engagement near
Soupir on the 14th
of that month, when
the 3rd Coldstream
Guards lost heavily,
six officers being
killed or wounded.
He was born on the
\\ 24th June. 1890, and
entered the Cold-
the Special Reserve in
stream Guards Irom
December, 10 IM. bcim
June. 1913.
pvon\otcd Lieutenant in
CAPT. FREDERIC HOWARD J.\CKSON.
2nd BATTN. CONNAUGHT RANGERS.
who was killed on the 29th October. 1914, wa.s
born at Woburn Sands, near Bedford, the only
son of Percy Jackson, Esq.. and a nephew of
Colonel .Spenser Jackson. Loyal North Lan-
cashire Regiment. He was educated at Hailey-
biuy.
In the Great War on the 29th October, lull.
Captain Jackson was leading liis company up
to the Gennan trenches and was killed in the
attack, but the trenches were taken.
Captain Jackson was a member of the Junior
Army and Xavv Club.
C .\ P T .\ I N
JAMES, p . s . c .
(EAST KENT
GEORGE M I L L A 1 S
THE BUFFS.
R E G I M E N T I .
was born in London
in 1880. the son of
Major \\'. James.
.Scots (ireys. and a
grandson of .Sir John
MiUftis, Bart., the
great painter.
Captain James was
educated at Chel-
tenham College and
the R.5I.C.. Sand-
hurst. He joined the
Northumberland F^-
siliei-s in December, 1899, and served with
them during the Boer War, ha%-iug been present
at operations in the Orange Free .State, the
Transvaal, including actions at ^'entel■sk^oon
(slightly wounded) and Rhenoster River. He
was mentioned in Despatches (" London
Gazette," 9th July and 10th September, 1901).
and received the Queen's medal with three
clasps and the King's medal with two clasps.
He obtained his promotion to Lieutenant in
February, 1900, and to Captain in May, 1904,
>lth .Tanuar\
and was transferred to the Huffs in .May, 190S.
In 19111 he entered the Stall CoUege, Camberley.
and after ])assing out was appointed Brigade-
Major of the Pretoria district in 1912.
He accompanied the Exi)editionary F'orce to
France as Hi-igade-Major of the 22nd Infantry
Brigade. Vlltli Division, and wa.s sniped while
on duty, being killed instantaneously on the 3rd
November, 1914.
Captain James mai-ried, in 1908, Hilda, daugh-
ter of Sir .Tames Heath, Bart., and left two
daughters: Aileen, born 1910: and Daphne,
born 1912.
2nd LIEUT. .\RNOLD SEPTIMUS GUY
JARVIS. 1st BATTN. NORTHAMPTON-
SHIR E REGT.,
was the .son of the
late Lewis Page Jar-
vis, of Bedfoi-d and
.Sharnbrook, and was
born on the 28th
.Tanuary. 189.5, at
The Toft, Sharn-
brook. Bedfordshire.
He was educated at
Bedford and the
Royal Military Col-
lege. .Sandhui-st, re-
ceiving his commission on the
1914.
He was wounded in the head in action near
Vpres on the 31st October, and died in hospital
on the 9th November, 1914, at Douai, where he
was buried.
CAPT.\IN CL.\LD GIFF.\RD JEFFERY,
2nd BATTN. ALEXANDR.\ PRINCESS
OF W.\LESS OWN (YORKSHIRE
REGIMENT),
son of Herbert
James J e ff e r y .
Solicitor, and Bertha
Greenwood, his \^ite.
was born at Jlan-
nmgham. Bradfoi-d.
on the 13th April.
1880.
Captain Jeffery was
educated at Brad-
f o r d G r a m m a i-
School and the Royal
Agricultural College, Ch'encester. In 1.S99
he joined the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the
Yorkshire Regiment as a Private, and in the
Service Company served through the Boer
War, 1899-1901, taking part in operations in
the Orange Free State, the Transvaal, and Cape
Colony. He was present at the actions of
Houtnek. Vet River. Zand River. Johannesburg.
Pretoria. Diamond Hill, and Belfast, for which
he received the Queen's South African medal
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JEN
with six clasps. Returning to England in July.
1901, he wa-s. on Lord Kitchener's nomination,
gazetted to a 2nd Lieutenancy in his regiment
in September, 1901. becoming Lieutenant in May.
1904, and obtaining his company in August, 1909.
In 1910-11 he acted as Adjutant of his Ijatta-
lion, ha\-ing served with it in India and South
Afiica from 1902-08. In 1911 he was posted to
the Egj-ptian Army, and served in it, and in
the Arab Battalion, till January, 1914, when he
rejoined his own battaUon at Guernsey, pro-
ceeding with it to France as part of the ^'Ilth
Division in October. 1914.
On the 22ud October. whUe leading a ])arty
of volunteers to repel an attack by a large
force of the enemy near Becelaere, he was
wounded in the groin, and died from the effects
in hospital near Ypres on the 24th October.
1914, being buried at the latter place. He was
mentioned in Sir Jolm French's Despatch of
the 14th January. 1915.
Captain Jeffery was fond of hunting, pig-stick-
ing, and polo, and rode in the regimental
steeplechases.
He married, at Barbon. Westmorland, on the
10th February. 1914. Nellie (nee Wilding),
widow of Spencer Anketell-Jones.
LIEUT. GEORGE PIERSE CREAGH
JENINGS. 1st B.\TTN. THE KING'S
SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY).
tlie third .sou of
Lieutenant - Colonel
U 1 i c k Albert
Jenings, J.P., late
Army JI e d i c a 1
Staff, of Ironpool,
County (ialway. and
Jlervue. Jlonkstown.
County Dublin, was
born in Dublin on
the 4th January,
1.SS.5.
He was educated at
the R.M.C., Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd
Lieutenant in the Shrop.shire Light Infantry
in August, 1905, becoming Lieutenant in Jxme,
1907. At the outljreak of the war he was Assist-
ant Adjutant and !Macliine Gun Officer of his
battalion. He was a good sportsman and rider
to hounds, and had won many of his regimental
point-to-point races.
lieutenant Jenings was killed in action on the
6th November, 1914, at Rue de Bois, near
Armentieres. Writing of the circumstances,
his Conmianding Officer said : " He was
Machine Gun Officer, and was using his gla.sses
at the barrier to find a target for his guns when
suddenly a volley was fired by the enemy, and
he was shot dead. He was a very promising
officer, and is a great loss, not only to the regi-
ment, but to the Aniiy. He was very popular
with both officei-s and men, and had done real
good work tliroughout the war."
'• He had been most da.shing and gallant before
that, and is a terrible loss," the A.D.C. to the
General Officer Commanding the Vlth Di-s-ision
wrote.
2nd LIELTEN.\NT RICHARD DOUG-
LAS PRYCEJENKIN. 1st BATTN.
SOUTH WALES BORDERERS.
was the eldest son
of Richard John
P r y c e - J e n k i n .
J. P.. Monmouth-
shire, and was born
on the 29th July.
1894, at WiUsbrook.
Raglan, Monmouth.
He was educated at
Bluudell's .School
and the Royal ilUi-
tary College, Sand-
hurst, and was ga-
zetted to the 1st Battalion South Wales Bor-
derers on the 1 st October, 1914. He was kiUed at
Festubert on the 31st December. 1914.
BANKS JENKIN-
BRIGADE,
CAPTAIN JOHN
SON. p. s. c. RIFLE
was serving on the
General Staff when
he met lus death on
the 14th September.
1914. He was the
son and heir of Sir
Geoi^eB. Jenkinson.
Bart., of Eastwood.
Gloucestershire, and
was born in London
in 1881.
He was educated at
Harrow, and was
gazetted to the Rifle Brigade in 1900, lieiug
promoted Lieutenant in March, 1901, and
Captain in ilay, 1908. In the Boer War he
served with the Jlounted Infantry, and for his
services received the Queen's medal with five
clasps. Subsequently he served as Adjutant of
Jlounted Infantry in Egj-pt. and was seconded
for service on the General .Staff as Biigade-
Major in 1912. In April. 1913. he was
appointed Brigade-Major of the 3rd Infantry
Brigade, 1st Division, and was serving in that
capacity when he was killed in the Battle of
the Aisne, on the above-mentioned date, at
Vendre-sse, where his body wa.s buried.
He was mentioned in Sir .lohn French's
Despatch of the 8th October. 1914.
Captain .lenkinson was a good horeeman, very
keen on shooting, securing many good heads in
Asia Elinor, .South Africa, and other places, and
was a member of the Army and Navy Club.
JOH
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lie iiiMiiir-il. In liMlT. .Toaii. flic (laii<rli(cr nf
Colonel Hill. C.H.. ,,|- Wollastoii Hall, Xoit-
liaiits. and lul't two ohildron : a daupchter.
Heborah Isabella, born 1908: and a son.
Anthonv Banks. l)orn 1912.
LIEUTENANT MERVYN TAY-
LOR JOHNSON, 2nd BATTN.
SOUTH WALES BORDERERS,
who died on the 14th September, 1914, of
wounds received in action at the Battle of the
Aisne, was the youngei' son of Mr.s. Johnson,
of dddinston, Moreton-in-.Maish. and of the late
Captain William .lohnson, Inniskillinfj Dragoons,
and a grandson of Sir .lohn Arnott, Bart.
He was born on the 13th March, 1880, and was
educated at Bradfleld College, being one of six
brotheis — all in the Army and Navy — who were
educated there. He went to the school in
1898 and left in 1904.
lie joined the S.W.B. from the .Mihtia in April.
1907, and was promoted Lieutenant in Jlay,
1909. When the war broke out he was home on
leave from Tientsin, and joined the Isl BattaUon
for active service. He was wounded on the 14th
September. 1914, in the Battle of the .\isne, and
died the same day at Vendresse, where he was
buried. Letters from his Commanding Officer
spoke highly of his soldierly qualities and charm-
ing personality. (" Bradfield College Year
Book.")
MAJOR JAMES HENRY WALLER
JOHNSTONE. 115th BATTERY,
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
was born at Tliekh-
bredin. I'unjali. on
the 2.jth September.
1.S72. the son of
Colonil .1. W. II.
Johnstone, late Ben-
gal Staff Corps, who
was wounded in the
Inilian Mutiny, for
wlilib he received
III,- medal.
ila jor Johnstone was
educated at Welling-
ton College and the H..\I.A., Woolwich, being
gazetted to the Koyal Artillery in March. 1892,
becoming Lieutenant in JIarch, 1895, and Cap-
tain in ilarch. 1900. He served in the Snulli
African W'ar, being present at the advance on
Kimberley, including actions at Jlodder River
and ilagerstontein : in the Orange Free State
and at Paardeberg ; actions at Poplar Grove,
Karee Siding, Vet and Zand Rivers : in the
Transvaal, with actions near .loliannesbvirg and
Pretoria ; and in the Orange River Colony.
He was twice mentioned in Despatches ("London
Gazette," 10th September, 1901, and 29th
.Tuly, 1902); received a Ijrevot Majority on the
22nd August, 1902. anil Uw Queen's medal
with three cla.sps and King's medal with two
clasps. From .luly. 1902, to Septend)c)'. 1903.
he was Adjutant in his regiment, and from tlio
latter date to August. 1905, he was employed in
.Vorth Nigeria. He received his substantive
.Majority in September, 1909.
Major .Johnstone was killfd (in tln' l."illi Sep-
tember, 1914, at the Battle of the Aisne.
He married, in April. 1911. IClaine. daughter
of Mr. W. J. .\Ienzies. I^mpshotl (irangc. Hants,
and loft two children : Ronahl .lames, born .Inlv .
1912 : and Grace Elaine, born Februai\ . 10 1 I.
His recreations wcit hunling. golf, tennis, and
gardening.
LIEUTENANT REGINALD FITZROY
LEWIS JOHNSTONE, 1st BATTN.
THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON
HIGHLANDERS,
was shown in (he-
monthly official cas-
ualty list. ))ublislii'd
in October. 1914.
as liaving been killed
in action, no dati-
being given. 1 le \\a -
born on t li e
4th June, 1884, and
joined the Cameron
Highlanders in ilay,
1904, beco m-
ing Lieutenant in December. lOii'.i.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM GORDON
TOLLEMACHE HOPE JOHNSTONE,
attd. 4th BATTN. ROYAL FUSILIERS
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT),
was born at The
P ark, C a t f o r d
Bridge, Kent. in
1887, the youngest
son of W. .1. Hope
■J o h n s t o 11 (■ a 11 d
great - grandson of
the late Mr. Hope
J o h n s t o n e . o f
Radhills, Dumfries-
shire.
He was educated by
Mr. E. F. John at
Winchester: subsequently at Cheltenliam and
the R.M.C., Sandhurst. Lieutenant Hope
Johnstone first joined the 6th Dragoon Guards
(Carabiniers), in February, 1907, afterwards
entering the Indian Cavalry, from wliicli he
exchanged into the Royal Berkshire Regiment
in October, 1913, and retired fioiii tlie .Army in
.March, 1914. On the outbreak of the war he
volunteered for service, and was given a com-
mission as liicutenant in the Special Reserve
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JON
of the Royal Fiisiliers, and was attached to the
Jlh Battalion for active service.
He was killed on the 2ath October. 1914. near
Xeiive Qiapelle, while driving the Germans out
of a \'il!airo.
CAPTAIN ERNEST RAE JONES. 1st
BATTN. CHESHIRE REGIMENT.
who was killed in action at Jlous in August. 1914.
was the son of Sinieon Jones. Esq., Caverhill
Hall, St. John. New Brunswick. He was bom
on the 17th November, 1S77. and entered the
Chesliire Regunent as 2nd Lieutenant froiu the
Local Military Foi-ces. Canada, in November.
1898. He became Lieutenant in Jime, 1900,
and from 1904 to 1907 was Adjutant of his
battalion : while fi-om April. 1910 to 1913, he
was Adjutant, Special Reserve.
Captain Jones, who left a \vidow, attained his
rank in February. 1900.
LIEUT. HENRY RICHMOND INIGO
JONES, 1st BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS,
born at .South Audley
.Street. London. W.,
on the 17th Decem-
ber, 1891, was the
son of Major-General
Inigo Jones, C.V.O..
C.B.. and a grandson
of Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hon.
Richard and Lady
Mar-garet Charteris.
He was educated at
Eton and ilagdalen
College, Oxford, and joined the 2nd Battalion
Scots Guai-ds in Febi'uai-y, 1912. becoming
Lieutenant in May, 1913. In the Great War he
was serving with the 1st Battalion when he
was killed at the Battle of the Aisne, France,
on the 14th .September, 1914.
Lieutenant Inigo Jones was a member of
Pi-iitt's, the Guards', and the Conservative Clubs,
2nd LIEUTENANT JESSE JONES.
O -X F O R D S H I R E AND BUCKING-
HAMS HTR E LIGHT INFANTRY.
was bom at Hortou
C\un Studly, near
Oxford, in July,
1883, and was the
son of Mr. Thomas
Jones.
2nd Lieutenant
-Jones ser\-ed in the
•South African
War in the ranks of
the 1st Oxford, and
Bucks. Light In-
fantry, receiving
the Queen's medal with two clasps.
On the 9th November, 1014, he received his
commission in the Oxford, and Bucks. Light
Infantry while on active service at West Hock,
Belgium, and was killed in action on the 11th
November. 1914.
He nxarried Beatrice Lily, daughter of Mr.
and ilrs. Johnson, and left three girls and one
boy : Ivy May, age ten years ; Evelyn
Beatrice, six years : Ena Victoria, four years :
and Albert Edward, three years, at the time of
their father's death.
While in the ranks 2nd Lieutenant Jones
obtained a first Army .School certificate. He
was also a gymnastic instructor, and was
distinguished for musketry.
LIEUTENANT M O R Y S W Y N N E -
JONES, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
of Treiorwerth,
Anglesey, who was
killed in action near
Zandvoorde on the
29th October, 1914,
was the son of the
Rev. J. W. Wynne-
Jones, Vicar of Car-
narvon, and the Hon.
Jessie F. Wynne-
Jones, daughter of
the late Lo rd
Aberdare.
He was bom at Carnaivou on the loth May, lt.t^7.
and was educated at FonthUl, Charterhouse, and
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his
degree of B.A., becoming later a member of the
Institute of Civil Engineers. He was sub-
sequently on the staff of the Mexican Eagle Oil
Co., Tampico.
Originally in the Special Reserve. R.E. (Supple-
mentary Officers), which he joined in June,
1912, as 2nd Lieutenant, he retiuned un-
sununoned from abroad on the declaration of
war, and in September, 1914, was gazetted
Lieutenant in his corps. ("London Gazette,"
20th Mav, 191.5).
CAPTAIN ROBERT ARTHUR JONES,
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
was the eldest son of the late William Aithnr
Jones and ilrs. W. A. Jones, of Meonstoke,
Hants.
He was bom on the 27th August, ISSl, and
entered the Royal Artillery in May. 1900,
becoming Lieutenant in April, 1901 , and Captain
in October, 1909.
HLs name appeared in the first list of British
losses in the Great War, issued by the War
Office on the 1st September, 1914, and published
in the daily press on the 3rd of that mouth.
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JON— KEE
LIEUTENANT STUART KIRBY JONES,
A R M Y V E;T E R I N A K]\ CORPS,
son of William and
Alexandrina .Tones,
was born at Wavei-
tree, Liverpool, on
the 14th November,
1888.
He was educated at
the Liverpool Iii-
>; t i t u t e and t h i-
Liverpool L' ii i -
vei-sity, where he
took his diploma of
M.K.C.V.S. with
honours. He was a medallist in materia
medica, and won several prizes for athletics at
the L'nivei'sit y.
He was gazetted to the A.V.C. (Special Reserve)
in Xoveml)er, 1911. and was originally attached
to the 2nd Dragoon (iuards (Queen's Bays),
and on the outbreak of the war was appointed
Veterinary OfTicer in charge of the 25th Brigade
R.F.A.
He was struck by a shell, which shattered his
thigh, on the Uth .September on the Aisne,
and died on the 17th September, 1914, in No. 2
General Hospital, \'ersailles. He was buried
in No. 1 grave. No. 1 row, Uimetiere des Gouards,
Versailles.
CAPTAIN CYRIL OSWALD DENMAN-
JUBB. ADJUTANT 2nd BATTN. THE
DUKE OF WELLINGTONS WEST RID-
ING REGT.),
who was unotticialh'
reported killed in
action, was born on
the 9th August, 1876.
He was the son of the
Rev. Henry and Jlrs.
Dennian-Jubb ,
and was educated at
L' p p i n g h a m a n d
Oriel College,
Oxford, where he
took his B.A. degree.
Captain Denman-.Jubb received his commission
in the West Riding Regiment in January, 1900.
becoming Lieutenant in February, 1901. He
took part in the South African War, acting as
Railway Staff Officer from February, 1902, and
was present at operations in the Transvaal, east
of Pretoria, including action at Rhenoster Kop.
west of Pretoria in 1900, and again in tlie
Transvaal in 1901-02. He received the Queen's
medal with three clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
In September, 1906, he was promoted Captain,
and from March, 1908, to September, 1911.
was an Adjutant of \'olunteei-s and of the
Territorial Forii'. II.' uas a member of llir
Army and Navy Chib. and was fond of hunting.
Captain Denman-Jubb marri<'d. in 1900. Mar-
jorie, daughter of S. Osborne. Ks(i.. Borougli
Court, Winchfield.
It has been ascertained that lie was killed li\
shrapnel at Wasmes, near Mons, on the 24th
August, 1914.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE CRITCHETT
JULER. 5th (ROYAL IRISH) LANCERS,
Ijorn in London in
June, 1887. was the
son of ilr. and -Mrs.
Henry Juler, Har-
court House, Caven-
dish Square, Ten-
don, W.
Educated at St .
Paul's School and
the R.Jl.C, Sand-
hurst, he joined the
5th Lancers at Y'ork
in 1908, becoming
Lieutenant in March, 1909. He afterwards
served at the Eastern Cavalry Depot, Woolwich,
and at the Cavalry School in 1913. He was an
exceptionally fine rider. His sports were chiefly
point-to-point steeplechasing, hunting, show
jumping, and all forms of horsemanship.
On the outbreak of the war with Germany,
being stationed in Dubhn, he left there for
France vrith the 5th Lancers on the 15th
August.
Lieutenant Juler was killed on the 31st August,
1914, his troop being attacked by Uhlans at
the village of Moisain while on outpost duty-
covering the retirement of the British force.
He married, in 1910, Valerie, youngest daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Johnson.
CAPTAIN GUY FRANCIS HEADLAM
KEENLYSIDE, 1st BATTN. THE
QUEEN'S OWN ROYAL WEST KENT
REGIMENT).
was born on the
9th of January.
1880, the son of the
late Francis Head-
1am Keenly-
side, Barrister-at-
Law, of Gaily Law,
Weybridge, Sm-rey.
He was educated at
Charterhouse
(Saunderites) and
the R.M.C., Sand-
huret. He received
Royal West Kent in
Lieutenant in June,
his commission in the
August, 1899, becoming
1901, and Captain in
September, 1904. He served with his battalion
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KEL
at Aden. .M:ilta. Shoriicliffe, ajid Dublin. Fri>ni
19013 to IttKt t'aptain Keenlyside was .Vdjutant
at Blackheath, of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion
of the regiment, which during his Adjutantcy
became part of the 20th Battalion of the County
of London Territorial Force.
He accompanied his battalion to the Continent,
was wounded at Xeuve Chapelle on the 2(5th
October, and died in hospital at Boulogne
on the 29th October, 1914.
Captain Keenlyside married Bose ^largaret,
daui:hter of .S. H. Knyvett, Esq., I..S.O.. and
left two sons : Richai-d. born May, 1909 : and
Christopher, born May. 1915.
CAPTAIN GEORGE
KELLY, 1st B.\TTN.
WALESS NORTH
H.\RVEY HUME-
THE PRINCE OF
ST.\FFORDSHIRE
REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 21st
October, 1914. was
the youngest son of
Major and Mrs.
Hume-Kelly. Glen-
tara. MuUingar. Ire-
land.
He was born at
Glencara, County
\Yestmeath, Ireland,
on the 13th Novem-
ber, 1879, and was educated at Chfton College.
He joined the North .Staffordshire Regiment
from the Militia in May, 1S99, becoming Lieu-
tenant in June, 1900.
He took part in the South African War, during
which he was employed with the .Mounted
Infantry. He was present at operations in the
Orange Free State, Paardeberg. and tlie action
at Driefontein ; at operations in the Transvaal,
including actions near Johannesburg and Pre-
toria : at operations in the Orange River
Colony and Cape Colony, receiring the Queen's
medal with four cla.sps and the King's medal
with two clasps. He became Captain in Feb-
ruary, 190(5, and was appointed an Adjutant.
Special Reserve, in August, 1908.
He was a keen sportsman, fond of polo, hunting,
fishing, etc., and in March, 191.3, won the
Brigade Cup in Cork district, owner up.
Captain Hume-Kelly was shot dead when in
command of his company repulsing an attack
on our trenches near Armentieres on October
21.st, 1914. He exposed himself endeavouring
to control useless firing in one of his trenches,
and was shot through the head before he could
get back to his observation post.
LIEUTENWNT COLONEL GEORGE
HENRY FITZ.MALRICE KELLY. CO.M
MANDING THE 34th SIKH PIONEERS,
born the 29th May, 1^09, at Meerut. India, was
the son of tlie late Colonel T. J. Kelly, Bey, of
Boulak, I'airo, Egypt, and of 40, St. Charles
Square, London.
After passing
through the R..M.C..
.Sandhurst, he joined
the Prince of Wales's
Leinster Regiment
(Royal Canadians) as
2nd Lieutenant in
ilarch, 1890, becom-
ing Lieutenant in
.January, 1892. In
June of the latter
year he joined the
Indian Army, receiving his Captaincy in .Maivli,
1901, and his Majority in March, 190S. In
October, 1912, he became Major and Second
in Conunand of the 34th Sikh Pioneers.
Lieutenant-Colonel Kelly had seen much war
service, the present ha\'ing been his sixth cam-
paign. When a young subaltern he was with
the column that went to relieve Captain Camp-
bell, who was shut up in Chitral. He then took
part in the Tirah Campaign of 1897-9.S. includ-
ing operations in the Bara Valley, and later in
Waziristan. He was with the force that went
to Tliibet under General ilacdonald, and was
in the action near the \-iIlage of Naini preceding
the entry to (Jyangtse. and in subsequent
actions round the town. He was last on service
on the frontier in the campaign under Sir James
Willcocks, at one time in command of the
Indian forces in Flanders, against the Zakka
Khel tribes, who were routed. For the above
ser\'ices he received the Chitral medal Avith
clasp, the Tirah medal with two clasps, the
clasp for the Waziristan Expedition, medal
with clasp for Thibet (1903-04), and the Zakka
Khel medal with clasp.
Lieutenant-Colonel Kelly wa.s distinguished in
musketry and machine-gun practice, and always
took great interest in his men's shooting. He
spoke Pushtu, Persian, and Punjabi very well,
and knew several other dialects.
He succeeded to the conunand of his regiment
on the 8th October. 1914, and accompanied it
to France for the Great War. On the 23rd ■
November, 1914, he was ordered to take a Ger-
man trench " at all costs," and. leading his
regiment, was one of the first to jimip down into
the trench among the enemy. Turning round to
cheer on his men, he was shot through the lungs
by a German in the trench, and died in twenty
minutes. His men carried him five miles to
bury him in the cemetery of Beuvry the next
day. His funeral was attended by both French
and Enghsh Generals. In the action in which
he fell no fewer than seventeen of the officers
of T^ieutenant-Colonel Kelly's regiment were
killed or wounded.
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lie was 1)1)111 at
I'lastncy Barracks,
April. 18>S)1. and
CAPTAIN HARRY HOLDSWORTH
KELLY, F.R.G.S.. ROYAL ENGINEERS,
v- — -^ — ; who was shot li\'
a sniper on the 21th
( ) (■ t o h (■ r, 19 14,
whilo laying wire
cntangleinents, was
the youngest son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
II. H. Kelly. R.M.A.
■.^^^iS^ ^^^i^^tfit (I'l'lired). and Eliza-
^BE^^^ml leri>fthelate.Mi'..lohn
^^F > uH^^^^ Colluni, of Bclleviie.
County Fermanagh.
th(> Staff OflHcer's house,
Portsinovith, on the 24th
was educated at Rugby
(Stallard), which he entered in 1894. He joined
the Royal Engineers in March, 1899, and
became Lieutenant in July, 1901, and Captain
in March, 190S. In 1901 he was the Army and
Navy heavyweight champion. He was em-
ployed with the Egyptian Army for ten years
from November. 1903, during which he was
Resident Engineer for the construction of the
town and harbour of Port Soudan, recei\ang
Idi- his services the fourth-class Order of the
Osmaiiieh. From 1908 to 1913 he was Director
of Roads and Communications for the Soudan,
and was present at operations in the Atwot
legion in 1910, receiving the Egyptian niedal
with clasp. In the latter year he served as a
member of the Lado Enclave Commission, and
in 1912 in the expeditions against the Beir and
Anuak tribes as Intelligence Officer, for which he
received a clasp to his Soudan medal and the
third-class Order of the Medjidieh. He was
Chief Commissioner of the Soudan-T'ganda
Boundary Commission, and was responsible for
the reconnaissance to the Boma Plateau in 1913.
for which he received the third-class Order of
the Osmanieh. for which his local rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel qualified him. In 1907.
1911, and 1913 he carried oufr explorations in
Abyssinia. Captain Kelly, who was not
married, was a member of the United Service
and of the Royal Automobile Clubs. London,
and of the Turf Club, Cairo, and was a man of
splendid physique, standing 6 ft. 5i in. in height,
and being immensely popular in the service.
On one occasion during this war he walked a
long distance down the trenches under heavy
Are to visit his subaltern, who had been lying
severely wounded all night, and took him to the
dressing station, returning to his own men,
who said he paid no regard to shrapnel.
the 20tli Au-u^l. 1011. was the eldest son of the
late Sir .lolm (1. Ki-micdy. of His Jlajesty's
IMplomatic Service, and of Lady Kennedy. He
was born on the 7th .September. 1878. and was
educated at Eton and Oriel College. Oxford.
He joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
in May. ISIOl). and becaine Lieutenant in Sep-
tember. 1901. He served with his regimi'iit in
India and South Africa, .iml u as gazetted
Cai)taiii ill .Inly, 1912.
Captain Kemiedy was reijoited missnig .•irtci-
the Battle of Cambrai Le Catiau. but inlnini-
ation was since received that lie had been
killed in the last burst of liriiig IxI'oic tlie few
survivors of his company were surrouiideil
by the enemy on the evening of the 2l)th .\ugust.
CAPTAIN HERBERT ALEXANDER
KENNEDY, 2nd BATTN. ROYAL
IRISH RIFLES,
who was a member
of a naval and mili-
tary family, was
lunii at Bellary,
India, and was the
son of Major-General
H. F. Kemiedy, 60th
Rifles, of Bath, and
grandson of
Captain K enned \ .
R.N.
He was educated at
Bath, and after passing through the K.M.C.
Sandhurst, received his commission ui the
2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles in 1801.
He served with his battalion in the Soutli
African War, his services there gaining him the
Queen's and King's medals, each with two
clasps. He was promoted Captain in 1900,
and in 1906 joined the Reserve of Officers.
On the r)th August. 1914. on war being declared,
he rejoined his regiment, which was among the
first to go to France. After the retirement from
Mons he went through the Battles of the .Marne
and the Aisne, and was in the fierce fighting
round Lille. Letters from his brother officers
and men tell of his great gallantry and devotion
to duty. At the time of his death he was acting
Second in Command. He was mortally wounded
at Xeuve Chapelle when leading his men in
action on the 24th October, and died of his
wounds at the .Military Hospital, Bethune, on
the 28th October, 1914.
He married, in 1912, Dorothy, only child of
the late Mrs. Charles Collins, and- cousin of
Lieutenant-General Sir Aylnier Hunter Weston,
K.C.B., D.S.O.
CAPTAIN ARCHIBALD EDWARD
KENNEDY, 2nd BATTN. ARGYLL
AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS,
who was killed in the trenches at Le Cateau on
LIEUTENANT NIGEL KENNEDY, 2nd
BATTN. ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS,
who was killed in action near Ypres on the 2.')th
October, 1914, was the younger .son of .Tolin
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KEN— KER
Kennedy. J.P., D.L.. and Mrs. Kennedy.
Bacouibe Warren. Wendover. Bucks, and of
Underwood. Aj-rshire.
He was bom on
the .30th April, 1SS8,
and was educated at
Wellington College.
Iieing the younger of
two brothers who en-
tered Bevir's in 1900.
in IttiiT he went to
the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, and joined the
[Joyal .Scots Fusiliers
in October. 1908, be-
coming Litrut^^iiant iii September, 1911. He
was a keen motorist and polo player, and a good
game shot.
Lieutenant Kennedy was at first reported
wounded and missing on the 25th October,
1914. but in December his death was certified
as having taken place at Gheluvelt. near Ypres.
In Sir John French's Despatch of the 31st May,
1915, he was mentioned " for gallant and dis-
tinguished service in the field."
2nd LIEUTENANT AUBREY HAMPDEN
BARRINGTON KENNETT. 2nd BATTN.
OXPORDSHIRE AND BUCKING
H A M S H I R E LIGHT INFANTRY.
who died on the 19th
September, 1914, of
of wounds caused
by shell, during
the Battle of the
Aisne, was the
fourth and youngest
son of Lieutenant-
Colonel B . H .
Barring ton-
Kennett, His
Majesty's Body-
guard. J.P. for Sus-
sex, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge.
AU 2nd lieutenant Barrington - Kennett's
brothers have served, or are serving, in the
Army : one — a Major — in the Grenadier Guards
(since killed in action in this war), one in the
East African Mounted Rifles, and the other
— a Captain and Flight-Commander — in the
Hoyal Flying Corps in France.
He was bom on the 8th September, 1890, and
was educated at Ludgrove School. Radley
College, and University CoUege, Oxford, and
was appointed to his battalion in April, 1913.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD MONTAGUE
SWAYNE KENT. 1st BATTN. HAMP-
SHIRE REGT.. was the elder son of Colonel
G. E. Kent. V.D., J.P., formerly commanding
the iJth (Duke of Connaught's Own) Battalion of
the Hampshire Regiment, and Mrs. G. E. Kent,
of " Normanhurst." Cavendish Road, Southsea.
He was born on the Tth Jidy, 1887 : educated
at Boxgrove School.
Guildford, and Clif-
ton College, passing
from the latter into
Sandhiu^, Septem-
ber,1906 : hereceived
his commission in
the Hampshire Regi-
ment on the 9th
October, 1907, and
was promoted Lieu-
tenant in 1911. He
was Scout Officer of
the battalion, and was selected by his Com-
manding Officer to attend the class held in
North Wales by an officer of the Indian Army
to instruct officers in the art of mountain war-
fare and scouting. He was keen on all sports.
In November, 1911. he was seconded for service
under the Colonial Office with the West African
Frontier Force. He had served two tours, and
being home on leave on mobilisation he applied
to be permitted to rejoin his regiment, which
formed part of the IVth Division.
He was killed in action on the 26th August,
1914. near Cambrai.
He had recently become engaged to Sylvia,
daughter of the late >Ir. Arthur Gilbertson, of
" Glanrhyd," Pontadawe. Glamorgan.
R M 1 L F O R D
1st) BATTN.
LANDERS.
CAPTAIN A R T H U
KER. 2nd attd.
GORDON HIGH
was bom at Simla
on the 7th Septem-
ber, 1882, the son
of Sir Arthur
Milford Ker. CLE..
M.V.O.. and grand-
son of the late
General T. D. Ker.
Indian Army.
He wj. . educated at
Cheltenham College,
and joined the Gor-
don Highlanders
(from the Militia) in (>.. t.jor-i. lyiil. brii.si pi. .-
moted Lieutenant in February. 1906, and Cap-
tain in May. 1911. Captain Ker served in the
South African War from 19tK>-02, being present
at operations in the Transvaal and Orange River
Colony, for which he received the Queen's
medal with five clasps.
When he met his death Captain Ker was serving
with the 1st Battalion of his regiment. The
battalion first went to St. Xazaire. subsequently
reaching the headquarters of the Expeditionary
Force on the 19th September, 1914. After
fifteen days on the lines of communication they
reached the fighting line on the 2Sth September,
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212
and for the ncKt two weeks were eiifi.ised Iti
various actions. On W'ednesday, (lie lUli
October, the battalion set out as usual, and was
ke])t rapidly advancinfi, in accordance with
the (ieneraPs orders. They were in an exposed
position, near Unit iMaisons, when Captain
Ker saw jjood natural cover in front of the field
they were in. He turned to his companx and
.said : " Come on. men ! I'^ollow me ! '" .\liout
twenty who heard llu' or<ler- for they were in
extended formation —ran after him to cover,
and after reachinu; it a (lerman Maxim gun
liegan lirint; over them. On the tJerinan fire
slackening Captain Kei', wishing to suivey
the situation, looked over their cover. As he
did so the fire recommenced, and he was struck
on the head by a bullet. With a moan he fell
back dead. The men, left without any officer
to command, rejoined the main body safely,
except two or three, who fell in the liail of
bullets. Captain Ker's body was recovered
next day, and buried in a cemetery.
The above account is based on statements by
Private ilaikin and several men of Captain
Ker's Company, pulilished in " The Scotsman "
of 19th and 2()th October, 1911.
Colour-Sergeant Borthwiek. of the same bat-
talion, spoke of Captain ICer as a brave and
po)iular officer, who died in action as a hero.
CAPTAIN CECIL HOWARD KER. 1st
BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the only son of
C. 1). Ker, Esq., of
Moorland House,
Wlutchurch, Tavi-
stock.
He was born at
.Madras on the 4th
Xovemlier, 1883,
and joined the Bed-
foidshire Regiment
fjL .^B froi." till' Militia in
fc£_ _J .July, l!)();i. He
served in the South
African \\ aiin I'.mi:j. being present at operations
in the Orange River and Cape Colonies, receiving
the Queen's medal with three clasps. He was
promoted Lieutenant in ^larch, 1905, and
obtained his company in November, 1912.
At the outbreak of the war he went to France
with the Expeditionary Force, and was present
throughout the retirement from Mons and at the
liattle of the Marne. He was killed by a rifle
bullet at the Battle of the Aisne on the loth
Septendjer, 1914, and was buried at ;\Iissy-sur-
Aisne.
Captain Ker was educated at Clieltenham Col-
lege, and played cricket and Association
football for the School. He was a flrst-class
rifle shot and a good all-roimd sportsman.
On several occasions he played lacquets for
Ills regiment at Prince's Club. In 19111, with
Cajitain Leader, of the same regiment, the
couple were runneis-ii|> for (be (.Military
Houbles) Championship. In I'.mi'.i the Kedfoids
won (he .\rmy Hockey Championship, on which
occasion Captain Ker captained the regimental
1 ram.
He married, in 1912, Dorothy, jonngest daugh-
ter of Lieutenant-Colonel Hill-Climo, .\rmy
Medical Staff (re(iieil). <if Fir (ilen, Yateley,
Hants, and Iclt a son. hoi n on (he 4tli .lune.
1911.
2nd LIEUTENANT DAVID ANSELM
KERR, 3rd lattd. 2nd) BATTN. THE
ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGT.i,
who was born at the
Curragh Camp. Ire-
land, on tl;e 2lsl
.\pril, ll-:<!3, was the
\'oimger son of
.Major-Ceneral Lord
Halph Kerr. K.C.B..
uncle and lieli-
]iresuiii|iti\e of the
M a 1- M u e s s o f
Ijothian.
He was educated at
the Oratory School,
Edgbaston, and at Ni-w College, Oxford. While
an undergraduate at Oxford he volunteered for
active service on the 7th August, 1914, and was
appointed to the Srd Battalion Royal Scots at
Clencor.se, but in September be was attached
to the 2nd Battalion and joined it at the
front, near Bethune, on the loth October.
He was killed in action, only three days after
joining, on the 13th October, 191 1, while had-
ing his jilatonn into action. He \\as hmied af
Cioix Barbce.
COLONEL FREDERIC WALTER KERR,
D.S.O., p.s.c. GENERAL STAFF OFFI-
CER, 1st GRADE,
was the son of the
late .Admiral Ixird
I''rederi<- 11. Kerr and
Emily, daughter of
the late (ieneral Sir
Peregrine Maitlaiul.
G.O.B.
He was born on the
2nth .May, 18f)7. edu-
cated at Charter-
house, and was ap-
pointed a Page of
Honour to Queen \'ic(oiia at the age of twelve
years, which post he held until he let! that
school. He proceeded to the IL.M.C, Sandhurst,
and after entering tlie (loidon llighlandeis as
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KER
Liriitenaiit in Au<nist, ISSfi. hail a loni; ami
varied career on the Staff and on active service.
From Januarj-. 1892. to January. 1896, he was
Adjutant of his battalion. In 1895 he took part
in operations in Chitral, being with the Relief
Force, and being present at the storming of the
Malakand Pa-ss. He was mentioned in
Despatches ("" London Cazette."' loth Novem-
ber, 1895), wa-s awarded the D.S.O., and received
the medal with clasp.
Becoming Captain in 189G he was again on
service in 1897-98 on the north-western frontier
of India, with the Tirah Expeditionary
Force, and took part in the action at Dargai.
receiving two additional clasps to his medal.
After serving for some time with his battalion in
the South African War he was appointed a
Brigade- Major in April, 1900, holding that
appointment till December, 1901. He took
part in the advance on Kimberley, including
the action at ilagersfontein ; was present at
operations in the Orange Free .State, at Paarde-
berg, and the actions at Poplar Grove and
Driefontein ; in Cape Colony. 1899-1900 : and
at operations in the Orange River Colony in
1900 and 1901. He was mentioned in Despatches
(■' London Gazette." IBth April, 1901), was
promoted Brevet-Major on the 29th November,
1900, and received the Queen's medal with four
clasps.
From February, 1904, to November, 1905.
having received his substantive Majority in
December of the former year, he was D. A.Q.M.( '• .
of the 1st Division at Aldershot : and from
November, 1905, to October. 190?, D.A.A.G.
and General Staff Officer, Second Grade, in the
same command. In October, 190S, he was
appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Move-
ments at the headquarters of the Army, and
did valuable work in connection with the new
mobilisation scheme, which has stood so succes-s-
fuUy the test imposed on it by the war.
In tlie spring of 1913 he was appointed General
Staff Officer. First Grade, in the .Scottish Com-
mand, and in the Great War he went out
as General Staff Officer. Fii-st Grade, on the
lines of communication, his appointment dating
from the 5th August. 1914. On the 21st Sep-
tember he was appointed General Staff Officer,
First Grade, with the 1st Division.
He was killed by a bursting shell at the head-
quarters of the 1st and Ilnd Divisions at
Chateau Hooge, near Ypres, on the 31st October.
1914.
VoT his services in the Great War he was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of
the Mh October, 1914.
Colonel Kerr was a member of the Naval and
MiUtary Club. He married Lady Helen Kerr,
daughter of the ninth Marquess of Lothian, and
left two sons : .Schoinberg David Frederic,
bom 1903 ; and Ronald William, born 1906.
LIEUTENANT HUBERT RAINSFORD
GORDON KERR. 1st BATTN. THE
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY,
who was killed in
action on the 21st
December. 1914, at
the age of twenty-
two, was the only
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick Kerr.
He was educated at
Chcltenliam and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst,
joining his regiment
in March, 1912. and
becoming Lieutenant
in September, 1014. He was killed while
leading his men to attack a machine gun.
C.\PTA1N WILLIAM CHARLES R.\IT
ROY.\L FIELD
KERR. D.S.O.
A R T I L L E RY.
was the eldest son
of Sylvester Rait
Kerr, of Rathmoyle,
Edenderry. Ireland,
and wa-s bom there-
on the 6th Augu-st,
1886. Captain Rait
Kerr belonged to a
nulitary family. His
grandfather was the
late Major - General
Hutchinson, C.B.
He had two uncles, one brother, and several
relations in the Royal ArtUlery, and two
brothers in the Royal Engineers.
Captain Rait Kerr was educated at Rugby and
the Royal Military Academy, WooLvich. He
received his commission as 2nd IJeutenant in
July. 1907. becoming Lieutenant in .luly. 1910.
and Captain in November, 1014.
For Ills earlier services in the Great War he wa-s
mentioned in Despatches, and i-eceived the
D.S.O. The official account, as recorded in the
" London Gazette " of the 1st December,
was as follows : —
' D.S.O. Lieutenant William Charles Rait
Kerr, R.F.A.
"" f Gallant conduct in bringing up a gun to
witliin two hundred and fifty yards of the enemy
in a wood, and blowing down a house in which
the enemy were working a machine gun.
(Since killed in action.) "
A more detailed account of the whole occuri-ence
was given in the report of " Eyewitness."
which appeared on the 16th November, 1914.
explaining how one of our Howitzer batteries
demolished three sets of buildings which were
l.eing used by the enemy as machine-gun
positions for snipers and as a shelter for nun.
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KER -KIN
On the lOtli Xovoiiil-.T, 1911. while o.i his way
from his ol.s..i-Viitioii post to his gun, Captain
Rait Kerr was shot through the head by a
sniper. His body was recovered next da>-
and l)uried beside the advanced gun near
W-ldboek. four miles east of Ypres.
MAJOR JOHN HERBERT KERRICH.
2nd BATTN. THE WELSH REGIMENT.
son of General Wal-
ler D'Oyly Kerrich.
Colonel Command-
ant Eoyal (late
Madras) Artillery,
was born at Chelten-
ham on the 14tli
March. 1S71. and
was educated at St.
Paul's School and
the R.M.C.. Sand-
hurst.
He joined t\ie Welsh
Regiment in 1894, becoming Lieutenant in
1896 and Captain in December. 1900. He served
in the South African War, 1899-1902, actmg
as IntelUgence Officer in April and May, 1901,
being present at actions at Belfast, Dianiond
Hill. Johannesbiu-g. and taking part in oper-
ations in the Orange Free State, including
actions at Vet River and Zand River, and in
Cape Colony. For his services he was awarded
the Queen's medal with Ave cla-sps and the King' s
medal with two clasps.
Major Kerrich. who had attained that rank m
March, 1914, was killed in action at the Battle
of the Aisne, courageously exposing himself
to heavy fire in the open while directing his
men. The Officer Commanding the brigade
of which his battalion formed part wrote
as follows to his widow : " He was loved and
honoured by all who knew him. His loss is one
which \vill be felt by the whole Army, as well
as by his regiment and all those who knew and
loved him."
Major Kerrich was an excellent polo player and
a good cricketer, and was noticed by King
Edward VII at an Aldei-shot review as a par-
ticularly good rider. He was a member of the
Armv and Navy Club.
He inarried. in 1908, Gwendolen Katherme,
second daughter of Mr. John Elger, of Clayton
Court, East Liss. and left two children:
Geoffrey John, born August, 1909; and
Rosemary Katherine Gwyn. born >[ay. 1914.
COLONEL CHARLES ARTHUR CECIL
KING commanding 2nd B.\TTN.
ALEXANDRA PRINCESS OF WALES'S
OWN lYORKSHIRE REGIMENT),
was Ijorn at the Cape on the 0th February,
lStj3,the third son of the late James King, Esq.;
and. having passed thr.iugh the K.-yal MilKniy
College at Sandhurst, he was gazetted t.. 11m
Yorkshire Regiment
on tlie 9th Septem-
ber. lSS2.and joineil
the 1st Battalion in
Halifax.XovaScotia.
In 1885 and 1886 he
first saw serNice with
that battalion on the
Nile, and was pre-
sent at the Battle of
Ginnis, for which he
received the Frontier
Field Force medal
and the Khedive's bronze star. He remained
with the 1st Battalion till the close of 1889. when
lu- was transferred to the 2nd Battalion to
complete the establishment, and went out to
India with it in January, 1890.
He next was on active service in Burma in 1893,
and took part in the only two expeditions in
that country in which the Yorkshire Regiment
had a share, being in command of the small
party of Mounted Infantry which accompamed
the Namkhan Expedition against the Kachins,
under Major Hammans, D.C.L.I., and serving
also in the expedition in the neighbourhood of
Sima, in the Kachin Hills. For these services he
received the medal and clasp. After nearly eleven
years' service as Subaltern he was promoted
Captain in February, 1893 ; and in November.
1896, became Adjutant to the 3rd Battahon.
He accompanied the 3rd Battahon to South
\frica in 1900. and served with it there till the
conclusion of the war. From December. 19t)0.
tUl :darch of the following year he was
Garrison Adjutant at Rhenoster, and took
part with his battalion in the operations in the
Orange River Colony in 1900, and also those in
Cape'colonv. south of the Orange River, in
the same year. From the end of 1900 to Janu-
ary, 1902, he served in the operations in the
t)range River Colony, and from that date till
the end of the war he again served in Cape
Colony. For these services he was twice men-
tioned in Despatches, was rewarded with the
Brevet of .Major, and received the Queen's and
King's medals each with two clasps. Colonel
Kint' was also in possession of the Coronation
medll of His present Majesty. In February,
1905. he was promoted Major; in September,
UIKt. Lieutenant-Colonel, to command the 2nd
Battalion; and in September. 1914, Colonel, on
completion of four years in command, which
was continued in consequence of the war.
He went to Belgium on the 4th October, 1914.
at the head of his regiment, which formed part
of the Vllth Division. He shared in the de.sperate
fighting wliich fell to the lot of this Division,
in which the British were outnumbered eight
to one. He was killed on the 30th (the official
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casualty list j-ays "23rd") October, 1914,
at Ypres wliilst holding on to his trenches with
the remnant of his battalion. He was twice
mentioned in Despatches for his services with
the Expeditionary Force, 14th January and the
31st May, 1915.
He was an exceptionally good linguist, a fii'st-
rate French and German scholar, and had
pa.'ised the Higher Standard in Hindustani and
Persian. Fond of sport, he rode and shot well,
and was a remarkably fine swimmer.
MAJOR REGINALD GARRET COOPER-
KING, PRINCE OF WALESS OWN
(WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT),
who died in Fi-ance
cif wounds received
in action, on the 21st
December, 1914. was
the eldest son of the
late Lieutenant-
Colonel C. Cooper-
King, R.M.A., of
Kingsclear. Camber-
ley, and of il r s.
Cooper-King. " The
Chestnuts." Farn-
hani, Surrey.
He was born on the 25th March, 1873, and joined
the West Yorkshire Regiment in Januarj-.
1S93, becoming Lieutenant in December. 1894.
and Captain in November. 1900. He served in
the South African War, 1900-02, receiving the
Queen's medal with three clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps.
From February, 1S99, to February, 1904, he
was employed with the Army Pay Department,
and obtained his Majority in September.
1914.
CAPTAIN ROBERT NEAL KING. RE.
SERNE OF OFFICERS, attd. 1st
BATTN. THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGT.,
was killed in action
on the 1st Novem-
ber. 1914.
He was born on the
14th September,
1874. the only son of
the late Robert
King, Esq.,F.R.C.P.,
of Moulton, Lin-
colnshire, and was
educated at Rugby
(Donkin). which he
entered in 1890. He
joined the Regidar Army in June, 1890, becoming
Captain in November, 1904. He served with
the Nile Expedition of 1898, being present at
the Battle of Atbara, for which he received the
British medal, and also the Egyptian medal with
clasp.
He took part in the .South African War in 1902,
where he was employed with the Mounted
Infantry, being present at operations in the
Transvaal, Cape Colony, and Orange River
Colony, receiving the Queen's medal with four
clasps.
In June. 1911. he retired from the active h'st
of the Lincolnshire Regiment, and joined the
R&serve of Officers, being called up on the 7th
August, 1914, to serve with his old regiment in
the war.
Captain King married Miss Kynock-Shand,
second daughter of the late Robert .Shand
Kynock-Shand, of HUlside, Kincardineshire,
and The Linn. Keith, Banffsliire, and left two
2nd LIEUTENANT GERALD CECIL
KINGS LEY. 2nd BATTN. LOYAL
NORTH LANC.\SH1RE REGIMENT,
who was born at
iluttrapore, A.ssain,
was the only child
of Gerald XorrLs and
Alys Kingsley, and
a grandson of the
late H. Walling and
T. Kingsley, the
latter of whom
fought in the Indian
Mutiny of 1857. re-
ceiving the medal.
He was educated at
the Grammar .School, Bedford, and the R.M.C.,
.Sandhurst. He played Rugby football for the
Bedford Town Club, being considered their
fastest tlu-ee-quarter. He won liis coloui-s at
Sandhurst for sprinting, being chosen to run
against Woolwich on two occasions.
2nd Lieutenant Kingsley was gazetted to the
Army in June, 1914, and was killed on the 23rd
October. 1914, after going through the war
from the beginning. In the words of a Major
of the battalion, himself since killed, " he had
acted in a most gallant manner when we had
captured the German trenches. He was getting
his platoon together again for a further advance,
and was shot, death being instantaneous." He
added that he was a most popular young
ofHcer, who would be much missed in the
battalion.
Captain CYane. commanding the company,
said : "I can only tell you that he died like a
soldier and the gentleman he was. leading his
platoon in a charge which was the culminating
effort of our attack. His death was absolutely
instantaneous — he could have suffered no pain.
His loss is a terrible blow to us all. He was
inunensely popular. I personally saw Mm laid
to rest in a spot which I chose not far from where
he feU."
KIN
21(S
CAPTAIN WILLIAM MILKS KINGTON,
D.S.O., 1st BATTN. ROYAL WELSH
FUSILIERS,
who was killed in
acticiii (111 the 21.st
()((()I),T. liJIl, was
llii- eldest son of
t he late ( 'oloiiel
Kiiifrton. formerly of
Ihi- nil Hussars,
;iiiil «as liorn at
( 'lirlti'iihain on tlie
2.")th April, 187().
lie was educated at
(ilcnalinond Colleije,
and joined the Ko>al Welsh Fusiliers in Sep-
tember, 1890, becoming Lieutenant in January,
isno. ITe took part in the South African War,
in u liirh he was on the Staff as Brigade Signal-
liiiL; oriicer from Noveml^er, 1S99, to December,
I'.dio. He was present at the relief of Lady-
snath and the Battle of Coleiiso: operations
and aetion at \'aal Kraiis ; on the Tugela
Heights and action at Pieter's Hill; in the
Transvaal at the beginning and end of 1900.
including the action at Frederickstad ; and
in tlie Cape Colony, including the action at
Ruidain. He was again in the Transvaal in
1901 and 1902, and in the Orange River Colony.
He was four times mentioned in Despatches
(*' London Gazette," 8th February, 9th July,
and 10th September. 1901 : and 29th July.
1902) ; was awarded the D.S.O., and received
the Queen's medal with five cla.sps and the
King's medal with four clasps. From February,
1902, to May. 1004. he was employed with the
South African Const alailary, and from April.
lOOii. ill which year he received his company,
to September. 191t(, he was an Adjutant of
\'olunteers and of the Territorial Force.
He was a well-known cricketer, member of the
jNI.C.C., the I Zingaii, and the Free Foresters,
and was an excellent shot. He was also very
artistic and a musical genius.
He was killed by a shell in the first Battle of
Ypres, where his battalion was in the ^'Ilth
Division, near Zonnebeke, Belgium, and was
buried on the field in a trench. Alany of the
ofticers of his battalion were killed or wounded
in the same battle.
Captain Kington was a very popular ollicer. and
a man in the battalion who was piesent said
in an account of the engagement : " For three
days we remained in the trenches firing and
being fired at without food or water. Lieu-
tenant Itoskyns. who commanded my platoon,
was killed by a sniper, and about three hours
later Captain Kington, D.S.O.. was killed.
He was a fine officer, and would crack a joke
in the trenches, which would set us all laughing
our sides out. It made us all mad to avenge
his death."
(aptain Kington manied the only daughter
111 Mr. i'\ Soami's. Bryn-I'^sl yn. Wrexham and
lell cine son.
CAPTAIN RICHARD CROP TON
GEORGE MOORE KINKEAD. M.B.,
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS,
only son of I'lip-
fessor and Mrs. Kin-
kead. was boin at
Calway on the I2l!i
.1 line. ISs:',, anil \\ a-
ediicated at (iahvay
( ira 111 mar School and
r 1- II 1 o r a l{ II y a 1
.School.
He studied medicine
at (Jiieen's College,
(ialway, and tuok
his degree of M.B.,
B.Ch. in 1908. after which he was for a short
time House Suigeon in the Count\ of Warwick-
shire Hospital. I le was a good all-round athlete.
He joined the K.A..\1.C. in July, 1909, and was
promoted Captain in January, 1911}. Before
enteiing the R.A.M.C. he served for four train-
ings in the South of Ireland Imperial Yeomam'y.
When the war broke out Captain Kinkead was
serving in South Africa. He returned with the
Xth Hussars, and at the special request of the
CO. was attached to that regiment for active
service.
He was killed on the :{lst October, 1011. by a
high-explosive shell while attending the wounded
between Zandvoorde and Klein Zillebeke. and
was buried in the cemetery at Ypres.
A Deputy Director Medical Service wiote of
him : " He was regarded as a daring and fearless
olficer, with strikingly attractive qualities, and
was immensely popular with the men of the
regiment. Over and over again he had risked
his life in the discharge of his duties in the field."
CAPT.MN the Honble. DOUGLAS
ARTHUR KINN.\IRD, MASTER
OF KINNAIRD, 2nd BATTN.
SCOTS GUARDS,
who was killed in
action on the 24th
October, 1914, near
Vpres, was the eldest
son of the eleventh
Bai'on Kinnaird and
the Baroness Kin-
n a i 111. o f H ossie
Priory, 1 n c h -
ture, Perthshire, and
was born t'.iere on
the 20th August.
1S79. He was related tn tin- Duke of Leinster.
the Karl of Gainsborough, and Sir AndrewAgnew.
Captain Kinnaird was ediicjited at Eton and
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Tiinity College, Cambridge, as Loid Kiunaird
had been, taking liis degi-ee of 31. A. at the
l'nivei-r-;ty. He was a Lieutenant in the Eton
College Volunteer Corps, and also in the Cam-
bridge University Volunteer Corps. He subse-
quently joined the Forfar and Kincardine
Artillery !Militia. afterward.'^ entering the Scots
Guards in May. 19(11, becoming Lieutenant in
February. 1904.
The 2nd Battalion Scots Guards formed part of
the \'IIth Division, which left England for
Belgium early in October, and in the severe
fighting near Kruiseik, in which Captain Kin-
nainl was killed, the liattalion lost many officers.
The Master of Kinnaird, who obtained hLs
company in February, 1912, wa.s not married,
and hLs next brother, the Hon. K. F. Kinnaird.
becomes heir to the barony.
He was a member of the (iuards" and Baclieloi-s*
Clubs, and among his recreations were polo and
cricket.
LIEUTENANT ODBER AUGUSTUS
KNAPTON. 1st BATTN. ROYAL
W A R U 1 C K. S H I R E REGIMENT.
who wa-s killed in
action at the Battle
of the ALsne on the
ISth September.
1914, wa-s the eldest
son of Captain Knap-
ton. R.X.. and Mrs.
Knapton. of Rope
Hill, Boldre, Hamp-
shire, and was bom
on the 1st Novem-
ber, 1893.
He was educated at
Wellington, where he was in Mr. Upcott's
House from 1907-11, and at the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, where he got his hockey blue. He joined
the Royal Warwickslvtre Regiment in January,
1912. becoming Lieutenant in October, 1913.
While in the Aiiny he played cricket and hockey
for liis regiment, and aLso for the garrison where
he was stationed.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL GUY CUN
NINGHAME KNIGHT. p.s.c. COM
M A N D I N G 1st BATTN. LOYAL
NORTH L.\NCASHIRE REGIMENT,
vvlui di: il on the
11th .September.
1914, of wounds re-
ceived in action at
Prietz, France, was
born at Ajaccio,
Coi'sica. on the 12th
December. 18(5(5. the
youngest son of the
late Captain Lewis
Knight.
He was educated at
Wi-llington and the
R.M.C.. Sandhurst, and became 2nd Lieutenant
in the North Lanca-shire Regiment in February,
1887. He was pi-omoted Lieutenant in Sep-
tember, 1888, and Captain in July, 1894, and
was Adjutant of his battalion from October of
that year to February, 1898.
He was employed with the Colonial Forces,
New South Wales, from February, 1898,
where he raised the 1st New South Wales
Moimted Infantry Regiment, and coimnanded
it in the .South .Vfrican War. He was present
at operations in the Orange Free State, including
actio7is at Poplar (Jrove, Driefontein, and Karee
Siding : also the actions at Vet and Zand
Rivers : operations in the Transvaal, including
action near Johannesburg : in the Orange River
Colony, including actions at Wittebergen and
BothavUle : and operations in Cape Colony,
wheie he was shghtly wounded. For his ser-
vices he was mentioned in I)espatches ("London
Gazette."' 10th September, 1901), was promoted
Brevet-Major, and received the Queen's medal
with five clasps. Subsequently, being a Staff
College graduate, he served on the Staff as
D.A.A. and Q.M.G. in Malta and Egypt from
November, 1905. to September, 1908, and in
.South Africa from 1909 to 1911. in February
of which year he succeeded to the command of
the 1st Battalion of his regiment.
Ijeutenant-Colonel Knight, who was a member
of the Naval and Militaiy Club, was a good all-
round sportsman. He played football (Rugby)
in the Sandhinst team, was a splendid horse-
man, and keen on hunting and polo. All his
leave in India was spent in big-game shooting,
and he had many tigers to liis credit. He mar-
ried wienie Ethel, younger daughter of Walter
Cross-Buchanan.
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT THOMAS ALBERT
KNOTT, 1st BATTN. PRINCESS CHAR
LOTTE OF WALESS ROYAL BERK-
SHIRE REGT..
son of Frank and
AUce Knott, was
born at o. Wynne
Street, Ash ton Old
Road, Lower Open-
shaw, Manchester,
on the 10th Novem-
ber. 1879.
He enUsted in the
4th Manchester
Regiment in Feb-
ruary, 19(tl. For "^
two years fi-om 19(11! he u;i.-. au Instructor in
Mounted Infantry duties, and in June, 190(!,
was transferred to the 1st BattaUon Royal
Berksliire Regiment. He received his com-
mission on the 3rd October, 1914.
He was wounded by shrapnel on the 13th
November, 1914, and died in No. 11 General
KNO LAM
218
Hospital, Boulogne. 11 has not been possible
to obtain authenticated particulars, but the
following details were gathered from a noii-
comniissionod otlicer of the battalion, and are
believed to be accurate : —
The battalion left Aldersliot for France on
the Ith August, 1914, and landing at Boulogne
marched out the same night for Mons. thirty-
five miles distant. They had hardly arrived
when they came under heavy fire, and lost nearly
all their transjiort ; but 2nd Lieutenant Knott,
wlio was in charge of it, managed to save some,
though tlie battalion did not see it again for
lliree weeks. During the ensuing retirement
they had to march and fight night and day
until they reached the outskirts of Paris. During
the three weeks so occupied 2nd Lieutenant
Knott was promoted to that rank for his work in
saving the transport. On the Sth November
the battalion was ordered to Gheluvelt, four
miles east of Ypres, where it was in very heavy
fighting imtil at one point 2nd Lieutenant
Knott was the only officer left. By going out
of the trench under heavy fire he succeeded in
bringing in, first one, and tlien the other machine
gun from either flank, l)oth guns having been
temporarily abandoned, and jiut them in
position, having so far carried out his perilous
action without being touched. He then at-
tempted to get back to his post in the observ-
ation station about eight hundred yards away,
and had nearly reached it when he was badly
hit in the thigh, and fell at once seriously
wounded. It was seven hours before the
ambulances could get out to bring him in. The
battalion was warmly commended by the Com-
mander-in-Chief personally for their behaviour,
informing them they had saved the position.
The non-commissioned officer furnishing these
details was awarded the D.C.M. ; and, had he
not unfortunately died, no doubt 2nd Lieutenant
Knott would have received due recognition for
his gallantry.
2nd Lieutenant Knott, who wasa Freemason,was
a member of tlie .\rilitary .Jubilee Lodge, Dover.
CAPTAIN JONATHAN EDWARD
KNOWLES, 4th BATTN. DUKE OF
CAMBRIDGE'S OWN (MIDDLESEX
R E G I M E N Tl,
burn on the 21st
.May, 1882, at Sand-
gate, Queensland,
Australia, wasthe son
of tlie late Kdward
Sugden Knowles and
Mrs. Knowles, Haw-
don, near Leeds, and
grandson of the late
Jonathan Knowles,
T'nderwood, l{aw-
don, Leeds.
Captain Knowles was educated at Sedborgh and
Hradford (irammar Scliool. Vorksliin-. He
originally held a commission in the 2n(l West
Yoi'kshire X'olunteer Battalion, and served u ith
the 4th Durham Light Infantry (.Militia) in
the South African Wai', in 1!I02. He was ])re-
sent at operations in the Orange River and
Cape Colonies, receiving tlie (Queen's medal
with three clasps.
In 1903 he obtained a commission in tlie 1st
Middlesex Regiment (long known as the " Die
Hards "), becoming Lieutenant in January,
1906, and being promoted into the 4th Battalion
as Captain in February, 1914.
He embai'ked for active service with his bat-
talion on the 13th August, 1914, and fell at Mons
on Sunday, the 23rd August, 1914, while cheering
and encouraging his men with great bravery.
On this occasion Major Abell and Lieutenant
Henstock of this battalion were also killed.
Captain Knowles was a very keen sportsman,
a very good shot with the rifle, obtaining many
good heads in India and Burmali. and was also
keen on regimental sports.
He married \iva Brabazon Bagot, grand-
daughter of the late Colonel Charles Oldlield.
and left three children : Nina !Mary, born 1910 ;
Viva Joan, born 1912 : and Jonatlian ilaynard,
born 1913.
CAPTAIN CAMERON LAMB, D.S.O.,
2nd BATTN. BORDER REGIMENT,
.son of the late Sir
John C a m e r o n
Lamb, C.B., C.M.G.,
and of Lady Lamb,
was born at Old
Chai-lton, Kent, on
the 25th May, 1879.
One of his brothers
is Captain B. Lamb,
R.G.A., late of the
Egyptian Army and
A.D.C. to the Gover-
nor of Barbados.
He was educated at Blackheath School, Exeter
College, Oxford, and Guy's Hospital Medical
School. He was gazetted to the 4th Battalion
[Durham Light Infantry in August, 1900. and
joined Lovat's Scouts (Imperial Yeomanry)
in June, 1901. taking part in operations in
Cape Colony and the Orange River Colony
during the South African War, for which he
received the Queen's medal with four clasps.
He was gazetted to the Border Regiment in
January, 1903. and served with it in Soutii
Africa, India, and Burma.
He was fond of rowing, boxing, and hockey ;
and in a big-game expedition in Central Africa
secured many trophies. He also travelled
across Canada, from east to west, on foot for
a great pait of the way.
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LAM
Before the war witb Germany broke out he
spent a considerable time studying the Franco-
Belgian frontier in the belief that the British
would be called upon to operate there in his
lifetime. He was promoted Captain in October,
1914, during the war. and was awarded the
D.S.O.. the decoration of which he received
personally from His Majesty the King while in
Belgium. Theofficial record of the award stated it
was for'Tepeated gallantry and exceptionally good
work, scouting daily in and amongst the enemy's
lines " (•■ London Gazette." 1st December, 191-1).
The following record of his work has been re-
ceived : " Lieutenant Lamb went out on an
average every morning and night, searching the
farms for snipers, trying to discover the enemy's
positions, and rounding up the enemy's patrols.
He went out one morning with two nten, and
put four of the enemy out of action. He went
to the place to see the result, and discovered an
officer wounded. He insisted on bringing the
officer away, and, under German fire, carried
the wounded officer three-quarters of a mile.
The firing, however, became too hot for him,
and he left the man at a farm, and at night sent
the stretcher-bearers to bring him in.'"
An account of another incident said : "" When
the front trenches were taken all that remained
to hold the position were the headquarters and
scouts. Lieutenant Lamb stood on the top of
the trench and shouted. " Xow come on, boys,
and give it to them ! Show them what the
Scouts are made of ! ' Otu* fire proved very
effective, and some of the enemy had to retire,
but they found that we were numerically weak,
and came on again. We had made such a bold
show that ilr. Lamb remarked that " he could
die smiling because he knew that the Scouts
had done their work.' "
Of his actual death an officer of the Artists'
Rifles wrote : "" I have just heard that my old
friend. Lamb, of the Borderers, has died of
wounds. He was one of the best people I have ever
met. He died a magnificent death. When they
carried him out of the trenches, horribly wounded,
he was whistling the whole time, and refused to
pay any attention to his wounds. He died in hos-
pital before they could get him back to England."
The Colonel of the battalion wrote of him
in November : " I must just write you a line
to say how well your son — my Scout officer —
has done during the war. He is one of the
bravest young officers I know, and absolutely
fearless. He has been invaluable to me, and
you will. I know, be proud of him. . . . He
did so well on that Monday. October 2l5th,
when my old regiment lost so many officers and
men. and he was the last to come away with me
when we withdrew at dusk. ... I only hope,
when I return, I may have him with me again.''
And after his death he wrote : " The old bat-
talion has lost, by his death, a very gaUant
officer, and we .shall all deeply mourn his loss.
He was so brave and full of spirit all the time,
even when things looked blackest, and, as you
know, he was beloved by all — officers, X.C.O.'s,
and men — ^and on the field admired by all."
He was hit in the left arm and left leg while
leading " A " Company of the 2nd Border
Regiment in an attack on the German trenches
near FromeUes. five or six miles west of Lille, on
the night of the 19th December, 1914, and died
on the 29th of that month at Wimereux, near
Boulogne. His body lies in the cemetery there.
C.\PTAIN EVER.\RD JOSEPH LAMB.
3rd BATTN. NORTHUMBERLAND
FUSILIERS, attd. 2nd BATTALION THE
KING S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT
INFANTRY .
who was killed on
the 1st November.
1914, was the only
son of Mrs. R. O.
Lamb, of Hayton
House, near
Carlisle.
Captain Lamb, who
left a widow, was
twenty-nine years of
age when killed, and
entered the 3rd
Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in October,
190.5. becoming Lieutenant in .Tune, 1910, and
Captain in Av^ust. 1914.
C-\PTAIN JOHN MOUNSEY LAMBERT.
3rd B.\TTN. NORTHUMBERLAND
FUSILIERS.
bom at Breamish
House, AId-
wick, Northumber-
land, on the 21st
December, 1S83. was
the only son of the
late Major - General
G. C. Lambert, late
Colonel 101st Royal
Bengal (now Mun-
ster) Fusiliers, and
Isabella Lambert.
He was a grandson o£ the late Major Browne,
of Doxford Hall. Chathill. Northumberland,
and of the late .John Lambert, Esq.. of Alnwick.
Captain Lambert was educated at >Ir. Moore's
School, AInmonth, and Wellington College,
joining the Northumberland Alilitia in 1903,
becoming Lieutenant in November. 1906, and
beii^ promoted to Captain in August, 1914.
In civil life he was Land Agent to Mr. Hope
Barton, of Stapleton. Yorkshire.
Captain Lanil)ert was a keen sportsman and a
very good shot, winning the Officers' Regimental
Cup several times. He was a regular follower
of the Badsworth Hounds.
LAM LAW
220
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i'
kS
111 the (iival WarCaptain r.ainboi-t was attacluil
to llu' 1st Hattalidii of his ri'^inu'iit. ami wont
to tlu> front at tlir nul <if Aiifiust. Mr was
killfil in action a1 N'cu\c- ('hapcllr. France,
on the -JTIIi Oclohcr-. liU L
2nd LIEUTENANT the Honble. FRANCIS
LAMBTON, ROYAL HORSE GUARDS,
who was killcMl in
ait ion liotwccn the
li:)th and the aist
Octolx'P. 1!H 1. was
the ninlli >on of
I lie :>econil l-'.arl of
I 'urliani.
I le \\ as liorn on tile
ISth .January. ISTl.
and joined the
Reserve of Oniccre.
Koyal Horse Guards,
in .September, 1911.
'rhe''Hon. Francis T>anil>ton was a nicinlier of
the Turf Club.
LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY LAMBTON,
2nd BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
who was born on
the 13th September.
1887, was the second
son of Colonel the
Hon. Frederick AVil-
liam Lambton, 4tli
Battalion Northum-
bei'land Fusiliers,
formerly Lieutenant
in the Coldstream
(uiards. of Fenton.
North umberland.
twin brother and
heir-iiresumptive of tlie l'"arl of Durham, and
the Hon. !Mrs. Lambton. second daufjhter of
John Bulteel, of Pamflete, Devon.
Lieutenant Ijambton joined the Coldstream
Guards as 2nd I^ieutenant from the .Special
Reserve in February, 1909, becoi-oing Lieutenant
in May, 1910. He was reported as killed in
action on the .3rd September, 1914.
LIEUTENANT DOUGLAS BLACK-
WOOD L A N D A L E, 3rd BATTN.
RIFLE BRIGADE
(THE PRINCE
CONSORTS
OWN), "as killed
ill action on the 2l^rd
October, 1914.
He joined the Ariin
in .September. 1911.
and was promoti'd
Lieutenant in April.
1913. He served on
the Continent in the
Great War.
LIEUTENANT CH.\RLES KEITH
LATTA, 2nd BA TT.\LION GORDON
HIGHLANDERS,
born at Kdinburt;h
on the lind Dei'eiu-
bei'. LS.S9. was the'
third son of the late
.loliii Latta, Esq., of
17. Royal Circus,
Fdinburfjh, and of
his wife, Margaret,
daughter of the late
.Tohn .Topp. Writer
to 111,' Signet. ICdin-
burgh.
He was educated at I'.diiilMii l;1i Academy and
the IL^l.C.. Sandhurst, receiving his commission
as 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion Gordon
Highlanders in November, 1909. and getting his
step in August, 1911. He .served with the
2nd Battalion of his regiment in India till 1912.
then proceeding with it to Egypt, where it was
stationed when the war with Germany broke
out, and accompanied it t« the front, win re it
formed part of the ^'Ilth Division.
He was killed on the 29th October. 1911. in
the neighbourhood of Ypres. The Colonel of
his battalion, intimating his death to his
relatives, said : " He gave his life foi' his
country in a gallant fight, which was neeessary
for the safety, not only of his own regiment.
Iiut of a large force. ... lb- has always
proved himself a fine example, and \iiu niay
well be proud of him. as we are. and also all
those of his own conunand. He is a great loss
to us and the Army."
C.\PTAIN BERTRAM LAWRENCE, 1st
BATTN. EAST YORKSHIRE REGT.,
who was killed on
the 2Sth October.
191 I . \\ as the second
son of Dr. and Mrs.
H. Cripps Lawrence.
of ■ Haliere," Bab-
bacombe, Devon-
shire. He was a
grandson of the late
('• e 11 e r a I H e n r y
L a w r e n c e . His
Majesty's Indian
Ai-niy.
He was born at l.'iS Queen's Road, Bayswatcr,
on the 24th December, 1876, and was educated
.it Tideswell Endowed Graniniar School and
Al.ilvern College (Army- side). At the latter he
was a Sc'iool Prefect, in the Shooting VIII,
and in his House Football XI. He then went
to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, and vi'as gazetted to
the East Y'orksliiro Regiment in Februarx-.
1898, becoming Lieutenant in 1899.
In the .South African War he was employed with
the ilounted Infantry, and was present at
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operation? in the Orange River and Cape Colonie.'s
between January and ilay, 1902. He received
the Queen's medal with three clasps. Frotii
July. 1903, to July. 1906. he was Adjutant of
his battalion, and was promoted Captain in
September. 1907. From 1909 to 19 13 he was .Adju-
tant of the discharge depot at Fort Broekliu:-st.
He was killed between LiUe and Armentiei-es.
and buried, with brother officers who fell in
the same engagement, in the village of Rue du
Bois, west of Lille. He was shot by a sniper
wliile cheering and leading his men to retake a
losi trench. He was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the Hth January. Utl.").
Captain Lawrence married ilarie, daughter of
the late ilajor-General and ilrs. Smyth, for-
merly of Alverstoke. Hants, and left no family.
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT CHRISTO-
PHER HAL LAWRENCE. 2nd. BATTN.
KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS.
was born on
the 11th November.
1-^9.3. at 0, Harring-
ton Gardens, South
Kensington. He was
the youngest son of
the Hon. Henry Ar-
nold Lawrence, and
gi-andson of the first
Baron Lawrence, of
the Punjaub and
Grately, and great-
nephew of Sir
Ilcnry Lawrence, killed at Lucknow.
2nd Lieutenant Lawi-ence was educated at
.Stonehouse. Bi-oadstairs. Eton, and Cambridge.
He was a good athlete and cricketer.
On the outbreak of the war he applied for and
obtained a commission in the K.R.R.C. and
was sent to the front at the beginning of October.
1014. On the 13th of that month he was shot
in the trenches by a German sniper.
He belonged to the Pitt Club. Cambridge, to tlie
Eton Ramblers, and the "Butterflies."
.\ brother of 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence's, in tlie
.samebattaUon.was killed onthe 10th .January. 1915.
MAJOR WILLIAM L Y T T L E T O N
LAWRENCE. D.S.O.. 1st B .\ T T N .
SOUTH W.\LES BORDERERS.
who was killed in
action on the 31st
October, 1014, was
the youngest son of
Dr. and Mrs. Law-
lence," The Cedars,''
Chep-stow". He was
bom on the 4th Sep-
tember, 1S73. and
was gazetted to the
S.W.B. in July. 189:!.
IjecomingLieutcnanl
in January. 1S90. and Captain in September,1904.
From the latter date to S<'ptember, 1907, he was
Adjutant of his battalion, and in December of
the latter year was appointed A.D.C. to a
Divisional Commander in India.
Major Lawrence was mentioned in .Sir John
French's Despatch of the Sth October, 1914. and
was awarded the D.S.O.
2nd LIEUTENANT ALFRED
VICTOR LAWS. 1st BATTN.
NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS.
sou of tlie late .Mr.
John Laws, and a
relative of .Mrs. Tur-
ner, of Newcastle,
was bom at Gates-
head. Newcastle-on-
Tyne, on the 9tli
August. 1SS4.
He was educated at
St. John's School.
Gateshead, and en-
listed in 1901, reach-
ing the rank of Ser-
geant in 1904. In 190S, while m the rants,
he served on tlie nortli-westem frontier of
India, and also in Africa. recei\-ing the medal.
He was given his commission during the Great
War on the 1st October, 1914. and was men-
tioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
8th October. 1914.
He marned Julia, daughter of the late John
Davies, of Dublin, related to Henry Carroll.
Esq., of Dublin, and left two sons : Alfred
George, born E'ebruary. 1910 : and John, born
December, 1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER
S U T H E R L .\ N D L A W S O N .
1st B.\TTN. THE BLACK
WATCH ROYAL H IG H L A N D E RSi.
who was killed in action on t!ie llth November,
1914. was tlie eldest son of Police Judge Lawson,
of Hawick. He had served top several years in
the ranks of Ills regiment, and received his coni-
nusslon as 2nd Lieutenant In October. 1914.
LIEUTEN.\NT WILLIAM BERNWRD
WEBSTER L.\WSON. 1st B.\TTN,
SCOTS GU.\RDS.
who was bom Iti
London on the 22nd
August, 1S93, was
the younger son of
Colonel the Hon.
WlUiaMi Webster
I^wson. D..S.O.. and
a grandson of the
first Baron Burn-
ham.
He was educated at
Eton and the
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K.M.C, Sandhurst, and was ai)i)oinled to tVie
Scots Cuaiils ill ScptciiibiT. \»\2. Iiciiis gazetted
Lieutrliailt CM lllr l.'illl Sr|.lrlillHT. IIUI. II. ■
wa.s a K<>»tl 'i'li'i' •" lii'i'ii'ls and a pioiiusiiit;
polo player. He was a iiunilMT ol' the Koyal
Aidoiiiohili' C'lul).
I.iciilciiaiil Lawsonwas killrd at lidcsiiigho on
the 22nd Octiibor. lid I. while showin<< a
French Teiiitoiial ollieer the direction for the
advance of Ids men.
CAPTAIN GERALD ERNEST LEA, p.s.c.
2nd BATTN. WORCESTERSHIRE
^ REGIMENT,
1 1 the son of his Hon-
our Judge George
Ilaiiis Lea, was Ijorn
in Haiiipstead, Lon-
don, on the :!(ltli
.Tune, 1S77. and was
e d u c a t e d a t
Locker's I'aik aiul
Ciiartei'house. He
received his first
eoiiiniission from the
.Militia in 1897 ; was
appointed Adjutant of his tiatlalion in Noveni-
lier, 1900, while in South Africa, and promoted
Captain in December of the same year, after a
little more then three years' service. He remained
in South Africa for three years, serving chiefly
in the Orange River Colony, and was awarded
the King's and Queen's medals, each with two
clasps, tor the Boer War. In 1912 he passed
the final examination of the Staff College, thus
obtaining the right to the coveted letters p.s.c.
after his name.
At the conniiencement of the Great War he
proceeded to the Continent with the 1st Army
Corps of tlie Expeditionary Force : was present
at the Battle of Mons, all through the retire-
iiii^nt from Mons to the Marne ; and then in tlie
advance from the Marne to the Aisne. At the
Battle of the Aisne, on the 14th September,
1914, near the village of Verneuil, he was
struck on the head by a piece of shrapnel
and died three hours afterwards.
He married on the 7th August, 1912. Brenda.
the only child of H. A. Wadworth, Esq., of
Breinton Coiut. Herefordshire, and left one
child, .Alarigold Geraliline, born on the 28th
October. I'.tl 1.
(Captain Lea was a member of tlie Army and
Navy Club.
CAPTAIN FRANCIS WILLIAM
MOWBRAY LEADER, 2nd BATTN.
CONNAUGHT RANGERS,
born at Plymouth on the 6th November, l.ssl.
was the son of F. H. M. Leader, Esq., late of tlie
Koval Ailillery. J.P. for Co. Cork, of Classas,
Coachford. C<i. Cork, .iiid a nephew of W. N.
Leader. ILL.. .1.1'.. I.ite Scots Greys, of
Dromagli. Haiitecr.
Co. Cork.
He was educated at
Eastman's Naval
Academy, and in
France and(!erman\ .
He .served with tlie
embodied Militia in
the South African
War, being present
at operations in Cape
Colony and Orange
River Colony from
1901-02, for which he rccrixed tin- (Queens
medal with four clasiis. He also had the South
Nigeria medal with clasp. Being specially re-
commended he was given a commission in the
Connaught Rangers in .January, 1903, becoming
Lieutenant in December, 190.">. and Captain in
August. 1914.
Captain Leader was a good football player and
all-round sportsman, and a member of the
F:mpire Club.
Captain Leader was reported missing on the
29th August, 1914. He was left in charge of
a rearguard at Le Cateau when the battalion
was ordered to retire. Lieutenant Turner and
fifty men who were with him were all killed or
taken prisoners, and it must unfortunately be
assumed that Captain Leader was among the
killed.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD HUBERT
LEATHAM, 12th (PRINCE
OF WALES'S ROYALl LANCERS,
who was killed in
action near Ypres on
the 31st October,
191 1. was the second
and only surviving
son of the late Mr.
E. E. Leatham. of
Wentbridge House,
Pontefract.
He was born at
Wentbridge, York-
shire, on the 20th
.July, KSSO. and was
educated at Eton and tlie R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He joined the 12th Lancers in October. 190(>,
becoming Lieutenant in August, 1908.
He played in his regimental polo team when it
won the Inter- regimental Cup in 1914 and the
Coronation Cup. He was also a successful
gentleman jockey and point-to-point rider.
He was killed while helping to get a wounded
man back into a trench into which he had safely
got the rest of his men. While returning he
was struck by a sIh II.
LEA— LED
LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER
LEATHER. 3rd attd. 1st BATTN.
NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS,
who was killed in
action near Neuve
Chapelle on the 26th
October, 1914, aged
thirty-two, was the
youngest son of the
late F. F. Leather,
of iUddleloi Hall,
and of Mrs. Leather,
'" The Friary," Tick-
hill, Yorkshire. He
was the youngest of
six soldier brothers.
3Ir. Leather was educated first at >Ir. Baileys
Preparatory School at Limpsfield. afterwards
privately, and in November, 1899. he joined the
3rd (Militia) Battalion Durham Light Infantry,
and proceeded to South Africa in January,
19CN), where he served with distinction in the
Mounted Infantry. In 1901 he received a
commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers,
with whom he remained until the conclusion
of the campaign, receiving the Queen's medal
with three clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps.
lieutenant Leather left the Army in 190-1,
but rejoined at the outbreak of hostilities in
August, 1914, when he was appointed to the
Reserve Battalion of his old regiment. For
active seri-ice in the war he was attached to the
1st Battalion. His Commanding Officer wrote
of him after he was kUled : "A good officer and
a cheery friend."
He was an expert motorist, a keen amateur
sailor, and a fisherman. He was onmarried.
CAPTAIN MALCOLM LECKIE. D.S.O..
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.
younger surviving
son of James Blyth
L. e c k i e , of Crow-
borough, Stissex, was
bom at Eltham,
Kent, on the 18th
April, ISSO. He was
a descendant of the
Leckies of the
Barony of Leckie
(Stirlingshire,
1352). One of his
ancestors. Sir Walter
Leckie, of King Charles VII of France's Body-
guard, commanded the Scottish troops at the
Battle of Lagny on the 10th August. 1432 —
the last exploit of the Maid of Orleans — ^when
these troops were instrumental in the utter
defeat of the English under the Duke of Bedford.
Sir John French, in his first Despatch, said that
for the advance from the Mame his left wing
rested on Lagny.
Captain Leckie was educated at Blackheath Pro-
prietary School, and privately abroad, and car-
ried out his medical studies at Guy's Hospital,
London. He was a member of the Blackheath
Hockey Club, and used to i)lay for the Army;
he was Captain of Guy's Hockey Club when
there. He had also represented England
against France, and played for the Kent
Hockey Club.
After having obtained his medical qualifications
he entered the R.A.M.C. in February, 190S.
For four years, from 1910, he was attached to
the Egyptian Army, serving in the Soudan, up
the Blue Nile, and in Upper Egypt. For the
Great War he was attached for duty to
the 1st Northnmberiand Fusihers. He was
awarded the D.S.O. " for gallant conduct and
exceptional devotion to duty in attending to
wounded at Frameries, when he was himself
wounded." From the effects of these wounds,
which were caused by shrapnel on the 24th
August, he died at Frameries on the 28th August,
1914.
LIEUTENANT AVERELL LECKY.
PRINCE OF WALES'S LEINSTER
REGIMENT ROYAL CANADIANSi.
was bom in Guern-
sey in 1885, and was
the son of Lieuten-
ant-Colonel John
Gage Lecky (re-
tired), late of the
Gordon Highlanders,
and a grandson of
Hugh Lecky.
Beardiville:
County Antrim.
Lieutenant Lecky
was educated at
Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and received his
commission in the Leinster Regiment from
the Royal Guernsey ^lihtia in 1908. becom-
ing Lieutenant in October, 1910. He served
with his battaUon in India and with the
West African Field Force in Sierra Leone for
two years in the suppression of savage ctistoms.
services for which he was highly commended
by his Commanding Officer, and in the course
of which he was wounded by a poisoned arrow.
In the Great War he was shot through the head
while leading his men in an attack on t he enemy's
trenches near Armentieres, and died on the 19th
October, 1914.
LIEUTENANT FRANK COOPER
LEDGARD. 2nd BATTN. .\LEXANDRA
PRINCESS OF WALESS OWN YORK-
SHIRE REGIMENT, who was kiUed at
Ypres on the 22nd October, 1914, was the son
LEE
224
of Annitase L<Mlt;ai(l
of till! .Manor House.
xiid Helen l.ednard.
'I'lioiner, Voi-ks, ami
was boin at Ash-
field. Scarcioft. neai-
Leeds, on the l.')th
Ocloher. 1S91. He
was educated at
I'^agle House, Berks. :
at Harrow: and at
the Hoyal :\liHlary
('"llejje, .Siindhurst,
u hence he obtained
liis connnission as
2nd Lieutenant in the
2nd Battalion of the
regiment in 1911. becominf; Lieutenant in 1913,
lie proceeded with liis battalion to the
Continent, and was serving with it when he met
his death. The Adjutant of the battalion sent
his fathei' the following appi-eciation of the
young otTicer : " The regiment has lost in him
a fine and most gallant officer, and one that we
shall not be able to replace. Up to the time of
his death he had done most excellent work in
every way. and was here, there, and everywhere,
doing damage witli his machine gun. 1 was
next to hiiu when he was hit. and am glad to
say that he was killed instantaneously and
suffered no pain. Your son was carrying his
gim to a more advanced jiosition when he was
hit. The M.G. section had done great slaughter
in this business liefore your son was killed.
He died a splendid death, and we all feel proud
of him."
He was buried side by side witli an ollicer of
the Grenadier Guards.
A Private of his regiment gave the following
account of his death : " Another very brave
man was Lieutenant Ledgard. On the day of
a big German attack in October he was in com-
mand of the two machine guns and some artillery,
and every few minutes he had to change the
position of the guns. Backwards and forwards
along the trenches, from one position to another,
he was running with the heavy machine gun
over his shoulder and perspiration streaming
down his face. Man after man in his section
was hit as they mowed down the German
Infantry, and eventually they were all out of
action except Lieutenant Ledgard and I'rivate
Norfolk. Almost at nightfall the officer was
hit by a shell, and he died — a great hero in the
eyes of every 'Green Howard.' "
Another account by Private Brown, of his
battalion, who was himself wounded, said :
" The (lerinans had got round the flank of
' D ' Company at Ypres, where the position
was seen to be dangerous by Lieutenant Led-
gard. With a shout of ' Come on, lads I Death
or glory now ! ' the brave Lieutenant took up a
Maxim gun on his shoulder, advanced to the
open field, placed it in position, and for a few
minutes directed a fierce and telling lire into
the enemy, holding them at l)ay. Then he
fell dead, with a bullet wound in the heait.
Kvery man in the regiment is proud of him."
He was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir .luhu
Kreiich's Despatch of the 11th .lanuary. li)|.").
CAPTAIN HARRY NORMAN
LEE. 59th SCINDE RIFLES, FRON-
TIER FORCE. 1 N D I .\ N A R M '\' ,
was the second son of the late .Mr. Harry
Lee, I.C.S., and a grandson of George N<'ls()n
Barlow. I.C..S. He was born at ('hu|iia. Ueh.ii-.
India, on the loth April, 18S,").
Educated at Cheltenham College and the
IL.M.A., \Voohvich, he joined the 1st Battery,
Koyal Field Artillery, at Trimulgherry. India,
in 1903, and was tran.sferred to the Western
Command for service with the 59th .Scinde
Rifles in 1906. In 1908 he took part in
the Zakka Khel and Mohmand Campaigns
under .Sir James WUlcocks, being in action at
Karkha when two thousand Uknan Khels were
dispei'sed. He received the medal and clasp
for the campaigns, and was promoted ('ai)tan
in 1912.
When at Woohvicli lie was Captain o tlie
Hockey XL and also played for Kent. In India
he was «ell known as an excellent cricketer and
all-round athlete, and freipiently won prizes
as best man at assault-at-arins in various parts
of India.
Captain Lee was killed in action n<>ar La Bassce,
France, on the 19th December, lull, while
leading his company to retake trenches that
had been captured and were occupied by the
(iermans.
He married, in April. 1911. .\huuie Clire. elder
daughter of .Mr. W. B. Carter, M.I.C.E.. D.l'.W
India, and left no family.
LIEUTENANT COLIN B .\ RC L .\ Y
LEECHMAN. 3rd (KING'S OWN)
HUSSARS,
who was included in
the official monthly
ca.sualty list jiub-
lished in May, UM.").
as having bi'en " uii-
oHicially reported
killed or died of
wounds " on the
2')th September.
Mill, is believed to
have been killed, on
the night of the
23rd or 24th September, while on patrol duty
at the Battle of the Aisne. near the French
trenches, opposite Paissy.
He was the younger son of (ieorge Barclay
and Mary Leechman, of 50, Campden House
LEE— LEG
Court, Kensington, late of Colombo, Ceylon,
and was born there on the 8th May, 1888.
Educated at Rugby and Exeter College, Oxford,
he was gazetted to the 3rd Hussars on the
3rd February, 1911, and promoted Lieutenant
in September of the same year. On tlie out-
break of the war he was at the Cavalry School,
and was recalled to his regiment.
On the 23rd September, 1914, Lieutenant Leech-
man had left the men and horses of his patrol
in a safe place and went forward alone. As he
did not return it was thought he must have been
captured, and a search was made in every
possible way, but it was not till April that his
family heard from friendly Germans that he
was found dead near the Fi-ench trenches.
His recreations were hunting, polo, and golf.
CAPTAIN EDMUND HASTINGS
HARCOURT LEES, 2nd BATTN. THE
BORDER REGT.,
was the son of
Thomas Orde Hast-
ings Lees, of Ouils-
Ijorough, Xorthamp-
tonshire, and a grand-
son of the Rev. John
and Lady Louisa
Lees.ofArmaghdown,
County Galway. Ire-
laud, and was born
at Northampton in
December, 1875.
He was L-ducated at .Marlborough and at the
Royal Academy, Gosport, and joined the Border
Regiment in 1896, becoming Lieutenant In
February, 1900, and Captain in June, 1906.
He served with liis regiment during the South
African War. having been present at the actions
of Spion Kop, the Tugela Heights, the reUef
of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso. He
was wounded, and for his sei-vices was men-
tioned in Despatches {" London Gazette,"
10th September, 1901) and received the Queen's
medal with six clasps.
From 1910-13 he was Adjutant of the Artists'
Rifles (Territorial). London.
He was kOled on the 26th October. 1914. near
Ypres, while defending a trench in the struggle
against the enemy's attempt to reach Calais.
An officer of the regiment, describing the fight,
said : " Our men fought magnificently against
odds of certainly over eleven to one. They
fought desperately from nine o'clock till six,
when the Germans withdrew, and our little
remnant was ordered to retire. We have only
about four hundred men left out of one thousand,
and hardly any X.C.O.'s." No fewer than eight
officers of the battalion were killed.
A non-commissioned officer of the battalion gave
the following account of Captain Lees's death :
"The regiment was holding an important position
for eight days, during which time we were subject
to the hea\-iest shell fire. Captain Lees was killed
by a piece of shrapnel on the 26th October,
and was last seen by another man and myself
in the open. We were then retiring with the
enemy on top of us. The enemy gained about
six hundred yards of ground, but were pushed
back by the 1st Army Corps. Your brother
was no doubt birried by the reinforcement that
came up to our aid. Captain Lees was an
officer, both brave and daring, who would always
trust his men, and beloved and respected in
return. Confidence in him was all that made us
stick the shell fire as we did. No man can speak
too highly of him."
The following extract is from a report by
General Capper : " The devoted and firm
conduct of this battalion repeatedly called forth
the admiration of the Brigadier and of officers
in other battahons in the same brigade, and I
myself can testify to its fortitude and deter-
mination to maintain its position at all costs —
a spirit which saved a difficult and critical
situation. It is impossible to praise the battahon
too liiglily."
The Commanding Officer of tlie Artists' Rifles
(London) wrote : " His memory will always
live in the hearts of the Artists' Rifles, and his
old friends amongst us here desire me to con-
vey to you both their sincerest sympathy."
Captain Lees was a member of the L'nited
Service Club and of the Alpine Sports Club,
and had won many prizes for Swiss sports,
toboganning, ski-ing, etc.
CAPTAIN GEORGE BRUCE LEGARD,
ADJUTANT 1st BATTN. THE
QUEEN'S OWN (ROYAL WEST KENT
REGIMENT),
was born at Tealby,
in the County of
Lincoln, the eldest
son of D. C. and Mrs.
Legard, of Heigh-
ington Hall, Lincoln.
Educated at Chel-
tenham College, he
joined the Royal
West Kent Regi-
ment from the
MiUtiain June, 1904,
becoming Lieutenant in October. 19U7, and
Captain in September, 1914. In January,
1912, he was appointed Adjutant of his battalion,
and in that capacity accompanied it to France.
Captain Legard was killed near Neuve ChapeUe
on the 27th October, 1914. He was twice
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatches :
in that of the 8th October, 1914, and that of
the 14th Januarv, 1915.
LEG LEM
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LIEUTENANT ALAN RANDALL
AUFRERE LEGGETT, 1st BATTN.
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
,j_;j___,^_ b o r 11 a t Dele e
IPt^ ' '^ (i range, Rochester,
l\ciit, on the 31st
May. 1893, was the
lil'lli and youngest
Mill of Lieutenant-
Colonel Fredk. ().
and ills. Leggett, of
Underhill House,
Cheriton, Kent. Two
of his brothers are
in the service : ilajoi
W. N. Leggett,
n. (i. Leggett, B.F.A.
was educated at Oxford
('. ('. Lynain's, and Ton-
bridge School from 1907-11. From the latter
he became lion. King's Cadet at the K.M.C.,
Sandhurst. Joining the North Staffordshire Regi-
ment early in September, 1912, he served with it
at Buttevant, Ireland, till proceeding on active
service to France in September, 1914. He was pro-
moted Lieutenant on the 18th September, 1911.
He was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatcli
of 14th .January, 1915. for service in an action
on the 2llth October. 1914. when, by his steadi-
ness, good leadersliip, and well-considered
action, he held up an attack of the enemy and
enabled the offensive to be resumed. He was
killed by a shell in the trenches near Arinentieres
on the 31st October, 1914, his body being
brought to England and buried in St. JNIartin's
Churchyard , Cheriton, on the 2nd December, 1914.
R.G.A.. ;iii(l Abijnr V,
Lieut I'liaiit Legget)
Preparatory .School,
MAJOR
BATTN.
CHANDOS
KlNCi'S
LEIGH, D.S.O.. 2nd
OWN SCOTTISH
BORDERERS,
born on the 29th
August, 1873, was
the elder son of the
Hon. Sir E .
Cliandos Leigh,
K.C.B., K.C., of 45,
Upper Grosvenor
Street, London, W.,
and a cousin of Lord
Leigh, of Stoneleigh.
He was educated at
Harrow and Cam-
bridge, and joined the K.O.S.B. from the
Warwickshire ililitia in May, 1895, becoming
Lieutenant in September, 1897. He served in
the South African War, being employed with
the Mounted Infantry. He was present at the
relief of Kimberley ; at operations in the Orange
Free State and Paardeberg, with actions at
Poplar Grove, Iloutnek (Thoba jNIountain).
Vet and Zand Rivers : in the Transvaal, ilay
and June, 1900, with actions near Johannes-
burg and at Diamond Hill ; operations in the
Oranges River Colony, witli actions at Witte-
bergen and BothavUle ; and at operations in
the Transvaal. Orange River and Cape Colonies
from November, 1900, to July. 1901. He was
mentioned in Despatches {'■ l.oiHlori (iazetto,"
10th September, 1901), was awai-ded the D.S.O.,
and received tlie (Queen's medal with live clasps.
Ill- was promoted Captain in .\|iril. lOiil. mikI
ill April, 1902, was detached from his rrgiiiu-nt
for employment willi the Egyptian Army.
\\'hile with it he saw active servicf? in the
Soudan in 1905, taking part in the operations
against the Nyam Nyam tribes in the Bahr-
el-Ciliazal Province. F^or his services he received
the Egyptian medal with clasp, and was awarded
the Orders of the Osmanieli and Medjidieh.
He was a line lioisrman .ind |"ilo player, and
was well known on the Cairo turf, where he more
than once headed the winning list of steeplechase
riders, both amateur and professional. He had
hunted from his boyhood in \\'arwickshire and
Northamptonshire, and more recently with the
Meath and Ward L^nion packs, when he was
quartered with his regiment in Ireland. He
also took honours in the open j\iiii]iing at the
horse show in Dublin.
He was with his battalion at Belfast during
the troubled time of the riots at Harland and
Wolff's shipyards in 1912, and through the
many succeeding labour troubles in Dulilin from
the strikes in August, 1913.
He gave his life at Mons on or about the 24th
August, 1914, where, although severely wounded
and in the open, he ordered his men to leave him
and retire across the Canal, so that there should
be no delay in blowing up the bridge in the face
of the advancing Germans.
After having been returned as '' missing " for
seven months, news was received in March, 1915,
from a returned disabled prisoner of the K.O.S.B.
that Major Leigh died and was buried at Boussu
sliortly after the action in wliicli lie was wounded.
He married, in June, 1913, Winifred, daughter
of the late Right Hon. A. F. Jeffreys. M.l'.. of
Burkham House. Hamiishire.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL LOUIS ST.
GRATIEN LE MARCHANT, D.S.O. ,
COMMANDING 1st BATTN.
EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 9tli
September. 191 I.
was the sixtli son of
the Rev. Robert Le
.Marchant, Rector of
Little Risington,
Gloucestershire, .iiid
was born cm the
2 n il D e c e m b e r ,
KS(»).
He entered the
East Lancashire
LEM— LEN
Re^ment from the Militia in Xoveiiiber. If<8t3,
beconung t'aptain in December, 1895. From
October, 1898, till 1002 he was Adjutant of liis
battalion. Lieutenant-Colonel Le Marchant
took part in operations with the relief force in
Cliitral in 1895, for which he received the medal
and clasp. He also served in the South African
War. 1900-^)2. wliile he was Adjutant of his
battalion, and was present at operations in the
Orange River Colony, including actions at
Karee .Siding, Vet and Zand Rivers, and at
operations in the Transvaal, including action
near Johannesbui^. He was mentioned in
Despatches (" London Gazette," 10th Sep-
tember. 1901. and 29th July. 1902), and was
awarded the D,S.O.. the Queen's medal with
three clasps, and the King's medal vrith fw^o
clasps. He succeeded to the command of the
1st Battalion of his regiment on the 23rd
.September. 1913.
Lieutenant-Colonel Le Marchant was killed at
Jji Ferte-soiu--Jouarre during the Battle of the
Marne, and was mentioned in .Sir John French's
Despatch of the 8th October, 191i.
L I E U T E N A N T - C O L O X E L HENRY
.\NDERSON LEMPRIERE, D.S.O.. p.s.c.
7th PRINCESS ROYALS DRAGOON
GUARDS.
who was killed in
action on the 23rd
December, 1911, was
the son of the late
Captain George Reid
Lempriere, RJE-
He was born on the
30th January, 1S67,
and entered the 7th
Dragoon Guards in
March, 1888, becom-
ing Lieutenant in
December, 189K From April, 1S96, to Novem-
ber. 1S99. lie was Adjutant of his regiment.
In the South African War he served as Adjutant
of his regiment, and later on the Staff as
D.A.A.G. He was present in 1900 at operations
in the Orange Free State, with actions at Zand
River : in the Transvaal, with actions near
.Johannesburg. Pretoria, and Diamond Hill : and
east of Pretoria, with actions at Belfa.st : also
at operations in the Cape Colony. In 1901 and
1902 he was present at operations in the Orange
River and Cape Colonies, and on the Zululand
frontier of Natal. For his services he was twice
mentioned in despatches (" London Gazette,"
lOth September, 1901. and 29th July, 1902);
given the rank of Brevet-ilajor, August, 1902 :
was awarded the D.S.O. : and received the
Queen's medal with five clasps and the King's
medal with two cla-sps. He was also placed on
the list of officers qualified for StafI employ-
ment in consequence of .services on the .Staff
in the field, and was a graduate of the Staff
College, passing out in December, 1904.
From !May, 1903, to January, 190i, he was
Brigade-ilajor of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, 3rd
Army Corps.
He was promoted Substantive Major in April,
1903, and for a short time, in 1903. was Adjutant
of the Cavalry Depot. He succeeded to the
command of his regiment in March, 1912. For
his services in the Great War he was mentioned
in .Sir .John French's Despatch of the 31st May,
1915.
CAPTAIN PENRY BRUCE LENDON.
M. V.O.. 3rd attd. 1st BATTN.
KINGS OWN ROYAL LANCASTER
REGIMEN T,.
was the son of
R. W. P, Lendon.
and grandson of the
Rev. W, P. Lendon.
and was bom at
Wandsworth on the
31st December.
1882,
He was educated at
.Sandroyd, Cobham,
Surrey, and at Ton-
bridge (Manor
House). He joined the 4th (ililitia) Battalion
of the regiment in 1901, and on the ^lilitia
being abolished passed to the Special Reserve,
from which he joined the 3rd Battalion King's
Own,
He was granted the il.V.O. (fifth class) for
carrying the Colours, in 1905, on the occasion
of King' Edward's presentation of Colours to
the battalion at Knowsley.
He had left the .Special Reserve in February,
1914, and was farming at Court Lodge. Chip-
stead, Surrey, but on the war breaking out he
immediately rejoined, and was attached to the
1st Battalion, which he accomi)anied to the
front.
He was shot at Le Touquet. Frclinghein, on
the 21st October, 1914, In an attempt to retake
some trenches Captain Lendon was advised to
take shelter in a loop-holed house near. He had
nearly reached it when a wounded man, under
fire in a ditch, called out for help. He went on
to the road, and on reaching the ditch was shot
through the lungs. The regiment was compli-
mented by the General Officer Commanding
for its good services, to which Captain Lendon
had by his bravery and hard work on all
occasions largely contributed.
Captain Lendon married Emmeline Gertrude,
youngest daughter of the late Rev. Canon
Richardson. Vicar of Northop. Flints, and left
three daughters : Priscilla. Eira. and Sheila,
age foiu", three, and two years respectively.
LEN--LEV
22S
MAJOR LORD BERNARD
CHARLES GORDON-LENNOX, 2nd
BATTN. GRENADIER GDARDS.
who was kilU-il in
action at Zillebeke
on the 10th Xoveui-
her, 1911, was the
third son of the
seventh Duke of
Richmond and Gor-
don, K.G.
Born in London on
the 1st May, 1878,
lie was educated at
Eton College and
Sandliurst, from
which he joined the Grenadier Guards in
February, 1898, becoming Lieutenant in Octo-
ber, 1899.
He took part in the South African War, being
present at the operations in the Orange Free
State, including the actions at Poplar Grove
and Driefontein, for wliich he received the
Queen's medal with two clasps. From 190i-06
he was seconded for service with the Chinese
Regiment at Wei-hai-Wei. He was pi-omoted
Captain in 1909, and was A.D.C. from Novem-
ber. 1907, to July, 1909, and Assistant Military
Secretary, from August, 1909, to November,
1911, to the General Officer Commanding-in-
Chief, Northern Command.
For his services in the war he was mentioned
in the Supplement to Sir John French's
Despatc-h of 14th January, 1915, published by
the War Office in April, 1915.
In 1907 Lord Bernard Gordon-Lennox married
Evelyn, second daughter of the first Lord
Loch, and left two sons : George Charles, born
!May, 1908 : and Alexander Henry Charles,
born April. 1911.
He was a member of the Guards' and Turf
Clubs, and was a thorough all-round sports-
man. Ills principal recreations being shooting,
fishing, cricket, and polo. By his death the
Army has lost a keen and brilliant officer, and
the world of sport an exponent of whom there
were very few equals.
2nd LIEUTENANT VICTOR ALOISIUS
LENTAIGNE. 2nd BATTALION
C O N N A L G H T RANGERS,
who was killed at the Battle of the Aisne on
the 14th September, 1914, aged twenty-one
years, was the youngest son of Sir John Len-
taigne, F.K. C.S.I. , of 42 Merrion Square,
Dublin.
2nd Lieutenant Lentaigne's commission in tlie
Connaught Rangers dated from January, 1914.
C.\PTAIN NORMAN JEROME
BEAUCHAMP LESLIE.3rd BATTN.RIFLE
BRIGADE, who was killed by a sniper while
on reconnaissance duty near Armenticres on
the 17th October. 1914, was born in London
on the 20th Nov-
ember, 1886, the
son of Colonel Sir
John Leslie, Bart.,
late of the Grenadier
Guards, now com-
manding the 12th
Battalion Royal In-
niskilling Fusiliers.
He was a grandson
of Sir John Leslie,
first Bart. .Glaslough,
County Monaghan.
He was educated at Eton, and the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, receiving his commission in the
Rifle Brigade in September, 1905, becoming
Lieutenant in October, 1909, and obtaining his
company in May, 1914. From Septeniber,
1908, to April, 1910, he was A.D.C. to Sir John
Maxwell in Egypt, and subsequently to Lord
Carmichael in Bengal.
Captain Leslie, who had received the Indian
Durbar medal, was fond of big-game shooting
and fencing. He was unmarried.
LIEUT. SIR RICHARD WILLIAM
LEVINGE, 10 th B .\ R T., D.L., 1st
LIFE GUARDS,
of Knockdrin Castle. ' ' '"^''
Westmeath, was the
son of the late Sii
WUliam Henry Le-
vinge and liis wife.
Emily J. (Lad\
Levinge) nee Sut-
ton, and was born
at Ryde, Isle of
Wight, on the 12tli
July, 1878.
He was educated at
Eton, and was first in the Sth Hussars, with
which he served in the .South African War,
taking part in operations in Cape Colony in
1900, and in the Transvaal in 1900-01, for
which he received the Queen's medal with two
clasps.
On .September 1st. 1914, he joined the 1st Life
(iuards from the Reserve of Officers, and was
ser^-ing with them when kiUed in the trenches
near Ypres on the 24th October, 1914.
His recreations were hunting, polo, golf, and
fishing. He was a member of the Cavalry
Club: the Kildare .Street Club. Dublin: and
St. George's Yacht Club, Kingstown.
.Sir Richard Levinge married Irene Marguerite,
elder daughter of the late J. W. C. Pix, Esq.,
of Bradford, and left one son, Richard Henry
Vere, born on the 30th April. 1011. who suc-
ceeds liim in the baronetcv.
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LIEUTENANT FRANCIS ELLISON
LEVITA, 4th (QUEENS OWN) HUSSARS,
who was killed in
I|HP|^^^^^^H^^H on the
f^^^PPil^^l October,
the only child of
Colonel Harry
Levita (who served
in the Soudan Expe-
dition of 1885).
He was born on the
29th Xoveniber,
1889. and was edu-
cated at Eton and
the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, joining thu 1th llussars in February,
1910, and becoming Lieutenant in March, 1911.
He was fond of hunting and polo, being one of
the polo team of liis regiment.
Lieutenant Levita was killed in an attempt to
save Captain Kinvan Gatacre. of the 11th Bengal
Lancers (attached to the 4th Hussars). The
incident was described by the Officer Conunand-
ing the regiment, in a letter dated the 25th
October. 1914, published in " The Times " of
the 30th October. 1914 :
" As Commanding Officer I would have written
before had I known your address to teU you how
grieved we all were to lose your boy and to
express to you our deepest sympathy. He,
with Captain Gatacre, had been sent out on a
dangei'ous reconnaissance, and they rode to-
gether straight up to a big monastery on the
top of a hill, having had direct orders from the
General to ascertain whether it was or w'as not
held by the German troops. The Germans let
them get up quite close, and then suddenly
opened a hot fire at short range. The officers
and the whole troop with them (about ten men)
turned to gallop back under cover when Gatacre
was shot. Your boy pulled up at once, and
rode back to see if he could help him, but had
only got a few yards when he, too, was shot.
It was a gallant intention, and. had he survived,
I should have recommended him for a decor-
ation. A few hom-s later the monastery was
captured, and the bodies of both Captain
Gatacre and your boy w-ere found where they
had been shot. Both must have fallen dead.
The Germans had stripped them of everything
except their actual clothes. I posted you the
other day your boy's sword, wliich we happened
to recover. We bvu-ied him with Gatacre in
the monastery, and the Eev. Mr. Guinness, our
brigade Chaplain, has a record of the exact spot.
The monastery is on the ^lountain des Cats,
near Godewaersvelde, about five miles north-
east of Hazebrouck."
2nd LIEUTENANT MAURICE ADEN
LEY. 3rd BATTN. THE BUFFS (EAST
KENT REGIMENT), was the third son of Sir
Francis Ley, Bart., of Epperstone Manor. Xotts,
and was born there on the 5th Autriist. 1895.
lie was educated at
Malvern College,
i\ here he was a great
athlete, and was
within one point of
winning the cham-
pionship of the Col-
lege (five hundred
boys) in each of two
years. He subse-
quently entered the
Royal ^lUitary Col-
lege, Sandhurst, and "^ "
received liis commis.sion on the l»l October. Uil4.
He was killed at Wytschaete, near Ypres, on
the 1st November. 1914. while endeavouring to
assist his wounded men in a retirement.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE VYVYAN
NAYLOR-LEYLAND, ROYAL HORSE
GUARDS.
who died on the 21st
September. 1914. of
wounds received in
action, was the
second son of the
late Sir Herbert Scar-
isbrick Xaylor- Ley-
land, first Baronet,
sometime Captain
2nd Life Guards, of
Xantclwyd Hall.
K u t h i n , No r t h
Wales, and heir-presumptive to his brother, the
second Bai-onet.
He was bom on the 11th March. 1892, and was
gazetted to the 16th Lancers in February, 1912.
In February, 1914. he was transferred to the
Royal Horse Guards, in which regiment he was
promoted Lieutenant in April. 1914.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK. ALEXANDER
CHARLES LIEBERT. NORTH SOMER-
SET YEOMANRY, formerly 2nd
LIEUTENANT 3rd DRAGOON GUARDS,
born at Bruges on the
9th March, 1882. was
the son of John
Frederick Liebert
and Lena Henrietta,
daughter of Jean
Sprut de Bay, of
Bruges, and a grand-
son of Edmund Lie-
bert, Swinton Hall.
Lancashire.
He was educated at
Bruges and Beau-
mont College, and in :Mai-ch, 1902, obtained a
commission from the Guernsej- Militia in the
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3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, from
which regiment he retired on his marriage, and
joined the North Somerset Yeoinanrj" as a
Lieutenant. He got liis troop on the 5th
August, 1914, shortly before the regiment
went out to Flanders, and being keen and
capable was soon given a squadron.
Captain Liebert married Frances Elizabeth,
younger daughter of A. t'hamberlayne Chiches-
ter, Esq., J.P., of Gipsy Hill, Pinhoe, Devon,
and on his marriage settled first at Sutton
Montis, on the Somerset side of the Blackmore
Vale Hunt, moving later to "' Tlie Elms,"
Wineanton. He was Assistant Secretary to the
Blackmore Vale Hunt, and .Secretary to the
Wineanton Race Conunittee. He was devoted
to hunting, a keen golfer and cricketer, and
always ready to help in any good work con-
nected witli the town, where his loss is keenly
felt.
Captain Liebert was killed on the 17th Xovem-
ber, 191-1. The first action in which the North
Somerset Yeomanry took a prominent part was
over a piece of ground only five hundred
yards square, and " B " Squadron, led by
Captain Liebert, held the first of a series of
trenches upon wliich a vigorous shell fire of
great intensity was directed. In the charge
in which he lost his life the Germans got to
witliin fifteen yards of our trenches, but the
attack was repulsed with very heavy loss to the
enemy.
LIEUTENANT ERIC CARR LIPTROTT.
6th J AT LIGHT INFANTRY,
was bom at Ply-
mouth in 1887, the
son of the Rev.
Boulton B. Liptrott,
Vicar of West Teign-
mouth, Devon, and
Mrs. Liptrott. He
was a grandson of
Lieutenant - General
John Liptrott, who
raised the 7th Bengal
Cavalry, known a.s
'• Liptrott's Horse."
Lieutenant Lipti-ott was educated at Sutton
Valence, where he was head boy for two years,
and won the mathematical leaving scholarship :
and at the R.M.C., Sandhurst, where he was the
best revolver shot of his year, 1906-07. He
joined the West Yorkshire Regiment at Rawal
Pindi in October, 1907, and served in the
^lohmand Expedition of 1908, receiving the
medal. He joined the 6th Jats in 1909, being
promoted Lieutenant in 1910.
Lieutenant Liptrott was mortally wounded in
the trenches at Festubert on tlie 21st November.
1914. He died five days later at Boulogne,
where he Ls buried. For gallant and distin-
guished service in the field he was mentioned
in .Sir John French's Despatch of the 14th
January, 1915. In a night attack on the 16th
November it was very largely due to his cool
leading of the left half of the company that
the affair was brought off successfully. During
this attack he .saved his wounded Subadar's
life by carrying him, under heavy fire, to
safet y.
He belonged to the Junior Army and Navy
Club : was good at all games, especially tennis,
golf, and hockey. He was captain of the
West Yorks Rugby team, and won his cap at
Sutton Valence.
C.\PT.\1N EDW.\RD R .\V M O N D
LLOYD. 2nd B.\TTN. ROYAL
INNISKILLING FUSILIERS,
bom at Camberley,
Surrey, on the 13th
November, 1882,
was the son of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Ed-
ward Lloyd, late 5th
Punjab Cavalry.
He was educated at
Bedford Granmiar
.School and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He was a good all-
round sportsman,
and represented his school in the PubUc -Schools'
Boxing Competition held at Aldershot in 1899.
He was also a keen follower of the hounds,
a frequent rider in point-to-point hunt steeple-
chases, and a good shot ^vith both gvin and rifle.
He was gazetted to the 1st Battalion Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers in October, 1902. becoming
Lieutenant in January, 1905. Subsequently
he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion in
Egypt, of which he was Assistant Adjutant and
afterwards Adjutant (appointed August, 1911).
For his services in the Great War he was
mentioned in .Sir John French's Despatch of
the 8th October, 1914.
He was shot on the 26th August, 1914, while in
the firing line with his men during the retire-
ment from Mons, and died on the 3rd Decem-
ber in a German hospital at Cambrai.
CAPTAIN MEYRICKE ENT-
WISTLE LLOYD, 1st BATTN.
ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS,
killed in action on the 20th October, 1914. was
the eldest son of the late ilr. Henry Lloyd, of
Dolobran. Isaf, Montgomeiy. whom he suc-
ceeded in 1902. He was bom on the 31st ilay.
1880, and, after serving for some months with
the embodied Militia, joined the R.W.F. in
June, 1900, obtaining liis Lieutenancy in Sep-
tember, 1907, and his company in April, 1911.
He was a good horseman and a keen follower
231
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of hounds. Ho embarked on the 4th Oftober,
1914, for Belgium, with his battalion which
formed part of the Vllt'.i Division, and was
killed near Bccelaere in the severe fighting
which took place at the commencement of the
first Battle of Ypres.
LIEUTENANT - COLONEL WALTER
REGINALD LLOYD. 1st BATTN. LOYAL
NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT,
^^^^^^^^ boi-ii on the l.Sth
r^^^^^^M August, 1868,
*^l^^l^^^^l the youngest son of
the late Sam p-
son Lloyd, formerly
Chairman of Lloyd's
Bank. and M. P.
for Plymouth and
for South Warwick-
shire, and of Jlrs.
Lloyd, of Danesrood,
Guildford, Surrey.
He was educated at
Eton, where he rowed in the Eight and at the
R.M.C., Sandhui'st. He joined the 2nd Battalion
of his regiment in 1888, becoming Captain in 1896.
From 1897 to 1901 he was Adjutant of his
battalion, and wa-s promoted Major in June,
1906. He served in .South Africa during the
last eighteen mouths of the Boer War, and was
pre.sent at operations in the Transvaal and
Cape Colony, receiving the Queen's medal with
four clasps.
Lieutenant- Colonel Lloyd was at fli-st reported
as missing at the end of .September, 1914, but
it was subsequently a.scertained that he had
been kiUed at the Battle of the Aisne on the
14th of that month. His battalion had been
ordered to attack a sugar factory in the
Chemin des Dames near Troyon, held by the
enemy. It transpired that Lietitenant-Colonel
Lloyd had continued to lead his men. though
wounded in the head, and fell later in the day,
shot through the heart.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd wa,s gazetted to the
command of his Ijattalion on the 12th Seijtember,
1914, only two days before his death.
CAPTAIN MICHAEL JOSEPH LOCHRIN,
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS,
who was killed in
action on the 23rd
October, 1914, was
boi-n on the 27th
:\lay. 18SS, and
took his diploma of
L.R.C.P. and S., Ire-
land, in 1904. He
joined the R.A.M.C.
in July, 1906. be-
coming Captain in
January, 1910.
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT RICHARD WILLIAM
MARK LOCK WOOD, 2nd BATTN.
COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
was born in London
on the 28th :>Iarch,
1891. the only son
of WUliam Robert
Percival Lockwood,
and a grandson of
tlie late General
-Mark Wood.
He was educated at
Mr. Lock's School.
Eversleigh, Berks,
and at Eton, where
he was in Mr. Bren-
ton's House. He joined the 2nd Battalion
Coldstream Guards on probation in 1910, and
was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on the 1st Feb-
ruary, 1913. ^ '«1
2nd Lieutenant Lockwood was serving with his
battalion when he was killed on the 14th
September, 1914, at .Soupir, after having carried
his wounded Captain out of danger, with the
help of Drummer Harris.
He was a member of the (iuards' Club and of
Pratt's.
MAJOR LIONEL STU.\RT LOGAN.
SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT CORPS,
INDIAN ARMY,
was the son of the
late Major-General
Archibald George
DouglasLogan,
Madras StaSf Corps,
and was born at
Mercara. India, on
the 4th January,
1874.
He was educated first
at Dover College,
afterwards at the
Royal ^lilitary College, Sandhurst, and having
passed for the Indian Army was gazetted to an
unattached 2nd Lieutenancy in Octobei", 1894.
In December of the following year he was
appointed to the Indian Staff Corps, becoming
Lieutenant in the 20th ;Madras Infantry in
January, 1897, and Captain in the 80th Carnatic
Infantry in October, 1903. In October, 1912,
he was transferred to the .Supply and Transport
Corps, Indian Army, with promotion to the
rank of Major.
^lajor Logan was accidentally killed on the
2nd November. 1914, while on active ser\"ice in
Xorthern France with the 3rd Lahore Divi-
sional .Supply Train. Indian Expeditionary
Force.
He was a member of the East India United
Service Club, and his recreations were tennis and
golf.
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LIEUTENANT FREDERICK LONGMAN,
4th BATTN. THE ROYAL FUSILIERS
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT)-
was tlic Sfcoiifl son
111' ('. .1. Longman,
Ks(i.. of rp|) Hall,
Uraugliiiii;. Ware,
and .Mrs. I.oiifinian,
daughter of the late
Sir John Evans,
F.R.S., K.C.B. He
was born at 27, Nor-
folk Square, London,
W .. on the 9th Jlay,
1890, and was edu-
cated at Harrow ami
Pembroke College, Cambridge.
He was an enthusiast for military training,
having 1 et-n at Harrow an active member of the
School Corps, and at Cambridge of the T'nivei-
sity O.T.C. He left the latter in 191(1. on
receiving a coniniission in the Hertfordshire
Territorial Heginient. At that time it was
desired to raise a section of twenty-five men in
Braughing, the village in which he lived, and he
set himself so energetically to work that he re-
cruited no fewer than forty-one men. He was
a member of the local Rifle Club, and spent
liuu-h time in training lads from the village
school at tlie miniature range.
He was gazetted to the Royal Fusiliers as 2nd
Lieutenant in February, 1912, becoming Lieu-
tenant on the 24th August, 1911. He was
wounded at the Battle of the Marne, where
four bullets passed through his clothes, besides
one that struck him in the arm. He was sent
back to the base, where he quickly recovered
and rejoined his battalion at the front, to be
killed in action on the ISth October, 1914.
Lieutenant Longman's cheerful manners and
sterling character gained him many friends,
and caused him to be universally loved. He was
unmarried.
LIEUTENANT JAMES RAYMOND
McCLINTOCK LONSDALE 4th (THE
QUEEN'S OWN) HUSSARS,
born on the IGth
March, 1894, was the
eldest sr)n of Mr.
and Jlrs. Thomas
Lonsdale, of Ilooton,
Cheshire, and grand-
son of the late Lieu-
t c n a n t-C o 1 o n e 1
(i. .\. .T. McClintock,
of Fellows Hall,
County Armagh, and
Catherine Caroline
Brownlow, voungest
Bart., of Tynan Abbey. He was also a nc'|ili(w
of Sir .lohn B. Lonsdale. Bart.. .M.I'.
He u as educated at Wixeiiford. Wokingham,
and at Eton (Mr. Marten's House). He left
Eton in .Tamiary, 1912, pa-ssed into the R.M.C.,
.Sandhurst, in September of the same year, and
received his conunission in September, 1913,
becoming Lieutenant in .\ugust, 1914.
He was a keen sportsman, played polo for his
regiment on several occasions in and around
Publin in 1914, was a good rider to hounds,
and did a little steeplechase riding. He won the
Sandhurst heavyweight point-to-point in 1912,
and i-ode in one or two hunt meetings in 1914.
I f I- also won the Ladies' Cup in Wirral Hunt
point-to-point on his sister's horse in 1914.
On the 1,3th October Lieutenant Lonsdale was
sent out with a party of twenty-five men to
make a reconnaissance. He successfully accom-
plished the duty assigned him, and after report-
ing he bravely returned undei' fire to search for
some men of his party who were mi.ssing. He
brought the men back, but was himself severely
wounded, and died in the Base Hospital at
Boulogne on the 29th October, 1914.
His remains were brougiit to England and
interred in the family grave at Hooton, Cheshire.
The body, met by detachments of the Liverpool
and Cheshire Regiments, was conveyed to the
cemetery on a gun carriage, and the funeral
was carried out with full military honoins.
LIEUTENANT HERBERT REUBEN
LOOMES, 1st BATTN. LOYAL NORTH
LANCASHIRE REGIMENT,
who is believed to
have been killed on
the 14th September,
1914, aged twent>-
five, at Vendresse,
near Bourg, on the
Aisne, but whose
name has not ap-
peared in the official
casualty lists, was
the eldest son of
.Mr. and -Mrs. R.
Loonies. 83, Carle-
ton Road, Tufnell Park, N.. now of " Tre-
genna." Prideaux Road, Eastbourne.
He was born on the 9th February, 1889, and
was educated at Highgate School, and by
private tuition under Lieutenant^Colonel James,
Bushmead Hall, Bedford. He joined the Loyal
North Lancashire Regiment from the Special
Reserve in May, 1909, becoming Lieutenant in
April, 1912. For two years he had been Assis-
tant Adjutant of his battalion.
He won several prizes for shooting, and com-
peted in the annual Military Tournament in
jumping and tent-pegging. His recreations
daughter of Sir James Mathew Slronge, second included hunting, polo, and shooting.
233
LOR
In the early part of the war he was invalided
after the Battle of the Marne. but rejoined his
battalion on the 13th September, 1914. Early
on the 14th the battalion was called out to
storm a factory across the Aisne. He led his
men in an open charge, and was reported by
them to have been shot in the neck. He con-
tinued to call out the range at which they were
to fire, and wliilst one of his men was bandaging
his wound they were both shot through again
fatally.
He was reported missing a few days later, and
never heard of since. As the Germans later in
the day came past our lines of dead and wounded
his bodv was never recovered.
MAJOR CH.\RLES BUXTON LORING,
37th LANCERS BALUCH HORSE . attd.
POONA HORSE,
11 who was killed on
the 21st December,
1914, was the eighth
son of the late Rev.
E. H. Loring. Eector
of Gillingham, Nor-
folk, and a nephew
of General Sir John
Watson, V.C.
He was born at
Gillingham on the
Ifith October, 1871,
and was educated at .Marlborough (Star), of
which he was a Foundation scholar, from 18S5-9,
and the R.^I.C, Sandhui-st, out of which he
passed with honoxirs. He joined the Durham
Light Infantry as 2nd Lieutenant in November,
1891, and was transferred to the 27th Lancers
(Baluch Hoi-se) in :May, 1893, with the rank of
Lieutenant. He was promoted Captain in the
Indian Army in July, 1901, and Major in
November, 1909. He was for a time Second in
Command of the Zhob ^lilitia, and afterwards
commanded it from 1908-11.
When the war broke out he was on leave in
England, and on rejoining trained recruits at
York Barracks tUl September, 1914. He at
first served with the 2nd Dragoons (Scots
Greys), but at the end of November was at-
tached to the 34th Poona Horse, and was ser\-ing
with that regiment when lie was shot by a con-
cealed machine gun, after having got into
German trenches at Givenchy on the 21st
December. 1914, while attempting to carry a
wounded native officer to the rear.
Major Loring married May, daughter of the
late Major-fieneral W. 1{. Alexander. Indian
Army, and left three children.
He was a member of the Cavalry Club, and was
keen or all games and sports, being a particularly
good polo player. He was known as the finest
No. 4 in North India.
and at Trinitv Hall,
LIEUTEN.\NT - COLONEL WALTER
LATH.\M LORING, COMMANDING THE
2nd BATTN. ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE
REGIMENT,
was the sixth son of
the Rev. E. H. Lor-
ing, Rector of Gil-
lingham, .Suffolk,
and was born at the
Rectory there on the
3rd April, 1808. He
was educated at the
Fauconberge
School, Beccles, and
Marlborough
College, where he
gained a scholarship,
Cambridge. As a boy he had lived with his
mother at Ewshot, where all the members of
the family were held in high esteem. He had the
misfortune to lose liis mother and sister by the
foundering of the steamer in which they were
going to Australia to ^-isit a brother of the
Colonel.
Joining the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in
1889, he served with it in India, Malta, and,
with the ^lounted Infantry, in the Transvaal.
He obtained his steps as follows : Lieutenant in
1890 : Captain, 1898 : Major. .3rd November,
1904, succeeding to the command of the 2nd
Battalion in 1914, and was antedated in his
rank two years.
The history of the 2nd War«icks. led by their
gallant Colonel, forms one of the many stirring
episodes in the earlier part of the Great War.
The battalion returned from Malta in Septem-
ber, 1914, and after a few weeks at home landed
at Zeebrugge early in October. Ftom the 19th
of that month they were almost continually
engaged -ivith the enemy, near Ypres and Menin.
On the 23rd October the Warwicks and Welsh
PusUiers were on the left of the line. A large
force of the enemy unexpectedly appeared on
the flank, and it was with difficulty, after severe
fighting, that the Warwicks were hberated
from a dangerous position. During this action
Lieutenant-Colonel Loring was struck on the
foot by shrapnel, and, though urged to go back
to the hospital to have liis wound attended to.
refused to do so, and continued in his command,
with his foot bound up in a puttee, as he could
no longer get a boot on. After the action the
General commanding the Di^nsion came to see
the battalion, and liighly complimented their
Colonel for his skill, and the battalion generally
for its bravery and endurance. Next day. the
24th October, 1914, the battalion was again
hotly engaged, near Becelaere. and the fighting
was thus described by a General Officer :
" October 24th. Again an attack on the line,
and at 8 a.m. news that the line was broken.
The Wamicks were sent up. They behaved
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234
spli'iididly : drove back the (ieriiiaiis, cleared a
wood, and saved the situation. Tliey lost one
hundred and nine men and several officers, in-
cluding the Colonel. .Such a good sort, his
death is a terrible loss to us." In this action,
being no longer able to walk, Lieutenant-
Colonel Loring insisted on leading his batta-
lion on horseback, thus, of coin-se, exposing
himself to far greater risk. Two of his chargers
were shot under him, and he himself was killed
instantaneously.
A Staff Officer, who subsequently returned to
England, and who was present during the fighting,
described the general admiration among officers
and men of Lieutenant-Colonel Loring's courage
and example, and the devotion of both officers
and men of the Warwicks to their Colonel.
A wounded N.C.O., who was in the action,
wrote of him : "I am sorry to say our gallant
Colonel was killed the same day, and, my
word ! he was a brave man. He was always in
front of his regiment. I have only written
what I have seen with my owm eyes, and it is
enough to make anyone's heart bleed."
While in England Lieutenant-Colonel Loring had
been, from 1908-12, Staff Officer of the Officers'
Training Corps for the Birmingham and Bristol
Universities and the Royal Agricultui'al College
at Cirencester. He was known as one of the best
types of Englishmen, a gallant soldier, a fine
gentleman, and a Churchman who took his
faith \\'ith him into everyday life. He was
particularly interested in lads, and did much
valuable work in connection with the C.E.M.S.
For his services in the Great War he was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
14th .January, 1915.
Lieutenant-Colonel Loring mariied the youngest
daughter of the Rev. R. M. .Alarshall. lately
Rector of Hedenham, Norfolk, and left ten
childi-en : Constance and Grace (twins), born
1899 ; Henry, born 1900 ; Edward Christopher,
born 1901 ; Patience, born 1904 ; JladeUne,
born 1905 : Faith, born 1910 • Marion, born
1912 : and Da^nd and Joan (twins), born 1914.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD ARTHUR
LOUSADA, 2nd BATTN. ROYAL SUSSEX
REGIMENT.
who was shown in
the monthly cas-
ualty list published
in December, 1914.
as killed in action, no
date or place being
given, was born on
the 19th November,
1888. He joined the
Royal Sussex Regi-
ment in February,
1909, and became
Lieul.,-n;iiit in L>ctolj.ji. 1910.
C.M.G., 1st
CAPTAIN (tcnip.i ARTHUR REGINWLD
LOVEB.\ND. 1st BATTN. WEST YORK-
SHIRE REGT.,
was born at \\'ark-
leigh Rectory, North
Devon, on the 7th
November, 1888.
He was the eldest
son of the late Rev.
M. T. Loveband,
\'icar of Burrington.
North Devon, and
-Mrs. T. loveband.
of Fxeter. Ho was a
nephew of Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Arthur Loveband,
Royal I)ublin Fusiliers.
Captain Loveband was educated at Eastbouine
College, and .ioined the West Yorkshire Regi-
ment in India from the Special Reserve in
December, 1909, becoming Lieutenant in .Janu-
ary. 1912. and Temporary Captain in November,
1914, while engaged in this war.
He wa-s killed in the trenches near Arnientieres
on the 6th December, 1914.
LIEUTENANT HENRY STANLEY'
LOWE, 2nd BATTN. WORCESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT,
who died on the
21st October, 1914,
in Paris, of
wounds received in
action at the Battle
of the Aisne on the
20th September.
1914, was the young-
est son of the late
Rev. E. J. Lowe,
of Stallingborough,
Lincolnshii-e, and of
Mrs. Lowe, of Wetherby Mansion^. I.i.h.lini. S.W.-
He Was born on the 7th February, 1890, at
Stallingborough A'icarage, and «a.s educated
at Rugby (^lichell). wliich he entered in 1904.
He was gazetted to the Worcester. Regt. in Nov..
1909, and promoted Lieutenant in IMarch, 1913.
LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY ARCHIBALD
LOYD, 2nd BATTN
who was killed in
action at Zonnebeke,
near Y'pres, on the
13th November,
1914, was the third
son of Mr. A. K.
Loyd, K.C., formerly
M.P. for Nortli
Berks, and Mrs.
Loyd, 2 1 Cadogan
Square, London,
S.W., and East
Hendred, Berks.
SCOTS GUARDS,
235
LUM— LYA
He was born in London in 1890, and was
educated at Kton and .Magdalen College, Oxford.
He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Scots
Guards in Feburary, 1913, and was promoted
Lieutenant on the 24th September, 1914.
In the Great War he was attached, witli a
cyclist company, to tiie Mounted Troops of the
Ilnd Division. In recognition of liis sei vices
during tlie rearguard actions in the retirement
from Mons he was awarded the Croix de Cheva-
lier de la Legion d'Honneur, and was also
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of
the 31st January, 1915.
He was killed by shrapnel while engaged with
the cyclist company in holding an entrenched
position as escort to guns, whicli were being
fiercely shelled by the enemy (" The Times,"
25th November, 1914).
Ho was a member of the Guards', Junior Army
and Navy, and Pratt's Clubs, and was fond of
rowing and hunting.
2nd LIEUTENANT RICHARD JOHN
LUMLEY,llth (PRINCE ALBERT'S OWN)
..„- , . HUSSARS,
who was killed in
action near Ploeg-
steert on the 17th
October, 1914, was
the eldest son of
Brigadier - General
the Hon. Osbert
Liuiiley, youngest
son of the ninth
Earl of Scarborough,
and was born on the
30th June, 1894, at
Sandbeck Park, Rotherham.
He was educated at Ludgrove (Mr. G. O.
Srnitli), Eton (C. M. Wells), and the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, receiving his commission in the
lltli Hussars in February, 1914.
