Chapter 1

=GODWARD, ERIC JAMES=, 2nd Lieut., 1/7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late William Godward, Accountant, by his wife, Agnes (Godward, Newthorpe, Enfield), dau. of John Davison; b. New Thorpe, Enfield, co. Middlesex, 19 Feb. 1895; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School; and was in business until the outbreak of War, giving up the whole of his spare time to work among lads in Enfield. He held a commission as Cadet Lieut. in the St. Andrew and St. Mary Coy. London Diocesan Church Lads’ Brigade (Cadet Force), and when war broke out was transferred to the 2/7th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), together with Capt. Perks, and most of the senior lads in his brigade company, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13 Oct. 1914. He was transferred to the 1/7th and went to France, 25 July, 1915, and was killed in action there, 25 Aug. 1915, being shot while on patrol duty, and was buried at Fleurbaix; unm. His Col. wrote: “Your son had not been with us very long, but in that time he had earned the liking and respect of everyone with whom he had come into contact. He was absolutely fearless, and a very gallant young officer, in whom I had the utmost confidence”; and Col. Drew, 2/7th Middlesex, wrote: “During the ten months he served with me, I formed a great admiration for him. He was a boy of exceptional character.”

=GOFFIN, HERBERT CULLIS=, Sergt., No. 2849, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the Rev. Herbert James Goffin, of Walteur, Burford Gardens, Palmers Green, N., late Missionary of the London Missionary Society, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of Edmund Cullis, of Gloucester; b. Vizianagaram, South India, 4 Feb. 1887; educ. School for Sons of Missionaries, Blackheath; enlisted in the Queen’s Westminsters on the outbreak of war; served with his battn. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action by a shell bursting in his trench at Ypres, 4 June, 1915; unm. He was buried at Cross Roads, Potyje, near Ypres. His commanding officer wrote: “His help has been invaluable with the company, while his amiability and pleasant manner endeared him to every one with whom he came in contact. Few men have made themselves at one and the same time so respected and so popular, and no man so thoroughly justified his rapid promotion.”

=GOGGS, FRANK=, Private, No. 430264, 31st Battn. 6th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force; eldest s. of the late Arthur Harry Goggs, of the City of London, Wine Merchant, by his wife, Annie Jane (31, Fore Street, Tiverton, Devon), dau. of Henry Briggs, Yeoman of the Guard; b. East Dulwich, London, 7 April, 1884; educ. Cranley County School and the City of London School; emigrated to British Columbia in 1903, and bought a ranch at Fort Steele, but after the outbreak of war, gave this up, joined the 31st Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force 19 Feb. 1915; came over with the third Contingent in July, 1915; went to the western front 16 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 13 Oct. 1915; unm.

=GOLDBAUM, HARRY=, Bugler, No. 1149, Kent Fortress Royal Engineers (T.F.), 4th s. of Solomon Goldbaum, of 26, Maroon Street, Stepney. E., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Harry Trager; b. Edinburgh, 23 Feb. 1898; educ. Beth Street Council School, E.; was a sergt. in the Boys’ Brigade at Tunbridge Wells and enlisted on the outbreak of war; left for the Dardanelles, Oct., and was lost on H.M.S. Hythe, off Cape Wells, 28 Oct. 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “We had sailed from Mudros at about 4 p.m. in a small sweeper, the Hythe. It was a rough and squally day, and before we had gone very far a great number of the men were sea-sick. However, we had almost reached our destination at Cape Wells, and were beginning to think of disembarking, when suddenly a large vessel boomed out of the darkness, and in spite of all efforts to avoid a collision it ran into us, cutting deeply into our port bow and bringing down our foremast. In ten minutes our vessel sank, leaving numbers struggling in the water or hanging on to spars and other floating matter. The boats of the other vessel did all they could and picked up many poor fellows—but it was all too few, for nearly 130 were drowned.... As Trumpeter he acted as my mounted orderly and many are the days we have been in the saddle together. He was always cheerful and willing, and knew how to use his head.”

=GOLDIE, BARRE HERBERT=, 2nd Lieut., Reserve of Officers, Indian Army, attached 32nd Lancers and Imperial Service Cavalry, elder s. of Col. James Ord Goldie, of 12, Tisbury Road, Hove, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Gen. Cumberlege, Madras Cavalry; b. Jubbulpore, India, 27 Jan. 1877; educ. Rottingdean, Wellington College, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. with honours, and was engaged in scholastic work in Hyderabad when the European War broke out. He obtained leave from the Nizam to leave his post, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Indian Army, Oct. 1914, and attached to the 32nd Lancers at Jubbulpore, whence he went to Egypt to join the Imperial Service Cavalry. He died 29 April, 1915, of wounds received in action during the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal; unm.

=GOLDING, WILLIAM RICHARD=, Petty Officer, 178836, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GOLDSMID, SYDNEY ALEXANDER=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., only s. of the late Sydney Goldsmid, by his wife, Julie (now wife of Lieut.-Col. George Annesley-Smith, of The Chase, Camberley, late Worcestershire Regt.), dau. of the late William S. Hart, C.S., retired, and great nephew of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Bart.; b. Southsea, 6 May, 1893; educ. United Services College, Windsor, and R.M.C., Sandhurst, gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4 Sept. 1912, promoted Lieut. 20 Sept. 1914, killed in action with the Expeditionary Force at Ypres 7 Nov. 1914; unm. He was mentioned for reconnaissance work in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914, and his commanding officer, Col. Stuart, wrote: “I cannot speak too highly of him. He had done such excellent work throughout the campaign and was a capital officer and good comrade.”

=GOLDSMITH, BERTIE HURR=, A.B., Chatham R.F.R., B. 7484, R.N., s. of Henry George Goldsmith, of Southwold, Dealer, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of John Hurr, of Southwold, Fisherman; b. Southwold, co. Suffolk, 17 April, 1885; educ. St. Edmund’s School there; joined the Navy, 5 Jan. 1903, and after serving his time passed into the R.N.R., and when War broke out was in the Birmingham City Fire Brigade; mobilised Aug. 1914, and was lost in H.M.S. Aboukir, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Chislehurst, 21 Sept. 1912, Minnie Maria (41, Albany Road, Chislehurst, Kent), dau. of Thomas Witherden, and had a dau., Florence Irene Bertie, b. (posthumous) 15 Dec. 1914.

=GOLDSMITH, THOMAS MARK=, Private, No. 18199, 1st Suffolk Royal Field Artillery; s. of Henry George Goldsmith, of Southwold, Dealer, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of John Hurr, of Southwold, Fisherman; b. Southwold, co. Suffolk, 29 May, 1888; educ. St. Edmund’s School there; was a butcher; enlisted 30 Jan. 1915; went to France 3 March, 1915, and died 25 April, 1915, of wounds received in action there. He m. in London, 26 Dec. ..., Matilda Kathleen, dau. of (—) Shaw, and had a son, Thomas Olaf, b. 6 April, 1914.

=GOLDSTON, LIONEL EMANUEL=, Rifleman, No. 2130, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) London Regt. (T.F); 2nd s. of the Rev. Nehemiah Goldston, Minister (for 26 years) of the South East London Synagogue, New Cross, S.E.; b. New Cross, 29 Sept. 1895; educ. Mantle Road Secondary School, S.E.; at the age of 17 joined the staff of the “Société Generale” Bank in Regent Street, where he showed great ability; joined the Surrey Rifles three days after the declaration of war (7 Aug.), went to the Front with them in March, 1915, was present at the Battle of Festubert and was killed in action at Givenchy, 30 May following; unm. He was buried at Windy Corner near that place. His company commander, Capt. C. W. B. Hislop, in reporting his death, wrote that he “had fulfilled his duties thoroughly,” and that his last words were: “I am all right, Sir.”

=GOLDSWORTHY, ALFRED ERNEST=, Private, No. 18194, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of William Goldsworthy, Miner, by his wife, Ann; b. Frizington, Cumberland, 10 Dec. 1886; educ. Church School there; went to Canada, 18 March, 1907; enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 30 April, 1915. He m. at Laxey, Isle of Man, 3 Jan. 1915, Ellen Elizabeth (Sea View Bungalow, Maughold, Ramsey, Isle of Man), yst. dau. of the late John Keen, Joiner; s.p.

=GOLIGHTLY, WILLIAM=, A.B., S.S. 3110, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GOLLOP, ALPHONSO=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 806), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GOLPHIN, JOHN RENNER=, Private, No. 2304, 6th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), only s. of George Golphin, of 14, Holme Avenue, Walkerville, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Foreman Shunter, N.E.R., by his wife, Mary Murdie, only dau. of the late Anthony Renner, Farmer; b. Heaton, Newcastle, 26 Aug. 1888: educ. Council Schools there and Skerry’s College, Newcastle-on-Tyne; and on leaving the latter in 1903, became a Clerk in the Forth Goods Station, N.E.R. He was a bugler in the Band of the Royal Engineers Volunteers, Newcastle, 1906–09, and when war broke out, enlisted 6 Sept. 1914; went to France with his regiment, 19 April, 1915, and died 28 April, 1915, of wounds received in action in the heavy fighting at St. Julien on the 26th. He was buried in Hazebrouck Cemetery, France; unm. Private Golphin was a member of the N.E.R. cricket and footballers clubs, and also played for the Hexham County Association Football Club, 1912–13, and was a prominent member of the N.E.R. Institute Billiard Team.

=GOMES, MANOEL ANTONIO=, Gunner, No. 40530, 2nd Battery, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Manoel Gomes Beinhos, of the Island of Madeira, by his wife, Joqina, dau. of Antonio de Jesus, of Nossa Senhora da Monte, Madeira, and nephew of Manuel de Jesus, of 14, Pitt Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice, British Guiana; Merchant; b. Madeira, 24 May, 1892; went to British Guiana in 1902 and entered the employ of his uncle there; joined the B.G. Militia (No. 2291, No. 7 Coy.), 5 Oct. 1909; went to Canada, 5 May, 1913, and entered the Ontario Business College in Belleville, and on leaving there obtained a post with the Grand Trunk Railway; volunteered on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914 and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force; left for England with the 34th Battery in the first contingent Oct. 1914; went to France in Feb. and was killed in action at the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915, a shell bursting directly under his horse, when bringing up ammunition. He was buried near the wagon lines between the Brielen Road and the Yser Canal, and a cross with his name, etc., was erected by his comrades. He was unm.

=GONELLA, JOSEPH WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 9716, Machine Gun Section, 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of Joseph William Gonella, of 82, Pomeroy Street, New Cross, by his wife, Juliet, dau. of Charles Perkins, of St. Lukes]; b. Nunhead, S.E., 20 June, 1890; educ. Kender Street Council School, New Cross; enlisted 6 Oct. 1909, and at the time war broke out was a Fitter at the Brixton Garage, of the British Motor Cab Co.; mobilised 4 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with the First Expeditionary Force, served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, etc., and was severely wounded in the attack on Hill 60 on 22 April, 1915, and again later in the day while being carried off the field, the two Ambulance men being killed. He was sent to the First Eastern Hospital at Cambridge, where he died, 6 May, 1915. He was a fine all round athlete and winner of many boxing competitions. He m. at St. Jude’s Church, Peckham, 10 Sept. 1911, Rose, dau. of William French, of Falkner Street, New Cross, S.E., and had two daus.: Martha Juliet, b. 18 July, 1912, and Alice Rose, b. 18 Dec. 1914.

=GOOCH, ALFRED=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 34), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOODAIR, HUGH JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17409, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=GOODBODY, HENRY EDGAR=, Capt., 4th. attd. 1st. Battn. Leinster Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Henry Goodbody, of T. H. & E. Goodbody, Tea Merchants, Tower Street, London, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of (—) Paterson; b. Dublin, 10 Nov. 1884; educ. Monkton Combe Senior School, Bath and Trinity College, Dublin; gazetted to the 4th Battn. Leinster Regt., was promoted Lieut. in the Reserve Battn., 16 Dec. 1911, and Capt., 1 Feb. 1915; was attached to the 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 1911–12, and was seconded for service as Assistant Commissioner of Police, Gold Coast Colony, West Africa, from Oct. 1913 to July, 1914. On the outbreak of war, he was home on leave; rejoined his old regt. and went to France, Jan. 1915, attached to the 1st Battn. He was killed in action near Ypres, 12 May, 1915. Capt. Goodbody was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 31 May, 1915. He m. at St. Philip’s Church, Milltown, Dublin, Jane Evelyn (Sheerwater, Monkstown, Co. Cork), dau. of Dep. Surg. General Thomas Beaumont, I.M.S., and had a son, Errol Beaumont, b. 21 May, 1911.

=GOODBURN, JOHN JAMES=, Private, No. 8606, B Coy., 2nd Battn. Northampton Regt., 3rd s. of John James Goodburn. Midland Railway Carpenter, and nephew of William James Cox, of Melton Mowbray. b. Melton Mowbray, 26 Oct. 1887; educ. British School there; enlisted 1907; served in India, Aden, Malta and Egypt, where the regt. was when war broke out. They returned to England early in Oct. and went to France the following month. He was shot through the shoulder by a sniper, being killed instantaneously, while drawing rations for comrades, 27 Jan. 1915. Capt. L. Robinson wrote: “He was a good soldier.... I was with him when he died, and buried him myself.” His sixth brother, Sergt. George Henry Goodburn, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and his yst. brother joined the Canadian Cavalry in Ontario.

=GOODCHILD, FRANK=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 16829, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOODCHILD, JOHN WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9752), 204966, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=GOODE, ERIC RALF=, Private, No. 420, 10th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, yr. s. of the late William Goode, of Port Pirie, South Australia, Merchant, by his wife, Marion, dau. of Edward Jones, of South Australia; b. Port Pirie, South Australia, 30 May, 1893; educ. Kyre College, Adelaide, South Australia; was a Clerk in the employ of Messrs. Elder, Smith & Co., Adelaide; on the outbreak of war he volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt in Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles on 25–26 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Anzac on the 26th; unm. Private Goode was a good cricketer and was captain of the cricket eleven at school.

=GOODE, GORDON POWELL=, Corpl., No. 528, 3rd Australian Light Horse Regt., 1st Light Horse Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of the late William Goode, of Port Pirie, South Australia, Merchant, by his wife, Marion, dau. of J. Edward Jones, of South Australia; b. Port Pirie, South Australia, 22 Jan. 1886; educ. Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia, and studied medicine subsequently for some years at Edinburgh University, but returned to Australia without completing his course. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt in Oct. 1914; served at the Dardanelles, July to Oct. 1915, being promoted Corpl. in Aug., and died in the Military Hospital at Alexandria, 16 Oct. 1915, of enteric, contracted while on active service in Gallipoli; unm. At Prince Alfred College he captained the tennis, football and cricket teams, and was also Capt. of Athletics and of the School Gymnastic Team.

=GOODE, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 4094), 190573, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOODHART, ERIC JOHN, D.C.M.=, Med. Milit., Sergt., No. 28055, 2nd Signal Coy. R.E., and Motor Dispatch Rider, only child of John Stella Goodhart, of Heath House, Donyland, Colchester, Colonial Farmer, J.P., Lieut. Essex National Reserve, Acting Intelligence Officer, 3rd Army Central Force, by his wife, Florence Marian, dau. of late Francis Cramp, of Beckenham, Kent; b. Fox Bay, Falkland Islands, South America, 13 Nov. 1893; and was educ. at Haileybury College and Clare College, Cambridge. He was in the O.T.C. at Haileybury, and got certificate A on leaving; he then joined the Cambridge O.T.C., in which he served for nearly a year with the rank of Corporal, and on the outbreak of war enlisted in the R.E. at Chatham, 6 Aug. 1914, as a Dispatch Rider. He was appointed Corpl. in charge of the 2nd Signal Coy., Motor Dispatch Riders, and soon after promoted Sergt. After three days at Chatham and four at Aldershot, he went to France, was a few days at Rouen, and then went up to Mons. During the famous retreat from that place he was in the rear guard, and afterwards was at the 2nd Division Headquarters at Ypres until Nov., when he was given five days’ leave. He arrived home at Colchester on the 24th; was taken ill with typhoid fever on the 27th, and died on 10 Dec. 1914; unm. He was buried in the old churchyard, East Donyland, on the 15th. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.] 1914: “For conveying messages under very dangerous circumstances by day and night, and never failing to deliver his messages,” and was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Conduct in the field on 8 Oct. 1914. He also received the French Médaille Militaire. He spoke German fluently and French, and in consequence of the former on several occasions (see article in London Magazine, July, 1915, p. 631) got safely through the Germans by telling them that he was masquerading in English uniform, but was really in the German Secret Service. Capt. Trench was standing talking to him when the first shell came into the 2nd Division Headquarters and killed Capt. Trench and two or three other officers, the only damage he then sustained was a cut thumb, broken revolver handle, and two spokes of motor cycle. Letters of high appreciation were received from General Sir C. C. Monro, General H. Heath, C.B., and General F. J. Maxse, etc.

=GOODHEW, THOMAS HENRY=, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 649), 353191, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GOODINGS, JOHN=, Private, No. 5579, 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of William Brown Goodings, of Southwick, Shipwright, in Messrs. W. Pickersgill and Son’s Yard, by his wife, Isabella; b. Southwick, Sunderland, 26 March, 1880; educ. Southwick Board School; served his apprenticeship at Pickersgills; enlisted in the Army in 1898; served through the South African War 1899–1902, and Mauritius 1903–06, and after serving his term, joined the Reserve, 1906. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, was called up, and left for the Front with the 1st Battn. of his regt. and was killed in action at the Battle of Ypres, 6 May, 1915. Buried in La Clytte Cemetery; unm. Immediately Lord Kitchener made his appeal for recruits, Goodings’ four brothers enlisted. Following this their mother was taken very ill, and eventually appealed to Capt. John Smith, of the Salvation Army, to get her boys home. He made an appeal direct to Lord Kitchener, who wired a reply that the matter would have attention. The four boys arrived home on the same day, and the day following the application a wire came from John saying he had arrived at Southampton, being sent direct from the trenches to his dying mother. He arrived; the mother died; he returned to duty, and was killed a week later.

=GOODREAN, GEORGE HENRY=, Rifleman, No. 238, 2nd South African Rifles, s. of George Goodrean, of 164, Washington Street, Fall River, Mass., U.S.A., by his wife, Alice; b. Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 16 Aug. 1889; served for some time in the American Navy; afterwards went to South Africa; joined the South African Rifles after the outbreak of war; and died at Luchenza, 10 Nov. 1915, from injuries sustained while on active service; unm. On 5 Nov. while bathing was taking place, he dived from the ship they were on in very shallow water and severely injured his head and spine.

=GOODRICH, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7953), S.S. 103620, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GOODSELL, CHARLES LEWIS=, Sapper, No. 2084, 1/3rd Kent Fortress Royal Engineers (T.F.), s. of Samuel Goodsell, of Netherfield, Kent; b. Netherfield, 11 Dec. 1875; educ. there; was a Wood Merchant; enlisted 12 May, 1915; left England for Salonica 1 Oct. 1915, and was drowned in H.M.S. Hythe, 28 Oct. 1915, when that ship was sunk off Cape Wells. He m. at Mountfield Church, 31 March, 1900, Caroline (45, Salisbury Road, Bohemia, St. Leonards-on-Sea), dau. of Henry Selmes, of Mountfield, and had three children: Charles Henry, b. 24 Dec. 1901; George Samuel, b. 27 Feb. 1904; and Winnifred Lucy, b. 3 Aug. 1906.

=GOODSELL, PERCY=, Corpl., No. 2233, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regiment (T.F.), 3rd s. of Thomas Goodsell, of the Laurels, Ruck Hill, Horsmonden, Kent, Gardener to Mr. P. Manwaring, of Horsmonden, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William George Kingham; b. Higham, Salehurst, Sussex, 31 May, 1893; educ. Salehurst and Brenchley Council Schools; was an Under Gardener to Mr. P. Foster, of Frant, Sussex; joined the 5th Sussex Territorials in March, 1910, and served four years; volunteered on the outbreak of war and rejoined 14 Aug. 1914; appointed Corpl. Nov.; went to France with his regt. in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 9 May following; unm. Buried in the Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer. While with the Territorials he won the Silver Medal and held the Silver Cup for shooting for a year. Three of his brothers are on active service: Private Ernest Charles Goodsell, M.T., A.S.C.; Private Herbert George Goodsell, 3rd Reinft. 50th Battn. South Australians; Francis Edward Goodsell, Sig., H.M.S. Egmont.

=GOODSHIP, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2608), 177348, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GOODWIN, JOHN HENRY=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 183350, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GOODWIN, SIDNEY ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17481, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=GORBEY, FRANK REUBEN=, Corpl., No. 8930, 1st Battn. Royal Irish Regt., s. of John W. Gorbey, Constable (retired), Royal Irish Constabulary, now of 92, Main Street, Carrick-on-Suir, by his wife, Ellie, dau. of I. Huddy; b. Villierstown, Waterford, 13 Nov. 1889; joined 1st Battn. Royal Irish Regt. at Dublin, 22 March, 1906; promoted Corpl. 15 Feb. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm. Buried in the grounds of the Chateau at Hooge. He distinguished himself at Ypres, 15 Feb. 1915, by bringing in wounded under fire and blowing up an enemy mine. Two of his brothers, one in the Irish Guards and one a Corpl. in the 7th Dragoon Guards, serving with the Expeditionary Force. Corpl. F. R. Gorbey had not met the latter brother for eight years, but a few days before he was killed they met during an action. A comrade wrote that: “A braver soldier or truer comrade never lived. He died as a brave man, with a smile on his face, and was mourned by his regt. as a true comrade.” His comrade placed a cross over his grave giving full particulars of how he died. His brother-in-law, Coy. Sergt.-Major Charles Abbot, 1st Royal Irish Regt., was also killed in action in May, 1915.

=GORDON, ALEXANDER=, L.-Corpl., No. 2409, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the late Andrew Gordon, Farm Steward at High Ashurst to Lord Harrowby (died 1899), by his wife, Edith Ellen (19, Parkhurst Road, Sutton), dau. of Daniel Sharp; b. Warren Farm, High Ashurst, Mickleham, Dorking, co. Surrey, 14 Aug. 1896; educ. London Orphan School, Watford, Herts (1904–7), and on leaving there entered the employ of Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the London Scottish in Aug. 1914; went to the Front, Jan. 1915, and died of wounds received at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, being buried in Noeux les Mines Cemetery; unm. His Platoon Sergt. wrote: “He was a splendid fellow and esteemed by everybody.”

=GORDON, GEORGE DUFF=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., s. of Robertson Barclay Gordon, Procurator Fiscal of Elginshire; b. Elgin, 16 July, 1894; educ. Elgin Academy; Ardvreck, Crieff, and Dover College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 Jan. 1913, promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. He was buried in Estaires Cemetery; unm.

=GORDON, JAMES WILLIAM NUGENT=, Lieut., 5th (Angus and Dundee) Battn. (Royal Highlanders) The Black Watch (T.F.), elder s. of William Montgomerie Gordon, Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Trinidad, by his wife, Constance Lucretia, yst. dau. of the late Sir Oliver Nugent, and gdson. of the late James Loudon Gordon, of Brechin, Solicitor; b. Island of Montserrat, West Indies, 18 Oct. 1894; educ. Aldenham School, co. Herts, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; and went to Birmingham University in 1913, to study mining engineering. He obtained a commission in the 5th (Territorial) Battn. The Black Watch, 19 July, 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for active service; was promoted Lieut. 1 Sept. 1914; arrived in France with his Battn., 1 Nov. 1914, and was killed instantaneously in action, in the trenches at Neuve Chapelle, 22 Feb. 1915, being shot through the head. He was buried with many others of the Battn. in an orchard close to the billets of the 5th Battn. Black Watch, near Neuve Chapelle, in “Black Watch Lane”; unm.

=GORDON, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 24483, 13th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late William Gordon, by his wife, Alice (40, Princess Street, Consett, Durham), dau. of Joseph Turnbull; b. Murton Colliery, 188-; was a Miner; went to Canada in 1910; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war; came over with the first Contingent; went to France in April, 1915, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 22 May, 1915; unm.

=GORDON, ROBERT FREDERICK=, Corpl., No. 3223, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Capt. Robert Keith Gordon, R.A.M.C. (died 17 Jan. 1892), by his wife, Caroline (59, Hunter Road, Southsea), dau. of John Standing; b. Gibraltar, 6 April, 1875; educ. St. Ignatius College, Malta, and Collegiate School, Aldershot; and was a Printer’s Manager at Gale & Poldens. He joined the London Scottish about 1897, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 17 Aug. 1915, and was killed in action, 13 Oct. 1915; unm.

=GORDON, SIDNEY EUSTACE LAING=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, elder s. of Henry Laing Gordon, M.D., formerly of Florence, by his wife, Maud; b. Witheridge, co. Devon, 5 June, 1892; educ. Pelham House, West Folkestone; Harrow (Druries, 1906–11, Head of House, Monitor; Captain of House XI); and Brazenose College, Oxford (1911–14; Scholar; rowed in College Eights 1913; graduated with 3rd Class Honours, 1914); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 5th Battn. (Special Reserve of Officers) Royal Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914, and transferred to the 4th Battn. in Dec.; left for the Front, 2 Dec., and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 March, 1915. While giving an order to his platoon he was hit by a bullet, which striking a sandbag glanced off and shot him through the lung. He was buried outside the Regimental Headquarters dug-out, Verbrandenmolen, Flanders; unm. His Col. wrote: “He was indeed a natural soldier. Such charming gentlemen are now becoming rare. His loss will be very much felt by the regt. He was greatly loved by his men, and had a happy tact in dealing with them which was a credit to his Harrow education.” The Major: “I cannot tell you how much I feel his loss. He was always cheery and bright; he had no fear of anything, and whatever work he had to do there was no fuss about it, he went off and did it. I looked on him as one of my most experienced young officers”; and his Capt.: “He was an ideal subaltern in every way; always willing and reliable. Your son was a man without fear and on one or two occasions I had to check his wishes to do something which might have cost him his life.”

=GORDON, WILLIAM JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7458), S.S. 102575, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GORE, SYDNEY KINGSTON=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., s. of Dr. Alfred Joseph Gore, of Ballarat, Australia, and Kingston, Cherry Garden Avenue, Folkestone, by his wife, Edith, dau. of the late Henry Tompkins, of Abingdon Street, Westminster; b. Barry, co. Glamorgan, 12 July, 1889; educ. Grammar School and Penfillan House, Folkestone; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. Royal West Kent Regt. May, 1910, transferred to the 1st Battn. 14 Dec. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1914; killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 28 Oct. 1914; unm. There had been severe fighting for three days, and only three officers were left in the battn. Sergt. Elson stated that the regt. was surrounded, that Lieut. Gore and A Coy. went forward to take up flank fire after the Wiltshires and Irish Rifles had retired, and that Lieut. Gore was shot through the head, and his body was found the next day. Col. Martyn, his commanding officer, wrote: “He was a gallant officer, beloved by the whole regt., who greatly mourned his loss.” He was buried in a wood close to the spot where he fell.

=GORMAN, CHARLES JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 108091, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=GORMAN, JAMES TOLAND=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10520), S.S. 2796, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=GORMAN, MICHAEL=, L.-Corpl., No. 7712, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Michael Gorman, of Edinburgh (died July, 1907), by his wife, Jessie, dau. of James Pollock; b. Canongate, Edinburgh, 1886; educ. St. Michael’s Roman Catholic School there; enlisted during the South African War, and served in that campaign, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, 14 Dec. 1914. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Dispatch dated 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915. He m. at Edinburgh, Sarah (401, Great Eastern Road, Glasgow), dau. of Thomas Wood, of Glasgow, formerly of Edinburgh, and has issue two children: Thomas Wood, b. 15 Feb. 1910; and Jessie, b. 28 April, 1907.

=GOSLING, ERNEST ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9016, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=GOSLING, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3312), 210078, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOSLING, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2785), 341006 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov 1914.

=GOSS, ERNEST=, Gunner, R.M.A., 7695, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOSS, HENRY THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 12656, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOTCH, DUNCAN HEPBURN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., 2nd s. of Davis Frederic Gotch, of Bassingburne, Abington Park, Northampton, Assistant Secretary for Education for Northampton, by his 2nd wife, Ethel, dau. of Frederic Hepburn; b. Kettering, Northants, 25 Aug. 1891; educ. Oundle School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Natural Science Scholarship and a special County Council Scholarship, and, in 1913, took an honours degree in natural science, after which he was appointed to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. He joined the Artists Rifle Corps in Feb. 1914, and when war was declared volunteered for Imperial Service and left for France in Oct. After going through his course of training there he was gazetted to the 1st Worcestershires, 1 Jan. 1915, and joined them at the Front on 15 Jan. At the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, on 11 March, 1915, he was the last officer left in action with his company, and he was killed as he led his men to the charge. He was buried one mile N.W. of Neuve Chapelle; unm. Col. May, of the Artists, wrote: “He splendidly upheld the best traditions of the British Army and possessed the goodwill of all of us who came into contact with him. His name will always be remembered in this regt. with pride as well as sorrow”; and a brother officer in the Worcesters: “He had only been with us a month or two, but in that time, by his cheeriness, by his keenness, and by his hard work and enthusiasm we had all got to like him immensely. His cheerfulness was catching.... He was very plucky and would insist on exposing himself unnecessarily, generally in the hope that he would spot the enemy or find some better place for his platoon. His loss is a real one for the regt. for he was one of the right stuff and of the sort we want in the Worcestershire Regt. A brave, cheery, kindly, popular officer and we can ill afford his loss.” The Principal of the Imperial Bureau also wrote: “He was one of the keenest and most willing assistants I have ever had, and showed every promise of making a name for himself as a scientific worker. His cheery enthusiasm and charm of manner endeared him to all who had the pleasure of working with him, and his place will be hard indeed to fill.”

=GOUGH, ERIC JOHN FLETCHER=, Capt., 1st Battn. Irish Guards, only s. of the late Major Thomas Armstrong Gough, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, and afterwards Adjutant of the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Royal Fusiliers, by his wife, Blanche (now wife of Claude Langley, of 9, Onslow Crescent, S.W.), dau. of John William Fletcher, Bengal Army; b. 20 Nov. 1888; educ. Westgate (Mr. E. M. Hawtrey’s) and Eton; joined the (then) 7th Battn. Rifle Brigade (Special Reserve), 17 Feb. 1906, entered the Irish Guards as a probationer in 1909 and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 28 April, 1911, and promoted Lieut. 25 Nov. following, and Capt. 14 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 12 Aug. 1914 with his Battn. in the 4th (Guards) Brigade, served through the retreat from Mons, and the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and Ypres, and was killed in action between Bethune and La Bassée, 30 Dec. 1914; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s despatch of 5 April-31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

=GOUGH, JOHN EDMOND, V.C., C.B., C.M.G.=, A.D.C., Brig.-Gen., yr. s. of the late Gen. Sir Charles John Stanley Gough, V.C., G.C.B., by his wife, Harriette Anastasia, dau. of the late John William Power, of Gurteen le Poer, co. Waterford, M.P., J.P., D.L., and nephew of the late Gen. Sir Hugh Henry Gough, V.C., G.C.B.; b. Murree, India, 25 Oct. 1871; educ. Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade, 12 March, 1892, and promoted Lieut. 6 Dec. 1892; Capt. 5 Dec. 1898; Brevet Major 29 Nov. 1900; Brevet Lieut.-Col. 22 April, 1903; Brevet Col. 14 Aug. 1907; Major 6 May, 1908; Col. 23 Dec. 1909, and temp. Brig.-Gen. 9 Oct. 1913; was employed in British Central Africa Protectorate, 26 Aug. 1896 to 9 Dec. 1897; took part in expeditions against Chikusi and Chilwa (medal with clasp); also in the Nile expedition 1898; present at Battle of Khartoum (medal, Egyptian medal with clasp); served in South African War, 1899–1902; was A.D.C. to Major-Gen. Infantry Brigade, 19 July to 9 Sept. 1900, and Brigade Signalling Officer (graded Staff Capt.), 10 Sept. to 31 Oct. 1900; took part in operations in Natal, 1899, including action at Lombard’s Kop; defence of Ladysmith, including sortie of 10 Dec. 1899, and action of 6 Jan. 1900; operations in Natal, March to June, 1900, including action at Laings Nek (6–9 June); operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Belfast (26–27 Aug.) and Lydenberg, 5–8 Sept.; and operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to 31 May, 1902; was District Commissioner of Lydenberg from Nov. 1900 till the end of the war (three times mentioned in despatches, [Sir G. S. White, 23 March, 1900; Sir R. H. Buller, 9 Nov. 1900; London Gazette, 8 Feb. 1901]; Brevet of Major; Queen’s medal with three clasps, King’s medal with two clasps); in East Africa, 1902–3, during operations in Somaliland; on Staff (as Special Service Officer) with Field Force, 30 Oct. 1902 to 10 Jan. 1904 (twice mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 7 Aug. 1903 and 2 Sept. 1904]; Brevet of Lieut.-Col.; medal with clasp; awarded the Victoria Cross [London Gazette, 15 Jan. 1904] for conspicuous bravery at Daratoleh, when with Col. W. G. Walker and Major G. M. Rolland, of the Indian Army, he succeeded in rescuing Lieut. Bruce, R.N., mortally wounded during the retreat of the small column he was commanding of 200 men who were short of ammunition and exhausted by want of food and water, before a large force of Somali. They rode back with four soldiers through a hail of bullets and, being cut off from the retreating column, fought through the enemy and succeeded in mounting Lieut. Bruce on a camel. Eventually they brought him and Capt. Godfrey, who was mortally wounded, into camp); D.A.A.G., and Gen. Staff Officer (2nd Grade) Irish Command, 23 Dec. 1905 to 30 Sept. 1907; A.D.C. to the King, 14 Aug. 1907; Inspector-Gen. King’s African Rifles, 1 Oct. 1907 to 22 Dec. 1909; in command during operations in East Africa (Somaliland), 1908–10 (again mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 17 June, 1910], clasp); General Staff Officer (1st Grade), Staff College, 23 Dec. 1909 to 21 Jan. 1913; C.M.G., 24 June, 1910; Brig.-Gen., General Staff to Sir Douglas Haig, Aldershot Command, 9 Oct. 1913 to 4 Aug. 1914; Brig.-Gen., General Staff, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with 1st Army Corps; served through the retreat from Mons and in the subsequent advance to the Aisne (mentioned in despatches by F.M. Sir John French [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914]; created C.B. for services rendered in connection with operations in the field [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915]); severely wounded in action, 20 Feb. 1915, and died at Estaires on the 22nd. Sir John French in his despatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, said: “I wish particularly to express my deep sense of the loss incurred by the Army in general and by the Forces in France in particular in the death of Brig.-Gen. J. E. Gough, V.C., C.B., C.M.G., A.D.C., late Brig.-Gen. General Staff, 1st Army, which occurred on 22 Feb. as the result of a severe wound received on 20 Feb. when inspecting the trenches of the 4th Corps. I always regarded Gen. Gough as one of our most promising military leaders of the future. His services as Staff Officer throughout the campaign have been invaluable, and I had already brought his name before your Lordships for immediate promotion.” On 20 April, 1915, the posthumous honour of a Knight Commandership of the Military Division of the Bath was conferred on him by the King “in recognition of his most distinguished service in the field.” He m., 29 June, 1907, Dorothea (The Pightle House, near Farnham), eldest dau. of the late Gen. Sir Charles Patton Keyes, G.C.B., and had a dau., Diana.

=GOUGH, RICHARD=, Private, No. 2488, 3rd Battn. The Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of James Gough, of Cwm; enlisted on the outbreak of war; went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 8 May following; unm.

=GOULD, ALBERT STANLEY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5313, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOULD, CLAUDE=, Acting Chief Yeoman of Signals, 199951; H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GOULD, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4424), S.S. 103418, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOULD, JOHN MILLS=, Private, No. 1135, N.E.R. Coy., 17th (Service) Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 2nd s. of George Gould, of Warnford House, Thoralby Aysgarth, co. Yorks, Boarding-House Keeper and Farmer, by his wife, Isa, dau. of the late John Mills, of Sunderland, Shipbuilder; b. Masham, co. Yorks, 18 Feb. 1889; educ. Driffield and Thoralby; and was a Clerk in the N.E.R. Stationmaster’s office at Ferrybridge; enlisted 5 Jan. 1915, and died at Ferrybridge, co. Yorks, of pneumonia contracted while training; unm.

=GOULD, LIONEL BERTRAM=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 342695, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOULD, RICHARD WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3249), S.S. 100944, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOULD, ROBERT STEPHEN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10033), 226881, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GOULD, ROLAND=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4305), S.S. 1383, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOVER, FREDERICK THOMAS=, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4894, (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GOWER, ARTHUR JOSEPH=, Private, No. 2423, 1/10th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.); eldest s. of Joseph Gower, of 31, Delorme Street, Fulham Palace Road, S.W., Fitter’s Mate, by his wife, Emma, dau. of Thomas Dicheson; b. Walworth, London, S.E., 4 Aug. 1896: educ. Everington Street Council School, Fulham; was Booking Clerk at Down Street Station; enlisted 28 Aug. 1914, went to India with his regt. 29 Oct. 1914, and died at Jalapahar, India, 5 June, 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while on active service; unm.

=GOWER, FRANK HERBERT HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 12685, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GRACE, JOHN LEYBOURNE=, Trooper, No. 11/264, Wellington Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late Nathaniel Grace, of Gladstone, Carterton, Sheep Farmer, by his wife, Emily (Carterton, New Zealand), dau. of James Sexton; b. Gladstone, Carterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand, 4 Nov. 1895; educ. High School there, and Wellington College; was learning sheep farming; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Wellington Mounted Rifles, 12 Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force, 16 Oct.; went to the Dardanelles, May, 1915, and was killed in action there, 30 May, 1915; unm. His Chaplain wrote: “Your boy has fallen at his post like a good soldier, fighting against overwhelming odds. One of our outposts was cut off for a long night and day, and extricated on Sunday evening. Happily the enemy was desperately afraid of our boys or not one would have returned alive, as it was your son was killed in action along with others.”

=GRAHAM, CYRIL=, Lieut., 5th Battn. Border Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Capt. John Graham, manager of the London Joint Stock Bank, at Whitehaven, by his wife, Allie, dau. of Joseph Saudert Barnes; b. Bank House, Aspatria, Cumberland, 8 Sept. 1895; educ. St. Bee’s School; obtained a commission in the 5th (Cumberland) Battn. of the Border Regt. (T.F.), 13 June, 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war for Imperial service; went to France 1st Nov. 1914; was promoted Lieut. April, 1915; took part in the Second Battle of Ypres in Whitsun week and was shot by a sniper, 27 May, 1915, the day his Battn. was relieved. He was buried in the grounds of a Chateau at Potyje; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was a most promising young officer and is a very great loss to us all. He was a great favourite with his brother officers and his men had implicit trust in him.”

=GRAHAM, DAVID=, Stoker, 1st Class, 307260, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRAHAM, HENRY=, Private, No. 7931, 3rd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of the late Ralph Graham, of Jarrow-on-Tyne, by his wife, Mary (52, Pearson Place, Jarrow), dau. of Alexander (and Jane) Coulter; b. Jarrow-on-Tyne, 14 Oct. 1890; educ. Dunn Street Council School there; enlisted 21 June, 1908; served six years with the colours, then worked as a Labourer at Hawthorns Leslies; was called up on the outbreak of war, 6 Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept., and was killed in action in France, 1 March, 1915; unm.

=GRAHAM, JAMES=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 12576, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=GRAHAM, JOHN=, Jun., Capt., 10th Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of John Graham, of Mohrcroft, Aigburth Drive, Liverpool, and the Croft, Hoylake, Sugar Refiner, by his wife, Mary Gilkison, dau. of James Allan, of Glasgow; b. at Liverpool, 3 April 1877; educ. Marlborough, and became a partner in the firm of Macfie & Sons, the well-known Sugar Refiners of Liverpool. He had joined the old Liverpool Scottish Volunteers in 1900 and continued with them after they became the 10th Territorial Battalion of the King’s Liverpool Regt., retiring with the rank of Capt. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he immediately rejoined as a Private and was given a Commission as Lieut., 25 Sept., and promoted Capt. 13 April, 1915; went to France, Oct. 1914, and was killed in the great charge of the Liverpool Scottish near Hooge, 16 June, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. Though good at racquets and cricket, it was as a golfer that Capt. Graham was best known in the sporting world. He was in the first flight of amateur golfers, and had attained international honours, and, while never getting further than the Amateur Championship semi-final, he had won most of the Club and open prizes. The Times said: “Not only was he one of the very finest of amateur golfers, but his most delightful and modest nature had endeared him to everyone who ever met him. ‘Jack’ Graham will be remembered in golfing history as the one really great player who never won a championship. It would not be right to call him an unlucky golfer. He had good chances and a natural genius for the game, but there was something in his temperament that prevented him from playing his best game in the crucial rounds towards the end of a championship. It was certainly not lack of courage in the ordinary sense of the word. No one who knew him could doubt that, and he has given the finest and most conclusive proof to the contrary. But the strain of hard matches day after day always proved too great a strain on his powers of endurance, and though he five times reached the final of the Amateur Championship he never got any farther. He was more successful as a score player than a match player. Only last year at Sandwich he won the St. George’s Vase at Sandwich by truly magnificent golf; his record in the Hoylake medals was one of many successes and he several times finished first amateur on the list of the Open Championship. On one occasion in particular at Muirfield he finished immediately after the great ‘triumvirate’ and gave Taylor, who was drawn with him, one of the most agitating days of his long career. Capt. Graham was a great golfer. He could not but have been sometimes disappointed on account of his comparative lack of success, and he knew that his friends at Hoylake were more bitterly disappointed on his behalf than he ever was on his own. Not only did no word of complaint or excuse ever escape him, but he never for one moment fell into the opposite error of pretending that he did not care. He took his ups and downs with perfect modesty and quietness, and was always interested in the play and the success of others. At Marlborough he distinguished himself at football, cricket and racquets, and if he had had time to play might have made a name for himself as a cricketer, but he always worked very hard at his business. Indeed he played comparatively little golf, but it was remarkable how he could so constantly play a very fine game with so little practice—an occasional Saturday afternoon and perhaps an evening walk on the links with two clubs under his arm, being apparently all the practice that he needed.”

=GRAHAM, MALCOLM HEWLEY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt., only s. of Hewley Smales Graham, of Oxley-Woodhouse, Huddersfield; b. New Mill, near Huddersfield, 22 Nov. 1894; educ. Repton and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was studying for the medical profession; on the outbreak of war volunteered and was gazetted to the 3rd Yorkshire Regt., 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front the following March, and was there attached to the 2nd Battn. He was promoted Lieut., 2 Feb., 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, near La Bassée, 15 June, 1915, and was buried close to Givenchy Church; unm. His Colonel wrote: “He was most gallantly leading his platoon when he fell, shot through the neck. Your son was a most excellent officer, very keen and hard working and he will be a great loss to the battn. Please accept the deepest sympathy of all ranks in your great loss.” Lieut. Graham was a fine athlete. At Repton he shot at Bisley for his school, and at Cambridge he rowed in the “Lents” and “Mays,” and was in the boat that won the Clinker Fours. He also rowed at Henley in 1914, where his boat won the Ladies’ Challenge Plate, and he was elected a member of the Leander Club.

=GRAHAME, JOHN GORDON=, L.-Corpl., No. 1894, Honourable Artillery Company)(T.F.), yr. s. of the late Thomas Grahame, Canadian Government Agent for Scotland, by his wife, Margaret Elizabeth (Cumberland House, Horley, Surrey), only dau. of William Tyrwhitt, sometime of Nantyr Hall, Denbighshire, and grandson of the Rev. James Grahame, author of “The Sabbath”; b. Glaudhall, Chryston, Glasgow, 12 March, 1885; educ. Glasgow High School and Dulwich College; and was in the employ of Harris & Dixon, Shipowners; on the outbreak of war volunteered and joined the H.A.C. in Sept. 1914; went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. He was buried behind the trenches of St. Eloi near Voormezeele, in the grounds of the Chateau of Elsinvelles. His Commanding Officer wrote that he was much loved and respected by all his platoon, and he as well as others would miss him both as a friend and a soldier.

=GRAINGER, ALBERT VICTOR=, Private, No. 2336, 4th Battn. The Suffolk Regt. (T.F), yst. s. of Henry Rampling Grainger, of 94, Kemball Street, Ipswich, Gardener, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of James Brown; b. Ipswich, 16 Oct. 1889; educ. St. John’s School there; and was a Boiler Maker; volunteered after the outbreak of war and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to France, 6 Nov., and died, in No. 7 Clearing Hospital, 13 March, 1915, of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle on the 11th. He m. at Buckersham, 12 March, 1911, Grace (4, Tennyson Road, Ipswich), dau. of William Edward Colthorpe, and had two children; Albert Victor, b. 2 Jan. 1914; and Grace, b. 30 March, 1912.

=GRAMSHAW, ROBERT WILFRED RALEIGH=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., only s. of the Rev. Robert Michael Oginski Gramshaw, of Fittleworth, Sussex, by his wife Emily, dau. of Dr. Richard Hughes, of Brighton; b. Enfield, Middlesex, 18 Dec. 1890; educ. at St. Cyprian’s, Eastbourne (1901–4), Charterhouse (1904–9), and at Exeter College, Oxford (1909–13). He gained a classical scholarship at Harrow in March, 1904, which he refused, and a junior classical scholarship at Charterhouse in June of the same year, which he accepted. On the expiration of his junior scholarship he gained a senior scholarship at the same school, and in 1909, his last year there, won the Thackeray and Elder prizes, a leaving exhibition, and the Talbot Medal and Exhibition. In the same year he gained an open classical scholarship at Exeter College, Oxford, being the senior scholar of his year. He read Honour Moderations and Literae Humaniores, obtaining a second class in both schools, and took his B.A. degree in 1913. He took a keen interest in rowing, and was spare man for both his College Torpid and Eight, only doctor’s orders forbidding him an actual place in the boat. He had intended to take Holy Orders, and had been awarded a Liddon Studentship, but on the outbreak of war, was offered and accepted a commission in the 3rd Royal Sussex Regt., 15 Aug. 1914. He left for France on 1 Jan. 1915, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. of the Regt., and was seriously wounded when leading his platoon in an attack on the German trenches at La Bassée on the evening of the 25 Jan. 1915, and died in hospital two days later; unm. Buried in Béthune Cemetery. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He died a soldier’s death of wounds received in a very brilliant little operation, by which our brigade recaptured some important ground which had been lost earlier in the day.”

=GRANGER, JOHN ROBERT CLIFFORD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2563), 208749, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GRANT, DUNCAN=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, eldest s. of Archibald Grant, by his wife, Anne (Nevis Cottages, Fort William), dau. of Angus McMillan; b. Fort William, Inverness, 8 July, 1880; educ. Fort William Public School, afterwards being in the service of the Scottish Meteorological Society at their Ben Nevis Station. He joined the Camerons in Nov. 1899, and was posted to the 2nd Battn. at Gibraltar, leaving there with a draft for the 1st Battn. in South Africa, and served through that campaign, 1899–1902, and received the Queen’s medal with five clasps (Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, 1902). On the conclusion of the South African campaign, he returned with his Battn. to England, but after two years in various stations in Scotland and Ireland, offered himself for foreign service and was sent to the 2nd Battn. then doing duty in Natal. He afterwards accompanied his regiment to China, and from there to Bangalore, India, and was present at the Delhi Durbar (medal). On the outbreak of the European War he held the rank of Coy. Sergt.-Major, being stationed near Poona, and before leaving India was offered a commission in his own company, which he accepted and was gazetted, 14 Dec. 1914, proceeding to France about a week later. He was killed by a shell during the bombardment of Hill 60, Ypres, 28 April, 1915, and was buried at Zillebeke, near Ypres, Belgium; unm. Lieut. Grant was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=GRANT, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Private, No. 3311, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of William James Grant, of 7, Courtfield Mews, Courtfield Gardens, South Kensington, Private Chauffeur, by his wife, Alice Louisa; b. London, 16 June, 1896; enlisted 17 Dec. 1914, following the outbreak of war; was wounded in the trenches, 3 May, 1915, and died on board the hospital ship Salta during the crossing from France, 19 May following. He was buried in the military cemetery at Netley. Before joining he remarked to his mother: “I am not quite military age, but I have thought a lot about this war, and I feel it my duty to go, as I am a big, strong boy, and there will be plenty that can’t go.” His elder brother served in the 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. with the British Expeditionary Force in France.

=GRANT, HAROLD CHARLES=, Private, No. 2553, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of James Duff Grant, of 63, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.; b. Highbury, 9 June, 1883; educ. Crouch End School; was a Clerk with Messrs. Leslie Booth & Booth, Chartered Accountants [both partners, W. L. Booth and A. M. Booth, were Territorial officers, and both were killed in action]; after the outbreak of war, enlisted 3 Sept. 1914; went to Gibraltar, and then to France, and died in a Field Hospital near Sailly, 16 June, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day. His Platoon Officer wrote: “Your son was hit in the head on Thursday morning and became unconscious. He died in hospital at 10 o’clock on Friday morning, never having regained consciousness.... I shall never be able to replace your son in my platoon”; and the Chaplain (the Rev. Richard Griffiths): “We buried him this afternoon [near Sailly] in a little soldiers’ cemetery with pretty green hedges around it, and a little orchard beyond.” He was unm.

=GRANT, JAMES=, Drummer, No. 976, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 6th s. of James Albert Grant, of 131, Kilburn Lane, Willesden, N.W., by his wife, Anne, dau. of (—) Clark; b. Kensington, W.; educ. Board School, Buckingham Terrace, Kensington, W.; was a keen member of the Cadet movement, and was a Lieut. in the Knightsbridge (St. Paul’s) Co.; joined the Kensingtons on the organisation of the Territorial Force; volunteered on the outbreak of war for foreign service; left for the Front, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm.

=GRANT, THOMAS=, Private, No. 2243, 8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Grant, of 61, Albany Road, Brentford, Hawker; b. Brentford, co. Middlesex, 5 Nov. 1894; educ. St. John’s School there; joined the Middlesex Territorials in March, 1914; volunteered for foreign service and mobilized 6 Aug. 1914; went to France and was killed in action there, 11 May, 1915; unm.

=GRANT, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6993), 196834, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRATTAGE, SAMUEL THOMAS=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10246), 299157, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRAVETT, CHARLES DAVID=, Ordinary Seaman, R.N.V.R. (Sussex 1/334), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of George Gravett, of 19, Coleridge Street, Hove; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=GRAY, ALBERT JOHN=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 22930, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRAY, JAMES=, Major, 4th Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) (T.F.), s. of the late Robert Sclater Gray, of Leechman and Gray, Leith, Distiller and Wine Broker, by his wife, Barbara Mann, dau. of (—) Peterson; b. 22 March, 1875; educ. Royal High School, Edinburgh, and was a Wine Broker and Distiller. He joined the old 5th Highland Coy. of the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles, afterwards the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Royal Scots, in 1891, and received his commission in 1896; was promoted Lieut., 1898, and Capt., 1901, and Major, 1 May, 1913, after which he was placed in the Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial Service; left for Egypt 19 May; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, when 2nd in command of his Battn. 28 June, 1915. Buried at Krithia. Colonel Younger, late Commanding Officer 4th Battn. Royal Scots, wrote: “None but myself can know how large a part James Gray played in the training of the Battn. in the first few months of the war. Only those who have had the experience can know the trials and difficulties which Territorial Commanding Officers were faced with on suddenly becoming professional soldiers. The help and strength I received from Major Gray were beyond all praise.” Major Gray had the Coronation Medal and the Long Service Medal. He m. at St. Cuthbert’s Parish Church, Edinburgh, 4 Jan. 1912, Grace E. (28, Scotland Street, Edinburgh), dau. of the late Robert Naismith, of Leith; s.p.

=GRAY, MARY SUTHERLAND BROWN=, Sister in charge of a Ward, Hospital Auxilliare 301, Abbaye de Royaumont, dau. of James Gray, of Oakleigh Lodge, Leven, Fife, Secretary of the Fife Coal Co., by his wife, Mary Sutherland, dau. of William Brown, Manager of the Colliery of Oakley, near Dunfermline; b. Oakleigh, Dunfermline, 17 Nov. 1869; educ. privately in Scotland and then trained as a nurse at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; and after leaving there nursed among the working classes at Kilmarnock and later at Crief; on the outbreak of the European War she went to France with her sister, Miss Margaret Gray, in Nov. 1914, and helped to found the Scottish Women’s Hospital for French wounded soldiers at Royaumont Abbey, Seine et Oise, and died there while engaged in her duties, 25 Jan. 1916. The Secretary of the Hospital, Miss Cicely Hamilton, wrote: “She was essentially a woman of character, a humorous, brave individual, a woman who over-worked with a smile and wore herself out as if the process amused her. She laughed with her men while she worked for them, she had the charm of good manners—those real good manners that come without teaching at the dictation of real good nature. She was buried in the cemetery at Asnieres-sur-Oise to the distant mutter of guns.”

=GRAY, PHILIP=, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 1818, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRAY, ROBERT HENRY=, Private, No. 1157, 24th Battn. 6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Horace Frederick Gray, Chauffeur, by his wife, Annie Eliza (Goddingog, Llanfairfechan, N. Wales), dau. of Charles Henry Lowe; b. Rilton Mews, Brompton Road, London, 16 April, 1891; educ. Llanfairfechan National School; went to Australia 27 Aug. 1914; was a Valet and Footman; enlisted 15 April, 1915; left for Egypt 7 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 16 Sept. 1915; unm.

=GRAY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 7969, 2nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 6th s. of the late Henry Gray, of 3, Queen’s Road, Aberdeen, J.P., Merchant, by his wife, Helen Mackay, dau. of George Mackay, Aberdeen; b. Aberdeen, 1 Jan. 1882; educ. Aberdeen Grammar School and University Art Classes; went to Winnipeg, Canada, in 1903, and afterwards settled at Vancouver, B.C., as a Real Estate Agent; enlisted in the C.E.F. on the outbreak of war; left Valcartier for England with the 2nd Battn. 1st Brigade Contingent; went to France, Jan. 1915, and was killed in action by a bullet through the brain, 23 April, 1915; unm.

=GRAY, WILLIAM JAMES=, Private, No. 426330, 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Thomas Gray, of Simpson, Saskatchewan, Canada, by his wife, Margaret Helen, dau. of Joseph Moore, of Caulmet Island, Quebec; b. Thorne Centre, P. Quebec, 26 Jan. 1894; educ. Quebec; was a Farmer; volunteered after the outbreak of war and enlisted in the 46th Battn. at Regina, 26 Jan. 1915; left Camp Sewell, Manitoba, with the 200 men of the 46th Battn., sent as reinforcements 30 June; trained at Shorncliffe with the 32nd Battn.; went to France between 1–5 Sept., and was there drafted to the 10th Battn., and died in No. 2 Casualty Clearing Station, at Bailleul, 1 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day; unm.

=GRAY, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Private, No. 19749, 4th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., s. of William Gray; b. Kirkdale, Liverpool, 3 Aug. 1879; educ. Ashfield Street Board School there; was a Carter; joined the 6th King’s Liverpool Volunteer Regt. 12 July, 1897; volunteered for the South African War, 9 March 1900; served in that campaign one year and 79 days (medal with three clasps), invalided home; retired 20 Dec. 1902; on the outbreak of the European War re-enlisted 11 Sept. 1914, killed in action at Hill 60, 27 April, 1915. He m. at Liverpool, 8 Jan. 1907, Elizabeth (3, Penrose Street, Everton, Liverpool), dau. of James Thompson, and had issue three daus.: Florence, b. 28 Jan. 1910; Edith, b. 3 Feb. 1911; and Gladys, b. 20 Sept. 1915.

=GRAZEBROOK, CHARLES ALVEREY=, Capt., 6th, att. 1st, Battn. The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 3rd s. of Francis Grazebrook, of Stourton Castle, Stafford, by his wife, Isabella Mary, dau. of George Grazebrook; b. Dudley, 5 Sept. 1887; educ. Marlborough College and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 3rd K.R.C.C., 7 Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911; joined his regiment at Crete, where he served for a year or so, then went with it to Malta, and India, where he was stationed at Dagshai till 1912, when he came home. He retired in the beginning of 1914, and joined the Special Reserve, but on the outbreak of war immediately rejoined and was promoted Captain, 14 Aug. 1914. He took out a draft to the 1st K.R.R.C., 10 Nov. 1914, and was in the North of France all the winter. He was reported wounded and missing, 10 March, 1915, and was later unofficially reported killed in action on that date. Ordered to charge the enemy trenches near Givenchy that day, “He led his men magnificently, they covered themselves with glory and their charge will always be remembered as one of the finest deeds of the regt. Everyone says they were magnificent,” so wrote his Commanding Officer. He m. at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, 18 April, 1912, Katherine Arthur Mary Violet, dau. of Arthur Percy Hickman, of Hagley, co. Worcester, and had a daughter, Diana Katherine Mary, b. 19 May, 1913.