2nd Lie\itenant Lumley, whose recreations were
cricket, football, polo, and hunting, was a
member of the Cavendish Club.
CAPTAIN CHARLES RAMSAY
LUMSDEN, 1st BATTN. GORDON
HIGHLANDERS,
who was killed on
tlie 25th August,
1914, in action at
Jlons, was the second
son of the late Mr.
W. H. Lumsden, of
Balmedie, Aberdeen-
shire, and of Mr?.
lAimsden.
He was born in
June, 1880, at Bal-
medie, Aberdeen-
shire, and was educated at Clieani and Eton.
He wa,s one of five brothers serving in the
Army, and joined the Gordon Highlanders from
the Militia in July, 1899, becoming Lieutenant
in December of the same year. He was a keen
sportsman and golfer.
He served in the Soutli African War, taking
part in the advance on Kimberley, with actions
at Jlagersfontein : operations in 1900 in the
Orange Free State and Paardeberg, including
actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Houtnek
(Thoba Mountain), Vet and Zand Rivers ;
in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, and near
Johannesburg, at Belfast and Lydenberg ;
in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, and in Cape
Colony nortli and south of tlie Orange River ;
also at further operations in tlie Transvaal
between 1900 and 1902. He was mentioned in
Despatches ("London Gazette," 10th September,
1901), and received the Queen's medal with five
clasps and the King's medal «ith two clasps.
He was promoted Captain in February, 1904.
CAPTAIN CHARLES GEORGE LYALL,
RESERVE OF OFFICERS, attd.
LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 18th
October, 1914, was
the son of Dr. David
Lyall, R.N., Deputy
Inspector-General of
Hospitals. F.L.S.
He was born at West
Hartlepool on the
28th February. 1871.
was educated at
Cheltenham College,
and received his first
commission in July,
in November. 1901.
He served in the NUe Expedition of 1898, being
present at the Battle of Khartoum, for which
he received the British medal and the Eg>-ptian
medal with clasp.
Taking part in the South African ^^'ar, he was
present, in 1900, at operations in the Orange
Free State and at Paardeberg ; actions at
Poplar Grove, Karee Siding, Vet and Zand
Rivers ; operations in the Tra4|svaal. with
actions near Johannesburg and Pretoiia; also at
later operations in the Transvaal in 1 90 1 , receiving
the Queen's medal with four clasps. He took a
keen interest in all farming and agricultural
matters, and was fond of motoring and shooting.
In 1907 he retired from the Lincolnshire Regi-
ment, entering the Reserve of Officers, from
which he was called up for duty on active
service, with his own regiment. He was killed
during night movements on the 18th October,
1914, and was buried by liis regiment at La
Cliqueterie Farm, Herties, France.
Captain Lyall married Marjorie, third daughter
of the late Alfred B. Burton, of Lincoln, and left
1892. iHcoiiiing Captain
LYO— LYS
2:!6
two ehildicn : IMarjoiic .Toyco, born Soptemlxf.
Ut03: and John David. Iioiii XovciiilxT, liMil.
LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER PATRICK
FRANCIS LYON, 1st BATTN.
GORDON HIGHLANDERS,
licini in Liiiidciii <iii
llir .)th August,
ISSS, was the foiirtli
SI ,11 ,)l' the late Mr.
Wall.r F. K. Lyon
ami cit Mrs. Lyon,
Taiitallon Lodge,
Xorth Berwick,
lie was educated at
Haileybury College,
where he was in the
XXX(2ndXV)fo,,t-
ball team, and at I ln'
R.^r.C. Sandhurst, into which he pa.ssed
second. He was gazetted to tlie (iordon High-
landers in May, 1907, and got his step in Marcli.
1909. He was a qualified 1st Class Interpreter
in German, French, and Russian. In 1912
he was specially employed at the War OHke.
and in 1914 entered for the Staff College, Ijut
the result has not been pulilished.
Lieutenant A. P. F. Lyon was killed at Bertry
on the 27th August, 1914. His younger brother
• — Lieutenant C. J. Lyon, 1st Battalion Boyal
Scots Fusiliers — was killed near Yi^res on the
14th November, 1914.
He was a member of the Junior Army and
X'avy Club.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES JAMES
LYON, ACTING ADJUTANT 1st BATTN.
ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS,
born in London on
the 28th "March,
1S90, was the fifth
son of the late Wal-
ter F. K. Lyon.
He was educated at
St ul'hington School ;
at Haileybury Col-
lege, where he was
in the XXX (2nd
X\) : and at the
K.M.C., Sandhurst,
into which he passed
first. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in 1909.
Next year he served with the Mounted Infantry
at Harrismith, South Africa. He was promoted
Lieutenant in October, 1911, and was mentioned
in Sir John French's Despatch of 8th October.
1914. He was killed near Y'pres on the 14th
November, 1914. His elder brother, Lieutenant
A. P. F. Lyon, 1st Battalion Gordon High-
landers, w-as killed on the 27th August, 1914.
Lieutenant C. J. Lyon was a member of tlie
.lunior Army and Navy Club, and of the X'ew
Club, North Berwick. He played polo and golf.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES LINDSAY
CLAUDE BOWES LYON, 3rd. (attd 1st)
BATTN. THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL
HIGHLANDERS!,
wild was born on t lie
l.")th September,
1S8.T, was the eldest
son of the lion.
Francis and Lady
Aimc Bowes Lyon,
of Hi.lley Hall,
N^ort li u mlierl a iid,
and grandson of
Claude, tliirteciitli
Earl of Strathmore.
and of Alexander,
twenty-sixth Earl of Crawford.
He was educated at Eton, and subsequently
llnishing an engineering training at the Arm-
strong College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
he became a member of the Institute of Civil
I'higineers. For three years he was in the Forfar
and Kincardine Royal GarrisonArtillery(^Iilitia),
and on this being disbanded he joined the 3rd
(Special Reserve) Battalion Black Watch in 1910.
He completed an engineering appointment in
India with Messrs. Turner, Hoare & Co., of
Bombay, and on his way home, via Japan and
Canada, was one of the few survivors of the
s.s. " Empress of Ireland," which was svmk in
the St. Lawrence on the 28th May, 1914.
Early in September, 1914, Lieutenant Bowes
Lyon was attached to the 1st Battalion of his
regiment in France, where it formed jiart of (he
1st Army Corps.
During the fighting on the Aisne he was slightly
wounded, but remained on duty, and was woun-
ded a second time in Flanders. He was killed in
action on the 23rd October, 1914, near Boesinghe.
Lieutenant Bowes Lyon was a keen sportsman
and an enthusiastic lover of shooting, cricket,
polo, and golf.
MAJOR NIGEL LUCIUS SAMUEL
LYSONS, 2nd BATTN. THE KING'S OWN
(ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action on the 21st
October, 1914, was
the son of the late
C anon S a m u e 1
Lysons.
He was born on the
21st May, 187(), and
joined the Royal
Lancashire Regi-
ment from the
Mihtia in May, 1907,
l)ecoming Lieuten-
ant in May, 1898, and Captain in September,
190 L He served in the .South African W'ar,
taking part in the relief of Ladysmith, with
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MAC
the action at Spion Kop : the operations and
actions at Vaal Krans, on the Tugela Heights,
and Pieter's Hill : in the Transvaal and Xatal
in "t900. including actions at Laing's Xek ; also
at operations in the Transvaal in 1901. He
received the Queen's medal with five clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
From July, 1902, to .July, 190-5, he was Adjutant
of his battalion, and he obtained his Majority
in August, 1913.
2nd LIEUT. ALISTER
BATTN. THE BLACK
Mc AN DREW. 1st
WATCH ROYAL
HIGHLANDERS ,
was the son o£ the
late Roderick
McAndrew, and was
bom at Fodderdy,
Dingwall, Roes-shire,
in October, 1S7.5.
He was educated at
Fodderdy Public
School and Dingwall
Academy, and,
haying, joined the
:Biack Watch in 1S94,
served in the ranks of that regiment for seven-
teen years, many of which were spent in India.
He took part with it in several engagements in
the South African War. for which he received the
Queen's and the King's m.edals with clasps, and
was afterwards awarded the Good Conduct
medal. On the outbreak of the Great War he
accompanied his battalion to the Continent, and
in recognition of his enthusiasm and aptitude
for military duties was given a commission in
his own regiment in November, 1914.
He was shot through the heart by a German
sniper at Givenchy on the 24th December, 1914,
while leading a section of his men in a charge.
2nd Lieutenant McAndrew, who was unmarried,
was well known in Edinburgh, wrhere he had
been in one of the officers' messes at the Castle
for some years. He was much liked by the
officers and exceedingly popular with all who
happened to meet him on visits to the fortress.
LIEUTENANT IAN MACLEAN MAC-
ANDREW. 1st BATTN. SEAFORTH
HIGHLANDERS,
born at East
Haugh, Perthshire,
on the 30th October.
1S91, was the only
son of Major and
Mrs. J. M. Mac-
andrew, of Delnics
Muir, Nairn. Scot-
land. He was a
grandson of the late
Major^General W.
Lambert Tonge.R.A.,
of Caynton Hall, Salop, and a great-grandson of
the late Lieutenant-General W. Jervois, K.H.
He was educated at Winchester (190.5-10),
where he was an esliibitioner and King's silver
medallist for Latin Speech, being also in the foot-
ball XV and winning numerous cups for running,
one hundred yards, quarter-mile, and other
races. He went to New College, Oxford,
from 1910-13, where he took his degree of B.A.
in history, with second-class honours, in June,
1913. He was gazetted to the Seaforth High-
landers with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant,
antedated to September. 1911, and posted to
the 1st Battalion at Agra, India.
He went to France with his regiment as part
of the Indian Expeditionary Force, being pro-
moted Ijeatenant in September, 1914. On
the 6th November he was wounded, but at once
returned to duty. He was killed in action on
the 23rd December. 1914. at Festubert. Flanders,
while gallantly rallying the men around him of
his own and other regiments, and holding,
against enormous odds, a position which had
been exposed by the abandonment of the
trenches on his left, thus averting a flank attack
on his regiment. During the earlier part of the
war Lieutenant Macandrew had attracted
attention by his ability, courage, and resource,
and was mentioned in Sr John French's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915, for gallant
and distinguished service in the field.
He was a member of the Junior United Service
Club, and was fond of shooting and all outdoor
games.
2nd LIEUTENANT GEORGE HENRY
McAULIFFE. 1st BATTN. QUEEN'S
OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS,
was fiilleil in action
on the 29th October,
1914, at Zillebeke,
near Tpres.
He was born
in London on the f
26th October, 1S74.
and in November,
1897, enlisted in the
2nd Gordon High-
landers. Having risen
to the rank of Com-
pany Sergeant-
3Iajor, he was, on the 10th October. 1914.granted
a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd
Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
He had previously served in the South African
War. for services in which he was mentioned in
Lord Roberts's Despatches, and received the
King's and Queen's medals. He also had the
Delhi Durbar medal of 1911.
2nd Lieutenant McAuIiffe married Lily Caroline,
daughter of the late Mr. and >Irs. Biddis. and
left one dau^ter, LUy 3Iary, bom on the
9th November, 1913.
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2nd LIFATENANT ALFRED McBRIDE,
2nd BATTN. THE HIGHLAND LIGHT
INFANTRY, who dit-d on the 1st Novfiiiber,
1M14, of wouiul.s received in action, was only
gazetted to the Army on the 10th October,
1914. He had pre\nously served in the Gordon
Highlanders in which he reached the rank of
Sergeant.
CAPTAIN ROBERT JIM
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McCLEVERTY,
t h SIKHS.
born on the 27th
February, 1882, at
Newark. Xotting-
hanishire, was the
third son of Colonel
J. McCIeverty. late
Slierwood Foresters.
His grandfathers
were General W. A.
JlcCleverty and .Sur-
geon-General H. H.
Ma.ssy, C.Ii.
He was educated at Malvern College, and
received his commission in the Duke of Welling-
ton's (West Riding Regiment) on the 8th ilay,
1901. With it he served in the South African
War, 1901-02, taking part in operations in the
Transvaal, for which he received the Queen's
medal with five clasps.
Captain McCIeverty was transferred to the
36th Sikhs, Indian Army, as Lieutenant, in
December, 1903, and subsequently to the 47th
Sikhs in February. 1904. He became Captain
in May. 1910, and was personal A.ssistant to
the Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces,
from May. 1913, to May. 1914.
He was killed w'hile leading his company in an
attack on Neuve Chapelle on the 28th October.
1914 After his death he was mentioned in
Sir John French's Despatch of the 1 4th January.
1915, for his gallantry.
Captain .McCIeverty was a member of the .lunior
Army and Navy Club. He was a well-known
hockey player, and won the ,'lndian Army
officei-s' two hundred and twenty yards race in
record time.
C.\PT. ROBERT J.WIES McCLOUGHIN,
1st B.\TTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGT.,
born in Bombay.
.Southern India, on
the 9th June, 1881.
was the son
of Thomas .T .
McCloughin, Post
Trust, Calcutta. He
was educated at
Bishop Cotton
School. Bangalore.
India, and later by
tutors. He joined the
Bedfordshire Regi-
ment from the 3rri Battalion K.O.S.B.'s in 1905,
and was promoted Captain in January, 1913.
From 1909-11 he served with the West African
Frontier Force on the Gold Coast, and subse-
quently w-as A.D.C. to the Governor of the Gold
Coa.st and to the Governor of British East Africa.
He was fond of games, always found a place in
any first-class side at polo, and won numerous
prizes for racing and tennis.
Captain McCloughin was serving with his
battalion when he was killed at Missy-sur-
Aisne on the 14th .September, 1914. A wood was
being attacked when he ventured into the open
to select a fresh firing position for his men. He
was hit twice, and subsequently died of his
wounds. He was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 8th October, 1914, "for
gallantry under fire and soldierly qualities
displayed on every occa.sion since the beginning
of the war." His CO. and brother olTicei-s,
writing of him. said the battaUon had lost a
very brave and gallant officer, and a kind-hearted
and unselfish friend, and it was largely due to
liiin that his men did so well in every action.
Captain McCloughin married Flora E.. daughter
of Thomas P. .Savage, Educational Department.
India, and left one child. Flora ICileen Mary,
born August, 1914.
RUSSELL McCLURE,
ALEXANDRA'S
Li HUSSARS,
M.\JOR CHARLES
19th O U E E N
OWN R O Y A
born on the 16th
ilay, 1875, at Cliff
House, Wemyss
Bay, Renfrewshire,
was the son of the
late .Tames Howe
McClure. Solicitor,
filasgow. and Char-
lot t e his wife,
daughter of the
late James Russell,
Q.C. He was edu-
cated at Kelvinside
Academy, Glasgow, and for two years at
the (ilasgow L'niversity. He then, in Octoljer
1894. entered Magdalen College, Oxford, as a
commoner, and took honoui-s in the Final School
of Lit. Hum. in 1S9S. During 1899 he read as
a pupil in the chambers of Mr. E. ^f. Pollock
(now K.C., M.P.). He received a University
commission in the 19th Hussars in 1900, and
in November of that year went out to join his
regiment in .South Africa. He served there till
the end of the war, being present at operations
in Cape Colony, the Transvaal, and Orange River
Colony, receiving the Queen's medal with five
clasps, and remained in South Africa tUl January.
1904. He became Lieutenant in 1901. Captain
in February. 1907. and Major in March. 1914.
On the outbreak of the Great War Major McClure
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went to France \rith the IVth Division of the
Expeditionary Force, leaving England on the
22nd August in conunand of " B " Squadron
of liis reginient. He went straight into action at
Le Cateau, taking an active part in the i-etirement,
and thereafter in the Battles of the Marne and
the Aisne. Early in October the British troops
moved to Belgium, and there his last active
operations were carried out. Under his com-
mand, his squadron was the first of the Allied
forces to enter BaUleul on the lith October.
Major McClure was killed in action at Le Gheer,
near Ploegsteert, Belgium, on the 21st October,
1914, and was buried on the battlefield near
where he fell. He was mentioned in .Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 191.5.
He wa.s a member of the Cavalry and Batli
Clubs, and was unmarried.
CAPTAIN JOHN HUGH G.\RDINER
Mccormick. 4th attd. 2nd battn.
ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGI.MENT,
_ _ was the eldest son of
S. S. McCormick,
J.P., S h a n d o n ,
ilonkstown,
County Dublin, and
was born there on
the 3rd .March. 1SS6.
He was educated at
South Eastern Col-
lege, Ramsgate, and
joined the 6th Bat-
talion Royal War-
wickshire Regiment
as 2nd Lieutenant in 1906. The 6th afterwards
became the 4tli Battalion, in which he became
Lieutenant in 1909, and Captain in .September,
I9I4. He was attached to the 2nd Battalion for
active service, and left with it for the front in
October, 1914. He was wounded in action on the
19th Oct., 1914, and ha^^ng been taken prisoner
died at a convent hospital at Menin the same day.
He had resided for some years at WUliamstown
House, Kells, where he entered keenly into
country life.
2nd LIEUT. P.\TRICK McDONAGH,
SPECIAL RESERVE, QCEENS OWN
ROY.\L WEST KENT REGIMENT).
was born at Cong,
County Mayo, Ire-
land, on the 1st
December, 1893, and
was the son of Mrs.
ilcDonagh, of
Loughgall, Co. Ar-
magh, Ireland. He
was a nephew of the
three Messrs. Penn-
ing, of Waterford,
Edinburgh, and Xew
York respectively.
2nd Lieutenant McDonagh was educated at St.
Patrick's College, Armagh ; at St. Malachy's
College : and at Queen's University, Belfast.
At the latter he was in the University contin-
gent of the Officers' Training Corps from
October, 1912, to May, 1914.
On the 2nd May, 1914, he was gazetted to a
commission in the Queen's Own Royal West
Kent Regiment. In the Great War he was with
the 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment, to which he
was attached for ser%-ice, and was killed in
action on the 18th Xovember, 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT EVAN RON.\LD
HORATIO KEITH MAC DONALD,
2nd BATTN. HIGHLAND LIGHT
I N F A NT R Y , _
was bom in the Isle ^^^^^^^^^^^^^R^
of Skye on the 10th
April, 1893, and wa;-
the only sm-viving
son of the late Dr.
Keith Norman Mac-
donald. M.D..
F.R.C.P.E., the
well - known collec-
tor of, and authority
on. Highland music,
and of Mrs. Mac-
donald. 21. Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh.
He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy,
at Harrogate, .Southport. and the Edinburgh
Institution. While at school he was captain
of the first XV for three years, and after-
wards played in the Old Boys' team. At
the School .Sports in 1911 he won the cup
for the mUe race, and before leaving for the
front was one of the secretaries of the Insti-
tution's Athletic Sports. Mr. Macdonald was ako
keenly - interested in everything Highland,
and loved to play the slower music of the
piobmhor.
He joined the 3rd BattaUon on the 3rd July,
1912, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion
on the 10th June, 1914. Mr. Macdonald kept
a most interesting diary of his war experiences
right up to the day on which he was killed,
which was published in crlenso in the " High-
land Light Infantry Chronicle " for October,
1914, from wliich also many of the details in
tills memoir are taken.
Dm-ing the Battle of the Aisne he was hit in the
temple by a bullet, on the 20th September,
1914. and instantaneously killed, wliile he was
directing the fire of his men in the trenches;
he was buried in a quiet spot close to where
he fell, near Verneuil, Vailly, on the Aisne,
France. His death was much regretted by his
brother officers.
He was predeceased by his elder brother some
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years ago — tlio late Lieutenant R. F. X. Keith
MacdonaUl, 4th Battahon H.L.I. — who \va.s on
active service in the South African War.
LIEUTENANT the Honble. GOD-
FREY EVAN HUGH MACDONALD,
1st BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS.
_ second and eldest
I' surviving son ot
Lord ilacdonald of
Armadale Castle,
Isle of Skye, and a
relative of Ross of
Cromarty and the
Karl ot Listowel, was
shot on the 31st
October, 1914, and
died of his wounds.
He was born at 20.
Chesham Place, Lon-
<kiii. s.W .. 1.11 till- lith >rarch, 1S79, and was
educated at Brussels and afterwards at Fettes
College, Edinburgh.
Having served in the embodied ilihtia for
nearly five months, he joined the Scots Guards
in April, 1900, ser\'ing with them in the South
African \\'ar, for wliich he received the Queen's
medal. After having reached the rank of Lieu-
tenant in March, 1902, he retired from the
active list in December of the same year, and
joined the Special Reserve of his regiment in
February, 1906.
On the outbreak of the war he rejoined for
active ser\nce, and was posted to the 1st Scots
Guards for duty.
Lieutenant Macdonald, who was a J.P. for the
County of Inverness, married, in April, 1908,
Helen Holm, eldest daughter ot Meyricke
Bankes, of Winstay, Lincolnshire, and left two
sons : Alexander Godfrey, born June, 1909 :
and James Archibald, bom December, 101).
LIEUTENANT RONALD MOSSE MAC-
DONALD, 1st BATTN. THE QUEEN'S
OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS,
was born at Bombay
^^i^ on the 9th Decem-
^J^L^k^ ber, 1890, and was
^^^^^^^^ elder son
^^^^^ ■ WUham Mosse ilac-
, fi^ ?& '• donald of Glenmore,
^ * Isle of Skye, late
^^t / Captain 3rd Bat-
talionCameronHigh-
landers.andMrs.Mac-
donald, of Glenmore
Cottage, East Av-
' enue, Bournemouth.
He was educated at Horris HUl, Newbury,
Winchester College, and the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst, from which he obtained
his commission in the Cameron Highlanders in
November, 1910. In 1913 he was SignaUing
Officer of the battalion, and was promoted
Lieutenant in August. 1014. He left Edinburgh
Castle with liis battalion on the 12th ot that
month, with twenty-five otTicers, of whom, when
he fell, he was the last one left. He was
wounded at the Battle of the Aisne on the
14th September, 1914, recovered and rejoined
on the 8th October ; and fell in action at
Veldhoek, near Ypres, on the 2nd November,
1914.
Lieutenant Macdonald was an accomplished
violinist. He was a member ot the Aldei-shot
Cricket XI, 1911 and 1912, and belonged to the
Caledonian Club, London.
CAPTAIN IAIN MacDOUGALL. 2nd
BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS,
was born at Lunga.
County Argyll, on
the 31st May. 1887,
the only son of
Colonel MacDougaU.
of Lunga. Command-
ing the 10th (SerA-ice)
Battalion Gordon
Highlanders, J.P.
and D.L. for County
Argyll, and Gentle-
man-at-Arms in His
Majesty's House-
hold. He was educated at Eton and the R.il.C
Sandhurst, where he took a high place both as
a student and an athlete. Joining the Grenadier
Guards in 1900, he became Lieutenant in 1907 ;
from 1910-12 he was A.D.C. to his Excellency
Lord Islington, Governor-General and Com-
mander-in-Chief of Xew Zealand : he obtained
his company in August, 1914, in which year he-
was appointed Adjutant of his battaUon.
On the 1st September, 1914. at \'illers Cotterets,
while recalling some companies of the battahon
which were threatened to be cut ofi, Captain
MacDougall was shot when returning after
delivering his message, his horse being killed
at the same time. He was buried by the
French peasants in the wood of VUlers Cotteret
where he fell, and at a later period his body was
exhiuned and laid in the family vault in the
old churchyard of KUvoree, Argyllshire.
Captain MacDougaU was a member of Pratt's
and the Guards' Clubs. He was a good shot, a
very fine horseman, winning the Grenadier Cup
at Hawthorne HUl in AprU, 1914, and an all-
round sportsman. He was not married, and
his father — Colonel MacDougaU, of Limga —
now remains the last male representative ot
the MacDougaUs of Raray and Lunga, a family
of great antiquity, settled in Argyllshire since
the twelfth century.
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LIEUTENANT RONALD McDOUGALL,
1st BATTALION THE BUFFS (EAST
_. KENT REGT.),
was killed in action
(in the 20th October.
1914. He was born
on the 7th Decem-
ber, 1889, and joined
the Army in Feb-
ruary, 1912, his
commission however,
being antedated to
March, 1911, because
of his being a Uni-
versity candidate.
He got his step in August. 1912.
CAPTAIN JOHN ALOYSIUS McENERY,
ROYAL ENGINEERS,
was accidentally killed on the 26th October,
1014.
He was born on the 23rd December, 1877, and
entered the Royal Engineers in December,
1896, becoming Lieutenant, in December, 1899.
He took part in the Tibet Expedition of 1903-
04, in which he was Assistant Field Engineer,
being mentioned in Despatches (" London
Gazette," 13th December, 1904), and receiving
the medal. He was promoted Captain in
December, 1905.
CAPTAIN JAMES STEWART McEUEN,
20th DECCAN HORSE,
born in Hong Kong,
China, on the 13 th
September, 1876,
was the son of the
^^ ^^ late Captain J. P.
9 ^- ^^ McP2uen,R.N..sonie-
^^r time Captain Super-
^^^ intendent of the
Municipal Police,
.Shanghai. He was
related to the late
General W, Dickin-
son, R.E.. and the
lati- ( iiliincl .J. Clubley, .Madras Infantry.
Captain McEuen was educated at Felsted
School, Essex, and the R.il.C, Sandhurst.
He played football for the latter v. Woolwich :
and also in other important football, cricket, and
polo tournaments ; he was always keen on
sports and games, and was an excellent shot.
He received his first commission in February,
1897, in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
He served with the Nottinghamshire and
Derbyshiie Regiment in the Tochi and Tirah
Expedition of 1897-9S, receiving the medal and
two clasps. Joining the Indian Army in Sep-
tember, 1901, he became Captain in February,
1906.
In the Great War he accompanied the Indian
contingent of the Expeditionary Force, and
was hit at Festubert on the 21st December,
1914, during a counter-attack at early dawn,
within fifteen yards of the German trenches,
while leading the remnants of his squadron,
who followed him to the end. Captain McEuen
was at first reported as " missing, believed
killed," but has since been officially reported
kUled. His body was discovered at Festubert
eight months later.
He inarried Enid Eraser, fourth daughter of
the late Lieutenant-Colonel W. !Moir, I. M.S.,
and niece of Sir Thomas Eraser, K.C, M.D.,
F.R.S., leaving two children : Heather Margaret,
born 1907 ; and David Alastair Stewart, born
1910.
He was a member of the Bangalore and
Secunderabad Clubs, and of Hurlingham.
LIEUTENANT NOEL GEORGE SCOTT
McGRATH, 2nd DRAGOON GUARDS
(QUEEN'S BAYSl, . ..
eldestsonot the Hon.
George McGrath,
Custos Rotulorum,
of St. Catherine,
Jamaica, was born
at Charlemont, Ja-
maica, on the 12th
December, 1885.
Educated at Beau-
mont College, he first
obtained a com-
mission in the Royal
Inniskilling F\isiLiers in I'J(J7, becoming Lieu-
tenant in February, 1912, and in the following
year being transferred to the Queen's Bays.
He accompanied his regiment to F^rance for
the (ireat War, and was wounded at Messines
on the 31st October, dying from the effects in
hospital at Boulogne on the 5th November, 1914.
Lieutenant JlcGrath was a member of the
Junior Naval and Military Club. His chief
recreations were polo and hunting.
2nd LIEUTENANT JAMES NEIL
GRANT McGRIGOR, 1st BATTN,
GORDON HIGHLANDERS.
who died on the 7th November, 1914, at 59,
Cadogan Square, London, of wounds received
in action on the 24th October, was the younger
son of Captain Sir James and Lady McGrigor.
He was born in London on the 16th November,
1894, and was educated at Evelyn's, HilUngdon ;
at Eton ; and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, being
gazetted to the Gordon Highlanders in August,
1914.
He was shot through the lung and shoulder
near Fauquissart, Northern France, while
repelling a German attack.
Mr. McGrigor was a member of the Junior
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United Service Cliili. At VAou he was ninth
man of the I'-ton Ki^ht in MMIi. and winner of
the Junior Scnilinj; rare in \',H2.
2nd LIEUTENANT BRIAN McGUIRE,
2nd BATTN. ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS,
horn a( Clifton,
York, on llie 24th
April. I'.Kll, was the
younger son of the
late (i e o r g e
M (■ ( i n i r e , T o w n
Cl.rk ..r York and
J:! r a d r o r d , an d
Florence, his wife.
His brother —
George Patrick — was
a 2nd Lieutenant
in the 4th Battalion
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).
After his education at St. Peter's School, Y'ork,
and Sedbergh School, Yorkshire, and one year
with .Tohn Sanger, Esq., The Little Hermitage,
Rochester, he spent a year at the R,M.C.,
Sandhurst, and obtained his commission in the
Royal Dublin Fusiliers in February, 1914,
joining his battalion in the following month.
2nd Lieutenant McGuire was instantaneously
killed in action by a fragment of shell on the
14th September, 1914, near Boucy le Long,
Fi'ance. A brother officer who was with him
at the time said that after the Battle of Le
Gateau, when large numbers of the battalion
were lost, he and 2nd Lieutenant McGuire
were the only two who were able to keep their
platoons together during the retirement and
marclied to within fifteen miles of Paris. He
then spoke of liis comrade's glorious bravery,
and what a favourite he was with officers and
men. His CO. and Captain also wrote in
siiiular terms to 2nd Lieutenant McGuire's
mother.
Mr. McGuire played for the Blackheath Second
Football XV and for Sedbergh School Second
XV. At the latter he organised the School
o.T.C. li.Tnd.
CAPTAIN JAMES FERGUS MACKAIN,
34th SIKH PIONEERS,
was born on the 28th
October, 1885, the
elder son of the Rev.
W. James Mackain.
of Ardnamurchan,
Vicar of Poslingtord,
Suffolk, and for-
merly Rector of Par-
ham, Sussex. He
had many distin-
guished relatives of
former generations in
the Royal Navy,
being the eldest grandson of the l,iti> William
Fergus Mackain, of the Admiralty, who was
at one thne Deputy Store Oflicer of Ills .Majesty's
Victualling Yard, Deptford ; and a great-
grandson of .Tames .Mackain. li.X.. formerly
Naval Storekeeper of His .Majesty's l)ockyai-ds
of Pembroke, Sheerne.ss, and Woolwich, who,
as a midshipman, was present at the Battle of
Copenhagen in 1801, and — a fact of interest at
this time — was at the forcing of the Dardanelles
in 1807, under Admiral Sir .1. J. Duckworth.
A great- great- grandfatlier was Conunandei-
William Dobl)in, H.N., who comniande<l His
Majesty's Cutler " Diligence " at .MUtord Haven
at the time of the French invasion of 1797, and
was subse(|uently presented with a sword of
honour by the Connnissioners of His Majesty's
Customs.
Captain .Mackain uus educated at Warden
House School, Upper Deal, at Clifton College,
and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, into which he
passed thirtieth out of one hundred and sixty-
seven successful candidates. He was posted to
the Indian Army in 1904, being attached for a
year to the Gordon Highlandei's, and joining
the 34th Sikh Pioneers in 190.5. During the
great earthquake in the Punjab in that year he
connnanded a relief colmnn from Lahore to
Kulu, and did excellent work there and in the
Kangra Valley. He served in the .Mohmand
Expedition of 1908, receiving the medal and
clasp. In 1910 he was seconded from his regi-
ment, and served for three years as Second in
Command of the 31st Signal Company of the
Queen's Own Sappers and .Mineis. He became
a Captain in 1913.
On the outbreak of the war with Germany he
was on leave and joined his regiment in Egypt,
proceeding with it to Northern France. He fell
in action at Festubert, France, on the 24th
November, 1914, while gallantly defending his
trench against a determined and powerfid assaidt
by the enemy, who had sapped to within five
yards and were throwing bombs and hand
grenades. When Cajitain Mackain saw that
some of them had finally succeeded in entering
the extreme portion of the trench he heroically
led some of his men in a charge against them,
although previously wounded in the face from
a splinter of a bomb. While shooting down
their grenadiers with his revolver from a traverse
of the trench he was himself finally shot in
the forehead at close range, and died almost
immediately. His name appeared in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January " for
gallant and distinguished service in the field."
The Rev. W. J. Mackain received numerous
sympathetic letters on his son's death from all
quarters ; among others from a former Head
Master of Clifton College, the Archbishop of
York, and the CO. of his son's regiment.
A brother officer wrote : " He died, as he lived.
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a gallant and fearless Christian gentleman. He
was shot through the head in a very gallant
attempt to stem an attack in great force through
breaches blown in our trenches. Your son went
gallantly forward through a shower of hand
grenades, and either shot or attempted to shoot
the grenadiers. He was such a fine stamp of
Chiistian soUIier, and we looked on him as one
Ukely to go a very long way."
The Macdonald .Society, at their annual meeting
in Glasgow on the 29th March, 191.5, passed a
resolution that the deep loss sustained by Cap-
tain ilackain's death be recorded In the Society's
minutes. The Church of England Men's Society
and the Cavendish Association passed sinular
resolutions of sympathy.
Captain Mackain, who was known throughout
Northern India as a keen Churchman and one
of the mainstays of the Church of England
ilen's Society, was a member of the Cavendish
Club, Piccadilly, and of the Scottish Pipers'
Society. His recreations were tennis, hockey,
and shooting. He was unmarried.
In the Grosvenor Chapel, where Captain Mackain
used to worship when residing in London, a
hand.some memorial has been erected to his
memory by his parents.
CAPTAIN HENRY MARSHALL
McKAY, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
son of Colonel H. K.
McKay, C.B., CLE.,
I.M..S. (retired), was
born on the 6th
December. 18SS. at
Seoni Chapparah,
Central Provinces,
India.
He was educated at
Shirley House, Old
Cliarlton, Kent, and
Cheltenham College,
where he was in the
College Cricket XI and won the Silver Dragon
for bowling. He was also a keen motorist and
good all-round sportsman.
After the usual period at the R.M.A., Wool-
\vich, he entered the Koyal Engineers in .July,
1908, and was appointed to the .Survey of
India in December of that year. He was
promoted Lieutenant in August, 1910, and
Captain in November, 1914.
While serving at the front he took an order
from one trench to another, and was killed
while returning on the 13th November, 191i.
He was buried at Saillv-sur-Lvs.
LIEUTENANT CORTLANDT GRAHA.M
GORDON MACKENZIE. 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS.
who was killed at Gheluvelt on the 29th
October, 1914, having been thrice woundi'd a
week or ten days previously, was the son of
H. Gordon Mac-
kenzie, Barrister
Toronto, and Inner
Temple, London, and
Beatrix Kathleen,
daughter of the late
Alexander Donovan,
of Framfield Place.
.Sussex.
Lieutenant Macken-
zie was born in
Toronto, Canada, on
the 3rd November.
1889, and was educated for seven years at the
Upper Canada College, Toronto, and sub-
sequently at the Royal Military College, Kings-
ton, Canada. From the latter he received his
commission in the Royal Scots Fusiliei-s in June,
1911, and was stationed at various places in
Ireland and England, and in Gibraltar, before
he proceeded on active ser\"ice in the Great
War.
LIEUT. COLIN L.\NDSEER MACKEN-
ZIE, 2nd BATTN. HIGHLAND LIGHT
INFANTRY,
was born at ilal-
vem on the -Ith
May, 1892, the son
of Landseer and
Laura Louise (nee
Dobell) Mackenzie.
He was a grand-
nephew of Sir Edwin
Landseer, the great
animal painter, and
a cousin of Colonel
Harry ^Melville,
I.^M.S., and of Major-General Douglas .Scott,
R.E.
Lieutenant Mackenzie was educated at the
Naval .School. Stubbington, and at Cheltenham
College, joining the O.T.C. at so early an age as
to be unable to carry his rifle on a march. He
gained the school prize for German and his
" Leaving Certificate," which entitled him to
enter the Army, and he joined the 3rd (Reserve)
Battalion .Seatorth Highlanders on probation.
After passing the Army Competitive examin-
ation he was gazetted to the Higliland Light
Infantry as 2nd Lieutenant in ilay, 1913.
The young officer had a famUy right 'o his
position in the Clan Connaich regiments, in
both of which he served, uniformed in his own
clan tartan, in the .Seaforths, wearing on his
bonnet the " Cabar-Feidh," this being also the
cognisance of " Redcastle," of which house he
was a cadet.
Lieutenant Mackenzie was a member of the
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I'uljlic Schools' Club, and enjoyed polo, golf,
tennis, yachting, cross-co\inti'y running, and
gardening.
In the Cireat War lie was killed on the
2()th September. Utll. shot in the head by a
German sniper in an advanced trench near
Verneuil, north of the River Aisne. The
following account of his death is from the pen
of Captain Guy Chichester, of Lieutenant
JIackenzie's Company (since fallen) : —
" He was in the trenches at the time, defending
a position, and was watching a charge of our
men on his left front, and had turned round to
tell his men to cease fire, in case they hit any of
their own side, «hen he was shot in the head,
death being instantaneous. He commanded a
|)latoon in my company. He was a gallant
fellow and a good olTicer. His death is much
deplored."
He, his friend and fellow-ofTicer — I.,ieutenant
J. A. H. Fergusson — and Lieutenant O'Connel,
K.A.M.C., were buried that night in the same
grave on the ridge above the village.
CAPTAIN KEITH BETHUNE MACKEN-
ZIE, 2nd BATTN. SEAFORTH HIGH-
LANDERS (ROSS-SHIRE BUFFS, THE
DUKE
OF ALBANY'S),
who was instantan-
eously killed by shell
near Ypres on the
12th November,
1914, was the elder
son of James
^Mackenzie, of
Daresbury, Malvern,
Worcestershire, and
.lane, only daughter
of the Rev. Neil
Bethune, of Thames-
ford, Ontario.
He was born on the 1st December, 1879, and
was educated at Malvern (1892-96). He joined
the Seaforth Highlanders from the ^Militia in
January, 1901, becoming Lieutenant in April.
1904.
He took part in the South African War, being
present at operations in the Transvaal, Orange
River Colony, and Cape Colony, and received
the Queen's medal with five clasps. The Order
of La Maison Ernestine was conferred upon him
by H.R.II. tlie Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-
Coburg and Got ha, in May, 1907.
Captain Mackenzie, who reached his rank in
June, 1911, married Louise, daughter of J. L.
Scott, of Craigholme, Jlerchiston, Edinburgh.
He was a member of the Junior United Service
Club. His recreations were golf and football,
and he belonged to the Worcestershire Golf
Club and to the Nairn Golf Club.
At the time of his death he was attached to
the 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders.
CAPTAIN ANDREW DE VERE MAC-
LEAN, EAST SURREY REGIMENT,
SPECIAL RESERVE,
who was killed in action on the 19th September,
191 1, was the only surviving son of Kaid .Sir
Harry .Maclean, and was born on the 17th
October, 1882.
After serving with the einliudied .Militia for
nearly a year he joined the East Surrey Regiment
in April, 1902. He took part in the South
African War, being present at operations in the
Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Capo
Colony, receiving the Queen's medal witli five
cla.sps. He was promoted Lieutenant in April,
1904, and Captain in April, 1910.
He retired from the active list in April, 1913,
joining the Special Reserve, from which he was
called up for active service in the Great War.
Captain ^laclean married Dulce. daughter of
the late Major-General .Maclachlan, R.H.A.
MAJOR ALEXANDER HARVIE MAC-
LEAN, 2nd BATTN. PRINCESS LOUISE'S
(ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND
HIGHLANDERSi.
is mentioned as
" believed dead " in
the monthly casu-
alty list issued on
the 9th October,
1914, among the
casualties which
"are believed to
have occurred," and
is said to have been ^^^^
killed in the retire- '- -~
ment from Mons on the 2(ith August. 1914.
He was born on the lOth October, 1808. His
father, w-ho was in business in Glasgow, died
some years ago, but his mother survives him.
He was educated at Kelvinside Academy,
Glasgow, and joined the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders from the Militia in January. 1891,
becoming Lieutenant in December, 1895.
He was on active service on the north-western
frontier of India in 1897-98, being Brigade
Provost Mai-shal with the Tochi Meld Force, and
received the medal with clasp. He also took
part in the South Afiican War, being present
at operations in Natal, the defence of Lady-
snuth, in the Orange Free State, the Transvaal,
Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, and at
the actions at Lombard's Kop and ZUikat's
Nek. From July, 1901, he was Commandant at
Van der Merwe. For his services he was
mentioned in Despatches (" London Gazette,"
10th September, 1901), received the Queen's
medal with four clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
Major Maclean, who was unmarried, was
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received his Majority in May, 1912. He was a
member of the Naval and Military Club, and his
I'ccreations were hunting and wild - game
shooting.
LIEUTENANT ARTHUR KIRK-
PATRICK MacLEAN, 2nd BATTN.
PRINCESS LOUISES (ARGYLL AND
SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS i,
who was killed in action at Le Cateau on the
2tjth August, 1911, was the youngest son of the
Kev. G. G. MacLean, of Jervis Lodge, Swan-
more, Hants, and was born on the 25th January,
1887.
He was educated at Radley and the K.M.C.,
Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders in May, 1907, being
promoted Lieutenant in April, 1909.
Tliough no details of his death were obtained,
his identity disc has been received through the
American Embassy and our Foreign Otlice,
and tlie German Government has otTicially
reported him as " dead, burial-place unknown."
Captain MacLean, of Aidgour, in a letter from
Torgau, said he feared there was no doubt tliat
Lieutenant JlacLean was killed at Le Cateau.
as he heard from bis men later in the day that
he was hit more tlian once leading his men to the
trenches under heavy shell fire.
He married, in 1912, Enid E. Mackintosli, and
leaves one daughter.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL (Temporary),
PERCY MACLEAR, p.s.c, ROYAL DUB-
LIN FUSILIERS,
was killed in action
on the 30tli August,
1914. at Garua,
in tlie Cameroons.
The third son of the
late Major H. W.
Maclear, tlie Buffs,
and Mrs. Maclear,
lie «as born on the
22nd October, 1875,
and was educated at
Bedford and the
l^.M.C, Sandhuret. He joined the Royal Dublin
Fusiliers in September, 1895, becoming Lieu-
tenant in March, 1897. From December, 1898.
to December, 1902, he was Adjutant of liis
battalion, and was promoted Captain in Feb-
ruary, 1900. While Adjutant he served with
the 1st Battalion in the South African War,
being present at the relief of Ladysmitli and
at operations in the Ti-ansvaal, in Natal, and
in the Orange River Colony in 1900, and again
at operations in the Transvaal in 1901 and
1902. For his services he was three times men-
tioned in Despatches {" London Gazette," 8th
February and 10th September, 1901, and 29th
.July, 1902), was promoted Brevet-Major in
September, 1901. and received the Queen's
medal with five clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
He was employed with the West African
Frontier Force from April, 190.S. to March, 1908,
during which time lie took part in operations
(1905-06) in the Kwale-Ishan district. South
Nigeria, West Africa, being in command of his
regiment. He was mentioned in Despatches
(" London Gazette," ISth September, 1900).
He was at the Staff College, 1911 and 1912.
In 1908 he was awarded the Royal Humane
Society's medal for saving life in the River
Nile at Khartoum.
In April, 1914, he was again detached for em-
ployment with the West African Frontier Force,
with the temiiorary rank of Lieutenant- Colonel,
and was serving with the Colonial Forces when
he was killed at Garua. His brother — Captain
Basil Maclear, Royal DubUn Fusiliers — was
killed in action near Y'pres in May, 1915.
He was fond of football, and played Rugby for
the London Irish and for Sandhui-st.
CAPTAIN ARCHIBALD AL AST AIR
McLEOD, 1st BATTN. GLOUCESTER-
SHIRE REGT.,
Ijoru at Singapore
on the 3rd June,
1877, was the
younger son of the
late Lieutenant-Gen-
eral W. K. McLeod.
Colonel of the High-
land Light Infantry,
and a grandson of
the late Colonel
Alexander McLeod,
C.B., 61st Regiment,
and a nephew of the late Lieutenant-General
Sir John McLeod. G.C.B., Colonel of the Black
Watch. Captain McLeod was the third gener-
ation of his family in the Gloucestershire
Regiment, his gi-andf ather and great-grandfather
having served in it as far back as the Peninsular
War, the former having commanded it at the
Battle of Goojerat and Chilliaiiwallali in 1849,
in which year he died.
Captain !McLeod received his education at
Wimbledon School and the Oxford Military
College, and after passing through the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, was gazetted to the Gloucestershire
Regiment in 1897, becoming Lieutenant in
February, 1900. With his battahon he served
all thi'ough the South African War, having
been present at the relief of Kimberley ; actions
at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Driefontein,
Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River. Zand
River ; and at actions near Johannesburg,
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Pretoria, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Botha-
ville, and Caledon River. For his services he
was mentioned in Despatches, and received the
Queen's medal with six clasps and the King's
medal with two clasjis. lie had the " .Special
Certificiite for Sitciialling " granted to him at
Pretoria in January, 1901. He ol)tained his
company in October, 1905.
At the commencement of the (ireat War Captain
McLeod went to the Continent with the 1st
Division in August, 1914, was all through the
Battles of the Rivers (.\isne and Marne), and was
killed on the 2nd Novemlior. 1914, in Belgium
while gallantly leading his company to attack
a farm held by the Ciermans.
Captain ISIcLeod was extremely popular in his
regiment, and was a brilliant ollker, "' dis-
tinguishpti " in musketry. His company were
winners of the Douglas Shield (a I'egimental
trophy) in 1912.
He was a member of the Caledonian Club, and
his recreations were hunting, polo, and shooting.
In June, 1914, he married, at the Chapel
Royal, Savoy, INlarie Jeannette Amelia, young-
est daughter of Lord Henry Fitzwarrine
Chichester, giand-daughter of the fourth ilar-
quess of Donegall, niece of the fifth Marquess,
and cousin to the present peer, who holds
besides the title of Donegall those of Earl of
Belfast, Viscount Chichester, Baron Chichester
of Belfast, and Baron Fisherwick, and is Here-
ditary High Admiral of Lough Neagh and
Governor of Carrickfergus Castle. Mrs. A. A.
McLeod's father is heir-presumptive to the
marquisate.
LIEUTENANT- COLONEL NORMAN
REGINALD McMAHON. D.S.O., p.s.c,
COMMANDING 4th BATTN. ROYAL
FUSILIERS (CITY OF LONDON REGT.),
who was killed in
actiffn at the first
Battle of Ypres on
the 11th November,
1914, was the young-
est son of the late
General Sir
Thomas \^' .
McMahon, Bart..
C.B.
He was born in
London on the 24th
January , 18 66,
educated at Eton, and joined the Royal
Fusiliers as Lieutenant in ]\lay, 1885. From
February, 1890, to February, 1894, he was
Adjutant of his battalion, and became Captain
in November, 1896, Major in November. 1901,
Ijievitenant-Colonel in May, 1911; and before his
death had been appointed to the command of
a brigade, with the temjiorary rank of Brigadier-
(icncral, whicli conunand he was to have taken
up on the day following lliat on uhicli he was
killed.
He accompanied \\i>- Hurnu'sc l"',xi)e(lil ion ol
18,S6— 87, for which he received the niedid with
clasp, and took part in tlie South African \\:\v.
during which he was on the .Stall' as A. !).('.
to a .Major-General commanding an infantry
brigade from October, 1899. to Ai.ril, I9O0:
as Brigade-Major from April to August. 19(10 :
and as D.A.A.G. from February to Jvmc 19(12.
He was present at the relief of Ladysmith.
including the action at t'olenso : at operations
on the Tugela Heights, in Natal. Cape Colony
(severely wounded), Transvaal, and Orange
River Colony ; and at the actions at I'ieter's
Hill. He was mentioned in Despatches (" Lon-
don Ciazette," 8th February. 1901 ) ; was awarded
the D.S.O. ; and received the Queen's medal
with five clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps. He passed the final examination
at the Stall: College in December, 1910. From
June, 1905, to June, 1909, he was Chief In-
structor and Staff Officer at the School of
.Musketry, and from June. 1909. to .January.
1910, was specially employed at the hcad( luarters
of the Army.
For his services in the Great War he «as
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatches
of the 8th October. 1914, and the 14th
January, 1915.
CAPTAIN ANGUS MACNAB, M.B..
F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C. (T.F.t, attd. to the
14th (COUNTY OF LONDON) BATTN.
THE LONDON REGIMENT (LONDON
SCOTTISH),
was killed in action
on the 31st October, ^^^^^
1914, in the first ^^^^li
engagement of the
London Scottish.
He was born in Sep-
tember, 1875, at
.Southland, New
Zealand, the son of
Alexander Macnab.
of Argyllshire, N.B.
(^aptain Macnab was
educated at Dunedin and Edinburgh University,
where he graduated. He served in the South
African War, and joined the R.A.M.C. (T.F.)
in March, 1911, being attached to the London
.Scottish from that date.
He was fond of rifle shooting and golf, and was
a member of the Royal and Ancient, and of
.Sandy Lodge, Herts.
Captain Macnab married Miss Evelyn Calder.
who survives him.
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2nd LIEUTENANT WILLIAM MAC-
KINNON MACNEILL. 16th THE
O U E E N'Si LANCERS. SPECIAL
RESERVE,
who was killed in
action on the 12th
October. 1914. was
the second son of
the late Mr. and
Mrs. Duncan
Macneill, of Park
House. Kingswood
Road, Tunbridge
Wells.
He was gazetted to
the Special Reserve
of his regiment in December, 1909.
LIEUTENANT DUNCAN STUART ROSS
MACPHERSON. 7th GURKHA RIFLES,
was born on the ■23rd
August, 1S99. and
was the only child of
Surgeon-General W.
G. Macpherson, C.B..
C.M.G.. K.H.P.
He was educated at
Westminster, Fettes
College, and the
R.M.C.. Sandhurst.
After leaving the last
he was gazetted 2nd
Lieutenant on the
unattached list, Indian Army, on the 20th
January, 1909. and was attached to the 2nd
Battalion the Black Watch vmtil March, 1910.
He was then posted to the 1st Battalion 7th
Gurldia Rifles, with whom he served in Quetta
and Robat, on the Persian frontier, until May.
1913, passing the examination for promotion
to Captain with distinction.
He became Lieutenant in AprU, 1911, and was
at home on leave when the war broke out.
He was then gazetted to the Sth (Service)
Battalion the Black Watch, and appointed
Assistant Adjutant. Early in November, 1914.
he was attached to the Sth Gurkha Rifles in
France, and was killed in action at Festubert
on the 23rd November. 1914. when commanding
the advanced company m a successful counter-
attack for the recovery of trenches which had
been lost.
Lieutenant Macpherson was a keen polo player
and golfer. He was a member of the Junior
United Service Club.
MAJOR NEIL MACPHERSON. SECOND
IN COMMAND OF THE 2nd KING
EDWARDS OWN GURKHAS (THE
SIRMOOR RIFLES , who was kiUed in action
at Neuve ChapeUe on the 31st October, 1914,
was bom at Inverness on the Sth August, 1869,
the youngest son of the late Sir Herbeit
Macpherson, Y.C., K.C.B., K.C.S.I.
He was educated at
Inverness College,
and, joining the East
Kent Regiment as
2nd Lieutenant in
June, 1890, had a
remarkable military
career, having been
through five cam-
paigns before the
Great War.
He was transferred to
the 2nd Gurliha R ifles
(Indian Army) as Lieutenant in September,
1891, joining his regiment in ilanipur, and in
the following year saw his first active service at
Isazai, on tlie north-western frontier. In 1897-98
he again took part in operations on the frontier,
at Samana, the relief of GuUstan, for which he
received the medal and two clasps, and the
Tirah Campaign of 1897-98, including actions
of Chagru Kotal, Dargai, and of the Sampagha
and Arangha Passes ; operations in the Warran
Valley at and around Dwatoi against the Khani
Khel Chamkannis, and in the Bara Valley,
including various actions, for which a clasp was
added to his medal.
His next service was in the South African War,
1900-02, when he was present at operations in
the Transvaal and Orange River Colony,
receiving the Queen's medal with four clasps.
In December, 1901, he was on special Staff
duty, and from December, 1902, till June, 1904,
was Station Staff Officer at Agra.
In 1911-12 he was again on active service in
the Abor Country, receiving the medal with clasp.
Major Macpherson, who was a member of the
Junior Naval and MUitary Club, married Mary
M. J., daughter of Colonel Robert Home. C.B..
R.E., and had four children, only two of whom
— Barbara Isobel, bom 1904 ; and Nancy Clare,
born 1910 — survive him. Major Macpherson's
maternal grandfather was Lieutenant-General
Eckford, C.B.
2nd LIEUTENANT IVOR A. MacRAE.
3rd lattd. 2nd BATTN. THE KING'S
OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS.
who died in France
on the 14th October,
1914, aged nineteen
and a half years, of
wounds received the
previous day, was
the only son of Mr.
D. M. MacRae. of
Stenhouse, Dum-
friesshire.
He was educated at
Harrow (The
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Oi'ove, 1909-13) and was gazetted to the Kinsr's
Own Scottish Boideiei-s on probation in
January, 1914.
LIEUTENANT JAMES JULIAN GORDON
MacWILLIAM, 1st BATTN. GORDON
:^^=- HIGHLANDERS.
I ^^^H »ho was kiKed on
— ' ^^" tlie 14th December,
1914, was the son of
James ^MacWilliam,
Solicitor Supreme
Courts of Scotland,
of 22, Forbes Road,
Edinburgh, and was
born on the 16th
August, 1895.
He was educated at
Edinburgh Aca-
demy, where he entered the O.T.C., and was
one of tlie fii-st to win Certificate " A." He
became Lance-Sergeant , and was a member
of the Shooting VIII, making the good score
of 62 at Bisley, where he shot for the Ashburton
Shield. After leaving school he went to the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, which he left at the end of
the suumier term, 1914, and was appointed
Galloper to Major Oakeley, the Commanding
Officer of the O.T.C. Camp at Barry. He was
gazetted to the Gordon Highlanders on the
15th Auguist, 1914, and attached to the 3rd
Battahon in December, 1914. He was tempor-
arily promoted Lieutenant in November, 1914,
and confirmed in his rank in December.
He joined liis regiment at tlie front in September,
1914, and on the 12th October was wounded
in the hand by shrapnel at La Bassee. After
recovering in Le Grand Seminaire Hospital,
Rouen, he rejoined his battahon in the latter
part of November.
The following account of his death, gathered
from letters and documents, was published in
the " Edinburgh Academy Chronicle " of
January, 1915 : —
" On iVIonday, the 14th December, three com-
panies of the Gordon Highlanders were ordered
to attack a portion of the German ti>enches
over very open ground. The German position
had been previously subjected to a heavy
bombardment by our artUlery, and it was hoped
that it had been made untenable. So far,
however, from this being the case, the advancing
(iordons were met by a terrific machine-gun
and rifle fire, through which, in spite of severe
losses, they pushed forward to well within
fifty yards of the enemy's lines. It was when
ilacWilliam was rising to lead his men for a final
rush from this forward position that he was shot
through the head and instantly killed. His
men hung on all day until dusk, and then had to
be withdrawn. Though the attack failed of
its purpose, it is described as having been as
fine an exhibition of self-sacrifice and deter-
mination as any in the annals of the regiment,
and the high admiration and appreciation of the
gallant elTort entertained by the Brigade,
Divisional, and Corps Commanders (the two
latter being (ieneral Haldane and Sir Horace
Smith- Dorrien) were diUy conveyed to the
battalion in an order of the day. In the words
of his Commanding Officer, ^lacWilliam by his
death in that action ' covered himself with
glory.' ' I cannot sufficiently express,' lie writes
to MacWilliam's father, ' tlie deep sorrow which
I and all of us feel at the loss of a brother
otticer who, though but so recently joined, had
already on more than one occasion shown his
sterling value. I have felt it my duty to bring
to official notice the gallant manner in which
your son was leading his men when he met his
death.' "
Some of the rank and file, writing to his father,
said : " On the morning of the 14th December
the Gordon Highlandei-s made a glorious charge,
two platoons of ' C ' Company leading, the
other two to support. Your son was in charge of
Xos. 9 and 11 Platoons, which led, and when
the order came to advance he was the first out
of the trenches. Smiling and waving his stick,
he encouraged his men on. When he had got
to within fifty yards of the German trenches
we had to lie down for a minute to get our
breath before making the final assault. It was
when he raised his head to give the order to
advance that he was killed."
He \^•as a good swimmer, long-distance runner,
and liorsenian. He distinguished himself as
a rifle and revolver shot, and was a keen motor-
cyclist. Just before hLs death the Commanding
Officer detailed him to take a course of instruc-
tion in machine gunnery that he might quaUfy
as Machine Gun Officer to the battalion.
MAJOR FRANCIS JULIAN
A U D L E Y M A C K W O R T H , p . s . c . ,
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
«lio was kiUed in
action on. the 1st
November, 1914, was
the second surviving
son of the late
Colonel Sir Arthur
Mackworth, Bart,
C.B., and of Lady
Mackworth, " The
Priory," Caerleon.
He was born on the
15th September,
1876, and was edu-
cated at :Malvern, No. 'i (1891-95) Shell, Army
side, where he was a House Scholar, a School
Prefect, and won the Chance Prize. He was
afterwards a scholar of .Selwyn College, Cam-
bridge, where he took his degree of B.A.
(Jun. Opt.) in 1898.
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He was a boy of considerable ability, and took
a high place in the examination for the R.M.A.,
Woolwich, but was rejected on the ground of
insufficient height. However, he grew into a
tall man at Cambridge, and passed into the
Army as a University candidate, being gazetted
to the R.A. in June, 1S9S (" The Malvernian,'"
December, 1914). He became Lieutenant in
February, 1901, and Captain in April, 1906.
From April, 1904, to June, 190S, he was
employed with the West African Frontier Force,
and from February, 1912, to September, 1913,
was an Adjutant of his regiment. In October.
1913, he was appointed Brigade-Major R.A..
Ilird Division, Southern Cormmand, and was
serving on the Stafi when he was killed, his
promotion to Major, to date from the 30th
October. 1914, being subsequently gazetted.
For his services in the Great War he was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of the Sth October, 1914, and was promoted
Major on the 30th October. Two days later he
was killed by a splinter from a shell.
Major Maekworth married, in 1910, Dorothy
Conran, only daughter of the late ilr. Arthur
Hastings LasceUes, and left one daughter,
bom in August, 1911.
Major Mackworth's elder brother — Captain
Digby Maekworth — was killed in action at
Ladysinith, Xatal. in .January. 1900.
CAPT. HENRY TELFORD MAFFETT.
2nd BATTN. THE PRINCE OF WALESS
LEINSTER REGIMENT ROYAL
CANADIANS ,
son of the late Wil-
f0^ ^^ liam Hamilton
^ ^\ Maffett, barrister-
w ^ •_ at-law.of St. Helena.
'^ ' Finglas. County
Dubh'n . was bom
\ _^ ^ at that address on
^fr^^^^^ the 24th March.
^^^S^^^^^^^^ ^i^d was edu-
g ^^^^^H cated at Royal
1^ ^^^^HB School, Armagh, Ire-
land.
Captain Mafiett joined the Leinster Regiment
from the ilOitia in June, 1S94, becoming
Lieutenant in .July, 189.5. and Captain in August,
1900. From 1898-99 he was Garrison Adjutant
at St. Lucia, West Indies, and for nearly two
years from November, 1900, served with the
West African Frontier Force in Northern Nigeria,
during part of which time he acted as Adjutant
of the 1st Northern Nigeria Regiment and
Brigade-Major of the West African Frontier
Force. He was present at the operations against
the Emirs at Bida and Kontagora, 1901, for
which he received the African medal with clasp.
In 1908 he acted as Provost Marshal attached
to the StaS of the 2nd Brigade Mohmand Field
'^.
Force, north-western frontier of India, receiving
afterwards the medal with clasp.
Captain 3IafTett was killed in action in the
Great War, after being thrice wounded, on the
20th October, 1914, at Armentieres, France,
while in temporary command of the battalion.
He was a very keen sport.sman and rode to
hounds. He was unmarried.
2nd LIEUTENANT RICHARD
HENRY COLE M A G E N I S. 3rd
BATTN. ROYAL IRISH RIFLES.
son of Edward Cole Magenis, of Drumdoe,
Boyle, County Rosconmion, and nephew of the
late General Magenis, of Finvoy Lodge, Bally-
money, was bom at Drumdoe on the 20th
April, 1887. He was educated at Radley College,
and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in his bat-
talion in February, 1908.
2nd Lieutenant ilagenis was shot in advancing
on the enemy's trenches at the Battle of the
Aisne. His name was included in the monthly
casualty list published in October, 1914, as
having been killed in action, but no date was
mentioned.
Mr. Magenis was a cricket and football player,
while hunting, shooting, tennis, and fishing were
also amongst his recreations.
CAPT. ARTHUR CURGENVEN MAGOR
CAPTAIN RET. PAY 3rd BATTN. THE
DUKE OF EDINBCRGHS WILTSHIRE
REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action during a night
attack near Y'pres
on the 17th October.
1914. while attached
to the 2nd Bat-
talion of his regi-
ment, was the young-
est son of the late
Edward Auriol
Magor, of LameUen,
St. Tudy, Cornwall.
J.P., and of -Mrs. Magor, Middlecot, Weybridge,
Surrey.
He was bom on the 3rd March, 1879, and was
educated at BlundeU's School, Tiverton, and
Exeter College, Oxford.
He joined the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regi-
ment in February, 1900, becoming Lieutenant
in August of the same year. He served in the
South African War, being present at operations
in the Orange River Colony, including actions
at Bethlehem and Wittebergen, and at opera-
tions in the Transvaal, receiving the Queen's
medal with two clasps. He was promoted Cap-
tain in September, 1908, retiring from the
active list in September, 1912, when he entered
the 3rd Battalion of his regiment.
MAH — MAI
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Captain .Magor, wlio was fond of huntint; anil
sliooUiig, niaiiied, in October, 1012, Dora,
eldest daughter of the late Alt)ort Bulteel
J'Msher, and Mrs. Fisher, of Court Hill, near
Devizes, Wilts, and left one son, Arthur Frank
Tregarthen. born in July. 1914.
CAPTAIN FREDERIC HENRY
MAHONY, 1st BATTN. CHESHIRE
REGIMENT.
was born at Aden in
1S7-1, the son of
Captain F . H .
.Mahony, late York
and Lancaster Regi-
ment, and the late
Mrs. Cahlll Mahony,
both of County
Cork, Ireland.
He was educated at
Dover College, and
having failed in the
cntraucf examination foi the R.M.C,, Sandhurst,
was so determined im a niiUtary career that he
enlisted, in spite of good offers of employment in
civil life. He obtained his commission from the
ranks in the Cheshire Regiment in 1898, and
was promoted to a Captaincy in that regiment
in 1906. He obtained a special certificate for
Mounted Infantry, and had passed his examin-
ation for the rank of Major. He was employed
with the West African Frontier Force from
November, 1900, to July, 1904, and was an
.\djutant of Volunteers, Durham Light Infantry,
from 1906-08. For his West African services
he received the medal with two clasps for
the Aro Kxpedition. He had served in the
South African War from February to May, 1900,
receiving the Queen's medal with five clasps.
When the Great War broke out he was serving
with the depot of his regiment at Chester,
and, as was to be expected in so keen a soldier,
at once volunteered for the front. While in
temporary command of his battalion near La
Bassee, he led a successful bayonet charge under
heavy artillery Are, for which he was congratu-
lated by Brigadier-General Count Gleichen.
Soon after that he was shot in the left shoulder
by a German sniper from a cottage window
one thousand yards away, and was rescued from
the fighting line, under heavy tire, by Sergeant
Shubotham, of his battalion, who earned the
V.C. for his courageous act. Captain Mahony
died some hours later at the hospital at Bethune
on the 22nd September. 1914.
He was a good shot, played golf and temiis, and
was a member of the Junior United Service
Club. He married Ethel, youngest daughter of
John Paterson, Esq., 42, Holland Park, London,
W., and left a daughter, Cynthia, and a son,
Patrick, age five and three years respectively,
at the time of their father's death.
This gallant li'isliman, apart from his soldierly
qualities, was, like so many of his countrymen,
brilliantly witty, and was extremely popular
with both ollicers and men. When he left
England for the front he kept all the young
officers entertained and in the highest spirits by
his quaint humour. Such a temperament is
of enormous value in maintaiiung tlie morale of
men in such trying times as fall to the lot of
all taking part in this mumrnlous campaign.
MAJOR JOHN SOUTHERN MAIDLOW,
COMMANDING 49th BATTERY,
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
was born in London
on the 2t)th June,
1875, the son of
Mr. John Mott
Maidlow, Barrister-
at-law, who took his
double first at Ox-
ford.
Jlajor Maidlow was
educated at .St.
Paul's School and
Woolwich, where he
did very well both
in literary work and sports, especially riding.
He joined the Royal Artillery as 2nd Lieutenant
in June, 1895, and served in Egypt and India,
where he was on the Staff of the Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal as A.D.C. from November,
1903, to October, 1906, and afterwards as
Mihtary Secretary, being a great favourite
with all. Subsequently spending three years,
from September, 1911, in New Zealand, in the
organisation and training of the Artillery, he
was conspicuous for his goo<l work, and was
very popular there. He had just returned from
that colony when the war broke out, at once
offered himself for what was his first experience -
of active service, and, being accepted, took his
battery to France, and was in the first battle
of the campaign at Mons.
On the first day he was there, the 23rd August,
1914, he was riding forward to take up a new
position for his guns when he was shot in the
head, and without recovering consciousness was
carried to a hospital near Mons, where he died.
The hospital was afterwards set on fire by shell,
but his remains were recovered, and he was buried
in the grounds of Mr. C. Gendebien, near Mons.
JIajor Maidlow was a fine sportsman, and did
much big-game shooting in India, securing some
lecord heads of bison and sambur. He was also
keen on pig-sticking, was a very good polo
player and a first-rate swimmer, was a success-
ful rider, and, being a lightweight, rode in
many races.
Major Maidlow married, in November, 1897,
Amy C. A., daughter of Colonel Lugard, Madras
Staff Corps, and niece of Sir Edward and of Sir
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Frederick Lugard, K.C.S.I. He left one son.
John Lugard, age thirteen at the time of bis
father's death.
MAJOR the Honble. ALFRED HENRY
MAITLAND. Lst BATTN. THE QLEEN'S
OWN* CAMERON HIGHLANDERS),
whose name was in-
claded in the
monthly casualty
List published on the
!)th October, 19U,
as ha\-ing been killed
in action, no place
or date being men-
tioned, was the third
son of the Earl of
Lauderdale, and was
bom on the 9th
December, IST2.
He joined the Cameron Highlanders from the
ilUitia in June, 1894, becoming Lieutenant in
April, 1S9S. He took part in the Nile Expe-
dition of 1898, being present at the Battles of
Atbara and Khartoum, for which he received the
British medal and the Egyptian medal with
two clasps. He was promoted Captain in
November, 1899, and took part in the South
African War, being present at operations in the
Orange Free State, the Transvaal, the Orange
River Colony, and Cape Colony, including
actions at Zand River, near .Johannesburg,
at Pretoria, Diamond HUl, Wittebergen, and
Ladybrand. He received the Queen's medal
with five clasps.
From November, 1901, to November, 1904, he
was Adjutant of his battalion : from February,
190.5. to August. 1909, Officer of a Company of
Gentlemen Cadets. Royal Military College :
and from October. 1909. to October. 1913.
an Adjutant of the Territorial Force, and
obtained his Majority in March, 191-t.
Major Maitland, who was a member of the
Caledonian Club, married, in .January. 190.5,
Edith, youngest daughter of S. G. T. ScobeU.
of Redmarley. Gloucester, and left two daugh-
ters ; Edith Charlotte, bom November, 1905 ;
and Nora Beatrice, bom 1907.
C .\ P T A I N W I L L I A >I A L A N
FULLER. MAITLAND. 1st B.\TTN.
COLDSTREAM GUARDS.
was bom on the 1.3th April, 1882, at 8, Hertford
Street, Mayfair. London, and was the son of
William FuUer-Maitland. of Standsted HaU.
Essex, and the late Hon. Mrs. Fuller- Maitland.
daughter of the third Lord Gardner.
Captain Fuller- Maitland was educated at
Harrow, and the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, and joined
the Coldstream Guards as 2nd Lieutenant in
1901, becoming Lieutenant in 1903.
With his battalion he served in the South
African War, having been present at operations
in Cape Colony from February to >Iay, 1902,
for which he received the Queen's medal with
two clasps. He became Captain in .June. 1911.
In the Great War Captain Fidler-Maitland was
killed instantaneously by a shell at the Battle
of the Aisne on the 19th September, 1911.
Captain FuUer-ilaitland was devoted to hunt-
ing, and was also a good shot and fisherman.
He himted regularly with the Puckeridge and
Essex Hounds, and won the Puckeridge light-
weight point-to-point run in 1911.
2nd LIEUT. WILLIAM E. MAITL.\ND. 3rd
BATTN. SEAFORTH HIGHL.\NDERS.
attd. 2nd BATTN. THE BLACK WATCH,
was bom in Glasgow
on the 1st August,
1889, the son of
Geo^e Maitland,
Esq., Duncrag.
Kilmacolm, and a
nephew of Sir
.Joseph P. Maclay.
Bart.
He was educated at
Glasgow High
School and Glasgow
University. where
he took the degrees of M.B.. Ch.B., in March,
1913. He was Captain of the University
Rugby team, and was in the University O.T.C.
as a Private, then a Coriwral, being finally
offered a commission, which he accepted,
in 1913.
On the outbreak of the Great War he volunteered
for active service, and was given a commission
as 2nd lieutenant in the 3rd Seaforth High-
landers on the 26th August, 1911. While at-
tending to a wounded man on the 21st Decem-
ber, 1911, at Bichebourgl'Avoue. he was himself
wounded, and died at LUlers. France, on the
24th of the same month.
2nd Lieutenant Maitland was a member of the
University Athletic and Rugby Football Clubs
and of the Glasgow Bowing Club. A very
appreciative article from a fellow-officer ap-
peared in the "" KUmacolm Advertiser," giving
the following account of the circumstances of
his death : —
" We, No. 4 Company, were ordered into the
trenches to assist the Seaforths. I sent my other
subaltern and two platoons to the support
trench, and Maitland and the other two to the
reserve trench. I went with him along the
reserve tiench, and found it ended in a very
wide communication trench. As the Germans
were on that tiank. and I didn"t know how far
forward. I told him to build up a parapet to
prevent the trench being enfiladed. I then went
off to attend to my other two platoons. I
returned in about twenty minutes to find poor
MAL- MAN
.Maitland was hit. One of his jjarty (since dead)
had been hit, and Maitland, finding himself
unable to tie him up in the narrow fcreneh.
had lifted him on to the ground behind when
he liimself was liit. lie was fully conscious,
and fold me he thought his wound was fatal."
The ollicer went on to say how stoically young
Maitland bore his sufferings, apologising to those
attending him lor the trouble he was causing,
ami finally ended : " Had he been one of their
own regiment, with several years' service,
I do not think the company could have mourned
him more. As tor myself, I can only tell you
lion sorry I am to have lost such a good com-
rade and promising soldier."
The " Glasgow University Magazine " also
published a notice, in which it spoke of 2nd
TJeutenant Maitland as one of the kindest-
liearted and most genuine of men. He was
known to all liis College friends as " Teddy."
2nd LIEUT. CLAUDE JOSEPH O'CONOR
MAI. I. INS, 2nd BATTN. CONNAUGHT
RANGERS,
was born at 23, Rag-
lan Road, Dublin,
on the 3rd October,
isot. He was the
son of Captain
Frederic W Mallins,
3rd Battalion East
I^ancashire Regi-
ment, and Eliza
O 'Conor, youngest
daughter of
Rodci'ic Joseph
O'Conor, Esq., J. P.. of ^lilton. County Eos-
common, and was a nephew of Lieutenant -
Colonel J. R. Mallins, R.A.M.C, of Tigh-na-
mara, Alverstoke, Hants.
2nd Lieutenant MalUns was educated at Stony-
hiu'st College, Wimbledon Army College, and
the R.M.C., Sandhurst, whence he was gazetted
to the Connaught Rangers iri August, 1914.
He proceeded on active service in September,
1914, and for a short time was Acting Adjutant
of his battalion, which shows the losses in
officers suffered by our regiments in this war.
He was killed at Molenaarshoek, not far from
Ypres, between Beceleare and Passchendaele,
on the 2nd November, 1914, when it was said
of him : " He was the soul of the defence of
his part of the line, and had just succeeded in
beating off a German attack (a remarkable
commendation for so young an oflicer), when he
fell by a sniper's bullet." being shot through
the forehead. He was buried, with another
officer, in a small garden in the village of
Molenaarshoek. where he was killed.
His Commanding Officer wrote of him : " Your
brave son was as promising a young officer as
I have ever met."
WE NT WORTH
BATTALION
N F ANTR Y,
MAJOR D'ARCY
MANDER, 2nd
DURHAM LIGHT
was the son of Charles
John Mander, Esq.,
of 9, New Square,
Lincoln's Inn, and
Carlton Road, Put-
ney. He was related
to Colonel A. T. Man-
der, R.E.,andGeneral
F. D. Mander. Major
Mander «'as born in
London in October,
1S70, and was edu-
cated at Charter-
house and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was first gazetted in 1892, promoted
Lieutenant 1896, Captain in 1900, and ]\Iajor in
1912. He played polo for his regiment in India,
and assisted in winning several cups. He also
played cricket and football in the regimental
team, was a keen golfer, and hunted wlien
opportvinity offered.
He was killed while serving with his battalion at
the Battle of the Aisne on the 20th September.
1914. The following account of the circumstances
attending his death was given by a brotherofflcer:
" I was with Major Mander just before he was
killed. We went up and relieved a regiment
in the trenches just after dark on Saturday,
the 19th. As soon as it was daylight the enemy's
snipers started bothering us. At about 10 a.m.
on Sunday, the 20th, the Germans started an
attack, chiefly against the West Yorks, on our
right. We could not do anything to help, as
the enemy were hidden from us by the ground,
and we were expecting all the time to be at-
tacked ourselves. At lunch time I walked along
the trenches and jomed ilajor Mander and
another officer. Whilst we were eating a party
of perhaps one hundred Germans walked in
towards the West Yorks trenches, holding their
hands above their heads, but still in possession
of their rifles. We stood up to watch them,
and saw that when they got in among the
West Yorks they appeared to bayonet some of
them. This was all happening about tour hun-
dred yards to our right. We all three jumped up
and sliouted to the company to stand to, and went
to our places in the trenches. The Germans
almost immediately faced down our line and
opened fire. I was looking along the trenches,
and saw !Major blander standing about fifty
yards in front of me, also in the trenches.
We were all shouting to some men from our
trenches (not D.L.I. ), who were running back,
telling them to stop. This they did, and opened
fire on the Germans. Just at that moment
I was hit, and did not see any more. It was a
very low trick the Germans played on us."
Major Mander was a member of the Sports Club.
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He married Esme Mary, daughter of the late
Samuel Sealey-Allin, Esq., of The College,
Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland, and left two children :
a son. age five, and a daughter, age three years.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN DLND.\S
MANLEY. 26th FIELD COMPANY ROYAL
ENGINEERS,
born on the 24th
January, 1892, at
New Street, West
Bromwich. Stafford-
shire, was the elder
son of the late
J. H. H. Manley,
.\I.D., Barrister-at-
law, and of Alice
ilanley {nee Dun-
das). He was a
grandson of Captain
R. T. Dundas, R.X.E., and a great-grandson of
Major E. T. Dundas, who died at Vittoria. Spain,
while serving with the ~th Foot, British Legion.
2nd Lieutenant Manley was a scholar of Chelten-
ham (1906), and later proceeded to Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, where he was Prizeman,
took Honours B.A. Mechanical Science Tripos,
1913, and was in the O.T.C. (R.E.). In June.
1913, he received a commission in the Special
Reserve of OtBcers, Royal Engineers ; a year
later he was given an appointment in the
Indian PubUc Works Department, and was to
have sailed for Bombay in .September ; but the
war broke out, so he rejoined the 26th Field
Company, and left with it for France on the 14th
August in charge of No. 4 Section.
He was in charge of his section, detached from
his company, when he was killed while at work
in the front line of the defences at Vendresse
on the 26th September, 1914, and was buried in
the graveyard of Vendresse Church.
The following is an extract from a letter of
Colonel Schreiber, R.E. :—
'■ I feel I must write and tell you of my sym-
pathy and of the high opinion that had been
formed of your boy. He had been in charge of
a section of his company detached with the
front Una of the 3rd Brigade, and the General
and his Staff Officer both expressed to me their
great sorrow at his loss, and their appreciation
of the excellent work he had done for them. I
had personally come specially in contact with
him several times since he was detached, and
was much impressed with the excellent spirit
in which he was carrying on his independent
duties. There must be this consolation, that his
death must have been instantaneous, as he was
apparently killed by the burst of the shell
without actually being hit, and also there is the
feeUng, of which you should be proud, that he
was killed actually on the field of battle whUe
in the execution of his duty. He had borne
his share of the great hardships the company
had gone through, and was very much appre-
ciated by his brother officers."
ilajor Pritchard wrote : " I cannot tell you
how much all the officers of the 26th Company
sympathise with you in your bereavement, and
how we mourn the loss of your son, whUe to me,
his Commanding Officer, it is a serious handicap
to lose such a keen and valuable officer. It will
also, I hope, be some consolation to you to
know that the General under whose orders he
was working (having been detached from me)
had several times on days just prior to his death
told me how much your son was helping him,
and what a good fellow he was. In fact, the
General appreciated his services as much as I
did. Your son has died for his country in the
very front line, and has done his part nobly
to serve his coimtry at a time of great crisis.'"
A .Sapper of his section said : " We could not
bring your son down from the trenches until
that night when myself and two more Sappers
carried bim down to the hospital luitU the grave
had been dug. We buiied him that night with
full miUtary honours, our section turning out
in respect for poor Lieutenant 3Ianley, who was
thought the world of by his section, and highly
respected by everyone. In a country grave-
yard in Vendresse there is a stone, just a plain
graveyard stone, marking the burial-place
of an officer and a gentleman."
A tablet to Lieutenant Manley's memory was
erected in St. Philip's Church, West Bromwich,
the ceremony of unveUing on the 10th January,
1915, being attended by a large contingent of
the 5th South Staffordshire Battalion, a Red
Cross contingent, and representatives of the
Boy Scouts. The service was conducted by the
Rev. W. Solly, Vicar, and the tablet imveUed
by Mr. J. E. MtcheU, J.P.
2nd Lieutenant Manley was a life-member of
the Union Club, Cambridge, and coxed the
Emmanuel boats, first and second. He was
also a member of the Sports Club at Chatham.
L I E U T E N .\ N T the Honble. JOHN
NEVILLE MANNERS. 2nd BATTN.
GRENADIER GUARDS,
eldest son of the __^^__,_________
third Baron Man-
ners, of Avon Tyrell.
Chri~tchu rch. Hants .
was born on the 6th
January, 1892. He
joined the Grena-
dier Guards in 1912,
becoming Lieu-
tenant in Septem-
ber, 1913, and was
killed in action on
the 1st September,
1914, near Villers Cotterets
France.
MAN— MAR
2S4
CAPTAIN WILMSDORFF GEORGE
MANSERGH, 2nd BATTN. THE MAN-
™™™__^ CHESTER REGT.
I born on the 9th
1^ ^ ' Decoiiiljer, 1881. was
f m ' the eldest son of the
^^^K' ' iV -Mansergh and ^Irs.
^^^B --SitJMy Mansergh, of Castle-
^^^^, ^ ^^^F^k townroche, County
^r^ :^^S^ ^t^^^ Cork, Ireland.
f /i'^^^HBl ^^ "'^'' educated at
/ "^vSm Shrewsbury and
' !' ,^m i, Cowley College, Ox-
ford, and joined the
.Mihlia in February, 1890, being gazetted to the
-Manchester Regiment in September, 1901, in
which lie became Lieutenant in November,
1902. He took part in the South African War,
being present, in 1900, at operations in the
Transvaal, east of Pretoria, and in the Orange
River Colony, including the act'on at Witte-
bergen ; again in the Transvaal in 1901 and
in the Orange River Colony up to 1902. He
received tlie Queen's medal with three clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
In October, 1903, lie was seconded in his
regiment for employment « ith the West Afiican
Frontier Force, in whicli he was given the local
rank of Captain in April, 1911. In 1913 he was
attached to the Royal Flying Corps, and passed
the test examination. On the outbreak of the
war with Germany he joined his old regiment
as Senior Lieutenant, and was promoted Cap-
tain in December, 1911.
Captain .Mansergh was officially reported as
missing on the 5th September, 1914 ; un-
officially he was reported as killed while en-
deavouring to save his servant at Le Cateau
on the 26th August, 19H, during the retire-
ment from Mons.
The following account of the circumstances
by a w-ounded prisoner at Wiirzburg, Germany,
was pubhshed in " The Times " of the 7th
December, 1914: —
" 1 am sorry to have to record the death of
W. (J. Mansergh. ... I am able to tell you
how it liappened. He was advancing quite
near me when he got hit in the leg and could
not get further. He had chanced to fall near
an empty trench, and managed to crawl into
this-, where he was comparatively safe. But
shortly after a soldier also in the regiment
crawled up to the same trench, whereupon
Mansergh pulled him in and got the fellow
underneath him (it was a short ' two-man
trench ' for kneeling). Mansergh was now
exposed to shrapnel, though still protected
by the trench parapet from rifle fire. You
can guess what happened. A shell did burst
just in front of the trench quite low down.
Mansergh was killed on the spot. You may have
had the news that hi- liad been killed, but it's
worth knowing how it happened. The incident
took place at Le Cateau on August 26th."
CAPTAIN BRUCE EDWARD
ALEXANDER MANSON, 61st
KING GEORGE'S OWN PIONEERS.
who was killed in action on the 2ud Xovcinber,
1914, in East Africa, was born on the 7th
December, 1878.
On passing for the Indian Army he was gazetted
to an unattached 2nd Lieutenancy in July,
1898, being appointed to the Indian Staff
Corps in October, 1899.
In 1900 he saw service in China, for which
he received the medal. In October of that
year he was promoted Lieutenant in the Indian
Army, and obtained his company in July. 19(17.
2nd LIEUTENANT FREDERICK
CHARLES JENNENS MARILLIER, 2nd
BATTN. ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT,
who was kUled in
action on the 30th
October, 1914,
while leading his
men in an attack
on a wood near
Ypres, was the only
son of Ernest F. .
Marillier, Artist,
Richmond, Malvern
Link, and a grand-
son of W. Marillier,
at one time Captain
of the Harrow XI, son of J. F. Marillier. for
fifty years a if aster in Harrow School.
He was born at Fairliglit, Hastings, on the
30th August, 1888, and was educated privately.
He served in the ranks of the Army, went
to the front as a Sergeant, and was mentioned
in Despatches for having, on the 1st October,
1914, led a night attack on a German trench,
which was captured and filled in. For this
.service he was awarded the D.C.M. (" London
Gazette," 10th Xovember. 1914).
After being for four and a half years in the
ranks he was given his cominissioii in the Sussex
Regiment in Septemlier, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant Marillier was a great favourite
in his regiment, and was good at all sjiorts,
playing in the regimental cricket and football
elevens.
COLONEL RAYMOND JOHN
MARKER, D.S.O., p.s.c, LATE COLD-
STREAM GUARDS, A. A., AND O-M.G.,
was the .son of Richard ilarker, Esq., J.l'., of
Combe, Honiton, and the Hon. Mrs. ilarker,
daughter of the ninth I.,ord Digby, and was born
on the 18th April, 1867, at LTpcerne Manor, Dorset.
He was educated at Evelyns, Eton, and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, joining the Coldstream
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fiuards in 1888, becoming Captain in 1898, and
obtaining his substantive Jfajority in 1903.
From 1892 to 1896
he was Adjutant of
the 1st Battalion
Coldstream Guards,
and 1890-97 A.D.C.
to Sir W. Ridgeway,
Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in
Ceylon : and from
1S99 to 1900 A.D.C.
to Lord Cur2on,Vice-
roy of India. In the
latter year he went to
.'^outh Africa on .special service for the Boer War.
and in 1901 became A.D.C. to Lord Kitchener.
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in South
Africa, and accompanied him to India in a
similar position, retaining it until 1904. In the
South African ^'ar Colonel Marker was present
at the actions at ^'et Fiver, Zand River,
Johannesburg, near Pretoria. Diamond HUl,
and Belfast. He was mentioned three times
in Despatches, and with the then Colonel
Hubert Hamilton brought home peace despatches
to the King at Windsor : for these services he
was given the Brevet-rank of Major, June,
1902, the D.S.O. for taking De Wet's
guns, the Queen's medal with five clasps, and
the King's medal with two clasps. He was also
placed on the list of officers qualified for the
Staff through Staff .service in the field. In 1904
Colonel Marker proceeded to the Staff College,
qualifying in the following year, for part of
whicli he was Private Secretary to the Secretary
of State for War, and was later appointed A.D.C.
to the Commander-in-Chief in India, where
he remained until 1906. From 1907 to 1910
he was General Staff Officer. Home Counties,
and in 1912 he succeeded to the command
of the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, being
in November, 1913, appointed A.Q.M.G. on
the headquarters of the Aldershot Command.
He accompanied the British Expeditionary
Force to France as A.A. and Q.M.G. of the 1st
Army Corps.
For his services in the Great War Colonel ^Marker
was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatches
of the 8th October, 1914, and the 14th January,
1915 : and was made an Officer of the Legion
of Honour for his services during the retire-
ment froin Mons. He was hit by a shell on the
4th November, 1914, outside the reporting
centre of the 1st Army Corps at Tpres, and died
of his wounds on the 13th of that month.
Colonel Marker was a member of the Guards',
Travellers', Carlton, Turf, and Pratt's Clubs.
He married, m 1906, Beatrice Minnie .Shrieve,
third daughter of Sir Thomas Jackson, Bart., and
Lady Jackson, and left a son, Richard Raymond
Kitchener, born on the 18th June, 1908.
MAJOR RONALD ANTHONY MARK-
HAM, 2nd BATTALION COLDSTREAM
GUARDS,
was the only surviv-
ing son of tlie late
Colonel W. T. :Mark-
ham, of Beeca Hall,
Yorkshire,
who served in the
Crimean War in the
Rifle Brigade and
Coldstream Guards,
and grandson of
.Su- Francis Grant,
P.R.A.
He was bom on the 1.5th October, 1870 :
educated at Charterhouse : and joined the
Coldstream Guards from tlie ^lUitia in Decem-
ber, 1890, becoming Lieutenant in August,
1896, and Captain in December, 1899.
He served with the first advance against the
Khalifa in the Nile Expedition of 1899, for
which he received the Egyptian medal and
clasp. From August. 1899, to August. 1903,
he was employed with the Egyptian Army,
acting as A.D.C. to the Sirdar from April,
1900, to December, 1902, for which he received
the Insignia of the 4th Class of the Imperial
Order of the Medjidieh. He was pi-omoted
xMajor in 1907.
He was shot through the head at St. JuUen,
France, on the 2.5th October, 1914, and, at the
time of his death was .Second in Command of
his battalion. He was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatches of the Sth October, 1914,
and the 14th January, 191i5.
He was a member of the (Guards', Nulli Secun-
dus, and the Turf Clubs ; also of the M.C.C.
and I Zingari. He was fond of cricket and
shooting, and was a very keen and hard rider
to hounds. He was born at Melton Mowliray.
from which place he had hunted all his life, and
where liis interment took place.
CAPTAIN GILBERT HOWE MAXWELL
MARSH, 41st DOGRAS, INDL\N ARMY,
who was killed by
shrapnel in the
trenches in Belgium
on the 1st Novem-
ber, 1914, was the
youngest son of
Colonel Jeremy-
Taylor ilarsh, R.E.
(retu-ed), of 49, Bed-
ford Gardens,
C a m p d e n Hill,
London, W.
He was born on the
30th July, 1882, and eduratrd at St. Pauls
School : and after serving with the embodied
MOitia for nearly fourteen months he passed
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into the Army by competition, and was gazetted
to the Dorset Regiment in January, 1902.
In September, 1904, he was transferred to the
Indian Army as Lieutenant, receiving his
promotion to Captain in January, 1!)11.
CAPTAIN FRANCIS MARSHALL. 1st
BATTALION THE KING'S
(LIVERPOOL R E G I IVI E N T ) .
died of wounds received at the Battle of
the Aisne on the 30th September, 1914. and
was buried at Versailles on the 2nd October.
He was the son of the late R. A. Marshall,
Barnes, and was born on the 12th February,
1877.
He joined the T^iverpool Regiment in May, 190(1,
became Lieutenant in July, 1906, and Captain
in 1910.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE GARTH MAR-
SHALL, 11th (PRINCE ALBERT'S OWN,
HUSSARS)
born at South Ken-
sington on the 6th
December, 1884, was
the second son of
Mr. and ilrs. Victor
:\Iarshall. of Monk
Coniston, Lan-
cashire, a grand-
son of the late
General the Hon.
Sir Alexander
Hamilton Gordon,
K.C.B., and a nephew of Major-General A.
Hamilton Gordon, C.B.
He was educated at Marlborough College,
where he was in the Cricket XI. He was
gazetted to the 11th Hussars in December,
1907. For the Great War he was appointed
A.D.C. to Lieutenant-General AUenby, Com-
manding a Cavalry Division of the British
Expeditionary Force, and was killed at Ypres
on the 6th November, 1914, while carrying a
despatch to General Sir Douglas Haig.
Lieutenant ^larshall was a member of the
Cavalry and the Bath Clubs.
2nd LIEUTENANT JENNER STEP-
HENS CHANCE MARSHALL, 2nd
BATTN. OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCK-
INGHAMSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY,
who died on the 21st October, 1914, from
wounds received in action on the same day,
aged nineteen, was the only son of the late
Jenner Gerst Marshall, of Westcott, Barton
Manor, Oxon, and >Irs. George Miller, of Teffont,
Ewyas Rectory, Salisbury.
2nd Lieutenant Marshall was gazetted to the
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light In-
fantry in September, 1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT ROGER MARSHALL,
DURHAM LIGHT
2nd BATTALION
I N F A N T R Y ,
son of Anthony
Marshall, of
Annstead, Xorthum-
berland, formerly
Lieutenant - Colonel
:ir(l liattalionXorth-
innberland Fusiliers,
was born at Ann-
stead on the 25th
.Tanuary, 1891.
I I o was educated for
a short time at
Merchiston Castle School, wliure In.' wuu the
half-mile handicap ; then privately ; and
entered the Special Reserve, R.F.A., in 1910.
In April, 1913, he gained the Aviator's Certifi-
cate, and Pilot's Certificate of the Royal Aero
Club. In July, 1914, he was gazetted to the
2nd Durham Light Infantry as 2nd Lieutenant.
On the 20th September, 1914, he was killed
when fighting while the Durhams were enfiladed,
but held firm. His last words were : " Sur-
render be hanged ! Stand up and fight ! "
as stated by Corporal Bell who was beside him.
2nd Lieutenant .Marshall belonged to the Aero
Club. He was a very good shot, both with
gun and rifle, and a particularly cool and fearless
rider in the hunting field.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM M. BURT-
MARSHALL, 2nd BATTN. ARGYLL
AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS,
youngest son of the
late James Burt-
Marshall, of Lun-
cartj-, was born at
Luncarty, Perth-
shire, on the 14th
July, 1887.
He was educated at
Ardvreck Crieff,
Rugby, and Sand-
hurst, and had a
distinguished ath- . ^LJ^^^^^^^^m]
letic career.
At Rugby he was in the XI and XV (playing
half-back). In 1905 his House School Field
was " Cockhouse " in both cricket and football,
d>ie in great measure to him and his bi'other.
He was Steward of athletics, middleweight
boxer, and winner of the School mile.
He passed into Sandhurst in September, 1900,
and whUe there he became Senior Sergeant of his
company. He was in the XI of 1908 and the XV
of 1906 and 1907, captaining the XV of 1907
when they beat Woolwich by a score, which was
a record up to that period. In September,
1908, he was gazetted to the 2nd Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders (the old 93rd), and
MAS
joined the battalioa at Bloeuifontein. South
Africa. In January, 1910, the battalion re-
turned to Scotland, and was stationed in
Glasgow. During: that summer they formed the
Tiuard of Honour to the King during his \Tsit
to Edinburgh. Lieutenant Burt-Marshall led
the regimental Minto Cup team in the Scottish
conunand rifle meeting of August, 1911. In
JIarch, 1912. the battalion moved to Fort
George. Inverness-shire, where they remained
until the outbreak of the war mth Germany.
On the 9th August the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders left Scotland for France, and
joined the 19th Infantry Brigade. From then
onwards they were in the thick of all the fighting,
and were personally complimented by Sir John
French on their performance in the Battle of
Le Cateau.
Lieutenant Burt-Marshall was now in command
of " A " Company, which crommand he held,
save for one short period, until he fell.
Captain Clark. Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers, writing of him. said : "" All through the
retirement he was strong of heart and untiring in
his devotion to duty. All the way back towards
Paris and right up again to the Aisne he was
with his men, encouraging and influencing them,
and gradually the conipany grew to its original
strength again. On Xovember Sth a special
duty in Ploegsteert Wood was detailed to us.
Tlie captiu-e of an advanced German trench,
which had proved a veritable thorn in the
British side, was imperative, and the 93rd
were a.sked to do what others had already tried
to do and failed. All through the 9th the
battalion lay in the wood, shelled at intervals.
The attack was ordered for that night. Three
companies were to advance from different
points against the enemjr's trench ; and, while
our guns were paving the way for the assault,
we silently moved forward to our allotted
positions. When the shelling stopped the
attack crept closer, but the German flare lights
showed up our line, and we rose and dashed for
the trench. He was at the bead of his m^en, and
led the charge. He ran right up to the German
barbed wire, was hit. and fell, but rose again,
and dashed on to the parapet of the trench,
where he feU again. Xo one could get up to
him. and those who were able crawled back to
re-form, with the remnant of the conipauies."
On the Sth February the War Office reported
that news had been received that Lieutenant
Burt-AIarshall had died of his wotmds in a
German Field Hospital at Quesnoy on the 17th
Xovember, 1914, and this news has now been
verified beyond all doubt.
A brother officer wrote of him : " Beloved and
respected by his men. a true and fearless soldier.
We are proud of him. He has fallen a hero,
and our memories of him are great."
His Commanding Officer wrote : " To mv great
^1m
sorrow, I hear there is now no hope of him. " He
was such a good soldier, and is a great loss to
the re^ament."
MAJOR ROBERT M A S E F 1 E L D.
1st BATTALION THE KINGS
(SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY,
who was killed in
action on the 24th
October, 1914, was
the son of Valentine
Tickers Masefield,
Akaroa, New Zea-
land, and was
brought up by his
uncle. Colonel
RoVjert Taylor Mase-
field. C.B.. late of
EUerton Hall,
Xewport. Salop, and
now of Woodbury, Devonsnire. r^ i wnom he was
as a dearly loved only son.
Bom at Gough's Bay, New Zealand, on the 24th
3Iay. 1872. he was educated at Marlborough
(Crescent) from 1884^90, and the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, 1891-92. From the latter he was
gazetted to the King's Shropshire Light In-
fantry in .Tune, 1S92. being posted first to the
2nd Battalion in Ireland, and then to the 1st
Battalion at Hong Kong, going with it later to
India. He became Lieutenant in August, 189.3,
and Captain in .Tune, 1901, joining the 2nd
Battalion in -South Africa. With that battalion
he was present at operations in the Transvaal
from >Iarch to ilay, 1902, receiving the Queen's
medal with two clasps.
He returned to India with the 2nd Battalion.
and was promoted Major in September, 1012,
when at Secunderabad. When the war with
Germany broke out he was home on leave,
and was ordered to join the 1st Battalion at
Tipperary, with which he proceeded to France in
September, and was in the trenches on the
Aisne till the 12th October. The battalion was
then moved up into the firing Kne between
Lille and Amientieres, and helped to repel the
Germans' first great rush for Calais.
On the 24th October. 1914. Major >Iasefield was
left Second in Conmiand of his battalion, as well
as in command of his own company : and his
Captain wrote of his death on that day : "It
was in the trenches of ' A ' Company. We had
been fighting hard for five days, and " D '
Company had lost all their officers except one.
so at 12 o'clock I was taken from ' A ' to go to
' D ' Company trenches. I said good-bye,
and he took my seat. It was there at about
4.30 p.m. that he was killed instantaneously by
shrapnel shell in the back."'
.\ Sergeant of his battalion wrote : "It was a
critical time, as another strong attack was
expected from the enemy. . . . He himself
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was watcliing the front . . . cheering his men
and preventing any unnecessary risk at a most
nerve-trying time. . . . He died, as he had
lived, a gallant gentleman. .StUl under heavy
fire he was buried at dawn next morning —
Sunday, October 25th — between two haystacks
in a little farm' just behind the trenches, Le
Quesnc, near Bois Grenier. There are worse
resting-places for one who had spent most of
his life in the open air."
A Private of his (" A ") company wrote : " He
was such a fine officer, always with his men.
We all would have gone with him anywhere.
He came right along our trenches to see how all
his company were not half an hour before the
Germans started to attack again (on the
afternoon of the 24th October). . . . ' It
is the best that go first.' "
Another Private wrote : " His last thoughts
were for his men, his last words telling us to
keep our heads down as much as possible."
His former Colour- Sergeant, writing on behalf of
his old company in the 2nd Battalion, on hearing
of his death, said : " Every one of us would have
given our lives gladly for the sake of our Major."
One of his brother officers wrote : " You know
we all loved him, from the Colonel down to the
latest recruit " ; and " we always said the
regiment would be aU right as long as Masefield
was with it."
Someone else who knew Major " Bob " wrote :
"A fine soldier and keen sportsman, his loss will
be felt by both battalions, by officers and men."
He, indeed, loved all outdoor pursuits — fishing,
shooting (both big and small game), pig-stick-
ing, etc. — and many a youngster in the regiment
owes to him his first sporting experiences.
Excelling in all games, he was chiefly interested
in those in which the men could share, and had
played for his regiment in most. Always
cheery and ready for work under all condi-
tions, absolutely unselfish and thoughtful for
others, and thoroughly efficient, he was just
one of that fine type — the British regimental
officer. Adored by his men, looked up to by
them in work and play and sport, his feelings for
them may best be expressed in his own words,
in almost his last letter : " The men are splendid,
always cheery, full of thrust, and ready for
anything. We cannot do enough for them."
He married, in 1908, Esme, daughter of Colonel
Henry Spencer Wheatley, C.B., late 2 3rd
Gurkhas, of The Rush, Famham, Surrey.
LIEUTENANT ROWLAND CHARLES
MASON, THE LOYAL NORTH LANCA-
SHIRE REGIMENT, was the only son of the
late Rowland Mason, J.P., of Edgbaston, Bir-
mingham, a well-known citizen, for many years
closely identified with the social and public
life of that city. He was bom at Chesleigh,
Edgbaston on the 23rd December, 1882.
Lieutenant Mason was educated at Edgbaston
Preparatory School and at Malvern College
(Lyon, 1897-99),
where he was a House
Prefect. At School
he was a keen mem-
ber of the Artillery
Corps, and upon leav-
ing it to join his
father's business he
took a commission
in the Warwickshire
Artillery Volunteers.
After becoming an
efficient officer in
that corps he gave up business, and left the Corps
for the Special Reserve, as it was hLs ambition to
l)elong to the Regular Army. He joined the 3rd
Battahon Loyal North Lancashire Regiment as
2nd Lieutenant in February, 1911. being pro-
moted Lieutenant in January, 1912, and went
abroad with the 1st Battalion of the regiment,
with the 1st Division of the Expeditionary Force.
He was present at the Battle of Mons, was
wounded at the Battle of the Aisne on the 14th
September, 1914, and was brought home to
Netley, where he died on the 30th of the same
month. It was found that the force of the piece
of shrapnel which wounded him had driven
a portion of his identity disc into his lung.
(The above particulars were published in " The
Malvemian," his College magazine).
His Commanding Officer in France, writing to
express to Lieutenant Mason's parents the
sympathy of the surviving officers, said : " Yovu"
son received his mortal wound at the head of
his men in the thickest of the fighting on the
14th .September. More can be said of no one.
We honour him."
For some years Lieutenant Mason had been
iliUtary Critic of the " Birmingham Daily
Post." and was the author of a handbook
entitled " Hints on Battery Drill." He was
a member of the Public Schools' Alpine Club,
the Auxiliary Forces, the Red Rose, and the
Junior Army and Navy Club.
MAJOR JOHN HAMON MASSIE. D.S.O.,
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY,
who was the son of
Edward R. Massie,
late 78th High-
landers, of Codding-
ton, Cheshire, and
a grandson of the
late Admiral Thos.
Leche Massie, R.X.,
was bom on the
10th June. 1872, at
Eaux Chaudes,
Basses-Pyrenees,
France.
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He was educated at the School of Mr. Montagu
Foster, Stubbington, Fareham, and at the
R.M.A., Woolwich, being gazetted to the Royal
Artillery as 2nd Lieutenant in ilay, 1S92,
becoming Lieutenant in May, 1895, Captain
in January, 1900, and Major in February,
1913.
Major Massie served in the Chitral Relief Force,
1895, and received the medal and clasp. He
passed the long course at Shoeburj-ness in 1898
with first-class honoui's. From 190IJ-02 he
served in the South African War, in which,
after landing at Cape Town in January, 1900,
he acted as Transport Officer with the 30th
Remount Company, Army Service Corps,
being graded as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-
General. He was present at several actions
and operations : near De Wet's Dorp : the march
to Pretoria ; action at Zand River in May,
1900 ; entered Pretoria with Lord Roberts
on the 5th June, 1900 ; actions at Diamond Hill
and Heidelberg ; in pursuit of De Wet from
Bethlehem to the Transvaal ; actions at Vrede-
fort ; and operations at Hekpoort Valley. He
was then temporarily in command of a pom-
pom section. In November, 1900, was in
action near Schwai'tz Kopje. In January,
1902, he was appointed Staff Officer for Trans-
port, a position he held under various Generals
Commanding, and returned to England in
November of the latter year.
For his services he was mentioned in Lord
Kitchener's Despatches of the 17th June, 1902 ;
was awarded the D.S.O. ; and received Ihe
Queen's medal with four clasps (Cape Colony,
Johannesburg, Wittebergen, and Diamond
Hill) and the King's medal with two clasps.
In the Great War he proceeded on the 24th
August, 1914, for a week to Havre on special
duty as Staff Officer to Brigadier - General
XicoUs, R.A. On the 1st September, 1914.
he was gazetted as StaS Captain, Admini-
strative Staff, and again went to Havre for duty
with Heavj" Artillery on the 9th November.
He was kept at the base, St. NazaLre, till the
1st November, and left there to take command,
on the 5th November, of the 26th Heavy
Battery (sixty-pounders) at Ypres.
On the 13th November, 1914, he was mortally
wounded at Ypres by a fragment of high-
explosive shell whUe in command of the
26th Battery, and died In the Field Hospital
on the 15th of that naonth.
Major Massie was fond of all games and good at
most. On several occasions he represented his
regiment against the R.E. at bUhards. He was
for over three years Secretary and Treasurer
of the R.A. Games Fund.
He married, in September, 1903, Maria Mar-
garet, eldest daughter of Major-General E. A.
Berger, late 10th Regiment.
CAPTAIN CHARLES LIONEL MASTER,
2nd BATTN. ROYAL IRISH RIFLES.
who was killed in action on the 12th October,
1914, was the son of the late William Edward
Master, of Kotmalie, Ceylon, and nephew of
Harcourt Master, Rotherhurst, Liss, Hampshire.
He was born on the 24th March, 1881, and, after
serving with the embodied MUitia for about
six months, joined the Royal Irish Rifles as
2nd Lieutenant in January, 1901, becoming
Lieutenant in 1905. He served in the South
African War, being present at operations in the
Orange River Colony from August, 1901, to
May, 1902, receiving the Queen's medal with
four clasps.
In January, 1908, he was appointed Adjutant
of his battalion, and became Captain in June of
the same year.
CAPTAIN ALEXANDER M.\STERS,
ADJUTANT 34th SIKH PIONEERS,
was born at Burd-
wan, India, on the
1st March, 1885, son
of the late ilr. John
Masters, Inspector-
General of PoUce,
Bengal, and was a
nephew of Colonel
Alexander Masters,
C.B., of St. Erne,
Cheltenham.
He was educated at
Bedford Grammar
School and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, whence he
obtained his commission in the Lincolnshire
Regiment in October, 1903, at the age of eigh-
teen. He joined the Indian Army in 1905, be-
coming Lieutenant in 1906, and Captain in
1912, in which year he was appointed Adjutant
of his regiment. He served in the Mohmand
Campaign on the north-western frontier of
India in 1908, receiving the niedal and clasp.
Captain Masters was killed on the 23rd Novem-
ber, 1914, at Fe.stubert, the following accoimt of
the circumstance being given by a brother
officer : —
" We were driven out of oiu: trenches on the
morning of the 23rd. and the General gave orders
for a counter-attack in the evenmg, with in-
structions to retake the trenches at all costs.
Captain Masters was with a company leading
the attack over about six hundred yards of
open ground. He was very much liked by the
men, who would follow him anywhere, which
they did here in spite of the truly dreadful
fire from five German Maxims. Very splendidly
he led the men on tUl they reached the trench,
and drove the Germans out. The last that was
seen of him was his shooting four Germans with
his revolver, with two Sepoys fighting beside
him. Thev were aU found there just as they had
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fallen. Captain Masters' body IjTng between the
retaken trench and the Ciermans. It was
brought in the third night and buried by two
men of the Black Watch."
lie died, as he would have wished to die, knowing
that his regiment had carried the position.
LIEUT. THOMAS HUGH MATHEWS,
Ist.BATTN.iEAST LANCASHIRE REGT..
who was killed in
action on the 2nd
November, 1914, was
the eldest son of
.John Herbert and
Lydia Edith Mat-
hews, and was born
at The Rectory,
Great Warley, Esses,
on the 10th Xoveni-
^^\^ ^v. )^^^^^H Lieutenant Mathews
was educated at Rot-
tingdean School, Brighton, and at Repton. after-
wards going to the R.JI.C, Sandhurst, whence
he was gazetted to his regiment in September.
1913.
In the " London Gazette " of the 27th April,
1915, his promotion to Lieutenant was notified,
to take effect from September, 1914.
LIEUTENANT KENNETH RONALD
MATHIESON, SPECIAL RESERVE, attd.
1st BATTALION IRISH GUARDS,
who was killed m
action near Ypres on
the 1st November,
1914, aged twenty-
eight, was the elder
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Mathieson,
of 50, Prmces Gate,
London, .S.W.
He was appointed
Lieutenant in the
Speeial Reserve of
the Irish Guards
on the ISth August, 1914.
CAPTAIN JOHN HUBERT MATTHEWS,
1st BATTN. NORTHUMBERLAND
FUSILIERS,
son of John and
Jessie Matthews,
was bom on the
19th September,
1878, at Wahner,
Kent, and educated
at Charterhouse.
He first joined a
Militia Battalion of
the Border Regi-
ment, from which
he was gazetted to
the Xortliuiuberland FusUiers in January,
1899, becoming Lieutenant in February, 1900.
and obtaining his con\pany in October, 1901,
at the age of twenty-three.
With his battalion he served in the .South African
War, being employed with the Mounted In-
fantry, and was present at operations in the
Orange River Colony and Cape Colony. He
received the Queen's medal and King's medal,
each with two clasps.
He was with his battalion when, on the 15th
September, 1914, he was killed in the Great War,
being hit in the head by a piece of shrapnel
from a gun which enfiladed the trench in which
he was on duty, just north of the town of
Vailly.
CAPTAIN CHARLES CARLS MAUD.
D.S.O.. 1st BATTN. PRINCE ALBERTS
(SO.MERSET LIGHT INFANTRY).
wlio was killed in
action on the 19th
December, 1914, was
the youngest son of
the late Colonel Wil-
Uam Sherer Maud,
R.E.. and of Mrs.
Maud, of :MUton
House, Bourn e-
mouth.
He was born on the
15th January, 187.5,
and joined the Somer-
set Light Infantry from the MUitia in January,
1890, becoming Lieutenant in 1899. He took
part in the South African War, being present
at operations in the Transvaal in ilarch and
April. 1902, recei\-ing the Queen's medal with
two clasps.
From December, 1002, to September, 1904, he
was employed with the West African Frontier
Force, and in 1903 took part in the Kano-Sokoto
Campaign, for which he received the medal
with clasp : and also in operations in the district
east of Zaria. He was promoted Captain in
February,' 1904, and in that year took part
in the Sokoto-Burmi operations, for which
he was mentioned in Despatches (" London
Gazette," 24th January, 1905), and was awarded
the D.S.O.
In 1908 he was in the Soudan, and was present
at operations in the Jehel Xj-ima district of
Southern Kordofan, for which he received the
Egyptian medal with clasp, and was awarded
the Medjidieh, 4th class.
LIEUT-COLONEL AVMER EDWARD
MAXWELL. CAPTAIN 1st LOVATS
SCOUTS YEOMANRY. LATE CAPTAIN
GRENADIER GUARDS CAPTAIN
RESERVE OF OFFICERS),
was the only surviving son of the Right. Hon.
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MAX
Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell. P.C., seventh
Baronet, and nas born on the 26th October.LS"".
He was educated at
Eton and the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, from
which he entered the
Grenadier Guards in
September. 18 9 7,
beinsr promoted
Lieutenant in 1899
and Captain in June,
1904. He served in
the .South African
War, taking part in
the advance^ on
Kiniberley, including actions at Belmont
and Enslin, for which he received the Queen's
medal with clasp. He retired from the
active list, entered the Reserve of Officers,
Grenadier Guards, in September. 1907. and was
appointed Captain in Lo vat's Scouts Yeomanry
in November, 1910.
He received a temporary commis-sion as
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Marines
("London Gazette," 10th Xovember, 1914),
in .September, 1914. with conimand of the
" CoUingwood " Battalion of the Royal Xaval
Division. He was mortally wounded in the
trenches at Antwerp on the 8th October, and
died in the Military Hospital there on the
following day.
Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell married, in 1909,
Lady Mary Percy, fifth daughter of the seventh
Duke of Northumberland, and left four children :
Christian, bom July, 1910 : Aymer, bom
December, 1911 : Eustace, bom February,
19ir! : and Gavin, bom Julv. 1914.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES WILLIAM
MAXWELL. 2/8th GURKHA RIFLES,
who was killed in action in France on the 24th
November. 1914, was the only son of Lieutenant-
Colonel H. St. P. :>raxwell, C.S.I., Indian
Army, of Ealing.
He was born on the 12th Febiiiary. 1SS9. and
was educated at Wellington (at which School
his father was also educated), in the Hardinge
from 1903-07, where he was a Prefect and in
the XV, He then went to the R.M.C.. Sand-
hurst, where he became a Sergeant.
Having passed for the Indian Army he was
gazetted to an unattached 2nd Lieutenancy in
January. 1909 : and after being attached for
a year to the Essex Regiment in India was
posted to the Gurkha Rifles in April. 1910,
becoming Lieutenant in April, 1911.
Lieutenant Maxwell married, in 1913. Ida.
daughter of Colonel H. Clarke, late R.A.. and
of .Mrs. Clarke, of Wimbledon, and left a son.
C.\PTAIN IAN BOUVERIE M.\,\WELL.
3rd attd 1st BATTN. SOUTH W.\LES
BORDERERS,
was l)orn in London
on the 11th October.
1S90. the son of
Everard Ellison Max-
well, late Comman-
der R.N., and a
nephew of Lieu-
tenant - General Sir
Ronald Maxwell,
K.C.B.
He was educated at
Radley and Hertford
College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree.
After serving eighteen months in the Army
he resigned, and was employed on the staff of
the " Burlington ilagazine." Four months
later, on the outbreak of the war. he joined the
3rd Battalion of his regiment, and in .September
was promoted Captain being attached to the
1st Battalion on the Continent in October.
He was killed in action at the Battle of Ypres
on the 31st October. 1914.
C.\PTAIN PETER -PAT ' BENSON
MA.XWELL. p.s.c. 1st BATTN. THE
EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was wounded
at the Battle of the
Aisne on the 20th
.September. 1914.
his first day in action,
died on the 23rd,
and was buried at
Braisne on the 24th
of the month. He
was the son of Wil-
liam Edward ilax-
well. Assistant
Resident, Perak,
Federated Malay .States, and Ullias tirant
Maxwell, and was bom in (iuernsey. Channel
Islands, on the 10th October, 18Sli. His grand-
fathers were Sir Peter Benson Maxwell, Chief
Justice of the Straits Settlement.s, and the
Rev. James Aberigh-Mackay. D.D.. Chieftain
of Clan Abrach.
Captain Maxwell was educated at Bedford
Grammar School, which he entered in 18.SS,
and passed twelfth into the R.M.C., .Sandhurst,
in 1S9S, direct from the .School. In 1900 he
pa.ssed first out of Sandhurst, being awarded the
Queen Victoria gold medal, the Sword of
Honour, and field glasses for proficiency in
tactics. In the same year he was appointed to
the Queen's (Royal West .Surrey Regiment).
In April. 1901, he joined the 3.5th Sikhs (Indian
Army), in which regiment nearly aU his service
was passed. In 1901 and 1902 he served with
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the Waziristan Expedition, I'oi- wliich lie
received the medal and elasp, and was serving
with tlie East Yorksliire Regiment (into which
he exchanged iti 1912), when he was killed in
the Great War.
He obtained his company in January, 1 !•(»!»,
and entered the Staff College in 1912, passing
out the following year.
Captain Maxwell married, in December, 1912,
Eileen JIuriel, only daughter of Major-Cieneral
and ;Mrs. Jlamilton Gordon, and left one
daughter, Joan, born September, 1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOSEPH FREDERICK
MEAD, 4th BATTN. THE ROYAL
FUSILIERS, (CITY OF LONDON REGT.),
,_ who was killed in
11 action during the re-
l| tirement from Mons
on the 2;:!rd August,
1914, was the eldest
son of till- 1 a t I ■
Frederick .\lrail.
Esq., and of Mrs.
Mead. of 'I'he
M o o r i n g s , St.
Albans.
H e was li o r n
at Pietermaritzburg,
and was educated at
Winchester College,
Sandhurst. At Winchester
of the Boat Club, Vice-
(the Winchester game)
Natal, in February,
The Wick, Hove,
and at the R.M.C.,
he was President
Captain of " Sixes
1.S92,
at
and of " Fifteens," and gained the gold medal
for athletics two years in succession. He
passed into Sandhurst third, and passed out
first of his year for the British Army, the
two cadets above liini Ijeing candidates for the
Indian Army.
He joined the Royal Fusiliers in February, 1912,
passed the flying tests at Brooklands, in 1913,
and was to have had a further course in 1914
« ith a view to joining the Flying Corps Reserve,
but the outbreak of war prevented this being
done.
The following account of his death was received
from an officer of his battalion : " It was on
the 23rd August at Mons. He was in reserve
at the railway station with the rest of his com-
pany. Captain Ashburner was very hard pressed
and sent back for reinforcements. He was
defending the bridge over the canal. It was
a hopeless position, as the enemy could get
within one hundred yards of the bridge and
then fire from hovises, gardens, etc., and never
be seen. Also 1 believe five different battalions
were recognised in front of this one company.
Y'our son was soon ordered to reinforce the
firing line, which he did in the face of a fearful
fire. Directly he got into the trench he was
wounded in the head by a bullet. He went to
the rear (just a few yards) to get it dressed,
and was quietly whistling all the time. Directly
the dressing was finished he went back to the
trench, and the second he got there he got a
Imllet straight tlirough the foivhead."
I le was fond of all outdoor sports, especially
hunting and beagling. After joining the Army
he always played cricket and football for his
company, and was a splendid runner. He was
a member of the Junior Aiiny mid Navy and of
the Royal Aero Clubs.
LIEUTENANT SIDNEY ARTHUR
MEAKIN 4th (attd. 1st) BATTN. THE
PRINCE OF WALES'S (NORTH
STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action in France, on
the 17th December,
1914, aged twenty,
was the sixth son of
Mr. and ^Irs. ^Sleakin.
I I e was born at
Xeedwood Manor,
Hangemore, Burton-
on-Trent, and was "
educated at Up-
p i n g h a m Lower
School and Oakham.
He was gazetted 2n<l
l.ii'iil.
lilt
lii^
in I'.ll I. and
ri'giiiii'nt in
was promoted Lieutenant in
March, 1913.
He was buried at Chapelle d'Aniiciideres.
2nd LIEUTENANT JAMES WILLIAM
MEARS, 2nd BATTN. HIGHLAND
LIGHT INFANTRY, was killed in action
between the 12th and the 14th November. 1914.
He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenint. from tiie
rank of Company Sergeant-.Major. for service
on the field, on the 30th Octolier, 1914.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS GILLIAT
PRINCE OF
YORKSHIRE
MEAUTYS, 1st BATTN.
WALESS OWN (WEST
REGIMENT),
will) (lied on the 22nd
September, 1914, of
wounds received in
action on the 20th
at the Battle of tlie
Aisne, was the eldest
son of Thomas Ar-
rowsmith Meautys,
J.P., of Hammond's
Place, Burgess Hill,
Sussex.
He was born at
Wimbledon, Surrej-, on tlic l.'Kh .lime. ISSK,
and was educated at ^larlborough, vvhere he
was Captain of the LTpper School, was in
the School Football XV, and won the boxing
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MED -MEL
cliallenge cup. After leaving Marlborough
he was for a year at Wyllies', Cuckfield, Sussex ;
and in 190S went to the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
where he was a Sergeant. He joined the 2nd
West Yorkshire Regiment in -September, 1909,
getting his step in July, 1910. He served with
the 1st Battalion of his regiment in India from
January, 1910, to December, 1911, and was
Machine Gtm Officer when the war broke out.
He was mortally wounded while in the front line
at the Battle of the Aisne, looking for a con-
venient place for his guns.
3Ir. Meautys. who was a member of the Jvinior
Army and Xavy Club, married, in June, 1914,
Xorah XeU, only daughter of the late H. S.
Hotblack, of Brighton, and 3Irs. Hotblack,
of Fairfield, Hambledon, Hampshire, and left
one son, Thomas GUliat. bom April, 1915.
His recreations were football, racquets, and
shooting.
2ad LIEUT. FRANCIS LESTER
HASTINGS -MEDHURST. 3rd BATTN.
WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT.
was born at 7.
Campden Hill
Square, Kensington,
W., on the 28th
July, 1895, the only
son of Mrs. F.
Hastings - Medhurst,
of 11, St. Dnnstan's
Road, Baron's
Court, W., grand-
son of the late F. W.
Hastings - Medhurst,
R.A., and nephew
of A. Hastings- Medhurst, His Majesty's Consul,
Corunna.
He was educated at -Stanmore Park Preparatory
School (Rev. V. Royle) and Malvern College,
where he was in No. 6 House.
He passed seventeenth into the Royal Military
College, Sandhiust, where he was a Prize
Cadet, joined the 3rd Battalion Worcestershire
Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant on the 25th
August, 1914, and left with the TIth Division
on the 6th September. On the llth October
he was wounded in the head while taking his
company across open ground to reinforce a
trench. Two-thirds of his men were killed by
German Maxim fire opening on their flank, the
rest saved themselves by crawling back on their
hands and knees.
On the 17th October, dviring very fierce fighting,
a battalion on the right retired without the
Worcesters receiving warning, leaving the flank
of the latter exposed to the enemy. 2nd Lieu-
tenant Medhurst volunteered to carry a message
over open ground for help and orders. He had
almost reached cover when he was caught by
Maxim fire and killed instantaneously. His body
was recovered later, and was buried at night by
his comrades.
The above particulars were given by a wounded
officer and men of his battalion.
OWN CAMERON
LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT KEN-
NETH FORBES MEIKLEJOHN. 1st
BATTN. QUEEN'S
HIGHLANDERS,
was bom at Wool-
wich on the ISth
June, IS85, the son
of Lieutenant-
Colonel J. F.
Meiklejohn, late
R.H.A. He was
related to the late
General Sir John
Forbes, G.C.B., and
the late Major-
General Sir WUliam
Meiklejohn, K.C.B. His brother— Jlajor R. F-
Meiklejohn, D.S.O. — was wounded at the Battle
of Mons. and was taken a prisoner of war.
Lieutenant Meiklejohn was educated at Rugby
and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, gaining many
prizes at both. He joined the Cameron High-
landers in February, 1904 ; became Lieutenant
in September, 1909 : and was appointed Adju-
tant of his battaUon in March, 1913. He was
quaUfied as an Interpreter in Russian and French
and passed the examination in German. He
also passed successfully through several Army
courses.
He was killed in the trenches at the Battle of
the Aisne, France, on the 25th September. 1914.
Lieutenant Meiklejohn was reconunended for
the Legion of Honour by his Commanding
Officer.
He married Sybil Stewart, of Kinlochmoidart,
Inverness - shire, and left a son, Kenneth
Matthew, bom January, 1915, after his father's
death.
C.\PTAIN WALTON MELLOR. 2nd
BATTN. ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT.
elder son of John
Edward Mellor, of
Tan-y-Bryn,
Abergele, Denbigh-
shire, was bom on
the 27th Jxme,
1878, and was edu-
cated at Rossall
School. He joined
the Lancashire Fu-
siliers from the
Militia in December,
1899, becoming Lieu-
tenant in May. 1900, ai
1905. In 190S he was transferred to the Royal
Irish Regiment.
;n in June.
MER— MET
2B4
Captain MoUor sei'ved in the South African
War, 1899-1902, beinj^ present at operations
in tlie Transvaal. Natal, including tlie action
at Laing's Nek; and in the Orange Hiver
Colony. For a short time, in liidl, he acted as
Railway Slaft" OOicer. l''or his services he
received I In- (^ n's nirdal uitli four clasps
and llie King's medal with two clasps. I'Votu
1910 14 he was an Instructor at the K..M.('.,
Sandhinsi .
Captain Alellor was killed in action during the
retirement from .Mons on the 23rd August, 1914,
being one of tlie earliest of British ollicera to
fall in the Great War.
He maiiied, on the 31st March. 1910, Kathleen
tieraldine Helen, only daughter of lieutenant-
Colonel Gerald V. Wellesley, and left a daugliter,
Kaflilccii I'^lorence Walton, born 1911.
MAJOR ARCHIBALD ARIEL MERCER.
2nd BATTN. DORSETSHIRE REGT.,
who fell on the 17th
November, 1914, in
the engageinent on
the Biver Shat-el-
Arab, which resulted
in the capture of
Basra, Turkey in
Asia, near the head
of the Persian Gvilf,
was the second son
of the late ]Mr.
Charles Mercer and
of INIrs. Mercer, of
Lansdowiie Lodge, Weymouth. He was born
on the 24th February, 1875, and was educated
at Marlborough and the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
receiving his commission in the Dorsetshire
IJegiment in Alarcli, 1895, becoming Lieutenant
in July, 1897, and Captain in November, 1901.
Major Mercer served in the Tirah Campaign of
1897-98, taking part in the actions of Cliagru
and Dargai, in the capture of Sampagha and
Arhange Passes, and in the reconnaissance of
the Saran Sar, where he was severely wounded.
He received the Tirah medal with two clasps.
He was a qualified Musketry Instructor and a
first-class Interpreter in Hindustani. He was
fond of all games, especially polo and tennis.
After the South African War, from 1902-03,
he was employed in tlie Repatriation Depart-
ment. For three and a half years from 1903 he
served with the Transvaal \'olunteers, and from
May, 1909, to December, 1910, with the Ceylon
Volunteers.
The following description of the operations
in which tlie 1 )orsetshire Regiment was employed
in the Persian Gulf is taken from accounts of
offlcers who were present : —
" The force on the River Shat-el-Arab consisted
of the Dorsets, the Norfolks, the 104th (Indian
Army), and a Mountain Battery. The first
])osition held by tlie enemy was along the edge
of the date palm plantations, which border the
river bank in a belt in places two miles wide.
Inland is Hat desert. On the 17th the whole
force attacked Sahil, a place ten miles north of
Sanizah, on the River Shat-el-Arab, which is
al)out tliirty-flve miles from Basra. It was very
liea\ y work advancing across the desert, as,
just as tile action started, a heavy rain and liaU
storm of half an hour caine down. The enemy
put up a very heavy gun and rifle fire, and
advancing against it in the open it was pretty
bad. The Dorsets were simply wondeifid.
As they neared the large fort they were enliladed
by tlie picked Turks who had been placed in the
trenches, and suffered verj- heavily.
" The country over which our men ailvanccd
was as flat as a table, and would nut liave given
cover to a mouse. It was just grand to watch
them move forward — it nught liave been a
field day in the Maidan."
Sir Arthur Barrett, in his despatch, said :
" The conduct of the troops throughout this
engagement excited my warmest admiration.
The behaviour of the Dorset Regiment when
exposed to both frontal and enfiladed fire is
especially to be commended."
Major Mercer was popular with his legimeiit,
and a Private who was with him when killed said
his last word was "Advance!" himself leading.
He married Margaret Edith, daughter of Mv.
and Mrs. W. A. Tennant, of Oxford House,
Ugley, Essex, in August, 1913, and left a
daughter, born on the 30th Novembei', 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT ERIC CAMERON
MERCER, attd. 4th ROYAL DUBLIN
FUSILIERS, who was killed in action on the
13th October, 1914, was gazetted to the un-
attached list for the Indian Army in August,
1914, from the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
CAPTAIN CAMERON OBRYEN HAR-
FORD METHUEN, 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the son of the
late Colonel C. L.
Methuen, Command-
ing 1st City of
Bristol Volunteers,
late of the Cameron
Highlanders (the old
79th), and the late
Mrs. Methuen. Cap-
tain Methuen, who
was a relation of
P i e 1 d - JI a r s h a 1
Lord Methuen,
G.C.B., a very distinguished soldier
born at Heidelberg, tiermany, on
May, 1876.
He was educated at a private school at
Clifton, afterwards at Harrow, and subsequently
anil
the
was
7th
2»>5
MET— MID
with militarj" tutors, and joined the Warwick-
shire Militia in February, ls95. becoming
Lieutenant in March, 1897. He was gazetted
to the 1st (Regular) Battalion in January,
189S, becoming Lieutenant in August of the
same year, and Captain in February. 1901.
On the outbreak of the South African War he
volunteered for active service, and was attached
to the Royal Irish Fusiliers, with whom he
sailed to South Africa. He was present at
the Relief of Ladysmith, including action at
Colenso ; at operations in the Orange Free
State, including actions at Vet River and Zand
River : in the Transvaal, including actions
near Johannesbtirg. Pretoria, and Diamond
Hill ; also in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria,
including action at Belfast. He received the
Queen's medal with five clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps. After Colenso he rejoined
his own regiment, when that was sent out, and
served with the 3Iounted Infantry through the
remainder of the war.
His battalion was stationed at Malta when the
Great War broke out, and was brought to England
in September, 191i, leaving for the front on the
4th October as part of the Vllth Division,
disembarking at Zeebrugge. Captain Methuen
was shot on the 21st October, 1914, in the
trenches, before Tpres, while looking throB^
his field-glasses, and was killed instantaneously.
He was a member of the Army and Xavy Club.
CAPTAIN DAVID GEORGE METH-
VEN. 2nd BATTN. SEAFORTH HIGH-
LANDERS ROSS-SHIRE BUFFS,
THE DUKE OF A L B A N Y ' S i ,
who was killed in
action on the 2i)th
October, 1914, was
the only son of the
late James Methven
and Mrs. Methven,
Wemyss Park, Kirk-
caldy. ' He was bom
on the 2nd January,
1ST9, and after serv-
ing with the em-
bodied Militia for
nearly three months
was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Seaforth
Highlanders in March, 1900, getting his Lieu-
tenancy in July, 1901.
He served in the South African War with the
Mounted Infantry, and was present at oper^
ations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, and
in the Orange River Colony in 190«). Again,
in 19<)l-02, he took part in operations in the
Transvaal and Orange River Colony and in
Cape Colony, receiving the Queen's medal with
three clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
He was promoted Captain in April, 190S.
C O L L O Y R A N
PRINCE OF
A L LANCERS.
CAPTAIN JOHN
MICHELL. 12th
WALES'S RO
eldest son of John
iUchell, I.S.O.. Con-
sul-General at Petro-
grad, was bom in
Petrograd on the
22nd Sept., 1ST I.
He was educated at
Rugby, and joined
the Duke of Com-
wall's Light
Infantry (ililitia) in
1S89. He served in
the Matabele Cam-
paign in 1896, and took part in the South
African War during 1899-tJ2, being employed
with the Commander-in-Chief's Bodyguard, and
afterwards under the Chief Staff Officer, Lines
of Communication, having received his commig-
sion in the Wonrestershire Regiment in May,
1900. He was present at the relief of Mafeking,
and at operations in Rhodesia, 1899-1900;
operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria,
including actions at Elands River; and oper-
ations in the Orange River Colony. For his
services he received the Queen's medal with
four clasps and the King's medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in February,
1901, and Captain in the Royal Garrison Regi-
ment in November, 1902, being transferred to
the 12th Lancers in September, 1905.
He aL-o received the Coronation Durbar medaL
He was killed on the 28th August, 1914, while
gallantly leading his squadron in what proved
to be a most successful charge against the
German Cavalry at Moy (Aisne) during the re-
tirement from Mons. The General Commanding
the Cavalry Brigade said in his despatch :
" The Lancers charged through the enemy like
going through brovyn paper."
Captain Michell, who was a member of the
Cavalry and Sports Clubs, married Ella,
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hill
Macnagfaten, of 51, Hans Road, London.
CAPTAIN FRANK MIDDLETON. 2nd
BATTN. DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT,
eldest surviving son
of Hastings Burton
and Charlotte
Lucia >Iiddleton,
was bom at Brad-
ford, Peverell, Dor-
chester, on the 11th
Febrtiary, ISTT.
He was educated at
the Rev. C. R.
Carp's School
Exmonth ; and at
Eton (H.W. Mozley 's
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House). He joined the Doisetsliire Regiment
from ihr Militia in .luno, 18i)S, becoming
Lieutenant in Xoveml)er, 1000.
In the South African War lie was emiiloyed
with the j\Ioiuit('»l Infantry, and was present at
the relief of Lady.sniith and the action at Spion
Kop : the action at Vaal Kranz : operations
on Tugela Heiglits, when he was wounded on the
21st February, 1900, and action at Pieter's Hill :
operations in Natal, action at Laing's Nek,
and operations in Oi-ange River Colony. He
was mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," 10th February, 1901), and received
the Queen's medal with five clasps and the
King's medal with two clasps. He became Caj)-
tain in February, 1900.
Captain Middleton was killed on the ITtli
November, 1914, at Sahil, while serving in
the Persian Gulf Expedition.
He married, in 1908, Emily Florence, daughter
of the late Major George Bannister, of Tlie
Warrens, Feering, Kelvedon, and left one son,
Hastings Frank, born October, 1910.
CAPTAIN DOUGLAS NATHANIEL
CARLETON CAPEL MIERS, 1st BATTN.
THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON
HIGHLANDERS,
hovn at Perth, Scot-
land, on the 20th
February, 1875, was
-^ . the eldest son of
"~^~ * the late Lieutenant -
Colonel Capel 11.
Jliers, 79th Cameron
Highlanders, of
Crmant, Glamorgan-
shire, and a grand-
^ ^^HHI^^H': son t)ie late
Captain Robert
Douglas Macdonald, 42nd Highlanders (the
Black Watch), of Inchkenneth and Gi-ibime.
Captain Miei-s was a descendant of the "JMier"
of whom it is recorded that at the famous
victory of Odeza, on the .30th November, 1227,
the King of Spain, calling on his army to
advance, shouted, " Adel ante el de Mier por
mas valeo! " which may be translated, " Advance,
Mier ! the best able to lead." The family came
to England in 1(510.
C^aptain Miers was educated at The Oratory
School, Edgbastou : and at Downside. He was
gazetted to the Cameron Highlanders from the
2nd (then Militia) Battalion in September, 1896,
and obtained bis company in March, 1901.
He served with the Nile Expedition of 1898,
being present at the Battle of Atbara, for which
he received the British medal with clasp
and the Egyptian medal. He also served in the
South African War, being present at the actions
of Vet River, Zand River, Wittebergen, and
Ladysmitb, being twice mentioned in Despatches.
For saving the life of an officer in the Zand
River he was recommended by General Riming-
ton for, and was awarded, tlie Koyal Humane
Socii-ty's bronze medal. During that war he
served with Rimington's Guides, and was also
with General Bruce Hamilton's column. He
received the Queen's medal with four clasps.
From 1905-10 he was Adjutant of the 3rd
Battalion of his regiment at the depot, Inver-
ness, where he took great interest in recruiting,
raising the strength of the Battalion from
four hundred when he took it on to one thousand
one hundred when he left. In the course of
his recruiting tours he went through the
Hebrides, and was very successful in enlisting
the West Coast men.
He left for FVance on the 13th August, 1914, and
went straight up to Landrecies with two hundred
and fifty men to act as bodyguard to Lieut enant-
General Sir J. M. Grierson, who died suddenly in
the train on his way tothe front. General Grierson
was succeeded by General Sir H. Smith- Dorrien,
and witli him Captain Jliers served during the
whole of the retirement from Mons, being com-
plimented by the General for his work. He
w as present at the battle of the Marne, and on
September 14tli, in the Battle of the Aisne,
he brought the renmant of his battalion out of
action, reduced to four officers, including him-
self, and about eighty' rank and tile.
Captain Miers was killed on the 25th September,
1914, the same day and month as that on which
his brother — Captain Ronald Hill Miers, Somer-
setshire Light Infantry — had been killed in
1901 in South Africa, Captain Ronald Miers
had been the champion middleweight boxer of
tlie Army and Navy.
Captain Brodie, Adjutant of the 1st Battalion
Cameron Highlanders, gave the following
account of Captain iliers' death : " He was
\\ith the headciuarters in command of the
Battalion in support of two companies, holding
somewhat advanced positions in a wood and
on a ridge near Verneuil, on the River Aisne.
With him were the Headquarters Staff and the
Signallers. ' On the 24th September our men
had been subjected to very heavy shell fire,
and Captain Miers gave orders that one of these
advanced trenches was not to be held on the
25tli. On that day our troops w^ere again very
heavily shelled. At 7 a.m. Captain Miers re-
ceived a flesh wound in the arm, and decided to
go to ^^erneuil to have it dressed in hospital,
saying he would return in the afternoon.
Before he could get away the shelling recom-
menced, and he delayed going, having in the
meantime sent a message to Captain Cameron,
the next senior officer, to say he was going.
Captain Cameron came up to headquarters,
and just as he arrived a high-explosive shell
burst on the top of the trench and blew it in.
Headquarters were in a cave, the trenches having
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been in some underground slate quarries.
The shell burst on top of the cave, and another
bui-st at its mouth, bringing down tons of heavy
stones, burying the inmates, who must all have
been instantaneously killed. It took three
days to dig out the cave, as the work could only
be done at night, and the bodies of the killed —
tliirty-one in all — were recovered, including
those of five officers who were in tiie party.
The officers and sergeant-major were buried
at Bourg." The Adjutant concluded : " We
as a regiment deeply delore their loss, and I
have lost a most kind and able Captain and
Conuiianding Officer."
Captain Miers married, in November, 1901,
Margaret Anne, youngest daughter of the late
Mr. John EUiot Christie, and left three children :
Ronald Douglas Martin, born November, 1902 :
Anthony Cecil Gerard, born November, 1906 ;
and Rosemarv Ann, born February, 1910.
CAPTAIN ROBERT
2nd BATTN. THE
SHIRE LIGHT
P.\rRlCK MILES,
KINGS SHROP-
INFANTRY),
was born at The
Lawn, Shirehamp-
ton, Gloucestei-shii-e,
on the 11th Decem-
ber. 1879, the son
of Robert Fenton
>riles. of The Old
Bank (Union of Lon-
don and Smith's),
Bristol. He was
related to Sir H. R.
!Miles, Bart., of Leigh
Court, and wa.s a
godson of the late General .Sir Patrick
Macdougall, at one time Connnander-in-Chief
in Canada.
Captain Allies was educated at ^Marlborough,
where he gained some athletic distinction, and
joined the Yorkshire Light Infantry in August,
1899, becoming Lieutenant in January, 1901.
He served in the .South African War, being
present at operations in the Orange Free State
and at Paardeberg : actions at Poplar Grove,
Driefontetn, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain). Vet
and Zand Rivers : in the Orange River Colony,
Cape Colony, and the Transvaal. He received
the Queen's medal with four clasps and the
King's medal with two clasps. He also had the
medal for King George's Durbar in India. In
October, 1907, he was appointed Superintendent
of Gymnasia for the .Southern Army. India, in
which country he served for ten years.
He was a good all-round athlete, and very
interested in Army boxing, he was also fond of
big-game shooting, in which he was indulging
while on leave in British East Africa when the
war broke out.
On Ms return he was attached to the 1st Bat-
talion Royal Irish Rifles, as the 1st Battalion
(to which he had been transferred) of his own
regiment had already gone to the front. He was
shot in the trenches on the 30th December,
1914, and was buried at Estaires.
LIEUTENANT CYRIL ROLAND EYRE
MILLER, 4th BATTN. THE CAMERON-
lANS (SCOTTISH RIFLES),
son of the late
Captain J. Blair
.^liUer. late 8th Hus-
sars and Forfar Light
Horse, and Mrs.
Goodwin Newton,
The Manor House,
Upton, Andover, was
born on the 17th Jan-
uary, 1882, at Eyre
Court Castle,Ireland,
and was educated at
Christ's Hospital.
Lieutenant ililler served with tlie Transvaal
Horse near Potchefstroom. in South Africa, and
for two years with the Royal .Scots at Glencorse.
He became Lieutenant in the Cameronians in
^lay, 1908, and in the Gi'eat War was attached
to the King's Own .Scottish Borderers: he was
wounded In the trenches near Ypres on the
14th November. 1914, and died in No. 7
.Stationary Hospital at Boulogne on the 23rd
November, being buried at the Cemetery
d'Est on the 24th.
The circumstances of his death were described
thus by a brother officer : " An aeroplane
dropped a bomb in the trench held by the
battalion. It did not explode when it fell, and
Lieutenant C. R. E. MUler ran forward and Ufted
it up to throw it clear of the trench. But he was
too late. The bomb burst, and the gallant
officer was so terribly mutilated that he after-
wards died of his wounds."
CAPTAIN ERNEST CYRIL MILLER
(SPECIAL RESERVE), 3rd (attd. 1st)
BATTN. LOYAL NORTH LANC.\SHIRE
REGIMENT,
was the third son of
the late WUlian^ Pitt
.AUller and Mrs. W.
Pitt MiUer, of
Merlewood, Grange-
over-Sands, Lan-
cashire, and Tliistle-
ton, Lanca-slili-e.
He was born on the
13th June, 1878, at
Merlewood. Grange-
over-.Sands, and was
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educated at Harrow (Small Houses and Drui'ies)
1893-91) ; and Tiinity College, (^iinbiids^e, where
he took his B.A. degree in litoi.
Captain .Miller had obtained a satisfactory
report for tlie rank of 1^'ield Officer, and had
qualified at a school of musketry. He obtained
his Captaincy in June, 1906.
Me was killed instantaneously while leading his
men during the successful attack on the enemy's
position near Bixschoote on the 23rd October.
1914.
He was a member of the Union Club. Trafalgar
Square. I.,ondon.
In November, 1013, he married Dulcie Katlierine,
daughter of "Sir. and Mis. A. M. Bernard, of
Copdock, Ipswich.
LIEUTENANT FREDERIC WILLIAM
JOSEPH MACDONALD MILLER, 1st
BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS,
who was killed in
action on tlie 23rd
October, 1914, was
the elder son of Sir
William Miller,
Bart., of Glenlee.
Lieutenant Miller's
mother was the
youngest daughter
of Mr. Chas. Man-
ning, brother of
Cardinal Manning.
His great - uncle —
Lieutenant^Coloml William Miller, of the
Grenadier Guards — was mortally wounded at
Quatre Bras, and died the following day in
Brussels.
After the usual period at the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, Lieutenant Miller was gazetted to the
Grenadier Guards in February, 1912, and was
given his Lieutenancy in AugTist, to date from
the 30tli June, 1914.
Sir William Miller's second son — 2nd Lieu-
tenant A. G. L. J. Miller, 2nd Battalion Irish
Guards — becomes the heir to tlie baronetcy.
2nd LIEUTENANT GODFREY LYALL
MILLER, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
who was included as killed in action in the
casualty list issued by the War Office on the
9th October, 1914, was the son of Sir John
Ontario Miller, K. C.S.I. , of Rowley Lodge,
Arkley, Herts.
He was born in 1893, and v\as educated at Rugby
and the R.M.A., Woolwich, from which he
passed first into the R.E., i^eceivang his com-
mission in December, 1912.
2nd LIEUTENANT INGLIS FRANCIS
RAWLEY MILLER, 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL INNISKILLING FUSILIERS,
born 111!
January.
Alillb.uik.
Count y
was the
viving son
late Major
thc> 19th
1893, at
Omagh,
Tyrone,
only sur-
of the
Hawlcv
Jliller. of Millbank,
Onuigh, and a grand-
son of the late Rev.
Alexander Rawley
Miller, of Money-
m o 1- e , Co u n t y
Tyrone. 2nd Lieutenant Miller's ekler_^brother
— Lieutenant Alexander Rawley ^Miller, 1st
Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers — gave
his life for his country in the South African
War.
He wa-s educated at Berkhampsted. aiid had
been for four years in the Special Reserve,
3rd Battalion, and after the outbreak of tlie
war he was attached to the 2nd Battalion of his
regiment, and later was gazetted to^ Wh:
Regular Army.
Ho was wounded during the retirement from
Mons on the 26th August, 1914, and died from
the effects, a prisoner of war, in a hospital at
Cambrai on the 13th September, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant Jliller was mentioned in .Sir
John French's Despatch of the Sth October,
191 I.
2nd LIEUT. ROY DENZIL PASHLEY
MILNER, 2nd BATTN. SHERWOOD
FORESTERS, (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
AND DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT),
was born on the
1st December, 1892,
at Totley Hall,
Derbyshire, the son
of William Aldam
Jlilner. Esq., who
is descended from
an old branch of tlie
family w h i c li
migrated from Notts
to Yorkshire in the
sixteenth century,
and lived tor many
generations at Monk Bretton Abbey.
Lieutenant Milner was educated at Rep ton and
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from
which he received his commission in January,
1913, and accompanied his battalion to the
Continent, leaving Southampton on the Sth
September, 1914, reaching the front on the
18th of the same month.
On the morning of the 20th September the
Sherwood Foresters were held in reserve at the
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foot of a hiU on the north bank of the Aisne.
near Troyon. another battalion being entrenched
in the filing line on the hUl above. A sudden
alarm came that the Germans had penetrated
our line, and had taken the trenches. The
Foresters were not in formation, but sprang to
anus, and, led by their officers, rushed up the
hill in groups to where the Germans were
entrenched in our lines. In spite of a heavy
cross and frontal fire, they drove out the enemy
and re-cccupied oiu- trenches. There wero
fourteen casualties among the officers, and 2nd
Lieutenant Milner, who wa.s with one of the
leading companies, fell in storming the trenches.
His Commanding Officer — Colonel Crofton- "
Atkins — gave to his relatives the following
account of this brave young officer's gallant
conduct : —
'■ It wiU be some consolation to you to know
that his end was worthy of the brave young
soldier he was. He died when leading his little
connuand in the most dashing manner dming
our first fight on the 20th, a notable regimental
anniversary — Alma Day. His action, together
with that of others, secured the successful issue
of a fight which was of vital importance to the
safety of the whole line. It is hardly necessary
for me to tell you how much we all loved and
appreciated him. He was one of my most
pronusing young officers, and his loss is a personal
grief to me."
2nd Lieutenant Milner played polo for his
regiment at Plymouth, and was one of the
winning team that competed for the Cory Cup
in 1914.
the champion company at arms. His recre-
ations were cricket, football, golf, and music.
On the 7th August, 1914. he was gazetted to
the South Lancashire Regiment, and left for
the front on the Sth .September, taking a gallant
part in the Battles of the Aisne and Ypres,
when his battalion fought against great odds.
He was killed in action at Xeuve ChapeUe
on the 27th Octolx-r. 1914.
CAPTAIN J L LI AN ALAN SPENCER
MITCHELL, 3rd BATTN. THE KINGS
SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY.,
who died at Braisne i^^^^^^^^^^^^^.
on the 2Sth Septem- '^^^^^^^^^^^^■l
ber, 1914, of wounds
received at the Battle
of the Aisne, aged
twenty-eight years,
was the second son of
Captain Spencer
Mitchell, formerly of
the Border Regiment
(temporary Lieuten-
ant - Colonel, Com-
manding 20th 'Ser-
vice] Battalion Manchester Regiment).
He was bom at Dublin on the I.5th January,
1886, and was educated at Charterhouse. He
joined the 3rd Battalion King's (Shropshire
Liaht Infantry) in 1910, became Lieutenant in
October. 1912, and was promoted Captain
shortly before his death.
He was married, and his only child was bom on
the 27th .September, 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT ERIC ARTHUR
MITCHELL. 2nd BATTN. THE PRINCE
OF WALESS VOLUNTEERS SOUTH
LANCASHIRE REGIMENT .
was the elder sur\-iv-
ing son of the Rev.
W. M. and Mrs. Mit-
chell, of Elson Vicar-
age, Gosport. Hants,
and a grandson of
the late G. J. Xew-
bery, Esq., of Staf-
ford House, Brox-
boume, Herts. He
was bom at St.
Mary's Vicarage,
Leicester, on the
21st Mai-ch. 1895, and was educated at
Oakham School, where he excelled in sports,
and obtained his colours for both cricket and
footljall. and was one of the first to join the
O.T.C.
In February. 1913. he entered the R.M.C., Sand-
liurst, and pa.ssed through his course with dis-
tinction. On several occasions he played for
the College Rusbv XV, and was a member of
LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER LOGAN
N. M\XW"ELL MOFF.\T. 2nd BATTN.
DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT.
was bom at 11 Dean - „^ ^ --^ --
Street. Blackpool,
Lancashire, on the
24th November,
1889. He was the
third son of the late
R. MaxneU iloffat,
.M.D., of St. Heliers,
Jersey, and Sid-
mount, Dumfries-
shire, and grandson
of the late Alex-
ander Maxwell
Moffat, J.P., Laird of
shiie.
He was educated at Victoria College. Jersey,
and joined the Prince of Wales's Own (West
Yorkshire Regiment) from the Militia in May,
1910. being subsequently transfeiTed to the
2nd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment — then in
India — in which lie was promoted Lieutenant
in Febriiarv. 1914. He was Brigade Signalling
Sundaywell, Dunofries-
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Officer at Poona, and accoinpaiiieil his battalion
to the Persian Gulf.
At the takinfi of Basra he was severely wounded,
and died tliree ilays later on the 21st November,
1914, and was buried in the desert.
Colonel Kosher, Commanding Officer, wrote :
" We deplore the loss of one of our most promis-
ing young officers, a favourite in all ranks.
He was severely wounded wliilst gallantly
leading up the machine guns, of which he had
charge, to help his sorely pressed comrades."
A brother officer wrote : " He died a credit to
his regiment and country."
MAJOR ERNEST KERR MOLES-
WORTH, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
was the son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
A. O. Molesworth,
R.A. (retired), of
Crmcksfield, Duns,
X.B., and was born
at Montrose, Scot^
land, in 1878,
He was educated
privately and
at the Royal
^lilitary Academy,
Woolwich, fro m
which he obtained his commission in March, 1898,
and became Captain in March, 1907, being pro-
moted to the rank of Major on the 30th October,
1914, two months before he met his death.
He served in India, was in the Tibet Expe-
dition of 1903-04, for wliich he received the
medal, and commanded the 2nd Field Troop of
R.E. of the Indian Expeditionary Force on
service in Fi-ance (1914) tUl his death. He was
killed at St. Ililaire, France, on the 31st Decem-
ber, 1914.
He married Hilda Rosalie, daughter of the late
Lieutenant-(ieneral H. A, Brownlow, R.E.,
and left two children. IMoUie Rosalie and
David Brownlow, age seven and two years
respectively.
CAPTAIN BRIAN C. B. MOLLOY, OX-
FORDSHIRE YEOMANRY, (QUEENS
OWN OXFORDSHIRE HUSSARS),
T.F., Honorary
Lieutenant in the
Army, May, 1910,
was killed in action
on the 1st Novem-
ber, 1914.
The son of James
^loUoy of Cornolare,
King's County, he
was bom on tlie
1st June, 1875, and
was educated at The
Oratory School, Bir-
mingham. He entered the Yeomanry in May,
1901, and served in the South African War, in
which he was severely wounded, taking part
in operations in the Orange River Colony and
in the Transvaal in 1900-01, including actions
at Lindley, Rhenoster River, and Venterskroon.
He received the Queen's medal with four clasps.
He retired from the Oxfordshire Y'eomanry in
February, 1905, and joined the reserve of that
regiment in the same year, when he was also
promoted Captain. He was a King's Foreign
Service Messenger from 1901-13.
Captain Molloy, who was a member of the St,
James's and the Cavalry Clubs, married May,
widow of !Major Harry Pakenhani, 60th Rifles,
and daughter of Colonel Markham, of Becca
Hall, Yorks, and left one daughter, Mary
Elizabeth, born January, 1912.
CAPTAIN the Honble. CHARLES
HENRY STANLEY MONCK, 3rd
BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
was the eldest son
of H, P. C. S., fifth
Viscount Jlonck, and
Viscountess Monck,
daughter of the third
Earl of Clonmel.
He was born at 78,
Belgrave Road, Lon-
don, S.W., on the
9th November, 1S76,
and was educated at
Eton.
He joined the Cold-
stream Guards as 2nd Lieutenant from thr Militia
in May, 1897, becoming Lieutenant in November,
1898, and Captain in November, 1903. He served
with the 2nd Battalion through the South African
War from 1899 to 1902, and was present at the
advance on Kimberley, including actions at
Belmont, Ensh'n, Jlodder River, and Magers-
fontein ; and also at operations in the Orange
Free State in November, 1900. At the conclu-
sion of that war he received the Queen's medal
with seven clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps.
In the Great War he was shot through the heart
!it St. Julien, France, on the 21st October,
1914, and at the time of his death he was the
Senior Captain of his battalion.
Captain Monck married Mary Florence, daugh-
ter of Sir W, W. Portal, second Bart., and left
three children: Henry W. S., born the 11th
December, 1905 ; Elizabeth Noel, born in
1908 ; and Mary Patricia, born in 1911,
He was a member of the Guards' Club, the
Kildare Street Club, Dublin; and the M,C,C,
His recreations were polo, cricket, iiunting, and
shooting.
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MON
LIELTENANT FRANCIS ALGERNON
MONCKTON. 1st BATTALION SCOTS
GUARDS,
was the son of
Francis Monckton,
of Stretton Hall,
Stafford, and Mrs.
Jlonckton. daughter
of Algernon Charles
Heber-Perc y, of
Hodnet Hall, Shrop-
shire.
He was bom in Lon-
don on the 6th May,
1S90, and was edu-
cated at a private school at WLxenf ord ; at
Eton ; and at Christ church, Oxford, where he
took his B.A. degree. He received his com-
mission in the Scots Guards in February, 1912,
becoming Lieutenant in April, 1913.
Lieutenant Monckton was killed by shell in the
trenches near Tpres on the Sth November,
1914. The Germans broke through the AUied
line on the flank of the Scots Guards, who
remained firm, and so repulsed the attack and
saved the situation.
He was a member of the Guards' and the Royal
Automobile Clubs,
CAPTAIN HENRY IRONSIDE MONEY,
1st BATTN. R.G.O. GURKH.\ RIFLES.
killed in action
on the 20th Decem-
ber, 19 14, at
Givenchy, was the
youngest son of the
late Lieutenant-
Colonel Ernie
Edmund Money,
Commandant 9th
Bengal Lancers,who,
like his two sons,
was educated at
Marlborough Col-
lege. Captain Money was bom on the 21st
September, 1883, at Kasauli, Punjab, India,
His paternal grandfather was the late Rev,
William Money, of Walthamstow, and his
maternal grandfather the late ilajor-General
Henry Drummond, R.E., of Strageath, Colonel
Moneys career ^vas brought to a tragic end by
assassination in 1S94, His eldest son — Captain
Emle Francis Drummond Money, Special
.Service Officer to 3rd Kashmir Rifles — was at
the time fighting in East Africa,
After his education at Marlborough Captain
Money entered the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, as
King's India Cadet in 1901, and obtained his
commission in August, 1903, serving in India
with F*rince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry
till January, 1904, when he joined the 1st
Gurkha Rifles, of which he became Quarter-
master. He was promoted Captain In 1911.
Besides being an " Old Mariburian.'" Captain
Money was a member of the Junior Naval and
Military Club and of the United Service In-
stitution. HLs recreations were hockey, golf,
and tennis.
An officer of his regiment gave the following
details of Captain Money's last fight : " Henry
was last seen fighting most valiantly and with the
greatest coolness when he was shot in the head.
A Mr. Cowan, in the Highland Light Infantry,
who saw him fall, told me that he must have
been killed instantly. His name has, I know,
gone in for the D.S.O., and richly he deserved it.
Each day in the trenches he had done mag-
nificent work with the bombers, of whom he had
charge."
Another officer wrote : " Since we've been in
France Henry has been in charge of our bomb-
throwers, and has done magnificent work.
Always cheery, never sparing himself, he was
like a ray of light in the trenches, and an
example any one of his brother officers and men
might be proud to copy. Had he lived, as you
have no doubt heard, he would have been
recommended for the D.S.O., and we all hope
even now that he may be granted the posthu-
mous award of the same."
His Colonel wrote : "I think, without any
exaggeration, I can say he was my right hand,
and any difiicult and troublesome work I was
sure he wovild carry out ably and satisfactorily ;
in fact, he was quite invaluable. He was always
gay and cheerful, and looked on the bright side
of things. His presence was like a ray of sun-
shine in the regiment, , , . I cannot speak too
highly of him, and I have already several times
mentioned him in my reports, and he must have
got a Brevet or a D,S,0, had he lived. The
Indian Army has lost one of its most promising
officers, and the 1st Gurkhas will never get
another Henry Money,"
Captain Money wrote a short history of his
battalion from its formation in 181.5 to the year
1910, which was published regiraentally in
Gurkhali and in English,
An appreciative notice appeared in "' The
^Mariburian " (his College magazine), in the
course of which was quoted the tribute of the
Vicar of .St. Philip's. Kensington, himself an
Old Mariburian : " I, who was privileged to
know him, and now mourn the loss of a most
loyal and true-hearted friend, can only say
that I beUeve he served and loved his Master
Christ as faithfully as he served his King,"
He had a shattered arm, the result of a shooting
accident which happened in Chitral, and he lost
his left eye accidentally in India, but neither
loss interfered with his keenness for work or
play. Captain Money was mentioned in Sir
John French's Despatch of the 31st May, 1915.
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2nd LIKUTEN ANT GEORGK BER-
TRAM F. MONK, 2nd BATTALION
ROVAI. WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the son ot Dr.
Charles .T. Monk, of
U2 Harley Street.
London. \V.. and
was born in Wies-
baden, Oerniany, on
the l.'jth September,
1891.
ITe was educated at
.St. (Jeoi'go's School,
Harpendon, Herts ;
graduated at the
Michisan State Uni-
versity. r..S.A. : and was finally a student at
Guy's Hospital. London, where he was in the
football team. Pie belonged to the 28th
(County of London) Battalion, (Artists' Rifles),
from which he was gazetted to the Royal
Warwickshire Regiment in November. 1914.
2nd Lieutenant .Monk was killed in action while
storming (ierinan trenches on the ISth Decem-
ber, 191 L Canon Raxvnsley wrote a poem on
his heroic death. A reredos is being placed in
the Chapel of .St. George's School as an abiding
memorial of one whose life at school, not less
than his death on the field of battle, was an
inspiration to Viis conuades.
C.\PTAIN WILLIAM GRAH.\M MONT-
GOMERIE. 2nd BATTN. LEINSTER
REGIMENT,
born at Madras in
1877. was the son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
.^^ Patrick Mont-
"^ i^*^ ^^ gomerie, R.E., and a
grandson of Dr.
William M o r, t -
gomerie, the dis-
coverer of gutta
! j^ \ f^^^^^^^P perch a. and of
^^Wii^ tl^^^^^H ' General William An-
son McCleverty.
48tU llugiii.eiit, at one time Conunander-in-
Clvief, Madras,
Educated at Sherborne, where he won the
Longmuir Prize for drawing, and at the R.JI.C,
Sandhiu'st. he received his commission in 1897.
his Lieutenancy in April. 1900, and obtained his
company in 1903. In 1900 he was appointed
A.D.C. to Sir Courtenay Knollys. Governor of
Trinidad.
He went to the Continent in .September. 1914,
was woimded at Prenesque. Arnientieres.
and died thii-ty-six hours later on the 20th
October, 1914.
Captain Montgomerie, who was an excellent
shot, rider, and boxer, was a member of the
Junior Xaval and Military Club, He married
Kate Elizabetli, only daughter of Mr. Henry
Ifartland, and left one daughter, Elizabeth,
age eight years,
2nd LIEUTENANT ARNULF MONT-
GOMERY, 3rd attd. 2nd B.\TTN.
THE C O N N A U G H T R .\ N G E R S .
who was killed in action on the 22n(l December,
1914, was gazetted to the 3rd Battalion of his
regiment as 2nd Lieutenant on probation on the
4th August, 1914.
LIEUT. -COLONEL ERNEST HENRY
MONTRESOR, COMM.\NDING THE 2nd
B.\TTN. THE ROY.M. SUSSEX REGT.,
who was born on the
20th November,
1863, at Burdwan,
Bengal, India, was
the son of the late
Charles Francis Mon-
trcsor, Bengal Ci-snl
Service, and grand-
son of the late
General Sir Henry
Tucker Montresor,
K.C.B., G.C.H., of
I )enne Hill, near
Canterbury, Colonel of the 11th Regiment of
Foot.
He was educated at Haileybury College and
the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, and joined the Royal
Sussex Regiment as l^ieutenant in Febiiiary,
1884, becoming Captain in August, 1894. He
served In the Soudan Expedition, the Nile
(1884-5), receiving the medal with clasp and
the Khedive's bronze star ; in the Hazara
Expedition, 1888, receiving the medal with
clasp. From December, 1895, to December,
1900, he was Adjutant of the 1st Volunteer
BattaUon Royal Sussex Regiment. Lieutenants
Colonel Montresor also served in the South
African War. being present at operations in the
Orange River and Cape Colonies troiw .March,
1901. to .January, 1902. and in the Transvaal
from .March to May, 1902. He was mentioned
in despatches ('" London Gazette," 29th July,
1902) ; promoted Brevet-Major in August.
1902 : and received the Queen's medal with
five clasps. He was promoted Sub.stantive
.Major in October, 1902, and succeeded to the
command of the 2nd Battalion of his regiment
in February, 1911.
He was killed in action on the 14th September,
1914, when in command of his battalion at the
Battle of the Aisne.
Lieutenant-Colonel Montresor marr'ed Sarah
WUhelmina, youngest daughter of the late John
Killick, of Kirby Hall, Melton .Mowbray,
I^eicestershire. and left two children : Millicent,
born 1889, who married, in 1912, Lieutenant
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MOO
Cieoffi'ev Kussell Feuton, 2nd Battalion Con-
naught Rangers, killed in action at the Battle
of the Aisne on the 20th September. 1914 :
and Joan, born 1891, who married, in 1914,
2nd Lieutenant Read, 3rd Battalion Royal
Sussex Regiment.
CAPTAIN ROWLAND HARRY MAIN-
WARING MOODY, 2nd BATTN.
LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS.
who wa.= reported
wounded and miss-
ing after the Battle
of Cambrai. has since
been reported as
killed in that en-
gagement on the
2Gth August, 1914.
He was born on the
1st May, IST.I, and
was educated at
Charterhouse. In
December, 1890,
he joined the Royal Fusiliers from the Militia,
becoming Lieutenant in May. 1898. and being
transferred in August of the latter year to the
Lancashire Fusiliers, in which regiment he was
pix>moted Captain in October, 1900,
He took part in the South African War, being
present at the relief of Ladysmith, including
operations on the Tugela Heights and action
at Pieter's Hill : at operations in Natal and
in the Transvaal, and received the Queen's
medal with three clasps. From February, 1904,
to July, 1907, he was Adjutant of the .jth
Battalion (MiUtia) Rifle Brigade.
Captain iloody, who was a kee.'i cricketer and
fi-equently played in the JI.C.C married, in
1910, Sybil Marie, daughter of Lieutenant-
Colonel and Mi's, Conway Bishop, of Rutland
Gate, London, .S.W., and left one son.
MAJOR JOHN OHARA MOORE. ROYAL
ENGINEERS,
was the younger son
of the late Henry
O'Hara Moore, Bar-
rister-at-Law, and
was born on the
25th June, 1877.
He was educated at
Clicltenliain College,
whence he passed
direct into the
R.M.A.. Woolwich,
at the head of the
list. At Woolwich he became Senior L'nder
Officer, and was presented with the Sword of
Honour. He entered the Royal Engineers in
September, 1896, beconung Lieutenant in
September, 1899, and Captain in September,
1905. He was Adjutant for Musketry at the
School of MiUtarj- Engineering, Chatham, for
some time between 1905-08,
At the outbreak of war he was serving in South
Africa, whence he returned with his company and
proceeded to Flanders with the \IIth Division,
He was wounded when taking part in an attack
on the enemy's trenches on the 18th December,
1914, and died of his wounds on the 2Sth of that
month at Wimereux, France, where he Ls buried.
He was very keen on all kinds of sport, especially
shooting — including big game in Africa —
hunting, boxing, and football, and was exceed-
ingly popular -nith all those who knew him,
both officers and men.
Major Moore was not mamed. He was a
member of the Royal Zoological Society and
of the Junior Naval and Military Club. He was
pi-omoted ifajor in October, 1914, though the
announcement did not appear in the " Ix)ndon
Gazette" till the 12th .lamiary, 1915, that is,
after his death.
2nd LIEUTENANT GILL. \ CHRIST
MOORE. 2nd BATTN. ROY.\L SUSSEX
REGIMENT.
younger son of
Norman Moore,
M.D., F.R.C.P., was
bom in London on
the 22nd INIarch,
1894.
He was educated at
The Oratory .School,
Birmingham, and
St. Catherine's Col-
lege. Cambridge, re-
ceiving his commis-
sion in August, 1914. He went to France in
September of that year, and was killed at the
edge of a wood near Klein ZUlebeke, a few yards
from the Germans, on the afternoon of the 7th
November, 1914,
LIEUTENANT ROGER LUDOVIC
MOORE, attd. 1st BATTN. PRINCE
ALBERT'S SOMERSET LIGHT
INFANTRY),
was the third sou
of Dr. G. E. Moore,
of Redcroft, Maiden-
head.
He was born on the
12th ilay. 1890 ;
educated at Upping-
ham and the R.M.C.,
Sandhvu'st : and re-
ceived a commission
in the Somerset
Light Infantry in
March, 1911, becoming Lieutenant in April,
1914. In 1913 he qualified as Interpreter in
Colloquial Pekingese. He was a good shot,
horseman, and polo player.
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Mr. :Mooro was shot in tlio spiiu- wliUo visiting
his sentries in Flanders, early on the morning!;
of the 20tli December, 1914, and died the
same day.
He was mentioned in Sir John Fi-ench's Des-
patch of the 1-lth January, 1915, for bravery
in the field.
CAPTAIN WALDO A L I N G T O N
GWENNAP MOORE. 2nd BATTN.
THE WELSH REGIMENT,
born on the 14 th
July, 1876, at
Lavmceston, Corn-
wall, was the second
.son of Gwennap and
Mary Jloore, of Gar-
U-nick. Grampound,
( c irnwall.
After his education
at KeUy College he
proceeded to the
i^^^^^^^^Mgi H.M.C.. Sandhurst,
~"^^" J receiving his com-
mission in the Welsh Kegiment in 1896, and
being promoted Lieutenant in 1898. He took
part in the South African War, being present
at the actions of Driefontein, the Vet and Zand
Kivers, Diamond HUI, Belfast, and Colesberg,
receiving the Queen's medal with five clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps. He
became Captain in 1904.
He went to France for the war on the 12th
August, 1914, with his battalion, which formed
part of the 1st Division of the Expeditionary
Force, and took part in the retirement from
Mons, the Battles of the ^Marne and the Aisne,
and the fighting at Ypres till he was killed in
action at the latter place on the 31st October,
191i.
He married, in 1907, Hilda Charlotte Phillips,
and left one son, Charles Anthony Gwennap,
born December, 1912.
CAPTAIN CLIVE GUISE
ROYAL ENGIN
MOORES,
E E R S ,
who died of wounds
received in action on
the 1st December,
1911, was the young-
est son of Lieutenant-
Colonel S. Moore, late
Devonshire Regi-
ment, who fought in
the ^Mutiny and in
the Egyptian War,
1882.
He was born on the
9th May, 1887, and
entered the Royal Engineers from the R.M.A.,
Woolwich (passing out head of the list), in
December, 1906, becoming Lieutenant in
Xovember, 1908, and Captain in October, 1914.
Fi-om January, 1911, to January, 1914, he
was employed on the Boimdary Delimitation
Commission, Peru.
LIEUTENANT -COLONEL CHARLES
BERNWRD MORLAND, 2nd BATTN.
WELSH REGIMENT,
who died in hospital at Ypres on the lUst
October. 1914. of wounds received the previous
day. was born on the 12th Xovember, 1866.
He was gazetted to the Welsh Regiment in
February, 1887, becoming Lieutenant in Feb-
ruary, 1889, and Captain in April, 1898. He
was Adjutant of his battalion from March,
1900, to -March, 1904, during which period he
took pait in the South African \\ar. being
present at the relief of Kimberley : at operations
in the Orange Free State : at Paardeberg ;
in the Transvaal, Cape Colony, and Orange River
Colony, including actions at Poplar Grove,
Driefontein, Vet and Zand Rivers, near Johan-
nesburg ; at Pretoria. Diamond Hill. Belfast,
and Colebrook. For his services he was twice
mentioned in Despatches (" London Gazette."
8th February and 10th September, 1901),
receiving the Brevet of ^lajor in Xovember,
1900, the Queen's medal with six clasps, and
the King's medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Substantive .Major in Decem-
ber, 1904: from September, 1909, to June,
1910, was on half-pay : and succeeded to the
command of the 2nd Battalion of his regiment
in March, 1914.
Lieutenant-Colonel >hiilaii(l was mentioned in
Sir John French's Despatches of the Sth October,
1914, and the 14th January, 1915, for his
ser\-ices in the Great War.
MAJOR JOHN HENRY .MORRAH. 1st
BATTN. THE KING'S OWN (ROYAL
LANCASTER REGIMENT),
who was killed by
a German' sniper on
the 1 sth October.
1914. was the young-
est son of the late
Colonel M o r r a h .
formerly 60th Rifles,
of Winchester.
!Major Morrah was
born on the 20th
July, 1875, and was
educated at East-
bourne College and
the R.M.C., .Sandhurst. He wu.s gazetted to
the Royal Lancashu-e Regunent in March, 189(5,
becoming Lieutenant in Xovember, 1897, and
Captain in May, 1901. He took part in the
South African War, in which he was severely
MOR
noanded, being present at operations in the
TransvaaL Orange River Colony, and Cape
Colony in 19<>1 and 19<)2. receiving the Queen's
medal with four clasps.
From December, 1908, to October, 1910, he
was an Adjutant of Indian Volunteers, and in
E)ecember. 1912. was promoted Major in his
regiment. For his services he was mentioned
in Sir John French's Despatch of 14th January,
1915.
He married Maud Florence, youngest daughter
of the late ^lajor Cortlandt ilacgregor, B.E.,
and left three children.
LIEUTENANT ANTHONY GEORGE
ATTWOOD MORRIS. 2nd attd. 1st
BATTN. THE KINGS OWN ROYAL
LANCASTER
1907, becoming
REGIMENT.
was the younger son
of 3Ir. and 3Irs.
F. A. Morris, of
Pailton House,
Rugby.
He was bom on the
19th May, 1887,
and was educated at
Stubbington and
Winchester. He
joined the King's
Own Regiment from
the Militia in Decem-
Lientenant in ApriL
ber,
1911.
He was MQed on tne 13th October, 191-t, in an
attack on the village of Meteren when in charge
of a machine-gun section.
>lr. Morris was a member of the Atherstone
Hunt Qnb, and. whilst his regiment was quar^
tered in the island, was Whip to the Jersey Drag
Hunt.
LIEUT.-
HENRY'
-COLONEL the Honble. GEORGE
MORRIS, p.s.c. 1st BATTN.
IRISH GUARDS.
son of the late Baron
Morns and Killanin,
and brother of the
present peer, was
bom at Spiddal,
County Galway, on
the 16th July,
1872. Educated at
The Oratory School,
Birmingham, he
joined the Rifle
Brigade in India as
2nd licuicUi»iii in 1>92, after having passed
from the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
In 1S97 he was appointed Adjutant of the 3rd
Battalion Rifle Brigade, which position he held
for four vears. and saw active service with the
Tochi Valley Expeditionary Force in 1.S97-98,
afterwards receiving the medal with clasp.
In the South African War he served with
Damant's Horse in 1901-02, being present at
operations in the Transvaal and Orange River
Colony. He was mentioned in Despatches
(" London Gazette," 18th July, 1902), and
received the Queen's medal with four clasps.
On the conclusion of the war he rejoined the
Stafl CoUege. which he had entered in 1901,
and passed out in 1903. His first .Staff appoint-
ment was that of D.A.A.G. at B^ast, to which
he was appointed in 1901, being transferred
in the same year to the War Office as Staff
Captain on the Headquarters Staff. Obtaining
liis Majority on transfer to the Irish Gtiards
in March. 1906, he was next General Staff
Officer at the Staff CoDege from 1908-11,
succeeding to the command of the 1st Battalion
Irish Guards in July, 1913.
He took the battalion to France on the 12th
August, 1914. and for his services in the Great
War was mentioned in Sir John French's
first Despatch of the 8th October, 1914.
On the 1st September, during the retirement from
Mons. the 4th Guards Brigade formed the rear-
guard, and got into a very hot place in a thick
wood near ViUers-Cotterets. Most of the 1st
Battalion Irish Guards, under Colonel Morris,
got clear, but he missed half a company, and
leaving the main body went back alone to look
for the mining men. He succeeded in finding
them, but in trying to get them out of a tight
place he was killed as he stood up urging the
men to charge.
Colondl Morris was recognised as one of the most
brilliant lecturers in the Army, and as an
authority on strategy, tactics, and military
history. He was a member of the Guards'
Club, the Garrick Club, and the County Galway
aub.
On the 29th April. 1913, Colonel Morris married
Dora Maryan, second daughter of J. Wesley
HaU, of Melbourne, and left one son. Michael,
bom 30tb. Julv. 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT GURTH STEPHEN
MORSE. ROY-\L FIELD ARTILLERY.
who died on the 9th
December, 1914, of
wounds received in
action on the 4th
of the month, was
the third and young-
est son of Amyas and
Rose Morse, of The
Bourne, Bourne
End, Bucks.
He was bom on the
20th March. 1894,
and was educated at
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Ashaiiipstead, Eastbourne, at Clifton College,
and the R.M.A., Woolwich. He was gazetted
to the R.F.A. in .Tulv. 1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT GORDON THOMAS
HARCOURT MORSE, 4th BATTN. THE
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S OWN
(MIDDLESEX REGIMENT).
wlio was killed in action between tlie 12th-
14tli October, 1!J14, in liis twenty-fii-st year, was
the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel R. E.
Ricketts Jlorse, R.A.M.C., and Kathleen, his
wite, of Chargrove House, near Cheltenham,
and was a grandson of the late Colonel Xe\Tlle
Hill Shute, (i4th (North .StafTordsliire) Regiment,
formerly of Clayfield, Southampton.
He was gazetted to the Middlesex Regiment on
the 8th August, 1914.
C.\PTAIN GERALD HENRY WALTER
MORTIMER. 10th JATS. INDIAN ARMY,
attd. 4th BHOPAL INFANTRY,
was killed in action
on the 23rd Xovem-
ber, 1914, at
Festubert wliile lead-
ing his men to cap-
ture a second trench
from the enemy, one
trench having been
taken.
He was the son of
the Rev. C. Jlorti-
mer, Canon Resi-
dentiary of Lich-
Cathedral, and was born at Pitchford,
Shrewsbury, on the 24th December,
He was educated at Rossall and the
R.JLC, .Sandhui'st, from which he passed for
the Indian Aiiny in August, 1902, and was
attached for a year to the King's Own Scottish
Borderers in India, being gazetted to the Indian
Army in January, 1904, becoming Lieutenant
in November, 1904, when he joined the loth
Jats.
He obtained the certificate of the School of
Musketry, and was proficient in native dialects,
speaking Hindi and Baluchi well. For some
time he was Cantonment Magistrate at Hyder-
abad, Scinde. While with liis regiment he
managed the regimental hockey team, and
made it very successful. At Sandhm-st he won
the hurdles and kept goal and played cricket.
He also played cricket for the Gentlemen of
StafTordsliire and for the Incogniti. He was,
in addition, a polo player and a good shot.
\\iien war broke out he was at home on sick
leave, and ha^^ng applied for emplojTnent was
sent to Tidworth to train recruits, and was
also Company Officer and Instructor.
field
near
1882.
CAPTAIN PERCY LIONEL MOUBRAY,
3rd (attd. Isti BATTN. THE BLACK
WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS,
born at Otterston.
Alierdour, Fife, on
the 3rd August.
IS72, was the son of
Captain W . H .
Moubray, R.X., of
Otterston and Cock-
airnie, Fife, a grand-
son of .Sir Roljert
Moubray, Kt., and a
nephew of the late
Colonel Babington.
Brooklands, Saris- -'
bury (ireen, Hants. He « as educated at l.oretto
School, Musselburgh, and entered the Royal
Higlilanders in 1899, becoming Captain in May.
1904.
He served in the .South African War. taking
part in operations in the Orange Free State and
tile Orange River Colony, for which he received
the Queen's medal with three clasps and the
King's medal with two clasps.
In the Great War Captain iloubray was reported
"missing" on the 29th October, 1914, and
subsequently was unofficially reported killed.
He was a member of the Caledonian Club,
London, and of the Scottish Conservative Club,
Edinburgh.
CAP TA IN the Honble. ANDREW
EDWARD SOMERSET MULHOLLAND,
1st BATTN. IRISH GUARDS,
bom on the 20th
September, 1882, at
Drayton Lodge,
Monkstown, County
Dublin, was the
eldest son of the
second Baron Dun-
lea th, of Bally-
w alter, County
Down, J.P., High
Sheriff, 1884, M.P.
for North London-
derry, 1885 — 95,
some time in the Royal Liisiiiici-i.-- ,.
5th BattaUon Royal Irish Rifles.
Captain MuUioOand was educated
where he was in the XI, and at Clirist Church,
Oxford. He joined the Irish Guards in 1900,
becoming Lieutenant in January, 1909, and
Captain in July, 1913. He went to France with
the Expeditionary Force on the 12th August,
1914, and was present at the Battles of Mons, the
Aisne, and Ypres. On the 1st November, at
about 2 p.m., he was liit by a bullet wliUe rallying
his men in the trenches near Ypres, and died
at 9 p.m. He was buried in the cemetery at
Y'pres.
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Captain ilulholland was a member of the
Bachelors' and (niards' Clubs. He played
cricket and golf for the Army and the Household
Brigade. In June, 1913, he married Lady
Hester Joan Byng, youngest daughter of the
fifth Earl of Strafford, and left one daughter,
born March, 191.5.
LIEUTENANT LIONEL FRANK
HASTINGS MUNDY. "L" BATTERY,
ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY,
was tlie son of
Lionel and Ella Tis-
dall .Mundy. of
Althrop House.
Barnes, S.W., and
was born at Hast-
ings in April, 18S(i.
He wa-s educated at
Bedale's School, and
entered the Royal
MUitary Academy,
Woolwich, in 1904,
becoming 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the Royal Artillery in lOOfi and
Lieutenant in the H.H.A. in 1912.
This young officer was one of the heroes engaged
in the most glorious incident of the early part
of the war, an account of which is to be found
in the biography of Captain Bradbury. V.C.
(page 43-44).
The action referred to took place on the 1st
September, 1914, when Lieutenant Mundy was
killed.
LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER FOW-
LER MURPHY. OXFORDSHIRE AND
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT
INFANTRY,
born in Dublin on
the 17th May, 1889,
was the son of the
Rev. Richard Wil-
liam Murphy, M.A.,
T.C.D.. Canon of
Tuam, and Incum-
bent of Omey,
Clif den, County
fialway, and was
educated at The
Abbey, Tipperary,
and Trinity College, Dublin.
Lieutenant Murphy was gazetted to the Royal
Field Artillery (Special Reserve) in 1908, and
in the following year was attached to the 33th
Battery at Clonmel. In 1910 he obtained a
commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the Oxford-
shire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry,
joining the 1st Battalion at Wellington, Madras.
He was promoted to his Lieutenancy in January,
1914. While on leave, in 1913-14, he was
seconded for service, under the Colonial Office,
in West Africa, but on the declaration of war
he at once volunteered for active service, and
was attached to the 2nd Battalion, his own
battalion being at the time in India.
He was killed on the 21st October, 1914, at the
beginning of the Battle of Ypres. His CO.
wrote : " He died gallantly doing his duty in
leading his men on to the attack."
An officer gave the following account of the
action to his parents : " The regiment was told
to attack some German infantry in position as
part of the 5th Brigade on the right of its front
line. Y'our son's company was one of the two
which went forward in our front Une, and our
casualties occurred during the first quarter-mile
of the advance, after which we were stopped
in order that other troops might come up on
our left. Just as this happened your son got
a bullet in his shoulder — not a bad wound —
and was at once dressed and made comfort-
able close by a haystack till a stretcher arrived,
when another bullet hit him in the head, and I
believe he died immediately."
Another officer wrote : " He died bravely,
a brave man's death, and his last moments made
nae very proud of him as a brother officer, . . .
even urging on some men wlio were coming up,
and sho%ving the greatest pluck and keenness."
HON. CAPTAIN AND QUARTER-
MASTER ARCHIBALD MURRAY,
2nd BATTN. THE KINGS
OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS,
who was shown in the monthly casualty Ust
published in October, 1914, as killed in action,
no place or date being mentioned, was born in
January. 1863.
After ser\'ing in the ranks for more than fifteen
years, and as a Warrant Officer for over six
years, he received his commission as Quarter-
master in the King's Own Scottish Borderers in
.September, 1903. He served in the Chin-
Lushai Expedition of 1889-90, for which he
received the medal with clasp, and was promoted
Honorary Captain in September, 1913.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES JOHN
MURRAY, 4th RESERVEi BATTN.
COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
born on the 1st
December, 1881, at
Taymount, .Stanley,
Perthshire, was the
son of Charles
Archibald Murray,
of Taymount . and
a relative of the
Earl of ilansfield
and of Sir Robert D.
Moncrieffe.
He was educated at
Hailevburv, and
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joined the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Black
Watch (Koyal Highlanders) in 1899, beinj;
transferred to the Coldstream Guards in 1901,
and serving with them till 1912. lie took part
in the .South African War, for which he received
the Kinp;'s medal. He was A.D.C. to Sir Percy
Girouard, Governor of Northern Nigeria, from
1907-09. and was again with him when Governor
of British Kast Africa from 1909-11. In 1912
he settled as a breeder of horses at Invershura
Njoro, British East Africa.
On the outbreak of the war with Germany he
rejoined the Coldstream Guards, and was serving
with them when he was killed on the 26th
October, 1914. near Ypres, when leading an
attack on Poezelhoek.
Lieutenant Murray was a member of the G uards',
Bachelors', and Caledonian Hubs.
2nd LIEUTENANT ERIC DENNYS
MURRAY, 19th QUEEN ALEX.\NDRA'S
OWN ROYAL) HUSSARS,
was killed in action on the 16th October,
1914, near Le Bizet and the River Lys, in
France, while on patrol duty.
He was bom on the 9th March, 1893, the
younger son of Sir George Sheppard Mvu-ray
and Lady Murray, of Cleveland House, .St.
James's Scjuare. and entered the 19th Hussars
from the K.M.C., .Sandhurst, in September,
1913.
CAPTAIN FANE WRIGHT STAPLE-
TON MURRAY, 12th PRINCE OF
WALES'S R O Y A L i LANCERS,
of The Moat,
Charing. Kent, who
was shot through the
heart in the
trenches near Ypres,
in Belgium, on the
30th October, 1914.
was the eldest son
of the late Colonel
and of Mrs. Gost-
11 n i;- M 11 r ray, of
W h i t t o n Park.
Hounslow.
He was bom on the 16th October. 1.S79 :
educated at Eton ; and was gazetted to the 12th
Lancere from the Militia in December, 1899,
becoming Lieutenant in October, 1900. He
served in the South African War, being present
at operations in the Transvaal and Cape Colony
between April, 1901, and May, 1902, receiving
the Queen's medal with four clasps.
Captain Murray %va5 promoted to that rank in
November, 1907. He was a member of the
Cavalry Club, and his recreations were polo,
hunting, and big-game shooting.
(ientleman Usher of the ^^Scarlet i Rod
LIEUTENANT P.\TRICK. MAXWELL
MURR.\Y. 2nd B.\TTN. SHERWOOD
FORESTERS NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
AND DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT.
born in London on
the 24th April,
1890, was the son
of .\rthur Turnour
Murray, Esq., of
Lincoln's Inn,
Barrister - at - Law,
and Nora Alice,
daughter of the late
Hugh Maxwell, Esq.
He was related to
Colonel .Sir
Wyndham Murray,
C.B
in the Order of the Bath, and to Keith
William Murray, F..S.A., Portcullis Pursuivant
at Arms.
He was educated at the Rev. W. H. Wright's
Preparatory School, Gisburne House, Watford,
and at Repton School, from which he went to the
Royal JliUtary Academy, Woolwich, where he
was in the .Sandhurst Company. He shot in his
School Shooting VIII at Repton in 1906, 1907,
and 1908 (in 1906 Repton won the Rapid Firing
Prize), and his House (the Priory, H. Vassall,
Esq.) won the House Challenge .Shield for
shooting in 190S and for drill in 1907 and 1908.
He joined the Sherwood Foresters as 2nd Lieu-
tenant on the 18th September, 1909, when he
was posted to the 2nd Battalion, was appointed
Assistant Adjutant in April. 191 1, and promoted
Lieutenant on the 16th August, 1911. In this
year he obtained the musketry certificate at
Hythe, and qualified in Maxim-gun drill. While
he was Assistant Adjutant his company won the
.Sejnnour Challenge Cup for team snap shooting
at the Western Rifle Meeting in 1911. several
prizes for team shooting, and. in 1912, the
Evelyn Wood Cup for a time march, ending with
ball firing at unkno%vn ranges. On this occasion
Lieutenant Murray conunanded the winning
team, and was specially commended for the
manner in which he led it.
On the 20th .September, 1914, near .Soissons. at
the Battle of the Aisne, he was killed when
directing the fire of his men after they had re-
captured a trench lost to the enemy. All
accounts of the action agree that the 2nd
Sherwoods, by their gallantry on this occasion,
saved a dangerous situation.
CAPTAIN W I L L 1 .\ M EDWARD
M U R R A Y . 3rd ilate 1st B A T T N .
THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS.
was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John ilurray,
and was bom in Hong Kong, China, on the
22nd December, 1880. He was educated at
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Wellington College, where he was in the First
Football XI, and subsequently went to the
Royal Military Col-
lege, Sandhurst.
Captain Murray was
gazetted to the
Gordon Highlanders,
joinin.: the 1st Bat-
talion in March, 1900,
was promoted Lieu-
tenant in May, 1904.
and passed to the
Special Reserve in
1913. With the 1st
battalion he served
througli thi' South African War, for which he
received the Queen's medal with four clasps,
and afterwards, in 190-J, was employed on the
West Coast of Africa. He became Captain
in 1914.
\^'hen the Great War broke out Captain Murray
rejoined his battalion at Aberdeen, where for
some weeks he helped to guard the Wireless
.Station. He was sent with a draft of one
hundred men to join the Gordons, who were then
in tlie firmg hne at the front. On his arrival,
however, he found the battalion had been so
badly cut up at the Battle of Mons that they had
been sent back to the base, so he and his draft
were temporarily attached to the Seaforth
Highlanders, and with them went forward to
take part in the memorable advance from the
Marne to the Aisne.
He was killed on the 14th .September, about
two and a half miles from the Aisne River, in
some trenches which had been temporarily
vacated, and which it was imperative should
be not only occupied, but held, to save the Sea-
forths and a party of Gordons from annihila-
tion. Addressing his men, " Come on, Gordons !
There is only a handful of us, but we will do
it ! " Captain Murray with his men gained the
trenches. A bullet from a shrapnel shell hit
him in the head, but he lived long enough to
say, " You must hold on here at all costs,"
and then fell dead.
When the Seaforths and their comrades were
relieved, after holding the trenches for a day
and a half, only seven of Captain Murray's
draft were in fighting condition.
A Private, in whose arms he died, said : " Our
Captain was as brave an officer as I ever saw
in the firing line. . . . We would have done
anything for him." Tlius did this officer by
his heroic conduct uphold the reputation of the
famous regiment with which he was so proud
to be connected.
Captain Murray married, in 1906, Lilias Caroline,
only daughter of Edward Drummond, Esq.,
late E.I.C.S., and had three children : Edward
John, born 1907 ; Sybil Lilias, born 1909 ;
and Mary Katherine, born 1910.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD GEOFFREY
MYDDELTON, 3rd BATTN. THE SUF-
FOLK REGT.,
born at Boston on
the 22nd August,
1893, was the son
of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Bracken-
bury ilyddelton, of
Wellingborough. He
was related to the
Myddeltons of
Denbighshire.
He was educated at
Lancing, Welling-
borough, and at Je.sus College, Cambridge,
where he took fii-st-class honours in the first
part of the Mathematical Tripos, and was to
have taken the second part in Easter term,
1915. His favourite sport was rowing. He was
in the O.T.C., and on leaN-ing the Univeisity
received his commission in the Special Reserve
of Officers in June, 1913, being gazetted Lieu-
tenant after his death. He was attached to the
2nd BattaUon for active ser^-ice, and took part
in the retirement from Mons.
He was reported to have been killed at Le
Cateau on the 26th August, 1914, but no
details have been ascertained, as all the surviv-
ing men who were near hun are prisoners of
war in Germany.
2nd LIEUTENANT JAMES ROBERT-
SON JACK MYLLES, M.A., 3rd (RESERVE)
BATTN. HIGHLAND LIGHT
INFANTRY,
who was killed in
action in Flanders
on the 30th Decem-
ber, 1914, was the
younger son of
Charles and Mary
Loudon ilylles, 86,
Stevenson Drive,
Sliawlands, Glasgow.
He was born on the
4th March, 1893, at
Glasgow, and was
educated at Allan Glen's School, Glasgow, after-
wards becoming a graduate in Arts and a student
of Medicine at Glasgow Univei'sity. He was in
his University O.T.C., and on the outbreak of
war in August, 1914, was gazetted 2nd Lieu-
tenant on probation in the 3rd Battalion High-
land Light Infantry. At the end of December,
1914, he took a draft for the Devonshire Regi-
ment to the front, and was himself attached
for active service to the 1st Battalion Gordon
Highlanders.
He «as fond of golf, and was a member of
University and Cowglen Golf Clubs.
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MAJOR LORD CHARLES GEORGE
FRANCIS MERCER -NAIRNE, M.V.O.,
1st (ROYAL DRAGOONS (EQUERRY
TO THE KING).
killfd ill action in
FlandereontheSOth
October, 1914, was
the second son of
the fifth Marquess
of Lansdowne and
tlie Marcliioness of
Lansdowne, daugh-
ter of tlie Duke of
A b e r c o r n , K.G.
Lord Charles
derived his surname
of .Mercer-Xalrne, which he assumed in .Tanuary,
1914, in lieu of lus patronymic of Fitzmaurice,
from his maternal grandmother, Emily Jane
Mercer, Baroness Nau-ne.
He was born on the 12th February, 1874,
and joined the 1st Dragoons irom the ililitia
in yiaj, 1895, becoming Lieutenant in February,
1898, and Captain in 1901. He acted as A.D.C.
to the General Officer Commanding the Forces in
Ireland from May to October, 1899, and then
took part in the South African War, being pre-
sent at the relief of Ladysmith, including the
action at Colenso, at operations on the Tugela
Heights, in the Orange Free State and in
Natal, and at actions at Spion Kop, Vaal
Krans, and Pieter's Hill. He received the
Queen's medal with four clasps. In October,
1898, he had quaUfled as an Interpreter in
French. From January, 1901, to February,
1904, he was A.D.C. to the Conunander-in-
Chief ; and from AprU, 1909, to May, 1910, he
was Equerry to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
In June, 1910, he was appointed Equerry to
His JIajesty the King, and was promoted
ilajor in June of the latter year.
Lord Charles married, in January, 1909, Lady
Violet Mary Elliot- Murray - Kynynmound,
youngest daughter of the fourth Earl of ilinto,
and left two children : Mary Margaret Elizabeth
(for whom Queen Mary was sponsor), born
in February, 1910 ; and George Charles Mercer
(for whom King George V was sponsor), born in
November, 1912.
CAPTAIN NORMAN NEILL, 13th
HUSSARS, BRIGADE-MAJOR, 6th
CAVALRY BRIGADE, 3rd CAVALRY
DIVISION, youngest son of the late Robert
Neill and Mrs. Neill, was bom near Manchester
on the 22nd December, 1880.
He was educated at Harrow, and was gazetted
to the 19th Hussai-s from the MiUtia in 1902
during the South African War, in which he
took part, being present at operations in the
Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony,
receiving the Queen's medal witli four clasps.
He was Adjutant of his regiment for five
months in 1910, and _^___^___^^____
was promoted into
the 13tli Hussars as
Captain inJuly, 1910.
In 1912 he passed
into the Stafl CoUege,
and he was also
qualified as an Inter-
preter in French. In
September, 1914, lie
was appointed
Brigade-Major of the
Household Cavalry
Brigade, and was killed on tlie tith November.
1914, near Klein Zillebeke. when tlie French
gave way under overwhelming numhiers of
the enemy. The Cavalry Brigade advanced
and held their grotmd. Captain NeUl was
hit when taking a message to his Brigade to
advance, and leading them on.
The General Commanding the Brigade wrote :
" Th'e French on our right had suddenly given
way, and we were sent to stop the retreat,
which we were successftilly doing when he was
killed. I had just sent him on a message to
order a further advance, and it was when
returning from this that he was hit."
Sir John French, in his Despatch of the 20th
November, 1914, particularly conunended the
work of the Cavalry Brigade under Brigadier-
General Kavanagh, and Captain Neill was
himself subsequently mentioned in the Despatcli
of the 14th January, 1915.
He married Eleanor de Courcy, daughter of the
late Major-General Sir Gerald de Courcy
Morton, K.C.I.E., C.B., and left one daughter,
Audrey, age three years.
Captain Neill was a member of the Cavalry
Club.
CAPT. ARNOLD STEARNS NESBITT,
3rd BATTN. WORCESTERSHIRE REGT.,
was the eldest son
of the late WUliam
Henry and Mrs.
Nesbitt, of Oatlands
Drive, Weybridge,
and was born at
W a 1 t o n - o n -
Thames on
the Ifitli November,
1878. He was edu-
cated at Bradfield
CoUege, Berkshu-e.
Captain Nesbitt
joined the Worcesterehire Regiment from the
Militia in 1900, becoming Lieutenant in that
year and Captain in November, 1904. When
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Adjutant of the 6th Battalion at the depot at
Norton Barracks, Worcester, he organised a
-Mihtary Toui'nament at the Skating Rink, which
owing to his energies and foresight, as well as
his tact and courtesy, was a great success.
He was employed with the Egj-ptian Army in
1907-08.
He was killed in action on the Tth Xoveniber,
1914, at Ploegsteert, Belgium. An officer who
had known him throughout his military career
said he was one of the best officers the regiment
had ever had. He was mentioned in Su- John
P^'ench's Despatch of the 14tli January, 1915.
Captain Nesbitt was a good cricketer, having
been a member of the Incognito, the Worcester-
shire County, and the Gentlemen of Worcester's
Cricket Clubs. In 1914 he played for Worcester-
sliire against ^liddlesex at Lord's. He was also
well known in the hunting field. The news of
his death was received with the greatest regi-et
by his niuiierous military and civilian friends.
He was unmarried.
LIEUT. GORDON STUART NESS,
3rd (attd. 1st) BATTN. ROYAL SCOTS
FUSILIERS,
late of Lloyd's, who
was killed in action
in Xorthern France
on the 10th- 11th
November, 19 14, was
the youngest and
only surviving son
of the late Patrick
NesSjOf Bra CO Castle,
Perthsliire.
He joined the 3rd
Battahon in AprU,
ll.iiic. and \va> inuiiiutfd Lieutenant in Decem-
ber, 1909.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN HENRY GAY-
THORNE NEVILL. SPECIAL RESERVE,
(attd. 3rd BATTN.' GRENADIER
GUARDS,
who was kUled on
the 24th December,
1914, was the son
of the late Mr. Henry
M. NeviU, of Jlet-
tingham, Suffolk,
V.^. J, and of Mrs. Henry
^^MH|£^^ Nevill.
M^^^^^^^^S^ -lid Lieutenant
m^^^^^^^t^^l Nevill, who mar-
B^I^^^^^HBi ried, was attached
to the 3rd Battalion
Grenadier Guards, on probation, on the 15tli
August, 1914.
MAJOR LIONEL JOHN NEVILLE
NEVILLE, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
who died on the
17 th December,
1914, at the Casino
Hospital, Boulogne,
from wounds re-
ceived near BaiUeul
on the 30th Novem-
ber, 1914, was the
yoiuiger son of the
late James Sewell
Neville, late Judge
of the High Court,
Calcutta, of Sloley
Hall, Norfolk, and Mi-s. NeviUe, of 7,!MuIberry
Walk. Chelsea. He was a bixjther of E. J. N.
NevdIe, .'^l.P.
He was born at Calcutta on the 5th March,
1878, and was educated at Charterhouse, where
he obtained prizes and senior scholarships; and
passed into the K.M.A., Woohvich, in 1895,
from wliich he received his commission in the
Royal Engineei-s in September, 1897. He was
promoted Lieutenant in September, 1900, and
took part in the South African War, 1900-02,
being present at operations in the Orange River
Colony, including actions at Biddulplisberg and
Wittebergen, and in the Ti'ansvaal. For lus
services in that campaign he received the
Queen's medal with three clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps. He was promoted
Captain in September, I90(i, and to his
Majority in October, 1914, but his promotion
was not gazetted until January, 1915. after his
death.
In October, 1911, he went to Boulogne with
other Royal Engineers and Royal Army iledical
Corps officers to organise base hospitals, and
was largely responsible for the organisation,
adaptation, and equipment of the Maritime
Hospital on the Quay, the Casino Hospital,
and other hospitals in Boulogne and Wimereux.
In November he was sent to the front to join
the 5th Field Company, R.E., and on the last
day of the month was transferred to the 50th
Company. Within an hour of his arrival on duty
in the firing zone at Kemmel he was wounded
by a chance buQet, wliich after passing through
his chest lodged in the heart of his brother
officer. Captain Moores, R.E. He himself
chose to be nursed in the Casino Hospital,
where he died, that he might liimself, as he said,
test whether his work there was well done.
He was buried at Sloley, Norfolk, with military
honours on the 22nd December, 1914.
Major Neville, who was a most popular officer,
married Agnes LOlian Fife, youngest daughter
of the late Major-General Blewitt, and left two
young daughters.
He was a member of the Army and Navy
Club, and was a good la\vn tennis player.
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2nd LIP:UTENANT JOHN WILLIAM
HARFORD NICHOLL, 3rd (attd. 2ndl
BATTN. WELSH REGIMENT,
liorn at Ilendro-
foilan, Swansea, on
tlie 24th October,
1892, was the elder
son of Lieutenant-
Colonel John I. D.
Xlcholl, of Meithyr
Mawr, Bridgend,
Glamorgan, and a
great-nephew
of Major-General
C. R. H. Nicholl,
Colonel Command-
Kitle Brigade,
at Kton and the R.M.C.,
he represented against the
Academy, Woolwich, in the
He was gazetted to the Bifle
ing 1st Battalion
He was educated
Sandhurst, which
Boyal ^lilitary
sports of 1912.
Brigade in 1913, and resigned his commission in
June, 1914. In August he wa-s gazetted to the
3rd Battalion \^elsh Regiment, and was on
active service with tlie 2nd Battalion when he
was killed at Gheluvelt, five miles east of Ypres,
on the 29th October, 1914, while retaking
trenches which had been captured by the
Germans.
2nd Lieutenant Xiclioll was fond of Inmting,
shooting, and winter sports.
2nd LIEUTENANT
NICHOLSON, 18th
ARTHUR KNIGHT
(QUEEN MARYS
OWN) HUSSARS,
was the only son of
Herbert and Stella
Nicholson, of
Bid borough Hall,
Tunbridge WeUs,
and was born at
Helena, ^lontana,
U.S.A., on the 6th
October, 1893.
He was educated at
St. Andrew's,
Southborough, at
Harrow, and the R.-M.C, Sandhurst ; and was
gazetted to his regiment in January, 1913.
After joining the Army he showed promise of
becoming a good polo player.
He was killed by a .sniper at 6 a.m. on the 31st
October, 1914, while holding a very advanced
trench near St. Eloi, Belgium.
CAPTAIN HUNTLY WARWICK.
NICHOLSON, 1st (attd. 3rd) BATTN.
THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in action on the 14th November,
1914, was the eldest son of Fleet-Surgeon and
Mrs. Howard Nicholson, of Aulay, Kidbrook
Grove, Blackheath, and a grandson of the late
Captain Huntly Nicholson, The Grenadier
Guards. His maternal grandfather. Captain
Pringle Green, was promoted from .Midsliipman
to Lieutenant for gal-
lantry at Trafalgar.
Capt. H . \V. Nicholson
was born on the 22nd
January, 1889, and
was educated at St.
Helen's College,
Southsea, and the
R.M.C., Sandliurst.
He was gazetted to
the Che.shire Regi-
nient on the 10th
February, 1909, be-
coming Lieutenant in October, 1912, and was
promoted Captain on the loth Noviinbir.
1914 — two days before his death — and sulise-
quently antedated to August, 1914.
Captain Nicholson had been Brigade Machine
Gun Otficer, and was killed whilst firing — on
the last day of the fli-st Battle of Ypres — by a
"Jack Johnson" at Wulverghem, West
Flandei-s. His devoted servant, Walter Decks,
who had been nearly six years in his service,
and not allowed to go out with his master,
was lieartbroken on hearing of his death, and
innnediately volunteered for the front, found his
beloved master's grave, and erected a beautiful
cross to his memory. He has since been pro-
moted to Corporal in the Cheshire Regiment.
Captain Nicholson was beloved by officers and
men alike. He was absolutely thorough, and
it was said of him in the Cheshire Regiment :
" Nicholson could always be depended upon in
everything."
He was a good all-round sportsman and a
splendid .shot, his name being on two
silver shields at the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He
won three silver cups for shooting in one year
in the Cheshire Regiment, viz., the Regimental
Challenge Cup, the Officers' Cup, and the
Subalterns' Cup.
LIEUT. LAURANCE CAIL NICHOLSON,
D.S.O., LATE LIEUT. 14th (KING'S)
HUSSARS, 3rd (attd. 1st) BATTN. PRIN-
CESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES'S
iROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT),
wlio died in France
on the 2nd Novem-
ber, 1914, of wounds
received in action
near Ypres on the
23rd October, was
the fourth son of
Frederick W .
Nicholson, of
Shiplake, late of
Maidenhead.
He was born on the
30th August, 1882,
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and educated at Uppingham. He joined the
14th Hussars in ilarch, 1902, and served in
the Boer War. He was promoted Lieutenant
in January, 190.5. and, having retired from the
active ILst in 1907. was appointed Lieutenant
in the 3rd BattaUon Royal Berkshire Begiment
in July, 1910. His recreations were polo, golf,
and point-to-point racing.
For his services in the Great War he was
awarded the D.S.O., the official record in the
'■ London Gazette "' of the 1st December, 1914,
being as follows : —
" Led and coiimianded his platoon admirably
diuing an attack on German position, Passchen-
daele-Becelaere Road, which resulted in the
taking of the enemy's trenches and seventy
prisoners. (Has since died of his wounds.)"
CAPTAIN FRANK SCOBELL NISBET.
ADJUTANT 2nd BATTN. MANCHES-
TER R EGT.,
was bom at St.
Luke's Vicarage,
Gloucester, on the
22nd Xovember,
1S7S, the son of
Canon Xisbet, of
Ickham Rectory,
Canterbury, and
nephew of the
Venerable E. C. Sco-
bell. Archdeacon of
'~""~^~^'^^^~^^^~^~ G loucester.
He was educated at The Grange. Folkestone,
at Winchester College, and at the R.M.C.,
■Sandhurst, where he was Captain of the Asso-
ciation football team, and was aJso in the
Cricket XI. He was a member of the M.C.C.,
the Free Foresters, and B.B. Clubs. He played
for the Aldershot Command XI, United Ser-
vices XI at Portsmouth, and Channel Islands
XI while quartered at these places. In 1896
he won the .Singles Tournament of the Royal
Cinque Ports Golf Club, Deal.
Captain Xisbet joined the Alanchester Regiment
in 1898, becoming Lieutenant in July, 1899,
and Captain in July, 1901. He served in the
.South African War In charge of the Ammu-
nition Column of the 17th Brigade, and took
part in the operations resulting in the surrender
of the Boer forces in the Caledon Valley on
the 1st August, 1900. He was with the 2nd
Battalion of his regiment in the subsequent
operations in the north-east of the Orange River
Colony. On the conclusion of the war he was
awarded the Queen's medal with three clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
He was appointed Adjutant of his battalion
in December. 1912, and in that capacity
accompanied it to the front. He was killed on
the 2i5th August, 1914, at Le Cateau, while
leading a company whose Captain had been
put out of action. He was mentioned in Field-
Marshal .Sir John French's Despatch of the 8th
October, 1914.
Captain Xisbet was a member of the Junior
United Service Club.
LIEUTENANT GERARD FERRERS
NIXON, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
who was killed in
action on the 24th
October, 1914, was
the youngest son of
Major-General
Xixon, D.L., late
R.A., and ilrs.
Xixon, of Clone,
Ballyragget, |l
County Kilkenny.
He was born on the
25th January, 1891.
and educated at
Cheltenham CoUege and the H..M.A.. Woolwich,
from which he entered the R.A. in December,
1910, becoming Lieutenant In December, 1913.
He was a good all-round sportsman, and rode
very well. He went out with the first Ex-
peditionary Force to France for the Great
War, and was acting as Observation Officer
in an advanced position when he was killed In
a sudden night attack by the enemy in France.
He was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of the 14th January. 1915.
CAPTAIN RUPERT HENRY NOLAN.
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS,
who was killed in action on the 21st October,
1914, was bom on the 22nd Xovember, 1881,
and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps In
January, 1909, becoming Captain in July. 1912.
LIEUTENANT RAYMOND PHILIP
DRL'MMOND NOLAN, 3rd attd. 1st
BATTN. THE BLACK WATCH ROYAL
HIGHLANDERS,
of Ballinderry.
Tuam, County Gal-
way, who was killed
near Veldhoek by
machine gun fire
while leading an at-
tack on the 3rd
Xovember. 1914. was
the eldest son of the
late Philip Xolan,
I.C.S., and Mrs.
Philip Xolan.
He was bom on the 1st July, 1883, in India,
and was educated at Beaumont. Stonyhurst.
and Xew College, Oxford, where he got his double
half-blue, and was called to the Bar. Inner
Temple, In 190S. He joined the Black Watch in
Jlay, 1907, becoming Lieutenant in April, 1910.
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He was an International at hockey, and champion
of Connaught and Galway at tennis.
Lieutenant Nolan succeeded liis uncle — Lieu-
tenant-Colonel J. P. Nolan, M.P. — in the Ballin-
derry Estate in 1012. and in the following year
married the eldest daughter of Mr. C. A.
O'Connor, Master. of the Rolls in Ireland, and
left one son, Anthony, bom 7th September, 1914.
He wa.s a member of the Travellers' and Isthmian
Clubs, and of the L'nited Service Club, Dublin.
2nd L1EL"TEN.\XT MERVYN NOOTT,
1st BATTN. THE BUFFS (EAST KENT
REGIMENT),
was the son of W. M.
X o o t t , Esq.,
-M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.,
L..S.A., and Loui.sa
Noott, daughter of
the late Sir Alfred
Hickman, Bart., and
was born in London
on the 17th May,
1890.
He was educated at
a private school at
Llandudno and at Fauconberg .School, Beccles.
2nd Lieutenant Noott had hoped to enter the
Army in the usual way, but an attack of illness
soon after boyhood left him too delicate to
enter Sandhurst under the age rules, so he
joined the Special Reserve in 1911, from which
he was gazetted to the Buffs (Regular Army)
as 2nd Lieutenant in May, 1913.
He had taken up aviation, had gained flying
certificates for both monoplane and biplane,
and had hoped to join the Royal Flying Corps
when the war broke out, but he was required to
accompany his battalion to the front.
He was killed in action on the 20th October,
1914, at Radinghem Wood, near Lille, in
France.
2nd Lieutenant Noott was a member of the
United Sports Club, Whitehall, and of the
Kingsgate Golf Club.
MAJOR HAROLD HENRY NORMAN.
1st B.\TTN. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
REGIMENT,
who was killed on
the 11th November,
1914, near Ypres,
whDe in temporary
command of his bat-
talion, resisting the
advance of the Prus-
sian Guard, was the
eldest son of the
late Henry .John
Norman and of Mrs.
Norman, of 55, Eccleston .Square, London.
He was bom on the 23rd December, 1867, and
was educated at Aldin House, .Slough, at Eton,
and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, from which he was
gazetted to the Northanqjtonshire Regiment
in .September, 1887, becoming Lieutenant in
August, 1890.
He took part in the reconnaissance of the Saran
Sar in the Tirah Expedition of 1897-98, in the
action of the 9th November, 1.S97, and in the
operations in the Bara ^'alley in December,
1897 ; while in March and April, 1898, he was
Adjutant and Quartermaster of native troops
at the Base Depot. For his ser\-ices in the
expedition he received the medal with two
clasps.
He was promoted Captain in .lamiary, 1899,
from September. 1905, to March, 1908,
was a Brigade-Major in India, and during
February and March of the latter year was
D.A.Q.M.G. of the Bazar Valley Field Force
during the operations in the Zakka K hel country,
north-western frontier of India. For his ser-
vices he received the medal with clasp. From
March, 1908, to September, 1909, he was a
D.A.A.G. in India, having received his Majority
in .Tune of the latter year. Major Norman
returned to England in 1911, and served at the
depot of his regiment for three years.
In the early part of the Cireat War he had
been slightly wounded, but the injury was not
severe enough to cause him to relinquish his
duties.
He married, in September, 1899, Beatrice
Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. Henry Wood,
at Folkestone. She died suddenly in April,
1914.
Major Norman, who was a member of the
Windham Club, made many friends during
his tour of service at the depot of his regiment
at Northampton, where he won the respect
of all by his soldierly qualities and charming
personality.
LIEUTENANT STUART SHERID.\N
NORMAN, 1st B.\TTN. THE
MANCHESTER REGIMENT,
who was killed in action on the 20th-21st
December, 1914, was the only son of Colonel
W. W. Norman, late 22nd Cavalry, Indian
Army, and grandson of the late Lieutenant-
General Sir Francis Norman, and of Major-
General Sir Oliver Newmarch.
He was bom on the 10th November, 1889,
and was educated at Cheltenham and the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, obtaining his commi-ssion in the
Manchester Regiment in September, 1909,
and being promoted Lieutenant in August,
1913. He was posted to the 1st Battalion with
which he served in the Great War.
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MAJOR CHARLES NAPIER NORTH,
ROYAL ENGINEERS,
wa.s born at Bristol
on the 16th August,
1S73, the eldest son
of the late Colonel
Roger North, R.A.,
and ili-s. North, of
Briarwood, Cam-
berley. His great-
g I- a n d f a t h e r —
Captain Roger
North, 50th Regi-
ment— fought in the
Peninsula, and died,
after his retirement, from the effect of wounds
received in that campaign. His grandfather
— Colonel Charles Napier North (godson of
Sir Charles Napier) — was in the 60th Regiment
(King's Royal Rifle Corps), which he com-
manded for some time, and was mentioned in
Despatches for services in the Mutiny. He was
also present at the taking of the Taku Forts,
China.
Major North was educated at Radley, where
he held a scholarsliip : and at the R.M.A.,
Woolwich, from which he joined the Royal
Engineers in 1893, becoming Lieutenant in
February, 1896, and Captain in 1904. He served
in the South African War, being present at
operations in the Orange Free State, the Trans-
vaal, Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony,
afterwards being employed on the Staff under
the Director of ^Military Intelligence, .South
Africa, fi-om May to August, 1902. For his
services in this campaign he received . the
Queen's medal with three clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps.
Major North, who was promoted lo that lank
in July, 1913, was a member of the Army and
Navy Club, Pall Mall. He was a good cricketer,
and as a young officer played for the R.E. XI
at Chatham.
When the war with Germany broke out he
was in command of the oth Company Royal
Engineei-s stationed at Aldershot. and went to
France with the rest of the Ilnd Division early
in August. He was shot by a sniper on the
1st November, 1914, while superintending the
erection of wire entanglements at Zonnebeke
during the first Battle of Ypres. His company
suffered terribly, and between August and
December lost four officers killed, and two
severely wounded, wliUe the casualties among
the men were very heavy. A high percentage
of the latter have received the D.C.^I.
JIajor North was mentioned m Sir John French's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915, for con-
spicuous gallantry. He married, in December,
1913, Norah, daughter of the late Colonel
Gribbon. A daughter was born, after his death,
in March, 1915.
LIEUT. KENNETH CROFT NORTH,
4th (QUEEN'S O W N 1 HUSSARS.
who was killed on
the 31st October,
1914, was born at
Headingley, Leeds,
Yorkshire, on the
31stMarch. 1887, the
son of Arthur North,
Solicitor, Leeds, and
his wife, ilary Fearn-
ley North. He was a
gi'andson of William
North, Solicitor,
Leeds, and of Samuel
Croft, Gledhow Hall, Leeds.
He was educated at Rugby and the R.M.C.,
Sandhm^t . from which he joined his regiment in
South Africa in September, 1907, remaining in
the Colony for two yeai-s. He became Lieutenant
in January, 1910.
From the commencement of the Great War till
he was killed on the 31st October, Lieutenant
North had commanded the machine guns of the
4th Hussars. The following incidents of good
service on his part were reported : —
(a) On the 2oth August he remained behind his
brigade to right a gun wagon, which had been
overturned. Under heavy shell fire he suc-
ceeded in bringing it and his guns away.
(6) On the 1st September, during a rearguard
action, Lieutenant-Colonel Hogg, D.S.O. (sub-
sequently killed in action), was wounded in a
wood in the rear fighting line. Lieutenant
North took back his wagon when the Germans
were at short range, and brought Lieutenant-
Colonel Hogg into Huramont Village,
(c) On his own initiative on October 17th,
the day after the 4th Hussars had driven the
Germans out of Baswarneton. Lieutenant North
returned to Baswarneton, climbed the church
tower, and made a sketch of the German trenches
south of Warneton, and this sketch was for-
warded, per 2nd Cavalry Division, for use of the
ArtUlery.
(rf) At HoUebeke on the 30th October, after the
5th Lancers had retired, the right of the
Company 129th Baluchis was attacked, and
this company retired also. Lieutenant North
was left isolated with his 5Iaxim-gun detach-
ment. He procured a wheelbarrow, and got
both his guns and the men of his detach-
ment away, covering the retirement for over
a mile.
(e) On the 31st October at the Canal Bridge,
north of Hollebeke, our squad, 4th Hussars,
and the M.G. detachment were shelled by
sixteen gmis and attacked by infantry. The
enemy were unable to reach the bridge largely
owing to Lieutenant North's handling of his
machine guns. One of these was knocked to
bits, and Lieutenant North was killed in his
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286
gun trench while covering a change of position
of his fcllo«-ofHcer and men. The bridge re-
mained in oiu" possession till tlie 1th Hussars
wei-e lelieved.
Lieutenant North was mentioned for his con-
spicuous bravery in Sir John French's Despatch
of the 14th January, 1915.
Lieutenant North, who was a member of the
Cavalry Chib, married Frances Evelyn, daugh-
ter of Henry Berry, of Moor AUerton, Leeds,
anil left no faniilv.
LIEUTENANT ALFRED NORTHEY, 4th
BATTN. WORCESTERSHIRE REGT.,
was the younger son
of the late Rev.
Alfred Northey and
of Mi's. Northey, of
Liswomey, Tor-
quay. He was a
grandson of Colonel
W. B. Northey,
Coldstream Guards,
and cousin of
Colonel Northey,
60th Rifles, recently
appointed extra
A.D.C. to the King, and of Major W. Northey,
D..S,0., p.s.c, Durham Light Infantry, who died
at Boulogne on the 21st October, 1914, of
wounds received in the present war. Lieu-
tenant Northey's elder brother. Captain W. B.
Northey, is in the 1st Gurkhas.
The subject of this memoir was born at the
Vicarage, Rickmansworth, Herts, on the 10th
September, 1886, and wa.s educated at Eotting-
dean. .Sherborne College, at Hanover, and the
R.M.C., Sandhiust ; later he passed as an Inter-
preter in German.
He joined his regiment on the 14th March,
1906, and became Lieutenant in October, 1908.
For two years he was stationed with his bat-
talion in Malta, and went witji it to Bareilly,
India, in 1908. He returned to England in
1911, and spent three yeare at the depot,
Worcester.
After the war broke out he was sent as Machine
Gun Officer to train Reservists at Tregantle,
Cornwall, and was there untU the end of August,
when he took a draft of Reservists to St.
Nazaire, the base, where he remamed untU
the 17th September, when he joined his batta-
lion at the front. He was killed with a brother
officer on the 12th October, 1914, by Maxim-gun
fire during desperate fighting, when the British
were quite outnumbered by Bavarians. This
took place at Eichebourg St. A'aast, close to
Bethune. He was buried there next day.
Lieutenant Northey was mentioned in Field-
Marshal Sir John French's Despatch of the 14th
January, 1915.
The following memoir of this officer appeared
in the " Worcester Journal " of the 24th
October, 1914 :—
" Lieutenant Northey was well known in military
and sporting circles in the city and country,
and was well Uked for his social qualities and
accomplishments. He was an excellent musician,
and played the violin at the concerts of the
Worcester Orchestral .Society. He was also a
good linguist, and was a capable hockey player
at one time, playmg for the county at centre-
back. In India he played in the ' All-India
Tournament,' and was an all-round sportsman,
hunting as regularly as possible, and taking an
active interest in aU sport. He was a well-
known figure in local cricket, and was seen in
the depot team and in the \\'orcester (ientle-
men's team."
Lieutenant Northev was not married.
AM NORTHEY,
BATTN. DUR-
INFANTRY,
M .\ J O R WILLI
D.S.O., p.s.c, 2nd
HAM LIGHT
who died on the 22nd
October, 1914, of
wounds received in
action, lea^■ing a
widow, was the son
of the late Rev. E.
\V. Northey and Jlrs.
Northey, of Wood-
cote House, Epsom.
An uncle of Major
Northey — Lieu-
tenant'Colonel F. W.
Northey — was killed
in the Zulu War while in command of the 3rd
BattaUon King's Royal Rifle Corps : while a
brother — Lieutenant- Colonel E. Northey, 1st
Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps — was
wounded in the Battle of the Aisne in the
Great War.
Major Northey was born on the 29th January,
1876, and joined the Durham Light Infantry
in Septeiiiber, 1895, becoming Lieutenant in
December, 1896.
He served In the South African War, during
which he was Brigade Signalling Officer (graded
.Staff Captain) from November, 1899, to April,
1900, and Division .SignalUng Officer (graded
Staff Captain) from April, 1900, to November,
1900. He was present at the relief of Lady-
smith and Battle of Colenso ; at operations
and actions at Vaal Krans ; at operations on
the Tugela Heights, Natal : and in the Trans-
vaal in 1900, including actions at Pieter's
IliU and Laing's Nek. He served as Adjutant,
13th Battalion Mounted Infantry, from Novem-
ber, 1900, to March, 1902, and was present at
further operations in the Transvaal, in the
Orange River Colony, and on the Zululand
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frontiers of Xatal. For his services he was
twice mentioned in Despatches (" London
Gazette," Stli February, 1901. and 29th July.
1902): was awarded the D.S.O., and received
the Queen's medal with five clasps and the
King's medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Major from the 21st October,
1914, the promotion being gazetted after his
death.
CAPTAIN JOHN NORWOOD. V. C,
RESERVE OF OFFICERS . 2nd COUNTY
OF LONDON YEOMANRY,
a 1 1 d . 5th DRAGOON GUARDS.
was killed in action
on the Sth .Septem-
ber, 1914.
The son of Mr. and
iMrs. John Norwood,
he was bom on the
8th .September. 1S76,
at B e c k e n h a m .
Kent, and educated
at The Abbey,
Beckenham : at
Kugby : and at
Exeter College, Ox-
ford. He entered the Army as a Univei-sity
candidate in 1899, joined the Sth Dragoon
Guards in India, and went with them to South
Africa in the autumn of that year. He served
through the .South African War. being present
at operations in Natal, including actions at
Elandslaagte and Lombard's Kop ; the defence
of Ladysmith, including the sortie of the 7th
December. 1899 : and the action of the 6th
January. 1900. He also took part in operations
in the Transvaal in 1900, 1901, and 1902 :
in the Orange Kiver Colony : and on the Zulu-
land frontier of Xatal. He was awarded the
V.C. for rescviing a Trooper under heavy fire
near Ladysmith on the 30th October. 1899 :
received tlie Queen's medal with tour clasps and
the King's medal with two clasps.
He was Adjutant of the Calcutta Light Horse,
1904-Oli, and retired from the active list,
joining the 2nd County of London Yeomanry
(Westminster Dragoons) in February, 1911.
When the war broke out he rejoined his regi-
ment, the .5th D.G.'s.. on mobilisation. He was
in the retirement from ]\lons. and fell in the
Battle of the !Marne at Sablonnieres whilst
trying to help a wounded Sergeant.
Captain Norwood married, in 1904, Lilian,
daughter of ^lajor- General Sir Edwin CoUen,
K.C.I.E., C.B., and left two sons and a daugh-
ter. He was a member of tlie Cavalry Club,
and his recreations were hunting, shooting,
and tennis.
L I E U T E N .\ N T RICHARD
FRANCIS ROBERT NUGENT.
RESERVE OF OFFICERS, 2nd
BATTN. SCOTS GU.\RDS.
of BaUymacoU, Duu-
boyne, County
Meath, was, it is be-
lieved, killed in
Prance on the 18th
December, 1914.
He was the only sur-
viving son of the late
Hon. Richard An-
thony Nugent, who
died in 1912 (the
youngest son of the
ninth Earl of West-
meath), of Stacunuiy, CeUui.l^. . (•juiity Kil-
dare. Lieutenant Nugent was thus a grandson
of the ninth Earl, and his mother was Theresa,
eldest daughter of the late Richard Gradwell,
Esq., of Dowth Hall, Drogheda.
Bom on the 3rd October, 1884, he was edu-
cated at The Oratory, Edgba.ston. He had
always intended to serve in the Army, but while
preparing for the examination for the Royal
ililitary College, Sandhurst, he contracted a
severe attack of typhoid fever, which pre-
vented his competing. He was, however,
permitted, after recovering, to join the Scots
Guards on probation in 190li. and. after
two years, was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in
August, 1908.
After nearly five years' service on the active
Ust, Lieutenant Nugent retired from the Army
in JIarch. 1911, and vohmtarily went into the
Special Reserve of the Scots Guards and into
the Reserve of Officers. On the Great War
breaking out he offered his services, which were
accepted, and after a short training at Wai-ley
and Sandown he embarked for France early in
November, 1914. to join his old battalion.
During the night of the lSth-19th December,
1914, there was a severe attack by us on the
enemy, and Lieutenant Nugent when last seen
was encouraging his men, and standing on the
top of a German trench between Fleurbaix and
FromeUes, to which place he had penetrated.
He is believed to have fallen wliile gallantly
leading some of his platoon forward to attack
the enemy. Every enquiry has been made
concerning him, but no trace can be found in
any of the prisoners' camps in Germany.
Lieutenant Nugent, who was a member of the
Guards' Club, also of the Bachelors', London,
and the KUdare Street Club, Dublin, was very
fond of hunting and racing ; he was first whip
to the Household Brigade Drag, hunted with
many packs of foxhounds in England and Ire-
land, and also rode in the Brigade Point-to-
point races.
He was not married.
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LIEUTENANT CHARLES FRANCIS
NUNNELEY, 3rd (attd. 1st) BATTN.
NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS,
\\;is 111!' yoniiRest
surviving- son of the
Rev. F. B. Nun-
neley, M.D., and was
born on the 31st
December. 1883, at
Bennington Vicar-
n g e , Alnwick,
Northum berland .
Educated at Mal-
vern College, he
joined the 3rd Bat-
talion Boyal West
Ivent Heginient'lMilitia) as 2nd Lieutenant in
:May, li)0:3, lieing transferred to the 'Jnd Bat-
talion Northumberland Fusiliers (Regulars)
in May, 190.'). In IMarch, 1907, he retired from
the Army, and at the outbreak of war was work-
ing with the Agricultural Organisation Society,
becoming the first Secretary of the North
Eastern Branch, wliere his services were nuicli
valued.
He rejoined the Army in the 3rd Battahon
Northiunberland F\isiliers in August, 191 t :
for a sliort time was attached to the 2nd Bat-
talion King's Own Yorksiiire Light Infantry ;
and finally attached to the 1st Battalion
Northumberland Fusiliers in October, 191 1.
The following particulars of his death were
received by telegram from the Officer Command-
ing Northumberland F\isiliers : " Lieutenant
Nunneley met his death as follows at Neuve
Chapelle on the 20th October, 1911. The
enemy had captured a trench in which was a
gun. He attempted to recapture the trench by
crawling through a wire fence, which was about
thirty yards from the enemy. His men got hung
up in the wire, and Lieutenant Nunneley
calmly stood up, encouraging and directing them
regardless of all personal risks, and was shot at
close quarters by the enemy."
For his services he was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th .Tanuary, 191.5.
Lieutenant Nunneley was a Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society, and held the Society's
diploma for geographical surveying. He was
also interested in church architecture, and
took hundreds of photographs in many churches,
minsters, cathedrals, and abbeys in England,
some of which have been published in various
books by Mr. Francis Bond. He was a mem-
ber of the St. Andrews Golf Club, the
" Royal and Ancient," before joining that of
Sheringham.
Lieutenant Nunneley married Margery, daugh-
ter of the Hon. John Mansfield, and niece of
Lord Sandhurst, and left one son. Robin
Michael Charles, born at Sheringham. Norfolk,
11th October, 1911.
CAPTAIN AUBREY ULICK MARSHALL
O'BRIEN, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
who was killed in action on the 1st November,
1914, was the son of the late Edward O'Brien,
of Cahirmoyle, Ardagli, County Limerick, and
Julia {iie'e Maishall), his wife, and w.as born on
the 7th June, 1SS2.
He was educated at Marlborough (Mitre,
1895-99), and was gazetted to the R.F.A. from
the Militia in December, 1903, becoming
Lieutenant in December, 1906.
He passed out of the R.M.A., Woolwich, in
1900, for the Royal Engineers, but ill-health
prevented his acceijting his commission. After
recovering he joined the Militia, so as to ent«r
the Army as he had intended. He was one of
a large number of olllcors of the Royal Field
Artillery promoted to lie Captains on the SOtli
October, 1914. His brother. Mi-. U.-r-ninil
O'Brien, is President of the Royal Hibernian
Academy, and an hon. member of the Royal
Academy. (" The Times," 19th November,
1914.)
F U S
HENRY
BATTN.
I L I E R S,
CAPTAIN HUGH CONOR
O'BRIEN, 1st (attd. 2nd)
ROYAL M UN ST ER
who was killed in
action near l,.-i
Bassee, France, on
the 22nd DeccMuber,
1914, was the son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
A. O'Brien, Royal
Army Medical Corjis,
and was born on
the 19th November,
ISSO.
He was educateil at
Stonyhurst, and
joined the Royal .Munster FvisiUers in August,
1900. He was almost iunnediately on active
service in South Africa, being present at opera-
tions in the Transvaal from January to July, 1 901 ,
and sulisefnientiv in the Orange River and Cape
Colonies, lb' received the Queen's medal \vi(h
four clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in March, 1903,
and was again on active service on the north-
western frontier of India in 1908, when he was
Brigade Signalling Officer, attached to the 3rd
Brigade in operations in the .Mohmand country,
for which he received the medal with clasp.
He was promoted Captain in April, 1910.
Some details of his last fight and death were
received from an Army Chaplain in a letter to
his father, which was published in the " Stony-
hurst :Magazine " of February, 1915. From
this it appears that after having marched all
the night of the 20th December, after a brief
rest on the morning of the 21st, the battalion
was ordered to charge an important position.
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Some trenches had been evacuated by our troops,
and the order was to retake them at all costs.
Dtiring the charge Captain O'Brien was seen
continually urging on his men. repeating,
•• Xow, Jlunsters ! this is your time to get back
a bit of your own.'" He was wounded first in
the left side, while advancing over practically
open ground. Captain O'Brien was always to
the front cheering on his men, and it was as he
knelt for a temporary protection that he was hit
in the left side. There he lay down, and called
for someone to dress his wound. He was
still full of dash and spirit, and kept calling out :
" Go on. Mnnsters ! Xow is your time I Get
back your own ! " Another officer now came
and began to dress his wound. WhUe this was
being done Captain O'Brien and the officer
who was attending to him were both killed
instantaneously by a shrapnel shell, which
burst right over them. Both were buried near
the spot where they fell. Captain O'Brien's death
was deeply felt by his brother officers and men.
LIEUTENANT JAMES FRANCIS
O'BRIEN, 1st attd. 2nd B A T T N .
ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
who was killed in
action on the 22nd
December, 191-1,
was the eldest son
of ilr. and >Irs.
O'Brien, Ardfort,
21, Parkside,
Wimbledon, and
Ardfort, Thurles.
Tipperary. Ireland.
He was bom on the
31st January, 1S90.
and was educated
at St. Augustine, Ram^ate : Wimbledon College
(Army Dex)artment ). and the R.M.C.. Sand-
hurst, where he won the two hundred and twenty
yards in the sports, and was in the hockey team.
He joined the Royal ilunster Fxisiliers in April.
1910, becoming Lieutenant in September, 1913.
He played hockey for his regiment when
stationed at Rangoon, in India, where he also
rode in races and won a cup for the "' Club
Fours " in the Rangoon Boat Club Monsoon
Regatta.
At La Bassee on the morning of the 22 nd
December, after conung over to relieve the
Indian Corps, the division had to make a frontal
attack and lost heavily. He was with his com-
pany when he was shot in the head.
-Major Ryan wrote: "a Corporal and all the
men said that nothing could have been more
gallant than the way he had led them ; also I
feel I must tell you how bravely he died, actually
with his men during the attack, and how much
I regret him. I had got to trust him with
everything I wanted weU done."
LIEUT. JOHN FORBES O'CONNELL,
M.B.. ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.
who was kUled in action on the 2nd .September,
1914. was bom on the ISth February, 18.^9.
and joined the Royal Army ^ledical Corps in
Januarv. 1913.
DOMINIC O'CON.
MEDICAL CORPS.
CAPTAIN RICHARD
NOR. ROYAL ARMY
was bom in Limerick
on the 1st August,
1SS.5, son of the late
F. W. O'Connor,
F.R.C.S.I., of that
town.
He was educated at
Clongowes Woods
College, and did his
medical training at
St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, London,
obtaining his dip-
lomas M.R.C.8.. L.R.C.I'. ,LuiiJ.). He entered
the R. A.M. C. in 190l>, and was promoted Cap-
tain in 1910, serving in India from 19<39-li. He
was fond of shooting, cricket, and swimming.
In the Great War he was recommended for the
Order of the Legion of Honour for bravery in
the trenches and attending to civilians under
heavy fire. He was killed in action on the 25th
October, 1914. while serving with the 2nd
Battalion Sherwood Foresters.
Captain O'Connor married Pbilippa Durane
.'"andHands. and left l7>vo children : Doreen
Rosemary, bom February. 1911 ; and Cyril
Rene Richard, bom Mav. 191:?.
LIEUTENANT SIR GILCHRIST NE\TLL
OGILVY. BART.. OF INVERQl-'HARITY.
Isi BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS,
who was killed in
action at Gheluvelt,
near Ypres, on the
27th October, 1914.
was the only son of
the late Major
.A. H. R. Ogilvy.
13th Hussars,
D.S.O., who died in
1906 ; he succeeded
his grandfather.
Sir Reginald H. A.
Ogilvy, as eleventh Baronet in 1910.
He was bom on the 6th September, 1S92, and
was educated at Eton and the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst. He joined the Scots Guards in January,
1913. and was promoted Lieutenant from Sep-
tember, 1914, the notification in the " London
Gazette " appearing after his death.
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J.
He was a member of the Guards' and Bath
Clubs. His favoiu'ite recreations were hunting
and sliooting.
LIEUTENANT GUY CHRISTOPHER
OTTLEY OLDFIELD, THE QUEENS
(ROYAL WEST SURREY REGIMENT),
AND 4th (UGANDAi BATTN. THE
KING'S AFRICAN RIFLES,
was killed in action
on the 6th Septem-
ber, 1914, at Tsavo,
while with tlie force
defending the Mom-
basa-Nairobi Rail-
way. He was the
only son of Colonel
C. (i. Oldficld. late
K.A.. and a grandson
of Sir Ricluird Old-
field.
'———~——^——^^-' jjg WHS born at
I'oona. India, on tlie 17th September, 1888,
and was educated at Clifton College and the
K..M.C., Sandhurst. At the former he obtained
his caps in the Football XV and in the Second
Cricket XI. He was always keen on cricket
and football, and later on riding and shooting.
From Sandhurst he was gazetted to tlie Queen's
in September, 1908, becoming Lieutenant in
April. 1911. He served with the 2nd Batta-
lion of his regiment in Colcliester, Gibraltar,
and Bermuda, and in December, 1913, was
seconded for employment with the 4th Batta-
lion King's African Rifles, with whom he served
in the Jubaland Expedition in the spring of
1914.
CAPTAIN ROBERT JOHN BLATCH-
FORD OLDREY, ADJUTANT 4th
(ROYAL IRISH) DRAGOON GUARDS,
■ who was killed in
^^^HH|HH|^^^^| on
October, 1914, was
the eldest son of
the late Robert B.
Oldrey, of Harpole
Hall, Xorthants, and
of jMrs. H. P.
Sharpin, of Turvey,
Beds.
He was born on the
18th June, 1883,
educated at Upping-
ham, and joined tlie 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon
Guards from the Militia in March, 1902,
being gazetted towards the end of the South
African War, wlien he joined his regiment in
India, afterwards being stationed in South
Africa. He became Lieutenant in February,
1905, and Captain in January, 1911, and was
appointed Adjutant of his regiment in January,
1914.
Captain Oldrey was a member of the Cavalry
Club and of Ranelagh and Roehampton. He
was a keen jjolo player, and played for his regi-
ment in the Intor-regimental Tournaments.
He was an ardent supporter of fox liunting,
and rode in a number of point-to-point races.
He was chosen to represent England in the
jumping at Olympia, in 1908, before King
Edward and Queen Alexandra, being presented
by the King with a gold cigarette case as a
memento of the occasion.
Captain Oldrey left for France with the Expedi-
tionary Force, and was in the retirement from
Jlons. He was killed at Neuve Chapelle while
leading his squadron to relieve tlie Indians.
CAPTAIN ROB E R T HAROLD
OLIVIER, 1st BATTN. DUKE OF
CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY,
killed in action at the
Battle of tlie Aisne,in
September, 1914, was
the youngest son of
Canon Olivier, The
Close, Salisbury, and
was bom on the 20th
June, 1879.
He joined the Duke
of Cornw.all's Light
Infantry from tlie
Militia on the 1,5th
November, 1899, and
became Lieutenant in UK) I. He served in tlie
South African War, being a Station ,Staff Officer
from Jlarcli, 1901, to .January, 1902. He was
present at operations in the Orange Free State,
including Paardeberg ; and at actions at Poplar
(irove and Driefontein : also at operations in
the Transvaal. He received the Queen's medal
with four and the King's medal with two clasps.
Captain Olivier also saw service at Nandi in
1905-06, receiving the medal with clasp. He
became Captain on the 20tli March, 1909,
and in 1910 was appointed Adjutant of the
Territorial Force.
MAJOR RUPERT OMMANNEY,
p.s.c, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
who was killed in action on the 31st October,
1914, was born on the 27th April, 1S7S, and
joined the Royal Engineers in January, 1896,
becoming Lieutenant in January, 1899.
He served in the South African War, being
present at the relief of Ladysmith, including
the action at Colenso : at operations and actions
at Spion Kop, Vaal Krans, Tugela Heights, and
Pieter's Hill. He was mentioned in Despatches
("London Gazette," 8th February, 1901),
and received the Queen's medal with three
clasps.
From October, 1903, to March, 1904, he was
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specially employed in the Intelligence Branch
at headquarters of the Anny, and from April.
1904, to January, 190S, as Staff Captain, and
General Staff Officer 3rd Grade at headquarters.
In December, 1909, he passed the final examioa-
tion. Staff College, and, from March, 1910, to
June. 191-t, he was again at the War Office on
special employment, and as General Staff Officer
(3rd Grade).
He was promoted Captain in January, 1903,
and Major from the 30th October, 1914, the
latter promotion having been gazetted after his
death. He was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
CAPTAIN the Honble. ARTHUR
EDWARD BRUCE O'NEILL. 2nd LIFE
GUARDS.
who was killed in
action on the 6th
November. 1914,
was born on the 19th
September, 1876, the
eldest surviving son
of the second Baron
O'Neill, of
Shane's Castle.
County Antrim, and
of Lady O'Neill,
daughter of the
eleventh Earl of Dundonald.
He was formerly in a Militia Battalion of the
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, from which
he joined the 2nd Life Guards in May, 1897,
becoming Lieutenant in June, 1898. He served
in the South African War, 1S99-1900, being
present at the relief of Kimberley, and at
operations in the Orange Free State, at Paarde-
berg, and in Cape Colony, including the actions
at Driefontein and Colesberg. He received the
Queen's medal with three clasps. He was pro-
moted Captain on the 3rd January, 1902, and
from that date to January, 1903, was Adjutant
of his regiment. In January. 1910, he was
seconded, having been elected M.P. for Mid-
Antrim, but rejoined his regiment when war
was declared.
Captain O'Neill, who was a J.P. and D.L. for
Cotmty Antrim, was educated at Eton, and was
a member of the Carlton, Ulster, and Bachelors'
Clubs. He was musical, a good shot, and fond
of all sports.
He fell while leading his men in a most gallant
attempt to save a situation. He was shot on
the Klein ZUIebeke Ridge, near Ypres, and
shouting to his men to line the ridge was being
carried out when he received another wound,
and then begged his bearers to leave him and
save themselves. He did not know what fear
was. He saw his task accomplished.
Captain O'Neill married, in 1902, Lady Annabel
Hungerford Crewe- ililnes, eldest daughter of
the first Marquess of Crewe, and left five
children : Shane Edward Robert, born Feb-
ruary, 1907 ; Brian Arthur, bom March, 1911 :
Sibyl, bom December, 1902 ; Mary Louisa
Hermione, bom August, 1905 ; and Terence
Mame. bom 10th September, 1914.
C.\ P T .\ I N .\ R T H U R WILLIAM
ONSLOW. 16th
S LANCERS.
Mac ARTHUR
(THE QUEEN
who was killed near
Ypres on the 5th
November. 1914. was
the son of the late
Captain and Mrs.
MacArthur Onslow.
of Camden Park.
New South Wales.
He was bom on the
27th May, 1877, and
joined the 16th
Lancers in February.
1900, becouung Lieu- ~
tenant in October of the same year. He served
in the South African War, being present at
operations in the Transvaal, including actions
at Belfast and in the Orange River Colony and
Cape Colony, for which he received the Queen's
medal with three clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
He was promoted Captain in September, 1904,
and in September. 1911. he was seconded for
employment with the New Zealand Military
Forces, being appointed Instructor in Mounted
Duties in the Canterbury district.
General Hubert Gough. C.B., wrote : " During
the time he was out here, he had done very
well, and commanded his squadron so well that
Vaughan (now commanding the 3rd Brigade),
has especially mentioned him for the way he
handled it in the attack on Wameton."
Captain MacArthur Onslow was mentioned for
his services in the Great War in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January. 1915.
He married in 1911, Christabel, elder daughter
of Colonel R. J. Beech, of Brandon Hall,
Coventrv.
LIEUT. HAROLD MICHAEL OPEN-
SHAW. 1st BATTN. NORFOLK REGT.,
who died on the 2Sth August, 1914, at Thulin,
of wounds received at Mons on the 24th of that
month, was the second son of Lieutenant-
Colonel Openshaw, of Winchester.
He was bom on the 9th November, 1889 ;
joined the Norfolk Regiment in Novem-
ber, 1909 ; and became Lieutenant in July,
1912.
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARTHUR ORR, THE
QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGH-
LANDERS,
was officially re-
ported to have been
missing on the 22nd
October, 1914, and
has since been re-
ported to have been
killed on that day
near Langeinarck.
He was the son of
the late John Orr
and the late Frances
B. Orr, of St. Mar-
garet's. North Hrrwick, and was bom on the
15th .January, 1JS79. He was educated at .St.
Xinian's, .Moffat, and Loretto, received liis com-
mission in the ilanchester Keguiient in Feb-
ruary, 1S99, and was transferred to the Cameron
Highlanders in April of the same year, becoming
Lieutenant in .Tune, 1900.
He took part in the .South African War, being
present at operations in the Orange Free State,
the Transvaal in 1900, 1901, and 1902, the
Orange River Colony, and on the Zululand
frontier of Xatal, including actions at Vet and
Zand Rivers, near Johannesburg, at Pretoria,
Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, and Ladybrand.
For his services he was mentioned in Despatches
(" London Gazette," 10th September, 1901),
and received the Queen's medal with four clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
From December, 1904, to December, 1907,
he was Adjutant of his battalion, and was
promoted Captain in October, 1905. He
qualified for the .Staff College in 1913, and was
selected for nomination m September, 1913.
When war was declared he was made Assistant
Embarkation Officer at Southampton, and left
to join his regiment on the 26th September.
Captain Orr, who was a member of the Cale-
donian Club, was good at all games, especially
cricket, hockey, and golf. He was not married.
M.\JOR JOHN BOYD ORR, D.S.O.,
1st BATTN. NORFOLK. REGIMENT,
wlio died, while a
prisoner of war, of
wounds received in
action on the 24th
August, 1914, at the
Battle of Jlons, and
was buried at
Thulin, was born on
the 16th August.
1871. The second
son of the late
Colonel Spencer
Edward Orr and of
ill's. 8. R. Orr, of Belfleld, Camberley, he was
educated at Dover College, and was gazetted to
the Norfolk Regunent from the Militia in
October, 1893, becoming Lieutenant in .\ugust,
189(), and Captain in December, 1901.
He took part in the South African War, in
which he was employed on the .Staff as A.D.C.
(at first extra A.D.C.) to the Brigadier-General
Commanding the Mounted Infantry Brigade,
from November, 1900, to October, 1901. He
took part in the relief of Kiml)erley, and was
present at operations in the Orange Free
State, at Paardeberg, and in the Transvaal,
including actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein,
Vet River, Zand River, near Johannesburg,
at Pretoria and Diamond Hill. He was men-
tioned in Despatches (" London Ciazette,"
10th .September, 1901), was awarded the D.S.O.,
and received the Queen's medal with five clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
From December, 1906, to September, 1908, he
was employed with the Transvaal ^'olunteers,
and with the West African Frontier Force from
May, 1010, to December, 1913, in January of
which latter year he received his Majority.
Major Orr was a member of the Calidoiiian
Club.
CAPT. ROBERT CLIFFORD ORR. 3rd
(attd. 1st) BATTN. PRINCE .\LBERT'S
(SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY),
was the son of the
late Robert Harrison
Orr, Solicitor, of
Belfast and Bally-
mena, County An-
trim, and Cassandra
Marchaise Orr, now
residing at Rockside,
Newcastle,Co.Down.
He was a nephew of
his Honour Judge
Orr, County Court
Judge for Co. Down.
Captain Orr was born on the 17th September,
1880, at Belfast, and was educated at .Sunning-
dale (Berks) Preparatory School and at Rugby,
lie adopted the legal profession, and was
admitted a .SoUcitor in 1903. practising with his
brother in Belfast and at Ballymena.
In 1910 he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the
3rd Battalion (Reserve) Somerset Light Infantry,
being promoted Lieutenant in December. 1911,
and Captain in October, 1914. .Soon after the
war broke out he was attached to the 1st
Battalion of his regiment, and served with it
at the front for about two months prior to his
death.
Captain Orr was a member of the Ulster and
the Ballymena Clubs, and of the Golf Club
at the latter place. He was an active member of
the Mid- Antrim Hunt Club, frequentlv acting as
Master. He was also Captain of the local con-
tingent of the Church Lads' Brigade.
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He was killed on the 19th December, 1914,
while leading his men in an attack on the Gennan
trenches outside Ploegsteert Wood, in Flanders.
The following account of the circumstances was
given to his brother by the Adjutant of his
battalion : — v
■■ The company, in which your brother was, was
ordered to lead the attack on the German
trenches on the 19th December. 1914. After
a heavy artillery bombardment all the morning
the assault was made at 2.30 p.m. All the officers
and men of this company, and the one which
supported it, behaved with the utmost gallantry,
but they were not successful in actually taking
the German trenches, though several isolated
parties, including one in which your brother was
included, succeeded in breaking through the
enemy's wire entanglement and into a house
held by the enemy. Nothing was known of your
brother's fate until Christmas Day. On this
day an informal truce was arranged, and the
Germans brought out from within their lines
and handed over to us the body of your brother,
amongst others, and we buried him in the little
cemetery in Ploegsteert Wood near our head-
quarters. I feel sure it will be a great comfort
to his mother and yovirself, as it was to us, to
know that it had been possible to recover his
body and bviry him property. There is no doubt
that he must have very gallantly led his men
practically into the German trenches, but we
could not establish ourselves there, although we
were able to advance our lines some distance
as the result of the attack."
LIEUTENANT BRIAN OSBORNE.
1 5th (THE KING'S/ HUSSARS.
son of Captain Frank
Osborne, late 13th
Hussars, and ^Irs.
Osborne, Harbury
Hall, Leamington,
was bom in Sydney.
X,S,W,, on the ISth
November, 1888.
He was educated at
Harrow, where he
was in the Cricket
and Football XI's,
was 1st String at
Racquets in 1906, and won the Ebrington Cup
two years in succession. From Harrow he went
direct to the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, where his
first promotion was to Colour-.Sei-geant, and on
passing out was awarded the Sword of Honour.
He was gazetted to the loth Hussars in February,
1908, and joined them at Muttra, India. WTiile
there he had the record number of " first
spears " for pig-sticking. He also played polo
for his regiment, and formed one of the regi-
mental team that won the Inter-regimental
Tournament in South Africa in 1911,
In 1912 he was at the Cavalry School, Nether-
avon, and played Number 1 in the 15th Hussars
polo team that won the Inter-regimental at
Hurlingham in 1913, the year the regiment
returned to England. He also played in the
Cavalry Club team that won the Ranelagh
Open Cup in 1914, being handicapped at seven
points. He was a very fine horseman, and a
well-known rider to hounds, especially in War-
wickshire, where his home was : and was a
member of the Cavalry Club, the M.C.C, and
Ranelagh.
Lieutenant Osborne was reported missing from
the 11th November, 1914, when he was support-
ing the Duke of Wellington's Regiment with
his machine gvin in trenches near Herenthage
Chateau, east of Ypres, One of the men of his
machine-gun section, taken prisoner that day
when the Prussian Guard made their last big
attack, wrote in March, 191.5, saying that Lieu-
tenant Osborne was shot through the head about
7.30 on the morning of the 11th November.
LIEUT. GEOFFREY CLAUDE LANG.
DALE OTTLEY, D.S.O.. 2nd BATTN.
SCOTS GUARDS,
was the son of Rear-
Admiral Sir Charles
Ottley, K.C.M.G..
C.B,, M.V.O., and
Lady Ottley, daugh-
ter of Colonel
Alexander Stewart,
R.A.. and was bom
at Southsea on the
20th January, 1896.
He was educated at
Harrow from
1910-13, and passed into .Sandhurst direct
from Harrow in February. 1914. being the first
of his batch of Guards Cadets, gaining a Prize
Cadetship. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on
the 1st October, 1914, and promoted Lieu-
tenant on the 10th December, antedated to
the 9th November, 1914.
After five weeks in London, serving with the
3rd Battalion, he joined the 2nd Battalion on
the Continent, and fell mortally wounded when
leading an attack on the German trenches on
the 18th December, dying in the Australian
Hospital, Wimereux, Boulogne, on the 21st
December, 1914,
He was mentioned in Sir John French's Des-
patch of the 14th January, 1915, and was
awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous gallantry,
but unfortimately did not live to personally
receive the decoration.
LIEUT. JOHN', ROBERTS OVENS. 1st
BATTN. CONN AUGHT RANGERS.
who was killed in action in France on the 5th
November, 1914, according to the official
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casualty list (there being reason for accepting the
7th November as the correct date), was the
youngest son of the late John Ji. Ovens, Eglinton
Crescent. iMlinlnngh. and grandson of the late
Alexander Hulherford. Hoebridge, Melrose.
He was born on the Uth February, 1889, and
was- educated at Edinburgh, Heidelberg, and
the R.M.C.. Sandhurst. ("The Times." 17th
November. liM I.) He joined the Oonnaught
Rangers from tlie .Special Reserve in December,
inod.and was promoted Lieutenant in June. 191 1.
LIEUT. ERNEST HADDON OWEN,
3rd BATTN. LINCOLNSHIRE REGT.,
born at Louth on
the 4th February,
18S(), was the son of
\Villiam Haddon
O wen , of Louth,
Ijincolnshire. He
was educated at
L 1 a n d a ff and
Stancliffe Prepar-
atory School, and
subsequently at
Haileybury College
from 1901 to 1904.
Lieutenant Owen was gazetted to the 4th
Lincolns (South Lincolnshire Militia) in 1904.
Later he became Lieutenant and Musketry
Instructor. Upon the disbandment of the
battalion in 1908 he was transferred to the 3rd
(Special Reserve) Battalion, retiring in 1912
on entering into partnership with his father in the
firm of Haddon Owen iV Son, Solicitors, of Louth.
On the outbreak of the war Lieutenant Owen
applied for and obtained a commission in his
old regiment, becoming 2nd Lieutenant in the
3rd Battalion on the 15th August, 1914. He
left for the front with a draft for the 1st Bat-
talion on tlie 11th Novendjer, and on arriving
was attached temporarily to the 1st Battalion
South Wales Borderers, which had lost many
officers, and was serving with that regiment when
he fell on the 21st December, 1914, in the severe
struggle near Givenchy. He was gazetted Lieu-
tenant on the 23rd December after his death.
Major Reddie, of the 1st South Wales Borderers,
gave the following account of him and of the
circumstances of his dcatli : " Dviring the short
time he was with us he became very popular
both with officers and nien. and besides was a
good soldier. He was killed in action on the
21st instant, leading his men into the trenches,
and was shot in the head when only three or
four yards off them. He was slightly wounded
in the neck a short time before, but gallantly
led his men on."
A brother Subaltern furnished the following
details : " We were attacking the Germans on
December 21st. Your son was in the leading
company. We had to drive the Germans from
the trenches which the Indians had lost the
day previou-sly. You will be glad to hear we
got those trenches. We were under artillery
fire and heavy rifle fire since we started, your
son ami I leading our two platoons. We had not
gone far with the advance before he got a bullet
in his neck. He bandaged it up, and then
brought his men on ! We got to the trenches,
and he was rounding up his men, when he got
a bullet right through his forehead. He was
only a few minutes dying, and could not speak.
. . . He was most brave in the advance, and
those of us who saw him could not help but note
his coolness and unconcern. . . . Tlie way he
led his men was splendid. He got them up to
the trench when he wa.s shot. We were all
very fond of ' dear old Owen.' He was such a
good fellow. Nothing disturbed him. His only
fault was he exposed himself too much in the
attack, and that is how he was killed, I am
afraid, as they are always on tlie look-out for
officers."
2nd LIEUTENANT NORMAN MOORE
OWEN, 49th BATTERY, XLth BRIGADE,
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
who was killed at the Battle of the Aisne, in
September, 1914, actual date unknown, was the
younger son of the Rev. O. E. and Mrs. Owen,
Over Wallop Rectory, Hants.
2nd Lieutenant Owen, who was born in 1893,
was gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery in
July, 1913.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM HAMILTON
PADDAY, 36th attd. 47th SIKHS,
b o r n a t S t o k e .
Devonport, on the
21st September,
18 8 1, was the
younger son of the
late Colonel A. C.
Padday, Royal (late
Bengal) Engineers,
and a grandson of
Thomas Campbell
Foster, Q.C., a
Bencher of the
Middle Temple,
and Recorder of Warwick.
He was educated at Bath College, and the
R.M.C, Sandhurst. He was a prominent
member of the Bath College Football XV in
1898 ; and at Sandhurst in 1900 ran with his
company when it won the cross-country race.
He entered the R.JI.C. in 1900, and from
there in the following year obtained his com-
mission in the Indian Army, and was attached
to the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment),
then serving in the Punjab. After a year's
service with this regiment he was gazetted to
the 36th .Sikhs. Some years later, for a short
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time, he joined the Military Police in Assam,
rejoining his regiment in 1910.
He was a keen sportsman, fond of shooting,
fishing, and yacliting. For a time he was the
Honorary Secretary of the Lucknow and also
of the Xaini Tal Yacht Clubs ; and while
racing with the latter club won several cups.
He was also a member of the Junior Army and
Xavy Club, London.
On the outbreak of the war with Germany he
was at home on leave, and was attached for a
short time to the 8th (Service) Battalion of the
Duke of WeUington's (West Riding Regiment).
Early in November he joined the 47th Sikhs in
France, and with them he was serving
when killed in action on the 21st December,
1914, near Givenchy.
The circumstances of his death were thus re-
lated by an officer of the regiment : " On the
night of the 20th and 21st December the
regiment had been ordered to take a trench,
which was found to be occupied at both ends by
Germans with machine guns. Previous ex-
perience had shown that the best way to dislodge
the enemy from such positions was by parties of
bomb-throwers creeping up and throwing
bombs among them. Captain Padday was in
charge of a regimental party of bomb-tlirowers
whom he had himself trained, and went off
with the party to dislodge the Germans. A
Sepoy who was with him said he had thrown
two bombs, and was preparing to throw a third
when he was shot through the head at close
range. It was impossible to recover the body
at the time, and a retirement being just then
ordered the party had to make their way back.
As a subsequent counter-attack, in which the
47th Sikhs did not participate, did not reach
that particular trench, it was never possible to
recover the bodies of those who died there."
His CO. wrote that "he died a most gallant
death, gallantly performing a difficult task."
Another officer wrote : "' His coolness and great
personal bravery alone commanded admiration,
and his never-faUing cheerfulness under any
circumstances. ' '
LIEUTENANT GEORGE GODFREY
BRANDRETH PAGET, 1st BATTALION
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT,
was the only child
of Mr. and ilrs.
C. E. Paget, of Great
Hougliton House,
near Xorthampton,
Ills gi'andfathers
being the late Sir
George Edward
Paget, K.C.B., M.D.,
F.R.S.,ofCambridge,
and Canon William
Harper Brandreth,
M.A., Rector of .Standish, Lancasliire. He was a
great-nephew of Sir James Paget, Bart. On
his mother's side he was a nephew of Major-
General Sir Alexander B. Tulloch, K.C.B.,
C.II.G., and ilajor-General F. W. Hemming,
C.B.. and a cousin of Admiral Sir Thomas
Brandreth. K.C.B.
Lieutenant Paget was bom on the 6th April,
1891, and was educated at a Preparatory
School, St. Andrew's, Eastbourne, from 1901-05,
and then at Charterhouse tiU 1908. His father
and both his grandfathers were also educated
at Charterhouse.
He entered the Northamptonshire Jlilitia as
2nd Lieutenant in April, 1908, passing into the
Special Reserve in July of that year. He was
promoted Lieutenant in July, 1910, and in
1913 passed the Army Qualifying Examination,
being gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant in the North-
amptonshire Regiment (Regulars), to date from
the 14th August. 1914.
He served with the 1st Battalion of his regiment,
forming part of the 2nd Infantry Brigade,
1st Division of the British Expeditionary Force,
from the 7th August tUl he was killed on the
14th .September, 1914. going through the Battles
of ilons, the Marne. and the Aisne.
The CO. of his battalion wrote as follows to
his father about Lieutenant Paget : —
" On the 14th September he was detached with
his company ' B ' from the rest of the battalion
to occupy a certain position. The company
was under the command of Captain White.
There was a lot of very hard fighting that day,
and ' B ' Company joined with the Queen's
Regiment in a flanking attack on the enemy's
position. In this both the Queen's and our
company had many casualties. It was in this
flank attack that Godfrey was hit. 1 heard that
night that he was missing, and from the evidence
of men in his company we knew that he was
wounded. His Captain (White) was also
missing (we have reason to believe he was also
killed), and most of the N.CO.'s were killed or
wounded. Two or three days later — I think
on the 17th — when we had more hard fighting,
an officer of the Coldstream Guards brought in
letters addressed to your son, which he said had
been taken from the pocket of an officer in the
Northamptonshire, who was some distance in
front of our trenches, and who was dead.
These letters were put aside by an officer to
be sent to you, but I fear in the confusion due to
the fighting they have been mislaid. (This
officer was wounded later, but subsequently
sent the letters, which fuUy established the
identity of G. G. B. Paget.) The fact of these
letters being brought in forced us reluctantly to
come to the conclusion that your boy was killed.
His body has not been found, nor has his identity
disc been brought in. The position where Whit«
and Godfrey got with their company is some
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distance ahead of the trenches we now occupy,
and midway between ourselves and the Oenuans,
so that it is impossible to get out to search the
ground for those who are missing — the German
fire will not allow us to do so. (Unfortunately
the Xorthamptons were moved from the trenches
along the Cheuiin des Dames, some four or five
miles north-east of Paissy. on the Itith October,
191-1, to go to Northern France. The French
forces took their place. It is pretty certain that
the German trench where G. G. B. Paget was
killed has not yet been taken [7th June, 1915].
There is no knowledge of his having even been
buried.) You should have had notice from the
War Office that it was practically certain that
your son was killed. The report we first sent
was that he was missing and wounded. This
we followed up with a second report to War
Office saying that ' Lieutenant Paget , previously
reported missing, was killed.' . . . May I offer
you and your wife my deepest sympathy ? I
know what a blow the loss of your son wiU be
to both of you. He was a most gallant chap,
and when we were doing some of our long
marches he stuck to it so well, even when he was
not feeling very fit. We were all very fond of
him.
A Captain of the 3rd Battalion, himself since
killed, gave the following account : " Poor
Godfrey was killed in action on the 14th Sep-
tember. His company were attacking under a
very heavy shell fire and rifle fire also. They had
just halted in a bit of a dip, where they were
out of rifle fire. He moved forward to see if
they could go on when he was hit. The men of
his platoon say he didn't seem to mind the lead
that was flying round, and was urging them on
aU the time."
The Adjutant wrote to his mother : " There
are some consolations for you. You know
he died doing his duty, and that his name will
be handed down to posterity, amongst the
others of the regiment, as being one who assisted
to uphold the glorious traditions of our regiment,
and who emulated the deeds of times gone by."
He was hit twice before being killed. His naen
had followed him, and were flghting hand to hand
with the Germans before the retirement was
ordered. The loss of the company was most
severe, very few returning.
MAJOR GEORGE P.\LEY. p.s.c. 1st
BATTALION. THE RIFLE BR1G.\DE
(THE PRINCE CONSORT'S OWN),
who was killed in action on the 31st October,
191-i, was the only son of Mr. William Victor
Paley, of Freckenham House, Soham, by his
marriage with the daughter of Canon Xepean,
Chaplain-in-Ordinary to her late Majesty Queen
Victoria.
He was born on the 27th .January. 1872, and
joined the Rifle Brigade in March, 1892,
beconung Lieutenant
in April, 1894, and
Captain in December.
1898. He took part
in the Nile Expedi-
tion, 1898, being
pre-sent at the Battle
of Khartomn, for
which he received
the Britlsb medal
and the Eg>-ptian
medal with clasp.
He also served in
the South African War. taking part in tin-
defence of Ladysmith, including the sortie
of the 10th December, 1899, in which he
was dangerously wounded. He was twice
mentioned in despatches (" London Gazette,"
8th February and 10th .September, 1901),
and received the Queen's medal with clasp.
Fron\ February to September, 1902, he was
.•V.D.C. (temporary) to the General Officer Com-
manding, Woolwich District, in 1903 quaUfied as
an Interpreter in French, and, in December,
1914. passed the final examination of the Stafif
College. From February, 1905, to September,
1906, he was Staff Captain and General Staff
Officer (3rd Grade) at the headquarters of the
Army, and from September, 1908, to February,
1909, D.A.Q.M.G.aud General .Staff Officer (2nd
Grade), headquarters ; while he was also
specially employed there in February and
March, 1909.
From October, 1909, to October, 1913, he was
Director of Operations and .Staff Duties (General
Staff Officer. 2nd Grade), Canadian Militia :
while on the 5th August, 1914, he was appointed
General Staff Officer (2nd Grade), and was
serving in that capacity when killed. He was
mentioned for his services in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 8th October, 1914.
LIEUT. WALTER EVELYN PARKE. 2nd
BATTN. DURH.\M LIGHT 1NF.\NTRY.
who was killed when in command of the niachine-
g\m section of his battalion on the 13th October,
1914, was the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel
Lawrence Parke, of Moreton Heath, Dorset.
He was bom on the 27th July, 1891, and was
educated at Winchester, where he was Captain
of the XI, and was gazetted to the Durham
Light Infantry in August, 1911, as 2nd
Lieutenant, being posted to the 2nd Battahon,
becoming Lieutenant in August, 1914. He
was a first-class cricketer.
For his services in the Great War Lieutenant
Parke was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
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CAPTAIN ALFRED ERNEST PARKER,
3rd BATTN. THE BLACK WATCH
IROYAL HIGHLANDERS). attd. 2nd
BATTN. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
(ROSS-SHIRE BUFFS, THE DUKE OF
ALBANY'S)
was the youngest
son of the late Alfred
TraiU Parker, ot
Beecliwood, Aig-
burth, Liverpool,
and Falrlie,
Ayi'shire.
He was born on the
1 3 til December,
1S80, and educated
at Eton. On leaving
liton in December,
1809, lie was gazetted to the 3rd Battalion the
Black Watch as 2nd Lieutenant, and in March,
1900, he joined the 2nd Battalion with a draft
in Soutli Africa, receiving his commission in the
regular battahon in January, 1901. He served
tlirough the Boer \^'ar, bemg present at oper-
ations in the Orange Free State, Orange Eiver
Colony, the Transvaal, and the Zululand
frontier of Natal, including the actions at
Rhenost«r River, Wittebergen, and Witpoort.
He received the Queen's medal with three clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
In 1900 he was transferred to the Xth Hussars,
retiring with the rank of Captain in ^lay, 1911,
and in January, 1912, rejoined the 3rd (Reserve)
Battalion the Black Watch as a Lieutenant.
He was serving with the Seaforth Highlanders
when killed on the 7th November, 1914, near
Ploegsteert, leading his platoon through the
wood against the German trenches.
Captain Parker married, in 1909, Miss Joan
Bowes-Lyon, and leaves one daughter.
MAJOR GEORGE HASTINGS PARKER.
1st BATTN. THE HAMPSHIRE REGT.,
wlio was killed in
action on the 19th
Decemlier, 1914, was
born on the 4th July,
1870.
He joined the Hamp-
shire Regiment from
the IMilitia in
October, 1892, be-
coming Lieutenant
in October, 1894,
and Captain in
July, 1900. He took
part ill the South African War, having
been Station Commandant in April and May,
1901, and afterwards in charge of Station
Transport, Barberton, from October, 1901.
to May, 1902. He was present at operations in
the Transvaal and Orange River Colony in 1901
and 1902. He received the Queen's medal with
four clasps.
From November, 1903, to November, 1907, he
was Superintendent of Gymnasia, Malta, and
was promoted Major in February, 1910. In
August, 1914, he was promoted temporary
Lieutenant-Colonel for duty with the 10th
(Service) Battalion of his Regiment, but subse-
quently rejoined the 1st Battalion, with which
he was serving when he was killed.
For his services in the Great War JIajor Parker
was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of the 14th January, 191.5.
CAPTAIN ROBERT BURTON PARKER,
1st BATTN. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
REGIMENT,
born at Cressington,
near Liverpool, on
the 3rd July, 1879,
was the son of the
lateKobert Parker, of
Liverpool.andofMi's.
Parker, Bulbridge
House, Salisbury.
He was educated at
.St. Edward's School,
Oxford, and
WeUington College,
intended to proceed to the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Before he did so, however, the Boer War broke
out, and he enlisted as a Trooper in the Mont-
gomeryshire Y'eomanry, with which he served
in the South African War, 1900-02. He received
the Queen's medal with three clasps and the
King's medal with two clasps, was mentioned in
despatches, and given a commission in the Army
.SerNnce Corps, being subsequently transferred
to the 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regi-
ment in July, 1901. He became Lieutenant m
August, 1903, and Captain in February, 1910.
In November of the same year he was
appointed Adjutant of the Territorial Force,
which appointment he held until November, 1913.
When the war with Germany broke out Captain
Parker was at home on leave from the 2nd
Battahon ot his regiment, then stationed in
Egypt, and was transferred for active service to
the 1st Battalion with which, as part of the 1st
Division, he proceeded to FYance on the 14th
August, 1914. He was killed at the Battle of
the Aisne on the 17th September, 1914, while
leading a charge against fierman trenches.
The following is an extract from letters of
sympathy received from officers and men of
the regiment : " He is a great loss. We who
have hunted with him know his fine qualities.
No better man or more delightful sportsman
ever rode over the Pytchley country. His place
will be hard indeed to fill. A more gallant
gentleman never lived."
In a memoir published in a Northampton paper
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thf following words occur : " The Battalion
admired and cstt'enied hini. He was a brave
British soldier : not a man of many words, but
of much military ability, strong in will
and determination, and ot fine disciplinary
feeling and practice. He was a fine horseman —
few better in or out of the Army. He has given
his all for his country, and the roll of the
Xorthamptonsliire Regiment is enriched by the
further addition of, alas ! a name, but a living
name of a fine example of the maintenance of our
country's best traditions of duty and courage."
Captain Parker was a good rider, well known
with the Pytchley and Grafton Hunts when he
was stationed at Northampton, and played polo.
He was a member of the Junior Army and
Navy CTub.
LIEUTENANT RONALD ELPHIN-
STONE PARKER.'D" BATTERY
ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY.
was the third son of
Robert Gabbett and
Louisa Parker, of
Bally Valley,
KLUaloe, County
Clare, Ireland, and
was bom there on t he
5th January, 1880.
His brother, Major
R.G. Parker, D.S.O.,
is serving in the
King's Own (Royal
' I^ncasterRegiment).
l^i.iitiriaiil r.iiki r ua> educated at The Abbey,
Tipperary ; and at Clifton College. He joined
the Clare ArtUlery MUitia, and. taking first place
in the Militia Competitive Examination, was
gazetted to the Royal ArtUlery in May.1007, being
posted to the 87th Howitzer Battery, Royal
Field Artillery. He was promoted Lieutenant in
1910, and served on the Staff of the Brigadier-
General Commanding ArtUlery, 1st Division,
Aldershot. in 1912-13. In June, 19U. he was
posted to " D " Battery, Royal Horse ArtUlery.
with which he was serving in France when he
was killed in the Battle of the Mame on the Sth
September, 1914.
At the time his battery was closely supporting
the 3rd Cavalry Brigade in the advance to the
ilarne when the Germans brought back twelve
guns against them. " D " Battery stood its
ground, and eventually the Germans drew off,
but"D" Battery lost its Major wounded and
both its Subalterns killed.
The Officer Commanding his Royal Horse
ArtUlery Brigade wTote : " He died like a hero,
fighting his gun at great odds to the last."
I jeutenant Parker esceUed in aU field sports,
was a fine horseman, keen rider to hounds,
and an excellent whip. He also was a first-
rate shot and a good fisherman.
LIEUT. JOE ANTHONY FR.\NCIS PAR-
KINSON. 1st B.\TTN. DORSETSHIRE
REGIMENT,
was struck by shrap-
nel and killed in-
stantaneously on
the 13th October,
1914, near Bethune.
He was the son of
Thomas Parkinson,
Esq., J.P. for Car-
marthenshire, and
was born on the
28th Februarj', 1888,
and educated at
RossaU, 1901-05. He joined the Doi-set-
shire Regiment from the Special Reserve in
December, 1910, becoming Lieutenant in March,
1912.
He was a keen sportsman, being especially
fond of hunting, fishing, and shooting.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE ROWORTH
P.\RR, 1st BATTN. PRINCE ALBERTSi
SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY,
was the only sur-
viving son of the late
Major - General Sir
HaUam Parr, K.C.B.,
C.M.G. (Colonel of
Prince Albert''^
.Somerset Light Infan-
try), of Chaffey iloor
Bourton, near ^\'in-
canton , Somerset , and
was bom in London
on the 29th Novem-
ber, 1S91. Lieutenant
Parr's elder brother, who was a 2nd Lieutenant
in the sp.me regiment, died at Malta, aged
twenty, in February, 1910.
Lieutenant Parr was educated at Wellington
College, Berks, where he gained first prizes ir
German and English literature in 1909 and 1910.
He shot at Bisley for his school in 1908 and
1909. He passed into the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
where he gained prizes for MUitary Law and
German ; and represented Sandhurst in the
FoU Competition at Olympia in 1911. He
received his commission in February, 1912,
being promoted Lieutenant in December, 1914.
He became a 1st Class Interpreter in German
in January, and the same in French in June,
1914.
I Hiring the retirement to the Mame he was
employed as Interpreter and as Reconnaissance
Officer on the .Aisne. He was personally thanked
by his Brigadier, and it is believed that his
name was sent up for mention in Despatches,
but was " crowded out."
He was killed on the 19th December, 1914, whUe
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leading his men under a terribly heavy fire,
near Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium, and his grave
adjoins the graves of five other officers of the
Somerset Light Infantry who fell on the same
day.
Lady Parr received a letter from his Brigadier,
General Hunter Weston, in which he said :
" I used him as my ' liaison officer ' to keep in
close communication with the French Brigadier-
General on our immediate left at Bucy. His
knowledge of J'^ench was thus of great value lo
the brigade. He was a thoroughly good
regimental officer — one of the best in a very
good battalion. If he had been spared he
would undoubtedly have followed in his father's
footsteps, and would have risen to high dis-
tinction in the Army. . . . He was a good
officer and a gallant gentleman, and he died
a hero's death, leading his platoon in the
attack on the 19tli December."
General .Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien wrote :
" None of our brave soldiers have died a more
glorious death, gallantly leading his men forward
against the enemy."