=GREAR, JAMES=, Private, No. 637, 1st Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade Australian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of the late John Grear, of the firm of John Milner & Co., Iron Merchants, Manchester, by his wife, Alice; b. Mobberley, Chester, 21 Nov. 1891; educ. Mobberley and Urmston Secondary Schools; went to Sydney, Australia, in 1911, and was a Farmer with his brothers; enlisted immediately on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 10 May, 1915; unm. Four other brothers are (1916) on active service, two with the Australian Field Artillery, one in training with the Infantry Reserve, and the other as 1st Class Stoker, R.N.

=GREATHEAD, CLARENCE ROYAL=, Private, No. 1850, 4th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), Machine Gun Section, only s. of George William Greathead, of Cleadon, North Eastern Railway Official, by his wife, Ada, dau. of William Greig, of West Hartlepool; b. West Hartlepool, 5 June, 1897; educ. Henry Smith College there; was an apprentice with Messrs. Grabham & Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne; enlisted after the outbreak of war in Sept. 1914; went to France in April, and was killed in action near Ypres, at 5.30 a.m., 16 June, 1915, while in charge of a machine gun. Buried at Wieltge; unm. His officer wrote: “He was a brave, fearless soldier, and will be missed by his battalion. We had him carefully buried and a cross bearing his inscription marks the place.”

=GREAVES, BENJAMIN HERBERT=, Private, No. 3024, 8th (Liverpool Irish) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), s. of (—) Greaves; b. 28 Dec. 1883; educ. Oxford; enlisted soon after the outbreak of war in Oct. 1914, went to France, and was killed in action, 16 June, 1915. He m. at Brounton Hill, Liverpool, 6 June, 1908, Constance (11, Woolman Road, Blackpool), dau. of (—), and had three children: Charles Walter, b. 18 Aug. 1909; Leslie Herbert, b. 14 Feb. 1915; and Dorothy Irene, b. 5 May, 1911.

=GREEN, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14516, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREEN, ALBERT=, Private, No. G6084, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died at Rouen, 19 April, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=GREEN, ALBERT JOHN=, Private, No. G. 695, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action near Fleurbaix, 18 Dec. 1914; m.

=GREEN, ARTHUR=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4873A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREEN, ARTHUR ADELBERT LINGARD=, Sergt., No. 2623, Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians), Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of Lieut.-Col. Alfred Lingard Green, D.S.O., formerly Commdg. 3rd V. Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., by his wife, Isabel, dau. of the late Robert Thorburn, of Vancouver, British Columbia; b. Oatlands, Fort Qu’Appelle, N.W. Territory, Canada, 3 June, 1889; educ. Quy Vicarage, near Cambridge, and St. Edward’s School, Oxford, and on leaving there went to British Columbia, where he joined the British Columbia Horse. He was promoted Sergt. after a very short period, and when war was declared, finding that the B.C. Horse were not going out as a regt., immediately joined Lord Strathcona’s Horse as a Private, but was soon promoted to Sergt.; came over with the first contingent, and died in the 16th General Hospital, Le Treport, France, 16 July, 1915, of wounds received in action at Givenchy. Buried in the Military Cemetery, Le Treport; unm.

=GREEN, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 195688, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREEN, ERNEST=, Private, No. 2308, Brecknockshire Battn. South Wales Borderers (T.F.), s. of Joseph Green, of 77, Watton, Brecon, late Q.M.-Sergt., 2nd Battn. South Wales Borderers; b. Brecon, 14 Jan. 1887; educ. National School there; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 5 Sept. 1914; went to Egypt, and then to Aden; and died of heatstroke during the forced march through the Desert, to La Hy and back on 4 July, 1915. Private Green was a well-known Mid-Wales football player. His three brothers, Sergt. Frank Green, Royal Marines, who took part in defence of Antwerp; Private Harry Green, South Wales Borderers; and Private Monty Green, Brecknockshire Regt., are (1916) on active service.

=GREEN, CLIFFORD WHITTINGTON=, Capt. 1st Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., only s. of Ernest Henry Green, of Bayworth Manor, Bagley Wood, co. Berks, by his wife, Maud, dau. of Col. George John Charles Whittington, C.B.; b. West Lavington, co. Wilts, 16 Aug. 1890; educ. Cothill House, Radley College, and Lincoln College, Oxford; joined the 3rd Militia Battn. of the Berkshires in 1912 as 2nd Lieut.; promoted Lieut., and on the outbreak of war received a regular commission in the same regt. 14 Aug. 1914. He joined the 1st Battn. in France on 27 Nov., served with them through the winter campaign, 1914–15, including the fight at Givenchy, 22 Dec., also through the spring operations and at Richebourg, 20 May, 1915, where he distinguished himself leading his company in the attack, being promoted tempy. Capt. He died in hospital at Lillers, 27 June, 1915, of wounds received in action at Cambray, near La Bassée, the preceding day; and was buried at Chocques Military Cemetery; unm. A brother officer writing of him said: “Capt. Whittington Green was a brave officer, and one whose first thought was always for his men.” At the time he was killed he was directing his men to take cover, as the enemy had started shelling the headquarters. He played hockey for the Berkshire and Oxfordshire county teams.

=GREEN, FREDERICK=, A.B. (B. 4154), 200824. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GREEN, HORACE EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16692, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREEN, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 9185, 1/5th South Staffordshire Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Arthur John Green, of West Bromwich, Builder, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Berry; b. West Bromwich, co. Stafford, 19 Nov. 1894; educ. Lodge Estate Schools there; was an Engineer; enlisted 4 Sept. 1914; promoted Corpl. Jan. 1915; went to France 1 March, 1915; and was killed in action near Hill 60, 25 Aug. 1915, while observing the effect of our artillery fire on the enemy’s trenches; unm. He was well-known in the Birmingham District as a fine swimmer and was a clever amateur dramatic actor.

=GREEN, JAMES THOMAS=, Private. No. 14405, 4th (Reserve) Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of James Green, of the Royal Lodge Gardens, Windsor Great Park, Gardener to the Hon. Lady Ellis, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late Thomas Martin; b. The Gardens, Royal Lodge, 17 March, 1893; educ. Royal Schools, Windsor Great Park; enlisted 29 Dec. 1914; invalided home 29 Jan. 1915, and died 5 Feb. 1915, of spotted fever contracted while training at Caterham; unm. Buried at St. Jude’s Cemetery with full military honours.

=GREEN, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4229), S.S. 103203, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GREEN, PERCY ERNEST=, Seaman, R.N.R.. 4171A, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREEN, SAMUEL JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7761), 292356, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=GREEN, THOMAS MICHAEL=, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9821), 297718, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREEN, WILLIAM LAMBEY THORNE=, Private. R.M.L.I., Ch./17611, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREEN, WILLIAM STANLEY=, A.B., J. 2660, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOWNSEND-GREEN, HENRY RUSSELL=, Capt., 1/16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of James Henry Townsend-Green, of 5, Addison Road, Kensington, and Chesham, Bucks, P.P.A.I., F.S.I., by his wife, Cornelia Augusta, dau. of the late Samuel W. Russell; b. Kensington, 31 Jan. 1890; educ. Uppingham, and was by profession a Surveyor. He obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Queen’s Westminster Rifles, from the Uppingham O.T.C., 30 Jan. 1908, and became Lieut., 1 Nov. 1910, and Capt., 26 Sept. 1914. In 1910 he secured a place in the King’s Hundred at Bisley, and passed the Hythe School of Musketry in 1912, with distinction in the Maxim Gun Course. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service; left for France, 1 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Armentières, 3 March, 1915, only a few days after returning from a week’s leave in London. Buried at Armentières; unm. The Adjutant of his Battn. wrote: “He was one of those people who inspire confidence, and I have always felt that if we were asked to send out any party of men under an officer needing more than ordinary intelligence, decision, and coolness, I should unhesitatingly have chosen him; he has ever since he came out here been the man one felt one could rely on in any emergency”; and his Commanding Officer wrote: “He was always one of our very best, keenest, and most capable officers, his work and his mark will remain in the Regt. which he loved so well, and which loved him so well and in which his memory will always be so affectionately cherished.”

=GREENAWAY, SIDNEY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13484, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=GREENER, WILLIAM ERNEST=, A.B., 234657, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREENHALGH, EDWARD=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 269845, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREENHAM, ERNEST ALBERT=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8820), 209091, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=GREENLAND, FREDERICK JOHN=, A.B., 197040, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREENSTREET, ROBERT SMITH=, Private, No. 2535, 3/4th Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of the late Richard Reynolds Greenstreet, of Lydd, Kent, Fisherman, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of (—) Smith; b. Hythe, 8 June, 1880; educ. Lydd; was a Fisherman; enlisted 23 Sept. 1914, and died in No. 2 Division War Hospital, Selhurst, 5 Oct. 1915, of illness contracted while training. He m. at Beckenham, 16 Oct. 1904, Beatrice Annie (109, Ecclesbourne Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey), dau. of Charles Albert, and had three children: Beatrice Elizabeth, b. 1 Sept. 1905; Florence Edith, b. 12 June, 1909; and Emily Winifred, b. 6 June, 1914.

=GREENWOOD, ALFRED EDWARD=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115507, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GREENWOOD, GEORGE JESSE FRANCIS=, Sergt., No. 89, 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of George Joseph Greenwood, Foreman at Messrs. Brackett & Co., Engineers, Colchester, by his wife, Emma Ann, dau. of John James Butler, of Chelmsford; b. Colchester, 7 Sept. 1883; educ. Colchester Bluecoat School; and for many years up to Aug. 1914, held a position of trust with Brown & Co., Timber Merchants, Ipswich. He joined the 1st Vol. Battn. Suffolk Regt. (which in 1907 became the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Suffolks) 6 Feb. 1900, and reached the rank of Sergt. On the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and went to France 6 Nov. 1914; was home on a few days’ leave in April, returning to the Front on the 6th, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, three days later, 9 April, 1915. Lieut. Pretty wrote: “At the time he met his death he was just turning away from examining the enemy’s position through his glasses, and was necessarily exposing himself to some risk. He was doing his duty cheerfully and bravely.... His body rests in a military graveyard [at Rouge Croix] about half a mile behind the firing line.” Sergt. Greenwood was a well-known member of the Felixstowe Rifle Club, and a prize winner at the county meeting, and had the Volunteer Long Service Medal. He m. at St. Botolph’s Church, Colchester, 2 Sept. 1907, Nellie May (53, Newton Road, Ipswich), eldest dau. of George Woods, of Colchester, and had two children: George Charles, b. 24 June, 1908; and Millicent Alice, b. 11 April, 1912.

=GREENWOOD, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4866), S.S. 104269, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GREENWOOD, JOHN FRANCIS BERNAL=, Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regt., eldest s. of Lieut.-Colonel Joseph Greenwood, R.E., by his wife, Clara, dau. of John Bernal, of Albert Lodge, Limerick; b. Limerick, 22 March, 1885; educ. Military College, Plymouth; joined the Army, 13 July, 1903, and was given a commission 18 Jan. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 21 May, 1911. He served in India, 1908 till Nov. 1912, and while there obtained Cavalry Higher Equitation (with Royal Dragoons, Lucknow, 1 Oct. 1909), Mounted Infantry (Umballa 1911–12), and Supply and Transport (Rawal Pindi) Certificates, and commanded a section in the Mounted Infantry School, Umballa. He passed Higher Standard examinations in Hindustani (24 April, 1911), and Pushtu and Lower Standard Persian (13 July, 1911), and held a certificate as an interpreter in French (gained June, 1914). In Jan. 1913, he was seconded for two years’ service with the Army Pay Department, but rejoined his Regt. in Jan. 1915, being attached to the 3rd Battn. from which he was drafted to the 1st Battn. at the Front in April. He was killed in action at St. Julien, during the Second Battle of Ypres, Sunday, 2 May, 1915, and was buried by the Germans about 2 miles N.E. of Ypres. Major Wilson wrote: “On 2 May, at about 3 p.m., the enemy used gas, and under cover of the gas they advanced (about 700 strong) against a position (a farmhouse) held by 10 men of C Coy. 1st Battn. Lieut. Greenwood, a Corpl. and three men, all of C Coy., rushed to the farmhouse (about 200 yards) to assist the 10 men holding the farm. The enemy continued their advance under rifle and machine gun fire to within 300 yards of our position and placed their maxim guns behind a hedge. During the attack Lieut. Greenwood, using his revolver, and the men with rifles, accounted for a good number of the enemy. Lieut. Greenwood, after using all his revolver ammunition, took up a rifle and fired a few rounds, when he was shot in the head by enemies’ maxim gun. His death was instantaneous. The enemy having partly surrounded our small party, we were eventually ordered to retire as it was impossible for so few men to hold the position any longer. His body was unavoidably left behind together with about 10 men. He showed great gallantry during the fighting.” He m. at the R.C. Garrison Church, Lucknow, India, 20 July, 1910, Frances Mary Georgina, eldest dau. of the late James Watson Anderson, of Saltburn-by-Sea, York, and of Bacon’s Crescent, Exeter, Devon, and had one child, Henry Vincent Bernal, b. 16 Aug. 1911.

=GREENWOOD, LEWIS LEONARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8929), S.S. 2077, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREENWOOD, ROBERT=, L.-Corpl., No. 6222, A Coy. 1st Battn. 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Robert Greenwood, of Camberwell, by his wife, Rosetta, dau. of (—) Burley, and gdson. of Edwin Greenwood, of 244, Haydons Road, Wimbledon, S.W.; b. Leytonstone, Essex, 25 Jan. 1895; educ. John Ruskin Council School, Camberwell; went to Canada in Feb. 1914, and settled at Thamesford, Ontario, as a Farmer’s help; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Dec. 1914; trained at Bustard Camp, Salisbury; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at, or near, Givenchy, 15 June, 1915, being blown to pieces by a shell; unm.

=GREER, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7916), S.S. 103607, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=GREGORY, BERT WALTER=, A.B., J. 699, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=GREGORY, CHARLES ARTHUR=, Private, No. 20023, C Coy., 11th Battn. (Pioneers) King’s Liverpool Regt., 2nd s. of Tom Jackson Gregory, of London, Master Mariner, by his wife, Helena; b. Liverpool, 18 Aug. 1893; educ. Our Lady of Mount Carmel School there; enlisted 17 Sept. 1914, and on the night of 21 June, 1915, while in the trenches, off the Menin Road, one and a-half miles from Ypres, was shot through the head by a sniper. He was taken to Bailleul Casualty Clearing Station, where he died the following day, and was buried in the military annex to Bailleul Cemetery (Grave No. 1420). He m. at Liverpool, 29 Dec. 1914, Catherine, dau. of Thomas Standish, of Liverpool.

=GREGORY, ERNEST=, Leading Seaman, 209700, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GREGORY, JAMES WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R.), B. 3896), 185803, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 1914; m.

=GREGORY, NATHANIEL=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12747 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GREGORY, THOMAS=, Officer’s Cook, 2nd Class, L. 3030 (Ports.), H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=GREGSON, DAVID WALKER=, Private, No. 6221, 1st Battn. 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of John Gregson, of Fergus, Ontario, Canada; b. West Garafraxa, Wellington Co., P. Ontario, 10 June, 1898; educ. Fergus, Ontario; enlisted 16 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres between 22–30 April, 1915. He was buried beside a house in a small garden seven miles S.E. of Ypres.

=GREIG, JOHN WILLIAM HENRY=, 2nd Lieut., attd. 25th Punjab Cavalry, Frontier Force, 5th s. of Hunter Hepburn Greig, of 71, Heathfield Road, Wandsworth Common, S.W., formerly of Perth, by his wife, Phœbe Jane, dau. of Alexander Elliot, of Kelso; b. Perth, 6 May, 1886; educ. Perth Academy and Denstone College, Stafford, and was a member of the staff of the Chartered Bank of India. He had joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, and after the outbreak of the war was attached (Feb. 1915) to the 25th Punjab Cavalry at Calcutta. He was killed in action at Tochi Valley, near Miranshah, North Western India, 26 March, 1915, while fighting against the Zadrai Tribes, and was buried at Miranshah; unm. His 6th brother, the Rev. George Anthony Greig, Chaplain to H.M.S. Russell, died at Malta Royal Naval Hospital, 28 April, 1916, from gas poisoning, caused by the Russell striking a mine the previous day.

=GREIG, STEWART=, L.-Corpl., Ch./15295, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRENFELL, FRANCIS OCTAVIUS, V.C.=, Capt., 9th Lancers, 8th s. of the late Pascoe Du Pre Grenfell, of Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, by his wife, Sophia, dau. of Vice-Admiral John Pascoe Grenfell, Brazilian I.N., and nephew of Francis Wallace, 1st Baron Grenfell, P.C., G.C.B.; G.C.M.G., Field-Marshal; b. Hatchlands, Guildford, 4 Sept. 1880; educ. Eton (Mr. Durnford’s House, 1894–99); received a commission in the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 13 Dec. 1899; gazetted 2nd Lieut. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 4 May, 1901, and Lieut. 28 Jan. 1905; transferred to 9th Lancers 6 May, 1905; promoted Capt. 7 Sept. 1912; was Adjutant 1 Nov. 1912 to 13 Jan. 1914; served (1) in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in operations in Cape Colony and Transvaal, 1901, and in those in Orange River Colony, Jan. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 20 Oct. and 16 Nov. 1914] by F.M. Sir John French, and was killed in action, after being twice wounded at Hooge, 24 May, 1915; unm. He was awarded the Victoria Cross “For gallantry in action against unbroken infantry at Audregnies, Belgium, on 24 Aug. 1914, and for gallant conduct in assisting to save the guns of the 119th Battery, R.F.A., near Doubon, the same day,” being the first officer to receive it in the European War. At Eton he was in the Cricket XI in 1899, and Master of the Beagles. Like his brother, Capt. R. N. Grenfell, he was one of the finest polo players of his day. He did much for modern polo with his brother, was in the Champion side several times, and was instrumental in forming the Old Etonians Polo Team, which at one time was nominated as the Polo Cup Challenger. One of the best known men in the army, he enjoyed a popularity that few men achieve.

=GRENFELL, HON. GERALD WILLIAM=, Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. The Rifle Brigade, 2nd (and at the time of his death elder surviving) s. of William Henry, 1st Baron Desborough, K.C.V.O., by his wife, Ethel Anne Priscilla, Lady of the Bedchamber to H.M. the Queen, dau. of the Hon. Julian Henry Charles Fane, and granddau. of John, 11th Earl of Westmorland; b. 4, St. James’s Square, London, S.W., 29 March, 1890; educ. Eton (where he gained an entrance scholarship and the Newcastle scholarship) and Balliol College, Oxford (where he obtained the Craven scholarship in 1911), and was about to be called to the Bar; volunteered after the outbreak of war and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8th Rifle Brigade, 12 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from May, 1915, and was killed instantaneously by machine gun fire at Hooge, Flanders, 30 July, 1915, while leading a counter-attack; unm. Capt. A. C. Sheepshanks wrote: “He died splendidly, leading his men over open ground up hill in the face of a tremendous fire from machine guns. His Platoon Sergt. saw him pitch forward with a bullet in the head, and thinks he was hit again in the side as he fell. He must have been killed instantaneously as he was not seen to move afterwards. Both as his company commander and his friend I shall miss him enormously. His platoon all loved him, and he had somehow inspired them with a fighting spirit, and it was only a few days ago that I told the Col. that Bill’s platoon was the best fighting platoon I had”; and A. A. Tod, second in command of the 8th Battn.: “We were great friends, and though I didn’t know him before he joined, I, like all the others, was immediately drawn to him by his delightful personality. I know you must be inundated with letters, so feel rather diffident about adding to the number, but somehow it seems to help to write about a dear friend that has gone. We all loved Billy, and his men, to my certain knowledge, adored him. It couldn’t have been otherwise, because ever since he went to France he was always to the fore, and what the men always like, never expected them to do anything he couldn’t do himself. His gallantry was remarkable, and fear was a word he didn’t know the meaning of. As you know, he died at the head of his men leading a counter-attack. It’s but poor consolation, but I am positive that of all deaths it is the one he would have chosen.... That was a fearful day, and no one can describe the horror of seeing 20 officers and well over 500 men fall in one Battn. in about 14 hours.” His elder brother, Capt. J. H. F. Grenfell, and twin cousins, Capt. F. Grenfell, V.C., and Capt. R. N. Grenfell, were also killed in action, and his yst. and only surviving brother, the Hon. Ivo G. W. Grenfell, is now with the Coldstream Guards. His sister, the Hon. Monica Grenfell, is a Red Cross Nurse in France.

=GRENFELL, HON. JULIAN HENRY FRANCIS=, Capt., 1st (Royal) Dragoons, D.S.O., eldest s. and h. of William Henry, 1st Baron Desborough, K.C.V.O., by his wife, Ethel Anne Priscilla, Lady of the Bedchamber to H.M. the Queen, dau. of the Hon. Julian Henry Charles Fane, and granddau. of John, 11th Earl of Westmorland; b. 4, St. James’s Square, London, 30 March, 1888; educ. Eton and Balliol College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Dragoons, 15 Sept. 1909 (24 Aug. 1910); and promoted Lieut. 6 Oct. 1911; temporary Capt. 15 Nov. 1914, and Capt. 31 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 7 Oct. 1914; was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914–14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915] for gallant conduct in the field; was severely wounded in the head by shrapnel, 13 May, while reconnoitring near Ypres, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 26 May, 1915; unm. He had made a special study of reconnaissance work, and was awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1915] for having on 17 Nov. “succeeded in reaching a point behind the enemy’s trenches, and making an excellent reconnaissance, furnishing early information of a pending attack of the enemy.” A poem, “Into Battle,” written by him in the trenches appeared in “The Times,” and of it Sir W. Raleigh, Professor of English literature at Oxford, wrote: “I don’t know if you really know that Julian’s poem is one of the swell things in English literature. It is safe for ever, I know it by heart, and I never learned it. It has that queer property which only the best poems have, that a good many of the lines have more meaning than there is any need for, so that new things keep on turning up in it.” At Eton he ran well in the steeplechase in 1905, and at Oxford rowed in the college crew. In 1907 and 1908 he was three in the Balliol eight in the Ladies Challenge Plate, and in the following year he was bow in the Balliol four which won the Wyfolds at Henley, and rowed for the O.U.B.C. coxswainless fours. He was a member of the Belsize Boxing Club and proved himself a formidable opponent. His chief sport was shooting. His next brother, Lieut. G. W. Grenfell, and his cousins, Capt. F. Grenfell, V.C., and Capt. R. N. Grenfell, were also killed in action (see their notices).

=GRENFELL, RIVERSDALE NONUS (“RIVY”)=, Capt. Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars), att. 9th Lancers, 9th and yst. s. of the late Pascoe Du Pre Grenfell, of Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, by his wife, Sophia, dau. of Vice-Admiral John Pascoe Grenfell, Brazilian I.N., and nephew of Francis Wallace, 1st Baron Grenfell, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., Field-Marshal; b. Hatchlands, Guildford, 4 Sept. 1880; educ. Eton; received a commission as Lieut. in the Royal Bucks Hussars, 1 Sept. 1908, and was promoted Capt. Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 18 Aug., att. to the 9th Lancers, and was killed in action at Vendresse during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; unm. He was one of the best known players in English polo. He was a member of the Hurlingham Committee, which is the governing body of the game, and was among the best Nos. 1 in English polo during the past decade. He played twice in English teams that beat Ireland, and was No. 1 in the Roehampton side that won the Championship Cup in 1909, while three years before he was one of the Freebooters who secured the championship. In 1909 he organised an Old Etonians team, which played a prominent part in London polo. With his twin brother, Francis, he played in the final match for the House Football Cup in 1898, when Durnford’s won by a narrow margin. He was whip of the Beagles, Francis being Master of the Beagles at Eton. He was Founder, Chairman and Treasurer of the Islington branch of the Invalid Children’s Aid Association, and a Memorial Fund is being raised to endow this branch, now called the Francis and Rivy Grenfell Branch. His twin brother and his two cousins were also killed in action in the European War, while his elder brother, Pascoe St. Leger, was killed in the Matabele War, 1896, and his seventh brother, Robert Septimus, Lieut. 12th Lancers, was killed at Omdurman, 4 Sept. 1898.

=MORGAN-GRENVILLE, THE HON. RICHARD GEORGE GRENVILLE=, Master of Kinloss, Capt., 1st Battn. The Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of the late Major Luis Ferdinand Courthope Morgan-Grenville, York and Lancaster Regt., by his wife, Mary, 11th Baroness Kinloss, Lady of the Crown of India, dau. of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd and last Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 10th Lord Kinloss, P.C.; b. Chandos House, London, 25 Sept. 1887; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 1st Battn. Rifle Brigade, 24 Jan. 1906, and promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1910, and Capt. 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force; was twice wounded, but each time recovered and returned to the Front; was twice mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French [8 Oct. 1914, and 10 Jan. 1915] for gallantry in the field, and was recommended for the D.S.O., but was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 19 Dec. 1914. He was unm., and was buried in the wood there. His brother, Lieut. the Hon. Thomas G. B. Morgan-Grenville, 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, is now (1916) on active service.

=GREY, GERALD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3266), S.S. 100998, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GRIERSON, SIR JAMES MONCRIEFF, K.C.B., C.V.O., C.M.G.=, Lieut.-Gen., R.A., eldest s. of the late George Moncrieff Grierson, of Glasgow, by his wife, Allison, dau. of George Lyon Walker, of Garemount, Dumbartonshire; b. Glasgow, 27 Jan. 1859; educ. Glasgow Academy, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted Lieut., R.A., 9 Oct. 1877, and promoted Capt. 20 Jan. 1886; Major 11 Dec. 1895; Brevet Lieut.-Col. 12 Dec. 1895; Brevet Col. 1 March, 1900; Col. 28 Oct. 1901; Major-Gen. 12 Feb. 1904, and Lieut.-Gen. 6 May, 1910; was D.A.Q.M.G., Indian Contingent, Expeditionary Force, Egypt, 9 Aug. to 17 Oct. 1882; on special service with the Expeditionary Force, Suakim, 20 Feb. to 5 March, 1885; D.A.A. and Q.M.G., Egypt, 6 March to 12 June, 1885; Station Staff Officer, 1st Class, Bengal, 17 Feb. to 7 July, 1889; D.A.A.G. (Intel.) H.Q. of Army, 1 July, 1890, to 14 July, 1894; Brigade Major, R.A., Aldershot, 1 Jan. 1895 to 19 Feb. 1896; Military Attaché, Berlin, 1 March, 1896, to 2 Feb. 1900; on special service, South Africa, 3 Feb. to 27 Feb. 1900; A.A.G. South Africa, 28 Feb. to 23 Aug. 1900; Staff Officer (graded D.A.G.), China, 24 Aug. 1900 to 21 Oct. 1901; A.Q.M.G., II Army Corps, 28 Oct. 1901 to 3 Sept. 1902; Chief Staff Officer (Brig.-Gen. on Staff), II Army Corps, 4 Sept. 1902 to 11 Feb. 1904; Director of Military operations, Army H.Q., 12 Feb. 1904 to 5 Oct. 1906; Major-Gen., 1st Division, Aldershot Army Corps, and G.O.C., 1st Division, Aldershot Command, 6 Oct. 1906, to 6 Aug. 1910, and G.O. Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, 4 April, 1912, to Aug. 1914; Hon. Col., 2nd London Brigade, R.F.A., 1912–14; A.D.C. Gen. to H.M. the King, 1 July, 1914, and Commander of the 2nd Army Corps of the Expeditionary Force in France, Aug. 1914; created M.V.O. (4th Class), 23 Nov. 1899; C.B., 29 Nov. 1900; C.M.G., 26 June, 1902; C.V.O., 1 July, 1904; and K.C.B., 19 June, 1911; served in Egyptian War, 1882; took part in action at Kassassin 9 Sept., and Battle of Tel-el-Kebir (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 2 Nov. 1882]; medal with clasp; Khedive’s Bronze Star; 5th Class Medjidie); with Sudan Expedition, 1885; took part in actions at Hasheen, and on 26 March, and advance on Tamai (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 25 Aug. 1885]; clasp); with Hazara Expedition, 1888; was D.A.Q.M.G., 2nd Brigade (mentioned in Despatches; medal with clasp; Brevet of Lieut.-Col.); in South African War, 1899–1900; took part in operations in Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900. including actions at Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Vet River (5–6 May), and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal, May-June, 1900; including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill (11 June); operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July-16 Aug. 1900 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901]; Queen’s medal with four clasps); in China, 1900; including service as British Military representative on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces (medal, C.B.); and died on active service, of heart failure, while travelling in a train in France, 17 Aug. 1914; unm. Gen. Grierson made a reputation with the 3rd and 4th Divisions at manœuvres. During the manœuvres in Cambridgeshire in 1912, he so concealed the 4th Division that it remained entirely lost so far as the opposing side was concerned, until it developed its fighting line in action on a flank. The Division made a long march, and when hostile aircraft came near it the troops halted and took shelter in woods, ravines and hedges, remaining perfectly still. The guns and wagons were covered with sheets, hay, straw, and so on, and the aircraft failed to discover the presence of the force. He was again complimented by Sir John French on those in Northamptonshire in 1913. He was the author of many works on Military subjects, including “Armed Strengths of Armies of Russia, Germany and Japan,” published by the War Office; “Staff Duties in the Field,” “Handbooks of the Russian Army,” and “Records of the Scottish Volunteers, 1859–1908.”

=GRIEVE, WILLIAM PERCIVAL=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regt.), yst. s. of William Grieve, of 13, Fenchurch Avenue, London, and Rockcliffe, Dalbeattie, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late Rev. George Hodgkinson, of Louth; b. Croydon, 11 Nov. 1885; educ. St. Andrew’s School, Eastbourne, Cheltenham College, and Edinburgh University. On the outbreak of war he joined the 2nd King Edward’s Horse as a Trooper, received a commission in the 5th Middlesex Special Reserve, 14 Nov. 1914, and was transferred from that battn. to the 3rd Middlesex; served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action near Ypres, 14 Feb. 1915; unm.

=GRIFFIN, ERNEST JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class S.S. 111025, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GRIFFITH, THOMAS FRANCIS=, Gunner, R.M.A., 9569, R.F.R., B. 1266, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRIFFITH, JOHN GWYNNE=, Major, 32nd Lancers, Indian Army, and Brigade Major, 9th Cavalry Brigade, 3rd s. of the late Lieut.-Col. John Gilbert Erskine Griffith, of Fairfield House, Cheltenham, and Hodges, Jamaica, by his wife, Fanny Augusta (Newland, Coleford, Gloucester), dau. of George Harrison; b. Taraghur, Ajmere, India, 23 June, 1874; educ. Stubbington House School, and Dulwich College; joined the 3rd Militia Battn. South Wales Borderers in 1893; gazetted from it 2nd Lieut. to the Unattached List, Indian Army, 28 Nov. 1894; served his year with the 2nd Durham L.I. at Poona, and then was posted to the Indian Staff Corps, 2nd Bombay Lancers, 24 Feb. 1896, and promoted Lieut. 28 Feb. 1897; Capt. 28 Nov. 1903; and Major 28 Nov. 1912. He was successively on plague duty, Bombay; officiating Inspecting Officer, Imperial Service Cavalry, Kathiawar, and Military Attaché, Bombay Command H.Q., and was one of the eight senior subalterns selected for service in South Africa, and was temporary Capt. commanding 63rd Imperial Yeomanry from 1 Jan. to 23 March, 1902. He took part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, and was awarded the Queen’s medal with four clasps, and then returned to India and resumed his post as Military Attaché for another year. He was then S.S.O., Nasirobad; Officiating Brigade Major, Kamptee, for nine months; S.S.O. and Cantonment Magistrate, Pachmahri, for a year; Brigade Major, Jubbulpore, 23 Feb. 1906 to 14 Feb. 1909; and then passed through the Staff College, Quetta. In 1911 he went to Australia for two years and acted as Director of Military Training on the Headquarters Staff, Melbourne, and was so successful that the Australian Government asked for an extension of his services, which was granted for another year. The Hon. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, writing to his widow on hearing of his death, said: “Major Griffith’s extensive military knowledge, his capacity and soldierly attributes, combined with his charming personality, provided an inspiring example and earned him the respect of all ranks of the Australian Army”; and Gen. Kirkpatrick and Major-Gen. Chauvel both expressed their high appreciation of his services to the Commonwealth during the critical period of Australian Military development. He returned to India in 1913, and was home on leave when war broke out. He joined the 7th Cavalry Reserve at Tidworth, and on 18 Oct. was gazetted D.A.A. and Q.M.G., 2nd Cavalry Division, becoming Brigade Major, 9th Cavalry Brigade, by special request of the General Officer Commanding; went to France, 20 Oct. 1914, and was killed instantaneously, S.E. of Ypres, 24 May, 1915, while giving orders to his Brigade. Gen. Greenly wrote: “He was a brave, good soldier, an unfailing cheery companion, and the kindliest and most sympathetic of friends, the sort of English gentleman who has made the Empire what it is,” and added, “the loss to me is not only that of a perfectly invaluable staff officer, but of a very great friend, with whom I have been associated now, as you know, for a very considerable time, both on the staff together of the 2nd Cav. Div. and in this Brigade. On active service one gets to know one’s friends in a few months or sometimes even days in a way which years of peace would never bring. I can only say that in these months of sometimes hard and strenuous time I have got to know and value and love your husband in a way which it is difficult to convey to you”; and a brother officer: “The old regt. fairly bursts with pride even when we are saddest. I never saw anything like the feeling shown by the Indians, they all loved Johnnie, even as we all looked forward to the day when he got command. What a wonderful C.O. he would have made.]” Major Griffith was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He m. at Cheltenham, 15 June, 1899, Florence Ethel (29, Park Place, Cheltenham), dau. of the late Major George Anthony Aufrère Baker, 6th Bengal Cavalry; s.p.

=GRIFFITHS, ALLEN RHYS=, 2nd Lieut., 53rd Battery, R.F.A., elder s. of Llewellyn Edward Griffiths, of Great Abshot House, Titchfield, formerly of Drayton Park, Longparish, by his wife, Bertha Mina, dau. of Thomas Allen Hickley, of Walton-on-Thames; b. Rookley House, King’s Somborne, Hants, 15 March, 1893; educ. Horris Hill, Newbury; and Winchester College; was a tea planter in Ceylon when war broke out, but came home immediately and enlisted in the Rifle Brigade in Dec. 1914; was given a commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 27 Feb., 1915; went to France early in July, and was killed in action near Ypres, 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

=GRIFFITHS, BASIL GWYNNE=, Sergt., No. 41567, 56th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, s. of Isaac Griffiths, D.C.M., Quartermaster-Sergt. (W.O.), Welsh Regt. (who served in the Boer War, with the South Wales Borderers, and was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Distinguished Conduct medal), by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of Martin Walsh, of Kilrane, co. Wexford, Farmer; b. Aldershot, 16 Jan. 1892; educ. Intermediate School and Christ’s College, Brecon; enlisted in Jan. 1906; was promoted Sergt., Aug. 1914; went to France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in the fighting around Hooge, near Ypres, 3 Nov. 1914; unm. Major B. Crozier, commanding 56th Battery, R.F.A., wrote: “He was killed while in charge of his gun ... and was buried by his comrades the same evening, at the same spot as three other men of his battery, at the edge of a wood about 800 yards south of the village of Ekstenest. I served with him previously in the 47th Battery and had a great regard for him. He did well while out here and will be a great loss to the battery, which he served so well. He was always so cheery and helped to cheer many when depressed.” Sergt. Griffiths was an expert “Rough-Rider,” swimmer and boxer.

=GRIFFITHS, GEORGE HENRY WHITMORE=, Private, No. 12946, 25th Battn. Royal Fusiliers Frontiersmen, eldest s. of the late George Summers Griffiths, Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, by his wife, Emma Lucy, dau. of the late Henry H. Cowper, H.M.’s Consul-General at Havanah, and grandson of the late Lewis Griffiths, of Marl Hill, Cheltenham, J.P.; b. Handsworth, near Birmingham; educ. Whitby, and Stamford Grammar Schools; at the age of thirteen went to sea as an apprentice in the Merchant Service, and when the South African War broke out joined the 18th Hussars and served through that campaign. He was awarded the Queen’s medal with five clasps, and on his return married and settled down in Wiltshire. When the European War started he immediately tried to rejoin his old regt., but finding that it already contained its full complement he enlisted in the 25th Fusilier Frontiersmen. He was killed in action at the Battle of Bukoba, German East Africa, 22 June, 1915. He had volunteered for a dangerous duty which he fulfilled at the cost of his own life, thereby saving the lives of many of his comrades. Gen. T. wrote: “It will be a consolation to you all to know that he died in such a gallant way.... The War Office ruled some time ago that no posthumous honours, except the V.C. were to be granted during this war, so that many gallant men, including your brave brother, are ineligible for posthumous D.C.Ms. Should at any time the rule be revised, I will remember what your gallant brother did for his country”; and Col. D.: “His company held an advanced position close up to the enemy; they were suffering loss from a machine gun posted on a small hill. Several men volunteered to work round and try to silence this gun. Griffiths was the first to volunteer. The bravery and dash of these volunteers was beyond all praise, but unfortunately most of them were either killed or wounded whilst successfully carrying out what they started to do. They saved many lives of their comrades. He and other brave comrades were buried in Bukoba alongside the Fort, with full military honours. We have marked the spot.” He m. at Lavington, Wiltshire, 8 Oct. 1906, Alice Riddell (Down View, West Lavington, Wilts), dau. of Edwin Burgess, of St. John’s Wood, London, Artist, and had two sons: George Edwin, b. 10 July, 1907, and John Whitmore, b. 15 May, 1913.

=GRIGSON, FRANCIS HENRY=, 2nd Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., only s. of the late Henry Francis Grigson, of Watton, Norfolk, Accountant, by his wife, Gertrude Alma, dau. of William Cooper, of Bury St. Edmunds, M.D.; b. Watton, co. Norfolk, 1 Oct. 1890; educ. Gorse Cliff School, Boscombe, Hants, and Lancing College, Sussex; and on leaving there went to London in Nov. 1908, to learn accountancy. In May, 1910, he went to Ceylon, where he spent several years tea planting, and in the early part of 1913 joined the firm of George Steuart & Co., of Colombo. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he gave up his post with them and returned to England at the end of the year. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 9th Warwickshires, 1 Feb. 1915; left for the Dardanelles on 19 June, and was killed in action at Anzac Cove, 9 Aug. 1915, during the fighting for Hill 971 (Sari Bair); unm. One of his officers, Major Gordon, wrote (20 Aug.): “I feel I cannot resist writing to tell you how sadly we all (such as survive) feel the loss of your brother. He was most popular with officers and men alike and was such a capable officer”; and again (Oct. 1): “I made your brother Regimental Transport Officer whilst at Helles, and he was invaluable in managing the pack mules (often under fire) and getting up our water, rations, etc.”; and another (Capt. Agar): “The circumstances of his death were given me by another of my subalterns who had charge of the company after I was ‘knocked out.’ They had been ordered to advance up a hill, which could only be done in single file; the subaltern in charge led the way, when they suddenly came under a heavy fire from machine guns, which made further progress impossible. The subaltern in charge ordered the company down the hill under cover, and whilst doing so was himself badly wounded and left behind. When the men had got back under cover, your brother and the wounded officer’s servant crawled up again and tried to bring him in; they bandaged him up as best they could, when your brother was hit and instantly killed. There is no doubt that if he had not been killed he would have been rewarded for his gallant action.”

=GRIFFITHS, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9826), 207832, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRIFFITHS, WALTER HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17349, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRIMBLE, WALTER=, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 271598, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRIMSHAW, CECIL THOMAS WRIGLEY=, B.A., D.S.O., Major, 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 6th s. of the late Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw, C.B., M.D., M.A., Registrar-General for Ireland, by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth (The Lodge, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire); b. Dublin, 22 Oct. 1876; educ. Eastmans’ School, Southsea, and Trinity College, Dublin (B.A.); joined the 5th (Militia) Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers in Dec. 1893, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 15 May, 1897, and promoted Lieut., 28 Dec. 1898; Capt., 14 July, 1904; and Major, 14 Dec. 1914. He served through the South African War, 1899–1902, being employed with the Mounted Infantry, and was present at the action at Talana and took part in the operations east of Pretoria, July-Nov. 1900, and in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. He was twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901, and 29 July, 1902], and was awarded the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps, and the Distinguished Service Order. In 1903 he took part in the operations in the Aden Hinterland, and on 11 Dec. 1911, was appointed Adjutant of his Battn. He left England with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 15 March, 1915, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action the same day at Sedh-el-Bahr, being at the time in command, the Colonel, Adjutant and other officers having been shot in the boats. He was shot in the head while leading the remnants of the regt. in a charge up the hill. He m. at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, 3 Oct. 1906, Agnes Violet (Hawera, Dunsford, Surrey), dau. of George Benton Alderson, of Alexandria, and had three children: Thomas Cecil, b. 6 July, 1907; George Cecil, b. 8 Sept. 1910; and David Cecil, b. 13 Oct. 1915.

=GRIST, ROBERT GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3397), 191485, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GROMETT, CHARLES=, Sergt., No. 8713, 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., 2nd s. of Charles Gromett, by his wife, Sarah (Bridge Street, Downham, Market), dau. of Michael Walsh; b. Downham Market, co. Norfolk, 26 June, 1888; educ. there; enlisted 22 Oct. 1907; became Sergt. 20 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 6 Sept.; was wounded in the thigh at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept., and died 26 Sept. 1914, at St. Nazaire Hospital. He m. at St. Mary’s Church, Beverley, co. Yorks, 1 Dec. 1913, Edith (2, Victoria Villas, Queens Gate Road, Beverley), yst. dau. of the late George Marshall Cobb; s.p.

=GROOM, WILLIAM SYDNEY=, Acting Chief Petty Officer, 165578, H.M.S. Hawke; s. of Charles Groom, of 58, Prospect Place, Woolwich; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=GROOME, FRANK=, Private, No. 221, 17th Battn. 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of Frederick Groome, of 7, Queen’s Avenue, Watford West, Herts, Printer, by his wife, Mary Ann Elizabeth, dau. of William Saunders, of Walthamstow, Essex, Bricklayer, and grandson of John Groome, of the City of London, Cordwainer; b. Upper Sydenham, S.E., 21 March, 1895; educ. Sydenham Hill Council School; began life as an assistant at Mudie’s Library and later was assistant operator at the Watford Cinema; emigrated to Australia, 21 March, 1914, and became a farm hand to Mr. John Paton, of Mundarloo, Tumblong. After the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, Feb. 1915; was drafted to Egypt, and from there to the Dardanelles, where he was severely wounded in the head by a bomb; he was admitted to the 1st Australian General Hospital, Cairo, 9 Sept. 1915, and died there 6 Oct. following; unm.

=GROOME, STANLEY GEORGE=, Corpl., No. 207, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Groome, of 317, Bethnal Green Road, E., Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of George William Wilcox; b. London, 10 Feb. 1888; educ. Sir John Cass Foundation School, Minories; was on the Stock Exchange, but on the outbreak of war threw up his position and enlisted in the London Rifle Brigade, 31 Aug. 1914. He went to France on 13 Jan. 1915, and during the spring and summer of 1915 was with his company in the trenches at Plugsteert, St. Eloi, Ypres and Poperinghe. In the autumn of the same year he worked on the lines of communication and it was on returning to the trenches for the first time that he was accidentally shot at Poperinghe, 3 Dec. 1915. He was buried in the soldiers’ cemetery close to the main line between Hazebrouck and Poperinghe. An iron cross sent out from England, subscribed for by the men of his old platoon, and engraved “In memory of a good comrade,” marks the spot. Capt. C. W. Trevelyan, London Rifle Brigade, wrote: “I visited the grave, and when Sergt. Ford came back from leave he took out and placed on the grave a very nice iron cross as a small tribute of affection from some of the members of No. 4 Platoon. We all felt that we had lost one of our best and most trusted friends.” Groome was a good athlete, and was a member of the Leytonstone Rugby and the Albion Rowing Clubs. He was a great lover of Nature and all Nature’s gifts.

=GROVES, FRANCIS NEVILLE=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of John Francis Groves, of 5, Llanthewy Road, Newport, Monmouth, F.R.I.B.A., Architect to Lord Tredegar, by his wife, Frances Matilda, dau. of Albert Gill, of Blandford; b. Newport, Monmouth, 7 July, 1889; educ. Intermediate School there; obtained his commission in the 3rd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt., 9 Sept. 1914, joining it at Northampton and afterwards going to Cambridge. He was promoted Lieut., 23 Nov. 1914, and in Feb. 1915, was sent with his regt. to Flanders, and was killed in action at Frezenberg, near Ypres, 8 May, 1915; unm. The division in which the Monmouthshire Regt. was placed assisted very materially in defeating the furious attack of the German forces on 8 and 9 May, in which all battns. of the regt. suffered so heavily. Major W. S. Bridges, now Lieut.-Col., the senior officer left after the battle, wrote that he met his death whilst holding, with his company, a trench under the most terrific shell fire, and in a letter to his father, said: “I did not know him for long, only since my joining the battn., but long enough to have realised his value as an officer and that he had a high opinion of his sense of duty.” Col. H. Worsley Gough, who was wounded early in the action, stated that he fell doing his duty very gallantly, and that he could not speak too highly of his work as an officer of his battn., and that his untimely death was a great loss to the regt. and was deeply deplored by all who were privileged to serve with him.

=GROVES, GEORGE=, Private, No. 9432, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of George Groves, Office Porter, H.M. Office of Works, Windsor Castle, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Henry Deaton, of Eton; b. Clewer, near Windsor, 12 March, 1888; educ. Windsor National School; enlisted 22 Nov. 1904; served 10 years; went to France, 12 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Petit Bois, near Kemmel, France, 14 Dec. 1914; unm.

=GROVES, GEORGE=, Leading Seaman, 211975, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GRUBB, WALTER BOUSFIELD WATKINS=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., and Gunnery Lieut., s. of Lieut.-Col. Alexander Grubb, of Elsfield House, Hollingbourne, Kent, late Royal Artillery, by his wife, Sara Mary, dau. of the late Rev. Henry George Watkins, Vicar of Potters Bar, Middlesex; b. Knockrobin, co. Wicklow, 1 July, 1879; educ. The Grange, Cowes (Rev. A. Watson), and H.M.S. Britannia, 1892–95, and appointed Midshipman, H.M.S. Trafalgar, 1895, and promoted Sub-Lieut. July, 1898, Lieut. Jan. 1901, Gunnery Lieut. 1 Jan. 1907, and Lieut.-Commander, Jan. 1909. He was appointed to H.M.S. Cressy as gunnery officer, March, 1914, and was lost in the North Sea when that ship was torpedoed by a German submarine, 22 Sept. 1914. He had King Edward’s Coronation medal. He m. at St. James’ Church, Clapham Park, 22 April, 1914, Marguerite Evelina Fairlie, only child of Dr. J. J. McWhilter Dunbar, of Hedingham House, Clapham Common, S.W., and had a son, Walter Dunbar Watkins, b. 3 June, 1915.

=GRUCHY, ARTHUR GORDON=, B.A., Private, No. 74040, Machine Gun Section, 28th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Charles Gruchy, of Jersey, now farming at Strassburg, Saskatchewan, Canada, formerly of the firm of Redfern’s, of Paris, by his wife, Mary A..., dau. of (—) Hicks, of London; b. Asnières, Seine, France, 16 Jan. 1889; educ. first at Asnières, then in England, and in 1905 went to Canada with one of his brothers. He entered the University of Saskatchewan in 1912, and became a member of the affiliated Presbyterian College, taking the Arts course preparatory to his theological training. During the long summer vacations he performed valuable services on various mission fields, and he obtained his B.A. degree in May, 1915. He had enlisted in Oct. 1914, and left Canada with the second contingent, and was accidentally drowned, 7 July, 1915, while bathing near Shorncliffe, where his battn. was in training. Lieut. Manville, Commanding Officer, Machine Gun Section, wrote: “Your son, Sir, was a splendid soldier, and I had just some few days ago appointed him to the most important post on the section. I feel his death creates a vacancy that cannot be replaced, for his work and personality were such that he endeared himself to all of us.”

=GRUNDY, GEOFFREY STEWART=, Private, No. 1362, No. 1 Coy. Honourable Artillery Coy., only s. of George Graham Stewart Grundy, of Whernside, Headingley, Leeds, Iron and Steel Merchant, by his wife, Joanna, only dau. of George Taylor, of Leeds and Ripon, and grandson of the late Edmund Grundy, of Bridge Hall, Bury; b. Leeds, co. York, 1 Dec. 1886; educ. Rugby, and on leaving there was articled to Messrs. Barr, Nelson & Co., Solicitors, of Leeds. He was admitted a Solicitor in Jan. 1911, and at the time war broke out was with Messrs. Spyer & Sons, Austin Friars, E.C. He immediately volunteered and joined the H.A.C., 6 Aug. 1914; went to France, 19 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 11 April, 1915; unm. He was buried in the grounds of the Château Elzenwalle, Voormezeele. His Platoon Commander, Capt. M. M. Schiff, wrote: “He was a great favourite, as he was always so cheerful and bright, under the worst conditions. He was on guard at the time, in the trench, that is, standing with his head above the parapet, keeping a look-out against the Germans. Unfortunately, a shot caught him, and his death was practically instantaneous. He suffered no pain at all. He was taken down by the stretcher bearers, and was buried next evening in the grounds of a chateau, some distance behind the line”; and a comrade (Private M. Phillips, who was killed exactly one month later, 14 May): “We had a most terrible time on the above-mentioned night, the Huns mined a trench on our left, and that started it, rifles, machine guns, artillery, trench mortars and a few other atrocities, and for about three-quarters of an hour we were very lively. It died down after a bit; but, unfortunately, during that time poor old Grundy went under (my special chum, of whom I was very fond, and I have mentioned him many times to you in my letters); he was on the ‘look-out’ and took a bullet straight through the head, dying instantaneously; it was perfectly awful, as he was next to me in the trench, and was joking and laughing up to the very minute. He was such a topping good fellow.”

=GRUNDY, GEORGE EDWARD=, Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., yr. s. of the late Rev. William Grundy, Headmaster of Malvern College, by his wife, Margaret (School House, Abingdon), dau. of Adam Mitchell, of Heathcot, Kincardineshire; b. School House, Warwick, 26 Feb. 1883. He was educ. at Malvern College, where he got his cricket colours. He won a Classical Scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford, and took a second class in Classical Moderations. He was captain of his College cricket and football elevens and represented the University at golf for three years, being captain of the team in 1906. He played cricket for the Authentics. For a year he was a master at Pocklington School, and while there he played cricket for the Yorkshire Gentlemen. In 1908 he was appointed to Haileybury College and became House master of “Batten.” He was appointed 2nd Lieut., Haileybury College O.T.C., 16 Nov. 1910, and, volunteering on the outbreak of war, was gazetted Lieut. to the 9th Warwicks, 4 Sept. 1914. He left for Dardanelles in H.M.S. Royal Edward, June, 1915, and was killed in action in the front trenches at Gallipoli, 22 July, 1915; unm. He was buried in Trolley Ravine, on the edge of the Ægean Sea. A wooden cross was put up by the men of his regt. Col. Palmer, who was killed two days later and buried beside him, wrote: “He was one of my best officers. He was always thinking of the welfare of his men and was much loved by his comrades, who could not fail to appreciate his unselfish devotion to their interests.” Major Gordon, who succeeded Col. Palmer in command of the regt., wrote: “Mr. Grundy was a splendid officer, energetic, capable, cheerful and brave.” His influence with his men is illustrated by the following extract from a letter: “He does everything for us and we would do anything for him.” A brother officer concludes his letter: “Let it be some consolation that his end was worthy of his life and that he left behind him an example that we should like to follow.” The Master of Haileybury College wrote of him: “He was a keen scholar; he was a fine athlete; but what we loved him for was the boyish laugh, the unfailing cheeriness, the constant goodness of his heart. He had that real charm of ‘personality’ which is given to but few men; but it is perhaps the best of God’s good gifts. I cannot put my feelings better than in the words one wrote to me: ‘All the sunshine seems to have gone out with Grundy’s death.’”

=GRUNDY, THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1442), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GRYLLS, DESSE EDGAR=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1849U, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GUERNSEY, HENEAGE GREVILLE FINCH, LORD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Irish Guards, eldest s. and h. of Charles Wightwich, 8th Earl of Aylesford, by his 2nd wife, Ella Victoria, widow of Capt. James Wingfield Linton, of Hemingford, Hunts, yst. dau. of John Ross, of Benena Abbots; b. 2 June, 1883; educ. Eton; joined the Militia, Aug. 1901; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Irish Guards, 4 June, 1902, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Sept. 1904; served in St. Helena during South African War, 1901 (Queen’s medal); was A.D.C. to Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar, 1 Sept. 1905; retired 1906, became Capt. Warwickshire Yeomanry, Aug. 1910; and Capt., Reserve of Officers, 15 April, 1914; rejoined the Irish Guards on the outbreak of war; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed while leading his coy. into action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914. He m. at St. Michael’s, Chester Square, London, 11 June, 1907, the Hon. Gladys Cecil Georgina, née Fellowes (9, Sussex Square, W.), 2nd dau. of William Henry, 2nd Baron De Ramsey, and had a son, Heneage Michael Charles, Lord Guernsey. His brother-in-law, Major Eustace Crawley, 13th Hussars, was killed in action, 2 Nov. 1914.

=GUEST, RICHARD THOMAS=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 1103, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=GUEST, SUNNY FRANK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10259), 239771, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GUILL, RAYMOND JAMES=, Petty Officer Telegraphist, J. 269, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=GUMBRELL, CHARLES EDWARD LEOPOLD=, A.B. (B. 1630), 206977, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GUMMER, FRANK EDWARD=, A.B. 232154, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=GUNN, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8687), 206529, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=GUNN, JOHN ANGUS=, Private, No. 3781, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Peter Gunn, of Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, by his wife, Alice dau. of James Ridley; b. —; enlisted 18 Sept. 1900, and served 12 years; re-enlisted 17 Feb. 1915; went to France 7 May following, and was killed in action at Cambrin, 21 June, 1915, while on sniping duty. He m. Mary Ellen (26, Washington Street, Sunderland), dau. of (—). His 3rd brother, Peter, was killed in action, 29 Oct. 1914 (see his notice), and his 2nd brother, James, is now (1916) on active service with the R.F.A. The yst. brother, Albert, Durham L.I., was wounded at Ypres, 28 June, 1915, and invalided home.

=GUNN, JOHN HEDLEY=, Corpl., No. 3160, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington Battn.) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of James Hedley Gunn, of 54, Solent Road, West Hampstead, one of the Head Office Staff of the Prudential Assurance Company and retired Colour-Sergt. of the original 4th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (Kensington Rifles), with long service (24 years) medal, by his wife Sarah Jane, dau. of the late James Downer, of Alum Bay, Isle of Wight; b. West Hampstead, 23 Aug. 1890; educ. privately and at the Haberdashers’ School, passed the Students’ and Intermediate Examinations, becoming an Associate of the Auctioneers and Estate Agents’ Institute, and was in business as Managing Clerk of a firm of auctioneers and surveyors. After the declaration of war he joined the Kensingtons, 3 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was last seen leading his platoon and calling out, “Come on, boys of A Coy.—let them have it!”

=GUNN, PETER=, Private, No. 7007, 1st Battn., Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Peter Gunn, of Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, by his wife, Alice, dau. of James Ridley; b. Sunderland, 12 June, 1886; educ. Garden Street School there; enlisted 2 Nov. 1906; went to the Front with the first Expeditionary Force, and was reported missing after the heavy fighting at Ypres on 29 Oct. 1914. Later his widow was advised from Geneva that he was on the German list as dead, and he is now assumed to have been killed on the above date. He m. at All Saints’, Clapton, 15 Jan. 1910, Margaret (86, Bayston Road, Stoke Newington, N.), dau. of John Simons, and had two sons: Peter, b. 18 June, 1911; and John, b. 23 April, 1913.