CAPTAIN ROBERT CHARLES PART.
RIDGE, 5th iPRINCESS CHARLOTTE
OF WALES'SI DRAGOON GUARDS,
_ wlio was killed in
action on the 8th
September, 1914, at
Le Petit IMorin
River, and was
buried in the churcli-
yard of Sablou-
nieres, was the son
of the late Anthony
William Partridge,
of Lavenham. Suf-
folk, and a grandson
of the late Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Tyrwhitt Drake, of Little
Shardeloes, Anaei'siiam, Bucks.
He was born on the 24th July, 18S2. and was
educated at Haileybury and the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, from whicli he joined tlie 5th Dra-
goon (iuards in May. IftOl. He took part in the
South African War, being present at operations
in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony
from October, 1901, to May, 1902. For his
services he received the Queen's medal witli
three clasps.
Captain Partridge was a member of the Army
and Navy Club. He rode in the Officers' Ride
at Olympia in June, 1914, the ride being from
London to Aldershot, a distance of thirty-three
miles. He was promoted Lieutenant in April,
1904, and Captain in January, 1911. In the
Great War he was in command of a squadron
of his regiment.
CAPTAIN LOGAN DEARE
PASSY, 1st BATTN. THE DUKE OF
CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY,
who was killed in
action on the 21st
October, 1911, was
the younger son of
the late Captain De
Lacy Dayrell Passy,
Ivy Bank, Bishop-
stoke, Hants.
He was born on the
20th August. 1881,
and was educated
at Bedford Gram-
mar School. He
served in the South African War with the
Imperial Y'eomanry, receiving the Queen's
medal with four clasps, and joined tlie Duke of
Cornwall's Liglit Infantry in December, 1901.
being promoted Lieutenant in January, 1905.
From February of that year to December, 1907,
he was employed with the West African Frontier
Force, and from .January, 1910. to December,
1912, was an Adjutant of the Territorial Force.
He obtained his company in January, 1912.
He fell while leading his men in a charge against
the Germans, who had broken through our
lines near the village of Lorgies, north of La
Bassee.
Captain Passy. wlio was a member of the Junior
Naval and Military Club, married Ethel Mary,
daughter of the late General Strutt, I. A., and
left two daughters.
2nd LIEUTENANT JAMES THOMAS
ROBINSON-PASTFIELD, 5th BATTN.
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S OWN
(MIDDLESEX REGIMENT) attd. 1st
BATTN. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGT.,
was the second son
of Mr. and Mrs. John
Robinson - Pastfield.
of Exeter, and was
born on the 18th
December, 1891. at
Olivedale, St.
Thomas, Exeter. A
yoimger brotlier —
2nd Lieutenant
J. \'. E. Pastfield—
was, at tlie age of
seventeen, gazetted
to the 5th iliddlesex Regiment. The subject
of this memoir was educated at Exeter School
from 1903 to 1909. when he left with a "Whale"
Scholarship for Keble College, Oxford, where he
graduated B.A., with honours in Modem
History, in 1912. On leaving Keble he became
a master at Bloxham School.
At Exeter he had his full colours for football
(1909-10), and was captain of the hockey team
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in 1900. At Oxford he was Sergeant-.Major in
the O.T.C. and in the SignaUing Unit. Most
of his vacations were spent at Bulford Camp, and
for two years in succession (1911 and 1912) lu-
was attached to the llr.idiiuarters StalT on
grand manoeuvres.
Mr. Rohinson-Past field was gazetted to the
.Middlesex Regiment on probation in .August,
1914, and was confirmed in his rank in Decem-
ber, 1914, the notification being gazetted after
his death.
lie fell in a night attack on the 21st December,
1914, near La Quinque Rue, his Commanding
Officer stating that ho was .shot and killid
instantaneou.sly while leading his platoon clfisc
to the (ierman trenches.
CAPT. CHARLES JAMES PATERSON. 1st
BATTN. SOUTH WALES BORDERERS,
of Hook Cottage,
Horndean, Hants,
who died at Ypres
on the 1st November,
1914, from wounds
received at Ghelu-
velt in the evening
of the 29th October,
was born on the
28th December,
1887, at Whitelee,
Roxburghshire. He
was the son of James
Paterson, Esq., of that place, and of Ettrick
Hall, Selkirkshire.
He was educated at Haileybury and the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, joining the Borderers at Karachi
in December, 1907. He became Lieutenant in
September, 1909, Assistant Adjutant in Decem-
ber, 1910, and Adjvitant in September, 1913,
and was promoted Captain from the 1st
November, the day of his death.
For his services in the Great War Captain
Paterson was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 8th October, 1014.
2nd LIEUT. JOHN AGAR PATERSON,
2nd BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGT.,
son of W. M. I'ater-
son, was born at
Glasgow on the 19th
November, 1893,
and was educated
at Dulwich College,
where he was in the
1st Cricket XI and
the 1st Football XV
and as a boxer repre-
sented Dulwich at
Aldershot in the
competition.
After passing through the Koyal Military College,
Sandhurst, he received his commission in
September, 1913, joining his battalion in South
Africa in November of that year. With it
he returned to Europe for the (ireat War, and
was killed on the 31st October, 1914, near
Klein Zillebeke. south-east of Ypres.
EDWARD PATON,
MONMOUTHSHIRE
Feath erwei gh t
2nd LIEUT. JOHN
2nd BATTALION
REGIMENT, T.F.,
was the eldest son
I if .lohn and Susan
I 'at on, Waun Wern,
I'ontypool, and was
born in that town
on the (itli Septem-
l)er, 1895.
He was educated
at Copthorne School,
Sussex, and at Win-
chester College. In
the spring of 1914
he passed the entrance examination for Pem-
broke College, Cambridge, where he was to
have taken up his residence in October, 1914,
had it not been for the war. At Winchester
he was in the O.T.C, in which he had attained
the rank of Sergeant, and was one of the eight
selected to represent the school at Bisley in
1913 and 1914. He obtained Certifieate " A "
in 1912, thus qualifying for a commission,
which he obtained in October, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant Paton was killed in action at
Le Bizet on the 31st December, 1014, and was
biu'ied in the cemetery of the Essex Regiment
at Calvaire, near Le Touquet. He was men-
tioned in Sir John French's Despatch of 14th
January, 191.5, for gallant and distinguished
service in the field.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN DOSSIE
PATTESON, SPECIAL RESERVE 5th
(PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF
WALES'S) DRA-
GOON GUARDS,
in which he became
2nd Lieutenant in
April, 1910,waskilled
in action on the 13th
October, 1914, at the
age of twenty-five
years. He was the
eldest son of Colonel
H. T. S. Patteson, of
Beeston, St. Andrew.
Norwich, and was
educated at Harrow (Small Houses and Head-
master's), 1904-07, and at Trinity College,
Cambridge, where he took his degree of B.A.
in 1910.
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2nd LIEUTENANT GAVIN PAUL. 2nd
DRAGOON GUARDS QUEENS BAYS,
who was killed in action on the 31st October.
1914. aged twenty-one. was the elder son of the
late Gavin Paul. Coalinaster, and of Mrs. Paul.
Dunstane. Edinburgh, and St. Margaret "s.
Gullane.
He was gazetted to the Queen's Bays in Sep-
tember, 1914.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE HERBERT
PAYNE. 2nd BATTN. SUFFOLK REGT.,
was shown in the monthly casualty list published
in June. 191.5. under the heading •' unoflRciaUy
reported killed or died of wounds." no place or
date being mentioned, but it is now understood
he died, a prisoner of war. on the 26th August,
1914.
He was gazetted to the Ai-my in September,
1913, and was promoted Lieutenant to date from
11th December, 1914.
educated at
Aston School
Kirton
ilarket
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN SYDNEY
PAULSON. 2nd BATTN. LANCASHIRE
FUSILIERS.
who was killed in
action on the 14th
September, 1914,
was the son of Henry
John and Charlotte
Paulson and a
nephew of Captain
John Paulson, K.A.
.^\T'<'^!^Kr»s- (retired). He was
^^■4^^^^Hb^ born at Kirton, Lin-
^^^Mj^^^^^^^^U colnshire. on
October 1889. and
Grammar .School, De
Rasen, and at London
University, where he took the degree of B.Sc
with honours in chemistry. He was in the
University O.T.C. for four years, and was
gazetted to the .Special Reserve of the Lan-
cashire FusUiers as 2nd Lieutenant in July,
1911. Mr. Paulson was a member of Harmony
Lodge of Freemasons, 272 Boston. He was in
1912 appointed Chemistry Master ai Onne
School, where he gained the respect and regard
of the whole school by his straightforward
character and unassuming manners, and by his
enthusiasm in the schoolroom and playing
grounds.
At the time of his death 2nd Lieutenant
Paulson was serving with the 2nd Battalion
of his regiment. He had passed through the
Battle of, and retirement from, ilons and the
Battle of the Marne. During the Battle of the
Aisne his battalion was ordered, on September
13th, to take the village of Bucy-le-Long. They
crossed the river on a single plank, under heav^
shrapnel fire, and it was then that Mr. Paulson
was hit.
The Chaplain of the Field Ambulance reported :
" Lieutenant Paulson was wounded by shrapnel
all down one side of his body, and died three
hours later. Three attempts were made by the
men of his regiment to rescue him when hit.
Two men were killed and two wounded in the
attempts. The body of Lieutenant Paulson
lies in the churchyard of .St. Marguerite, west
of Bucy-le-Long, immediately inside the gate
of the cemetery on the right side."
LIEUTENANT HUBERT KIRKBY
PEACE, 3rd BATTN. YORK AND
L .\ N C A S T E R REGIMENT.
wa-s the third son of
Hugh Kirkby Peace,
of Sandy gate, Shef-
field, and was born
at Sheffield on 16th
October, 1881.
He was educated at
Rugby, and was
gazetted to the 3rd
Battalion York and
Lancaster Regiment
in September, 1914,
having previously
served for ten years in the 4th (HaUamshlre)
Battalion of the Regiment, his comuiission as
2nd Lieutenant having been dated November,
1905.
He died on the 17th October, 1914, of wounds
received the previous day, when going mider
very heavy fire to take reserves into the firing
line.
Lieutenant Peace married Grace Mary, eldest
daughter of Charles H. Weller, Esq., M.A., of
St. Leonards-on-Sea, and left one son, George
Hugh Kirkby, born December 15th, 1909.
2nd LIEUTENWNT GEOFFREY VIN.
CENT PE.\RCE, 2nd B.\TTN. ROYAL
WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
was born at Brentwood. Essex, 19th June, 1889,
and was the son of William Pearce, Esq., M.P.
for Limehouse, of Shepway Lodge, Walmer,
Kent, and 14, Park Crescent, Portland Place,
London. W.
He was educated at Uppingham School, and was
a good footballer and runner.
He aftersvards joined the Artists' Rifles, and was
one of their team for bayonet fighting, etc.,
at the Royal Military Tournament, 1914,
subsequently receiving his commission in the
2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment in October,
1914.
He was killed in action on the 18th December,
1914. while leading his men in an attack on
the German trenches.
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2nii LIEUTENANT MARK ROBINSON
PEASE, SPECIAL RESERVE attd. 1st
BATTN.iTHE EAST YORKSHIRE REGT.,
. was the eldest
Robinson Pease,
J. P., D.L., East
Yorkshire Regiment,
and of ili-s. Pease,
\\' est wood House,
Beverley, East
Yorkshire.
2nd Lieutenant
Pease was born at
Tranby House,
Hessle, East Yoikshiie. on the 14th October,
1892, and was educated at Haileybury College
and at the It.:M.C., Sandhurst, from which he
received his commission as 2nd Lieutenant in
the East Yorkshire Regiment in July, 1912.
He served for two years at York, and ui January,
1914, resigned liis commission in order to take
his degree. He passed the examination for
Jesus College, Cambridge, in March, 1914,
expecting to enter in October of that year.
In July, 1914, :Mr. Pease joined the .Siiecial
Reserve of Officers, and on the declaration of
war against Germany he was called up to rejoin
his old regiment, and for active service was
attached to the 1st Battalion, with which he
went to France in September, 1914. 2nd
Lieutenant Pease was officially report<?d
"missing" after the fighting on the 20th
October, 1914, near Premesques, four miles
from LiUe, and has since been imofficially
reported killed on that date.
CAPTAIN ALAN RALPH PEEL,
SOUTH WALES BORDERERS,
employed with 2nd B.\TTN. NIGERIA
REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 17 th
November, 1914, in
the Cameroous, West
Africa, was the eldest
son of Herbert Peel,
Taliaris,Carmarthen-
shire.
He was born on the
7th July. ISSO, joined
the South Wales
Borderers in Janu-
ary, 1900, and became Lieutenant in December,
1909. In January, 1913, he was seconded for
service with the 2nd Battalion Nigeria Regi-
ment, West African Frontier Force, with which
he was serving when he was killed in action, and
was promoted Captain In September, 1914.
GABRIEL KING-
2nd B A T T N .
REGIMENT,
CAPTAIN WILLIAM
P EI R C E, 3rd (attd,
MANCHESTER
who was killed
in action on the
2(3th October, 1914,
at F e s t u b e r t,
France, was the son
of the late Richard
K i n g - P e i r c e.
M.R.C.S., England.
He was born on the
5th July, 187.5.
and was educated
at Bradfleld College
from 1887-94.
There he was a prefect, and was in the Football
XI, being captain in 1S93, and in the Cricket XI,
1893-94. Prom Bradlield he went to Jlerton
College, Oxford, where he was captain of the
rowing eight, and took his degree in 1898.
He joined the Manchester Regiment in Jlay,
1899, and took part in the South African War,
being present at operations in the Orange Free
State, Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and
Cape Colony, including the actions at Biddulphs-
berg and Wittebergen. He received the Queen's
medal with four clasps.
In December, 1901, he reached the rank of
Captain, and. leaving the Regular Army in
Xovember, 1911, he joined the 3rd Battalion of
his regunent in May, 1912. He had qualified
at a School of ilusketry, and as an Instructor
in Army Signalling. After joining the 3rd
battalion he assisted for some time at the
O.T.C. School, Shrewsbury.
Captain King-Peirce married !Mary Agnes,
third daughter of Thomas B. Fisher, Esq., of
Sutton, Surrey, and was living near \\'imborne
when he rejoined for active service.
LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT the
Honble. HERBERT LYTTELTON PEL-
HAM, 2nd BATTN. ROYAL SUSSEX
REGIMENT,
was the fourth son of
Francis Godolphin,
5th Earl of Chiches-
ter, and was born on
the 3rd April. 1S84.
at Lambeth Rectory.
London. .S.E., his
father, then the Hon.
and Rev. Francis
Godolphin Pelhain.
being at that time
Rector of Lambeth.
Lieutenant Pelham was a yianil-nu. mi thr
maternal side, of the 1st Lord Wolverton ;
he was a great-nephew of the Earl of Lucan and
the Earl of Cardigan, of Crimean fame, and was
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descended from Oliver Cromwell and the great
Duke of Marlborough. He was also a lineal
descendant of Sir John Pelham. a gallant
knight of King Edward III, Constable of
Pevensey Castle in 1415, and Chamberlain of
the Household to King Henry V. Sir John
Pelham was in the thick of the fight at Poictiers,
and played a prominent part in the capture of
King John of France, who gave him his sword-
belt and buckles, emblematic badges of honour
to-day to be seen in the Pelham arms.
Lieutenant Pelham was educated by A. Tabor.
Esq., of Cheam, and at Charterhouse. He ob-
tained his first conimission in the Duke of
Connavight's Ovm Hampshire and Isle of TVight
Royal tJarrison Artillery in April. 19(12. being
transferred to the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex
Regiment in June, 1904, joining the battalion
at Malta in August of that year. He went with
it to Crete in 1905, at the time of the Cretan
insurrection, and served on the International
Tribunal. Returning home after his Cretan
services, he pa.ssed through the School of Mus-
ketry at Hythe, where he came out first in the
list, and passed the Maxim-gun course with
distinction : and also went through a course
of a\'iation. gaining the pilot's cej-tificate of the
Royal Aero Club in November. 1913.
He was at Belfast during the riots in 1908,
in September of which year he became Lieu-
tenant, and subsequently was employed during
the labour strikes in Wales. He was appointed
Adjutant of his battalion in December, 1911,
which appointment he held at the time of his
death.
Lieutenant Pelham left Woking on 12th August,
1914, with his battalion, which formed part of
the 1st Division of the Expeditionary Force.
The battalion was held in reserve at ilons,
and foinied the rearguard during the memorable
retirement to the Marne. For his ser^^ces
during this time IJeutenant I'elham was awarded
the Croix de Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
by the President of the French Republic for
" conspicuous gallantry " between August 21st
and 30th, though the award was not actually
made till after his death. His nan^e was sent
in for mention in despatches by ^lajor-Oeneral
Bulfin on September lOtli.
At the Battle of the Aisne, on the 14th .Sep-
teinber, 1914, Lieutenant the Hon. Pelham was
working the machine guns in a farm, " in the
forefront of the battle," between Vendresse
and Cerney, on the Chemin des Dames. The
farmhouse in which the guns were located was
struck by a shell, and Lieutenant Pelham was
instantaneously killed.
Many appreciative notices were published of
Lieutenant Pelham, including one from a pre-
vious Commanding Officer, in the " Sussex
Daily News," the " Brighton Season," the
" Brighton Standard." and other papers.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL BEAUCHAMP
TYNDALL PELL, D.S.O., p.s.c, 1st
BATTN. THE QUEEN'S iROYAL
WEST SURREY REGIMENT),
younger son of tlie
late Rev. Beau-
chan\p Pell, Rector
of Ickenham, ilid-
dlesex, was born on
the 6th July, 1860.
and was educated at
Wellington College,
where he was con-
spicuous for his love
of natural history
and his feats of
daring : and at the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, where he won distinction
as an athlete.
He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Queen's
in September, 1887, becoming Lieutenant in
May, 1890. From December of that year to
November, 1894, he was Adjutant of his bat-
talion, and was promoted Captain in September,
1896. In 1897-98 he took part in operations on
the north-western frontier of India. ser\-ing with
the Malakand Field, Mohmand Field, and Tirah
Field Expeditionary Forces : he was mentioned
in despatches (" London Gazette," 18th March,
1898). and received the medal with two cla.sps.
In 1900 he was again on active service, ser\-ing
on the Staff as A.D.C. to General Sir Alfred
Gaselee, commanding the Chinese Expedition,
being present at the relief of Pekin and the
actions of Peitsang and Yangstun. He was again
mentioned in despatches (" London Gazette,"
14th May, 1901). was awarded the D.S.O., and
received the medal with clasp.
Subsequently, he had an almost continuous
career of Staff service. In 1901 he was on
ser\-ice in South Africa on the Staff, and as
Assistant Provost Marshal in the early part of
1 902 ; he received the Queen's medal with
five cla.sps. From November, 1902, to April,
1905, he was A.D.C. to different General Officers
in India, and from April, 1905 to June, 1908, he
was D.A.A.G. of one of the brigades of the
^Nleerut Division, and Assistant ^Military Secre-
tary to the General OtTicer commanding the
Northern Army there.
In November, 1912, he was appointed General
Staff Officer (3rd Grade) at the War Office,
being advanced to the 2nd Grade in AprU, 1913.
He was promoted Major in September, 1906,
and succeeded to the command of the 1st
Battalion the Queen's in September, 1914.
He had only held the command for a month
when he was reported wounded and missing.
It was subsequently ascertained that he was
badly wounded at Gheluvelt in the first Battle
of Y'pres on the mornini of the 31st October,
1914 : that, owing to heavy shell fire, it was
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impossible to move him diirinp; daylight ;
and that in the afternoon lie. with other
wounded, was captured by the tiermans.
Some weeks later news was received that he
liad l)een taken to tlie Field Hospital of the
\'A\\ (ierman Ar}ny Corps at Werwick, Belgium,
and tliat an operation had been found necessary,
which, unhappily, did not save his life. He
died on the 4th November, 1914. In his book
•'The First Seven Divisions." Lord K. Hamil-
ton, in his account of the action at Gheluvelt.
records that the two Regular Battalions met
on the battlefield and fought alongside each
other, the Commanding Officers of both being
wounded.
Ijieutenant-Colonel Pell married, in l!tt13. Alice
Mary, third daugliter of Mr. John Stuart
Beresford, C.I.E., and left one son.
1914, was up to December, 1914, shown in
the monthly Army List as attached to the 2nd
Hattalion Royal Irisli Begiment, but is shown in
tile casualty list issued in February as having
l)een attached at the time of liis (li-:ilh to the
Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
He was the eldest son of G. T. and Mrs.Pem 1 M rt on .
and was born on the Itth ilarch. ISSit ; was
educated at Cheltenham and joined the Royal
Munster Fusiliers from the Special Reserve in
December, 1909, becoming Lieutenant in July,
I'.Ud.
lie was promoted temporary Captain (Super-
numary) on the 1.5th November, 1914 (" London
Gazette, " 9th December, 1914). this promotion
being subsequently <'onfirmed, to date from
30th November, 1911. ("London Gazette,"
13th March, 191.5).
CAPTAIN FRANCIS PERCY CAMP-
BKLL PEMBERTON. 2nd LIFE GUARDS,
was the son of Canon
T. Percy Pemberton,
Prebendary of York
.Minster, and of Mrs.
Pemberton. Trnmp-
ington Hall. Cam-
bridge, lie was
born at Gilling East
Rectory, Yorks, on
the 4th April, 1885.
lie was educated
at St. Faith's, Cam-
bridge, Mr. Arthur
liuiin's, Luiigrove, Malvern (one term), by
private tuition, and at Trinity College, Cam-
bridge.
Captain Pemberton joined the 2nd Life Guards
on probation in February, 1907, being gazetted
2nd Lieutenant on the 20th February, and
Lieutenant on the 21st February, 1909. In
1912 he was seconded as Cavalry Instructor to
the Officers" Training Corps of Oxford and
Cambridge Universities. He rejoined his regi-
ment on the outbreak of the war, being promoted
Captain on the 5th August, 1914.
He was serving in " C " Squadron when he was
killed on the 19th October, 1914, at Moorslede,
near Roulers, Belgium.
He was a member of the Marlborough, Bachelors',
White's, the M.C.C., Pitt Club and County
Club, Cambridge, etc. His recreations included
music, hunting, polo, golf, cricket, lawn tennis,
and billiards.
Captain Pemberton married Winifred Mary,
daughter of Sir William Worsley. Bart., and
Lady Worsley, of Hovingham Hall, Yorks.
CAPTAIN OSWALD PEMBERTON,
ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
who was killed in action on the 21st December,
LIEUT, the Honble. ALAN GEORGE
SHOLTO DOUGLAS-PENNANT,
1st BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS,
who was otiicially rei)orted as wounded and miss-
ing in November, 1914, has since been unolllcially
reported as killed. He was the eldest son and
lieir of the third Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai,
Co. Carnarvon, formerly in the 1st Life Guards,
Major and Hon. Ijieutenant-Colonel Bucking-
hamshire Imperial Yeomanry, .T.P. and D.L. for
Carnarvonshire, and of the Hon. Blanclie Fitzroy,
daughter of the third Lord Southampton.
Lieutenant Douglas-Pennant was born on the
11th .Tune, 1890, and was educated at Eton,
He joined the Grenadier Guards in February,
1910. becoming Lieutenant in May, litl 1.
In April, 1914. he was appointed extra A.D.C.
to Lord Carmichael, G.C.I.F.., K.C.M.G.,
Governor of Bengal, but rejoined his regiment
for active service, on war being declared.
His brother, 2nd- Lieutenant the Hon. H. N.
Douglas-Pennant, became heir to the barony.
LIEUTENANT the Honble. CHARLES
D O U G L A S - P E N N A N T , J. P.,
RESERVE OF OFFICERS, 1st
BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
who was killed in
action at Gheluvelt
or the 29th Octo-
ber, 1914, was the
third son of the
second Lord Pen-
rhyn, and was born
on the 7th October,
1877.
He was educated at
Eton and the R.M.C,
Sandhurst, and in
1899 he"joined the
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Coldstream Gaards, with which regiment he
served in the South African War. He took pajt
in the advance on Kiniberley, including actions
at Belniont, Enslin, Modder River, and Magers-
fontein, and was present at operations in the
Orange Free State, in the Transvaal, and in
Cape Colony, including actions at Poplar Grove,
Driefontein Vet and Zand Rivers, near
Johannesburg, at Pretoria, Diamond Hill, and
Belfast. He was twice mentioned in despatches
(" London Gazette," 2Gth Januarv, 1000, and
10th September, 1901), and received the Queen's
m^edal with six clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
He was prom^oted Lieutenant in 190.5, and in
May, 1911, joined the Reserve of Officers,
being again gazetted to his old regiment in
August, 1914, for service in the Great War,
proceeding to the front in September, 1911.
Lieutenant Douglas-Pennant had been reported
missing, and afterwards, unofficially, as killed,
and it was some time before the fact of his death
was officially confirmed.
He married, in 190.5, Lady Edith Anne Dawson,
elder daughter of the 2nd Earl of Dartry.
2nd LIEUTENANT FRANCIS PEPVS.
D.S.O.. 2nd BATTN. OXFORDSHIRE
AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT
INFANTRY,
son of Captain Ar-
thur Pepys, late 60th
Rifles, was bom at
Budleigh Salterton,
Devonshire, on , the
2nd April. 1891.
He was educated at
Charterhouse, where
he was in the Cricket
XL subsequently
joining the Special
Reserve. attached
to the Devonshire Regiment. He was gazetted
to the 2nd Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
as 2nd Lieutenant in May, 1913.
For his services in the Great War he was awarded
the D.S.O., the following being the official
rscord of the occasion : — -
" For conspicuous good work on November 3rd
in advancing from his trench and assisting in
driving away a party of the enemy who were
commencing to dig a new trench within thirty
yards of his own. Thirty Germans were shot."
His Commanding Officer wrote of him as follows :
" He most thoroughly earned it for the splendid
way he, with three others, turned thirty or
forty Germans out of a trench, and for his
splendid leadijig on other occasions."
He was killed on the 12th November, 1914,
while stepping out of his trench, the nioming
after his battalion had materially helped in the
rout of the Prussian Guard. He was mentioned
in Sir John French's Despatch of the 14th
.January. 191.5.
2nd Lieutenant Pepys was fond of hunting,
steeple-chasing, cricket, rackets, golf, shooting,
fishing, and ski-ing.
N F A N T R V
the
the
2nd
1st
Battalion
Battalion
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN PEPVS. 2nd
B.\TTN. THE KING'S OWN YORK-
SHIRE LIGHT I
elder brother of the
foregoing officer, was
the son of Cap-
tain Arthur Pepys,
late 60th Rifles, and
was bom in May,
1890, at Budleigh
Salterton, Devon.
He was educated at
Charterhouse and
the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, obtaining his
commission in No-
vember, 1910. He joined
at Cork ; was posted to
seven months later, which he joined at Hong
Kong in November, 1911 : and exchanged into
the 2nd Battalion in November, 1912. He
passed the Mxisketry Course at Hythe in 1914,
and proceeded to the front in August, 1914, in
charge of the machine guns of his battalion.
On the 23rd August, while "' fighting his guns
splendidly " at Mons. he was shot by German
snipers three hours after going into action.
He was a member of the Cavendish Club, and
his recreations were hunting, steeple-chasing,
shooting, fishing, ski-ing. cricket, and golf.
CAPTAIN REGINALD WHITMORE
PEPVS. 2nd B.\TTN. WORCESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT.
was the son of the
Rev. Canon H. G.
Pepys and ilrs.
Pepys, of Lyn-
wood. Church Crook-
ham, Hants, and
was bom at Hallow
Vicarage. Worcester,
on the 3rd January,
1883.
He was educated at
Haileybiiry College
and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, where he was in
the running- team. He joined the Worcester-
shire Regiment in 1902, and served in Bermuda,
Barbados, and Malta from 1902 to 1908,
having become Lieutenant in July, 1904. He
served with the West African Regiment from
1908 to 1912, and became Captain in the 2nd
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Battalion of the Worcestershire Regunent in
.May, llllU. In August. liUl, he proceeded to
tlie Continent, two days in advance of the
Battalion, as BiUetlng Olhcor foi' the 5th Infan-
try Brigade. He was mortally wounded on
Sunday, the 20th September, IDU.atthe Hattle
of the Aisne, while leading " A " Company, of
which he was the Captain, in a very exposed
jiosition.
Captain Pepys was a member of the Junior
Army and Navy Club. He married, on the 27th
July, 1914, JIaud :Mael, youngest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. \A"ilham Foster, of Beechwood,
Illley, Oxford.
MAJOR (temp. LIEUTENANT-COLONELl
ARTHUR J EX-BLAKE PERCIVAL,
D.S.O., p.s.c, NORTHUMBERLAND
FUSILIERS,
who was killed in
action on the 31st
October, 1914, was
the fourth and
youngest son of the
Bishop of Hereford.
He was born on the
1st December, 1870,
was educated at
Marlborough (Mitre)
1885-1887 , and
joined the Northum-
berland Fusiliers in February, 1892, becoming
Lieutenant in October, 1894. and Captain in
1900. He served with the Nile Kxpedition of
1898, being present at the Battle of Khartoum,
for which he received the British medal and the
Eg\i3tian medal with clasp. In 1809-1902 he
served in the South African War, taking part
in the advance on Kimberley, including the
actions at Belmont and Modder River. After-
wards, from April, 1901. to June, 1902, he
served on the Staff, and for his services was
thrice mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," 20th January, 1900, 10th September,
1901, and 18th July, 1902) ; was awarded the
D.S.O. ; was placed on the list of otTicers
qualified for Staff emplojnnent in consequence
of service on the Staff in the field ; and received
the Queen's medal with four clasps and the
King's medal with two clasps. Lieutenant-
Colonel Percival passed the final Staff College
examination in 1909.
From January, 1903, to January, 1908, he was
employed with the Egyptian Army, and took
part in operations against the Nyam Nyam
tribes in the Bahr-el-Ghazal Province. He was
mentioned in despatches (" London Gazette,"
18th May, 1900) ; given a clasp to his Egj'ptian
Medal; and awarded the 4th Class Order of the
Medjidieh. In 1906 he took part in operations
at Talodi, in Southern Kordofan, for which he
received an additional clasp to his Egyptian
medal.
He was promoted Major in August, 190S, and
from April, 1909, to August, 1911, was Brigade-
Major, Northern Command ; and from October,
1911, to March, 1913, was a General Staff
Officer, 3rd Grade, at the War Office. In
.January, 1914, he was appointed to be General
Staff' OITicer, 2nd Grade, at the Staff College,
with the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
while so employed.
In the Great War he was api ointed to the
Staff of the Ilnd Division, and was mentioned
in Sir John French's Despatch of 8th October,
1914, for his services: he also received the
Croix d'OtYicier of the Legion of Honour.
Lieutenant-Colonel Percival married, in 1907,
Cecil, daughter of the late Mr. C. Henland.
MAJOR CLAUD VICTOR NOBLE PER-
CIVAL, 2nd BATTN. RIFLE BRIGADE
(THE PRINCE CONSORT'S OWN).
who was killed in action on the 14th December,
1914, was the elder son of the late Major-General
Lewis Percival, Rifle Brigade, and of Jlrs.
Percival, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire.
He was bom on the 1st August, 1872 ; educated
at Harrow ; and gazetted to the Rifle Brigade
in October, 1892, becoming Lieutenant in
March, 1895. From July, 1898, to November,
1903, he was employed with the Central African
Regiment and the King's African Rifles, and
in 1899, took part in the expedition against
Kwamba receiving the medal with clasp.
He was promoted Captain in January, 1900,
and in 1901-02 was with the Aro Expedition,
for which he received the medal and clasp.
During his service in the Central African Pro-
tectorate he brought home a nuniber of different
native troops to be present at the Coronation
of His Majesty King Edward VII, and with
them received from the King at Buckingliam
Palace the Coronation medal.
From February, 1905, to February, 1912, he
was employed with the Egyptian Army in the
Soudan, and was for some years in the Bahr-el-
Ghazal and the Lado Enclave. On leaving to
rejoin his regiment he received the Order of
the Osmanieh as a recognition of the excellent
work he had done, and also a letter of thanks
from the Sirdar. lie was pronioted ;Major in
October, 1909.
Jlajor Percival, who was unmarried, was a
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and
a member of the Naval and Military and of the
Sports Clubs.
LIEUTENANT CYRIL S. STEELE-PER-
KINS, 1st B.\TTN. THE KING'S OWN
(ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT),
was the son of George C. Steele-Perkins, M.D.,
of 30, Weymouth Street, Portland Place,
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London, W., and Kingsdovm, near Deal, Kent,
and was bom in London in 18S7. He was
a grandson of the
late Samuel Steele-
Perkins, M.D., of
Exeter, Devon.
Lieutenant Steele-
Perkins was educated
at St. Paul's School
and at Sandhurst.
He received his com-
mission in Februapv,
1907, after leaving
the Royal ililitary
CoBege, being pro-
moted Lieutenant in September, 1911. He was
killed in action at Haucourt (between Cambrai
and Le Cateau) on the 26th August, 1911. The
circumstances are thus described in " The
Times " of the 8th September. 1911, by a Ser-
geant of the King's Own, who returned home
wounded : " Then there was Lieutenant Steele-
Perkins, who died one of the grandest deaths a
British officer could wish for. He was Ufted out
of the trenches wounded four times, but, pro-
testing, he crawled back again, and remained
there till he was mortally wounded.''
Lieutenant Steele-Perkins was a member of
the Cinque Ports Golf Club and the Xorthwood
Golf Club, London, and was keen on all sports,
including polo.
For several generations many members of the
family have served with distinction in the Army,
Xavy, and Royal Marines.
2nd LIEUTENANT REGINALD G.\B-
RIEL BEALE PERKINS. 1st BATTN.
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALESS
ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT .
was bom at Alder-
shot on the 20th
May, 1S92, the son
of Captain and Mrs.
Gabriel Perkins, and
grandson of the late
Thomas Selsey
Beale, Esq., of Hop-
ton Castle, -Shrop-
shire. 2nd Lieu-
tenant Perkins' de-
scent from the
Beales can be traced
back to the tltteenth century.
He was educated at Bath College and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, from 191i>-ll, obtaining
his commission in the Royal Berkshire Regiment ,
and joining them at Dover in September, 1911.
He left for the front on the 21st August, 1911,
with the first draft of reinforcements.
He was killed while leading his men at the
Battle of the Aisne on the 11th September,
1911, and was buried in the French lines.
2nd Lieutenant Perkins was a member of the
Berkshire Wanderers and of the Rugby Foot-
ball Club of the Aldershot C'onuuand.
LIEUTENANT ARTHUR HENNIS PER-
ROTT. ADJUTANT 1st BATTN.
PRINCESS CH.\RLOTTE OF W.\LES"S
ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT),
was the son of Major-
General Sir T. Per-
rott, K.C.B., and was
bom on the 13th
June, 18S.5. He was
educated at Windles-
ham House and Wel-
lington, where he was
in the Hill from 1899
to 1903. in which
latter year he got his
cap. After a year at
the R.M.C.. Sand-
hurst, he was gazetted to the Royal Berkshire
Regiment in August. 190.5, beconving Lieutenant
in July, 1909.
From April. 1909. to June. 1910, he was A.D.C.
to the General Officer Commanding the Straits
.Settlements, and was appointed Adjutant of
his battalion in February, 1913.
Lieutenant Perrott accompanied his battalion
to France in August, and was killed in action
on the 10th September, 1911, near Gengoulph,
when the battalion was acting as vanguard to
the Ilnd Division after crossing the Mame.
He was buried in the churchyard at Hautes-
vesnes, prov. Aisne.
He was a member of the Jimior United
Service Club, and was a good sportsman.
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT EVELYN WALTER
COPLAND PERRY. ROYAL FLYING
CORPS M I L I T A R \ WING .
was the only son of
the late Walter Cop-
land Perry, M~A.,
Ph.D., Barrister-at-
Law, and of Evelyn
Emma, daughter of
Robert Stopford :
he was a nephew of
Lieutenant - Colonel
Horace Stopford,
Coldstream Guards,
who was kiUed in
command of his bat-
taUon at Modder River.
War.
2nd Lieutenant Perry was bom on the 1th
December, 1890, at 5. Jlanchester Square, W..
and was educated at Mr. Joyce's School,
Reigate : at Repton ; and at Trinity College,
Cambridge. On leaving Cambridge he worked
ltd African
PET
30S
at the Koyal ^Mrcratt Factory from February,
1911, to Aut'ust, 1912 ; and obtained his
aviation certificate, Xo. 130, on a Valkyrie
monoplane at Ilendon in 1911. In response to
Lord Roberts' appeals for the increase of the
Army, in January, 1913, he offered his services
to the Royal Flying Corps, and joined the
Reserve of that Corps in vrhich his commission
is dated August, 1914.
On the 1st August, 1911, on the mobilisation
of the Army, he received orders to join the
Royal Flying Corps at Xetheravon, which he
did on the 5th August, and was attached to the
3rd Squadron. He flew with it to Dover on
the 12th August, and the nest day forty-
two aeroplanes flew to Amiens.
2nd Lieutenant Perry is believed to have been
the first British officer to lose his life while on
active duty in this war. He was killed on
Sunday, the 16th August, 1911, while leaving
Amiens on a B.E. 8 machine. It seems there
were four of these machines, and a sadly curious
feature is that in each one the pilots and
observers were either killed or maimed witliin
a very short period, the machines themselves
being wrecked. Death was instantaneous, both
for hull and for the mechanic — H. Parfitt. The
aeroplane caught fire after reaching the ground.
He was buried on Monday, the 17th August,
1914, at Le Ciniitiere de St. Acheiul.
Sir Frederick Kenyon, on the Censor's Staff,
wrote : " I attended his funeral. It was a
most touching and impressive sight. Tlie
streets were lined with French people from the
hospital to the cemetery, about two miles
outside the town. There was an escort of
Welsh Fusiliers and French troops, and behind
the carriages, covered with the British flag,
walked the Commandant of the Advance Base,
the Chief Staff Officer, and the Principal Officer
on the .StafI' of the Inspector-General of Com-
munications, as well as the second French Com-
mandant of the district and a large number of
British and French officers and civil officials,
besides all the members of the Flying Corps.
The service was shared by the English and
French Protestant ministers, and every effort
was made to do honour to the first British officer
to die for his country in this war, and this may,
I hope, be of some comfort to you in your great
sorrow. The mechanic — Paifitt — was buried at
the same tune."
A letter from a Flight-Commander said : " 1
knew your son both at Eastchurch and at
Upavon, and we have lost from the Flying
Corps a most gallant officer."
Another letter said : " Everyone liked him
immensely, and he is a real loss to the country.
So few young men have the sense to do the
useful work he did. His knowledge and skill
would have been most valuable to the devel-
opment of aviation. Personally I miss him
terribly, and he was so amusing He
was Indeed, a bom airman, with all the high
i|ualifications of temperament so imperative to
aviators, not only of marvellous strength of
nerve, but of sound judgment, clear brain, and
quick observation, and also a wonderful, calm
reserve and quiet self-possession."
An account of 2nd Lieutenant Perry's career
as an airman was contained in the " Aeroplane "
of the 20th August, 1914, and from that the
following extracts are taken : " Evelyn Walter
Copland Perry did a considerable amount of
flying while on the Staff of the Royal Aircraft
Factory on their early experimental machines,
including testing a hydroplane on Fleet Pond.
On lea\-lng the Royal Aircraft Factory he
joined ilr. Sopwith, and flew very well on his
old ' Burgess-Wright.' He left Mr. .Sopwith
to take an ' Avro ' biplane to Portugal, where he
put the machine through its tests for the
I'ortuguese Army. In the course o£ these tests
he flew over Lisbon, and eventually (owing to
engine failure) made a wonderfully skilful
forced landing in the Tagus without any injury
to the machine, or himself or his passenger —
a Portuguese — even wetting their feet. On his
return to England Mr. Perry, in conjunction
with Mr. Beadle, started building aeroplanes on
their own account. Mr. Perry next started Avi-
ation Works at Twickenham, and produced the
interesting and beautifully made flying boat
which was one of the features of the last Olympia
Show (1914)."
2nd Lieutenant Perry was a member of the
Public .Schools' and Royal Aeio Clubs.
2nd LIEUTENANT WILLIAM SINCLAIR
PETERSEN, 2nd LIFE GUARDS,
who was killed on
the 6th Xoveniber,
1914. was the only
son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Petersen,
of 32. Inverness Ter-
race, Hyde Park,
London, W., and
Cherkley Court,
Leatherhead,
Surrey.
He was bom at
Newcastle - on -Tyne
on the 10th July, 1S92. and received his eailier
education at Cargilfield and Glenalmond. Even
as a boy he had travelled a great deal, having
crossed the continent of North America to
the Pacific coast when only nine years of age ;
and later he crossed the Atlantic Ocean several
times. After leaving the public school he
studied for a time in France, and then entered
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his
B.A. degree in June, 1913. Afterwards he
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continued hLs studies in Germany, acquiring
a fluent knowledge o£ the French and German
languages — an attainment of mucli value in
such a war as the present.
After ser^^ng in the O.T.C. at Cambridge,
2nd Lieutenant Petersen joined the Essex
Royal Horse Artillery in Jlay, 1914 : but,
understanding that his battery was not likely
to go on active ser\-ice at once, he volun-
teered at the commencement of hostilities,
and was given a commission in the 2nd Life
Guards, and was entrusted by the Colonel of
that regiment with the training of fifty men and
horses at LudgershaU Camp on Salisbury Plain.
On tlie 19th October, 1914, he received orders
to take his party to the front as a reinforce-
ment, and left Ludgei'sliall the same evening.
TraveUing to Havre through .Southampton,
he took liis draft across France to the fighting
line in Flanders, which he reached on the 29th
October, 1914, after successful marches. At
the fiont his party was po.sted to the 7th
Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division, and
2nd Lieutenant Petersen received the commend-
ations of his superior officers on the accomplish-
ment of his duty.
On the 6th November the 2nd Life Guards
were ordered to recapture a village from which
the French had been driven. The regunent
dismounted, and charged the village with the
bayonet, cleared it of the enemy, of whom they
killed thirty and captured twenty. A Major
of the 2nd Life Guards thus described the part
played by Lieutenant Petersen in this action :
" I saw him arrive with the di'aft at the time
the regiment was doing such arduoiLs work in
actually keeping back a very strong attack of
the enemy. Your brother died with two other
officei-s of the regiment in driving the (iermans
back. They accomi^lished the work, and in so
doing actually saved, most likely, a great
defeat of our arms. The fact is recognised by
the General. I heard — I do not vouch for the
truth of it — your brother killed sixteen Germans
before he was killed. Your brother died a hero's
death, giving his life for his country."
Tliat he was a keen and enthusiastic young
officer, of charming manners, and great personal
courage is amply testified to by letters subse-
quently received from his senior and brother
olficere at the front.
Thus a ilajor of the Essex Royal Horse Artillery,
who had been invalided home from the front,
wrote : " During the last month 1 have had
dozens of friends killed beside me, but 1 knew
none of them intimately as I did your son.
We became the greatest friends from the time
we met. He was a very keen officer, and liad all
the makings of a good soldier : and, having
lived a good deal abroad, he was in addition
a cultivated and interesting person to talk to.
I met Colonel Ferguson a few days ago near
Ypres, and he told me how much he liked
your son. He added that he was getting on so
well with his brother officers. It wUl be some
consolation to you and Mrs. Petersen to know
that he died as a soldier and a gallant gentle-
man would wish to do."
A Captain of the 2nd Life Guards wrote of him
as follows : " As the senior officer, left with the
regiment, and as I was also his Squadron
Leader, I write to let you know that he died
leading his troop most gallantly as we advanced
under a heavy fire. I had only known him
a week, but in that short time I could not help
realising his splendid characteristics, which
endeared him to us all. He was one indeed to
be proud of."
Lieutenant-General the Earl of Dundonald,
K.C.B., Colonel of the 2nd Life Guards, wrote :
" I hear your son was very gallant " ; and in
a later letter : " I feel very much for you in
your great sorrow, but the gallantry of your
son of which I heard from more than one source
must be a great consolation and pride to you
all. His name will always be identified with
the glorious records of my old regiment."
Another General, speaking of the whole action,
said it was the best advance he had ever seen
troops make, and added : " This was surely
the more remarkable from its being done by
dismounted cavah-y, and it may be said that
even in tliis campaign, distinguished by so
many gallant charges and heroic stands, the
fight of the 6th November and the advance of
the Household Cavalry Brigade will have a
record of its own."
2nd Lieutenant Petersen lies buried in the
churchyard at ZiUebeke, a small NoUage about
two and a half miles south-east of Ypres. His
grave is alongside those of Colonel Gordon
Wilson, Royal Horse Guards (Blue), and Captain
tlie Hon. Arthur O'Xeill, 2nd Life Guards, who
both fell in action the same day. A simple
cross marks the resting-place of a gallant young
soldier and a very perfect gentleman. The
Rev. A. E. Boyd, Chaplain, attached to the
Cavalry Division, who officiated at his funeral,
wrote : " Everything «as done to carry ovit
the burial as reverently as possible. The
Germans were attacking Klein ZiUebeke not
far away. Two of our batteries were in action
quite close to the Wllage. It was not unfitting
tliat so brave an officer should be laid to rest
under these circumstances."
Mr. Petersen received the following telegram
from theu- Majesties : " The Kmg and Queen
deeply regret the loss you and the Army have
sustained by the death of your son in the service
of his country. Their Jlajesties truly sympathise
with you in youi- sorrow."
2nd Lieutenant Petei'sen was not the only
member of his family to greatly distinguish
himself in this war, for his brother-in-law —
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Major Douglas Royiiolds, V.C., Royal Field
Artillery, who married Jliss Doris Petersen
early in 1014 — had the almost unique dis-
tinction of earning the \'ictoria Cross on two
separate occasions, as well as the Cross of the
Legion of Honour conferred on him by the
President of the French Republic.
CAPT. CLEMENT HENRY PETO. Xth
(PRINCE OK WALES'S OWN ROYALi
HUSSARS,
uho was killed in
^^fl^M^ action near Ypres on
^^ ''•^ the 17th November,
11 U I . was the young-
est son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Peto, of
Dunkinty, Elgin.
He was born at lii'.l
Cromwell Road,
London, S.W., on
the 8 t h July,
1884. and was edu-
cated at llarruw (Siuall Houses and Mr. David-
son's), 1898-1901 ; and the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
from which he received his commission in
February. 1904. He was promoted Lieutenant
in October, 190.5, and Captain in September,
1910. He passed the musketry course, Changli
Cialli, in 1910 ; also telephony and Hindustani,
Lower Standard.
He was a member of the Cavalry Club, and was
a great explorer and big-game shot. He travelled
from India through Cashmir and Turkestan
to Siberia, accompanied by natives only, and
shot splendid specimens of Ovis amnion, Ovis
poll (51 J inches), markhor, ibex, barasingh, etc.
In Northern Rhodesia and British East Africa
he shot lions and much other game. He rode
many winnere in regimental races at Rawal
I'indi and Mhow, and was a polo player.
Captain Peto was commanding " C " Squadron
of his regiment near Y'pres when the enemy made
a strong attack on the 17th November, 1914.
He allowed them to come within five yards of
his trench before he gave the order to fire,
lie then led his squadron in pursuit of tlie
retreating enemy. An officer present wrote
that he had personally accounted for six
Germans when he was shot through the head
by a sniper.
The Colonel of the regiment wrote : " There
was no better soldier in tlie Army or better
fellow than your son. Personally I was very
fond of him, and so was everyone in the regi-
ment, whether officers or men. All the time he
was under me I have never known him cavil
or grumble at any order, however unpleasant."
The Officer Commanding the regunent on the .
17th November wrote that he " met his death
commanding his own squadron, which he
liad trained so well in South Africa, wliilst
repelling a fierce attack of the Germans, which
his squadron successfully repulsed with heavy
loss."
Private Sparks, 14th Hussars, wrote to the
" Kent Messenger " on the 26th December,
1914 : " We came under a very heavy shell
and rifle fire from a very short distance in front.
Lord Alastair Innes Ker carried me a long way,
and must have been almost exhausted when I
Sivw two officers jump out of the trench and
run towards us. They dragged me to the
trench by the arms. Private Sainsbury, 13th
Hussars, caught me as they pushed me into the
trench. One of then\ bound me up as well as
lie was able in the dark, and gave me a drink
from his flask. The officers were two brothers
— Captain C. and Lieutenant R. Peto. lOth
Royal Hussars. Captain C. Peto, I am sorry
to say, has since been killed. He was a very
brave officer."
Captain Peto was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 191."),
for gallant and distinguished service in the
field.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES FREDERICK
PHA Y RE, 2nd BATTALION
ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
who was born on the . ,.,
20th May, 1891, at
Bangalore, India,
was the second son
of Lieutenant-
Colonel Richard
Phayre, J.P., D.L.,
and Jfrs. Phayre, of
" B e 1 g a u m , "
Woking, a n d a
grandson of the late
General .Sir Robert
Phayre, G.C.B.
He was educated at Repton and the IL.M.A.,
Woolwich (Sandluu-st Company), being in the
Hockey XI at the latter. He joined the Royal
Munster Fusiliers in October, 1010, and obtained
the Hythe certificate for musketry, machine
gun, and range finding. He was promoted
Lieutenant In April, 1914, and left for Prance
with the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, on the 13th
August, 1914.
Lieutenant Phayre was at flret reported officially
as missing, but some time subsequently it was
announced that he had been killed on the 27th
August, 1914, during the retirement from .Mons,
when the battalion was acting as rearguard to
the 1st Brigade, 1st Division. The battalion
retired fighting for nearly four hours, during
which Lieutenant Phayre met his deatli. His
elder brother — Lieutenant R. H. Phayre — was
killed on the 26th October, 1914.
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LIEUTENANT RICHARD HERBERT
PHAVRE. 2nd BATTN. ALEXANDRA
PRINCESS OF WALESS OWN YORK-
SHIRE REGT. .
brother of the fore-
going officer, was
the eldest son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
Richard Phayre,
J.P., D.L., late of
the Yorkshire
Regiment, and Mrs.
Phayre "Bel-
gaum," Woking:
and a grandson of
the late General Sir
Robert Phayre. G.C.B.
He was bom at Famborough, Hants, on the
31st ^larch, 1S90, and was educated at Repton
and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, joining the Y'ork-
shire Regiment in 1909, and becoming Lieu-
tenant in April, 1911. He was appointed
SignaUing Instructor to the battalion in 1912,
and Assistant Adjutant in 1914.
He was killed on the 26th October, 1914, during
the Battle of Tpres. and was gazetted tem-
porary Captain, dated 14th November, 1914,
shortlv after his death.
He held his Adjutancy tiU March, 19u4, and
from September, 190S, to January, 1911, he
was an Adjutant of the ISth (County of
London) Battalion the London Regiment.
obtaining his substantive Majority in January.
1911.
^lajor Phibbs was a good rider, winning the
regimental point-to-point race in 1914. He
also played polo both in England and in India,
was a first-rate tennis player and an all-round
sportsman.
He married Ellie, daughter of J. Roche
Hamley, Esq., Landed Proprietor, Lanespark,
Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. He left
no fauulv.
LIEUT. DENIS DUNCAN PHILBY. 1st
BATTN. ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS,
attd. ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
who was killed in action on the 12th November,
1914, near Ypres, was bom on the 17th August,
18S9, and was gazetted to the Royal Dublin
Fusiliers from the Special Reserve in June,
1910, becoming Lieutenant in March, 1912.
MAJOR WILLIAM GRIFFITH BAYNES
PHIBBS. 1st BATTN. PRINCESS VIC-
TORIAS ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS'.
who died in London on the Sth November,
1914, of acute pneumonia contracted in the
trenches, was the son of Major George Pliibbs,
Royal Irish Fusiliers, Corradoo, Sligo, Ireland,
and was bom at Malta on the 12th January,
1872.
He was educated at Cheltenham (Garth Gannon,
1885). where he won cups for high jumping
and for short-distance foot races.
In October, 1892, he joined the Royal Irish
Fusiliers from the Militia, becoming Lieutenant
in August, 1895, and Captain in February,
1900.
He took part in the NUe Expedition in 1889,
for which he received the Egyptian medal with
clasp : and in the South African War, being
present at operations in Natal in 1899, including
the actions at Talana and at Lombard's Kop.
He was also present at operations in the Orange
River Colony, the Transvaal, and on the Zulu-
land frontier of Natal between July, 1900, and
May, 1902.
In September, 1900, he was appointed Com-
mandant, Springs ; and in May, 1901, Adjutant
of his battalion. For his services he was men-
tioned in despatches (" London Gazette," 29th
July, 1902) : was promoted Brevet- Major on
the 22nd August, 1902 ; and received the
Queen's medal with four clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps.
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH DOUGLAS
PHILIPS, 1st BATTN. THE BUFFS
.EAST KENT REGIMENT),
who was killed in _ ^ ^^______„„
action on the 20th
October, 1914, was
the yoimger son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
and 5Irs. J. J.
Philips, of Rose-
court, Gladstone
Road. Broadstairs.
He was bom at
Woolwich on the 3rd
March, 1886:
educatedata
private school and with an Army coach ; and
joined the East Kent Regiment from the
JUddlesex Militia in March, 1907. In March,
1910, he was detached for service with the
West African Frontier Force, with the local
rank of Lieutenant, and was permanently
promoted to that rank in September, 1910.
In October, 1914, he was serving with the 1st
Battalion of his own regiment, and was killed
instantly whilst leading his platoon through a
wood at Bois Grenier to attack advancing
German infantry. The previous day he had
carried out several wounded from the trenches
under file.
;Mr. Philips, who was a member of the Junior
Army and Navy Club, was a keen Rugby foot-
baller, and fond of cricket, tennis and golf.
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MAJOR EDWARD HAWTIN PHILLIPS.
D.S.O.. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.
who died (in tin- (ith
.\ovoiiiber. 1!U4. of
wounds received
in action the pre-
\ ions day, was the
ildest son of the
late John Hawtin
I'hiUiiJs an<l of .Mrs.
Phillips, of
Hnrstcroft, Ascot,
Berkshire.
He was born on the
2 2 n fl February,
1878, and was tiluratiil at Wellington College
(Benson, 1890-9:5), joining the Royal Artillery
from the ^Militia in January, 1897, and becoming
Lieutenant in January, 1900. In 1898-99 he was
on active service with the Protectorate Expedi-
tion, Sierra Leone, receiving the medal and
clasp. From April. 1899, to October, 1900, he
was employed with the West African Frontier
Force, and in 1900 with the Kaduna Expedition,
West Africa (Northern Nigeria), in which he
was twice wounded. For this expedition he
was mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," 10th April, 1901). and received a
clasp to his medal. Again, in 1900, he took part
in operations in Ashanti, West Africa, bemg
present at the relief of Kmnassi, where he was
severely wounded. For his services he was
mentioned in despatches (" London Gazette,"
4th December. 1900), was awarded the D.S.O.,
and received the medal with clasp.
In 1901-02 he was on active service in the
South African War, in which he was wounded,
being present at operations in the Orange River
Colony, Cape Colony, and the Transvaal.
He was mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," ISth July, 1902), and received the
Queen's medal with five clasps. He was pro-
moted Captain in ^Nlarch, 1902, and from
November, 1904, was again employed with the
West African Frontier Force till November,
190.T, during which period he was once mere on
active service in Northern Nigeria in operations
against the people of Semolika (1904). For this
he received the medal with clasp.
From August, 1908, to August, 1911, he was
an Adjutant of his regiment, and in March,
1914, was promoted from the Royal Hor.se
Artillery into the Royal Field Artillery, and
was appointed to command the 28th Battery,
coming from India with the Meerut Division
of the Indian Army Corps to take part in the
Great \^'ar, and was only three days at the
front before he was wounded.
The Inspector-General of Artillery wrote of
him in the following terms : " There was no
man in all the Artillery under my control
belonging to this force whom I would have
selected before him for any duty which called
for all the highest personal i|ualifuations of a
soldier. It was the same in India. It I wanted
anything done or tried I always knew it could
be in no better hands than his. Asa most gallant
soldier and gentleman, a thorough sportsman,
and a true friend, he will be very deeply re-
gretted by the regiment." ("Wellington 'Sear
Book." 1914.)
His younger brother — Captain H. N. Phillips,
Royal Welsh Fusiliers — died on the 27th Decem-
ber, 191 4, of wounds received in action in this war.
Major Phillips was a man of unbounded vigour,
cheerfulness, and resource, a keen sportsman,
and particularly fond of hunting, pig-sticking,
and big-game shooting. He was badly mauled
by a tiger in India, but in spite of a stiff arm and
liand took his pilot's certificate at Brooklands
in Jlay, 1914. He was the hero of the rescue
at a dangerous fire explosion. (" Royal Artillery
Institution Leaflet," December, 1914.)
He was unnaarried, and was a member of the
Army and Navy Club.
CAPTAIN RALPH NOEL PHILLIPS.
2nd B.\TTN. ROYAL WELSH
FUSILIERS,
who died on the
27 th December.
1914, of wounds re-
ceived in action on
the 3rd November,
was the second son
of the late John
Hawtin Phillips and
:\Irs. PhUUps, of
Ilurstcroft, Ascot,
and was born on the
2(ith December, 1877.
He was edxicated at Wellington College and
at Trinity College, Cambridge, and joined the
Royal W^elsh Fusiliers in 1900. He saw service
in .South Africa with the 1st Battalion, and
while attached to the A.S.C. ; he was present
at operations in the Transvaal and Orange
River Colony receiving the Queen's medal with
three clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps. He served in the Chinese Regiment
for t\\o years, was Adjutant of the 7th Cheshire
Territorials from 1911-14, and had been serving
with the 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers,
19th Brigade, Expeditionary Force, .since the
12th August, 1914. For his services he was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
14th January, 1915.
His elder brother — Jfajor E. Hawtin Phillips,
D.S.O. . R.F..\.— died on the 0th November,
1914, of wounds received in action in I-'rance.
Captain PhUlips, who was a member of the Naval
and Military Club, married, in 1911, Margaret
Farmer, only daughter of H. R. Farmer, Esq.,
Gatacrc Park. Bridgnorth.
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PHI-PIL
CAPTAIN THOMAS McCANN PHILLIPS,
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.
born on the 1st
.March, 1S80, at
Damascus, Syria,
was the second son
of the Rev. John
Gillis PhilUps, :His-
sionary of the Irish
Presbyterian
Church in
Damascus, and Mrs.
Phillips, of Jlount
Charles, Belfast.
He received his early
education, first at the Royal Academical In-
stitution, Belfast, then at Trent College, Xotts.
and afterwards at Campbell College, Belfast,
playing in the " Schools' Cup " team of
IS97-9S. Subsequently he was a distinguished
student of Queen's College, Belfast, and gradu-
ated M.B.. B.Ch.. B.A.O., in the Royal Uni-
versity of Ireland in 190t).
After qualifj-ing he made a voyage to India as
ship's siu'geon, and subsequently held a
resident appointment at the Royal Victoria
Hospital, Belfast, where his professional and
social qualities were recognised by his colleagues.
Having obtained the first place in the open
examination in London, he joined the R.A.M.C.
in 1907, and was attached to the 8th Hussars,
accompanying that regiment to India, where
he served five years. He became a Captain
in 1911.
On the outbreak of the Great War he was at
home on leave. He volunteered for service,
and after some weeks of duty at home passing
recruits for the New Army, he was sent to the
the front, as he wished, with the 2Ist Field
Ambulance Vllth Division. He died on the 4th
November. 1914. from wounds received by a
shell, which also killed Lieutenant Richardson,
R.A.M.C. He was taken to a hospital at Ypres,
which that night was shelled by the Germans,
and he had to be removed to Xo. 4 Clearing
Hospital, arriving there unconscious and ex-
piring soon after.
Captain Phillips was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915,
for gallantry and distinguished service in
the field.
CAPT. WILLI AM CHARLES OWEN PHIL-
LIPS. 1st BATTN. THE QLEEN'S OWN
ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT,
was bom on the 25th December, 1882, and
joined the Royal West Kent Regiment from
the MiUtia in May, 1902, becoming Lieutenant
in April, 1904, and Captain in March, 1913.
In January, 1910, ho was appointed an Adjutant
of the Territorial Force.
Captain Phillips, whose name appeared as killed
in action in the first list of British losses issued
by the War Office in September, 1914, no date
or place being given, was married, and was the
only brother of Charles E. .S. Phillips, of Castle
House, .Shooter's Hill, Kent.
CAPTAIN CHARLES FREDERICK
LEONARD PIERSON. ROYAL
GARRISON
who was killed in
action on the 2nd
Xovember, 1914,
was the only son of
Colonel and Mrs.
Pierson, of 20. The
Avenue, Eastbourne.
He was bom on the
2 6th February,
1883 ; educated at
Eastbourne College :
and joined the Royal
ArtiUery from the
Militia in December, 1902. He was promoted
Lieutenant in December, 1905, and was gazetted
Captain after his death, the promotion to
date from the 30th October, 1914.
Writing of his death the Com;nanding Officer
of hLs battery (Xo. 114, Heavy Battery, R.G.A.),
said : " He was seeing the order for taking cover
being carried out by all the men before going
down himself when the first shell that fell on
the battery burst at his feet, killing hun and
the Sergeant-ilajor."' His Commanding Officer
adds : " He took hold of his work, and spared
no effort to promote the efficiency of the battery,
and had he been spared he would have gone
far. We shall never forget him in the battery."
Captain Pierson married, in 1912, Constance
Sybil, daughter of Colonel Ireland, C.B.,
C.M.G., and Mrs. Ireland, of Southsea.
LIEUT.-COLONEL HENRY CHARLES
PILLEAU, D.S.O., 1st BATTN. THE
QUEEN'S ROYAL WEST SURREY
REGIMENTi, _ ,
born at Bermuda on
the 17th February,
1866, was the only
child of Colonel H. G.
Pilleau, R.E., and
a great-nephew of
the late General
Thomas Addison,
C.B., Colonel Com-
manding the Queen's
Regiment.
He was educated at
Wellington College, and the R.M.C., Sandliurst,
where he was Senior Under Officer and passed
PIL PIT
;n4
out with honours, taking the piizo for mihtary
topoKiapliy. He received his coiiiniission in the
Hoyal West Surrey Regunent in February,
1887, becoming Lieutenant in July, 1889,
and Captain in ^larch, 1896. He served in the
fSoutli African War from 1899-1902, being
present at the relief of Ladysmith, and tlie
actions at Colenso, Spion Kop, Vaal Kran-;,
I'ieter's Hill, and operations on Tugela Heiglits ;
also in Xatal, including Laing's Nek. He was
twice mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," 8th February and 10th September,
1901); was awarded the D.S.O. ; and received
the Queen's medal with five clasps and the
King's medal with two clasps.
In the Great War Lieutenant-Colonel Pilleau,
who was promoted to that rank on the 18th
September, 1914, was mortaUy wounded in the
Battle of the Aisne, but continued for four hours
to direct his men. It was not known till dark,
wlien retiring, that he had been wounded,
lie died a week afterwards on the 21st .Sep-
tember, 1914, in the American Ambulance of
Neuilly.
Lieutenant-Colonel Pilleau married, in July,
1904, Edith Maud, daughter of the late
Lieutenant-Colonel W. E. :Mockler, 4tli Battahon,
West India Regiment. He was a member of
the M.C.C. and the Queen's Club, We.st
Kensington, being a good cricketer and lawn
tennis player.
2nd LIEUTENANT RUPERT COLERICK
LAYBOURNE PILLINER, 127th BAT-
TERY, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
was Ijorn at Llan-
tarnam Grange,
Monmouthshire, on
tlie 5tli February,
1891, the son of
A. M. PiUiner, J.P.,
of Llanyravon,
Monmouthshire, and
grandson of the late
Richard Laybourne,
J.P., D.L.
He was educated at
St. Peter's,
Weston-super-Mare ; and Blundell's School,
Tiverton, Devon ; and joined tlie Royal Field
Artillery in December, 1912, from the Ter-
ritorial Force.
2nd Lieutenant Pilliner's battery formed part
of the IVth Division, with which he left for the
front on the 23rd August, 1914 ; and he
received his baptism of fire three days after-
wards at Le Cateau on the 26th of that month.
He was in the retirement from Mons, was
present at the Battles of the Mame and the
Aisne, and fell on the 4th November, 1914, at
Armentieres during the first Battle of Ypres.
He was a fine horseman, and well known witli
all the Monmoutlisliirc ])acks : also tlie II. H.
and I'^ast Kent Iloumls.
2nd LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER PIRIE,
1st BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS,
was the son of .\lr.
Alexander Pirio,
Woodside, Aber-
deen, and was born
there on the 22nd
May, 1884. He was
educated at
Bellielvie, Aberdeen-
shire.
He joined the Army
on the 24th May,
1903, having been
promoted to Cor-
poral in 1906, Sergeant in 1911, and Quarter-
master-Sergeant on arrival in France in Octolier,
1914. For distinguislied service in the field lie
was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir ,101111
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915,
and was given his commission in the Gordon
Highlanders in November, 1914.
At Bailleul on the 13th December, 191 L while'
glancing over a parapet a bullet struck liiin in
the head, and he never recovered conscious-
ness, dying in the Clearing Hospital there.
2nd lieutenant Pine was a great athlete,
having been a member of the Aberdeen Har-
riers Club. He was trainer of " A " Company,
1st (iordons, the winners of the Inter-Companj-
Football League and Battalion Cup in 1910-11,
and himself ran second in the twelve-mile
Jlarathon race.
He married Beatrice, youngest daughter of
ilr. James Cromar, of Jackson Terrace, Aber-
deen, on the 21st October, 1914, just before
leaving for the front.
LIEUT. JAMES MAXWELL PITT,
ADJUTANT 1st BATTN. DORSETSHIRE
REGIMENT,
wiio was killed in
action on the 13th
October, 1914, was
the youngest son of
Colonel WiUiam Pitt.
Royal Engineers, and
-Mrs. Pitt, of Fair-
seat House, Wrot-
ham, Kent. He wa.s
born on the 27tli
August, 1888, and
joined the Dorset>
shire Regiment in February, 1908, becoming
Lieutenant in October, 1909. He was gazetted
Adjutant of his battalion on the 1st October, 1914.
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POL— PON
LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY BLEMELL
POLLARD. 119th BATTERY
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
_^ _. .,..=.- born at Kensington
on the 5th April,
1888, was the son of
.Ufred William Pol-
lard, Assistant-
Keeper of Printed
Books. British
iliiseuni, and of
Alice Pollard,
sometime President
of the Women's
Institute.
He was educated at
King's College School, Wimbledon, where he
won the Bothschild Scholarsliip for French ;
and St. Paul's School, Hammersmith, where he
was a Cadet Lieutenant and Captain of the
Shooting Eight, and won the School Scholarship
to the E.5I.A., Woolwich. Gazetted 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the R.F.A. in July, 1908, he became
Lieutenant in July, 1911, having in January,
1910, qualified as 1st Class Interpreter in French.
Dvuing the early part of the war he had, on the
2Ith August, helped to man-haul the guns of
his battery at Elouges. and was mentioned in Sir
John French's Despatch of the 14th January,191 5.
Lieutenant Pollard was killed on the 24th
October. 1914, while crossing an open space on
observation duty for lus battery.
LIEUTENWNT FREDERICK ROBERT
POLLOCK. 1st BATTN. COLDSTREAM
GUARDS,
bom on the 24th
October, 1885, was
the son of the late
Erskine Pollock,
Esq., K.C., of Ave-
ning Court,
Avening. Glouces-
tershire.
He was educated at
Eton and the
K.M.C.. Sandhurst,
joining the
Coldstream Guards in August, 1904, and becom-
ing Lieutenant in June, 1907. From December.
1909, to February, 1914, he was seconded for
service with the West African Frontier Force.
After taking part in the retirement from ilons
and the Battle of the Marne. his battalion was
sent to Belgimu, and he was killed in action near
Ypres on the 23rd October, 1914.
LIEUT. GEOFFREY WILLIAM
POLSON, 1st BATTN. THE BLACK
WATCH ROYAL HIGHLANDERS),
was bom at Paisley on the 16th .September,
1890, and was the son of JIrs, D, Poison, North
Berwick, and thelateD.M.Polson,Esq.,of Paisley.
He was educated at St. Xinian's, iloffat ; at
Charterhouse : and
at Xew College, Ox-
ford. At Charter-
house Lieutenant
Poison was head of
the school in his last
year, and was pre-
sented by Earl
Roberts with a copy
of his book " Forty
Years in India," for
being the best all-
I'ound boy of the
school both in work and in sport. At Oxford
he took second-class honoius in history.
Lieutenant Poison was gazetted to the Black
Watch in August, 1913, with twenty-three
months' seniority, being an I'niversity Candi-
date, and was promoted Lieutenant in August,
1914. He was killed in action at the Battle of
the Aisne on the 15th .September, 1914, leading
his men while temporarily in conimand of his
company.
He was a very keen golfer, and played for his
college at Oxford. He was a member of the
Junior United Service Club, London, and of
the Xew Club, North Berwick.
CAPTAIN GERALD MAURICE PON-
SON B Y . 2nd BATTN. ROYAL
INNISKILLING FUSILIERS,
who was wounded in
the retirement from
ilons, and died on the
31st August, 1914,
was the eldest son of
the Rev. the Hon.
Maurice and Mrs.
Ponsonby, Wantage.
He was bom at St.
George's Square,
S.W., on the 6th
October, 1876, and
was educated at Charterhouse.
He entered the Royal Warwickslih-e Regunent
from the Militia in May, 1898, becoming
Lieutenant in March, 1899. He served in the
South African War, being employed with the
Mounted Infantry, and was present at operations
in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, and the
Transvaal, having been slightly wounded. He
received the Queen's medal Avith clasp.
Captain Ponsonby, who was qualified as an
Interpreter in Cape Dutch, reached his rank in
the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in February,
1902, and was transferred to the Royal
InniskiUing FusiUers in January. 1908. He was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
Sth October, 1914.
POP POW
31 «
lie was a iiioiiibor ot the Tiavc
Xaval and .Military Clubs.
its' ami Junior
LIEUTENANT
POPE, B . .\ . .
VVORCESTERSH
CYRIL M O N T .\ G U
B . C . L . . 2nd B .\ T T N .
R E R EGIMENT,
was bom at Brigh-
t on on the 0th
-Vugust, 1888, and
was the son ot the
late Keginald Bar-
rett Pope, Solicitor,
and .Mary Richard-
son Pope, late of
Sussex Square,
Brighton.
lie was a scholar of
W i n c h e s t e r, and
held successively a
Hulme Exhibition and a Senior Huline Scholai--
ship at Brasenose College, Oxford. At the
University he took honours in ^loderations, with
a second class; also a second-class in Greats, in
jurisprudence, and in the B.C.L. examination.
.\fter leaving College he was articled to his
father's firm, and was in the second year of his
articles.
Lieutenant Pope was gazetted 2ik1 Lieutenant
in the 5th Oxford, and Bucks. Light Infantry
in 1910, and became Lieutenant in the 5th
Battahon, Worcestersliire Regiment (Special
Reserve), in December, 1913, On the outbreak
of the war he went to the front with the 2nd
Battalion of the latter regiment, and was killed
on the 21th October, 1911, in the woods to the
east ot Ypres " wliile leading on his men most
gallantly against a strong position of the enemy,"
At the L^nivereity he stroked for his college
the 2nd Torpid and the 2nd Eight in 1911, and
the 1st Torpid in 1912, in which year he again
rowed in the 2nd Eight. lie also played
Association football for his college,
LIEUTENANT REGINALD EDWARD
PORTER, ROYAL ARMY MEDIC.\L
CORPS,
I^^B^^^^J^^^^H the
H^^V ^^^^1 and Mrs. Porter, of
W' ^^ -^ '**^^^l Castleacre, Norfolk,
- IHIh where he was born
on the 5th April,
1888.
lie was educated at
Banham Grammar
School, where, under
tlie headship ot ^Ir,
Fred Cole, :\I.A., he
acliieved many successes, including the gaining
of the Royal Geographical Society's medal, and
entered the London Hospital, taking his
M.R.C.S,, L.R,C.P, (Eng.), M,B., B.S. (Lond.),
in 1911, being subsequently appointed House
Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital. He played
go'.t and was fond of motor-cycUng.
He was gazetted to the Royal .\rmy Medical
Corps in July, 1912. Some months previous to
1 lie outbreak of the war he was attached to the
:!rd Battalion Rifle Brigade, He had been
wounded on the ISth t)ctober, 1914, and was
killed in action on the 26th of that month.
He was buried at Bois (irenier. Northern France,
For his gallant and distinguished service in the
field Lieutenant Porter was mentioned in Sir
.John French's Despatch of the 14th January,
1015,
2nd LIEUTENANT MURR.\Y STUART
POUND, SPECIAL RESERVE, attd.
QUEEN'S (ROYAL
REGIMENT),
1st BATTN. THE
WEST SURREY
died on t li e
7th November, 1914,
at Guy's Hospital,
London, from
wounds received in
action on the 21st
October at
Poelcapelle, near
Ypre.s.
He was twenty-three
yeare of age, and
was the youngest
son of Sir Lulham
and Lady Pound, of Shenley, Shepherds Hill,
Highgate, N., and a grandson ot the late Sir
John Pound, Bart., who was Lord flavor of
London, 1904-05.
He was educated at Highgato School and at
I'embroke College, Cambridge. He was Senior
^lathematical Scholar, Head Boy, and Colour-
Sergeant ot tlie 0,T.C, at Highgate School,
where the Leatliersellers' Company have esta-
blisiied an annual prize in memory of him. At
Cambridge he was a scholar of I'embroke College,
and giaduated with second-class honours.
He rowed for his college in the Mays.
He was gazetted to the Special Reserve Royal
West Surrey Regiment in January, 191.3.
CAPTAIN HENRY MITCHELL POWELL,
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
employed with THE WEST AFRICAN
REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 9tli
December, 1914, was
the eldest son of the
late Rev. Henry
Powell, Stanning-
field, Suffolk, and
nephew and adopted
son of the late Sir
David Gill, K.C.B.
He was born on the
21st May, 1883, and
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POW— PRE
joined the South Staffordshire Ilegiinent in
April, 1903, becoming Lieutenant in July, 1907.
lie was promoted Captain in April, 1010. and
joined the West African Regiment witli seniority
as Captain in November, 1911.
2nd LIEUTENANT HAROLD OSBORNE
POWELL, SPECIAL RESERVE, 4th DRA-
GOON GUARDS,
who was killed in
action at Messines in
the first Battle of
Ypres on the 31st
October, 1914, was
tlie only son of
Hubert John and
:\label Powell, of Hill
Lodge, Lewes, Sus-
sex, and was born
there on the 20th
August, 1SS8.
He was educated at \\ iuehester, where he was
Captain of the Commoner Football VI 1905-06.
He was a Trooper in the Sussex Yeomanry
from 1908-11, and served in the Inns of Court
O.T.C. from 1912-14 ; and joined the Reserve
of the 4th Dragoon Guards in August, 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT RHYS CAMPBELL
FFOLLIOTT POWELL, 2nd BATTN.
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY,
was born at Dharin-
sala, Punjab, India,
on the 24th July,
1892, and was the
son of ^lajor-General
C. H. Powell, C.B.,
Indian Army. He
was a grandson of
Captain Wellington
IVjwell, 9th Regi-
ment, and, on the
maternal side, of
James Mackenzie,
Esq., of Auchenheglish. I>umbartonshire.
2nd Lieutenant Powell was educated at St.
Clare, Walmer : at Winchester CoUege ; and at
Trinity College, Cambridge. Entering (he
Ainiy as a University candidate on the 23rd
September, 1913, he left Aldershot with his
battalion for the front in August, 1914, forming
part of the 5th Infantry Brigade. Ilnd Divi-
sion 1st Aimy Corps of the British Expedi-
tionary Force.
He was killed in action on the 14th September,
1914, at \'erneuil, during the Battle of the
Aisne, while leading his platoon to capture a
German machine gun. The gun was captured
later in the day by Private Wilson of his pla-
toon, who was accorded the V.C. for the action.
2nd I^ieutenant Powell was a member of the
Scotch I'ipers' Club, Edinburgh, and was un-
married.
LIEUTENANT THEODORE PRAIN 1st
BATTN. LEICESTERSHIRE REGT.,
who was killed in
action on the 21st
October, 1914, was
the son of Lieutenant-
Colonel Sir David
Prain,C.M.G.,F.R.8.,
Director of the
Royal Botanic Gar-
dens, Kew. He was
born on the Ctli Nov-
ember, 1887, and was
gazetted to the Lei-
cestershire Regiment
in April, 1911. his conmiission being antedated
to October, 1910. Lieutenant Prain. who
reached his rank in October, 1912. was qualified
as a 1st Class Interpreter in French.
For his services in the Great War he was men-
tioned in Sir John French's Despatcli of the
lltli January, 1915.
CAPT. THOMAS HAWORTH PRESTON,
3rd BATTN. EAST LANCASHIRE REGL
MENT (LIEUTENANT RESERVE OF
OFFIC ERSi,
wlio was killed in
action in Flanders on
the 17th November,
1914, aged thirty-
three, was the onl>-
surviving son of the
late John Preston
and Mrs. Preston, of
Mearbeck, Long
I'reston, Yorkshire,
his only brother —
2nd Lieutenant J. 8.
Preston, 1st Roval Scots
-havint; died of enteric
fever at Dewetsdorp, Orange River Colony,
on the 27th June. 1900.
He was educated at Haileybury College, and
was employed in the South African War with
the Mounted Infantry, being present at opera-
tions in the Orange Free State, 1900 ; and in
the Orange River Colony from November,
1900, to December, 1901. He was mentioned
in despatches (" London Gazette," 29th July,
1902), and received the Queen's medal with
three clasps. He joined the 2nd Battalion East
Lancashire Regiment in 1902 in India, where he
served between two and three yeai-s. After
being invalided home he was transferred to the
1st Battalion, and was with them at the Curiagh
and Woking. He was promoted Lieutenant in
November, 1904, and afterwards joined the
Special Reserve.
He became Captain in the 3rd East Lancashire
Regiment in November, 1911, and in 1914
was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's
diploma. He was a member of the Junior Army
PRI
:iis
<and Navy Club : was an excellent aU-rouml
.spoitsiiian: a splendid game sliot, either with
rifle or gun : a good lislierman : and a daring
rider, lie was unmarried.
Captain Preston went to France in August, 1914,
in charge of the first draft to reinforce the
1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, which
he joined at Le Cateau, and fought with at the
Marne and the Aisne. Captain Preston also
took part in the severe fighting in Flandere
round I'loegsteert, surviving many narrow
escapes until the 17th November, when he was
fatally hit by a piece of shrapnel.
CAPTAIN CHARLES LEMPRIERE
PRICE,-) D.S.O., 2nd BATTN. THE
ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT),
was the only child of
Colonel Thomas
Charles Price, R.A.
(retired), and Mrs.
Price, of 8 Inverness
Gardens, Kensing-
ton, London, W.,
and was bom on the
17th September,
1877, in Alderney,
Channel Islands.
He was educated at
St. Paul's School
Royal Military College, Sandhurst,
lus commission in the Royal Scots
and becoming Lieutenant in June,
1899, and Captain in November, 1903.
He served with much distinction in the South
African War from 1899-1902, being present in
actions at Belfast and Lydenburg, seeing service
also in Orange River Colony and Cape Colony
on two occasions during operations in the
Transvaal. Later on he was appointed Acting
Provost-Marshal at Komati Poort, and subse-
quently Station Staff Officer.
The following account of Lieutenant (as he then
was) Price's gallant behaviour was given by
Colonel Douglas, his Couunanding Officer, at
an annual dinner of the Royal Scots Edinburgh
Association : " Our men attacked the Boers
in a very strong position at Bermondsey, their
flanks being protected by precipices, the position
thus being a very difficult one to turn. The
Boers were, however, driven back with the aid
of gun fire, and took up a rearguard position.
The Commanding Officer now sent Lieutenant
Price with a message to the firing line. When he
reached it he found Corporal Paul in command.
One officer (Lieutenant Dalmahoy) and two
men had been wounded, and Lieutenant Price
ran out of the very little cover the men had
been able to raise with their entrenching tools,
picked up the wounded officer (Lieutenant
Dalmahoy) by himself, and carried him in. The
work was heavy, and he called for three volun-
and the
receiving
in 1897,
teers to help him. Three young Lance-Corporals
responded : ami. to indicate their humane
intentions, he made tliem discard their coats and
equipment, doing the same himself, and then,
unarmed and in their shirt-sleeves, they ran
out to try and save the other wounded men. The
Boers, however, turned a heavy fire on the
small party, and in bringing the wounded back
one of the bearers was hit. For his gallantry
Captain Price was twice mentioned in Lord
Kitchener's despatches, (" London Gazette,"
20th August and 10th September, 1901) and
was recommended for the V.C. Corporal Paul
was promoted to Sergeant, and the three
young Corporals awarded the D.C.M."
Captain Price was also mentioned in Lord
Roberts's Despatchesof the 29th November, 1900.
He was awarded the distinction of the D.S.O.,
and on the conclusion of the Boer War received
the Queen's medal with three clasps and the
King's medal witli two clasps. He was also
given the Coronation medal of 1911.
At the manoeuvres of 1914 Captain Price was
employed as Staff Captain with Brigadier-
General Doran's 8th Brigade, and was serving
in the II Ird Division under the same officer when
killed at VaiUj-, France, on the 10th September,
1914, at the Battle of the Aisne while saving a
wounded Corporal being in command of the
battalion. He had been previously twice
wounded, first in the hand, and afterwards in
the leg, but did not go into hospital, and on
one occasion his horee was sliot under him.
Captain Price was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir
John French's Despatch of the 8th October, 1914.
While in England, Captain Price had gained
a pilot's certificate in aviation. He was an all-
round sportsman, excelling in hunting, polo,
motoring, golf, fishing, and was good at all
games. He was a member of the Naval and
Military Club, and the Royal Automobile Club,
and was also past Grand Sword Bearer of England.
CAPTAIN THOMAS LEWIS PRICHARD.
3rd BATTN. ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS,
born at Penmachno, Carnarvonshire, on the 1st
October, 1881, was the second son of the Rev.
Thomas Prichard, \'icar of Amlwch. Anglesey.
He was educated at Friar's School, Bangor, and
Trent College. He joined the 4th Battahon
Royal Welsh FusUiers in August, 1900, of which
he was for some time Instructor of ilusketry.
and left to join the 1st Battalion in South Africa
for the Boer \\'ar, being present at operations in
the Transvaal and Orange River Colony from
1901-02, for which he received the Queen's
medal with four clasps. He became an honorary
Lieutenant in the Army in October, 1900, and
Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of his regiment
in February, 1901. In 1907 he entered the
Reserve of Officers, and took up an appointment
under the Board of Agriculture, which he held
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till he joined the 2nd Battalion of his regiment at
Portsmouth on the 5th August, 19 li, proceeding
at once with the Expeditionary Force to France.
Captain Prichard, who was promoted to that
rank in September, 191i, was wounded on the
27th October, and died in the Allied Forces"
Base Hospital at Boulogne on the 9th Xovember,
1914. He was buried in Boulogne Cemetery.
He married, in August, 190S, Dorothy, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold McKenna, and niece of
the Right Hon. Reginald McKenna, Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and left two children :
Cicely Gwladys. bom May, 1909 : and Leopold
Owen, bom July, 1912.
His recreations were fishing, shooting, and
motoring.
CAPTAIN ARCHIBALD BERTRAM
PRIESTLEY. DORSETSHIRE REGI-
MENT, employed with 1st BATTN.
NIGERIA REGIMENT. WEST
AFRICAN FRONTIER FORCE.
died on the 12th
September, 1914,
of wounds received
at the Battle of the
Mame on the 9th
of that month.
He was bom on the
21st June, 1SS2, and
was educated at .St.
Pauls School (1896-
19<:m:i) and at the
R.M.C., Sandhurst,
receiving his com-
mission in the West India Regiment in
Xovember, 1903. He was promoted Lieutenant
in December, 1904, and in February, 1907.
exchanged into the Dorsetshire Regiment, in
which he became Captain in June, 1912.
In December, 1911, he was seconded for employ-
ment with the West African Frontier Force, and
was on leave in England when war broke out, so
rejoined the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment.
Captain Priestly married Bertha, second daugh-
ter of the late John Daker, J.P., of Caerieon,
Monmouthshire.
CAPTAIN ALICK LANCELOT
1st BATTN. THE LOYAL
LANCASHIRE
PRINCE.
NORTH
REGIMENT.
was officially reported
"killed" in action on
Sth Xovember. 1914:
but a subsequent
Casualty List shows
him as having been
officially reported
■• not killed but mis-
sing," and a stUl
later Casualty LLst,
of 7th June. 191.5.
shows him as having
been "unofficially reported killed." He was
the sixth son of the late T. T. Prince, of
Laurel Lodge. Bamet, and of ilrs. Prince, 44,
Grange Road, Ealing, was bom on the 12th
September, 1878 and was educated at Malvern
College, and Emanuel College, Cambridge,
where he took his degree of B.A. in 1S99.
He received his commission in the Manchester
Regiment in May 1901, becoming Lieutenant
in the following December. He took part in
the South African War, in which he was slightly
wounded, being present at operations^ in the
Transvaal, in 1901-02. receiving the Queen's
medal with three clasps. In February 1908 he
was transferred to the Loyal Xorth Lancashire
Regiment and from April 1910 t3 May 1913
was employed with the Malay States Guides,
being promoted Captain in .September 1912.
He rejoined the 1st Battalion of his Regiment
shortly before war broke out, and for his
services was mentioned in .Sir John French's
Desi)atch of the 30th Xovember, 1915.
As regards the Officers death, enquiries
through the Red Cross showed that Private
MtdhoUand of the Battalion informed a R.C.
representative that he saw Captain Prince shot
in the head some time in the first or second
week in Xovember, and the Private, who was
in Captain Prince's Company, is certain the
Officer is dead, and thinks he was buried at
a place he called Linden Forest near Ypres,
which may be Lindenhoek, close to Kemmel.
A Corporal of the Battalion aL-=o wrote most
circumstantially that he was next to the
Captain and saw him shot in the head, and
that he saw him lying dead twenty hours after,
but too near the German lines to be reached.
A Major of his Battalion writing in December
1914, said that from enquiries he had made he
feared it was true that Captain Prince was killed.
Captain Prince married Emma Caroline, daughter
of William Beadell Bacon. Tunbridge WeUs, and
left two sons, Harold, bom in Xovember, 1911,
and Ralph Bacon, bom in February, 1914.
CAPTAIN LEONEL GRAHAM PRIN-
G L E . M . V. O . . 1st BATTN. THE
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY.
son of the late James
Thomas Pringle,
Commander R.X., of
Torwoodlee, D.L.
for Selkirkshire,
J.P. for Roxburgh-
shire and .Selkirk-
shire : and grandson
of the late Vice-
Ad miral James
Pringle. of Torwood- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^Ij
lee.
was bom on
the 27th April, 1880, at Dtley, Yorkshire.
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He wa-i educated at Vitzthuiii Gymnasium.
Dresden ; at Sunningdale School ; at Radley
College ; and at the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He
subsequently qualified as an Army Interpreter
in German. He joined the Highland Light
Infantry in August, 1S99, becoming Lieutenant
in August, irtOll, and Captain in June, 1908. He
was awarded the il.V.O. for carrying the Colours
on their presentation to the 2nd Highland Light
Infantry by H.JI. Queen Alexandra, on behalf of
11. .M. King Edward VU, at Aldei-shot in 1903.
On tlie 19th December, 1914, he was danger-
ously wounded in the trenches, and taken
prisoner of war by the Germans when they
recaptured the position. He died on the 29th
December, 1914, at LUle. and was buried there
witli military honours.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT SCOTT
PRINGLE, 1st BATTN. THE QUEEN'S
OWN ROYAL WEST KENT REGT.),
who died on the 15th
September. 19U. of
wounds received on
the previous day at
the Battle of the
Aisne, was the only
son of Mr. and ilrs.
R. B. Pringle, of
Ardiuore, Guildford,
and B a d u 1 i p a r ,
Assam.
He was born on tlie
30th Novomber,1885 ,
and received liis commission in the Royal West
Surrey Regiment from the Militia in IMarch,
1907, getting his step in January, 1911.
CAPTAIN WALTER
CHETT, 1st BATTN
PENROSE PRIT-
GLOUCESTER-
SHIRE REGT.,
died on the 2t)th
December, 191-1, of
wounds received on
the 21st December
at Festubert.
The only son of
GL-orge Pritchett.
Esq., of Oakleigh,
Melbourne, he was
born on the 21st
December, 1879, and
was educated at the
Jlilitary Academy. Au>stralia, receiving his com-
mission from the Local .Military Forces, A'ictoria,
in the Gloucestershire Regiment in ilarch, 1901),
and becoming Lieutenant in July of the same year.
Captain Pritchett took part in the South
African War, being present at operations in
Natal and in the Orange River Colony, for which
he received the (Queen's medal with two clasps.
He obtained his company in October, 1908.
For his services in tlie Great War Captain
Pritchett was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 31st May, 1915.
He married, in November, 1909, Norma, daugh-
ter of the late Colonel G. Forbes, Argyll and
Sutherland Highlandei-s. of Clieltenham. He
was a memijerot the Sports Club : liis recreations
were cricket, football, hockey, and tennis.
C.\PTAIN the Honble. FRANCIS REG-
INALD DENIS PRITTIE, 5th RESERVE)
attd. 1st BATTN. RIFLE BRIGADE,
ITHE PRINCE CONSORTS OWN),
killed in action on
the 19th December,
1911, was the second
son of the 1th Baron
Dunalley, of Kilboy,
County Tipperary,
late of the Rifle Bri-
gade, and was bom on
the 15th October,
18S0. He received
his commission from
the ililitia in tlie
Rifle Brigade in June,
1900, becoming Lieutenant in May. 1901. From
January, 1907, to November, 1908, he wa«
employed on the Uganda-Congo Boundary
Commission, and from December, 1910, to
April, 1913, was Assist. Commr. in the Anglo-
Belgian and Anglo-German Boundary Commis-
sion, Uganda : from September. 1913, to April,
1911, he was employed on special duty in Egypt.
Captain Prittie, who was promoted to that rankin
May, 1908, was a qualified Interpreter in French.
For his services in the Great War he was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatches
of the Sth October, 1914, and 14th January,
1915. and was awarded the decoration of the
Legion of Honour on the 15th October, 1914,
for being " the last man to leave a trench under
very hot fire ; and it was his action that saved
the lives of many French soldiei-s." .
CAPTAIN THOMAS NORMAN PUCKLE,
LEICESTERSHIRE REGT.. employed with
the WEST AFRICAN FRONTIER FORCE.
burn at Mercara ,
Mysore. India, on
the ICtli February,
1875, was the son of
Colonel H. G. Puckle,
late of the Madras
StaffCorps.and a rela-
tive of Richard Kaye
Puckle, Esq., I.C.S.,
and of the late
George Hale Puckle,
Esq.,M.A., J.P.,D.L.
for Westmorland,
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and formerly Principal of the Old College at
Windermere.
He was educated at the Old College, Windermere,
and at Wellington College. He joined the
Leicestershire Regiment from the Militia in
December, 1897, becoming Lieutenant in Janu-
ary, 1900, and served through the South African
War, being present at the first action at the
Battle of Talana, went through the siege of
Ladysmith, and took part in the actions at
Lombard's Kop, Laing"s Nek, Belfast, and
Lydenberg, also in the opsrations on the Zulu-
land frontier in September and October, 1901.
He was twice mentioned in despatches (" Lon-
don Gazette," 8th February and 10th .Septem-
ber, 1901), and received the Queen's medal
with four clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps.
He was promoted Captain in February, 1908,
and in October, 1912, was seconded from his
regiment for service in the Nigeria Regiment,
West African Frontier Force, in which he was
given the temporary rank of Major from March,
1913. In this corps he trained the Hausa troops
— Mounted Infantry — and fell in action at
Garua in German West Africa (Cameroons) on
the night of the 30th August, 1914,
Captain Puckle's chief hobby was big-game
shooting, and he had many trophies, secured in
India and Africa : he was also fond of polo and
golf, and all forms of sport. He was a member
of the United Service and the Junior Naval
and Military Clubs, and of the Windermere
Golf Club. He was unmarried.
LIEUT. EDMUND ELGOOD PUNCHARD.
2nd BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGT.,
son of the Rev,
i Elgood George Pun-
chard, D,D. Oson.
Hon. Canon of Ely,
^^ and Vicar of Ely St.
' »"^^SB Mary's, was bom
at Christ Church
Vicarage, Luton,
Beds, on the 21st
October, 1890,
He was educated at
HaUeybury from
1902 to 1908, and
at the R,M,C,, Sandhurst, from 1909 to 1910,
where he was in the Gymnastic VI and gained
the bronze medal.
Lieutenant Punchard obtained liis commission
In the Bedfordshire Regiment in October, 1910,
becoming Lieutenant in Jime, 1912, He served
with his battalion in Bermuda (1910-11)
and in South Africa (1912—14), being Brigade
Signaller at Pretoria (1913-14),
He was killed in the Battle of Ypres on the 31st
October, 1914, when at the head of his platoon,
under the woods of Zandvoorde, near Gheluvelt,
Belgium, His name appeared in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
for gaUant and distinguished service in the field.
C.\PTAIN .\RTHUR KENNETH PUZEY,
4th BATTN. ROYAL FUSILIERS
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT),
was the only son of - - —
late ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^1 1
thur Robert Puzey,
R.E., and was born
at Boaz Island, Ber-
muda, on the 11th
ilarch, 1880,
He was educated at
Eastuian's School,
Stubbtngton, and
joined the ililitia,
from which he was
transferred in Au-
gust, 1900, to the 1st Royal Fusiliers as 2nd
Lieutenant : he was promoted Lieutenant
in February, 1904, and obtained his company
in November, 1909. From July. 1902. to August,
1903, he wa.s Station Staff Officer at .Mandalay :
and from November, 1903, to February, 1904,
held a similar appointment at Duui Dum, From
February, 1910, to February, 1913, he was
Adjutant of the 8th (Territorial) Battalion,
the Hampshire Regiment (Isle of Wight Rifles,
Princess Beatrice's).
Captain Puzey was kUIed in action near Ypres
on the 11th November, 1914,
He married Olive Hunter, younger daughter of
the late Mr, W, Pearce, of " Standen Elms,"
Isle of Wight, and left two cliildren, Eric, bom
September, 1911, and Olga Destree, bom
posthvmiously in July, 1915,
CAPTAIN JAMES PYM.\N.
BORDER REGIMENT
BATTN,
who was
action on
November,
the younger
the
MANCHESTER
killed in
the 18th
1914,wa.-<
son of
3rd BATTN.
. a ttd. 2nd
REGIMENT.
late James Py-
man. of Newcastle-
on-T\nie.
He was promoted
Lieutenant in .May.
1903, and became
Captain in the 3rd
Battalion of his regi-
ment in Mav. 1900,
C.\PTAIN EDW.\RD OWEN ; St. CYRES
GODOLPHIN OLICKE, 3rd lattd. Istt
B.\TTN. THE DEVONSHIRE REGT,,
of Ne\vton St. Cyres, who was killed in action
on the 25th October, 1914, was the eldest son
of Mr, and Mrs, Quicke, of Newton St. Gyres.
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He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in May,
1904, and became Lieutenant in his battalion
in September, 190S. He had been attaclied to
the Regular Forces, and obtained a satisfactory
report for the rank of field onicer, having quali-
fied at a School of Musketry.
The notification of his promotion to the rank of
Captain. fron\ 14th September, 1914, appeared
in tlie " London Gazette" of the 19th Novem-
ber, 1914.
He was mentioned in Sir Jolm Frencli's Des-
patch of thf 1 Itli .Tamiary. 1915.
CAPTAIN MILES RADCLIFFE. 2nd
BATTN. BORDER REGIMENT,
born at Wernetli
Park. Oldham, on
tlie 13th October.
18S3, was the son
of Henry Miles and
Emily Bertha Rad-
cliffe {nee Piatt), of
Werneth Park, Old-
ham, and Summer-
lands. Kendal, and a
grandson of the late
John Piatt, M.P.. of
Oldham.
He was educated at Cheam School and Harrow,
joining the Border Regiment after passing
through the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in January,
1904, becoming Lieutenant in August, 1906, and
Captain in November, 1914. He served for
three yeare in South Africa after the Boer War,
for most of the time with the Mounted Infantry.
While there lie played polo, and he was also fond
of hunting, and rode in point-to-point races.
Captain Radcliffe, who at the time of his death
was attached to the 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers
as Machine Gun Officer, was shot through the
heart on the night of the 12th December, 1914, it
is thouglit, by a sniper, near Ypres, w^hile re-
turning to a dug-out, and was buried in Kemmel
Churchyard. He was spoken of by his comrades
as a gallant and brave officer, greatly beloved
by his men, who all deeply regretted his loss.
Captain Radcliffe, married Dorothy Kathleen,
n^e Duffin, and left one son, utiles Claude, age
eleven months when his father died.
LIEUTENANT LESLIE CLAUDE MOOR-
RADFORD, 1st BATTN. SOUTH
STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
bom at 34, Cadogan Terrace, London, S.W., on
the 10th January, 1890, was the son of Alfred
Moor-Radford, Barrister- at -Law, and Mrs.
Blanche Moor-Radford ; his grandfather on the
paternal side was Francis Radford, Esq., of
Holland Park, Kensington, and Kentisbeare,
Devonshire, and on the maternal side Robert
Dawson Tewart, Esq., of Chiswick, and Coupland
Castle, Northumberland.
Lieutenant Moor-Radford was educated at
Eastman's Naval Academy, Winchester, and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He was gazetted 2nd
Lieutenant in April,
1910, and Lieutenant
in January, 1913,
serving at Devon-
port, Gibraltar, and
in South Africa.
On war being de-
clared, Lieutenant
Moor-Radford"s bat-
talion was stationed
at Pietermaritzburg,
and was brought home to form part of the
Vllth Division whicli landed in Belgium on
the Jth October, 1914. He was killed on the
26th of that month at Kruiseik, near Ypres,
being shot outside a trench, which he defended
under fire for fifteen minutes, altliough mortally
wounded, shouting to his men before he
succumbed to " charge and stick to it."
Lieutenant Moor-Radford was founder and editor
of the Regimental Gazette, the " Staflfordshire
Knot." His recreations were shooting, cricket,
motoring, riding, and golf, and he also wrote for
magazines and other publications, and was
interested in photography. He was a member
of the Conservative Club, St. James's Street.
LIEUTENANT SPENCER JULIAN
WILFRED RAILSTON, 18th KING
GEORGE'S OWN LANCERS,
INDIAN ARMY,
born at Hamilton,
Scotland,in January.
1889, was the youn-
ger son of Colonel H.
R. Railston and his
wife, Magdalen,
daughter of the Rev.
C. E. and Lady
Georgina Oakley , and
grand-daughter of
the second Earl of
Ducie. He was edu-
cated at Radley, whence he passed direct into
the R.M.C., Sandhuret, at the age of^seventeen,
and passed out in 1907,^takhig the tenth place.
He won the Champion Cup for gymnastics at his
public school, and represented it in the boxing
competition at Aldershot. Both at his public
school and at Sandhurst he was in the Cricket XI.
After getting his commission he was attached
for a year to his father's regiment : the Cameron-
ians. Soon after joining, while in India, he
entered without any training for the Lightweight
Boxing Championship of India, and won it.
At the expiration of a year he was appointed to
the 18th K.G.O. Lancers, and played in their
polo team. He was a good big-game shot and
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a good steeplechase rider. When riding a steeple-
cliase at Jubblepore a few mouths before his
death his girths broke after the first fence.
He managed to puU the saddle and weight cloth
from under him, and rode the remaining
two and a quarter miles bareback, carrying
them on his arm. and, notwitlistanding the
horse falling once, he managed to finish the course.
On completing tlie cavah'y course at Saugor
he came home on a year's leave in 191i,
and played polo tlirougli the London season in
Count de Madre's team {" the Tigers "). He
was to have become Adjutant of his regiment
on the expiration of his leave, but the Great War
broke out, and he at once volunteered for active
service, and was attached to the 4th Dragoon
Guards, with whom he went to the front, and
with whom he served from the Battle of Mons
and in all subsequent actions till he was killed
at Messines, Belgium, on the 1st November, 1914.
The Major-General Commanding tlie 1st Cavalry
Division sent tiie following account of Lieu-
tenant EaUston's death to his father : "I am
deeply grieved at the death of your gallant
boy, who on every occasion of this war has
so distinguislied himself. He is a great loss to
his regiment. He lost his life by a gallant act.
His regiment was holding one-half of the village
of Messines, south of Ypres, and the Germans
the other half for twenty-four hours. In
front of his troop a poor woman was lying
wounded, and your boy left his cover to bring
her in. He was struck by many buUets and
killed. Had he lived he would certainly have
been mentioned in despatches."
Another officer wrote as follows : " His loss
will be felt by the whole Cavalry Brigade, as
he has been simply splendid through aU these
trying times — always cheery and full of go, and
ready to take on anything. Surely, when the war
is over, there will be no more gaUant act than
that to write of, and we are all so proud of him."
A memorial tablet has been put up to his naemory
in Tort worth Parish Church, Gloucestershire.
LIEUTENANT DUNCAN GAVIN RAM-
SAY, ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT, attd.
2nd BATTN. THE QUEEN'S (ROYAL
WEST SURREY REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action on the 18th
December, 1914,
was the only son of
the late Alexander
and ill's. Ramsay of
H i 1 1 c o t e, E a s t-
bourne.
He was born at
Worthing, in Janu-
ary, 1893, and was
educated at Brad-
field College and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, joining
the Hoyal Sussex Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant
in January, 1913. being promoted Lieutenant
in November. 1914. He was a member of the
Junior United Service Club, and was fond of
Alpine sports.
The officer who took command of his regiment
gave the following account of the young officer :
" Your son has been attached to the 2nd
Queen's for the past month. We made an attack
on the enemy's trenches on the night of the
18th, and lost heavily. He was one of the
eight officers who went forward, all of whom
were wounded. Your son, I regret to say, is
missing. On the morning of the 19th we had a
local armistice to bury the dead and bring in the
wounded. As his body was not found, he
must have been wounded near the German
trenches, and taken in by them. Some of the
German officei-s told us they had a wounded
officer prisoner, and as your son was so popular,
two of our officers were allowed into the German
trenches to see him, and never came out again ;
they were also taken prisoners.
" Your son went forward with a part of his
company on the night in question to support
the attack of another battalion. The fire was
terrific, several machine guns and a continuous
roar of musketry. He came back to the trenches
shortly after to look, I think, for the remainder
of his company. He was seen to go back again
towards the enemy, and nobody saw him after
that. I might mention that your son liad shown
himself to be a very brave and gallant fellow,
absolutely fearless under heavy fire, and always
ready to risk his life at any time. Before the
attack took place he reconnoitred at night
the German lines, and several times got within
twenty yards of the enemy's main trenches.
He was fired on by the enemy at that distance
many times, but seemed to bear a charmed life.
However, his reconnaissance work was so good
that on the night of the 14th December he was
entrusted with an attack on the enemy's picket.
He took twenty-three men with him. He
successfully surprised the picket, killing two
and wounding two out of seven. He got in one
wounded German, and also brought back our
two casualties. This little affair took place four
hundred yards from our Unes, and only fifty
yards from the enemy's. The capture of a
German, dead or aUve, was most needed,
and this he managed to do, greatly to the joy
of the Staff, who obtained valuable information.
" I cannot tell you how much I regret losing his
services. I thought possibly you would like a
line from me, his Commanding Officer. I have
commanded this battalion since your son joined
it. After the affair of the 14th, I forwarded to
headquarters a report of the excellent work of
your son, and I know that his name has gone
forward for honours which he thoroughly
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deserved. 1 think it is a good sign, not finding
Ills body ; he is probably wounded and a
prisoner, and I hope it may be only a slight
wound."
Unfortunately this hope was not realized as it
was afti-rwards discovered that Lieutenant
Ramsay was killed on the above-mentioned
date. He was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915. for his
gallant conduct.
LIEUTENANT NORMAN RAMSAY,
RESERVE OF OFFICERS, attd. 4th
(ROYAL IRISH) DRAGOON GUARDS,
who was killed in action in France on the 4th
November, 1914, was the second son of the late
Captain John Ramsay, Royal Engineers, and of
Mrs. Ramsay, Cams HaU, Fareham.
He was born on the 20th April, 1,S80 ; re-
ceived a commission in the Royal Artillery
in January, 1900. being promoted Ijitutenant
in April, 1901, and served in the South African
War, for his services in which he was mentioned
in despatches. He retired from the service in
lOO.'?, and rejoined for the Great War, pro-
ceeding to P>ance in October, 1914. (" The
Times," 11th November, 1914.)
CAPTAIN HARRY SHERWOOD RAN-
KEN, V.C, ROYAL ARMY MEDI-
C.\L CORPS,
was born at Glasgow
on the 3rd Septem-
ber, 1883. He was
the son of the Rev.
Henry Ranken,
Minister of Irvine,
Ayrshire, and his
wife, Helen Morton.
He was educated at
Irvine Royal Aca-
demy, where he was
Dux boy in 1899,
and at CUasgow University, w^ere he obtained
the degrees of M.B., Ch.B., with commendation.
He entered the R.A.M.C, passing first in the
entrance exam., on the 3(lth .January, 1909, and
obtained many distinctions in the early part of
his military career, receiving medals for Patho-
logy, Tropical :Medicine, and Military Medicine,
with the prizes for Hygiene, and for the highest
aggregate of marks in the course open to
R.A.M.C. and I.M.S.
He passed his examination for Captain in 1911
with " special certificate," and was promoted
to that rank on the 30th July, 1912. He
had become a member of the Royal College of
Physicians, London, in 1910, was a member of
the Soudan Sleeping Sickness Commission, and
in charge of the Sleeping Sickness camp at Yei,
in the Lado Enclave, Western Mongalla, Soudan,
from 1911-14.
He was at home on leave when the war broke
out, and, having volunteered for active service,
went to the Continent with the first part of the
British Expeditionary Force. He soon distin-
guished himself by an act of bravery, for which
lie received the V.C, the followins; hcing the
ollicial record : —
" For tending wounded in the trenches under
rifle and shrapnel fire at Hautvesnes on Sep-
tember 19th, and, on September 20th, continuing
to attend to wounded after his thigh and leg
had been shattered."
He was also awarded the Cross of Chevalier
of the Legion of Honour " for gallant conduct
from the 21st^28th August, 1914."
Captain Ranten, V.C died at Braisne, France,
on the 25th September, 1914. from wounds
received at .Soupir.
He was a big-game hunter — elephant, bufTalo,
etc. — a member of the Royal Automobile Club,
and a scratch golfer.
CAPTAIN CLEMENT GASCOYEN
RANSFORD, 1st BATTN. SOUTH
STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
youngest sou of the late Colonel and Mrs.
Ransford, was unofficially reported to have
been kiUed on the 26th October, 1914.
He was born on the 19th April, 18S2, and was
educated at Bedford School from 1895 to 1900;
in September of the latter year he received
a commission in the Militia, and after being
attached to the Regulars for a year and two
months, was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the
Devonshire Regiment in December, 1901. He
took part in the South African War, being
present at operations in the Transvaal, the
Orange River and Cape Colonies, for which he
received the Queen's medal with five clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in May, 1904,
and in April, 1906, was transferred to the
Bhopal Infantry, Indian Army, in which he
became Captain in June, 1911. In November,
1912, he was transferred to the South Stafford-
shire Regiment.
LIEUTENANT URPETH RASTRICK,
2nd BATTN. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action at La Bass?e,
in France, on the
14th December,
1914, was the only
son of Mrs. Rastrick
and of the late
George Rastrick,
Esq., of Woking
Lodge, Woking, Sur-
rey.
He was born on the
10th February, 1889 was educated at Eton,
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RAT-REA
and joined the Xorthamptonshire Kegiment
from the Special Reserve Battalion of the
Royal Fusiliers in December, 1910, being
promoted Lieutenant in January, 1912.
LIECTENANT JOHN EDWARD
R A T C L 1 F F . 2nd B A T T N . ROYAL
WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action near Becelaere
on the 19th October,
1914. was the son of
J. F. Ratcliff, Wid-
ney Cottage, Knowle,
Warwickshire.
He was bom on the
27th Septeniber,
1S91, entered the
Royal Warn ickshire
Regiment from the
Special Reserve in
May, 1912, and became Lieutenant in August,
1913. He accompanied his battalion to Belgiimi
early in October, 1914, where it formed part of
the 22nd Brigade. Vllth Division.
LIEUTENANT VIVIAN TREVOR TIGHE
RE A. 2nd B ATTN. ROYAL IRISH RIFLES,
son of Henrj- Tighe
Rea, of Glandore
Park, Belfast, Vice-
Consul of the Xether-
lands and of the
Argentine Republic,
and grandson of the
late Hugh Rea, of
Clifton Lodge. Bel-
fast, was bom at
Mendoza, Argentina,
on the 17th August,
1S91.
He was educated at Campbell CoUege ; at
Queen's University, Belfast, where he took an
Honours degree : and at Trinity College, Dublin,
where he gained several important distinctions
in the Theological -School, including the Downes
prize for Oratory in 1914.
Lieutenant Rea had been Scoutmaster of the
Bangor (Co. Down) Troop of Boy Scouts, for
several years the first troop in Ireland, and was
Honorary Secretary of the LTster Scout Council
and an earnest worker among young men.
Many of his old boys serve'd in the (ireat War
and In the new Armies.
Lieutenant Rea Joined the 4th Battalion
Royal Irish Rifles (Special Reserve) in 1911,
being promoted Lieutenant in February. 1913,
and went to the front to join the 2nd Battalion
in September, 1914. He took part in some of
the fiercest fighting on the left of the Allies at.
and near Xeuve Chapelle. Two of his Captains
were lost within ten days, and he had held his
trench gallantly while in command of his
company. He was fatally wounded while
crossing from the reserve trench on the 25th
October, 1914.
His Scouts and fellow students at Trinity
College are erecting a memorial window at
Bangor (Co. Down) Parish Church to perpetuate
his name.
He was the first student of Trinity College to
fall in the war.
2nd LIEUT. ARTHUR BEDDOME
READ. 1st BATTN. PRINCE ALBERTS
(SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY,
was bom at Sior-
biton, .Surrey, on
the 20th January,
1891, having been
the son of the late
Robert Arthur Read,
Esq., and grandson
of the late Colonel
R. H. Beddome.
Madras Staff Corps,
and of the late Ro-
bert Arthiu- Read.
He was educated at
Sherborne School. Dorset, where he was a
Colour-Sergeant in the Officers' Training Corps.
He was gazetted to the Special Reserve in
April, 1912, and was commissioned 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the Somerset Light Infantry in
December. 1913. joining the 1st Battalion at
Colchester the following month.
2nd Lieutenant Read was killed by shrapnel
in the Battle of the Aisne. France, on the
16th September, 1914.
He was a member of the M.C.C. and was also a
fine Rugby forward, most of his work being
done for the Richmond Club until the 1913-14
season, when he played for the Army against
Sandhurst and Woolwich at Queen'.< Club.
LIEUT. JOHN HENRY' LOFTUS READE.
1st BATTN. THE MANCHESTER
REGIMEN T ,
who was killed in
action on the 29th
October, 1914, was
the son of John
Henry Reade,
Barrister - at - Law,
and succeeded, in
1S99, to the estate
of Castledown, in
the County of Fer-
managh, Ireland.
He was bom on the
21st February, ISSl. and was educated at
St. Coltmiba's College, Rathfamham, County
Dublin. Having served with the .5th ( Militia >
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Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, when embodied,
for a year and two months he received his
commission in the Manchester Regiment in
January, 1902. He took part in the South
African War, being present in the Orange River
Colony from August, 1901, to February, 1902.
He was promoted Lieutenant in October, 1903,
and from December. 1909, to November, 1012,
was Adjutant of his battalion.
He went out to tlie front witli the 2nd Battalion,
Manchester Regiment, from the (."urragh with the
Vth Division of the Expeditionary Force, and was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
8th October, 1914, for his good work at Le
Cateau. He was Acting Adjutant of the batta-
lion from the time of this action at Le Cateau
until the 29th October, wlien lie was killed at
Festubert.
CAPTAIN ERIC BRUCE REID, 1st
BATTN. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S
(NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGT.),
was the youngest
son of the late
Jlajor- General A. T.
Keid, Bombay Staff
Corps, of Derby
House, Victoria
Koad, Upper
Norwood.
He was born on the
2nd September,
1880, and was edu-
cated at Dulwich
College and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst. He joined the North
Staffordshire Regiment in January. 1900,
becoming Lieutenant in November, 1900, and
Captain in August, 1908.
He was killed in action on the 21st October,
1914, being shot dead near Amientieres, and
lies buried at Chapelle d'Armentieres, together
with two other officers of his regiment, who
fell in the same action.
Captain Reid was unmarried.
CAPTAIN EDWARD HARINGTON
REID, 2nd BATTN. SUFFOLK REGT.,
was the son of
O. Boileau Reid,
I.C.S. (retired), and
Mrs. Reid, of Fair
Hill, Camberley,
and was born at
Mount Abu, India,
on the 7th July,
1882.
He was educated at
Mr. Lee's School,
Forest Row, The
Park, Harrow : and
the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He was gazetted to an
unattached 2nd Lieutenancy in January, 1901,
and to the Suffolk Regiment in March of the
same year, and immediately i^roceedod on
active ser\nce in South Africa, being present
at operations in the Transvaal from May, 1901,
to May, 1902, receiving the (Queen's medal with
three clasps. From 1907-12 he served with the
King's African Rifles in Uganda, and took part
in the operations in Somaliland. 190S 10,
for which he received the medal. In 1911 he
was appointed Political Officer in LTganda, a
position he held for nearly a year. On his
leaving Uganda the Governor made the follow-
ing report to the Colonial Office : " Before
proceeding on tour the Governor desires to
take tlie opportunity of bringing to your notice
the excellent work performed by Captain Reid,
and the able assistance that this officer has
rendered to the Protectorate Government during
the period lie has acted in the capacity of
Political Officer of the Kigezi district, viz.,
from the 7th July, 1911, to the 15th .March,
1912. Captain Reid had to contend with
exceptional difficulties in administering this
new and unsettled district, which he has done
without assistance under trying circumstances.
He has shown marked administrative ability,
and maintained good order in a district wliere
the native population has been brought under
control for the first time. He has also furnished
the Government with valuable reports and maps
of a country practically unknown. Under the
circumstances I recommend that this officer's
name may be noted for special service, and
that his service as Political Officer in this pro-
tectorate may be brought to the notice of the
Secretary of State for War."
Captain Reid was a member of tlie Sports Club ;
and, having had special opportunities for big-
game shooting, had a very fine collection of
trophies.
He was serving with his regiment in the Great
War when at Le Cateau, on the 2(3th August.
1914, he was seriously wounded in the head,
and iiad been unconscious for some time when
his battalion, wliich was covering the British
retirement, suffered severe losses. Captain Reid,
according to a German report, died on the field.
He married Elsie Vivian, daugiiter of the late
Ernest C. Grant and Mrs. Grant, Fosse Bank.
East Camberley. A daughter was born after
her father's death on the 9th Mav. 191.").
LIEUTENANT JAMES LESTOCK IRON-
SIDE REID. 2nd BATTN. 2nd KING
EDWARD'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES,
was bom at Eastbourne on tlie 4th January,
1887, the only son of Colonel James Henry
Erskine Reid. late of the King's Own Scottish
Borderers. On iiis mother's side Lieutenant Reid
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was first cousin (two removed) of the late Briga-
dier-(ieneral John Nicholson, the hero of Delhi.
lieutenant Reid was
•-ducated at Welling-
ton College and at the
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He joined the Scot-
tLsh Rifles in October,
1 907 : was transferred
to the 10th Gurkhas
in September, 1909.
and to the 2nd
liurkhas in January,
1913.
He was killed in the
trenches at Xeuve Chapelle on the 2nd Novem-
ber, 1914, with all his brother officers.
Lieutenant Reid was fond of polo, football, and
hockey, and was good at all games. He was not
married.
LIEUTENANT RALPH ALEC REILLY.
31st PUNJABIS, attd. 58th V.\UGH.\NS
RIFLES.
youngest son of
Colonel B. L. P.
ReUly, Indian Army
I retired), was bom
at Jubbulpore,
India, on the 7th
January, 1889.
He was educated at
Cheltenham College,
where he was Cap-
tain of his house
boat : and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, obtaining his commission
in September, 190S. He was attached for a
year to the .Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham-
shire and Derbyshire Regiment), and was then
posted to the 31st Punjabis, of which he became
Quartermaster.
For active service in the Great War he was
attached to the 58th Vaughan's Rifles. Frontier
Force, and was killed near La Bassee on the
23rd November, 1914, while attempting with
only six Sepoys to stop the onrush of the 112th
German Infantry Regiment. He was buried In
Bethune Cemetery.
His father received the following letter from
Major Houston, commanding the 58th Rifles :
'■ His loss will be very keenly felt by us all, for
I have seldom seen a young officer so thoroughly
keen and efficient, and so dependable. . . .
Early on the 23rd I heard rumours of the line
away to our left being very hard pressed, so
I sent up your son to the trenches with extra
ammunition, and to bring back any reports he
could from our officers of the exact situation.
He arrived there safely, but, unfortunately,
the crisis developed very rapidly, and as he waa
returning along the covered way a mass of
Germans swept over the regiment on our left
and reached the covered way. The last seen
of your son alive was leading the half-dozen
men he had with him against an overwhelming
ntimber of Germans — as honourable a death as
is possible for a soldier. We subsequently
drove back the Germans, and recovered all the
ground lost and a good many prisoners. We
recovered your son's body, and. from the wound
in his head, his death must havf" hft-n instan-
taneous."
Colonel ReUly also received a telegram express-
ing the sympathy of Their Majesties the Bang and
Queen, and a letter of sympathy from the
Commander-in-Chief in India, on the loss of his
2nd LIEUTENANT GERALD LYONS
RELTON. 1st B.\TTN. EAST SURREY
REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action on the 14th
September, I9I4,
was the third son
of Mr. and >Irs.
A. J. Relton, 179,
Oakwood Court,
Kensin^on, W., and
wa,s bom on the
15th April, 1891.
He was educated at
Rugby, and obtained
his commission in the 3rd Battalion (Special
Reserve) of the East Surrey Regiment in Feb-
ruary. 1913. In the " London Gazette" of the
13th October, 1914 (that is, after his death), it
was notified that Lieutenant Relton was trans-
ferred to the East Surrey Regiment (Regular
Army) as 2nd Lieutenant with seniority from
the 14th August, 1914.
The following detaUs of his death were com-
municated to his father by the Officer Com-
manding the 1st Battalion. East Surrey
Regiment : " Tour son's death was much felt
by us all. He was a fine type of a man, and
promised to tiim out an excellent officer.
. . . Tour son received three bullet wounds on
the evening of the 14th -September on the
Chivres spur above Missy. He became uncon-
scious at once, and died almost directly he was
carried back. I was speaking to him just before
he was hit. He with others on the right of our
line were making a gallant stand against the
Germans who were in strength just ahead of us.
. . . We are glad to think that his name will be
borne on the roll of officers of the regiment, for
he was gazetted to us. though too late for him to
know."
He was a member of the Junior Army and Navy
Club.
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2iid LIEUTENANT LEONARD WYND-
HAM RKNDELL. 1st BATTN. BEDFORD-
SHIRE R E G T. .
wild was killcil in
action on tlic ITlli
October, U)l 1, in
Fiance, was the only
son of Jfr. and Mrs.
W y n d h a ni H .
Hendcll, of Shore-
ditch House, Taun-
^Ti ^^« . .' ^^^K ton, Somerset. He
was born on the
I'lith October, ISIHI,
and was educated at
King's t'olli-^r, 'I'auntDn. He was gazetted 2nd
Ijieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Bedfordshire
Regiment in September, 1910, and received his
commission in the 1st (Regular) Battalion in
Xovember, 1912.
He was shot and luortally wounded on the Kith
October, 1914, by three Uhlans concealed in a
house, while scouting in advance of his regiment,
and died the foUow'ing day. His name was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
1 1th January, 1915, for gallant and distinguished
conduct in the field.
He was very keen on all sports, a good shot and
a successful fisherman.
2nd LIEUTENANT DONALD WILLIAM-
SON RENNIE, 5th BATTN. ROYAL
FUSILIIRS CITY OF LONDON
R EG I M EN Tj ,
born in Glasgow
in .January, lS8;"i,
\\ as the son of John
R e n n i e , Esq.,
-M.I.E.?:., Electrical
Engineer, Civil Ser-
vice, of 28, Oxford
Koad, Putney, S.\^-.
He was educated at
St. Mark's Schools :
City of London
School ; and St.
John's College, Cambridge. In 1900 he gained
an Intermediate County Council Scholarship :
while at the City of London School he gained, in
1903, the Alston Special Prize for Physics and
Chemistry, and in 1904 the Beaufoy Scholar-
ship. He was also given an open Exhibition,
St. John's College, Cambridge, the Senior County
Exhibition, and the Price Prize and Medal for
Chemistry. At Cambridge, in 1905, and again
in 1906, he took the Wright Prize for Engineer-
ing Science ; and in 1901) a Foundation Scholar-
ship of the College ; also a premium for a paper
on " Electrification of Railways," obtaining his
degree of B.A. Engineering, and Class Honours
in 1907. lu the latter year he graduated as
B.Sc. (London LTniversity).
In 1908 2nd Lieutenant Rennie entered the
works of Messrs. Yarrow & Co., Engineers and
Shipbuilder, filasgow, remaining there till on
the tith August, 1914, when he joined the Royal
Fusiliers, having previously belonged to the
O.T.C. and the Special Reserve of Officers.
For active service he was attached to the 1st
Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and
arrived in France on the 12th October, 1914.
From his correspondence while on service several
very interesting letters to his parents have been
thought worthy of incorporation in a little
Vjooklet which was liighly reviewed in " Great
Deeds of the Great War" tor l''ebruary, 1915.
2nd Lieutenant Rennie was killed on the 11th
November, 1914, during a night attack on the
trenches near Armentieres. He was buried
where he fell.
Major A. J. Poole, Commanding 1st Royal
W'arwicks, wrote that " he died doing his job
as well as, if not better than, any professional
soldier of my acquaintance."
The Officer Commanding his company gave the
following account of his fall : " He was kiUed
about 8.30 p.m. last night (11th November)
by the burst of a shrapnel shell during a night
attack on our trenches. From what the men
tell me, he was walking along the trench he was
in charge of, directing their fire and encouraging
them, and doing his duty when he met his death.
It was, I believe, instantaneous. . . . During
his short time with us he was liketl and ti'usted
by oflieers and men."
Another comrade, an old schoolfellow, wrote :
" He was a good comrade, quiet, shrewd,
k'ndly, and with a fund of humour. Anything
like bravado was foreign to him, but I remember
him saying quietly, only about ten days ago,
that he was prepared to die, and that if one did,
one was joining a company of gallant gentlemen."
In the " Eagle " for March, 1915, a magazine
of St. John's College, Cambridge, appeared an
appreciative memoir.
So died a gallant young officer who had, only a
few months before, in answer to the call of his
country, abandoned what gave every promise
of being a iiiost prosperous civil career.
MAJOR HENRY BINGHAM WHISTLER
SMITH-REWSE, p.s.c, ROYAL FIELD
ARTILLERY,
who died on the
2 2nd November,
1914, of wounds
received in action
near Ypres, was the
eldest son of Colonel ^^^ __^
and Mrs. Smith- ^H^ V
Rewse, The Lodge,
Alphington, Exeter.
He was bom on the
22nd August, 187ti,
and educated at
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Dover College, King's S<;hooL Rochester, and
the R.M.A., Woolwich. He joined the Roy:J
Artillery in 1S97, becoming Lieutenant three
years later. From June, 1901, to July, 1904,
he was employed with the West African Frontier
Force. He was promoted Captain in March,
1902, and from September, 1904, to October,
1905, he was Instructor and Officer of a company
of Gentlemen Cadets (Class ' B ') at the Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich. He was a gradu-
ate of the Staff CoUege at Quetta and a 1st
Class Interpreter in French, and obtained his
Majority in April, 1914.
When in command of the .51st Field Battery
at the front, and under heavy shell fire, he left
his dug-out to attend men reported wounded,
and was hit in the head by a splinter of shell.
He was buried at Poperinghe.
Major Smith-Rewse married, on the Itjth
September, 1911, Olive, eldest daughter of the
late Sir Oliver St. John, K. C.S.I. , Resident at
Mysore, India.
CAPTAIN HENRY CLENDON COLLIS
REYNOLDS. 3rd BATTN. THE DURE
OF EDINBURGH S WILTSHIRE REGT. •
who was killed in action on the 19th September,
1914, in France, aged thirty years, was the only
son of T. C. and Mrs. Reynolds, of 92. Cambridge
Gardens, North Kensington, London, W.
Captain Reynolds served during the South
African War, 1901, in St. Helena, receiving the
Queen's medal. He was appointed 2nd Lieu-
tenant in his battalion in June. 1901, and be-
came Captain in 3Iay, 1906. He had qualified
at a School of Musketry, and had obtained, after
being attached to the Regular Forces, a satis-
factory report for the rank of Field Officer.
C.\PT. THOMAS JAMES REYNOLDS. 3rd
attd. 2nd BATTN. ROYAL IRISH RIFLES.
who was shot by a
sniper at Neuve
Chai)elle on the 25th
October, 1914, was
the second son of
the late Thomas
.James Reynolds,
C.E., Ceylon, and of
his first wife, Mar-
garet, eldest
daughter of the late
Dr. Slevin, Long-
ford, Ireland,
and nephew of the late Deputy Surgeon-General
Reynolds.
He was bom in Ceylon on the 19th January,
1S71, and educated at Terenure College, County
Dublin ; and Belvidere College, Dublin, joining
the Royal Irish Fusiliers from the Militia
Id April, 190<D. He was employed with the
Gold Coast Constabulary and the King's African
Rifles from April. 1900, to October, 1902,
during which time he took part in operations in
Ashanti, for which he received the medal. He
was promoted Lieutenant in February, 1902,
and Captain in the Royal Irish Rifles in May,
1909. From March, 1910, to January, 1911,
he was an Adjutant of the Territorial Force,
and in May, 1914, was appointed Adjutant of
the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion of his regim^ent.
Captain Reynolds, who was a member of the
United Service Club, Dublin, and the Junior
United Service Club, London, was a keen and
enthusiastic cricketer, and was a member of the
Leinster Cricket Club, Dublin. He was un-
married.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM SUTTOR RICH.
1st BATTN CHESHIRE REGIMENT.
who died on the 9th ^^^^^^^^^^S^^SB
November, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^B*
a wound in the head,
was the son of Wil-
liam Morton Rich,
of Mount Victoria.
New South Wales,
both his parents
being Australians.
On his mother's side
he was a grandson
of the fust Bathurst
.Suttor, and on lus
father's side a grandson of the natu: - . ■-.;
Thomas 3Iitchell's Expedition.
He was bom in Geneva, Switzerland, on the
3rd August, 1S79, and was educated at " The
SchooL" Mount Victoria, New South Wales.
He went to South Africa to take part in the
Boer War with the second contingent, and was
appointed Galloper to Colonel Knight. For
some months while he was with the Australians
he was Orderly to two General Officers : and in
May, 1900, was given his coounission in the
Cheshire Regiment. He served in the Cheshire
Mounted Infantry in that war, in the course of
which he was wounded, taking pait in operations
in the Orange Free State, including actions at
Driefontein, Poplar Grove, Karee Siding, the
Vet and Zand Rivers : also in the Transvaal,
including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria,
and Diamond Hill : again in the Transvaal,
east of Pretoria, including operations at Riet
\Tei and Belfast ; and was present at later
operations in the Transvaal, Orange River
Colony, and Cape Colony. He received the
Queen's medal with five clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in February, 1902,
and from Africa went to India, being stationed
at Quetta with the 1st Battalion of his regiment
for sis months. He was then appointed Sec-
tional Officer at Mount Abu, in the Punjab, and
RIC
■SM)
afterwards came to England witli bis liattalidii.
From l!)(l."> to ISIOO, liavint; been promolcd
Captain in November, 1907, be was cmi)loyed
with the West African Frontier Force, and was
for a time Commandant at Katsena, and later
served at Sierra Leone.
On the outbreak of the Great War he pro-
ceeded to the Continent with the ^■th Division
of the Expeditionary Force, and fought at
Mons, and in the retirement tlierefrom, during
which bis battalion lost half its ollicers.
All that remained of the 1st Cheshires during
the action at Le ("ateau on the 26th August, were
in reserve, but found themselves called upon to
help in covering the retirement of other troops.
Captain Kich, with a Subaltern, a Sergeant, and
seven men, held a shallow trench on the left ;
and with another small party posted on a ridge
to the right succeeded in holding up some hun-
dreds of the enemy, and so secured the retire-
ment of the troops, who passed between the
parties. It was for this fine piece of work that
Captain Rich was tust mentioned in despatches.
The men of the battalion used to speak of Cap-
tain Rich as a fataUst, for when spoken to about
exposing himself he laughingly said, " I know
I was never born to be shot," and he appeared,
for a time, to have such a charmed life that the
men of his company began to believe there was
something in his confidence in his future.
But it was destined otherwise, for after several
escapes he received a wound in the jaw on the
20th October. Although Ids wound prevented
him from eating for three days he was still as
cheerful as ever, and the life and soul of his
battalion.
Two days later, while acting es Second in
Command of his battaUon and defending his
trenches at ^'iolaines, near La Bassee, he
received his fatal wound during a sudden on-
slaught by the enemy. With sevei'al other
wounded oflicers he was taken prisoner, and
removed to a hospital at Namur, and later to
the MUitary Hospital, 4th Army Corps, Douai,
France, where he died on the above mentioned
date.
Captain Rich was twice mentioned for his
gallantry in Sir John French's Despatches of the
8th October, 1914, and of the 14th January,
1915.
CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD AUSTIN
STEWART. RICHARDSON, 14th
BARONET. 3rd fattd. 1st) BATTN.
THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL
HIGHLANDERS), died on the 28th November,
1914, from the effects of wounds received at
Ypres on the 27th October. He was the eldest
son of Sir James Stewart-Bichardson, thirteenth
Bart., Pencaitland, Pitfour Castle, Perth, N.B.,
and was bom at Edinburgh on the24th July, 1872.
He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College,
tilerialmond, Perthshire. In September, 1890,
he joined the :5rd
Hattalion Royal
UighLindeis, being
promoted Lieutenant
m March, 1892, and
Captain in February,
1900 ; from 1899-
1902 he was A.D.C.
to the Governor of
(Queensland. In the
South African War
he served with the
2nd Battalion of the
Black Watch and with (he (Jiucnslaiid .Muimted
Infantry, takmg part in the operations in the
Orange Free State, including the action at \ei
River, and in the Orange River Colony, including
the actions at Rhenoster River, Wittebergen, and
Witpoort, receiving the Queen's medal w ith two
clasps.
CJn volunteering for service in the Great War
he was attached to the 1st Battalion of his old
regiment, and was serving with it when killed.
He was a member of the Caledonian and the
Royal Automobile Clubs, London, and of the
New Club, Edinburgh. He married Lady
Constance Mackenzie, younger daughter of the
second Earl of Cromartie, and left two sons :
Ian Rory Hay, who succeeds him in the title at
ten years of age ; and Torquil Cathel Hugh,
aged six years at the time of his father's
death.
LIEUTENANT MARTIN JAMES
RICHARDSON, M.B., ROYAL ARMY
MEDICAL CORPS, "C " SECTION,
2 1st F 1 E L
who was killed in
action on the 3rd
November, 1914,
before Ypres, and
was burled in the
cemetery there, was
the youngest son of
.Martin Richardson,
Esq., Solicitor, Bose-
viUe, Bridlington,
Y'orkshire, where he
was born. His uncle
was Major-General
George B. Heastey, R.M.L.I.
He was educated at Durham School and
Edinburgh University, where he took his
medical degree, and on the outbreak of the war
volunteered for temporary service, receiving
his commission as temporary Lieutenant in
August, 1914. He proceeded to Belgium
with the Vllth Division in October, 1914.
For his services in the war he was mentioned
in Sir John French's Despatch of the 14th
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January, 1915, " for gallant and distinguished
service in the field," and was confirmed in his
rank of Lieutenant " in recognition of his good
service and ability."
Lieutenant Richardson married .Maud, yoiuige.st
daughter of Dr. Eagland, Burlej-wood, Harro-
gate, and left three children : Xorman Martin
Heastey, bom Xovember, 1893, who was
gazetted to the Koyal Marine Artillery as 2nd
Lieutenant (temporary) in .September, 1914,
and promoted Lieutenant in January, 191.5 ;
Dorothy Jennie Heastey, bom February. 1896 :
and Evelyn Joan Victoria Heastey, born
January, 1901.
LIEUTENANT LESLIE RICHMOND. 1st
BATTN. GORDON HIGHL.\NDERS,
who was reported as kUled in action in the
official list of casualties issued by the War Office
on the 11th September, 1914, was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Eichmond, of Kippenross,
Dunblane, and Hadden Rig, New South Wales.
He was bom on the 13th June, 1888. entered
the Gordon HigUanders as 2nd Lieutenant in
August, 1900, and became Lieutenant in
February, 1909.
Lieutenant Richmond married, four months
before his death, Ruth Margaret, elder daughter
of Captain Greenwood, of Swarcliffe, Birstwith.
CAPTAIN T. H. RICHMOND. 3rd
lattd. 2nd BATTN. THE KINGS OWN
I YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY i,
died on the 1st Xovember, 1914. of wounds
received in action.
He was appointed 2nd Lleuten.ant in the 2nd
(Volunteer) Battalion of the Border Regiment
in December, 1902, and became Lieutenant in
August, 1904, from wliich he was promoted
into the 3rd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry on the 4th September, and
obtained his company in .September, 1914.