=GUNTER, HENRY THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7275, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GURDEN, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17119, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GURNEY, BERNARD FRANK=, Private, No. 1536, 3rd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 5th s. of James Gurney, of Chalfont St. Giles, F.S.I., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late James Stratton, of Princes Risborough; b. Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, 16 March, 1890; educ. Selhurst Park College, Norwood, and on leaving there was articled to an elder brother, R. G. Gurney, P.A.S.I., Ledbury; emigrated to New South Wales in 1910, and took up farming; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main Force in the 1st Brigade; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, 1915, and was killed in action there three days later, on the 29th; unm. Buried at Anzac.

=GURR, JOHN HENRY=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, No. Ch. 190332, Royal Navy, 3rd s. of John Gurr, of 2, Galley Hill Road, Northfleet, Kent, General Dealer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Bullock; b. College Street, Northfleet, Kent, 20 Jan. 1881; educ. Board School there; joined the Navy, 7 Aug. 1896; was promoted ship’s Corpl., Sept. 1907, and was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed by a German submarine, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at St. Mark’s Church, Gillingham, Kent, 13 Aug. 1905, Eva (14, Melbourne Road, Chatham), dau. of Arthur Robert Sutcliffe, of Rochester, and had three children: John Arthur, b. 30 Sept. 1906; George Herbert, b. 27 Sept. 1908; and Thelma, b. 17 Oct. 1910.

=GURR, STEPHEN=, Second Cooper, 296892. H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=GUTHRIE, WILLIAM CAMPBELL=, Petty Officer, 156609, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GUTTRIDGE, DAVID WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./15789, H.M.S. Cressy, lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GUY, ARTHUR CHARLES JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2606), 181667, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GUY, HARRY ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6191), 181815, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=GUY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109628, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=GWYDIR, THE VERY REV. CANON ROBERT BASIL, O.S.B.=, Acting Chaplain, R.N., Rector of St. David’s, Swansea, only child of the late Robert Clarke Gwydir, of Cartron, Longford, by his wife, Sarah Annie (20, Quex Road, West Hampstead), dau. of Benjamin Jackson; b. Cartron aforesaid, 20 Jan. 1867; educ. Breewood, co. Stafford, and the English College, Douay (1878–87), and on leaving there went to Belmont Monastery, Hereford. After spending four years here he returned to Douay, where he distinguished himself as a clever professor in classics and English, and by his exceptional intellectual gifts. In 1899 he started his career as a mission priest at St. Augustine’s, Liverpool, and after some time there he was moved to St. David’s, Swansea, and later became Rector, and in 1914 was made a Canon of the Diocese of Newport. When war began Canon Gwydir immediately offered his services as a Naval Chaplain, these were accepted, and he left Swansea in Sept., and after serving in several ships, was appointed to H.M. Hospital Ship Rohilla, and was drowned when that ship was wrecked off the Yorkshire coast, 30 Oct. 1914, when on her way to Belgium to bring back wounded soldiers. It is stated that when the impact came Canon Gwydir was on deck. He realised the danger immediately and hurried below to the sick-bay where a man (Naval Gunner) lay helpless with a fractured leg. He had hardly gone below when a huge wave struck the vessel and damaged her so severely that the infirmary was flooded. The Canon being drowned before he could complete his noble task. His body was recovered same day when the ship finally broke up. He was buried in the Benedictine Priory at Belmont. An eloquent preacher and a brilliant scholar, he read a paper at the National Catholic Congress at Cardiff in July, 1914, and had also read one before the International Eucharistic Congress at Vienna.

=GWYNNE, JOHN FITZGERALD, M.B., Ch.B.=, Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, elder s. of the late Charles Nelson Gwynne, M.D., M.A. (Trinity College), Senior Surgeon of Christ Hospital, Sheffield, by his wife, Grace Maunsell (11, Prince of Wales Mansions, Battersea Park, S.W.), dau. of Samuel Hanna, Resident Magistrate, co. Wicklow; b. Sheffield, 29 Aug. 1888; educ. Stancliffe Hall, co. Derby (1899–1901), Loretto, Musselburgh (Choral Scholarship, 1901–6), and Sheffield University (Scholar M.B. 1906–11); was House Surgeon at Sheffield Royal Infirmary, 1911–13, and afterwards Assistant Medical Officer of the Southwark Union Infirmary, East Dulwich. He first served in the Territorial Force, in which he was gazetted Lieut. 3 June, 1912, being transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps 3 Feb. 1914, and was promoted Capt. 30 March, 1915. On the outbreak of war he served with Field Ambulance in Flanders, and was attached to 1st Hampshire Battn. at Ligny, 2 Sept. 1914. He was killed in action in the execution of his duty at Ypres, 9 July, 1915; unm.; and was buried in Division IV Cemetery, Bosinghe. The “Hampshire Regimental Journal” (Aug. 1915), says: “We have to record another heavy loss to this battn., which has suffered so many. Our ‘doctor,’ Capt. Gwynne, was shot through the head by a sniper when on an errand of mercy. On the night of 8–9 July, the battn. was relieved ... in the trenches captured by the brigade from the Germans on the 6th. Capt. Gwynne went up to the trenches shortly after daybreak, to ascertain whether all the wounded had been evacuated. Several had not been observed in the dark, and he attended to each of them. He was informed that a bomber of the Rifle Brigade was lying with his hand blown off in a shallow trench, which was not approachable in daylight. Reckless as ever of his personal safety when a wounded man was in question, he proceeded there and had accomplished his task, when a sniper shot him through the head. Capt. Gwynne, with one exception, was the senior member of the battn. in point of service out here, he having joined us at the Chateau de Fontenelles, near Ligny, during the retreat. We all considered him as one of the battn., and for a long time he had been performing the thankless task of Mess President. A friend of all, with the true sympathy to suffering, as all doctors have, we regarded his death as our last and one of our greatest sacrifices to the Ypres salient.” A brother officer wrote: “Gwynne seems to have made an enormous reputation for his courage. The whole district round here resounds with his name. The men who knew him here will talk of him to their dying day. I’ve heard of him all along the Front now. Everywhere he has been excellent at his work, and made a tremendous reputation for courage. And it requires courage to do the things he has done.” Capt. Gwynne was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, and was awarded the Military Cross. The incident which won him this decoration was the rescue of a soldier under heavy shell fire, whose leg he saw was shot off by a “Jack Johnson,” whilst his comrade was blown to pieces. Capt. Gwynne instantly rushed out and carried the man to safety. His yr. and only brother, Lieut. Owen Perrott Gwynne, 92nd Punjabis, was killed on active service at Mesopotamia six months later at the age of 25.

=GWYNNE, OWEN PERROTT=, 2nd Lieut., 92nd Punjabis, Indian Army, s. of the late Charles Nelson Gwynne, M.D., M.A., Senior Surgeon, Christ Hospital, Sheffield, etc., by his wife, Grace Maunsell (11, Prince of Wales’ Mansions, Battersea Park, S.W.), dau. of the late Samuel Hanna, Resident Magistrate, co. Wicklow; b. Sheffield, 19 May, 1890; educ. Lorretto, Musselburgh (1903–7) and afterwards had five years’ training in engineering at the Sheffield University Technical School and with Vickers, Maxim & Co., Sheffield. On leaving there in 1913 he was appointed Engineer to the Dunsinane Tea Plantation, Ceylon. On the outbreak of the European War he joined the Ceylon Planters’ Rifle Corps, 7 Sept. 1914, and was sent to Suez. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 92nd Punjabis, 7 Jan. 1915; accompanied the relief Expedition sent to Mesopotamia, 11 Dec. 1915, and was killed in action there, 7 Jan. 1916, being shot through the head while in charge of two machine guns at Sheik Saad, on the Tigris; unm.

=HABBLETT, HAROLD=, Private, No. 396, B Coy., 16th Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late George Habblett, of Goole, Platelayer on North Eastern Railway, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Anson Bowskin, of Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire; b. Goole, co. York, 1 March, 1892; educ. Skelton; emigrated to Western Australia in 1911; worked in the bush; volunteered on the outbreak of war; left for Egypt with the second contingent; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died at sea on board H.M. Hospital Ship Gascon, 4 May following, of wounds received in action there.

=HACK, CHARLES EDWARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Connaught Rangers, 2nd s. of the late William Lionel Frederick Hack, of Silk Willoughby, by his wife, Emily Elizabeth Louisa (The Cottage, Thruxton, Andover), dau. of the Rev. Jacob Montagu Mason, Rector of Silk Willoughby (by his wife, Louisa Maria, eldest dau. of Sir Joseph Burke, of Glinsk, 11th Bart.); b. Silk Willoughby, co. Lincoln, 29 Aug. 1877; educ. Bedford School, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st Connaught Rangers from the Sligo Artillery (Militia), 1 Dec. 1897; and promoted Lieut. 9 April, 1900, and Capt. 17 May, 1904. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902, took part in the advance on and relief of Ladysmith, including the action at Colenso; the operations of 17–24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5–7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights (14–27 Feb. 1900, including the assault of Hart’s Hill, when the Connaughts’ casualties were over 600), and action at Pieter’s Hill, operations in Natal, March to April, in Cape Colony, April; in the Orange Free State, May; and in the Transvaal, May and June, and east of Pretoria, July to Dec. 1900, including action at Riet Vlei; also in those in Cape Colony and the Orange Free State, Dec. 1900 to June, 1901, and in Cape Colony, June, 1901, to 31 May, 1902, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], and awarded the Queen’s medal with five clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. From June, 1911, to 1914, he was Adjutant of his battn. in India, and had the Delhi Durbar medal, and on the outbreak of war left for France with the Indian Expeditionary Force, under Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Willcocks, in Sept. 1914. He was killed in action while leading an attack on the German trenches near Laventie on the night of 4–5 Nov. following; unm. He fell in the enemy’s trench, and his body was not recovered. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. Ravenshaw, C.M.G., wrote: “No braver or more well-liked officer ever served in the Connaught Rangers, and though personally I only knew him for a short time, there was no officer in the regt. of whom I had a higher opinion.” And the Acting Adjutant wrote: “It is useless to try and express what we feel, to all of us as it were he represented the battn.”

=HACKER, ARTHUR ALFRED=, Trooper, No. 13/487, 3rd Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Thomas Hacker; b. Swindon, co. Wilts, 29 Dec. 1886; educ. Sandford Street School there; went to New Zealand; volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the autumn of 1914; left for Egypt in Oct., took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 19 or 26 May following; unm.

=HACKETT, JOHN HENRY=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 2433), 205808, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HADFIELD, WILFRID JOHN MACKENZIE=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. (Prince of Wales’ Volunteers) South Lancashire Regt., only s. of Major-Gen. Charles Arthur Hadfield, by his wife, Florence Elizabeth, dau. of the late Rev. Octavius Bathurst Byers, Vicar of Christ Church, Croydon; b. Southsea, 11 Jan. 1889; educ. Norman’s Preparatory School; “The New Beacon,” Sevenoaks; Repton School; “Army School,” Stratford-on-Avon, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the South Lancashire Regt. 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 17 April, 1912; went to France with his battn. as Battn. Transport Officer, and was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Marne on 6 Sept., dying in the Civil Hospital at Angers, France, four days later, 10 Sept. 1914; unm. Buried in cemetery at Angers the following day, the French garrison attending and rendering full military honours. Lieut.-Col. C. Wanliss, commanding his battn., wrote: “He was a splendid officer, and his loss to the regt. is irreparable. He worked day and night with the transport, and had he lived would certainly have received special recognition”; and Lieut.-Col. G. Ashworth, who succeeded to the command, declared: “Whenever he was ordered to do anything he did it thoroughly, and put all his energies into it.” Brig.-Gen. D. G. Prendergast, who had previously for four years commanded the battn., wrote from Cairo: “Wilfrid was a splendid soldier and an English boy. I took the greatest interest in him because I could see he meant to go ahead and rise to the top of his profession if possible.” Lieut. Hadfield was a keen rifle shot, and winner of the first prize at the Officers’ Competition, Salisbury Rifle Meeting, in July, 1914.

=HADLEY, ALFRED THOMAS=, S.P.O. Stoker, P.O., 305457, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAGGARTY, PATRICK=, Private, No. 16717, A Coy., 11th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of John Haggarty; b. Greenock, 2 Nov. 1885; educ. St. Mary’s Public School there; enlisted 24 Dec. 1914; and was killed in action at Ypres, at 8 a.m., 4 July, 1915, by a shell. “He had just drawn his breakfast and was on his way back to his part of the trench, when a high explosive shell came over and struck him in the mouth, killing him and the Sergt. of his Coy. They were both buried beside the Headquarters about 30 yards from where they were killed.” His commanding officer, Capt. R. Wemyss-Campbell, wrote that “he was a good soldier and did his duty to the last.” He m. at Greenock, 17 Feb. 1911, Helen (34, Shaw Street, Greenock), dau. of (—) (and Mary, née McIntyre) Sweeney; s.p.

=HAGUE, JAMES=, Private, No. 10890, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., s. of the late George W. Hague, of Newcastle, by his wife, Katie; b. Newcastle, 4 June, 1884; educ. Gateshead; was a Miner; served six years in the Army; re-enlisted 3 Oct. 1914; went to France 24 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action 12 June, 1915. He m. at Mount Pleasant, Gateshead, 4 June, 1904, Jane (21, Derwent View, Rowlands Gill, Newcastle), dau. of the late John (and Isabella) Holmes, and had five children: John, b. 8 Feb. 1907; Katie, b. 2 Oct. 1905; Florence, b. 29 July, 1909; Maud, b. 18 Sept. 1912; and Jenny Armentières, b. 4 June, 1915.

=HAGUE, OWEN CARSLEY FREDERIC=, Lieut., 7th Battery, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, eldest s. of Frederic Hague, of Montreal, Advocate, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Samuel Carsley, of Montreal; b. Montreal, 23 Feb. 1889; educ. High School, Montreal, and McGill University, where he took the degree of B.Sc. in 1909, and M.Sc. in 1914. He was an electrical engineer, and practiced his profession in Montreal. He joined the 2nd Brigade, Field Artillery, in 1912, and with the rest of that Brigade volunteered for active service as soon as the first Canadian Contingent was formed, going to the Front with the 7th Battery. His brigade took part in the severe fighting in April and May, 1915, near Ypres. It was on 2 May he was killed. On the morning of that day he was near his battery on the bank of the Yser Canal, St. Julien, with Lieut. Helmer, of Ottawa, when a German heavy shell burst near them. Lieut. Helmer was killed instantly, and Lieut. Hague died that evening. He was buried at Hazebrouck; unm. Col. J. J. Creelman, commanding the 2nd Brigade, wrote as follows: “It is with extreme regret that I write with regard to the death of your son, and let me express my sincere sympathy with you in your great loss. Between 22 and 28 April, when I went into hospital, Owen had done really wonderful work as Section Commander and Forward Observing Officer. His work was splendid, and he showed an absolute disregard of personal safety at those times when his duties required that he expose himself. When in hospital at Rouen I took occasion to write to General Burstall calling attention officially to your son’s excellent services and marked bravery during the first six days of the fight at Ypres.”

=HAIGH, JOHN HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4803), S.S. 104151, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAINES, ALEXANDER CRICHTON COOPER=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only s. of John Crichton Haines, of St. James’s Gate, Dublin, London Manager, Messrs. A. Guinness, Son & Co., Ltd., by his wife, Caroline Anne, elder dau. of Austin Damer Cooper, of Drumnigh House, St. Douloughs, co. Dublin, J.P.; b. Dublin, 9 Dec. 1894; educ. Cholmeley House, Eastbourne, and Elstow School, Bedford; volunteered as a motor despatch rider in Sept. 1914, and after a week at Chatham and another at Aldershot, went straight to the Front. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 1 Nov. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. in April, 1915; was dangerously wounded at St. Julien during the Second Battle of Ypres, 25 April, 1915, and was put into a “Jack Johnson” crater by some men of his platoon and lay there many hours before being picked up by the ambulance. He died of wounds at No. 7 Base Hospital, Boulogne, 8 May following, and was buried in the military cemetery there; unm.

=HALDANE, ROBERT PATRICK=, Lieut., 6th (Perthshire) Battn. Black Watch, eldest s. of Sir William Haldane, of 55, Melville Street, Edinburgh, and Foswell, Auchterarder, co. Perth, W.S., Crown Agent for Scotland, by his wife, Edith, dau. of Thomas Nelson, of Ach-na-Cloich, Argyleshire, and nephew of Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan; b. Edinburgh, 21 July, 1893; educ. Edinburgh Academy, and Balliol College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 12 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 26 Jan. 1915; went to France 2 May, 1915, and died in the Field Hospital at Locon, 13 June, 1915, of wounds received the same day in the trenches near Festubert, France. Buried in the British Military Cemetery at Locon; unm.

=HALE, FREDERICK THOMAS=, Rifleman, No. 2466, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regiment (T.F.), 2nd s. of Thomas Gardiner Hale, of Salisbury, Woodriffe Road, Leytonstone, by his wife, Beatrice Mary, dau. of the late Edgar Adams, of Brixton; b. New Cross, London, S.E., 29 April, 1892; educ. privately, and Leyton Technical Institute, and on leaving there entered the service of Henry S. King & Co., Bankers, 65, Cornhill; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles in Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 27 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 21 April, following; unm.

=HALEY, RICHARD ERNEST=, Chief Shipwright, 166625, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HALFACRE, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3269), S.S. 787, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HALIBURTON, BORTHWICK=, Sapper, No. 4/1247, 1st Field Coy. New Zealand Engineers, yst. s. of the late Thomas Haliburton, Milton, Estate Overseer, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of the late George Bruce, of Haddington; b. Dunoon, co. Argyle, 15 July, 1888; educ. Dunoon; went to New Zealand in April, 1910, and settled at Napier, Hawkes Bay; was a Road Contractor; volunteered for Imperial Service after the outbreak of war and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Oct. 1914; left for Egypt with the second reinforcements; went to the Dardanelles, 12 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 11 Dec. 1915; unm. Buried in Connaught Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli.

=HALL, ALBERT=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 4562), 293310, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HALL, ARCHIE CLYDE=, Private, No. 18775, No. 4 Coy. 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late (—) Hall, by his wife Lydia Ann (2, Brookline Avenue, East Lynn, Mass., U.S.A.), dau. of Joseph Lambertson, of Marblehead, Mass.; b. Brocton, Mass., 13 June, 1893; educ. Taunton, Mass., and Charlestown, Mass.; worked several years for the N.B. Durkee laundry and the Allerton laundry, both of East Lynn, and on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, immediately joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He left Canada with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 26 May, 1915, by a shell; unm.

=HALL, ARTHUR=, A.B., 197316 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HALL, ARTHUR GORDON=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., s. of Edward Hall, of 17, Southfields Road, Eastbourne, formerly of Santaveri, Mysore, India, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Ferguson, of Banbridge, co. Down, and grandson of Arthur Hall, of the Madras Civil Service; b. Shimogah, Mysore, India, 20 Nov. 1879; educ. Brailfield College (May, 1891–July, 1897); joined the Militia Battn. of the Middlesex Regt., and on 20 May, 1899, passed into the Bedfordshire Regt., then in Dublin; became Lieut. 5 April, 1900; Capt. 6 Dec. 1906, and Adjutant, 6 June, 1909; served in the South African War, 1899–May, 1902, with the Mounted Infantry; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, 1899–1900, and in the fighting at Colesburg (1 Jan.-12 Feb. 1900) and in those in the Orange Free State, Feb.-Nov. 1902, including the actions at Wittebergen and Witpoort (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], Queen’s medal with two clasps and King’s medal with two clasps). After the close of the South African Campaign, he served with his regt. at Gibraltar and Bermuda and then again in South Africa, whence they were ordered home on the outbreak of war. He was killed on the seventh day of the First Battle of Ypres, 26 Oct. 1914; unm. The Adjutant of the regt. wrote he was “killed by a sniper while in the trenches. I am told he was looking through his glasses for the sniper when he was shot. The bullet entered his neck and killed him instantly. His was a very great loss to the Army and to the battn. especially, he was always so cool under fire and so careful of his men”; and in another letter his Sergt.-Major (now 2nd Lieut. F. J. Whitemore) said: “A and D Coys. of our regt. were ordered to take up positions in the firing line (this was at the first engagements at the First Battle of Ypres). The attack was carried forward to a certain point ... the forward movement was duly carried out, with the loss of Capt. Bassett, of A Coy., wounded, also of about 36 other officers and men killed and wounded. Capt. Hall, at great risk to himself, proceeded to give what help was possible to all the officers and men of A Coy., and after seeing all the wounded back, the Capt. and I took up a position in advance, whilst the battn. entrenched in the rear, and the words he said were to the effect that if possible we must have revenge for the loss that was inflicted on Capt. Bassett and his company. After waiting for some time, satisfaction was obtained by dropping three out of a patrol of six. After the event we had a very rough time, being continually under shell fire and fighting with heavy odds against us—it would be impossible to enumerate the acts of bravery ... by all ranks of our company, needless to say Capt. Hall being the first to set the example. The night before his death he was talking with me over the previous night’s attack and remarking how lucky the company was to get back safely with so few casualties, and at that time he passed a few remarks on what to do in the event of him becoming a casualty. Unhappily he became one the following morning about 8.20 (this was on the morning of 26 Oct. 1914). At the time we were sitting in the trench talking over our escape earlier in the morning ... when a stray bullet struck him and he instantly fell on me, and on examining him I found the vein of the right side of the neck was severed and he never spoke a word after being struck, and as nothing further could be done, he was buried where he fell. Capt. Wetherell and Corpl. Crouch and myself know the exact spot where he was buried. Previous to this incident, no night passed without he and I going round the company to look after the welfare of his men, and on most occasions bullets were striking all around him, and I never once saw him show any signs of fear.”

=HALL, BURTON HOWARD=, Capt., 98th Infantry, Indian Army, yr. s. of the Rev. Samuel Howard Hall, M.A., Rector of Sproatley, Hull, and Senior Divisional Chaplain (1st Class) T.D., 49th (W.R.) Division (who retired after 27½ years’ service in the vol. and T.F., including mobilisation and active service in France and Belgium, 20 Aug. 1915), by his wife, Helen Hamilton, dau. of Dr. Burton Kendell, of Heath House, near Wakefield, J.P.; b. Chesham, co. Bucks, 10 Jan. 1882; educ. Twyford School, near Winchester, Haileybury College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Yorkshire Regt. 8 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut. 19 Feb. 1904; transferred to 98th Infantry, Indian Army, the same year, and became Capt. 8 Jan. 1910; took part in the expedition to German East Africa, and was killed in action there, at Tanga, 4 Nov. 1914. He m. at Grove Park Church, Chiswick, 11 July, 1907, Lucie Gertrude, dau. of the late Thomas Bannerman Grainger, and granddau. of the late Thomas Bannerman Grainger, of Bridge House, Cuckfield, Sussex, and had two daus.: Mollie Helen Valerie, b. 20 May, 1908; and Aline Betty, b. 4 Jan. 1911.

=HALL, EDWARD=, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 271121, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HALL, ERNEST ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111024, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HALL, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 6779, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of George Hall, of Wickham Market; b. Wickham Market, co. Suffolk, 15 May, 1884; educ. National School there; enlisted, 22 May, 1906; served three years with the Colours, then joined the Reserve; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. following, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, 23 Oct. 1914. He m. at Lopen, 28 Oct. 1909, Rosa (Pear Tree Cottage, Lopen Seavington, Somerset), dau. of William Harris, and had three children: William Frederick, b. 3 May, 1910; Ethel Florence, b. 1 Oct. 1912; and Winifred May, b. 29 April, 1915.

=HALL, GEORGE WALTER=, Stoker, P.O. 309236, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HALL, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3209 (Ports), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HALL, GERALD PERCY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland Light Infantry, 2nd s. of Robert Hall, of Glen Mervyn, Glanmire, co. Cork, by his wife, Isabel Travers, dau. of the Very Rev. R. W. Forrest, D.D., Dean of Worcester; b. Glanmire, 11 Feb. 1894; educ. Clifton College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th (Extra Reserve Battn.), 23 Aug. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 21 Aug. 1914; went to France on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 Nov. 1914; unm.

=HALL, HARRY FRANK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5034), 180634, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HALL, HENRY=, A.B., 223106, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HALL, HENRY JOSEPH=, Private, No. 81347, 30th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of James Hall, of 146, Maynard Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia; b. Halifax, N.S., 1889; educ. there: joined the Canadian Militia about 1913, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered for service overseas; left Canada with the first contingent, and was killed in action, 22 Nov. 1915; unm.

=HALL, JOHN FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11551, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HALL, SYDNEY ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4056), S.S. 103873. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov 1914.

=HALL, THOMAS ALLISON=, Armourer’s Crew, M. 3951, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HALL, THOMAS HOWARD=, Private, No. 10798, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Thomas Hall, of 47, Broadwell Road, Oldbury, Worcester, Blacksmith, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Dixon Parsons; b. Cradley Heath, co. Stafford, 19 July, 1894; educ. Oldbury National Schools; enlisted 16 July, 1914; went to France, 24 Oct. and was killed in the heavy fighting at Guivenchy Brickfields, 6 Feb. 1915; unm.

=HALL, WALTER CHARLES NELSON=, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 922, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HALL, WILLIAM=, Rifleman, No. 5312, 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, 3rd s. of the late Charles Hall, of Macclesfield, by his wife, Jane (28, Bridge Street, Macclesfield), dau. of George Lane, of Bollington Cross, co. Cheshire; b. Macclesfield, co. Cheshire, 9 Nov. 1895: educ. Hurdsfield Boys’ School there; enlisted Jan. 1914; went to France in Nov. and was killed in action, near Neuve Chapelle, 9 May, 1915, while bomb throwing; unm. A comrade wrote: “Although he was but a youngster, he was a little hero all through and knew no fear.”

=HALL, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9080), 294862, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HALLAM, WALTER, D.C.M.=, Private, No. 7540, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Samuel Hallam, Private Estate Steward; b. Horsham, co. Sussex, 11 May, 1886; enlisted 25 Nov. 1907; killed in action at Rentel Woods, 11 Nov. 1914. The officer to whom he acted as servant wrote: “We were holding the trenches in front of Ypres in a wood just by a place called Rentel. There was a German attack in progress, and they were firing hard at that part of the line. Hallam, with his accustomed fearlessness, was firing, with his head well above the parapet, and was most unfortunately shot right through the head.” He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, 17 Dec. 1914, the official record [London Gazette, 17 Dec. 1914], stating that he “always volunteered and carried out successfully duties of an extraordinary dangerous character, such as sniping and patrol work. Has shown great qualities of nerve and resource in difficult situations.” He m. at Paddington, 13 Dec. 1913, Harriette Matilda, dau. of Henry George Shore, and had a dau., Lily Edith Walter Jessie, b. 12 Aug. 1914.

=HALLAN, ROWLAND=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11413 (Ports), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HALLER, JOHN HENRY LYLE=, Lieut. and posthumous Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd, Battn. East Surrey Regt., elder s. of George Haller, of Langham House, 197, Albany Street, Regent’s Park, N.W., and 52, Leadenhall Street, E.C., Chemical Merchant, by his wife, Agnes Mary, dau. of the late David Watts, of 17, Albert Road, Regent’s Park; b. Regent’s Park, London, N.W., 21 Dec., 1894; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School, and Lancing College, and afterwards in France and Germany. Intended for a commercial career in connection with applied science, he worked for some time in the laboratory of Dr. Danysz at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and attended a full course of lectures in the same institution, besides doing practical work in a manufacturing laboratory. At Lancing he had joined the O.T.C., and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd East Surreys, 11 May, 1912. and served for six months in Ireland with the 1st Battn. of that Regt.; gazetted Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the 3rd Battn 3 May, 1913, he rejoined the 1st Battn. on the outbreak of war and went to France in Sept. 1914. There he was transferred to the 2nd Battn. and was killed in action near Lindenhock, Flanders, 12 March, 1915; unm. Capt. S. P. White, 1st East Surreys wrote: “I had known Lyle before the war, and for a time he was my subaltern out here. I never had a better officer serving with me or a braver comrade. Soon after our 2nd Battn. came out, they had great losses in officers, and needing experienced officers to help them tide over their temporary difficulties. Lyle was ordered by name by the Corps Headquarters to be transferred. This battn. lost a good officer then, and one of the cheeriest and best of companions, and now the regt. is the poorer.” Capt I. L. Le Fleming, temporarily commanding 2nd East Surreys, wrote: “Lieut. Haller was shot through the head by a German bullet, whilst himself firing over the parapet at the Germans. His death was instantaneous. Lieut. Haller had just been recommended by me for promotion to the rank of Capt. and the letter was in my pocket-book when he was shot. I valued his services immensely, and in him I have lost a most gallant and competent officer. He was also my subaltern in the 1st Battn. at the end of Oct. last year. Lieut. Haller was buried in Kemmel Churchyard, Belgium [Grave No. 12],” and Lieut. Gudon, 2nd East Surreys: “I was within a few yards of your son when he died. He was killed about 4.20 p.m. on March 12, whilst actually firing at a German from over the parapet. The exact place was about 120 yards south of Lindenhoek and about 150 yards N.E. of a hamlet called Sparnbrook.” He was gazetted Capt. 9 April, 1915, to rank as from 2 Feb. and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallantry in the field.

COPY.

TEMP. CAPT. (ACTING MAJOR)

CECIL CHARLES HATFIELD HALL, D.S.O.

On the afternoon of the 26th April, orders were received that all enemy machine gun nests and snipers were to be killed or captured in VILLERS BRETONNEUX, and this duty was assigned to a certain unit in the Brigade to carry out.

Major Hall happened to arrive at the railway station in the above village when the last of the enemy were being dealt with.

The enemy suddenly opened up with a very heavy barrage on the railway station, and a call was made for 20 men of the Durham L.I. to reinforce another unit in a house which was about 50 yards from the railway embankment. Major Hall immediately got on to the railway, and displaying the utmost coolness and disregard for personal danger, got together some men with a L.G. and M.G., and led them forward over the embankment and across a road, which was being badly sniped, to the assistance of the Regt. occupying a house, and firing on an enemy M.G.

This Officer again returned from the house and brought forward more men, and at the same time took across a most important message from Brigade H.Q., and at this time the occupied house was then being shelled very heavily by the enemy, he again came back to the railway, and took across to the French troops on the right a message as to the dispositions, etc., of our own men, he then returned for the third time to the house, and organised the men he had led across, and rendered most valuable services in withdrawing men of another unit and helping the wounded.

Without doubt, the cool and brilliant example set by this Officer at a very critical moment inspired all the men with the greatest confidence.

B. C. JAMES, Lieut.-Colonel, Cmdg. 22nd Bn. Durham L.I. (Pioneers).

=HALLETT, ARTHUR=, Ship’s Steward’s Assistant, M. 1451, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HALLETT, THEO BENNETT=, Trooper, No. 1884, Royal Horse Guards, yst. s. of the late George Henry Hallett, for many years H.B.M. Vice-Consul at Ghent, by his wife, Clara, dau. of the late John Lewis, of St. Albans; b. Ghent, 22 Feb. 1897; educ. L’Athenée Royal, Ghent; after the German occupation came to England with his family, 21 Aug. 1914; volunteered and enlisted in the Royal Horse Guards, Oct. 1914; went to France, April, 1915, and was killed in action on the Menin Road, Hooge, near Ypres, 13 May, 1915, while crossing an open space with his regt. with three machine-guns firing on them; unm.

=HALLETT, WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman, 202703, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HALLIDAY, JAMES STOREY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5791), 177204, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HALLIDAY, JOHN ALEXANDER=, Capt., 11th Hussars, eldest s. of the late John Halliday, of Chicklade House, co. Wilts (d. 13 Feb. 1915), by his wife, Maria (d. 25 Feb. 1916), dau. of Richard Brown, of Ebbw Vale, Monmouth; b. 10 April, 1875; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. from Militia to the 11th Hussars, then in India, 5 Jan. 1898, and promoted Lieut. 3 March, 1900, and Capt. 18 March, 1905; served in the South African War on the Staff as Special Service Officer, 25 July to 22 Aug. 1901, and as Signalling Officer, 23 Aug. 1901 to 14 June, 1902 (Queen’s Medal with five clasps); was Adjutant 11th Hussars, and afterwards of the Leicestershire Yeomanry; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 15 Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battle of the Marne, the 1st Battle of Ypres, &c., and died in the Duchess of Westminster’s Hospital at Le Touquet, 13 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at Messines, 31 Oct. previously; unm. Capt. Halliday was a good all-round athlete, and was in both cricket and football elevens at Harrow; capt. of the Gymnasium eight; champion heavy weight boxer for the Public Schools Competition at Aldershot, 1894, and threw the hammer for Cambridge in the University Sports, 1896–7. He was well known in the hunting-field in Ireland and South Wiltshire.

=HALSALL, EDWARD=, Private, No. 3817, 10th Battn. (Scottish) King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), only surviving s. of Frederick Halsall, of Hougoumont, St. James’ Road, New Brighton, co. Chester, General Merchant, by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of Frederick (and Caroline) Middleton; b. Rock Ferry, co. Chester, 27 Oct. 1882; educ. Wallasey Grammar School; joined the Liverpool Scottish when the Battn. was first formed and served five years. He was in business with the Johnstone Line, Liverpool, and on the outbreak of war when some of their ships were taken over by the Government for military purposes, asked for and obtained permission to join the s.s. Rowanmore to assist in transport work. At the end of two months the Rowanmore was recalled and he then rejoined his old regt., and though offered a commission elected to serve as a private. He left for France in Jan., and was shot by a sniper in action near Ypres, 17 March, 1915; unm. Halsall was a member of the New Brighton Football Club and of the West Cheshire Yachting Club, and in connection with the latter had held the cup and won several prizes; he was also a keen golfer.

=HALSEY, JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 3747), 299252, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HALSTEAD, ARTHUR FREDERICK=, Lieut., 15th Rifle Brigade, attached to 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only s. of Arthur Frederick Halstead, of Sale, co. Chester, M.I.Mech.E., A.C.I.S.; b. Rosario de Sante Fé, Argentine Republic, 26 May, 1893; educ. High School, Sale, and Shrewsbury School; was an articled pupil with the firm of Jones, Crewdson and Youatt, of Manchester, chartered accountants, but enlisted in the 8th Rifle Brigade following the outbreak of war, 30 Aug. 1914; was given a commission two months later, 1 Nov., and promoted Lieut. the 14th of that month. He was killed in action on the night of 28–29 June, 1915, during a counter-attack by the Turks on the British lines, and was buried on the west side of the Saghir (Dene) Mullah, Gallipoli; unm. His commanding officer wrote to his father that on this occasion “he was sent out with a platoon to reinforce the left of our line.... It was a very dark night and a very unfortunate one, as we lost 10 officers killed and one wounded”; and added: “The regt. being in the open and enveloped by Turks, I should like to tell you it was due to the gallantry of your son and other officers on that flank that a very serious situation did not arise.” Sergt. P. Doyle, No. 7 Platoon, X Coy., in sending Lieut. Halstead’s identity disc, said “his untimely end created a terrible blow to us (the platoon), who absolutely idolised and admired him for his fearlessness. There is scarcely a day that passes in the trenches but what his name is not mentioned in loving memory by those with whom he came in contact.” Lieut. Halstead was a fine athlete and had won his colours at Shrewsbury both for long distance running and cricket. He was a member of the Liverpool Ramblers, Brooklands Cricket Club and Sale Golf Club.

=HAMBRIDGE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 399 No. 1 Coy., 9th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Thomas Hambridge, of Oxford, Gas Stoker, by his wife, Frances, dau. of William Harper, of Oxford; b. Chelsea, 9 Nov. 1871; educ. Edinburgh Road Board School, Notting Hill; enlisted about 1887; and served 10 years with the colours, buying his discharge in 1897; joined the National Reserve on its inception; rejoined the colours 29 Dec. 1914; and died in the Military Hospital, Neasden, 4 April, 1915, of syncope. He m. at Christ Church, North Kensington, 29 Dec. 1889, Emma Elizabeth (16, Appleford Road, North Kensington), dau. of Robert Rogers, and had eight children; William. L.-Corpl., No. 6347, 3rd Dragoon Guards, now on active service, b. 9 Nov. 1890, m.; Frederick Thomas, b. 6 April, 1893, m.; Joseph Robert, b. 17 Aug. 1905; Amy Emma, b. 6 May, 1895, m. to a sailor; Elizabeth Rose, b. 9 Aug. 1897, m. soldier; Eleanor Mary, b. 20 Feb. 1900; Ada Alexandra, b. 1 Dec. 1902; and Vera Grace, b. 26 March, 1914.

=HAMER, HUBERT JAMES TUDOR=, Lieut., 108th Infantry, attached 101st Grenadiers, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late John Parry Hamer, of Glan-yr-Afon Hall, co. Salop, J.P. (formerly 8th King’s Regt.), by his wife, Sarah Margaret (Bronheulog, Llansilin, Oswestry), dau. of the late Owen Davies Tudor, Barrister-at-Law; b. Glan-yr-Afon Hall aforesaid, 12 Feb. 1883; educ. privately owing to delicate health; enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1904, having previously held a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 4th (Militia) Battn. of that regt.; served for three years in the ranks, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to his father’s old regt., the King’s Liverpool Regt., 28 Aug. 1907. He obtained his transfer to the Indian Army in Feb. 1909, entering the 108th Infantry, in which he was promoted Lieut. 28 Nov. following. In Sept. 1914, he was attached to the 101st Grenadiers (link battn. to the 108th Infantry) for service in East Africa, and was killed in action at Tanga while leading his men in the attack on that place, 4 Nov. 1914. The official communiqué states that “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 2 Nov. one and a-half battns. were landed within 2 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 fall back and await reinforcements. At 11 a.m. on the 4th the attack was renewed. When within 800 yards of the position the troops engaged came under very heavy fire. On the left flank, in spite of heavy casualties, the 101st Grenadiers actually entered the town and crossed bayonets with the enemy. The North Lancashire Regt. and Kashmir 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, 500 yards from 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 returned to its base to prepare for future operations. From recent reports just received the total casualties in this unsuccessful operation were 795, including 141 British officers and men.” Lieut.-Col. Baldock, 108th Infantry, wrote that Hamer was “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 his work and honest and straightforward in all his actions, in fact, a true officer and a true gentleman, whose loss will be deeply felt by the regt.”; and Capt. M. L. A. Gompertz, 108th Infantry, attached 101st Grenadiers, in a letter giving particulars of the action, wrote: “Unfortunately the regt. 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, 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.” Two of his brothers are on active service: John Lawton Parry Hamer, of Glan-yr-Afon Hall, Lieut., 4th Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I. from 1909, now Capt. 2nd Garrison Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt.; and Lieut.-Commander Richard Lloyd Hamer, R.N., lately Flag Lieut.-Commander to Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Peirse, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies.

=HAMER, WILLIAM SHADRACH=, A.B., 215151, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAMILTON, CHARLES=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAMILTON, FREDERICK CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6099), 192278, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAMILTON, JOHN GEORGE=, Stoker, R.N.R., 2128T, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAMILTON, ROBERT, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8575), S.S. 104942, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HAMILTON, ROBERT PEAT=, Private, No. 29555, 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of William Mackintosh Hamilton, of Forres, co. Moray, draper, by his wife, Helen Anne, dau. of Robert Peat of Forres, Solicitor; b. Forres, 16 Aug. 1881; educ. Forres Academy; was for several years in the office of Messrs. T. & R. Ranken, W.S., Edinburgh, and passed as a solicitor before going to Canada in 1913. He enlisted at Vancouver on the outbreak of the war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct., trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France Feb. 1915, and was killed in action, near Ypres, 22 April, 1915. He was a Brother of the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary’s Chapel) No. 1. He m. at Edinburgh, 1 Nov. 1914, Mary Cowie Ford, yst. dau. of the late Robert Lawrie, of Edinburgh.

=BUCHANAN-BAILLIE-HAMILTON, ARTHUR=, Capt., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 2nd surviving s. of the late John Baillie Buchanan-Baillie-Hamilton, of Arnprior, co. Perth, J.P., D.L. [gt.-gdson. of the Hon. George Baillie, of Jerviswood, yr. brother of Thomas, 7th Earl of Haddington], by his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Grace (Cambusmore, Callander, and Strathyre), only dau. and heir of Alexander Buchanan, of Arnprior; b. Cambusmore, Callander, co. Perth, 2 June, 1876; educ. Winchester. On the outbreak of the Boer War he joined the City of London Imperial Volunteers in Jan. 1900, taking part in operations in the Orange Free State, the Transvaal (including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, Diamond Hill, and Lydenberg), and Cape Colony (Queen’s medal with five clasps). Gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs), 22 May, 1901, he was employed with the West African Frontier Force from Nov. 1902 to March, 1906, rendering signal service in the Kano-Sokoto Campaign (medal and clasp), and was promoted Lieut. 17 April, 1905, and received his company 8 Nov. 1911. From March, 1911, to March, 1914, he was Adjutant of the 6th Battn. Black Watch, Perthshire Territorial Force. Arriving with his regt. in Flanders in Oct. 1914, he was constantly in the trenches from that date, including the fighting before and at Neuve Chapelle, till he fell leading his company into action at the commencement of the attack on Festubert, 9 May, 1915. Buried south of Neuve Chapelle, close to the La Bassée Road. Capt. A. B.-Baillie-Hamilton was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. He m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, 8 March, 1906, Ina Erskine, dau. of Sir Malcolm McNeill, C.B., Edinburgh, and niece of the late Sir John McNeill, of Colonsay, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., V.C.; s.p. Two of Capt. B.-Baillie-Hamilton’s brothers, Commander M. B.-Baillie-Hamilton, R.N., and Major N. A. B.-Baillie-Hamilton, Black Watch, are now (1916) serving with the Forces.

=HAMMOND, FREDERICK=, Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 926), 283493, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAMMOND, GEORGE THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7153), 192160, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAMMOND, GILBERT PHILIP=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, elder s. of the late Frederick Hammond, formerly a partner in the firm of Hammond & Co., Bankers, of Newmarket, by his wife, Florence Amy (The Cottage, Great Finborough), dau. of the Rev. John Denny Gilbert, Chedgrove Manor, Norfolk; b. Newmarket, co. Cambridge, 24 Nov. 1891; educ. Sandroyd, Cobham, Surrey, and Culvers Close, Winchester, where he played football for Commoners XV’s, and was described by the school magazine as one who is “never beaten and knows no fear”; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd K.O.S.B. from Special Reserve, 4 Dec. 1912; was in Dublin with his regt. during the street fighting in July, 1914, and gave evidence at the subsequent inquiry; went to France with the Expeditionary Force the following month, and was killed at the Battle of Le Cateau, 27 Aug. 1914, his Coy. being cut off during the retreat; unm. A brother officer wrote: “He showed great bravery in the fight at Mons, and saved three women from a house under very heavy shell fire.”

=HAMMOND, HARRY=, Blacksmith, 341183, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAMMOND, MARK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1379), 197787, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAMMOND, SAMUEL HENRY=, A.B., 195418 (Chatham), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAMMOND, THOMAS VERRAN=, Private, No. 406, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of William Charles Hammond, of Clyde, Australia, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of (—) Verran; b. Orange, New South Wales, 21 July, 1894. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, and left with the 2nd Battn. for the Dardanelles, where he was wounded in action. He died, after having his leg amputated, at Valletta Hospital, Malta, 24 July, 1915, and was buried in Malta; unm.

=HANCOCK, ALBERT EDWARD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24704 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HANCOCK, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., 7691 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1050), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HANCOCK, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Signalman, 236455, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HANCOCK, JOHN=, Ordinary Seaman, R.N.V.R. (Sussex), 296, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HANCOCK, RALPH ESCOTT, D.S.O.=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Devonshire Regt., only s. of Francis Escott Hancock, of Ford, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, by his wife, Guita, dau. of Patrick Vans Agnew Reid; b. Llandaff, co. Glamorgan, 20 Dec. 1887; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt. 29 Jan. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1911; served with his regt. at Crete, Malta, and Alexandria, returning to the depôt at Exeter in 1912; went to France, 30 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 29 Oct. 1914, whilst endeavouring to reinforce another company who were in difficulties. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, and was awarded the D.S.O., having “on 23 Oct. displayed conspicuous gallantry, in leaving his trench under very heavy fire, and going back some 60 yards over absolutely bare ground to pick up Corpl. Warwick, who had fallen whilst coming up with a party of reinforcements. Lieut. Hancock carried this non-commissioned officer to the corner of a haystack, and then returned to his trench.” At Rugby he played for two seasons in the first XI, and at Malta played in the polo team that won the Regimental Cup, and also captained the Army Polo Team v. the Navy at Malta. He won several prizes for rifle shooting, and played cricket and football for the County of Somerset. He was a well-known follower of the West Somerset and East Devon Foxhounds, and won the East Devon Heavyweight Point-to-Point in 1913 and 1914, on horses taught and trained by himself. He m. at Milverton, 17 Sept. 1913, Mary Hamilton, dau. of the Rev. Philip Palfrey Broadmead, of Olands, Milverton, Somerset, and left a son, Patrick Frank, b. 20 June, 1914.

=HANCOCK, WALTER=, Corpl., No. 1603, 14th Battn. (Mounted Military Police) Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late William George Hancock, of 379, High Street, Brentford, Refreshment House Keeper, by his wife, Fanny (27, Wingfield Place, Halfway Street, Sidcup, Kent), dau. of William Holness, of Hartford; b. Mile End Road, London, 26 Feb. 1887; educ. Private School (Mrs. Saunders), Brentford; went to Australia, 23 April, 1912, and settled at Sandringham; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Commonwealth Force, Sept. 1914; left for Egypt, Jan. 1915, and died in No. 15 General Hospital, Alexandria, 8 Jan. 1916, of enteric fever contracted while on active service; unm.

=HANDFIELD, CHARLES REGINALD=, Corpl., No. 579, Natal Light Horse, 6th s. of the late Frederick Oliver Handfield, by his wife, Mary Ellen (Hampton, near Melbourne), dau. of Edward Tatham, of Leeds, England; b. at South Yarra, Melbourne, 26 Aug. 1878; educ. East Malvern Grammar School; went to South Africa 1901, joined the Natal Light Horse 1914 at outbreak of war, and died of wounds received at the Battle of Gibeon, German South-West Africa, 6 May, 1915; unm.

=HANDLEY, THOMAS FREDERICK JAMES=, Driver, No. 2225, Kent Fortress R.E. (T.F.), s. of the late Thomas Richard Handley, East Surrey Regt. (who died at Moori River, 29 May, 1900, in the South African War), by his wife, Eliza; b. Old Kent Road, London, S.E., 23 April, 1896; educ. High Brooms Council School, Tunbridge Wells; was in the employ of the Tunbridge Wells Co-operative Society; enlisted 25 May, 1915; left England for the East 20 Sept. 1915, and was drowned in a collision in H.M.S. Hythe, 28 Oct. 1915; unm.

=HANDS, ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1393), 126838, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HANDYSIDE, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4304), S.S. 102571, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HANES, GEORGE=, C.P.O., 151083, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HANKINSON, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109526, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HANLON, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2161), 228961, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HANNA, JOHN WEIR=, Leading Seaman, S.S. 2626, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HANNAN, HENRY MONTEITH=, Jun., Lieut.-Col., 1/8th Scottish Rifles (The Cameronians) (T.F.), s. of Lieut.-Col. Henry Monteith Hannan, of 2, Huntly Gardens, Glasgow, formerly 8th Scottish Rifles, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Hay Thomson, of Glasgow, M.D.; b. Glasgow, 9 Jan. 1874; educ. Kelvinside Academy, and was a member of the firm of Stewart & Lloyd, of Glasgow. Like his father and five brothers, he began his military career in the 1st Lanark Rifle Volunteers, about 1894. He joined A Coy. 1st L.R.V., and was for two years a member of the mounted detachment of that regt., during which time he took the Army Ambulance Certificate and passed his Sergt.’s Proficiency Examination. He afterwards joined the 4th Lanark Rifle Volunteers, now the 8th Scottish Rifles; received a commission as Lieut. 13 March, 1895, and had charge of D Coy. for several years, and on being promoted Capt. 16 Jan. 1901, was reposted to his old F Coy. On the outbreak of the South African War he reverted for the time being to the rank of lieut. in the 2nd Volunteer Service Company of the 2nd Battn. Scottish Rifles, and served through that campaign, 1901–2. He took part in the operations in Cape Colony and the Orange Free State, April, 1901; in the Transvaal, April to Sept. 1901, and on the Zululand Frontier of Natal, Sept. to Oct. 1901, and received the Queen’s medal with five clasps and the honorary rank of Lieut. in the Army, 23 June, 1902. On his return home he underwent courses of training at Maryhill and Hythe, and was appointed Brigade-Major of the Scottish Rifle Brigade, 22 May, 1905, which appointment he held for six years. On 2 Nov. 1907, he attained his Majority. On the formation of the Territorial Force his appointment was extended until 1911, when he became second in command, and two years later, 12 Feb. 1913, was gazetted Lieut.-Col. Commanding the 8th Scottish Rifles. When the European War began he volunteered for foreign service, and left with his regt. for the Dardanelles, 17 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Cape Helles, 21 June, 1915. Brigadier-General W. Scott-Moncrieff (since killed in action), wrote to his widow: “I looked on Col. Hannan as perhaps the best Commanding Officer in my Brigade, and I am sure that we shall all feel his loss very deeply. It may perhaps be a little comfort to you to know how well he has done his duty since we landed here, but especially in the last two days, whilst he has been in the front trenches. We were tried a little high, as we had to take over the trenches, knowing little of trenchwork, immediately after a pretty sharp fight. The people we relieved were too dead tired to hand things over very regularly, and after taking over in the afternoon we were told to expect a Turkish attack at sunset. I found, however, that the 8th Scottish Rifles were thoroughly ready for any amount of Turks. Col. Hannan’s arrangements and organisation were excellent, and it was perhaps a pity that the Turks did not attack that night. I have paid a visit each day to Col. Hannan, and found him always with a thorough command of the situation, always cheerful and quite ready to stop in his very uncomfortable dug-out as long as he might be required to be there. This morning, I hear, he was watching a French attack through his glasses, and then stepped off the banquette, putting his hands into his pockets, when a bullet pinged over the traverse and caught him in the neck just below the ear. It passed clean through his neck, and he fell unconscious. He died very soon, never recovered consciousness, and had no pain. Deep as your grief must be, you will always have reason for pride in that your husband, without being a professional soldier, has twice from the highest patriotic motives undertaken risks which only rightly appertain to the regular soldier, that he has done his duty to the satisfaction of all, and that he has died a straight clean soldier’s death, deeply regretted by all his brother officers of the 156th Brigade whatever their rank.” Col. Hannan took the keenest interest in every branch of soldiering, and was most assiduous and successful in recruiting for the Glasgow Territorial regts. and managed to make spare time to help the Boys’ Brigade and the Boy Scouts. He was a military member of the City of Glasgow Territorial Force Association, and president of the Glasgow Division of the Boy Scouts, and had the Territorial Decoration and the Long Service Medal. He m. at Ayr, 14 Sept. 1912, Francis Ada (30, Highburgh Road, Beaumont Gate, Glasgow), only dau. of the late David Ramsay Thomson, of Melbourne and Walhalla, Gippsland, Australia; s.p.

=HANRAHAN, THOMAS FREDERICK=, Private, No. 634, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Joseph John Hanrahan, by his wife (now wife of (—) Buckles, of 28, Great Barlow Street, High Street, Marylebone, W.), dau. of (—); b. Marylebone, London, 16 Aug. 1886; educ. St. James’ C.E. School there; went to Australia, and volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main body; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and according to the official statement was killed in action there on 2 May. A friend and comrade, Private W. J. Pastoors, however, gives the date as 25 April. Writing 9 Nov. 1915, he said: “As I was not clear about the exact time and place where he was hit, I referred your letter to Coy. Sergt.-Major Wicks. He gave me full particulars as follows: On 25 April, that memorable day of landing in Gallipoli, our Coy. went into action, and Tom being with me in the advance, we reached the fire line together, and he occupied a position slightly on my left, forming part of a line that held a long ridge all that day. The position we held was well over the ridge and a couple of hundred yards down the slope. It was an impossible position for stretcher-bearers to work upon, and a man who could not crawl away himself would have to wait for nightfall and help, as it was the duty of every able-bodied man to push forward. We suffered heavily from the enemy’s fire all the time, and at 2 o’clock, being shot in the arm myself, I had to withdraw. At 2.30 a shell burst, caught Tom, our officer, and a number of our men, and it appeared that Tom was mortally wounded. Nothing could be done to move him, but what could be done by bandaging him up was done. Shortly after, the officer, Mr. May, was hit again, and this time disabled, but he managed to retire. Tom was then sinking fast, and that night when the rest pushed forward, Tom had passed away. After the big attack by the Turks on 19 May, an armistice was granted on the 24th. Poor Tom was buried on that day, 24 May, 1915. The Burial Service was conducted by Chaplain McKenzie.” He was unm.

=HANSEN, ELWIN=, Trooper, No. 11/286, Wellington Mounted Rifles, 3rd s. of John Frederick Adolph Hansen, of Mangapapa, New Zealand, Farmer; b. Gisborne, 11 Nov. 1892; educ. Gisborne and Kaiti Schools; was Manager of a sheep farm at Pouawa, for Mr. T. Fraser; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; left Gisborne with the main body for Egypt in Oct.; went to the Dardanelles in May, 1915; was wounded and reported missing along with 31 others of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, after the big advance on Hill 871 on 27 Aug.; and later was returned as killed in action there, 28 Aug. 1915; unm. His brother Rudolph enlisted with him, but after 11 weeks in camp was sent back as under age, but is now on active service. Another brother, Lionel, left with the third reinforcements and was wounded at the Dardanelles.

=HANSFORD, WILLIAM GEORGE EDWARD=, Leading Cook’s Mate, 347552, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HANSON, ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4314), S.S. 103168, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARDACRE, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 5827, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt.; native of Burnley; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915, aged 37.

=HARDEN, ALLAN HUMPHREY=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Oxford and Buckinghamshire L.I., 2nd s. of the late Lieut.-Col. John Edward Harden, of the Munster and Leinster Fusiliers, by his wife, Alice Mary (Lexden Villa, Shrub End, Colchester), dau. of the late Major-Gen. Edwin Henry Atkinson, Madras Army, and gdson. of the late John William Harden, Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple, Judge of the Chester County Court, by his wife, Angelina, 2nd dau. of Sir John Salusbury Piozzi-Salusbury, of Bryn-bella, co. Flint; b. Ealing, 23 March, 1881; educ. Colchester, and Dulwich College; joined the 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt. 6 Sept. 1899; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Oxford and Buckinghamshire L.I. 5 Jan. 1901; was promoted Lieut. 2 Sept. 1903, and Capt. 22 Jan. 1910; served through the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900 to Jan. 1901, and in those in the Orange River Colony, Jan. 1901 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914 to 21 Oct. 1914, on which date he was killed instantly by a sniper between the villages of Langemarck and Roelcappel while bravely leading his company into action at the First Battle of Ypres. His body was placed in a farmhouse, which in the course of the action was destroyed by fire. His commanding officer, Col. Davies, wrote: “Your son was one of the best company commanders I have ever seen. He was very good in peace, and the war gave him more opportunities of showing how a company should be commanded. I had noticed his good work and the great trouble he took from the very first, and I have great hopes that his name may be mentioned in the next Despatches. He was commanding his company in an attack, and had shown great skill in conducting the advance. At the moment he was killed I was talking to him about the next thing to do, when a chance bullet hit him in the head. He is a great loss to us, for he was a fine soldier. He was fearless in action and always did the right thing.” And Capt. Blewitt wrote: “He was never downhearted in the depressing days of that retreat from Mons, and was so brave and capable in all the jobs we were given to do. I shall always be proud to have served under him, and had absolute confidence in his judgment and arrangements”; while Lieut. Tolson declared him to have been the best officer he had ever served under. “I shall never expect to serve under a better one, and he inspired confidence in us all.” Capt. Harden was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, 3 July, 1905, Daisy, only dau. of the late Capt. G. Scott, late Scots Greys, and had a son and dau.: Robert Allan George, b. 11 Sept. 1908; and Daphne, b. 20 Aug. 1910.

=HARDES, JOHN=, Private, No. 2438, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Alfred Hardes, 4th Hussars, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of William Loose; b. Fulham, S.W., 3 Sept. 1895; educ. Ashburnham Higher Grade School, Chelsea, S.W., and being left an orphan at 16, made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Satchell, of Marlborough Buildings, with the former of whom he went to Canada in 1912 to work on the Canadian railways. Returning to England in 1914, he was employed by Messrs. Bull, Builders, Vauxhall, but when war was declared volunteered and joined the Kensingtons, 1 Sept 1914. He went to France, 6 Jan. 1915, and died in No. 7 Clearing Station, 12 March, 1915, from wounds received at Neuve Chapelle on the 10th; unm. A comrade wrote: “It happened in the morning of the bombardment of Neuve Chapelle, where we were in the support trenches. We were all mad with excitement, and it appears that while Jack was jumping up to see the effect of our shells a sniper shot him through the head.” Buried in Merville Cemetery. When 15 he joined the Christ Church Chelsea Athletic Club, and became a member of the Young Men’s Class, and on his return to England he rejoined and played for the second eleven of the Melton Cricket Club, which won the Cup in the 4th Division of the Clapham Common League.

=HARDING, ALFRED=, Private, No. 2124, 3rd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Worthing Harding, of 53, Lewisham Avenue, Lewisham Road, Smethwick, Labourer; b. Blue Street, Walsall, 14 Feb. 1903; educ. Smethwick and Handsworth Council Schools; emigrated to Australia in March, 1914; volunteered and enlisted, 8 Oct. following; and died in Malta, 21 July, 1915, of sunstroke received while on active service at the Dardanelles, 15 July, 1915; unm.

=HARDING, ERNEST FRANK=, Private, No. 1630, 7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of George Edwin Harding, of 68, Clonmell Road, Tottenham, by his wife, Beatrice Emma, dau. of the late Richard Flawn, formerly of the Metropolitan Police; b. Friern Barnet, co. Middlesex, 17 April, 1895; educ. St. James’s School there and Downhills (Tottenham) Council School; was a Pianoforte Maker; joined the Middlesex Territorials in the early part of 1912, and was recalled with his battn. from his third annual training on the outbreak of war and sent to Gibraltar, Sept. 1914; returned to England, Feb. 1915, and was sent to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Fauquissart, France, 17 June, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Rue Tilleloy there (Graveyard Square M 24A 9.7., Map 36, 3rd Ed.). The Sergt. of his platoon wrote: “He was shot in the side whilst on water-carrying fatigue early this morning, and died less than half an hour after being struck.... He was under me all through his career as a soldier, and was one of the oldest men, as regards service, in my platoon. He will be missed by all as a hard working and efficient soldier and a true comrade.”

=HARDING, GEORGE=, Chief Stoker, 285296, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARDING, HARRY=, Private, No. 9244, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Harry Harding, of 17, Rhoda’s Terrace, Strickland Street, Hull, by his wife, Mary Ann; b. Hull, 15 Nov. 1894: educ. Daltry Street Board School there; enlisted 2 Sept. 1911, went to France 10 Aug. 1914, and died in No. 11 General Hospital at Boulogne, 3 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action near Ypres, 26 Oct.; unm. Buried in Boulogne Cemetery.

=HARDING, LIONEL COX=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Mountain Battery, R.G.A., eldest surviving s. of the late Judge Herbert Olive Denman Harding, Madras Civil Service (who was murdered on the verandah of the District Court, 22 Feb. 1916), by his wife, Sophia Louisa, dau. of Col. H. W. H. Cox; b. Westward Ho, Devon, 23 Aug. 1895; educ. Westward Ho Junior School, Blundell’s, Tiverton, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Artillery from Woolwich, 17 Nov. 1914; left for the front with the 5th Mountain Battery, 8 Feb. 1915, and served with the Expeditionary Force in France, Feb.-June, 1915. At Neuve Chapelle, after the capture of the village, he spent the rest of the day under fire building bridges across trenches and channels. On the evening of the 15 June he successfully took his gun up a shell-swept road and got it into position. Next morning he bombarded and destroyed a German trench opposite for an hour and a half. His gun was then damaged and he had to retire. He got all his men away safely and was himself leaving when he was struck by shrapnel in ten places. He lay in the trench till evening, unconscious most of the time—only woke twice—once to inquire how the battle was going and once to wish to help his men to put on the gas masks. He was removed to hospital that night, and died on the evening of the 18th; unm. He was buried in a separate grave (No. 1360) in the British Military portion of the Cemetery at Bailleul.

=HARDING, PERCY=, A.B., 221776, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HARDING, STANLEY CUTHBERT=, Sapper, Divisional Engineer, R.N.D., s. of Edwin Banks Harding, of Manchester, Chartered Accountant, by his wife, Eliza Gertrude, dau. of Jasint Colson, Professor of Music; b. Trunk Farm, co. Hants, 1 April, 1886; educ. Collegiate School, Aldershot; enlisted 22 Sept. 1914, following the outbreak of war; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and died of enteric on H.M.S. Dongola, 24 Aug. 1915; unm. He was buried at sea between Malta and Gibraltar. The Major-Gen. wrote, speaking highly of his zeal and devotion to duty, and a testimonial from General Paris was presented to him on the field at Gallipoli on 29 July, 1915.

=HARDISTY, WILFRED=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 22817, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HARDMAN, GEORGE=, Stoker, Petty Officer, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARDY, LEONARD BASIL=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., only s. of Basil Edward Hardy, of 66, Ladbroke Grove, London, W., Solicitor, by his wife, Janet, dau. of Dr. Leonard Yelf, of Moreton-in-Marsh; b. Kensington, 19 March, 1895; educ. Wootton Court, near Canterbury; Radley College, where he was Prefect and head of his house, Colour-Sergt. in the O.T.C., in which he obtained Certificate A., and represented the school at both cricket and football; and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the Worcestershire Regt. on 30 Sept. 1914, temporarily joining the 5th (Reserve) Battn., then stationed at Plymouth, 1 Oct. 1914. He was promoted Lieut. on 15 Nov. 1914, and went to France on 1 Jan. 1915, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. He was killed in action at Festubert, 11 Feb. following, while in command of two platoons in the front trenches, and was buried at Gorre Chateau, near Bethune; unm. He was very popular in the Regt. amongst both officers and men, and letters from his superior officers speak of him in very high terms.

=HARDY, RICHARD JOHN=, Private, No. 760, C Coy., 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2nd s. of James Hardy, Tallyman and Weighmaster, at Goodridge & Sons, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Abram Bartlett, of Brigus, Newfoundland; b. St. John’s, Newfoundland, 28 Sept. 1894; educ. Bishop Field College there; was an Engineer at Reid; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, 16 Dec. 1914; left for England, 5 Feb. 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 20 Aug., and died on the Hospital Ship Neuralia, 14 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action there; unm. Buried at sea.

=HARDY, VICTOR HARRIOTT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., att. 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., yst. s. of the late Capt. Harmer Hardy, 18th Hussars (who served with the 97th Regt. in the Crimea), by his wife, Helena Hester (now wife of Arthur Nightingale), of West Hill, Sandown, Isle of Wight, dau. of John Jacob Cruywagen, of Newlands, and nephew of the late Major-Gen. Frederick Hardy, C.B., Col., York and Lancaster Regt., b. London, 26 June, 1887; educ. Farnborough Park and Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy; was at first intended for the Navy, but after Lord Selborne nominated him was found to be a fortnight too old, so he instead applied for a commission in the Army. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Militia, 1 March, 1907, and was gazetted to the York and Lancaster Regt., 20 March, 1909, and was at Blackdown with the 2nd Battn. until Sept. of the same year, when he left for India to join the 1st Battn. at Quetta; was promoted Lieut. 4 Oct. 1911, and after three years in India, returned home for a while; he then went back in Sept. 1912, and having served there a year, fell a victim to some climatic illness, and was invalided home, during which time he passed the examination for promotion to Capt. On mobilisation he was ordered to the 65th Regimental District, Pontefract, and was selected for duty with the 6th (Service) Battn. of his regt. at Belton Park, near Grantham. After the Lincolnshire had had some severe losses he was sent to the Front with a draft of the 1st Battn. of that regt., about 30 Sept.; served in France and Flanders, and was, it is believed, killed in an attack on a strong German position across a tract of open country, 27 Oct. 1914. He was buried at Neuve Chapelle; unm. Lieut. Hardy was keen on all forms of sport, especially riding, and was very fond of animals; he won the Regimental Cup in the Officers’ races while in the Special Reserve, and when a 2nd Lieut. carried the King’s Colours on the occasion of the visit of King George and Queen Mary to India for the Coronation Durbar. While a boy, Lieut. Hardy won the First Prize in Sandown in a demonstration to celebrate King Edward’s coronation in 1902.

=HARDY, WILLIAM FRANK=, Private, No. 179, 1st Newfoundland Regt., eldest s. of George Francis Hardy, of 60, Monroe Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Reid; b. St. John’s, 23 Sept. 1893; educ. Springdale Street School, St. John’s, was a Truckman; enlisted after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for England, 4 Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 23 Sept. 1915; unm.

=HARE, ALBERT HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1863), Ch./11963, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAREWOOD, GEORGE=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARGRAVE, GEOFFREY LEWIS=, Private, No. 41, 13th Battn., 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, N.S.W., Engineer, by his wife, Margaret (Wunulla Road, Woollahra Point, Sydney), dau. of David Johnston, of Sydney; b. Sydney, 21 March, 1892; educ. Sydney Grammar School; was an Engineer; enlisted soon after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914; left for Egypt in Dec.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April; and was killed in action there about 24 May, 1915, being buried in Anzac Cove; unm.

=HARGREAVES, HARRY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch./1762. H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HARGREAVES, ROBERT=, Private, No. 12/307, 6th Hauraki Coy., Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Peter Hargreaves, of Napier; b. Waipawa, New Zealand, 15 Dec. 1879; educ. Napier, Hawkes Bay; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; left for Egypt, 16 Oct., and was killed in action during the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; unm.

=HARKER, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4915), S.S. 104332, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARLAND, REGINALD WICKHAM=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., 7th s. of the Rev. Albert Augustus Harland, Vicar of Harefield, Uxbridge, by his wife, Louisa Ellen, dau. of Henry Wilson; b. Harefield Vicarage, co. Middlesex; educ. Temple Grove, East Sheen, Wellington College, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Hampshire Regt., 22 April, 1903, and promoted Lieut. 22 Dec. 1905, and Capt. 9 Aug. 1911; went to France, 20 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 30 Oct. following; unm. Buried in the churchyard there. A brother officer wrote: “It was a day of very hard fighting, in spite of very heavy fire he continued to watch with his field glasses the movements of the enemy in order to direct the fire of his men, when a bullet struck him in the head.” Capt. Harland won Lord Roberts’ Prize at Sandhurst as winner of the competition at drill.

=HARLAND, WILLIAM JAMES=, Seaman, R.N.R., A. 4422, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARLAND, WILLIAM THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6014), 226744, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARLEY, GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 22631, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HARLING, WILLIAM JAMES=, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., B. 1057), 143377, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HARLOW, THOMAS HENRY=, Acting Leading Stoker, 311600, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HARMAN, CHARLES EDWARD=, Brevet Colonel and Lieut.-Col. Commanding 9th (Service) Battn., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, s. of the late James Harman, of Great Marlow, co. Bucks, by his wife, Anna Louisa, dau. of Capt. Smith, of Bath; b. London, 10 June, 1855; educ. Victoria College, Jersey; gazetted Sub-Lieut. 82nd Foot, 21 Sept. 1874; transferred to 89th Foot (2nd Royal Irish Rifles), 28 Aug. 1875: promoted Lieut. 21 Sept. 1875; Capt. Connaught Rangers, 30 March, 1881; Major, 21 Jan. 1890; Lieut.-Col. 8 Feb. 1898, and Brevet Col. 8 Feb. 1902; was Adjutant 89th Foot, 30 Nov. 1878 to 29 March, 1881, and of the 3rd Battn., 16 Sept. 1882, to 15 Sept. 1887: was sometime second in command of the 1st Connaught Rangers, and from 1898 to 1902 was in command of the 2nd Battn. in India, where he was for a short time A.A.G. in the Bombay Command, and in Sept. 1902, was appointed Acting Brigadier-General, Southern Command, India; was on Extra Regimental Employment, 27 Nov. 1902 to 13 Aug. 1904, when he retired. On the outbreak of the European War he at once offered his services, and on 7 Sept. 1915, was given the command of the 9th (Service) Battn. of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and died at Buttevant, Ireland, 5 Jan. 1915, while on service with his regt. He m. at St. James, Dublin, 2 Aug. 1883, Edith Jane Gertrude, only dau. of the late George Edward Newland, Commandant and Inspector-General, R.T.C., and had two children: Henry Newland Harman, 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., now (1916) on active service in France, b. 9 Jan. 1886, m. 15 Jan. 1914, Sidney Georgina, eldest dau. of Lieut.-Col. James Lowry Cole Acton, and has two children: Ruth Edith, b. South Africa, 14 Nov. 1914, and Cicely Elizabeth, b. 6 March, 1916; and Lilian Ethel, m. 22 Sept. 1904, Col. E. P. Smith, R.F.A., who was killed in action at the Dardanelles.

=HARMAN, GEORGE MALCOLM NIXON, D.S.O.=, Major, 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of the late Lieut.-General Sir George Harman, K.C.B., by his wife, Helen Margaret, dau. of John Tonge, of Starboro’ Castle, Edenbridge; b. London, 14 Nov. 1872; educ. Marlborough and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade, 7 Nov. 1891; promoted Lieut. 11 Oct. 1893, Captain, 1 Jan. 1898, and Major, 26 June, 1907; was employed in Uganda with the King’s African Rifles, 19 Jan. 1900, to 9 Nov. 1904, being engaged on the Anglo-German Boundary Commission, west of Victoria Nyanza, 8 July, 1902, to 9 Nov. 1904; took part in the Expedition under Col. Delm-Radcliffe into the Lango country, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 12 Sept. 1902], and awarded the medal with clasp, and the D.S.O., for exceptional services both military and political. On returning home in 1905 he was posted to the 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade at Chatham, and later joined the 2nd Battn. in India. On the outbreak of war he came home with his Battn., went to France, 6 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Laventie, 27 Nov. following, by a shell; buried in the cemetery there. He m. at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 21 Oct. 1913, May, eldest dau. of Evan Davies Jones, of 6, Addison Road, W., and Pentower, Fishguard, co. Pembroke; s.p.

=HARMAN, HERBERT REGINALD=, Private, No. 669, 9th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only child of the late Herbert James Harman, of Windsor, by his wife, (—), dau. of (—) Butler; b. Windsor, co. Berks, 17 Dec. 1882; educ. St. Stephen’s, Clewer, Windsor; was a Private in the old Volunteer Battn. (The Buffs), East Kent Regt., being for three or four years battn. shot, previous to his departure for Australia. There he was a motor mechanic at Lismore, N.S.W., but on the outbreak of war he enlisted and left with the first contingent of the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force for the Dardanelles. He died there on the S.S. Ionian, 6 May, 1915, from wounds received in action, and was buried at sea. A comrade stated: “I saw him at Gaba Tepe, at 2 o’clock, in the thick of the fight, doing his duty manfully.” Private Harman m. at Holy Trinity Church, April, 1908, Susanna Elizabeth (16, Albany Place, Cowgate Hill, Dover), sister of Private H. C. Hart, who died of wounds, 17 Jan. 1916 (see his notice), and dau. of John William Hart, Master Mariner, and had one son: John Herbert Granville, buried 4 April, 1909. His brother-in-law, Private H. C. Hart, of The Buffs, was killed in the Persian Gulf (see notice).

=HARMAN, JOHN BOWER=, 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., only s. of the late Lieut.-Col. James Frederick Harman, R.A., by his wife, Ellen S. (22, Egerton Terrace, S.W.), dau. of late James Norris of Castle Hill, Bletchingley; b. Blackheath, 24 April, 1893; educ. St. Christopher’s, Eastbourne; Charterhouse, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was placed 2nd for riding and obtained the Benson Memorial Prize and Cup; gazetted to the R.F.A., 19 July, 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 Aug. following; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for “gallant and distinguished service in the Field.” He was devoted to hunting. While stationed at Bulford, the winter before the war, he obtained his Flying Certificate. He wished to join the Flying Corps, but was not allowed to leave his Battery (29th) as he had so little service.

=STAFFORD-KING-HARMAN, EDWARD CHARLES=, Capt., Irish Guards, eldest s. of Sir Thomas Stafford, of Rockingham, co. Roscommon, 1st Bart., C.B., J.P., D.L., by his wife, Francis Agnes, only surv. child of the late Col. the Right Hon. Edward Robert King-Harman, of Rockingham, P.C., M.P.; b. Belfast, 13 April, 1891; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Irish Guards, 9 Sept. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 11 June, 1912, and Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; went to France, 20 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Klein Zillebeke, 6 Nov. following. “He came to Mr. Vaughan’s house in 1904. Even as a Lower Boy he had a quiet dignity, which made him as much respected as he was liked, and this was always a characteristic which gave him a certain distinction wherever he went. Though he was much hampered by ill-health, he gained the House Colours, and many will remember his dashing game. In 1910, he was in the Shooting VIII, and a Colour-Sergt., and brought the Section Cup to his House, in the same year winning the Scott Cup and Bucks County Cup. No boy had ever a higher standard of conduct; devoted to all manly sport (he kept a pack of harriers in Ireland after he left Eton), and full of Irish humour, he had at the same time the refinement of mind of a saint, though few knew the thoughts which underlay his life. Any boy who was weak found in him a protector, and his presence was a silent rebuke to all meanness” (Eton College Chronicle). He m. at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, 4 July, 1914, Olive, only child of Capt. Henry Pakenham-Mahon, of Strokestown Park, co. Roscommon, Ireland, and had a daughter, Lettice Mary, b. 10 April, 1915.

=HARMER, HORACE WILLIAM=, E.A., 3rd Class, M. 3062, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARNEY, JOHN=, E.R.A. (R.N.R.), 1038 E.A., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARPER, GEORGE EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., P.O. 14886, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARPER, WILLIAM JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8353), S.S. 104430, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HARPER, WILLIAM PERCIVAL JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class, 235017, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1915.

=HARRELL, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Stoker, P.O., 287426, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRIES, ERIC GUY=, Capt., Machine Gun Section, 1/7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers (T.F.), yst. s. of Thomas Davies Harries, of Grosvenor House, Aberystwyth, F.R.C.S., M.R.C.P. (London), J.P., by his wife, Annette, dau. of Lionel Benson, of Royal Avenue, Chelsea, and grandson of David Harries, of Llaneast, near Fishguard; b. Grosvenor House, Aberystwyth, co. Cardigan, 30 Oct. 1892; educ. Highgate School, London, and on leaving there served his apprenticeship as an engineer at the Cambrian Railway Works, Oswestry. He received a commission in the 7th (Merioneth and Montgomery Territorial) Battn., Welsh Fusiliers, 1 April, 1913, was promoted Lieut. 2 Sept. 1914, and Capt. April, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, July, 1915, was mortally wounded on Chocolate Hill, Suvla Bay, 10 Aug. 1915, and died on board the Hospital Ship Euripides, on the 17th; unm. Buried at Mudros East, Lemnos (Grave 49). His commanding officer, Col. Jelf-Reveley, wrote: “I am proud to say that your son’s behaviour on Aug. 10 under fire has been most favourably reported on by several officers. He was perfectly cool, and led his men like a veteran.”

=HARRINGTON, JOHN JOSEPH=, 1st Class Air Mechanic, No. 486, Royal Flying Corps, s. of John Harrington, of Newport, co. Monmouth, Master Plasterer; b. there 24 Feb. 1888; educ. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School in that town; joined the Royal Monmouth Engineers in 1905 as a Sapper, obtained his discharge in 1908; for some time drove the mail between Tredegar and Newport, and was afterwards employed at the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company’s works at Filton, Bristol. He joined the Royal Flying Corps, 20 Nov. 1912, and was killed in action in the fighting around Ypres, 13 Nov. 1914; unm. He was buried at a farm 1,000 yards north of Zillebeke, south-east of Ypres.

=HARRIS, ALFRED HENRY=, Petty Officer, Tel., 239886, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARRIS, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 11622, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Harris, of Chaffecombe, Chard, Somerset, Farm Bailiff, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Keener; b. Ottery St. Mary, co. Devon, 26 Dec. 1889; educ. there; was a Mason’s Labourer; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914; went to France 21 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Vermelles, Belgium, 4 Oct. 1915; unm.

=HARRIS, BERTRAM PAGE=, L.-Corpl., No. 263, Machine-gun Section, 13th Battn., 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, only s. of Page Harris, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, by his wife, Sarah Lucy; b. St. Leonard-on-Sea, 12 Nov. 1887; educ. National School there; went to Australia in 1912, and was up country when war was declared, and at once went to Sydney to join the Commonwealth E.F. then forming; left for Egypt in Dec. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe four days later, 29 April; unm. His officer wrote that he was universally liked and respected by his section; as a soldier, he considered he had no better man, adding “he was the senior number in his gun crew and was the first man into their gun position after the long and distressing struggle from the shore forward, and he was our first casualty.”

=HARRIS, CHARLES EDWIN=, Acting Chief Yeoman Signalman, 186240 Devon, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARRIS, ERNEST GEORGE=, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 271658, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARRIS, FREDERICK ALBERT=, Petty Officer (T.), 173534, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARRIS, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3716), 185125, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARRIS, HENRY JOHN=, Petty Officer, 155005, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRIS, JOHN AUGUSTE EMILE=, L.-Corpl., No. 2251, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, and 2nd Lieut. Sydney Senior Cadets, eldest s. of Alfred Thomas Harris, of 165, Denison Street, Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales, Pharmacist, by his wife, Camille Marie, dau. of Henri Prudhomme, Lieut. French Navy; b. Sydney, 6 Oct. 1899; educ. at the Cleveland Street High School there. On 31 Jan. 1913, in his 14th year, he was registered among the senior cadets, Sydney, in compliance with the Commonwealth Defence Act; was promoted Corpl. 1 May, 1914; passed and promoted to Colour-Sergt. 17 June, 1914, and passed for 2nd Lieut. 28 March, 1915, his appointment being confirmed a few days before he enlisted, so that he was the youngest commissioned officer in the Australian Commonwealth Forces. He enlisted on 2 June, 1915, and as he had passed in Musketry as “Marksman” in the cadets, his former training held good, and he only remained a few days in the Liverpool Training Camp, and left Sydney on 16 June, as L.-Corpl. of the sixth reinforcements for the 2nd Battn. of the 1st Infantry Brigade. He was about a fortnight in Cairo and was hurried off to Gallipoli, arriving at Anzac and joining his battn. on 5 Aug. Next day, 6 Aug., he took part in the big charge on, and capture of, the Turkish trenches at Lonesome Pine, and was officially reported killed in action on 8 Aug. The officer in charge of the sixth reinforcements, Lieut. La Touche, wrote to his mother from the transport in the Mediterranean: “Your son, L.-Corpl. Harris, is with me, and I shall try to keep him with me throughout the campaign. He is a gallant little fellow, with the greatest of military virtues—faithfulness—and as such is of very great assistance to his officers. If he had only a few years more to his credit, he would make a fine officer. Meanwhile he is doing his duty without a thought of self, and will serve his country as an Australian gentleman should. I will try to keep him with me, and to see after him so far as I can. Of course, my power is very limited, but we are both in God’s hands, and He doeth all things well.” [Lieut. La Touche was killed on 6 Aug.] Lieut.-Col. Cass, commanding the 2nd Battn., wrote: “But you may rest assured that he took part in one of the outstanding features of the Gallipoli fighting, and did his duty well.” Like many other Australian boys, he was full of enthusiasm in military matters, but his career was an all too brief one. He was only 15 years and 10 months old when he died. “Purpureus cum flos succisus aratro.”

=HARRIS, JOHN FREDERICK=, Private, No. 14902, 1st Battn. The Welsh Regiment, s. of the late John Henry Harris, Shoemaker, by his wife, Agnes Florence, dau. of Gabriel Evans; b. Neath, 11 March, 1894; educ. Council Schools there; was a steelworker; enlisted at the outbreak of war, 29 Aug 1914; went to France, Jan. 1915, and died at Zillebeke, 8 May, 1915, of wounds received in action there on the 3rd; unm. Buried Hazebrouck Cemetery. He was a member of St. Thomas’ Choir, Neath.

=HARRIS, JOSEPH WALTER=, Lieut. 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. (attd. 1st Battn.), s. of George Harris, of Swallowbeck, Lincoln, Secretary of the Lincoln Co-operative Society, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of John Thacker; b. Lincoln, 19 June, 1889; educ. Lincoln Grammar School, at which he won a scholarship from an elementary school, and Nottingham University where he was a member of the O.T.C.; graduated B.Sc. with First-class Honours, London University, 13 Dec. 1911; devoted himself to chemical research and became F.I.C. 15 May, 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Lincolns, from the Nottingham University, O.T.C., 15 Aug. 1914; promoted Lieut. 30 Jan. 1915; went to France 2 Dec. 1914, was attached to the 1st Battn. of his Regt.; and was killed in action at Hooge, 3 June, 1915. He m. at Grimsby, 3 Oct. 1914, Mabel (Swallowbech, Lincoln), dau. of Joseph Laughton, of North Somercotes; s.p.

=HARRIS, LANCELOT GRAHAM=, Private, No. 1112, 1st Battn. Honourable Artillery Company, only s. of Robert Jefferson Harris, of 21, Alexandra Road, Finsbury Park, London, formerly of Mysore, India, Coffee Planter, by his wife, Maud Ellen, dau. of Orlando Edmonds, of Northfields House, Stamford, Lincolnshire, J.P.; b. Lymington, co. Hants, 17 May, 1894; educ. Denstone College (1908–13, 6th Form Prefect; Sergt. in O.T.C.; shot at Bisley for school); Berlin (1913); and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1913–14, to which he obtained an open Exhibition); joined the Honourable Artillery Company two days after the declaration of war, 7 Aug. 1914, left for St. Nazaire, 19 Sept.; was in the trenches from October until 27 April, 1915, when he was mortally wounded at Dickebusch by shell fire, having both legs broken, and died there the following day, and was buried at La Clyte Cemetery; unm. His Platoon Commander wrote: “His bravery was absolutely magnificent, he was perfectly splendid all the way through—thoroughly keen, and willing to do anything. My platoon has lost a good soldier and a favourite companion”; and a comrade, writing to his own father, said: “I am very sorry to say they killed a young fellow called Harris, one of the old stagers of St. Nazaire. He Was frail looking and slim, and quite a boy, with an almost girlish face, but had the spirit of a bulldog and the soul of a saint. The grit with which he stuck the hardships of the winter, and his continual cheeriness and helping of others, when he was almost done up himself, used to make me proud to be in the regt. with him. When a spirit of such temper as that of young Harris is lost from among us, I tell you it leaves a very big gap indeed.”

=HARRIS, NORMAN=, Midshipman, Royal Navy; only surviving s. of William Birkbeck Harris, of the White House, Hayes, Kent, by his wife, Kathleen Marion, dau. of Edward Carey, of Shortlands, Kent; b. Hayes, 7 Nov. 1898; educ. Parkfield, Hayward’s Heath, and at Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; joined H.M.S. Bulwark, 4 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that vessel was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914. He was the Senior Midshipman.

=HARRIS, NORMAN ELTON=, Corpl., No. 603, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of George Copley Harris, of Wallandra, Parkes, N.S.W., Landowner [4th s. of the late William Harris, co. Limerick], by his wife, Kathleen Spring, dau. of (—) Spring-Rice; b. Bathurst. N.S.W., 2 Dec. 1887; educ. Sydney. After the outbreak of war enlisted in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 1 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 19 June, 1915; unm. Writing to his father, Major Storey said that he had distinguished himself twice previously and had acted with great bravery.

=HARRIS, WALDRON=, E.R.A. 1st Class, 269689, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRIS, WILLIAM=, S.S.A., M. 1034, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARRIS, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10031), S.S. 107618, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRIS, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3468), 187321, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRIS, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Private, No. 11862, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; only s. of George Harris, of South Newington, Banbury, Oxon, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Nash; b. South Newington, aforesaid, 18 Jan. 1887; educ. there; was a Farm Labourer; enlisted 11 Sept. 1914; went to France, 9 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 30 March, 1915; unm.

=CARR-HARRIS, ERNEST DALE=, Capt., R.E., eldest s. of Robert Carr-Harris, of The Vale, Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, Professor of Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, by his wife, Ellen Jane, dau. of Robert Wiley Fitton, of co. Cork; b. Thurso, P. Quebec, Canada, 14 Feb. 1878; educ. at Queens University, and after four years’ course at the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, graduated in 1899 at the Head of his Class, taking Honours in 13 subjects out of the 15 subjects of the course of the College, and received the Gold Medal of the year for subjects of instruction, and the Sword of Honour for distinction in Conduct and Discipline; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 19 June, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 29 Dec. 1901, and Capt. 19 June, 1908; served in China, 1900, during the Boxer rebellion (medal with clasp), and was detailed to construct the defences of the British Legation Grounds at Pekin; was then for two years Senior R.E. Officer at Singapore, and was afterwards engaged in the construction of the Military transfrontier road across the zone of the independent tribes between India and Afghanistan, on the completion of which he was nominated to the India Staff College at Quetta by the Gen. Commander-in-Chief. He completed his course in Sept. 1914, and was immediately detailed for service in East Africa, and was killed in action there, 3 Nov. of 1914; unm. Capt. Robertson wrote: “Capt. Carr-Harris was the first to land to examine Culvertsand Mines. It happened in the dark—he was surrounded in the Bush and put up a splendid fight. He seized a rifle and with a few others, whom he had collected on the spot, made a counter-attack and drove them back. He was found shot through the head. Our casualties were bigger in proportion than those suffered in European fights.” His two younger brothers are now (1916) taking their course at the Royal Military College of Canada. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

=WILLIS-HARRIS, RALPH CLAUDIAN=, Private, No. 65418, 24th Battn. (Victoria Rifles), 2nd Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late William Willis-Harris, of Midhurst, by his wife, Ada Sarah (now wife of Thomas Charles Popplewell, of Easebourne, Midhurst, Sussex), dau. of Ezra Battell; b. Pulborough, co. Sussex, 7 Aug. 1892; educ. Midhurst Grammar School; was an employee of the Bank of British North America, first in London and then at Montreal; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian E.F. in Oct. 1914; came over with the 2nd Contingent, 20 May, 1915; went to France in Sept., and died 9 Nov. 1915, of wounds received the previous day, while assisting to carry a wounded comrade to the dressing station; unm. Buried in the Military Cemetery at Bailleul. Major R. O. Alexander wrote: “Your son was a very gallant soldier and a very fine man. I feel as if I had lost a great friend, and undoubtedly one of the most valuable men in my Company”; and Lieut. A. L. S. Mills wrote: “In case you have not heard the details, he was helping to carry one of his comrades (Private Diver), who afterwards died, to the dressing station, when they were seen by the enemy, who opened fire on them with machine-guns. Your son was hit, and had himself to be carried to the dressing station with Diver. He bore any pain he may have suffered with such wonderful nerve that everyone expected him to be up and about again in a very short time. Your son was one of my finest men, and ever since the sad news of his death came out, his friends have seemed absolutely stunned. He never shirked any work that came his way; in fact, time and again he volunteered for extra duties. He could always be entirely depended upon, and could easily have become a non-commissioned officer, but preferred to remain a Private with his friends.”

=HARRISON, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9598), S.S. 106971, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRISON, CECIL EUSTACE=, Major, 1st Battn. The Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of Robert Hichens Camden Harrison, of Shiplake Court, Henley-on-Thames, co. Oxon, J.P., by his wife, Helen Mary, dau. of the late Eustace Smith; b. London, 29 Jan. 1878; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Rifle Brigade, 27 July, 1898, and promoted Lieut. 7 April, 1900; Capt. 12 April, 1904, and Major, 1 Dec. 1914; served (1) through the South African War, 1899–1902, being employed with the Mounted Infantry and as Station Staff Officer from 23 July, 1901; took part in the operations in Natal, 1899, including action at Lombards Kop; the defence of Ladysmith, including sortie of 10 Dec. 1899, and action of 6 Jan. 1900 (slightly wounded); operations in Natal, March to June, 1900, including action at Laings Nek (6 to 9 June); operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Belfast (26–27 Aug.) and Lydenberg (5–8 Sept.); operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900, to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 25 April, 1902], Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 27 Aug. 1914, to 12 March, 1915; was wounded at the Battle of the Aisne and invalided home, but returned to duty in Jan., and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. He m. at the Oratory, Brompton, 23 Jan. 1912, Alice (29, Royal Avenue, Chelsea), yr. dau. of Major Sir Edwin Frederick Wodehouse, K.C.V.O., C.B., late R.A., Assist. Commissioner of Police [grandson of the Hon. Philip Wodehouse, Vice-Admiral of the White, 2nd s. of John, 1st Baron Wodehouse, of Kimberley], and had two children: Ralph Armine and Philippa Jane (twins), b. 2 Oct. 1912.

=HARRISON, CHARLES BREWSTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2275), 200443, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARRISON, CHILLION BOOTH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1168), 203776, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARRISON, FRED=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Kimberley Regt., eldest s. of the late Ralph Seddon Harrison, of Halifax, co. York, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Thomas Moore; b. Halifax, 23 Feb. 1873; educ. Halifax Technical Schools; went to Africa in 1895, and entered the service of the De Beers Consolidated Mines in July of that year, and when war broke out had been for a long time chief of the data department of the Engineering Staff. He joined the Kimberley Volunteers soon after going to Kimberley; was made Sergt. in March, 1896; Sergt.-Major in 1897; Lieut. Oct. 1899, and promoted Capt. in 1900. He resigned his commission on the close of the Boer War in 1902, but on the formation of the 2nd Battn. rejoined and was given his old rank. He served (1) in Buchuanaland, 1896–97 (medal and clasp); (2) in the South African War 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps, “Transvaal,” “Orange Free State,” “Kimberley,” and King’s medal with two clasps “South Africa 1901,” “1902”), and (3) in the Expedition against German South-West Africa, 30 Sept. 1914–26 April, 1915. He was killed in action at Trekkopjes, German South-West Africa, 26 April, 1915, and was buried there. His Col. wrote: “He fell in the forefront of the line and he died a soldier’s death.” He and the late Cecil Rhodes were the first to meet the relieving force at Kimberley, 15 Feb. 1900. Capt. Harrison m. at Kimberley, 3 April, 1899, Adelaide Emma (4, Elsmere Street, Kimberley, South Africa), eldest dau. of William Henry Good, Westport, co. Mayo, and left three children: Frederick William, b. 30 Sept. 1900; Ralph Benjamin, b. 28 July, 1910; and Eileen Mary, b. 19 May, 1903.

=HARRISON, HENRY=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 269895, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRISON, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 836), 285301, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRISON, JOHN BAILEY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2392), 182829, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRISON, LEONARD JOHN=, Lieut., Indian Army, attd. 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, elder s. of the Rev. Arthur Leonard Harrison, Rector of Yelverton, Norfolk, by his wife, Ethel, dau. of the late Major-Gen. John William Younghusband, C.S.I.; b. Burton, co. Pembroke, 21 Nov. 1895; was for five years a chorister at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, then went to Haileybury and passed into the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in Dec. 1912. He received his commission in the Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and on the outbreak of war was attached to the Lancashire Fusiliers; went to France 16 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Shell Trap Farm about two miles N.E. of Ypres, on the road to St. Julien, 24 May, 1915; unm. His Colonel wrote: “Your son lost his life in endeavouring to retake some trenches which were lost. He behaved most gallantly, and nobody could have possibly shown a better example to the men. I am afraid his body was not recovered, as it lies between our lines and the Germans.” His Major also wrote: “Your son did sterling work for us, and we missed him badly when he was sent off to the Front. The officers and men deeply regret his loss.”

=HARRISON, THOMAS=, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 270750, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRISON, WILLIAM GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6606), 197077, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARRISON, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16459, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HART, EDWARD JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7915), S.S. 103600, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HART, FREDERICK JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A., 9811, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HART, HAROLD GEORGE=, Rifleman, No. 1767, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of G. I. Hart, of The Gables, East Acton Lane, W.; b. Collingham, Newark, co. Notts, 16 Jan. 1880; educ. St. Mark’s, Windsor, and Salisbury School, Salisbury, and was admitted a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Jan. 1914; enlisted 1 April, 1908, and was discharged (time expired) 31 March, 1914, but on the outbreak of war re-enlisted in Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 5 Aug. 1914; left with his regt. for the Front; served in France and Flanders, and was killed by a bullet wound received in a trench near Messines, Belgium, 8 Jan. 1915; unm. His Col. wrote to his parents: “Your boy was always splendid in his earnest endeavours to benefit the Coy. in every way. Not long ago a member of the Coy. got embedded in the mud of the trench, and whilst others waited to be ordered to help the man, your son got to work and largely by his exertions the man was released.”

=HART, HORACE CECIL=, Private, No. 2365, 5th Battn. The Buffs (East Kent Regt. (T.F.)), 2nd s. and 5th child of John William Hart, Master Mariner, by his wife, Eliza Jane, dau. of (—) Nowland, of Praze, Penryn, Cornwall; b. Dover, 7 June, 1895; educ. Holy Trinity Boys’ School, Dover; was in business with Messrs. Baker & Clarke, but on the outbreak of war enlisted, and after a period of training at Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Sandwich, sailed for India, 30 Oct. 1914. Here he remained until 15 Nov. 1915, when he left for the Persian Gulf, and died of wounds received in action there, 17 Jan. 1916; unm. His elder and next younger brothers also enlisted after the outbreak of war, the first in the R.F.A. and the latter in the Buffs, and are now (1916) on active service. A brother-in-law, L.-Corpl. H. R. Harman, Australian Imperial Force, died of wounds at the Dardanelles (see notice), and another, Drummer M. J. Ford, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., is a prisoner of war in Germany.

=HARTNELL, CUTHBERT=, Capt., 8th Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Wilson Hartnell, of Aysgarth, Roundhay, Leeds, M. Inst. M.E., M. Inst. E.E., M. Brit. Ass., F.R.S.S.A. Edinburgh, F.R.S.A. London, Managing Director of Wilson Hartnell & Co., Ltd., Leeds, Manufacturers of Dynamos, motors and electrical machinery, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Giles, of Manchester, and grandson of the Rev. Mark Antony Hartnell, M.A. Oxford; b. Leeds, 26 Aug. 1887; and was educ. at Bedford Grammar School and Leeds University. After leaving Bedford, he spent three years in the works of Messrs. J. & H. Maclaren, Ltd., Messrs. Kitson & Co.’s Airedale Foundry, and Messrs. Hathorn, Davy & Co., and then attended a two years’ course in Engineering and Science at the Leeds University. Subsequently he became a director of Wilson Hartnell & Co. (Ltd.), and was a member of the Leeds Court of Referees under the Insurance Act. At Leeds University he was a member of the O.T.C., and after rising to the rank of Col.-Sergt. was given a commission in the Leeds Rifles in 1911; and on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered for Foreign Service, and went to France with his battn. 15 April, 1915. He was promoted Capt. 10 June, and was killed in the trenches by a shell near Ypres, 16 July, 1915; unm. Capt. Hartnell was an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers of London, and took a keen interest in boating and Rugby Football. He was capt. of the Leeds Rifles football team and also played for the University team.

=HARTNOLL, HUGH PETER=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of Sir Henry Sulivan Hartnoll, Puisne Judge of the Chief Court, Lower Burma, by his wife, Grace, dau. of the Rev. Peter Dodwell Digges La Touche; b. Bassein, Lower Burma, 16 Sept. 1893; educ. The Wells House, Malvern Wells, and Clifton College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Worcesters, 3 Sept. 1913, later posted to the 1st Battn.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and promoted Lieut. while serving there; killed in action, near Neuve Chapelle, 12 Dec. 1914; unm.

=HARTRIDGE, FRANCIS HENRY=, A.B., Acting Chief Stoker (R.F.R., B. 4499), 192177, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HARVEY, BERNARD MATHESON=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., s. of the late Hon. Augustus William Harvey, of St. John’s, Newfoundland, by his wife, Elizabeth Gertrude; b. St. John’s, Newfoundland, 4 July, 1882; entered H.M.S. Britannia and obtained his naval cadetship in Jan. 1908, became Midshipman April following, sub-Lieut. Oct. 1901, Lieut. 31 Dec. 1903, and Lieut.-Commander, 1912; held various Torpedo Boat Commands, including T.B. No. 6, 1908–10 and the Destroyer Foyle, May, 1910–11; joined H.M.S. Cressy, 27 Jan. 1912, and was lost on 22 Sept. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea. He m. 4 Aug. 1910, Hester, dau. of His Honour Josiah Wood, Lieut.-Governor of New Brunswick, and had issue a son: Maurice, b. 11 Oct. 1911.

=HARVEY, CHRISTOPHER EDWIN=, Rifleman, No. 2113, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Robert Charles Harvey, of 102, Whitehorse Street, E., Foreman, Stepney Borough Council, by his wife, Martha Charlotte, dau. of Benjaman Morris; b. Forest Gate, co. Essex, 8 Oct. 1894; educ. St. Mark’s School, Whitechapel, and on leaving school entered the employ of Messrs Lawrence & Sons, Hounsditch, Wholesale Toy Merchants, and was with them when war broke out; joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles, 7 Aug. 1914; left for France 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action by shell fire at Pont Fixe, Givenchy, 16 May, 1915; unm. Buried in an orchard just behind the spot where he fell.

=HARVEY, EMMANUEL=, L.-Sergt., R.M.A., 9497, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARVEY, JOSEPH VICTOR=, Private, No. 61974, C Coy. 22nd (French Canadian) Regt. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Elie Harvey, of Murray Bay, P. Quebec, Canada, Merchant, by his wife, Liveadis, dau. of Louis Batti; b. Murray Bay, 8 Dec. 1891; educ. there and at St. John’s College, St. John’s, Quebec, and for ten years was employed in various departments of the Intercolonial Railways of Canada, and at the time of the declaration of war was Chief Clerk in the Master Mechanics Office. He joined the 22nd Regt. at Amherst, N.B., about 25 April, 1915, left Canada about 22 May, and died at East Sandling Camp, England, 29 July, 1915, from an accident; unm.

=HARVEY, LESLIE=, Lieut., 8th Battn. The Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Cecil Allenby Harvey, of Highgate House, Hawkhurst, Bank Manager, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Thomas Amey of Petersfield; b. Windsor, 3 Jan. 1884; educ. Eastbourne, and Isleworth; and was a Solicitor; joined the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps and obtained his B Certificate; and on the outbreak of war at once volunteered and was given a commission in the 8th Middlesex Regt., 28 Aug. 1914; and promoted Lieut. Feb. 1915. He was sent with his regt. to Gibraltar in Oct., returning to England the following Feb., and went to the Front a fortnight later; was killed in action near Ypres, 25 April, 1915, while leading a bayonet charge. He was buried at the level crossing about 11 kilometres east of Ypres; unm.

=HARVEY, RICHARD PRENTICE=, Major, 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd, Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., 4th s. of the late John Harvey, of the firm of John Harvey & Sons, Ltd., Wine Merchants, Denmark Street, Bristol, by his wife, Mary Russell (3, Sion Hill, Clifton, Bristol), dau. of George Prentice, of Strathore, Fifeshire; b. Clifton, Bristol, 10 Dec. 1873; educ. Lambrook, near Bracknell, Marlborough, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Royal Berkshires, 7 March, 1894, and promoted Lieut. 25 Aug. 1897, and Capt. 12 March, 1904; served in the South African War, 1900–1902; was Railway Staff Officer from 30 Nov. 1900; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, April to July, 1900; in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to Nov. 1900, and west of Pretoria, July to Aug. 1900, including action at Zilikat’s Nek; in the Transvaal, Nov. 1900 to July 1901; Orange River Colony, July, 1901 and in Cape Colony, July to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps) and afterwards Egypt, Soudan and India. He retired 3 June, 1911, to join the family business of John Harvey & Sons, Ltd., and became a Director in 1914, and also a director of Charles Harvey & Co., Ltd., Kidderminster, but retained his connection with the Army by joining the special Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of war he joined the 3rd Royal Berkshires at Portsmouth, and was promoted Major 26 Sept. 1914, and took out a draft to the 2nd Battn. at the Front, 18 March, 1915; and was in command of that battn. for a month, being gazetted temp. Lieut.-Col. from 3 to 4 May inclusive. He was killed in action near Fromelles, during the advance against the Aubers Ridge, 9 May following. Major Harvey m. at St. Mary’s Church, Leigh Woods, Bristol, 11 Aug. 1904, Eleanor Frances (Summerlands, Nailsea, Somerset), eldest dau. of the late Col. John Whaley Watson, Bombay Staff Corps, and had four daughters: Eleanor Nancy, b. 18 June, 1906; Jeanie Elizabeth, b. 19 June, 1908; Joan Mary, b. 29 March, 1911; and Marjorie Prentice, b. 3 Oct. 1914.

=HARVEY, WICKHAM LEATHES=, Lieut., 7th Duke of Connaught’s Own Rajputs, Indian Army, 2nd s. of Arthur Henry Harvey, of Hoon-Hay, the Drive, Belmont, Surrey, late P. & O.S.N. Coy. by his wife, Emily, dau. of the late Alfred Stanger-Leathes, of Leamington Spa, and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; b. St. Margarets, Twickenham, co. Middlesex, 8 Jan. 1888; educ. Quernmore, Bromley, Kent, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. list for Indian Army, 9 Sept. 1908, and attd. to the 1st South Wales Borderers for his first year, joining them at Quetta, 9 Nov. 1908; was posted to the 7th D.C.O. Rajputs, at Dinapore, 7 Nov. 1909; and promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1910; served with his regt. at Jask and Chabar on the Persian Gulf, stopping the gun running, for a year, and went to Mesopotamia with it on the outbreak of the European War; took part in the fighting before and in the occupation of Basra, and the Battle of Kurna, where he was wounded, and was killed in action during a reconnaissance near Ahwaz, Persia, 3 March, 1915, while endeavouring to rescue a wounded brother officer, Lieut. Burgoyne Wallace; unm. His Col. wrote: “I brought to the notice of the ‘General Officer Commanding’ the plucky way he handled the machine-guns under a hot fire (at the Battle of Kurna); the regt. has lost a keen, zealous, and promising young officer. Personally he was a great favourite of mine and he showed great ability in the Gulf three years ago, when at Jask acting as Quartermaster.” Lieut. Harvey was mentioned in Despatches [Gazette of India, 25 June, 1915] “for the very efficient manner in which he brought up his machine-gun section in support of the 120th Infantry, and acted throughout with conspicuous bravery and coolness. He was wounded in this action just after adjusting a jam in one of his guns,” and again in General Sir John Nixon’s despatch of 1 Jan. [London Gazette, 5 April], 1916, “for gallant and distinguished service in the field.”

=HARVEY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 309477, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARVEY, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Sergt.-Major, No. 361, 9th Australian Light Horse, Australian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Surgeon Lieut.-Col. Charles Albert Harvey, Indian Medical Service, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of the late Edward Jones, of Clonmel, co. Tipperary; b. Nagode, Central India, 9 Oct. 1875; educ. Galway Grammar School; went to South Africa in 1895; served in Matebeleland (medal) and in the South African War, 1899–1902, with Driscoll’s Scouts, and was twice wounded; and in 1902 was one of the picked men sent over to represent South Africa at the King’s Coronation and received the Coronation Medal. He afterwards went to Australia in 1912, and on the outbreak of the European War, volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt in Jan. 1915; arrived at the Dardanelles, May 10, and was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915. Buried at Ari Burnu; unm.

=HARVEY, WILLIAM EDWARD=, S.P.O. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10437), 299944, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARWOOD, ARTHUR EDMUND=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., Ch. B. 325), 130190, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HARWOOD, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9496), S.S. 106874, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HASKELL, ERNEST BONE=, Private, No. 19815, 2nd Battn. Wiltshire Regt., s. of the late Harry Haskell, a Painter on Sir George A. Cooper’s Hursley Park Estate, by his wife, Anne, dau. of John Bone; b. Ampfield, co. Hants, 30 April, 1891; educ. Church of England School there. Had served four years in, and had just left, Romsey Coy. of the Hants Territorials when war was declared; enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regt., 24 Aug. 1914, being the first Ampfield lad to respond to the call for men; was subsequently transferred to the 2nd Wiltshires, and was killed in action in France at the Battle of Hulluch, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. A comrade (Private H. Wiltshire) wrote: “He was shot with a bullet through the lungs and he only lived a few minutes, and he did not speak to anyone.... He was a nice fellow, and he was liked very much in the company.... He was buried next day and a cross put on his grave, with his name and regt.”

=HASKELL, FRANK=, Gunner, R.M.A., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HASKELL, HARRY JAMES PAYNE=, Private, No. 10977, 5th Battn. Dorsetshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Harry Haskell, a Painter on Sir George A. Cooper’s Hursley Park Estate, by his wife, Anne, dau. of John Bone; b. Ampfield, co. Hants, 4 Sept. 1893; educ. Church School there; enlisted 7 Sept. 1914, and died in Malta, 30 Aug. 1915, of wounds received at the Dardanelles; unm. He was reported missing about 11 Aug., but there appears to be some confusion about this date, as a letter dated 10 Aug. was received from him saying he had a bad foot. The officer in charge of the Wounded Information Bureau in Malta, writing about it, said: “He arrived in Malta on the hospital ship Heuralia on the 29 Aug. suffering from a bullet wound in the left leg. The leg was amputated above the knee, but tetanus intervened, and he died at 6 p.m. on the following day. He was buried on the 31st in the Piela Cemetery.... His grave is No. 3, Row 7B.”

=HASLER, JULIAN=, Brigadier-General, The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), Commanding the 11th Infantry Brigade, 2nd s. of the late William Wyndham Hasler, J.P., of Aldingbourne House and Barkfold Manor, Sussex, by his wife, Selina Sarah, dau. of Lionel Charles Hervey; b. Halnaker House, Chichester, 16 Oct. 1868; educ. Winchester College and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Buffs, 19 Sept. 1888, and promoted Lieut. 4 Feb. 1892, Capt. 12 March, 1898, Brevet Major, 22 Aug. 1902, Major, 7 Feb. 1907, Lieut.-Col. 28 April, 1906, and Col. 11 Jan. 1910; was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 17 June, 1899, to 23 Feb. 1900; with the Rhodesian Field Force (on special service) 6 April, 1900 to 10 Oct. 1901, and with the West African Frontier Force, 17 June, 1903 to 25 April, 1910; served (1) with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895 (Medal with clasp); (2) in the Malakand Expedition on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, took part in the operations in Bajaur and in the Mamund country, Utman Khel and Buner and in the attack and capture of the Tanga Pass (clasp); (3) in the South African War, 1899–1902, was severely wounded (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 15 Nov. 1901], Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps, Brevet of Major); (4) In West Africa (Northern Nigeria) 1903, during the Kano Sokoto Campaign (medal with clasp), and (5) again in West Africa, in command of operations in Northern Nigeria (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 18 Sept. 1906], Brevet of Lieut.-Col.). After the outbreak of the European War he was promoted Brigadier-General Feb. 1915, and was appointed to command the XIth Infantry Brigade. He went to France Sept. 1914; was wounded 21 Oct.; returned 20 Dec. in command of The Buffs, and was killed in action at St. Jean, near Ypres, 29 April, 1915. He was twice mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French [London Gazette, Feb. 17, 1915, and 22 June, 1915]. General Sir Charles Wilson, commanding the 4th Division wrote: “The 4th Division, and the whole Army has suffered a great loss in your husband’s death; he was not only a splendid soldier, but he was loved by everybody,” and General Lynden-Bell: “We all recognised him as one of our very finest Brigadiers. His bravery was extraordinary, and wherever the bullets and shells were thickest, he was sure to be found. I cannot express to you the terrible grief his death has caused to the whole of his Brigade, every man of which knew him and loved him.” General Hasler raised and commanded Hasler’s Australian Scouts, who did such excellent work in South Africa. He m. at Aldingbourne, 11 Aug. 1908, Edith Gwendoline, eldest dau. of Capt. John Orr-Ewing, 5th Dragoon Guards, and granddau. of Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, 1st Bart., and had two sons: William Julian, b. 11 Oct. 1912, and John Wyndham, b. 21 April, 1914.

=HASLETT, JAMES HOLMES=, Private, No. 30, 3rd Field Ambulance, 1st Division Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of John Haslett, of 37, Clooney Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Archibald Rosborough, of Inchna Park, co. Derry; b. Londonderry, 15 Dec. 1889; educ. Ebrington National School and Model School, Derry; emigrated to Australia, 1 April, 1910, and settled at Sydney; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the 3rd Field Ambulance in Queensland; left for Egypt with the Main Force; took part in the landing at Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there 9 Aug. 1915; unm. His Capt. wrote: “He was engaged in his usual duties as stretcher-bearer when a shrapnel burst came into our lines, and he and a friend with a stretcher ran across to give help to a man who was wounded. While attending to him, another burst came over them and wounded his friend and Jim. The former was not severely wounded, but your son was, and lived only half-an-hour afterwards. I attended him myself, and at one time his condition improved, and he flattered our hopes, but it was only temporary, and he went out as he lived—a fine, brave chap. He was one of my best and most willing workers, and was beloved by all the men in camp, who, in their votes after the action placed him at the top of the list as having done the best work. He thus gave his life in doing his duty, and I have no doubt he will meet with his just reward. I knew him before he joined the Ambulance, in Brisbane, where I was Medical Officer to an Amateur Athletic Club, and so I feel his death more than usual. He was known by all the men here as ‘Irish,’ and his friends were greatly affected by his death. They have put up a fine cross where he was buried on the beach. The bullet entered his neck, and must have almost severed the spinal cord.”

=HASLUCK, SIDNEY VANDYKE=, 2nd Lieut., Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attd. 14th Sikhs, eldest s. of the Rev. Ernest Edward Hasluck, of Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, by his wife, Agnes Milborough, dau. of Richard Holliott Eliot, J.P., D.L.; b. Handsworth, Birmingham, 11 Nov. 1888; educ. Marlborough College, where he was in the Cadet Corps, and served three years in the Dorset Yeomanry. In 1909 he went to Ceylon and became a Tea and Rubber Planter. He had joined the Ceylon Mounted Rifles, and on the outbreak of war, he volunteered for active service with the Ceylon Contingent, and accompanied this force to Egypt. In January, 1915, he obtained a commission in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, and being attd. to the 89th Punjabis, took part in the fight at Kantara. Subsequently he proceeded to the Dardanelles, became attd. to the 14th Sikhs, and was killed in action, 4 June, 1915. The Officer Commanding 89th Punjabis wrote: “During the time your son was with us, both in Egypt and in the Dardanelles, he worked hard, both at Hindustani and at his military duties. During the fight at Kantara, he showed himself cool under fire. Again in the Dardanelles, when Capt. Scruby was wounded, he and Lieut. Masters carried on under a heavy fire, while the Double Company dug itself in, and he gave a good example to everyone near him. I may mention that I sent both his name and Lieut. Masters’ to the General Officer Commanding Brigade for a ‘Mention in despatches,’ though it is probable that owing to the large number of recommendations their names have gone no further.” Capt. Scruby wrote: “We were together in a trench for 3 days, and at the time I got hit we had gone on to take up a new position in front of the old line. He was left in charge all day; we had fairly heavy casualties and I feel sure that if it had not been for his influence our company would not have held the new line. Your son made the men dig a hole for me and looked after me until we were relieved that night.”

=HASTINGS, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6833 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HASTINGS, FREDERICK STEWART=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27391 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HATCH, WILLIAM LEONARD RINGROSE=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s), elder s. of William Keith Hatch, Lieut.-Col. (retired) I.M.S., of 8, Earlham Road, Norwich, by his wife, Clare Catherine, dau. of Deputy Surgeon-Gen. S. Homan; b. Bombay, India, 27 Nov. 1890; educ. Shrewsbury and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Irish Fusiliers, 25 March, 1911, and promoted Lieut. 13 April, 1913. On the outbreak of war was at Quetta with his regt.; returned to England in Oct., and after a short stay went to France, and was killed in action near Vierstraat, 25 Jan. 1915; unm. Buried at Vierstraat.

=HATCHELL, THOMAS=, Acting Chief Stoker, 278685, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HATCHER, FRASER=, Rifleman: No. 2790, 12th Battn. (The Rangers), The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Leonard George Hatcher, of 7 Dorville Road, Hammersmith, Clerk in Charge, West Kensington Station, District Railway, by his wife, Helen Johnston, dau. of Patrick Barry, Member Institute Journalists; b. Shepherd’s Bush, London, W., 2 Nov. 1898; educ. William Street Central School; was for some time a member of the Hammersmith Branch of the Lads’ Naval Brigade, and entered the Great Western Railway Co.’s service (Chief Accountant’s Office) in March, 1914; joined the Rangers, 1914, and showed so much keenness and energy in becoming efficient that he was selected for the service battn. and was one of the first to join it. He went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action north-east of Ypres, 4 May, 1915, and was buried near Fortuin; unm.