M.\JOR STU.\RT HAMILTON RICK-
.MAN. 2nd BATTN. THE RIFLE BRIG-
ADE (THE PRINCE CONSORTS OWNi,
was the eldest
surviving son of
the late Lieutenant-
Colonel Albert
Divett Rickman, the
Rifle Brigade, and
of ifrs. Edward
Dium, of Childrey
ilanor. Wantage,
Berkshire.
He was born on the
nth May, 1872, at
Chatham: was
and passed second on the
educated at Eton ;
list in the Militia competitive examination for
the Army. He was gazetted to the 3rd
Battalion the Rifle Brigade in 1893, and joined
at Rawal I'indi in Xovember, becoming Lieu-
tenant in JIarch, 1896, and Captain in 1900.
From 1897-98 he was on active service in the
Tochi Valley, north-western frontier of India,
receiving the medal with clasp. In 1899,
being at home on leave, he applied for active
ser\-ice in the .South African campaign, and
joined the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade as their
Transport Officer. He was in the actions of
Colenso, Spion Kop, Tugela Heights, Vaal
Krans, Pieter's Hill, and relief of Ladysmith ;
and was mentioned in Sir Redvers BuUer's
Despatch of the 30th March, 1900, for gaUant
and meritorious service, and again in Lord
Roberts' Despatch of the 4th September, 1901.
He received the Queen's medal with three clasps.
He saw ser\-ice in the West African Field Force
from May, 1907. to Xovember, 1908, and
received his Majority in December, 1911.
In March, 1914, he came home on leave from
India, and when war with Germany broke out
placed ills services at the disposal of the War
Office. He was attached again to the 1st
BattaUon the Rifle Brigade, and with them went
out from Colchester on the 22nd .\ugust, 1914,
and was mortally wounded while commanding
them in their retirement on the 26th of that
month in the Cambrai-Le Gateau action, dying
of his wounds the following morning (27th
August. 1914), in the temporary hospital, Fon-
taine au Pire, Cambrai.
It was written of him, in connection with his
work on the 26th August : " He was a man —
the best man in that battle. His conduct
was magnificent. He died gloriously — a loss,
not only to the Rifle Brigade, but to the Army
and the nation. All loved him. A splendid
soldier and man. always cheery, he was just the
bravest of the brave."
Another officer wrote of him : " He was the
best, the cheeriest, always the same, always
helping people along with a cheery word and
act, and that is pricele.ss in really hard times.
His death is a great sorrow to his brother
officers and a great loss to the Rifle Brigade."
His Eton Master wrote : "He was a boy of
whom I always felt sure that he would grow up
as he did — a high-minded, straightforward
man. with a great power of affection and of
inspiring affection, fearless in life, fearless in
death, the kind of man that makes England,
and that England mourns and is proud of in
life or in death."
He was officially reported woimded and missing
in September. 1914, but through the Amiy Sur-
geon of the 1st Battalion the Rifle Brigade,
who was a piisoner of war in Germany, definite
details of his death were received later. .Major
Rickman was mentioned in Sir John French's
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Despatches of the Sth October, 191-1, and the
14th January, 1915, for gallant and distin-
guished service in the field.
He was a keen soldier, fond of sport, hunting,
polo, and shooting, and had some good trophies
of big game from the Himalayas, Baltistan, and
Nigeria. He was a member of the Army and
Xavv Club, and was unmarried.
Lancaster Regiment, in June, 1910, becoming
Lieutenant in June, 1913, and joined the 2nd
Battalion for active service at tlie commence-
ment of the war.
Lieutenant Ripley was mentioned for his ser-
vices in the Great War in Sir Joiin French's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915, tor gallant
and distinguished service in the field.
LIEUT. DAVID
R O Y A I. A R M \
WYLIE RINTOUL,
MEDICAL CORPS,
horn on tlie 23rd
jj^^^^^^^^^^ .May, 18S9, at
Clifton, Bristol, was
the son of David
R i n t o u 1 , M.A.,
House Master at
Clifton College.
He received his edu-
cation at Clifton
CoUege and St.
Andrews Tni-
vei"sity, wlicre he
graduated M.B.,
Ch.B., passing into the R.A.M.C. in January,
1914. On mobilisation for the war he was posted
to No. 5 Field Ambulance, Ilnd Division, being
afterwards appointed Medical Oflicer in Charge
of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards on the
2nd September, and transferred on tlie 19tli
September to the 3rd Battalion of tliat regiment.
Lieutenant Rintoul was killed not far from St.
Julien, near Ypres, on the 21st October, 1914,
while advancing wth the leading company.
The Officer Commanding 3rd Battalion Cold-
stream Guards wrote of him : " He was brave
and fearless, and most gallant. He had no idea
what fear was, his one idea being to assist the
wounded."
LIEUTENANT CHARLES ROGER RIP-
LEY 3rd (attd. 2nd) BATTN YORK
AND LANCASTER REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action near LiUe on
the 22nd October,
1914, was the son of
the late Sir Fred-
erick Ripley. Bart.,
and Katherine Lady
Ripley, of Earl's
Avenue, Folkestone,
and a grandson of
Sir Henry Ripley,
Bedstone Court,
Shrop.shire. He was
bom at Scarborough on the 13th November.
ISSS.
Educated at Farnborough School and Chelten-
ham College, he entered the Army as 2nd
Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion York and
MAJOR ROBERT EDWARD RISING,
D.S.O., 1st BATTN. GLOUCESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT,
was bom on tlio
23rd May, 1871, the
son of Thomas and
Kate Rising, of The
.Manor House,
Ormesby, Great ^ ^-' " %'
Y'armouth, Norfolk.
He was educated at
Charterhouse, where
he was in the Foot-
ball XV and in the
Cadet Corps : and
at Trinity College, Cambridge. He passed into
the R.M.C., Sandhurst, sixth on the list, and
passed out twelfth ^vith honours, receiving his
commission in the (iloucestereiiire Regiment in
November, 1892. He obtained his Company in
February, 1900.
Major Rising took part in the South African
War. being present at the relief of Kiniberley,
and at operations in the Orange Free State,
including actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove,
and Drietontein, and also in Natal. He received
the Queen's medal with foui' clasps. He obtained
the " extra " certificate in musketry in 1898,
and in November, 1902, passed the examination
for promotion, attaining the liigher standard
of proficiency, carrying a special certilicate. In
April, 1906, he passed the signalling course,
also with the special certificate.
In the earlier part of the Great War Major
Rising was awarded the D.S.O. for gallant
action at the defence of Langemarck on the
23rd October, 1914, when he went up with
supports, and conspicuously controlled the
defence of the battalion's trenches against a
determined attack by the enemy. But for this
stout defence the line would have been pene-
trated. He received liis Majority in November,
1914, the promotion not being gazetted till after
his death.
Major Rising, who had been wounded at Klein
ZiUebeke, was killed in action at the first Battle
of Y^pres on the 7th November, 1914.
He was twice married : in 1896 to Amy
Worship, who died the following year ; and
in 1901 to Constance Elizabeth, youngest
daughter of Colonel B. W. Edis, C.B., of The
Old Hall, Ormesby, Great Yarmouth : and left
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Co. Cork, on
was educated
Gloucestershire,
two cUadren : Robert Edis. bom August,
1905 : and Elsie ilary Elizabeth, born July,
1909.
Major Rising was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
2nd L1EUTEN.\NT A R C H 1 B .\ L D
FREDERICIC RITCHIE. 1st BATTN.
THE KINGS OWN YORK-
SHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY).
who was killed at
Le Cateau on the
26th August, 19U,
was the son of the
late Major John
Robert Ritchie,
Royal Garrison
Artillery, and a
grandson of Major-
General .T. Ritchie.
Montagu House,
Southsea. He was
bom at Queenstown,
the Gth October, 1S94. and
at Biightlands. Newnham,
where he was the best all-
round boy in games and athletic sports. In
1909 he went to Haileybury College (Trevelyan),
where he won the bronze medal for swimming,
1910 ; House badge. 1910 : and football stars,
1911. From Haileybury 2nd Lieutenant Ritchie
passed into the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, and received
iiis commission in the King's Own in February,
1914.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR GERALD RITCHIE,
1st BATTN. THE CAMERON! ANS SCOT-
TISH RIFLES,
was the second son
of the late \\Llliam
Irvine Ritchie, of the
Board of Education.
He was bom on
the 30th October,
1S79, and was edu-
cated at St. Paul's
School, 1893-97. He
made his mark in
school life, being a
Foundation Scholar,
winner o£ the John Watson and Landscape
prizes three years in succession, and winner of
the Shepard Cup for athletics in 1897. He also
played for the First XV. He joined the 1st
Battalion Scottish Rifles in February, 1899,
becoming Lieutenant in January, 1900, and
Captain in October, 190(5. In November,
1909, he was appointed Adjutant of the East
Indian Railway Volunteer Rifles. He still
held that post in the summer of 1914, up to
which time his military service had been wholly
Ln India.
^B^
it'
M JMii^.
He was in England at the outbreak of the war ;
and, after some service with reserves of his
regiment, he rejoined his original battalion at
the front on the 11th October, 1914. On the
23rd he was given the conunand of " C "
Company, holding an advanced trench and
farmhouse near La BoutUlerie. west of LiUe.
Here an eventful week culminated in an attack
by the enemy during the night of the 29th-30th
October, which was successfully repidsed. It
was during a lull in this attack that Captain
Ritchie fell severely wounded by a sniper. He
died at Boulogne on the 22nd November
following, and was buried in the cemetery there.
He was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of the 14th January, 1915.
Captata Ritchie was a keen sportsman and big-
game shikari. He was a clever draftsman, and
from childhood onwards used to Ulustrate his
letters and diaries viith amusing sketches. He
was not married.
MAJOR ALEXANDER K I R K L A N D
ROBB. 2nd BATTN. DURH.\M LIGHT
INFANTRY.
was the eldest son
of Lieutenant-
Colonel R o b b ,
I.M.S., M.D., of
Aberdeen, and was
bom at Poona,
India, on the 26th
August, 1872.
He was educated at
Aberdeen Grammar
School, and after-
wards at Aberdeen
University, proceeding to the R..M.C., Sandhurst.
On leaving the college he passed out first with
honours, and was awarded the Anson Memorial
sword.
Major Robb was gazetted to the 2nd Durham
Light Infantry as 2nd Lieutenant on the 20th
May, 1893, becoming Lieutenant on the 21st
May, 1896 ; Captain, 19th February, 1900 :
and Major, 23rd August, 1913. He was on
active service, attached to the Yorks. Light
Infantry, in the Tirah campaign of the north-
western frontier in 1897 and 1898. Here he
greatly distinguished himself, volunteering with
only one non-commissioned officer and one
private to keep the enemy oft" a peak on the
flank, which, had it been captured, would have
exposed the British force to a heavy flanking
fire. Major Robb fought with his revolver only,
using up all his cartridges. To the surprise of
£dl. he and his comrades returned safely when
the order to retire was given. For his gallantry
Major Robb was twice mentioned in despatches
and received the Tirah medal with two clasps.
Colonel Seppings, Commanding the Yorkshire
Light Infantry, wrote to Major Robb's own
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(,'oiiiiiiandiiii; Officer a most appreciative report
of his conduct in tliis campaign ; and .Major
Uobb's t'ommauding Officer, writing to the
Brigadier-tieneral, said : " The Yorks. Light
Infantry are speaking in the highest terms of
yoimg Robb at the fight in the Shin Kamar."
Later Major Robb was attached to the Burma
Intelligence Branch in connection with the
Chinese Boundary Commission for recon-
naissance duty during the cold season of 1899-
1900. lie was Adjutant of the Rangoon
Volunteer Rifle Corps, 1902—07. Returning to
England, he served at the depot of his regiment,
Xewcastle-on-Tyne, from 1910-12. In Sep-
tember, 1912, he was appointed Adjutant of
the Durham University Officers' Training Corps
and Lecturer in Jlilitary Education. The
University recognised his services by granting
him the honorary degree of M.A. in June, 1913.
On mobilisation for the Great War he was re-
called to his regiment in August, 19 li, and early
in .September proceeded to the front with his
battalion. At the Battle of the Aisne, in his
battalion's first engagement on the 20th Septem-
ber, 1914, ha\'ing reached the trenches the night
before, Major Robbwasseverely wounded, but con-
tinued to lead his men, falling at last within forty
yards of the enemy's trenches. He was carried to
the rear, and died of his wounds the sanae night.
Major Robb played Rugby football and hockey
for his regiment. He married, in 1904, Ethel
Violet (Queenie), daughter of the late Edward
Rule, Comptroller Indian Treasuries, I.C.S,
(uncovenanted), and left two children : Sheila
Kirkland, born in 1905 ; and Betty Kirkland,
bom 1907.
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT ANTHONY GERALD
MA LP AS ROBERTS, SPECIAL
RESERVE, attd. 2nd BATTALION.
ROYAL INNISKILLING FUSILIERS,
was born in London
on the 29th July,
1895, the son of
ilr. and ilrs. J. H.
Malpas Roberts, U),
Dumbarton Road,
Brixton Hill, and of
Chester.
He was educated at
Ardingly College,
Sussex, where he was
Victor Ludorum for
three years in
succession, 1911—13 (Public Schools record).
He joined the O.T.C. in 1911, was awarded
Certificate "A" in 1913. and in -May of the same
year joined the Special Reserve of the Royal
Inniskilling F\]siliers. On mobilisation he was
gazetted to the regiment as 2nd Lieutenant,
and attached to the 2nd Battalion.
In 1914 he became a member of the London
Athletic Club, and at tlie Jubilee Meeting in
Jidy won the membei-s" two hundred and twenty
yards. He also won many other events in
different parts of England, and was looked upon
as one of the most promising young sprinters of
the year.
He was killed in action on the 21st October, 1914,
wliile saving a desperate situation at Le Gheer,
one and a half miles east of Ploegsteert, Flanders.
CAPTAIN KENNETH FORBES-ROBERT-
SON, 2nd BATTN. SE.\FORTH HIGH-
LANDERS ROSS-SHIRE BUFFS,
THE DUKE OF .\LBANYSl,
born at Slead Hall,
Brighouse, York-
shire, on the 17th
April, 1882, was the
elder son of the late
Farquhar Forbes-
Robertson and ilrs.
Forbes - Robertson,
of Keynsham
Bank, Cheltenham,
grandson of the late
William Forbes-
Robertson, of Hazle-
head, Aberdeen, and great-grandson of William
Forbes of Edit, of the family of Watertoune.
He was educated at Cheltenham College and
the R.il.C, Sandhurst. In August, 1900, he
received his conuixission, and was posted to the
1st BattaUon of the Seaforth Highlanders,
becoming Lieutenant in May, 1902.
He saw active service in East Africa Ln 1904,
taking part in the operations in Somaliland
and the action at Jidballi, for wliich he received
the medal with two clasps. He was also on
active service on the north-western frontier of
India in 1908, receiving the medal with clasp.
In the spring of 1914 he left the 1st Battalion
in India to take up duty at the depot. Fort
George, and on the 5th October went out to
join the 2nd Battalion in France,
He was killed on the 7th November, 1914,
while leading a reconnoitring party in Ploegsteert
Wood. A correspondent wrote in " The Times "
of the 24th November, 1914 : " The loss to
the Seaforth Highlanders of Captain Kenneth
Forbes-Robertson, whose death was announced
in ' The Times,' will be very deeply felt. His
death is a heavy blow to his comrades, who
valued his good-fellowship to the point of love.
It is their desire to record a personal sorrow,
which carmot find a place in the annals of the
regiment, and to pay a tribute to the memory
of a man who was a brave soldier to his country,
and to them a very genial, constant friend."
Captain Forbes-Robertson, who was promoted
to that rank in April, 1911, was a member of the
Caledonian Club, St. James's Square, London,
and was unmarried.
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CAPTAIN LEWIS ROBERTSON. 1st
BATTN. THE QUEEN'S OWN
CAMERON HIGHLANDERS,
who died at Ypres
^^ P from wounds re-
^J^^Ok I ceived in action on
^^^^r^k i the 2nd November,
^^ I ' 1914, was the third
^1^ fHp Y ' s*"! of tile late James
Robertson, 7,
ICglinton Crescent,
Edinburt^li.
He was bom on tlie
4th August, 1883,
and educated at
Cargilfield, Fettes ;
and the R.M.C., Sandluirst. from which lie
passed out with iionours. He joined the Cameron
Highlandere in April, 1903, becoming Lieutenant
in March, 1909. In June, 191 1 , he was appointed
Assistant Superintendent of Gymnasia, Eastern
Command ; and he was gazetted Captain on the
lOth January, 1915, to date from the 30th
September, 1914.
Captain Robertson was a member of the LTnited
Service Club. He was an entliusiastic football
player, and belonged to the following football
clubs : Fettesian-Lorettonian, London Scottish,
Monkstown. Edinburgh Wanderers, United Ser-
vices. He was captain in 1914 of the Army
Officers' Rugby team, and had played for the
team in every match. An extract from the
" Windsor Magazine " of April, 1915, said :
" Captain Lewis Robertson, Cameron High-
landers, Fett«s. United Services, and Scotland,
who fell at the Battle of Ypres, was one of the
most honest forwards we have had of recent
years. A charming instance of self-effacement
occurred in what this popular player did when he
offered voluntarily to give up the captaincy of
the Aniiy X\' i: the Navy at Queen's, and with
it the honour of presenting his team to his
Majesty. This he did because he thought he
was out of form, and not good enougli to play
for the Army." This match was won by the
Army after several defeats in previous years.
The day before his gallant death at Ypres,
Captain Robertson was met by an old King's
School, Canterbury, Woolwich half-back —
Henry Gardener, R.F.A. — to whom he expressed
himself as being thankful he had put his back
into his job as Bayonet-fighting Instructor to
the South East Command for the last two
years.
An extract from '" Sporting Life " said : " Cap-
tain L. Robertson, Cameron Highlanders, one
of the best known Rugby players in the Service,
played for tlie London Scottish for ten seasons,
and liad nine Scottish Rugby cups, and played
for Army v. Navy for six successive years,
1909-14. He represented the R.M.C. v. R.M.A.
in 1902 ; was also a fine athlete ; and as
Superintendent of G>^nnasia in the Eastern
Command took a leading part in the organis-
ation of Army sport."
He was in the trenches at Ypres on the 2nd
November, 1914, and was wounded early in the
afternoon in the arm. His wound was dressed,
but he returned to his company, and was after-
wards wounded a second time seriously, and
died the following day.
LIEUTENANT EDWIN WINWOOD
ROBINSON. 5th ROYAL IRISH)
LANCERS,
who was killed in
action near Ypres
on the 26th October,
1914, was the fifth
son of the late Her-
bert J. Robinson
and of !M r s .
Robinson, of ^loor
Wood, Cirencester.
He was born on
the 25th November,
1887, and was edu-
cated at Malvern College, Upper lY A (Lower
Shell) : and Hertford CoUege, Oxford. He
joined the 5th Lancers from the Special Reserve
in December, 1911, becoming Lieutenant in
August, 1914. He was fond of hunting, polo,
and steeplechasing.
He went to France with liis regiment on the
outbreak of war, and was killed in action whilst
the regiment was being used as infantry.
LIEUTENANT FRANCIS EDWARD
ROBINSON. 3rd (attd. 2ndl BATTN.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
was bom at Sligo
on the 30th
January, 1895, the
youngest son of the
late Mr. St. George
C. W. and Mrs.
Robinson, of
WoodviUe, Sligo.
and a nephew of
Sir Edward Carson.
He was educated at
The Link, Stub-
bington, and at
Malvern College, where he proved to be a good
all-roimd athlete, and promised to become a
good shot. Joining the 3rd Battalion South
Staffordshire Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant in
AprU, 1912, he was promoted Lieutenant in July.
1913, and. on the outbreak of the war, was
attached to the 2nd Battalion, which, forming
part of the Ilnd Division, was among the first
regunents to be landed in France. He was
killed on the 27th October, 1914, while leading
his platoon in an attack across the Becelaere-
Passchendaele Road.
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Lieutenant Robinson's parents received after
his ilcatli iiiiuiy syinpallietic letters saying ho
Wiis ail exdllciil ollioer. greatly regretted by
botli nlTieers and men of his l)attalion.
CAPTAIN EDGAR ROBSON, 1st lattd. 2ndi
BATTN. PRINCE OF WALESS VOLUN-
TEERS SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGT.l.
son of John Steplien-
SDii Robson and
Mary, his wife, was
born in the parish
of J e s m o n d ,
Xewcastle-on-Tyne,
on the 21st Novem-
ber, 1878, and was
I -ducat ed at Bedford
.\1 o dern School
under Dr. Poole.
Captain Robson was
descended from the
old border clan of the Robsons of North
Tyne, whose recf)rd is to be found in the annals
of Northimiberland, and from the JIcLeans of
Mull. His brother — Captain Richard Robson,
of the .South African Constabidary — assisted
in raising that corps, and command(>d a division
of it during the South African War, being
afterwards ajipointed Commandant at Stander-
ton, a position he held for some years.
For the South African War, 1900-02, Captain
Edgar Robson received the Queen's medal with
tour clasps and the King's medal with two clasps,
having been jiresent at operations in the Trans-
vaal and on the Zululand frontier. After the
South African War he served with his battalion in
India, returning to England early in 19 13. During
the Great War he was appointed to the 2nd
Battalion of his regiment, and proceeded to
France in November, 1914. He wa.s mortally
wounded in the trenches at Wyschaete by the
accidental explosion of a hand grenade, and died
in the base hospital on the 3rd December, 1914.
He belonged to several clubs in India, where he
was a polo player, and was a good sportsman
as well as a lover of his profession.
CAPTAIN RALPH GEORGE GRIFFITHS
CUMINE-ROBSON, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
son of S. Robson,
M.A., Indian Edu-
cational Service (re-
tired). Principal,
Prince of Wales Col-
lege, Jammu, Kash-
mir State, and Mrs.
Robson {ti e e
Cumine), was born
at Chinsura, in Ben-
gal, in the house
which was formerly
the residence of the
Dutch Governors, on the 13th August, 1888.
His only brother is Captain H. W. Cumine-
Robson, 7th Gurkha Rifles, Adjutant, Makran
Levy Corps.
Captain R. Cumine-Robson went to England in
1905, and was educated at Pretoria House,
Folkestone, and at Eton, where he was a King's
scholar. At Eton he distinguished himself in
the wall game, and acquired a reputation for
absolute fearlessness, which was one of his
most prominent characteristics, and which made
a deep impression on his brother officers during
his brief but distinguished service at the front.
After leaving Eton he passed into the R.M.A.,
Woolwich, out of which he passed sixth, and
obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers,
dated the 18th December, 1908, being promoted
Lieutenant in December, 1910. After two years
at Chatham he went to India in 1911, and was
posted to Military Works, Rawal Pindi, but was
very soon transferred to the Imperial Durbar
Works, Delhi. After the Durbar, at which Delhi
was made the capital of India, he conlimied to
serve under the Imperial Delhi Committee, and
was employed on works connected with the
building of the new capital. There he won
golden opinions from the officers under whom he
served, gained the reputation of a zealous and
efficient officer, and had charge of works not
usually entrusted to one so young.
Captain (then Lieutenant) Robson played polo,
but his favourite sport was pig-sticking, at
which he showed himself absolutely fearless ;
and he took many fii'st spears on his favourite
pig-sticker, " The .Subaltern," which he took
with him to the front.
When war broke out between England and
Germany Captain Robson at once volunteered
for active service, and his services being accepted
he was posted to the 3rd Company, 1st King
(ieorge's Owii Sappers and .Miners, attached to
the Meerut Dhasion of the Indian Expeditionary
Force, which sailed from Bombay.
The Corps of Indian Sappers and Miners were
specially mentioned for their skill and resource
in Sir John French's Despatch of the 20th
November, 1914, and Captain Robson was men-
tioned by name in the Despatch dated the 14th
.Tanuary, 1915. He was promoted Captain, to
date from the 18th December, 1914.
He was killed in action at the junction of the
Rue du Bois with the Estaires La Bassee Road,
near Neuve Chapelle, on the 23rd December,
1914, and is buried in Grave No. 218 in the
English portion of the Estaires Cemetery.
The following has been communicated by the
Secretary of State to the Viceroy : " In fighting
from the 23rd November to the 24th Nov-
ember it fell to the 39th Garhwali Rifles to
make the final assault, which owing to its well-
considered and gallant character was entirely
successful.
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" With dashing courage and initiative two yoiinii
British officers of the Royal Engineers and a
well-know-n Frontier Force regiment^ — Captain
R. Cuniine-Robson and Captain D. H. Acworth
respectively — preceded the Garhwalis against the
first section, and by throwing bombs across the
traverses cleared the way for the head of the
39th Garhwalis."
Captain Acworth wrote of hini : " About
2 p.m. your son came and told me that he had
been down the conminnication trench to recon-
noitre hy himself, and had foimd the Germans
hard at work, improving the position they had
taken. To appreciate his pluck in making this
trip down the conimimication trench alone,
you must understand that it was only about
three feet deep, and so winding that one coidd
never see more than five yards ahead, and one
never knew that the next turning would not
bring one on to a German with his finger on the
trigger. About an hour later he went down the
trench again alone, and threw six bombs into
the German working party with excellent effect.
\\"hen I remonstrated with him afterwards, he
said that anyone with him would have only
been in the way ! I consider that one of the
most gallant individual acts I have ever heard
of. It is hard to find words to describe what I
feel about your son's work on that occasion. All
the credit for the success of the operations on
the enemy's right is undoubtedly hLs. The
attack was completely successful, and the entire
conception and practically the whole execution
was due to him. "
The following issued by the Press Bureau
appeared in the " Daily Telegraph " of the
2Tth January. 1915 : " The operation was a
difficult one. and conaplicated by the intense
darkness of the night. It would have been well-
nigh impossible had it not been tor the dashing
courage and initiative of two young British
officers, one a Royal Engineer, and a hand-
ful of Afridis. B> throwing bombs they cleared
the way for the 39th, who were thirsting to be
let go at the enemy.'
A Captain of the 130th Balachis wrote of
him : " Ovir people had tried three counter-
attacks, but they all failed. It was there that
he did such magnificent work. It was his plan,
and he carried it out. It was a tndy splendid
and marvellously brave performance."
Regarding the service in which he fell, the
General Commanding the Jleerut Division
wrote : " He was a most gallant and capable
officer, who gave up his life in a daring effort
to carry out an extremely dangerous duty for
the good of the cause. Xo man could do more,
and none could show greater personal bravery
than he did on this and other occasions. At
all times and in all ways he showed himself to
be as brave and capable an officer as ever wore
the King's uniform."
MAJOR THOMAS ROCHE, p.s.c. 1st
B.\TTN. THE DL KE OF EDINBURGH'S
(WILTSHIRE REGIMENT ,
bom on the lUth
June, 1874, at An-
nakissa House. KU-
la\-uUen, County
Cork, was the son of
the late Thomas
Roche. J.P.. o f
Annakissa House.
His brother — Major
B. R. Roche — is in
the Bedfordshire
Regiment, and their
aunt is iliss Mayne,
of Richmond House, Cork.
Major Roche, who was educated at Eastman's
Academy, Southsea, and Fawcett's School,
Cork, joined the Wiltshire Regiment from the
Militia ia 1895. becouung Lieutenant in Xovem-
ber. lS9tj. and Captain in 1900. He served in
the .South African War, being present at oper-
ations in the Transvaal and Cape Colony,
for which he was mentioned in Despatches
(" London Gazette," 10th September, 1911),
and received the Queen's medal with four clasps.
Froiu 1902-06 he was Adjutant of his battalion,
and then, after pa.ssing throug'n the Staff College,
was Brigade-Major in India from 1909 to 1913. In
April of the latter year he obtained hLs Majority.
Major Roche, who was mentioned in .Sir John
French's Despatch of the 11th Jan., 1915, was
killed on the 17th Xovember,1914, by a shell diu--
ing the bombardment of our trenches. He was
a member of the Junior United Service Club, and
liis recreations were hunting, polo, and shooting.
ARTHUR ROBERT MONT-
p.s.c, 1st BATTN.
REGIMENT
C.\PT.\1N
G O M E R Y ROE,
DORSETSHIRE
was the son of Sir
Charles Roe, Knight,
of 1. HolyweU. Ox-
ford. He was bom on
the 6th September,
1882, and was edu-
cated at Rugby
(Steel), which he en-
tered in 190(3. and at
the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, from wliich he
was gazetted to the
Dorsetshire Regi-
ment in Augu-st, 1900. He was promoted Lieu-
tenant in January, 1902, and from April. 190S,
to September, 1911. was Adjutant of his batta-
lion. He obtained his company in April. 1909.
Captain Roe was at the Staff College from Jan-
uary, 1912, and in February. 1914, rejoined
his battalion in Ireland. While there he was
well known in Belfast on account of the keen
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interest he took in the football and general sports
of the battalion. When war broke out he left
Ireland for the front, attached to the General
Staff of the llird Division, but rejoined his regi-
ment during the retirement from ilons on
account of the shortage of officers.
He was wounded first in the arm whilst leading
an attack on the 0th September, 1914, but
refused to have his wound attended to then, and
wa.s sihot through the head later in the day. He
died of his wounds on the 16th — a week later —
in the hospital at Le Mans, and is buried in
the cemetery there. He was mentioned in Sir
JohnFrench's Despatch of the 14th January,l 91.5.
Captain Roc married, in 1911, Joan Hilda
^Marian, youngest daughter of the late Captain
Sir William Wiseman, Bart.. R.N.. and left one
daughter, Alison Margaret.
He was bom on the 25th April, 1S90, and joined
the Royal ArtiUery from the Territorial Force
in June, 1914. He was buried at Ilighgate.
CAPTAIN S.\MUEL
2nd
1 N NM
B A T T A
S K. I L L I N
GEORGE ROE,
ION ROYAL
FUSILIERS,
who was killed at Le
(iheer on the 21st
October, 1914. was
the eldest son of
Lieut. -Colonel Roe,
of Sion House, Glen-
ageary, Co. Dublin,
and a nephew of Sur-
geon - General S. B.
Roe, C.B., Ballycon-
nell House. BaUy-
connell, Co. Cavan.
He was born in India
on the 23rd August, 1875, and was educated at
Bedford College and Ti'inity College. Dubhn. At
school he was a hockey player, and then and
afterwards a Rugby footballer. He joined the
Inniskilling Fusiliers in January, 1899, became
Lieutenant in April, 1900. and Captain in July,
1901. From October. 1907. to October. 1911.
he was an Adjutant of the 3rd Battalion of his
regiment (Militia and Reserve).
Captain lioe married Irene Eveline, daughter of
J. W. Cross. Esq., who survives Hm.
2nd LIEUTENANT CHARLES HUNTER
ROGERS, 135th BATTERY,
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.
who died in Guy's
Hospital, London, on
the 9th November,
1914, of wounds re-
ceived in action on
the 2nd of that month,
was the eldest son of
ilr. Charles J. Rogers,
formerly of 85. Caver-
sham Road, London,
X.W., afterwards of
17, Park Avenue
North, Homsey, N.
LIEUTENANT LEONARD CASTEL
CAMPBELL ROGERS, 1st
BATTN. 7th GURKHA RIFLES.
born at Cuttack,
Orissa. India, on the
29th January, 1886,
was the son of
Archibald Colin
Campbell Rogers,
ex-engineer Public
Works Department.
India, and a grand-
son of the late Rev.
R. H. Catty, the
Manor House, Buck-
den, Himtingdon.
He was educated at Blimdell's School, Tiverton,
where he was in the Cricket and Football
XI's ; and proceeded to the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
wlience he received his commission in the Bed-
fordsliire Regiment in 1906. A month after
his promotion to Lieutenant, which occurred in
November, 1908, he joined the Indian .Army,
being gazetted to the 7th Gurkha Rifles, of
which he was made Quartermaster in 1913.
He died on Christmas Day, 1914, from wounds
received the previous day whUe rescuing a
wounded man under heavy flre. For this act
he was awarded the Military Cross. •' London
Gazette," Fel)ruary, 1915. the official record
being : "' For conspicuous gallantry at Festu-
bert on 24th December, 1914, in assisting hi
the rescue of a severely wounded man who had
been lying in front of the enemy's trenches for
forty-eight hours."
The following account of the ctrciunstances was
given by a brother officer : " We had one poor
fellow killed called Rogers. He joined us from
the 7th Gurkhas not long ago. I must say he
died a magnificent death. The Loyal North Lan-
cashires had done a counter-attack two nights
before, and a number of their dead were lying
out in the open between our lines and the Ger-
mans. Rogers noticed that one of them was
wounded. He ran into the open towards the
man, picked him up. and started back
towards the trenches. The wounded man was,
however, too heavj-, and he was obliged to stop
and lie down. Another man in our battalion
ran out to help him, and between them they
put him onto his back and started again. Poor
Rogers was hit through the back, the bullet
coming out where his ribs curved away. The
man, however, carried on, and got back to a
shallow ditch. The poor wounded fellow was
again hit in the leg, and the other man of ours
who carried him in had a bullet through his
coat. Poor Rogers managed to crawl back to
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ROM
the ditch, where our men pulled him in. He was
very badly hit, and died the next morning. It
was a rash but very gallant act, and I hope
both wiU be rewarded as they deserve."
Lieutenant Rogers was a good all-roimd man at
sport, and an enthusiastic polo player. He was
known tor his great personal courage, and had
given every promise of succeeding in his pro-
fession.
MAJOR (tempi HUBERT CHARLTON
ROME, 20th DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S
O \V N INFANTRY B R O W N L O W'S
P U N J A B I S I ,
was killed in action
on the 18th Decem-
ber, 19U.
He was the son of
Mr. Thomas Rome,
.I.P., and Mrs. Rome,
Charlton House,
Charlton Kings,
Cheltenham, Glou-
cestershire, and was
bom on the 2nd
October, 1883. He
was educated at Cheltenham College and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, on passing out of which for
the Indian Army he was gazetted 2nd Lieuten-
ant, unattached, on the 21st January, 1903.
He passed out of Sandhurst with honours and
as Under Officer.
He went to India in March, 1903, and was at-
tached to the 2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle
Corps at Rawal Pindi untU AprU, 190i, when he
was posted to the Duke of Cambridge's Own
Infantry, then stationed at Mian Mir. He was
promoted Lieutenant in April, 190.5.
In March, 1909, he was seconded for service
with the Kliyber Rifles (Jlilitia), with whom he
served for five years. He received his promotion
to Captain in January, 1912. In March, 1914,
he rejoined his regiment at Poona, and came to
England the following month on leave. At the
outbreak of war he was one of some two hundred
and forty Indian Army officers detained at
home for the New Army, and was appointed to
the 9th (Service) Battalion Esses Regiment at
Shomcliffe, and whilst with that regiment was
gazetted temporary Major in October, 1914.
ilajor Rome was ordered to France to replace
casualties in the 129th Baluchis, with whom he
was serving when killed in action near Givenchy.
He was married on the 24th June, 1914, to
Doris, only chUd of the late W. S. Dykes,
Writer to the Signet, and Mrs. Dykes, of Darna-
connar, Barrhill, Ayrshire.
CAPTAIN .\RTHUR HOVELL ROMILLY,
1st BATTN. THE DUKE OF CORN-
WALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY,
who was killed in action on the 21st October,
1914, was the elder son of the late Captain
BYancis J. Romilly, R.E. (who lost his life in
action in the Soudan
at " Trofek " in
March, 1885), and of
Mi's. Romilly. He
was of Huguenot
descent, belonging to
the family of wliich
Etienne RomiUy, who
was bom at Mont-
pellier, in France,
1678, was the first
member to settle in
England in 1701 after
the revocation of the Edict ni Xauli-.s in 1 !!>.'>.
He was a great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel
Samuel RomiUy, R.E., of Dulwich, in the
County of .Surrey : also a collateral descendant
of Sir Samuel Romilly, Solicitor-General and
law reformer, who died in 1S18.
Captain A. H. Romilly was born on the 3rd
February, 1877, and was educated at Welling-
ton, where he was in the L>-nedoch, 1889-93,
in which year he got liis cap. In 1895 he went
to the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, from which he was
gazetted to tlie Duke of Cornwall's Light
Infantry in .September, 1896, becoming Lieu-
tenant in November, 1898.
He took part in the South African War, being
employed with the Mounted Infantry, and was
present at the relief of Kimberley : at operations
in the Orange Free .State, Paardeberg, and the
Transvaal, including actions at Drietontein ;
near Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, and Belfast.
He was twice mentioned in Despatches (" London
Gazette," 10th September, 1901, and 29th
July, 1902), and received the Queen's medal
with six clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps. He was promoted Captain in January,
1904, and from January, 1905, to January, 1910,
was Adjutant of the 5th Battalion Manchester
Regiment (T.F.).
He landed in France with his regiment, of which
he commanded a company, on the loth August,
1914. He took part in the action on the Mons
Canal, on the 23rd August, and in the Battle of
Le Cateau on the 2()th August, and was present
during the great retirement from the 23rd August
to the 5th September. He led his company
through the Battles of the Marne, the 8th and
9th September, and of the Aisne, the 13th-25th
September. After the movement of the British
Army from the Aisne to Flanders he took part
in the severe fighting about Festubert and La
Bassee, llth-21st October, on which latter date
he was wounded t«ice and fell gallantly leading
a portion of his company in a local counter-
attack near the village of Lorgies. This last
period of fighting in wliich he took part formed
part of the great battle now kno\vn as the first
Battle of Ypros. His body was never recovered.
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340
He was mentioned in Sir Jolin French's Despatch
of the Uth January, litl."..
Captain Homilly niairi<«l. in Kcliniary. 1905.
Annie I'ahner Mact'all, elder dau.i;hter of the
late Colonel George MacCall, Sth Bengal Cavalry,
and of Mrs. ilacCall. and left a widow and four
daui;hters : ^lonica HlancliHower. bom Decem-
ber, 1905 : Xancy Ilcrniione. born February.
1907 : Daphne Patricia, bora November. 1911 ;
and Cj-ntliia Josephine, born March, 1914.
Ilis reci-eations were hockey, polo, and hunting.
MAJOR REGINALD
p.s.c. 1st BATTN.
TREVOR ROPER.
DORSETSHIRE
REGIMENT,
was Viorn on the Ifith
February, 1S72, the
son of the late Wil-
liam and ilrs, Koper,
of Beeclifield, Sut-
ton, County Dublin.
After passing
through the R.:M.C.,
Sandhurst, he joined
the Dorsetshire
Regiment as 2nd
Lieutenant in
January, IS92, becouung Lieutenant in
.Alarch, 1S91, From 1S97-1901 he was Adjutant
of his battalion, obtaining his Company in
June, 1900, and his Majority in February,
1910. He served in the Tirah Canipaign,1897-9S,
being present at the actions of Chagru Kotal
and Dargai, and the capture of the Sampagha
Pass, for which he received the medal with two
clasps. In 1903 he passed through the Staff
College, and held an appointment as 3rd Grade
General Staff Officer at the War Office from 1904-
OS. In 1909-10 he was Brigade-Major of the
8th Brigade South Command, and from 1910-
13 on the Directing Staff of the Staff College,
with the temporarj" rank of lieutenant-Colonel
from January, 1911.
Major Roper was killed on the 12th October,
1914, at Pontefixe. near Bethune : he was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of
the Kth January, 1915.
He married, in April, 1906, Florence Alice,
daughter of J. Staples Hawkins, of St. Fenton's,
Baily, Co. Dublin, and left two sons : Denis Regi-
nald, born 1907 ; and Kenneth Trevor, born 190S.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR HCGH PERCY
ROSE. 3rd. attd. 2nd. BATTN. ESSEX
REGIMENT, who was killed in action, near
Ai-mentiercs, France, on the 23rd November,
1914, was the only surviving son of the late
Major-General J. Rose, A.l'.C. to the late
Queen Victoria, at one time commanding the
Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, and of
Mrs. Rose, of Fryeming, Ingatestone, Es ex.
Major-General Rose served in the Crimean
War. being wounded in the Battle of the Alma.
Captain Rose was born in India ou the 13tli
December. 1S71. and
joined the 1st Batta-
lion Essex Regiment
fi"om the Militia in
April, 1900. He
served in the South
Afi'ican War, taking
part in operations in
the Orange Free
State, including the
actions on the Vet
and Zand Rivers ;
operations in Cape
Colony and the Transvaal, including actions
near Johannesburg, at Pretoria and Diamond
HUl, and east of Pretoria, including the action
at Fredeiickstad. He received the Queen's
medal with five clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
After the Boer War he served with his bat-
talion in India, returning to England in 190(5 to
take up the Adjutancy of the 4th BattaUon,
being transferred, on its disbandment, to the
5th Battalion. In 1912 he retired from the
active Ust, and joined the 3rd Battalion (Special
Reserve), from wluch he went to the 2nd
Battalion, with which he was serving when he
was killed.
Captain Rose, who was a member of the Junior
Xaval and ililitary Club, Ranelagh, and Hur-
Unghani, married IJUan. daughter of Robert
Gordon. Esq.. and widow of Lieutenant-Colonel
John Trevor .Spencer. Essex Regiment. He
left no family.
CAPTAIN SIR FRANK STANLEY ROSE.
BART.. Xth PRINCE OF WALES'S
OWN ROYAL HUSSARS.
was born on the
27th Apiil, 1877.
He succeeded his
father — Sir Charles
Day R OS e — as
second Baronet in
1913, and he was a
grandson of the
Right Hon. Sir John
Rose, P.C, G.C.M.G.
Sir Frank Rose was
educated at Eton
and Trinity College,
Cambridge, joining the 10th Hussars in May,
1900, becoming Lieutenant in June, 1904.
He served with his regiment in the South African
^ar, being present at operations in the Trans-
vaal and Cape Colony. For his services he was
mentioned in Despatches ("London Gazette,"
17th January, 1902), and received the Queen's
medal with foirr clasps.
One of the characteristics of the Great War has
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Ros:
been the liability of the cavalry to be employed
on dismounted duties, and Sir Frank Rose
was so employed when he was killed, on the
26th October, 1914, while fighting with his
regiment in the trenches, near Zandvoorde,
where he is buried. These trenches were under
heavj" shell fire all day and the casualties were
very severe. Lieutenant Turner also being killed.
Sir F. Rose married Daphne, daughter of the late
Captain Henry Brooks Gaskell, of Kiddington
Hall, Oxfordshire, and left three children : Charles
Henry, who succeeds him in the Baronetcy,
born October, 1912 ; Amy, born >Iay, 1911 :
and Helen Briar, born June, 1915.
He was a member of the Army and Navy Club,
Boodle's, and the Royal Automobile Club, while
his chief recreations were music and hunting.
LIEUTENANT JOHN CHARLES REG-
INALD ROSE, 2nd BATTN. PRINCESS
LOUISE'S (ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND
HIGHLANDERS),
was born on the IStli
.June, 1891, the son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
J. S. Rose.
He was educated at
Rugby and tlie
R.M.C., Sandhuret,
from which lie joined
the Argyll and
Sutherland Higli-
landers in Marcli,
1911, becoming
Lieutenant in Apiil. I'.il I. He was a member of
the Junior United Service Club.
Lieutenant Rose was accidentally sliot in tlie
trenches on the 8th November, 1914, towards
the closing stages of the first Battle of Ypres ;
the attack by the Prussian Guard on tlie 11th
being regarded as the final attempt of the
enemy to break through tlie British line.
MAJOR LAUNCELOT ST. VINCENT
ROSE, ROYAL ENGINEERS.
who was killed in
action on the 27th
November, 1914,
was the son of
Frederick William
Rose, and grandson
of Major Hugli
Monro St. ^'incent
Rose, 12th Lancers,
of Glastulloch, and
of Tarlogie, Ross-
shire. Jlajor Rose's
brother — Captain
R. H. W. Rose, Tlie Cameronians — was killed
in action on the 22nd October, 1914. They
were descendants of William Rose of Clava,
a junior branch of the Roses of Kilmarnoch.
He was born on the 4th August, 1875, at 4,
Cromwell Crescent, London, S.W., and waa
educated at St. Paul's School (1887-92), for
which he had gained a scholarship, followed by
another. He then went to the R.M.A., Wool-
wich, from which he was gazetted to the Royal
Engineers in March, 1895, being promoted Lieu-
tenant in March. 1898, and Captain in April, 1904.
At St. Paul's he was in the rowing four, being
captain for some time, and at the R.M.A. hewas
in the Gymnasium Eight in 1894, which is thought
as much of by Cadets as is their " blue " by
University men. He was also in the running
team, winning many prizes. At the School of
Military Engineering at Chatiiam, where he
went after being gazetted to the Army, he repre-
sented the officers at Rugby football ; also
rowed for the two-seatera ; and later was stroke
of the R.E. Four when they defeated the R.A.
In 1897 he went to Gibraltar, where he was for
a time Adjutant of his corps, and where he
made a reputation as a polo player, being one
of the garrison team. While there he ran his
ponies in several races, winning, amongst
others, the steeplechase for the .Subalterns'
Cup. open to the garrison, on his own pony,
and many prizes at Gymkhanas. He also started
a boxing club for the N.C.O.'s, wliicli he left in a
flourishing condition. He went to South Africa
in 1910, where he did some big-game shooting.
He returned to England in September, 1914. and.
after being for a fortniglit withtlieVlIth Division
on mobilisation at Lyndiiurst Camp, Hants, lie
embarked for France in command of tlie 55th
Field Company, and went through the fighting
at and near Y'pres. He could have obtained
short leave in November, but refused it : for,
he thought, as he could not spare any of his
officers, he ought not to go himself. He was
mentioned for his services in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
Major Rose married Agneta Wendela Elizabeth,
daughter of the Jonklieer van Cittei"s, of Zeeland,
Holland, and left one daughter, Noreen Leonie
Ross, born at Pretoria in October, 191.3. He
was a member of the Naval and Military Club.
CAPTAIN RONALD HUGH WALROND
ROSE. Jst BATTN. THE CAMER-
ONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLES),
who was killed in
action on the 22nd
October, 1914, was
the son of Frederick ^^^^K ^
William Rose, and ^^^TW ^
grandson of the late I »» ^^^H!
Major Hugh Rose,
of the 12tli Lancei-s.
of Tarlogie, Ross-
shire. N.B.
He was born in Lon-
don on the 11th
Jidy, 1880 ; was
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educatf'd at St. Paul's School : and joined tho
Koyal Warwickshire Kegiment from the ililiti;i
in January, 1899, becoming Lieutenant in
March, 1900. In May, 1905, he obtained his
company in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment,
and in May, 1908, wa.s transferred to the Scottish
Rifles. From October, 19(Mi. to January, 1910.
he was Adjutant of tlv ."Sth Hattalinn The KinL'"s
(Liverpool Regiment), (\'olunteei-s and Territorial
Force). After giving up his Territorial Adjutancy
he joined the 1st Battalion of his regiment at
Bloemfonteiii, and later was appointed Com-
mandant of the School of Signalling at Pretoria.
His battalion returned to Glasgow in 1912, and
on the outbreak of the war with Germany formed
part of the British Expeditionary Force. He
was present at ilons, Le Cateau, the Marne, the
Aisne, and the first Battle of Ypres.
When he was killed Captain Rose was in com-
mand of a covering party, and was hit in the
ankle, but went on leading his men till, being
hit twice again, he was killed. He was mentioned
in Sir John EYench's Despatch of the 14th
January, 191.5, for gallantry.
He married Hetty, youngest daughter of the
late George Fletcher, of Liverpool, and left
two children : Audrey, born April, 1912 :
and Jean Diana, born !May, 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT HAROLD WILLIAM
ROSEVE.\RE, SPECIAL RESERVE. THE
DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S WILTSHIRE
REGIMENT),
was the eldest son of
the Rev. R. P. Rose-
veare. Rector of .St.
Paul's. Deptford. and
Rural Dean of Green-
wich, formerly Rec-
tor of Great Snoring
in Xorfolk, and Vicar
of the Church of the
^^^^ m ^^^^^ Ascension, Black-
He was born on the
18th February, 1895, and educated at Little
Appley, near Ryde. and at ilarlborough, where
he held scholarships, was Senior Prefect 1913-14,
Cadet Captain in the O.T.C., and was a member
of the Rugby X\'. He was a Scholar Elect of
St. John's College, Cambridge, having won an
open Classical Scholarship there in December,
1913. He was appointed to the Special Reserve
on probation in April, 1914.
For the fireat War he was attached to the 1st
Battalion of his regiment, and when the Ger-
mans forced part of our lines at the Aisne he
was sent with his platoon to locate and seize
their machine gun, and fell leading his men.
woimded in the head and lungs, on the 20th
.September, 1914, dying from liis wounds the
same evening.
He was
from the ^lilitia in
Lieutenant in March,
M.\JOR FLEETWOOD GEORGE C.\MP.
BKl.L ROSS, 2nd KING EDWARD'S
OWN GURKH.\ RU I.KS THE SIR-
MOOR RIFLES,
who was killed in
action at Xeuve
Chapelle on the 2nd
November, 1914.
was the eldest son
of Colonel (jeorge
Campbell Ross, late
Kith Bengal Cavalry,
of " Ba y f i el d s ,"
Headley.
He was born on tlu;
18th March, 18(59.
and was educated at Victoria College, Jersey,
gazetted to the Wiltshire Regiment
July. 1890, becoming
1892. In April of the
latter year he was transferred to the Indian
Staff Corps, and in 1900 took part in the relief
of Pekin, recei\-ing the medal with clasp.
He was promoted Captain in July, 1901, and
took part in the Tibet Expedition in 1903-04,
being present at the action at Xiani : at
operations at and around Gyangtse : and in the
march to Lha-ssa. He was mentioned in
Despatches ("London Gazette," 13th December,
1904), and received the medal with clasp.
.Major Ross obtained his Majority in July, 1908.
He was a member of the Junior Xaval and
Military Club, and took great interest in polo.
He was unmarried.
LIEUTENANT AURIOL FR.\NCIS H.\Y
ROUND, 2nd BATTN. KSSKX REGT..
f o u r t h so n o f -
Francis R. Round,
C.M.G., of Witham,
Essex, was bom on
the 11th Xovember,
1S91.
He was educated at
F'eLsted School, Es-
sex, and the
R.M.C.. Sandhurst,
and joined the
Essex Regiment in
March, 1911,
becoming Lieutenant
1913 he was appointed
his battalion.
Ueutenant Round was a good cricketer and
athlete, representing his regunent in long-
distance races : but hockey was the game in
which he most distinguished himself, having
been captain of the Feist ed XI in 1909 and of
the Sandhurst XI in 1910, playing regularly
for the County of Essex in the last two seasons
of his life, and for the Army against the Xavy.
He was also a member of the team sent from
in January, 1912. In
Assistant Adjutant of
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England, so lately as Whitsuntide, 1911, f o play
several teams of Germans at Munich.
His battalion, which formed part of the 12th
Brigade. IVth Division, only landed m France
on the 23rd August, 1911, and thus was not
present at the Battle of Mons, but on arrival
was at once pushed into the firing line and
was engaged in covering the retirement when
Lieutenant Round was wounded near Le Cateau
by a bullet from a shrapnel shell in the after-
noon of the 26th August, described by Sir John
French as " the most critical day of all." Tetanus
supervened, and Lieutenant Roimd died from it
on the 5th September, 1914, in King Edward VII
Hospital for Officers, Grosvenor Gardens, S.W.
of war, said : " I saw Captain Roy killed in
a hand-to-hand fight on tlie ^Mons Road. He
fought splendidly, but we had no chance.
There were about two hundred and fifty Ger-
mans against forty of us, the remnant of my
company who defended Obourg .Station on the
canal. I was lying on the ground helpless.
We managed to keep the Germans in check for
a bit, but were eventually overpowered. Only
a few, I fear, escaped to tell the tale. It was a
great day for our l)oys. but the odds against
us were overwhelming."
Captain Roy was an enthusiastic Freemason,
and was a member of the Albert Victor Lodge
in York.
CAPTAIN KENNETH JAMES ROY, 4th
BATTN. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S
OWN (MIDDLESEX REGIMENT).
who is believed to
have been killed on
the 23rd August,
1914, was the son
of the late Rev.
James Roy, Rector
of Stockton-
on- Forest, York-
shire, and of Mrs.
Roy, York Lodge,
Beaconsfield,
Bucks. Three of
his l)rothers are in
tile Xavy : Cuiiuuaiulur K. S. Roy, Staff Pay-
master N. F. Roy, and Surgeon D. W. Roy,
F.R.C.S., R.N.V.R.
He was born at Appleton Vicarage, Bolton
Percy, Yorkshire, on the 21st January, 1877,
and was educated at St. Peter's School, York,
where he was in the Fir.st XV ; and at The Oaks,
Upper Deal. He received his commission in
the 3rd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
in February. 1890. In 189S he was attached to
the depot. Manchester Regiment, Ashton-under-
Lyne, and from 1899-1904 was seconded for
employment with the 2nd Gold Coast Regiment,
West African Frontier Force. In the meantime
he had in June, 1901, been gazetted to the
^Middlesex Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant, and
had been promoted Lieutenant in Marcii. 1903.
In 1905-Otj he served with the 4th Battalion of
his own regunent at Londonderry ; and in May,
1907, was seconded for service with the South
Nigerian Regiment, West African Frontier Force,
remaining with it till May, 1908. He was pro-
romoted Captain in the Middlesex Regiment in
November, 1910, having served with it in the
Channel Islands, 1909-10 ; and from February,
1911, to September, 1912, again served on tlie
African Coast with the West African Regiment.
He took part in the Ashanti Campaign of 1900,
for which he received the medal.
Referring to his death an officer, since a prisoner
LIEUTENANT ARTHUR CLEGG FAN-
SHAWE ROYLE, 1st BATTN. THE
PRINCE OF WALES'S NORTH
STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT),
was tlie eldest son
of Arthur F. W.
and H a r r i e 1 1 e
Royle. of Lympsham
Manor, Somerset,
and was born at
Oakfield, Hale,
Cheshire, on the
2nd January, 1883.
He was a nephew
of the late Rear-
Ad m 1 r a 1 H. L.
Fanshawe Royle,
D.S.O., and of the Rev. Vernon Royle, Stan-
more Pant, Jliddlesex.
Lieutenant Royle was educated at Wellington
College, Berkshire, from 1897-1901, and joined
the 1st North Staffordshire Regiment from the
Militia in 1903, becoming Lieutenant in Feb-
ruary, 1907. and served with that battalion
at Lichfield, Shorncliffe. Aldershot. and Butte-
vant.
Accompanying his battaUon to tlie front on the
outbreak of the war, he was mortally wounded
on the 22nd September, 1914, on his first night
in the trenches, at the Battle of the Aisne.
dying in hospital on the 29th September.
He was buried in Braisne Cemetery, near
Soissons.
His recreations were cricket, football, golf,
hunting, and shooting.
2nd LIEUTENANT KENNETH STANES
RUEGG, 2nd BATTN. THE SHERWOOD
FORESTERS, (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
AND DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT),
was killed in action on the 20th September,
1914.
ilr. Ruegg only received his commission from
the rank of Lance-Sergeant on the 15th Sep-
tember, 1914.
RUN RUS
3-14
CAPTAIN ARTHUR MONTAGU RUN-
DALL, 1st BATTN. 4th GURKHA RIFLES,
who was born on the
20th October, 1S7S,
at K h e r w a r a ,
Rajputana, India,
was the eldest sur-
viving son of Colonel
F. M. Rundall.
C.B.. D.S.O.. late
Commanding 1st
Battalion 4th
(imkha Rifles. He
was a grandson of
the late General
1". H. Ruiulall. i;.K.. t—S.I., and of the late
Right Rev. E. H. Bickersteth, Bishop of
Exeter.
He was educated at Marlborough College,
where he was in Gould"s House from 1891 94.
He joined the 1st Bedfordslure Regiment fioni
the 4th (Militia) Battalion Devonsliire Regi-
ment in February, 1899, becoming Lieutenant
in February, 1900. In January, 1901, he joined
the 27th Punjabis, late 27th (Punjab) Bengal
Infantry, and was subsequently transferred to
the 4th Gurkha Rifles. He obtained an extra
fiist-class Hythe Musketry Certificate, was
Instructor in Signalling, and had been Adjutant
of his battalion.
Captain Rundall, who was a member of the
Junior T'nited Service Club, was a good shot
with both gun and rifle.
He was with his battalion in Egjpt till the
beginning of December, 1914, and on coming
to Europe proceeded with it to Northern
France, where they went into the trenches at
Festubert. In manning these trenches, which
were In very bad repair. Captain Rundall had
shortly before risked his life to extract a Gurkha
who had become literally engulfed in the mud,
and this Captain Rundall succeeded In doing
imder heavy Are. He was voluntarily in com-
mand of the bomb-throwing section — a most
dangerous task. On the morning of the 20th
December, 1914. a large portion of the 4th
Gurkha trenches was blown up by Geiman
mines, and the enemy at once advanced in
great numbeis. Captain Rundall was at the far
end of the trench, so escaped being blown up,
but was left with only three Gurkhas armed
with hand grenades. The little party stood up,
undaunted, to the mass of Germans, and
Captam Rundall killed three of the enemy with
his revolver before being liimself shot dead.
Two of the men escaped to tell the story.
His body was never recovered.
Captain Bundall's younger brother — Lieutenant
L. B. Rundall, 1st King George's Own Gurkha
Rifles — was killed very near the same place on
the previous day.
Captain Rundall married, in 1913, Margaret
!•■ ranees, daughter of the late Frank Marshall,
l^sq., of Cidlercoats, Northumberland. There
is one son of the man'iage, born posthiuuousl >•
in April, 1915.
LIEUTENANT LIONEL BICKERSTETH
RUNDALL, 1st B .\ T T N . 1st KING
GEORGES OWN GURKHA RIFLES
I T H E M A L A U N R E G I M E N T i ,
who was born at
Bakloh, Punjab,
India, on the 9th
April, 1890, was the
youngest son of
Colonel F. M. Run-
daU, C.B., D.S.O.,
late Conmianding
the 1st Battalion
4th Gmkha Rifles,
and a grandson of
the late General
F. H. RundaU, R.E.,
C.S.I. , and of the late Right Ruv. K. U. Bicker-
steth, Bishop of Exeter.
He was educated at Cliarterhouse (Sanderites)
and the R.M.C., Sandliurst, where he gained the
prize for topography. He was in the 4th (Militia)
Battalion Scottish Rifles for a year from April,
1907, but resigned his commission on passing
into the R.^Nl.C. After serving his probationary
period with the 1st Battalion North Staffordshire
Regiment he joined the 1 1st King George's
Own Gurkha Rifles in December, 1910. While
with them he was promoted Lieutenant in
December, 1911, passed as a Transport Officer,
and was Instructor in Signalling.
Lieutenant RundaU was a sportsman who
enjoyed both big and small game shooting.
He was the author of a book, " The Ibex of
Sha Ping and other Himalayan Studies,"
published in 1915. He was a member of the
Junior Army and Navy Club.
He was killed on the 19th December, 1914.
His double Company Commander was ordered
to charge a German sap-head with twenty-four
Gurkhas. It was not Intended that Lieutenant
Rundall shoifld accompany the party, but he
preferred not to let his Captain go alone on
what seemed a most dangerous exploit. All
the party were killed except five men.
Lieutenant RundaU's elder brother — Captain
A. M. Rundall, 1st, 4th Giu-klia Rifles — was
killed on the 20th December, 1914, in this same
action at Festubert.
LIEUTENANT FREDERIC HORNBV
LEVER RUSH TON, 2nd BATTN.
THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT,
was the elder son of the late Frederic Lever
Rushton and his wife, Frances AUce Birley,
and was born at Gresford, Denbighshire, X.W.,
on the 29th August, 1888.
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RUS— SAD
He was educated at Charterhouse, \\liei'e he was
captain of football and sports. He first joined
the Liverpool Kesri-
ment in 1907, and
obtained his com-
mission in the Royal
Irish Rtgiment. from
the Special Keseive
in December, 1909,
becoming Lieutenant
in October, 1911. He
went to the front
%vith his battalion
on the outbreak of
the war.
At tile Battle of .Molls Lieutenant Rushton, with
another officer, took their CO,, when wounded,
out of the firing line, and so saved his life, .Sub-
sequently he saved also the life of the Adjutant.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cox, his Commanding Officer,
whose life he saved, wrote to Lieutenant Rush-
ton's sister : " You have every reason to be
very, very proud of your brother, I was
wounded in the leg, and could not get along, . , ,
so he and others carried me out of action under
an extremely heavy fire,"
At VaUly, on the 15th September, 1914, he
was killed while leading a party to take a
macliine gun which was ou an eminence, and
was inflicting severe losses on his section.
For these services Lieutenant Rushton was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of
the .Sth October, 1914, and was subsequently
awarded the Military Cross, but his death at
an earlier date prevented his personally receiving
the decoration,
A brother officer wrote of him to a friend :
" He was absolutely splendid in the field, and
in addition to other deeds of gallantry he un-
doubtedly saved Dick Phillips' (the Adjutant)
life at Mons, Rushton was killed in an advance
action in which he had been previously wounded
and dressed by Laing, who implored him not to
advance any more, as he was wounded right
through the shoulder ; but he insisted on going
on, and was killed shortly afterwards,"
Lieutenant Rushton was a keen fisherman and
motorist, and was Captain of the regunental
football team. He was generally known to his
acquaintances as "Hornby," an old family name,
LIEUTENANT LAWRENCE EDWARD
RUSSELL, 2nd BATTN. THE
DUKE OF WELLINGTONS
WEST RIDING R E G I M E N T i .
who was included in the War Office monthly
casualty list, published on the 9th October, 1914,
as unofficially reported killed in action, was the
son of Mrs. Russell, Bryn, Digswell, WelwjTi,
Herts. He was bom on the 10th Jxme, 1892,
joined the West Riding Regiment in .September.
1911, and became Lieutenant in April, 1914,
CAPTAIN WALTER RUSSELL
RUSSELL, 2nd BATTN, attd, Ist.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT,
\\ho was killed in
action at Pilkem.
near Tpres, on ; he
23rd October, 1914,
was the son of the
late Captain Sir
William Russell
Russell, formerly
ilinister for Defence
and Colonial Secret-
ary of New Zealand,
and late of the 58th
Regiment of Foot,
He was bom at Flaxmere, Hastings, X,Z., on the
8th September, 1880 ; educated at Wanganin
College, New Zealand ; and received his commis-
sion in the Northamptonshire Regiment from the
local miUtary forces. New Zealand, in AprU, 1900,
becoming Lieutenant in December, 1902,
He took part in the South African War attached
to the Moimted Infantry, and was present at
operations in the Transvaal in the early part
of 1902. for which he received the Queen's
medal vrith two clasps.
From November. 1905, to November, 1908, he
was Adjutant of hLs battalion, and was promoted
Captain In December, 1908, He waa a member
of the Naval and Military Club.
JOHN BERKELEY
ROYAL ENGINEERS,
LIEUT, EDWIN
HAYES SADLER,
who was killed in
action in the village
of Neuve Chapelle
on the 28th October,
1914, was the third
son of Lieut enant-
Colonel Sir James
Hayes Sadler,
K,C.M,G., C.B,, late
Governor of the
Windward Islands,
and was born on the
1st October, 1887,
He was educated at Wellington College, to
which he went as a scholar, and where he was
from 1901 to 1904, He then passed into the
R,iI,A., Woolwich, from which he was gazetted
2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in
December, 190(5, and became Lieutenant in
January, 1909. From December, 1909, to
October, 1911. he was A.D.C. to the General
Officer Commanding at Mauritius.
Latterly Lieutenant Hayes Sadler had been
employed in the Jlilitary Woik in India, from
which at the outbreak of the war he was posted
to the 21st Company, 3rd Sappers and Miners.
His elder brother. Captain E. R. Hayes Sadler,
Indian Army, was killed on theSCth October,1914.
SAD SAI
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CAPTAIN ERNEST REGINALD HAYES
SADLER, p.s.c, 2 8th GURKHA RIFLES,
I— ^— ^^— ^— ^j^.^ who was killed in
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H on
^^^^^^ ^«i^^^^ ^j,g German attack
on our position at
Festubert, was tlic
second son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
Sir .Tames Hayes
Sadler, K.C.M.Ci..
C.B., late Governor
of the Windward
Islands.
He was horn on the 4th .September, l.STS, and
was educated at tlie I'nited .Ser\'ices College,
Westward TIo ! whence he pas.sed direct into
llic K.M.C., S,ni(lhurst. He passed out for tlie
Indian Ainiy. receiving an unattached 2nd
Lieuteii.iii(\ in .July, 1899. He was promoted
Lieutenant in tlie Indian Army in October,
1900, and was on active service in Nandi,
1905-0(3, receiving the medal with clasp. He
became Captain in July, 1907, and in 1908-10
was on active service in Somaliland, East Africa,
on Brigadier-Cieneral Gough's Staff, for which
lie liad a clasp added to his medal. From
190t) to 1909 lie was A.D.C. and Private Secretary
to his fatlier when (iovernorand Commander-in-
Cliief, East Africa Protectorate.
In 1913 he passed out of the .Staff College,
aiul was tlie author of articles on military and
topographical subjects in East Africa, and on
military administration in India. He was
proficient in Eastern languages.
His younger brother, IJeutenant E. J. B. Hayes
Sadler, R.E.. was killed in the Great War on
the 2Sth October, 1914.
Captain Hayes .Sadler married, early in 1914,
Eleanor, elder daughter of Mr. A. F. C. ToUe-
mache. The Bed House, Westgate-on-Sea.
CAPTAIN GERARD GLOAG
SADLER, 3rd (PRINCE OF
WALES'S) DRAGOON GUARDS,
son of the late Sir .Samuel A. Sadler, was born
at Eaglescliffe, County Durham, on the 12tli
January, 1881.
He was educated at Durham School, and joined
the Durham Light Infantry (Militia)in 1899, from
which lie was transferred to the 3id Dragoon
Guards in September of the following year.
Captain Sadler served in the South African War,
taking part in the several operations in the
Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Cape
Colony from February, 1901, to May, 1902. He
received the Queen's medal with five clasps.
He was promoted Captain in April, 1910, and in
February, 1911, retired from the active list, and
joined the Special Reserve of his regiment.
On going to the front he was attached to the
IJtIi Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), and was
present at the Battles of Mons. the Marne,
the Aisne, and Ypres.
He was reported missing after a night attack
on the 1st November, 1914, near Ypres. Fifteen
weeks later he was reported to have died of
woimds on that day, and to have been buried at
Wytschaete. near Jlessines, Belgium.
Captain .Sadler married Pho'be, daughter of the
late W. M. Roche, Esq., of .Sunderland, County
Durham, and left one daughter — Elizabeth —
born August, 1914.
He was a member of the .Tunior Naval and
Military Club.
2nd LIEUTENANT the Honble. PIERS
STEWART ST. AUBYN, 6th iRE-
SERVEi, attd. 2nd BATTN. THE
KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS,
was wounded on the 31st Octolier. 1914, on which
date he was seen by a brother ollicer lymg on the
ground. The latter officer said 2nd Lieutenant
St. Aubyn had been hit in the shoulder, but it
was not possible to go to his assistance then.
The Germans afterwards advanced over the
ground, and the wounded officer has not since
been heard of. The Iligh Court subsequently
allowed it to be presumed that his death occurred
on or since the 31st October, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant .St. Aubyn was the fifth son of
tlie first Baron .St. Lovan and his wife. Lady
Elizabeth Clementma Townshend, daughter of
the fourth jNIarquess Townshend, and was
born on the 11th April, 1871. He served in
South Africa In 1900 as a Lieutenant in Thorny-
croft's Mounted Infantry.
On the outbreak of war 2nd Lieutenant .St.
Auliyn was gazetted to the 6th Battalion
K.R.R.C. in .September, 1914, and went to France
almost at once, where he was attached to the
2nd Battalion.
He was a J. P.. for the County of Cornwall, and
a member of Brooks', the Travellers', and
Bachelors' Clubs. He was a well-known owner
of greyhounds.
CAPTAIN the Honble. CHARLES HENRY
MURRAY ST. CLAIR, 1st BATTN.
SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS iROSS-
SHIRE BUFFS, THE DUKE OF
A L B A N Y ' S I ,
younger son of the
Right Hon. Charles
William St. Clair,
fifteenth Baron .Sin-
clair, was bom on
the 19th December,
1878, and was edu-
cated at Eton and
the R.M.C., Sand-
huKt. He was
gazetted to the 2nd
Battalion Seatorth
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Highlanders in May, 1898, becoming Lieutenant
in December, 1899.
He served with his battalion in the South
African War of 1899-1902, being present in the
advance on Kimberley. including the engage-
ments of Magersfontein, Paardeberg. Poplar
Grove, and Driefontein. During the operations
in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal
in 1900-01 he was attached to Brigadier-
General Sir Henry Rawhnson's column as
Signalling Officer, and was present at the action
at Wittebergen. For his ser\"ices he was men-
tioned in Despatches (" London Gazette," 10th
September, 1901, and received the Queen's
medal with five clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
From 1903 to 1906. having obtained his company
in April. 1902. he was Adjutant of the 2nd
Battalion of his regiment, and in 1906-07
was A.D.C, to General Sir Bruce Hamilton,
Commanding the Ilnd Division at Aldershot :
whilst from 1908 to 1912 he was Staff Captain
on the Headquarters Staff of the Scottish
Command. In the latter year he was posted to
the 1st Battalion of his regiment at Agra. India.
Captain St. Clair landed in France with the
Indian (Meerut) Expeditionary Force on the
13th October, 1914, and served in the North of
France until the 20th December, 1914, when he
was killed in action in the trenches near La
Bassee. He was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 31st May, 1915.
Captain St. Clair, who was a member of the
King's Bodyguard for Scotland (Royal Company
of Archers) and a Knight of the Order of .St.
Ernestine, of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, belonged
to the L'nited .Service and Bath Clubs, London,
and to the Xew Club. Edinburgh.
2nd LIEUTENANT HO"VN'ARD AVENEL
BLIGH ST. GEORGE. 1st LIFE GU.\RDS,
who was killed in
action at ZiUebeke
on the loth Novem-
ber, 1914, in Ills
twentieth year, was
the second son of ilr.
and Mrs. St. George,
of Ashome Hill.
Leamington.
He was gazetted to
the 1st Life Guards
on probation in Jan-
uary. 1914.
CAPT. FRANK HARRISON S.\KER. 4th
BATTN. CONNAUGHT RANGERS,
who was killed in action in Flanders on the 30th
October, 1914, lea\"ing a widow, was the youngest
son of the late Edward Saker, of Liverpool.
He was thirty-four years of age at the time of
liis death, and entered the fifth (afterwards the
died when on his way
4th) Battalion Connaught Rangers as 2nd
Lieutenant in February, 1904, and became
Lieutenant in June, 1906. He had pa.ssed
through a School of Instruction, and was
qualified for appointment as Instructor of
Musketry: he was promoted Captain in
September. 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT ARTHUR MOLES-
WORTH S.\MUELS. SPECI.\L RESERVE,
attd. 1st BATTN. PRINCESS VICTORIA'S
ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERSi,
bom on the 11th
June, 1889, at Birr,
King's County, Ire-
land, was the son
of the late
Lieutenant - Colonel
W. F. Samuels,
A. M.S., who served
in the Ashanti
Campaign of 1873-
74 : his grandfather,
the late George
McCMUoch. Staff Sur-
geon, 2nd Life Guards
home from the Crimea.
2nd Lieutenant .SanmeLs. who was educated at
Corrig School, Kingstown, and Mountjoy .School.
Dublin, joined the Royal Guernsey Light In-
fantry ( Militia ) in 1 909 . The following year he was
attached to the 2nd Battalion Royal InniskUling
Fu-siliers for training: and in 1913 joined the
3rd Battalion (.Special Reserve) of the Royal
Irish Fusiliere, being attached to the 1st
(Regular) Battalion in August, 1914. With the
latter corps he was serving at the front when
he was killed in action near Yprcs on the 13th
October, 1914.
It was learnt from one of the men of the regiment
that 2nd Lieutenant .Samuels was t\vice wounded,
and fell whilst leading his men to attack a
German trench, which they eventually captured.
2nd Lieutenant Samuels belonged to the First
XI of the Dundiimi (Count yDubhn) Hockey Club.
LIEUTENWNT WILLI.\M ALASTAIR
ERASER S .\ N D E M .\ N, 1st B .\ T T N.
GORDON HIGHLANDERS,
who was wounded
and taken prisoner
on the 13th October,
1914, died from the
effects of his wounds
at Laventie, in
France, on the 19th
October, 1914.
He was the only
son of Captain
W. W. Sandeman,
late Seaforth
Highlanders, and
SAN-SAR
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Mrs. Sandeman, 8. Queen's Gardens, Hove,
Sussex, and was born on the 27t.h M;u(:li, 1SS9.
lie was educated at Harrow (Mr. I )a\']ds(m's.
l!)n2-0.^), and joined the Gordon I lif^lilanilcrs
ill .Inly. I'.Klll. Iiccdiiiiiii; l,iciili'ii.-iiil in Marcli.
11)11. l-'roiu Di'i-fUiber, lilll. lo .laiiuais . lltlH.
lie was A.D.C. (extra) to the (iovernor and
Coiiniiandci-in-Cliief. f'eylon.
CAPT.MN MKRVYN KEATS SANDYS,
2nd BATTN. YORK AND LANCASTER
REGIMENT,
who was born at
Tii. .Sheep Street,
Nortliaiiipton. on
llir 17th July,
1 S S 4 , w a s f h I-
younger twin son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
Edwin Del Sandys,
2nd Battalion Xortli-
aniptonshire Regi-
ment (the old .58th),
andofClarissa
.Marion, his wife, wlio was the only child of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel George Edward Owen Jackson,
K. M.L.I. He was also a grandson of Lieutenanl-
(ieneral George Sandys, 0th Madras Cavalry and
tiovernor of the Northern Division of the
Madras Presidency, and great-grandson of styles
Sandys, Esq., J.P., D.L., of Graythwaite Hall,
North Lanca.shire. His twin biother is Ca])tain
G. O. Sandys, J. P. .Westmorland and Cumberland
Yeomanry, of Graythwaite Hall.
Captain M. K. .Sandys was educated at Bedford
Grammar School and the B.M.C., Sandhurst. Ho
joined the 2nd Battalion Y'ork and Lancaster
Pegimentin October, 1903, becoming Lieutenant
in November, 1907, and Captain in April, 1913.
He Avas killed at Touquet, near Fleurbaix,
Fi'ance, in an attempt to recover a lost trench.
His body was never recovered. Captain Sandys
was at first reported as having been wounded
on the 22nd October, 19U. A little later he
was stated to have been wounded and missing
on the 25th October, but finally his Commanding
Officer notified his death on the 28th November,
1914. This latter report was ultimately
confirmed by a brother officer and by woimded
soldiers of his battalion who have since returned
to England.
Captain Sandys belonged to the Conservative
Club, St. James's, and was a member of the
Limerick Hunt.
2nd LIEUTENANT (temp.) ALFRED
SANG, INTELLIGENCE CORPS,
was born in Paris on the Oth September, 187f),
the son of Frederic .1. Sang. Marine Artist, and
Johanna Garth. After an elementary education
in France he was at Ratcliffe College, England,
and subsequently at the Conservatoire National
des Arts et Metiers in Paris. ITi' was possessi'd
of considerable mathematical and niccliauii'al
ability, and in 1900
he invented a calcu-
lating machine. In
t l\at year he went to
tlie United States,
and at Pittsburg
specialised in the
corrosion of metals
and means for its
1 invention, publish-
ing a book on the
subject. H e a 1 s o
contributed to many
si-ienlific publications. Peluiiiiiig to Paris in
1909, he founded the company of Sang &
Kafinesque, metallurgical engineers, and later
still the firm of Sang & Russell in London.
He was elected a member of the Royal .Society
of Arts in 1911, froni whoso joimial of the 27th
Novendjor, 1914, many of the details of this
biography have been taken.
Prior to the war 2nd Lieutenant Sang had no
military experience, but on its outbreak he at
once volunteered for the Intelligence Corps,
for which he was specially fitted, as he spoke
JMiglish and French equally well, and also had
a thorough knowledge of German. ^loreover,
tlie roads of Northern France were familiar
to him, as he was an ardent cyclist. His services
were accepted and he was given a tempcn'ary
<'ommission as 2nd Lieutenant in August, 1911.
1 1(^ was severely wounded in the head on or
al)out the 9th September, 1914, by shrapnel,
and died in No. 8 Hospital, Rouen, France, on
the 2nd October, 1914.
2iul Lieutenant Sang married Sara Alice
Spang, of Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A., and left
three children : Frederick, aged fifteen ; l<jliza-
beth Ewing, aged ten : and Henry, aged eight
years.
WILLIAM STOPFORD SARS-
2nd BATTN. CONNAUGHT
MAJOR
FIELD,
RANGERS,
born at Dough-
cloyne, County
Cork, on the 23rd
February, 1868, was
the son of Dominick
Ronayne Patrick
Sarsfield, of that
place, and was re-
lated to General
Patrick Sarsfield.
He was educated at
Cheltenham College,
and was gazetted to the 1st Battalion Connaught
Rangers in September, 1888, becoming Lieu-
tenant in February, 1890, and Captain in May,
1897. He served all through the Boer War
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with his rearinient and on the Staff, being
present at the relief of Ladysinith, including
action at Colenso, operations and actions at
Spion Kop and Vaal Krans ; operations on the
Tugela Heights, in Xatal, and in Cape Colony,
north and south of Orange River. He received
the Queen's medal with three clasps and the
King's medal with two clasps. He held the
appointment of Assistant Press Censor and
Deputy Ass'^tant Adjutant-General from July.
1900, to February, 1903. Subsequently he
was from December, 1906. to December, 190S,
Adjutant of the .5th (Mihtia) Battalion (Special
Reserve) at Boyle : and receiving his ilajority in
December of the latter year was appointed to the
conuiiand of the depot at Galway, which post
he held for four years.
He accompanied his battalion to France for
the Great War, and died on the 20th .September.
1914, of woimds received at the Battle of the
Aisne when in temporary conunand of the
battalion, after the Commanding Officer had
been wounded.
Major Sarsfield married Beatrice Lalage Powell,
daughter of Percy Maynard, D.L., Ratoath,
County ileath, and left one son, Patrick,
born April, 1899.
CAPTAIN JOHN ARDKEEN SAVAGE.
1st BATTN. N O R THA.MP TON-
SHIRE R EGT..
was the son of the
Rev. Francis Forbes
Savage and Ethel
ilargaret Savage,
of F 1 u s h.i n g
Vicai-age, Falmouth,
Cornwall, and of The
Ards, County
Down, and was bom
at Chatham on the
16th September,
1SS3. He was a
grandson of Captain John ilorris Savage,
R.A., who fell in the Crimea, and great-grandson
of General -Sir John Boscawen Savage K.C.B.,
K.H., who fought at Copenliagen and the Nile.
Captain Savage was educated at Kelly College,
Tavistock, and joined the 3rd West Riding Regi-
ment in October. 1900. With it he served in the
South African War. 1899-1901, and was present
at operations in Cape Colony, December, 1900,
to June, 1901. He received the Queen's medal
with four clasps.
He afterwards joined the Royal Garrison Regi-
ment, and on its disbandment in July, 1905, he
was transferred to the 1st Battalion North-
amptonshire Regiment in India, in which he
became a Captain in March, 1912. He was
seconded for service with the West African
Fi-ontier Force in Gambia and South Nigeria
from 1911-13.
He was shot in the trenches at the Battle of the
Aisne on the ITth September, 191-t. The
following is an account of the circiunstances :
" On ilonday, the 15th September, the English
advance trench on the Aisne was occupied by
one hundred and sixty men of ' B ' Company,
1st Northamptonshire Regiment, who had
fought their way back fron\ Mons. On Tuesday,
all the officers except a .Subaltern having been
killed. Captain Savage was sent from his own
(' D ') Company to take command. At about
2.30 on the following day (Wednesday) word
came down the line that the Germans were
sho«-ing the white flag. This was unconfirmed,
but about an hour later it was reported that
they were laying down their arms, and had
actually hoisted the white flag over the trench.
On this Captain .Savage got out of the trench,
and laying down his sword and revolver ad-
vanced imarmed towards the German position,
which was about eight yards distant. He was
followed by his Subaltern — Lieutenant I'hnmer,
K.R.R.C. — who afterwards received the Victoria
Cross. The German officer in command met
Captain Savage in the middle of the inter-
vening ground, and both officers were seen to
salute. After about five minutes' conversation
they again saluted, and each turned to return
to his trench. Just as Captain Savage reached
liis own, Mr. Dimmer, who looked round, saw
that the Germans were in the act of firing, and
called out to warn Captain Savage, at the same
time throwing himself on the gi-ound. As Captain
Savage did so the scabbard of his sword caught
in the ground, causing a moment's delay, and
he fell dead ridiUed by the bullets of a treacher-
ous enemy. Captain .Savage was buried on the
same day. Of him it was wiitten that he was an
officer dearly loved by his men. and a man who
seemed utterly without a knowledge of fear. It
is said that when ' B ' Company came out of
their trench on Friday their strength was
eight sound men and four wounded."
LIEUTENWNT RICHARD CHARLES
G R A V E S - S .\ W L E . 2nd B .\ T T A -
LION COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
was the only son of
Rear-Admiral Sir
Charles Graves-
Sawle, Bart..
M.V.O., and Lady
Graves - Sawle, of
Penrice, Cornwall,
and Barley, Exeter.
He was a nephew of
Colonel Sir
Francis Graves-
Sawle, Bart.,
M.V.O., who at one
time conuuanded the Coldstream Guards.
Lieutenant Graves-Sawle was educated at
SAW SCH
;!,S()
Hanow and the K.M.C., Sandhurst, receiving
his coiniuission in the Coldstream Guards in
190S, getting his i)roiiiotion in 1910. From
1913 to the outbreak of the war with Germany
he was Assistant Adjutant of his battalion. He
left for France on tlie 12th August, and fought
all through the retirement from Mons, and was in
every action up to the day he was killed at
Ypres on the 2nd November, 1914.
Lieutenant Graves-Sawle, who was a member of
the Guards' Club, was a keen yachtsman and
big-game hunter. His marriage with Muriel,
eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Heaton-
Ellis. .T.l'.. D.L.. of Wyddiall Hall. Hertfordshire,
which had been arranged to take place in October,
took place, owing to the outbreak of war, on
the 6th August, 1914.
CAPTAIN GEORGE HENRY VAUGH.\N-
SAWYER, 34 th SIKH PIONEERS,
« ho was killed iu
action on the 27th
October, 1914, was
the only son of
Colonel G. W. Saw-
yer, and was born on
the (3th July, 1875.
After passing for the
Indian Army from
the R.JI.C, Sand-
hurst, he was gazet-
ted 2nd Lieutenant
unattached, in
August. ISD.T, and joined the Indian Staff Corps
in December, 1896, becoming Lieutenant in
November, 1897. He was on service on the
north-we.stern frontier of India in 1897-98,
being present at the engagement near Shabkadr
in August, 1897, and at operations on the
Samana and in the Kurram Valley in August
and September, 1897. He received the medal
with two clasps. He also served in the Bazar
Valley, Tirah Campaign, 1897-98, receiving an
additional cla.sp to his medal, and in the Tibet
Campaign 190:^-04 for which he received the
raedal.
He was promoted Captain in August, 1904.
went on half-pay in May, 1909, returning to
duty in December of the same year.
Captain \'aughan-Sawyer, who was married to
Dr. Ethel Vaughan-Sawyer, retired from the
active list in April, 1914, but rejoined the Army
for the war.
tlie King's medal with two clasps, having been
present at operation.^ and fighting at Laings
Nek, in the Trans-
vaal : the relief of
Ladysmith, in the
Orange Free State :
and the Tugela
Heights, in Cape
Colony.
He was the best shot
in his company for
nine years in succes-
sion, was a splendid
athlete. captainof his
regimental hockey
team, and played football, cricket, tennis, and
bowls.
He was given his conimis.sion in the Middlesex
Regiment during the Great \^'ar for saving
his company during the retirement from Mons
in August, 1914, and was mentioned in Sir
John French's Despatch of the 8th October, 1914.
He died between the 16th-22nd October, 1914.
A farm at Le Rietz, near Lille, occupied by our
men, had been heavily shelled, and 2nd Lieu-
tenant Sayers gave the order for the wounded
to be brought out. going himself to help in the
work. When he was inside the building it
collapsed and he never came out.
CAPTAIN THOMAS SCATCHARD,
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS,
who was killed in
action on the 8th
September, 1914,
was the youngest
sou of Dr. and ilrs.
Scatchard, of
Boston Spa,
Yorkshire.
He was born on the
0th July, 1878,
and entered the
Royal Army
Medical Corps in
July. 1905, being promoted Captain on the
31st January, 1909. Immediately jireceding
the war he was stationed at Aldershot.
He married, in 1907, Ada Mary, daughter of
Colonel de la Motte Hervey, 13th Bengal
Lancers, and a granddaughter of General
Hervey, C.B., and left one child — Phyllis .May
Lindsay.
2nd LIEUTENANT ROBERT SAYERS,
4th BATTN. DUKE OF CAM-
BRIDGE'S OWN MIDDLESEX REGT.i.
son of George Sayers, was bom in London on
the 16th July, 1879.
He served for eighteen years in the ranks, taking
part in the South African War, for which he
received the Queen's medal with six clasps and
LIEUTENANT HERBERT HUGO
SCHNEIDER, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
was born in East Dulwich, London, on the 5th
January, 1888. He was educated at the Bedales
School, Petersfield, Hants, and received liis
technical education at the Crystal Palace School
of Practical Engineering, after which he served
an apprenticeship of fifteen months in the shops,
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SCH— SCO
specialising in electric motors and generators.
He was an assistant to Messrs. Barry, Leslie
vt Egerton for three
years (1907-10),
when he joined the
Special Reserve for
one year as 2nd
Lieutenant, Royal
Engineers.
In 1911 he went to
West Africa, where
lieservedasA^istant
F^ngineer on the
Lagos Railway,
Xorthem Extension.
Northern Nigeria. After his leave of absence he
petomed to West Africa in 1912 as Assistant
Engineer on the Sierra Leone Government Rail-
way. In 1914 he was appointed Surveyor to the
.Survey of Xorthem Nigeria, and was still there
on the outbreak of the war, when he left to take
part in the operations in West Africa. He was
killed in action in the Cameroons on the .5th
December, 1914.
His promotion to Lieutenant, to date from 1st
September. 1914, was notified in the " London
Gazette " of the 20th May. 1915.
He was elected a Graduate of the Institution
of Mechanical Engineers in 1909, and an
Associate Member in 1914.
FRED F .
RESERVE.
HUSSARS.
2nd LIEUTENANT
SCHUNCK. 1st
QUEENS ROYAL
ROGER HENRY
B A T T N . T H E
WEST SURREY
REGIMENT,
was bom on the 2nd
October, 1SS4, at
Falkenham. Suffolk.
He was the only son
of Hubert Schunck,
Esq., of Harrogate,
Leeds, and ilan-
chester, and a grand-
son of Dr. Edward
Schunck, Ph.D.,
F.R.S.
He was educated at
Radley College, Oxford, at Diisseldorf. and
at Bordeaux. After serving as 2nd Lieutenant
in the .Special Reserve of the 3rd Battalion of
the regiment he obtained his commission in
the 1st Battalion on the outbreak of the war,
and proceeded with his battalion to the front.
He was in heavy fighting at the battles on the
Aisne, where he ^ot a bullet through his cap.
At the first Battle of Tpres, he was killed on
the 30th-31st October. 1914, near Gheluvelt. by
a piece of shell while holding an advanced post,
when only three officers of the battalion were
left. He was buried in Ypres Cemetery.
Lieutenant Schunck was a member of the PubUc
Schools' Club, Berkelev Street. London.
LIEUTENANT A L
SCHUSTER. SPECIAL
4th QUEEN'S OWN
was born in
Hampstead on the
30th July, 1S83, and
was the son of Er-
nest J. Schuster,
Barrister-at-Law.
He was educated
first at Stoke
Honse, Stoke
Poges, and then at
Charterhouse,
where he held junior
and senior
scholarships : and finally he was an Exhibitioner
of New College. Oxford, where he took a second
class in Moderations and a second class in
Lit. Human.
Lieutenant Schuster joined the Kerry Militia
in July, 1905, as 2nd Lieutenant, being pri>-
moted Lieutenant in AujTist. 1908. and when
the ilUitia was disbanded was transferred to
the 4th Hussars Special Reserve in .July, 1910.
He was serving with the 4th Hussars when he
was killed on the 2t^h November, 1914, in the
most advanced trench at Hooge, near Ypres.
Lieutenant Schuster was called to the Bar in
1906, and joined the publishing firm of Sidgwick
and Jackson in 1913. He was a member of the
New University Club, the Cavendish Club, and
the Garrick. He hunted with the Quom,
V.W.H. Devon and Somerset Staghounds,
and won the Bar Point-to-point Lightweisht
Race in 1908.
2nd LIEUTENANT BASIL JOHN
HARRISON SCOTT. 2nd BATTN.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE
REGIMENT.
who was shot in the
first Battle of
Ypres, near PUkeni
(Belgium) on the
2.3rd October. 1914,
was born in
Fitzwilliam Square.
Dublin, on the li>th
May, 1894, the elder
son of the late John
Harrison Scott,
F.R.C.-S., Ireland.
and of Mrs. Scott, of Wimbledon.
He was educated at Winchester and the R.M.C..
.Sandhurst, joining the South Staffordshire
Regiment at Aldershot in October. 1913. He
accompanied his battalion to France in the
second week of August, and took part In the
great retirement from Mons to the Mame. and
in subsequent actions.
Fop his services he was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
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2nd LIEUT KNANT EDWARD
CLAUD SCOTT, ROYAL GARRISON
A R T I L L E R "\' ,
who was killcil in
action near Ariuen-
tieres on tlie 21st
November, Ulll.
was the son of
(iciieral Ihij^h A.
S,-,,tl. H.A.. of The
• ■aitli. W'inchestiT.
lie was born on the
loth May, 1802,
ej\ieat«d at Repton
and the R. :\1. A..
i'liii il the Roval Artillery in
W.M.hvi. !i.
December.
I'.Ml.
CAPTAIN JOHN KEARSLEY DAWSON-
SCOTT. ROYAL ENGINEERS,
i sou of General
D a w s o n - S c o 1 1 ,
Colonel Command-
ant Royal Engin-
eers, and grandson
of Colonel Robert
Kearsley Dawson,
C.B., R.E., was born
in London on the
ISth JLay, 18S3.
He was educated at
\g§l J^^ Tonbridge School,
from which he
went direct to the R.^I.A., Woolwich, and
passed out fourth on the list, joining the
School of Military I-'ngineering, Chatham,
in July, 1002. lie was next stationed at Aider-
shot in a Field Company, and subsequently
seived for five years in Egypt. After returning
to England he was appointed Assistant In-
structor in Fortifications at the School of
Military Engineering. Chatham.
He was good at all games, won inany cups for
rifle .shooting, and at the R.^I.A. had his colours
for hockey. He was a good polo player, and
won cups at the Tiu-f Club, Cairo, and prizes
for cricket, tennis, and croquet. He was also
very musical, playing the 'cello : and sketched
well.
On the outbreak of the war with Germany he
joined the 5th Field Company, R.E., and left
England on the 15th August, 191-i. He was
killed on the 29th October by high-explosive
shell while making a reconnaissance in connec-
tion with trench fighting at the Battle of
Ypres. For liis services eai'lier in the war he
had been awarded the Order of Chevalier of
the Legion of Honoiu* " for special gallantry "
between the dates 21st^30th August, 1914.
CAPTAIN WALTER FAL-
CONER SCOTT. 59 th SCINDE
RIFLES, (FRONTIER FORCE),
ulio was killed in action between the 2ltli and
the 2t)11i October. lOU. was the fourth son of
Walter Scott, of Tan-y-gyi't, Denljigh.
He was born on the 20th December, 1879, and
entered the 6th Battalion King's Liverpool
Regiment in September, 1900, and. after serving
with this battalion dining embodiment foi'
about a month, and being attached to the
.Shrop.shire Light Infantry for a year, he was
gazetted to the Border Regiment as 2nd
Lieutenant in December, 1901. In November.
190,3. he was transferred to the Indian Army.
in which he became Lieutenant in March, 1904,
and Captain in December, 1910. In 1908 he
was on active service on the nor:h-western
frontier of India, taking part in operations in
the Zakka Khel country, and in the Mohmand
country with the engagements of Malta and
Kargha. He received the medal with clas]) for
these campaigns.
TEMPORARY 2nd LIEUTENANT JAMES
H ER BERT SEABROOK, INTELLIGENCE
CORPS, 5th SIGNAL TROOP ROYAL
ENGINEERS,
was the youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam .Seabrook, of
T he Bungalow.
Springfield. Chelms-
ford, and was born
at Brent Hall, Bore-
ham, Chelmsford, on
the 20th October,
1S83. He was the
descendant, on his
mother's side, of an
old Huguenot family — Pertwee (Pertuis) — who
settled near Langenhoe on being expelled fi"om
their native country on the revocation of tlie
Edict of Nantes.
2nd Lieutenant .Seabrook was educated at
Chelmsford College, and volunteered for active
service on the outbreak of the war with Germany,
being gazetted to the Army in August, 1914.
l're^^ous to joining the Army 2nd Lieutenant
Seabrook had been a partner in Messrs. W.
.Seabrook & .Sons. Nurserjnnen, Chelmsford,
and was a member of the Chelmsford Club, and
of the GoU and Tennis Clubs of that town.
At the time of his death he was acting as
desi^atch rider, attached to the . 5th Cavalry
Brigade, and was killed at the Ba'tle of the
.Marne, near Gandelu. on the 10th September,
1914, while returning after the delivery of a
despatch .
He was buried in the village churchyard at
Gandelu.
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The late Officer's Troop Commander ^ve the
following account to his parents : "" He was sent
to me some weeks ago as a motor-cyclist
despatch rider, and he had done splendid
work for me. and was immensely popular with
all. The circumstances of his death are these.
We were in touch with the Germans early in
the morning, and moved to turn their flank.
I sent your son to headquarters of Second Army
with a message before this, and when he re-
tinmed to the point of despatch we had gone.
He was told by another of my motor-cyclists
where we had gone, and which road to take, but
he appears to have missed his way. coming
into contact with the enemy. The end must
have come very quickly and painlessly, as he
was shot in the head. Two other bullets also
found their mark. All this we found later in
the day, as we were in action all the forenoon,
and I was not informed of his death tOl late in
the evening, when. I am glad to say. we had
gained a decisive success. . . . Your son died
a glorious death, which we must all be prepared
for. doing his duty in the service of his country."'
CAPT.\1N LOUIS EDMUND H.\RING-
TON MOLYNEUX-SEEL. 2nd
B A T T N. BORDER REGIMENT.
was killed in action on the 29th October, 1914,
though his name did not appear in the monthly
official casualty list up to June, 1915.
He was the second son of the late Henry
Hairington Molyneux-Seel, and was bom on
the 8th October, 1S72, receiving his commission
in the Border Regiment from the Militia in
December, 1S94. He became Lieutenant in
September, 1896, and Captain in August, 1902.
From April. 1910, to August, 1913, Captain
Molyneux-Seel, who was qualified as a 1st Class
Interpreter in Turkish, was Yice-Consul at
Yan.
CAPTAIN BEAUCHAMP HENRY
S E L B Y. 1st B A T T N . THE
NORTHUMBERL.\ND FUSILIERS.
son of Beauchamp
Prideux Selby, Esq.,
of Pawston. North-
umberland, was bom
in London on the
4th June, 1882.
and was educated at
Harrow and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
His whole service
was spent in the
Northumberland
Fusiliers, which he
becoming Lieutenant in
3ilay, 1902, and Captain in October, 1912.
For sis years, from 1906 to 1912. he was with
his battalion in India. He served on the north-
western frontier of India, taking part in oper-
ations in the Mohmand country, including the
engagement of Malta. He received the medal
with clasp.
Captain .Selby was shot in the trenches near
YaiUy on the 19th September. 1914. and never
recovered consciousness after being hit.
LIEUTENANT DOUGAL CLIFFORD
CAMPBELL S E W E L L. 3rd a t tjd .
1st B A T T N . O L' E E N ■ S O \Y N
ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT .
was the fourth son
of the late wniiam
Sewell, J.P., of
Tillingham, Essex,
and was bom at
Tillingham HaU.
He was wounded at
Mons on the 23rd
August. 1914. and
died in CoUiery Hos-
pital at Wasmes a
few days later at the
age of twenty years.
He was educated at Wellingborough School,
where he made a reputation as an athlete.
He was in the Shooting YIII and the Football
XI. and for three seasons was captain of the
Cricket XI. In cricket he had an aggregate of
617 runs in thirteen innings, and during his
captaincy his XI was accepted as being one of
the strongest Public School teams in the field.
He also made a school record in athletics in
his last term by winning no fewer than six
events : the one hundred yards, one hundred and
twenty yards, quarter-mile, long Jump, high
jimip, and throwing the cricket ball. He was
known to all his friends as " Dougal," and at
school was beloved by both masters and boys.
He joined the Army in September, 1912,
becoming Lieutenant in the 3rd Royal West
Kent Regiment in July, 1913. In the Army,
no less than at school, he was very popular
with aU ranks, officers and men.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR D U N C O M B E
joined in
SHAFTO. D.S.O..
ROYAL SCOTS
was the only sur-
viving son of the
late Charles Otti-
well and Mrs. C.
Duncombe Shafto,
of 9. South BaUey.
Dtirham, and was
bom in London on
the 8th April.
1880.
He was educated at
Durham School and
the R.M.C., Sand-
2nd B.\TTN. THE
LOTHIAN REGT.).
SHA
:\B4
hurst, obtaining his comnnssion in the North-
umberland FusiUers in October, 1899, ami
becoming Captain in December. 1903.
He served in tlie .Soutli African War, being
present at operations in the Orange Free
State and tlie Transvaal. He was twice men-
tioned in despatches ("' London Gazette,"
Itjth Marcli, 1900, and 10th September, 1901),
antl received the Queen's medal with three clasps,
the King's medal with two clasps, and the D.S.O.
From 1905 to 190S he was Staff Captain of the
Border Grouped Regimental District, and from
1908 to 1910 of No. 5 District. In May, 1908,
he was transferred to the Royal Scots.
He was serving with his battalion when he was
killed in action at Audincourt on the 26th
August, 1914.
Captain Duncombe Shafto, who was a member
of the Naval and jVlilitary Club, married Mar-
guerite Cecile Catheiine. daughter of the late
Lieutenant-Colonel Stapleton. 19th Hussars,
and left two chOdren : ilark. born August.
1905 ; and Betty, bom November, 190(5.
LIEUTENANT BERNARD HENRY GIL-
BERT SHAW, 2nd BATTN. PRINCE
OF WALES'S OWN WEST YORKSHIRE
REGIMENT),
was the son of the
Right Bev. E. D.
Shaw, Bishop of
Buckingham, and
Mrs. Agnes Shaw,
md
born on
October,
was
the nth
LsUo.
He was educated at
il a r 1 b o r o u g h
College, where he
was in the Cricket
XI in lull, and scored ninety-four at Lord's
V. Kugby ; and at the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He was captain of the Sandhurst Hockey Team
in 1912, and captain of the Cricket Team in
1913. He was also in the Bucks County XI
in 1911-13. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant
in the West Yorksliire Regiment in 1913,
becoming Lieutenant in May. 1914.
He was killed on the 19th December, 1911,
near Neuve Chapelle. The Captain of his
company furnished the following account of
the circumstances : " He Lieutenant Shaw]
was sent up to support me with liis platoon in
the German trench we had taken. He had
just retaken the travei'se. and on returning to
his post he was shot through the head and died
instantaneously. ' '
The Commanding Officer of his battalion,
writing to his father, said : " Your boy died
most gallantly fighting in a German trench
which had been taken during the night."
2nd LIEUTENANT CUTHBERT FR.\NK
SHAW, SPECIAL RESERVE (attd. 2nd
BATTN.) ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 31.st
October, 1914, near
Y'pres, at the age of
twenty-two, was the
son of Frank H.
Shaw, of The Gables,
St. Leonards-on-Sea.
He was a student of
King's College, Lon-
don, where he was
a very active figure
in the social life of
the college during his three yeare in the Engineer-
ing Department. During his last year he was
Secretary of the Rifle Club, Editor of the En-
gineering Faculty's section in the " College
Review," and General Sub-editor of the
publication. On entering the College he joined
the O.T.C., and eventually rose to the rank of
Sergeant. Ha\'ing obtained his " A " certificate
while in the junior O.T.C. at Gresham .School,
he soon qualified for his " B " Certificate.
He was gazetted to the Special Reserve of his
regiment in January, 1914.
CAPTAIN HUGH JAMES SHAW\ 5th
(attd. 1st) BATTN. ROYAL FUSI-
LIERS (CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT),
who was born in
iladras, India, on
the 10th May,
1886, was the eldest
son of Mrs. R. F.
de Winton, The
G range, Folkestone,
by her first husband,
ilr. W. S. Shaw
(partner of 3Iessi-s.
Parry & Co.,
Madras). He was a
relative of the
painter, Byam Shaw.
Capta n .Shaw was educated at Warieii Hill,
Eastboui-ne : and at Harrow, where he was a
monitor in 1904, in the FootbaU XI in 1903-04,
and in the Gymnasium VIII in 1903.
When the war with Germany broke out he was
in the 5th Battalion (.Special Reserve) of the
Royal Fusiliers, in which he had ranked as
Leutenant from October, 1910. For active
service in the «ar he was attached to the 2nd
Battalion of his regiment, and in September,
1914, he was promoted Captain. He was killed
eaily in the morning of the 12th November,
1914, by his trench or dug-out, which was only
one hundred and fifty yards from the German
lines, falling in on him and suffocating him in
liis sleep.
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SHA-SHE
2nd LIEUTENANT MAURICE ARTHUR
PRITCHARD SHAWVER. 5th attd. 1st
B A T T N . THE DUKE OF C A M -
BRIDGES OWN MIDDLESEX REGT.i,
who was killed in
action probably in
November, 1914. no
date being given in
the monthly casualty
list, was the second
son of ilr. and Mrs.
A. W. Shawyer,
Uardridge, St. Jlar-
garet's Road, !Manor
Park, Essex,
lie was educated at
East Ham Technical
College and London University, where he
graduated with honours ia science in November,
1913. He was for fovu' years a member of the
University O.T.C., and on the outbreak of war,
resigning an appointment abroad under the
Ordnance .Survey Department, was gazetted
to the 5th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, on
probation, La August, 1914.
For active service he was attached to the 1st
Battalion, and was killed at Croix Barbee.
(" Tlie Times," November, 1914.)
CAPTAIN GRAHAM P E R C I V A L
SHEDDEN, 35th HE.WV BATTERY
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY,
■■^^^^^^^^^^^^^ who was killed in
^^^^^^^^^^^^1 on the
^^^^^^Bi^^^^l October, 1914, near
Y'pies. was the third
son of George Shed-
den, Esq., J.P., and
Alice, his wrfe, of
Spring Hill, East
Cowes, Isle of Wight.
He was bom at that
address on the 27th
July, 1886.
Educated at
Buru'j\ = i;u\ al Academy, Gosport, he passed
into the Royal JiDlitary Academy, Woolwich,
at the age of sixteen. He joined the Royal
Artillery in December, 1904, becoming Lieu-
tenant in December, 1907, and was promoted
Captain on the 30th October, 1914. the day
before he was killed. For three years he served
in Hong Kong, and while there he qualified in
Colloquial Cantonese, and was sent for a year
to the Legation Guard at Pekin. Afterwards,
at the time of the Canton rebeUion. he was
sent there in command of a detachment for
the protection of the British colony.
In the Great War he was one of the ofiftcers
who died of wounds received at the Cha'^eau
of Hooge, near Ypres, when a shell struck the
British headquarters, killing Colonel Percival,
Colonel Kerr, and four other officers, and
woimding Lieutenant - General Lomax so
severely that he afterwards died of his wounds.
(See Vol. II.)
LIEUTENANT GEORGE .\RCHER-
SHEE. 3rd attd. Isti BATTN.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
who wa* killed .n
action near Y'pres on
the 31st October,
1914, aged nineteen,
was the younger son
of the late Martin
Archer-Shee, and the
only son of Mis.
Archer-Shee, Wood-
chester, Gloucester-
shire.
He was educated at
Stonyhurst and
joined the 3rd Battalion of his regunent in 'Slay,
1913, becoming Lieutenant in February, 1914,
and on the outbreak of the war was attached
to the 1st BattaUon for active service.
CAPTAIN GERALD ALEXANDER
GASELEE SHEPHERD, 57th
WILDE'S RIFLES, F R O N -
TIER FORCEi, INDIAN ARMY,
who was shot in the trenches at La Bassee on
the 20th December. 1914, was born at Kasauli,
India, on the 14th July, 1882. eldest son of the
late Major Alexander limes Shepherd, of the
same reguient (then known as the 4th Punjaub
Infantry), and was a nephew of General Sir A.
Gaselee, G.C.B.. G.C.I.E.
He was educated at Bedford and at Dover
College, being gazetted to the Suffolk Regiment
in 1901. In the following year he was trans-
ferred to the Indian Army, in which he was
promoted Lieutenant in August, 1903, and
obtained his Captaincy in 1910. Captain
Shepherd was on active service in 1902 on the
north-west frontier in the operations against the
Darwesh Khel Waziris, and subsequently, in
1903-04, in Tibet, when he was present at (he
action at Niani, the operations at and around
Gyantse, and the march to Lhassa. For these
services he received the medal and clasp.
Captain Shepherd was a member of the Junior
Naval and ilihtary Club, and was unmarried.
C.\PTAIN GERARD LOURDES
EDWARD SHERLOCK. 3rd KINGS
OWN HUSSARS, who was killed in action
on the 2oth August, 1914, was appointed to the
Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force,
in May, 1912.
He was bom on the 13th December, 1883, and
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joined the Royal Garrison Artillery Militia as
2nil Lieutenant in Kcbruary, 1901, being pro-
moted Lieutenant in
June, 1902. lie was
jiazetted 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the 3rd
Hussars, in July,
190(1, becoming Lieu-
tenant in December.
190S, and t'aptain on
the 10th August,
1914. He served in
theSouth African War
with the embodied
Mditia, being present
at oi"-iati(iiis in thi- I'laiir-vaal from December.
1901, to May. 1902, receiving the Queen's medal.
2nd LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER
NIMMO SHERRIFF, 1st BATTN.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action near Ypres on
the 1st November,
1914, was the second
son of the late Mr.
George Sherriflf of
^^ ~^^^^V Stenhouse, Kersie,
and Carronvale, Stir-
lingshire.
He was bom on the
^^^^^^^^1 13th August, 1894,
and was educated at
Sedbergh School,
Yorkshire, and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, from
which he was gazetted to the Northamptonshire
Regiment in February, 1914.
On the outbreak of war he accompanied his
battalion to France, and took part in the
retirement from Mon-s. and in the Battles of the
Aisne and Mame!
He inherited the estates of Kersie and Carronvale
from his father, and he was unmarried.
LIEUTENANT HUGH JOHN SLADEN
SHIELDS, ROYAL ARMY MEDI-
CAL CORPS,
was killed in action
near Ypres on the
20th October, 1914.
while attending to
a wounded man in
the firing line, and
was buried at Huize
Berkershorst. Zille-
beke.
He was the son of
the Rev. Arthur
John Shields, Rector
of Thomford. Dorset, and was bom at Calcutta
on the 16th June, 1887. He was educated at
Loretto School and at Jesus College, Cambridge,
where he graduated with honours B.A. and M.B.
in 1010. He rowed in the Jesus College head of
tlie river crew, and gained his blue in 1910.
when he stroked the Light Blues against Oxford.
The same year, with Eric Fairba'.rn, he won the
Lowe Double Sculls. He also rowed at Henley
in the Jesus Grand Challenge Cup crew, which
thi'ee yeai-s in succession were runners-up for
that trophy, and won the Ladies' Plate in 190S.
lie rowed No. 2 in the Jesus crew, composed of
past and present members, wliich was the fii-st
English crew to beat the Belgians, winning the
International Race at Ghent in 1911.
At Jesus College he was captain of the Rugby
Football Club, and when at Middlesex Hospital ,
where he was a scholar and prizeman, was
captain of their XV. In 1912 he played for the
United Hospitals against the Army at Queen's
Club. In that year he competed for the Aimy
and Navy Boxing Championship, winning in
the semi-finals of the middleweights, and being
runner-up in the light heav\-vveights in 1913.
He was keenly and selt-denjangly interested in
religious work and social work at Cambridge
and in London, giving his evenings and
Sundays largely to work among lads at the
ilagdalen College L^nion Club in Camberwell.
He received his commission in the R.A.M.C.
in July, 1912. On the outbreak of the war he
was placed in medical charge of the Irish Guards,
and for his services in the field was mentioned
in Sir John French's Despatch of the 8th Octo-
ber, 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN DENYS SHINE.
1st BATTN. ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT.
who died on the
25th August. 1914,
from wounds re-
ceived at Mons, was
bom on the 11th
September, 1894, at
Corradino House,
Malta, the son of
Colonel J. :\1. F.
Shine, A.il.S. 2nd
Lieutenant Shine
had two brothers
serving in the Army :
Captain J. O. W. Shine, in the Royal Dublin
Fusiliers : and 2nd Lieutenant H. P. Shine,
who was in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and was
killed in action in 191.5. (See Vol. II.)
2nd Lieutenant J. D. .Shine was educated at
Downside .School, near Bath, where he was
captain of the Cricket XI : and at the R.M.C.,
.Sandhuret, tor whom he played in the Asso-
ciation football team, and won the " putting
the weight " event in the R.M.C. v. R.M.A.
Sports. He was a good all-round sportsman,
playing cricket, hockey, football, and tennis.
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SHI— SHO
He was i)osted to the 1st Battalion Royal Irish
Regiment, and was attached to the 2nd Battalion
at Devonport pending embarkation for India,
where his own battaUon was stationed, when the
war with Germany broke out, and he accom-
panied the 2nd Battalion to the front, and was
serring with it when he died.
LIEUTENANT JAMES REGINALD SHIP-
PEY. LATE 2nd LIEUTENANT ROYAL
WEST KENT REGIMENT. 3rd attd. 1st
BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT.
--. -- was the son of the
late Frederic Ship-
pey, Esq., and Mrs.
Shippey. of Pieter-
maritzbiirg, Xatal,
and was bom there
in March. IS91.
He was educated at
Bedford Grammar
School. and was
gazetted 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the 3rd
Battalion Bedford-
shire Keguiicui ii^ >ci-iciiiber, I91I, and joined
the 1st Battalion Boyal West Kent Regiment
with the same rank in January, 1911. He
shortly afterwards left the Ai-my but. on war
breaking out, was brought back as a Lieutenant
in the .3rd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment in
August, 19Ii.
He was wounded at Givenchy on the 12th
October, 1914, and died from the effects on the
14th of that month.
Lieutenant Shippey was a keen football player,
and successful in shooting.
CAPTAIN GUY MAXWELL SHIPWAY.
p.s.c. 1st BATTN GLOUCESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT,
was the son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
R. W. Shipway,
V.D., J. P.. and was
bom in London on
the 21st June, IS77.
He was educated at
Clifton CoUege and
at the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst. He
received his
commission in
the Gloucestershire Regiment in February, 1897,
becoming Lieutenant in December, 1S9S. and
Captain in October, 1905. passing through the
Staff College. Captain Shipway served in the
South African War. 1900-02 : was present at
the relief of Kimberley (severely wounded) :
took part in the operations in the Orange Free
State from February to May, 1900 ; in Orange
River Colony. !May to November, 1900 ; Cape
Colony, south of Orange River. 1900 ; Cape
Colony, north of Orange River : in the Trans-
vaal, July, 1901, to May, 1902 : and again in
the Orange River and Cape Colonies from
November. 1900, to July, 1901. For a time
he was attached to the Army Service Corps,
graded as Staff Captain, and received the
Queen's medal with three clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps. He also served in
West Africa (South Nigeria), in 1905-06, with
the Bende-Onitsha Hinterland Expedirion, for
which he received the medal with clasp.
In the Great War he was seriously wounded
on the 25th August, while in command of his
double company, covering his battalion while
it was entrenching in some fields in the rear
at Favril, France. He was taken to Etreux,
where he died on the morning of the 26th
August. I9I4.
Captain Shipway mairied Gladys Blanche
Katherine. second daughter of Mr. and !Mrs.
Frank Cooper, late of Ijsle Coiul:, Wootton,
Isle of Wight, and left one daughter. Priscilla
Marv. bom 10th October, 1910.
CAPTAIN HENRY H.\MMOND SHOTT,
D.S.O.. 1st B.\TTN. PRINCESS
CH.\RLOTTE OF WALES'S
ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGlMENTi.
was shown in the
monthly casualty
list published in
October, 1914, under
the heading of
■• casualties be-
lieved to have oc-
curred," as " be-
heved to have been
killed in action,"
no place or date
being mentioned. It
has since been ascer-
tained that he was killed on the 25th August,
1914. He was the son of the late N. Schjott,
Esq.. of Dover, and was bom there on the 13th
October, 1877. He was educated at Dulwich
College, and served in the ranks of Bethune's
Mounted Infantry for one year and thirty-sis
days, and with a commission in the same corps
for one year and forty-nine days. As a Trooper
he was in operations in South Africa in 1S96,
for which he received a medal. He next served
in the South African War with Bethune's
-Mounted Infantry, being present at operations
in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony,
and at the acdons of Spion Kop, Vaal Krans,
on the Tugela Heights, and at Laing's Nek.
He was three times menrioned in despatches
(" London Gazette," Sth Februarr and 16th
April, 1901, and 17th June, 1902), was awarded
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the D.S.O., and received the Queen's medal
with six clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps.
In February, 1902, he was given his con\-
mission as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Berk-
shire Regiment, becoming Lieutenant in Feb-
ruary, 1905. From October, 1904, to July,
1909, and again from July, 1910. to July, 1913,
he was employed with the West African Frontier
Force. Piu-ing that time he was on active
service in North Nigeria, 1906, for which he was
again mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," 2nd July. 1907), and received the
medal with clasp. He was promoted Captain
in June, 1911.
A Sergeant of his battalion, describing the
fight at Mens, said : " Captain Shott. D.S.O..
of our regiment, was, I think, the bravest man
I ever met. On August 23rd, when we were
near and were lying in our trenches with shell
fire constantly around us, he walked out into
the open, and, with his cheery words, gave us
good heart. He was pufling a cigarette, and
he said, ' Lads, we will smoke ! ' He was an
officer and a gentleman ui every sense of the
word, and when he was killed two days later it
was a great blow to us."
This incident was mentioned by a French
writer (R.P.) in '• Le Temps"' of the l-'ith
September, 1911, as evidence of " h' sanij froid
britannique."
Captain Shott, who was a member of the Naval
and Military Club, married Hazel Morris Brown,
of Jonkers, New York.
CAPTAIN ROBERT YARDLEY
S I D E B O T T O M, 2nd B A T T N.
THE LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS,
who was born at
Alderley Edge,
Cheshire, on the
13th August, 18S1,
was the son of
Ralph Sidebottom
and grand.son of
Ralph and Mary
Sidebottom. of Mill-
brook, HoUingworth,
Chesliire.
He was educated at
Bi'ton Grange, Cliel-
tenham College, and the K.M.C., Sandhurst.
After receiving an unattached 2nd Lieutenancy
in January, 1901, he joined the Lancashire
FusiUers in March of the same year, becoming
Lieutenant in February, 1901, He served for
eighteen months with the Mounted Infantry
in South Africa, and was promoted Captain
into the 2nd Battalion of his regiment m July,
1914.
He was a well-known big-game hunter in South
Africa and India.
He was reported to have been sliol in the head
and killed instantly on or about the 20th August,
1914, near Le Cateau, during the retirement
from Mons.
2nd LIEUTENANT CHARLES
CALDWELL SILLS, 1st BATTN.
SOUTH WALES BORDERERS,
was born in London
on the 24th De-
cember, 1893, the
son of George Turner
Sills, Barrister - at -
Law, H. B. M.'s
Magistrate at
Zanzibar from
1909-14: the gran.l-
son of George Sills.
Recorder of Lincoln,
and great-nephew of
Colonel J. F. Cald-
well, of the 24th Reginu-iit.
He was educated at Oakham from lOD.'i-ri,
and entered the Royal Military College, Sand-
hurst, in 1912, being gazetted thence to a 2nd
Lieutenancy in the South Wales Borderers in
September, 1913. He proceeded to France with
the 1st Division of the Expeditionary Force,
and was present at the Battles of Mons, the
ilame, and the Aisne. In the latter he was
killed on the 26th September, 1914, near
^'endresse, while his battaUon was engaged in
repelling a German attack in force on the
trenches.
At school he was captain of the ciicket XI in
1911 and 1912, and was also in the Rugby
X\'. He was a successful athlete, having been
a Double Blue at Sandhurst in 1913 for the
high- jump and cricket, having scored in the
same year 103 for .Sandhurst v. Woolwich.
When at Aldershot he played regularly at
cricket and football for the Aldershot Command.
He was a member of the il.C.C.
ANSON LLOYD
I A L RESERVE.
ROY.\L SUSSEX
2nd LIEUTENANT
SILVESTER, SPEC
attd, 2nd BATTN.
REGIMENT,
was born on the 11th
December, 1888, at
6. Belgrave Ter-
race, Bath. His
father — the Rev.
James Silvester,
M.A. — was at that
time Senior Curate
of Walcot, Bath, and
subsequently
became Vicar of
Great Clacton and
Little Holland, Essex. Mrs. Constaniu inieu
Silvester {nee Lloyd), his mother, was formerly an
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Army Xursing Sister at Xetley and Devonport.
2nd Lieutenant Silvester's great-grandfather —
Edward Bell Lloyd — served under the Duke of
Wellington in the Peninsula, and at Waterloo
was A.D.C. to his uncle. General Anson.
Through his mother's line. Lieutenant Silvester's
desoent could be traced back to the ancient
independent Princes of Wales, and he was of the
twenty-first generation from King Edward III
(see the Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal,
Part I, compiled by the ilarquis de Ruvigny).
He passed through Trent College, Derbyshire,
with distinction, obtaining an exhibition at
Jesus College, Oxford. In Jloderations he
obtained third-class mathematical honours, and
in the Final School of Modem History was
placed in the second-class honour list in 1912.
He was 6 feet 3 inches in height, and developed
into a tine atlilete. He obtained the first
place for Oxford University in a cross-country
running contest for the Southern Counties
Association Championship, and a gold medal
was awarded liim by the President.
At Oxford he belonged to the Officers' Training
Corps, and obtained the certificate qualifying
him for the Special Reserve, in which he joined
the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1913. training at
Woking, and taking part in the Army Man-
oeuvres that year. In the spring of 191-1 he
studied German in Berlin with a view to
appointment to H.M. Consular Service, for
which he had received a nomination, and he
would have returned to the Continent to com-
plete liis studies but for the war.
For several years he took part in the camp
work of the Y.M.C.A., and was actually engaged
in it, in August, 1914, when the war broke out.
On mobUisation he was stationed at Dover
for some time before joining the Expeditionary
Force. With five other officers he landed at
Havre towards the end of September. During
his war service liis parents received many most
interesting and touching letters. In the last
one, written on Christmas Day just before
returning to the trenches, he said : " Well,
dear parents, I mustn't say more now. I tliink
of you and the brother and all ray friends, and
know that I am out here for your sakes, and
that is a comfort to me ; and God has been very
good to me lately, and seems to be always near
me, so I keep very cheery and thankful in spite
of aU."
On the 31st December. 1914, the Germans
gained possession of one of the trenches at
Guinchy, near La Bassee at 4 p.m., and an
attack was made on the enemy at 10 p.m. that
night. While gallantly leading his men in this
attack 2nd Lieutenant Silvester was killed.
2nd Lieutenant .SUvester was one of the O.T.C.
Guards of Honoiu- at the funeral of King
Edward VII and at the Coronation of King
George.
CAPTAIN GEORGE NORMAN
SIMMS, M . V . O . . 2nd B A T T N .
ROYAL M U N S T E R FUSILIERS,
who was unofficially
reported to have
been killed on the
27th August, 1914.
at Xoyon, was the
youngest son of the
late George Siuims,
of Summer Grange,
Sunningdale. and of
Mrs. S i m in s ,
of Gilderdale
House, Gerrards
Cross.
He was born on the 21st October, 187.5. and
joined the Royal ^Munster Fusiliers from the
ililitia in December, 1897, becoming Lieutenant
in ilarch, 1899.
He served in the .South African War, being
present at operations in the Orange River
Colony in the early part of 1902, receiving for
his services the Queen's medal with two clasps.
The senior surviving officer of the battalion
gave the following account of Captain Simms'
death : " On August 27th his company was on
outpost duty with mine in front of the battalion,
which was to cover the withdrawal of our
brigade. The latter got away safely, but to
acliieve this the battalion had to sacrifice itself.
The enemy was coming from the north, and
began working round to eastward of us. Tour
son's company was sent to the post of danger to
prevent this. It was a most difficult undertaking,
invoh-ing his complete isolation from the rest of
us, but he carried it through, fought a smart httle
action ' on his own,' and returned with the loss
of but three men. We then continued the with-
drawal, and it was discovered that the enemy
had surrounded and cut us off. Again George
Simms was sent to the post of danger, this
time in front. He went ofi at the head of his
men. and having located the enemy in an
entrenched position straight across our line of
retreat he proceeded to attack at once. A
murderous fire was opened on him and liis men,
and a destructive cross-fire was brought to
bear on them from a loop-holed house. While
gallantly exposing himself, as an example to
his men. he was shot in the body and fell dead.
The whole five officers of his company were
killed, a magnificent example to the remainder
of the battalion. The next day the Germans
sent out a party of our men, whom they had
taken prisoners, to bury our dead, and your
son was placed in a grave with eight of his
brother officers who fell in the same action.
His personal effects were buried with him,
nothing being touched. His kit was on our
transport wagons, which may have escaped.
When I came to this battalion four months ago
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I was attaclied to \oiir r^on's company, so that
I might see how the new system was run, and
it really was a lesson in the art of managing men.
The Brigadier, after inspecting his company,
said : ' I should like to serve under Captain
Simms myself.' No higher praise is needed.
The whole battalion was devoted to him, and
his company was far the best of the battalion.
In the mess we shall miss him more than any-
where: liis invariable good temper, tact, and
sense of humour made him an ideal senior
member of a mess."
Captain Simms, who was promoted to his rank
in June. 190(3, was a member of the Army and
Navy Club, a keen polo player, and fond of
steei^lechasing. He was not married.
LIEUT. GEORGE PRESCOTT BLACK-
ALL-SIMONDS, RESERVE OE OFEI-
CERS, SOUTH WALES BORDERERS,
was the only son of
Jlr. and Mrs. George
Blackall-Simonds, of
Bradfield, Berkshire.
and was born in 1S81.
He was educated at
Bradfield College,
near Reading. He
served in the South
African War as a
Railway Staff Olticer,
and received the
Queen's medal with
three clasps. His rank as Lieutenant dated from
April, 1910.
He was attached for active service to tlic
1st Battalion of his regiment and was killed
at Vendresse on the 27th September, 1914,
while^leading his men to attack the Germans
in a stone quarry. He was shot through the
head, death ensuing in a few minutes.
CAPTAIN JOHN EDMUND SIMPSON,
2nd BATTN. KINGS OWN
YORKSHIRE L 1 G H T I N F A N T R Y),
boi-n on the 9th
July, 1873, at
Bayswater, London,
was the son of the
Rev. John Curwen
Simpson. formerly
of Thurscoe,
Yorkshire, and a
nephew of Judge
Edmund Sheppard.
of Brisbane. A
brother — Captain
L. Simpson, M.V.O.,
of the same regiment — was wounded and taken
prisoner at Le Cateau.
After his education at St. Paul's School, Stony
Stratford, Captain J. E. Simpson received a
commission fi'om the 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion
Y'orkshire Regiment, in the 1st Battalion,
K.O.Y'.L.L, in May, 1900, being promoted
Lieutenant in 1901, and detaining his company
in the 2nd Battalion in January, 1907. He was
Adjutant of the 3rd Reserve Battalion of his
regiment from October, 1910, till Sejitember,
1918. He served at Gibraltar, South Africa,
and in Ireland, being at Carrickfergus when
war broke out. He left with the liret contin-
gent of the Expeditionary Force on the 10th
August, 1914.
During the war he was mentioned in Sir .John
French's Despatch of the 8th October, 1914.
Captain Simpson was killed at Jlessines.
Flanders, on the 31st October, 1914, while
leading his men. His death was almost
instantaneous.
LIEUTENANT W. H. M. SIMPSON, 3rd
(attd. 1st) BATTN. EAST SURREY REGT..
who died of wounds on the 19th Deceml)er,
1914. at No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne,
was the eldest son of William P. J. Simpson,
of Mitcham, Surrey.
He joined the East Surrey Regiment as 2nd
Lieutenant on probation in February, 1912,
and «as promoted Lieutenant in September,
1914.
RONALD FRANCIS
FIELD ARTILLERY,
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LIEUTENANT
SIMSON, ROYAL
was the son of tlie
late D. J. Simson.
Esq., Advocate, and
Mrs. Simson. of
Balmanno, Maiy-
kirk, N.B., and was
born at Edinburgh
on the 6th Septem-
ber. 1890.
He was educated at
Edinburgh Academy
and at the R.M.A..
Woolwich. Both ati
school and at the Royal .Military Academy
Ijieutenant Simson achieved many distinctions,
academic and athletic. At the former he
proved a good mathematician, and also gained
the First Prize for Modern Languages, having
a good knowledge of written and conversational
German. He was popular with both boys and
masters. Proficiency in athletics has never
been found other than an advantage in a
military career, and here Lieutenant Simson
was a leader. A good bat at cricket, he was
pre-eminent at football and at the games. He
was a brilliant centre three-quarter back, and
at the games in his last year he took the first
place in five open events winning the Burma
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Cup and the Bradbury Shield in 1909, thus
stamping himself as the best all-round athlete
of the year.
At the Royal ililitary Academy he was in the
Woolwich XV of 1909-10, and scored twice
in the match against Sandliurst when his side
won by 49 — 9. Aft«r Christmas. 1909. he
became captain of the team. He was also to the
front as a runner, winning three open events
in 1910 and the Silver Bugle. At Woolwich he
was also an under-offlcer, and very much liked
by cadets and officers. He joined the Royal
Artillery as 2nd Lieutenant in July. 1911. in
which year he played for the Army and Xavy in
football, and in the same year was selected to
play for Scotland !•. England.
He became Lieutenant n July. 191-1, in the
116th Battery, 20th Brigade, and was said to
be the most popular man in his battery. He
was killed on the loth .September, 191-1. When
riding back to bring his battery into action a
shell fell under his horse, killing instantaneously
both horse and rider. His Major, who had a
high opinion of him, had recommended him
for recognition.
Lieutenant Simson was a member of the London
Scottish Football Club.
C A P T .\ I N K .\ N W A R 1 N D A R J I T
SINGH. M.B.. M.R.C.P.. INDIAN MEDl-
CAL SERVICE, MEDIC.\L OFFICER OF
THE 57th WILDES RIFLES FRON-
TIER FORCE),
was the son of
Bajah Sir Harman
Singh, Ahluwalia.
K.C.I.E.. of Kapm-
thala. Punjab. a
grandson of his late
Highness the
ilaharaja Sir
Randhir Singh,
G.C.S.L, of Kapur-
thala, and a first-
cousin of H.H.
Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh. G.C.S.L. of Kapur-
thala.
He was born at Lucknow, Oudh. on the 27th
December, 188.3, and was educated at Forman
Christian College, Lahore, and at the Pmijab
University (1901), where he took the degree of
B.A. He was also a B.Sc. (1905) and M.B.
(1910) of Cambridge (Pembroke College), and
passed third on the list of successful candidates
for the Indian Medical Service, in which he
received his commission in January, 1911. In
the same year he became (by examination)
M.E.C.P., London.
While in India he served as iledical Officer to
three regiments, and was promoted Captain in
April, 1914. He was a keen horseman, and a
member of the Kawal Pindi and Ferozepore Clubs.
He accompanied the o7th Wilde's Rifles to
Europe for active service in August, 1914 :
was twice mentioned in despatches ; and
awarded the ilihtary Cross for distingtiished
service and conspicuoias gallantry (" London
Gazette." 1st January, 1915). Captain Indarjit
Singh was killed at Festubert on the 23rd
November, 1914, while attending to the wounded
in a house which was completely destroyed by
the enemy's shells.
His father received a letter from Colonel
C. C. Manifold. I.M.S., saying : " It has just
been my lot to meet an officer who was
attached to the 57th Wilde's Rifles, who
. . . was giving me an account of the desperate
fighting the 57th had had. and the vicissitudes
they had. losing nearly all their oflicers. I
asked him, ' Who was your Medical Officer ? '
He said, ' A most splendid fellow. Nothing I
could say would be too great praise for him.
Ten Victoria Crosses would not have been too
much for what he did. There could not be fomid
a braver man. I am filled with admiration,
which will always last, for him.' I need not say
it was your son he was talking of."
The Adjutant of his regiment wrote : '" During
the whole of the hard-worked and frequently
trying time we have had since receiving our
mobilisation orders, Captain Indarjit -Singh
has worked whole-heartedly and ungrudgingly,
and at a time when we had only three combatant
officers left with the regiment, and most of our
companies were very deficient of Indian officers,
he gave me the very utmost assistance in the
routine part of the work of the regiment, fre-
quently looking after the duties of Quarter-
master and Transport Officer in addition to his
own duties. As a doctor he worked untiringly
for the good of the men, and will be missed by
them almost as much as by us who had come to
know him very well during the last few months."
Captain Singh was the first scion of the family
of an Indian riding chief to lay down his life
for the King-Emperor and the Empire.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR FREDERIC
SK.\IFE, 1st BATT.\LION
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S
OWN MIDDLESEX REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action at La Bou-
tillerie on the 1st
November. 1914, was
the elder son of
Frederic Skaife. of
North Street House.
Chichester.
He was bom on the
24th August, 1883,
and was educated at
Winchester. from
which ho passed
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direct into the K.M.C. Sandhurst. On leaving
Sandhurst he was gazetted to the Jliddlesex
Rosiimont inOctober.19U.and joined the 1st Bat-
taliou. then in India. He was promoted Lieu-
tenant in July 1904. and Captain in March. 1912.
His battalion left Woolwich for the front on
the 9th August,- 1914, and took part in the
battle of Mons. the retirement therefrom, and
the battles of the Maine and the Aisne.
Captain Skaife was buried at La Boutillerie.
which is five mUes from Armentieres, in a
field near the trenches, which were only 400
yards from the German lines.
MAJOR CHARLES GODFR AY MITFORD
SLADE, 4th BATTN. PRINCE OF
WALES'S OWN YORKSHIRE REGT.i,
was the sou of Ber-
tram Mitford
I^^^^^H^^^^^^K Slade, and a
j^^^^^Ei^^^^^^l Colonel
CargUl and Captain
Bamber, and was
bom at Teddington
ISIS.
He was educated at
Colchester and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst,
and joined the Prince
of Wales's Own Regiment in May, 1901.
Retiring from the Regular Battalion, he joined
the 4th Battalion as Captain in April, 1907.
He served with the 1st BattaUon through the
whole of the Boer War, having been present
at the relief of Kimberley, and at Paardeberg,
and took part in the operations to the east
of Pretoria from July to the end of November,
1900. In the fighting he was severely wounded.
On the conclusion of the war he received the
Queen's medal with three clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps. He obtained his
Majority in September, 1914.
In the Great War ^Major Slade was attached
to the Loyal Morth Lancashire Regiment, and
was killed on Tuesday, the Sth November, 1914.
After taking a German trench, he was ordering
the prisoners to be removed when he was shot.
Major Slade was a lYeemason, belonging to the
Abbey Lodge, Abingdon. He was a very keen
sportsman and a member of the Firfield Golf Club,
Abingdon, and of the Cricket and Football Club.
He married Adelaide Luduvina, daughter of
Daniel Turner, of Cardiff, and granddaughter
of Dr. Bennett, of Sydney, New South Wales,
and left two cluldren : Godfray Bertram, bom
25th August, 19013 : and Gladys May, bom 24th
May, 1908.
CAPTAIN LEONARD SLATER, 2nd
BATTN. ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT,
was the son of the Rev. Francis Slater, Sherards,
Godalming, and was born at Instow, North
Devon, on the 11th October, 187.5. He was
educated at Marl-
borough College and
the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst.
In August, 1895, he
was gazetted to an
unattached 2nd
Lieutenancy and
joined the Indian
Staff Corps in Octo-
ber, 1896. being pro-
moted Lieutenant in
the Indian Army in
Xovember. 1897, and Captain in Aui.'ust. 1904.
He served in the 22nd Cavalry, Puujab Frontier
Force for eight years, and in December, 1904,
he exchanged into the Royal Sussex Regiment.
He was Adjutant of the Cinque Ports Battalion
for foiu' years, from .March, 1909.
Captain Slater served in the Waziristan (north-
western frontier of India) Campaign, for which
he received the medal with clasp.
He was killed on the 14th September. 1914,
during the early part, of the Battle of the
Aisne, when no fewer than six officers of his
battalion were kiUed and several wounded.
This action the Commander-in-Chief described
as of so skilful, bold, and decisive a character
as to gain positions which alone enabled him to
maintain lus ground tor more than three weeks
of very severe fighting on the north bank of
the river. His Commanding Officer had a very
high opinion of Captain Slater's capacity as a
Company Commander and leader of men.
Captain Slater was full of energy and fond of
games and sport of all kinds. He was a very
keen cricketer, and played for the M.C.C., the
Gentlemen of Sussex, and other good teams.
He married, in 1901, Constance Dorothy,
daughter of Colonel F. Pridham, of Instow,
Devon, and left three children : Leonard
FYancis. born 1902 : Helen Elizabeth Constance,
bora 1903 : and John Frederick, born 1908.