=HATCHER, GEORGE ERNEST=, Leading Stoker, 299240 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HATFIELD, ROY BERRIMAN=, Lieut., 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of George Frederick Hatfield, of 11, Bedford Square, London, and The Old Lighthouse, South Foreland, Dover, Solicitor, by his wife, Ada Sophia Lucy, dau. of James Berriman Tippetts, and grandson of the late Charles William Hatfield, of Hall Cross, Doncaster; b. London, 6 Oct. 1885; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School, and Brasenose College, Oxford; was admitted to the Livery of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, 9 April, 1908, and a Solicitor in Jan. 1912; and obtained a commission in the Post Office Rifles on — Jan. 1912. In 1914 he was appointed Private Secretary and additional A.D.C. to the Governor of Hong Kong with the local rank of Capt., but on war being declared he applied for leave and rejoined his regt., and went to France with them on 17 March, 1915. At Festubert he was acting as Bomb Officer; was mortally wounded while leading his men down a German trench, 24 May, 1915, and died in the Bethune Hospital the same day. He was buried in the Military Cemetery there. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He had most gallantly led an attack when he was mortally wounded. The success of our operations that night was very largely due to the most gallant way in which Roy had organised and arranged the bombers and gone into the minutest details with them before starting off. Needless to say Roy is one of the greatest losses the regt. has had, and will be mourned by all ranks.” He m. at Marylebone, London, 7 April, 1914, Florence Elizabeth Elaine, dau. of William Brownhill, of Dawson City, Alaska; s.p.

=HATHAWAY, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 1446, 4th Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of Joseph Hathaway, of 17, Fleet Street, Stepney Lane, Hull, Plasterer; b. Hull, 7 Aug. 1894; educ. Beverley Road Council Schools there; was an employee in Messrs. Holmes’ Tannery, Hull; joined the 4th (Territorial Battn.) East Yorks Regt., in Feb. 1912; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war; went to France, and was reported missing after the fighting, 4 May, 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that day; unm.

=HATHORN, GEORGE HUGH VANS (“Jerry”)=, Lieut., R.M.L.I., eldest s. of the late Charles Hugh Vans Hathorn, of Seconce Tea Estate, Assam, by his wife, Emily Rose (5, Ravenlea Road, Folkestone), dau. of the late Benjamin Bensley, and grandson of the late Admiral George Hathorn, R.N.; b. Tezpur, Assam, 30 June, 1887; educ. Pretoria House Preparatory School, Folkestone, and Dover College; joined the R.M.L.I. 1 Sept. 1906, promoted Lieut. 1 July, 1907; served in the West Indies, Gibraltar, and Home Waters; was appointed to H.M.S. Formidable, 25 Jan. 1914, and lost his life in the disaster to that ship, 1 Jan. 1915; unm. In forwarding the following report by Lieut. V. C. V. Soutter, senior surviving executive officer of the Formidable, the Admiralty added that had Lieut. Hathorn survived, an expression of their appreciation of his conduct would have been conveyed to him. The report is as follows: “Lieut. George H. V. Hathorn, Royal Marines, collected volunteers and searched the Marines’ mess deck for any gear that would float. At a time when things became critical, this officer penetrated as far aft as the ward room, using the after hatch in the port battery and aided solely by the light from a small electric torch. His passage was greatly impeded by strung hammocks. His conduct was extremely plucky, for he continued to work there collecting chairs, etc., though it was apparent to all that the ship might capsize at any moment without warning. To add to this, the water was at a dangerous level on the starboard side of the same deck.” Hathorn had passed for his Captaincy while in the West Indian Station. His yr. brother, 2nd Lieut. N. McD. Hathorn, was killed in action, 14 July, 1915 (see following notice).

=HATHORN, NOEL McDOUALL=, 2nd Lieut., 76th Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late Charles Hugh Vans Hathorn, of Seconce Tea Estate, Assam, by his wife, Emily Rose (5, Ravenlea Road, Folkestone), dau. of the late Benjamin Bensley, and grandson of the late Admiral George Hathorn, R.N.; b. Seconce, 26 Dec. 1891; educ. at Pretoria House, Folkestone, Dover College, and Wye Agricultural College; went to Ceylon tea planting in 1911; volunteered for service on the outbreak of war; joined the Ceylon Contingent, and was sent to Egypt. While there he was offered a commission in the Indian Army, and was gazetted to the 76th Punjabis, then at Suez, Jan. 1915. From Suez he was sent to the Persian Gulf, and was killed in action, being shot through the forehead, near Nasar-i-yeh, Mesopotamia, 14 July, 1915; unm. His colonel wrote to his mother as follows: “Your son was shot when most gallantly leading his men, much ahead of them, and in so doing had to swim a creek under fire. This was at night, and such fine action requires not only great nerve and determination, but splendid bravery in addition, and your boy has, I am gratified to learn, been recommended by the General for posthumous honour. The regt., of which I am proud, is proud of your son, and feels honoured that his name was on our rolls.” While at Wye College he won the champion light-weight boxing cup for one year, and in Ceylon was considered one of the leading sportsmen of his district. He won the quarter-mile race in record time for that country, and was one of the football fifteen for his province. His elder brother, Lieut. G. H. V. Hathorn, R.M.L.I., was lost in the Formidable, 1 Jan. 1915 (see preceding notice).

=HATTERSLEY, HENRY WILLIAM=, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4739, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HATTON, LEONARD NELVINGTON=, P.O., 198556, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAVERY, RALPH SAINT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2892), S.S. 100180, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAWKES, JOHN CORNOCK=, Lieut., R.A.M.C., attd. 8th (Service) Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd s. of William Hawkes, of Bank House, Castletown, Berehaven, co. Cork, Manager, Munster and Leinster Bank, by his wife, Martha Elizabeth, eldest dau. of William Gillman; b. Castletown aforesaid, 3 March, 1885; educ. Cork Grammar School and Edinburgh University, and qualified as L.R.C.P., and S.Ed., and L.R.F.P.S. Glas. in 1910, and then went as a Ship’s Surgeon to West Africa, and afterwards to Canada. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and was gazetted Lieut., Royal Army Medical Corps, 6 Dec. 1914, and went to the Front the following May. He was killed in action at Hooge, 31 July, 1915, by a shell. His Col. wrote: “Your gallant son was beloved by officers and men for his genial pleasant manner and his genuine Irish wit, and his devotion to the wounded. He was a splendid professional man, and the battn. has suffered a severe loss by his death,” and Col. Thompson, writing on behalf of Surgeon-Gen. Porter, Director of Medical Service: “He was killed instantaneously by a shell, when advancing with his regt. near Hooge. They were about to take part in an assault on some trenches previously lost by another brigade. He bore the reputation of being a very gallant man, and one devoted to the care and succour of the wounded. He has now joined our band of heroes of the R.A.M.C., and his name will live on our annals and he himself in our memories as one who has conferred honour on the corps.”

=HAWKES, RUEBEN ERNEST=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9297), 203656 (Chatham), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAWKINS, BENJAMIN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111196, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAWKINS, CHARLES FRANCIS=, Major, 46th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, only s. of the Rev. William Webster Hawkins, of Acomb, York, formerly, British Chaplain at Foochow, China, by his wife, Kate, dau. of Philip Leyburn, of London; b. Amoy, China, 16 Jan. 1880; educ. Haileybury; joined the Royal Artillery from the Militia, 17 March, 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 3 April, 1901, Captain 20 March, 1909 and Major 30 Oct. 1914; served (1) in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, March, and in the Transvaal, April-May, 1902 (Queen’s Medal with four clasps); and (2) with the 1st Division Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug. 1914–25 April, 1915, and was killed in action on the latter date in France; unm.

=HAWKINS, CHARLES VINCENT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7332), S.S. 10225, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAWKINS, FREDERICK ROBERT=, No. 5761, B Coy., 2nd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd s. of James Hawkins, of 2, Cumberland Street, Staines, by his wife, Maria, dau. of William May; b. Egham Hythe, co. Surrey, 22 June, 1881; enlisted Aug. 1897; served through the South African war (Queen’s medal with five bars and King’s medal with two bars), 1899–1902, and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action, 4 June, 1915; unm. His eldest brother, William George, was killed in action (see following notice), and two other brothers are now (1916) on active service.

=HAWKINS, GEORGE AUGUSTUS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19106, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAWKINS, HAROLD GEORGE=, 2nd Lieut., 11th (Service) Battn. Middlesex Regt., eldest s. of Francis Henry Hawkins, LL.B., Solicitor; Foreign Secretary, London Missionary Society, by his wife, Frances Lydia, dau. of George Dugall, of Birmingham; b. Wrexham, co. Denbigh, 10 Nov. 1890; educ. Colet House, Rhyl; Mill Hill School, London (to which he obtained an open entrance scholarship in 1904), and Hertford College, Oxford (where he obtained Open Classical Scholarship and took the Honours School in Classics, July, 1914); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 11th Middlesex, 22 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 31 May, 1915, and died 24 July, 1915, of wounds received at Armentières on the same day; unm. At School and College he had a good athletic record and was captain of his College Hockey Team and played hockey for the University.

=HAWKINS, LEONARD=, Corpl., No. 614, 5th Battn. (The London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Samuel James Hawkins, of 109, Whipps Cross Road, Leytonstone, Printer, by his wife, Lizzie, dau. of the late Thomas Hunt; b. Walthamstow, co. Essex, 13 Jan. 1891; educ. Newport Road Council School, Leyton, and the Worshipful Company of Carpenters School, Stratford; was an Accountant’s Clerk; enlisted early in Sept. 1914, after the outbreak of war; promoted Corpl., Feb. 1915; went out to France with a draft, 14 March, and was killed in action at Wieltje, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 13 May, 1915; unm. He was buried near the front trenches at Wieltje. Letters speak of his having “done extremely well” and having “died fighting bravely.”

=HAWKINS, LIONEL HOPE=, Lieut., 1st, attd. 6th, Dragoon Guards, only s. of Isaac Thomas Hawkins, of 90, Drayton Gardens, S.W., C.E., late Colonial Civil Service, by his wife, Mary Hope, yst. dau. of Richard Butterworth, of Lancaster; b. Chichester, 28 July, 1886; educ. Waynfleet; Winchester, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Dragoon Guards, 2 Feb. 1907, going to India with his regt. the following Nov., and was promoted Lieut., 18 Feb. 1908. He passed his Captain’s examination in Oct. 1912, and did good work with the signalling, having charge of a brigade for two years. Being in England on leave when war broke out, he volunteered and was attached to the 6th Dragoon Guards, and went to France, 15 Aug. 1914. He served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action on the night of 31 Oct.-1 Nov., when the Germans broke through our lines between Messines and Wytschaete in the 1st Battle of Ypres. The two forces had got mixed up, and Lieut. Hawkins observing a party approaching the trench which he held with his troop, got out of the trench and went forward. According to a statement made by a brother officer they shouted “Don’t fire! We are the London Scottish!” and he therefore continued to go forward. He had not gone more than 30 yards when he fell, shot through the right side. Two of his men immediately went out and brought him back to the trench, and he was carried back by his own men and the London Scottish towards Kemmel, but died shortly afterwards; unm. His Adjutant, Capt. P.M.A. Kerans, wrote: “Your son, of whom we had all grown very fond, was killed in an attack by the Germans in a line between Messines and Wytschaete in Southern Belgium on the night of 31 Oct. and 1 Nov. It appears that after the enemy had penetrated our line a party was observed by your son approaching the trench which he held with his troop. He ordered fire to open on them, but they shouted ‘Don’t fire, we are the Scottish’ and he ordered his men to cease fire; himself, bravely, but incautiously, got out of his trench and went towards them. He had gone about 30 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 him back to the trench. He was seen to be badly wounded in the right side and he was carried back by our 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 passed quietly away. The men were unable to bury him then and were 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 the piece of ground, it has not been possible to do what would otherwise have been done. You have lost a gallant son and we a brave and well-beloved comrade who showed military qualities of a high order”; and Major S. W. Webster: “The farm we held was rushed by the Germans about midnight on 31 Oct. I at once went to the trench in which your son was. We retired from there to some reserve trenches about 200 yards in rear. I was there with him for about half an hour, I then left him to go and see a troop who were holding a trench on his right. After I had gone I believe he went forward a little to see if they really were Germans, as he seemed to think they were our own troops—it was pitch dark at the time. He was shot through the body, and some of my own men carried him back. He died when they had carried him about ½ mile to the rear. My man, Private Willings, then left the body under a fence. It was impossible to recover the body or even the wounded, as we had to evacuate the position at dawn. I am perfectly certain from what the men told me, that your son died within half an hour of his wound. It must seem strange to you, that we could not recover the body, but we were fighting for our lives through the night, in the pitch dark, over a front of at least half a mile. Three of our own officers and many men were left behind, and we do not even know if they are dead or prisoners.” Col. I. Annesley also wrote (12 Dec.): “Had your son lived it would not have been long before he earned great distinction, for he was very brave and a fine leader of men. On the night of the poor fellow’s death there were so many heroic actions on the part of my officers and men that it was impossible to pick out anyone in particular as being better than his fellows. As I say, had your son lived I should certainly have sent his name in for consideration at a later period for his splendid work as a troop leader from the beginning of hostilities, and I have written to this effect to the Brigadier General Commanding the 4th Cavalry Brigade, as I now hold a Staff appointment”; and Brigadier-General the Hon. Cecil Bingham, 4th Cavalry Brigade: “I only met your son, Lionel, when he became attached to the 6th Dragoon Guards, but I got to know him pretty well, and my regard for him grew as we got to know each other. 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. On the night of his death, he, in company with many others, performed acts which redounded to their everlasting credit, but you will understand that all cannot be rewarded, the number was limited to two per unit, and a selection made from the reports.” In India he was known as one of the finest polo players, and was in the winning team of many tournaments, and besides was a good all-round sportsman. He played cricket for his school, won the steeplechase for his House at Winchester, and ran with his troop in the Marathon Race in June, 1908, when they won the Harkness Shield. “An excellent report which reflects great credit on Lieut. Hawkins, the Signalling Officer,” was the remark of the G.O.C., Ambala Cavalry Brigade, on Individual Tests, 31 March, 1913.

=HAWKINS, WILLIAM DAVID=, Leading Seaman, 195918, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAWKINS, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, No. 1901, 8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of James Hawkins, of 2, Cumberland Street, Staines, by his wife, Maria, dau. of William May; was an old Volunteer; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, was wounded at Hill 60, and died in King George’s Hospital, London, 28 June 1915. He m. at Egham, Surrey, Elizabeth, dau. of (—) May, and had four children: Frederick, b. 23 Oct. 1899; William, b. 25 Sept. 1900; Alfred, b. 9 Dec. 1902; and Bessie, b. 22 March, 1901.

=HAWKRIDGE, JOHN=, Rifleman, No. 2358 C Coy. 1/17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Robert Hawkridge, formerly of the ... Regt.; b. 21 Aug. 18—; and was in the Special Reserve; joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, and was killed in action at Loos, 26 Sept. 1915. Capt. E. A. B. Chandler wrote to his widow: “Our Battn. did its share in the great advance and your husband too did his part in the very best way, and it grieves me deeply to tell you that he fell while in the front line.... The life and soul of his platoon, always full of fun, ‘Tosh,’ as he was called, is very much missed. Fearless, too, he was, and I had often occasion to admire his coolness in dangerous positions. As far as I know he lies near the chalk pit at Loos.” He m. at St. Mark’s, Victoria Park, E., Daisy Florence (48, Mandeville Street, Clapton Park, E.), dau. of (—), and had a dau., Florence Lilian, b. 10 Jan. 1915.

=HAWORTH, BENJAMIN=, Signaller, No. 131, B Coy., 3rd Battn. 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Thomas Haworth, of 29, Bridge Street, Freetown, Bury, Lancashire, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Thomas Ashworth, of Rossendale, Lancashire; b. Freetown, Bury, Lancashire, 21 Aug. 1891; educ. there; emigrated to Australia early in 1913, and settled at Morisset, N.S.W.; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, with his brother John Edward; left for Egypt on the Euripides, 20 Oct.; went to the Dardanelles, 29 Mar. 1915, and died of wounds received in action there, 9 Aug. 1915; unm. Buried at sea. His brothers, John Edward, now Sergt., No. 135, 3rd Battn. Australian Expeditionary Force, and Corpl. James Arthur Haworth, Machine Gun Section, 13th Battn. (5th Royal Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, are now (1916) on active service.

=HAWORTH, FREDERICK=, Corpl No. 3210, 10th Battn. (Service) Rifle Brigade, s. of Lister Haworth, of 10, Swan Street, Blackburn, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of John Macmillan, of Ayr; b. 2 June, 1879; educ. Christ Church School there; was a weaver; joined the 5th (Blackburn) Lancashire Artillery Volunteers in 1898, and was seventeen years with them (Medal) and was a Corpl.; volunteered for Foreign Service on the outbreak of war, 7 Sept. 1914. and died at the Isolation Hospital, Aldershot, 31 Mar. 1915, of spotted fever], contracted while training there. He m. at Christ Church, 1 Nov. 1902, Mary Alice (16 Swan Street, Blackburn), dau. of Richard Lang, and left two children: Maggie, b. 22 March, 1904; and Annie, b. 2 Feb. 1906.

=HAYDEN, HARRY=, Rifleman, No. 2083, C Coy., 1st Battn. Rifle Brigade, only s. of Arthur Hayden, of Haddiscoe, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Signalman for 35 years on the Great Eastern Railway, by his wife, Sybilla Smythe, dau. of William Edward Snare, of Brandon, Suffolk; b. Weeting, co. Norfolk, 19 Jan. 1887; educ. Somerleyton, Suffolk; enlisted at Winchester, 6 May, 1907; served in Ireland 1907–08; India, Oct. 1908–Oct. 1914; and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 8 Nov. 1914–15 March, 1915; was wounded in action at Neuve Chapelle, on the latter date, and died in No. 2 British Red Cross Hospital at Rouen on the 17th; unm. Buried in Rouen Cemetery. He was present as a special messenger at the Delhi Durbar, 1911.

=HAYDON, LEONARD FLAXMAN LEE=, Private, No. 2446. 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Flaxman Haydon, of Blomfield House, London Wall, Chartered Accountant, by his wife, Anne Juliana (760, Stanlake Road, Shepherd’s Bush), dau. of the late Henry Lee Hogg, of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, Surgeon; b. Coleridge House, Lady Margaret Road, Kentish Town, 6 Aug. 1886; educ. Lewes Grammar School; was a Clerk in Barclays Bank, Lewes; enlisted, Sept. 1914; went to France, 18 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Richbourg L’Avoué, 9 May, 1915; unm. Major G. H. Courthope wrote: “He and his comrades joined with the utmost gallantry in the assault on the German lines at Richbourg L’Avoué. His dead body was found not far from a road known as the cinder track, by search parties of the Lahore Division. He and hundreds of others were buried close to the Rue du Bois, and I am informed that all the graves are carefully marked.”

=HAYERS, ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10686), 216178, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAYES, ERNEST DE LANNOY=, Major, 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd s. of Vice-Admiral John Montagu Hayes, C.B., by his wife, Julia, dau. of Richard Atkinson Coward; b. Southsea, co. Hants, 8 July, 1869; educ. Stubbington, near Fareham; Westward Ho!, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the Cameronians, 3 May, 1890, promoted Lieut., 5 April, 1893, Capt., 22 Dec. 1897, Brevet Major, 22 Aug. 1902, and Major, 24 June, 1908; served (1) in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the Relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; the operations of 17–24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5–7 Nov. 1900, and action at Vaal Krantz; operations on Tugela Heights (14–27 Feb. 1900), and action at Pieters Hill; operations in Natal, March to June, 1900; including action at Laings Nek (6–9 June); operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900; operations in the Transvaal 30 Nov. 1900 to Aug. 1901, and Nov. 1901 to 31 May, 1902, and on the Zululand frontier of Natal, Sept. and Oct. 1901 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902], Brevet Major; Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s Medal with two clasps); and (2) with Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 4 Nov. 1914 to 10 March, 1915, on which day he was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, while bravely leading his Company, “A,” which was literally mown down by machine gun and rifle fire; our Artillery having failed to cut barbed wire defending the section of German trench. A fellow officer wrote: “His name will go down in the history of the Regt. as the officer who led the attack in the severest fight the battn. has ever had to take part in.” He m. at Edinburgh, 1904, Constance Frances, dau. of the late Sir Thomas Macdonald Miller, of Glenlee, co. Ayr, and had a son, Montagu Ernest, b. 16 Jan. 1905.

=HAYLES, EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1999), 197731, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAYMAN, JAMES GEORGE=, Private, No. 7574, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 5th s. of the late Amos Hayman, of High Brooms, Tunbridge Wells, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of (—) Coorke; b. Longford, co. Oxford, 3 July, 1889; educ. Tunbridge Wells National School; enlisted, 16 Dec. 1907; served three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve and worked as a Gardener; mobilised, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 11 Aug.; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne, Ypres, Landrecies, &c. and was killed by a shell while sitting talking in the trenches at Rue du Bois, Belgium, 20 May, 1915. He m. at Tunbridge Wells, 4 Feb. 1911, Mary Louise (164, Portland Street, Walworth, S.E.), dau. of Moses Baker, of Walworth, and had three sons: Amos George, b. 29 July, 1911; Albert William, b. 23 March, 1913; and John Edward, b. 28 May, 1914.

=HAYMES, ALBERT=, A.B., 219142, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAYNES, ERNEST GEORGE=, Stoker, R.N.R., 790U, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAYNES, HENRY AGULAR=, Private, No. 878, 18th Battn. Australian L.I., 2nd s. of the late Commander W. Clarke Haynes, R.N.; b. 187-, served through the South African War with the Cape Mounted Rifles (medal); went to Australia; joined the Australian Imperial Force after the outbreak of the European War, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 21–25 Aug. 1915; unm.

=HAYTER, CYRIL=, Lieut., 8th South Canterbury Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th and yst. s. of Commander Francis Hayter, R.N., later a run-holder in New South Wales and New Zealand, by his wife, Eugenie Elizabeth, dau. of Frederick Huddleston; b. Rollesby, Burkes Pass, South Canterbury, New Zealand, 4 Feb. 1890; educ. Christ’s College, Christchurch, New Zealand, where he was a member of the College Cadet Corps; served sometime in the Mackenzie Mounted Rifles (Volunteers), and was gazetted Lieut. 8th South Canterbury Mounted Rifles when the Territorial system came into force in New Zealand. On the outbreak of war he was one of the first to volunteer for Imperial service. He left for Egypt 16 Oct.; afterwards going to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action in the brilliant attack by the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and the 5th Connaught Rangers on Hill 60, on the Azmak Dere, Gallipoli, 27 Aug. 1915. At the time of his death he was the only officer of his squadron left, all the others having been killed or wounded in the previous fighting; unm. Lieut. Hayter was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was a very keen sportsman; in 1908 and 1909 respectively he won the featherweight and middle-weight boxing championships at Christ’s College, Christchurch, and was an excellent shot. Two elder brothers of his are now (1916) at the Front, one with the Royal Engineers in France, and the other with the New Zealand Force.

=HAYTER, GEORGE ALFRED=, Cooper Pensioner, 167166, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HAYTHORNTHWAITE, RYCHARDE MEAD=, 2nd Lieut., Special Reserve, 3rd. attd. 2nd. Battn. The East Kent Regiment (The Buffs), elder s. of the Rev. John Parker Haythornthwaite, of Agra Lodge, Northwood. Middlesex, M.A., Principal of St. John’s College, Agra, 1890–1911; Fellow of Allahabad University; by his wife, Izset, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., dau. of Samuel Mead, of Stratford-on-Avon; b. Agra, India, 4 Jan. 1894; educ. C.M.S. Children’s Home, Limpsfield; Haileybury College (Scholar, Head of the School 1912–13; Colour-Sergeant O.T.C.), and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Oct. 1913–July, 1914, Exhibitioner in History); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Buffs, 15 Aug. 1914; trained at Dover Sept. 1914–May, 1915; went to the front on 5 May, and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres on the 24th of that month; unm. He was buried outside the garden gate of a ruined cottage on the right-hand side of the Menin Road, about 1,000 yards beyond the level crossing of the Ypres-Roulois Railway in one of three graves. In a letter written to his parents the day he was killed he said: “At 2.30 a.m. this morning the Germans started a terrific bombardment, using their vile gas. Our lads were splendid and stuck it. About 5.30 a.m. we got a message to reinforce the firing line, with my Company, ‘B.’ Unfortunately there was very bad communication, and our 1st Platoon did not reinforce. I went out to try and find out what was happening, and worked my way up to the front line, about 1,000 yards ahead, and found out what was happening, and then returned to our trenches. ‘B’ Company immediately pushed forward, as the line wanted reinforcing, but I stayed back to report to Headquarters. After doing that I started with one other fellow to work my way up. The shrapnel was terrific, but our luck was in, and we reached a ruined house just behind the firing line, and found there a good many wounded, poor beggars. I got a stretcher party together and we pulled in several badly wounded fellows in a field, but unfortunately they sniped at us, the brutes! Two of our poor chaps were hit. Since then we have done what we can to make them comfortable, but it is awfully hard for them. We can do so little for them till dark, and even then it isn’t safe. The shelling is something terrific, one burst on this house knocking bits over our wounded, and gave a few more nasty cuts. All we can do is to keep boiling water—it is not safe to drink otherwise—and give them sips of tea and Bovril, of which we have luckily got a certain amount. Unfortunately it is very hot, and their thirst must be terrific. I know mine is. It is just that fiendish gas. I have had nothing to eat since 7 p.m. last night, it is now 4 p.m. Only a few sips of different things, and this gas keeps up a horrible choking feeling, which prevents one working as hard as one wants to. What will happen to us I do not know. I think we are advancing now, and in that case all ought to be all right”; a Sergt.-Major W. Dunlop, Durham L.I., wrote: “I was with him on that memorable day. ‘Whit Monday,’ for about 10½ hours, at about 500 yds. from the Germans, without a British soldier in front and about 1,000 yds. from the nearest troops behind, attending to the wounded. First, I set away with a stretcher, my companion was either shot or fainted, so I went across to the ruins of an old cottage. There were a dozen or so wounded, with a wounded Corporal trying to dress the other poor souls. I could get no assistance there, so had to go to our reserves behind for someone to help me to get the stretcher in. I returned with two brave chaps, and on my return met Lieut. Haythornthwaite. He asked particulars and said it was certain death to venture out. I said, ‘I’m risking it.’ His answer was, ‘If you go, I’m coming also.’ The four of us set out, but could not find man or stretcher, and it was only by the protection of God Himself that we returned, for nothing human could have protected us from the murderous fire the brutes sent towards us, but not one of us was hit, thanks to God. It was after that I found the qualities of your son. The dressings of the wounded were not as they should have been, bandaged by little experienced hands, so your son and myself set about to try to stop the bleeding of the wounded.... After a while we got all made as comfortable as we could under the circumstances.... So he set to, and got a fire going, and we got some Bovril made. It was a God-send for the poor souls, as the water was not fit to drink if it had not been boiled, and the continual cry of the wounded was ‘water.’ It was during the time the water was boiling I saw your son sitting and writing the letter you eventually got, but the contents he did not mention at the time. After a while, the counter-attack started. Our troops started to advance. What a sight! Men falling right and left, but still the advance continued until they reached our cottage. Your son collected men on one side of the cottage, myself the other, and got them to dig themselves in so as to stop the brutes from advancing, and after a while we got a position formed which seemed strong enough to hold them in check. And then came more work, the poor souls who had been shot were either helped, or carried to us for ‘First Aid,’ and on several occasions your son and myself went out and brought men in, and it was on one of these that he got hit, the bullet passing through his left shoulder. I was dressing a chap with a finger blown off when it happened, but two men—I don’t know their names—carried him in, and set about dressing him. He called for me, and asked me to adjust his bandages, and said, ‘If there are any men about doing nothing tell them to try and get a rifle as every man is needed.’.... He was hit somewhere about 5 p.m., and after he was wounded he was as calm and cool as ever. He ordered a man—I don’t know his name—to take everything from his pockets, spectacles included, with the instructions, ‘See these things handed over to my people.’ The man repeated the words as he gave me the things I forwarded on to you.” Private James White, Royal Fusiliers, who brought him into the ruined cottage after he was wounded, in an interview with Lieut. Haythornthwaite’s father said that shortly after 4 p.m. the British counter attack began in great force. The Northumbrian Brigade led the attack, and one platoon as it drew near to the ruined cottage in one of its rushes, was left without its officer. He fell wounded and was brought in and laid with the others. Lieut. Haythornthwaite then said to him “Shall I take your men on?” He went forth to do so, and was almost immediately shot himself, and was left on the field until brought in by Private James White. This account is not inconsistent with that given by Sergt-Major Dunlop, as he admits that he did not actually see him fall, as he was busily engaged with the wounded. Lieut. Haythornthwaite was a keen athlete and long-distance runner at Haileybury. He won the half mile, under 16, in 1910, and the open mile in 1912. He also won his College Colours at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, for athletics and football, and organised the Regimental Sports whilst in training at Dover.

=HAYWARD, ARTHUR CHARLES=, Private, No. 51231, 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Richard William Hayward, of The Mount, Hooe, Battle, co. Sussex, Mercantile Clerk, by his first wife, Susannah, dau. of Joseph Bleak; b. The Mount, Hooe, 29 Oct. 1882; educ. Castle Gate School, Lewes; and went to Canada in 1904. He had always had a strong desire for a military career, and had been a member of a voluntary corps both in England and Canada. On the outbreak of the European War he threw up his post of ranch manager in California, proceeding to Victoria, B.C., where he enlisted with the Victoria Fusiliers, and was one of a draft from that regt. despatched to England to reinforce Princess Patricia’s L.I., but on arrival on Salisbury Plain was attached to the 16th Battn. Canadian Scottish. He took part in their historic action in the wood near Ypres for recovery of the French guns on the night of 22–23 April, 1915, receiving his mortal wound immediately after that action, in which he had borne a gallant part. He was buried in the new military cemetery at Poperinghe; unm.

=HAYWARD, HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6706), 220756, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAYWARD, THOMAS ALEXANDER=, A.B., S.S. 3057, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HAZEL, JOHN THOMAS=, Private, No. 12019, 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late William Hazel, of 40, Sutherland Street, Middlesbrough, by his wife, Mary Eliza (43, Lloyd Street, Middlesbrough), dau. of James Hutchinson, of Whitby; b. Middlesbrough, 13 Jan. 1891; educ. Linthorpe Schools there; went to Canada in 1908; and was a Farmer; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force; came over with the first contingent; went to France in Feb. 1915, and died in No. 11 General Hospital, Boulogne, 26 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; unm.

=HAZELDEN, JAMES=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 4555), 167431, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HEAD, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Rifleman, No. 1874, 1/18th (London Irish Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of George Head, of Vine Cottage, Limpsfield, Surrey, Decorator, by his wife, Annie M., dau. of Walter Miles; b. Limpsfield, 17 Dec. 1894; educ. there; was a Draper’s Assistant at Sir Frederick Cook’s, in St. Paul’s Churchyard; volunteered on the declaration of war and joined the London Irish Rifles, 11 Aug. 1914; went to France, 9 March, and was killed in action at Loos, 26 Sept. 1915; unm. Buried at Noeux-les-Mines. His officer (to whom he was acting as servant) wrote: “He was a splendid little fellow. Absolutely without fear and the cheeriest man in the Company. He was by my side as we left the front line trench for the attack on Loos, and he fell very early in the charge.”

=HEAD, REGINALD=, Capt., 1st Battn. The Border Regt., only s. of the late John Oswald Head, of Hackwood, J.P., by his wife, Dorothy (Hackwood, Hexham), dau. of William Kirsopp; b. Hackwood, co. Northumberland, 25 Nov. 1885; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to The Border Regt., 24 Jan. 1906, and promoted Lieut., 13 April, 1909, and Capt., 20 Dec. 1914, and served with his regt. in India and Burma. On the outbreak of the European war he was serving with the Border Regt. in Maymyo, Burma, and in Jan. 1915, returned with it to England, where they were stationed at Rugby, afterwards going out with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Krithia, 28 April, 1915. He m. at St. Ambrose Church, Bournemouth, 5 Feb. 1914, Agnes Margaret (Sedaw, West Cliff Road, Bournemouth), yst. dau. of the late William Naunton Waller, of Bealings, Suffolk, D.L., and had a dau., Margaret Dorothy Pamela, b. 21 March, 1915.

=HEAD, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, Private, No. 169, B Coy., 4th Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late William Head, of Bristol, Carpenter, by his wife, Charlotte (Stafford Street, Bristol), dau. of Robert Groves; b. Bristol, 26 April, 1890; educ. there; went to Australia 4 Oct. 1912, and entered the service of the Hospital at Parramatta; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 17 Aug. 1914; left for Egypt in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and was killed in action there, 10 June, 1915; unm. Buried in a small cemetery behind the firing line. Major Charles M. Macnaughton wrote to Mrs. Head: “You have probably before this heard of the death of your son, and how he died gallantly fighting.... Your son very nobly stopped with me until the stretcher-bearers came and took me down to the beach. Believe me, I am very grateful ..., and as I am unable to thank him personally, I write to you to express my gratitude.”

=HEAL, WILLIAM FRANCIS=, A.B., J. 13229, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HEALY, THOMAS=, Private, No. 5195, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Edward Healy, of Russelstown, Milltown, co. Galway, Farmer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Hughes, of Ballyglass, co. Mayo; b. Russelstown, March, 1876: educ. Dalgin School; enlisted 1 Oct. 1903, and after serving his time joined the Reserve; was employed in some iron works at Sheffield. On mobilisation he rejoined, went to the Front 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 1 Nov. 1914; unm.

=HEARN, CHARLES JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./8592, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HEARN, EDGAR FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7604), S.S. 102977, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HEARN, JAMES SAMUEL=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 10371), 299889, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was sunk in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HEASTMAN, JOHN EDWARD=, Private, No. 12/1428, 16th Waikato Regt., Auckland Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest surviving s. of the late John Edward Heastman, of Clapton, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Christopher Saunders; b. Clapton, London, N.E., 24 Oct. 1887; educ. at Homerton Row Elementary School; was a Dairy Farmer. Served some time in the Essex Territorials; went to New Zealand in 1911, and finally settled at Hobsonville, Auckland; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on or about 24 Oct.; left for Egypt with the second reinforcement in Dec.; was drafted into the main body in or about March, 1915, being one of five men chosen to reinforce the main body; was taken ill and had to remain in hospital during the landing of the main body at Gallipoli, 25–26 April, 1915, but joined his regt. there 8 May, 1915, and was reported missing after the fighting on 8 Aug. following. On 25 Jan. 1916, he was reported “believed killed in action at Gallipoli on 8 Aug. 1915” by a Court of Inquiry held in Egypt. He was unm.

=HEATH, ALBERT ARTHUR=, Private, No. 11854, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Arthur Heath (18, Wilson Street, Winchmore Hill, N.), Gardener at Carter Page’s, 52–53, London Wall, by his wife, Kate, dau. of the late Jesse Knight, of Lodsworth, Sussex; b. Chichester 8 May, 1896; educ. Central Boys’ School there, and worked first at a Dairy Farm and then in a Greengrocery business at Winchmore Hill. After the outbreak of war he enlisted on 9 Sept. 1914, and made rapid progress with his training and was complimented by his company officer for good marksmanship. He left England with a draft for his regt. on or about 14 Jan., went straight into the firing line and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 7 Feb. 1915; unm.

=HEATH, ALFRED JAMES=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10771), 205750, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HEATH, GERALD COUSSMAKER=, Corpl., No. 29524, 16th Battn. (72nd Canadian Seaforths) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late Col. Lewis Forbes Heath, Indian Army, formerly commanding 10th (now 110th) Mahrattas, by his wife, Susan Wilhelmina (Failand, Grosvenor, Paignton, Devon), dau. of Ezekiel Charles Petgrave; b. Mount Abu, Rajputana, India, 3 May, 1888; educ. Wellington College, Berks, and on leaving there went out to Canada, and for the five years before the war had been in Vancouver City, where he joined the 72nd Seaforths in 1911. On the declaration of war in August, 1914, he volunteered for service overseas, and left Canada with the first Canadian Contingent on 3 Oct. 1914; went to France early in Feb. 1915, and was mortally wounded in action at Langemarck, 25 April, 1915. He was carried off the field, but died shortly afterwards without recovering consciousness; unm. The Major of his regt. wrote: “His work in the hard fighting in which we were engaged on 22 April, and afterwards, was most excellent, and he had been noted for distinction for his gallant conduct.” Another officer who joined with reinforcements after the action, wrote: “Major Rae and all his comrades have nothing but praise for his work. Several times he volunteered and took out stretcher parties with wounded officers and men, always under fire. His efforts were evidently of the finest. He has been recommended for distinguished service recognition.” Heath was a fine athlete, and won many medals and prizes for hurdling and the broad jump. In 1912 he won the championship of British Columbia for hurdling, and the following year became champion hurdler of Canada. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915].

=HEATH, VOLTELIN PERCY=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Horse Guards, only s. of Sir James Heath, of Oxenden Hall, Market Harborough, 1st Bart., M.P., North-West Stafford (1892–1906), by his wife, Euphemia Celina, 2nd dau. of Pieter Gerhard Van-der-Byl, of Cape Town, and Elsenwood, co. Surrey; b. Clayton, Newcastle, co. Stafford, 10 Jan. 1889; educ. Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford; gazetted to the Royal Horse Guards, 21 Oct. 1911, and promoted Lieut., 13 April, 1912; left for France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; was wounded in action at Néry, near Compiègne, 1 Sept., during the retreat from Mons, and was taken to the Château Baron, where he died, 4 Sept. following, and was buried in the garden of the Château; unm. His Colonel, Viscount Crichton, wrote: “Volly was wounded yesterday in a skirmish we had. He led his troop most gallantly, and first got a bullet in his thigh, breaking the bone, and then was hit again in the head, so we had to leave him behind. The doctor tells me when he got up to him he was conscious and most awfully plucky.” Lieut. Heath took a Second in History Schools at Oxford, and was a great leader of all social and political movements of the time. He was Master of the Oxford Drag for two years, and Capt. of the polo team, and in 1914 played for his regt. in the Inter-regimental Polo Tournament.

=HEATLY, HENRY FRANCIS=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt. (attd. 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt.), s. of Henry Louis Heatly, of 89, Tufnell Park Road, London, Artist, by his wife, Kate Sophia, dau. of Charles Simmonds; b. London, 30 Aug. 1890; educ. University College School, and London University (B.Sc.), and on leaving the latter received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd Yorkshire Reserve of Officers, 2 April, 1913, and joined at Farnborough. On the declaration of war, he joined the 3rd Battn. at West Hartlepool; was attached to the 2nd East Lancashire Regt. in Oct. 1914; went to France with them that month, and was killed in action at Croix-Barbée, 22 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried in the East Lancashire cemetery there. Major A. A. Sanders wrote: “He was on duty with the company under my command on Monday, 22 Feb., and at about 2 p.m. he went with an Engineer officer to visit and inspect an advanced trench which is situated at no great distance from the German lines. He was talking to the Engineer Officer, Lieut. Drew, and also a subaltern, Lieut. Daw, of my company, when inadvertently he must have raised his head above the level of the parapet, and he was shot in the head by a German bullet. He became unconscious immediately, and passed away about five minutes later. Your son has been with my company ever since we left Hursely Park. He was a very good officer and very brave and fearless, and popular with the men under his command. I feel his loss in my company very much.” Both at School and University he took a keen interest in the O.T.C. At school he was the best shot during his last year, winning the Thompson Silver Rifle, and shot for the school three successive years in the Ashburton Competition at Bisley. He gained the “A” Certificate at school, among the first under Lord Haldane’s scheme for Reserve of Officers, and the “B” Certificate at the University.

=HEATON, EVELYN=, Private, No. 58005, 20th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of William Heaton, of 33, Victoria Road, Garswood, Lancashire, Colliery Engine Winder, by his wife, Anne, dau. of Joseph Barton; b. Ashton-in-Makerfield, co. Lancaster, 5 Aug. 1893; educ. Ashton Church of England School; went to Canada, 8 Aug. 1913, and in 1913 became Assayer of Silver at the McKingley Darragh Mine, Cobalt, Ontario; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Jan. 1915; came over with the second contingent, 24 May, 1915; went to France, 13 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action at Dickebusch, near Ypres, 14 Nov. 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “Will you forgive me intruding on your sorrow just to tell you how much we, Tim’s comrades, sympathise with you in that sorrow, and how fully we share it with you. We have lived, shared blankets and grub with him, ever since he came to us in Toronto. And we got to love him for his cheerfulness, his courage, his generosity. There isn’t a man in the section who has ever had a quarrel with him. On our route marches in training, when we were cold and wet and tired—almost played out—it was Tim’s smile and Tim’s song that earned for us the name of the ‘singing section.’ There was not a nicer fellow, a kinder fellow, or a cleaner fellow than Tim, and I would like you to know, as I do, that he was an example to us all, not only in cheerfulness under hardship, and courage under pain, but clean living in barracks. In all the months he was with us there isn’t an episode that you would not be proud to know of. And there isn’t a man that isn’t keenly feeling the loss of our lovable laughing Tim. He was shot coming in on Sunday morning. Our trenches here are all filled with water and caved in, and there is an open space of perhaps 20 ft. that a man must cross to get to his gun. Three men crossed in safety, but the Germans must have seen and they got him just about half-way across. The bullet broke his arm and spine, though we didn’t know his spine was broken at first. He laughed when we went to help him, saying he had got his ticket for England. But he felt his legs dead, and he knew though no one told him. He was singing to himself going down on the stretcher, and never a word about his pain, nor was there to the end. He only lasted a few minutes after we got him to the dressing station. The stretcher-bearers say he was the best wounded man they have handled. So he died as he was, ever an example to the rest of us. And we, who loved him and miss him hourly in our work and fun, want to offer you, his mother, our deepest sympathy in your bereavement. And we wanted to tell you how he died bravely in his duty. Throughout this letter I have used the name we gave him, the one we knew him best by, though, of course, I know his real name was Evelyn. In Toronto there is a big firm, Timothy Eaton & Co., and we adopted that name for him because of the similarity in Heaton and Eaton. This letter is written by one of his comrades on No. 4 gun. The sentiments are those of us all; it is at the request of the others that I am writing.”

=HEATON, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 5698, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of William Heaton, of 1/11, Stoke Street, Birmingham, by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Gregson; b. Birmingham, co. Warwick, 8 Sept. 1883; educ. Severn Street Council School, Birmingham; enlisted, 1 Sept. 1904; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 23 March, 1911; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914; died in No. 12 General Hospital, Rouen, 6 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at Soupir; unm. Buried in the Cemetière des Brugeres, Rouen.

=HEDEN, ALFRED HOWARD=, Sergt., No. 1226, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Alfred Henry Heden, of 11, Grove Road, Barnes, S.W., by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Samuel Skeats; b. Peckham, 25 Oct. 1894; educ. Wandsworth Secondary School; was a Clerk; joined the Kensingtons, Oct. 1911, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for active service; trained at Abbots Langley, and went to France, 3 Nov. 1914. He took part in the actions at Neuve Chapelle in March and at Aubers Ridge on 9 May, 1915, and was seen to fall shot through the lungs at the latter, and was reported killed. Two months later a letter was received from him saying he was wounded and a prisoner of war; he died of his wounds at Valenciennes, 25 July, 1915, and was buried there; unm.

=HEDGE, LEONARD AUGUSTUS=, L.-Corpl., No. 2471, and Dispatch Rider, 2nd Montgomery Yeomanry (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Charles Edward Hedge, of Stoke-on-Trent, Brewer, by his wife, Mary Ann (54, Broomhill Road, Ipswich), dau. of George Thomas William Mugliston, M.D., of Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex; b. Stoke-on-Trent, 14 June, 1888; educ. Dean Close School, Cheltenham; and when war broke out was Senior Bank Clerk at the United Counties Bank, Ltd., Brecon, South Wales. He volunteered, and joined the Montgomery Yeomanry, 29 Sept. 1914, and was killed in a motor cycle accident at Welshpool, co. Salop, 16 June, 1915, while going through his course of training; unm.

=HEDGES, HENRY THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 8916, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HEDGES, HERBERT=, Private, No. 9798, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 20 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action.

=HEDGES, RONALD EGERTON=, Rifleman, No. 2869, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Frederick John Hedges, of The Shrubberies, George Lane, South Woodford, by his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth, dau. of John Abraham, of Dunstable, Beds; b. South Woodford, co. Essex, 9 Dec. 1896; educ. Woodford College and Loughton School; was a Marine Engineer; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the London Rangers, 9 Sept. 1914; went to France, 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 29 April, 1915; unm. Buried at Verlórenhock. His Adjutant wrote of him that: “He was brave and cheerful, one of our best ... a keen soldier, eager at all times to do his duty.”

=HEELEY, ARNOLD=, Private, No. 3426, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Abraham Heeley, of 20, Eastfield Place, Sutton Mill, near Keighley, Yorks; b. co. York; enlisted 10 March, 1900; served in South Africa, 15 April, 1902, to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps, “Cape Colony,” “South Africa, 1902”), and in Egypt, 16 Jan. 1908 to 23 March, 1911; obtained his discharge, 9 March, 1912; re-enlisted following the outbreak of the European War, 22 Aug. 1914; went to France, 11 Sept., and died 23 Oct. following, of wounds received in action at St. Julien; unm. Buried in St. Julien Churchyard.

=HEFFERNAN, WILLIAM PATRICK=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Irish Regt., attached 1st Gloucesters, 2nd s. of William Kickham Heffernan, of Riversdale, Killenaule, co. Tipperary, and Harlow Moor Drive, Harrogate, M.D., J.P. co. York; b. Riversdale, 10 Dec. 1885; educ. Ampleforth College, Yorkshire, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he took honours in Mathematics. On leaving Trinity he settled down at Brittas Cashel, co. Tipperary, and kept a number of hunters, but on the outbreak of war applied for a commission, and was gazetted to the 3rd Reserve Battn. of the Royal Irish Regt. 15 Aug. 1915, being later attached to the Gloucesters. He was wounded at La Bassée in Feb. and was invalided to the Hospital de Cimiz, Nice, but rejoined, and was killed in action at Festubert, 9 May, 1915, leading the company, his company officer having been previously killed. While at Trinity he won a number of prizes, including the ’Varsity heavyweight at boxing and the Viceroy’s quarter-mile, which in 1911 he did in 51 seconds. Lieut. Heffernan was a regular follower of the Tipperary Hounds, and was noted in the south of Ireland as a keen and fearless rider in the Point-to-Point.

=HEGARTY, DENNIS=, A.B., 234197, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HELLIWELL, JOSEPH GRANT=, B.A.Sc., Capt., 1st Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Grant Helliwell, of 526, Confed. Life Building, Toronto, Canada, Architect, by his wife, Anna Maria, dau. of the late Isaac James Biggs Fitzsimons; b. Toronto, 26 Nov. 1888; educ. Toronto Public School, Collegiate Institute, and Toronto University, from which he graduated in the department of applied science with the degree of B.A.Sc. in 1910, and was an engineer. He was a member of the Cadet Corps at Jarvis Street Collegiate and of the Engineers Corps at the University, in which he held rank of Lieut., and joined the 21st (Essex Fusiliers) Regt. at Windsor, Ontario, in 1911. After taking his course at London, Ontario, he was gazetted Capt., 1 April, 1912, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, was the first officer in the Windsor Regt. to offer his services. He left Windsor with his regt. on 21 Aug., and after a few weeks at Valcartier, crossed to England with the 1st Contingent and went into training on Salisbury Plain, where he was given command of the Salisbury Piquet. They went to France in Feb., and he was killed in action at the Battle of Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unm. Lieut. Brian Henderson wrote: “At Givenchy the 1st Battn. did the attack. His company and D Coy. were to start the attack. Our artillery had been shelling the German trench and had made a very good job of cutting the wire. On Tuesday, 15 June, the artillery opened up a terrific bombardment of the German trench and kept this up for three hours when at 5.58 p.m. a mine was blown up. One minute later these two companies went over our parapet and in a few seconds had arrived at the German trench which contained only a lot of dead; but machine guns on the flank were working, also the German artillery was doing terrific damage and the men began to fall in large numbers. At this trench Capt. Wilkinson was hit, and Joe took over the company and led them on to the next trench. An officer who saw him leading his men said it was magnificent, especially as he thought Joe had already been hit in the arm. He got as far as the next trench, but was seen to fall with a bullet through his head. The trenches taken had to be given up as the supporting divisions were unable to get on, and it was impossible to stay out with both flanks unprotected.” His younger brother, Lieut. M. R. Helliwell, is now (1916) on active service.

=HELLYER, GEORGE PEABODY=, Corpl., No. 1972, 1/5th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John William Hellyer, of Western, Kirk Ella, E. Yorks, by his wife, Sally May, dau. of John Harris, of Brixham, Devon, and the nephew of Charles Hellyer, of Brixham; b. Hull, 24 Nov. 1889, and educ. by a private tutor there. He enlisted the day war was declared, 4 Aug. 1914; was promoted Corpl., and died of wounds received in action at Boulogne Hospital, France, 21 May, 1915, and was buried in the Boulogne English cemetery; unm. Sergt. Benbow, of his Coy., wrote: “I was with Corpl. Hellyer when he received his wounds. It happened on Sunday, 16 May, when our company were ordered to charge the German position in front of us. It was while charging that he received a slight wound in the foot which compelled him to drop down. I was bringing in wounded comrades when I found him and a brother N.C.O. dragging a wounded sergt. of another regt., and I went to their assistance. While doing so a Maxim gun was turned upon us and poor George got it all. One through the right thigh and two in the arm. We dressed him in the open field and then brought him safely to our trench. He was then carried out by the stretcher-bearers to the dressing station, and it was with deep regret we heard of him dying of his wounds. He was a true soldier and bore his wounds with great strength as we fetched him in. He gave us every assistance and did not murmur. He was quite conscious and cheerful. He was well liked by the men of his section and platoon, and we all feel his loss greatly.” His cousin, Lieut. Sidney H. Hellyer, was killed in action, 28 April, 1915 (see his notice).

=HELLYER, JAMES=, Btn. Leading Stoker, C.G., 308293, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HELLYER, SIDNEY HANNAFORD=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. The East Yorkshire Regt. (Machine Gun Section) (T.F.), yst. s. of Charles Hellyer, of Wolborough, Brixham, Devon, formerly of Lamwath Hall, Sutton-on-Hull, J.P., late Managing Director of Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co., Ltd., Hull, by his wife, Jane Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. William Hannaford; b. Hull, 15 Aug. 1889; educ. Malvern College; was a director and partner in the well-known firm of Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co., Hull, leaving on the outbreak of war to join the Territorial Force. Having taken an active part in the Cadet Corps at Malvern College, he soon qualified for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn. The East Yorkshire Regt. 12 Sept. 1914. The 4th East Yorks first went into action on 24 April, 1915, in the neighbourhood of Pilkem and St. Julien. In a letter, written 26 April, Lieut. Hellyer gave the following description of this action: “On Thursday night we got the order to parade in full marching order just as we were turning in, and we could tell from the bombardment that was going on that something was doing. We marched the men immediately from our various billets to our alarm post, which was a grass field adjacent to Battn. Headquarters in the little village, and were there ordered to lie down and sleep as we were. Dawn came, and we unstiffened our dew-damp limbs and got some coffee. I then commenced to shave, and was just wetting my brush when the order came to march off immediately. In went our mess tins and gear, rolled our coats, and marched down the road where (Friday morning) rations (a little tin of beef each, six biscuits, bacon, cheese, tea and sugar) were issued. A train of 40 London motor buses came up marvellously from somewhere, and we were run out to a town which was being heavily bombarded, where we lay down in some huts. At 2 a.m. on Saturday morning we were ordered out to line some trenches by a canal which were bombarded with shrapnel at about 8 a.m. At 11 a.m. we were marched to a concentration point under shrapnel fire, causing some casualties. At the point of concentration one of the Divisional Staff Officers ordered me back again to guide up as quickly as possible another battn. of our brigade, as the situation was critical. This I did in as quick time as I could, and I was lucky enough to get back with them to the concentration point before our battn. was in action. As soon as I arrived back our battn. went into action in the open (not in trenches) against a section of the enemy who were occupying a village on a ridge and who were backed by excellent artillery—by this time I was tired. The 4th East Yorks went into action at about 4 o’clock on that afternoon (Saturday, 24 April, 1915) for the first time in the history of the battn., and a bloody battle it was. We advanced in artillery formation across half a mile of open country and under a very heavy bombardment both of shrapnel and high explosive shells, and many men fell—fell absolutely heroically, there is no other word for it. I would never have believed that hardened men would have marched on under that bombardment, and these men, already very tired and two nights sleepless, having carried a load weighing 60–70 lbs. since we left Newcastle, and hardly having their boots off since that time, saw battle for the first time as if they were just going to the barber’s for a shave. Three times within 20 minutes a shell struck the ground near the men I have the honour to lead, once within 10 yards, and when the high explosive shells strike they dive into the earth and the end of the world seems to come. They blow a hole just about the size of the pond in the back field at Lamwath, and the contents of the hole are blown right up into the skies, much higher than a trawler’s mast, so high that one has to lie on one’s face what seems like 20 seconds until all the earth and fragments have fallen. When one strikes as near as that one is covered with earth, so that there is a little difficulty in rising under the weight of it. The noise deafens and slightly stuns one. One shell blew us down in a body without killing one of us. This bombardment went on incessantly, not a shell now and then, but all the time shells bursting, sometimes two or three coming near the same spot at once. After the third time we were covered with earth, and a man of mine shouted to me: ‘If these B—s don’t ring the bell soon we’ll go and give them their money back.’ After advancing 20 minutes thus the high explosive shells ceased, and we went into the zone of the rifle and machine-gun fire, still in daylight and over open fallow land. They never worried a bit, never faltered, never even laid down to the shrapnel, a moment longer than was essential; when they heard the shriek of a coming shell just walked determinedly on into the jaws of it. Col. Shaw was shot dead at about this stage. My Capt., B. Farrel, was shot through the heart a minute or two after. Major Thielmann met instant death, and the man who went to help him was shot as he rose to do it. When we had advanced in rushes sufficiently near to the village, bayonets were fixed, and the Germans went back from the village without waiting for the assault. It was then dusk. We collected our men, gathered up and carried back what poor fellows we could, and marched the remainder back to some trenches about 500 yards in rear, leaving the position to be occupied by other troops, who dug themselves in. We laid down in some shallow trenches in a wood in the rain that night too tired to eat. Next morning (Sunday) we called our rolls, and then marched our weary, stiff heroes to occupy some trenches about a mile away, 500 yards in rear of some trenches which were being heavily attacked. We had to march to these trenches over a shrapnel-swept road, doubling over the most dangerous portion—at this stage Major Easton and Capt. Easton were both slightly wounded in the head, just grazes and not serious—and resting in the ditches occasionally at the sides. The Germans saw that we were entering these unoccupied trenches and bombarded them heavily. The trench my platoon occupied was dug in a clean grass field. Before we had been in it one hour there was not a blade of grass to be seen growing for 30 yards in rear of it; the front of it we could not see. A dug-out at one end disappeared in the air. Another dug-out in which were Lieut. Grindell (a fellow-subaltern of A Coy.), myself and about five men was blown in on us. I had to extricate poor old Grindell from the wreckage, and his knees were badly bruised, but he will be about again in a day or two. As soon as dusk came they ceased shelling us, and we then set to and worked like blazes to rebuild the broken parts of the trench. We could also get some doubtful water then, and sent Grindell to the dressing station. Water has been our trouble. At 11 p.m. (Sunday night) we were ordered to come out of the trenches and march back to a rest camp five miles in rear, and a terrible march it was. The road was swept with shrapnel for three of the miles. The villages which in times of peace had been on it were mere broken skeletons of their former selves. Many of the houses were in flames. The road had great shell holes in it, which parties of men were filling in with the broken houses in order to make it passable for transport, which crossed it at the gallop. Capt. Morrill, at about this stage, I think, got three shrapnel holes in one leg. Dead horses, broken wagons, mules, and occasionally men, strewed the road throughout its length, and the smell of them was sickening. The men at this stage were so tired that every time we got into the ditches for a rest we had difficulty in waking them to move on again, even in the roar of the shell bursts; many were being helped along by their pals. At 1 a.m. this morning (Monday, 26 April) we arrived at this camp for our well-earned rest. We walked into our huts, put our heads on our packs, and fell asleep with the roar of the battle still going on, and our artillery, part of which has a position near here, roaring away for all it was worth. I woke 10 hours afterwards stiff and hungry, and with a thirst I haven’t yet succeeded in quenching, in spite of the eight pint-mugs of tea I have drunk at intervals to-day.” Two days later, 28 April, his platoon had orders to entrench west of Gedde’s detachment, between the canal and the Pilkem road, supported by a brigade of a north country Territorial Division, which had arrived from England only three days before. He was encouraging his men to dig themselves into the ground when a shell fell in their midst, killing four outright and wounding eight, including 2nd Lieut. Hellyer, who died in consequence of his wounds at No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, France, 8 May, 1915; unm. His body was brought home and buried at Brixham, South Devon. Sergt. T. Hurd, A Coy., 4th Battn. East Yorkshires, thus wrote of his death: “No doubt you have heard of Lieut. Sidney Hellyer being wounded. I will tell you how it happened. We had been in the trenches two days, when we received orders to move nearer the enemy’s lines. Just as we reached the new position and were digging ourselves in, shrapnel shells burst right into the middle of our company, killing four outright and wounding eight, including Lieut. Hellyer, who had his arm blown off at the shoulder, the other arm, both legs and cheek injured. But wounded as he was, he would not let any one touch him until all the others had been attended to. I have never met a braver man in my life, and men in our platoon owed their lives to him time and time again by the way he handled them. After he fell he still exhorted his men to hurry up and cut themselves into the ground. I have gleaned that he was courageously fetched from the exposed position to the trench, where every possible care was exerted to alleviate his terrible sufferings. On a trench ambulance he was carried towards the clearing hospital, but in the darkness the bearers lost their way. No portion or stump of the left arm remaining, the men of the Medical Corps strove to stop the bleeding by pressing their fingers to the wounds. At the clearing hospital he dictated a letter to his parents, telling them he was wounded, but that he should find his way to England by easy stages, and not to worry about him. But not one word as to the terrible nature of his injuries nor of the awful sufferings during the tedious and prolonged transference from the battlefield to the hospital.” Numerous other letters from his superior officers and men attest in the highest terms his lovable qualities and ability as a leader of men in camp, in trench, and in action. His cousin, Corpl. G. P. Hellyer, also died of wounds (see his notice).

=HELPS, FRANK BOVETT=, Rifleman, No. 2471, 16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Edward William Helps, of Westleigh, Durleigh Road, Bridgwater, Incorporated Accountant, Overseer for Borough of Bridgwater, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of E. J. Bovett, M.R.C.V.S.; b. Westfield, Bridgwater, co. Somerset, 11 May, 1894; educ. Dr. Morgan’s School, Bridgwater, and Royal Grammar School, Colchester, and on leaving there was apprenticed to Mr. A. J. Beare, of Taunton, Draper, and after serving his time, went to the Brixton Bon Marché; enlisted, 11 Aug. 1914; went to France, 24 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 23 July, 1915, while on outpost duty; unm.

=HELYAR, MAURICE HOWARD=, Capt., Rifle Brigade, elder s. of Francis John Helyar, of 11, Royal Crescent, Bath, late Royal Bodyguard, by his wife, the Hon. Ursula Georgiana, née Addington, 2nd dau. of William Wells, 3rd Viscount Sidmouth; b. 78, Eaton Place, London, S.W., 18 Nov. 1879; educ. Horris Hill, and Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Rifle Brigade, from the Militia, 20 Dec. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 18 Dec. 1900, and Capt., 30 May, 1905; served in the South African War, 1902 (Queen’s medal with clasp), and Somaliland, 1903 (medal with clasp), and with the Expeditionary Force in France, 21 Dec. 1914, to 25 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres on the latter date, and buried at Dickebusche. Capt. Helyar m. at Winchester, 21 Nov. 1914, Vera, dau. of Edward Evans-Lombe, of Bylaugh Park, and Rickthorn, Norwich, and had a dau., Maureen Howard, b. (posthumous), 25 Aug. 1915.

=HEMMING, FREDERICK THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 14309, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HENCHER, JOSEPH=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21848, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HENDER, JOHN HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4914), S.S. 104378, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HENDERSON, ALEC STEWART=, Capt., 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Robert Stewart Henderson, of 18, Rutland Gate, London, S.W., by his wife, Laura, dau. of John Cooper Forster; b. Dacca, Eastern Bengal, 28 Jan. 1888; educ. Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge; joined the Territorial Force in 1908, and was gazetted Capt. Territorial Reserve of Officers, 25 July, 1913, and posted to the 1st City of London Royal Fusiliers in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, his appointment to rank as from 5 Aug. After eight months in Malta he went to France with his regt. on 10 March, 1915, and was shot through the head, 24 April, 1915, by a stray bullet, while in a trench superintending the throwing of bombs on the barbed wire entanglements, and died the next day, 25 April; unm. He was buried at Sailly-sur-Lys. His Colonel wrote: “The regt. lost in him one of its best officers. I do wish to express to you my highest appreciation of what he did for the regt. through his conscientious work and great ability. As such his memory will live in the regt.”; and the Adjutant: “He was a universal favourite, his company really loved him. He was a good keen soldier, and we can ill afford to lose an officer of his experience.” He had qualified for appointment as instructor of musketry.

=HENDERSON, ALFRED CECIL=, Private, No. 23150, 3rd Battn. (82nd Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Henry William Henderson, of Union Road, Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada, by his wife, Eudevilla, dau. of Francis Simmonds, of Crapaud, P.E.I.; b. Royalty Junction, Prince Edward’s Island, 12 April, 1895; joined the 82nd Regt. in 1911, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for service overseas, and left P.E.I. for Valcartier in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct., and was drafted into Princess Patricia’s C.L.I.; crossed to France, 16 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action from the concussion of a shell at Hooge, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 8 May, 1915; unm.

=HENDERSON, JOHN McLUCKIE=, Private, No. 13564, Telephone Section, 12th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, eldest s. of Thomas Brownlie Henderson, of Ballingry Place, Newmains, Lanarkshire, late of Hamilton, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Alexander McKay; b. Burnbank, Hamilton, 28 Aug. 1897; educ. Glenlee Public School there, and at Fallin Public School, Stirling; enlisted, 4 Sept. 1914; went to France, 29 April, and was killed in the charge of the Royal Scots at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, at the same time as his friend, John Baxter, who had enlisted with him. At Fallin School he won the Dux Medal, and was patrol leader in the Boy Scouts.

=HENDERSON, ROBERT HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6216), 187023, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HENDERSON, WILLIAM SLATER=, Armourer’s Mate, M. 4203, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HENLEY, FRANK=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23584, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HENLEY, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9147), S.S. 103968, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HENLEY, GEORGE CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (M.) 304539, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HENNESSY, IVAN THOMAS=, S.B.A., M. 877, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HENRY, CHARLES BURRELL=, Leading Seaman, 172972, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HENRY, FRANK=, Private, No. 2092, 1/5th Battn. Royal West Kent Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Henry, Bootmaker; b. 7 June, 1867; died at Jhansi, India, 21 July, 1915, of heatstroke, while on active service. He m. at Dartford, 17 Oct. 1914, Frances Annie (9, Priory Hill, Dartford, Kent), dau. of Harry Longhurst; s.p.

=HENRY, JOSEPH=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HENRY, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4971), 200091, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HENSELEIT, FREDERICK=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16799, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HENSHAW, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Sapper, No. 1617, 2nd Home Counties F.C., R.E. (T.F.), s. of William Frederick Henshaw; b. Ashford, co. Kent, 27 Aug. 1874; was a Bricklayer; served in South Africa with the 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteer Corps (Sussex Regt.), 1901–02, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 22 Dec. 1914, to 20 April, 1915; took part in the attack on Hill 60, and was killed by a shell on returning to billets, 20 April, 1915. He m. at Crowborough, 16 Aug. 1902, Lilian Mary (23, Cornwall Road, Bexhill-on-Sea), dau. of George Martin, and had three children: Harold William George, b. 9 May, 1903; Arthur Roy, b. 21 June, 1907; and Gladys Evelyn May, b. 12 May, 1911.

=HENSON, HERBERT EDWARD=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 187848, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HENSON, LEONARD=, Private, No. 7290, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late Frank Henson, of Loughborough, Labourer, by his wife, Ann; b. Loughborough, 7 Aug. 1890; educ. Emmanuel Boys’ School there; enlisted 11 June, 1907, served seven years and then joined the Leicestershire Constabulary, and at the time of the outbreak of the war was stationed at New Swannington. He rejoined on mobilisation, was wounded on 23 Sept. 1914, by a shell at the Battle of the Aisne, and died in Claridge’s Hotel, Paris, two days later; unm. The doctor wrote that he was brought in on the night of the 23rd, and that after being “very brave and patient, he passed away quietly at half-past four on Friday the 25th.” He was buried in the Plantin Cemetery; a company of French soldiers followed and fired the last shots.

=HENSON, STANLEY BENSKIN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Somerset L.I., only s. of William John Henson, of 2, Derby Street, Mayfair, W., and Elmsett Hall, Wedmore, co. Somerset, Physician, by his wife, Minnie, dau. of the late George Niesigh, of Beckenham, Kent; b. Upper Norwood, 17 June, 1888; educ. King’s School, Bruton, Somerset, and Pembroke College, Oxford; and obtained a commission in the Colonial Police in 1909, and was stationed at Singapore and Penang. He joined the Special Reserve of Officers of the Somerset L.I., 17 Sept. 1913, and failing to obtain leave from the Straits Authorities, resigned his post there, came home to England at his own expense, and obtained a commission in the 1st Battn. Somerset L.I., in Oct. 1914; went to France in Nov., and was killed in action in an attack on the German trenches at Ploegsteert, 19 Dec. 1914. In this attack, made over 200 yards of open ground, he (in the words of his Commanding Officer) exhibited such dashing bravery that he outstripped his company by a full 20 yards, but fell with a bullet through his heart. Buried in Ploegsteert Wood; unm.

=HEPBURN, ARCHIBALD JAMES=, Capt., 8th (Ardwick) Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), only s. of William Archibald Hepburn, of Dane-in-Shaw, Elms Avenue, Lytham, Bleacher’s Manager, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of the Rev. William Burnett, of Half Morton, Dumfriesshire; b. Ramsbottom, co. Lancaster, 26 June, 1882; educ. Sedbergh Preparatory School and Manchester Grammar School; and from 1906 to 1914 was Manager under Bleachers’ Association, Ltd., of Hepburn & Co., Ltd., Square Works, Ramsbottom, succeeding his father in that position. On the institution of the Territorial Force, he obtained a commission in the 8th Battn. Manchester Regt. and received his Captaincy 5 Feb. 1913. On the outbreak of war he was in command of C Coy.; volunteered with his regt. for foreign service, and left for Egypt, as part of the East Lancashire Division, 10 Sept. 1914. Part of the battn. was ordered to Cyprus, 19 Oct. 1914, and till its return to Egypt three months later (including the annexation of the island, 7 Nov. 1914), Capt. Hepburn was officer commanding troops at Nicosia, the seat of Government. The Division left for the Gallipoli Peninsula, 2 May, 1915, and he was killed in action there, 29 May, 1915, being shot through the head while strengthening parapet of front line trench south of Krithia. He was buried at “Clapham Junction” military cemetery there. Capt. Hepburn qualified as a musketry instructor at Hythe in Nov. and Dec., 1911, and was well known as an amateur actor in the Manchester district. He m. at Altrincham, co. Chester, 28 Feb. 1911, Lilias Una, only child of Alfred Tarbolton, of Bowdon, co. Chester, and Manchester, J.P., Solicitor, and had a son and dau., Philip Archibald, b. 23 March, 1915; and Patricia, b. 6 March, 1915. At the outbreak of war they resided at 2, Crumpsall Green, Manchester.

=HEPINSTALL, GEORGE=, Private, No. 10959, 6th (Service) Battn. Yorkshire Regt., eldest s. of the late George Hepinstall, of Southwick-on-Wear, Riveter, by his wife, Mary Ellen (13, Brougham Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of John Leach, of Southwick; b. Southwick, 15 Jan. 1894; educ. Southwick Board School; was employed at the Sunderland Bottle Works; enlisted 24 Aug. 1914, trained at Grantham and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 21 Aug 1915; unm. The same day his great friend and schoolfellow, J. C. Robinson, with whom he had been brought up, enlisted, and gone to the front, was killed at Chocolate Hill.

=HEPWORTH, PERCY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1843), 293062, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HERBERT, ERNEST=, A. B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2093), 189862, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HERBERT, FREDERICK DANIEL=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 10169, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HERDMAN, ARTHUR WIDDRINGTON=, Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Own Shropshire L.I., only s. of the late Rev. Robert Morrison Herdman, Vicar of Holy Trinity, North Shields, by his wife, Mary (Sunnyholme, Ripon), dau. of Thomas Wearmouth, of Gainford; b. Holy Trinity Vicarage, North Shields, 31 Jan. 1886; educ. Trent College, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Shropshire L.I., 18 Sept. 1909, and promoted Lieut., 30 Oct. 1913; went to France with the 6th Division, Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Lille. 25 Oct. following; unm. The Commanding Officer and Major of his regt., in their letters to his mother, spoke of his popularity with his men, and his orderly, who, when he was missing, went out to look for him and found him dead, and was himself wounded while looking for him. wrote: “When I told his men that he was dead they all took it very hard, because he was the best friend we ever had.” By his will Lieut. Herdman left £1,000 to the Council of Trent College, £500 to the K.S.L.I. Regimental Aid Society, a recreation ground for Ewhurst, and other bequests.

=HERION, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9319), S.S. 106537, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HERN, WILLIAM HENRY=, Leading Stoker (Boatman, C.G.), 310613 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HERON, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 1753, 3rd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 6th s. of Richard Heron, of Dryden Place, New York, Newcastle-on-Tyne, by his wife, Ada, dau. of Amos Wright; b. New Seaham, co. Durham, 2 Feb. 1891; educ. there; was in the Special Reserve; emigrated to Australia about 1913, and settled at Fremantle, West Australia: volunteered at the outbreak of war, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt, 17 March, 1915; went to the Dardanelles about July, and died at sea, 11 Aug. 1915; unm.

=HERRIDGE, WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A., 8569, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HERRING, EDWARD EDGAR=, L.-Corpl., No. 939, D Coy., 3rd Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of Gerard Edgar Herring, of Cromer, England, late Under-secretary for Mines Department, Sydney, N.S.W., by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth; b. Gladesville, New South Wales, 26 April, 1891; educ. Sydney Grammar School; was a Bank Accountant, and volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted 20 Aug. 1914: left for Egypt with the 1st Division, 30 Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; was wounded in the assault on Lone Pine Hill, 6 Aug. 1915, and died of wounds on the hospital ship Delta, on the 9th; unm. Buried at sea.

=HESTER, WILLIAM HENRY=, Chief Sick Berth Steward, 350550, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HETHERINGTON, JOHN ROBERT=, Private, No. 10176, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Joseph Hetherington, of 49, Ancrum Street, Spital Tongues, Newcastle-on-Tyne, by his wife, Frances, dau. of William Pallan; b. Spital Tongues aforesaid, 5 May. 1896; educ. Newcastle Council School; enlisted 5 June, 1913; went to the Front 8 Oct. 1914, and was reported missing after the fighting at Givenchy, 25 Jan. 1915. Confirmation of his death was received in June, when Sergt. F. Millman reported that he had been by his side when he was mortally wounded and added, “he was a fine type of manhood and a credit to the regt.” He was unm.

=HEWETSON, GEORGE HAYTON=, Chaplain, R.N., elder s. of the late Rev. John Hewetson, Vicar of Chadworth, by his wife, Isabella (Dromore, Putney, S.W.), dau. of the Rev. George Henry Heslop; b. Chester, 26 Jan. 1877; educ. Bradfield and Worcester College, Oxford; entered the Royal Navy, 1 Aug. 1906, and was Chaplain H.M.S. Britannia, H.M.S. Minotaur, the Flagship of the China Squadron, Feb. 1910–12, and to the Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth, 1912 to July, 1914; appointed to H.M.S. Bulwark, 29 July, 1914; lost when that ship was blown up at Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914. He m. at High Harrogate, 3 Feb. 1914, Lilian Mary (The Vicarage, High Harrogate), dau. of the Rev. Douglas Sherwood Guy, Vicar of Christchurch, High Harrogate, and had a dau., Mary Hayton, b. 10 Jan. 1915.

=HEWETT, JOHN EDWARD=, Private, No. 862. 1st/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade), The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late George Hulbert Hewett, of 61, Rathcoole Gardens, Hornsey, N., a Mercantile Clerk in the employ of the British India Steamship Navigation Co., by his wife, Olivia, dau. of William Clarke; b. Highbury, N., 15 Jan. 1894; educ. Hornsey County School, enlisted 9 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 28 April, 1915; unm. He was buried near Fortuin.

=HEWITT, ERNEST HENRY=, Lieut., 1/4th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of James Henry Hewitt, of Altamont, Bangor, co. Down, Ireland; b. Belfast, 5 Nov. 1885; educ. Bangor Grammar School; St. Jude’s School, Belfast; and the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast; was a member of the Queen’s University Officers Training Corps, and Vice-Capt. of the North of Ireland Rugby Football Club; offered his services to the War Office the day after war was declared; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 22 Aug. 1914; and Lieut. 1 Dec. 1914; went to France with his Battn. in April, 1915; took part in the attack on the enemy near Festubert, on the night of 15 June, 1915; was seen to fall on his left side, apparently mortally wounded, while heroically leading his men between the second and third German trenches, and not heard of since. He is officially reported missing. His Commanding officer wrote: “Lieut. Hewitt since he joined us has become the most popular officer in the Battn. He was a splendid soldier.” He was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=HEWITT, JAMES FRANCIS=, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), eldest s. of the Hon. William James Hewitt, of St. Colme House, Aberdour, Fife [s. of 6th James, 4th Viscount Lifford], by his wife Evelyn Frances, yst. dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Francis Carey; b. Gatehouse-of-Fleet, co. Kirkcudbright, 22 Jan. 1888; educ. Winton House, Winchester and Haileybury College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the 3rd Battn. to the 1st Cameronians, 26 Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut., 12 March, 1910; went to France, 26 Aug., and was killed in action at La Boutillerie during the first Battle of Ypres, 26 Oct. 1914, and was buried there; unm. His Colonel wrote: “We have lost one of our very best officers and most lovable of comrades. He was always so capable and keen at all work and sport.”

=HEWITT, ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 8192, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HEWITT, WILLIAM GEORGE=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of the Hon. William James Hewitt, of St. Colme House, Aberdour, Fife [6th s. of James, 4th Viscount Lifford], by his wife Evelyn Frances, yst. dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Francis Carey: b. Gatehouse-of-Fleet, co. Kirkcudbright, 7 June, 1892; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Christ Church, Oxford; gazetted from the Officer’s Training Corps to the 3rd Royal Scots, 7 Aug. 1914; went to France, 27 Sept. and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle during the 1st Battle of Ypres, 13 Oct. 1914, while helping a wounded soldier; unm. Whilst at Christ Church he ran with the beagles, and eventually became 1st Whip; he was also a member of the “Loders Club,” and interested himself keenly in all sport. Of him it was said: “He was most charming in manner, and it was always a pleasure to be with him; he has died nobly, and in his short time has lived a simple, straight life.” His eldest brother, Lieut. J. F. Hewitt, was killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914 (see his notice).

=HEWLETT, WILFRED ARTHUR=, Chief Electrical Artificer, 2nd Class, 345053, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HEYS, ARTHUR=, Petty Officer, 189420, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HEYWORTH, HEYWORTH POTTER LAWRENCE=, Capt., 2nd Battn. (98th) North Staffordshire Regt., only s. of the late Col. Lawrence Heyworth, Commanding 3rd Welsh Regt., by his wife, Rosina Kate (Colne Priory, Earl’s Colne), dau. of John Baskerville Mortimer, and grandson of Lawrence Heyworth, of Yewtree, Liverpool, J.P., M.P. for Derby, &c.; b. Wain Vaur, Risca, co. Monmouth, 20 Nov. 1877; educ. Aysgarth, Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge; received a commission in the 3rd South Wales Borderers (Militia), 1899, and was gazetted to the 2nd North Staffordshire Regt., 21 April, 1900, and promoted Lieut., 7 Jan. 1901, and Capt., 11 Sept. 1908. He served in the South African War, 1900–1902, taking part in the operations in the Orange Free State and in the Transvaal and Cape Colony, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s with two clasps. He went to India with his regiment in 1903, being stationed at Umballa, Multan and Peshawar, and was Master of the Peshawar Vale Hounds, 1911–12. In 1913 he returned to England on sick leave and retired on half-pay (21 Sept.), but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, rejoined his old regt. and was appointed Adjutant of the 7th Battn. in Sept. They left for the Dardanelles in June, and he was killed in action there, near Sari Bair, 6 Aug. 1915, and buried in the Australian and New Zealand Cemetery, Gallipoli. His Commanding Officer wrote that he had proved “a very good adjutant,” and the second in Command: “He is a terrible loss to us, as he was quite the most popular man in the regt.” He m. at Partney Church, Lincolnshire, 21 Jan. 1915, Cecily Mabel (Dalby Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire), 2nd dau. of Major Bartholomew Claypon Garfit, of Dalby Hall, Lincolnshire, J.P.; s.p.

=HIBBERT, SEPTIMUS=, M.A., M.B., B.Ch. Oxon, Surgeon, R.N.V.R., s. of Charles George Hibbert, of Marenioh, Talbot Avenue, Bournemouth, Merchant, by his wife, Clara, dau. of John Heseltine; b. Brasted, near Sevenoaks, Kent, 31 July, 1886: educ. Tonbridge School, University College, Oxford, and St. George’s Hospital, London, where he was House Surgeon and Physician; joined the Navy on the outbreak of war, was appointed Surgeon to H.M.S. Formidable, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the Channel, 1 Jan. 1915; unm.

=HICKLING, EDWARD ROBERT EYRE=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., att. North Lancashire Regt., only s. of the late John Bird Hickling, by his wife, Clara (4, Chestnut Avenue, Bournemouth), dau. of the late Alderman Robert Eyre Applegate Eyres; b. Lymington, 17 Aug. 1895; educ. privately (Mr. John Murray); Langharne House School, Victoria Road, Southsea and Bournemouth School (Dr. Fenwick) where he joined the School Corps in Jan. 1908; becoming L.-Corpl. Sept. 1911 and Corpl. Jan. 1912. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Gloucestershires, 8 Oct. 1913; and promoted Lieut. in Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept., and was att. to the North Lancashire Regt. He died at No. 4 Clearing Hospital, Poperinghe, about 2 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action, 27–28 Oct. A brother officer wrote: “On the night of the 23rd we were in billets at a village quite near to ..., when we got the order to go forward suddenly and turn the enemy out of some of our trenches which they had captured near ..., and so we pushed forward at dawn of the 24th, and came under fire, and then I was told off with Hickling to act as a left flank-guard while the rest of the Battn. advanced, and there he and I stayed with half a company (100 men) until about 7.30 a.m. Then we, in turn, had the order to advance, and went forward over the turnip fields and then out on to open ploughed land without a vestige of cover anywhere, and bullets flying round us like bees. Then as we got to within 300 yards of the enemy’s trenches I got hit just above the knee and was, of course, to all intents and purposes, ‘down and out.’ But I yelled to Hickling to take the men on. Whether he heard me or not I can’t say, but I saw him afterwards running forward with his men, and I was told later that he got through alright. Then I lay there for about seven or eight hours unable to move until some ambulance people came along about 4 p.m., and took me back on a stretcher, and when I got back I heard that Hickling had been badly shot in the hip.”

=HICKLING, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3046), S.S. 100493, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HICKS, FREDERICK RICHARD=, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., only surviving s. of the late Francis Hicks, of Lanhainsworth, St. Columb, co. Cornwall, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of the late John Hicks; b. Plymouth, 10 Sept. 1871; educ. Sherborne and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and received his commission in the Hampshire Regt. 8 Oct. 1890, being promoted Lieut. 10 Aug. 1892; Capt. 17 April, 1898; Brevet-Major, 22 Aug. 1902; Major, 8 Aug. 1908; and Lieut.-Col. — Dec. 1914. He served in Uganda, 9 Jan. 1898, to 27 May, 1900 (medal), and was on Special Service in South Africa, 9 May to 26 July, 1900, being afterwards on the Staff of the Military Governor of Johannesburg (Major-Gen. Colin Mackenzie), and later (1 Dec. 1901 to 30 Nov. 1902) was employed with the Rand Rifles. For his services in this campaign he was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902], and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He served with the 2nd Hampshires at Malta and Bermuda, and with the 1st Battn. at Londonderry and Colchester, and from 10 Oct. 1909, to 8 March, 1912, was Brigade Major, 16th Brigade, Irish Command, and from 9 March, 1912, to 9 Oct. 1913, General Staff Officer (2nd Grade), Coast Defence, Southern Command. He was a Staff College Graduate, and a first-class interpreter. On the outbreak of the European War, he went to France, 22 Aug. 1914. and assumed command of the 1st Hampshires (the old 37th) after Col. Jackson was taken prisoner. He was wounded at Le Cateau a few days later (26 Aug.), and invalided home, but returned to the Front on 9 Nov. and was again wounded in action near Ypres on 8 May. He was sent home, and died in Guy’s Hospital, of enteric and wounds, 12 June, 1915. Col. Hicks m. at Winchester Cathedral, 2 Nov. 1903, Grace Winifred (Lanhainsworth, St. Columb, Cornwall), yst. dau. of the late Rev. William Henry Hewett, and had issue: John Nettleton, b. 3 May, 1906; Roger Bertram Nettleton, b. 27 Dec. 1909; and Mervyn Nettleton, b. 28 Jan. 1911.

=HICKS, JAMES THOMAS WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1849, 5th Batt. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Albert Hicks, of 3, Clyde Villas, Ladbore Road, Rye, by his wife, Emma, dau. of James Tapp; b. Rye, co. Sussex, 16 Jan. 1895; educ. Rye Council School; enlisted 22 May, 1914; went to France 18 Feb. 1915, and died of wounds received in action at Cambray, 24 May, 1915; unm.

=HICKS, WALTER GERALD=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of the late Walter Hicks, of St. Austell, by his wife, Kattie, dau. of the late Samuel William Cooke; b. St. Austell, co. Cornwall, 2 Oct. 1893; educ. Blundell’s, and London University (at both of which he was a member of the O.T.C.); was studying at the University when war broke out; obtained a commission in the 8th Royal Fusiliers, 26 Aug. 1914; went to France 31 May, 1915, and died at Armentières, 11 Aug. 1915 of wounds received while scouting. His Colonel wrote: “He was one of the most gallant boys I have ever met and would go anywhere and do anything. His men adored him, and his Captain could not speak too highly of him. He was intensely gallant and did not know the word ‘fear.’” A brother officer wrote: “His men worshipped him, and no words of mine can describe to you what he did for them. I remember the platoon from the very start, and had never thought it possible that it could have been brought up to the pitch of efficiency that he had attained. He set a fine example of cool courage to us all—officers and men.”

=HIGGINBOTTOM, FRANK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3228), S.S. 754, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HIGGINBOTTOM, THOMAS=, Private, No. 1635, 14th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of James Samuel Higginbottom; b. Salford, co. Lancaster, 10 Nov. 1886; educ. St. Bartholomew’s Schools there; and served four years in the Manchester Territorials; went to Australia early in 1914, and being there when war began, volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 13 Sept. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and served there continuously for four months, being killed in action, 25 Aug. 1915, and was buried in Australia Valley. He m. 12 Sept. 1909, Margaret Ann (9, Crokell Street, Salford), dau, of Timothy Leniham, and had issue three children: Thomas, b. 17 Jan. 1911; Stanley, b. 19 Feb. 1913; and Margaret, b. 1 July, 1910.

=HIGGINS, FREDERIC=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345691, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HIGGINS, HARRY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1987), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HIGGS, CHARLES=, Leading Stoker, 300794, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HIGH, GEORGE HENRY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 22784, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HILEY, HERBERT=, Stoker, R.N.R., 2196S., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HILDYARD, NONA MILDRED=, Nurse, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, dau. of William Hildyard, of Lyttleton, New Zealand, by his wife, Betsy Ann, dau. of John (and Harriet) Libballie; b. Lyttleton aforesaid, 4 Nov. 1890; educ. Lyttleton Public Schools; entered the Christ Church Hospital, New Zealand, where she soon attracted the attention of her superiors, and on the outbreak of war was one of the nurses specially selected by the Government to go to the Front with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. She left for Egypt 11 July, 1915, and was for some time engaged in the Base Hospital, Port Said. When the New Zealand troops were being transferred to Salonika, she sailed for that port with the other nurses of the hospital, and was lost on the troopship Marquetta, when that ship was torpedoed in the Gulf of Salonika 23 Oct. 1915. Doctors who were eye-witnesses of the disaster affirm that she displayed wonderful courage and fortitude, and sang “Tipperary” and “Are we downhearted? No!” to the last to keep up the spirits of her comrades.

=HILL, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, 225607, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HILL, CHARLES HAYDOCK=, Private, No. 28739, 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish), Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. s. of the late James Catesworth Hill, of Barnwood, Gloucester, by his wife, Frances, dau. of Charles Bird; b. Hereford, 5 Sept. 1890; educ. South-Eastern College, Ramsgate; qualified as an Electrical Engineer at the Central Technical College, London; went to Canada in 1912, and entered the employ of the British Electrical Co.; joined 50th Gordons at Victoria in 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Canadian Scottish; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, and died at No. 8 Casualty Clearing Station, 28 April, 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day near Ypres, when a shell took off his right leg. Buried in Bailleul Cemetery; unm.

=HILL, CHARLES WILLIAM JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9149), 204395, H.M.S. Aboukir, lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HILL, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5058), S.S. 1835, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HILL, GEORGE PAYNE=, Sergt., No. 391, North Riding Battery, 2nd Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (T.F.), 3rd s. of Thomas Hill, of West Pier, Whitby, Sculptor, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of John Waller; b. Whitby, co. Yorks, 27 May, 1884; educ. Mount School, Whitby; was a Monumental Mason; joined the Volunteer Force in Feb. 1903, and transferred to the Territorials in 1908. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service; went with his battery to the Front, Sunday, 18 April, 1915, and died in hospital at Bailleul, 24 May, 1915, from wounds received in action at Ypres the same day. The gun detachment under Sergt. Hill was completely wiped out by a bursting shell, all the men who belonged to the Scarborough section being killed, the Sergt. surviving for a short time only. The gun which was damaged was eventually saved and brought safely back to the British line, by a detachment of the Whitby Territorial Force, who were supplying the guns still in action with ammunition, amidst a veritable hail of bursting shells. He was buried in Bailleul Cemetery. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915. Sergt. Hill m. at St. Mary’s Parish Church, Whitby, 5 June, 1907, Margaret, dau. of the late Thomas Stott, Mariner, and had three children: Thomas Stott, b. 25 July, 1910; George, b. 31 March, 1913: and Mabel, b. 2 Jan. 1909. He had been a ringer at Whitby Parish Church since the formation of a change ringing company in 1909: he had taken part in peals of Plain Bob Triples and Major, Grandsire Triples and Caters, and Kent Treble Bob Major and Royal, and previous to the outbreak of war was looking forward to scoring his first peal of Stedman Triples.

=HILL, LEONARD AUGUSTUS=, Private, No. 1967, 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Edmund Hill, Engine Driver, G.W.R., by his wife Martha (38, Dudley Road, Southall Green, Middlesex), dau. of Richard Castle; b. Gloucester, 21 Sept. 1896; educ. Featherstone Road Boys’ School, Southall; was an Engineer; joined the Middlesex Territorials, 17 Feb. 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and died in No. 10 Stationary Hospital, 29 April, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day near Ypres. Sergt. A. Cornwell wrote: “He was one of my best men, and one of the most popular in the Coy.... Only two days before he shared the contents of his parcel amongst the boys. Always cheerful, always willing, one of the best of workers. We all miss him.... He was one of the first over the parapet after the Germans when he was killed.”

=HILL, LESLIE BROWNLOW=, Private, No. 28744, 16th Battn. (50th Gordon Highlanders, of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Elvis Ford Hill, of London, Cigar and Tobacco Merchant, by his wife, Marie Klara (620, Battery Street, James Bay, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), dau. of the late John Mathias Lerner, of London, England; b. Portland Place, London, W., 1 July, 1889; educ. Margate College; served for a short period with the North Staffordshire Regt. and afterwards in the Royal Navy, and having received his discharge, went to Canada in 1913, and settled at Victoria, B.C.; joined the 50th Gordon Highlanders, 16 June, 1914, and when war broke out, immediately volunteered for Imperial Service. He left Valcartier, for England, 28 Sept. 1914; went to France, 22 Feb. 1915; came safely through the Battle of Ypres, 25 April, 1915, but was wounded in the trenches by a fragment of shell two days later (27 April), and died the same day in No. 8 British Field Ambulance; unm. He was buried in Vlamertinghe Cemetery, Ypres (B192, Sec. 4). His brother, Elvis Ford Hill, No. 9352, is now (1916) on active service with the R.A.M.C.

=HILL, WALTER EDWARD=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., only s. of the late Rev. Charles Rowland Haydock Hill, Rector of Holy Trinity, Dorchester, and Canon of Salisbury, by his wife, Ellen Maria (68, King’s Gate Street, Winchester), 2nd dau. of Hon. Edward Bennet Wrottesley [5th s. of John, 1st Baron Wrottesley]; b. Dorchester, co. Dorset, 6 Sept 1892; educ. Winchester; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Special Reserve, 3 May, 1911, and promoted Lieut. 17 April, 1913; went to France 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 25 Sept. 1914; unm. Buried in Soupir Churchyard.

=HILL, WILLIAM DUDLEY=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st, Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., yst. s. of Col. Frederick Jacob Ponsonby Hill, of Cambridge Lodge, Southbourne, Hants, late 1st Royal Scots (who served in the Crimea and Indian Mutiny), by his wife, Elizabeth Newnham, dau. of Solomon Watson, of Ballingarrane, co. Tipperary; b. Cheltenham, 24 March, 1882; educ. Saugeen Preparatory School, Bournemouth, and (owing to temporary failure of eyesight) privately; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd South Lancashire Regt. 11 June, 1900, and transferred to the 1st North Lancashires, 4 May, 1901; served in the South African War (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps), and retired, 9 Oct. 1903. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his Regt. and was promoted Lieut. 9 Oct. 1914, and Capt. 3 Feb. 1915; was stationed at Felixstowe with the 3rd Battn. Sept. 1914 to March, 1915, when he went to France attd. to the 1st Battn. and died in hospital at Bethune, 13 May, 1915, of wounds received in action on the 9th at Rue du Bois, during the advance against the Aubers Ridge. Wounded at the commencement of the attack, he remained at the head of his men, until, again wounded, he fell. He was buried in Bethune Cemetery. His Commanding Officer wrote: “In your husband the Battn. has not only lost a keen and valuable officer, but a friend who had endeared himself to us all by his kindly and sympathetic nature.” The Commanding Officer of the 1st Battn. to which he was attd., wrote: “He was wounded in the spine and stomach on Sunday last, gallantly leading his company into action ... his loss is deeply deplored by all of us.” Other letters from his brother officers and the men of his regt. testify to his great popularity. A Sergt. wrote: “We all loved and respected him.” Capt. Dudley Hill was a keen sportsman and was particularly interested in steeplechasing. He trained many winners under National Hunt Rules, and rode winners himself in South Africa. He m. at Farnham, Surrey, 21 April, 1903, Florence Rachel (River View, Marlow, Bucks), yst. dau. of the late William Snow Clifton, of Houghton, Hants, and had two sons: Patrick William Dudley, b. 1 July, 1904; and Anthony Ponsonby Dudley, b. 17 April, 1907.

=HILLAND, JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9522), S.S. 106892, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HILLIER, ERNEST ALFRED=, Private, No. 9275, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Alfred Hillier, Gunner, No. 19392, No. 3 Battery, 1st Brigade, Lancashire Division, R.A.; by his wife, Mary (7, Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath), dau. of John Martin, of Tiverton-on-Avon; b. Walcot, Bath, 3 June, 1892; educ. Bathwick Parochial School and the Blue Coat School, Bath; enlisted 13 Oct. 1911; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 4 Oct. 1914; unm. Buried at Braisne. He had the Crossed Flags for signalling.

=HILLIS, JAMES HERBERT=, Leading Stoker, K. 4837, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HILLIS, SAMUEL DENYS=, M.Sc., Private, No. 3583, 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T. F.), s. of Samuel Hillis, of 2, Green Lawn, Rock Ferry, Cheshire, Cotton Broker, by his wife, Emma Melene, dau. of the late George Benjamin Keyworth, of Marr Grange, Doncaster; b. Liverpool, 9 Oct. 1892; educ. Birkenhead School and Liverpool University, where he graduated B.Sc. in the Chemistry Honours School in July, 1913, and after a year’s research in Metallurgy, obtained the degree of M.Sc.; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Liverpool Scottish in Sept. 1914; went to Flanders the following January, and was killed in action in the great charge at Hooge, 16 June, 1915; unm.

=HILLS, ALFRED THOMAS=, Private, No. 1248, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of Charles Thomas Hills, of Hornchurch, Essex, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Webb; b. Hornchurch, 14 May, 1891; educ. Hornchurch; went to Canada in Feb. 1911, and settled at Fort William; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian E.F. at Fort William in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent; went to France, 9 Feb. 1915, and died at Oxford Military Hospital, 2 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres, 23 April. He m. at Romford, 21 Dec. 1914, Ada Agnes, dau. of George Miller, of Chelmsford; s.p.

=HILLS, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7257), S.S. 102186, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HILLS, WILLIAM JESSE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17045, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HILLYER, THOMAS JAMES SELBY=, Sergt., No. 46007, 13th Battn. (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Thomas Frederick Selby Hillyer, of London, Butler in private service, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Malachi Davis; b. Winkfield, near Windsor, 29 Nov. 1878; educ. Cranbourne Ranelagh School; enlisted in the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, 4 June, 1895; served in the Soudan Expedition, 1898 (Queen’s medal with clasp, also Khedive’s Star), and in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps, “Tugela Heights,” “Relief of Ladysmith,” “Transvaal,” and King’s medal with two clasps, “South Africa, 1901,” “1902”), and after leaving the Colours in 1903, was nine years in the Reserve, and was employed during that period as a postman in Winkfield village; went to Canada, 1912, and settled at Amherst, Nova Scotia; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and came over with the first contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 21 May following. Buried at Festubert. He m. at Cranbourne, Winkfield, 1 June, 1903, Kate (Lovel Road, Winkfield, near Windsor), dau. of the late William Sharpe, of Cranbourne, Winkfield, and had three children: Thomas William Selby, b. 8 July, 1905; John Ernest, b. 11 Sept. 1912; and Joyce, b. 11 March, 1908.

=HILSON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9910, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Joshua Thomas Hilson, of 44, Middle Street North, Driffield, co. York, formerly Royal Marine Artillery, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of William Burriell; b. Driffield, co. York, 29 April, 1895; educ. National School there; enlisted 1 Jan. 1913; went to France, Aug. 1914; died of wounds in No. 4 Clearing Station, Lillers, 24 Dec. 1914, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm.

=HILTON, HERBERT PHILIP=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt., eldest s. of Ernest P. Hilton, of 188, Cromwell Road, S.W.; b. Sydenham, 13 Aug. 1873; educ. Malvern College, where he was in the Cadet Corps, and went to Canada, and served with the North-West Mounted Police for four years. He then returned to England and studied for the Bar at the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn. In 1899 he went to South Africa and joined Roberts’ Horse, being given a commission as 2nd Lieut. Middlesex Regt., 19 May, 1901, and promoted Lieut. 12 Oct. following. He served through that campaign 1899–1902; took part in the advance on, and relief of, Kimberley; the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including the actions at Paardeburg (17–26 Feb.), Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Karee Siding, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River (5–6 May), and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal, May-June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill (11–12 June); operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900; including actions at Zilkaats Nek, Elands River (4–16 Aug.), and Venterstroom (7–9 Aug.); operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Lindley (26 June), Bethlehem (6–7 July), and Wittebergen (1–29 July); operations in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to 31 May, 1902, and those on the Zululand Frontier of Natal, Sept. and Oct. 1901, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 16 April, 1901] and awarded the Queen’s medal with six clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He was with his regt. in India when the European War broke out, and returned to England in Dec. 1914; went to France the following Jan., and was killed in action, near Ypres, 14 Feb. 1915. He m. at Singapore, 1911, Hylda (53, Kenilsworth Avenue, Wimbledon Park), dau. of (—), and had three children.

=HILTON, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4658), S.S. 103860, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HILTON, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 16301, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HINDMARSH, ALBERT=, Private, No. 10268, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of the late Charles Hindmarsh, Fireman, Monkwearmouth Colliery, by his wife, Mary (28, Fulwell Road, Sunderland), dau. of James Archibald; b. Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 25 Oct. 1893; educ. Southwick Board School; was a Miner, Monkwearmouth, enlisted 7 Aug. 1913; went to France, 10 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm. His four brothers: Robert Hindmarsh, Private, No. 5454, 3rd Durham L.I.; William, Private, 14th Durham L.I.; John Hindmarsh, Driver, No. 690, R.G.A.; and Arthur Hindmarsh, Private, No. 15488, 14th Durham L.I. (wounded), are all on active service; and his brother-in-law, Thomas Elliott, Private, No. 14373, 10th Yorks, was killed in action.

=HINGSTON, FREDERIC LEONARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, only s. of the late Frederic Hingston, of Cardiff, Banker, by his wife, Mary (St. Oswald’s, Selwyn Road, Eastbourne), dau. of Joseph Rome; b. Leicester, 6 June, 1877; educ. Llandaff Cathedral School and Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 18 Oct. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 13 May, 1901, and Capt. 13 Feb. 1909; served in the South African War, 1900–1, and took part in the actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Vet River, Zand River, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Diamond Hill and Belfast (mentioned in Despatches and Queen’s medal with six clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 11 March to 26 April, 1915, and was killed in action on the latter date, during the second Battle of Ypres. The General commanding the Brigade wrote to Capt. Hingston’s widow: “I wanted, as Brigadier-General Commanding the Brigade, to tell you how very deeply and sincerely I sympathise with you in the heavy blow that has fallen upon you. Your husband belonged to a great Regt. which has given consistently splendid service throughout the campaign, and, if I may say so, he was one of the finest officers of a fine Regt. I had often spoken to your husband on the occasions of my frequent visits to the trenches, and had always been much struck by his earnestness and thoroughness, and by the keen interest which he took in all matters relating to his company and his men. To them I know his loss is a severe one, as it is indeed to all of us”; and a friend (“Eastbourne Gazette,” 26 May, 1915): “He was good and thorough in whatever he undertook. As an athlete he was just what a British Officer should be, strong, active, bold, enduring and honourable. In Switzerland he was well known as a remarkable fine ‘ski-er.’ In the winter, 1913–14, he had won the British Ski-ing Association Cup at Wengen; and he had won other trophies at this winter sport as well as at ice-hockey, at which he was an adept. He was also a keen lawn tennis player and golfer.” Capt. Hingston m. at St. James’, Piccadilly, 30 Nov. 1911, Essy, yst. dau. of the late Col. William Charles Plant, Indian Army; s.p.

=HINMAN, ARTHUR GURR=, Lieut., 15th Battn., 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Arthur Hinman, of Moina, Elphin Road, Launceston, Tasmania, by his wife, Lucy Maud, dau. of William Gurr, of Launceston; b. Newstead, Launceston, Tasmania, 19 June, 1890; educ. at Launceston Church Grammar School, 1903–March, 1909, and on leaving there went to Ormond College, Melbourne University, for the course of Metallurgy and Mining Engineering. When he had finished his course there he did his practical work with the Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company, Waratah, Tasmania, and took his degree of Bachelor of Mining Engineering at Melbourne University, 5 April, 1914. War breaking out the following Aug., he immediately volunteered for Imperial service; was given a commission, and left Melbourne for Egypt, 22 Dec. 1914. He took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Quinn’s Post, 10 May, 1915; unm. On that night the 15th Battn. were ordered to carry the Turkish trenches directly in their front. This was accomplished but with heavy loss, and it was while gallantly leading his men in the charge that Hinman was shot dead. Writing to Mrs. Hinman, a brother officer, Capt. J. A. Good, said: “We landed, as no doubt you are aware, on the first day, and the various companies and platoons of the 15th Battn. were separated. Arthur’s platoon being out on the left, and apparently had a bad time. A few days after this we all rejoined the Battn., and took up our position on Pope’s Hill, but on the seventh day we were ordered to occupy the now famous position of Quinn’s Post. At this time he and I were the only officers of the original Tasmanian Companies in the 15th who remained, and often at night, as we sat in our dug-out, we wondered who would be the first to go, for it seemed impossible that we should remain long unwounded when so many had been hit. Arthur did splendid work on the post, and everyone sincerely regretted his death. The post was exceptionally difficult to hold owing to the close proximity of the Turkish trenches, which were only about 15 yards away in places. The position on the day prior to his death was as follows: The Turks held a line of trenches directly in front of our trenches; at either flank we were separated by about 50 yards, but in the centre our trenches were only 15 yards apart. Orders were issued that we were to go forward and occupy these trenches, and instructions were issued accordingly. Three parties, consisting of about 50 men each, were to be sent forward, one party to each flank and one to the centre. The intention being to occupy these trenches and dig communication trenches from our old lines to the new one. Lots were drawn by the Battn. officers to decide who would take charge of these parties, but Arthur drew a blank, and did not go with the first party, who had a comparatively easy time, as they surprised the Turks and captured the trenches, with the exception as we afterwards discovered of about 30 yards of trench in the left centre. Without capturing this extra line it was impossible to hold the remainder, and Arthur gallantly collected a number of men, and charged forward with the intention of securing this position. It was in this charge that he met his end. Although the conditions in Gallipoli were severe I never heard him once complain. He was ever ready and anxious to perform any work that was required. By his splendid work and control of his men (who speak highly of him and sympathise with you in your loss), he gallantly assisted to hold a position which was recognised by all as being the most difficult of all positions to hold”; and an officer of the 3rd L.H. Field Ambulance (Capt. G. Aberdeen) wrote: “The 15th Battn. had a bad time. It was owing to this fact that maybe none of them have been able to let you know details of Arthur that I am writing this. The 15th Battn. were stationed at Quinn’s Post, probably the most vulnerable and certainly the most dangerous part of our firing line, and had been stationed there almost since the day of landing. The Turkish trenches approach very closely to ours, at one spot being only 20 yards away. They are on the crest and we occupy the side of the hill. From the first day the position has been a real hell for our boys. A moment’s exposure meant a bullet, snipers, machine guns, shrapnel, high explosive, and hundreds of bombs are in almost daily use by the Turks in their endeavours to drive our men out of this important position. But in spite of the fact that about 40 officers and over 1,000 men out of a total of 1,400 have been hit, the 15th Battn. has never yielded up one inch of ground. The performance speaks for itself. Since our landing the Turks have been making persistent counter-attacks, and about 11 May they made a very determined and sustained one. At Quinn’s Post they were driven off time after time, and finally in a fine counter-attack our men went forward and seized their firing trenches. Arthur was in charge of ‘Supports’ who were brought up almost at once to dig in. Our men worked hard to make the trenches good. But the enemy had dug them very cleverly, and when daylight came commenced an enfilade of fire with hidden machine guns. The position soon became untenable. The order was given to retire to our own trenches, and our men obeyed it most unwillingly. Arthur saw all his own men safely started, but on the way back the hail of lead from the machine guns caught him, and in an instant he was gone. The Turkish losses had been so heavy that shortly after this fight they asked for an armistice to bury their dead. This was arranged. It may be some small comfort to you to know that Arthur’s body was recovered by his men, and that he was given a Christian burial by one of our Padres. He lies about 10 yards in front of No. 5 post, Quinn’s Post, a position which will be historic in Australian military history.” He was unm.

=HINSON, OLIVER FRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5073), 180810, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HINTON, ERNEST HENRY=, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 3046, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HINTON, SIDNEY ARTHUR=, Acting Bombardier, R.M.A., 12189, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HINVES, ALFRED EDMUND=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 67213), 206243, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HIPPISLEY, HAROLD EDWIN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st. Battn. Gloucester Regt., yr. s. of William John Hippisley, of Northam House, Wells, Somerset, Land Agent, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Samuel Barnes, of Surlingham, Norfolk; b. Wells, 3 Sept. 1890; educ. King’s School, Bruton, Somerset, from which he passed the London University Matriculation Examination; and at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, where he was Gold Medallist (Estate Management and Forestry), and obtained the National Diploma of Agriculture; admitted Professional Associate of Surveyors’ Institute and passed Fellowship Examination; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Special Reserve of Officers, Gloucester Regt., from the Royal Agricultural College, O.T.C. 3 Aug. 1912; and was attached to the 1st Battn. on the outbreak of war; went to France with the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, of the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; took part in the Battle of Mons, the subsequent retreat, the fighting on the Marne and the Aisne, and the advance into Belgium, and was killed in action at Langemarck, 23 Oct. 1914, on which occasion his platoon lost three-fifths of its strength, but succeeded in holding the position. Buried near Langemarck. He was an excellent all-round sportsman. He was capt. of the cricket and football teams at King’s School, Bruton, and of the cricket and hockey teams at the R.A.C., Cirencester, and played cricket and hockey for Somerset, and cricket for the United Kingdom. He m. at St. Cuthbert’s, Wells, 5 Aug. 1914, Ivy Gwendoline, dau. of the late J. Hussey Cooper, of the Lodge, Wheatley, Oxford; s.p.

=HIRST, EDWARD=, Sick Berth Steward, 351015, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HISCOX, THOMAS ANDREW=, Private, No. 1369, 15th Battn. (Civil Service Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Thomas Hiscox, of H.M. Customs and Excise, and 18, Somerville Road, Bishopston, Bristol, by his wife, Jane E., dau. of Andrew Paterson, of Ayr; b. Charlestown, co. Cornwall, 4 Feb. 1891; educ. privately at Penzance and at Clark’s College, London; was appointed a 2nd Division Clerk in 1911, and when war began was a Clerk in the Treasury, Whitehall; joined the Civil Service Rifles in 1911; volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 27 May following, being shot by a sniper while in an advanced trench; unm.

=HITCHCOCK, EDWARD WILLIAM=, Stoker, P.O. 308869, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HITCHEN, ARTHUR BENJAMIN=, Rifleman, No. 2804, 1/7th Battn. (Leeds Rifles), West Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of John William Hitchen, of 35, Meanwood Street, Leeds, by his wife, Charlotte Adelaide, dau. of Charles Smith Butcher, of Leeds; b. Leeds, 18 Dec. 1896; educ. St. Peter’s Square Board School there; joined the Leeds Rifles, 19 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 15 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Laventie, 7 May, 1915; unm.

=HITCHINS, HENRY WILLIAM ERNEST=, Lieut.-Col., Commanding 1st Battn. The Manchester Regt., only s. of the late Major-Gen. Henry White Hitchins, R.E., and grandson of the late Lieut.-Gen. Benjamin Hitchins; b. London, 31 May, 1865; educ. privately and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. The Manchester Regt. (the Old 63rd), 25 Aug. 1886. He was promoted Capt. 11 May, 1895, and in Nov. 1897, was appointed Adjutant of the 3rd Volunteer (now the 9th Territorial Battn.) of his regt. In addition to his work us Volunteer Adjutant, he voluntarily performed the duties of Adjutant of the Depôt, and made great efforts throughout the district in recruiting. His organising powers were much appreciated by Col. Gunter, Commanding 63rd Regimental District, to whom he generally acted as staff officer. The number of volunteers increased from 600 to over 1,000, which fact proves his zeal and popularity. Later he commanded the Regimental Depot. To quote the local press: “As a Regimental Officer he enlisted the affection and respect of all with whom he had been associated. Officers and privates appreciated his high sense of duty, and loved him for his kindness of disposition and his chivalrous unselfish nature.” On 1 July, 1901, he obtained his Majority, and from 1 June, 1906, was second in command. He was thus 13 years and 9 months a Major, 8 years and 10 months of which as “appointed second in command;” his double period in that appointment being due to the absorbing of the senior second in command of the two battns., which were disbanded in 1906. During his 28 years of close association with the Regt., especially during his long period as Major and second in command, his zeal, good work and influence must have greatly helped to form the character and efficiency of the battn., qualities which were to be so splendidly demonstrated in France and Flanders. In 1906 Major Hitchins proceeded to India, serving with his old battn. the 1st Manchesters; was at Delhi for the Coronation Durbar; and for a time Commandant of the Pachmarhi Depot. On the outbreak of war in 1914, Major Hitchins was temporarily in Command of the 1st Battn., in the absence of the then Lieut.-Col. He was responsible for the mobilising of the battn. which left India with the Lahore Division at the end of August, and was first in action at Picantin on 23 Oct. 1914. In Nov. he was again in temporary command. The battn. had its full share of long and laborious work in the trenches, and on 20 Dec., at the critical fight for Givenchy, it was in action for 30 successive hours, and earned from the Gen. commanding the Lahore Division the name of “The Gallant Manchesters.” In his thanks to them and the 4th Suffolks, the Gen. paid a tribute to their “splendid work and gallant conduct first in recapturing some of the lost trenches at Givenchy on 20 Dec., then in holding those trenches on 21 Dec. against overwhelming attacks of the enemy.” He said: Givenchy was the most important point in the whole of the line held by the Lahore Division, and that its retention in our hands was due to the courage and steadfastness of the officers and men of those two brave battns. The General commanding the Indian Army Corps, addressing the 1st Manchesters, thanked them for “their very fine bit of work in the fight.” He described them as “a very gallant battn. holding the most important point on the right of the British line, and by their gallant conduct in holding on to it, rendering greater service than they probably realised.” Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener, in the House of Lords in Jan. 1915, in his survey of the then recent fighting, mentioned the engagement at Givenchy as the only important event of that period in which the British and German forces were concerned. At the taking of Givenchy, for which the battn. earned this praise, Lieut.-Col. (then Major) Hitchins was in actual command of three and a half out of four double companies of the Regt. During this action he was shot through the thigh. Arriving in England on Christmas Eve he was sent to hospital, where he received his Colonel’s thanks for his good work, and the valuable and very loyal assistance he had given him all along, and he expressed the hope that such “splendid services” would receive reward. On 1 April, 1915, he embarked again for the Front, and on the 19th the Commander-in-Chief inspected the 1st Manchesters, and spoke in the highest terms of their gallant behaviour, and congratulated Major Hitchins on being at the head of such “a splendid Battn.” Subsequently he was appointed to the Lieut.-Colonelcy of his own battn. (being gazetted two days before his death, to date from 10 March), and was in command at the Second Battle of Ypres. Col. Hitchins directed operations till on the night of 26 April, 1915, he was shot through the heart. He was carried by his men to a ruined farm house, where it was ascertained life was extinct. The imperturbable courage and coolness shown by Col. Hitchins impressed all ranks. To quote a brother officer, Capt. Buchan, D.S.O.: “The Colonel was as brave as a lion.” He is justly described as “the gallant Colonel of the Gallant Manchesters,” who met a soldier’s death whilst commanding with conspicuous bravery the battn. he loved so well, who trusted him so thoroughly, and who followed him so loyally to the death. A Military Memorial Service was accorded to Lieut.-Col. Hitchins at the depôt of his regt. at Ashton-under-Lyne, in the presence of the troops, the mayor and corporation and public bodies. Col. Hitchins was twice mentioned in despatches “for gallant and distinguished service in the field,” first on 31 May, 1915, and again on 1 Jan. 1916. General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien specially named the 1st Battn. The Manchester Regt. as deserving of the highest praise for its great services at the end of April, at Ypres. General Sir James Willcocks, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.S.I., D.S.O., commanding Indian Army Corps, in his personal tribute, wrote: “I had the honour and pleasure of knowing Col. Hitchins and his glorious battn. of the Manchesters very well.... His zeal and affection for his corps were remarkable; he was a very fine specimen of a soldier and a man, and commanded one of the finest battns. I ever served with. It is impossible to beat them at anything, and I always felt sure that any task they had to perform would be carried through, no matter at what cost. Col. Hitchins died as he had always lived, doing his duty nobly.” Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Watkis, K.C.B., late commanding Lahore Division, thus expressed himself: “He was an officer whose soldierly qualities came to be recognised at once under the great test of active service.... No one more deserved the promotion he received than Col. Hitchins, who so gallantly led the repeated charges of the battn. which I was so proud to address as ‘The Gallant Manchesters’ on that occasion. Five months afterwards he again led his battn. against the enemy in the second Battle of Ypres.... In him the service and his country lost a very brave officer and gentleman.” Major-Gen. Carnegy, C.B., late commanding the Jullundur Brigade, in his long personal tribute, mentioned: “Col. Hitchins was known as a very gallant officer, frequently exposing himself at the call of duty in the trenches with almost reckless bravery, and consequently was greatly admired by the men. He died as a gallant British officer and gentleman, laying down his life for his country, and I feel I have lost a good friend and comrade.” To these and other great testimonies to his fine qualities as a soldier is added the knowledge that he won the confidence and devotion of his men. A message from His Majesty was received by the family again graciously expressing his sympathy and condolence, and informing them of His Majesty’s high appreciation of the services of the late Lieut.-Col. H. W. E. Hitchins. Col. Hitchins was a zealous Freemason and belonged to several lodges in England and in India. His favourite sport was hunting, he was known as a fine horseman, a keen judge of a good horse, an enthusiastic polo player, he was interested in racing and devoted to animals. Col. Hitchins was unm.