LIEUTENANT RONALD MORTI-
MER SLATER. 1st BATTN.
WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT,
who died of wounds
on the 21s; Novem-
ber. 1914, in France,
was the son of the
late ilajor M. J.
Slater, R.E.. an old
Wellingtoniau, and
of Mrs. .Slater. Lionel
Road, BexhiU, and
grandson of the late
Colonel J. il. Slater,
N.L.I.
He was bom on the
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2nd October, 1891, and was educated at
Wellington (The Hill), 1905-09, proceeding to
the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in the latter year. He
was gazetted to the Worcestershire Regiment
in March, 1911, and was promoted Lieutenant
in September, 1914.
The following accoiint of the circumstances
under wliich he was wounded has been received :
" One of Ills men was lying seriously woimded.
Slater went out and brought liim in, and was hit
on the top of the head by a bullet. For tlie
moment he was dazed, but for the rest of the
day he was cheery and bright. When taken to
hospital at night his case was declared hopeless.
He was well spoken of in the regmient as a
soldier and as a promising polo player."
(" Wellington Year Book," 1914.)
2nd LIEUTENANT WILLIAM MILES
SMALLEY, SPECIAL RESERVE, attd.
1st BATTN. THE SHERW^OOD
FORESTERS (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
AND DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT),
son of William
Arthur SmaUey, of
Chapel Bar,
Xottingliam, and a
relative of H. Dal-
lard, Esq., Merry
HUl, Wolverhamp-
ton, and of C. W.
Wiggin, Walsall, was
born on the 18th
.January, 1891.
Two of his
brothers were
serving in the Army as 2nd Lieutenants,
ilr. SniaUey was educated at Shenley Road
Secondary School, Nottingham, and University
College, Xottingliam, where he was a Demon-
strator in the College Theatre, and after four
years' apprenticeship with Alderman Cook
obtained the position of Lecture Assistant in
the Chemical Department. He entered the
College O.T.C. at its inception, and quickly
gained the estimation of his superiore, obtaining
the " A " and " B " certificates. The Captain
of the Corps spoke of him as one of his right-
hand men.
He received his commission in February, 1914,
on the supplementary list Special Reserve.
He was killed on the 9th December, 1911, by a
sniper, while carrying out and supervising in
the daytime needful work in " Port Arthur "
trench, near Neuve Chapelle.
A man of tireless energy and marked ability,
2nd Lieutenant Smalley threw himself whole-
heartedly into any work he was called upon
to undertake.
Brigadier-General Jlarshall wrote of him : " We
miss him, for he possessed valuable first aid and
medical knowledge rarely met with outside the
profession. He had been served out with a
medical pack, and was first-aid officer to our
battalion (1st Sherwood Foresters)."
A Company Commander wrote : " One of the
best-equipped and most briUiant young officers
I ever met," and his men referred to him as
one of the best officers they had ever had.
He was fond of boating, swmiming, and tennis,
and was a clever debater and lecturer.
At the time of iiis death he was engaged to be
married to Miss F. Hartshorn, daughter of
Captain Hartshorn, Indian Ai'my. The lady was
serving as a Red Cross Nurse, and is a qualified
dispenser.
CAPTAIN GEORGE HENRY SMART,
4th (EXTRA RESERVE) BATTN. THE
PRINCE OF WALES'S OWN
(WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT)
was born at Bombay
on the 29th April,
18S3, and was the
only son of the late
Major-Geueral G. J.
Smart, R.A., who
served in the
Mutiny and was
twice mentioned in
despatches.
Captain Smart was
educated at Dover
College and at the
R.M.C., Sandliurst. He received his commission
in the West Yorkshire Regiment in 1901,
becoming Lieutenant in 1904. He served in the
South African War, takint' part in the operations
in the Transvaal from November, 1901, to May,
1902, receiving afterwards the Queen's medal
with three clasps.
At the time of the Great War, having retired
from the Regular Ai'my in 1909, he was in the
4th BattaUon of the regiment, in which he
had been Captain from May, 1909, and was
attached for active service to the 1st Battalion,
Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He was
killed at Le Touret, France, on the 22nd
December, 1914, in a counter-attack made
by the Germans after the retaking by us of a
trench which had been lost by our men the
dav before.
LIEUTENANT CECIL SMEATHMAN,
1st BATTN. LEICESTERSHIRE REGT.,
who died on the 24th October, 1914; of wounds
leceived in action, was bom on the 20th May,
1889, and was educated at Rugby (Steel),
which he entered in 1903, and where he won his
football cap in 1907. From Rugby he went to
University College, Oxford, and joined the
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Leicestershire Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant,
with antedate as a Univei'sity candidate to
September, ISU.
He was promoted I^ieutenant in Jlay, 1913.
His elder brother — Lieutenant J. M. Smeatham,
R.E.— was killed on the 24th-25th October, 1911,
practically on the same day as himself.
LIEUTENANT JULIAN MISSENDEN
SMEATHMAN, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
wlio wa.s killed in action on the 24th-25th
October, 1914, was born on the 24th December,
1SS7, and was educated at Rugby (Steel),
wliich lie entered in 1900, and from which he
went to the R.M.A., Woolwich.
He obtained his commission in July, 1907, and
wa.s promoted Lieutenant in April, 1910.
Lieutenant Smeatliman married, only a few
months before his death, on returning home from
foreign ser\'ice.
His younger brother — Lieutenant C. Smeatli-
man, Leicestersliire Reghnent — died of wounds
received in action on the 24th October, 1914.
LIEUTENANT ARTHUR GEORGE
MURRAY SMITH, 2nd lLIFE [GUARDS,
died in a (ieiiiiau
.Military Hospital on
the 2nd November,
1914, of wounds re-
ceived in action on
the 20th October,
and was buried in
Lille. He was the
eldest son of George
and l'>llen Muiray
Sniitli, of Gumley
HaU, Market Har-
borough, and was
born on the 27th Septembci. I.sm; i:ilur;il cd
at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge he-
entered the 2nd Life Guards in August, I'Jll,
becoming Lieutenant in July, 1912.
He was a member of the Bachelors' flub, and
his recreations were hunting and big-game
.shooting.
Lieutenant Murray Smith married Margaret,
youngest daughter of J. S. Ainsworth, .M.P., of
Ardanaiseig, and left one son.
LIEUTENANT ARTHUR GILLIAT
SMITH, 26th FIELD COMPANY, ROYAL
r ^ ENGINEERS,
|H|^m^^^^^^^^H born
Blacklieath on tlie
3rd July, 1S8S,
the son of .Mr. and
-Mrs. H. (iilliat
Smith, and great-
grandson of the late
Joseph Smith, for-
merly of The Oaks,
W o o d m a 11 s t e r n e,
.Surrey. He was also
related to the late
Sir Edmund Bainbridge, K.C.B.
He was educated at St. Paul's House, St.
Leonards-on-Sea : Hillside, (ioldalming ; and
subsequently at Rugby and the R.M.A.,
Woolwich. He was gazetted to the R.E. in
December, 1908, and after leaving Chatham
joined the 26th Field Company at Bordou
Camp, Hampshire, where he served all the time
he was in England. He became Lieutenant in
February, 1911.
He was a cross-country rider, and won several
point-to-point races in 1913-14. He was also
expert on ski, and always spent part of his
winter leave in Switzerland or Norway.
In the Great War he was killed on the
1st November, 1914, near Y'pres, when leading
his section to reinforce some infantry under a
very hot fire. His Commanding Officer wrote
of him : " I have lost a loyal friend and a
most keen and efficient officer."
LIEUTENANT ARCHIBALD
TH, 18th
HUSSARS,
JOHN DENROCHE-SM
iQUEEN MARY'S OWN)
elder son of T. Deii-
roche-Smitli. late
B.C.S., and a
grandson of the late
General John
Bayly, C . B . .
Colonel Command-
ant R.E., was born
at Balhary, Meigle,
Perthshire, on tlie
30th September,
1890.
He was educated at
Cheltenham College and the K.M.C., Sandhui-st,
and joined the 18th Hussars in February, 1910,
becoming Lieutenant in April, 1912.
He was a member of tlie Cavalry Club, was fond
of hunting and shooting, and was captain of his
regimental polo team.
Lieutenant Denroche-.Smith was killed in action
on the 1.3th September, 1914. near Yendresse,
wliile leading his troop during the Battle of the
.■Visne.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR KYRKE-SMITH, 1st
BATTN. THE KING'S (LIVERPOOL
REGIMENT), the eldest .son of H. Kyrke-
Sniith, Esq., of Liverpool, was bom on the
19th April, 1878, and was educated at the Jler-
chant Taylors* School, Crosby, near Liverpool.
He was a keen Volunteer officer, and obtained
his Captaincy in the 4th \'olunteer Battalion
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the Bang's, in February. 1899, before reaching
bis twenty-first birthday, being one of the
youngest Captains in
the Army. On the
outbreak of the Boer
War he volunteered
for active service,
and went out to
South Africa as 2nd
Lieutenant, and
after being attached
to the Regulars for
over three months he
adopted the military
prof e^on, and joined
the King's (Liverpool Regiment) in May, 1900.
He was present at the operations in Xatal. was
at the action of Laing"s Xek, and was with the
forces that marched thence to Machadodorp,
afterwards taking part in the operations to the
east of Pretoria in 1900, including actions at
Belfast and the subsequent operations in the
Transvaal in 1901 and 1902. For part of the
time he acted as Intelligence Officer. He re-
ceived the Queen's medal with three clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
He was prom^oted Lieutenant in January, 1901,
and Captain in July, 1910. In June of the
latter year he was appointed Adjutant to the
9th Battalion, the King's (Liverpool) Territorial
Regiment, in which capacity he continued to
act for three and a half years.
He rejoined the 1st Battalion of his regiment in
January, 1914, at Aldershot. leaving for the
front with the first Expeditionary Force at the
outbreak of the war in August. 191i. He was
fatally wounded on the 20th September, 191-t,
at the Battle of the Aisne, and died on the
23rd, of that month, being buried in the
cemetery of Braisne, in France.
Captain Kyrke-Smith married Catherine Mabel,
only daughter of C. Buchanan Spittall. Esq.,
and Airs. Spittall. and granddaughter of Dr.
Andrew SpittalL M.D.. Staff-Surgeon, Cold-
stream Guards.
CAPTAIN BERNARD RIDLEY WIN-
THROP SMITH. 1st BATTN. SCOTS
GUARDS.
who died on
the 15th Xovember,
19U, at the Base
Hospital, Boulogne,
of wounds received
in action near
Ypres on the 8th
of the same month,
was the only son
of Mr. Francis
Nicholas Smith
and Mrs.' Smith,
of Wingfield Park, Ambergate, Derbyshire.
He was bom on the 19th December, 1882,
and was educated at Eton and Trinity College,
Cambridge, where he took his degree of B.A.,
got his •' blue,'' and rowed for Cambridge r.
Oxford in 1905. He joined the Scots Guards
on the 1st August. 1907. becoming Lieutenant
in May, 1910. On the 13th August, 1913, he
was appointed A.D.C. to the Governor and
Commander-in-Chief, East African Protectorate.
He was promoted Captain in Novem^ber, 1914.
subalterns immediately senior and junior to
him in his regiment having been promoted
Captains to date from the 15th of that month.
He tried hard to get back to his regiment from
East Africa, and succeeded with great difficulty.
While with his regiment at the front he was
ordered to take his platoon and ttim out some
Germans from a trench which had been vacated
by some Zouaves on the flant- of his trench.
On his way over the open ground he was struck
by a bullet from shrapnel shell and wotmded
at the base of the skuU, a compound fracture.
He was taken that afternoon (sth November)
to Poperinghe Field Hospital, arriving on the
11th at the Hotel Christ ol Hospital, Boulogne,
where he died on the 15th November, having
never regained consciousness or recognised his
parents, who were by his side. He was buried
at the private cemetery at his home, Wingfield
Park. Derbyshire.
Captain Smith was an exceptionally fine man,
6 feet 5 inches in height, and broad in propor^
tion. He was much liked by his men of the
right flank company of the 1st BattaUon. Scots
Guards, and by his brother officers. He was
unmarried.
MAJOR FREDERICK MANNERS-
SMITH. 3rd BATTN. QCEEN ALEXAN-
D R .\ ' S OWN G L R K H A RIFLES,
who died on the
3rd Xovember, 1914,
from wounds
received on
the same day near
La Bassee, was the
youngest son of
the late Surgeon-
General Charles
Manners Smith, of
Kempsey, Wor-
cestershire.
He was bom on the
15th Xovember. 1S71. and was educated at
Xorwich and the R.M.C.. Sandhurst. He
joined the Gloucestershire Regim^ent in May,
1891, becoming Lieutenant in October. 1892.
In June, 1893, he was transferred to the Indian
Army, and in 1895 was with the relief force in
operations in Chitral, for which he received the
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medal with clasp. He was Adjutant of liis
battalion from 1901 to 1905, and was promoted
Captain in July, 1901. receivini; his .Majority
ill May. 1909.
Major Maniiors-.Smith married, in 1902, Hilda,
youngest daughter o.' the late Mr. Henry
Camsew, formerly of Somers Place, BiUings-
luirst. .Sussex.
LIEUTENANT GRANVILLE
KEITH-FALCONER SMITH. 1st
BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS.
who was reported as
missing in October,
and again in
November, 1914, ha.s
since been unoflfi-
cially reported to
have been killed near
G h e 1 u V e 1 t on
the 29th October,
1914, during
the first Battle
of Ypres.
He wa-s the eldest
son of Colonel Granville R. F. Smith. C.B.,C.V.O.,
and Lady Blanche Smith, of Daffield. Derbyshire,
and a nephew of the Earl of Kintore, and wa.s
born on the 20th Febiniary, 1886.
He was educated at Eton, and joined the Cold-
stream Guards in August, 1907, becoming
Lieutenant in December, 1909. He was killed
while in command of the battalion machine-gun
section. He went forward with a party of
volunteers, and succeeded in retaking a trench,
but was shot through the head, dying at once.
Lieutenant Granville Keith-Falconer Smith
married, in March, 1910, Lady Kathleen
Clements, youngest daughter of the fourth Earl
of Leitrim, and left two daughters, age three
years and fifteen months respectively.
2nd LIEUTENANT HENRY LEONARD
CHAPPELL SMITH, SPECIAL RESERVE,
attd. 2nd BATTN. THE SHERWOOD
FORESTERS iNOTTING H.\MSH IR E
AND DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT),
who was killed in action on the 18th October,
1914, was the eldest son of Henry and Annie
Smith. The Grove, CropweU-Butler, Notting-
ham, and was bom on the 11th January, 1891.
He was a scholar of Felsted School. Essex, and
afterwards went to Queen's College, Cambridge,
where he graduated B.A. with honours in 1913.
He w&s gazetted to the Special Reserve of
his regiment in April. 1913. having previously
beeu a Lieutenant in tlic O.T.C., King's
School, Worcester, and, on war being declared,
joined the 2nd Battalion .Sherwood Foresters, at
Sheffield in August, 1914; he fought at the Battle
of theAisneon the 20th September, and again
at Ennetieres, near Lalle. on or about the 18th
October, 1914, where he wa-s said to have been
killed in hand-to-hand fighting. He was never
heard of again. For his services he was men-
tioned in Sir John French's Despatch of he
14th .I.anuary, 191,5.
He was fond of rowing and sliooting.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN HERBERT
MICHAEL SMITH, 2nd B .\ T T N .
MANCHESTER REGIMENT,
who was killed on
the 9th September,
1914, in the Battle
of the Mame, was
the son of J. H.
Smith, of C o b -
thorne, Cundle.
He was bom on
the 30th September,
1889 : educated at
Eton and Trinity
College. Cambridge ;
and joined the Man-
chester Regiment from the Special Reserve in
September, 1913. He was fond of all field
sports and games, and was a good cricketer and
golfer.
2nd LIEUTENANT itemp.l JULIAN
HORACE MARTIN SMITH,
INTELLIGENCE CORPS, attd. 9th
(QUEEN'S R O Y A Li L .\ N C E R S,
was wounded during
the retirement from
Mons on the '>t\\
September, 19 1 1 .
and died of his ^^^—^^^^ ^.^^^
wounds at Nangis, ^^B^^^^ Y^^ll
near Paris, on the
7th of that month.
He was the son of
Martin Eidley
Smith, of Warren
House, Hayes, Kent,
a collateral of the
family of the Marcjuess of Lincolnshire.
He was born in London in 1,S87, and was edu-
cated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
At Eton he was Keeper of the Field, and won the
school racquets. In civil life he was a partner
in the firm of Messrs. Rowe & Pitman. Stock-
brokers. At Cambridge he played golf for the
University, and in after life he was one of the
most prominent golfers at Sandwich, North
Berwick.
He joined the Army on the outbreak of war,
and is believed to have been the first officer who
volimteered for service, to fall in the Great
War.
2nd Lieutenant Smith, who was unmarried,
was a member of White's, Brook's, and Pratt's
Clubs.
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LIEUTENANT JOHN LAWSON-SMITH,
1st BATTN. THE PRINCE OF WALESS
OWN WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT),
son of E . M .
Lawson-Smith, was
Ijorn at Colton
Lodge, Tadcaster,
Yorkshire, in ilarch,
1892. His elder
brother — Lieuten-
ant T. E. Lawson-
Sniith, 13th Hussai's
— was killed on the
30th October, 1914,
in the Great War.
After his education
at Repton, Ksboine. and the R.M.C , Sand-
hui-st. he joined the West Y'orksliire Regiment
in September, 1913, becoming Lieutenant in
September, 19U.
He was killed near Boisgrenier on the 20th
October, 1914, and for his ser\dces in the war
he was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of the 14th January. 191.5.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS EDWARD
LAWSON-SMITH, 13th HUSSARS,
son of Mr. E. >I.
Lawson - Smith, of
Colton Lodge, Tad-
caster, Y'orksliire,
was born there on
the 14th March,
1S89. His younger
brother — Lieuten-
aut J. Lawson-
Smith, 1st Battalion
West \' o r k -
>shire Kegiment^ —
was killed in the
(ir.at War i>ii th.- liotli October, 1914.
Educated at Harrow and the E.M.C., Sandhurst,
he joined the 13th Hussars in India in September,
1909, becoming Lieutenant in December, 1913.
He was killed in the trenches on the 30th
October. 1914, while attached to the 11th
Hussars, his own regiment being in India.
2nd LIEUTENANT THOMAS SYDNEY
SMITH. 1st BATTN. DORSETSHIRE
REGIMENT,
son of the Rev.
Sydney E. Smith,
Sprotbrough Rec-
tory. Doncaster. was
born at Womersley
\'icarage, Yorkshire,
on the 31st March,
1S95.
Educated at
Hill House,
St. Leonards-on-
Sea. and at Radlev.
where he held a Mathematical Scholai-ship, he
obtained a Prize Cadetship at the R.M.C,
Sandhurst, out of which he passed in July.
1914, being gazetted to the 1st Battalion Dor-
setshire Regiment in August, 1914. He joined
his battalion at the front in September, and
was killed near La Bassee on the 13th October,
1914.
CAPTAIN WALTER ADRIAN CARNE-
GIE BOWDEN-SMITH, 4th BATTN.
ROY.\L FUSILIERS CITY OF LONDON
REGIMENT),
was bom at Guern-
sey on the 25th Sep-
tember, 1881. He
was the son of
Walter Baird Bow-
den-Smith, Esq., of
VernaUs, LjTidhurst,
Hants. His great-
great - grandfather
was William, seventh
Earl of Northesk,
who was tliird in
conunand at Trafalgar.
Captain Bowden-Smith was educated at Rugby,
where he was in the Shooting and Gymnastic
Eights ; and at the R.M.C, Sandhurst. He was
gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in August, 1900 ;
Lieutenant in February, 1904 ; and Captain in
November, 1909. He served in the Tibet
Expedition. 1903-04, being wounded at
Gyantse. He received the medal and clasp.
Captain Bowden-Smith wan dangerously
woimded at Mons while bringing up reinforce-
ments under a fierce fire on the 23rd August,
and died on the 27th or 28th of the same month
in the Convent of St. Joseph. Maissieres,
Belgium.
He was a member of the Junior Army and Xavy
Club
2nd LIEUTENANT DONALD STUART
STIRLING-SMURTHWAITE, 1st BATTN.
THE BLACK WATCH i R O Y A L
HIGHLANDERS),
was kiUed at Y'pres
on the 26th October,
1914. while leading
his platoon, his last
words being:
" Come on. men !
Follow me ! "
He was born on the
12th June, 1894, so
was only twenty
years old at the
time of his death.
and was the only son of Mis. Smurthwaite, 23,
Emperor's Gate London. S.W.
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2nd Lieutenant Smurtliwaite was a grandson of
the late Mr. Ricliaid Stirling, of Craig Wallace.
Bridge of Allan, the last surviving son of William
Stirling, of Cordale and Dalqiiliarran, Duuil)ar-
tonshire, whose family trace their unbroken
descent from the twelfth century, and are
believed by many to be the oldest branch of
the Stirling family, " Honest and Trur " .John
Stirling, Lord Provost of (ilasgow in llioo.
being an ancestor.
He was educated at Westminster, and passed
from his crammer's into the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
as a Prize Cadet. He passed out of Sandhurst
at the top of the list, being the only Cadet who
obtained honours in the examination, and was
gazetted to the Black Watch on the 12th August,
1914.
Mr. Smurthvvaite was qualified as an Interpreter
in French,
CAPTAIN ALGERNON BERESFORD
SMYTH, 2nd BATTN. THE KINGS
own;(YOrkshire light infantry;,
was the younger
son of the late Mr.
Devaynes Smji^h,
D.L., of Bray Head,
County Wicklow,
where he was born
on the 1 1th January,
1884. He was a
grandson of the late
Charles Putland, of
Bray Head.
His only brother —
Captain C. D. Smyth,
Royal Irish Rifles — was wounded in action in
October, 1014.
Captain Smyth was educated at Gisburne
House, Watford ; and at Haileybury College.
He entered the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1901,
and received his first appointment in the Army
in ^lay, 1903, when he was gazetted 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the Manchester Regiment. In April,
1907, he was transferred with the rank of
Lieutenant to the Y'orkshire Light Infantry,
and was promoted Captain in September, 1914.
He was killed on the night of the 15th Novem-
ber, 1914, after being specially selected to lead
an attack on a farm building about five miles
east of Y'pres. For his services on that night
he was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915.
Captain Smyth, who «as a very good all-i'ouml
sportsman, was a member of the Free Foresters,
Y'orkshire Gentlemen's Cricket Club. He played
cricket for the Aldershot Command when
stationed there with his battalion, and he was
also a keen rider to hovinds, a good golfer and
tennis player, in wliich two games he had won
several cups.
2nd lieutenant JOHN ROSS
SMYTH, 3rd (attd. 2nd) BATTN. THE
ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT,
was the son of
Ross A c h e s o n
Smyth, of Ardmore.
L o n d o n d e I- r y
(Lieutenant - Colonel
10th [Service] Bat-
talion Royal Innis-
killing Fusiliers, late
Major in the Royal
Irish Regiment), and
was born at
Clonmell on the Utli
June, 1896.
He wa^ educated at Porlora Royal .School,
Enniskillen, and joined the 3rd Battalion
Royal Irish Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant in
March, 1914. Sliortly after the outbreak of the
Great War he was attached to the 2nd Battalion
for active service.
He was killed on the night of the imh-20th
October, 1914, at Le Pilly.
CAPTAIN RICHARD ALEXANDER
NOEL SMYTH, ROYAL GARRISON
ARTILLERY,
who died on the
7th November, 1914.
of wounds received
in action at
A r m e n t i e r e s ,
France, was born on
the 18th December,
1883, and was the
son of Lieutenant-
Colonel F. A. Smyth,
late I. M. S. and
Queen Alexandra's
Own Gurkha Rifles,
campaigns, and was mentioned in despatches.
His deceased mother was the daughter of the
late Rev. J. Cole, Vicar of Ilebiewers, near
Taunton. Somerset, and formerly Principal and
Chaplain of the Lawrence ^Military Asylum,
Sanawar, India.
He was educated at Weymouth College, from
which school he passed into the R.M.A.. Wool-
wich, in 1900. joining the Royal Artillery in
July, 1902, and becoming Lieutenant three years
later. He served on garrison duty at the Nothe,
Weymouth, for four years, and then for six
years in Colombo, Ceylon. He was celebrated
as a hockey player, and was excellent at lawn
tennis and short-distance foot races. When
the war broke out, he was at Portsmouth,
and on the 23rd September, 1914, he left for
France w-ith the 5th Siege Battery.
The following extracts were received by his
father from different officecs, giving details of
his son's death : —
who served in loiu'
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From the Commanding Officer 2nd Siege
Brigade. Sth Xovember : " At about 4 p.m.
yesterday he was testing a telephone wire behind
our trenches. A gunner with him directed his
attention to a man signalling for assistance and
lying on the ground. He at once went to the
spot, and saw a wounded infantryman, whom he
proceeded to assist to a place of safety. \\'hilst
doing this he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet.
The gunner with him put him for safety in a
dyke, and then went back for assistance to the
trenches. Two infantrymen came out — one of
these two was dangerously wounded as well —
and the party then remained in the dyke until
dark, when they all returned to the infantry
lines. A doctor and two stretcher-bearers were
immediately available. I may say the above-
mentioned gunner bandaged the wounds as
well as he could at the outset. As soon as our
own doctor heard of it, which was late in the
evening, he at once went oS and spent the night
with your son, but he expired this morning,
and the Adjutant, myself, and our doctor buried
him in a Uttle village called Erquinghem,
between Amientieres and Lille, to-day at 1.30
p.m., the Rev. Webb Peploe. Army Chaplain,
reading the service.
•' I can truthfully say ever since we have been in
action (a fortnight) yovu- son had been doing
most excellent work cheerfully — keen and
always ready for anything — and for some days
past I had fully made up my mind to fonvard
his name to higher authority for the manner in
which he carried out his work. I miss the best
of ofBcers — the very best. . . . He was biuied
at the back of the hospital where he was
attended to. . . . We all feel his loss very much
indeed, and in the battery his loss is irreparable."
From the Officer Commanding Vlth Division :
" The Siege Battery to which your son belonged
only came imder my command about a week
ago, and ever since he had been doing perfectly
invaluable work as forward Observing Officer,
most of the time in the trenches with the
infantry. ... I have had continued testimony
from the Middlesex Regiment, with which he
was chiefly associated in the trenches, of the
great assistance he had been to them in directs
ing the fire of his guns, and thus helping to beat
off the enemy's attacks, and his loss will be
greatly felt by all."
Captain Smyth was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 191.5,
for gallant and distinguished conduct in the
field.
He had been reconuuended for the Military
Cross, but unfortunately, through delay in
gazetting the award, the gallant officer died
before the announcement could be published,
and it was decided that no posthumous
rewards, save only'the Victoria Cross, can be
granted.
2nd LIELTEN.\NT FREDERICK
FLEMING SMYTHE. 2nd BATTN.
WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 18th
September, 1914, at
the Battle of the
Aisne. was bom on
the 2nd December,
1893, and was edu-
cated at Tonbridge,
.School ( Judde House
1905-06). It was
intended that he
should go into the
Xavj-, but instead
he continued his education at Sutton Velence
School and eventually joined the Worcester-
shire Regiment in September, 1912.
He was biu-ied in the grounds of the Chateau
Vemeuil with other officers.
L I E U T E N .\ N T CLAUDE D .\V I S
SNE.\TH. attd. 4th BATTN. MIDDLESEX
REGIMENT,
the son of George
Sneath, Esq.. J.P..
and ilrs. Marian
E. H. Sneath, was
bom on the 18th
January, 1889, at
Greta House,
Church End,
Finchley, X.W.
He was educated at
the private school of
Miss Batsford: Col-
lege Villas School, Finchley Road ; at Christ's
College, Finchley : and at London Fniversity.
At the latter he was in the Officers' Training
Corps, and was appointed to the 6th iliddlesex
Regiment as 2nd IJeutenant in February,
1911, becoming Lieutenant in December, 1912.
On the outbreak of the war he was attached to
the 4th Battalion iDddlesex Regiment, and
accompanied it to the Continent. He was killed
in action at Croix Barbee, France, on the 14th
October, 1914.
His Commanding Officer wrote of him that
" he died doing his duty, and therefore deserved
well of his country."
He was a member of several Hendon and iliddle-
ses hockey, football, and cricket clubs,
including those of L'niversity College. He was
not married.
CAPTAIN T H O M .\ S HUMPHREY
SNE YD. 4th attd. 2nd BATTN.
LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS,
who was killed in action at Ploegsteert on the
2nd November. 1914, was the only son of Major-
General Sneyd, of Ashcombe Park, near Leek,
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Staffordshire, wlio comnmndcd the Queen's
Bays from 1877 to 1S82. Captain Sneyd was
P — — ■■ ... -2~«g;»7CT^^ bom at Lightoaks,
near Cheadlo. Staf-
fordshire, on the
20th October, 1S,S3,
and was educated at
Sandroyd. \\'elling-
ton College, and tile
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He was gazetted to
tlie (Queen's Bays in
April. 1903. joining
his regiment inSouth
Africa, where he was
A.U.C. al I'lvioiia to tlie Commander-in-Chief,
General Sir Henry Ilildyard ; he was promoted
Lieutenant in ^lay, 1904.
Wliile in Africa he had some successful big
game sliooting. going as far as Lake Benguelo
with a brother oiHcer. In 1910 lie retired from
the Army and went to the Argentine, South
America, for a year and a half, joining the Special
Reserve of the Lancashire Fusiliers as Captain
in October, 1912, on his return to England.
On the outbreak of the war with Germany he
was called up to join the 2nd Battalion of his
regiment, with which he went to the front.
Captain Sneyd, who was a member of the Cavalry
Club, married, in June. 1914, Pho'be Marianne,
younger daughter of John Sharp Callender
Brodie, of Idvies, Forfar. There was one
daughter of the marriage, Averil Marion Anne,
born, after her father's death, in April, 1915.
LIEUTENANT
TIN SO AMES,
HAROLD MAR.
20th HUSSARS,
son of 'W. A. Soanies,
Esq., of Moor Park,
Farnham, Surrey,
was born on
the 13th September,
1 S 8 6 . He was
educated at Eton,
and was gazetted to
the 20th Hussars in
June. 1908,
lieconiing Lieuten-
ant in July, 1911.
L i e u t e n a n t
SoaiiiL-s' name appeared in the first list of
British losses in the Great War, issued by the
War Office on the 1st September, 1914. He
was killed on Sunday, the 23rd August, 1914,
while on reconnaissance duty near Binche, in
Belgimn, his patrol suddenh' coming upon the
enemy, who were concealed in a wood. He
was shot through the chest, and died a few
hours later at the Convent de Bonne Esperance
at Vellereille les Bayeux, where he was laid to
rest in the convent grounds.
Lieutenant Soames was a polo player of excep-
tional promise, and represented his regiment
in the inter-regimental tournaments in 1912-13.
He was a keen rider to hounds and a good shot.
He married, in October, 1913, Colleen Ruth,
younger daughter of A. W. Addinsell. Ksq..
.M.B., of 10. Curzon Street, Mayfair, and
Derryquin, Sunningdale. and left one daughter,
born on the 0th August, 1914, a few days
before her father left for I*>ance.
2nd LIEUTENANT NORMAN
ARTHUR HENRY SOMERSET. 1st
BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS,
who was killed in
action on the 23rd
October, 1914, was
the only son of
Captain the
Hon. Arthur Charles
l<jd\\ard Somerset,
late Rifle Brigade
(Prince Consort's
Own), and a grand-
son of the second
Baron Raglan.
He was born on the
8th September, 1894, and was educated at jSIr.
E. Hawtrey's Scliool at Westgate-on-Sea and
at Eton, from which he passed direct into the
R.INI.C., Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the
(irenadier (iuards in September, 1913.
He was a very promising young soldier and a
fine horseman.
He was killed near Kruiseik when taking a mes-
sage during the earlier part of the first Battle of
Ypres whilst serving with his battalion, which
formed part of the heroic \ ITth Division.
CAPTAIN HANS ROBERT SPAREN-
BORG, 1st BATTN. THE KINGS OWN
(ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT),
who was first re-
ported to have beeni
wounded in Septem-
ber, 1914, and in
October as wounded
and missing, was in-
eluded in the
monthly official
casualty list pub-
lished in April, 1915,
under the heading
"unofficially
reported killed or
died of wounds." It was subsequently ascer-
tained that he was killed in action on the 20th
August, 1914, at Harcourt, near Le Cateau, a
Corporal of his Battalion stating that the
bursting of a shell caused his death.
He was the eldest son of J. Sparenborg, of
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SPA SPE
Forest Lodge Kingswood, Surrey, and was born
in Calcutta on the 2nd November, 1S76. He was
educated at Dulwich College, where he got his
colour* for football : and at Caius College,
Cambridge : and joined the Royal Lancaster
Regunent in May, 1900, becoming Lieutenant
in January, 1902. From May, 1902, to October.
190i, he was employed with the West African
Fix>ntier Force, and while so employed took
part in the Kano-.Sokoto Campaign, West
Africa (Xorth Xigeria). in 1903. receiving the
medal with clasps. He was also in command
during operations in the Kabba Province. He
was promoted Captain in January, 1910. and
from January, 1911, to December, 1913, was an
Adjutant of the 1th Territorial Battalion of hL*
Reglmeut. He was a first-class interpreter in
German.
Captain Sparenborg married Flora Alexandra
Vigers, who survives him, and left one son,
Colin, age eleven years at the time of his
father's death. He was at one time a member
of the Junior ITnited .Service Club, and played
cricket and football.
LIEUTENANT LEWIS GEORGE
SPARROW. 3rd BATTN. SOUTH WALES
BORDERERS, attd. 2nd B.\TTN.
KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS.
was bom at Ivy-
I^^^^^^^^^^^^^H Devon,
'^^^^^^^^^^^^^™ the 11th February,
1882, the only son
of the late Lewis
Sparrow. .Strode.
Ivybridge, and only
brother of Irene
Bainbridge, wife of
Lieutenant-
Conunander J. H.
Bainbridge. R.X.
He was educated at
Eastman's Xaval Academy, and afterwards at
a mUitary tutor's. He joined the 4th Battalion
South Wales Borderers, as 2nd Lieutenant in
April. 1900. and was attached to the 2nd
Battalion for service in tlie South African War :
he also served with the Mounted Infantry
being subsequently invalided home on account
of enteric fever. He received the Queen's medal.
He became Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion in
May, 1902. and in 1904 he left the Army, and
was engaged in tobacco and sugar growing in
Argentina and Central .Africa. On the outbreak
of the Great War he rejoined the service as
Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion in September,
1914. and shortly afterwards proceeded to
the Continent with the 2nd Battalion King's
Own Scottish Borderers.
He was wounded in the neck and throat on the
20tli December, and died on the 23rd December,
1914, being buried at BaUleul.
CAPTAIN CHARLES JAMES SPENCER,
2nd BATTN. DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT,
son of C. A. Spencer, _
was born at ||
Leicester on the 10th
January, 1879. He
was educated by the
Rev. Bode. Yarlet
Hall, .Stafford, and
afterwards at
Charterhouse.
Captain Spencer was
gazetted to the 2nd
BattaUon Devon-
shire Regiment as
2nd Lieutenant from the Cardigan Artillery
Militia in 1899, became Lieutenant in May,
1901, and obtained liis company in July,
1908. He was Adjutant of the 7th Cyclist
Battahon Devonshire Regiment from 1908—12.
He served with distinction in the South African
War, in which he was severely wounded, and
was present at the relief of Ladysmith : oper-
ations in the Transvaal, the Orange Free .State,
and on the Tugela Heights : and action at Laing's
Xek. He was employed with the Mounted
Infantry. For these services he received the
Queen's medal with five clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps.
Captain Spencer was killed on the 18th Decem-
ber, 1914. wliile leading his company in an attack
on the German trenches.
He was a member of the Junior United Service
Club, and his i-ecreations were hunting, polo,
and shooting.
He married, in 1909, Katherine ilargaret.
youngest daughter of the late Robert Bayly,
of Torr, Phniiouth. and left one son, Charles
Richard, born 5th December, 1910.
LIEUTENANT EDMUND SPENCER, 2nd
BATTN. THE DUKE OF EDIN-
BURGH'S (WILTSHIRE REGIMENT),
was the son of the
Rev.
W. E.
and
Mrs.
Spencer,
and
was
born
o n
the 12th November,
1889, at South Ben-
fieet, Essex.
He was educated at
Mowden Hall. Essex :
at Forest School,
where he was head
of the school and
captain of the
cricket and football teams : and at the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, where he played in the "■ Soccer "
team.
He joined the Wiltshire Regunent as 2nd
Lieutenant in April. 1910, becoming Ijeutenant
in ilav. 1913, and served with his battalion at
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Dublin, Gosport, and Gibraltar. Lieutenant
fSpencer accompanied his battalion to Beltriuni
in October, 1914. and was killed on the 20th o(
the same month in an advanced guard action
between Ypres and Becelaere.
Lieutenant Spencer obtained a first-class certifi-
cate in the Army Gymnasium Course at Alder-
shot, and was captain of the battalion " Soccer "
team, and was also in the Cricket XI.
2nd LIEUTENANT GERVASE THORPE
SPENDLOVE. 2nd BATTN. THE
PRINCE OF WALES'S VOLUNTEERS
(SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT),
y — :. - wasthesonof
J. G. Spendlove, of
The Willows,
Beeston, and was
bom on the 29th
December, 1896.
He was educated at
Oundle School, and
before the war
belonged to
the motor section of
Frontiersmen.
With three others
he i^ode through Fi'ance with a letter to
Sir John French, and they were attached
by the Commander-in-Chief at General
Headquarters to the R.E. as Despatch Riders,
with the rank of Corporal, ilr. .Spendlove
was given a commission in the South Lan-
cashire Regiment, and was killed on the 17th
November, 1914, a month before attaining his
eighteenth year, by a sliell exploding in his
dug-out, two days after joining liis battalion.
2nd Lieutenant Spendlove must have been one
of the youngest officers, if not the youngest,
to fall in the Great War.
CAPTAIN JOHN SPOTTISWOODE, 6th
(attd. 2ndi BATTN.
KINGS ROYAL
RIFLE CORPS,
was born in London
on the 18th April,
1874, the son
of G eorge Andrew
Spottiswoode
and his wife,
(irace F^ ranees,
eldest daughter of
the Rev. Sir St.
Vincent Love
Hanunick. He was
a nephew of
\A"illiam Spottiswoode (President of the Royal
Society, 1876-83, President of the London
^Mathematical Society. 1870-72, and of the
British Association, 1878).
Captain Spottiswoode was educated at Win-
chester College and the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He obtained the highest marks ever made in
Physics, viz., 1,764 (S8'4 per cent, of the maxi-
mum) in the entrance examination for the
R.M.C. in 1892.
He joined the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. as 2nd
Lieutenant in October, 1894. being promoted
Lieutenant in January, 1898. In May, 1899,
he became Captain in the 7th Battalion and
was with the Mounted Infantry in the South
African War. where he was twice wounded.
He was granted tlie lionorary rank of Captain
in the Army in October, 1900, but retired in
1901. On the Great War breaking out he
joined the 6th Battalion in August, 1914, and
the 2nd Battalion in September, 1914, with
which he was serving when he was killed at
the head of his company on the 31st October.
1914, at Gheluvelt, in the Battle of Ypres.
Captain Spottiswoode, who was distinguished
in radio-telegraphy, married Sybil Gwendolen,
daughter of Dr. Christian Da\dd Ginsburg.
LL.D., J.P., and left two sons : Raymond John,
bom 1913 : and Xigel Lawrence, born 191.5.
after his father's death.
LIEUTENANT (temp.i R.\LPH
LESINGHAM SPRECKLEY, 2nd
B.\TTN. CONNAUGHT RANGERS,
born at Wor-
was
cester on the 29th
May, 1893, and was
the son of H. W.
Spreckley, of
that place.
He was educated
at Bromsgrove
School, where he was
head monitor and
Colour - Sergeant in
tlie Officers" Training
Corps, and had his
colours for the Cricket XI and the Football XV.
After the usual term at the R.M.C, Sandhurts.
he was gazetted to the Connaught Rangers as
2nd Lieutenant in February, 1913, and became
temp. Lieutenant in .September, 1914.
He was killed on the 14th September, 1914.
was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of the Sth October, 1914, and had been awarded
the IMiUtary Cross.
The following account of his death was given by
a Staff Officer : ' One feUow — -Spreckley — who
comes from north of Worcester, earned the V.C.
twice over before he was killed. He was hit in
the leg at a critical moment, went back and got
dressed, and hobbled up to the firing Une in the
woods, cheering his men on. He was hit again,
and did ditto, getting back just as his fellows
were breaking. He rallied them, and drove
the Germans on, only to be shot when the
situation was saved."
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CAPTAIN GEORGE PATRICK OSBORN
SPRINGFIELD. 2nd DRAGOON
GUARDS O L E E N • S BAYS).
sonofThonias
Osborn aud Rose
Maria Springfield,
was bom at Old
Charlton, Kent, on
the 2nd January,
1873.
He was educated at
Uppingham School
and Trinity Hall,
Cambridge: and
•ntering the
.\rmy served in the
ranks of Lumsden's Horse in the South African
War, being present at operations in the Orange
Free State, in the Transvaal, Orange River
Colony, Cape Colony, and on the Zululand
frontier of Natal, including actions at Vet and
Zand Rivers, near JohannesbiU'g, and at
Pretoria. He received the Queen's medal with
two clasps. From Lumsden's Corps he was
given his commission in the 3rd Dragoon Guards
in August, 1900, becoming Lieutenant in
February, 1901. In September, 1904, he got
his troop in the 2nd Dragoon Guards, of which
he was Adjutant from June, 1910, to June, 1913.
From April, 1908, to May, 1910, he was A.D.C.
to Sir Hamilton Goold- Adams at Bloeuifontein,
Governor and Commander - in - Chief, Orange
River Colony.
In the Great War he wa.s shot dead at Braiue.
in France, while recoimoltring in the town,
dismounted, looking for snipers, on the 12th
September, 1914.
Captain Springfield, who was a member of the
Norfolk Club and of the .Army and Navy Club,
was a fine steeplechase rider, very fond of
hunting
owner.
and a well-known gentleman rider and
He was unmarried.
LIEUTENANT
1st B A T T N . T
OWN CAMERON
1SS9, and was educated
IVAN BOYD SPROT.
HE QUEENS
HIGHLANDERS.
who was killed in
action on the 22nd
October, 1914, near
Langemarck,
in Belgium, was the
youngest son of the
late Mr. Edward W.
Sprot and of Mrs.
Sprot, of Dry-
^-, grange, Roxbiu^h-
"^Dj shire.
i^B He was bom on
the 14th September,
at Stanmore Park,
Middlesex ; and Eton, for which school he played
cricket. He was also a member of the Middlesex
Cricket Club, and was a fine athlete. He re-
ceived his commission in the Cameron High-
landers from the Special Reserve in May, 1911,
becoming Lieutenant in September, 1914.
He was shot in the temple by a sniper whUe
leading his men on. His last words were,
•' Come on, boys, come on ! Let's at them ! "
A brother of lieutenant Sprot's is in the Black
Watch, and another in the Gordon Highlanders.
The former has been " missing " since November,
1914, and the latter has been wounded in the
war.
Lieutenant Sprot married, in March. 1914,
Agnes Mary Gordon (Nancy), youngest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Berry, 31, Drmnsheugh Gardens,
Edinbiu^h, and a granddaughter of the late
Sir William Muir, of Dean Park House, Edin-
burgh.
CAPTAIN LOSCOMBE LAW STABLE.
2nd B A T T N. ROYAL WELSH
FUSILIERS.
born on the
21st March, 1886,
at Wanstead
Lodge, Wanstead,
Essex, was the son of
Daniel Wintringham
Stable, LL.B., J.F.,
Barrister - at - Law,
and his wife.
Gertrude Mary (nee
Law), of Plas
Uwynowen, Uan-
brvnmair, Montgomeryshire, and a great'
nephew of Sir Frederick Halliday, K.C.B.,
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal.
He was educated at The Wells Hovise, llalvem
Wells ; and Winchester College. After passing
through the E.M.C., Sandhurst, he was gazetted
to the Royal Welsh FusiUers in Febraary, 1907.
becoming Lieutenant in April, 1911. His
promotion to Captain dated from the 21st
October, 1914, only a few days before his
death.
He was kUled near Armentieres, France, on the
26th October. 1914, ha\-ing left his trench to
bring in Private EUis, of the battalion, who was
lying wounded outside the trench, and exposed to
heavy fire. The circumstances were described
by another Private as follows : " Private Ellis,
lying woxmded some distance away from
the trenches, was rescued under a hail of
bullets, I drew Lieutenant Stable's notice to
Private Ellis, and asked whether he was one
of our men. Looking through his glasses he
found that Ellis belonged to our company.
The Lieutenant would not allow me to go to him.
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but luslu'il out of the trench to our wounded
coinrade'.s assistance. Then Private Taylor
rushed to help, and they were returning to the
trenches when the Lieutenant was struck in
the side with a bullet, but managed to get back.
' What's the matter, sir ? ' I asked. ' I am hit,'
was the reply. ' Hit where 'i ^ "In the side.'
At this the olTficer fainted, and shortly after-
wards succumbed to his wound. Had Lieu-
tenant Stable lived he would no doubt ha\e
been recommended for the V.C Private Taylor
has since been awarded the Ii.C.M. Private
KUis managed to scramble into the trench,
and we found his knee had been smashed."
Captain .Stable was a fine polo player, and played
for his battalion at several tournaments, finally
being one of the team that won the Infantry
Polo Tournament at Dellii on the 27th Febru-
ary. 1918, before the \'iceroy of India and Lady
IL-u'dingi-.
2nd LIEUTENANT HAROLD
ROLLESTON STABLES, 5th (RESERVE)
BATTN. THE ROYAL FUSILIERS
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT),
uhii was born on tlie
1st .July. INSli. at
II o r s f o r t h ,
Yorkshire. \\"as the
son of Henry and
Mary Stables,
lie was educated at
Cheltenham College
and New College,
(Ixtord, where he
rowed in t li e
College Vni in lOOO,
1907, and 1908. He
took his degree of B.A. in 1909. Subsequently
he studied for the Bar, and while so engaged
joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1911. He
was called to the Bar at tlie Inner Temple in
1912.
He was a member of the Public Schools' and
Leander Clubs, and of the Hardwicke Debating
Society. He frequently spoke on eugenics
and \\oman suffrage. He was made a PYee-
niason in the Apollo Lodge at Oxford, and in
190S held the office of Assistant Grand Pur-
suivant in the Pro\dncial Grand Lodge of
Oxfordshire.
After the outbreak of war with Germany he
obtained a commission in the Royal Fusiliers
in August, 1914. \'ery soon afterwards, owing
to the training he liad lecelved while a member
of the Inns of Coiu't O.T.C, 2nd Lieutenant
Stables was ordered to proceed to I-'rance for
active service. At the time of his death he
was serving at the front with the 1st Battalion
Cheshire Kegiment. He was shot through the
head on the 1.5th Xovember, 1914. while help.ng
to defend trenches three miles south of Ypres.
CAPTAIN EDWARD HUGH
BAGOT STACK, 2nd BATTN.
8th GURKHA RIFLES,
son of the lat e • _ -
Edward Stack, Esq,,
Bengal Civil Service,
a n d of Mrs.
Luttman - Johnson,
of Pedhill House,
Petworth. Sussex,
w as Ij o r n at
Shillong, Assam, In-
dia, on the 14th
September,188.5. He
was a great-nephew
of the late Right "^"^
Rev. Charles Maurice Stack. Bishop of Cloghcr.
Clones, Ireland.
Captain Stack was educated at Temple (irovc
Preparatory School and Winchester College.
He went to India in August, 1905, and was
attached to the K.K.K.C. (late tiOth Rifles) at
Bareilly, receiving his conunission in his Indian
regiment at Lansdowne in 1906. He was
gazetted Captain on the oth August, 1914.
He fell in action on the 31st October, 1914,
near Festnbert, while leading his men. He was
.shot first in the face and later in the arm,
but continued fighting all day, and when the
enemy came on with a rush he fell shot through
the chest by a third bullet, firing his revolver
as he was killed.
Captain Stack married, in 1912. Mary .\leta.
daughter of the late Theodore Stack, Esq.,
of IHihlin. and left one daughter, born .July,
1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT C. C. STAFFORD,
RESERVE OF OFFICERS, attd. 2nd
BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
was killed in action on the 13th October, 1914.
He joined the Reserve of Officers in September,
1913.
LIEUTENANT RICHARD TERRICK
STAINFORTH, 2nd BATTN. ROYAL
WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
was born at Chester
on the 23rd Decem-
b e r , 1 S 9 3 , the
younger son of
Colonel R. T. Stain-
forth. A !■ m y
Ordnance De-
partment (retired),
and of Mrs. Stain-
forth.
He was educated at
M 1 . (i u r n e y ' s
School, Urandoti
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House. Cheltenham, from wliich he entered
Cheltenham College in 190S : thence he passed
into the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, in 1912. He was a
good athlete, a fine cricketer, very active in the
field, a good bowler, and a promising bat. Only
an attack of illness prevented his getting into
the Cheltenham XI in 1911. In 1912 he won the
cup in the Fives Competition, and when at
.Sandhurst was in the hockey team. He joined
the Royal Warwickshire Regmient in April,
1914, at ilalta. His cricket soon attracted
attention, for he kept on making long scores for
the battalion, as well as succeeding as a bowler,
so he was asked to join a United XI of the station
to represent the Army v. the Xavy.
On the outbreak of the war with Germany his
battalion came home, and after three weeks at
LjTidhurst sailed with the ^"Ilth Division on
the 4th October, 1914, and landed at Zeebrugge
on the 7th of that month. The battalion
formed part of the 22nd Brigade under
Brigadier-General Lawford. Lieutenant .Stain-
forth, who got liis step in September, was
killed at the Battle of Ypres on the 19th
October. 1914. He was ordered forward with
liis platoon in the advance line of attack in
skirmishing order at Kezelberg, on the Roulers-
-\Ienin Road, when a shell burst, wounding
him in five places. He would not allow the
Sei^eant to bandage his woimds. but said.
■■ I'n\ done ! Advance platoon to cover."
Later on he was picked up. and his wounds
dressed, but he died in the ambulance wagon
on the way to Ypres Hospital. He was buried
in a plot near the prison, the town being so
constantly and violently shelled at that Jtiine
that it was impossible to bury him in the
cemetery.
2nd LIEUTENANT BENJAMIN
ARTHUR STANDRING. 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGI.MENT,
son of Arthur Hamilton and EUen Standring,
was bom at Oporto, Portugal, on the 26th
December, 1SS6, and was educated at the
Oporto British School and Charterhouse
(Bodeites).
He joined the 28th City of London Regiment
(Artists' Rifles) in 1909, becoming suc-
cessively Corporal and Sergeant, and with this
corps he proceeded to join the Expeditionary
Force in France in October, 1914. Shortly after
the Artists" Rifles arrived in France they
became an Officers" Training Corps, and in
November, 1914, 2nd Lieutenant Standring
received his commission in the Royal
Warwickshire Regiment, which he joined at the
front .
He died on the 19th December. 1914. of wounds
received the same day in action at Rouges
Bancs, and was buried in the churchyard at
SaUlv-sur-Lvs.
2nd LIEUTENANT
1st
GEORGE
BATTN.
HOP-
EAST
R K G I M K X T
Long Service and Good
KINS STANLEY.
LANCASHIRl
was the son
of Willaim Stanley,
and was born
at Pontypool.
^lonmoutlishire, on
the 9th November.
1S75.
He served through
the .South African
War, Tor which he
held the Queen's and
the King's medals
with clasps : and he
was also awarded the
Conduct medal.
He went to the front at the commencement of
the war, and received his conunission for ser-
\-ices in the field on the 16th September, 1914.
He was killed on the 31st October, and liis
CO. sent the following account in a letter of
sympathy to his widow : " Y^our husband was
killed in the trenches on Saturday, the 31st
October, by a portion of shell that struck him
in the back. I had, as you know, a great regard
for your husband. I had known hun many
yeai-s in the regiment and at the depot, and had
always a very high opinion of him ; consequently
I was delighted when he was given a com-
mission in the 30th, and now he has passed
away from us. He had done excellent service
out here, aiid I had intended, if he had lived,
to have sent hLs name in for mention in
despatches at the first opportunity. He was
killed outright, and we buried him the same night
in a grave close to three of his brother officers
and several men who have all been killed dm-ing
the shelling of tlie last five days. He lies one
7nile east of Ploegsteert (which is three miles
north of Armentieres), along the Ploegsteert-le-
Gheer Road.""
2nd Lieutenant Stanley was married, and left
three children, two girls and a boy.
2nd LIEUT E!N ANT CHARLES
M.\RTIN STANUELL, 2nd BATTN.
DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY,
bom at iluree, Pun-
jab, India, on the
29th July. 1894. was
the only son of L-eu-
tenant-Colonel H. S.
Stanucll, late
Royal Scots
Fusiliers. Many re-
latives on both sides
of the famUy have
won distinction in
the services.
He was educated at
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Eagle House School. Sandhurst, from 1903-08,
where he was in the XV and the XI. and made
a record long jump of 16 feet 7 inches in May,
1908. From September of the latter year until
1912 he was at Cheltenham College, where he
wa-s in the XV, a brilliant three-quarter back.
In 1910 he won the Troughton medal and cup
for most events under sixteen, and in 1911 and
1912 the Ladies" Challenge Cup and Gold .Modal
for most events.
He then went to the R.il.C, Sandhurst, where
he was again distinguished as a three-quarter
back at football, and played for the college for
two seasons. 1912 and 1913. and represented it
in the Sandhurst r. Woolwich .Sports in the
hurdles, long jump, and one hundred yards,
winning the latter and the silver medal in 1913.
Af t er joining the service he played for the Army
in the Rugby XV, and also in the combined
.Sandhiu-st and Woolwich team i: the Ser\-ices.
He received his commission in the Durham
Light Infantry in January, 191-1, and was killed
in action at the Battle of the Aisne, while
gallantly leading his platoon, on the 20th
September, 1914.
MAJOR GRANVILLE JOSEPH
son of John Twynani
L'pham, Hants.
C H E T %V Y N D
ROYAL FIELD
STAPYLTON,
ARTILLERY,
bom on the 17th
September, 18 7 1,
was the elder son of
Lieutenant - General
and Lady Barbara
Emily Maria Stapyl-
ton. daughter of the
fourth Earl of iliU-
town.
II a j o r .Stapylton
joined the Royal
Artillery in February,
1891, becoming Lieu-
tenant in February, 1S9I, and Captain in
February. 1900. He served in the .South African
War, 1899-1902, being present at the relief of
Kimberley ; at operations in the Orange Free
State, including actions at Paardeberg, Poplar
Grove, Karee Siding, Houtnek (Thoba Moun-
tain), and Zand River : operations in the
Tran.svaal. including actions near Johannesburg
and Diamond Hill : also the later operations in
the Transvaal and Cape Colony, including the
action at Colesberg. He received the Queen's
medal with five clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps.
Major Stapylton, who obtained his Majority
in September, 1908, was reported a.s killed in
action on the 3rd September, 1911.
MAJOR ROBERT PERCY STARES, 2nd
BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in action on the 30th October,
1914, was the second
Stares, Manor House,
He was born on
the 22nd November,
1866, and was edu-
cated at Weymouth
College and abroad.
He was gazetted to
the Bedfordshire
Regiment from the
MiUtia in November,
1888, becoming Lieu-
tenant in 1890. He
took part in the
Isaazi Expedition,
1892, and in operations in Chitral in 1895,
being present at the storming of the Mala,
kand Pass, and the action near Khar at
the descent into Swat Valley. For these opera-
tions he received the medal with clasp.
From May. 1892. to April. 1890. he was Adjutant
of his battalion, and was promoted Captain in
October, 1896. From August of that year to
May, 1900, he was an Adjutant of Indian
Volunteers, and during that period took part in
operations on the north-western frontier of
India with the Tirah Expeditionary Force,
being Brigade Transport OfTicer to a colunui
from November, 1897. to April, 1898. For these
operations two clasps were added to the medal
previously received.
He was promoted Major in October. 1908 :
and from January, 1907, to January, 1911, was
first a Brigade Major, then D.A.A.fi. in India.
He went out to Belgium with the 21st Brigade,
Vllth Division, and was killed near Ypres
while gallantly leading his men, being shot at
close range by some Germans who had crept up.
For his services he was mentioned in .Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th .hiiuiary, 1915.
Major Stares was a great polo player, and very
fond of hunting and shooting He was
unmarried.
HENRY JOSEPH
52nd BATTERY
ARTILLERY.
CAPTAIN WILLI.\M
BARBER-STARKE Y.
ROYAL FIELD
was born on the 4th
March, 1880. at The
Hall, Huttons-
Ambo, York-
shire, the eldest son
of W. J. S. Barber-
Starkey. Esq.
He was educated at
Harrow and Trinity
College, Cambridge,
joining the Royal
Artillery from the
Militia in October,
1900. He became Lieutenant in October
and Captain in May, 1912.
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Captain Barber-Starkey was officially reported
missing on the 2nd September. 1914, and twice
afterwards unofticially reported a prisoner of
war, unwounded, at Torgau. Unfortunately
these reports proved imfounded. and his parents
finally received information through the Red
Cross International Agency of Prisoners of War,
Geneva, that tlieir son had died in a (ierman
Field Hospital at Le Cateau on the 10th Sep-
tember, 1014, from wounds received in tlie
Battle of Le Cateau on the 26th August, 1914.
MAJOR EDWIN BEDFORD STEEL, B.A.,
M.B., B.Ch. Dub., ROYAL ARMY MEDI-
CAL CORPS,
son of the
late Charles Steel,
A.^'.C.. attached to
12th Lancers, was
born at Aldershot on
the Kith September,
1871.
Major Steel
was educated at
R u g b y, w here
he won the
' ' ' "" ~ " Crick," and was in
the Football XV ; and at Trinity College, DubUn,
where, as also at Dr. Steevens' Hospital, he dis-
tinguished himself as a footballer. He graduated
M.B., B.Cli. in the University of Dublin in 1893,
joining the R.A.M.C. in January, 1S95, being
pronaoted Captain in 1898, and Major in 1906.
Between 1897 and 1912 he served twice in
India, and in the latter year was made an
Associate of the Order of St. John of Jerusaleni,
in recognition of his services in connection with
plague duty. Major Steel held the Indian Dur-
bar medal, 1911.
In the Great \\'ar he went abroad in command
of Field Ambulance No. 20, and was mentioned
for his services in Sir John French's despatch
of the 8th October, 1914. At the beginning of
October he was appointed Assistant Director
of Jledical Ser\'ices attached to the 1st Cavalry
Division. He was wounded by a shell at La
Clytte on the morning of the 23rd Noveniber,
1914, and died on the afternoon of the sanie day
in Bailleul Clearing Hospital. He was buried in
the cemetery at Bailleul.
Major Steel married, in 1899, Ethel Mary
Robinson, and left a daughter, Rachel Mary,
aged eleven, and two sons, Anthony Bedford
and Christopher Bedford, aged fifteen and eight
respectively,
CAPTAIN FREDERICK WILBER-
FORCE ALEXANDER STEELE,
4th BATTN. ROYAL FUSILIERS,
who was killed in action on the 26th or 27th
October, 1914, was the eldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Philip J. Steele, of Normanhurst, Kew,
Melbourne, Australia. He had at first been
reported, in December, as " woimded and miss-
ing," and had been
present at the Battle
of Mons.
He was born on the
12th September,
1885, and was edu-
cated at the Churcli
of England Grammar
School, Melbourne,
andat Messrs. Carlyle
and Gregson's, Lon-
don. He received his
commission in the
Royal Fusiliers from the Commonwealth ililitary
Forces in July, 1907, becoming Lieutenant in
April, 1910. His promotion to Captain, to
date from the 13th December, 1914, was
gazetted on the 1st March, 1915.
The following is an extract from a letter written
by Captain Steele's Commanding Officer :
" He was leading a night attack through a
village when he was shot, and death appears to
have been instantaneous. Sergeant Woodcock
was close by when your son was hit, and,
though he got to liim at once, he says lie was
undoubtedly dead. I cannot say how highly
we all thought of your son. He was equal to
the best officer I have ever met, and I had
undoubted confidence in him. I had already
recomniended him for special distinction, and
hope that some mark of appreciation in the
shape of a posthumous honour may yet be
conferred on him. I also brought him per-
sonally to the notice of Sir John French, who
congratulated him on liis distinguished ser-
vice." And the Adjutant of his battalion
wrote : " Y'our son was one of the very best
officers I have ever seen, always cheery and
energetic, and most capable. The Colonel, I
know, had the very highest opinion of hina."
For his services in the war Captain Steele was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatches
of the Sth October, 1914, and 14th January,
1915.
Captain Steele, who was unmarried, was a
member of the Junior Army and Navy Club.
His throe brothers were all serving in the war.
CAPTAIN OLIVER STEELE, 1st BATTN.
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES'S
(ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT),
was born at Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand,
on the 7th April, 1882, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas James Steele, of Remuera, Auckland,
New Zealand, and a nephew of A. R. Steele,
Loddington Hall. Northants. He was educated
at Auckland Grammar School, where he made a
record in the school sports in 1895 for the one hun-
dred yards under fourteen, which he did in eleven
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seconds, the record beint; still iinbrolxon in 1915.
He obtained his conindssion in May, U'OO,
during the South
African War, from
till' ranks of the .5th
New Zealand Contin-
gent, beini; present at
operations in
Rhodesia, in ihe
Transvaal, in-
cluding actions at
KlaniTs Hiver. from
May. 1900. to .Tuly.
19(11. and CapeC'olony.
July, 1901, to May.
1902. He received the Queen's medal with four
clasps and the King's medal with two clasps.
He became Lieutenant in .March. 190'i. and
Captain in July. 1910. He also held the Coro-
nation Durbar medal. 1911.
He was killed at Zonnebeke on the 25th October.
1914, by a bursting shell while reforming his
company after a charge, and was mentioned in
Sir John French's Despatch of the 141h
.famiary. 1915. for his bravery.
Captain Steele, who was not married, was a
member of the Junior Xaval and Military Club.
LIEUTENANT JOHN HENRY
GORDON LEE STE ERE, 3rd
BATTN. GRENADIER GU.\RDS,
wlio was killed in
action on the 17th
November, 1914. was
the only son of H. C.
Lee Steere, of Jayes
Pa-.k, Ockley, Sui-rey .
He was born on the
^ 14th June. 1895. and
' "•"*■ ' jomed the Grenadier
fiuards in February,
1914, being promoted
Lieutenant on the
15lnXovember,1914.
CAPTAIN ALBERT ALEXANDER
LESLIE STEPHEN, D.S.O., ADJUTANT
1st BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS,
was killed in action
on the 31st October,
1914. He was born
on the 3rd Febi'uary,
1S79, and joined the
Scots Guai ds from
the Militia in Janu-
ary, 1899, becoming
Lieutenant in Apiil.
1900. He served in
the South African
War, wheie he was
present at a large
number of engagements. He took part in the
advance on Kimberley with action at Belmont,
Enslin, Modder Kiver, and Magersfontein : and
was present at operations n the Orange Free
.State, Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Cape
Colony, including actions at Poplar Grove,
I triefontein. Vet and Zand Rivei's, near .Tohan-
nesburg. at Pretoria. Diamond Hill, and Belfast.
From January, 1901, he was A.ssistant Provost-
.Marslial. He was twice mentioned in Despatches
(■■ London Gazette," 10th September, 1901,
and •29th Jidy. 1902): was awarded the D.S.O. :
and received the Queen's medal with six clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Captain in April, 1904, and
from April, 1906, to March, 1909, was employed
with the Macedonian Gendarmerie ; and from
the latter date to January, 1911, with the
Turki.sh Gendarmerie. He was awarded the
Older of the Medjidieh. Ijrd Class. From Sep-
tember, 1910, to September, 1913, he was
an Adjutant of the Territorial Force : and in
April, 1914, was appointed Adjutant of the 1st
Battalion of his own regiment
CAPTAIN DOUGLAS CLIN-
TON LESLIE STEPHEN, 2nd
BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS,
died of wounds received in action on the 10th
.September, 1914.
He was born on the 7th February. 1877. and
in May. 1900. received his commission from the
Militia, with which he had serv'ed during em-
bodiment for four months. He took part in the
South African War, being present at operations
in the Orange River Colony. Cape Colony,
and Transvaal, including the actions at Witte-
bergen. He received the Queen's medal with
three clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in November.
1903, and Captain in June, 1908. From April.
190(3, to March, 1909, he was employed with
the Macedonian Gendarmerie, and from Decem-
ber, 1909, to January, 1911, was A.D.C. to the
General Officer Commantling London District.
MAJOR HERBERT AR
STEPNEY, 1st BATTN
was the son
THUR HERBERT-
IRISH GUARDS,
of Mr.
Herbert
and was
the 10th
1879.
father
George
Stepney,
born on
January,
His grand-
Colonel Ar-
thur St. George
Herbert - .Stepney —
commanded the 2nd
Battn. Coldstream
(inards.
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Stepney was educated at Rugby and the R.M.C.
Sandhurst, from which he passed out first.
He joined the Coldstreani Guards in 1S9S,
became Lieutenant in 1899, and was trans-
ferred to the Irish Guards in 1901, soon after
their formation : he was Adjutant of his bat-
talion I'roiu January till December, 1902, and
was promoted Captain in .September, 1904.
He served in the South African War during
1900 and 1901, being present at operations in
the Transvaal, including the action of Belfast,
where he was slightly wounded. He after%vards
received the Queen"s medal with three clasps.
Major Herbert-Stepney left Wellington Bar-
racks with his battalion for France, on the 12th
August, as Senior Company Commander. He
was in command of the battalion, from the 1st
to the 17th September, till after the Battle of
the Aisne, and again for the first days of
November during the great struggle at Tpres.
For his services he was mentioned in Field-
Marshal Sir John French's Despatch of the
11th January, 1915. He was killed at Klein
ZUlebeke, near Tpres, on the 7th November,
1914.
Major Herbert-Stepney was an Irishman, whose
home had always been in that country. He was
a good shot, keen fisherman, and fond of all
games.
CAPTAIN REGINALD WALTER MOR-
TON STEVENS, p.s.c. ROYAL IRISH
RIFLES, BRIGADE MAJOR 9th INFAN-
TRY BRIGADE,
who died on the
28th August. 1914.
of wounds r e -
ceived on the 2t5th
of that month at
Le Cateau, was the
second son of
Colonel George Mor-
ton Stevens, late
^^^^^^ Royal Artillery.
ia^^^^^K He was bom on
" the ISth December,
1870, and was educated at Mr. Thomas East-
man's, at Stubbington, at Mr. Hanson's.
Appledurcombe College, Isle of Wight : and at
the R.M.C. .Sandhurst. He joined the Royal
Irish Rifles in September, 1S96, becoming
Lieutenant in August, 189S. He served in the
South African War. in wliich he was severely
wounded at Stormberg, and afterwards acted
as Assistant Staff Officer to the Assistant
Inspector- General, Western Section, Lines of
Communication, from December, 1900. He
was present at operations in Cape Colony and
Orange River Colony, and received the Queen's
medal and King's medal each with two clasps.
In 1903-04 he was on the .Staff as Special Service
Officer with the Somaliland Field Force, and
was present at the action at Jidballi, receiving
the medal with two clasps. In 1904 he was
promoted Captain ; and from January, 1905,
to January, 1908, was Adjutant of his battalion.
From January. 1908, to January, 1910, he was
an ofticer of a company of Gentlemen Cadets at
the Royal ilihtary College. From 1910 to De-
cember, 1911, he was at the Staff College, after-
wards being attached to the Naval War College,
Portsmouth ; and in November, 1912, was
appointed Brigade- Major of the 9th Infantrj-
Brigade, Southern Coixuuand. He also did a
great deal of examination work for the War
Office for the O.T.C.
He embarked with his Brigade in Augvist,
1914, and on the day of the Battle of Le
Cateau he had been told to telephone the order
to retire through to the trenches. He must have
found something wrong with the telephone, for
shortly after he was seen riding straight to the
trenches in full \-iew of the enemy and in the
face of a heavy fire. He succeeded in giving
the order before he was shot. No news was
received of him for two and a half months,
when word came from Germany that he had
died two days later in a farmhouse at
TroisviUes.
Captain Stevens, who was a member of the
United Service Club, married, in 1912, Elizabeth,
daughter of the late Rev. J. C. 3Iace, and left
a daughter, who was bom a fortnight after her
father was killed.
ADRIAN HARRY
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
LIEUTENANT
STEWART, THE
REGIMENT.
was the youngest
son of Colonel
Harry Hutchinson
Augustus Stewart
(brother of Sir
Augustus Stewart.
ninth Baronet, of
Fort Stewart.
County Donegal),
and of the late Mrs.
Stewart, of Hopton
HaU,near Lowestoft.
He was bom on the 25th February, 1888, at
Momingthorpe Manor, Norfolk, and finished
his education at the R.M.C, Sandhurst, on
passing out of which he was appointed to the
Gloucestershire Regiment (in which corps his
father had served for several years as Adjutant
and Captain) in May, 1907, being promoted
Lieutenant in December, 1909. In March, 1914,
he was seconded for service under the Colonial
Office, and joined the 3rd Battalion Nigeria
Regiment, West African Frontier Force,
and fell on the 30th .August. 1914. at the
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unsuccpssfiil assault of Garua, Camoroons,
German West Africa.
He was a keen all-round sportsman, an expert
ritie shot and swiniiner, and of remarkably
fine physique.
The house of Fort Stewart has sent many
representatives to the Army uninterruptedly
since its foundation two or three centuries ago,
several of whom gained high rank and distinc-
tion. It is believed he was the first Army
officer of his name to fall in this war, waged
on three continents.
Lieutenant Stewart was a member of the Junior
United Service Club.
CAPTAIN BERTRAND STEWART,
WEST KENT (QUEEN'S OWN)
YEOMANRY, attd. INTELLIGENCE
CORPS,
was killed at the
Battle of the Aisne
on the 12th Sep-
tember, 1914. He
was the only son of
Charles Stewart.
Esq., of Achara,
Appin, Argyllshire,
and of 38, Eaton
Place, London, one
of the " Stewarts of
Appin," and owner
of Castle Stalcaire, a well-preserved ruin with
historic comiections, it havmg been the hunting
seat of James IV of Scotland, who was slain
on Flodden Field. In this castle, which is
open to the public, has been placed a marble
tablet to Captain Stewart's memory.
Captain Stewart was born in London in Decem-
ber, 1872. He was educated at Eton (Durn-
ford's House) and ChrLst Church, Oxford, where
he remained until 1892. In 1897 he was admitted
a solicitor, and became a member of the firm of
Markb}', Stewart & Co., of Coleman Street,
London.
When the Boer War broke out Captain Stewart
enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry, and took
part in operations in the Cape Colony, Orange
River Colony, and the Transvaal. He was
awarded the (Queen's medal with two clasps.
In April, lOdti, he received a commission in
the West Kent Yeomanry, and became a
Captain in 1913.
On the outbreak of the Great War Captain
Stewart was appointed to the Intelligence De-
partment on the Staff of Major-tieneral Allenby,
C.B., commanding the Cavalry Division of the
Expeditionary Force. He was serving in this
position when he met his death. The following
account of his fall was furnished by one who
was with him in a letter dated Rheims, lOth
September ; —
" I was with him at the time, and nmst tell
you that 1 am certain it was the death he would
have chosen — painless, sudden, and doing his
duty. ... A patrol of ours was attacked
entering the village of Braisne, and the support-
ing party . . . retired. Captain Stewart at
once jumped up, and, putting himself at their
head, rallied them and took tliem to the assist-
ance of those cut oft'. 1 was sent back for
reinforcements, and on my return . . . had got
to within a few yards of his side when the end
came. . . . Those who, like myself, worked with
him had become very fond of him, and his
memory as an English ofticer will remain with us."
He was buried in the cemetery in the village of
Braisne, near where he fell. The officers and
men of the West Kent Y'eomanry have pre-
sented his widow with a handsome bronze
tablet, conmiemorating his services.
He was the author of a useful manual, entitled
" The Active Service Pocket Book," which ran
through several editions, and an article of
his, entitled " Germany and Ourselves," in
the " National Review " for June, 1914,
attracted much attention. He was for some
time co-editor of the " Cavalry Journal."
His chief recreations were hunting, shooting,
and deer-stalking, but he always made his work,
civil and military, his fust consideration. His
life and death show that it was the " great
game of war " that had the sujjremest attraction
for him.
The most momentous occurrence in Captain
Stewart's life remains to be recorded. When
travelling in Germany it was his misfortune to
fall under the suspicion of the German Govern-
ment, and he was arrested at Bremen in August,
1911, on a charge of espionage. His trial by
the Supreme Court of Germany opened at
Leipzig on the 31st January, 1912, and, after the
preliminaries, was conducted in camera. The
charges brought against him related mainly to
naval defences at many places he had never
seen. The only sjjeciflc evidence against him
was that of a penniless ex-criminal in the
employment of the prosecutors. After a trial
lasting four days, Captain Stewart was found
guilty, and sentenced to detention in a fortress
for three and a halt years. Before leaving the
Court Captain Stewart proudly told his judges
that if their distinguished nation was ever at
war with Britain, he hoped he would be in the
field against them in defence of his country.
His hope was soon to be fulfilled. He was
imprisoned under rigorous conditions in the
fortress of Glatz, and was released, as an act of
clemency, on the visit to Berhn of his Majesty
King George V in May, 1913. After his release
he prepared a memorandum completely vindi-
cating himself from the charges brought against
him, and his countrymen may well be content
to place their reliance on the honour of a brave
soldier.
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Captain Stewart married, on tlie 1st August,
1905, Daphne, daughter of Colonel Osmond
Priaulx, of The Mount, Guernsey. He left no
issue.
He was a member of the Athenaeum and
Carlton Clubs.
CAPTAIN GEOFFREY STEWART,
1st BATTN. COLDSTREAM
GLWRDS. RESERVE OF OFFICERS,
son of llajor-General
Sir Herbert
Stewart, K.C.B., was
bom at Binfield.
Berkshire, on the
2Sth October. 187S,
and was educated
at Eton.
He joined the
Coldstream Guards
in 1S9S, and served
with them through-
out the South African
W ai. 1^99-1902, taking part in the advance
on Kimberley, including actions at Belmont,
Enshn, ilodder River, and Magersfontein ; he
was also present at operations in the Orange
Free State, including actions at \"et and Zand
Rivers, at operations in the Transvaal, includ-
ing actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and
Diamond HiU : and at operations in the Trans-
vaal. East and West of Pretoria, including the
action at Belfast (1900). He was present at
further operations in the Transvaal and in
Cape Colony in 1901—02, and at the conclusion
of the war received the Queen's medal with
six clasps and the King's medal with two clasps.
From 1905—07 he served in the Egyptian
Army and retired in 1910, joining the Reserve
of Officers. He also served with the Leicester-
shire Yeomanry, having been promoted Major
in February, 1914, and when war broke out
was given an appointment as Staff Captain
to the Xorth Midland Movmted Brigade. At
the front he was serving with the 1st Battalion
of Ms old regiment when he was killed while
retiring from a reconnaissance he made, alone.
to the enemy's trenches at Givenchy, in
Flanders, on the 22nd December, 1914. He
was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of the 31st May. 1915.
Captain Stewart, who had been a Page of Honour
to her Majesty Queen ^'ictoria, was a member
of the Guards" Club. He married Violet,
daughter of W. Clarence Watson, Esq., and left
two children : Jean, bom 1909 ; and Malise,
bom 1911.
2nd LIEUTENANT HUBERT
REGINALD STOCK. 1st BATTN. THE
BUFFS EAST KENT REGIMENT).
who was killed in the trenches on the 25th
October, 1914, only gained his commission in
the beginning of that month for service in the
field. He was the son of Edwin Stock (at
one time Sergeant In
the 57th Foot, now
the 1st Middlesex
Regimen t), and
of ZeUah Stock. He
was bom on the 3rd
September, 1888.
He had obtained,
while serving in tlie
ranks, a flrst-class
Certificate of Edu-
cation, and an Aux-
iliary Schoolmaster's
Certificate. 2nd Lieutenant Stock was Signalling
Instructor in his battalion. He was a good
mounted infantryman. and gained a
"distinguished" Musketry Certificate at Hythe.
He was a keen all-round sportsman, a good
shot and scoutmaster, and was a strict
teetotaller.
LIEUTEN.\NT MICH.\EL GEORGE
STOCKS. 2nd BATTN. GRENA-
DIER GUARDS.
was the elder son o;"
Michael Stocks, of
Wood Hall. Down-
ham Market, Xor-
folk, and Up-
per Shibden Hall,
Yorkshire. He was
a grandson, on his
mother's side, of the
late Colonel Sir
Richard Ellison, of
Boultham, and his
paternal grandfather — 3Iajor Stocks — took part
in the charge at Balaclava, and, as a thank-
offering for his safe return, the family built the
Church of St. Mary, Halifax.
Lieutenant Stocks was bom on the 24th
November, 1892 ; educated at Eton and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst; and entered the Guards
in February, 1912, becoming Lieutenant in
October, 1913. His recreations were polo,
hunting, and shooting.
He was killed in the trenches near Ypres. on
the 10th November, 1914, and is buried at
Zillebeke.
MAJOR CH.\RLES INGLIS STOCK-
WELL. 2nd B.\TTN. SEAFORTH HIGH-
LANDERS ROSS-SHIRE BUFFS,
THE DUKE OF A L B .\ N Y ' S ) .
died at Armentieres on the 23rd October, 1914
(the official date being given as the 21st October),
of wounds received in action on the 20th October
during street fighting after the successful storm-
ing of the village of Frelmghien, three miles
North-East of Armentieres.
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He was the son of t\w late Major-Uenoral C. M.
Stockwell, C.B., Seaforth Highlanders, and was
born on the 7th October, 1875, joining tlie Sea-
forth Iliglilandcrs in September, 1895, becoming
Lieutenant in February, 1898. He took part
in the Nile Expedition of 1S98, being present at
the Battles of the Atbara and Khartoum. He
received the British medal and the Egyptian
medal with two clasps. From December,
1899, to December, 1909, he was employed
with the Egyptian Army, during which period
he was on ser\'ice in the Soudan in 1900-02,
on the reoccupation of the Bahr-el-Ghazal
Province, receiN-ing a clasp to his Egyptian
medal.
He was promoted Captain in March, 1901,
and from April, 1911, to April, 1914, was an
Adjutant of the Territorial Force, obtaining his
Majority in September, 1914.
For his services in the Great War Major
Stockwell was mentioned in Sir .lohn French's
Despatch of the lltli .January, 1915.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK WILLIAM
STODDART, 1st BATTN. THE DUKE
OF EDINBURGH'S (WILTSHIRE REGT.).
born at Sto«-e Hill,
Hartest, Suffolk, was
the son of Colonel
Stoddart, Madras
Staff Corps.
He was born on the
1st .Tvily, 1871, was
educated at Bedford
(i ram mar School,
!|^^^^^^^Er>^ fli^H =^"'1 after serving
five years in the
ranks of the Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers
reieiNi'd liis <-ommission in the Wiltshire Regi-
ment in 1895, becoming Lieutenant in 1897,
and spending several years in India witli the
1st Battalion.
He served for five years from January, 1900, to
January, 1905, in the Chinese Regiment at
Wei-Hai-Wei, and took part in the relief of
Pekin, 19(i0, for which he received the medal
with clasp. From September, 1908, to October,
1912, he was Adjutant of the 4th (Territorial)
Battalion Welsh Regiment.
In England he w-as stationed with the 2nd
Battalion of his regiment at Pembroke Dock,
afterwards rejoining the 1st Battalion at Tid-
worth.
He was killed on the 27th October, 1914, at
Neuve Chapelle, his battalion forming part
of the 7th Infantry Brigade (IlIrd Division)
of the Expeditionary Force, which left England
on the 18tb August. 1914. for the front.
Captain Stoddart's company became sur-
rounded, but lie would not surrender, and was
shot down by the enemy.
He had been awarded the Legion of Honour
for special gallantry during the operations be-
tween the 21st and liOth August.
H<> married Marguerite Faimy, youngest daugli-
ter of the late Maj<ir Aithur Wellesley Williams,
late lOtli Hussai's and 12th Lancers, and a
granddaughter of Sir Robert Williams, Bai-t.,
of Friars, Anglesea, North Wales. Two children
survive him : Rose Marguerite Lena, nine
years old. born while her father was at Pembroke
Dock : and Nigel, two years old. born at Tid-
wortli. His elder son — Frederick Norman
Llewellyn, born the 18th February, 1908 —
died the 3rd October, 1909, at Haverfordwest,
South Wales.
2nd LIEUTENANT ELLIS ROBERT
CUNLIFFE STONE, 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS,
who was killed in the trenches on the 25th
October, 1914, was the son of Mr. H. J. Stone,
of Bedfords, Havering-atte-Bower, Essex, and
!Mrs. Stone, second daughter of Jlr. Ellis Brooke
Cunliffe, of Petton Park, Shropshire.
He was born in 1893, and was educated at
Malvern College (1907-12), Lower Shell (Army
I). There he was a School Prefect, and in his
House Cricket XI. From Malvern he went to
the R.M.C., Sandhurst, from which he was
gazetted to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in
August, 1914.
His CO. described him as " one of the finest
young officers I have ever had under my
command," and added : " He was absolutely
fearless and dashing to a degree. He behaved
with exceptional gallantry, and handled his
men with great skill on the jNIarne. I had every
intention of sending in a special report on him
on account of the excellent work he did on
several occasions." (" The Malvernian," De-
cember, 1914.)
2nd LIEUTENANT HARRY HILTON
STOREY, 2nd BATTN. DURHAM LIGHT
INFANTRY,
son of the late Mr.
Thomas Storey, of
S h i 1 d o n, C o u n t y
Durham, was born
at that place on
the 1 2th Januar>' .
1875.
He joined the Army
in the ranks in Sep-
tember, 1894, and
served eighteen years
in India, returning
home in January, 1914. \\r pinr.-.iliil to Frnncr
with his battalion in Sc|it<'iiiliei-. and was given
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STR
his coiiiniission as 2nd Lieiilonant in Septem-
ber, 1914. On the 13th October. 1914, he
was killed by a buUet passing through the
head while he was leading his platoon at Merris,
near Hazebrouck, France.
MAJOR PERCY BELCHER STRAFFORD,
2nd BATTN. THE DUKE OF WELLING.
TON'S (WEST RIDING REGIMENT),
son ol tlie late
Robert James Straf-
ford and his wife,
Louisa Maiy (riec
Belcher), was born
at St. M i c h a e I's
Hamlet. Liverpool,
on the 1 (I t h
October. 1872. He
was educated at
Malvern C o 1 -
legi-. where he was
a brUliaut football
also in the Cricket
and was
back in the XI.
XXII.
Passing out of the R.M.C., Sandhvirst, which he
entered in 1S90, he was gazetted to the 1st
Battalion the Duke of Wellington's Regiment
(the old 33rd) in July. 1892, becoming
Lieutenant in November, 1S95, and Captain
in February, 1900. He served \vith his
battalion all through the Boer War from 1899-
1902, being present at the relief of Kim-
berley ; in the Orange Free State he took
part in the actioiLs of I'aardeberg, Poplar Grove,
and Drietontein, and subsequently in operations
in the Transvaal. He was twice mentioned in
despatches (Septeniber, 1901, and July, 1902),
and was awarded the Queen's medal with four
clasps and the King's medal with two clasps.
Major Strafford, who attained that rank in
November, 1909, and was posted to the 2nd
Battalion on promotion, was killed instan-
taneously at the Battle of ilons on the 24th
August, 1914, by a liullet, which pierced his
temple, while lie was leading and inspiring his
men to the last. He was mentioned in .Sir
John French's Despatch of the 8th October.
1914.
In his younger days, and at Sandhurst, Major
Strafford was a brilliant footballer ; while
latterly he was very keen on cricket, being
captain of the regimental team, and taking a
prominent place in all garrison and regimental
matches. He also played for the Yorkshire
Gentlemen when stationed in that county,
being a first-rate bat and wicket-keeper.
He married Edith ilabel, younger daughter of
.Major-General Hamilton Chapman, late 8th
Cavalry, and left two children : Jennie Con-
stance, born June, 1907 ; and Orrell Hamilton,
born July, 1910.
CAPTAIN CHARLES ERIC STRAHAN,
2nd BATTN. THE BLACK WATCH
(ROYAL HIGHLANDERS),
born in Mussoorie,
India, on the 1st
April, 1883, was the
son of Lieutenant-
General C h a r 1 es
Strahan, Colonel-
Commandant Royal
(late Bengal)
Engineers, late Sur-
veyor-General of In-
dia, and a grandson
of the late General
A. Dick, of the In-
dian Army. Through his mother lie was also
related to the late Sir Robert Dick, who was
killed at Sobraon while in command of the
42nd Highlanders (Black Watch).
He was educated at Harrow and the R.M.C.,
Sandhui'st, from which he received his com-
mission in the Black Watch in January, 1902,
being posted to the 1st Battalion, which he
joined in South Africa during the Boer War.
He was present at operations in the Orange
River and Cape Colonies, for which he received
the Queen's medal with two clasps. At the end
of the South African War lie returned to England
and was promoted Lieutenant in May, 190(5,
and in September, 1909, was appointed Staff
Officer to the local forces in the Windward
Islands, an appointment he held tUl October,
1912, when he returned to England. For some
months he was at the depot of his regiment at
Perth, and in January, 1913, joined the 2nd
Battalion in India. He was prouaoted Captain
in May, 1914.
When the war with Germany broke out he was
sent on in advance as billeting officer, his work,
however, being principally to arrange for taking
on lease houses for hospitals and xjermanent
quarters. Colonel Fasken, under whose orders
he was then serving, expressed himself as being
thoroughly satisfied with the way in which he
did his work, and sent in his name to Sir J.
Willcocks for mention. After the arrival of the
troops from India he rejoined his battaUou at
the front, and was shot on the 28th November,
1914, while on duty in the trenches a few miles
from Bethune, where he was buried. He had
been made a Staff Officer a tew days before his
death.
He was a good rider, a very keen golf player,
and a good shot.
LIEUTENANT HOWARD BERTIE
STRONG, 1st BATTN. THE QUEEN'S
(ROYAL WEST SURREY REGIMENT),
who was killed in action north of (iheluvelt,
near Ypres, on the 30th October, 1914, was
STU
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the only son of Mr. anil Mrs. E. Howard
Strong, and was Iikpii at Sutton, Surrey, on the
15th August, 1892.
He was educated at
The College, Epsom,
Surrey, where he was
ill the firet Football
XV, the Fives team,
and the O.T.C. For
two years he served
in the Special
Reserve of the
Queen's. becoming
2nd Lieutenant in
the 1st Battalion
in Deceiiibtr. 1S<12. He was interested in flying,
and took his certificate at Brooklands in August.
1913. He was a member of the Junior Army
and Xavy Club.
While at the front in the Great War he was
promoted to his Lieutenancy in September.
1914. He was present at the Battles of Mons.
the Aisne, and the Mame, and when he was
killed he was acting as Captain of " C "
Company.
LIEUTENANT CECIL EDGAR STUART.
2nd BATTN. LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS,
son of Francis Stuart,
Civil Engineer, was
bom in London in
1887.
He was educated at
Ealing, afterwards in
Australia, Tasmania,
and in Argentina, and
was a Spanish scholar.
He joined the Lan-
cashire P\isUiers as
2nd Lieutenant in
May, 1910, and
served as Lieutenant in the Southern Nigerian
Regiment from 1911-14. In August of the
latter year he rejoined his regiment in which
he was promoted Lieutenant to date from
July, 1914, receiving his commission in the
Lancashire FusUiers.
He was killed in September, 1914, during the
Battle of the Aisne.
LIEUTENANT JAMES STIRLING
STUART, 1st BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS.
who was once wounded in the Battle of the
Aisne on the 14th September, but rejoined
after recovery, and who died on the 9th Novem-
ber, 1914, of wounds received in action that
same day at Ypres. aged twenty-three, was the
elder son of Vi'illiam Stirling Stuart, of Castle-
milk, Lanarkshire.
He was born in 1S91, and after being at Eton
and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his
degree, was gazetted to the Territorial Force
in July, 1912. On the outbreak of war he was
gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Scots tiuards,
with antedate, as a Univei'sity Candidate, to
January. 19l:i, and was promoted Lieutenant
on the 17th September, 1914, the notification
appearing in the " London Gazette " of the
2(ith November, 1914, after his death.
MAJOR HUMPHREY ST. L E G E R
STUCLEY, 1st BATTN. GRENA-
DIER GUARDS.
was the youngest
son of the late Sir
George Stucley, first
Bart., of Moreton,
and of Lady Stucley,
Bideford, and was
born on the 7th June.
1877.
He was educated at
Eton and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He joined the 1st
Battalion Grenadier Guards in .July. l->.iT. md
served with it in the Egyptian Campaign ot
1S9S, being present at the Battle of Khartoum,
and receiving the Egjptian medal with clasp.
He became Lieutenant in December, 1898 :
Captain in May, 1904 : and Major in February,
1912.
With the 2nd Battalion he served through-
out the Boer War, 1900-02, having been
present at operations in the Orange Free State :
in Orange River Colony, including actions at
Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen : and in the
Transvaal. He received the Queen's medal with
three clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
From September, 1902, to February. 1905,
he was Adjutant of his battalion, and from
February, 1900, to February, 1907, was Com-
mandant ot the School for Volunteer officers
at Chelsea Barracks.
He proceeded to Belgiinn with the \TIth
Division on the 4th October, 1914, as .Second
in Command of the 1st Battalion, and fell
at the head of the King's Company in action
against the Germans at Kruiseik in the Battle
of Y'pres on the 29th October, 1914. For
his services in the Great War Major Stucley
was mentioned in Sir John Fi'ench's Despatch
of the 14th January, 1915.
Major Stucley married Rose, daughter of the
late Francis Carew, of CoUipriest. Tiverton.
He left two sons : Peter Francis Carew, bom
10th August, 1909 ; and Lewis Robert Carew,
born 14th December, 1910.
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2nd LIEUTENANT LOGAN STUDLEY,
1st BATTN. EAST YORKSHIRE REG T.,
who was killed in action on the 25th October,
1914, was gazetted to the East Yorkshire Regi-
ment in October, 1914, from the ranks of the
Y'orkshire Regiment, in which he was a Lance-
Corporal .
LIEUTENANT FREDERICK
ERNEST STYLES, SPECIAL RESERVE,
ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
who «a.s killed in
action on the 27th
August, 1914, at
Etreux, France, was
the eldest son of the
late ilr. Frederick
Styles and of Mrs.
Styles, of Black-
moor, Four Elms.
He was born in 1884,
and was educated at
Harrow and the
R.M.C.. Sandhurst,
obtaining his first commission in 1903. and
receiving his promotion to Lieutenant in 190(5.
He retired from the active list in April, 1914.
going into the Special Reserve, but rejoined the
2nd Battalion of his regiment on the out-
break of the war.
The Adjutant of the regiment, who was taken
a prisoner of war on the day of Lieutenant
Styles's death, wrote to ISIrs. Styles, under date
the 31st August, 1914, as follows : " Y^ou will
already have heard that poor Fred was shot on
Thursday, the 27th inst. At the time he was
gallantly leading his men under a heavy fire,
and had he survived would certainly have been
mentioned in despatches. I was not actually
present when he was hit, but I have been told
by those who were on the spot that his death
was painless and instantaneous. When I saw
him a few minutes later he was lying peacefully
as though asleep. As this letter ^^nll be cen-
sored by the German authorities I am imable
to give you any details as to the action or the
situation of the battlefield. All the officers who
fell were buried in one grave, and a service was
conducted by a German clergyman. FYed's loss
is infinitely regretted by all of us who survive,
and I wish to convey to you, on behalf of the
regiment, the utmost sympathy of all ranks
with Miss Styles and yourself."
2nd LIEUTENANT PHILIP HAMIL-
TON SULIVAN, 1st BATTN.
ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
was born at Mayfield Hall, Ashbourne, Derby-
shire, on the 27th August. 1S94, the son of
Colonel and Mrs. E. F. Sulivan, of Wilmington,
Woking.
He was educated at Malvern College and the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, from which he was
gazetted to the
Royal Munster
Fusiliers in Feb-
ruary, 1914. He was
attached to the
2nd Battalion at
Aldershot, and pro-
ceeded with it to
Belgium for active
service on the 13th
August, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant
Sulivan was killed
near Etreux, France, on the 27th Augtist, 1914,
during the retirement from .\Ioixs.
2nd LIEUTENANT CHARLES GORDON
VILLIERS SURTEES, 2nd BATTN.
THE BORDER REGIMENT,
who was unofficially reported to have been killed
in action on the 2tith October, 1914, was born
on the 13th February, 1892, and was gazetted
to the Army in January, 1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT HENRY POYNTZ
SWAINE. 2nd BATTN. ROYAL
IRISH RIFLES,
whose name was in-
cluded as kiUed in
action in the official
list of casualties pub-
lished by the War
Office on the 9th
October, 1914, was
the elder son of
Colonel A . T .
Swaine, late Royal
Irish Rifles, and Mrs.
Swaine, Morris
Lodge, Farnham, and was
March, 1890.
He joined the Royal Irish Rifles as 2nd Lieu-
tenant on the 5th Octol>er. 1910.
LIEUTENANT - COLONEL CHARLES
OLIVER SWANSTON, D.S.O., p.s.c,
q.s.. COMMANDANT 34th PRINCE
ALBERT VICTOR'S OWN POONA
HORSE,
born at Cuddalore.
Southern India, on
the Sth April. lStJ5,
was the son of the
late Major - General
William Oliver
Swanston, Madras
Staff Corps
who served as a
Trooper in Have-
lock's Volunteer
Cavalry in the
born on the 31st
SWA— SWE
3S6
Indiau Mutiny. His grandfather wa« the late
Captain Cliarlcs S«anston, wlio raised one
tliousand men for tlie Poona Auxiliary Horse ;
and he was a great-grandnephew of Horatio
Lord Nelson, his mother being a granddaughter
of Mrs. Kitty Matcham.
Educated privately and at the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, he was gazetted to the Royal Irish
Fusiliers in May, 1885. Promoted Lieutenant
in 1887, he was transferred to the Indian Army.
He served on the Staff in the Tirah Campaign
of 1897-98, for which he was mentioned in
despatches ("'London Ga/.ette." ."ith Apiil, 1898),
and received the medal with two clasps. He
was appointed D.A.Q.M.G. with the Wazii'istan
Expedition, 19U 1-02, for which he was awarded
the D.S.O., received an additional clasp to his
former medal, and was mentioned in despatches
("London tiazette," 8th August. 1!»02).
In 1902 he took part in the operations against
the Darwesh Khel Waziris, acting as StafT
Officer to the General Officer Commanding,
and was again mentioned in despatches
("London Gazette," 5th June, 1903).
He was on the Headquarters Staff as
D.A.Q.M.G. in the Somaliland Campaign of
1903-04, for which he received the medal with
two clasps, and was mentioned in desjjatches
("London Gazette," 2nd September, 1904). In
1905 Lieutenant-Colonel Swanston passed the
final examination of the Staff College and in
1910 was placed on the list of officers con-
sidered qualified for staff employment for
service in the field.
He was promoted Major in ilay. 1906, and
reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in
May, 1911, being appointed Second in Com-
mand of the 34th Poona Horse from tlie Bengal
Lancers in 1914, and while ser\'ing on the
General Staft succeeded to the command of his
regiment in April of the same year.
He was killed on the 2nd November, 1914,
near Neuve Chapelle, while at the head of his
regiment, which had been ovdered up to the
support of some of our trenches.
Lieutenant-Colonel Swanston, who was a mem-
ber of the Cavalry Club, was a fine horseman,
and won many flat races in India. He married
Miss Kathleen Bruce Johnston, daughter of the
late Bruce Johnston, Esq., Writer to the Signet,
of Edinburgh. His wife, however, predeceased
him, and he left no family.
LIEUTENANT RUSSELL KEN-
NETH SWAN WICK, 3rd (attd. Istl
BATTN. GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGT.,
born on the 27th September, 1884, was the
son of Russell Swanwick, of Cirencester.
He was educated at Uppingham and Trinity
College, Cambridge. While at the University
he joined the Cambridge University Mounted
lOngland
on the
with the 1st
14th August,
Infantry, and later the Officers' Training
Corps of the Royal Agricultural College,
Cirencester, from
which he obtained
his commission in
the 3rd Battalion
(iloucestershire Regi-
ment (.Special Re-
serve of Ofticere).
being gazetted Lieu-
tenant in August.
1913.
On the outbreak of
the war he was
attached to the 1st
Battalion, which left
Expeditionary Force
1914. He was killed on the 14th September,
1914, near Troyon, on the Aisne, while leading
his platoon to the help of his hard-pressed
comrades under heavy fire, and died cheering
on his men.
He was a keen sportsman, and was well known
in the hunting field as a plucky rider.
LIEUTENANT EDMUND SWETENHAM,
2nd BATTN. THE DURHAM LIGHT
I NFANTRY,
only son of Clement
William Swetenham,
Lieutenant, R. N.
(retired), of Somer-
ford Booths,
Congleton. Cheshire.
was born there on
the 30tli April. 1890.
He entered the
R.M.C., Sandhurst,
from Eastman's
R.N. Academy and
Army School. Stratford - on - ^V\on. and was
gazetted to the Durham Light Infantry on
leaving Sandhurst in April, 1910, becoming
Lieutenant in January, 1914.
While serving with his battalion in France, he
was shot by a sniper in the trenches at Rue
de Bois, near Armentieres, on the 27th October,
1914.
Lieutenant Swetenham was a member of the
Junior LTnited Service Club.
MAJOR FOSTER SWETENHAM, 2nd
DRAGOONS (ROYAL SCOTS GREYS),
born on the 21st June, 1876, at Cam-yr-Alyn,
Hossett, Denbighshire, was the son of the late
l^lmund Swetenham, Q.C., M.P. for Carnarvon
Burghs, of Cam-yr-Alyn, Rossett, and a grand-
son of the late Clement Swetenham, of
Somerford Booths, Congleton, Cheshire.
After leaving Eton, where he was educated, he
joined the Militia, and from it was appointed
3S7
SWO— TAG
to the Scots Greys as 2iid Lieutenant in Decem-
ber, 1896, becoming Lieutenant in AprU, 1899,
and obtaining his
troop in November,
lOni. He took part
in the South African
\\'ar. being present at
the relief of Kimber-
1^^^^^^, *.^^| '^^' ^^^ actions at
I'aardeberg, Poplar
(irove, Driefontein.
and Karee Siding, for
which he received the
Queen's medal with
three clasps. From
1906-11 he was Adjutant of the Ayrshire
Yeomanry, and obtained his Majority in
December of the latter year.
In the Great War, wliile directing the fire of his
men in dismounted action near St. Quentin
on the 28th August, 1914, during the retirement
from Mons, he was shot through the heart.
Major Swetenhain was an accomplished horse-
man and fine rider to hounds : a keen polo
player, being in the regimental team in South
Africa : rode in steeplechases and point-to-
point races, in which he was very successful,
establishing a record by winning for four years
in succession the " Grey Horse Kace " (a regi-
mental point-to-point) on the same horse, his
charger " Robert."
Major Swetenham married, in 190S, Muriel
Gladys, daugliter of Colonel J. W. Chaplin, V.C.,
C.B.. of Kibworth Hall, Leicester, and left three
children : John Edmund, born 1909 ; Anthony
Clement, bom 1911 : and Vanda Gertrude
Isabel, bom 1912.
He was a member of the Carlton, Ranelagh.
and Cavalry Clubs.
LIEUTENANT JAMES HUBERT
SWORD, 4th QUEENS OWNi HUSSARS,
son of F. Sword,
"Teneriffe,"
Eastbourne,
was bom in the
Argentine Re-
public on the 20th
December, 1892.
He nas educated at
The Grange,
Eastbourne;
and at Osborne
College and Dart-
mouth, at both of
which lattiT iilaci-s h>- « ai made Cadet Captain.
He went afterguards as a Mid.shipman on H.M.S.
" Vanguard " and H.M.S. " Defence." He left
the Xavy in November, 1911, and in September,
1912, went to the R.M C, Sandhurst, where he
got a Prize Cadetship and passed out third in
July, 1913. He obtained his commission in the
4th Hussars n September, 1913, joining the
following month. He was promoted Lieutenant
in August, 1914.
Lieutenant Sword embarked with his regiment
for tVie Continent in August and was killed on
the 10th September, 1914, when out reconnoi-
tring in command of a small patrol at the
Battle of the Mame. He discovered a large
body of the enemy, and sent in a report, which
enabled them to be surrounded and destroyed
the same afternoon.
MAJOR JOHN FREDERICK LODER-
S Y M O N D S. 1st B A T T N. SOUTH
STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the
31st October, 1914,
was the eldest son
of Captain F. C.
Loder-Symonds ,
J.P., of Hinton
Manor, Berks, late
Royal ArtUlery.
He was bom on the
23rd December,
1873, at Dhamar,
India ; educated at
Eton ; and joined
Regiment from the
becoming Lieutenant
1899, to August, 1900, he was employed with
the West African Frontier Force, being on active
service m 1900 in Northern Nigeria, where he
was dangerously wounded. He was mentioned
in despatches (" London Gazette," 16th April,
1901), and was promoted Captain in June of
that year.
From August, 1903, to August, 1906, he was
Adjutant of the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion the
King's Liverpool Regiment, and obtained his
^lajority in September, 1911.
Tlie 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regi-
ment was brought home to England from
Natal to take part in the Great War. leaving
for Belgium on the 4th October. During the
firet Battle of Ypres ilajor Loder-Symonds was
killed instantly with several brother officers
on the 31st October, 1914, while in command
of the battalion.
He married, in 1907, Mary Josephine, daughter
of Sir WUliam Vavasour, Bart., and left no
issue.
LIEUTENANT HAROLD ARTHUR
TAGG. 4th BATTN. THE DUKE OF
CAMBRIDGE'S OWN (MIDDLESEX
REGIME NT), was the son of Captain
the Soutli
Militia in
in 1896.
Staffordshire
June, 1894,
From July,
THO^TAL
388
Jainos Tasg, A.N'.C (attached at tlic front to
tlie 1st Life (luards) and Mrs. Alice Tagg, and
was born at High
Wycombe on the
(ith neceiuber, 1.S93.
Lieutenant Tagg \\as
educated at Victoria
College, Jersey ; and
Bedford Grammar
School, whence he
« on a Prize Cadet-
ship at the R.M.C.,
Sandliurst, at the
endof 19 11, Entering
the R.M.C. in 1912,
he obtained his commission in the 4th Middlesex
Regiment on the 5th February, 1918.
He served with the Expeditionary Force through
the St. Quentin and Mons engagements, the
retirement, and subsequent advance to the Aisne
and the ^larne.
On the 1-lth October, 1911, while marching with
his men through a village towai-ds the line of
the Yser, then occupied, he was shot by a
sniper from a window, between Lille and
Bethune.
Lieutenant Tagg was an enthusia.stic egg-
collector, and had a very good collection of
British birds' eggs collected from nests by
himself. At Bedford College he played half in
the second Rugby team, and had his colours
for that team.
2nd LIEUTENANT HENRY
FREDERICK THORNTON RENNY-
TAILYOUR, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
1^1^^^^^^^— ^»»iin was the son of
'i"^^SII^^Hl ^'olonel H. W.
Renny - Tailyour
(late R.E.), of New-
manswalls, Jlont-
rose, Forfarshire,
Scotland, and was
bom at Homebush,
Sydney, New South
»- -^ ^^^— ■ — . ,.,„., Wales, Australia, on
^^^K|^Ki|i| 31st July, 1893.
^^^mi^^^H^^ He educated at
ArnoldHouse,
Llanddulas, Xortli Wales, and Rugby, whence
he proceeded to the Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich. While there he was successful in
athletics, winning the mile race, and running
second in the two-mile.
He joined the R.E. in December, 1912, and went
to France from the School of Jlilitary Engineer-
ing, Chatham, having been posted to the 5th
Field Company, R.E., forming part of the Ilnd
Division, 1st Army Corps. He went through the
retirement from Mons, the advance to the Marne,
the Battle of the Aisne. and the Battle of Ypres.
He was mentioueil in Sir .lolm I'lericirs
Despatch of the 14th .Ianuar\ . 1915. for gallant
conduct in the field.
On the 14th September he was wounded during
the Battle of the Aisne, but remained on duty.
He was killed near Ypres on the 11th November,
1914. while leading his section in a successful
counter attack on a Cierman trench held by the
Prussian Guard.
LIEUTENANT ERIC LAWRENCE
TALBOT, ROYAL HORSE AR IILLERY,
who died in the ambulance between Klein
Zillebeke and Ypres on the 24th October, 1914,
from wounds received the previous day at
Zandvoorde, was the son of the late John
Arthur and Alice Buckley Talbot, and w-a.s born
on the 15th December, 1883, at :\Iilford Hall,
Newtown, Montgomeryshire.
After having been educated at Marlborough
College he proceeded to the R.ILA., Woolwich,
whence he received a commission in the R.F.A.
in July. 1902, being posted to the 50th Battery,
then stationed at Woolwich, and subsequently
served in Ireland. He became Lieutenant in
1905, and in 1908 exchanged to the 58th
Battery R.F.A. , quartered at Neemuch, India.
In July, 1910, he was transferred to " T "
Battery R.H.A. at Ambala, moving with it to
Abbassiyeli, Egypt. After being for a time at
the depot at Woolwich he was posted to " P "
Battery.
At the beginning of the war he volunteei'ed for
active service, and was appointed to " C "
Battery, with which he uas serving when he
was killed.
Lieutenant Talbot was Master of the R.A.
Draghounds, Woolwich, from 1912 to 1914.
LIEUTENANT HUMFREY RICHARD
TALBOT, 3rd (PRINCE OF
WALES'S) DRAGOON GUARDS,
who was killed in
action on the 14th
November, 1914, was
the yoimgest son of
Gustavus and Susan
Talbot, of Jlarch-
m o n t House,
Hemel Hempstead.
He was born on the
11th September,
1889, and wa-s edu-
cated at Wellington
(Anglesey, 1903-Oti).
He was gazetted to the Liverpool liegiiiieiit
from the Special Reserve in December, 1909,
and was promoted Lieutenant in September,
1912. In February, 1913, he was transferred to
the 3rd Dragoon Guards.
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TAN— TAT
LIEUTENANT ARCHDALE MAL RICE
STRATFORD TANDY. 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT,
who was killed in action on the 20th October,
1914. at Le Pillr. France, was the younger son
of Colonel H. Stratford Tandy. Indian Army,
and was bom on the 17th December. 1S90.
He was educated at Cheltenham College, which
he entered at Easter. 1905. was gazetted to the
Royal Irish Rifles in 3Iarch, 1911. and was
promoted Lieutenant in February. 1914.
CAPTAIN RALPH EYRE TANNER. 1st
BATTN. THE KINGS LIVERPOOL
REGIMEN T .
was the elder son of
Ralph Tanner.
M.A.. Senior Assist-
ant Master of
Westminster
SchooL of 2, Little
Dean's Tard,
Westminster
Abbey. S.W., and
Lucy Lawrence Le
Grice, dau^ter, of
George Lewis
Phipps Eyre, and was bom at IS. Cumberland
Terrace. Regent "s Park, on the 16th July, 1885.
Captain Tanner was a great-nephew of the late
Major-General Edward Tanner, C.B.. formerly
commanding the Bang's (Liverpool Regiment).
He was educated at Westminster, where he
was in Grant's House from 1898—1903 : and at
the Boyal Military College. Sandhurst, from
1904-05. receiving his commission as 2nd
Lieutenant in the King's in August, 1905. He
became Lieutenant in 1908, and from that year
till 1910 served in India. He obtained his
company in September. 1912.
On the 14th September, while leading his men
through a wood during the Battle of the Aisne
in this war, he was wounded, and died at
Versailles from the effects on the 23rd Septem-
ber, 1914.
His Commanding Officer — Lieutenant-Colonel
Bannatyne — himself afterwards killed in action,
wrote of Captain Tanner : "' We in the regiment
are sustained by the knowledge that he met his
death while leading the van in a magnificent
attack on the enemy, who were holding an
enormously strong position. The regiment was
advanced guard to the whole division, and he
. . . most gallantly sustained the honour of the
King's. Oiu- great sorrow at his loss will con-
sequently be mingled with pride at his most
gallant conduct."
Captain Tanner married, in Westminster Abbey
in June. 1913. Edith Vere Marjorie. daughter
of John Henry Brodie, formerly of Chart's
Edge. Westerham. Kent, and left one son —
Peter Ralph Eyre — bom 13th September, 1914.
MAJOR HAROLD T .\ T U M, 101st
GRENADIERS. INDIAN ARMY.
was the eldest son
of the late Commis-
sary-General Henry
Tatum. C.B.. and a
grandson of
Captain William
Tatum, Royal Innis-
killing Fusiliers,
Military Secretary at
Barbados. He was
bom on the 24th
May. 1874. at 52,
Westboume Park
Road. London. W.
He was educated at Bedford Grammar School,
where he was in the .Shooting Eight, shot
for the School at Bisley. and won the cup for
the Crescent House Steeplechase in 1892 :
and subsequently went to the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst, out of which he passed in the ninth
place.
Major Tatum was gazetted to the K.O. York-
shire Light Infantry in 1894. and became Lieu-
tenant in 1897. In 1899 he joined the TnHian
Army, in which he became Captain in 1903,
and Major in 1912. He served on the north-
western frontier of India, with the Tirah
Expeditionary Force in 1897-93. and again at
Waziristan in 1901. For his services he obtained
the medal with three clasps.
In the Great War Major Tatum was serving
with his regiment in German East Africa.
The Indian troops sailed from Bombay in
October. 1914. and arrived off Tanga. where
they were to land on the 2nd November. The
German Governor refu.sed to surrender when
caUed upon to do so. Tanga having been believed
to be an undefended town, and the British
troops were landed by 9 a.m. on the 4th Novem-
ber. The advance began at 2.30 p.m.. and the
troops came under heavy rifle and machine-
gun fire. Owing to the surrounding bush it was
not possible to secure support from our artillery
on shore, so the guns were left on board and
fired from the deck of a transport in the outer
harbour. The 101st Grenadiers, making an
effort to fill a gap in the firing line, due to the
difficulty of an even advance through the bush ,
came under a heavy cross-fire, and darkness
coming on it was deemed advisable to with-
draw om- forces to an entrenched position,
and later to re-embark them.
No details of Major Tatum's actual death were
procurable. A former Commanding Officer
considered him a man of marked ability, and
said he had seldom met a better soldier or one
who knew his profession better. He was a
splendid regimental officer, and though recom-
mended for it he wovdd not accept Staff employ.
Major Tatmn was not married.
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CAPTAIN HUGH TAYLOR, 2nd
BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS,
was the elder son
of Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor, of Chipchase
Castle, Northumber-
land, and was bom
on the 24th Decem-
ber, 1880.
He was educated at
Harrow and at
Balliol College, Ox-
ford, where he gra-
duated with honours.
He joined the Scots
Guards in .Tun.-. I'.iMl. lifoomins; Lieutenant in
May. lOO.j. and Captain in Xovember. 1914.
Pre\-ioiLs to the war he was JIachine Gun Officer
of his battalion, and on going to the front he
became Brigade JIachine Gun Officer.
He led his company in an attack near Rouges
Bancs on the night of the 18th-19th December,
1914. and succeeded in reaching and occupying
part of the German trenches. He returned
alone to the British trenches to report, and
while going back to rejoin liis men was caught
by machine-gun fire and killed instantaneously.
During the informal Christmas truce his body,
which was lying near the German trenches, was
brought over to the British hues by the Saxon
soldiers with their heads bared, and was buried
in the little milit^ary graveyard at La Cardoniere
Farm.
He was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915,
for gallant and distinguished conduct.
It is interesting to note that on Christmas Day,
when the Saxons and British soldiers met
during their " truce," each side collected and
brought the dead to the centre of the space
between their respective lines. Two trenches
were dug, and the British and Saxon soldiers
were buried, the English Chaplain reading the
service, which was translated into German as
he read. The soldiers afterwards fratermsed for
some hours.
Captain Taylor married, in 1907, Mary,
daughter of Mr. Henry Villiers Stuart, of
Dromana, and left a son and a daughter.
CAPTAIN GEORGE RYEFIELD
TAY LOUR. 2nd BATTN. ROYAL
W .\ R W I C K S H 1 R E REGIMENT,
about whose fate there was for many montlis
much uncertainty, was the son of the late Major-
General Lord John Taylour and Lady John
Taylour, .39. Argyll Road. Kensington, W., and
a grandson of the second Marquess of Head-
fort, K.P.
He was born at the Curragh Camp, Ireland, on
the 13th February, 1875, and was educated at
Simimerfields, Oxford, and Wellington College.
He joined the.Srd Battalion Bedfordshire .Militia
from which he was
gazetted to the Royal
Warwickshire Regi-
ment in May, 1897,
becomingLieutenant
in June. 1898, and
Captain in February,
1901.
He took part in tlio
South African War,
being present at
operations in the
Orange Free State
and the Transvaal, including actions at Vet
and Zand Rivers, near Johannesburg, at Pre-
toria, Diamond Hill, and Belfast. He was
twice mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," 7th May and 10th .September, 1901),
and received the Queen's medal with six clasps.
In that war he was slightly wounded in an
attack on a hospital train near Pan. and was
captured after a gallant defence.
In November. 1912, he proceeded with his
battalion to Malta, when lie was sent to Albania
in command of the British Detachment of the
International Force at .Scutari.
A letter giving the following information,
derived from a German source, was received
by Captain Taylour's relatives : " We are told
that Captain Taylour was killed about the 22nd
October of last year (1914) by three bullets of
a shrapnel shell, when charging in front of his
men near Menin, in Belgium, not far from
Ypres. He died as a very brave soldier."
Captain Taylour. who was a member of the
United Service Club, was well known in the
Army as a keen amateur heavyweight boxer.
LIEUTENANT .\ M B R O S E MARY
ANTHONY ITURDIDE DE LONE
TEELING. 3rd B.\TTN. NORFOLK
REGIMENT,
wlio was killed in
action on the 24 h
.September, 1914, at
the Battle of the
Aisne, aged twenty-
two years, was the
youngest son of Cap-
tain Bartholomew
Teeling, Private
Chamberlain to the
Pope and Pontifical
Zouave.
He was born in Bordighera in 1892. and was
educated by the Benedictines in England and
the Jesuits in France. He was gazetted 2nd
Lieutenant in .lanuary, 1910, becoming Lieu-
tenant in his battalion in July, 1912.
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TEM— THE
CAPTAIN ARTHUR H I L L I A R D
WILLIAMS TEMPLE. RESERVE OF
OFFICERS, attd. 2nd BATTX. SUFFOLK
REGIMENT.
was killed in
action at Kenimel on
the 1-lth December,
1914.
The second son of
the Rev. C. Temple.
Rector of Thorpe
Morienx. Suffolk, he
was born on the 12th
January, 1ST5 : was
educated at King's
School, Canterbury ;
and received liis first couunission in the Suffolk
Regiment in December, 1S97, being promoted
Lieutenant in January, 1900. He took part in
the South African War, in which he was em-
ployed with the Mounted Infantry, and was
present at operations in the Transvaal, Orange
Kiver Colony, and Cape Colony, including
action at Colesberg. He received the Queen's
medal with three clasps and the King's medal
with two clasps. After the Boer War he was
seconded for service in Somalilaud with the
King's African Kities.
He was promoted Captain in April, 1905, and
retired from the active list with that rank,
joining the Reserve of Officers in February,
1913. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his
old regiment, and was attached to the 2nd
Battalion which formed part of the Itth In-
fantry Brigade, ^'th Di^^sion.
A Private in the battalion, writing to his sister,
said of Captain Temple : "' It was in the trenches
that we lost our beloved Captain — Captain
Temple. He was loved and respected by all —
those who served with him in South Africa,
also in this campaign. The kindness he showed
to our company when they came from the
trenches, sodden wet through, giving us new
socks and other articles of clothing which his
wife had sent out to him for his company, we
shall never forget. I have seen him when
meeting refugees put his hand in his pocket and
assist them. Xo one knew what he gave.
He did not believe in show. A shell burst in
the trenches in which I was Ijing, and the
Captain came up and enquired if anyone was
hiu^:. His cheery remarks always gave us
inspiration, and when the word was passed round
that he was wounded, and subsequently that
he had died, there was grief among all — - officers
and men. He was fearless, brave, and self-
saci"ificing under all conditions, and was never
satisfied untU he had done his very best for all.
He will be missed by all who came in contact
with liim."
He was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch
of the 14th January, 1915.
Captain Temple married, in October, 1909,
Enid Adela Po%vys. daughter of Percy G. Stone
of Merstone, Isle of Wight, and left a son and
a daughter. He was a tine big-game shot, and
collected many trophies from India and Africa.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM ARTHUR
MOULD TEMPLE, 1st B A T T N .
GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT.
born at the officers'
quarters, %^ooIwicli
Arsenal, on the 14th
June, IST'i, was the
eldest son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
W. Temple, \'.C..
late A.il.S., and a
grandson of the late
Major-General
Moidd, C.B., R.E.
He was educated at
Portsmouth firam-
mar School; at Bru— . 1- : and at tin- R.M.C.,
Sandhiorst, winning medaL> for running while at
school, and being a good football player.
He was gazetted on the 19th July, 1893,
joining his regiment at Aldershot the following
month, and ser%-ing in Malta, Egypt, India,
Ceylon, and South Africa, where he took part
in the Boer War, being present at the actions of
Rietfonteln and Lombard's Kop, and at opera-
tions in the Transvaal and Orange River
Colony, for which he received the Queen's medaJ
with three clasps. He was promoted Lieutenant
in March, 1897, and Captain in May, 1903.
During the Great War he was wounded in the
right lung at Koekuit,nearLangemarck,Belgiimi,
on the 21st October, 1914, and died the next day
at Poperinghe in No. 4 Clearing Hospital.
Captain Temple married Rhoda Mary Hebe,
daughter of J. P. L. Hazledine, Esq., Barrister-
at-Law, Inner Temple, of Bragborough Hall,
Xorthauiptonshire, at one time J.P. for the
County of Carnarvon. He left one daughter,
Hazel Khoda, born at Kasauli, India, in May,1908.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK GEORGE
THEOBALD. 1st BATTN. KING'S
OWN ROYAL LANCASTER
REGIMENT),
who was killed in
action on the 2(jth
August near Le
Cateau during the
retirement from
Mons, was the son
of the Rev.
Frederick Theobald,
and was bom at
Di-ayton, Berkshu'e,
on the 19th Decem-
ber, 1875.
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He was educated at Haseley .Manor. Oxford-
shire, and at Harrow, joining the King's Own
as 2nd Lieutenant from the Militia in April,
1900, becoming lieutenant in 1901. He served
in the South African War, 1899-1902, being
present at operations in the Transvaal, for
which he received the Queen's and the King's
medals, each with two clasps. It was during
tills war that Captain Theobald distinguished
hin\selt by gallantly holding a dangerous post
under heavy fire for twelve hour's with only
ten men, an incident which is referred to in
Sir C'onan Doyle's book, " The Great Boer
War."
From July. 1905, to July, 1908. having in the
meantime become Captain in July, 1907, he
was Adjutant of the 2nd BattaUon of his
regiment, and from 1908 to 1913 was A.D.C. to
the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon.
Captain Theobald was fond of motoring, hunt-
ing, and polo.
LIEUTENANT ALMA CYRIL THOMAS,
2nd BATTN. THE QUEEN'S iROYAL
■WEST SURREY REGIMENT),
who died on
the Sth November,
1914, of wounds re-
ceived in action at
Ypres, was the eldest
son of Mi's. Bloor,
Naval and MUitary
Hotel, Harrington
Road, London, S.W.
He was bom on the
9th August, 1891,
and was educated at
Clifton College and
the l!..\l.<'., .Sandliui-st. from which he was
gazetted to the Royal West Surrey Regiment
in March, 1911, becoming Lieutenant in
February, 1913.
At the time of his death he was sieting as Brigade-
Major to the 22nd Brigade. The Staff were
bUleted in a house opposite Ypres Cathedral,
and during the night the building over which
shells had been passing for some time, was
struck, and Lieutenant Thomas was wounded,
and afterwards died in hospital at Poperinghe.
These particulars were received from a soldier,
and other accounts appear to conflrm them.
Lieutenant Thomas was a member of the
.Junior Armv and Navy Club.
CAPTAIN CHARLES HERBERT
THOMAS. 2nd BATTN. SOUTH
STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
who died in the AlUes' Hospital at Boulogne on
the Sth November, 1914, from wounds received
near Ypres on the 27th October, was the only
son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thomas, of 10;
Westminster Palace
(iardens, S.W., and
was born at Charlton,
near Bristol, in April,
1880. He was a
grandson of Charles
Thomas, of Pitch and
Pay, Stone Bishop,
Bristol.
Educated at Clifton.
Abbotsholme, and
Edinburgli Univer-
sity, he joined the
2nd Battalion of his regiment from the Militia in
1900, and was promoted Lieutenant in 1901.
He took part in the South African War, being
present at operations In the Cape Colony, south
of the Orange River, for which he received the
t^ueen's medal with clasp. Having obtained
his Captaincy in 1909, he accompanied his
battalion to France for the Great War, and
for his services was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 11th January, 1915,
after his death.
Captain Tliomas married Dorothy Catherine,
only daughter of Philip Everard, Miltons,
Dulverton, and left one son, Charles Richard,
born loth June, 1913.
CAPTAIN DUNCAN COLLISSON
WILLEY THOMAS, 4th BATTN.
PRINCESS LOUISE'S (ARGYLL AND
SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS), attd.
1st BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS,
w li o was killed
at the first Battle
of Y'pres on
the 12th November,
1914, was the only
son of Lieutenant-
Colonel and
Mrs. W. F. Thomas,
the y o II n g e r
and junior branch of
A p Thomas,
first Bart., of
Wenvoe Castle,
Glamorganshire, Wales, and was born at (iuilon.
India, on the 19th November, 1890.
Captain Thomas was educated at Holm Leigh,
Buxton : at L'ppingham School : and at Caius
College, Cambridge, proceeding subsequently
to the R.M.C., Sandhurst. During his school
and college career he won many prizes for
athletics and sports. In February, 1911, he
received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in
the Army Service Corps, and in April, 1914, he
resigned from that corps, and joined the
Special Reserve of the Argyll and Sutherland
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Highlanders, beconiiog Lieutenant in. Augiist of
that ye;ir.
On the outbreak of the Great War Captain
Thomas was attached for active service to the
1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, and was
serving with theru when he met his death.
The liattalion formed part of the 8th Brigade,
Ilird Di\T.siou, and was present at the Battle
of Mon* and the subsequent fighting. He
had been recommended for promotion in his
own battalion in the hope that it would go out
as a complete unit, but, before his promotion
was gazetted, a draft of junior ofKcers was called
for. and Captain (then Lieutenant) Thomas
was one of the four Subalterns selected to go.
He became Captain on the 15th September,
1914.
An account of the circumstances attending his
death was given by Captain Paterson, of the
Gordon Highlanders : '" Duncan {Captain
Thomas) was back that day in some trenches in
reserve to our position, which was at the time
in the woods near Ypres. These reserve trenches
were a line of small dug-outs roofed in with
straw, and were very rarely shelled. Duncan,
Captain K. B. ilcKenzie in the Seaforths. and
2nd Lieutenant Cook in the 3rd Black Watch
were in the same dug-out. A shell burst right
on the top, one of these big 60-lb. high-explosives.
The trench was completely buried. Their
Company Sergeant-Major and their cook —
Private Huggins — dug them out at once,
but found that Dmican had been struck on the
head by a piece of shell, and McKenzie was
dead too, either from shock or suffocation.
Cook was vmtouched, but had concussion of
the brain. I believe he may recover. They
were buried together in a place quite close."
Though Captain Thomas had been such a short
time with the Gordon Higlilanders he had
already made many friends, for, as one of his
young brother officers said, " it would have been
difficult for anyone not to get on well with him."
From his old masters, too, Lieutenant-Colonel
Thomas received sympathetic and appreciatory
letters.
A letter of the officer promoted to the com-
mand of the Gordon Highlanders indicated
the appalling losses in officers we are suffering
in this war. Writing in March, 1915, he said :
" Since I took command on the 1st November
no less than fifty-two officers have served under
me at various times, and of these thirty-two
have come and gone, and yet I have never at
one time had more than eighteen officers
present. Of the seventeen officers now serving
I am the only one that has been here con-
tinuously for over foiu- months."
Captain Thomas was a good rider, a first-class
football player (centre-forward), good cricketer,
excellent at tennis, and fond of sports of all
kinds. He was unmarried.
2nd LIEUTENANT the Honble. GERARD
FREDERICK \ FREEM.\N.THOMAS. 1st
B ATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS.
is believed to have
been killed on or
since the 14th Sep-
tember, 1914, in
France: but his
name had not been
included in the
monthly official cas-
ualty lists up to
November, 1915, al-
though it is omitted
fiom the Army List
of that month.
He was the elder son and heir of the first Baron
Willingdon and the Baroness WUlingdon,
daughter of Earl Brassey. and was bom on the
3rd May, 1893. He was gazetted to the Cold-
stream Guards in September, 1913, and when
killed was serving with the 1st Battalion,
which formed part of the 1st Division.
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2nd LIEUTENANT JAMES GRANT
BRANDON THOMAS, 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL INNISKILLING FUSILIERS,
was born at -:_ — ^,
Chelsea on
the 1st November,
1894, the son of the
late Brandon
Thomas, the well-
known actor and
playwright, author
of probably
the most popular
play ever produced
in this country.
'■ Charley's Aunt."
He was a nephew of Captain H. A. Leverson,
late of the 27th Regiment (now the Royal
Innis killing Fusiliers) and employed as a Staff
Officer during the Great War.
2nd Lieutenant Brandon Thomas was a scholar
of Winchester CoUege. where he was captain of
the shooting team, and was also an under-
graduate of University College, Oxford. For
two years he was in the Special Reserve of the
Inniskilling Fusiliers, and was gazetted to the
Regidar BattaUon as 2nd Lieutenant shortly
after going to the front.
He died on the 17th November. 1914. of wounds
received near Armentieres, after the taking of
a trench full of Germans, who surrendered to
him. For his services he was mentioned in
Field- Marshal Sir John French's Despatch of
the 14th January, 1915.
2nd Lieutenant Brandon Thomas was a good
shot. He was fond of writing parodies, essays,
verses, etc.. and was a frequent contributor to
the " Isis " and " 'Varsity," Oxford.
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LIEUTENANT RHYS IVOR THOMAS.
1st BATTN. CONNAUGHT RANGERS,
who was killed in
action at the Battle
of the Aisne on the
11th September,
1914, was the ouly
son of Lieutenant-
Colonel G. T. and
.Mi-s. Thomas. He
w a.s boni on the 2nd
Xovember, 1890, and
'Aa.s educated at
Kugby (Donkin).
I'JOl-OT. He entered
the Army from the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in Apiil,
1910, becoming Lieutenant in October, 1912.
CAPTAIN CHOLMELEY SYMES-
THOMPSON, 1st BATTN. GRENADIER
GUARDS.
was the son
of the late Pro-
fessor Edmund
.Symes - Thompson,
M.I).. F . R . C. P . ,
(I'liysiciau to the
Hospital for Con-
sumption .Brompton,
and Provost for nine
\'ears of the Guild of
St. Luke), and of Mrs.
.Sjnnes-Thompson .
Captain .Symes-Tlioiiipsou was born at 33.
Cavendish Square, London, W., on the l(3th
April, 1881. Of his brothers H. E. Symes-
Thompson. M.D., M.R.C.P., is Physician to the
Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest and
to the Great Northern Hospital : a second —
the Rev. Francis- is \'icar of .Stanton Harcourt,
Oxon : while the third is Captain A. H. Symes-
Thompson, B.F.A.
The subject of this memoir was educated at
Harrow. He was a good cricketer, being a
member of the Household Brigade Officers'
Cricket Club, and was also a polo player.
Captain Symes - Thompson joined the 3rd
(Militia) Battahon Yorkshire Light Infantry
as 2nd Lieutenant in .September, 1S99, becom-
ing Lieutenant in .July, 1900.
During the South African \Var he served with
his battahon at .Malta, subsequently receiving
the South African medal. In May, 1901, he
was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Grenadier
Guards, and was promoted Lieutenant in
January, 1905, obtaining his Company in July.
1910. At the beginning of the Great War he
was transferred to the 2nd Battahon of the
Grenadier Guards and sent to the front. His
Major wrote of him : " He was never a single
day off duty from the first day till his death."
He was killed on the 17th Xovember, 1914, in
the Battle of Y'pres, and was carried to the
churchyard of Zillebeke, and buried there side
by side with six other Grenadier officers, who
had fallen about the same time. Strong wooden
crosses with their names have been erected over
each grave, and a memorial tablet has been
placed in the church at Finnere, Oxfordshire,
wheio Mrs. Symes-Thompson resides.
Captain .Symes-Thompson married, on the ISth
January, 1912. Grace Edith Gordon, elder
daughter of Charles Cliurchill, Esq., of 1,
Egorton Gardens, S.W., and left a daughter.
Sibill Laura, bom January, 1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT ED^VARD J.\MES
VIBART COLLINGNVOOD-THOMPSON.
2nd BATTN. ROYAL ^VELSH FUSILIERS,
born at Taun-
ton on the
Sth December, 1893.
was the only son of
the late Edward
C o 1 1 i n g w o o d -
Thompson and
Mrs. Andrew Wylie
{ne'e CoUingwood),
of 120. Harley Street,
W., and a grandson
of Frederick CoUing-
wood, of Rhyl.
2nd Lieutenant CoUingwood-Thompson was
educated at Cheltenham and The Oratory
School, Edgbaston. He gained a Prize Cadet-
ship for Sandhurst which he did not take up
but passed into Woolwich. He obtained his
commission in the 3rd Battalion Royal Welsh
Fusihers on probation in .September, 1913, and.
having been attached to the 2nd Battahon.
accompanied it to the front at the commence-
ment of the war, being subsequently gazetted
to the Regular Army, to date from the 1st
September, 1914.
He was shot at the Battle of the Mame on the
9th September, and died from his wounds, on the
10th September, 1914, at La Ferte-sous-Jouari-e,
being the first officer of his battahon to fall.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE MASTERM.\N
THOMPSON. 1st B.\TTN. THE ROY.\L
SCOTS iLOTHlAN REGIMENT,
to whom a particular
interest attaches as
being the first
British Officer killed
in action in the Great
War while fighting
against the Ger-
mans, was bom at
Eshowe, Zululand.
on the 21st Febru-
ary, 1890, the son of
Colonel G . W .
Thompson, the
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Royal Scots, and ilrs. George Thompson, of
Beechwood. Burley. Hants. At the time of his
death Lieutenant Thompson was serving with
the Gold Coast Regiment, West African Frontier
Force.
He was educated at Mr. Stanford's Preparatory
School, St. Aubyn's. Rottingdean : and Wel-
lington College (Hopetoun Dormitory), where
his name is the first inserted in the " Roll of
Honour '" for the Great War, and whence he
passed direct into the R.il.C, Sandhurst. Aft«r
a successful career there, during which he
represented the College in fencing at the Xaval
and Military Tournament, he was gazetted to
the Royal Scots, in which regiment his father's
name is stUl held in regard, joining the 2nd
Battalion in Edinburgh in October, 1909. In
the following year he was transferred to the
1st Battalion, and served with it in India till
1913, when he was seconded for service with the
W.A.F.F., and joined the Gold Coast Regiment
in November.
When in India he passed the Higher Standards
in Hindustani and in Persian, and also qualified
in signalling.
Having become Lieutenant in February. 1913.
he went with his company to the coast, and after
the declaration of war was for some days
Military Commandant of the border town of
Quittah. where liis influence on the natives
and his acquisition of their language were
noticed as very remarkable. On the 10th
August he crossed over the border into the
enemy territory of Togoland, and. leaving Lome
on the 14th with the allied troops, marched,
skirmishing in the rear, one hundred mUes to
Chra, where the Germans had concentrated
their forces, and were strongly entrenched, \vith
four Maxims and four hundred or five hundred
rifles. Lieutenant Thompson was with the
advance column, and did well in a sharp fight
0!i the evening of the 21st, sleeping that night,
with other white men. under a gun. On account
of his knowledge of the language he wa.s placed
with the French, and in the morning of the 22nd
led a mixed party in a flank attack : and. having
got through a most difficult position, forced the
enemy to evacuate their trenches that night,
but he himself was unfortunately mortally
wounded in the attack. The whole allied force
was under the command of Captain Castaing,
a French officer of the Dahomey Brigade, and
the small force was composed of twenty-two
British troops, which the French Captain rein-
forced by a Sergeant, .wo Corporals, and four-
teen Tirailleurs.
The following brief account was given by a
correspondent of " the story of how at Chra,
in German Togoland, an English Lieutenant and
a little baud of Senegalese died together."
" Lieutenant Thompson, of the Gold Coast
Regiment, with twenty-two British native
troops, was placed on August 22nd at the dis-
position of Captain Castaing, of the Dahomey
Brigade. To reinforce the little troop, of which
the moral had been shaken by a preceding
engagement. Captain Castaing added to it a
.Sergeant, two Corporals, and fourteen Tirail-
leurs.
" At the very beginning of the fight the mixed
section thus constituted found itself assailed by
a sharp fusillade from strongly entrenched
troops of the enemy, who had further the help
of machine guns. It maintained an undaunted
front, and four hours later, about half-past
three in the afternoon, after the artillery had
entered into action. Lieutenant Thompson,
thinking the way sufficiently prepared, led his
troop forward to push the attack to a finish.
" All the Castaing unit lent a ^^gorous support
to him in this. But under the deadly hail of
bullets the attack could not be carried beyond
a point some fifty yards from the line of the
enemy's trenches.
" Lieutenant Thompson, mortally wounded,
fell to the ground, and the British native troops
wavered. But the Senegalese Tirailleurs,
faithful to a long tradition of gallantry and
faithfulness, refused to abandon the body of
the unknown leader their Captain had given
them, and they succeeded in holding the
ground they had won.
" When the enemy withdrew it was seen at what
cost this ground had been kept. Side by side
round the body of Lieutenant Thompson and
an English native Sergeant lay the Sergeant,
the two Corporals, and thirteen out of fourteen
of the Tirailleurs. The Sergeant, the Corporals,
and nine of the Tirailleurs were dead : four
Tirailleurs were woimded, three severely, the
dead body of one of the Corporals ha^^iug been
eight times pierced.
" One Tirailleur alone remained unhiu-t. Only
after he had seen all his comrades fall did he
retire and join another section of the little
force."
Lieutenant Thompson and his brave little band
of .Senegalese were buried together where they
feU.
General of Brigade Pineau. commanding the
allied troops in tills region, issued the following :
" Ordre General."
Le General Commandant Superieur
cite a rOrdre des Troupes de I'A.O.F.
Le Lieutenant Anglais Thompson',
du Regiment de la Gold Coast.
Place le 22 aout avant le combat de Chra
sous les ordres du Capitaine Castaing, de la
Brigade de Dahomey, a fait preuve d'un
tres grand courage et de belles qualites de
commandement en enlevant ses tirailleurs
a I'attaque des tranchees allemandes vigoureuse-
ment defendues. Est tombe morteUement,
frappe a cinquante metres de I'ennemi. A
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merite par son bel exemple <|iic la prcsque
totalite des Tirailleurs francais teinporaire-
ment places sous ses ordres se fassent tuer
en. defendant son corps.
The Governor-General of French West Africa
wrote to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General.
intoriuini; him that the General Ofticer in
ConiMiand of the troops of French West Afi-ica
had decided that the splendid beha\-iour on
the 22nd August, 1914. in the affair of Chra. of
Lieutenant Tlionipson, of His Britannic Majesty's
Army, and of the detachment of French native
troops coninianded by that officer, deserved to
be recorded amon;; the great deeds of military
history, and shoidd be conunemorated in a
special General Order, so that their conduct
should l)e made known as an example to all the
troops in tlio Colony, adding : " I liave arranged
tliat this splendid display of valour should be
brought to the knowledge of all French West
Africa by the insertion of this General Order
in the official Journal of the Colony."
The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the Togo-
land Field Force wrote as follows of the gallant
young officer : "His conduct during the action
was particularly gallant. He was killed while
attempting to storm the German trenches on
the enemy's left. He was an officer who was
genuinely popular with all ranks, and one whom
we could ill afford to lose. I wish to convey to
you, not only my own profound sympathy at
your loss, which is also mine, but also that of
all ranks of the Togoland Field Force. He is
buried at Chra village, close to the railway
station where he fell, and a concrete cross
inscribed with his name marks his grave."
He was a member of the Royal Institution and
of the United Service Club, and a good fencer
and polo player.
2nd LIEUTENANT GEORGE SAMUEL
RODIE THOMPSON, 2nd BATTN.
KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS,
wbb was killed in
action at the Battle
of the Aisne on the
1 4th September,
1914, at the age of
twenty, was the only
son of G. Rodie and
Elizabeth Thompson,
of Lynwood, Ascot,
_, . .# V Berks. He was bom
^^■_/\^(?A^ ^^^ "" ^^^^ -'^'^ October,
HH^J^^|^[|^^ KS93, was educated
at Harrow (Druries
1907-11) and received his commission as 2nd
Lieutenant in the K.R.R.C. ia Septem-
ber, 1912, from the R.M.C., Sandhurst. His
battalion formed part of the 20th Biigade,
1st Division. It was recorded in his College
Magazine that he successfully led his mi'U in
an attack, with severe losses among the officers.
As he too fell, mortally stricken, he cried :
" Go on boys, never mind me ! "
LIEUTENANT JOHN HENRY-
LUIS THOMPSON. 2nd BATTN.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTONS
(WEST RIDING REGIMENT),
wa-s born on tiie 21st June, 1882, the eldest son
of J. H. Thompson, of Leicester.
He joined the Srd (Militia) Battalion Duke of
\\'ellington"s Regiment in January. lUnl. being
promoted Lieutenant in February. 1902. and
served with that battalion in the Soutli African
War, 1900-02, being present at operations in
the Cape Colony, for which he received the
Queen's medal with three clasps.
In January. 1903. he wa-s given a commission
as 2nd Lieutenant in the West Riding Hegi-
viient. joining the 2nd Battalion, in which he
became Lieutenant in October. 1905.
From June, 1907, he was for some time
employed with the West African Frontier Force,
becoming in February. 1912. Adjutant of the
3rd Battalion of his reginaent.
Lieutenant Thompson appeared a.s killed in
action in the first list of British officers lost in
the Great War, issued by the War Office on the
1st September, 1914, but subsequently a
correction was made to the effect that he died
on the 17th September of wounds received on the
24th August, 1914. He was mentioned in Sir
John French's Despatch of the 14th January,
1915.
2nd LIEUTENANT M. N. THOMPSON,
THE QUEEN'S OWN (ROYAL
WEST KENT REGIMENT),
who died on the 29th November, 1914, of
wounds received in action, was gazetted to hLs
regiment from the ranks, in November, 1914,
for service in the field.
LIEUTENANT OFFLEY CHARLES
WYCLIFFE THOMPSON, 1st BATTN.
T H E P R I N C E OF W A L E S'S OWN
(WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT),
who was included in
t h e m o n t h 1 y
casualty list of No-
vemb e r, 1 9 1 4, as
" reported killed in
action " on the 20th
September, 1914,
was the elder son of
Major-General C. W.
Thompson, C'.B.,
D.S.O., Command-
ing Cape of Good
Hope District, South Africa.
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He was bom at Charmiiister, Dorset, on the 21st
January, 1S91 ; was educated at Haileybury
College ; and joined the West Yorkshire Regi-
ment in March, 191 1, being promoted Lieutenant
in December, 1912.
It has been ascertained that Lieutenant Thomp-
son fell at the Battle of the Aisne on the 20th
September, 1914. He was buried north-east of
Troyon close to the Chemin des Danies.
MAJOR EDMUND PEEL THOMSON, 2nd
BATTN. ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
son of \V i II i a in
!■ Thomson, of ilan-
! F ^^K^^^^ Chester, was bom on
the 22nd April, ISTi.
IK ^^^ l^^^f He was educated at
■ T^^ ^^<f 1 the Rev. E. W. Hob-
V W -/ I son"s private school
f " bI^ i in Southport,
Fettes College (Car-
rington House), and
the R.M.C., Sand-
hurst.
He joined the
Royal Muuster Fusiliers in October, 1S93, be-
coming Lieutenant in February, 1S96 : from
May, 1899, to May, 1903, he was Adjutant of
his battalion : and was promoted Captain in
Jidy, 1901.
He took part in the South African War. being
present at operations in the Transvaal in 1902.
He was mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," 29th July, 1902), and received the
Queen's medal with two clasps. From March,
1906, to June, 1909, he was StaEf Captain,
Pretoria Sub-district. South Africa, and he was
promoted Major in February. 1912.
He was appointed Brigade-Major, Jliddlesex
Infantry Brigade, Eastern Command, in April,
1912, which appointment he held till October,
1914, when he rejoined the 2nd Royal Munsters
in France.
Major Thomson was killed on the 22nd Decem-
ber, 1914, at Festubert, when as Senior Major
of his battalion he was gallantly leading an
attack on the German trenches.
He excelled in all sports and games, having
leamt cricket at Southport and at Fettes Col-
lege, Edinburgh, where he was captain of the
XI for two years. Later he played for his
corps in the Inter-regiutental Racqxiefs Tourna-
ment iu 1913, and became prominent among
soldier cricketers. He was a member of the
Army and Navy Club, the Ftee Foresters, and
the M.C.C.
LIEUTENANT KENNETH CLARK.E
THOMSON. 2nd BATTN. ROYAL SCOTS
FUSILIERS, was the son of the late Samuel
Marshall Thomson, Colliery Proprietor, and was
bom at Glasgow in June, 1S91.
He was educated at Uppingham, and passed
into the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in January. 1911,
obtaining his com-
mission in the Royal
Scots Fusiliers in
January. 1912. and
becoming Lieutenant
in February, 1913.
He served with his
battalion in Ireland
and Gosport. and was
stationed at Gibral-
tar when the Great
War broke out.
At the time he met
his death he was assisting the Artillery
Observation Officer, when he was shot in the
spine on the 31st December, 1914. and was
taken to Merville Hospital, France, where he
died, and was buried in the same place. After
the other officers were killed, wounded,
or nussing, he had led the remnant of his
battalion into action. He was subsequently
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of the
ISth February, 1915.
L I E U T E N .\ N T RICHARD AN-
THONY COM PTON-T HORN HILL.
1st BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS.
who was killed iu action m 1914 on an
unknown date, was the only son of Sir Anthony
Jolm Compton-Thomhill, Bart., of Riddlesworth
Hall. Norfolk, and Pakenham Lodge. Suffolk,
J.P. for Suffolk and Oxon.
Lieutenant Compton-Thomhill was lx)m on
the 29th June, 1S92. and was educated at
Eton and the R.M.C., Sandhurst, obtaining his
commission in the Scots Guards in September,
1912, being gazetted after his death to the
rank of Lieutenant, dating fi-om September,
1914.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD GERALD
MYTTON THORNYCROFT, RING'S
OWN ROYAL LANCASTER REGT. ,
who was killed in
action about the
12th September.
1914, near Kisuinu.
British East Afiica.
was the younger son
of the late Rev. J.
Mytton Thomycroft,
of Jlrs. M. ilorris
Glenmore. Queens-
town, Ireland.
He was bom on the
7th July, 1SS6, and
joined the Royal L,u.<,.,:=:^; i;L_;;..Li_: :-
August, 1905, becoming Lieutenant in
November, 1907.
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From December, 1909, Lieutenant Thoniy-
croft had been employed with the -ith Uganda
Battalion. King's African Bifles. with the local
rank of Captain from May, 1912, and was serving
with that regiment when he was killed.
M.\JOR FRANCIS GORDON GRANT
THOYTS, 1st BATTN. PRINCE
ALBERTS SOMERSET LIGHT
INFANTRY),
wa.< born at Cliel-
tonhani on the 12th
.Tune, 1870, the
y o unger son of
Colonel N. B .
Thoyts, of :Mythe
House, Tewkesbury,
late of Sulham-stead,
near Reading.
I le was educated at
Marlborough
and the B.M.C.,
Sandhurst, joining the Somerset Light Infantry
in October, 1890. Three yeai-s later he was pro-
moted Lieutenant, and became Captain in
JIarch, 1900. He took part in the Tirah Cam-
paign, 1897-98, being present at the capture of
the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes, and at
the operations in the Waran and Bara Valleys.
For bis services he received the medal with
two clasps.
From 1906-08 he was Adjutant of the 2nd
(Volunteer) Battalion. Bedfordshire Begiment.
He was killed in action on the 2(ith August,
1914, at Fondant le Pire, North France, and
was buried at BeauvoLs.
Major Thoyts, who obtained liis Majority in
April, 1910, married, in 1904, Irene Margaret,
daughter of the late Mr. \V. M. Bae, of Berkeley
House, Cheltenham, and left no family.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR GEORGE
TILLARD, 3rd lattd. 2ndi BATTN.
THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT,
was born at
Hastings on the
10th N o V em b er,
lfS74, the son of the
Bev. James TiUard.
He was educated at
M a r 1 )j o r o u g li
College and the
B.M.C., Sandhurst.
Joining the
regiment in
February, 1895, he
became Lieutenant
in August, 1896, and Captain in .September,
1899. He served with the 1st Battalion
in the South African War, 1899-1902,
taking part in the action at Lombard's Kop
and Siege of Lad\smith, and being present
at operations in the Transvaal, includ-
ing the action at Belfast. He received the
Queen's medal and the King's medal, each with
two clasps. After the war he served on the
StatT in the Transvaal, July-September, 1902.
In .Tanuary, 1908, he went on half pay and in
January, 1913, retired from the a'tive list,
becoming Captain in the :?rd (Beserve) Bat-
talion of his regiment.
He was attached for active service in the
CIreat War to the 2nd Battalion and was killed
on the 20th October, 1914, in the fighting near
La Bassee.
ilrs. Tillard's brother, wlio had received a
commission in the same regiment, wrote as
follows, 19th March, 1915 : " I had quite a
long talk in the trenches with a Private who was
with Arthur all the time. Like everyone else,
he says Arthur was a most popular officer, and
they all thought the world of him. The Adju-
tant of the battalion says that apparently
Arthur's company had advanced further than
those on his right and left, and he held up the
whole German force for about thirty hours by
repeated bayonet charges, and undoubtedly not
only saved the whole line from defeat, but also
kept the Germans from pushing right through."
His widow also received two or three letters
from Captain E. von Selasinsky, A.D.C. of the
25tli Brigade of Infantry. Prussian Army,
written in remarkably good English, from \\ hich
it is an unexpected gratification to be able to
make the following extracts: " Enclosed I send
you the money found in the pockets of your
husband, killed near Les Trois Jlaisons, near
La Bassee. He wa-s killed in the morning of the
20th October as Prussian Jager took the village
defended by him as a hero. Enclosed you
receive too a picture of yourself and the picture
of your children. You can be sure, dear Madam,
that your husband was honoured by us like we
are accustomed to honour our enemies."
In another letter the Prussian officer sent a
small sketch map showing the position of Cap-
tain TiUard's grave, or, as he expressed it,
" where I have marked his place- of rest. He
has his own place, not amidst other soldiers.
As I know he wa.s killed at once, I am sure that
he had not to suffer a long time. When our
soldiers took the place, wliich he defended,
he had a single fight with the German Captain,
whose Browning didn't work, and whom he
wounded with his Bro\vning. After this
happened he got several shots of the German
soldiers, who were naturally excited about the
accident, because they saw that their German
Captain was shooten. But your husband was
not disfigured, and easily to recognise. His
face showed peace. ... I hope you think we
have done for your hiisband aU we could do for
him as honest enemies. My General, too, sends
to the widow of the brave officer expressions of
his estimation."
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Captain Tillard married Emily Katherine
(ne'e Close-Brooks), and left five children :
Katherine Lilian, bom 1905 : Arthur James,
bom 1900 : Hilda Joyce, bom 190S : Hemiione
Emily Margaret, bom 1911 : and David George,
bom 1915. after liis father's death.
2nd LIEUTENANT ERIC VICKERS
TINDALL. 2nd BAT! N. KINGS ROYAL
RIFLE CORPS,
If was the son of the
late Walter .S.
Tindall and Mre.
Stanley Williams,
and was born
at Scarborough on
the 13th September,
1892.
He was educated at
CTieltenham College.
and first served in
the Leicestershire
Militia, which he entered in September. 1911.
being promoted Lieutenant in May. 1912. and
from which he was transferred to the King's
Royal Rifle Corps, which he had joined as 2nd
Lieutenant on the 10th June. 1914, just before
the war bi-oke out.
He was mortally wounded by shrapnel Lu the
Battle of the JIame, wliUe leading his platoon
on the 11th September, 1914, and died the
following day,
2nd Lieutenant Tindall was a member of the
Junior Naval and Militarv Club.
M.\JOR CHARLES ARTHUR TISDALL.
1st B.\TTN. IRISH GUARDS.
of Charlesfort ,
County Meath. Ire-
land, was bom on
the 22nd April. 1875,
in Mauritius. He
was the eldest son
of the late
Captain John
Know Tisdall. R.E..
and Jane Elizabeth,
daughter of Robert
Adams, Esq.
Major Tisdall joined
the 2nd Roya) Irish Rifles from the Militia in
April. 1900, and was transferred to the Irish
Guards in July. 1901, becoming Lieutenant in
February, 1902, Captain in September. 1909.
and ;Major in .September, 1914. He served in
the .South African War, 1899-1901, taking part
in the operations in Orange River Colony, for
which he received the Queen's medal with two
clasps.
Major Tisdall was killed in the forest of ViUers
Cotterets on the 1st September, 1914. The
Irish Guards with the 2nd Coldstreams were
holding the northern edge of the forest in a
rearguard action at a spot called Rond de la
Reiue. Two other officers of the regiment —
Lieutenant-Colonel the Honble. G. H. Morris
and Major Crichton — were killed at the same
time.
Major Tisdall was a remarkably fine violin
player. Outside his profession his chief in-
terests were dry fly fishing and motoring,
in which he was one of the pioneers.
He married, in 1904. Gwynneth May, ordy
child of Charles Adshead, Esq., and left two
daughters.
CAPTAIN THOMAS TODRICK.
8th BATTN. TERRITORIAL ROY.\L
SCOTS LOTHIAN R E G I M E N T i ,
who was killed in
action in France on
the 15th December.
1914. was bom at
Haddington on the
26th December. 1879,
the elder son of Mr.
Robert Todrick,Hon.
S h e r i ff - Substitute
and Agent for the
Haddington branch
of the Bank of Scot-
land.
He was educated at the Knox Institute. Had-
dington, and Leys School, Cambridge. He took
his law course at Edinburgh University, and in
1904 was admitted as a Writer to the Signet.
In 1900 he received a commission in the (then)
7th (late Haddingtonsliire ) \'olimteer Battalion
of the Royal Scots, and in 190S was appointed
to command the Headquarters Company at
Haddington, a position he held for some years.
He was then, on his own initiative, transferred
to the Territorial Force Reserve, and early
in 1914 was given the command of the Dalkeith
Company. After mobilisation for the war.
officers and men of the Tenitorials were asked
to volunteer for service abroad, and Captain
Todrick at once aiiswered the caU. and left for
the front with the 8th Royal Scots on the 2nd
November, 1914, reaching France in a day or
two, and being in the firing line by the 15th
of the month.
Captain Todrick was the first member of the
Incorporation of Writers to the Signet to fall
in the war. He was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of 31st May, 1915.
Captain Todrick, who was well known and
respected in civil as in mUitary life, practised as
a lawyer in Edinburgh. He married Brenda,
daughter of Mr. John List, head of the
engineering department of the Union Castle
Line, and is survived by his wife and two
young children — a son and a daughter
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2nd LIEUTENANT BEVIL DOUGLAS
TOLLEMACHE. SPECL\L RESERVE,
attd. 1st BATTN., COLDSTREAM
GUARDS,
was born at ilelton,
Suffolk, in April,
isso. the son of tlie
Hon. Douglas ToUe-
niache, and grand-
son of the first Lord
ToUemache.
He was educated at
Eton (Mr. .Sonier-
\-iUe's House) 1902-
1906, where he was
remarkable for in-
telligence, vigoiu-. ami thoroughness in work
and games, especially football. After leaving
Eton he had a business training in London.
He became interested in the subject of small
holdings, and was the author of a book entitled
" The Occupying Ownership of Land." He
was appointed Secretary to the Central Land
Association in January, 1913, which appoint-
ment he was holding on the outbreak of the
war, when the Committee gave him leave of
absence and kept his appointment open so that
he might serve liis country abroad.
In August, 1914. he joined the Special
Reserve of the Coldstream Guards, and was
attached to the 1st Battalion for active service,
which formed part of the 1st Brigade, 1st
Division. They went to Belgiuna at the com-
mencement of the war. taking part in the
Battle of !Mons, the subsequent retirement and
the action at Le Cateau.
ilr. ToUemache was killed in action at Givenchy
on the 22nd December, 1914, while his battaUon
was attacking German trenches. The following
account of the action was published in the " East
Anglian Daily Times " of 26th February, 1915: —
" This attack, which had to be made over open
ground, and in face of a heavy rifle and machine-
gun fire, was unfortunately attended by con-
siderable loss of British lives." In this attack
Lieutenant ToUemache. whose platoon was the
first ordered to leave the trenches on the morning
of December 22nd, kept saying to liis men :
' Come on, men ! Keep your spirits up. We
will shift them out of it.' He, however, fell,
having been shot down within a few yards of
the German trenches. The Coldstreams held
the trenches for one hour, when they had to
retire, owing to support not coming up on their
left. Sergt. Brlggs, 1st Battalion Coldstream
Guards, has reported that he went to Lieutenant
ToUemache during the retirement, and though
wounded himself tried to help him. but could
not get him away : that Lieutenant ToUemache
then said : ' You must leave me. Sergeant
Briggs, or you wiU be captiired.' These must
have been his last words."
LIEUTEN.\NT FREDERICK ROGER
JOHN TOMLINSON, 1st BATTN.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRK REGIMENT,
born at St.
Michael Penkevil
Rectory, Cornwall,
on the 22nd October,
1S91, was the son
of the Rev. Arthiii
Roger TomUnsoii.
M.A.( formerly Rec-
tor of St. Michail
PenkevU, afterwards
Vicar of Bolton - le -
Sands, Carnforth
Lancashire) and,
Theresa Juliana >Iarie
Tomlinson was
M. Tomlinson.
his wife,
a nephew of the late Sir W.
Bart., and a great-grandson
Rear- Admiral Sir W. Symonds, K.C.B.
He was educated at Westminster School, and
Trinity CoUege, Cambridge, where he took his
degree of B.A. He was studying ilarine Engin-
eering at the North Eastern Marine Engineering
CoUege when he received a commission, in
August, 1914, in the South Staffordshire Regi-
ment.
He had fought through the night of the 25th
October, and captured sis German snipers, when
he was wounded in the arm. and while being
taken to the base hospital he was kiUed on the
way by a sheU on the 26th October, 1914, near
Ypres. He was gazetted Lieutenant after his
death, which was not known for some months
after it occurred, and which was only recorded
in the monthlv casualty Ust of June, 1915.
LIEUTENANT ARTHUR WOODLAND
TOMS, 3rd BATTN. DEVONSHIRE
REGIMENT, attd
CAMERONTANS
who was ac-
cidentally kiUed
on the 27th Novem-
ber. 1914, whUe serv-
ing with the British
Expeditionary
Force in Flanders,
aged twenty-three,
was the second son
of >lr. and Mrs.
Woodland Toms, of
Jersey, and a grand-
son of the late Mr.
Toms, formerlv
2nd BATTN. THE
SCOTTISH RIFLES),
Editor of
The
Frederick
Field."
He was educated at Victoria CoUege, Jersey,
and was gazetted to the 3rd Battalion (Reserve)
Devonshire Regiment in February. 1912. being
promoted Lieutenant in February, 1914.
ilr. Toms was a keen football and hockey
player and a very promising golfer. He was
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a good shot, and on six occasions represented
his school at Bisley in the Ashbnrton and the
Public Schools' Veterans competitions. In 1913
and 19 li he was captain of the Young
Soldiers shooting team of his battalion.
For some time he had been preparing for service
under the Colonial Office, and had been offered
an appointment in West Africa a few days
before the declaration of war.
Tlie Commanding Officer of the 3rd Devons
described him as '"a great favourite in the
regiment and a most promising officer." He
is buried in the cemetery at Estaires, North
France.
CAPTAIN SELWYN
TOOTH, 3rd lattd.
LANCASHIRE
LUCAS LUCAS-
2 nd) BATTN.
FUSILIERS.
who was killed in
action on the 20th
October. 1914, was
the eldest son of the
late Sir Robert Lucas
Lucas-Tooth. Bart.,
and Lady Lucas-
Tooth, of Holme
Lacy, Herefordshire,
and was bom on
the 19th March.
1879.
He entered the .5th
(^lilitia) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers in April.
1901, becoming Lieutenant in Mav, 1905, and
Captain in the 3rd Battalion in May, 1907.
Captain Lucas-Tooth married, in June, 1908,
Everild Blanche ilarion, second daughter of
Sir Edward Law Durand. Bart., C.B., and left
one daughter — Everild Vera Undine — bom
JIarch, 1909.
His younger brother. Captain O. K. L. Lucas-
Tooth, in the 9th Lancers, was killed in action
on the 13th September, 1914.
CAPTAIN DOUGLAS KEITH
LUCAS LUCAS-TOOTH, D.S.O..
9th (QUEEN'S ROYAL) LANCERS,
killed in action at
the Battle of
the Aisne on
the 13th September.
1914, was the second
son of the late Sir
Robert Lucas Lucas-
Tooth. Bart., and
Lady Lucas-Tooth,
of Holme Lacy,
Herefordshire. He
was bom on the
10th October, 1880,
and joined the 9th Lancers in August, 1900.
becoming Lieutenant a year later. He served in
the South African War, 1889-1902, with the New
South Wales Mounted Infantry, and was slightly
wounded. He was present at the relief of
Kimberley : operations in the Orange Free
State and at Paardeberg, including the action
at Driefontein : operations in the Transvaal,
including actions near Johannesburg. Pretoria,
and Diamond Hill ; operations In the Orange
River Colony, including actions at Bethlehem
and Wittebergen : further operations in the
Orange River Colony and in Cape Colony. He
was mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," 16th April, 1901), and received the
Queen's medal with six clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps.
Captain Lucas- Tooth obtained his troop in
January, 1910. In the Great War the 9th
Lancers forrued part of the 2nd Cavalry Bri-
gade, and, embarking with the Expeditionary
Force, were, it is believed, the first British
forces to come into contact with the enemy
on the Continent on August 22nd. For his
ser%-ices in the Great War he was mentioned in
Sir John French's Despatch of the 8th October,
1914, and was awarded the D.S.O. ("' London
Gazette," 9th November, 1914).
His elder brother — Captain S. L. Lucas- Tooth,
3rd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers — was killed
in action on the 20th October, 1914.
CAPTAIN HARRY STANLEY
T O P P I N, 1st BATTN. NOR-
THUMBERLAND FUSILIERS,
killed in action at
the Battle of the
Aisne on the 14th
September, 1914, was
the eldest son of
General and ^Irs.
Toppin, of Westmin-
ster Cottage, Brank-
some Park, Bourne-
mouth, and Black-
lands Park, Calne,
Wdts. He was bom
on the 27th July,
1874, and was educated at Wellington (Lyne-
doch, 1887-89). and the R.M.C.. Sandhm-st.
He joined the Northumberland Fusiliers in
February, 189.5, becoming Lieutenant in Octo-
ber, 1896, and Captain in May, 1900.
Captain Toppin, who was a qualified Inter-
preter in French, served in the Nile Ex-
pedition of 1898, being present at the Battle of
Khartoum, receiving the British medal and
the Egyptian medal with clasp.
He also served in the South African War, during
which he was employed with the Mounted
Infantry, and as Acting Assistant Provost
Marshal, Lines of Communication, from June,
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1900. He was present at operations in tlie
Transvaal and Cape Colony. For his services
lie was mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," loth September, 1901), and received
the Queen's medal with seven claspn.
For his services in the Great War he was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch oF
the 8th October, 1914, and wa.s awarded the
Croix de Chevalier of the Legion of Iloncuir.
("London (Jazette." 3rd Xovembei'. 1911.)
2nd LIEUTENANT ERIC HAROLD TOT-
TIE, 1st BATTN. NORTHUMBERLAND
FUSILIERS,
who died on tlic
■2 2nd September,
1914, at Braisne, from
wounds received in
the Battle of the
Aisne on the 19th
September, aged
nineteen years, was
the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Tottie,
of Sherlocks, Ascot.
He only received his
commission from the R.M.C., .Sandhurst, on
the 1.5th August, 1914, and was posted to the
1st Battalion of his regiment.
CAPTAIN GEOFFREY PERCY ROBERT
TOYNBEE, 1st BATTN. THE RIFLE
BRIGADE (THE PRINCE CON-
SORTS OWN),
w ho was kill e d
in action near
A r m e n t i e r e s
on the 15th Novem-
ber, 1914. was the
only .son of the late
Percy Toynbee, 92,
Westbourne Terrace,
and of Mrs. Francis
R a i 1 1 , Brockfield
Hall, York.
He was born on the
iMli \l;iy, l^s.">, and was educated at Win-
chester and the R.M.C, Sandhurst. At
Winchester he was in the XI in Ut03, and
also in the Football XV and in Sixes. At
Sandhmst he was captain of the cricket, and
represented the R.M.C. at golf. He joined
the Rifle Brigade in August, 1905, becoming
Lieutenant in May, 1909, and captain in
February, 1914.
Captain Toynbee was a member of the United
Service Club, Pall .Mall, and of I Zingari and the
M.C.C. His recreations were hunting, shooting,
fishing, cricket, and golf. He played cricket
for Hampshire in 1912. He was unmarried.
reached tlu' (itli Korm
passed direct into Sand-
second place ill tlie
LIEUTENANT the Hon. FELIX
CHARLES HUBERT HANBURY-
TRACY, 2nd BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS,
was the son
of Charles Douglas
Richard, fourth
Baron .S u d e 1 e y,
and Lady Sudeley,
daughter of the Hon.
Frederick Tolle-
mache, niece of
the seventh Eail
|)ysart,and was liorn
on the 27tli .Inly.
1882.
He was educated at
Hari'ow, where he
(Modern Side), and
hurst. taking the
examination.
In 1903 Lieutenant Hanbury-Tracy was gazetted
to the 3rd Battalion Scots Guards, retiring
from the active Ust and voluntarily joining the
Reserve of Officei-s in 1907. On the outbreak
of the war he joined the 2nd Battalion, with
which he proceeded to the front.
On the 18th December, 1914, he was wounded
during an attack on German trenches at
Fromelles. He refused to be carried back out
of the firing line on account of the great risk to
the bearers, and unhappily died from his wounds
within tW'O days.
Lieutenant Hanbury-Tracy was a member of
the (iuards" and Bachelors' Clubs. He married
.Madeleine Llewellen, only daughter of George
Llewellen Palmer, Esq., of Lackham, Wilts,
and left two sons : Michael David Charles,
born March, 1909 : and Xinian .lohn Frederick,
born December, 1910.
IVIAJOR JOHN MURRAY TRAILL, 2nd
BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in action on liis birthday, the
30th October, 1914, was the son of- the late Mr.
James Christie Traill, of Hobbistei', Orkney, and
Rattar, Caithness.
He was born on the 30th October, 18()5, and was
educated latterly at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
He joined the Bedfordshire Regiment from the
.Militia in November, 1887, and was promoted
Lieutenant in July, 1889. He served with the
Isazai I'^xpedition in 1892, and was promoted
Captain in February, 1890. From July, 1899,
to August, 1904, he was Adjutant of the 1st
(Volunteer) Battalion Essex Reguiient, and
obtained his Majority in December, 1906.
During the strikes in South Africa, in 1914, he
was specially commended by the Commander-
in-Chief for his prompt assistance in suppressing
a native rising. (" The Times," 28th November,
1914.)
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He was mentioned in Sir John French's Des-
patch of the 14th January. 1915, for his
services while in temporarj- command of his
battalion in the Great War.
C .\ P T .\ 1 N H L G H MORTIMER
TRAVERS. D.S.O.. 5th attd. 2nd
BATTN. ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS.
bom at Calcutta on
the 2nd September,
1873, was the son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
Joseph Gates
Travers. Leicester-
shire Begiment.
Chevalier of the
Legion of Honour, a
distinction he
received for
the Crimean Cam-
paign. Captain
Travers was descended from most distin-
guished military ancestors, his grandfathers
having been General Sir Robert Travers.
of the Rifle Brigade, and Major-General .Sir
Henry Marion Durand. R.E.. K.C.S.I., C.B. Sir
Robert Travers was one of six brothers, four
of whom were in the Rifle Brigade, and two in
the Xavy, and the sLs brothers had b^'.ween
them twenty-foitr sons, all of whom went into
the Army. At the time Sir Robert and three of
his brothers were in the Rifle Brigade there were
also two first cousins in it. making no fewer
than six offlcers of the name of Travers in the
regiment at one time. It is doubtful if any other
family has produced so many soldiers, and they
well deserved their nickname of " the fighting
Travers." In their crest is a cockle shell,
indicating that their ancestors took part in the
Crusades. Their name is carved at Battle
Abbey, and is on the Battle Abbey roll. They
trace their descent from Baron Robert de
Travers, who in 1067 married the heiress of
Xateby, in Lancashire.
Another ancestor — Admiral Sir Eaton Travers
— was engaged with the enemy over one hun-
dred times, and was eight times mentioned for
gallant conduct.
Captain Travers, who was educated at Welling-
ton College, was appointed to the 1st Leicester-
shire Regiment from the Militia, in December.
1896. joining the battalion at the Cape in 1897.
where he remained till 1902, taking part in the
South African War. He had been promoted
Lieutenant in October. 1S99. and was present
with his battalion at Talana Hill, in the retreat
from Dundee, at the action of Lombard's Kop.
in the siege of Ladysmith. and in Sir Re vers
Buller's advance on Lydenberg. and under
Field-Marshal (then General) Sir John French
in the Eastern Transvaal. In the last thirteen
months of the war he was on an armoured
train, and received the thanks of Lord
Kitchener. For his services he received the
Queen's medal with five clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps. He also had the
Coronation medal.
In April. 1902. he became Captain, and was
selected for the Egyptian Army, but retired in
1907. having contracted blackwater fever. He
joined the 5th Battalion Royal Munster
FusUiers in Xovember of that year.
At the outbreak of the Great War he was
attached to a battalion of the Regular Army
and was present at the Battle of the Aisne, at
La Bassee, and Givenchy, at all of which he
did exceedingly well. He fell finally on the Sth
November. 191-t, in a bayonet charge, in which
he gallantly led his men, shot through the head,
near Hooge, a small village near Ypres. For
his conduct in this action he was awarded the
D.S.O.. the official record stating it was be-
stowed for '■ conspicuous gallantry and ability
on November 8th near Ypres in organising an
attack and recapturing a trench from the
enemy, and subsequently for leading a second
attack and capturing another position fifty
yards farther to the front. Captain Travers
was killed while maintaining his post on this
occasion."
.Several officers of his regiment wrote to the
effect that it was entirely owing to his skill
and gallantry that the operation was successful,
and that his death liad cast a gloom over them
all. The Adjutant of his battaUon. in a letter,
said that he " died the death of a soldier and
a very gallant gentleman " : and a Sergeant
described his behaviour as " the coolest deed I
have ever seen. It was gloriously brave."'
Captain Travers. at the time of his death, was
engaged to be married to Wiliemina Annette,
daughter of Surgeon-General Sir William
Taylor. M.D.. K.C.B., and Lady Taylor, and
the marriage had been postponed owing to
Captain Travers having had to leave for the
front at twentv-four hours' notice.
.MAJOR FRANCIS MAXWELL
CHENEVIX-TRENCH. p.s.c.
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.
who was killed in action on the 31st October.
1914, was the son of Colonel C. Chenevix-
Trench, of Bromfield. Camberley. He was
bom on the 23rd September. 1S79. and was
educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh, and
the R.M.A.. Woolwich, from which he was
gazetted to the Royal Artillery on the 23rd
December, 1898, becoming Lieutenant in Feb-
ruary, 1901.
He took part in the South African War.
during which he was A.D.C. to the Lier.tenant-
General Commanding an Infantry Division, and
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afterwards the 1st Army Corps, from March. 1901,
to January, 1902. He was present at operations
in Natal in 1S99, including actions at Talana
Hill and Lombard's Kop : took part in the
defence of Ladysmith, including the action on
the 6th January, 1900 : operations in Natal
in 1900, including action at Laing's Nek.
He was twice mentioned in despatches (" London
Gazette," 8th February and 10th September,
1901). and received the Queen's medal with
six clasps.
He was promoted Captain in May, 1907, and
from November of that year to December. 1910,
was employed witli the Egyptian Army, In
1908 he took part in operations in the Blue Nile
Pro^-ince, Soudan, recei^-ing the Egyptian
medal. Major Chene\-ix-Trench, who was
qualified as a 1st Class Interpreter in Arabic,
and was a graduate of the Staff College,
obtained his Majority on the 30th October,
1914, the day preceding his death. In August.
1913, he had been appointed Brigade-Major.
B.A., of the Ilnd Division, Aldershot, and was
employed in the same capacity in the Great
War, For his services he was mentioned in
.Sir John French's Despatch of the 14th
January, 1915.
He was kUled by the explosion of a shell from
the German lines on the plateau of Hooge,
near Tpres. On the same occasion five officers
of the Divisional Headquarters Staff lost tlieir
lives, and were buried in the cemetery near
Ypres.
Major Chenevix-Trencli married, in March.
1914, Sibyl, daughter of E. Lyon, Esq.
LIEUTENANT H 1 L L Y A R
GEORGE EDWIN HILL-TREVOR.
1st B A T T N. SCOTS GUARDS,
who was killed while
gallantly leading his
men at Givenchy.
near La Bassee.
France, on the 21st
December, 1914, was
the son of the Hon.
George Edwyn Hill-
Trevor, and grand-
son of the first
Barou Trevor. of
Brynkinalt, Chirk,
North Wales. His
ancestress was Anne Trevor, of that place,
who was the mother of Arthur. Duke of
Wellington. She was a daughter of Viscount
Dungannon. afterwards created Viscountess
Mornington.
Lieutenant Hill-Trevor was bom on the 31st
December, 1895, at the Hotel Paoli, Florence,
Italy. Educated at Wellington College and the
B.M.C., Sandhurst, he joined the Scots Guards
in August, 1914. and was promoted Lieutenant
in November, 1911, while on active service
with his Viattalion.
He was fond of Alpine sports and of shooting,
motoring, golf, and fencing, for which last
he held a silver shield, won at Wellington
College.
BENEDICT
THE DUKE
(MIDDLESEX
LIEUTENANT .\THOL
TREWM.\N, 1st BATTN.
OF CAMBRIDGE'S OWN
REGIMENT).
who died of wounds
on the 22nd October,
1914, in Field Hos-
pital No. 2 at Hau-
bourdin, near LUle,
was the only son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
G. T. Trewman,
late E.A.M.C.
Lieutenant
Trewman was
born at Cape Towii
on the 26th August, 1892, and was educated
at Reading and Wimbome .Schools. He
was gazetted to the Middlesex Regiment in
June, 1914, from the Special Reserve of the Dor-
setshire Regiment, and went to the front with
the first part of the Expeditionary Force. He
had been reported missing since the 21.st Octo-
ber, and the report of his death was subsequently
received through the American Embassy in
Berlin.
He received his promotion to Lieutenant, dated
14th October, 1914. which was not gazetted
till loth April, 1915. The following accounts
of his death were received some months later.
A Sergeant in the regiment wrote : " 2nd
Lieutenant Trewman was wounded at a place
called Le Mesnil on October 21st. He was
leading his platoon when he was hit in the arm.
He continued to go forward, and was again
wounded, this time being hit in the leg and
high up iii the groin. A Private — since killed —
and myself tried to get him away, but he told
us to leave him on accoxont of the awful fire
we were drawing. We had to retire from the
village about half an hour after."
An officer in the regiment wrote : " Poor Trew-
man was hit in the sword arm and changed his
sword into the other hand, and pluckily pushed
on. However, soon after, he was hit in the leg,
and his head was grazed. Of course he fell,
but even under such conditions his thought
was for others instead of himself, ordering back
to sr.Tety the men who were trying to save him.
He I'-ied as that other ' very gallant gentle-
man.' true to the traditions of an officer and
a gentleman."
His Company Commander said of him : '" He
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was always very qxiiet, but very reliable, and
one always knew if he was given an order it
would be executed properly without any fuss."
A letter was also received from a Sergeant of the
same platoon, wounded at the same time, and
after^vaids a prisoner in Germany. He said :
" Mr. Trewman was a great favourite with his
men. He joined us just before the war, and
from the first day he made his presence felt.
. . . The men called Mm brave, generous, and
kind. ' A ' Company of the A. and .S. High-
landers were hard pressed by the enemy.
' B " Company of my regiment, who were on the
other side of the village, were ordered to
reinforce them. The Captain ordered ]\Ir.
Trewman, No. 6 Platoon, to advance half his
platoon. Mr. Trewman went firet with two
sections, and I followed later with the other
two sections. That was the last I saw of ilr.
Trewman untQ the night of October 21st. In
the meantime I went forward with my two
sections, hoping to join Mr. Trewman, but
before we could leave the village we were sur-
rounded by the enemy. I was severely wounded,
and eventually found myself in the enemy
field hospital, and to my surprise saw Mr. Trew-
man lying on a stretcher. He was full of praise
of the treatment he had received from the
Germans. . . . Tlie German doctor, who was
very kind, said to me, ' What a pity, and such
a yoimg fellow ! ' I questioned him, and he
said ;Mr. Trewman was severely wounded, but
might puU through with good nursing. The
last words I heard my officer say were, ' Aren't
they kind ! '"
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM DOUGLAS
MACLEAN TRIMMER. 1st
BATTN. HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT,
born at Surbiton on
the 29th December,
1891, was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. D.
Triuamer, of
Oakrigg, Walton-on-
Thames, and was re-
lated to Commander
P. H. T r i m m e r .
R.N., Lieuten-
ant-Colonel F. F.
Weedon, R.E., and
Lieutenant - Colonel
McDouall, D.S.O., The Buffs (East Kent Regi-
ment).
He was educated at Aldenham School, Herts,
where he made school records for the mile and
half-mile in the school sports in 1910. He pro-
ceeded to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, where he was
fourth in the cross-country race in 1911. From
the R.M.C. he obtained his commission in the
1st Hampshire Regiment in September, 1911,
and was promoted Lieutenant in March, 1914.
He and his whole platoon (with one exception)
were killed on the 30th October 1914, in defend-
ing an advanced isolated trench near Ploegsteert
Wood during the firstBattle of Ypres. The follow-
ing account of his death was given by the Medical
Officer attached to the battalion : " He died
hke a hero. He was a hero, and the way he and
his men fought to the last is one of the finest
acts I have heard of in the whole war. He was
found in his trench, wounded fatally in the head,
grasping unexpended cartridges in his hand —
game to the last. He must have died immedi-
ately on receiving the fatal shot." He was
buried in Ploegsteert Churchyard, next to
Captain R. W. Harland, who was in com-
mand of his company, and was killed on the
same day.
Another officer, speaking of earlier incidents,
said : '' On the Aisne he did his work excel-
lently, and I myself was particularly struck
with the quiet courage he showed when on real
dangerous patrol work. . . . ^\^len poor Con-
nellan (a brother officer) was killed, he dashed
out and brought liim in to cover. . . . He was
extraordinarily popular with his men."
The follo^ving further account of his death was
received indirectly from an officer at the front :
" About October 28th he was holding an
advanced trench with his platoon in front of
Ploegsteert Wood. He was very heavily shelled,
and attacked by infantry all day, losing most of
his platoon. He sent back for reinforcements,
but apparently there were none to be had ; any-
how none were sent. He held his men together,
and stuck to his trench all day, being finally
killed by a shell towards the evening. The
remains of his platoon — nine men out of about
forty — stuck on, and were finally all killed by
German Infantry except, I believe, one man,
who is now wounded and prisoner. The only
survivor of his platoon — the messenger he sent
back — was killed about two months later.
Young Trimmer certainly held his trench very
gallantly."
The officer who commanded Lieutenant Trim-
mer's company at Aldershot before the war,
spoke in the very highest terms of Mm. It is
understood he was recommended for mention
in despatches, and semor officers on the Staff
of the Division of wMch Lieutenant Trimmer's
battalion formed part, had specially referred
to the gallant way in wMch his platoon " stuck
it to the last man."
Lieutenant Trimmer was a good cross-country
and long-distance runner, and ran in the
battalion team in 1912, 1913, and 1914, when
the 1st Hants won the cross-country races of
the Aldershot Command (twice) and of the
Eastern Couuuand. He was. moreover, a
good swimmer, and a useful player at Rugby
football and hockey.
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CAPTAIN LANCELOT BARRING-
TON CROFTS TRISTRAM, 2nd BATTN.
THE LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT,
^ ^^=^r= «'ho was killed in
' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ' action on the 31st
October, 191-1, was
the eldest son of
Samuel Harrington
'^ r^^'h iii'l Blanch Ellen
Tristram, of Sompt-
injl Abbotts, Worth-
ing.
He was born on the
ITtli March. 1SS2,
and joined the
Leicestershire Regi-
ment in I'V'bruary, UKtt, becoming Lieutenant
in September, 1905, and being promoted Captain
in October. 1012.
nil.
th.
1.S92, and after
R.M.C., Sand-
He was born on the 29th A
his education at Eton and
liui'st, joined the
Coldstream Guards
in .September, 1911,
becoming Lieutenant
in September, 1914.
Lieutenant Trotter
was slightly woun-
ded at Landrecies in
August, 191-1, and
again at the Battle
of the Marne in
September, 1914.
He was a member of
the (iuards" and Bachelors' t'lul)s. lb- was a
very promising polo jilayer, a straight rider to
hounds, and well knomi with the Bicester and
Grafton Hvmts and (jn London polo grounds.
CAPTAIN ALAN GEORGE TRITTON,
3rd BATTN, COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
who was killed in
action in France on
the 26th December,
1914, was the young-
est son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Herbert
Tritton, Lyon's Hall,
Great Leighs, Essex,
and 4, Lowndes
Square, I^ondon,.S.W.
Captain Tritton was
born on the 2Sth
January, 1882, and
was educated at Winchester, from which ho
passed direct into the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He
received his commission in the Coldstream
Guards in August, 1900, proceeded almost at
once to South Africa on active ser\'ice, and
was present at operations in Cape Colony from
December, 1901, to May, 1902.
Becoming Lieutenant in October, 1903, he was
from November, 190(5, to Jlarch, 1907, Adjutant
at the Guards" depot, and from April, 1907, to
April, 1910, Adjutant of his battaUon.
In May, 1910, he obtained his company, and
in October of the same year was appointed
A,D.C. to the General Officer Commanding-iii-
Chief, Western Command, Chester.
For his ser\ices in the Great War he was
mentioned in Sir .Tohn French's Despatch of
the Sth October. 1914.
LIEUTENANT ARCHIBALD TROTTER,
3rd BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDs!
who was killed in action on the 31st Decem-
ber, 1914, was the only surviving son of
Colonel Trotter, South Notts. Hussars, and the
Hon. Mrs. Trotter, of Barton Hartshorne
Manor, Buckingham.
ALEXANDER NIGEL
(attd. 2ndi BATTN.
SCOTS LOTHIAN
LIEUTENANT
TROTTER, 3rd
THE ROYAL
REGIMENT),
was the so n
of Alexander
Pelham Trotter, and
was born in London
on the 17th Sep-
tember, 1894.
He was educated at
Packwood Haugh.
Warwickshire, and
Clifton College. Lieu-
tenant T r o t -
ter joined the 3rd
Battalion Royal Scots in the Special Reserve of
Officers in December, 1912, and received his
promotion in July, 1914, on rejoining for his
yearly training.
During the forced passage of the canal near
Vieille Chapelle on the 14th October, 1914, he
was wounded three times, and was carried into
a house near, where he died the same night.
LIEUTENANT JAMES KEITH
TROTTER, 1st BATTN. THE GORDON
HIGHLANDERS,
who was killed in
action on the 2lJth
August, 1914, was
the only son
of Major - General
Sir J. K. Trotter,
K.C.B., C.M,G., and
Lady Trotter,
of Aislaby Lodge,
Sleights, Yorkshire.
Lieutenant
Trotter had been
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reported wounded and missing, but up to
June, 1915, his death had not been officially
reported, and he had not therefore been included
in the official monthly casualty lists up to that
date. Major-General Trotter received the
intimation of his son's death from the officer
in command of the battalion, who was a prisoner
of war at Torgau.
Lieutenant Trotter was born on the 19th Decem-
ber, 1S8S, and was educated at Wellington, where
he was in the Combermere, a prefect, and a
very efficient head of the Rifle Corps. He
joined the Gordon Highlanders in January, 1909,
becoming Lieutenant in October, 1910. Prom
November of the latter year to July, 1911, he
was A,D.C. to the General Officer Commanding
the South Coast Defences, Southern Command.
CAPTAIN CHARLES FITZGERALD
HAMILTON TRUE MAN, 2nd
BATTN. MANCHESTER REGIMENT,
the son of
Lieutenant - Colonel
Charles Hamilton
and Mrs. Dorothea
Magdalena Trueman
was bom on the
22nd :March, 1877,
in the parish of
Stoke Dan\erel.
Devonport.
He was educated at
Kin g's School,
Canterbury, and the
K..M.C.. Sandhiiist, joining the Manchester
Regiment as 2ud Lieutenant in September,
1897. He was promoted Lieutenant in August,
1898, and Captain in January, 1901.
Captain Trueman took part in the South African
War, being present at operations in the Trans-
vaal and Orange River Colony, receiving
the Queen's medal with four clasps. From
April, 1908, to August, 1909. he was Super-
intendent, and from the latter date to April,
1912, Assistant Inspector of Gymnasia at
Aldei-shot.
He was fond of all sports and athletics, especially
cricket and shooting, and was a member of the
Army and Xavy Club.
Captain Trueman was reported " missing "
after I^e Cateau on the 20th August, 1914, and
as nothing has been heard from or of him since
it must unfortunately be assumed that he was
killed on that day.
2nd LIEUTENANT AL.\N ROBERT
LLOYD TUCKER, unattd. list for INDIAN
ARMY, attd. 4th BATTN. ROYAL
V/ARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in action between the 18th and
20th December. 1914, was gazetted to the Army
in August, 1914.
LIEUTENANT CECIL MORTIMER
PITTS TUCKER, 1st BATTN.
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY,
w ho was killed
near Festu-
bert, France, on
the 20th December,
19 14, was the
second son of Wil-
liam Edwin and
Violet Emily Pitts
Tucker, of Cross-
lands, near Barn-
staple.
He was born at
Barnstaple on the
12th April, 1890, and was educated at Ellerslie,
Fremington, Xorth Devon, Charterhouse (House
Lockites), 1903-08, which he entered with a
Junior .Scholarship, and the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
FYom the latter he was gazetted to the High-
land Light Infantry in April, 1910, becoming
Lieutenant in December, 1912. From October
of the latter year to March, 1913, he was extra
A.D.C. to Colonel the Hon. Sir James S.
Meston. K.C.S.I.. Lieutenant-Governor of the
United Provinces, India.
He was in his regimental polo team, and in
December, 1913, played in the final of the
Amateur Golf Championship of India at Cal-
cutta. He was beaten, but got the cup for the
best stranger's score.
HLs CO. wrote of his death : " Your son was
killed on the 20th December after making a
gallant charge to go to the aid of a brother
officer with a few men he had gathered round
him. All were shot down. He was as fine a
soldier as one could wish to see, and a true and
affectionate comrade ; and he met his soldier's
death just in the manner all who knew him
knew he would." He was buried near Festubert.
PYance.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN AY RE
TUCKER, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
who was killed in action on the 2nd November,
1914, was the only son of the late Wallace
Tucker, and of Mrs. Wallace Tucker, of 8,
Hurst Road, Eastbourne, and 7.5. St. Mary's
Mansions. London, W.
He was bom on the 22nd April, 1894, and was
gazetted to the Royal Artillery in July, 1913.
LIEUTENANT HERVEY ROBERT
CHARLES T U D W A Y, 2nd
BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS.
died in hospital at Boulogne on the 18th
November. 1914, from wounds received in action
at Ypres on the 9th of that month. He was the
eldest son of Charles Clement Tudway, of Wells,
by liis second marriage with Alice, d.ujghter of
the late Sir Frederick Hervey Bathurst, third
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Bart., whose ancestor, the Hon. Felton riervey,
eighth son of the first Earl of Bristol, fought at
Waterloo and lost
one ami there. Lieu-
tenant Tucl way's
ccrandfathor. uncle,
and cousin on tin-
tnaternal side all
served in the Grena-
dier (iuards.
Lieutenant Tudway
was born on the
23rd September,
1888, at 17, Lower
Berkeley Street, W.,
and was educalrd at Evelyns and Eton,
where he won the School Fives in 1907, was
captain of his house, in the Sixth Form, and a
member of the Eton Society.
He received his commission in the Grenadier
(iuards in February, 1910. becoming Lieutenant
in Sejilendier of the same year, and served with
his regiment fill the sunmier of 1914, when he
wa.s appointed A.D.C. to Viscount Buxton,
Governor-General of South Africa, and arrived
there to find that war had broken out. He at
once resigned his appointment and returned to
Isnglaiid, and had hardly arrived when he re-
ceived orders to rejoin his regiment at tlie
front.
Tjieutenant Tudway was a member of the
fiuards' and I'ratt's Clubs, and of I Zingari
and tlie M. ('.('. At Eton he was noted for his
cheery and charming manners. He wa-s a
good cricketer and an excellent shot, and
became very ]iii|uilar with his brother officers
and in society. At the Wells County Petty
Sessions after his death the Chairman (Colonel
Alfred Thrale Perkins, C.B.) paid a touching
tribute to the young officer, and a brass tablet
has been fixed in the wall of the nortli clinii' aisle
in Wells Cathedral to his memory.
The Officer Commanding at the Grenadier
(iiiards Headquarters at home wrote to his
father extolling his late son's soldierly qualities
and cliarriiing jiei-sonality.
LIEUTENANT CARLETON WYNDHAM
TUFNELL, 2nd BATTN. GRENADIER
G U A R D S ,
third son of Carleton
Fowell Tufnell, of
\\'atendone Manor,
K e n 1 e y , and
nephew of
R e a r - A d m i r a 1
Lionel Grant Tuf-
n e 1 1 , C . M . G . .
was born at
Sydenham. Kent,
(in the 5th August,
1.S92.
He was educated at Eton, where he was captain
of the Cricket XI, and for two years captain of
the Football XI ; was the winner of the Victor
Ludorum Cup, President of the Eton Society,
and winner of the King's medal in the O.T.C.
Pa.ssing through the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, lie
joined the Grenadier Guards in September,
1912, becoming Lieutenant in September, 1914,
and being for some time in the King's Company
in the 1st Battalion.
Lieutenant Tufnell was killed on the litli Nov-
ember. 1914, while proceeding in command of
his machine-gun section to defend a wood near
Ypres, and was buried in Zillebeke Churchyard,
lie was a member of the M.C.C. and I Zingari.
While at school he played for two years in the
Eton V. Harrow and Eton v. Winchester matches.
He represented the Army in Association Foot-
ball ('. the Dutch Army on two occasions, and
was a prominent member of the Household
Brigade Cricket Club.
CAPTAIN JOHN DRYSDALE TULLIS,
1st BATTN. ROYAL SCOTS FUSII.II.RS,
who died of wounds ijr
on the ISth No- jF
v e m b e r , 1 9 1 4 ,
in the British Hos-
pital, Hotel Belle-
V u e, W i live r e u x,
France. was the
second son of Mr.
and Mrs. Tullis, of
S t r a t h e n r y ,
Leslie. Scotland.
He was born on the
nth April, 1881, and
wa.s educated at CargUfleld and Pettes College>
Edinburgh, joining the Royal Scots Fusiliers in
.lanuary. 1901, and becoming Lieutenant in
April, 1904. He served in the .South African
War, being present at operations in the '^Prans-
vaal, 1901—02, for which he received the
Queen's medal with four clasps.
Captain Tullis, who was promoted to that rank
in November. 1911. was fatally wounded whilst
leading his company in a counter-attack against
a portion of the Prussian Guard near the
Chateau of Hooge at Y'pres on the 11th Novem-
ber, 1914. He was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 8th October,
1914.
He married, at Stirling on the 7th April, 1914.
Mary Rachel, daughter of Thomas Franklin
Pedley, Doctor of Medicine, Rangoon. His
recreations were hunting, polo, shooting, and
football.
CAPTAIN GRAHAM DE MONTMOR-
ENCY ARMSTRONG - LUSHINGTON-
TULLOCH, 1st BATTN. CON-
NAUGHT RANGERS, was born in London
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on the 27th November. 1885, son of WiUiain
Cairns Armstrong-I.usliinaton-Tulloch and Kate
France - Lushington-
Tulloch, of Shan-
bolard, Mo yard.
County Galway. He
was a great-nephew
and godson of the
late General de
Montmorency, and
a nephew of the
late Captain Arm-
strong, Argyll
and Sutherland
Highlanders.
Hi- \\ a> t-JiKatid at Suimnerfields. Oxford:
and at Rugby, from which he passed into the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, m 1903. and joined the
Connaught Rangers in January, 1905, becoming
Lieutenant in April. 1906. He gained a special
certificate in Signalling in 1906.
Captain Tvdloch, who was gazetted to that rank
in March. 1915, but dated from September.
1914, was killed in action while retaking a
trench on the 5th November, 1914. All the
officers with him at the time were killed, but
the following account of the circumstances was
obtained from a wounded man who was pre-
sent : " It was necessary to vacate the trench
occupied by ' A ' Company, owing to its being
enfiladed by German fire, and to make a new
trench behind it. There was no time to fill in
the vacated trench, which was occupied by the
enemy, and this made a parallel trench held by
' B ' Company untenable. On the night of the
4th November two platoons of ' A' Company
were ordered to retake the trench vacated
earlier by them, and to fUl it in. They charged
under Captain Hack and Lieutenant Tullocb
and retook the trench. Lieutenant TuUoch
being slightly wounded, but continuing to lead
and encourage the men till he was shot through
the head, having previously said that the position
must be held. Tlie rifles, however, jammed,
and the men of ' A ' Company were thus unable
to retain the position. The bodies of Captain
Tulloch and of Lieutenant George (also killed)
were subsequently recovered at great risk, and, as
they had been great friends, were buried side
by side in the orchard of a farm near Neuve
Chapelle."
The Commanding Officer of his battaUon. writing
to Captain TuUoch's mother, said : " He died
a soldier's death, and I am sure no one in the
regiment is more mourned by liis brother
officers and his company than he was. He was
loved by both officers and men."
Captain Payne, of the battalion, described the
event as follows : "It was on the night of the
4th that ' A ' Company made a gallant attack
on a forward German trench. They were ordered
to take the trench and fill it in. Half the com-
pany attacked and took the trench under Cap-
tain Hack, Graham (Mr. Tulloch), and Mr.
George, who were all killed. They all died, as
soldiers would wish to die, bravely at the head
of their men, and especially Graham. He was
wounded, but went on fighting, and then was
killed. Some of his company brought him back
to where I was. His face was so peaceful and
calm that one almost thought there was a snule
on it. I was present at the funeral. He was
beloved by officers and men, who would do
anything for him."
Captam Txilloch had just been elected to the
Junior United Service Club at the time of his
death. He was a keen sportsman, a first-rate
shot with gun and rifle, winning several shooting
competitions in his regiment, ^^^len in India
he kept racing ponies, and won the ^Merchants'
Stakes at the Karachi Autunm Meeting, 1912,
with his pony " Young Lomond."
CAPTAIN CECIL FALCONER TULLOH,
3rd BATTN. THE DUKE OF CAM-
BRIDGES OWN (MIDDLESEX REGT.),
born at St.
Leonards-on-
Sea on the 3rd June.
1882, was the son
of the late Major-
General John
Stewart T u 1 -
loh, C.B., R.H.A..
and a cousin of
Lieutenant - Colonel
G. S. Tulloh) who
conunanded the 2nd
Battalion Glouces-
tershire Regiment, and who was killed on Hill
60), and a relative of Colonel Hendley Paul
Kirkwood. R.F,. (retired), of Bath.
After fifteen months' service in the 3rd Batta-
Uon King's Own (Yorksliire Light Infantry),
while embodied, he was gazetted to the 4th
Middlesex Regiment, in January, 1903, becom-
ing Lieutenant in August, 1905. During the
South African War he served in Malta for six
months, in 1900. with the 3rd BattaUon K.O.
Yorkshire Light Infantry, receiving the Queen's
medal.
He was shot in the head on the 13th October,
1914, close to Croix Barbes (near La Bassee)
whUe instructing his men how to make straw
socks as a protection against frost-bite.
Captain TuUoh, who was a member of the Public
Schools' Club, was promoted Captain in January,
1914. He was unmarried.
LIEUTENANT GLADWYN MAURICE
REVELL TURBUTT. 3rd attd-
2nd BATTN. OXFORDSHIRE AND
B U OKI NGH.\M SHIRE LIGHT
INFANTRY SPECIAL RESERVE),
was the elder son of William Gladwyn Turbutt
TUR
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and
Ogst,
Mrs. Tiirbutt {nt'c
11 Hall, l>.TK\>liiiv.
Edith S. Hall), of
and was born there
on the 17th May,
1883. He was a
great-grandson of
General Henry (ilad-
wjai, of Stnbbin
Court. Derbyshire,
the famous defender
of Fort Detroit,
Canada, in the war
of 17(53, against tlie
Indians.
"The Guardian"
gave the following
account of his career : —
" Lieutenant Turbutt was educated at Harrow
and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took
his degree in 1904. A love of all tliat was
ancient and beautiful marked his undergraduate
days, and was the cause of an episode whicli w ill
perpetuate his name hi that venerable building
which of all in Oxford was, after his own col-
lege, dearest to him, the Bodleian Library.
For among other volumes which he brought
up from time to time from the old and most
interesting hbrary of his liome to compare with
books in Oxford was the ' Turbutt Shakespeare,'
a fine folio, which was quickly identified as
the original copy of Shakespeare presented l)y
Stationers' Hall to tlie Bodleian, and after\\ards
sold. In consequence of tliis discovery the liook
was subsequently |mirhased and restored to
the library.
" Mr. Turbutt. after taking his degree, studied
architecture for some years in London under
the direction of Mr. K. P. Warren. Among his
Magdalen friends was the present Principal of
Wells, who in 1906 was one of the httle liand
of graduate students whom Dr. Armitage
Robinson used to gather togetlier to live with
him in the Deanery at Westminster. Mr.
Tvu'butt was in this year invited to join the
group, and quickly became an intimate sharer
of tlie Dean's architectural aud archa ological
interests. He was one of his companions on
several excursions into France, made about
this time, with a view to studying the origins
and early growth of Norman architecture, with
special reference to Edward the Confessor's
Church at Westminster : and when in 1911 the
Dean removed to Wells it was to him that he
entrusted the task of restoring the Deanery there
to something of its original form and beauty.
The work ^\as done «ith characteristic care and
good sense, its most notable result being the open-
ing out of that noble chamber in Gunthorpe's
building which now serves as a private chapel.
" For the past seven years Mr. Turbutt has lived
mostly at home in Derbyshire, busying himself,
not only as an architect, but as a justice of the
peace, an officer in the Special Reserve, a
Commissioner of Boy Scouts, and as a supporter
of many useful causes. He was a loyal and
religious son of the Church, of wliich his family
for generations have been benefactors. A
gentleness, gaiety, and goodness all his own
won for him everywhere affectionate regard.
For his friends the early loss of a life of .such
fair iiromise \y\]\ prove not the least precious
of the sacrifices they are called to share in
offering on tlie altar of their country's duty in
its day of need."
He liecame Lieutenant in his battalion in
March. 1910. and during the retirement from
Mons joined the 2nd Battalion of liis regiment.
He was killed on the '21st October, 1914, during
t he early part of the Battle of Ypres, together
with many other offlcers of the battalion which
suffered severely both in killed and wounded.
CAPTAIN HUGH VINCENT CORBETT
TURNBULL, 2nd BATTN. KING'S
OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS,
who was killed in >-
action on the 13th i|
November, 1914, was
the only son of the
late Charles Cubitt
TurnbuU, of Mur-
vagh, Cheltenham,
and LTpper CoUetts,
Cleeve Hill, Cilouces-
tershire.
He was born on the
20th July, 1877, and
«as gazetted to the
King's Own Scotti.sh Borderers, from the
Militia, in .May, 1898. liecoming Lieutenant in
May. 190(1, and Captain in June, 1908. Prom
January, Ull 1, to August, 1912, he was Adjutant
of his battalion, and on the 8th August, 1912,
was detached from his regiment for employment
with the Egyptian Army. When war wa;
declared he returned to luigland and was
posted to the 2nd Battalion of his regiment.
CAPT. BINGHAM ALEXANDER TUR-
NER, D.S.O., 6th (RESERVE) BATTN.
RIFLE BRIGADE, attd. 2nd BATTN.
KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS,
was killed in action
on the 2nd Nov^em-
ber, 1914.
He was the
son of the late Gen-
eral Bingham
Turner, R.A., and
was born on the
30th May, 1877.
He received his com-
mission in the Rifle
Brigade in January,
18 9 8, becoming
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Lieutenant in December, 1S90. and Captain in
1902. Captain Tiimer served with the Nile
Expedition of 1S9S. and was present at the Battle
of Khartomn. receiving the Egyptian medal with
clasp. He also served in the South African
War, 1899-1902, being for part of the time em-
ployed with the Mounted Infantry, and taking
part in operations in Natal. Includin-; the action
at Lombard's Kop : was present at the defence
of Ladysmith. including the sortie of the 10th
December. 1S99, and action of 6th January.
1900 : in Natal. 1900, including action at
Laing"s Nek : in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria,
including actions at Belfast (where he was
slightly wounded) and Lydenberg. He was
mentioned in Despatches (" London Gazette,"
25th April, 1902), was awarded the D.S.O..
and received the Queen's medal with three
clasps and the King's medal with two clasps.
In July, 1909, Captain Tiimer retired from the
Regular Army, and joined the 6th ( Reserve)
Battalion of his regiment, being attached to
the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. for active service.
LIEUTENANT JOHN REG1N.\LD
TURNER. 3rd attd. 1st BATTN. DORSET-
SHIRE REGIMENT SPECIAL RESERVE .
the son of Mr. and
>lrs. J. M. B. Tur-
ner, of "■ Hartshill,"
Wimbome Road.
Bournemouth,
was bom at Stoke-
on-Trent, Stafford-
shire, on the 20th
November, 1S92.
He joined the
Special Reserve of
Officers, Dorsetshire
Regiment from the
O.T.C. in December, 1911, becoming Lieutenant
in May, 1913. For the war he was attached
to the 1st Battalion of his regiment, and was
killed near Festubert on the 1.3th October, 1914.
Sir John French, in his next Despatch after
that date, referred to " the gallant fighting of
the Dorsets " on this occasion, and at the place
where Lieutenant Turner fell.
Lieutenant Turner had been articled with his
father as a solicitor in Bournemouth, and was
Hon. Secretary of the Bournemouth and District
Law Students' Society.
LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER RAN-
DOLPH TURNOR. Xth PRINCE OF
WALES'S OWN ROYAL HUSSARS,
born on the 16th August, ISSo. at 37, Pont Street,
London, S.W., was the second son of Algernon
Tumor, C.B.. formerly Financial Secretary
of H.M. Post Office, and Lady Henrietta Tumor,
daughter of Randolph, ninth Earl of
Galloway, and Lady H. Blanche Somerset,
daughter of Henry, sixth Duke of Beaufort :
he was a grandson of Christopher Tumor, of
Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire.
Educated at the Rev.
the Marquess of Nor-
manby's private
school at 3Iulgrave
Castle, at Eton, and
at Christ Church.
Oxford, he took his
degree in 1908. In
December of that
year he received his
commission in the
Xth Royal Hussars,
and became Lieu-
tenant in September, l'.'!".
He joined the regiment at Rawal Pindi, India,
and served with it there and in South Africa,
returning with it to England in September,
1914, to take part in the Great War. The
regiment embarked at Southampton on the
6th, and landed at Ostend on the 8th October,
and was soon engaged in the fierce stTug|;le
near Tpres, which stemmed the advance of the
Germans to the coast.
He was killed in action in the trenches at
2Landvoorde on the 26th October, 1914, while
trying to locate an enemy's field gun with his
glasses, and was buried in the churchyard at
Zandvoorde. a cross marking his grave.
A soldier of much promise, he was devoted to
his profession, and was a great student of
military liistory, as well as a lover of books and
music.
The " Eton Chronicle," recording his death,
said : " He was a boy of strong character and
considerable ability, a fine football player, and
only a passing heart weakness prevented him
winning his field colours."
His CO. wrote of him : " He was a universal
favourite, a very good officer, and a great loss
to the regiment and his coimtry."
His Major also wTote : " He is a very great
loss to us as an educated and thoroughly
grounded soldier and officer, and also from his
personal charm which endeared him to all
ranks."
lieutenant Tumor was a member of the
Bachelors' Club. He was a keen all-round
sportsman, a good rider to hounds, and fond of
shooting, especially big-gan\e shooting, which
latter pursuit he followed successfully in Kash-
mir, Central India, and British East Africa.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR TWENTYMAN.
lOth SCOTTISH BATTN. THE KINGS
(LIVERPOOL REGIMENT. T.F..
who was killed in action near Tpres on the 29th
November, 1914, received his first commission
in March, 1909, was promoted Lieutenant in
December, 1910, and Captain in September.
1912.
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CAPTAIN ARTHUR MONTAGUE
TWISS, ROYAL ENGINEERS, com-
manding 2 COMPANY 3rd SAPPERS
AND MINERS, INDIAN ARMY.
who was killed in
action at the I'ereian
OuU on the 17th
November, 1914, was
the third and young-
est son of the late
;Mr. E. C. Twiss, Sti-
ln-iiiliary Magistrate
of Hull, and of Mrs.
Twiss, of Beverley,
Yorkshire. He was
born on the 17th
March, 188 1 , and was
gaziltid t<i till' Hoy;il iMigineere in May. 1900,
becoming Lieutenant in May, 1903. and being
jiromoted Captain in May, 1910.
LIEUTENANT JERVIS MOORE TYLEE,
15th iTHE KINGSi HUSSARS,
who \\a.s killed in
action while
on reconnaissance
duty near Mons on
the 23rd August,
1914, was the only
son of the late Jloore
Tylee, formerly of
Avenue d ' J e n a,
Paris, and Ashley
Place, Westminster.
He was born on
the l(3th September,
1887, wa-s educatud at Wellington (Hardinge),
and joined the 3rd Battalion the Buffs in 1907,
being gazetted in December, 1908, to the 15th
Hussars from the Special Reserve. He received
liis promotion to Lieutenant in November.
1913, and served with his regiment in India
and Soutli Africa.
His recreation.s were liunting, polo, and golf.
LIEUTENANT ALBERT TYLER, ROY' AL
ENGINEERS,
was tlie only child
of Colonel H. E.
Tyler. R.E., and Mrs.
Tyler, grandson of
Captain Sir H. W.
Tyler, R.E., and
great - grandson of
General Sir C. W.
Pasley, K.C.B., E.E.
He was born on the
1st February, 1893,
and educated at Mr.
Parry's School, Stoke House ; and at Charter-
house, where he took Junior and Senior
Scholarsliips, and passed fourth for the R.M.A.,
\\'oohvich. He passed out tliird into tlie Royal
Engineers in July, 1912, and was promoted
Lieutenant in July, 1914.
Being posted to the 11th Field Company R.E.,
at Aldershot on leaving Chatliam, he went to
France in August, 1914, and fought at Mons,
through the retirement at the Aisne, and again
at Y'pres. The 5th and 11th Field Companies
R.E. were hnproving defences by night, and
supporting infantry by day throughout the
attack by the German Guards, and on the Pith
November, 1914, Lieutenant Tyler with two
sections of his company, by hLs prompt action,
saved the situation when the flank of the
Staffordshires had become exposed, before he
was killed by a bullet tlu-ough his heart. His
uncle — Major A. H. Tyler, R.E. — had been
killed on shiular duty in command of the 5th
Field Company R.E. the day before.
The Brigadier-General in command reported
that had Lieutenant Tyler hved he would have
been reconnnended for the D.S.O. He was
mentioned in Keld-.Mai-shal Sir John French's
Despatch of the 14th January, 1915, for gallant
and distinguished service in the field.
MAJOR ALFRED HERBERT
TYLER, ROYAL ENGINEERS,
who was killed in action on the 11th November,
1914. was the son of the late Sir H. W. Tyler,
R.E.. .M.P., and grandson of the late General
Su? C. W. Pasley, K.C.B., R.E.
He was born at Hampton Court on the 27th
December, 1870, and was educated at Chelten-
ham College, where he held a scholarship ; and at
the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. From
the latter he was commissioned to the Royal
Engineere in July. 1890, becoming Lieutenant in
July, 1893. From December, 1895, to May,
1896, he was employed on the Sierra Leone
Boundary Commission, and in 1898-99 took part
in operations in Sierra Leone \^-ith the Karene
Expedition, where he was wounded, and for
which he received the medal with clasp.
He took part in the South .\trican War, where
he was on special service witli the Bhodesian
Field Force from March, 1900, to January,
1901, and, from January to May, 1901, was
employed as a Staff Officer (graded .Staff Cap-
tain). He was present at operations in the
Transvaal and Cape Colony, recei^'ing the
Queen's medal with four clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps. From January, 1907, to
April. 1912, he was Fh-st Assistant Superinten-
dent Building Works, Royal Ai-senal, Woolwich.
In the Great War lie was at fii-st employed on
the lines of communication, but afterwards
commanded No. 5 Field Company, R.E., in
the II nd Division.
Major Tyler left a widow and three young boys.
His nephew — Lieutenant A. Tyler, K.E. —
was killed in action at the same place next day.
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CAPTAIN WILLIAM A N N E S L E Y
UNDERHILL, 3rd BATTN. WORCESTER-
_ _ SHIRE REGT.,
son of William
H o n r y Under-
bill, was born
^^^ at Tettenhall, near
M 1^- ^^^1 Wolverhampton, on
r *^1^H ''^^^ -"^"^ October,
h^ ^^^1 1^'S2, and was edu-
W^ ^^1 cated at Rep-
A k jH ton. He served with
^^^A ^^^fl the 3rd ( Militia) Bat-
:^^|£^^^^^| North
ordsliire Regiment in
March, 1902, from which he was gazetted to
the 1st Worcestershire Regiment in July, 1904.
serving with it at Templemore and Dublin,
being promoted Lieutenant in November, 1907.
He afterwards served for four years from
August, 1909, with the West African Frontier
Force. Early in 1914 Captain LTnderhill learnt
flying at BrooklancLs, and took his pilot's
certificate. He then went to the Royal Fljing
Corps at Upavon, but shortly before the out-
break of the war he rejoined his regiment at
Tidworth, and accompanied tlie 3rd Battalion
to France in August. 1914.
At Mons, on the 2()th August, he was wounded,
a bullet pa.ssing through his left shoulder, but
he refused to go into hospital, and continued on
duty with his arm strapped to his side. He
was killed in action at lUies, near La Bassee,
on tlie 21st October, 1914, having continued to
act as dispatch rider to his CO. until his death.
Captain Underliill, who was promoted to his
Captaincy on the 13th October, 1914, only
eight days before he was killed, was mentioned
after his death in Sir John French's Despatch
of the 14th January, 1915.
He was a finished horseman, fond of hunting,
and was well kno\^n with tlie Albrighton hounds.
A few years before the war he rode ^Ir. Hanly's
" Teddie," who ran second to " Famous '" for
the Con\-ngham Cup at Punchestown.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN ALFRED
UNDERY, 4th BATTN. ROYAL FUSI-
LIERS (CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT),
was born on the
^ nth October, ISSl,
at M o n m o u t h ,
Wales, and was the
son of First Port
Officer William
Charles Undery,
Port Department,
Gibraltar.
After receiving his
I'ducation in Wales
and in (iibraltar, he
joined the Royal
Fusiliers in 1901, becoming Sergeant three years
later. He was promoted Company Sergeant-
Jlajor in 1913, and was granted his commission
for services in the field, during the Great
War, on the 1st October, 1914.
He was killed in action near Herlies on the 26th
October, 1914. The following account of the
circumstances was furnished to his widow by a
comrade : " We had been fighting in the
trenches hard all day. your husband being the
only officer there during the greater part of the
day. Early in the afternoon the eneniy made a
vigorous attempt to take our trench. During the
heaviest of the fire, wliilst using a rifle, he was
shot in the head and passed away a few minutes
later. His last words, as far as I can remember,
were, ' Good-bye, boy ! ' He was buried a short
time afterwards by four men of my company,
who are all, I am sorry to say, either killed or
prisoners. A small wooden cross was placed at
the head of his grave, showing his regimental
rank and name. I have no hesitation in saying
that he was admired and respected by all,
both as a C.S.M. and officer. I was with him
to the end. His death was without a doubt
caused by his doing so much. If he had not
been so keen on using a rifle and exposing him-
self unnecessarily it is quite possible he would
have been aUve and well to-day."
2nd Lieutenant Undery played football for his
company m the season 1913-14, was also In the
regimental running team, and won several
prizes for shooting.
He married Susannah, daughter of Sergeant-
Major W. Overell, at one time serving with
H.il. Forces at Windsor, and left two boys :
William Alfred, age six : and Edwin ^laurice,
age five years.
CAPTAIN EDWARD FREDERICK
MALTBY URQUHART, 1st BATTN.
THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL
HIGHLANDERS),
was the only son of
the Rev. Edward
William Urquhart.
M.A.. formerly
\'icar of King's Sut-
ton. Northants, and
was bom in Edin-
burgh on the 2t5th
January, 1877.
He was educated at
Cheltenham College,
where he won the
JIathematical medal, 1895 : and at the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, gaining there a medal as one of the
Athletic Eight against the R.M.A., Woolwich,
in 1896.
He was gazetted to the Black Watch in Feb-
ruary, 1897, becoming Lieutenant in May
two years later, and Captain in April, 1902.
He served through the Boer War, 1901-02,
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being present at operations in the Transvaal
and Orange Biver Colony, for which he received
the Queen's medal with four clasps. In 190t>-07
he was Assistant Superintendent of Gymnasia,
Irish Command, and Superintendent from the
latter year until 1910. He then went to India,
where he was. in 1913, Inspector of Physical
Training, Xortheni Army. Both in India and
Ireland reports from his superior officers bore
testimony to his devotion to duty and great
abiUty in training men. and to his keen interest
in aU the men's athletics and sports. His
brightness of disposition and perfect good temper
endeared him to all his brother officers, and his
family have received numerous let t ere showing
that he was highly esteemed by the men who
served under him.
He was a member of the Caledonian Club,
St. James's, and president of various athletic
and sporting associations in Ireland.
On the outbreak of war with Germany Captain
I'rquhart was at home on sick leave, but immedi-
ately asked to be sent out with the 1st Bat-
talion of his regiment under Lieutenant-Colonel
Grant Duff. His appUeation was refused on the
ground that he held an important Staff appoint-
ment in India, and was bound to return when
pronounced medically fit. The ^larquess of
TuUibardine then applied for. and obtained his
ser\ices to train the Scottish Horee in Perth-
shire, and he was engaged in this work at Scone
when he received orders to embark unmediately
at Southampton for the front. Tliis lie did on
the 22nd September, 1914. Letters from the
Marcpiess of TuUibardine and Captain L'rqu-
hart's successor showed liow greatly his ser\"ices
at Scone were appreciated, and how much he
was missed.
He was killed instantaneously on the 23rd
October, 1914. at Pilkem. on his return from
inspecting a trench wliich the company under
liis command had recovered from the Germans
the previous night. He was buried with Lieu-
tenant Bowes-Lyon. of the same regiment, in
Boesinghe Churchyard, the service being con-
ducted by the Rev. H. W. Blackbume, Cliurch
of England Cliaplain to the Forces.
CAPTAIN STEPHEN USSHER, 129th
DUKE OF C O N N A U G H T • S OWN
I S.
C H
i2
BALL
bom at 52. Eaton
Place, London, S.W..
on the 4th October,
1SS2, was the third
son of the
Rev. Richard
Ussher. Vicar of
Westbury, Bucks.
His two brothers
were also in the Ser-
\-ice, viz.. Captain
Beverly L'ssher,
Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal
Canadians) : and Lieutenant Richard Ussher,
R.X., H.M.S. " Hyacinth."
Captain Ussher was educated at St. Edward's,
Oxford, and the R.M.C.. Sandhurst. He was the
fiftli of the old St. Edward's boys to fall on the
field of honour. Passing liigh out of the R.5I.C.,
he was gazetted to an unattached 2nd Lieu-
tenancy in August. 1902, and after se^^■ing
for a time with a battalion of the East Kent
Regiment, was posted to the Indian Army in
June, 1904, becoming Lieutenant in December,
1904. and Captain in the 129th Baluchis in
August. 1911. For two years he was Adjutant
of liis battalion, serving at Poona. Karachi.
Hong Kong, and Ferozepore. He had also
travelled in Japan.
Before proceeding to the fighting Une Captain
Ussher had been acting as Railway Staff
Officer at Cairo. With his regiment he landed,
in September. 1914. at Marseilles, where he was
for a time in hospital. He rejoined his regi-
ment at the front on the 1st November, and
from that date was continually engaged in the
advanced trenches, and wrote home very in-
teresting letters, some of which were published
in the " St. Edward's. Oxford. School Chron-
icle " for December. 1914. Captain Ussher was
killed in action on the 16th December, 1914,
while in charge of macliine guns in the trenches
at Givenchy. He was buried in Beuvry Cemetery.
The Rev. R. Ussher received a letter of sym-
patliy on his son's death from the Commander-
in-Chief in India.
Captain Ussher, who was a member of the Junior
Naval and ilUitary Club, was well known in the
cricket field, and frequently played for the
Buckingham Cricket Club.
2nd LIEUTENANT GEORGE HERBERT
VAC HER, 4th and. 2nd B A T T N.
ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT.
who was killed in
action about the
30th October, 1914.
was the eldest son of
H. P. Vacher,
A.M.I.C.E., and Mrs.
Vacher, and was
bom in Winchester
in February, 1S94.
He was educated at
Sherborne School.
and at Worcester
College, Oxford, and
was a keen athlete, boxing and running
being the sports in which he excelled. He
represented his school at Aldershot in 1913
as a welterweight, and reached the finals in
the Oxford University trials in 1914.
On the outbreak of the war he applied for a
commission tlirough his CoUege O.T.C and
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VAL— VAN
was gazetted to his regiment in August, 1914.
On being attached to the 2nd Battalion he left
Lyndliurst for the front with the \'IIth Division
in October, 1914, and was killed near Zandvoorde
on or about the date given above.
CAPTAIN JOHN FRANKS VALLENTIN,
\.( .. 1st BATTN. SOUTH STAFFORD-
SHIRE REGT.,
born on the 14th
May, 1882, was the
son of the late Grini-
bleVaUentinand Jlrs.
Grimble Vallentin.
He was a grandson of
Colonel Fimiis, the
first victim of the
Indian Mutiny, and
a nephew of ]\Iajor
Vallentin, killed in
the Boer War.
Captain \'allentin was educated at Wellington
CoUege, and joined the lith (Militia) Battalion,
Rifle Brigade in August, 1899, becoming Lieu-
tenant in July, 1900. That liattalion was em-
bodied at the Curragh Camp, Kildare, from the
commencenrent of the Boer War for nearly a
year, and on its disemljodiment he was attached
to the 3rd Royal Sussex Eegiinent. In .luly.
1903, he received his commission in the Royal
Ciarrison Regiment (formed during the Boer
War) in July, 1903, being transferred to the
South Staffordshire Regiment as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in June, 1905. He became Lieutenant
in September, 1907, and Captain in June, 1909.
He served in the Boer War with the ord ( .Militia)
Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, taking part
in operations in the Orange River Colony from
April to December, 1901, and in the Transvaal
from the latter date till Jlay, 1902. For his
services he received the Queen's medal with five
clasps.
In the Cireat War the 1st South Staffordshire
Regiment formed i^art of the Vllth Division
which landed at Zeebrugge on October 7th,
and was through all the fighting in the hrst
Battle of Ypres. So severe were its losses tliat
the day before Captain Vallentin was killed,
his battalion and the 2nd Royal Warwicks
were formed into one small battalion under the
command of Captain Vallentin. There were
no officers of higher rank in either battalion,
and so well did he lead his command on the
7th November, that he was awarded the \'.C.,
the official account being as follows : " For
conspicuous bravery on the 7th November at
Zillebeke. When leading the attack against
the Germans under a very heavy fire he was
struck down, and on rising to continue the
attack was innnediately killed.
"The captiu-e of the enemy's trenches which
followed was in a great measure due to the
confidence which tlie men had in then' Captain,
arising from his many preNaous acts of great
bravery and ability."
He was mentioned in Sir .lohn French's Des-
patch of the 14th January, 1915.
Captain Vallentin was a keen polo player and
captain of the regimental Polo Club. He was
specially qualified in musketry. He was not
married.
LIEUTENANT JAMES VANCE, 2nd
BATTN. ESSEX REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 21st
October, 1914, was
the eldest son of the
late W. J. Vance,
Surgeon, B e x -
leyheath, Kent, and
of JMrs. Vance, 3,
V^anbrugh Fields,
Blacklieath.
He was born
on the 2nd January,
1886, and was
educated at Dover College (.St. Martin's House),
where he was in the Cricket XI, 1903-04 :
and at the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He received his
commission in February, 1906, becoming Lieu-
tenant in January, 1911.
He had been slightly wounded on the 20th Sep-
tember, 1914, but did not leave the trenches.
His servant gave tlie following account of his
death : '" ' D ' Company had just relieved the
Rifle Brigade, at Le Gert, when they were
innnediately attacked by an enfilade fire from
the enemy. Lieutenant ^'ance, who was in
charge of two platoons, directed the men to
leave the ti-enches, and then gave the command
to charge. His words were, ' Come on, men !
Charge the boundera ! ' Taking the lead, he
was shot through the abdomen. The action
had a victorious result."
Lieutenant ^'ance played hockey and football
for his regiment.
LIEUTENANT JOHN BEAUCLERK
VANDELEUR, 3rd BATTN. LEICESTER-
SHIRE REGT.,
was born at
Winchester in 1887,
and was the son of
Colonel John
Ormsby Vandeleur,
C.B., of Ballina-
courty, Castle Con-
nell. County
Limerick. He was
educated at ^^'elling-
ton CoUege from
1901 to 1904.
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Lieutenant X'andeleur was gazetted to the
Durham Light Infantry in April, 1910. He
retired from the Kegular Army in 1912. and
joined the 3rd Battalion Leicester-^hire Regi-
ment as Lieutenant in October, 19l:i.
I'^or the Great War he was altaclied to the lird
Battalion Woraesterehire Reghnent, and was
killed on the 7th November, 1914, at Ploegsteert
Wood, north of Armentieres.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM MOUNTCHARLES
CROFTON VANDELEUR. 2nd
BATTN. THE ESSEX REGIMENT.
was killed in action
in Septenilicr. 191 ).
no place or date
being given in tlie
monthly official cas-
ualty list in which
the notification
appeared.
The son of t'olonel
William X'andeleur,
of 1 8, S a 1 i s -
buiv Road, Hove,
Brighton, he wa-s
bom on the 29th May, 1870, and was educated
at Wellington (Anglesey, 1SS3-S7). He johied
the Koyal Fusiliei's from the ^lilitia in Decem-
ber, 1889, being transferred to the Essex
Regiment in October, 1890, recei%'ing his
promotion to Lieutenant in October. 1894.
In 1897-98 he took part in the Jlohmand Cam-
paign, north-western frontier of India, being
for a time Assistant to the Division Transport
Officer, and was also with the Tirah Expedition
Force. He received the medal with tliree
clasps.
He was promoted Captain in Hay. 1900. and
was employed during the South African War
as a Special .Service Officer from October, 1899.
to February, 1902, including employment as
Orderly Officer, Base, at the end of 1899, with
the South African Light Horse, and as Assis-
ta,nt to Staff Officer, Colonial Forces : with
Roberts's Horse from January, 1900, to Feb-
ruary, 1902 (Adjutant from November, 1900),
and Acting Intelhgence Officer : afterwards
on the Staff as Assistant Provost Marshal from
February to June, 1902. He took part in the
advance on and relief of Kimberley, oper-
ations in the Orange Free State, at Paarde-
berg, in the Transvaal, east and west of Pre-
toria, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony,
including actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein,
Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River, and
Zand River. He received the Queen's medal
with four clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps.
From July, 1902, to March, 1903, he was em-
ployed under the Civil Government, Transvaal.
In April, 1904, he was placed on half-pay, but
was restored to the establisliment of his
regiment in September of the same year.
On war being declared Captain \'andel(Mir was
serving at Chatham with the 2nd Uattalion,
wh ch belonged to the I\'th Division, arriving
in France in time to take part in the action at
Le Cateau, the retirement to the JIarne, and
the subsequent advance to the Aisnc. It is
probable that Captain \'andelcur fell in the
fighting at the latter battle.
L I E U T E N .\ N T HENRY I V AN H O E
VANDELL, RESERVE OF OFFICERS,
attd. 1st BATTN. NORTHAMPTON.
SHIRE REGT.,
only son of Henry
.\rnold and Sara A.
N'andell, of Gilling-
haia. Kent, was bom
at New Brompton.
Kent, on the 8th
December, 1890.
He was educated
at His ilajesty's
Royal Dock-
yard School (Engin-
eering Branch),
Chatham, and at East London College (Uni-
versity of London), becoming later a graduate
of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He
was for two years in the University O.T.C., and
received a commission in the Reserve of Officers
of that Corps in December, 1912.
In August, 1914, he trained with the Royal West
Kent Regiment, and proceeding to the front in
September was attached to the Northamiiton-
shire Regiment. He was in the trenches at the
Aisne, and took part in the fighting near Ypres,
where he was killed on the 11th November,
1914, while leading his platoon to intercept an
attack made by the Prussian Guard.
The following is an extract from the letter of
a N.C.O., dated the 19th December, 1914,
describing the event : " The Prussian Guard,
through sheer weight of numbers, broke through
our line. We were called upon to intercept
them. After a terrific hand-to-hand encounter
the enemy turned and fled. Away we wont
after them in a mad, heaiUong rush. We caught
and killed heaps of them, but some of them
succeeded in occupying some old ruined farm-
houses, and poured a murderous fire into us.
.V lot of our fellows went down, but the remainder
of us went straight at the houses. Lieutenant
VandeU was at the very head of us. When
actually outside the door of the house a bullet
struck poor Mr. VandeU in the head, kiUing
him instantly. We eventually drove the enemy
out, and occupied a position close by. In the
dead of night we crept out and buried poor Mr.
VandeU as decently as circumstances would
allow."
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LIEUTENANT CHARLES HYLTON
VAN NECK, 3rd lattd. Isti BATTN.
NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS,
who was killed iii action ou the 20th October,
1914, aged twenty-one years, was the youngest
son of the late Mr. Charles \'an Neck, ot Lily
Hill. Bracknell, and of .Mrs. Van Neck, of 32.
Pont Street, London. S.W.
He was educated at Harrow (The Head-
master's, 1907-11) and joined the Northumber-
land FusUiers in October, 1913, and got his
step in September, 1914. His eldest brother —
Lieutenant P. Van Neck. Grenadier Guards —
wa.s killed on the 2t)th October. 1014.
LIEUTENANT PHILIP VAN NECK, 1st
BATTN. GRENADIER GUARDS,
u- ho had been
reported missing
since the 2 6 t li
October, 1914, was
afterwards stated to
have been killed in
action on that date
at KiiiLseik, near
Ypres.
He was the eldest
son of the late ilr.
Charles and Mrs.^'an
Neck, of 32, Pont
Street, London, and was bom in ;March, 18S7.
He was educated at Eton, and joined the
Grenadier Guards in August, 1910, becoming
Lieutenant in June, 1912, and went on active
ser%ice with his battalion in October. 1914.
He was a member of the Guards' and Pratt's
Clubs, and his chief i-ecreations were hunting,
shooting, and cricket.
HLs youngest brother — 2nd Lieutenant Charles
Hylton Van Xeck. Xorthiuulierland Fusiliei-s
— was killed in action on the 20th October,
1914.
CAPTAIN EVAN NANNEY JONES-
VAUGHAN, 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS,
who was killed on
the 2lith October,
loll, was the
\' o u n g e r son
of .Major - General
Jones-Vaughan,
C.B., Colonel of the
Loyal North
Lancashire
Regiment, and Mrs.
Jones - Vaughan, of
L 1 w y d y n Rhydy-
clafdy, Car-
narvonshire, and a cousin of Sir Hugh Nanney.
He was born on the ,5th September, 1885, and
was educated at Wellington and the R.M.C..
Sandhui-st. He received his conunission in the
Royal Welsh Fusiliers in February, 1905,
becoming Lieutenant in December, 1909, and
Captain in April, 1913.
He was fond of big-game shooting, and collected
some very fine heads in Tibet, Kashmir, and
other countries.
He was killed by shell near Armentieres in a
very violent attack on the trenches. His CO.
wrote of liim : "I have lost a very gallant and
capable officer and a very dear companion."
2nd LIEUTENANT HARRY
ROBERT VAUGHAN. 2nd BATTN.
CONNAUGHT RANGERS,
who was killed in action in Flanders on the
27th October, 1914, was the son of Charles
Vaughan, late Colour-Sergeant in the Durham
Light Infantry, and was born at Dagshai, India,
on the 1st May, 1SS5. His relative — Lieutenant
WiUiam Charles Taylor — Is in the Army Pay
Corps.
2nd Lieutenant Vaughan joined the Durham
Light Infantry as a boy in December, 1899,
and ha\'ing reached the rank of Colour-.Sergeant
in that corps was granted a commission as
2nd Lieutenant in the Connaught Rangers,
and was posted to the 2nd Battalion of that
regiment in September, 1914. When killed he
was attached to the Durham Light Infantry.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WALTER
EDWIN VENOUR, 58th VAUGHAN'S
RIFLES (FRONTIER FORCE),
who was killed in
action on the 31st
October. 1014. was
the son of the late
General Edwin
V e n o u r . 1 n -
dian Ai-my.
He was bom on the
17th May, 1864, was
educated at Wey-
mouth College, and
was gazetted to the
West India Regi-
ment as Lieutenant in Sepleiaber, 18)S5. In
January, 1889, he was transferred to the Indian
Staff Corps, and became Captain in the Indian
Army in September, 1896.
He took part in the Chin-Lushai Expedition
of 1889-90, for which he received the medal
with clasp : in the first Jliranzai Expedition,
1891 : and in operations on the Samana and
in the Kurram Valley, north-western frontier
of India, 1897-98. For the latter he received
the medal with two clasps. He was also on
active service in the Tirah Expedition at and
around Divatoi. and the action of the 24th
November, 1897, in which he was slightly
wounded, and for which he received a clasp to
his medal.
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In 1900 he was appointed Second in Command
of the Khyber Rifles, and during the time he
held that appointment he officiated as Com-
mandant of that corps and as Pohtical Officer,
Kliyber. In U1()(i he was appointed Staff Officer
to Sir Harold Deane, Chief Commissioner
North West EVontier Provinces, and on his
return to his regiment (5Sth Rifles) he was
thanked by him in a letter sayinsr : " Sir
Harold Deane wishes to place on record the
appreciation of your work under him both as an
officer of the Khyber Rifles and latterly as his
Stafi Officer for Militia and Border Military
Police. He is assured that the high state of
efficiency attained by the Kliyber Rifles is
due ir a great measure to your zeal and capacity
as Second in Command of that corps. As
Staff Officer he has to thank you for the great
interest you evinced in all matters relating to
the Militia and Border Jlilitary Police, and for
the pains you took to carry out the adminis-
tration of these corps on the lines indicated by
liim. Tlie Chief Commissioner trusts that the
good work which you have done wliile under his
orders in thus Pro\'ince may be reckoned to your
credit In your future career."
He obtained his Majority in .September. 1903.
and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in May,
1911. HLs regiment came from India with the
Expeditionary Force, for the Great War, and,
on the occasion of his death had been ordered
to recapture some trenches which the Germans
liad occupied. We attacked in the dark, and
drove out the enemy, some of wliom fell back
into a trench some thirty yards or so behind.
The enemy were dressed in Gurkha imiforms
taken from the dead, and the Colonel, who
had just come to this part of our position, as
it was getting light . thought they were Gurkhas
and was shot as he was looking over the parapet.
Death was instantaneous, the bullet passing
through the brain.
Lieutenant-Colonel Venour married Annie
Lilian, daughter of Robert Barton, Esq..
Deputy Master Royal >Iint, Melbourne, Aus-
tralia, and left four children : three daughters
and one son. He was a Freemason, a Knight
Templar, and Chaplain of his Lodge.
2nd LIEUTENANT ROBERT HUM.
PHREY MEDLICOTT VEREKER. 2nd
BATTN. GREN.\DIER GUARDS,
killed in action near Landrecies, on the night
of the 25th August, 1914, was the son of :Mr.
and Mrs. George Medlicott Vereker, of Shar-
pitor, near Salcombe, South Devon. He was
bom on the l.^th October, 1892. and was edu-
cated at Clieam. at Osborne, and at the R.il.C.
Sandhurst, from wliich he was gazetted to the
Grenadier Guards in September, 1913.
The Rev. B. G. O'Rorke, Chaplain to the
Forces, who was taken prisoner of war and sent
to Torgau. writing on the 30th August, 1914,
gave the following particulars : " Your brave
son met his death on the 25th inst. while trying
to draw Corporal Bacclius. of his regiment, who
was wounded, out of the range of the German
fire. The Corporal is now convalescent. Y'our
son was buried in the next grave to some of his
brother officers and eight men of the Coldstream
Guards. We erected a rough cross giving their
names. The following day the wife of the
Garde Cimetiere brought me a wooden cross
of a more substantial kind, and I left instructions
for their names to be painted on it. It was her
o^vn thought and her own tribute."
In Mr. Vereker's memory his parents have lent
their house, near Salcombe. for use as a Red
Cross Hospital for the duration of the war.
His recreations were hunting, riding, and golf,
and he was also fond of music. He was a
member of the Guards' Club.
INFANTRY).
LIEUTENANT FREDERICK CH.\RLES
VERNER 1st B.\TTN. THE KINGS
(SHROPSHIRE LIGHT
born on the 3Utli
November, 1891. at
Kenley. .Surrey, wa*
the son of the lati-
William Henry Ver-
ner. I.C.S., and was
related to Major -
General Thomas Ed-
ward Vemer. C.B..
and Colonel
\\'illoughby Vemer.
late of the Rifle
Brigade.
He was educated at Harrow and at Brasenose
College, Oxford. He was a good athlete and
ran for his college. At Harrow he received his
cap and fez for football in 1909. He had taken
a third class in the Honour School of Juris-
prudence in July, 1914, having gone to Brase-
nose College, from Harrow, in the ilichaelmas
term of 1911, and was soon seen to be a man
of independence and character, chivalrous, and
determined to succeed. At Oxford he was a
member of the Phoenix Club, Brasenose.
He was gazetted, as a University candidate, to
the O.T.C. in ^March. 1914, being transferred to
his regiment with antedate to January. 1913,
being promoted Lieutenant in August, 1914.
He soon went to the front, and was killed on
the 25th October, 1914, by the bursting of a
shell. The following account of the occurrence
was given by the Captain of his company to
his mother : " Tour son had charge of his
platoon on a little knoU. which had a little
tope of trees on it. which was a mark to the
German guns. . . . On Sxmday. October 25th.
some Germans broke our line on the left of
your son's knoll, and he, by a message he sent
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to uie, realised the possible danger of it, and
thence during the whole day his platoon was
subjected to a very heavy shell fire. He had
some casualties amongst his men all day, and
about 5.30 p.m. a shell from the big gun
struck close in front of his own trench, and
he was liit straight on the head and killed,
A message came down to me to that effect.
The men liad to leave the trench shortly after,
owing to shell fire. I may say that your son
during the whole time behaved in the urost
gallant manner. All his men speak in the most
extraordinary terms of his conduct, and say
they would have gone anywhere with him, and
are unardmous in saj^ng that he stuck to a
practically untenable position with extra-
ordinary pluck. I may also say that I have
recommended him to my Conmianding Officer
for some award, which I trust he may get, as
I know he fully deserved it. Had he lived
another two lioui's he would have been out of it.
The men of his platoon came and asked me for
even pennies from his money as souvenirs,
which they thought I had, as ' he was the
bravest man they ever saw.' "
Another account said that after sending many
of his naen back to a safer trench, he insisted
on remaining where he was to keep a look-out :
and after the shelling had finished, as he did
not answer when called, was found to have
been killed.
His CO., writing of him, said : " He must
have died a splendid death. One of his officers
said, ' His name will always be remembered
that he made a gallant fight for eight hours
against an overwhelming force.' "
His mother received also very appreciative
letters ot her son's character and ability from
heads of the college and from college friends.
LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER
FRANCIS VERRALL, 2nd BATTN.
ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT,
bom at Brighton
on the 5th Febru-
ary, 1SS9, was the
son of Thomas Jen-
n e r V e r r a 1 1 ,
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.,
Hon. LL.D., Aber-
deen.
He was educated at
the school of the
Kev. C. E. Williams,
D . D . , Summer
Fields, Oxford, at
and Trinity College,
College,
He represented the University in
Wellington
Cambridge
swimming.
He joined the Army as a University candidate
in October, 1911, liis comnaisaion being ante-
dated to October. 1910, and became Lieutenant
in November, 1912.
Lieutenant ^■errall was kdled in the trenches
at Epinette, near La Bassee, on the 22nd
December, 1914. He was mentioned in Sir
John PYench's Despatch of the 14th January,
1915.
LIEUTENANT HORATIO JOHN
VICAT, 1st BATTN. THE QUEEN'S
OWN (ROYAL WEST KENT REGT.),
was the son of the
late Horatio
Nelson Vicat and
Mrs. Vicat, of
East Lodge,
Sevenoaks, and was
bom on the 24th
June, 1885, in the
Province ot
Quebec, Canada.
He was educated at
Cheltenham College,
and passed thence
into the Royal Military ColIi-.;i', .^auuiiiu-.t.
He was first gazetted to the Royal West Kent
Regunent in January, 1905, joining the 1st
BattaUon in Malta, and became Lieutenant in
May, 1908. He was attached to the Gold Coast
Regiment for foui-teen montlis in 1910-11, and
took part in actions against native tribes at
Zonagara.
He was killed during the Battle of the Aisne on
the 13th September, 1914, near Missy, while in
command of his company when they fornred the
advance guard to their Brigade, and was lead-
ing his men do«Ti to rapt lue a bridge-head held
by the enemy. Lieutenant Vicat having been
wounded, four of his men volunteered to bring
him back. No sooner had they lifted him,
however, than the enemy fired, killing the officer
and two of the men and wounding the other two.
Lieutenant Vicat was a member of the Junior
Naval and Military Club.
CAPTAIN PERCIVAL CAMPBELL
HAMPE-VINCENT, I29th DUKE OF
CONNAUGHTS OWN BALUCHIS.
w as bo r n a t
Hyderabad on the
27th AugiLst, 1881,
the son of the late
Mr. Robert W. E.
H a m p e - V i n -
cent, CLE., Com-
sioner of Police (re-
tired), Bombay.
Educated at Bedales
and North wood Park
School, lie received
an unattached 2nd
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Lieutenancy in .May, I'.Hil. ami jciimil the
Iiuliau Army in November, 1902, becoming
Lieutenant in August, IWX.i. He proceeded
on special service with the Sonialiland
Field Force in January, 1!H)1, and took part in
the operations in that coxuitry in 1903-01,
recei\'ing the medal \^■ith clasp. In Sei^tember.
1905, he joined' the King's African Kitles,
with whom he served for several years in East
Africa, and for two years commanded a con-
tingent of Sikhs in Zomba, Nyassaland, and,
having been promoted Captain in ilay, 1910,
.suksequently commanded a double company
of his own regiment at Ferozepore, Punjab.
He accompanied the Indian contingent to
France, and was killed in action on the 26th
October, 1914, near Ypres— one of the firet
Indian ollicers to fall— leading his men to
attack Prvissian cavalry.
Captain llampe-\'incent married Hlanche Robin-
son, daughter of Mr. Foster Robinson, who died
at Kasauli, India, in May, 1014, leaving no
children.
CAPTAIN PHILIP ERNEST VINEY, 1st
BATTN. LEICESTERSHIRE
REGIMENT,
was the second son
of Dr. and Mrs.
^' i n e y , C i n t r a ,
P.^^ 'WM Swanage.
. jJP He was born on
"*-'«<■■ the 23rd April, 1S8S,
and educated
at Summerfields,
O X f o r d, and at
AJdenham Scliool,
Elstree, joining the
Leicestei'shirc Regi-
ment from the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 19()S.
He became Lieutenant in May, 1910. On the
5th October, 1911, he was seconded for
employment witli the West African Frontier
Force, and in 1914 was A.D.C. to Sir Hugh
Chftord. On the outbreak of the war he
rejoined the 1st Battalion Leicestershire Kegi-
ment as Captain, to which rank he had been
pi-omoted in August, and was sent to the front
in September, 1914. His Battalion formed part
of the Kith Brigade, Vlth Division, which took
part in the advance to the Aisne, the battle
at tliat river, and the subsequent fighting.
He was mortally wounded by a high-explosive
shell on the afternoon of the 14th December
while in the trenches. He was removed to the
Field Hospital. Bailleul, and died on the evening
of the 17th, deeply regretted by his brother
officers and the men who served under him, to
whom he had endeared himself by his cheerful
unselfishness and thought for others.
Captain Viney was a member of the Junior
Army and Navy Club, and was unmarried.
_JS?EJ»3Sft:rj:
CAPTAIN WILLIAM GEOFFREY
VYVYAN, 1st BATTN. ROYAL WELSH
FUSILIERS.
who died at Droo-
geubroodhoek on the
24tli October, 1914.
1)1' woimds received
near Zonnebeke mi
the 21st of llie same
moiitli, leaving a
w i d o w , w a s
tlie youngest son of
the late Rev. A. F.
Vyvyan and Mrs.
\'yvyau.
He was Imiu on the 21st January, llSTH. and
joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers from the
Militia in June, 1899. He took part in the relief
of Pekin, China, lO(ll). fcr whieli he ivceivi-d tlie
medal witli clasj).
He was promoted Lieutenant in May, 1902,
and Captain in ^Vpril, 1909. From October,
1910, to October, 1913, he was an Adjutant of
the 5th (Territorial) Battalion of his Regiment.
Captain N'yvyan was reported missing after the
action at Zonnebeke on the 21st October.
For some time his fate was uncertain, but in
March, 1915, information was received from
the Foreign Office that Captain \'> vyan had
died, as stated above, while in the hands of the
Germans.
2nd LIEUTENANT SAMUEL SHORTER
ARTHUR WADE, 2nd BATTN.
LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT,
w a s h o r n on
tlie l.")tli .Ianviar\-,
lS7(i. at Great Yar-
mouth, and was the
sou of James and
M aria W a d e.
of that town. His
brother was Colour-
Sergeant J a m e s
Wade (Distinguished
Conduct JMedal for
South African War),
of the same
regiment. He was educated at the ll()si)ital
Boys' School, Great Yarmouth.
2nd Lieutenant Wade enlisted in May, 1895,
when he joined at Woolwich, afterwards serving
at the depot, where he wa.s for four yeai-s
Acting Schoohnaster in charge. He then
joined his battalion in South Africa for the
Boer Wai', receiving on its conclusion the war
medals. After retmnmg from South Africa,
he served with his battalion at various stations
at home and abroad, including Salisbury Plain,
Aldershot, Gibraltar, and Bermuda. He left
the latter for Halifax, Nova Scotia, aiiiving on
the 16th September, 1914, where the battalion
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awaited the arrival of the Canadian Contin-
gent, and sailed for Europe, reaching Plymouth
in October.
In the meantime he had received several steps
in promotion : Corporal, 1896 : Sergeant, 1899 ;
Colour-Sergeant, 1903 : Regimental Quarter-
master-Sergeant, January, 1914. He received
the Long Ser\'ice medal in 1913. Ho was highly
commended by the Commandant of the School
of Mounted Infantry at Longmoor, where from
1908-10 he acted as Sergeant- Major of the
Alounted Infantry Battalions.
He received his conunission on the 1st Novem-
ber, 1914, during the Great War. Subsequently
he was reported " missing," and is believed to
have been killed on the 8th December, 1914.
Mi-s. Ward received an appreciative letter of
sympathy from a Major of the battalion in
which he said : "I am afraid I can hold out no
hope that your husband is alive. You know
what a brave man he was. and when he heard
there was an attack he stayed and took part in
it. He charged with his company and did not
return, but his cap wa.s picked up with a bullet
through it. (Mrs. Wrtdc aftcnnirds rereivcd Ihr
(■(tj) from the front.) He had only joined this
battalion the night before in the treiiches. He
was a brave officer, and died doing more than his
duty, and is a great loss to the regiment."
A Private of his battalion wrote : " On the
night of the 8th December we made an attack
in the front of a wood at Kemmel. Mr. Wade
said to me, ' Come on, my lad : it only wants
one to lead,' and Mr. Wade and I set off, getting
well in front of the company. We got to a
German dummy trench, and I jumped in,
and IjTng down turned round looking for the
officer. I heard he was wounded, and asking if
he was attended to they said, ' No." and I got up
and retired to the officer, and got him out of the
trench and dressed him, seeing that he was hit
in the head, and in my idea the officer was dead
when I left him."
The British and German lines were so close
together that it was impossible to go out and
collect the dead and wounded.
2nd Lieutenant Wade was a good shot, having
taken part in all the regimental cup shoots
since 1904. He was also a certificated referee
for Association football.
He married, in September, 1S99. Rosina Frances,
daughter of Alice and Walter Raiuer Pitt, of
Great Yarmouth, and left two daughters :
Rose AUce, born July, 1900 ; and Vera Edna,
bom September, 1905.
2nd LIEUTENANT LEONARD PEN-
GELLY WAGHORN, 3rd BATTN. THE
QUEEN'S OWN (ROYAL WEST KENT
REGIMENT), who was killed at Ypres on
the (ith November, 1014. was born at 8,
Glenluce Road, Blackheath, on the 24th
January, 1891, the second son of Engineer-
Captain J. W. Wag-
horn, R.N.. D.Sc,
formerly Professor of
Physics at the Royal
Naval College, Green-
wich. He was
educated at the Pre-
paratory School,
Scaitcliffe, Englefleld
(Messrs. Morton and
Vlckers) : and at
Marlborovigh College.
He was a Lance-
Corporal in the O.T.C. (Cavalry). Intending
to enter the medical profession, he was
in his fourth year at Guy's Hospital when,
on the outbreak of the war, he volunteered
for active service, was given a commission in
tlie 3rd Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment,
in August, 1914, and was stationed at Chatham
for about six weeks, leaving for the front on the
3rd October. At the time of his death 2nd
Lieutenant Waghorn was serving with the 1st
Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal
Berkshire Regiment).
2nd LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY
CHAUNER WAINWRIGHT, 3rd (attd. 1st)
BATTN. NORTH AMPTONSHIRE REGT.,
secondsonof ^=c
Charles Henry Wain-
wright. J.P., Edg-
ware, ^liddlesex, and
Mrs. Wainwright,
was bom in London
on the 27th Janu-
ary, 1895. He was
educated at Stan-
more Park and Wel-
lington College,
Berks, where he was
in the Cricket XI
in 1911, 1912. and 1913; in the FootbaU
XV in 1912 ; and in the Rimning VIII in
1912 and 1913. He then went to Clare
College, Cambridge, where he had just finished
his first year, and had been elected Secretary to
the Clare College Cricket Club for 1915. when the
war with Germany broke out. and he was
gazetted to the 3rd Battalion Northampton-
shire Regiment in September, 1914. He trained
at Weymouth, proceeded to France in Novem-
ber, 1914, and w.is attached to the 1st Bat-
talion of his regiment.
He was wounded in a night attack to regain
some lost trenches on the 21st December, 1914,
near Givenchy, Rue de I'Epinette, leading on
his men after his Captain had been wounded,
and died the next evening in hospital.
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He nianied Ada Delamere Doveton Deane,
daughter of William John Deane and Mrs.
Deane, of Bath, and left two children : John
Leonard Grey Dudley, bom March, 1915,
posthiiuunisly : and Monica Vivian Grey Dudley,
bom Marcli. l!)i:5.
MAJOR HUGH ST. AUBYN WAKE,
M.V. O., 8th GURKHA RIFLES,
who was killed in
action on the 1st
November, 1914,
was the fourth son
of the late Admiral
Charles Wake, R.X.,
and of Mrs. Wake,
Helens, Sidmouth.
He was bom on the
•27th March. ISTO.
and was gazetted to
the Northumberland
FusUiers from t he
R.M.C., in May, 1891, becoming Lieutenant in
February, 1S93. In May, 1S95. he was transferred
to the Indian Staff Corps, and was promoted
Captain in the Indian Army in July, 1901.
In 1S97-98 he was on active service on the
north-western frontier of India, in the Tirah
I-;xpedition, for which he received the medal
with clasp.
Major Wake, who obtained his Majority in
May, 1909, married, in 1899, Kathleen Mary,
second daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward
Evans (Irigg, of Cuselea, Bedford, and left a
son and a daughter,
LIEUTENANT ROGER OWEN BIRK-
BECK WAKEFIELD, 1st BATTN.
PRINCESS VICTORIAS iROYAL IRISH
F U S I L I E R S ),
was the only son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
ward Wakefield, of
F a r n a g h . Moate,
County Westmeath,
and was bom there on
the 20th July, 1S92.
He was edvicated at
Moorland House,
Heswall and
Kepton School. He
shot in his school
team for the .\,shluirton Shield at Bisley, 1908,
and also won the Fry prize in the same year.
He went to the E.M.C.. Sandhurst, in February,
1911, and was gazetted to the Royal Irish
Fnsiliers in February, 1912, joining his bat-
talion at ShomcUffe. He was promoted Lieu-
tenant in January, 1914.
He left for France with his battalion, which
formed part of the 10th Brigade, IVth Division,
on the 21st August, 1914, and wa.s seriously
wounded on the 26th of that month at Coudry,
dying the nest day in the temporary hospital
there.
Lieutenant Wakefield was a good all-round
sportsman, was well placed in many cross-
country and hurdle races, and won seven point-
to-point races in 1913—14. He was also a keen
follower of hounds.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN HENRY
LYONS W.\LCOTT, 2 2nd KING
E D W .\ R D ' S OWN GURKHA
RIFLES THE SIR MOOR RIFLES),
who was killed in
action on the 2nd
November,1914,was
the only chUd of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert
C. S.Walcott. Tenby
Lodge, Cavendish
Road, Southsea.
He was bom on the
2nd May, 1894, and
was educated at
Christ's Hospital,
where he got his
cricket colours: and at the R.M.C.. Sauclluu^t.
where he also was in the cricket XL After
passing out with honours for the Indian Army,
he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in January,
1913, and attached to the 2nd Battalion
Leicestershire Regiment for the usvial pro-
bationary period. He was transferied to the
Indian Army in the early part of 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT CUTHBERT
TEMPLE WALDY'. 2nd B.\TTN. THE
PRINCE OF WALESS VOLUNTEERS
(SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT),
was born at
H o r s 1 e y, W o o d-
house, Derby, on the
31st August, 1891,
tlie son of the late
Rev. Arthur
G. Waldy, M.A..
Priest, Rector of
Yariii. and of ^Mre.
Waldy.
He was educated at
ilarlborough
College, and was
gazetted to the Special Reserve of (Jllicers in
August, 1912. In August, 1914, he was attached
to the 3rd Battalion Y'ork and Lancaster Regi-
ment, and in October joined the 2nd .South
Lancashire Regiment.
He was killed in action at Lorgies, near La
Bassee, on the 20th October, 1914. Before the
war he had been enaployed in Messrs. Huntley
and Pahner's Biscuit Factory, Reading. He was
a Lieutenant in the Church Lads' Brigade.
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CAPTAIN EDGAR WILMER WALKER,
3rd attd. 1st BATTN. EAST YORK-
SHIRE REGT.,
was born a t
Scarborough
on the 3rd August,
1875, the elder son
of Adiiiiial C. F.
Walker, of The Hall,
Beverley. East York-
shu'e, and a grand-
son of the late Sir
James Walker,
Bart., of Sand Hut-
ton, Y'ork.
.11 and BaUiol College,
a fourth class B.A..
Oxford,
i/ilui-at.
where
a at Kt.
he took
Lit. Hum., in 1898. At Eton he was in the
Fives Choices, and represented the University
at billiards. He subsequently entered the legal
pi-ofession. and was called to the Bar, Inner
Temple, in 1901, practising in tlie North
Eastern Circuit. He was in the Inns of Court
Volimteers, and entered the 1st Cadet Battalion
of the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment as
2nd Lieut<?nant, in March, 1903, joining the
Special Reserve (3rd BattaUon East Yorkshire
Regiment) as a Captain in 190.5. He liad been
Instructor of Musketry to liis battaUon.
He was killed in action on the 2Sth October.
1914, by shrapnel, near Armentieres, while
serving with the 1st BattaUon of his reghnent.
He married Charlotte Rankin, second daughter
of Sir Robert Maule. of Ashbrook. Edinburgli,
and left one son, Francis Robert, bom Febru-
ary, 1910.
Captain Walker, who belonged to the Con-
servative Club, London, and the Yorkshire
Club, Y'ork, was fond of sport, shooting, fishing,
golf, and motoring.
CAPTAIN OSWALD B E T H E L L
WALKER. l?th THi: KING'Si HUSSARS.
bom on the 28th
May, 1875, was the
eldest son of Captain
and Mrs. Edwyn Wal-
ker, of :MU1 ilount
House. Y'ork. and a
grandson ot.Sir James
Walker. Bart., of
Sand Hutton.
He was educated at
Eton, and was gazet-
ted to the 15th Hus-
sars from the Jlilitia
in September, 189(5, becoming Lieutenant in
July, 1897, and Captain in October, 1903.
After serving in India for ten years, he was
Adjutant of the Territorial Force (Yorkshire
Hussars) from October, 1908, to January, 1912.
having been ordered home to take up that ap-
pointment. Prior to the War breaking out he
had i-ejoined his regiment, and was in command
of a squadron when he left England with the
Expeditionary Force in August, 1914.
Captain Walker was reported niisslng in the
very early part of the war, and was after^vards
found to have been killed on the 23rd August,
1914. when the retirement from Mons com-
menced. Major W. B. Walker, Yorkshire
Regiment, a brother of Captain O. B. Walker,
was kUled near Ypres in October, 1914, and the
last surxiving brother was serving with the
Yorkshire Hussars.
He was a keen polo player and pig-sticker in
India, a fine rider, and an active follower to
hounds. He won his regimental race at Alder-
shot a few days after joining liis regiment, and
hunted with the Y'ork and Ainsty, the Boreham
Moor. and. for two seasons before his death,
with the Blackmore Vale Hounds.
Captain Walker married, in 1910, 3Iarcia
Eugenia, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. ilansel.
of Smedmore, Dorset, and left two children :
Lois Adeline, bom in February. 1912 : and
Consarde EUzabetli, bom in August, 1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT REGINALD
FYDELL WALKER. 2nd B .\ T T N.
MANCHESTER REGIMENT,
who died on the 21st October, 1914, of wounds
received in action, was the son of the Rev.
David Walker, Vicar of Darlington, and nephew
of the late General J. T. Walker. R.E.. C.B.,
F.R.S.. Siu'veyor-General of India.
He was educated at Shrewsbury, where he
was head of Mr. Ingram's House for over two
years, and played for the Football XI.
Thence he went to the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
from which he was gazetted to his regiment
in August. 1914, and at the end of that
month took a draft of reservists to the front.
He took part in the charge on Les Trois Maisons,
and his Company Commander wrote of him
that he " did most excellent work — so good,
indeed, that I had intended to bring his
name before the Commanding Officer. . . . Led
several bayonet charges, and inflicted very
heavy losses on the enemy." He fell mortally
wounded on the 20th October, 1914, and died
on the following day, aged twenty. (" The
Times," 17th November, 1914.)
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT WALTER ARTHUR
BEAUMONT W .\ L K E R . A R M Y
SERVICE CORPS, attd. 2nd B.\TTN. THE
BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT.
son of Richard Beaumont Walker, Ranchi.
Chota Nagpur, India, was bom at Dilrugahm,
Upper Assam, on the 24th JIarch, 1892.
He was educated at Bedford Grammar School,
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where he got his colours for the '2nd Rugby XV.
and also played in many matches for the
_^^^^^^^„,^^^^,^^_ First XV. He was
If^^^l^^^^^^^^^l keen on all outdoor
sports, and latterly
belonged to the
Rosslyn Park Foot-
baU Club.
lie joined the 3rd
Battalion Bedford-
shire Regiment as
2nd Lieutenant in
1912, obtaining his
step in May, 19U.
and on the outbreak
of war wa> altiu liid I'wi active service to the 2nd
Battalion, taking part with it in the retirement
from Mons and the subsequent battles of the
Mame, the Aisne, and La Bassee. While
defending a trench at the latter place on the
25th October, 1914, he was struck in the
abdomen by a rifle bullet, and died from his
wound on the 30th at Ha\Te.
2nd Lieutenant Walker used to say his motto was
"Blood and Iron," which he appeared to live
up to. He was never known to gnunble at
hardships or pain. WTien he was lying wounded
on a stretcher in a conununication trench for
several hours during the fighting he constantly
spoke cheerfully to the supports and reserves
who had to pass him on their way to the fire
trench.
In the " London Gazette " of the 13th October,
1914, Lieutenant Walker was appointed 2nd
Lieutenant in the A.S.C. to date from 14th
August, 1914, but continued to serve with his
origmal regiment until his death.
MAJOR WILFRED BECKETT WALKER.
2nd BATTN. .\LEXANDRA. PRINCESS
OFWALESS OWN (YORKSHIRE REGT.).
who was killed in
action near Vpres,
on the 29th October,
1914, was the second
son of Captain and
Mrs. Edwyn Walker,
of MiU !Mount House,
York, and was born
on the oth August,
1S76.
He joined the Y'ork-
shire Regiment in
Febiuary, 1897, and
became Lieutenant in October, 1S99. He
took part Ln the South African War, during
which he was employed with the Mounted
Infantry, and acted as Supply Oflieer for two
months, being present at operations in the
Orange Free State and the Transvaal from
1900-02. He was mentioned in Despatches
(" London Gazette," 17th January, 1902),
and received the Queen's medal with four clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
He was promoted Captain in June, 1904, and
Major in December, 1913.
His brother. Captain O. B. Walker, l.jth
Hussars, was killed m action on the 23rd
August, 1914.
2nd LIEUTENWNT D.WID STEPHEN-
SON W.\LLACE. RESERVE OF
OFFICERS, attd. 2nd BATTN. PRINCE
OF WALES'S VOLUNTEERS
(SOUTH LANC.\SHIRE REGIMENT),
born at North _
Shields, North- H
umberland, on the
22nd June, 1S90,
was the son of the
late WiUiam Wal-
lace, of that place,
and a grandson of
the late Cap-
taln Jolm Wilkin-
son, of Tynemouth.
He was educated at
Tynemouth Higli
School, and at Armstrong College. Durham
University, where he was a member of the
Students' Representative Council, and won his
'Varsity colours for football in 1909-10. He was
also a member of the University Officers*
Training Corps from 1908-10, becoming a
Sergeant in the latter year, and received a
commission in the Special Reserve, O.T.C.,
in 1912.
On mobilisation for the Great War he was called
up on the 7th August, 1914, and a few days
later sailed from Southampton with the first
part of the Expeditionary Force, landing at
Rouen. He was at the Battle of Mons. and
took part in the retirement thence, fighting at
.Solesmes, Le Gateau, St. Quentin, and the
Mame. being killed on the 20th September.
191 1. wliile attacking a hill at VaQly-sur- Aisne.
He was buried with two comrades at tliat place.
The Captain of his company gave the following
particulars to his sister : " He was a splendid
fellow, absolutely fearless, . . . and took part
in the awful retirement, marching nearly three
hundred miles. Always cheerful and well Uked
by his men. . . . His regiment, which was in
support, had to retake a hill where the Germans
had got through. He went forward with his
men, and was shot through the head in his
attempt to get some men into a good fighting
position. We regained the hill, but lost nine
officers, killed and woimded."
His sister received many letters of sympathy
from several of the University professors and
societies.
2nd Lieutenant Wallace played football for
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several seasons for the Percy Park Football
Club, North Shields, and vva-s captain of the
club in the final for the Northumberland Cup.
1913-14.
2nd LIEUTENANT HAROLD BRUCE
WALLACE, 3rd (attd. Istl BATTN.
THE KINGS (LIVERPOOL REGIMENT).
son of the late Dr.
James K. Wallace,
of Calcutta. India,
was bom there on
the 2tth September,
1893. He was edu-
cated at Dulwich
College, where he
I wa-s in the Second
llRi Jfic^ ^^ ' *'^'^ joined the
7^m ML-^ XiiWLk 3rd Battalion of
his regiment
in December. 1913,
uhii wa-- iiltac lifd lu thi' 1st Battalion as 2nd
Lieutenant in August, 1914.
In the Great War, wliile leading the men of his
platoon in an attack upon the village of Noord
Westhoek, Belgium, a few miles from Ypres,
he was killed on the 26th October. 1914.
The Jlajor of his battalion, writing to his
relatives, said : " He had only been witli us a
short time, but had done well, showed great
promise, and took such an interest in his work."
CAPTAIN SIR FRANCIS ERNEST
WALLER, BART., 6th (attd. 4th)
BATTN. THE ROYAL FUSILIERS
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT),
who was killed in action on the 25th October.
1914, succeeded his fatlier, Major-General Sir
G. H. Waller, sometime Colonel of the 7th
FusQiers, as fourth Baronet in 1892.
He was born on the lltli June, 1880, and was
educated at Harrow (Head blaster's House,
1894-98). He joined the Army in AugiLst, 1899,
and served in the South African War, in which
he was severely wounded. He took part in the
relief of Ladysmith, including the action at
Colenso. was present at operations on the
Tugela Heights and actions at Pieter's Hill,
and at operations in Natal, the Transvaal, and
Cape Colony, receiving the Queen's medal
with five clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps.
He retired from the Regular Army in January,
1908, wlien he joined the 6th Battalion of his
regiment, and rejoining for the war wa.s posted
to the 4th Battalion.
In 1913 he was High Sheriff, and was Deputy-
Lieutenant for the County of Warwick. He is
succeeded in the title by his brother, Wathen
Arthur Waller, bom October, 1881.
CAPTAIN RICHARD HOPE
WALLER, p. s. c, 38 th DOG R AS,
was the eldest son of
Mr. R.M.Waller (late
I.C.S.)andMrs. Wal-
ler. Rathmore, Bray,
Ireland. His family
is a branch of the
Wallers, of Castle-
town Manor, County
Limerick.
He was bom on the
4th July, 1877, and
was educated at .Mr.
Strangway's School
in Dublin and Dr. Crau lc\ 's in tin- same city.
He then went to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, from
wliich he passed with honours, and was gazetted
to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in February,
1898, becoming Lieutenant in October, 1899.
In September, 1900, he was transferred to the
Indian Army, in which he became Captain in
February, 1907. He served witli the Waziristau
Expedition. N.W. frontier of India, 1901-02, for
which he received the medal with clasp. He
officiated as Adjutant at the Delhi Durbar, in
.August, 1903. receiving the medal, and he also
served as Adjutant of his Regiment.
In August, 1914, he was appointed D.A.A.G. of
the Vllth Division I.E.F., and afterwards be-
came Staff Captain to Brigadier-General Tighe,
Commanding the Force attacking German East
Africa. At the attack on Tanga, in German
East Africa, on the 3rd November, 1914, being
Staff Captain, he was sent by the General OtTicer
Commanding to give the order to retire, when he
was hit twice, but went on and gave the order,
and was then shot dead.
Captain Waller married Ethel May, daughter of
Captain J. Liddell. R.N.. of Rodlease. Boldre,
Hants, and left a son, John Patrick, born
December, 1909.
LIEUTENANT HENRY DIGBY
WALLIS, SPECIAL RESERVE, attd.
3rd BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS.
who was killed in action at St. Julien on the
21st October, 1914, was the only son of Aubrey
Wallis, of Drisham Castle, iMillstreet, County
Cork. Ireland, and was born at Auckland, New
Zealand, on the 3rd Jime, 1885.
He was educated at Wellington College, and
joined the Royal Scots on probation, but re-
signed and travelled abroad for some time,
afterwards becoming a 2nd Lieutenant in the
Special Reserve Coldstream Guards in March,
1912, and was promoted Lieutenant in Sep-
tember. 1914. For the Great War he was
attached to the 3rd Battalion, which went to
France with the Ilnd Division. British Ex-
peditionary Force.
Lieutenant Wallis was a fine horseman, a good
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t'oui-in-hauil whip, played polo, rode in many
point-to-point races, and whipped in to the
Duhallow Hounds, and also the Four Burrno.
LIEUTENANT RICHARD WALMESLEY,
3rd (attd 2nd) BATTN. ALEXANDRA,
PRINCESS OF WAL ESS OWN (YORK.
SHIRE REGT.),
was born on
the 21st November,
1890, in London. He
was the son of John
Wahnesley, Esq., of
The Hall of Ince,
Lancashire,
and of Lucknam,
Chippenham,
Wilts, and the
grandson of the late
Colonel B . B .
llaui.illi-Hii'iili ■'! Haworth Hall, Hull, and,
Kolstoii Hall. Hornsea, Yorks.
Lieutenant Wahnesley wa-s educated at Eton
and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was
gazetted to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion
of the Yorkshire Kegunent on the 13th August,
1910, being promoted Lieutenant in May, 1912;
in August, 1914, he was attached to the 2nd
Battalion, and proceeded with it early in
October to Belgimn, landing at Zeebrugge,
thence marching to the defence of Ypres.
He «as killed instantaneously by a sniper
(being one of the first of the regiment to fall)
in a trench on the 21st October, and was buried
next day close to where he fell, about six or
eight miles from Ypres. He had shown much
courage in action, and was much beloved by
liis uien, of whom he had proved a great leader.
He was devoted to hoi-ses and hunting. In
the winter of 1912-13 he had lieen Master of
the Cambridgeshire Harriers, and hmited with
the Quorn, Belvoir, and the Cottesmore, 1913-14,
where he was one of the hardest and most fear-
less riders. He was unmarried.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD J. CORMAC-
WALSHE, 2nd BATTN. PRINCE
OF WALES'S LEINSTER REGI-
MENT (ROYAL CANADIANS),
who died on
the oth November,
1914, of wounds re-
ceived in action, was
a younger son of
Edward Cor-
mac - Walshe, J. P.,
D.L.. of Castle Hill,
C r o s s m o 1 i n a ,
County >layo, and
was born in 1892.
He was educated at
Stonyhurst,
wheie he was captain of the Cadet Corps, and
was in the Cricket XI. He then went to Trinity
College, Dublin, and took liis B..\. degree there.
He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in August,
1913, to date from January, 1912, becoming
Lieutenant in May, 1913, three months after
joining.
The following account of the circumstances
attending his death was published in the
" Stonyhui-st Jlagazinc " of December, 1914 :
" Lieutenant Cormac- Walshe w'as badly wounded
at Fremesques, about three miles from Lille. He
had previously been for two weeks in the fighting
line on the Aisne. In the action in which he was
wounded his regiment was directed to hold some
trenches against superior numbers at all costs.
On the 21st October a strong force of the enemy
developed a surprise attack on the British line,
with the result that the Leinsters suffered
heavily, two Captains being killed, and Lieu-
tenant Cormac-^^'aLshe being mortally wounded
in the head." He Ls buried at Boulogne.
2nd LIEUTENANT SYDNEY WALTER.
1st BATTN. GRENADIER GU.\RDS.
who w;is killed in
action near J'lruiseik
on the 25th October.
1914, was the only
son of Mr. Goilfrey
Walter, of MaLshan-
ger, Hants, by his
marriage with Edith
Elizabeth, fifth
daughter of the late
Mr. Robert Abel
Smith, of Goldings,
Herts.
He was born on the 10th Marcli, 1893, and was
educated at Eton and the E.M.C., Sandhurst,
from which he was gazetted to the Grenadier
Guards in February, 1913. His battalion,
which formed part of the 20th Brigade, Vllth
Division, mobilized at Lyndhurst, and. having
embarked on the 4th October, landed at
Zeebiugge on tlie 7th of that month.
2nd LIEUTENANT EDWARD CHARLES
WALTERS, 3rd (RESERVEl attd. 1st
BATTN. GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGT.,
who was killed in action on the 22nd December.
1914. was the youngest son of the late Rev.
Frank Bridgman Walters, M.A.. Fellow of
Queens' College, Cambridge, and I'rincipal of
King William's College, Isle of Man, and of the
late Mrs. Waltei's, of Broadstone, Dorset.
He was educated at Cheltenham College, and
was a scholar of Keble College, Oxford. 2nd
Lieutenant Walters, who was twenty-four
years of age, was gazetted to the 3rd Batt-alion
Gloucestershire Regiment on probation in
August, 1914.
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LIEUTENANT
WALTON, 1st
RICHARD CRAWHALL
BATTN. 9th GURKHA
RIFLES,
was the elder son of
Mr. Richard Walton,
of Croxteth Grove.
Liverpool, and wa.s
born at Clifton on
the 1st March, 1880.
He wa-s educated at
Livei-pool College,
passing therefrom in
1905 to Sandhurst,
where he was third
on the list in that
half-year's entrance examinations. A year
later Lieutenant Walton pa.ssed out second in
order of merit, with honours, and was placed
first of the Cadets for the Indian Army, winning
the coveted Norman medal, then presented for
the first time. Upon this Lieutenant Walton
received the personal congratulations of Field-
Marshal Lord Roberts. He was attached to the
1st Battalion Prince of Wales's Own West
Torkshii-e Regiment, then in India, and a year
later was posted to the 9th Gurklias.
During liis service in India he continued to
achieve success in all his examinations, attain-
ing distinction in Mtisketry and Machine Gun
courses, and a special certificate as Instructor
in Army Signalling. He was a highly qualified
surveyor, and as such acted as Staff Officer
during the survey of the Ya-ssin Valley, and
on one occasion as Compensation Officer during
cavalry manoeuvres.
Wliilst at Sandliurst Lieutenant Walton ob-
tained a shooting prize, and later was bracketed
first in the regimental shooting competition
of the Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire
Reghnent. He was an all-round sportsman,
and when in garrison at Cliitral engaged in big-
game shooting, fine specimens of marklior,
oorial, taiir, black and red bear. deer, and
leopard being amongst his trophies. He was
also an expert horseman and polo player, and
was considered one of the best judges of ponies
on his station. He rode Mr. Lee's "Ringette,'' the
winnerofthe MurreeCup.atGharial Races inl907.
Lieutenant Walton came to Europe with the
Indian Expeditionary Force for the Great War,
and saw much of the fighting. He was killed
in action on the 7th November, 191-1, and was
buried near Neuve Chapelle.