=HOAD, HENRY JAMES WILLIAM=, Cook’s Mate, M. 3079, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HOAD, PERCY EWART=, Private, No. 2196, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Hoad, by his wife, Sarah (now wife of (—) Parsons, of White Cottage, The Strand, Rye), dau. of John Hoad; b. King’s Gate, Wittersham, co. Kent, 10 July, 1898; educ. Rye; enlisted 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action there by a shell, 28 July following; unm.

=HOARE, THOMAS=, Private, No. 9067, 2nd Battn. The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), s. of James Hoare, of North Street, Sheldwick, Faversham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 3 May, 1915.

=HOARE, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B., 238331, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HOBAN, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 6468, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. Castlerea, co. Roscommon; enlisted 23 Nov. 1905; served in Egypt, 16 Jan. 1908 to 23 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914; killed in action at La Tretoire, 8 Sept. following. Buried by the side of the road through La Tretoire Wood; unm.

=HOBBS, ALFRED HERBERT=, Signalman, No. 183651, R.F.R., Ch. 4295, R.N., 2nd s. of Harry Edward Hobbs, of 20, North Road, Brighton (for many years second officer of the Brighton Volunteer Fire Brigade), by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Johnson; b. Upper Holloway, 20 Nov. 1877; entered the Navy, 1894; served in the Somaliland Expedition (medal); passed into the Reserve, 24 Nov. 1906, and was caretaker at the Croydon Gas Offices; mobilised Aug. 1914, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy when that ship was sunk in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Spurgeon Tabernacle, West Croydon, 10 March, 1904, Frances Kate (102, Albert Road, Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon), 2nd dau. of James Mugridge, of Brighton, and had four children: Herbert Lionel James, b. 13 May, 1913; Kathleen Eva Rose, b. 7 July, 1907; Vera Irene May, b. 24 March, 1909; and Eugenie Violet Joyce, b. 7 May, 1911.

=HOBBS, FRANK MATTHEW=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. The Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Frank Henry Hobbs, of Carnarvon, Claremont Road, Tunbridge Wells, by his wife, Jane Ann, dau. of Matthew Vowles; b. Tunbridge Wells, co. Kent, 5 June, 1895; and was educ. at Ardingly College. There he was in the O.T.C., obtained Certificate A. and won the silver cup three years in succession for efficiency, also the silver medal, and was in the cricket XI and played goal for the College football team. He was also awarded the bronze medal for life saving from drowning, and the certificate as an instructor of the same. On 11 Dec. 1913, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Royal Fusiliers, and went to France with the first Expeditionary Force on 13 Aug. following. He served through the retreat from Mons, the Battle on the Marne, and retirement on Paris, and was killed at Vailly, near Braisne, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, by shrapnel wounds in the head; unm. The late Brigadier-General McMahon wrote of him: “He is a very great loss to me, as he has done his duty most nobly and gallantly, always calm and thoughtful, and a most excellent and promising officer.”

=HOBBS, HERBERT=, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4295), 193651 H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOBBS, JAMES WILLIAM BIGGS=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12509, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOBBS, JOHN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), yst. s. of the late William Hobbs, of Toddington, co. Bedford, Butcher, by his wife, Millicent, dau. of John Carr; b. Toddington, 8 Feb. 1890; educ. Toddington National School; enlisted in Sept. 1908, in the Royal Scots, won his third, second and first certificates in the Army, and left for India in Oct. 1900; while there was sent to a college at Bangalore to qualify for the higher education, and received his certificate for acting schoolmaster. On the outbreak of war he returned to England with his regt. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 14 Dec. 1914, leaving for France 19 Dec. the same year. He died of wounds received in action at Armentières 28 June, 1915, and was buried at Bailleul. Lieut. Hobbs was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field and received the Military Cross in June. He m. at St. Mary Bolton, South Kensington, 26 Nov. 1914, Helen Coote (8, Crown Road, Maldon), 2nd dau. of Arthur Brady, of Maldon, Essex; s.p. She is now a nurse at the Essex County Hospital.

=HOBBS, JOSEPH LEVINE=, Sailmaker, 167871, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HOCKING, FRANCIS JAMES=, D.C.M., L.-Sergt., No. 1027, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of William Hocking, of The Gardens, Copley Dene, Cholmeley Park, Highgate, Head Gardener, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Richard Lovejoy; b. Kentish Town, N., 8 Oct. 1893; educ. Whittington School, Highgate Hill, and Acland Higher Grade School, Fortress Road, N.W.; and subsequently obtained an appointment at the Railway Clearing House; joined the 7th Middlesex Territorials, 3 Jan. 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left England with his battn. for Gibraltar, 4 Sept. 1914, returned to England 13 Feb. 1915; was appointed L.-Sergt. 9 March; went to France four days later; was severely wounded on 7 May, and died in the 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell, 18 May, 1915; unm. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal [London Gazette, 5 Aug. 1914] “For gallant conduct and resource on the night of 7 May, 1915, when with a party covering important new works between our own and the German lines. The enemy stalked the party, and rushed on them from flank and rear. L.-Sergt. Hocking continued to act with the greatest courage and coolness, although severely wounded, and gave a fine example to his men of steadiness and devotion to duty.” Capt. (now Major) S. C. Smith, Commanding “A” Coy., wrote: “I have known your son since he joined and I think can give no higher praise than to say he was thoroughly worthy of the rank he held; he was trusted and respected by all of us, both below and above him in military rank. Although under the recent double company organisation I did not, perhaps, come into such personal touch with him as I did before, nevertheless I was able to watch closely his military career, which was in every way as successful as it could possibly be; his platoon commander, Lieut. Groser, I know, respected him highly as a section commander. I saw him directly after the affair in which he was wounded and was struck by the heroic way in which he was bearing the pain of his wound, which one could see was, at the time, great. His behaviour during the fight was magnificent, and although wounded, he did much to help drive off the Germans; he has in consequence had his name sent in to Army Headquarters for special recommendation, and had he lived he would have had the satisfaction of knowing that he was not wounded in vain.” Lieut. Groser also wrote: “As you know I was with your son when he was wounded, and as his platoon commander, I was much in contact with him the whole time that we were in France, so that I probably knew him as well as anyone in the battn. He was a most valuable non-commissioned officer to me, and I always felt that he was absolutely to be relied upon, if at any time we should find ourselves in difficulties. The men in No. 3 platoon liked and respected him, and he was always a friend to every private, even the newest joined. On the night of 7 May, when he was lying wounded on the ground, he continued to fire at the Germans (who at that point were 15 against 7), and was largely instrumental in driving them off. I repeat that incident because that was typical of your son—he did not know when beaten, even when wounded and all odds against him.” He was buried in Highgate New Cemetery, with full military honours and a memorial was unveiled there, July, 1916.

=HOCKING, WILLIAM JOHN=, Private, No. 13506, 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late William John Hocking, of St. Budeaux, Devonport, Coy. Sergt.-Major, R.E., by his wife, Annie (1, Waverley Villas, Vicarage Road, St. Budeaux, Devonport), dau. of Richard Slemon, of Bull Point; b. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 10 Sept. 1889; educ. Devonport; returned to Canada in 1905, and settled at Moose Jaw, Sask.; was a Clerk; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France in Feb. following, and died at Rouen, 21 May, 1915, from wounds received in action at Hill 60, on 28 April. Buried at Rouen; unm.

=HODDEN, HENRY ERNEST=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12473, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Thomas Hodden, of 66, Ifield Road, South Kensington; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HODGE, DORRIEN EDWARD GROSE=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of the Rev. Edward Grose Hodge, Vicar and Rural Dean of Paddington and Prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral; b. Anningsley Park, Chertsey, co. Surrey, 25 May, 1893; educ. Marlborough College (treble scholar) and Pembroke College, Cambridge (graduated with Classical Honours), was a member of the O.T.C., joined the army following the outbreak of war, gazetted 2nd Lieut. 29 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres 27, April, 1915. Buried behind the trenches; unm.

=HODGES, HAROLD=, Private, No. 2948, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Robert Hodges, of Charmouth, Dorset, by his wife, Sarah (23, Redesdale Street, Chelsea, S.W.), dau. of James Turrell; b. London, 12 Oct. 1893; educ. Holy Trinity School, Chelsea; was a Clerk; joined the Kensingtons in Sept. 1914, after the outbreak of war; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action during the attack of the 8th Division on the German position at Fromelles and Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=HODGES, HAROLD WARDALE=, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve) 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, elder s. of Herbert Chamney Hodges, of Watton-at-Stone, Hertford, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond. by his wife, Dora Katherine, dau. of the Rev. John Wardale, and nephew of Lieut.-Col. Aubrey D. T. P. Hodges, C.M.G., M.D. Lond., P.M.O. for Uganda and Director of Medical Supplies in East Africa; b. Watton-at-Stone, 14 Oct. 1893; and was educ. at Epsom College, at which he obtained senior, junior, and leaving scholarships, and Hertford College, Oxford, where he obtained an Exhibition, took “First” in Classical Moderations, and was made an Hon. Scholar. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th K.R.R.C. from the University O.T.C. 15 Aug. 1914; left for France in Dec. having been attd. to the 2nd Battn. (1st Division), which formed part of the 2nd Brigade, and was killed in action near Rue du Bois, during the advance on Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Hodges was one of my best subalterns, and is a very great loss to me. Besides being a first-rate officer, he was a charming boy and deservedly popular with his brother officers.” Lieut. Hodges excelled at all games, and represented both his school and his college at cricket, football, and hockey, and at Epsom was Captain of his hockey team.

=HODGES, HENRY BURDEN=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, yr. s. of John Frederick William Hodges, of Glenravel House, Glenravel, co. Antrim, J.P., by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Henry Burden, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Eng.), and gdson. of the late Professor John Frederick Hodges, M.D., Queen’s College, Belfast; b. Newtownreda, Belfast, 13 Nov. 1895; educ. Mostyn House, Cheshire; Sherborne Preparatory, and Sherborne School, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Y.L.I., 23 Dec. 1914; went to the Front, 6 March, 1915, and after five weeks in the trenches was killed in action at Hill 60, 18 April following. He fell, as his Col. wrote: “Gallantly leading his men in a charge against the Germans.” The regt. lost six officers killed and seven wounded that night, and as they were forced to retire before they had time to bring in the dead and wounded and Hill 60 fell to the Germans shortly afterwards, his body was not recovered. He was a keen golfer and footballer, and had won several medals for swimming and life-saving. He also won the light-weight championship at the Public Schools Boxing Competition at Aldershot in April, 1914. His elder brother, Capt. J. F. Hodges, 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, was wounded at St. Eloi, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] and awarded the Military Cross, 24 June, 1915.

=HODGES, HENRY THOMAS=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 183316, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HODGES, WILLIAM SYDNEY=, Corpl., R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 916), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HODGKINSON, JOHN FRANCIS=, Capt., 3rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards, only s. of John Grundy Hodgkinson, of Rose Hill Farm, Baslow, co. Derby, Farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth Catherine, dau. of Francis Walker, of Sheffield; b. 25 July, 1879; educ. Mount St. Mary’s College, Chesterfield, co. Derby; enlisted in the Bakewell Coy. of the old 2nd V. Battn. Sherwood Foresters, 21 March, 1901, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 26 March, 1902, and Capt. of D Coy. of the same regt. in May, 1905. With a view to getting into the Regular Army he obtained his transfer to the 4th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 11 Oct. 1906, and on 25 May, 1910, was gazetted Capt. to the 3rd Dragoon Guards. He served with his regt. in Cairo for two years, and on the outbreak of the European War returned with it to England, whence after a month spent on Salisbury Plain he proceeded to the Front at the end of Oct. A few days later he was severely wounded in the head by a bullet whilst in charge of the regimental machine guns at Zillebeke. He was removed to Boulogne, where he died in hospital 10 Nov. 1914, and was buried in Boulogne Cemetery; unm. Capt. Hodgkinson was a keen fisherman, a good shot, a good bat at cricket, and an excellent polo player. He was a man of no small parts, and amongst the list of his varied accomplishments had an excellent knowledge of French, Spanish and Russian; added to which he possessed a working knowledge of the Caffre and Hindustani languages. While at the Infantry School of Instruction, Dublin, 1907, he passed first on the list and was granted a special certificate.

=HODGKINSON, SAMUEL CHARLES LINDSEY=, Lieut., Royal Australian Navy, H.M.A.S. Australia, 3rd s. of the late Edmund Hodgkinson, of Baslow, J.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Millicent, dau. of the late Thomas Heathcote, of Eyam, co. Derby; b. Baslow, co. Derby, 9 Oct. 1886; educ. Lady Manners Grammar School, Bakewell, Derbyshire, and on leaving school was apprenticed to the Merchant Service, and made several voyages to South America and Australia, obtaining his master mariner’s certificate, 29 July, 1910. On 25 Aug. 1905, he entered the Royal Naval Reserve as Midshipman, and served in H.M. ships Psyche, Scylla, and Irresistible, and when the Australian Navy was formed was appointed Lieut. 31 May, 1912. He served for some time in H.M.A. ships Protector, Pioneer, and Yarra, and for about 12 months acted as assistant navigation officer at Garden Island, Sydney (H.M.A.S. Penguin). He was appointed to H.M.A.S. Australia, flagship of the Australian squadron, on 1 April, 1914, with seniority, 1 Dec. 1912, and took part in the capture and occupation of the German Islands in the Pacific, by the Australian and New Zealand forces, and died at the Royal Naval Hospital, South Queensferry, 1 Aug. 1915, after undergoing a second operation rendered necessary by internal injuries, sustained while at gun practice in Jan.; unm.

=HODGSON, FRANCIS FAITH=, Capt., 84th Punjabis, yst. s. of Henry Hill Hodgson, of Escote, Shortlands, Kent, J.P., formerly of Brathay House, Anerley, S.E.; b. Brathay House, Anerley, 14 Oct. 1880; educ. Arlington House (Mr. Burmann Prep. School), and Tonbridge, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. Indian Army, 28 July, 1900; and was attd. to the Cheshires for his first year and joined the 27th Madras Infantry (reconstituted in 1902 as the 84th Punjabis), 6 Oct. 1901. He became Double Company Officer, 16 May, 1902; was promoted Lieut., 28 Oct. 1902, and Capt., 28 July, 1909; served in the operations in the Mohmund Country, N.W. Frontier, India, 1908, including the engagement at Kargha, and received the medal with clasp. On the outbreak of war, he left for France with the Indian Expeditionary Force, under Lt.-Gen. Sir James Willcocks, 1 Nov. 1914; being attd. to the Headquarters staff of the Bareilly Brigade, in the Meerut Division as Brigade machine-gun officer, and died in the Field Ambulance at Vielle Chapelle, 17 May, 1915, of wounds received at Festubert the previous day. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 31 May [London Gazette, 23 June], 1915. Capt. Hodgson passed the Staff College with honours, 1914. He m. at Rawal Pindi, 5 March, 1914, Katherine Anna, dau. of Frederick Rowlandson, of Madras [and a descendant in the fifth degree of Elizabeth Fry], and had a dau., Katherine, b. 13 March, 1915.

=HODGSON, FREDERICK=, Chief E.R.A., 1st Class (Pensioner, 16328), 141300, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HODGSON, GEOFFREY MITCHELL=, Private, No. A. 10993, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, s. of the Rev. John Henry Hodgson, Vicar of Swanmore, Bishop’s Waltham, Hants, by his wife, Frances Helena, dau. of Capt. Clayton Mitchell, R.N.; b. St. Swithun’s Rectory, Winchester, 10 June, 1892; educ. Downsend, Ashtead; and Haileybury College; went to Canada in Nov. 1910, and settled at Montreal, as a Bank Clerk; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined Princess Patricia’s L.I. in Oct. 1914; came over with the 2nd Contingent, 8 June, 1915; went to France, 16 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Frise, 14 Oct. 1915; unm.

=HODGSON, GEORGE GRAHAM=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Royal Berkshire Regt., elder s. of George Graham Hodgson, of Curfew House, Chertsey, co. Surrey, M.D., by his wife, Josephine, dau. of Joseph Iredale, of Carlisle; b. Devonshire House, Bootle, near Liverpool, 20 March, 1889; educ. Mulgrave Castle School (Rev. the Marquis of Normanby), Whitby, Rugby School and the Army House, Wiesbaden, and received his first commission in the 7th (Special Reserve) Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers. Passing out third on the list, he was, on 7 Dec. 1910, gazetted to the 2nd Berkshires, then stationed at Meerut. He served in India for four years, and was promoted Lieut. 10 Sept. 1913. After the outbreak of war he left India with his battn. in Sept. 1914, reaching England, 22 Oct. 1914, and after a few hours’ leave with his parents, went to the Western Front on 6 Nov. Subsequently he was attacked with pneumonia, necessitating his return to England, but was able to rejoin his regt. in the early part of April. He was for a time at the Base, near Havre, and on reaching the firing line found the Berkshires guarding the same trenches they had under their charge when he was invalided home. There was, however, a sad change in the personnel. Of the officers but two remained of those with whom he had served in India. He was killed in action at Fromelles, near Festubert ridges, on 9 May, 1915. Ordered to take a strongly fortified German trench, situated scarcely a couple of hundred yards away, he moved forward at the head of his company. When something like half the distance had been traversed he was hit in the hip or groin. The wound was bandaged by a Private, and he was urged to make his way to the rear. This advice he declined. His orders were to take the trench. On getting over the parapet they were met by a murderous fire from shrapnel and machine guns. They struggled on and arrived at a disused trench about 30 yards from the German position. Here Lieut. Graham Hodgson rallied the remnant of his men, together with some of the Rifle Brigade, and led them in the final attack on the enemy trench, in which his body was ultimately found. The trench was captured, but had to be evacuated later in the day, and his body was never recovered. Confirmation of his death was received from a German officer, who on 24 Nov. 1915, returned a photograph on which an address had been written in Lieut. G. Graham Hodgson’s handwriting (in English and German), saying: “In the event of my death will the finder kindly send the enclosed to the address given.” The German officer wrote: “It was found on the body of an English officer. Perhaps it will be of value to the person to whom it belongs.” Officially returned as “Missing, believed killed,” his commanding officer wrote: “I am afraid there is no doubt now that your son was killed in the fight of 9 May. The only definite information I have is that he was hit in the hip or groin while leading his men against the German trenches. A private soldier bandaged him up with a field dressing, and your son said he could manage. Nothing more has been seen of him since, and from all accounts the rifle and machine gun fire was so intense that anyone moving must have been hit several times. Since the action it has only been possible to get in those who fell quite close to our original breastwork, as no ground was held in front of that after the day itself. I am sorry to say we have several similar cases, and though everything has been done to trace the officers we can get no further. To the best of my belief two or three were actually killed in the German trench, which was temporarily taken. I am so very sorry that all this uncertainty exists. For some time it was hoped that some of our officers had been taken back during the confusion, but no trace of them can now be found in the field ambulances and clearing hospitals. Your son used to be in my company when we first came out, and I know how much we shall all miss him.” Out of 24 officers of the Berkshires who went into action that day, only four came out. Lieut. Graham Hodgson was an expert German linguist and scholar. He was unm. A memorial tablet, erected to his memory in Chertsey Parish Church, was unveiled by Col. Sir Lorenzo Dundas, K.C.B., on 19 Dec. 1915. His yr. brother, Harold Kingston Graham Hodgson, served as a Motor Cyclist Despatch Rider in the early days of the war until wounded by a shell explosion, and is now a Lieut. in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

=HODGSON, PHILIP ORMISTON=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 4th s. of the late Lieut. Thomas Tarleton Hodgson, R.N., and only s. by his 2nd wife, Georgina Julia Helen (11, Barne Park, Teignmouth, South Devon), 4th dau. of the late James Ormiston McWilliam, M.D., C.B., R.N., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Surgeon R.N., Medical Inspector of H.M. Customs, and gdson. of the late Rev. William Hodgson, D.D., Master of Peterhouse College, Cambridge; b. London, 8 March, 1887; educ. Stubbington and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; volunteered and applied for a commission on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the East Lancashires, 15 Aug. 1914. He joined the 3rd Battn. at Plymouth, 8 Oct. following; went to the Front, 19 Feb., and was transferred there to the 2nd Battn. and died in No. 25 Field Ambulance, 13 March, 1915, from wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, while gallantly leading a charge against a farmhouse held by the enemy with machine-guns. He was buried in Estaires Cemetery, France; unm.

=HODGSON, ROBERT=, Private, No. 10571, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of the late Edward Hodgson, by his wife, Mary; b. Auckland Park, co. Durham, 22 Dec. 1893; enlisted, 14 Dec. 1909; went to France, 29 Dec. 1914, and died, 8 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action at Doorstraat; unm.

=HODSDON, HARRY=, Sergt., No. 19, 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Henry Hodsdon, of 33, Concannon Road, Brixton; b. Islington, 22 March, 1885; educ. Mathias Road Board School; joined the Post Office Rifles in 1903; became Sergt., volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed at the Battle of Festubert, 21–26 May, 1915, in which his Battn. greatly distinguished itself; unm.

=HODSOLL, GEORGE BERTRAM POLLOCK=, Capt., 3rd Battn. (Special Reserve), the Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of Charles Maxfield Hodsoll, of Farm House, Capel, Surrey, formerly of Loose Court, Kent [descended from the old Kent family of Hodsoll]; by his wife, Georgiana Mary, elder dau. of George Kennet Pollock, granddau. of Sir David Pollock, Chief Justice of Bombay, and grandniece of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, of Khyber Pass celebrity, b. Loose Court, co. Kent, 18 June, 1875; educ. Maidstone School and University College, Oxford; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Cambridgeshire Militia, then the 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt., Dec. 1902, and subsequently transferred to the 3rd Battn. Special Reserve, Suffolk Regt., and obtained his company 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 23 Oct. following, and was there attd. to the 1st Cheshires, and was killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres, 7 Nov. 1914, while gallantly leading his men in a counter-attack. The Adjutant, Capt. L. Frost, wrote: “On 7 Nov. about three o’clock in the afternoon, the regt. on our left fell back and the Germans came through their trenches, so Capt. Hodsoll, Mr. Anderson and myself, with the supports of our regt. made a counter-attack. Your husband had not gone more than 100 yards when he, poor fellow, was killed, he died instantaneously and could not have suffered any pain at all. He died giving his life for his country at a very critical moment, if this counter-attack had failed, it would have meant the whole line coming back. He died a glorious and magnificent death. Capt. Pollock Hodsoll was buried the same evening on the ground where he died, in a wood near a chateau about 3½ miles east of Ypres. A wooden cross with his name was placed on the grave.” Capt. Pollock Hodsoll was well known to all followers of Association Football, having played many years for both the Casuals and Corinthians, touring with these teams both on the Continent and in South Africa, and captained the Army team on several occasions. He was much interested in political matters, and frequently spoke in public on this subject, and in support of the Unionist cause, and in favour of National Military Service. He m. at Edinburgh, 1 June, 1914, Olive Margaret, eldest dau. of the Rev. George Milne Rae, of Edinburgh, D.D.; s.p.

=HODSON, DANIEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10644), 210650, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HODSON, EDWARD WILFRID=, Rifleman, No. 298, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Gilbert Hodson, of Broomfield Avenue, Palmer’s Green, N., Secretary of Public Company, by his wife, Alice, dau. of George F. Snook; b. Highgate, N., 12 July, 1891; educ. Enfield Grammar School; was Junior Salesman in the Mantle Department of a London Wholesale House (Bradbury, Greatorex & Co., Ltd.) before the war; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 2 Sept. 1914, went to France, March, 1915, and died in the Military Hospital, Wandsworth, 22 May following, of wounds received on the 14th, near Verlounhock, during the Second Battle of Ypres, where his battalion greatly distinguished itself, and sustained terrible casualties, losing in one day 170 men; unm. Owing to the heavy losses which the L.R.B.’s machine gun section had suffered, Rifleman Hodson had been attached on 5 May to the crew of one of the guns, and a comrade wrote: “That one machine gun was soon put out of action by a shell, but another was soon put into its place. It was while standing by this second gun that a shell exploded which killed several of the fellows, and so badly wounded Wilfrid. I understand he calmly took the bandages from his pocket and put them ready for the fellows to bind him up. It is probably this coolness that misled our men, and although we knew he was hit in many places, his extraordinary cheerfulness and pluck gave us high hopes of his ultimate recovery.”

=HODSON, HUBERT BERNARD=, Private, No. 15256, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., 6th s. of the late Rev. Thomas Hodson, M.A., Rector of Oddington, Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Glos., by his wife, Catherine Anne, dau. of the late Rev. T. R. Maskew, Rector of Thornbury, Hereford; b. The Slad Vicarage, near Stroud, 22 June, 1892; educ. Ormond House Preparatory School, Dursley, and Cheltenham College, where he gained a classical scholarship, and the Hornby Prize for French; went to Canada for the second time in March, 1914; joined the 22nd Canadian Light Horse on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; transferred at his own request to the P.P.C.L.I. in April, 1915; went to France the same month, and was killed instantly in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915, by shell fire; unm. His coy. commander wrote that: “No braver life was ever given for his country. Ever since he joined the regiment he has shown the true spirit of the soldier, he was always ready for any duty, no matter how trying or dangerous, and generally did a little more than his share. On several occasions he was placed in positions where not only courage was required but judgment of the situation and quick action, and he never failed us.”

=HODSON, ROBERT=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21974, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HOFFMAN, FRANCIS EDWARD CHARLES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3257B, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOGAN, JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2505 B., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOGAN, ROBERT GARRETT ROCHE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Royal Berkshire Regt., only s. of William John Alexander Hogan, of Saharanpur, United Provinces, India, Civil Surgeon, and his wife, Evelyn Christine, dau. of William FitzGaskin Roche, of Mallow, co. Cork; b. Fyzabad, United Provinces, India; educ. St. Joseph’s Irish Christian Brothers, India; Wimbledon College, Edge Hill, Surrey; and qualified for the Army with Mr. Bullin-Spicer, Army Coach, Eastbourne. He was gazetted to the Special Reserve of Officers 11 March, 1914, was attached to the 1st Royal Berkshire Regt. at Aldershot. He received his commission in the regulars 2 Oct. the same year, serving with the 3rd battn. at Portsmouth on home defence till transferred to the 2nd Battn. Royal Berks for service in France, Feb. 1915. He was killed in action, being shot through the heart while leading his platoon in an attack at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. He was buried in an orchard a few yards from where he fell, about 200 yards east of the village of Neuve Chapelle; unm. Letters from his brother officers speak in the highest terms of his efficiency and great courage. One wrote: “He fell with a bullet through the heart while leading his platoon in an attack at Neuve Chapelle on 12 March at 5 p.m. He was a good lad, so fearless and brave—most popular with everyone.”

=HOGG, ALBERT GEORGE WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 932, 12th Battn. (The Rangers), The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late George Hogg, of London, Merchant, by his wife, Julia (11, Cornwall Gardens, Willesden Green, N.W.), dau. of William Hill, of Nottingham Street, Marylebone; b. London, W.; 3 Jan. 1888; educ. Brondesbury College and the Polytechnic, Regent Street, W.; joined the Rangers, 1909, and was secretary of the Polytechnic Coy. of that Corps; retired 1913, but rejoined on outbreak of war; went to France, 23 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried in a little cemetery just outside Ypres. Lieut. G. F. Rickett wrote: “As an officer of the Polytechnic Coy. of the Rangers I am writing to tell you of some incidents that took place in the fighting of 20 and 21 Feb. We were ordered to go up to some very exposed trenches at dusk and remain until just before daybreak. We succeeded in taking up our position and remained all night under a fairly heavy fire, but managed all right and got away quite safely to our dug-outs in rear just before dawn. We stayed in those dug-outs all day and again at dusk took up our position at the trench. We were relieved by another battn. during the night, and I regret to say our second attempt was not so successful as the first, for we had several casualties. Amongst those killed I grieve to say was your son and my friend. He was killed in action, doing his duty, and I am thankful to say his death was instantaneous.”

=HOGG, ANDREW=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9574), S.S. 106959, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HOGG, HARRY PAUL=, Private, No. 2633, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battn. Highland L.I. (T.F.), only s. of James Hogg, of Ellangowan, Bo’ness, J.P., partner in the firm of Messrs. Love, Stewart & Co., Shipowners and Brokers, Bo’ness, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Peter Hastie, of Grangemouth; b. Bo’ness, 5 July, 1894; educ. Bo’ness Academy, and on leaving there entered the office of Messrs. Love, Stewart & Co.; on the outbreak of war he volunteered and enlisted in the 9th Highland Light Infantry, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France early in Jan. 1915, and died at Lillers, 1 April, 1915, of wounds received in action at Festubert, 31 March; unm. Buried at Lillers. A comrade, L.-Corpl. Herbert Bain, wrote: “Ever since the day we joined the ranks, Harry and I have been together and in danger many times, and I could always look to him as a cheerful and bright comrade, optimistic at all times, and always looking on the sunny side. Hence he endeared himself to all those of his comrades with whom he came in contact.”

=HOGG, IAN GRAHAM, D.S.O.=, Lieut.-Col., 4th Hussars, 2nd s. of the late Quintin Hogg, founder of the London Polytechnic; and grandson of Sir James Weir Hogg, 1st Bt., P.C.; b. Whitehall, London, S.W., 2 Feb. 1875; educ. Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 15 Jan. 1896; transferred to the 4th Hussars, Feb. following, and was promoted Lieut., 5 Sept. 1896; Capt., 3 Nov. 1900; Major, 7 July, 1904, and Lieut.-Col. 13 May, 1913; was employed in Niger Coast Protectorate, 23 Sept. to 31 Dec. 1899, and with the West African Frontier Force, 1 Jan. 1900, to 23 May, 1905; served (1) in South African War, 1901 first as Commandant at Wellington, then attached to the Intelligence Department and later on was one of Sir Bruce Hamilton’s Staff Officers: took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, June-Oct. 1901, in the Transvaal, Oct. and in Cape Colony, Nov.-Dec. 1901 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); (2) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1901: operations in the Ishan country (medal with clasp); (3) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1901–2: Aro Expedition (clasp); (4) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1902: in command of operations in the Ibekwe country (clasp); (5) in West Africa (Northern Nigeria) 1903: Kano-Sokoto Campaign (clasp); (6) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1903 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 28 Oct. 1904], awarded the D.S.O.); (7) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1903–4: in command of expeditions against towns of Osea, Oriri and Ndoto (clasp); (8) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1904: in command of operations against natives of Asaba Hinterland and in those in the Kwale country (mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette, 25 Aug. 1905], Brevet Major, clasp); and (9) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1904–5: in command of operations in the Irua Patrol on the West of the Niger. After leaving Nigeria, in 1905 he rejoined his regiment in India, and went with it to South Africa. He passed through the Staff College in 1910–12 and after filling a Staff appointment at the War Office was appointed Lieut.-Col. of the 4th Hussars, in May, 1913. He went with his regt. to France, 16 Aug. 1914, and was mortally wounded during the retreat from Mons on 1 Sept. He was shot through the lungs in some wood fighting just north of the little village of Haramont, near Soissons. His Second in Command wrote: “We were retiring, and the Germans were following so close that our men were often only 10 to 20 yds. distant from the enemy. Ian commanded the rearguard and in spite of the protests of his Staff insisted on being himself the last to withdraw. Actually, when shot, he was standing in an open clearing, signalling with his hat for some men to retire, and though urged by two of his officers to retire, he declined to budge till certain that all his men were back.” They carried him to the village of Haramont and at his express command left him there, the enemy entering the village ten minutes after our troops had left it. He died the next day, 2 Sept., 24 hours after he was wounded, and was buried in the Haramont Churchyard.

=HOGG, IVAN DAYRELL MEREDITH=, Capt., 101st Grenadiers, Indian Army, 3rd and yst. s. of General George Forbes Hogg, C.B., Indian Staff Corps, by his wife, Elizabeth Maria Chevallier (Cromer House, Brentwood), dau. of Harry Teverson Purkis, of Abbot’s Hall, Sturmer, Essex; b. London, W., 2 April, 1884; educ. United Services College, Westward Ho and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the Indian Army (unattd. list), 21 Jan. 1903, and was attd. first to the 2nd Oxfordshire L.I., and then to the 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; joined the 101st Grenadiers, 18 April, 1904; promoted Lieut., 21 April, 1905, and Capt., 21 Jan. 1912; went to German East Africa with the Indian Expeditionary Force and was killed in action there, 4 Nov. 1914, during the attack on Tanga. He m. at the Cathedral, Allahabad, U.P., India, 28 Dec. 1911, Bridget Eyre (18, Goldington Avenue, Bedford), yst. dau. of the late William Henry Lloyd, of Droitwich; s.p.

=HOGG, JAMES=, Private, No. 2553, 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of William Hogg, of 61, Main Street, Armadale, Coal Miner; b. West Calder, co. Midlothian, 16 June, 1892; educ. there; enlisted 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., was wounded in action at Hill 60, 14 May, 1915, and died in Hospital on the 20th; unm.

=HOLBECH, WILLIAM HUGH=, of Farnborough Hall, co. Warwick, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, elder s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Walter Henry Holbech, King’s Royal Rifles, and one of H.M.’s Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (who served in Red River Expedition, 1870; was Brigade Major, Egyptian Campaign, 1882, and was mentioned in Despatches, and died v.p., 6 March, 1901), by his wife Mary Caroline (The Grange, Farnborough, Banbury), widow of Lieut.-Col. Sir George Clay, 3rd Bart., and 4th dau. of Sir John Walrond Walrond, 1st Bart.; b. Murray Bay, Canada, 18 Aug. 1882; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; suc. his grandfather in the family property, 20 March, 1901; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Scots Guards, 30 April, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 7 March, 1904; retired 20 Feb. 1907; and passed into the Reserve of Officers; joined the 3rd Scots Guards on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, transferred to his old Battn., the 2nd, 2 Oct., and went to France with it as part of the Seventh Division, two days later; reached the firing line on the 18th, took part in the first Battle of Ypres; was severely wounded at Kruseid on the night of the 25th, and died in the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. Col. Bolton wrote: “From the time Willie joined us at Southampton until he was mortally wounded, he was one of the most cheery, unselfish, capable, and keenest of the officers in my Battn. We all deplore his loss more than I can say. I look back on both him and poor young Cottrell Dormer as two of the best officers in every way.” Major Cator wrote: “He defended his trench all night at Kruseik when the Germans got through our line. He and Capt. Paynter had the Germans all round them and defended their trenches most gallantly—I only wish I could tell you more; in him we have lost a gallant soldier and a great friend.”

=HOLBROOK, HENRY GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17531, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HOLDBROOK, JOSEPH=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 22681, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HOLDER, GEORGE STEPHEN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2078), 154330, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOLDING, FRANK=, L.-Sergt., No. 9025, No. 4 Coy., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Christopher Holding, of 25, Edmund Street, Exeter, late Corpl., Royal Engineers, by his wife, Bertha; b. Exeter, 18 June, 1891; educ. Exeter; enlisted, 7 March, 1911; appointed L.-Corpl., 6 June, 1913; promoted Corpl., 27 May, 1914, and appointed L.-Sergt., 7 Aug. 1914; left for France, 14 Aug. 1914; and was reported wounded and missing after the fighting at La Cour de Soupir, on the Aisne, 14 Sept. following. He m. at St. Peter’s Church, Dumbleton, near Evesham, 3 Aug. 1914, Ethel Mary (85, Shakespeare Road, Stoke Newington, London, N.E.), dau. of Thomas Sallis, of Dumbleton; s.p.

=HOLFORD, ALFRED FREDERICK=, 1st Class Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7986), 292960, s. of William Holford; b. Camberwell, 6 Aug. 1880; served through the South African War, and completed his 12 years’ service in Aug. 1911; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914, and was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Swanscombe, co. Kent, 28 Oct. 1911, Ada Almira (25, Stanhope Road, Swanscombe, Kent), dau. of George William Weller, of Swanscombe, and had a son, Jack Leslie, b. 19 Nov. 1913.

=HOLLAMBY, ALBERT EDWARD=, Private, No. 47187, 13th Battn. (Royal Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Ely Hollamby, of Queen’s Road, Maidstone, Carter, by his wife, Lucy Elizabeth, dau. of the late George Henry Marchant; b. Maidstone, co. Kent, 22 Aug. 1892; educ. St. Michael’s School there; and was a Grocer’s Assistant. He enlisted in the Nova Scotia Highlanders in the 1st Canadian Expeditionary Force on 28 Nov. 1914, after the Canadians came to Maidstone; went to Belgium 26 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 23 May, 1915. He m. at Maidstone 22 July, 1914, Ada (37, Chillington Street, Maidstone), dau. of the late James Portman, and had a daughter Barbara Gladys, b. 20 Dec. 1914.

=HOLLAND, FRANK DAVENPORT=, Private, No. 51225, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, eldest s. of Frank Bernard Holland, of 6th Avenue East, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, by his wife, Ada, dau. of William Turner-Whitlow, and great gdson. of Peter Holland, of Knutsford, co. Chester, Physician to her late Majesty, Queen Victoria; b. Great Warford, Alderley Edge, co. Chester, 13 Sept. 1895; went to Canada with his parents, 11 April, 1905; educ. privately and at King Edward School, Prince Rupert, and was on the Staff of the Bank of British North America when war began. He had joined Earl Grey’s Own Rifles in Nov. 1911, and immediately volunteered for Imperial service. He left Canada with the 30th Battn., and in Jan. 1915 was drafted to the Princess Patricia’s L.I. They arrived in France on 11 March, and were immediately sent up to the Front. He took part in the fighting at St. Eloi, and was killed in action at Ypres, 4 May, 1915, when trying to bind up the wounds of a comrade, and was buried the same night at Bellewaarde. His Commanding Officer wrote that “He was a splendid soldier”; and three comrades: “He was beloved by us all, and his behaviour when in action proved that he was both a son and a soldier to be proud of.” He had had a brilliant school career, and was an expert shot and was a member of the rifle team that won the Corporation Cup and the Northern British Columbia Championship in 1913. A memorial tablet was erected in St. Andrew’s Church, Prince Rupert.

=HOLLAND, JOHN WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3646D, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOLLAND, JOSEPH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6528), 183900, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOLLICK, WALTER STANLEY=, Private, No. 1619, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s, Kensington), The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Walter Charles Hollick, of 15, St Anne’s Road, Barking, E., by his wife, Eliza Ann, dau. of William Charles Saunders, late Sergt., 8th Hussars (King’s Royal Irish); b. Barking, co. Essex, 13 Feb. 1892; educ. C.E. Schools there; was a Clerk; joined the Kensingtons in May, 1914, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 7 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Laventie, 21 Dec. 1914. Buried on the west side of the road, Aux Quatre, Paroises, between Ypres and Armentières.

=HOLLINGWORTH, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9174), 295342, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOLMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./7572, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOLME, ALEXANDER CHARLES=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., 2nd s. of Charles Henry Holme, of Rawburn, co. Berwick, by his wife, Eva Magdalen, dau. of the Rev. Richard Beverley Machell, Canon of York, and gdson. of Bryan Holme, of Paull Holme, co. York (late Capt. 88th Regt.), by his first wife, Catherine Margaret, dau. of Gen. the Hon. Sir Patrick Stuart, G.C.M.G.; b. Mussoorie, N.W.P., India, 26 Sept. 1888, educ. Charterhouse and Sandhurst, gazetted 2nd Lieut. Gloucestershire Regt. 20 Mar. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 15 July, 1911. He served for a year in India and on the return of the battn. to England applied for service in Southern Nigeria, and was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 1912, to May, 1913, when he came home on leave. He returned to Nigeria the following Nov., and was killed in action at Nsanakang, Cameroons, 6 Sept. 1914; unm. A memorial cross was erected to his memory at Longformacus in the Lammermuir Hills, Berwickshire. His next brother was killed in France (see following notice); and another brother was private secretary to Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Gold Coast, and has now received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 8th K.O.S.B. (Aug. 1915). The eldest brother enlisted Sept. 1914, in the 11th Service Battn. (Lonsdales) of the Border Regt., commanded by his uncle, Col. Machell, C.M.G., and is serving abroad.

=HOLME, RONALD HENRY PAULL=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd s. of Charles Henry Holme, of Rawburn, etc., and next younger brother of the preceding; b. Rurki, N.W.P., India, 1 Jan. 1890; educ. Haileybury and Sandhurst, and received his commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 Oct. 1910, and as Lieut. 19 Feb. 1914. He was in the first Expeditionary Force and served through the Battle of Mons and other engagements until wounded in action at Messines 31 Oct. 1914. He died in a nursing home in London 9 Nov.; and was buried at Longformacus aforesaid; unm. He was an exceptionally good shot, having gained the distinction in 1911 of being the best shot in the battn., and of being one of the team which, in the same year, won Lord Roberts’ Young Soldiers’ Cup at the Curragh Rifle Meeting.

=HOLMES, CECIL CRAMPTON=, Lieut. and posthumous Capt., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd surviving s. of Capt. Harry William Holmes, of Rockwood, Galway, late 3rd North Staffordshire Regt., by his wife, Anna Blake, dau. of Edmond Concanon, of Waterloo, co. Galway; b. Galway, 21 Jan. 1888; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 9 Oct. 1907 and promoted Lieut., 21 Nov. 1911, and Capt. (posthumous), 15 Nov. 1914, and served five years with his regt. in India. On the outbreak of the European War, he left Portsmouth for France with the Expeditionary Force on 13 Aug. as machine-gun officer, and was wounded in the fighting at Frameries, near Mons, on the 24th of that month, and died in hospital there two days later, 26 Aug. 1914; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. The news of his death did not reach the War Office till 27 Dec. and then unofficially, and it was not till the end of Feb. 1915 that it was confirmed in a letter from a brother officer, Capt. Rose, a prisoner in Germany, who wrote to his wife: “Poor 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.” Capt. Holmes distinguished himself as an athlete at Bedford Grammar School, where he got his colours for rowing, water polo, rugby and boxing. He passed direct into Sandhurst, and was a Sandhurst cadet in Woolwich where he played in the Rugby team and came second of his year in the boxing team. He passed out of Sandhurst in the shortest time possible, getting special praise for his riding. Two of his brothers, Lieut. Edmond Concanon Holmes, R.N. on the Agamemnon, and Capt. Noel Galway Holmes, Royal Irish Regt., are (1916) on active service.

=HOLMES, FRANCIS LENNOX=, Lieut., 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., yr. s. of the late Major-General Ponsonby Ross Holmes, R.M.L.I. (who served in the Baltic, 1854, and was mentioned in Despatches), by his wife, Clara Bernell (Evesham House, Cheltenham), dau. of W. G. Nixey, and gdson of Lieut.-Col. Steven Holmes, 24th, 78th, and 90th Regts. (who served in the Peninsular and at Waterloo, and was mentioned in Despatches by the Duke of Wellington for his conduct at the siege of Burgos); b. Stoke, Devonport, 11 Oct. 1887; educ. Cheltenham College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st South Staffordshire Regt., 19 Sept. 1908, and Lieut., 14 July, 1909; passed through Hythe with distinction, and was appointed Signalling Officer to the Battn.; went to the Front in the 7th Division, 4 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at the first Battle of Ypres, 21 Oct. 1914; unm. His Commanding Officer, Col. Ovens wrote: “As his Commanding Officer I can truthfully say the Army has lost a fine and promising young officer, who, as Signalling Officer and in other capacities, brought credit and honour to his regt. He was killed instantaneously, poor fellow, and had been exposing himself and working hard all through the operations. Capt. Dunlop (his Capt.) told me he had been the greatest assistance to him in defending their position and he wished particularly to mention him”; and the following passage is taken from this officer’s diary: “Lieut. Holmes was killed this day. He was taking observation and instructing the men when and where to aim. He was in command of a half company of B Coy. 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 shown much pluck and coolness.” Capt. Evans also wrote: “On Tuesday and Wednesday, 20 and 21 Oct., the Germans attacked our position in point of the outskirts of Zonnebeke. Lennox was in charge of half a company, and was hit on the Wednesday afternoon by a ricochet. Hayward told me afterwards that he was doing extraordinarily good work and was absolutely fearless in the way he moved from trench to trench to direct the fire against the Germans. It was while he was close by the machine-gun that he was hit. He was simply adored by the men, and, of course, his death upset them terribly and they fought magnificently to avenge his death. So that his example lived after him. Hayward’s own words to me were, ‘If ever a man deserved the V.C. he did’”; and Corpl F. Barrett: “On 22 Oct [this should be the 20th] 1914, I was working my machine-gun when Mr. Holmes came up and acted as my No. 2, also my observer, and we got over that day all right. On the 23rd [this should be the 21st] he visited me again, and I shifted my position close to where Mr. Holmes was killed about three o’clock. He was at the back of his trench taking cover, bandaging up Private Millar, after that he was taking aim at the Germans, and was just going to pull the trigger when a bullet hit him straight between the two eyes. I shall never forget him as long as I live.”

=HOLMES, FREDERICK HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17488, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HOLMES, JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3984), S.S. 102041, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HOLMES, LOUIS GORDON=, Capt., 3rd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, only s. of Dr. Louis Saenger Holmes, of Norwood, Adelaide, by his wife, Lucy Mary, dau. of the Rev. John Mewton; b. Launceston, Tasmania, 7 July, 1892; studied for the Army, and took special subjects at the Adelaide University and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 79th Infantry Battn. of the Commonwealth Army 28 Feb. 1913, and after the outbreak of the European War, Lieut. to the 10th Infantry Battn. of the First Australian Expeditionary Force, with which he left Australia in Oct. 1914. Arriving in Egypt, he spent several months in training with his battn., and early in 1915 was appointed A.D.C. to the Brigadier. He took part in the famous landing and the opening engagements of the Australians at Gaba Tepe in the Dardanelles. He landed on 25 April and the following day was promoted to a captaincy. He died 23 June, 1915, on board the Hospital Ship Gascon, near Gaba Tepe from shrapnel wounds received in action. Col. Maclagan, writing of the loss the brigade had sustained, said, “Capt. Holmes was beloved by all and one of the most unselfish of men, brave and courageous under all circumstances.” Capt. Holmes excelled in nearly every branch of athletics and was endowed with an extraordinarily good physique. He got his “Blue” as head of the river at the Wesley College Public School, Melbourne, and also his “Blue” for rowing and football as an Undergraduate of Adelaide University. For three years he was captain of his school Scotch College, Launceston, Tasmania. He was chosen in 1912 to row in the inter-state “eight” for South Australia. To his other athletic accomplishments it may be added that he was distinguished in his regt. for his expert use of the gloves.

=HOLMES, ROBERT=, Leading Seaman, 140749 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HOLMES, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 7873, 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of Thomas Holmes, of South Street, Jarrow-on-Tyne, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Joseph (and Barbara) Burnett; b. Hebburn-on-Tyne Colliery, 26 Oct. 1891; educ. St. Oswald’s School there; enlisted 10 Nov. 1910; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 28 Nov. 1914, to 16 June, 1915, and was reported missing after the fighting at Hooge, on the latter date. He m. at Jarrow-on-Tyne, 12 March, Wilhelmina (54, Pearson’s Place Back, Jarrow), dau. of Jonathan Craik, and had three children: Jonathan, b. 15 Feb. 1911; William, b. 30 Dec. 1912; and Margaret, b. 30 Oct. 1914.

=HOLROYD, JOHN GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110089 (Po.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOLT, CECIL WILLIAM=, Midshipman, R.N., 2nd s. of Thomas Holt, of the Hall, Burnham, co. Somerset, by his wife, Margaret Jane, dau. of Edward Webb Edwards; b. The Hall, Burnham, 13 Sept. 1899; educ. Morgan and Halton’s Connaught House, Portmore, Weymouth; entered the Navy as a Cadet in May, 1912; appointed to H.M.S. Hogue at the beginning of the war and promoted Midshipman, 14 Sept. 1914; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOLTBY, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Private, No. 27812, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Mitchell Holtby, of North Coate Farm, South Cave, Hull, by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of James Smith; b. Pickering Marshes, York, 17 May, 1890; educ. Hilnwick-on-the-Wolds; went to Canada, 20 April, 1911, and settled at Toronto as a Railway Rullyman; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Toronto; left for England with the first contingent, 26 Sept. 1914, arriving 16 Oct.; went to France, 29 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 27 April, 1915; unm.

=HONEY, ALBERT TOM=, Sergt., No. 1144, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (Yeomanry), 4th s. of the late Colour-Sergt. Thomas Honey, of Usk, co. Monmouth (who served in the Crimea), by his wife, Sarah; b. at Beech Hill, Usk, 8 Feb. 1876; educ. at Usk and Bristol; was Manager of Liptons, Ltd., at Pontypool; joined the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry, 19 March, 1903; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Egypt; went to the Dardanelles, 14 Aug. 1915, and was killed in the charge of the Yeomanry there on 21 Aug. following. His four brothers were all in the Regular or Auxiliary Forces, and a nephew, Stewart Hardy, is serving in the Yeomanry.

=HONEY, HERBERT=, Armourer’s Crew, M. 7486, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HONEYWILL, HERBERT CECIL=, Private, No. 10955, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; s. of Samuel Honeywill, of Ashburton, Devon; b. Hampshire; killed in action at Givenchy, 19 April, 1915; buried Windy Corner there.

=HOOD, CHRISTOPHER THOMAS=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 5691), 180094, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOOD, JOHN THOMAS=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 294844, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOOD, LEWIS REGINALD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16032, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HOOD, GEORGE=, Private, No. 3465, 12th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of the late Richard Hood, of Tranent, Coal Miner (died 30 Aug. 1912); b. Tranent, East Lothian, 12 Sept. 1867; educ. Tranent Public School; and was with the South East of Scotland Militia for the training when war broke out; enlisted 11 Aug. 1914; went to France and was killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

=HOOD, STUART CLINK=, L.-Corpl., No. 21847, 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of William Hood, of 61, Cowane Street, Stirling, by his wife, Helen, dau. of William Clink; b. Stirling, 24 Sept. 1880; educ. Territorial Public School; joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Volunteers in 1898, and served with a Volunteer Contingent of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the latter stages of the South African War, and received the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He emigrated to Canada in Oct. 1905, and latterly held a responsible position in the Saskatchewan State Telephone Service. When the European War broke out, he at once volunteered, and joined the 5th Battn. at Regina in Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent, Sept. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–5; went to France early in Feb. 1915; served through the 2nd Battle of Ypres, and in the various engagements in the spring of that year, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May, 1915, after his Battn. had carried out a successful attack on a strongly fortified position known as K5. A comrade wrote: “On the morning of 24 May, our regt. made a charge, captured our objective, and held it in spite of a heavy bombardment until relieved. Early in the morning Stuart went out into the open and brought in a badly wounded man, and a few minutes later assisted in bringing another wounded man to safety in spite of great danger, and immediately after was hit by a sniper at a low part of the parapet. His loss is greatly felt, not only by myself who was his friend, but by all his platoon, who had all learned to love and respect such a fine manly spirited comrade.” Buried in an orchard at Rue de L’Epinette, on the right of the road from Rue du Bois; unm.

=HOOKE, JOHN HUON=, Sergt., No. 274, C Coy., 6th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, elder s. of the late Charles Frederick Hooke, of Auburn, Victoria, Manager, N.Z.L. & M.A. Co., by his wife, Maude (Ravenshoe, Ravenswood, Victoria, Australia), dau. of John Francis Huon Mitchell, of Ravenswood, an authority on the Australian native races; b. Thurgoona, Auburn, 6 Oct. 1889, and was in the Bank of Australasia. He volunteered immediately when war was declared, joined the 6th Battn. 2nd week in Aug. 1914, was promoted Sergt., left Australia with the Main Force and died from wounds received in action during the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915. Sergt. (now Lieut.) D. A. McLean, of his company, wrote: “I was near your husband when he was hit. We had just got into the firing line on the first day of landing (25 April), when he was shot through the leg, but refused to leave his post. About an hour afterwards he was shot through the head, and remained unconscious from the moment he was hit till he died. Everything that was possible was done for him, but his case was hopeless from the first. Before he was killed, Sergt. Hooke did some very good work, proving himself a very brave man and good soldier. We all feel proud that he belonged to our company. During the nine months he was with us he won for himself the esteem and regard of every member of the company, and, believe me, we all regret his death very much.” He m. on the eve of embarkation, at Holy Trinity Church, Kew, Victoria, 17 Oct. 1914, Florence Constance Phipps (22, Grandview Grove, Armadale, Victoria), dau. of William Huon, of Kerilliere, Wodonga, Victoria, and granddau. of Paul Huon, a French squatter.

=HOOKER, ALFRED=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 10125), 205654, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HOOKER, HENRY GEORGE=, Private, No. 11123, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Ypres, 29 July, 1915.

=HOOKHAM, HENRY CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2137), 207156, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HOOKHAM, JAMES=, otherwise =DAVID=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 180225, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HOOKHAM, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8015), 309231, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOOPER, DAVID=, Cook’s Mate, M. 5524, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HOOPER, DAVID ERNEST=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., eldest s. of Dr. David Hooper, of Weston-super-Mare, F.I.C., F.C.S., F.L.S., late Economic Botanist to Government of India, by his wife, Hannah Carr, dau. of the late Rev. Thomas Evans, of Mussoorie, U.P., India; b. Ootacamund, Nilgiri Hills, India, 21 Nov. 1893; educ. Switzerland, Birkenhead, Weston-super-Mare and Bristol University; was to have entered the P. W. Department, India, but volunteered on the outbreak of war, and while waiting for a commission was actively engaged with the O.T.C. at Bristol; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd East Lancashires, 10 Oct. 1914; went to France, 14 March, and joined his regt. at Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action near Fromelles, at midnight, 30 April, 1915, while inspecting patrol; unm. Buried in La Trou Cemetery, in the Rue Petillon, near Neuve Chapelle. He was specially praised by Sir Francis Davies, the General of his Division, for his bravery and good work. In a letter to Dr. Hooper he said: “You will, I am sure, not be surprised to hear that he gave great promise, and had secured the approbation of his seniors by the way he was doing his work.” He distinguished himself as an amateur in Wireless Telegraphy, gaining the Marconi Company’s 2nd Prize in Britain in 1914.

=HOOPER, GEORGE ALBERT=, Private, No. 9924, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 30 March, 1915.

=HOOPER, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 93606, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

=HOOPER, THOMAS EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9526), 209135, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOOPER, THOMAS HENRY=, A.B., 216988, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HOOPER, WALTER WILLIAM=, Private, No. 8178, 1st Battn. Dorset Regt., only son of Hugh Walter Hooper, of 12, Sussex Street, Grangetown, Cardiff, Haulier, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Timothy Gosling, Fisherman; b. Beer, co. Devon, 25 Sept. 1890; educ. Cardiff Elementary School; was an employee in the Health Dept. of the Cardiff Council; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Somersetshire L.I. 3 Sept. 1914; transferred to the 1st Dorsets; went to France in Feb. and was killed in action in the fighting at Hill 60, near Ypres, 5 May, 1915; unm.

=HOPCRAFT, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5778), 182221, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOPE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2332, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Thomas Hope, of Driffield, Hull, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Harding; b. Stockton-on-Tees, 1877; educ. there; enlisted 11 Jan. 1899; served in South Africa, 9 Aug. 1900 to 4 Oct. 1902, including the Boer War (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in Flanders, 3 Feb. to 31 Oct. 1915; and died in hospital at Rouen on 31 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action on 17 Oct. 1915. Buried at Rouen. He m. at St. Luke’s Church, Kensington, 16 July, Harriet, dau. of George Medlock, of Yew Tree Cottage, Charing, Kent, and had two children: Donald George Hope, b. 29 July, 1903; and Harriet Florence Hope, b. 17 Feb. 1907.