Referring to Lieutenant Walton, his Commanding
Officer, wrote : '" He was universally beloved by
men and officers." A more appropriate and
soldierly tribute to the character of a fallen
officer could scarcely be made than that with
which his Commanding Officer concludes
his account of the death of Lieutenant
Walton : " He fell beside the Maxim gun he
was working."
2nd LIEUTENANT ARTHUR WARD,
1st BATTN. THE KING'S
(LIVERPOOL REGIMENT),
was killed in action on the 17th October,
191-t. This junior officer, who received his
conmiission from the ranks of the Royal Welsh
Fusiliers, in which he was a Lance- Sergeant,
had the vmique but sad experience of giving his
life for his country on the very day on which he
became an officer, for the " London Gazette "
of the 16th October, 1914, notified his appoint-
ment as 2nd Lieutenant, to date from the 17th
October, 1914.
CAPTAIN ARTHUR CLAUD WARD.
D.S.O., 2nd BATTN. LANCASHIRE
FUSILIERS. ,^^^^^^^^^^r
who was bom at '^^^^^^^^^^^^^■'
R osl y n Hall,
Jamaica, West In-
dies, on the 15th
April. 1878. was the
third son of Colonel
the Hon. C. J. Ward,
C.M.G. His great-
great-grandfather on
the maternal side
was J. Z. Holwell,
Governor of Fort
William, Calcutta, famni- i..i lu> l.iav,-iy and
leadership of the gallant defence of the old
Fort of Calcutta in June, 175(5. He survived
the horrors of the Black Hole, and erected a
monument to those who perished. He died in
London in 1798 at the age of eighty-seven.
Captain Ward was educated at Beaumont
College, Old Windsor, and joined the 6th
(MUitia) Battalion of the Lancasliire Fusiliers
in 1899. He served in the South African War
in 1900. being present at operations in Cape
Colony, for which he received the Queen's
medal with two clasps and a conmiission in the
Lancashire Fusiliers (Regulai-s). as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in AprU, 1900 : he was promoted Lieu-
tenant in February, 1901, and Captain in March,
1910.
In 1901 and 1903 he was seconded for service
under the Colonial Office, taking part in the
Am and Igarra Expeditions \^-ith the 3rd South
Nigerian Frontier Force. For his services he
was mentioned in Despatches (" London
Gazette," 2Sth October, 1904), received the
D.S.O. and the African General Service medal
with three clasps.
In the Great War there was a sudden attack
on the 12th Infantry Brigade, of which his bat-
talion formed part, near Cambrai at dawn on
the 26th Augtist, 1914, forty-eight hours after
landing in France, by an overwhelmingly
superior force of the enemy, and it was
smothered by machine-gun fire. The battalion
held on most gallantly, but had scarcely any
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artillery to assist tlieiii.and had not time to dig
themselves in. Captain Ward was killed instan-
taneously while trying to assist two wounded
Subalterns.
Captain Ward, who was a nienibcr of the Naval
and Military Club, married Kuby, daughter of
R. W. Mansbridge, Esq., of Staines, and left
two children : Daphne, age six : and Audrey,
age three years.
LIEUTENANT - COLONEL BERTRAM
EDMUND WARD, COMMANDING
1st BATTN. THE DUKE OF
CAMBRIDGE'S OWN (MIDDLESEX
I, REGIMENT),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H F e r m o y ,
Cork. Ireland, on
tlie 7th December,
1863, was the son of
the late Major Ed-
mund Ward, 107th
Hi'ginient, and Mrs.
Ward {nee Ogle),
granddaughter
of the late Rev.
Jolm Savile Ogle,
of Kirkl)y. Nortlnmibcrland. He was educated
at Brighton College and the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
where he was a Queen's Cadet. He joined
the ^Middlesex Regiment as Lieutenant in
May, 1882, and became Captain in 1890.
From 1887 to 18913 lie was Superintendent of
Gynmasia for the Scottish District. From
May, 1892, to IMay, 1897, he was Adjutant of
the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion Surrey N'olunteers ;
and from September, 1898, to September,
1901, was Superintendent of Gymnasia, Cork
District.
In 18514. 1.S95, and 1891) he had the entire
charge of arranging and carrying out the com-
bined display at the Royal Military Tourna-
ment at Islington, and in January, 1912,
organised and managed the Alilitary Tourna-
ment and the Torchlight Tattoo at Calcutta
on the occasion of the visit of '^Pheir Majesties
the King and Queen, for which he was per-
sonally complimented by His Majesty, and
received the Durbar medal.
He obtained his Alajority in 1901, and succeeded
to the command of his battalion on the 1st
September, 1910. His normal period of com-
mand being about to expire, he had been
appointed Commandant of the Army School of
Music, Kneller Hall, but because of the war he
was retained in the command of his battalion.
He was mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatches of the 8th October, 1914, and the
14th .Tanuary, 191.5. and had been recommended
for further promotion. He was wounded on the
aist October, 1914, at La Boutillerie, and died
on the following day in an ambulance train on
the way to Boulogne, where he was buried.
The Brigadier-General, the Hon. P. Gordon, on
hearing of Lieutenant-Colonel Ward's death,
wrote to the Oflicer Commanding 1st Battalion
as follows : " His was a very lovable, bright,
and brave spirit. .Tust .such a man to command
with credit a battalion which long ago earned
the name of ' Die-hards.' I respected and liked
Colonel Ward as a loyal-hearted, modest soldier
and good friend. For such a man death, as
we know it, can have no terror."
Ijeutenant-Colonel Ward was a member of the
DuhaUowand United Hunt Clubs when stationed
in Ireland, and was a keen fisherman and
yachtsman.
He married, in 1891, Florence Isabelle, daughter
of the late A. Fitz-Gibbon, Esq., M.I.C.E.,
and left two children : Randall Murray Ber-
tram, born 1894, afterwards 2nd Lieutenant in
the Army Service Corps : and Kathleen Hazel,
born 1897.
2nd LIEUTENANT JACK BOUVERIE
MALLAM WARD, 2nd BATTN.
OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCKING-
HAMSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY,
who was kill(Ml in . ,
action on the I III
November, 1911,
aged nineteen, was
the second son of
Frank Ward.
" W^allasey," Cater-
h a 111 , Surrey. He
was educated at
Marlborough College
(Littk-ru-ld. 1909-10),
and at the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, from
which he was gazetted to his regiment in
Augustr, 1914, joining the 2nd Battalion at the
front.
2nd LIEUTENANT NEVILLE
LASCELLES WARD, 1st BATTN.
EAST SURREY REGIMENT,
was born at Bassein,
B n r m a h , o n
the 17th Decemlier,
1893, the son of
Henry Branson and
Nora Grace Ward.
He owed his nanus
to the fact that he
was descended from
the Nevilles of the
north , who intermar-
ried with the Wards
mentioned in
" ViaCrucis." Hisgrandmothor was a Lascelles,
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who was a granddaughter of General Lascelles,
of the Court of (Jeorge IV. Lieutenant Ward's
paternal grandfather was a Judge in India.
ha\'ing belonged to the !Madras Civil Service,
and his maternal greatrgrandfather was in the
Ceylon Ci^•il Service.
He was educated at BlundeU's School, Tiverton,
Devonshire, where he was in the cricket and
football teams, ha^-ing been captain of the
latter in 1911 : and at the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
He obtained his commission as 2nd Lieutenant
in the 1st East Svirrey Regiment in January.
1914.
After holding a bridge-head with small numbers
of other troops for a whole day against very
superior numbers of the enemy, he was killed
while charging with a few men of his platoon
in a little \Tllage called Boussy, near ilons.
on the 23rd August, 1914, and was thus one of
the officers killed verv earlv in the war.
2nd LIEUTENANT EDWARD ROBERT
WARING, 1st BATTN. KINGS ROYAL
RIFLE CORPS,
who was killed in
action on the 2Sth
October, 1914, aged
twenty, was the
younger son of Cap-
tain and -Mrs. Waring,
of Beenham House,
Berksliire.
He was educated at
Wellington (Stanley,
1908-10), and was
gazetted to the .5th
Battalion Kiuy:'s Itoyal Rifle Corps in October.
1913, being promoted Lieutenant in June, 1911.
He was granted a commission as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the 1st Battalion in September, 1914.
CAPTAIN WILFRID PICTON-WARLOW\
WELSH REGIMENT, AND FLIGHT
COMM.\NDER ROYAL FLYING CORPS,
MILITARY WING,
was born at Lales-
ton, Bridgend,
Glamorganshire, on
the 6th April, 1884,
the younger son of
Colonel John Pic-
ton Turbervill,
E w e n n y Priory,
Bridgend. and a
great - grandnephew
of General Sir
Thomas Pic ton,
G.C.B., who was killed at Waterloo.
Captain Picton-Warlow was educated at Clifton
College, and joined the Welsh Regiment from
the Guernsey Militia in January, 1903, becoming
Lieutenant in November, 1906, Captain in his
regiment in June, 1913, and serving with his
battalion in India and South Africa.
He joined the Royal Flj-ing Corps in August,
1913. On the 20th December, 1914, he left
St. Omer, France, to fly to Dover, was seen
passing over Calais, but after that was never
seen or heard of again.
HERBERT MOLINE
1st B .\ T T N . EAST
REGIMENT,
CAPTAIN
WARNER.
LANCASHIRE
was the son
of Herbert Warner,
and was bom at
Sheffield on the 13th
January, 1889.
He was educated at
WeUington College,
and joined the East
Lancashire
Regiment as
2nd Lieutenant in
November,
1909. becoming Lieu-
tenant in December, 1911. He was promoted
Captain in November, 1914.
On the 14th November lus lung was pierced
by a piece of shrapnel in a trench, near Le
(iheer, and he died in No. 2 Clearing Hospital
at Bailleul. on the Kith November. 1914.
Captain Warner married Marjorie V., daughter
of Lieutenant-Colonel Raveuhill, R.F.A. He
left no familv.
LIEUT.-COLONEL DAWSON WARREN.
Commanding 1st B.\TTN. THE QL EENS
(ROYAL WEST SURREY REGlMENTi,
was killed in action -— _
on the 17th Sep-
tember, 1914.
The only son of the
late Major - (ieneral
Dawson Stockle)'
Warren. C . B . ,
Prince of Wales's
Own (West Y'ork-
shlre Regiment), he
was bom on the 8tli
June. 1865. and edu-
cated at Cheltenham
College and the K.M.C., Saudliui-st. wliich he
entered as an Honorary Queen's Cadet. He
joined the Queen's Regiment in August, 1885, as
Lieutenant, and became Captain in April,
1895. He took part in the Burmese Expedition
of 1885-87, for which he received the medal
with clasp.
While in India Lieut. -Colonel Warren held some
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Staff appomtmeiits, airliiij^ as Assistant to the
D.A.A.G. at Kasauli for nearly a year, and as
Officiatins Deputy Assistant Adjiitant-tJeneral
of the Southern Army in India, beiiij; at
the Sc)iool of Musketry, Paeluuarhi, for several
months, while holdiui; that appointment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Warren compiled the .Mus-
ketry Scoring Book, now in general use in the
.\rm\ . lie was promoted Major in March, 1903,
and. liavinsr succeeded to the coiiunand of his
battalion in .Marcli. 1913, left Entjland in August,
1914, with the 1st Division of flu- British
Expeditionary Force.
L I E U T E N A.N T JAMES BOOKER
BROUGH WARREN, 1st (attd.2nd)BATTN.
BORDER REGT.,
son of J. Brough
Warren, Esq., wa.s
born on the 3rd
April, 1,S,S9
He \\as educated at
Oundle School and
Tiinity College, Dub-
lin, where he took
his degree of B.A.
in 1900, with honouis
in French.
He received
his commission in the Border Regiment as a
University candidate in September, antedated
to March, 1910, and was promoted Lieutenant
in October, 1912. When serving with his bat-
talion in Burma he \\'as for some time in com-
mand of the Mounted Infantry at Maymyo.
He was an enthusiastic sportsman, and was
distinguished as a first-class hurdler. He
created a school record, and while at Dublin
University won the Inter-"\'arsity race, and was
second in the International. He was also a fine
polo player.
He had been home on leave from Burma tor
three weeks when the war broke out, and was
posted for active service to tlie 2nd Battalion,
leaving for the front early in October, 1914.
with the Vllth Division. A brother officer gave
the following account of the circumstances
attending his death : " Your son was kUled in
action on the afternoon of Sunday, October 2.jth.
1914, at 5 o'clock, when holding an entrenched
position at Kruiseik, east of Ypres. He had
been reconnoitring out to the front of his
trenches, and had just returned when a shell
burst in the trench immediately beside him,
and killed hin^ instantaneously."
Mrs. Warren received a very sympathetic
letter from the Officer Conunanding the young
officer's late battalion in Burma, expressing
the regret of all his brother officers at their loss,
and his own appreciation of his professional
qualifications and character.
2nd LIEUTENANT V. WATERFALL, 3rd
BATTN. EAST YORKSHIRE REGT.,
AND ROYAL FLYING CORPS (M.W.),
was sliown in the . , _ _ .-:^„
monthly official
castialty list i)ul)-
lished in October.
1914, as having been
" reported (unoffici- ' -mi^ jg^ \
ally) killed in '» g^
action," no place oi- \ "W"
date being given.
He w;i-s gazetted to
the 3id Battalion ,^
East Yorkshire Kegi- \
ment in January,
1912, and was appointed to ihe .Military Wing
of the Koyal Flying Corps in August, 1914.
2nd LIEUTENANT ARVED WATER-
HOUSE, 3rd (RESERVE) attd. 1st BATTN.
THE KING'S OWN (ROYAL LAN-
CASTER REGT.),
who was born at
Vienna on the 4tli
October, 1891, was
the son of the lat<?
Dr C. H. Water-
house, of Ijiverpool.
He lost his
jiarents when he was
still very young, and
was brought up by
his uncle and aunt,
the late Rev. Canon
and Mrs. Herbert Woodward of Liverpool, and
after their death by his aunt. Miss S. AI. Water-
house, who then resided at Shenstone, Kendal.
He was educated privately and at Oriel College,
Oxford, where he took his degree of B.A.,
History Honours in 1913, Diploma in Economics
in 1914, and in the latter year won the challenge
cup for Sculling. At the University he joined
the O.T.C., was connected with the Oxford and
Bermondsey Mission, and wa-s a member of the
Christian Union. Oxford. He was a life mendjer
of tlie Oxford Union. He belonged to the Con-
servative Club, Kendal, and to the Windermere,
Kendal, and Radley (Oxford) Golf Clubs. He
also played tennis and enjoyed all outdoor
l)ursuits.
The Provost of Oriel wrote of liini : " lie had
won the respect and affection of us all. He was
a steady influence for good among his fellows.
He set himself to realise a high standard in
conduct, so that he was an example and an
encouragement." The Dean of Oriel wrote of
him in the same strain. The influence of his
home life, and especially of his uncle. Canon
Herbert Woodward, had great effect in the
formation of his strong character, an influence
he always gratefully recognised.
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On the outbreak of the war with Germany he
was in camp with the Oxford and Bermondsey
Mission near Lowestoft. Being anxious to
serve his country, he at once hastened home
and applied for a commission, as he was entitled
to do, having obtained his certificates " A "
and "■ B " while in the O.T.C. He was gazetted
to the 3rd Battalion Koyal Lancaster Regiment
on the 21st August, and went to Saltash for
training. On the 26th September he sailed for
France, and was at St. Xazaire till the Sth
October, when he left for the fighting line.
He was killed in the first engagement on the
13th October, 1914, while leading and directing
his men in the taking of iteteren. near Haze-
brouck, France.
The following details are extracted from a letter
of Captain Hodgson, his Company Commander :
'■ The battalion, with two others, was ordered
to attack the village of ifeteren, a few miles
west of Bailleul, and my company was
advancing in four lines, one behind the
other, with about two hundred yards interval,
well extended. Waterhonse was in charge of
the last line. The attack succeeded by nightfall,
and the three first lines got more or less collected,
but the fovu1;h ( Waterhouse's ) platoon was
missing. At first it was hoped he was safe, as
it appeared the Colonel had sent his platoon to
reinforce the Warwickshire Regiment on the
left of the line. Later it was discovered th;it he
had got his platoon right up to the front line
when he was killed by a fragment of shell whUe
leading and directing his men."' He concluded
by saying what a great loss his death was to
himself and the regiment.
Another officer wrote : " Waterhouse was
thought verj' much of by the officers of the
regiment, although he was only with them for
ashort time:" and an officer on the Headquarters
Staff of the 3rd Army Corps, who sent his
aunt photographs of his grave, said : "' I heard
from my friends in the regiment at the time
how gallantly he behaved that day. and how
much they regretted his loss.'"
Writing a farewell letter to his aunt from
Southampton on his way out, 2nd Lieutenant
Waterhouse said : " I sat on the quay and
thought about the future, and wondered what
it would bring forth. What a comfort our
faith is at a time like this. . . . Let us remember
that, whether we live or whether we die. we
are the Lord's. He suffered m.uch more for us
than we can ever be called upon to suffer,
either for Him or for our country. ... I look
upon this war as a holy one. ... A war for
righteousness, for liberty, and for peace, and
one that it is a great privilege to be able to
take part in."
This officer's career affords another instance of
a man giving up hi? natural bent to assist in
his covmtry's cause.
e*j
LIEUTENANT EDGAR LEAKE
WATERIDGE. 2nd BATTN.
LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT,
bom at Shrewsbury ^
on the ISth July.
1S92. was the second
son of Mr. Frederick
WiUiain Wateridge,
of Marche Manor.
Shroijshire. late head
of the ftrni of Wm.
Hall Wateridge
and Owen, Shrews-
bury.
His education was
comxnenced at Mr.
Deedes's School. Millmead, from which he went
to Rossall. where he remained till he was
eighteen, and on leaving, studied for the Arm^y.
He was gazetted to the Antrim Royal Garrison
Artillery in October, 1912, and was stationed at
Londonderry and various forts in the B.G.A.
North Iri~h Coast Defences, where he continued
his studies, being finally gazetted from the
Special Reserve to the Leicestershire Regiment
as 2nd Lieutenant in May, 1913. After serving
a few months with his battalion at Fermoy,
he proceeded with it to India, and was with
it at Rhaniket when the war with Germany
broke out. Tlie battalion left for France early
in October, and soon after arrival at Marseilles,
was ordered to the front, and arrived in the
trenches by the end of October.
Lieutenant Wateridge was killed on the 21st
November. 1914, at Richebourg I'Avoue, near
Bethune. France. He was shot at close range,
having fearlessly volimteered to locate a for-
midable sap-head at midnight with a N.C.O.
and two men. He had accomplished his self-
imposed duty, and was returning, when a
volley was fired from the enemy's trench, and
he was the first to fall.
It was assumed the body was taken by the enemy,
for in spite of an immediate attempt to find it,
in a search during the whole night, it was never
recovered.
Lieutenant Wateridge, who only got his step
a week before he was killed, was a keen sports-
man, a bold and straight rider across country,
and an excellent shot. He had endeared
himself to all ranks of his regiment.
2nd LIEUTENANT HORACE HOLMES
W ATKINS. 3rd attd. 1st BATTN.
SOUTH WALES BORDERERS,
who was killed in action on the 21st
October, 1914, was the sixth son of Thomas
Watkins, Solicitor, of The Wem, Pontypool,
Monmouthshire, and Fanny Maria, his wife.
He was bom on the 31st January, 1S91.
at Castle Parade House, Usk, Monmouthshire,
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and was educalod at West Moniiioutli School,
Pontj'pool, and afterwards at Monmouth
Oraniiiiar School,
where he won and
held school scholar-
ships during liis
stay. Thence he pro-
ceeded to Hertford
College, Oxford,
where he won an
Exhibition and took
a leaving one from
Monmouth. He took
second-class honours
in Jloderations and
Greats at Oxford (double second).
At Monmouth Granunar School he was a 2nd
Lieutenant in the Cadet Corps, and a Colour-
Sergeant in the O.T.C. at Oxford. He obtained
Certificates " A " and " B," qualifying him for
a commission, and also a qualification in
Musketry at a course which he attended on his
own initiative one summer. As a Recruiting
Sergeant he had no equal, and, entering the
O.T.C. as a real preparation for the crisis, his
arguments, explained to everyone in the Col-
lege at personal inter\-iews, doubled the size of
the Hertford Detachment during the two years
he worked in it.
He was one of the first to appear before the
Nominating Board at Oxford in August, 1914,
and received his commission as 2nd Lieutenant
on probation in the 3rd Battalion South Wales
Borderers in that luontb, being attached to the
1st Battalion for active ser\'ice.
He was an athlete of some repute. At Monmouth
he represented his school at cricket, Rugby
football, and hockey, and rowed in the school
boat. At Oxford he played hockey for the
University, obtaining his half blue, and playing
for the winners in the Inter-'Varsity match
the season before his death. He also repre-
sented his college at Rugby and Association
football, hockey, tennis, and in the Torpid.
When killed he was leading his platoon. No. 4,
from Langemarck village to a frontal attack
over some open ground, the only cover being
that afforded by the beet and turnip leaves. He
was hit by two bullets, both entering the abdo-
men, and the back of his neck was also blown
away by a .shell, but it is said this occurred
after death.
2nd Lieutenant Wat kins had no fewer than
seven brothers serving or preparing to serve
in His Majesty's forces, one of whom. Captain
Vivian Holmes Watkins, 1 /2nd Battalion
Monmouthshire Regunent (T.F.), was wounded
in January, 1915, and died from his wound the
following February ; a second. Captain H.
Holmes Watkins, 2 /2nd Battalion Monmouth-
shire Regiment (T.F. ), was stationed at Bed-
ford : a third was a Private in the Canadian
Horse : two others applied for commissions, one
in the Royal Engineers, and the other in the
Royal Artillery ; while the sixth was at Hertford
College, Oxford, in the O.T.C, and also apjilied
for a connnission : a seventh was attested
under liord Derby's scheme : and an eighth
was rejected mi innlical urciuuds.
2nd LIEUTENANT ERNEST GUTHRIE
WATSON, RESERVE OF OFFICERS, attd.
2nd BATTN. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S
(SOUTH LANCA-
VOLUNTEERS,
SHIRE REGT.),
was born at (iates-
head. Durham, on
the 6th .Tune, ISOd.
and was the son of
J o li n ^\' a t s o n .
Cliief Engineer.
M.F.A.. of Black-
toft, and Eliza Emily
\\'atson. He was a
grandson of the late
William Tin^ms. an
old tradesman, of
Bainard Castle and Darlington.
2nd Lieutenant Watson was educated at Arm-
strong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and was
for four yeai-s in the Officers' Training Corps.
He was first appointed to the Reserve of C)fTicers,
O.T.C, in August, 1912, and, being called up
on tlie :5rd August. 1914, was attached as
2nd Lieutenant to the 2nd Battalion South
Lancashire Regiment, accompanying it to
France with the Expeditionary Force, in
which it formed part of the 7th Brigade,
Ilird Division. He was killed in action at the
Battle of the Aisne on the 19th September. 1914.
Jlr. and Mrs. Watson received many appreciative
letters of sympathy from the authorities of
Armstrong College and others regarding their
son.
Professor Wright, of the Department of Edu-
cation. .\rmstrong College, wrote: "He left
a favourable and intei-esting impression on our
minds for his steadiness and for his loyalty.
We are proud of the sacrifice he made for Eng-
land in her time of need."
The Durham University Officers' Training
Corps heard with deep regret of the sad death
of an old member.
The Honorarj' Secretary of tlie Old Students'
Union of the University of Durham, said :
" The college is honoured in having so gallant
a son."
The Director of Education wrote : " He will
still live in the memory of the community as
an efficient servant and as a self-sacrificing
citizen of the State."
A Private of his battalion (Clugston), wounded
in the same bayonet charge, said : " While we
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were reinforcing the Worcester and Wiltshire
Regiments, when ordered to charge the German
trenches. Lieutenant Watson got killed."'
2nd Lieutenant Watson was an artist, and at the
time of his death had four of his pictures hung
in the Laing Art Gallerj- of Water Colours.
MAJOR WILLIAM ERNEST
WATSON. D . S . O . . 6th D R A -
GOON GUARDS C AR ABI NI E R S/.
was shown among the casualties included in
the Army List for March. 1915, as "" niLssing,
believed killed. " on the 31st October, 1914.
He was bom on the 3rd September, 1876, and
joined the 6th Dragoon Guards from the Militia
in May. 1S97. becoming Lieutenant in January.
1899.
He served in the South African War as Adjutant
of the 1st Imperial Light Horse from January,
1901. to May, 1902. He took part in the relief
of Kimberley. and was present at operations In
the Orange Free State, at Paardeberg. in the
Transvaal (May- November, 1900). and Cape
Colony, including actions at Poplar Grove,
Driefontein, Karee Siding, Zand River, near
Johannesburg, at Pretoria. Diamond Hill, Riet
Vlei.BeUast and Colesberg. He was mentioned in
Despatches (""London Gazette, '"10th September,
1901), was awarded the D.S.O., and received the
Queen's medal with sis clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps.
He was pronaoted Captain in December. 1901,
and was Adjutant of his regiment from July,
1907, to April. 1910. in which latter year he
obtained his .Majority.
C.\PTAIN CHARLES HAROLD REY-
NELL WATTS. 2nd BATTN.
NORTHAMPTONSH IRE REG 1 MENT.
who was killed in
action on the 19th
December, 1914. was
born on the 7th
November. 1882, and
received his com-
missiou in the
Northamptonshire
Regiment from the
New Zealand Local
Military Forces in
January, 1906, be-
coming Lieutenant in
November, 1908, and Captain in June, 1913.
LIEUTENANT LIONEL DOUGLAS
W.\UD. 1st BATTN. EAST LANCASHIRE
REGIMENT, was bom at Cranleigh Court,
Guildford, on the 5th June. 1S95. He was the
second son oi Major W. H. and Mrs. Denise
C. Waud, and a nephew of Baron et Baronne
de la Borie de la Batut, and great-nephew of
the late Count and
Coimtess Maire.
He was educated at
the Army School,
Holyport , and passed
into the R.M.C..
Sandhurst, in 1913.
He held the record
score for revolver
shooting, and won
the first prize iathe
bayonet competition
at the R.M.C., and
represented Sandhurst in the bayonet competi-
tion at the Royal Military Tournament at
Olympia in May, 1914. obtaiaing third prize.
He passed first out of Sandhurst for the
English Army, was gazetted to the 1st Battalion
East Lancashire Regiment on the 8th August,
1914. and proceeded to the front on the 27th
of that month, being promoted Lieutenant
on the 2nd November. He was killed in
action near Armentieres on the 8th November,
his nam^e subsequently appearing in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915,
in connection with his gallantry at Le Gheer.
The Officer Commanding Lieutenant Waud's
company wrote of him as follows : " Short as
was the time your son has been with us, he had
quickly gained the respect and affection of all
ranks in the battalion. ... I grieve for the loss
of a splendid officer. He was absolutely fear-
less, and I had the pleasure of officially bringing
his excellent work to the notice of our Command-
ing Officer on the occasion on which the bat-
talion obtained much credit for an attack on
the Germans on the 21st October. During the
following day. under a heavy shell and rifle
fire, he continued to encourage his men very
much by his personal example and gallantry
and cheerfulness."
A Captain of the battalion wrote : " His only
fault was he would take risks. He was too tall
for the trenches, and wouldn't trouble to stoop.
He was very brave, and his action — which I
remember well — of running along, knocldng
down the rifles of his men to make them fire low,
was one of the finest things I have seen out
here."
Some corroborative partictdars of the occasion
were received from a wounded German officer,
who. describing the German assault, said :
" Ovu- whole front was stricken down by a volley
from a point much nearer than the trench we
had been shelling." This was at Le Gheer,
and it seems that when the mitrailleuse fire
from the German attack began, and there was
a momentary loss of fire-control of his own
company. Lieutenant Waud. to regain control,
sprang from the trenches, and, running in front
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of theiu, w-ith the flat of his sword struck down
the men's rifles, and so prevented the Germaiu^
finding out where the trenches really were.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOSEPH FRAIN
WEBSTER. 3rd RESERVE)
BATTN. THE BL.\CK WATCH
iROYAL HIGHL.\NDERS'. attd. 1st
BATTN. GORDON H1GHL.\NDERS.
was the second son of Sir Francis and Lady
Webster. of Ashbrook. Arbroath. Forfarshire,
and was bom there on tlie 2nd December, 1S92.
He was educated at Seafield House, Broughty
Ferry ; then at Clifton College, where he was
the champion boxer, in the XV, and in the
Officers' Training Corps : and subsequently
at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was
the champion middleweight boxer in 1914.
2nd Lievitenant Webster was one of the many
members of distinguished families to set an
example in the Great War by enlisting which he
did in the King's Royal Kifle Corps, being
afterwards given his commission in the 3rd
Battalion Black Watch in October, 1914.
For the Great War he was attached to the 1st
Battalion Gordon Highlanders, and was killed
in a charge near Gheluvelt on the 30th
October, 1914, His CO. and Company Com-
mander wrote in high terms of 2nd Lieutenant
Webster's conduct. The latter, describing a
previous incident, said that on the 26th October
men holding a trench on their flank were
driven out and forced to withdraw. 2nd
Lieutenant Webster jumped out of his own
trench, and rallied the men under severe fire,
retook the trench, and held it for the rest of
the day, saving the flank, which, but for his
action, would have been compelled to retire.
On the 30th October he volunteered for the
charge in which he was killed. A Sergeant of
his company also recounted many gallant
deeds of 2nd Lieutenant Webster, among them
the bringing in of a wounded man under flre
after he had sent his own men back to the
trench.
2nd LIEUTENANT JOHN RICH.\RD
B A G G A L L A Y WEEDING, 2nd
BATTN. WELSH REGIMENT,
who was killed in action on the 22nd December,
1914, aged thirty-two, was the son of T. W.
Weeding, Esq., of Addlestone, Surrey.
He was educated at ^Marlborough (as was his
father) from 1894-1900 (Maltese Cross), where
he was in the XV of 1899 and the Hockey XI
of 1900. After leaving Marlborough he was an
active member of the Xomads until the amal-
gamation with Rossh-n Park.
;Mr. Weeding was a Solicitor by professon.
On the outbreak of war he first joined the Royal
Flying Corps, and was gazetted to the Welsh
Regiment in October, 1914. (" The Marl-
burian," 11th February, 1915.)
M.\JOR GLYNNE EVER.\RD E.\RLE
WELBY, 1st B.\TTN. SOUTH WALES
BORDERERS,
« as the son of Ed-
ward M. E. WeU.y,
M.A.. Barrister - at -
Law. Norton House,
near Sheffield.
Stipendiary ilagis-
trate for .Sheffield
since 1S74, and of
the late Mrs. Sarah
Elizabeth Welby.
daughter of Robert
Everard. Esq., of
Fiihiey House, near Spalding. He was bom at
Norton House on the 24th November. 1S72.
and was educated at Eton (.Mr. Everard's
House), and afterwards joined Colonel Roberts's
Army Class, at Freiburg, in Baden. He was
gazetted to the South Wales Borderers from the
Militia in December. 1893. joining the 1st
Battalion in Egypt, and was promoted Lieu-
tenant in November. 1896. With the 2nd
Battahon of his regiment he took part
in the South African War, being present
at operations in the Orange Free .State, including
action at Karee Siding, Vet River, and Zand
River : In the Transvaal, including action near
Johannesburg : and in the Orange River
Colony, He received the Queen's medal with
fom- clasps. He became Captain in December.
1905, and obtained his Majority in March,
1914. He accompanied the 1st Battalion to
the Continent witli the first part of the Ex-
peditionary Force, embarking at Southampton
on the 17th August. 1914, reaclung France the
next day. FYom his letters written at the front
his relatives were able to compile a very interest-
ing record of the part he took in the Great War,
from which it appears he was in the fighting
line on the 29th August. He referred to his
diary as giving more precise details than the
strict censorship permitted him to do In liis
letters, but unfortunately tliis dairy was never
recovered. During the Battle of the Aisne
one of his horses was shot under him. but he
managed to secure the horse of a wounded Ger-
man officer. Officers and men who were inter-
viewed later, in speaking of these days, " won-
dered the Major had not been kiUed before he
was. considering the fearless way he went about
his work under flre." Other wounded men of
his company said : " The :Major was very good
to us. and always had tea ^vith us." He was
noticed to have a strong di-slike to putting
risks on others with any appearance of being
unready to face them himself. From September
14th to 21st. his company, with another com-
pany of the battalion, alternately occupied
trenches, which seemed to those in them to be
" exposed to shells aU day and attacks every
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night." " Many a time," it was said. " when we
had been almost buried by the dirt from a sliell
or subjected to a particularly close explosion,
it wa-s invariably his cheery laugh whicli
brought matters round again."
He was killed on the 26th September, 1914,
near Vendresse, and was buried in the trenches,
close to a stone quarry he had defended. The
following particulars were received from an
officer who was himself killed in action, from
another officer who was wounded on the 26th
September, and from privates, one of whom,
recounting events, ended by remarking :
" Tliat's the sort of officer to have." It seemed
that on the night of the 25th Major Welby's
company took over a position which had been
frequently attacked, and the night was spent
in trench-digging, and " for a wonder it was a
perfectly peaceful night." Just before dawn,
when tlie Major and others liad gone to lie down
in the main trench, the crash came. The enemy
appeared to number one thousand five hundred
to two thousand, and a terribly heavy fire
began. Major Welby sent to a-sk for reinforce-
ments, and a further German attack developed
on the flank of the position. While awaiting
reinforcements Major Welby made arrangements
in the quarry forming part of the position, and
then ran out of it across into the front trench
to encourage the sorely pressed men in it.
The last words he was heard to say were :
" Keep calm and shoot straight." He was
then shot, his death being instantaneous.
At night he was biuied, with two other officers
and the men who fell, in the communication
trench of the position he and his men had
defended so gallantly.
The following is extracted from a letter published
in the '■ Morning Post ": — '■ Fight for a quarry.
An Officer in the South Wales Borderers, writing
to a friend at Newport, says : ' We had a very
hard time altogether right up to the 26th, when
we had a desperate fight for a quarry, with a
happy result. Early that morning Major Welliy
and the "D" Company were attacked by a force
of about two thousand five hundred Gernians.
Major Welby sent Captain Pritchard down for
support from the "C" Company: we at once
went up and found Major Welby and his com-
pany in a difficult situation. The " D " Com-
pany were in a trench about thirty yards from
the quarry, and nearer on the left flank. They
were being hotly attacked by the Germans who
were in a wood in front. Right on the left
side the Germans had swarmed into a quarry
and had occupied a large part of it. Our
leading platoon under Lieutenant Simmonds
immediately advanced into the quarry, on the
right side, and the remainder of the company
followed. Poor Sinamonds was killed and a
nuniber of our men were killed and wounded.
Meanwliile, poor Welby and liis company were
having a bad time of it in the trench, but they
bravely stuck to it until we were able to take
up a position on the edge of the quarry, when
those who were left retired on to us. Poor
Welby, three other officers and abotit sixty men
of the " D " Company were killed. After about
four houis more fighting the Germans retired
through the wood. At dusk we reoccupied
the trenches and collected our dead and
wounded. Poor Welby and those who perished
with him were most gallant, and fought
heriocally against overwhelming odds, but alas,
they did not survive to witness the successful
result of tlieir work.' "
The General Officer Couunanding the Brigade
and Major Welby's Couunanding Officer sent his
father most feeling letters, giving him the
satisfaction of knowing that his son was most
gallantly doing all that was possible to repel
the German attack.
Major \^'elby, who was a member of the Army
and Navy Club, enjoyed playing polo when
stationed abroad and was also fond of hunting
and shooting.
LIEUTENANT RICH.\RD WILLIAM
GREGORY WELBY. 2nd BATTN. GREN-
ADIER GUARDS,
the elder son of .Sir
Charles G. E.
Welby, Bart.,
C.B.. by his wife.
Lady Maria, sLster of
the fourth ^larqu&ss
of BrLstol, was born
at Denton Manor,
Grantham, on the
16th October, 1888.
Educated at Eton
and Clirist Chvu-ch,
Oxford, he received his commission in the
Grenadier Guards in February, 1910, becoming
Lieutenant in 1911. Lieutenant Welby, in the
Great War, went with Ins battalion which
belonged to the Ilnd Division to the neigh-
bourhood of Mons. and took part in the retire-
ment, including the Battles of Landrecies and
Villers-Cotterets and the Mame, and subse-
quently in the advance to the Aisne. After
crossing the latter river on the 14th September
he was wounded on the heights above the village
of Soupir. AU the officers of his company (No. 3)
were killed or wounded on that day. Captain
Gosselin (who received the D.S.O. for the action,
and was subsequently killed) and Lieutenant
Welby remaining on duty. On the loth Sep-
tember a bullet was extracted from Lieutenant
Welby's shoulder, but he returned to duty, and
on the next day (16th September, 1914), was
killed. He was bm-ied in the churchyard at .Soupir.
A brother officer gave the following account of
the circumstances to liis relatives : " We had
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a very severe action on Tuesday when Dirk
Welby was wounded in tlie shoulder. . . . We
were very short of officers, owing to our heavy
casualties. He very pluckily insisted on remain-
ing at duty (instead of going into hospital)
to blip us through the difficulty, and remained
at duty during the day. On the third day we
got a teirible shelling, and poor Dick was
killed. His death was absolutely instantaneous
— he was hit in the head by a shrapnel bullet
— so that he had no pain or suiTering, and he was
cheerful and happy up to the minute before his
death. ... I can't tell you how \\e all deplore
Dick's loss, nor how gallantly he did his duty
to the end, and I hope his people «ill accept
the most deep and hearty sympathy of all his
brother olTicei's."
Lieutenant Welby was mentioned in Sir John
Fi-ench's Despatch of the Sth October, 1914.
LIEUTENANT WALTER GEORGE
FREDERIC WELCH, 117th BATTERY,
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.
only son of
Reginald Courtenay
Welch, Principal of
the Army College,
Farnham, near Al-
dei'shot, was born
on the 7th March.
18i>0, at 0, South wick
I'lace, London, W.
He was educated at
Charterhouse
and the Army Col-
lege, and in Novem-
ber, 1908, passed twenty-fifth into the R.:M.A.,
Woolwich. After three terms he was gazetted,
in July, 1910, 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field
Artillery, and was posted to the 127th Battery,
then at Bordon. He was promoted Lieutenant
three yeai-s later.
In January, 1913, he went to the depot at
Preston, where he soon became a great favourite.
and remained there till mobilisation, when he
joined the 44th Amnmnition Column. Shortly
afterwardshewaspostedtothe 1 17th Battery with
which he served both onthe Aisneandin Flanders.
It was on the evening of the 30th October.
1914, during the first Battle of Ypres, that this
gallant young officer met his death. His guns
were posted in a wood about twelve hundred
yards south of Veldhoek, east-south-east of
Ypres. The position was rapidly becoming un-
tenable, and just before theorder to ret ire was given
Lieutenant Welch was struck down by a shell,
and buried "alongside the guns he had fought."
A high-spirited lad with a keen sense of humour.
Lieutenant Welch was, in the words of his
Commanding Officer, " the life and soul of our
little mess, a keen and good soldier." One of
those who served under him wrote : " JMr.
Welch was always very popular with the men.
but especially so in action."
LIEUTENANT ERIC LLEWELYN
WELCHMAN, 1st BATTN. THE
LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was one of _^_^
the earliest officers Jl
to be killed in
France in the (ireat
War, was the son
of tlie Rev. Canon
and Mrs. W .
Welchman, of 'II le
Temple (or
Holy Cross)
Vicarage, Berkeley
S(iuare, Clifton,
Bristol, and was born
at Colombo, Ceylon, on the 21st July, 1893.
He was educated at a Preparatory School
(Mr. Black) at Colwall, near Jlalvern, and
at Clifton College from 190(i-ll. There he won
the " house run," under sixteen, and came in
third in Short Pen, won his cap for football,
and played for the college as " scrum half."
won the Budworth cup for Fives in 1909, and
in 19 1 1 was in the college Shooting Eight at Bisley .
In the latter year he went to the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, joining the Lincolnshire Regiment
in September, 1912, and being promoted Lieu-
tenant in January, 1914, in which year he boxed
for the regiment at Aldershot. He passed
successfully a transport course in December, 1913,
and a machine-gun course at Hythein July, 1914.
He was a member of the Tinited Services C!lub,
Portsmouth, played football and hockey for it,
and acted as Secretary tor regimental games.
In 1914 he was entered for the swordsmanship
competition at Olympia, which was abandoned
on account of the war.
liieutenant Welchman died on the 24th August,
1914, from wounds caused by a shell at
Frameries during the retirement from Mons,
while directing the fire of his platoon,
CAPTAIN EDWARD THEODORE
WELCHMAN, D.S.O.. 2nd BATTN. THE
PRINCE OF WALES'S OWN
(WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT),
was the son of Dr.
Edward Welchman,
and was born at
Southea, Cambs., in
18S1. He was edu-
cated at Sleaford
School. Lincolnshire;
and the R..M.C.. Sand-
hurst. He also passed
into the Staff College,
Camberley, tor
which he had been
specially selected.
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He joined the West Yorkshire Eegiment in
Augiist, 1900, being promoted Lieutenant in
March, 1902. He saw service in the South
African War. 1901-02, being present at
operations in the TraiLSvaal, for wliich lie was
mentioned in Despatclies ('• London Gazette,"
17tli January, 1902). was awarded tlie D.S.O.,
and received the Queen's medal with three
clasps. In 1908 he served in operations in the
Mohinand Country, N.W. Frontier of India, for
which he received the medal with clasp.
Captain \\'elchman. who was promoted to that
rank in ilarcli. 1910. joined liis battalion in
PYance on the 2nd October, 1914, and was
wounded in action near Lille on the 20th of the
same month, dying of his wounds in the Boulogne
Base Hospital on the 26th October, 1914.
He was buried at Boulogne.
He was a member formerly of the Army and
Navy Club, and of the York and Ainsty Hunt.
His recreations were polo and golf.
CAPTAIN LORD RICHARD
WELLESLEY, 1st BATTN. GRENA-
DIER GUARDS,
second son of the
fourth Duke and the
Duchess of
Wellington,
wlio was kiUed in
action near Ypres on
the 29th October,
1914, was born in
London on the 30th
September. 1879.
He was educated at
Eton, and was
gazetted to .... i..-uadier Guards from the
Jlilitia in 1900, becoming Lieutenant in January,
1904. From October. 1900, to September, 1908,
he was Adjutant of his battalion. He was
promoted Captain in Jun" of the latter year.
He served in the South African War, in whicli
he was slightly wounded during the operations
at Paardeberg. He was present also in the
action at Poplar Grove, Karee Siding, Houtnek,
Thoba Mountain, Vet and Zand Rivers, and at
those near Belfast, Johannesburg, and Pretoria.
At the conclusion of tViis war he received the
Queen's medal with four clasps and the King's
medal with two clasps.
For his services in the Great War he was
mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of
the 14th January, 1915, published after his
death.
Lord Richard WeUesley married Louise Xesta
Pamela, only daughter of Sir Maurice Fitz-
gerald, Bart., Knight of Kerry, and left two
daughters : Pamela, born .May. 1912 : and Mary,
born after her father's death in January, 1915.
CAPTAIN WALTER NEAVE WELLS,
THE BUFFS
REGIMENT),
3rd BATTN''.
(EAST KENT
was the son of Ad-
miral Sir Richard
Wells, K.C.B., and
was educated
at Girdlestone
School, Sunningdale.
He joined his bat-
talion as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in Novem-
ber. 1900. becoming
Lieutenant in 1904,
and Captain in
JIarch, 190(5. He
served in the South African War, taking part
in operations in Orange River Colony, and also
in Cape Colony, receiving the Queen's medal
with five clasps.
In the Great War Captain Wells was attached to
the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps
when he was shot in the head and lulled while
leading his company on the 27th October, 1914.
Captain Wells was a member of the Junior
Naval and JliUtary Club, Piccadilly.
CAPTAIN ERNEST BROCKLESBY
WESCHE. THE PRINCE OF
WALES'S VOLUNTEERS (SOUTH
LANCASHIRE REGIMENT),
bom in Stoke Xewington on the 24th April,
1886, was the son of Ernest John Dunbar and
Lizzie Matilda Wesche {xee Brocklesby).
He wa-, educated at St. Paul's School (1899-
1001). and joined the South Lancashire Regi-
ment in August, 1905. becoming Lieutenant in
November, 1907. From October, 1911, he
was employed with the Nigeria Regiment,
West African Frontier Force, with which he was
serving when he was killed in action in the
Cameroons on the 19th October, 1914. Captain
Wesche was promoted to tliat rank in .Septem-
ber, 1914, only a few weeks before he was killed.
CAPTAIN JOHN PERCY WHELAN,
2nd BATTN. ROYAL IRISH RIFLES.
who was killed in
action on the 11th
December, 1914, no
details being procur-
able, was bom in
May, 1879, the son
of Mr. Joseph
Whelan, Bama, Os-
boume Park, Bel-
fast.
He was educated at
Loretto College, near
Edinburgh.
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and obtained a commission in the Royal Gar-
rison Kejiiment (raised during; the Boer War)
from the Mihtia in August, llt(l2. being pro-
moted Lieutenant in ilarch, 1U(I3. On its dis-
bandment he was transferred as Lieutenant in
July, 19U5, to the Royal Irish Rifles, in which
he obtained his Company in Alanh, 1910. For
over two years. Iioni .March. litlO, to November.
li)12, he was Adjutant of the lUth Battalion
London Regiment. Subsequently he was posted
to the 1st Battalion of his reghiient at Aden,
whence he was invalided home shortly after the
declaiation of war with Germany, and was
attached to the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish
Hegimeiit for active service.
Captain Whelan married Gladjs Lily, youngest
daughter of the late Captain John Wray
^litchell, of Aroughty Grange, County Ros-
common, and left one daughter. Sheila
Maureen, born .lulv, 1907.
CAPTAIN CECIL BODDAM-
WHETHAM, 3rd. BATTN. (RESERVE)
THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL
HIGHLANDERS), attd. 1st. BATTN.
THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS,
born on the 11th
February, 1879, was
>i^>^m^^ the second son of the
r ^^^^ late Colonel A. T.
I ^S^^l Boddam - Whetham,
^^ **^^k late Royal Welsh
Fusiliers, and of ilrs.
Boddam- Whetham,
of Folkestone.
He was educated at
j^i^^^HHBv Wrexham and at
V^^^BwM Bedford Schools:
also in France and in
Germany, afterwards going to " Wrens," and
he passed through the R.M.A., Woolwich, Into the
Royal Artillery in September, 1898, becoming
Lieutenant in FeVjruary, 1901. In 1902 he was
on active service in South Nigeria, West Africa,
for which he received the medal with clasp. He
attained the rank of Captain in 1906, and two
years later retired from the Royal Field Artil-
lery, being appointed Captain in the Reserve
Battalion Black Watch in September of the
same year.
In October, 1914, Captain Boddam-Whethani
w-as attached to the 1st Battalion Gordon
Highlanders, and went to the front. He was
prominently mentioned in the body of Sir
John French's Despatch of the 2nd February,
1915, for his " splendid da.sh " in the attack on
the jMaedelsteed Spur. The last seen of him
was jumping into the enemy trench on the
14th December, 1914, followed by Lieutenant
Dobie and a few men, and it is believed he was
killed on that date. Captain Boddam-
Wliet ham's body Wiis not found until October,
191.'5. when it was buried by the 24th Canadian
Infantry Battalion at Bois de Wytschaete.
His Commanding Ollicer wrote of him : " Cap-
tain Boddam-Whethanr has been one of our
greatest helps, and his loss to me and the regi-
ment at this time cannot be measured. ... In
my opinion, no one has ever shown greater
gallantry."
Captain Boddam-Whetham was a member of
the Naval and Military Club, and Ids favourite
recreations were shooting, cricket, and golf.
He married, in 1906, Gyda, youngest daughter
of the late Mr. Henry RawcUffe. of Gillibrand
Hall, I.,ancashire, and left three sons.
CAPTAIN HERBERT CONNELL
WHIPPLE, 1st BATTN. DEVONSHIRE
REGIMENT,
born at St. Andrew's
Lodge, Plymouth.
South Devon.
on tlie 6th Septem-
ber, 1879, was the
sor of Mr. Connell
Whipple, for many
yeais Surgeon of the
South Devon
Militia, and of the
South Devon and
East Cornwall Hos-
pital, and a nephew of Colonel Hatsuii. (*.H..
who coiiunanded the 2nd Battalion of the
Devons which formed part of the force that
relieved Ladysmith in the Boer War.
Captain Whipple was educated at Mr. Brad-
shaw's School, near Birmingham : and at
Rossall. lie joined the Devonshire Regiment
from the old South Devon Jlilitia in October,
1899, just at the commencement of the Boer
War, in which he served, having been present
at the relief of Ladysmith, including the action
at Colenso, action at Spion Kop, and oper-
ations in Natal, including the action at Laings
Nek ; also at operations in the Ti'ansvaal,
receiving the Queen's medal with four clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
He afterwards served in South Nigeria for
three yeare, for which he received the King's
West African medal with one clasp. He
obtained his Captaincy in November, 1911.
During the eariy days of the Great War the
exposure and long periods of duty without relief
told somewhat on Captain Whipple's health,
and brought on a return of African fever, but
his cheery spirits were never affected. After
being laid up for a few days he retiu'ned to the
trenches, and was shot in the head on the 19th
November, 1914, dying, without regaining
consciousness, on the 24th of that month.
In his home circle, as with his regiment, he was
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a general favourite, much appreciated aLso by
his men. He had a great love for nuLsic, and
was a very good pianist with a perfect touch,
which made hira in great demand among his
friends. He was a member of the Junior
United Ser\'ice Club.
Captain Whipple married, on the 2nd July,
1913, Joan, daughter of Gerald Stapyltou-
Smith, of Hutton, Essex.
CAPTAIN JOHN KENNETH TULLOCH
WHISH, 1st EAST SURREY REGIMENT,
was bom at Fort
William, Calcutta, on
the 23rd November.
1876, the only son of
thelate Colonel J. T.
\^'hish, Bengal Staff
Corps, grandson of
the late General
(i. P. Whish, Indian
Army, and great-
grandson of the late
General Sir William
Sampson \Miish, Ben-
gal Artillery. On his mother's side he was
great-great-grandson of !Major Fletcher, who
fought at Waterloo,
Captain Whish was educated at Brighton Col-
lege and the Army College, Farnham, under
Colonel Wilkinson, and passed into the service
through the ilUitia from the tutorship of Captain
James, Lexham Gardens, London. A month
after entering the Army, in September, 1899,
Captain Whish proceeded on active ser%'ice :
as, joining the 2nd Battalion East Surrey
Regiment, he accompanied it to .South Africa
in October of the same year. With it he was
present at the relief of Ladysmith : at the
actions of Colenso, Spion Kop, Vaal Krans,
Tugela Heights, Pieter's Hill, and Laing's
Nek, besides other actions in the Transvaal.
At Pieter's Hill, his Captain having been
wounded, the couuuand of his company de-
volved on Captain Whish, a position in which he
showed marked coolness and presence of mind.
For this war he received the Queen's medal
with six clasps, the King's medal with two
clasps, and was twice recommended for mention
in Despatches,
Captain Whish was soon to have furtlier war
experience, for in 1905-06 he took part in the
Somaliland and Nandi Expeditions in East Africa
while serving with the King's African Kifles. for
which he received a medal with one clasp. He
became a Captain in the 1st East Surrey Regiment
in March, 1907, in which year he rejoined his
own regiment. He trained the first reinforce-
ments for his regiment, and leaving Dublin on
the 21st August, 1911, for the front he was
mortally wounded at the Battle of the Mame,
France, on the 8th September, 1914, dying in
the field ambulance the same evening.
He was a very keen soldier and sportsman,
being an excellent shot, having had much big-
game shooting in East Africa, and was also
a good cricketer and swimmer.
Colonel Pearse, who commanded the 2nd Battn.
East Surrey Regiment in the South African
War, wrote of him that " Captain Whlsh's
untimely death in action, while fighting with our
AUies in France, was universally regretted in
his regiment, in which liis memory nill long be
cherished. He was always a most keen and
satisfactory officer ; his character was a charm-
ing one, and everyone who knew him was his
friend." In short, he was a very true gentleman
and soldier, whose greatest happiness lay in
helping others.
Captain Whish married, on the lltli October,
1911. Evelj-n Anne, daughter of Fleet-Surgeon
J. \\'ood. R.N,, and gi-auddaughter of Captain
Moneypenny-Wood and of Captain Sir Alfred
Balliston, R.N., H.il.S. " Alberta." It wiU
thus be seen that both Captain Whish and his
wife had a very distinguished naval and military
ancestry.
Mrs. Wliish died on the 27th June, 1914, and
left no surviving children.
CAPTAIN HAROLD WHITAKER,
2nd BATTN, THE RIFLE BRIGADE.
(THE PRINCE CONSORTS OWN).
was the eldest son of
Arthur and Emily
Whitaker, of 52. Ca-
dogan Square. W..
and was born in
London on
the 22nd September,
1SS5.
He was educated at
Westgate - on - Sea
CMr. E, M. Haw-
trey) ; at Eton {.Mr.
E. Impey) : and the
R.M.C., Saudhui'st, out of which, in 1904, he
passed first of the infantry candidates of his
term. He was gazetted to the Rifle Brigade in
1904, and served «-ith the 2nd Battalion in
Eg\-pt, the Soudan, and India. He received the
Durbar Coronation medal. 1911, having acted
as Assistant Provost Marshal at Delhi, He was
promoted Captain in September, 1913,
Captain Whitaker passed the Higher Standard
examination in Hindustani, compiled a small
grammar dictionary of the Turke language, and
wrote an article on travel and exploration. He
was a Fellow of the Royal Geograpliical Society,
an ardent explorer, and keen big-game shot.
Besides expeditions on the White Nile, in
Kashmir and Mesopotamia, he returned to
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India in 190S through Eussia. Central Asia,
and Turkestan. The latter part of his journey
he made with a native follo«-ing only, which
no English traveller had done before, crossing
twenty-three pa.sses over ten thousand feet
high, the highest being the Karakoram. 18,137
feet above sea level.
He was killed on the night of the 1st December,
1914, when, after visiting his sentries, he went
forward alone, at about 1.30 a.m., to recon-
noitre, it having been rumoured that fresh
German troops had taken up positions in front
of our trenches.
Captain Whitaker married, in April, 1910,
Madeleine Elconore de Pury, and left two
children : John de Pury, bom October, 1911 ;
and Lorraine Marie de I'urv, born Julv. 1911.
mined attack. He held on, though the enemy
were in force only a few- yards from him.
Another officer, who was quite near him
when he was killed, says he blazed away
at the Germans, and really started the move-
ment which caused them to retreat. " His
was a very gallant act, and it gave us all gi-eat
help in driving oti the enemy. I shall never
forget him that last morning. He was full of
enthusiasm, and his men would have followed
him anywhere."
Letters from. India also expressed great admir-
ation for him, not only by British ofTicei's,
but by the native officers and rank and file,
especially the men of his own siiuadron. who
all felt they had lost a most gallant officer.
CAPTAIN LESLIE SEDGWICK
WHITCHURCH, 21st PRINCE
ALBERT VICTORS OWN
CAVALRY FRONTIER FORCEt,
son of the
late Rev. W. B.
Gurney \^'hitchurch.
Rector of S p i x-
worth, Norfolk, was
born at Lockeridge
House, ^^■ilt.shire, on
the 6th April, 1S80.
He «"as educated at
i I^H Marlborough
*m College, where he
J ^ excelled inall
games, and passed
direct into the R.M.C., Sandhui-st, where ho
took the Queen's gold medal, the Sword of
Honour, and six other prizes. On passing out
with this excellent record, he was appointed to
an unattached 2nd Lieutenancy in July, 1S99,
and was posted to the Indian Staff Corps in
October. 1900, becoming Lieutenant in the
Indian Army in October, 1901. He saw much
active service on the Indian frontier, including
operations in Waziristan in 1901-02, for which
he received the medal and clasp. He also took
part in the operations against the Darwesh
Khel Waziris, on the Jv.VV. frontier of India, in
1902. and was promoted Captain in 1908.
Captain ^\'llitchu^ch went to France on the
8th September, 1914, attached to the 5th
Dragoon Guards, and was killed at dawn on the
31st October, 1914, at Messines.
An oflticer of the 1st Cavalry Brigade spoke of
him as a gallant and most capable otTicer,
whom he was fortunate to have had with him.
He was killed when most bravely holding
on to an advanced post, which he had occupied
with a few men on the edge of the town of
Messines when the enemy made a very deter-
C APT A IN EDWARD ERSKINE
WHITE, 1st B A T T N . NORTH-
A M P 1 O N S H I R E REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on or about
the 14th September,
1914, at the Battle
of the Aisne, was
born on the 3rd April,
1877.
He was educated at
Stonyhurst and
joined the West
India Regiment froni
the Imperial Yeo-
manry in February,
1902, With the Imperial I'eomanry he served
in the South African War, in which he was
severely wounded. He took part in the relief
of Maf eking and in operations in Rhodesia
and the Transvaal, receiving the Queen's
medal with five clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in January,
1904, and in July, 1907, was transferred to the
Bedfordshire Regiment. From March, 1900,
to ilarch. 1911. he was employed with the West
African Frontier Force, having been tiansferred
to the Northamptonshire Regiment in January,
1908.
He was promoted Captain in May, 1910, and in
April. 1913. was again seconded in his regiment
for employment with the West African Frontier
Force.
The following short accoimt of the circumstances
attending liis death was published in the
'■ Stonyhurst Magazine " for December, 1914 :
" ' He was shot through the head, and died
immediately,' is all that could be gleaned from
a soldier of his regiment lying wounded in
hospital, who spoke very highly of him."
His Commanding Officer, writing to his relatives,
said : " We have lost a very capable and
gallant officer."
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LIEUTENANT
WHITE, 1st
LYNTON WOOLMER
KINGS) DRAGOON
GUARDS,
who died oa the
4th September, 1914,
at Chateau Baron,
Senlis, from
slii'apiiel wounds re-
ceived in action on
the 1st September
at the fighting at
Nery, was the elder
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Woolmer \\'hitc, of
S CI u t h 1 e 1 g h ,
llauts, aud Suilc, >\orfolk.
He was born on the 5th May, 1886, at Southsea,
Hants, and was educated at Cheltenham and
Trinity CoUege, Cambridge. He joined the
1st Dragoon Guards in October, 1907, and be-
came Lieutenant on the 25th ^larch, 1910.
Lieutenant White was a member of the Cavalry
Club, and was fond of big-game shootiag. He
married Dorothea, daughter of Mr. W. K.
Haughton, of Calcutta.
2nd LIEUTENANT GEORGE
EDWARD TAYLOR- WHITEHEAD,
9th (QUEEN'S ROVALi LANCERS,
was the son of the
late George Henry
Taylor - Wliitehead,
Esq., Barrister - at -
Law, formerly
of Burton Closes,
Bakewell, and was
born at IS Marloes
Road, Kensmgton,
on the 28th May,
1893.
He was educated at
Eton College and the
K.M.C., Sandhurst, and obtained his commission
in the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancei-s on the 28th
August, 1913.
He was killed by a shell fired from the north-east
side of the Ai.sne on the 29th September, 1914,
in the yard of a farmhouse at Longueval,
Soissons, where he and hLs troop were billeted.
A Corporal of the regiment gave the following
account of the incident : " We had some bad
luck on the 29th ult., being shelled out of our
billets. It was about midday, and we were
just going to feed our horses, when a shell
di'opped in the centre of the yard, killing one
officer and twelve men, and wounding twelve,
besides killing twelve horses. I was only
about ten yards from the shell when it burst."
2nd Lieutenant Taylor-Whitehead was a keen
sportsman, good polo player, and a follower of
the Blackuiore Vale Hunt.
He was a member of the Wellington Club.
2nd LIEUTENANT PERCY
JOHN WHITEHOUSE, 3rd B.\TTN.
THE QUEEN'S OWN (ROYAL W'EST
KENT REGIMENT), attd. 1st BATTN.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action at Hooge on
the 2nd November,
1914, in his twenty-
first year, was the
only son of John
and Flortrnce
W h i t e h o u s e ,
1 St. Augustine's
Road, Belve dere,
Kect.
He was educated at
the Erith County
School, and matriculated at London University
in 1911, taking the Intermediate in the B.Sc.
examination in 1913 from the East London
College, where he was an Honours student in
Chemistry.
He played football, cricket, and tennis, and
was also a runner and jumper. 2ud Lieutenant
Whitehouse, who was a member of the O.T.C.
at the East London College, received his
commission in August, 1914.
LIEUT. ARTHUR NOEL WHITFELD
2nd BATTN. ROYAL IRISH RIFLES,
was the son of the
Rev. A r t li u r
L. Whitfeld, M.A.,
Mcar of Hughenden,
Bucks, and was born
at B r a d e n h a m.
Rectory, High
Wycombe, on the
20th December,
1 S 9 (I . He w a s
educated at Kent
House, Eastbourne,
at Malvern Col-
lege, and the R.M.C., Sandhui-st, from which
he received his commission as 2nd Lieutenant
in October, 1910, was promoted Lieutenant in
March, 1914, and embarked for the seat of w-ar
with the Ilird Division in August, 1914.
For Ills services in the war he was mentioned in
Field-Marshal Sir John French's Despatch of
the 8th October, 1914.
Lieutenant Whitfeld was killed in action at
Croix Barbee, near Bethune, on the 14th
October, 1914.
LIEUTENANT CYRIL HERBERT
SPENCE WHITTLE, 15th (THE KING'S)
HUSSARS, son of Herbert John Whittle, was
born at Tilworth, Sutton, Yorkshire, on the
17th August, 1883. He was educated at Hurst
Court, Hastings, at Charterhouse, where he was
in the XI in 1900, and at the R.M.C., Sandhurst.
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He leccivi'd a conuiiissiDn in the Kind's Own
(Yorkshire Lit;hl Infantry) in October. l!J()2,aiul
served with In.s l)at-
talion in Alderslmt,
Gibraltar, and Sout li
Africa, where he was
a 1 1 a c li e d to t h e
Mounted Infantry.
In December, litDS.
he exchanged into
the 15th Hussars at
Mutlra, and later
accompanied the
regiment to I'otchef-
stroom. He formed
one of the escort to H.R.H. the Dnke of
Connaught on his visit to South Africa in I'.ilo
to open the first Parliament of the Union, in
1911 he was seconded and attached to the
Egyiitian Cavalry, with which he served in the
expedition to the Bahr-el-CJazel in 1913, receiving
the fourth class of the Order of the JMedjidich.
He was killed on the 24th August, 1911, an<l
the following account of the circum-stances has
been given by a non-commissioned oflicer of
his regiment, who was wounded, taken prisoner,
and later exchanged : " On Monday, August
24th, the senior officei's being either killed or
missing, the squadron, under Lieutenants
Whittle and Hoare, were ordered to recon-
noitre as far as Blaugies, near Mons, until
5.30 p.m., and then retire south to Bavai,
the last of the whole line. Just before retiring
they came to a village, which they galloped
through with drawn swords. They came to a lane
with high banks each side, when a terrible rifle
fire was opened upon tliem. and ilv. Whittle and
Mr. Hoare were botli killed leading their men."
Lieutenant Whittle was a member of the
Cavalry and Ai-my and Navy Clubs. In 190C
he was well known as the rider of many winners
in Gibraltar Races, and he was one of the
winning team of tlie 15th Hussars polo team
in tlie regimental championsliip competition
in 1911 at Potchefstroom.
LIEUTENANT ANTHONY THEODORE
CLEPHANE WICKHAM, 4th (attd. 2nd.)
BATTN. THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS,
was killed in
action near Y'pres on
the 2nd November,
1914, aged twenty-
seven.
He was the only son
of the Rev. J. I). C.
\\'ickham, J. P., and
.Mrs. Wickliam, of
Holcombe Manor,
Somerset. He
joined the 4th Bat-
talion Somerset
Liglit Infantry in 1904, and wji.s transfeiTcd to
the 4tli Connaught dangers in October, 1907.
Ho was ^lusketry Instructor and Machine Gun
( XTicer to his battalion for tliree or four years.
He was killed by a German sni])ir whilst trying
to effect the rescue of a \voun<led ollicci-. who
was lying outside the trenchi's.
The ollicer in command of his lialtalion wrote
of him that he was a most promising ollicer,
Ijeloved by all ranks, and would have Ijeen
promoted Captain in Pecember. 1911. liad he
lived.
He was a member of the Hibernian I'nited
Service Club, Dublin, and of the Kilkenny
County Clul) He was a keen follower to
lunmds, and hunted with the Hoyal Meath for
three years. He was also a clever amateur
actor.
CAPTAIN (local) THOMAS STRANGE
WICKHAM, D.S.O., NIGERIA REGT.,
M.I., LIEUTENANT MANCHESTER
REGIMENT,
was born at Bide-
ford on the 2nd
.lune, 1878, the son
of the late T. T.
Wickham, J.P., of
that town. He was
educated at the Im-
perial Service Col-
lege, Westward Ho !
and joined the 4th
(Vohmteer) Batta-
lion Devonshire
Higiment, being promoted Lieutenant in .lune,
1899, and Captain in May, 1900. He then
served in the South African Light Horse and
was granted a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in
the Manchester Regiment in September, 1901,
becoming Lieutenant in November, 1902.
Captain \\'ickham had seen much service.
He took part in the Jameson Raid in South
Africa. As a Trooper in the Mounted Police
he served m the Matabeleland Campaign in
1896, for which he received the medal. He was
in the South African War, where he became a
t'aiitain in the South African Light Horse,
and was present at the relief of Ladysmith,
including operations and actions on the Tugela
Heights, Colenso, Spion Kop, Vaal Krans,
Pieter's Hill, Laing's Nek, Belfast, Lydenberg ;
and also at operations in the Orange River and
Cape Colonies. For his services he was men-
tioned tour times in Despatches, " London
Gazette," 4th February, Kith April, and 20th
August, 1901, and 29th July, 1902; was awarded
the D.S.O., and received the Queen's medal
with six clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
In 1900 he took part in operations in West
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Africa, for which he received the West African
medal. He also received the Coronatioa medal,
1911.
Captain Wickhani was killed at Tepe in the
Cameroons on the 2oth August. 1914, while
serving with the Mounted Infantry of the
Xigeria Regiment. The Mounted Infantry
were ordered to take Tepe. which they did.
against superior numbers of the enemy. Later
on the place was retaken by the Germans, who
had discovered what a small British force had
expelled them.
Captain Wickham married Bertha W. Grieve-
son. and left one daughter. Katherine Mary
Strange, bom December, 1909.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM JOSEPH
WICKHAM. 1st BATTN. SCOTS
G U .\ R D S ,
was killed in action
on the Slst
October, 1914, at
the Battle of Ypres,
and is buried at
Chateau Gheluvelt.
He was the eldest
son of Captain
Henry Lamplugh
Wickham, late Rifle
Brigade, late of
W o o t t o n Hall.
Warwickshire, by his marriage with the Hon.
Teresa Mary Josephine, daughter of the eleventh
Baron Arundell, of Wardour. and widow of -Sir
Alfred Joseph Doughty Tichbome. Bart.
He was bom on the 5th Xovember, IS" 4,
was educated at The Oratory, Edgbaston.
and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, joining the
Scots Guards in August. 1900. He served in
the South African War, being present at oper-
ations in Orange River and Cape Colonies,
receiving the Queen's medal with three clasps.
He was promoted Lieutenant in January,
1903, and Captain in June. 1906. He also
received the Coronation medal.
Captain ^\'ickham was a member of the Guards'.
Bachelors', Boodle's, Pratt's, and the Army
and Navy Clubs. His recreations were shooting,
golf, and boating.
2nd LIEUTENANT A. J. H. R.
WIDDOWSON. SPECIAL RESERVE.
PRINCE OF WALES'S VOLUNTEERS,
(SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT),
was killed in action probably in September,
1914, no place or date being given in the
monthly casualty list (October, 1914) containing
the notification of his death.
He was gazetted to the Special Reserve in
.Tuly, 1913.
2nd. LIEUTEN.\NT temp. LIEUT.)
DOUGLAS HOLME WIGGIN, 1st
BATTN. GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGT..
who died on
the 23rd December.
1914. in Flanders, of
wounds received in
action, was the
youngest son of the
late Francis
Holme Wiggin. of
Norwood, Ceylon,
and a nephew of
Miss Wiggin, Lang-
ton Lodge, Charlton
Kings.
He was bom in Ceylon on the 4th December,
1895, and was educated at Marlborough, 1910-
13. and at the R.M.C.. Sandliurst, from which
he received his commission in August, 1914.
For a time he was attached to the 3rd (Reserve)
Battalion of his regiment, but later returned to
the 1st Battalion with the temporary rank of
Lieutenant from November. 1914.
He was mortally wounded during the great
counter-attack between Le Toiu«t and La
Bassee on the 21st December, in which the
line captured by the Genuans was recaptured
by the 1st Di%Tsion. Lieutenant Wiggin was
in command of a platoon in the firing Une, and
was shot through the chest, near the road
leading south from Festubert. just as darkness
fell, when within three hundred yaids of the
enemy's position. Picked up on the following
day. he was taken to Lillers, still conscious,
and speaking cheerfully : but he had suffered
nuich from esposvu*, and died, twelve hours
after adndssion to hospital, eai-ly in the nioming
of the 23rd. He was buried in the cemetery at
Lillers side by side with others of his battalion
who had fallen in the same engagement.
2nd LIEUTENANT REGINALD
CONNOR PHILLIPS WILDER. 3rd
RESERVE attd. 2nd BATTN. SUFFOLK
REGIMENT.
was shot by a sniper
on the ISth Novem-
ber, 1914, while
doing trench duty,
and killed instan-
taneously, the bullet
severing the
jugular vein.
He was the son of
the Rev. W. B. C.
Wilder and
Mrs. Wilder, daugh-
ter of the late Dr. Grove, of St. Ives, Hunts,
a great-grandson of the late Ijeutenant-General
Sir Francis Wilder and of Admiral Sir John
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Mai-sliall, and a grandson of the late Rev. Jolin
.McMahoii Wilder.
He \va.s born at Great Bradley Rectory, near
Newmarket, on the 25th February. 1890, and
was educated at Forest School, Walthamstow.
He was one of the Shooting VIII of his school
at Bisley in 1913, and was very fond of ath-
letics, especially boxing.
In January, 1914, he joined the 3rd Battalion
of his regiment, and trained at the Ciu-ragh
until war broke out. He was then sent with a
draft to FeUxstowe, from which he proceeded
to the front at the end of August, 1914.
His CO. wrote of him : " I thought him a
charming, bright, lad. who did his hard work
cheerily and willingly, and his deatli is a truly
sad loss to me and all the battalion, which
cannot spare good officers as your son was."
His Captain wrote : " He was shot through
the neck at about seven in the morning, and I
am glad to say death was instantaneous. He
commanded a platoon in my company, and I
cannot speak too highly of the way in which he
carried out his duties on all occasions. He was
buried the following night beside one of his
brother otTicers, kUled within a few hours of
each other."
LIEUTENANT and QUARTERMASTER
EDMUND WILKINSON, 1st BATTN,
LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE
REGIMENT,
was tlie son of Mr.
and Mrs. Wilkinson,
of 22, Queen Street,
Ik.- >'^'"'~'~~"*^» Colno, and was forty-
~~~^^^" * three years of age
at the tune of his
death.
He served twenty-
six years with the
Colours, and had a
distinguished
careci', having risen
from the rauk.^ llin'iij,li liis ability, courage,
and good conduct. He served through the
Boer War, having been besieged in Kimberley
for four months, and was presented with the
Kimberley Star. He was awarded the South
African medals and the Distinguished Conduct
medal for distinguished gallantry at Harte-
beestfontein, leading the company in a
charge when the officers were out of action,
which gaUant act probably saved the whole
column. He received his commission in June,
1912.
He was killed in action on the 31st October,
1914, and the news of his death was conveyed
in a letter written by Lieutenant-Colonel
Carter, D.S.O., of his battalion, himself soon
afterwards kUled in action, who wrote : " We
have lost officers and men, but the greatest
loss to me personally is caused by poor Wil-
kinson's deatli. He was the «liitest man that
ever breathed, with the heart of a lion. He
fell lighting at the head of a number of men of
various corps on the road near Ypres. He
attempted to stem the onflood of the German
advance down the road — and apparently did so
witli tlie men he collected. It has been said
he sliould be given the Victoria Cross. His
duty did not lie with the battalion in the fighting
line, but he was ever present where the fighting
took place. The regimental Sergeant- Major
of the 1st K.R.K.C. witnessed his la-st heroic
action, and the words he used to me were,
' If ever soldier earned a V.C. your (^.M. did
the night of the 31st October, 1914.' "
Lieutenant WUkinson was mentioned in Sir
John French's Despatch of the 14th .Tanuary,
1915.
He was a great sportsman, a fine athlete,
probably the best in the regiment for several
years, and as a cyclist he had few equals. He
was generous to a fault, a staunch friend,
and beloved by everj'one who had dealings with
him.
Lieutenant W'ilkinson married Eliza Harriet,
daughter of William Parkhouse, of Parkham,
and left tliree daughters : Irene Ethel, born
November, 1907 ; Audrey Dora, born Decem-
ber, 1911 : and Ed^vina Mary, bom, after her
gallant father's death, in January, 1915,
LIEUTENANT JOHN ROTHES
MARLOW WILKINSON, 4th BATTN.
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S
OW^N) MIDDLESEX REGIMENT),
was the eldest of
three brothers, all
members of ^^'orces-
ter College,
Oxford, sons of the
late Rev. H. M.
Wilkinson,
]\1.A., formerly Vicar
of Milford -on- Sea,
himself also a mem-
ber of W'orcester
College, of which his
brother, Lieutenant
Wilkinson's uncle, had been a Fellow.
Lieutenant Wilkinson was born at the Vicarage,
Milford, near LJ^nington, Hampshire, on the
17th October, 1887, and was educated at
Winchester College, from which he proceeded
to Worcester College, Oxford, in 1907, where he
took his degree of B.A. in 1911.
He joined the Middlesex Regiment as a
University Candidate in February, 1912, being
given antedate to March, 1911, becoming Lieu-
tenant in October, 1913, and served with the
4ih Battalion at the front. He was killed about
the 23rd August, 1914, at the Battle of Mons.
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He was of a frank, genial character, of high
animal spirits, readily stirred to adventure or
escapades, but checked by a chivalrous sense
of honour. Well and strongly made and with
indouutable energj-. he early found his way
into the College Kight and became captain of
the Boat Club. His buoyant, manly qualities
secured him many friends in the college and
outside, and made natural his selection of the
Army as a profession.
A Private of the battalion gave the following
account of Lieutenant Wilkinson's death :
■■ I had the honour to be under Lieutenant
Wilkinson's command at Mons. On Sunday,
August 23rd, we were entrenched in front of
a convent when Captain . . . gave Mm. Lieu-
tenant Wilkinson, an order to take half his
platoon (two sections) to reinforce ' A ' Com-
pany. This company was at the left of our
position, and was being hard pressed, I
started off %vith Lieutenant WUkinson along the
rear of the fighting line. We were being fired
on all the time. We came to a house, which was
blown up immediately we left it. Lieutenant
WUkinson stiU led on to the left, eventually
coming to a group of houses. It was here that
we took up position. Your son went into one
of the houses, and was heard directing the fire
of his two sections through the skylight in
the roof. He directed his flre so well that he
forced the Germans to retire from his front.
Noticing this, he laughingly remarked, ' Oh.
they don't like it ; they have retired ! ' It
was from this house that he saw overwhelming
niuiibers of Germans coming through the wood
to liis front. The Germans came on again until
they were within two hundred yards. Lieu-
tenant Wilkinson then came out of the house
into the trench. It was here that he got the
order to retire. He got the order twice, but
would not take it, as he thought it was not an
official order. Eventually he got liis order from
the General Officer Commanding to retire.
He then started to retire his sections by groups.
It was then I noticed he was limpmg. To
retire we had to go through barbed wire.
Here we got separated owing to the heavy
shelling and rifle fire. I was the only man of
those two sections to get away from that place.
No officers could give me any information of
Lieutenant Wilkinson. I reported to the
Commanding Officer what had happened, and
told him that Lieutenant Wilkinson was a
very brave man. He replied, ' Yes, I know
that, and I am very sorry to lose liim.' "
LIEUTENANT ROBERT ST. JOHN
W1LL.\N"S, 3rd attd. 1st BATTN.
NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS,
who died on the 9th November, 1914, near
Ypres. was the only son of the late Colonel St.
John WUlans. and grandson of the late Robert
Courage, of Snowdenham, Bramley, Surrey.
He was bom on the 8th .Sept-ember, 1877, and
aft«r serving with the embodied Militia for four
months, was gazetted to the Noi-thumberland
Fusiliers as 2nd Lieutenant in April, 1900,
being promoted Lieutenant in June, 1901. He
served in the .South African War, 1899-1901,
being present at operations in the Transvaal
and Orange River Colony, receiving the Queen's
medal with three clasps. He retired from the
Army in 1905, and on the outbreak of the
Great War was re-gazetted to the 3rd Battalion of
his old regiment, with the rank he held on
retirement.
2nd LIEUTENWNT ALMERICUS ERICi
JOHN F A L K 1 N E R D E C O U R C Y
WILLI.\MS. THE WEST INDIA REGT..
attd. 4th BATTN. .MIDDLESEX REGT.,
son of Dr. J. A.
de Courcy Williams,
of St. Etchens, KU-
lucan, County
Westmeath.
and first-cousin oi
Lord Kingsalf.
was bom on th'
4th May, 1895, at
Green Hills.
Killucan. Ireland.
He was educated at
Abingdon School and
the R.il.C, Sandhurst, and received his com-
mission in the West India Regiment in August,
1914. Subsequently he was attached to the
1st. and later to the 5th Middlesex Regiment,
from wliich he volunteered for active service
and was then sent to the 4th Battalion, with
which he was serving when he was killed on
the 20th October, 1914. ■'^
He was shot through the body whUe standing
on the traverse of a trench to take aim at
the enemy, and was buried in Bethune Cemetery.
Bandsman Imeson, of the battahon, who was
with him in the trench when he met his death,
wrote : "If ever there was a hero it was
Lieutenant de Courcy Williams. He frequently
exposed himself to danger, giving directions
to his men to take careful aim and exhorting
them to make every shot tell, . , . and even
when lying wounded at the bottom of the trench
he continued giving orders, and his last words
were, ' Give it them ! ' "
His CO. afterwards Brigadier-General Hull,
said of him : " He was a most promising
boy. We were proud of him. and shall miss
him much."
Lord Kitchener, telegraphing from the Clearing
Hospital, where he died, said : " He was a
loss to the Army." 2nd Lieutenant Williams
was the ordy officer with the 4th Middlesex who
was un wounded at the Batle of Vieille Chapelle.
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2nd LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER JOHN
NEEVE WILLIAMSON. SPECIAL
RESERVE, attd. 2nd BATTN. SEA-
FORTH HIGHLANDERS (ROSS-SHIRE
BUFFS. THE DUKE OF ALBANY'S),
who was killed in
action, during the
^A Battle of the Aisne,
at Bue\ -le-lons. near
Soissons, on the 14th
September, 1914, was
the son of tlie late Jlr.
Robert A. William-
son, of Calcutta, and
Jlrs. Williamson, of
21. St. Stephen's
S(|uare, Bayswater,
I-ondon, W.
Ho was boiii on tlie 22nd December, 1887,
and was edncated at Ilighgate School. There
he made a record tor tlie half-mile, not only
for his school, but also for the Public Schools,
and held tlio cup three years running. He was
a member of the School Cadet Corps, which he
entered ui 1003, and left as a Colour-Sergeant,
in 1S107, on proceeding to Pembroke College,
Camliridge. At Cambridge he threw himself
wholelieartedly into the work of the O.T.C.,
becoming proficient in musketry, signalling,
and topography, as well as in the ordinary
routine of drill and niancfuvre. After leaving
the University lie became a Ma-ster at Blundell's,
was gazetted to the School Corps, and in Jnly,
1911, joined tlie Special Reserve. He was a
Master of liis old school at Highgate from
1912, and was Second in Command of High-
gate School Corps.
Having returned from camp on the .Srd August,
1914, he reported himself on the outbreak of
war at Shorncliffe on the 5th August. After
serving at different places at home he arrived
in France on the 23rd August, and on the 24th
received orders to go to the front with the 2nd
Battalion of liis regiment, which formed jiart
of the lOtli Brigade, IN'th Division, British
Expeditionary Force, afterwards taking part
in tlie Battle of the Marne and tlie fighting
at the Ourcq.
A brother otificer, giving an account of the
circumstances of his death, said : " At the
time we had just taken up a position on high
ground to the north of the Biver Aisne, near
Soissons. It was at a critical moment, and your
son went up with his platoon in support of
the two companies in tlie firing line. Appar-
ently he was hit and killed instantaneously
by a shell. His body has been recovered and
buried by tlie side of the Colonel, Sir Evelyn
Bradford. He was extremely popular in the
battalion, and a great loss to the company and
to us all. He was recognised as being a most
efficient officer."
LIEUTENANT GEORGE WIL-
LIAMSON, 3rd (attd. 2nd) BATTN.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S
(WEST RIDING REGIMENT),
who died on the 12th November, 1914, aged
thirty-one, of wounds received in action on the
8tli November, was the son of the late Mr. C. J.
\\'illianiKon, of New York, and of I>ady Skinner,
of Pont Street, London, S.W., and The Gables,
Worthing. He entered the 3rd Battalion of his
regiment as 2nd Lieutenant in Novembei', 190."),
being promoted Lieutenant in September, 1907 :
in the Great War he served with the 2nd
Battalion.
2nd LIEUTENANT ROBERT HAMIL-
TON WILLIAMSON, 118th HEAVY
BATTERY, ROYAL GARRISON
ARTILLERY,
who died at
Boulogne on
the 27th December,
1914, of wounds
received in action,
was the only son of
Dr. George William-
s o n , 25(5, Union
Street, Aberdeen.
He was born on
the 27th September,
1893, at Stonehaven,
N.B., and was educated at Glenalmond. In
June, 1911, he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in
the 1st Higliland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
(T.F.), and in June, 1913, was promoted
Lieutenant. After being attached to a regular
battery of Field Artillery for a year he gained
a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery
(Regular) at the military competitive examina-
tion in April, litl4, and joined on the lOtli
June, 1914.
At the front he was wounded in the head
whilst making observations for his battery in
an advanced observation post in a ruined church
tower and died of his wounds as stated above.
2nd LIEUTENANT RUSSELL WILLIS,
SPECIAL RESERVE, YORK AND
LANCASTER REGIMENT, attd. 1st
BATTN. LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT,
was born at Denton,
near Manchester, on
the 9th November,
18 9 4, the son
of William Willis,
Head Master of Bus-
sell Scott Memorial
Schools, r> e n -
ton, Lancashire,
lie was awarded a
scholarship from
Russell Scott School
by the Lancashire
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County Council. He attended the Manchester
Municipal Secondary School : gained the
£180 Scholarship awarded by the Manchester
Education Committee, tenable at Manchester
University, and finally obtained the degree of
B.Sc. (Tech.) 1st Class Honours at ilanchester
University in July, 1914, the first prize in
Chemistry, and was awarded a Research
Scholarship. He also gained the Chess Cham-
pionship at the ilunicipal Secondary School.
Manchester. At the University he was a Cadet
in the O.T.C., and although his academic record
and attainments seemed rather to point to a
scientific or scholastic career, he preferred to
enter the Army, and received his con^mission
in the Special Reserve. York and Lancaster
Regiment, in ilarch, 1914, after passing the
qualifying examinations, and being presented
with a Sword of Honour by the University.
Having been attached to the 1st Battalion
Lincolnshire Regiment for active service he
was killed in action on the 25th October,
1914, three and a half miles north-east of
Neuve Chapelle, aft^r recapturing a trench
and two guns from Germans who had taken
them from our troops. A Corporal of the
battalion gave the following account of tlie
young officer's death : " Lieutenant Willis
had not long joined us when we were engaged
in action in a small village some three and a
half miles from Neuve Chapelle (in a north-
easterly direction, I think), but the name of
the village I cannot remember. . . . On the
morning of the 2.5th October Xos. 1(5 and 13
(platoons) retired for a short spell in the reserve
trenches some four hundred yards away behind
the firing line. Lieutenant WLUis was in charge
of 16 Platoon, and about noon an order came
from headquarters (regimental) that a platoon
was required on the riglit. . . . Xo. 13 was
sent, and almost immediately Xo. 10 had to go
also. We had some very dangerous ground to
cover before we could get in a position to retake
the trenches or guns, and a house occupied by
some thirty snipers had to be taken first, which
was soon dealt with : then a small wood was
the next place of attack, and we were not long
in dri\'ing the Germans out of this. . . . After
a few minutes we were led by Lieutenant Willis
in the charge for the trench and guns, which
we managed to take, and also hold, but I am
sorry to say that Lieutenant Willis, on the very
edge of the trench, was hit when lialf turning
to encourage the men on, and he fell into the
trench. I soon saw he was badly hit, and sat
him in a corner, but there was nothing I could
do for him. His last words were, ' Have we
retaken the guns. Corporal ? ' I then left him
for a few moments. . . . and when I returned
Lieutenant Willis had passed away quite
peacefully. . . . He was buried by the Royal
Irish Rifles."
CAPTAIN ARTHUR HENRY WILSON,
1st BATTN. THE EAST YORKSHIRE
REGIMENT,
who was killed in
action on the 18th
October, 1914, was
the only surviving
son of Colonel and
Mrs. W. H. Wilson,
of Broadview,
Petersfield,
and was born on
the 15th July, 1875.
He entered the East
Yorkshire Regiment
from the Jlilitia in December
Lieutenant in June, 1898
1899, to May, 1900
of his battalion.
He served in the South African
1896, becoming
From December,
he acted a.sj Adjutant
War, taking
part in the operations in the Orange Free State,
including the action at Houtnek (Thoba
Mountain), in the Orange River Colony,
including actions at Biddulphsberg, Witte-
bergen, and Caledon River : and was employed
with the ^Mounted Infantry. He also served
in Cape Colony, and again in the Orange
River Colony in 1901-02. and received for his
services the Queen's medal with three clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps.
Captain Wilson obtained his company in
Januarv, 1903.
CAPTAIN CHARLES EDWARD
WILSON, 1st BATTN. THE QUEEN'S
(ROYAL WEST SURREY REGIMENTi,
born at Fermoy,
Ireland, on the 2nd
June. 1871, was the
son of the late
Major- Cieneral
F. E. (i. Wilson.
C.B., York and Lan-
caster Regiment, and
Mrs. Wilson, of 15.
Spencer Road,
Southsea.
He was educated at
Dover College and
the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, and joined the Army in
July, 1892, becoming Lieutenant in .July, 1896,
and Captain in August, 1901.
Captain Wilson served in the Boer War on the
Staff, as Railway Staft" Officer and Assistant
Provost Marehall. and was present at the relief
of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso. oper-
ations at Spion Kop and Vaal Krans. oper-
ations on Tugela Heights : and action at Pieter's
HUl : and operations in Natal (March to June,
1900). For his services he was mentioned in
Despatches (" London Gazette," 29th July.
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1902), and received the Queen's medal with
two clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
Heservedas Adjutant of the 3rd (Volunteer) Bat-
talion of the Queen s from January, 1903, to
December. 1907, and in October. 1918, wa-s
appointed Adjutant of his battalion, and In this
position accompanied it to the Continent with
the Expeditionary Force. He was killed in
action at the Battle of the Aisne on the 17th
of September. 1914. .\fter his death the War
Office forwarded to his relatives tlie decoration
of the " Legion d'Honneur," which had been
awarded liini.
Captain Wilson married Mabel, daughter of the
late Colonel Carr, but was a widower at the
time of his death. He left two sons, aged
seventeen and ten years respectively.
LIEUTENANT DAVID REX WILSON.
2nd BATTN. THE QUEEN'S iROY.\L
WEST SURREY R E G 1 M E N T i ,
son of George
David Wilson, C.C.
of Darhngton, and
a grandson of Alder-
m a n Jonathan
Angus, of Xewcastle-
ou-Tyne, was born
at Pensbury,
r)arlington. on the
.')th February. 1891.
He was educated at
Aysgarth Pre-
paratory School, at
CHfton College, and at Jesus College. Cambridge.
At Clifton he was captain of the Shooting Xlll
and of the football team : whOe at Cambridge
he was captain of the O.T.C., and wa.-^ thirty-
eighth in the King's hundred at Bisley.
He joined the Queen's in December, 1912,
and went to Bermuda in ilarch, 1913, being
promoted Lieutenant in that month, and
thence to South Africa in February, 1914. In
August of the latter year the battalion returned
to England and went to Flanders ^-ith the
22nd Brigade, Vllth Division, early in October.
Lieutenant Wilson was killed on the 30th
October, 1914, in action near Ypres, after having
retaken with his platoon some trenches from
the enemy.
Lieutenant Wilson's gallantry on the day he
was killed is mentioned in "The First Seven
Divisions" by Lord E. Hamilton. The order
to retire did not reach him as he was in an
advanced position with hLs platoon : being a
marksman he laid liimself out to pick oft" the
Germans right and left, and appears by hLs
a\idacity to have rendered splendid service until
he was eventually shot through the head and
kiUed.
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LIEUTENANT E"WEN HOLMES
HUMPHREY J .\ M E S WILSON. 1st
B.\TTN. THE BLACK WATCH ROV.\L
HIGHLANDERSi,
only son of the late
James Humphrey
WUson, was born at
Ayr, Scotland, on
the ISth January.
1892.
He was educated at
Harrow and the
R.M.C.. .Sandhui'st.
At the former he
played cricket and
football for
his house, and at the latter 1
Sergeant. [^
He joined the Black Watch in February
becoming Lieutenant in May, 1914.
He fell, mortally wounded, on the 8th September
1914, at Sablonnieres, Fi-ance. His Company
Commander had been badly wovmded, and he
had to lead his men agaiiLst the German Guard.
A Corporal of his platoon wrote : " He died
leading the men who adored him."
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT ERIC WESTERN
WILSON. SPECIAL RESERVE, attd. 1st
BATTN. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S
OWN (WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENTi,
born at Thomton-
le-Moor, Yorkshire,
on the 12th July.
1893, was the only
son of the lat« John
Western Wilson,
Dufton. Apjileby.
and of Mi's. Wilson.
The Corse,
Laugh arne.
Carmarthen.
South Wales. He
was a nephew of
Engineer Lieutenant-Commander T. M. David,
R.N.. H.M.S. " Hawke." 2nd Lieutenant Wilson
was educated at the Grammar SchooLCarmarthen:
at Kelly College, Ta\-istock. and at Leeds Univer-
sity. Passing from the L'nivei-sity O.T.C.. he was
gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the .Special Reserve.
West Y'orkshlre Regiment in July. 1913, and
joined the 1st BattaUon of h:s regiment on the
outbreak of the Great War to proceed with it
on active service.
He fell on the 20th September, 1914. in the
Battle of the Aisne wlule leading his platoon
to recapture a trench near Troyon, wluch had
been taken by the enemy earlier in the day.
LIEUTEN.\NT.COLONEL GORDON
CHESNEY W^ILSON. M.V.O.. COM-
MANDING THE ROYAL HORSE
GUARDS, who was kUled in action on the
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WIL— WIS
6th November, 1914, was the eldest son of Sir
Samuel Wilson, M.P., and was born on the
3rd August, 1865.
He joined the
Royal Horse Guards
from the ilUitia in
JIay. 1SS7, becoming
Lieutenant in De-
cember, 18S8, and
Captain in Xovem-
ber, 1894. He took
part in the South
African War, during
which he was on the
Staff as A.D.C. to
Major-Oeujial iSad.-ii-l'oweU, Commanding the
Mafeking Frontier Forces from August, 1899,
to May, 1900. and A.D.C. to the same officer
after appointment as Major-General, South
Africa, from May to July. 1900. He was
present at the defence of Mafeking. including
actions of the 26th December, 1899. and 12th
May, 1900. He was twice mentioned in
Despatches (" London Gazette," 8th February
and 10th September. 1901). and received the
Queen's medal with tliree clasps.
He was promoted Major in January. 1903 :
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in October, 1907 :
and succeeded to the conimand of his regiment
as Lieutenant-Colonel in October, 1911.
Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson married, in 1891.
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta, sixtli daughter
of the seventh Duke of Marlborough, and left
no Issue.
CAPTAIN ROBERT SYM WILSON, 1st
B.\TTN. THE SEAFORTH HIGHLAN-
DERS ROSS-SHIRE BUFFS. THE DUKE
OF .\LBANYSi.
was the son of
the late Andrew Hay
WUson, and was
born at Leith,
Scotland, on
the 17th November,
1S76.
He was educated at
the Edinburgh
Academy and
at Trinity College.
Glenalmond,
where he wa-< captain of the XV (Rugby foot-
ball) and of the VIII (shooting), and was also
in the Cricket XI.
Captain Wilson joined the Army in 1897.
becoming Lieutenant Ln 1899 and Captain in
1902. He served with his battalion in the
South African War. taking part in the advance
on Kimberley, including action at Magers-
fontein, where he was wounded, and operations
In Orange River Colony, May to November,
1900, also at operations in the Transvaal, and
again in the Orange River and Cape Colonies,
1901-02. He received the Queen's medal with
three clasps and the King's medal with two
clasps.
In the Great War' he was instantaneously killed
by rifie shot on the Sth November, 1914, while
actine as Observer in a trench near LUle.
C.\PTA1N ARTHUR WINN, 3rd attd.
2nd) BATTN. THE SUFFOLK REGT.,
killed in action near
Soissons on the 9th
September, 19 14.
was the only son of
Arthur Thomas
X\'inn. Barrister-al -
Law, Middle Temple.
and Consta.nce Winn,
of Aldeburgh.
Suffolk.
He was bom on tln'
13th Apra, 1884, at
Ewell. Smrey, and
was educated at Eton. He joined the Suffolk
Regiment in Marcli. 1902. becoming Lieutenant
in February. 1904. and Captain in August, 1913.
2nd LIEUTENANT ARTHUR
W I N S P E A R. 2nd BATTN. THE
CONNAUGHT RANGERS,
was kUled in action on the 5th-6th November,
1914. He had served in the Irish Guards, in
which he became Company Sergeant-Major,
and was gazetted 2ud Lieutenant in October,
1914. Willie a drill .Sergeant in the Irish
Guards he w as mentioned lu Sir John French's
Despatch of the 8th October, 1914.
LIEUTENANT JOHN RUDOLF
WIS SM ANN, 22 nd BATTERY,
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
only son of Rudolf
Wissmann,
Great Dur-
yard. Exeter, was
born at Dulwlch
on the 23rd October,
1890. and educated
at Dulwich College,
whence he passed
direct into the
R.3I.A., Woolw-ich.
in September, 1909.
He received his
commission in the R.F.A. in December. 1910.
joined the 22nd Battery at Bulford Camp in
1911. moved with his brigade (34th) to Alder-
shot in 1913. and became Lieutenant in
December, 1913. He was qualified as an
Interpreter in German. He went to the seat
of war with the Ilnd Division and was killed
woo
450
ill action on the 15th September, 1914. on the
heights of the Aisne, near Vemeuil.
Ho uiarried. in 1914, Gladys, daughter of the
Rev. Worthington Jukes. Rector of Shobrooke,
near Crediton, and left a daughter. Joan
Rosemary, bom on the 9th January, 191.5
(posthumous).
He was a member of the Junior United Service
Club. His recreations were riding and hunting.
1st) BATTN.
C-\PTAIN CECIL STR.\CH.\N WOOD.
RESERVE OF OFFICERS. 3rd attd.
EAST YORKSHIRE
REGIMENT,
who was accident-
a 11 y killed at
Havre on the
2nd December, 1914.
and was buried in
the cemetery of St.
^larie at that place
(the official list stat-
ing that he died on
the 31st December,
of wounds received
in action), was the
third .son of Canon Wood, D.D.. M.V.O., late
Headmaster of Harrow School, and of Mis.
Wood, Prebendal House, Rochester. He was
a younger brother of the Hon. J. B. Wood,
I.C.S., Political Secretary to the Government
of India.
He was bom on the 3rd December, 1S72, at
Leamington, and was educated at Leamington
College; Tonbridge School : and at the R,M.C..
Sandhurst, from which he joined the Army in
JIarch, 1894. At both Tonbridge and Sand-
hurst he was in the Cricket XI. and at the fomier
in the Football XV. Later he proved himself
a keen sportsman.
He was gazetted to the East Yorkshire Regiment
in 1894. and joined the 1st Battalion in Alex-
andria, afterwards going with it^in the follow-
ing year — to India. He was promoted Lieu-
tenant Ln November. 189(i. Captain in Decem-
ber. 1899. and from 1903 to 1908 he was
Adjutant of the X^orth Staffordshire Volunteers,
rejoining the 1st Battalion at Bordon in the
latter year. In 1910 he retired from the active
list, settling at Aldeburgh. Suffolk, where he
became .Secretary of the local Golf Club in
1911. On the outbreak of war. having been on
the Reserve, he joined the 3rd Battalion of his
old regiment in August, 1914, and was attached
to the 1st Battalion tor active service.
Captain Wood married, in 1900, Gladys Kath-
arine, daughter of Charles E. Salmon, of
Bury St. Edmunds, and left two children :
John Garrett, bom in Madras in December.
1901 ; and ilark, born at Barlaston in .Sep-
tember, 1904.
LIEUTEN.\NT LIONEL STRE.\T-
FEILD WOODG.\TE, 1st B.\TTN. THE
KINGS OWN ROYAL LANCASTER
REGIME NTi.
was the youngest
son of the late Alder-
m a n Ernest
Woodgate. J.P., and
Mi-s. Woodgate, and
was bom on thi-
11th June, 1888, at
Star Hill, Rochester.
K ent .
He was related to
the late Major-
General .Sir
Edward R. P. Woodgate. K.C.M.G.. C.B..
and to Colonel Henry .Streatfeild. C.B., M.V.O.
Equerry to Her Majesty Queen Alexandra.
Lieutenant \^'oodgate's brother — Lieutenant
WUliam Ernest Streatfeild Woodgate. of the
same regiment and battalion — died of wounds
received at Vryheid. South Africa, in 1900.
The subject of this memoir was educated at
Bradfleld College. Reading. Berks, and passed
thence direct into the Royal Military College,
Sandliurst. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in
his regiment in February, 1908, and promoted
Lieutenant in October, 1911. In 1913 he passed
thi-ough the School of Musketry. H>-the. and
qualified " with distinction."
He was killed while leading his company at
La Ferte, France, on the 8th September,
1914. and was buried in the garden of the
Cliateau at La Ferte.
I^ieutenant Woodgate was mentioned in Sir
.Tohn French's Despatch of the 8th October,
1914, for his gallantry.
He was an all-round sportsman.
C.\PT.\IN .\LFRED JAMES WOOD-
HOUSE, ROY.\L FIELD ARTILLERY.
wlio was killed in
action on the 30th
October, 1914. ' was
the second surviving
son of the late Jlr.
Robert H. Wood-
house. 1 , Hanover
Square. London. W.,
and of ill's. Wood-
house of Ralsbury.
Ealing Com-
mon, W.
He was bom on the
1st August. 1886, and was educated at Chel-
tenham, where he was head prefect of the
school and captain of the Rifle Corps and of the
Shooting VIII : and at the R.M.A., Woolwich,
where he became Senior Under Officer, and was
awarded the Sword of Honour. He was
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gazetted to the Royal Artillery in July, 1007,
and served two years at Ewshott. whence he
went to India, becoming Lieutenant in 1910.
His promotion to Captain was dated the 30th
October, 1914, the day of his death.
During the whole of his time in India, whenever
he was free from his military duties, he was on
shooting expeditions in the jungle, and brought
home many specimens which sportsmen of
longer experience would envy and prize.
An elder brother — Lieutenant R. W. Wood-
house — ^was killed in the South African War,
and two other brothers were kUled in the
fireat War in 1915 : one a 2nd Lieutenant in
the R.F.A.. who fell in France in October.
191.J : and the other a Piivate in the H.A.C..
killed in February, 1915.
Captain Woodhouse married, in August, 1914,
Esther ^largaret, daughter of the Rev. A. C.
Woodhouse. Rector of Winterborn, Monckton.
Dorset.
LIEUTENANT NEVILLE
LESLIE W'OODROFFE, 1st
BATTN. IRISH GUARDS,
who wa.s killed in
action at Klein Zille-
beke, near Ypres, in
an attack on the
German trenches, on
tlie 6th November,
1914, aged twenty-
one, was the son of
Allen and Beatrice
Woodroffe, of 21,
Cornwall Gardens,
London, S.W.
He was educated at
Eton and Trinity College. Cambridge, and joined
the Irish (iuards as 2nd Ijeutenant on probation
in February. 1913. being confirmed in his rank
some months later, and was gazetted lieutenant
after his death, the rank to date from the 2nd
November, 1914. He was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January. 1915.
2nd LIEUTENANT BASIL HAMILTON
WOODS, 1st FIELD CO.. EAST
LANCASHIRE DIVISION. ROYAL EN-
GINEERS (T.F.),
son of .Mr. and Jlrs.
W . H . Woods,
R a v e n s t o n e ,
Hale, Cheshire, was
born at Chorlton-
cuni -Hardy,
near ^Manchester, on
the 18th August,
1891.
He was educated at
Reptou, where he
was Sergeant in the
Officers' Training Corps, and at Oriel College,
Oxford. He first joined the Reserve of Officers,
in May, 1012. but resigned from it in April,
1914, to take a commission in the East Lan-
cashire Territorial Engineers, as an officer of
which he was on active service in the Great
War.
He was dro\vned on the 17th November.
1014. together with six N.C.O.'s and men,
in the Suez Canal through an explosion on a
lavmch which his company was using in con-
nection with their work on the defences of
the Canal, and he was buried with ftill military
honoiu^ at Suez on the 24th December, Major-
General Mellis, V.C, C.B.. and the whole of his
Staff attending. General Douglas made special
reference to the accident in orders, and in
connection with the casualties the follo^\ing
telegram was sent to General Douglas by the
Commander of the Canal Defences : " AU
ranks of the Indian Expeditionary Force desire
to express their sincere sjniipathy and regret
at the lamentable accident which has resulted
in the death of Lieutenant Woods and six
N.C.O.'s and men. They were doing excellent
work, and their skill and soldierly conduct
were highly appreciated."
In his reply General Douglas said : " All ranks
appreciate kind sympathy of Indian Expedition-
ary Force. Lieutenant Woods, the N.C.O.'s
and men who have lost their lives serving their
country were nuich respected, and we all value
the knowledge that their good work and sol-
dierly conduct has been appreciated by you and
your troops."
2nd LIEUTENANT CHARLES STEPH-
ENSON WOOLLCOMBE. 2nd BATTN.
THE KINGS OWN SCOTTISH
BOR DERERS.
born at Newton Ab-
bot. Devonshire, on
the 12th December,
1895. was the
younger son
of Lieu ten ant-
General Charles
Louis Woollcombe,
C.B., Colonel of the
King's O w n
Scottish Borderere, _
and !Mrs. Wooll-
combe. daughter of the late General Sir John
Irvine Murray. K.C.B.. Indian Army. He was
a cousin to Major John Morth Woollcombe, of
Ashbiory. Devon.
He was educated at Marlborough, from which
he entered the R.JI.C, Sandhurst, in September,
1913. and was gazetted to the K.O.S.B. in
August. 1914. joining the 2nd Battalion, which
belonged to the \'th Division, in France the
following month.
WOR
He was killed in action at ("iiinchy on the 12th
October. 1914. The 13th Brigade, of which his
regiment formed part was ordered to clear the
enemy out of a position, and almost as soon as
it advanced three officers — of whom 2nd Lieu-
tenant Woollconibe was one — and several men
were killed.
CAPTAIN ALEXANDER GERALD
WORDSWORTH, 2r.d B.\TTN. THE
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S OWN
M I D D I. F. S F X REGIMENT),
was the son of the
Rev. John
Wordsworth, \'icar
of AUhaUows, Cum-
berland, and Rose
(ieraldine Words-
worth, and was born
at Gosforth Rectory.
Cumberland, on the
2Sth October, 1880.
He was a gi'eat-
trrandson of the poet
Wordsworth..
He was educated at Charney Hall. Grange-over-
Sands and at Loretto School, Musselburgh :
and joined the 3rd (ililitia) Battalion Border
Regiment in ^lay, 1900. In January, 1902, he
was gazetted from the Jlilltia to the 2nd
Battalion Middlesex Regiment, his father's old
regiment. He served in the South Afiican War.
being present at operations in the Transvaal in
1902, receiving the Queen's medal with two
clasps. He was promoted Lieutenant in May,
1904. and was appointed .Adjutant of his
battalion in March. I!(ll. a position he held
till 1914. h.aving been promoted Captain in
March, 1912.
Captain Wordsworth was killed in action in
the trenches near Laventie. Belgium, on the
6th December. 1914.
He was a member of the Cavendish Club.
LIEUTENANT JOHN LIONEL WORDS-
WORTH, 5th (ROY.\L IRISH) LANCERS.
who was killed in
action on the 4th
Xovember. 1914. was
the son of the late
Captain John\Aords-
worth, of Blackgates,
Yorkshire.
He was bom on the
21st April, 1882, was
educated at Caius
College, Cambridge,
and entered the
" Yorkshire R.G.A.
(Militia) in April, 1902, becoming Lieutenant
in June. 1901. He joined the otli Lancers as
2nd Lieutenant in JIay. 1900, becoming Lieu-
tenant in May, 1908. From August. 1909. to
Xovember, 1911, he was A.D.C. to the (ieneral
Officer Comnianding-in-Chief, Xorthei-n Com-
mand.
L 1 E U T E N ,\ N T C H .\ R L E S S .\ C K-
VILLE PELH.\M, LORD WORSLEY.
ROYAL HORSE Gl.\RDS,
who was killed at —
Zandvoorde on the
30th October, 1914,
was the eldest son
oi the Earl and
Countess of
Y'arborough,
Brocklesby Park,
Lincolnshire.
He w-a^ bom on the
14th August, 1SS7, .^^^^^^^^^^i
and joined the Royal
Horse Guardsin
October, 1907, becoming Lieutenant a year
later. From March, 1912, to April, 1913, he
was A.D.C. (extra) to Lieutenant^General Sir
D. Haig. K.CI.E.. K.C.V.O.. C.B.. Com-
manding-in-Chief. Aldershot Command.
Lord Worsley, who was at first reported as
missing early in December, was gazetted
Captain (Temporary) to date from 15th Xovem-
ber, 1914, which promotion will apparently not
now be considered as having taken effect.
Lord Worsley married, in 1911. the Hon.
.Alexandra Mary Freesia. youngest daughter of
the third Baron Vivian.
LIEUTENANT REGINALD GEORGE
WOR THING TON. 2nd B .\ T T N.
OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGH.\.M-
SHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY,
w h o «■ a s k i 1 1 e d
in action on
the lOth September,
1914, was the second
son of the late
George Montagu
W o r t h i n g t o n .
of Dy.son's Wood,
near Reading, and
Mrs. \\'orthington.
and was born on
the 4th December,
1880.
He was educated at Branksome, Godalming.
and Charterhouse, and was gazetted 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the 3rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry
in February. 1904. From the Militia he was
gazetted to the Oxfordsliire and Buckingham-
shire Light Infantry in May, 1908, and was
po,sted to the 2nd Battalion (old 52nd), he was
As.'-istant Adjutant and Scout Officer, and
became lieutenant in .April, I'Jll.
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Lieutenant Worthington was awarded the
Croix de Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
He was a member of tlie Junior Army and Xavy
and the Junior United Service Clubs.
CAPTAIN EDWIN WRIGHT, 3rd
(PRINCE OF WALES'S) DRAGOON
GUARDS, was killed in action near Ypres on
the liSth November, 1914. He wa.s born on the
27th Xoveudjer, 1879, and joined the Royal
ilariae ArtUlery as 2nd Lieutenant in 1897,
becoming Lieutenant in 1898, and Captain in
Decen^ber, 1904.
From AvigiLst, 1905, to August, 1908, he was
Adjutant of the south-east of Scotland R.ti.A.
(Jlilitia) and in February, 1909, went on half-
pay on appointment as A.D.C. to the Governor
of South Australia, which he held till Decem-
ber, 1910. In January, 1911, he was transferred
to the 3rd Dragoon Guards as Captain, with
which regiment he was serving at Cairo, when
war was declared.
2nd LIEUTENANT GEORGE
DRENNAN CRON WRIGHT, 2nd
BATTN. BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT,
sou of the late
George Wright, of
G r a h a m s t o w n ,
Cape Colony, and
Mrs. \^'right, and a
grandson of the late
William D r e n -
nan, C.E., was bom
in Kensington,
London, on the 4th
April. 1891.
lie was educated at
the KIstow School,
Bedford, England, and received his commission
in December, 1913, joining his battalion at
Roberts's Heights, Pretoria, in the following
month.
He was killed on the 23rd October, 1914, during
the fighting before Ypres, wliile gallantly leading
his platoon into action.
CAPTAIN HUGH STAFFORD
NORTHCOTE WRIGHT, 2nd
BATTN. 8th GURKHA RIFLES,
who was bom at
Akola. Berar. India,
on the 14th Decem-
ber, 1877, was the
second son of the
late Frederick
Wright. Esq. (for
111 any years
Senior Superintend-
ent , and s u b -
sequently Inspector-
General, of Police in
Berar), and of Mrs.
Wright, afterwards residing at Kilcor Castle, Fer-
moy. County Cork. Captain Wright was named
after his godfather, the first Lord Iddlesleigh
— Sir Stafford Northcote — to whom he was
related, being a member of the family of
Wrights, of Longstone Hall, Derbyshire, whose
ancestoi'S have lived there before Doomsday
Book was issued, and still hold their land and
manor.
He was educated at Chigwell School, Esses,
of which the Rev. Canon R. D. Swallow was
Headmaster, and afterwards at Heidelberg
University. \^'hen the South African War broke
out he was on plague duty in India, and at once
enlisted in Lunisden's Horse, sailing with it in
February, 1900, for South Africa. In September,
1900, he was given a commission in the Army
Service Corps. Captain Wright's yoimger
brother enlisted at the same time, and both did
so well that they were both given commissions.
Captain Hugh Wright took part La operations
both in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony,
receiving the Queen's medal with three clasps
and the King's medal with two clasps. He
became Lieutenant in December, 1901, and
returned to England in November, 1902.
After a couree at Aldershot he was a short time
at Cork, and from there went to India for five
years, arri^nng in Bombay in 1904, and serving
mostly at Poona. In the next year he was at
Rawal I'mdi for manoeuvres in connection with
the Prince of ^A'ales's visit. He returned to
England in 1909, becoimng Captain in Sep-
tember of that year, and served witli the A.S.C.
at Bulford Camp, Salisbury, till 1912, when he
exchanged into the Indian Army, joining the
8th Gurkha Rifles at Lansdowne, m the Hima-
layas, m April of the same year. W'hUe in
India he passed for his Majority, and also
qualified in Kashura, the (iurkha language.
In August, 1914, he sailed from Karachi for
France,, his ship, the " Erinpura," being one of
a convoy of forty-two transports, with H.M.S.
" Dartmouth " as escort. Reaching ;Marseilles
on the 12th October, his regiment was put in
the Meerut Division, conunanded by Major-
(ieneral Keary. Captain Wright was one of
the many brave officers to fall at the Battle of
Ypres, being killed in action on the 1st Novem-
ber, 1914. His last message home was to say that
his regiment had gone hurriedly to the front, and
that lie was " very fit and awfully keen." In
a previous letter from India, when acquainting
his family that his regiment was one of those
chosen for service, he said how disappointed he
and they wo\dd have been had the orders for
an>' reason been countermanded.
The following account of Captain Wright's
part in the action in which he gave his lite
was written by liis Commanding Officer : " At
10 p.m. on the 29th October tlie regiment went
into action, and he (Captain Wright) got his
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company in tlie advaiici'il treuch, next to that
occupied by Captains Hartwell and Hayes-
Sadler. During the night his trench was at-
tacked twice to my knowledge, as I was with
him durinj; one attack, and with liis Houble
Company t'onimander — Major Wake — in the
supporting trench during the other. He did all
that a man could do. and acted with the great<'St
courage and coolness. During the very trying
shell fire to which these trenches were subjected
from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the 30th October he did
all it was possible to do. During this time he was
wounded, but continued to command his men.
Wlien the fiu'ious attack developed it was
mainly directed to his trench and that held
by Captain Sadler. He repelled line after line
of the enemy, and held on tiU a very large
proportion of his men had been killed or womided
and tdl he liimselt was kiUed. What n\ore
could a man do ? A soldier can do no more than
die at his post — game to the last ! "
His Conunanding Officer also gave the following
tribute to him : " A more gallant officer or
better comrade either in peace or war I have
never met."
Another officer wrote : " To know Wright was
to like him, and the better one knew him, the
more one liked liim. He was far and away out
of the ordinary at both polo and tetuiis. He
w;is the moving spirit at Lansdowne."
Captain \\"right was a good shot, and very
successful m big and small game shooting. He
played tennis for liis corps (A.S.C.) in reguneutal
tournaments in England at Queen's Club,
twice being in the finals. He won the Open
Singles, Salisbury Lawn Tennis Club, in 1909.
He was of a fine character and disposition, and
at the same tune most modest in his estimation
of himself. His late Headmaster — Canon
Swallow — testified that he was " honourable
and pure-minded, witli many charming qualities.
His conduct was always on the side of good."
Captain Wright was unmarried, and was a
meniber of the Junior Xaval and MiMtary
Club.
2nd LIEUTENANT NEIL JAMES
ROBERT
R O Y .\ L
WRIGHT,
FIELD
15th BATTERY,
ARTILLERY,
was the ordy son of
the late James
Wright, of Tun-
bridge Wells, and of
Mrs. Wright, The
Leas, Westclifif - on -
Sea,
He was bom on the
4th February, 1894,
and was educated at
Brighton College
and the E.M.A.,
Woolwich. At the
latter lie distinguished himseU' iis an athlete,
winning the long jump for Woolwich against
.Sandhurst in 1913. He received his com-
mission in the R.F.A. in September. 1913.
He took part in the Battles of Mons. the Marne.
and the Aisne, and was killed on the l.jth Sep-
tember. 1914. at the Battle of the Aisne,
CAPTAIN THEODORE WRIGHT,
V. C ROYAL ENGINEERS.
who was killed on
the 14th September,
1914, wliile helping
wounded men
into shelter, was the
son of the lat« Wil-
1 i a m Walter
Wright and Mrs.
Wright, of Albury,
near Guildford, and
was born at
Brighton on the 15th
May, 1883,
He was educated at Clifton College and at the
R.M.A., Woolwich, where he was in the first
Cricket XI and in the hockey team. He also
played cricket for the Army v. Hampshire.
Passing out of the R.il.A., he obtained liis
commission ui the Royal Engineers in October.
1902, subsequently serving at Gibraltar and
Cairo. He was promoted Lieutenant in June,
1905, Captain in October, 1913, and accom-
panied the British Expeditionary Force to
France in August, 1914.
For his gallantry in the very early part of the
war he was awarded the much coveted decor-
ation of the Victoria Cross, the following being
the official record of the service for which it
was given : " Gallantry at Mons on the 23rd
August in attempting to comiect up the lead
to demolish a bridge under heavy fire. Although
wounded in the head, he made a second attempt.
At \'aiUy, on the 14th September, he assisted
the passage of 5th Cavalry Brigade over the
pontoon bridge,- and was mortally wounded
while assisting wounded men into shelter."
Colonel ^^'ilson, ol liis Corps, writing to his
mother, said of him : " No one has earned a
^■.C. better, and I am truly glad they have
given it to him. I have known him so long, and
have always been very fond of him. He was
one of the finest officers I have ever had, and
I feel Ids loss every day. ... I enclose a cutting
you may not have seen from a letter of one of
the Scots Greys officers, and I can endorse
every word of it."
The following is the account of the Cavalry
officer referred to : " We got across the river
at . . . the day before yesterday, a bit
before our tune, and had to get back over a
pontoon bridge considerably i|uicker than was
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pleasant — under a very unpleasant fire, too.
At the head of the bridge wa-s a gallant
Engineer officer, repairing bits blown off and
putting down straw as cool as a cucumber — the
finest thing I have ever seen. The poor fellow
was killed just after my troop got across. Xo
man ever earned a better \'.C."
Corporal Jarvis, who was on tlie same duty as
Captain Wright, said : " The work on the bridge
was done imder fire from three sides. Near the
bridge I found Captain Theodore Wright, WC
wounded in the head. I wished to bandage
him, but he said, ' Go back to the bridge !
It must be done ' — and so I went. The British
infantry were posted behind barricades, and
I had to make quite a detour to get round where
I had to start operations."
A chauffem" at the front related the follow-
ing incident of Captain Wright : " Poor
Captain Wright got killed liei-e the other day.
He was the officer who got wounded in the
head while I was driving him at ilons. \\'hen
I was under fire there I took a wounded soldier
to the hospital, and returned into the fire for
the Captain. It was a bit risky with eight cases
of djTiamite on the car. But he was a brave
man."
Mrs. Wright received a letter from His Majesty
the King, dated the 5th October, 1915, from
Buckingham Palace, which said : " It is a
matter of sincere regret to me tliat the death ot
Captain Theodore Wright deprived me of the
pride of personally conferring upon him the
\'ictoria Cross, the greatest of all military dis-
tinctions.— George R.I."
Captain Wright belonged to the Free Foresters
and Incogniti Clubs.
2nd LIEUTENANT MUSGRAVE
CAZENOVE WROUGHTON, 12th
(PRINCE OF WALESS ROYAL)
IL A N C E R S ,
who was killed in
action near Ypres
on the 30th October,
lull, was the only
sou of William
Musgraveaud of
Edith Constance
Wroughton, ot 77,
C li e s t e r S q u a r e,
London, S.W., and
of Creaton Lodge,
Northamptonshu'e.
He was educated at Harrow and at Clirist
Church, Oxford, and during his school and
college vacations was a keen follower of the
Pytchley Hounds, of which pack hLs father
was blaster for many year's.
On leaving Harrow he received a commission
in the Xorthamptonshire Yeomaiu'y in JIarch,
1910, and in 1912 he accompanied Sir Robert
Baden-Powell as A.D.C. on his world tour in
connection with the Boy Scout movement.
After serving nearly four years in the Northamp-
tonsiiire Y'eomanry, he was given a commis-
sion in the Special Reserve, 12th Lancers, as
2nd Lieutenant (on probation) in October,
1913. The appointment was confirmed after
liis death, to date from the 29th October, 1914.
In August, 1914, he accompanied his regiment
to the front, and was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915,
for gallant and distinguished service in the
field.
2nd Lieutenant Wroughton, who was twenty-
three year's of age when he was killed, was buried
in the chm'C yard at Kemmel, Belgium.
CAPTAIN GEORGE RICHARD WYLD,
3rd BATTN. THE DUKE OF EDIN-
BURGH'S (WILTSHIRE REGIMENT),
son of Canon Wyld,
Vicar of Melksham,
Wiltshire, was born
at Woodborough, in
that county.
He was educated at
Jlarlborough
College, and joinini:
the 13th Middlesex
V.R.C., as 2nd Lieu-
tenant in December.
1898, was promotetl
Lieutenant in July,
1900. He served in the South Atricau War,
1899-1902, for which he received the Queen's
medal with four clasps.
He subsequently joined the Reserve of Officers,
and in October. 1914. was appointed as Captain
to the 3rd Battalion \\ iltsliire Regiment, but
was attached to the 1st Battalion Berkshire
Regiment for service in the Great War. He
was killed by a sniper in the trenches near
Givenehv on the 24th December, 1914.
LIEUTENANT PERCY LYULPH WYND-
HAM, 3rd BATTN. COLDSTREAM
GUARDS,
was born at Saigh-
ton Grange, Chester,
on the 5th Decem-
ber, 1887. He was
the son of the late
Right Hon.
George Wyndham ,
M.P., at one time
Chief .Secretary to
the Lord- Lieutenant
of Ireland,
and Countess
Grosvenor, daughter-in-law of the first Duke
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4.Sfi
of Westminster, through whom Lioutunant
WjTidham was closely related to the Countess
of Shaftcsbui-y and Cnuiiti-ss Beauchamp (half-
sisteis). and to the present Duke of WestiiiiiL-iter
(half-l)rother).
lieutenant \\\iidham entered the Coldstream
Guards in February, 1909, becoming Lieutenant
in May, 1910. lie was with his battalion, whicli
belonged to the (iuards' Hiigade. Ilnd Division,
when he was killeil in action at the Battle of the
Aisne. near Soissons. on the 14th Sei-temtier.
1914.
Lieutenant Wyndham. who was a member of
the Guards' and Bachelors' Clubs, married, in
Apiil, 19i:5, the Hon. Diana Lister, daughter of
Lord Ribblesdale. He left no family.
CAPTAIN the Honble. WILLIAM REG
INALD WYNDHAM, LINCOLNSHIRE
YEOMANRY, attd. 1st LIFE GUARDS,
killed in action on
the 6th November.
1914, \vas the thud
son of tlie second
Baron Leconfield.
and was born on the
'' '^ ICth ilarch, 1870,
and was heir pre-
sumptive to his
brother, the third
Baron Leconfield.
Caf lain Wyndham
joined the ITtli Lau-
ceis as 2nd Lieutenant m March, 1896, be-
coming IJeiitenant in .May. 1897, and Captain
in .Tidy, 1901. He served in the South African
War, 1899-1900, receiving the Queen's medal
with three clasps. He retired from the Army
in 1903. owing to a riding accident, and took
a farm in f^ast Africa, going more lately to the
Rocky Mountains. He afterwards returned
home and became well known in Ireland on
the turf as an owner of winning^ race horses,
and as a member of the Jockey Club, to which
he was elected in 1912.
On the outbreak of the war he made every
effort to return to the ser^nce, and ui August,
1914, was gazetted Captain in the Lincolnshire
Yeomanry. Being anxious to proceed on active
service he was finally successful in being at-
tached to the 1st Life Guards, in which his
father and two of his brothel's had served.
2nd LIEUTENANT CHARLES
W A T K I N W I L L I A M S - W Y N N , 1st
BATTN. COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
son of Arthur W. WillianLs-Wynn and Mary
WUliams-Wynn. of Coed-y-ilaen, A\'elshpool.
Montgomerysliire, was born in London on
the 19th May, 1896.
He was educated at Evelyns, \\'e.-,t Drajlou
and at Eton (Mr. R. S. de Havilland's House).
At the latter he was a
memberoftheO.T.C,
and when war broke
out was gazetted to
theSpecial Reserveof
OlTicere, Coldstream
(iuard^. on the
l.'.th Augu.st, 1914.
He was sent to join
the 1st Battalion of
his regiment in Oct-
ober, and wrtthin
three days of reach-
ing the front was reported missing. It has since
been ascertained, from prisoners of war in
Germany that he was killed in action at Zand-
voorde, near Ypres, on the 2!lth OcIoIht. 1914.
MAJOR HUGH TALBOT WYNTER. 22nd
BATTERY, ROYAL FIELD .\RTILLERY,
killed in action at
the Battle of the
Aisne on the loth
September. 19 14. was
the son of Hugh Bold
Wynter, of Canon's
House, Taunton, and
Brecon, South Wales,
and was born on the
26th September.
1872.
He joined the Royal
Artillery in Feb-
ruary, 1893, becoming Lieutenant iu Februar\ •
1896, and Captain in May, 1900. From April.
1906 to .Tune. 1908, he was Adjutant to the
loth Brigade, R.F.A., and from the latter date
to November, 1909, was employed as an Ad-
jutant of the Territorial Force.
Major Wynter, who attained liis rank in
February, 1910, married, in 1898, Eva Mary
Florence, jounger daughter of the late Edward
Chicester Incledon-Webber, of Buckland Ho !
and St. Brannocks, Braunton, North Devon,
and left one .son, bom in September, 1899,
now serving as midsliipmau in the Grand Fleet,
having been appointed in September, lOlo.
.Major Wynter fell in .action ou the heights of
the Aisne, and was mentioned in Sir .Tohn
French's De.spatch of the Sth Octolxr. 1911. for
his distinguished bravery.
He was a member of the Bath Club.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM STANLEY
Y ALL AND, 1st BATTN. GLOUCESTER-
SHIRE REGT., wasbornat Fishponds. Bristol,
on the 27tli .Tune. 1889. the son of T. K. Yalland.
Esq., of The .Manor House, Fishponds, Bristol.
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He was educated at a private school and at
Clifton College, and in December. 1910, was
appointed to the 3rd
Battalion Leicester-
shire Regiment
(Special Reserve) ,
from which he was
given a commission
as 2nd Lieutenant
in the Gloucester-
shire Regiment in
December, 1912.
being promoted
Lieutenant in
August. lOU.
■ attalion which formed
part of the 3rd Brigade. 1st Division, when he
died very gallantly at Langemarke on the 23rd
October. 1914. He was ordered to take his
platoon to a trench to prevent the Germans
making further groimd. This he did. and his
platoon, at considerable loss, drove the Germans
back, and the trenches were reoccupied by the
British. Durincr this action he was killed.
Lieutenant Talland was a good three-quarter
back at football, and played for his regiment
in the regimental cup. 1913—14. He was also
a good cricketer, having played for his county
( Gloucestershire).
MAJOR CHARLES .\LL1X LAVINGTON
Y.\TE. V.C.. p.s.c. 2nd BATTN. THE
KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT
_^ INFANTRY.
I who was bom on
the 14th March,
1S72, at the Vicar-
age, iladeley,
Shropshire,
was the son of the
Rev. George
Edward Yate. Vicar
of Madeley
and Prebendary of
Hereford.
He was educated at
Weymouth School and the R.il.C, Sandhurst.
Major Yate joined the King's Own Y"orkshire
Light Infantry in 1S92, becoming Lieutenant in
February, 1S94, and Captain in July, 1S99.
He served in the Tirah Campaign. 1S97— 9S.
and in the South African War. being present
at the advance on Kimberley, including actions
at Belmont and Enslin (dangerously wounded),
and operations in the Transvaal. He received
the Tirah medal with clasp, and for the South
African War was mentioned in Despatches
(■■ London Gazette." 10th September. 1901). and
received the Queen's medal with four clasps.
He was selected to go to Japan in 1903, and in
1904—05 was present at the siege of Port Arthur,
being awarded the Japanese Order of the Sacred
Treasure.
He passed out of the Staff College in 1902,
and was almost continuously employed on the
General Staff at the War Office and elsewhere
from .July. 1904. until six months before the out-
break of the war with Germany. He was then,
being qualified as a first-class interpreter in
French and German, and a Staff Officer of
experience and approved merit, appointed to
the Staff of the French Commander-in-Chief.
This post he asked to be aUowed to decline, as
he wished to serve with his regiment, which he
had nieanwliile rejoined from the Staff. Major
Yate was also a first-class interpreter in
Japanese.
The part he played in the war was brief but
distinguished. He won the Victoria Cross,
the official record of the award, as published
in the '" London Gazette " of the 2.5th Novem-
ber, 1914. being as follows : " Major Charles
Allix Lavington Yate (deceased). 2nd Battalion
King's Own Y'orkshire Light Infantry, com-
manded one of the two companies that re-
mained to the end in the trenches at Le Cateau
on August 26th. and when all other officers
were killed and wounded, and ammunition
exhausted, led nineteen survivors against the
enemy in a charge in which he was severely
wounded. He was picked up by the enemy,
and has subsequently died as a prisoner of
war."
This heroic act of Major Tate and his gallant
band of nineteen, all the sound men left of his
company at the moment, is referred to in all
accounts of the Battle of Le Cateau. Lord E.
Hamilton mentions it as 'the Thermopylae of 'B'
Company K.O.Y.L.I."' : and Sir A. Conan Doyle
considers Major Yate •" one of the heroes of the
battle."
Major Yate was the author of an article, in the
September (1914) issue of " Blackwood's Maga-
zine," entitled " Moral Qualities in War,"
which received special notice in " The Times,"
of the 17th September. 1914. The reviewer
described it as. " not oidy a striking confession
of a soldier's faith, but also the military
testament of one who was among the first to
lay down liis life for his country in the present
war " : and added : " Major Yate concluded
his article with some reference to the spirit of
the Japanese soldier — ' the spirit in which sol-
diers must go forth to fight — not dreaming of
the home-coming, the medal, the batta. These
are distant and problematical. Nearer and more
probable are the enemy and the tomb. Few,
few shall part, where many meet. ' '' Before
these fine words were in type the author had
proved their truth. They stand as a prophecy
and an epitaph, and, if his message from the
gi-ave Ls as widely read as it deserves to be,
a gallant soldier wUl not have died in vain.
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Major Yate iiiarrieil Florence Helena, daughter
of John F. Brigg. J.P., ot Greenhead Hall,
Huddersfiilcl. ami his wife, Martha Ann Adol.aide
Brigg.
CAPTAIN MARWOOD EDWARDS
YEATMAN. 1st BATTN. SOUTH WALES
BORDERERS,
! eldest son of the late
Jilarwood .Shuttle-
worth Yeatman, was
I born on the 29th
I. I September. 1883. at
* ^ Hohvell ^lanor. near
Sherborne, Dorset :
I he was a fii-st cousin
^^ of the present Lord
^C^^ Bishop of Worcester.
^^^H; He \\'as educated at
" a private school at
Winchester and at the R.M.C., Sandhurst, fioni
which he joined the South Wales Borderers
as 2nd Lieutenant in October, 1903, proceeding
at once to India. He became Lieutenant in
June, 1907, and iiri909 was sent to the Depot
of his regiment. In 1912 he travelled in Russia,
afterwards qualifying as a 1st Class Interpreter
in that language. He was gazetted Captain on
the 4th August, to date from the 30th April,
1914, and accompanied his battalion to France
in August, 1914. tfH>k part in the retirement
from Mons. and was present at the subsequent
Battle of the .Aisne : while the battalion was
digging itself in near the river during that
battle, he was known to have shot with his
revolver four Germans at a distance of 60 yards,
and was himself soon afterwards shot through
the heart by a fierman sniper on the l.")th
.September, 1014.
Captain "^'eatman. who belonged to the Cocoa
Tree Club, was a well known shot, having been
in the Army Rifle Eight and Revolver Eight at
Bisley in 1913 and 1914. He was good at
outdoor sports and games, hunted, fished,
yachted, and played golf, tennis and racquets.
He married in 1909, Gwladys Mary, daughter
of Major General F. Koe, C.B., C.M.G.. and left
two sons: ^larwood John Richard, born in
1910, and Benedictus Godfrey William, born
in 1914.
MAJOR ARTHUR YOUNG, p.s.c.
1st GURKHA RIFLES. BRIGADE-
MAJOR G U R H W A L B R I G .\ D E ,
bom at Dhanusala, Punjab, on the 3rd Decem-
ber, 1876, was the son of Colonel G. Young,
late Commanding 1st Gurkha Rifles. His
brother is Captain G. H. Young, 38th Dogras.
Major Yoiing. who was educated at Blairlodge
.School, Polmont, Stirlingshire, and the R.M.C..
Sandhurst, from which he was gazetted to an
unattached 2nd Lieutenancy in August. 189().
and was appointed to the Indian Army in Dec-
ember, 1897. He was
attached to the Gor-
don Highlanders at
Rawal Pindi, and
served with them in
the Tirah Campaign
of 1897-98, being
present at the actions
of the Chagru Kotal.
Dargai, and of the
Sampagha and Ar-
hanga Passes : also
at operations in the
Waran Valley, including action of the llith
November, 1897, and operations in the Bara
Valley, 7th to 14th December, 1897. He was
mentioned in Despatches (G.G.O. 483 of 1898).
and received the medal with two clasps. He
was pjomoted Lieutenant in January, 1899, and
Captain in August, lOO.'S.
Major Young passed out of tlie StalT College,
in December, 1910, and was appointed Brisjade-
Major of the Gurhwal Brigade, in .Tune. 1912.
in which capacity he was serving in the Great
War. Ha^^ng reached Field Rank in August.
1914. he was killed when returning from shelter
trenches on the 14th December, 1914. For his
services he was mentioned in Sir .Tohn French's
Despatch of the 14tli January. 1915.
CAPTAIN JOHN ERSKINE YOUNG,
1st BATTN. ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS,
was shown in the
monthly official
casualty list pub-
lished in October.
1914, under the head-
ing of casualties
which are believed to
have occurred as
" believed killed," no
place or date being
given.
He was born on the
24th February, 1880,
and joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers from the
Militia in April, 1900. becoming Lieutenant in
December, 1901, and Captain in September,
1911. He embarked for France with his
battalion, which formed part of the 9th Brigade.
Illrd Division, with the first part of the British
Expeditionary Force.
2nd LIEUTEN.\NT ROGER ASSHETON
YOUNG. 2nd B.\TTN. ROYAL MUNSTER
FUSILIERS, who was bom on the 20th
December, 1894. at St. Leonards-on-.Sea, was
the son of Archibald Edward and Cicely
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YOU
Young,
YouQg.
and a nephew of the late Colonel W. A.
who commanded the Royal Scots
Fusilieis, and of
Lieutenant - Colonel
C. H. Young, former-
ly commanding the
2nd Battalion Welsh
Regiment, and after-
wards in command
of the 9th Battalion
of that regiment.
2nd Lieutenant
Young was educated
at the Roval
Xaval College. Osborne, where he had some
athletic successes, winning the junior term
high jump and the four-oared race. He after-
wards went to I'ppingTiain and the R.il.C.
.Sandhurst. He was gazetted to the Munster
Fusfliieis in August, 1914. and was killed in a
frontal attack on German trenches near Festm-
bert. La Bassee district, on the 22nd December,
1914.
2nd Lieutenant Young played football for the
Richmond Club. At Sandhurst he was in the
champion team. " O " Company, and was one
of the representatives of Sandhurst r. Woolwich
in athletic sports in 1913 and 1914.
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