=HOPER, ERN SYDNEY JOSEPH=, Cook’s Mate, M. 3901, H.M.S. Hawke; s. of Richard Hoper, of Teston Halt, Nr. Maidstone, co. Kent; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HOPEY, EDMUND EUGENE=, Private, No. 22750, 14th Battn. (62nd Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only child of George Allen Hopey, of 13, Granite Avenue, Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S.A., by his wife, Ida Tedella, dau. of the late David Crandel Corey; b. Dorchester, Mass., 25 June, 1893; educ. there; was a Carpenter by trade; joined the 8th Massachusetts Militia at Cambridge, 6 May, 1914, but after the outbreak of war went to St. John, N.B. and offered his services and was accepted for service with the 14th Batt. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 17 Aug. 1914; left for England in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter, 1914–15; crossed to France, 7 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 4 March, 1915; unm. He was buried in the regimental Cemetery at the junction of the Rue Petillon and the Sailly-Fromelles Road. Capt. George T. Jones of the 8th Massachusetts Militia wrote: “While he was connected with this company (A), he proved himself reliable, quiet and an earnest worker and one whom I was sorry to lose,” and Capt. Curry of the 14th Battn. wrote to his mother, speaking highly of his bravery in the trenches at Ypres. He met his death while covering a parapet.

=HOPKINS, JACK=, Private, No. 21612, No. 1 Coy., 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of James Hopkins; b. Chingford, co. Essex, 16 April, 1882; educ. St. Mary’s School, Walthamstow; served from 1898 to 1906 in the R.F.A. and then went to Canada. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 he at once joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, came over with the first contingent, and was killed in action 3 May, 1915; unm. The place has not been officially stated, but it is believed to have been St. Julien.

=HOPKINS, CHARLES EDWIN=, Armourer, 185423, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=INNES HOPKINS, CASTELL PERCY=, Private, 9th (Service) Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Charles Harrie Innes Hopkins, of The Towers, Ryton-on-Tyne, late 2nd Scottish Rifles, now commanding the 1st Tyneside Scottish, by his wife, Helen Elizabeth, dau. of the late Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.; b. Naini Tal, N.W.P., India, 31 July, 1889; educ. Dunchurch Hall, and Fribourg, Germany, afterwards being employed in his father’s offices in Newcastle. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 9th Battn. Gordon Highlanders, and left with his regt. for the Front, May, 1915, and fell in action during the charge on Hill 70 at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. His elder brother, John Gordon Innes Hopkins, is now (1916) serving in the Naval Brigade, having travelled specially from Japan, where he was in the R.M.S.P. Co. when the war broke out, to join the Navy as a volunteer, and his yr. brother, Lieut. C. R. Innes Hopkins, 2nd Scottish Rifles, and his uncle, Capt. James Randolph Innes Hopkins, Canadian Expeditionary Force, were both killed in action (see their notices).

=INNES HOPKINS, CHARLES RANDOLPH=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 3rd s. (see previous notice) of Lieut.-Col. Charles Harrie Innes Hopkins, of The Towers, Ryton-on-Tyne, late 2nd Scottish Rifles, now commanding the 1st Tyneside Scottish, by his wife, Helen Elizabeth, dau. of the late Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.; b. Ranikhet, N.W.P., India, 9 Aug. 1893; educ. Dunchurch Hall, Uppingham (scholar), and Sandhurst, where he gained the prize for military law and passed out the second term “third” with honours; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scottish Rifles, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut., 24 Oct. 1913; was in Malta with his regt. when war broke out; they returned to England, and went to the Front, 4 Nov. 1914, and he was killed in action in the trenches at Neuve Chapelle, France, 18 Dec. 1914; unm. Buried in the orchard of the farm behind Neuve Chapelle. His company officer wrote: “I would like to say how very greatly I have valued his presence, from the day he joined. He has always been my subaltern and a very close companion to me. In all things I have trusted him implicitly, and in all things he has proved himself worthy. I know that he was good in thought, and word, and deed—that he could not do a wrong thing—that he would not lose heart, and that he was the loyalist subaltern and the finest friend that ever man had. We all feel his loss very deeply, especially his men.” A writer in the “Newcastle Journal” (23 Dec. 1914) said: “Of Charles Hopkins it could be truly said that he was one of Nature’s most perfect gentlemen, and if ever anyone seemed destined for a great future it was he. As able and gifted as he was modest, possessed of strong purpose, exceptional talents, sound judgment, and a personality infinitely attractive, there seemed to be nothing he could not have achieved had he tried. An excellent cricketer and hockey player, an expert ski-er, a ‘crack’ shot, and fine billiard player, there was no sport at which he did not excel, whilst in classics, military law and tactics he came out with highest honours. He had a soldier’s love and pride in his work, and if genius, as has been said, is an infinite capacity for taking pains, his career, had he been spared, would have proved him a soldier of genius.”

=INNES HOPKINS, JAMES RANDOLPH=, Capt., 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of William Randolph Innes Hopkins, of The Leat, Malton, by his wife, Evereld Catherine Eliza, dau. of Thomas Hustler; b. at Grey Towers, Cleveland, 5 Oct. 1876; educ. at Aysgarth, Yorks, and Oriel College, Oxford; served in the South African War, 1899–1902, as a trooper and was afterwards given a commission in the Northumberland Hussars; went to Canada in 1906, and settled in Saskatchewan. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he immediately offered his services and was given a commission as Capt. 22 Sept. following; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; was stationed on Salisbury Plain during the winter, 1914–15; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 24 May, 1915, while leading his men. Capt. Hopkins’ two nephews, Private C. P. Innes Hopkins and Lieut. C. R. Innes Hopkins, were both killed in action (see their notices). He m. in London, 29 Sept. 1904, Doreen Maud (who m. secondly, 6 Oct. 1915, Thomas Sackville Manning), eldest dau. of the Hon. Reginald Parker [6th s. of Thomas, 6th Earl of Macclesfield], and had a dau., Evereld, b. 1905.

=HOPLEY, HERBERT=, Private, No. 27352, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Stephen Hopley, of 35, Bloomsbury Road, Ramsgate, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Willmott, of Ramsgate; b. Ramsgate, 15 May, 1888; educ. Christ Church School, Ramsgate, and worked for eight years for Tucker & Son, Smack Owners and Sail Makers; went to Canada about 1912, and was for two years in the employ of J. J. Turner & Sons, Tent Makers, Peterborough, Ontario, after which he went to Toronto; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; left Valcartier Camp for England in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15; went to France, Feb. 1915, and died of gas poisoning at the Battle of St. Julien, 26 April, 1915; unm.

=HOPPER, GEORGE=, Sergt., No. 5945, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915.

=HOPPER, JERRY=, Private, No. 8020, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; reported missing, 14 Sept. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date; m.

=HOPPER, WILLIAM=, Private, S. 2249, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., s. of James Hopper, of Baldstow, St. Leonards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died 10 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=HOPTON, GUY WILLIAM=, of Homend, co. Hereford, Capt. 5th (Service) Battn. The Royal Berkshire Regt., elder s. of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Edward Hopton, K.C.B., Lieut.-Governor of Jersey (1895–1900), etc. (who served through the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny), by his wife, Clare Ellen (Homend, near Ledbury, Hereford), dau. of Guy Trafford, of Michaelchurch Court, co. Hereford, 20 Nov. 1881; educ. Wellington College; joined the 2nd Battn. Berkshire Regt. from the Militia, 19 Oct. 1901, and was promoted Lieut. 8 May, 1904, and Capt. 3rd Battn. 3 Aug. 1910; served in the South African War, 1901; took part in the operations in Cape Colony and the Orange Free State, May, 1901, and in the Transvaal, May to Nov. 1901, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He was afterwards transferred to the 5th Service Battn. of his Regt., with which he went to France 31 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 28 July, 1915. He m. at Frittenden, Kent, 12 Feb. 1915, Ellen Beatrice (Homend, near Ledbury, Hereford), dau. of Capt. Sir Charles John Oakeley, 5th Bart., formerly 4th Queen’s Own; s.p.

=HOPTON, TOM FRANCIS=, Mechanic, 294560, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HORDERN, CEDRIC=, Surgeon-Lieut., R.N., H.M.S. Kale, s. of the late William Hordern, of Melbourne, Solicitor, by his wife, Harriet (Cabramatta, Howard Street, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria); b. Hawthorne, Melbourne, 1 June, 1890; educ. Scotch College, Melbourne, and Melbourne and Edinburgh Universities; offered his services on the outbreak of war; was gazetted a Surgeon-Lieut. ... Dec. 1914, and died of pneumonia in the V.A.D. Hospital at Perth, 21 June, 1915. Buried in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh. He m. at Hawthorn aforesaid, 1 Sept. 1913, Louise (died 6 April, 1914), dau. of G. H. Knibbs, Statistician for Commonwealth of Australia, and had a son: Cedric Louis, b. 2 April, 1914.

=HORE, WILLIAM COURTENAY=, Ship’s Steward’s Assistant, M. 1598, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HORN, HENRY ADRIAN=, Gunner, No. 86777, 18th Battery, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Alfred Horn, Engineer, of Water Power House, Yorkton, Sask. (accidentally killed in 1909), by his wife, Frances Ann (Tupper Avenue, Yorkton, Sask., Canada), dau. of Richard Freeman, late of Maddox Street, London; b. Kilburn, London, 18 July, 1896; educ. London and at Yorkton (Saskatchewan) Public and Collegiate Schools; went to Canada with his parents in 1906; was Clerk in Bank of B.N.A., Yorkton, Sask.; enlisted June, 1915; came over with the second contingent, and was killed by a Zeppelin bomb while on guard, 13 Oct. 1915; unm.

=HORN, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3329), 191756, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HORN, JAMES FREDERICK=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 181049, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HORNE, GEORGE CHARLES=, Private, No. 11530, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Horne, of the Gables, Rowley Park, Stafford, Auctioneer and Valuer, by his wife, Alice Jane, dau. of Charles Bridgwood, of Newport, Salop; b. Chetwynd, Aston, Newport, Salop, 29 April, 1888; educ. Stafford Grammar School, where he obtained an Intermediate Scholarship, and then matriculated at London University; afterwards, on leaving, entered the service of Lloyds Bank, and passed successfully as a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers. He joined the 6th Battn. North Stafford Regt. (T.F.), in 1910, and served with them for four years, enlisting in the 1st Coldstream Guards, after the outbreak of war, 4 Sept. 1914. He went to France, 22 Dec. following; was present at Givenchy, Neuve Chapelle, Festubert and other engagements, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 1 June, 1915; unm. Buried at Le Routoire. A comrade wrote: “He was ever ready to help a comrade, ever ready to deprive himself that someone else might not go without, ever ready to volunteer for any hard work, with a pleasant smile and a cheery word always on his lips.”

=HORNE, JOHN MORRISON=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 188024, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HORNE, STANLEY FRANK=, Rifleman, No. 3095, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of John Robert Horne, of 108 Derwent Road, Palmers Green, N., Manager for Woollen Goods Manufacturer, by his wife, Emily Louise, dau. of John Rapson March; b. Highgate, N., 13 Nov. 1894; educ. Cathcart College, Highgate, N.; was a Warehouseman, Wholesale Trimming Warehouse, in the City of London; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, Aug. 1914; went to France, Jan. 1915; took part in the actions at Hill 60, 20–21 April, and at St. Julien, near Ypres, 25 April, and died in No. 8 Casualty Clearing Station, Bailleul, 27 April, 1915, of wounds received at the latter; unm. His Company Sergt.-Major, F. Brehaut, wrote: “I cannot speak too highly of his devotion to his duty as a soldier. I was very close to him when he met with his fatal accident, and was particularly struck with the anxiety he displayed for the welfare of his comrades who were struck by the same shell.”

=HORNER, JOSEPH RICHARD=, L.-Corpl. No. 18320, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Richard Horner, of Hamill Street, Belfast, by his wife, Ruth, dau. of William McElroy; b. Belfast, 20 Jan. 1874; educ. Christian Brothers’ School there; was a Bricklayer and Tiler; enlisted, 23 Sept. 1914; went to France, 15 March, 1915, and was killed in action, 17 April, 1915. He m. at St. Mary’s R.C. Cathedral, Kilkenny, 17 Jan. 1897, Mary Catherine (Lower Walkin Street, next Friary, Kilkenny), dau. of John Hogan, of Kilkenny, Merchant Tailor, and had two children: Francis Joseph, b. 2 Aug. 1911; and Ruth Josephine, b. 27 Feb. 1905.

=HORNEY, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9085), S.S. 105927, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HORRELL, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10617), 300394, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HORSLEY, HARRY MATTHEW=, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 13506, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HORSLEY, HENRY EDMUND=, Seaman, R.N.R. 2487B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HORTON, ALBERT EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1051), late Ch./8837, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HORTON, GEORGE=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1952), 277903, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOSIE, WILLIAM JOHN=, Leading Stoker, 310795, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HOUGHAN, EDWARD JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 2507, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HOUGHTON, PERCY=, Gunner (R.F.R., I.C. 91), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HOULDSWORTH, WILLIAM GILBERT=, 2nd Lieut. Scots Guards, only surviving s. of the Rev. William Thomas Houldsworth, of 44, Lennox Gardens, W., and Cranston, North Berwick, by his wife, Eulalie, dau. of Charles John Venables, Vicar of St. Andrew’s, Wells Street, 1886–1904; b. London, 17 May, 1891; educ. Wellington House, Westgate-on-Sea (Rev. Herbert Bull), Eton, and Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A. 12 March, 1914). On leaving Oxford, where he was a member of the O.T.C. with the rank of 2nd Lieut, on the unattached list of the University candidates, he was attached to the 1st Battn. of the Scots Guards, served with them at Aldershot, 6 May to 15 July, 1914, and received his commission with 18 months seniority as an Oxford graduate, 4 Aug. 1914. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force 13 Aug. following, took part in the fighting at Mons, in the retreat from that place and in the subsequent advance to the Marne, including the engagements at the Grand and Petit Morin. At the Battle of the Aisne he was wounded at the small village of Vendresse, 13 Sept., and died in the American Hospital at Neuilly, near Paris, 23 Sept. 1914; unm. Writing to his father his Col. paid a warm tribute to the manner in which he led his platoon.

=HOUSE, ERNEST EDWARD=, Corpl., No. 47311, 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Henry House, of Thame, Oxon, Engineer, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of William Croxford, of Sydenham, Oxon, Farmer; b. Oakley, near Chinnor, co. Oxford; educ. Thame Royal British School; went to Canada, May, 1912, and settled at Toronto as an Attendant at an asylum; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Sept. 1914; left with the first contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action on 30 Nov. 1915; unm. A comrade, Sergt. Bleckett, wrote: “Corpl. E. House was undoubtedly one of the best soldiers we had, always cheerful and willing to do his share of work under any circumstances.”

=HOUSE, JOHN ROBERT=, A.B., 195005, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HOUSEGO, EDWARD GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16971, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOUSLEY, HARRY JOHN=, Private, No. 3249, 16 Platoon, D Coy. 2/4th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late Harry Housley, of Carshalton, by his wife, Alice (15, Carshalton Road, Carshalton. Surrey), dau. of William Baker, of Carshalton; b. Carshalton, 4 June, 1898; educ. Carshalton Council Schools; enlisted at Croydon, 11 Nov. 1914; trained at Croydon, Windsor and Bedford; left for Egypt with his regt. 16 July, 1915, landed at the Dardanelles, 8 Aug., and was reported missing after the fighting on the following day, and later to have been killed in action that day, 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

=HOUSTON, JAMES=, Sergt., No. 855. 1/7th Battn. (Leeds Rifles) West Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), Machine-Gun Section, only s. of Robert Murray Houston, of Horsforth, near Leeds, by his wife, Mary Catherine, dau. of Joshua Silcock, of Bradford; b. Horsforth, 20 Sept. 1891; educ. The Rhyddings School, Ilkley; was employed in an Insurance Office in Leeds; joined the Leeds Rifles, 22 July, 1908, at the age of sixteen, and became a cyclist-scout; was a keen shot and won his cross-guns and later was made Sergt. of the Machine Gun Section of his Battn.; volunteered for Imperial service and left for France, 14 April, 1915, and was killed in action by a sniper while rebuilding the parapet round his guns in the trenches at Laventie, 7 May following. Buried in an orchard, near Laventie; unm.

=HOWARD, CYRIL JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 1534, C Squadron, 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry, 2nd s. of Charles Walter Howard, of 16, East Street, Chichester; b. Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 18 April, 1895; educ. The Prebendal School, Chichester, and Manor House School, Bognor; joined the Sussex Yeomanry in Feb. 1912; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left England for the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 25 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 8 Nov. 1915. Lieut. C. C. Brown wrote: “I suppose his brother will have told you what happened. He left our reserve bivouac with a fatigue party about 1.30 yesterday (8 Nov.). This party had just arrived at their destination at a place just behind the front line trenches (which trenches your son had been in before), where the Turk line lies very close to our trenches. I suppose the direct line was not 100 yards away from where your son was killed. Some shrapnel came, killing your son instantaneously; he was hit in the head. It also killed three or four others belonging to the East Kent Yeomanry. We buried him this morning at a spot about 300 yards up a hill which veers sharply at ‘Y’ Beach, a spot where one of the original landings was made on this peninsula, overlooking a glorious view of the island of Imbros and Suvla Bay across the sea.... He did his duty from beginning to end, and did it well.”

=HOWARD, ERNEST GUY=, Leading Stoker, 305880, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HOWARD, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1068, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John Frederick Howard; b. Upper Holloway, 29 April, 1892; joined the Royal Fusiliers (T.F.), 1911, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was looked upon by myself and the other officers as a most promising soldier; he held the post of runner to one of my lieuts. and possessed very great ability and intelligence”; and 2nd Lieut. Reeves said: “Although very badly hit, he was awfully plucky and brave; he was hit just below the spine. His loss is very much felt by the men of the company.”

=HOWARD, HERBERT RICHARD=, Corpl., No. 1559, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Richard Howard, of Harleston, by his wife, Mary Ann; b. Harleston, co. Norfolk, Nov. 1883; educ. Wymondham, co. Norfolk; settled in Australia. On the outbreak of war joined the Melbourne Contingent of the Australian Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action in the attack on Cape Helles, Gallipoli 8 May, 1915. He m. at South Yarra, Melbourne, 9 June, 1913, Hetty, dau. of Richard William Simpson, of Hemsworth, near Wakefield, Yorks; s.p.

=HOWARD, JAMES JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 538), 117887, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOWARD, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9078), 192315, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOWARD, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 2505, 1/4th East Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of William Henry Howard, of 5, Richmond Terrace, Harrow Street, Hull, N.E.R. Dock Gateman, by his wife, Lavinia Emily, dau. of the late Joseph Bennett Stephenson, of Hornsea; b. Hull, 15 Jan. 1884; educ. T. B. Holmes School, there; was a Lighterman with the G.C.R.; volunteered and enlisted 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, while repairing trenches, 29 May, 1915. Buried in Sanctuary Wood. He m. at Hull, 27 April, 1911, Olive Gertrude (5, Henry’s Terrace, West Parade, Hull), dau. of the late Samuel Joseph Anderson, of 1, Etty’s Terrace, Strickland Street, late of Brid. Fish Merchant, and had two sons: Joseph Leslie, b. 14 Aug. 1911; and Clive William, b. 22 April, 1914.

=HOWARD, THOMAS JAMES=, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 43, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HOWATT, HERBERT=, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 272171, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HOWE, ERNEST JAMES COWELL=, Chief Armourer, 159565, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOWES, ALBERT EDWARD=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 191768, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOWES, HERBERT ARTHUR=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4914), 201629, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOWES, JOHN HENRY=, Chief Writer, 344288, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOWLING, JOHN MATTHEW=, Yeoman of Signals, 204855, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HOY, JOHN AlFRED=, A.B., 227737, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HOYE, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, 306080 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HOYLAND, JOHN=, Leading Seaman, 190653, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HUBBARD, FRED=, Sergt. No. 130, Princess Patricia’s L.I., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Thomas Hubbard, of Oundle Road, Peterborough, by his wife, Keziah; b. Woodstone, Peterborough, 1 Feb. 1884; educ. Peterborough; enlisted in the Grenadier Guards, and served seven years, going to Canada in Dec. 1912. On the outbreak of war he joined Princess Patricia’s L.I. at Ottawa, 7 Aug. 1914, came over with the first contingent, crossed to France in Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 4 May, 1915. Writing to his widow, Major Hamilton Gault, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., said: “He was killed in action yesterday by one of the enemy’s shells and died shortly afterwards, making light of his injuries. Only the previous evening I was telling him that I had seen you and gave him your messages. From his company commander I hear only praise and admiration for his character and splendid qualities. His officers greatly esteemed him and by his men he was immensely liked and respected. His death is a great loss to the battn., for he was one of the best non-commissioned officers in the regt.” He m. at Brompton Oratory, 28 Dec. 1912, Winifred (Llanarth, near Raglan, Monmouth), dau. of Ralph Willis; s.p.

=HUBBARD, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8083), S.S. 103784, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUBIE-AXE, WILLIAM CECIL=, A.B., 237053, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=HUCKSTEP, JAMES THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10128), 208635, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUDSON, ADAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 8973, 2nd Battn. The Border Regt., s. of the late Adam Howard, by his wife, Ann (17, Clive Street, Southwick-on-Wear, Sunderland), dau. of John Middleton; b. Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, about 1888; educ. Board School there; enlisted about 1903, was employed in Thompson’s Yard, Sunderland; called up from the Reserve, 5 Aug. 1914; promoted L.-Corpl. at the Front, and was killed in action in France, 16 May, 1915; unm.

=HUDSON, ARTHUR=, Acting Leading Stoker, 312428, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HUDSON, FREDERICK CATTELL=, Private, No. 2772, 1/23rd London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Harry Hudson, 9, Louvaine Road, St. John’s Hill, Clapham Junction, S.W., and Redriff, Whitstable, co. Kent, Builder, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Richard Payne, of Wandsworth, S.W.; b. Battersea, S.W., 2 May, 1892; educ. Sir Walter St. John’s School, Battersea; A.A. of Oxford; was a Builder’s Manager; volunteered at the outbreak of war, and joined the 23rd London Regt. early in Sept. 1914; went to France, 14 March, 1915; was wounded in action near Festubert, 25 May, and died of wounds at Choques, two days later, 27 May, 1915; unm. He was buried in the English Cemetery there (Grave No. 200). His papers were signed and completed for a commission in the R.F.A. on 16 April, but he was not allowed to return to take it up. A comrade wrote: “I must say Fred played the man, for when the whistle went for us to go over the parapet, I am sorry to say there seemed to be a slight hesitation as to who should go first, when Fred said, ‘Come on!’ and over he went and we others followed him.” Another wrote: “Ever ready to do any service for a comrade to cheer up one when fatigued, never wanting when a duty involving any danger had to be performed, Fred was a favourite loved by all.”

=HUDSON, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 1332), 195223, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HUDSON, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3043), 179557, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUDSON, THOMAS ERNEST=, Private, No. 10813, Signalling Section, 9th (Service) Battn. Prince of Wales’s Own West Yorkshire Regt., elder s. of Thomas William Hudson, of 9, Albert Square, Ella Street, Hull, Clerk, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Thomas Parker, Knaresbro’, Carrier; b. Kingston-upon-Hull, co. York, 13 May, 1894; educ. Newland Avenue Council School there; was, when war broke out, a Litho Artist with Messrs. Goddard, Walker & Brown, of Hull; enlisted 25 Aug. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 3 July, 1915, and was killed in action at the landing at Suvla Bay, 7 Aug. 1915; unm. For their conduct this day the 9th West Yorkshires were specially mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916]. He was a member of the St. Jude’s Football Team, and also a member of the Hull City Swimming Club and the East Hull Harriers. In 1913 he won the Bronze medal for a study in Lettering at the Hull School of Art. His yr. brother went to France, 26 Aug. 1914 with the R.A.M.C. and is still (1916) serving there.

=HUDSPITH, HAROLD BARON=, Sergt., No. 544, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Walter John Hudspith, of 81, Pendle Road, Streatham, S.W., by his wife, Minnie Mary, dau. of William Lyttleton Baron; b. St. John’s Wood, London, 4 Aug. 1893; educ. Borough Polytechnic, London; was a Draughtsman; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles in 1909, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 14 March, 1915, and was killed in action in the German trenches at Givenchy, Flanders, 25 May, 1915, while leading his section in the attack on the enemy position; unm. His Capt. wrote: “He was extremely popular in my company (and in fact in the battn.) and personally I miss him very much, both as a splendid N.C.O. and as a man.”

=HUGGETT, MAURICE=, Private, No. 12/136, A Coy., 3rd (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own) Auckland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Martin Huggett, of Atherton Road, Auckland, New Zealand, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Holmes; b. Auckland, 1 Jan. 1894; educ. Auckland Grammar School; was an engineer apprentice, volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 16 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915; and in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April following, and was killed in action there, 28 April, 1915; unm. He was taking a comrade’s watch when he was shot through the forehead.

=HUGGINS, ALBERT=, Private, No. 3353, Scots Guards; b. Diss, co. Norfolk; attested 20 April, 1900; served through South African War (medal) and in France; was wounded and died a prisoner at Hamelin, 15 Nov. 1914. He m. in London, 6 May, 1909, Agnes Blanche Bloomfield, and had three children: Maurice George, b. 31 Jan. 1912; Violet May, b. 9 May, 1910; and Ivy Agnes, b. 28 Jan. 1914.

=HUGGINS, PETER WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10024), S.S. 107667, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUGHES, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13379, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=HUGHES, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 5539, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George William Hughes, by his wife, Emma, dau. of W. Godderidge; b. Keighley, co. York, 19 April, 1885; educ. Tamworth; enlisted 2 May, 1904; became L.-Corpl. 4 April, 1910; Corpl. 9 Oct. 1912; L.-Sergt. 30 April, 1913, and Sergt. 6 Aug. 1914; served in Egypt 20 Sept. 1906 to 23 May, 1911 (Khedival medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914; unm.

=HUGHES, GUY WILEY=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., yst. s. of George Hughes, of Fieldhead, Wimbledon, by his late wife, Emily, dau. of William Edward Wiley, of The Rookery, Erdington; b. Kensington, 26 Feb. 1892; educ. Charterhouse; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Reserve of Officers from the O.T.C. March, 1913; attd. to the 4th Middlesex after the outbreak of war; went to France, 17 Oct. 1914, and died at Bailleul, 31 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action the previous day; unm. His brother, Capt. A. E. Wiley Hughes, when attd. to the 3rd Royal Fusiliers, was wounded twice in France.

=HUGHES, HENRY JOHN=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4663), 171044, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUGHES, JOSEPH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7885), 216211 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HUGHES, JOSEPH WILLIAM=, Pensioner, Carpenter’s Mate, 132399, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HUGHES, LIONEL=, Trooper, No. 11/464, Wellington Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Rev. William Henry Hughes, Vicar of St. Hilary, Marazion, Cornwall, by his wife, Kathleen, yst. dau. of the late Charles Gumm, of White Hall, Chingford, Essex; b. Trevarthian, Marazion, 25 Sept. 1887; educ. Kelly College, Tavistock; settled in New Zealand; joined the Wellington Mounted Rifles on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 30 May, 1915; unm.

=HUGHES, LIONEL HOLFORD=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st. Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., only s. of the late Allen Edward Hughes, of Cintra, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, Earthenware Manufacturer (died 15 April, 1916), by his wife, Evelyn Emma, yst. dau. of The Rev. Samuel Plant, Vicar of Weston-on-Trent and Prebendary of Lichfield; b. Wychdon Lodge, near Stafford, 25 July, 1895; educ. St. Ronan’s, Worthing, and Lancing College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd North Staffords, 6 March, 1914; went to France, 21 Sept. 1914, where he was attd. to the 1st Battn. and was killed in action near the Rue du Bois, 29 Oct. 1914; unm. Lieut.-Col. de Falbe, C.M.G., D.S.O., commanding 1st North Staffords, wrote: “He was killed to-day, by a shell in the trenches near Rue du Bois, a small village two miles south of Armentières. He was killed instantaneously, and is buried on the west side of the Armentières-Wavrin Railway, and 300 yards north-west of the level crossing at Rue du Bois. The grave is marked with a cross inscribed with his name and regiment.”

=HUGHES, PRYCE=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, Brecknockshire Battn. (24th) South Wales Borderers (T.F.), s. of Robert Hughes, of New Inn Hotel, Merthyr, Licensed Victualler; b. Brecon, 8 Feb. 1874; educ. Butcher’s Grammar School there; joined the 1st Brecknockshire Volunteer Battn. South Wales Borderers (No. 2498), 27 Feb. 1893, and passed into the Territorial Force (No. 30) 3 April, 1908; became Sergt. 12 Dec. 1908, and later Coy. Sergt.-Major. He served in the South African War with the South Wales Borderers (Queen’s medal), and on the outbreak of the European War volunteered for foreign service; went to Aden with his Battn. 29 Oct. 1914, and died on active service there, 19 June, 1915; unm. Buried in Government Cemetery there. He had the Long Service Medal.

=HUGHES, SIDNEY ISAAC=, L.-Corpl., No. 12481, 1st Battn. The Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of the late William Edgar Hughes, of Leigh Farm, Woodlands, St. Mary, Hungerford, Farmer, by his wife, Catherine (Berkeley Road, Newbury, Berks), dau. of Henry King, of Woodlands, St. Mary, Farmer; b. Woodlands, St. Mary, Hungerford, co. Berks, 15 July, 1891; educ. Newbury Church School; was an Engineer’s Fitter and Erector; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Coldstreams, 10 Sept. 1914, with two of his brothers; appointed L.-Corpl., Dec.; went to France, 9 Jan. 1915, and was reported missing after the fighting at Cuinchy, 25 Jan. 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; unm.

=HUGHES, THOMAS JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8019), S.S. 103750, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUGHES, THOMAS HECTOR=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of Frederick Hughes, of Wallfield, Reigate; b. there, 16 July, 1881; educ. Repton and Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Worcesters, 3 May, 1901; gazetted Lieut. in May, 1903; acted as Adjutant from Nov. 1910 to Nov. 1913; obtained his company, 28 June, 1911, and was killed in action near Richebourg St. Vaast, 15 Oct. 1914, being buried 250 yards north of that place. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan., 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Capt. Hughes was an excellent cricketer, and played for Hampshire and the Aldershot Command. When his battn. went to Tidworth in 1911 he gave much attention to sport and rendered assistance to Capt. Whitty towards winning the Queen Victoria Cup in 1913. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, dated 21 Oct. 1914, Col. Rowland Hill, President of the Grindelwald Sports Meeting, said: “He was for years our champion ski expert, the capt. and centre-forward of our hockey team, one of the best of our curlers, the capt. of our rifle team against the Swiss marksmen. The cheeriest and best of comrades, always to the front in any fun or sport, he will be missed and sincerely mourned by hundreds of friends.” Capt. Hughes m. at Hythe, co. Kent, 4 May, 1911, Gertrude Mary, dau. of Charles Frederick Dobson, of Nottingham, and had two children: Thomas Frederick, b. 15 March 1914; and Joan Winifred, b. 22 June, 1912.

=HUGHES, WALLACE JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 305429, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GORDON-HUGHES, GORDON STONHOUSE (“DICK”)=, Corpl., No. 677, 8th Battn. 90th Winnipeg Rifles (“Little Black Devils”), and posthumous Lieut. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Gordon Gordon-Hughes, Capt., 92nd Gordon Highlanders, afterwards Col. and Adjutant of the Breconshire Rifle Volunteers, by his second wife, Elise Elizabeth (now widow of Algernon Walford Spencer, B.A.), dau. of George Summers Griffiths, of Marl Hill, Cheltenham, and Maida Vale, London, W., J.P., Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple and Oxford Circuit, and gdson. of Gen. Samuel Hughes, C.B., of the Indian Army; b. Hampstead, 1 July, 1890; educ. Abingdon and Streatham Colleges; went to Canada in 1904, and purchased a farm in Manitoba. In 1911 went to Winnipeg where he became a Chartered Accountant. He had just received his final diploma when the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, and he immediately volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 90th Winnipeg Rifles. He left Valcartier with the first contingent, arrived in England in Oct., and after training on Salisbury Plain, Col. Lipsett specially selected him as Regimental Scout. Went to France in Feb. 1915; took part in the Second Battle of Ypres, after which he was promoted Corpl., and in the engagements at Langemarck (St. Julien), where he was wounded in the head, gassed and crushed under sand bags, but refused to go into Hospital; and Festubert, where, on 22 May, 1915, he was mortally wounded. He died in Hospital at Boulogne on the 25th, and was buried in the Military Cemetery there (Grave No. 2251) on the 27th; unm. Col. (now Gen.) Lipsett wrote: “In losing your son I felt I had lost one of my very best, most reliable, and promising men, the commission for which I recommended him was gained entirely on his own merits, and for very good work done; a son to be proud of”; and Major A. W. Woods: “The boys of No. 2 Coy. never wavered for an instant, it was one of the finest instances of endurance that could be imagined, they were in a perfect inferno of shell fire. Your boy, though terribly wounded, uttered no word of complaint, and exhibited the most magnificent fortitude.” Lieut. J. P. MacKenzie wrote: “Corpl. Gordon-Hughes was an exceptionally gallant young man, he was very highly thought of, and liked, by every officer and man in the Battn. I believe he did more than one brave act, which entitled him to promotion, high mention, and reward, but the officers of his Coy., who saw and knew of these brave acts were all killed or prisoners, and there was no one left to bring these conspicuous acts of bravery, etc., before the O.C. Battn.” He was gazetted Lieut. shortly after his death. A bed in the Mackenzie Military Hospital, Winnipeg, was endowed by the T.O.D.E. and named the “Dick Gordon-Hughes” in his memory.

=HUGO, LAWRENCE WILLIAM ALBERT=, Lieut., Wellington Infantry Regt., s. of William Eugene Hugo, and of his wife, Mary (3, Rossmore Crescent, Wellington, New Zealand); b. Napier, New Zealand, 28 March, 1885; educ. Terrace School, Wellington; joined the Volunteers in March, 1903, and on the introduction of the Territorial system received a commission and was posted to the Technical College Cadets. He was in charge of the Cadets from Nov. 1911, until the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, when he volunteered for Imperial service. He was gazetted Lieut. 1 Sept. following; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge 4 May following. He was a crack rifle shot, and while in the Volunteers was Instructor of the Squads which won the Physical Drill and Bayonet-fighting Championships at the Military Tournaments.

=HULBERT, HAROLD JOHN=, Private, No. 13507, 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of George Reginald Hulbert, of Bethany, Manitoba, by his wife, Amy, dau. of John Woodcock, of Netherhampton, Wiltshire; b. Bethany, 1 Oct. 1894; educ. Minnedosa High School; enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force directly war broke out; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to the Front in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. He was buried near St. Julien. Major Dyer, D.S.O., wrote: “Your boy was killed by shell fire on the hill of Gravenstaffel, while his company was advancing to support the 8th Battn. and help fill the gap left by the retiring Turcos.... We were holding the trenches against 15,000 Germans with less than 1,000 men ... for the last two days without food or water, but we were all there was between the Germans and Calais.”

=HULME, SIDNEY=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 42), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HUME, ARTHUR GRENVILLE=, Major, Wellington Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Lieut.-Col. Arthur Hume, late 79th Cameron Highlanders and Inspector of Prisons, N.Z., by his wife, Raby, dau. of Dr. Macintire, Inspector-General of Hospitals; b. Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, 3 Oct. 1873; educ. Wellington College, and Wanganui College, New Zealand; was an Engineer; had been for many years in New Zealand Territorials and was Major, Garrison Artillery, when the European War broke out in Aug. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service and left for Egypt with the fourth reinforcements in April, 1915; served at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 8 Aug. 1915. He m. at Bath, 8 April, 1902, Amy Charlotte (8, Kensington, Bath), dau. of William Rogers, and had a son, Philip Waldron Grenville, b. 31 July, 1903.

=HUME, ISAAC=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1267), 141118, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HUMFREY, WILLIAM KNOX=, of Cavanacor, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, eldest surviving s. of the late Col. Benjamin Geale Humfrey, of Cavanacor, co. Donegal (who commanded the 3rd Leicestershire Regt. in the South African War), by his wife, Emily Anne (Cavanacor, Ballindrait, co. Donegal), 2nd dau. of William Knox, of Clonleigh, co. Donegal, N.E., I.C.S. [gdson. of the Right Rev. and Hon. William Knox, D.D., Lord Bishop of Derry, yr. brother of Thomas, 1st Earl of Ranfurly]; b. Narborough, co. Leicester, 14 May, 1891; educ. Bedford Grammar School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Lancashire Fusiliers, 5 Oct. 1910; succeeded his elder brother in the family estates, 23 May, 1912; promoted Lieut. 3 Sept. 1914; went to France, 21 Aug. 1914, was appointed Machine-Gun Officer, and was killed in action at the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 Aug. 1914; unm. Buried at Esnes.

=HUMPHREY, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1134), 276452, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUMPHREY, EDMUND WILLIAM ALFRED=, Acting Lieut., Royal Naval Reserve, s. of Edmund Humphrey, of Boughton-under-Blean and Westgate-on-Sea, Schoolmaster, by his wife, Emma Lynch, dau. of William Andrews; b. Boughton-under-Blean, co. Kent, 11 July, 1880; educ. Wreight’s School, Faversham, and Margate School of Art; and joined the Merchant Service in 1895, being apprenticed to the Shaw, Saville and Albion Coy. and acquired his first knowledge of seacraft in the old-fashioned sailing ships, gradually working his way to a master’s ticket. He afterwards entered the service of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Coy. becoming 2nd officer, and in 1898 was nominated by the late Lord Goschen, then First Lord of the Admiralty, to a commission as Midshipman, R.N.R., and received his annual training in H.M.S. President, becoming Sub-Lieut. 10 April, 1904; just prior to the war was accepted for a year’s training in a battle ship, and appointed to H.M.S. Formidable, 1914, in which he was serving as acting Lieut. when she was torpedoed in the Channel, 1 Jan. 1915. A brother officer who survived, wrote: “Humphrey was popular with his shipmates and certain to have done his duty to the end.” He m. at the Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, 1 Nov. 1908, Annie McIlwrick Neilson (28, Hampstead Road, Elm Park, Liverpool), dau. of James Neilson Sproul, of Paisley and Liverpool, and had a dau., Joan, b. 7 July, 1915.

=HUMPHREYS, GEORGE GEOFFREY PENDERGAST=, Major, 127th Regt. Queen Mary’s Own Baluchis L.I., yst. s. of the late Thomas William Drumond Humphreys, J.P., of Donoughmore House, Castlefin, co. Donegal, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Dr. Thomas Thomson, of Leamington; b. Milltown house, Strabane, co. Tyrone, 17 Feb. 1873; educ. All Hallow’s School, Honiton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1891–2); gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Welsh Regt. 13 July, 1892; transferred to the Indian Staff Corps as Lieut. 13 July, 1895, and promoted Capt. 13 July, 1901, and Major, 13 July, 1910; was Staff Officer to the Officer Commanding the troops in East Africa Protectorate and Uganda, 1897–8 (medal with clasp); and Double Coy. Officer, 130th Baluchis, with China Field Force in 1901; was Adjutant Sind Volunteer Rifles, 1 May, 1908, to 1 May, 1911; Double Coy. Commander, 17 April, 1910; and an extra A.D.C. to H.M. King George V, for the Delhi Durbar, 2 Dec. 1911 to 10 Jan. 1912. On the outbreak of war he went to France attd. to the 129th D.C.O. Baluchis, sailed from India 24 Aug., and died at Hollebeke, Belgium, 30 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Karachi, India, 30 Nov. 1903, Olive Muriel (The Cottage, Rowledge, Farnham), only dau. of Major-Gen. Sir James Bell, K.C.V.O., and had two sons and two daus.: Patrick William, b. 14 May, 1905; George James Alexander, b. 16 Dec. 1906; Olive Phylis, b. 14 July, 1909; and Lorna Isobel, b. 9 May, 1913.

=HUMPHREYS, JOHN THOMAS=, Sergt., R.M.A., 7273, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HUMPHRIES, GEORGE WILLIS=, L.-Corpl., No. 1344, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Humphries; b. Newington, London, 2 Aug. 1877; joined The Rangers, 1911, and was killed by a shell which exploded in the trenches, 14 Feb. 1915, while serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France. Humphries was the winner of the Light Weight Amateur Boxing Championship in 1900 and was for 20 years connected with the Battersea Athletic Club. He m. at Balham, 4 Oct. 1902, Margaret (32, Strathville Road, Earlsfield, S.W.), dau. of Thomas Cooper, and left four children: George Stanley, b. 16 Feb. 1907; Margaret Dorothy, b. 12 Aug. 1904; Florence Ellen, b. 5 Nov. 1908; and Ivy Gertrude, b. 2 July, 1912.

=HUNT, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9624), K. 536, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HUNT, ALFRED EDWARD=, Rifleman, No. 2894, 1/8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Alfred Hunt, of 35, Balfour Road, Lower Edmonton, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Eldridge; b. Old Kent Road, S.E., 10 Nov. 1895; educ. Croyland Road Board School, Lower Edmonton; was a Postman at Winchmore Hill and Finchley; joined the Post Office Rifles early in Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915; and was killed in action at Festubert in the course of a bomb attack upon the German trenches. 2nd Lieut. W. N. Kirkland wrote: “I have known your son since he joined the Battn. in Sept. last, and since the beginning of this year, when the double-coy. organisation was adopted, he has been in my Platoon. Your son was one of the coy. bombers, and when we were ordered to attack a portion of the German trench, he went forward with the bombers in order to drive out the Huns. While doing this he unfortunately was killed. I am sure his death has caused a great loss to the Coy., as bombers are of the utmost importance when attacking the enemy’s trench and it is difficult to find brave and capable men for this.”

=HUNT, FRANK ERNEST=, Private, No. 2057, 1st Sussex Yeomanry, 2nd s. of Simeon Hunt, of 5, Lancaster Road, Brighton, Architect and Surveyor, by his wife, Charlotte, 2nd dau. of Thomas Stanley Wakeley, of Rainham, Kent; b. Brighton, 7 Sept. 1892, and was educ. at Brighton Grammar School and Brighton Municipal Technical College. He passed the Cambridge Local Examination as a junior in 1st Class Honours with two distinctions in 1907, the Matriculation Exam., London University, 1910, and the Intermediate Exam, in Faculty of Engineering, London University, in 1912, but, owing to a severe nervous breakdown in 1913, he was unable to sit for the final B.Sc. (Eng.). Concerning this his master wrote: “Your son worked like a Trojan, and but for the collapse (which I feared) he would have passed. I should like you to be convinced of this.” After the outbreak of war, he volunteered and joined the Sussex Yeomanry in Sept. 1914, and after training at Brighton, Canterbury, and Maresfield, left England, 23 Sept. 1915 for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 17 Dec. 1915, by a chance Turkish bullet fired at night from a considerable distance. The regt. was in reserve at the time some distance from the firing line, and Hunt was standing just outside his dug-out emptying sandbags when hit. Immediate medical attention was given, but the bullet had passed through the lung and death occurred within about half an hour. He was buried in East Anglia Gully Cemetery; unm. His troop officer wrote: “When he came to this regt. in Sept. he was placed in my troop, and although I had thus been his Troop Officer only for a few months they were more than ample to enable one to judge of his good qualities and to feel that, in addition to the thoroughness and loyalty which he always put into his work as a soldier in the form of warfare that we have been through, he would have given a good account of himself in open battle if the opportunity had been allowed him.”

=HUNT, GEORGE HENRY=, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./11450, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUNT, HARRY=, Private, No. 8921, R.E., eldest s. of the late Firth Hunt, of Market Place, Barton-on-Humber, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Thomas Cash; b. Barton-on-Humber, co. Lincoln, 22 Dec. 1883; educ. Wesleyan School there; enlisted 29 April, 1901; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (medal with five clasps), and passed into the Reserve, 27 Feb. 1909; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France 28 Aug. and was killed in action at Armentières, 13 Dec. 1914. In addition to the South African medal he had two Good Conduct medals. He m. in Malta, 7 Aug. 1905, Concerta (30, White Cross Street, Barton-on-Humber, near Hull), dau. of Lorenzo Deprossimo, of Malta; s.p.

=HUNT, PERCY HENRY HART=, L.-Sergt., No. 1426, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late Henry Hunt, Gas and Hot Water Engineer, by his wife, Agnes (39, Dekker Road, Dulwich Village, S.E.), dau. of the late George Hart; b. Chelsea, 24 May, 1892; educ. Dulwich Hamlet School, Dulwich; became a telegraph boy at the age of fourteen, and was subsequently promoted to sorting; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles, 11 April, 1913; appointed L.-Corpl. shortly before war broke out, and promoted Corpl. on mobilisation; volunteered for Imperial service and left for France, 15 March, 1915, where he was appointed L.-Sergt. and died at No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, 28 May, 1915, from shrapnel wounds in the abdomen received in action at Givenchy on the 25th, while leading his men over a parapet. Buried in British New Cemetery, Chocques (grave No. 202); unm. From information furnished his relatives by a Sergt.-Major who assisted to carry him in, it appears that he was left on the field for twenty-four hours, and when they picked him up, although so badly wounded, was quite cheerful, and remarked “I’ve had it.” His Coy. Commander, Capt. A. Hutchinson, wrote that he was extremely popular with his men, and expressed his personal regret at the loss of such a promising and straightforward N.C.O.

=HUNTER, GEORGE RUPERT=, Gunner, No. 40190, 12th Battery, 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd but only surviving s. of Richard Harrison Hunter, of 418, Gilmons Street, Ottawa, Canada, Civil Servant, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of George Cooper, of London, England; b. Aylmer, P. Quebec, 7 Nov. 1890; educ. Ottawa; volunteered for service overseas and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, at Winnipeg, 6 Aug. 1914, the day following the declaration of war; came over with the first contingent, and died at Netheravon, 10 Feb. 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while going through his course of training; unm.

=HUNTER, HUGH=, Private, No. 2000, 1/4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), 3rd surviving s. of the late Robert Hunter, Engineer and Manager, Chester Gas Works, Member of the Society of Engineers, by his wife, Ann Martha (16, Durand Gardens, S.W.), yst. dau. of the late Henry Carne; b. Whitefriars, Chester, 21 June, 1892; educ. Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, Sussex, where he was a L.-Corpl. in the Cadet Corps, and on leaving entered the employ of a firm of Motor Engineers, afterwards Patent Agents in London; volunteered after the outbreak of war, joined the 4th Seaforths in Sept. 1914, and after two months’ training at Bedford, went to the Front with them in Nov. He was shot through the head while acting as observer to his Capt. in the advance on Neuve Chapelle, in the early morning of 11 March, 1915, and died before reaching the dressing station; unm. He was buried with several comrades in the garden of a house at Neuve Chapelle (Edgware Road), S.5.d.3.5. Letters from his Commanding Officer and the Chaplain testify of his being most popular with his comrades and a good soldier.

=HUNTER, JAMES ANDREW=, L.-Corpl., No. 982, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, only s. of the late James Hunter, of Murdoch Terrace, Edinburgh, and 10, Bryson Road, Edinburgh, Hay and Straw Merchant, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of James Duncan, of Edinburgh, Coal Merchant; b. Edinburgh, 18 March, 1895; educ. Merchiston Public School; enlisted, 10 Jan. 1912; went to France, 22 Aug. 1914, and died in Hospital at Boulogne, 22 Oct. 1914, of wounds received at Steenwerk on the 20th; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote that he was wounded while taking part in a bayonet charge and bravely driving back the enemy, for which his coy. (B) was highly complimented.

=HUNTER, JOHN GEORGE=, Private, No. 2134, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of James Hunter, of 67, Charlotte Street, Fraserburgh, Aberdeen, Postman for 28 years in New Deer and Fraserburgh, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Forbes; b. Auchreddie, New Deer, 17 Sept. 1888; educ. New Deer and Fraserburgh Public Schools; served his time as a Draper with Mr. Anderson, Fraserburgh, and was afterwards for six years in the employ of Mr. Millar, cabinet-maker, as salesman and timekeeper; emigrated to Australia, June, 1911; enlisted, Sept. 1914, and trained at Broadmeadows, Victoria; sailed for Egypt, 24 Dec. 1914, and died on 26 April, 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day, during the landing of the Anzacs near Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli; unm.

=HUNTER, LESLIE=, Sergt., 14th Platoon, D Coy., No. 75976, 29th (Vancouver) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Edward Hunter, Manager of Lloyd’s Bank, Compton Street, Ashbourne; b. Ashbourne, co. Derby, 21 June, 1886; educ. Grammar School there; went to Canada in March, 1910; joined the 104th Regt. Jan. 1912; volunteered for service overseas after the outbreak of war, was transferred to the 29th Battn., and was killed in action in France, 11.35 a.m. on 30 Sept. 1915. Capt. P. H. Smith, his commanding officer, wrote that “there was no man in his company for whom he had a higher regard,” and one of his platoon (B. G. Wolfemerton): “He was killed in the discharge of his duty a few feet from myself; he and Corpl. Moorhouse had gone to a ruined house to attempt to locate a sniper who was a source of danger to our lines, and on his way back was shot by probably the sniper he was in search of, through the heart; he died instantly and suffered no pain.” Hunter m. at Derby, 14 Feb. 1910, Ethel (Compton Street, Ashbourne), dau. of Joseph Watson, and had a dau., Gladys Evelyn, b. 18 July, 1911.

=HUNTER, ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8375), S.S. 104449, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=HURLBERT, REXFORD=, Private, No. 10773, 2nd Battn., 1st Brig. Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. and only surviving s. of William Benjamin Hurlbert, by his wife, Bessie, dau. of (—) Race, and nephew of Almina, née Hurlbert, wife of George Alfred Whiting, of Smith’s Falls, Ontario (by whom he was brought up); b. Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 29 May, 1895; educ. Smith’s Falls, Ontario; enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action in the trenches, 29 Nov. 1915, by a bullet through the head; unm. He was buried N.E. of R.E. Farm, Wulverghem.

=HURT, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8922), 196582, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HURT, SEYMOUR FREDERICK AUCKLAND ALBERT=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Albert Frederick Hurt, of Alderwasley, co. Derby, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Alice, 3rd dau. of Frederic Peter Delmé Radcliffe, of Hitchin Priory, co. Herts; b. The Outwoods, near Duffield, co. Derby, 18 Oct. 1879; educ. Hazelwood, Limpsfield, Surrey (1890–93), Harrow (J. Stogden’s House, 1893–98); joined the Militia Oct. 1899, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 18 April, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 4 Sept. 1901, and Capt. 24 Jan. 1911; went to the Front, 5 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near La Bassée during the First Battle of Ypres, 18 Oct. following, while leading his coy. in a charge; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914–14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915]. Capt. Hurt was in the Harrow cricket XI and the football XI, 1897–98; and took great interest in the cricket and football teams in the R.S.F.; was a keen sportsman, devoting himself to polo, pig-sticking, and big game shooting while in India, where he served the greater part of his time. When at home he acted as field master to his brother’s (Mr. Hurt’s) pack of fox hounds in Derbyshire.

=HUSBAND, HERBERT BARRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 1377, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Irons Husband, of 4, Eastcheap, London, E.C., Merchant (a native of Fifeshire), by his wife, Constance Eugénie, dau. of Charles Barry, of San Francisco; b. San Francisco, U.S.A., 8 March, 1893; educ. St. George’s College, Weybridge, Surrey, and Maison de Melle, Belgium; was engaged with his father’s firm; joined the London Scottish in Nov. 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 16 Sept. 1914, and died at Wimereux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 16 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at the First Battle of Ypres, and was buried there; unm. Lieut.-Col. G. A. Malcolm wrote: “No commanding officer could have had under his command a braver or more gallant soldier than your son, who so nobly gave his life for his country.” He is believed to have been the first native son of California to fall on a European battlefield. In 1913 he was champion shot of the London Scottish, and the youngest member of the Battn. to secure this distinction in the 49 years of its existence.

=HUSKINSON, CHARLES ROBERT=, Shipwright, 2nd Class, 344902, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUSSEY, JAMES WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ply. 8213 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 131), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUSSEY, THOMAS JOSEPH=, Private, R.M.L.I., 5775 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 398), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HUTCHESON, JOHN=, 2nd Lieut., 10th (Service) Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), eldest s. of Robert Hutcheson, of Annandale, Berkhamsted, and Mincing Lane, E.C., Sugar Broker, by his wife, Janey Symington, dau. of the late John Henry Downes, of 18, Athole Gardens, Glasgow, and gdson. of the late John Mitchell Hutcheson, of Greenock; b. Highbury, London, 31 Jan. 1897; educ. Berkhamsted School, where he was from 1906 to 1914. The last three years he was a member of the O.T.C. On leaving school he entered the offices of the Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance Society, but after the outbreak of war left in the beginning of Oct. to join the Inns of Court O.T.C. From this he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 10th Battn. of the Sherwood Foresters, 3 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Zillebeke, Flanders, 8 Sept. 1915, by a sniper while surveying his fire trenches. He was buried in the Sanctuary Wood, near Ypres; unm. Many letters were received from his superior and his brother officers, all testifying to the regard and affection in which he was held. His Col. wrote: “He was a keen and energetic young officer of considerable promise and popular with all ranks.” His Capt.: “It is the first life lost among our officers and it is one of the best that has gone.... He was absolutely clean and honourable, frank, sincere and fearless.” His orderly wrote: “I write this short letter out of respect to my esteemed officer, your son. It was a very severe blow to me to lose him, for he was the very best friend that I ever had out here, and although I was only a ‘Tommy’ he showed every consideration for me as well as all the other men in the platoon, where he was very much esteemed. He was buried with full honours, and his grave is in a wood with others. There is a cross at the head, and I shall do all I can to keep his grave clean.” The doctor wrote: “A more unselfish boy one could not find; always thinking of the well-being of others.... I chose his resting place. A plain wood cross has been erected ‘In loving Memory of 2nd Lieut. J. Hutcheson. Killed in action,’ and the motto ‘To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die.’”

=HUTCHINGS, ROBERT SIDNEY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 15154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HUTCHINS, THOMAS ARTHUR=, Trooper, No. 303, 3rd Light Horse, 1st Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 5th and yst. s. of the late Samuel Newburgh Hutchins, of Ballylicky and Ardnagashel, Bantry, co. Cork, B.A. (T.C.D.), J.P., Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Marianne Isabella eldest dau. of Henry Harrison, of Castle Harrison, co. Cork, J.P.; b. Ardnagashel, 20 July, 1888; educ. Fermoy College; went to Australia in Jan. 1912; enlisted in the 3rd Light Horse at Adelaide on 19 Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, and embarked for Egypt on 22 Oct. following, arriving at Alexandria on 9 Dec. He was in training for five months, and left for Gallipoli on 8 May, 1915. They landed on the evening of the 13th, and he was killed in action in the Monash Valley the following day, 14 Aug. 1915, the first man of his regt. to fall. He was unm.

=HUTCHINSON, ALFRED RICHARD=, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, L. 1645, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HUTCHINSON, HENRY ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10706, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HUTCHINSON, LIONEL CLYDE=, A.C.A., Private, No. 3052, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. London Regt. (T.F.), only surviving s. of Robert Hutchinson, Marine Engineer, of 6, Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, by his wife, Ellen King, dau. of Thomas Draper, of Albion Street, Spalding, co. Lincoln; b. Spalding, 12 Sept. 1884; educ. at Bournemouth and Bradford Grammar School, Yorks; was afterwards articled to Messrs. Hibberd, Bull & Co., Chartered Accountants, of London and Bournemouth; passed his final examination at the age of 21 and remained at the London office until he enlisted in the London Regt. 2 Sept. 1914. He was killed in the attack on the German lines, at Aubers Ridge, near Fromelles, on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, in which the Kensingtons took a leading part and captured three lines of trenches; meeting his death while returning for the third time for supplies of bombs under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He behaved with great gallantry, it was a brave soldier’s death.” A comrade said: “We were all very sorry to lose him, he was very popular with the fellows of his platoon”; and Gen. Rawlinson spoke of the attack as “a feat of arms surpassed by no other battn. in this great war,” asserting: “You and your fallen comrades have won imperishable glory for the 13th Battn.,” and Field-Marshal Sir John French, referring to their conduct in this action, spoke of the Kensingtons as the “glorious 13th.”

=HUTCHINSON, ROBERT GREENWOOD=, A.B., 222014, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HUTH, AUSTIN HENRY=, Capt., 4th, att. 1st, Battn. East Surrey Regt., yr. s. of Edward Huth, of Wykehurst Park, Bolney, Sussex, D.L., J.P., by his wife, Edith Wilhelmina, 4th dau. of the late Rev. Frederick Anthony Stansfeld Marshall, Vicar of Great Easton, co. Leicester; b. Mayfair, London, W., 13 Oct. 1881; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; obtained a commission in the King’s Royal Rifles, Feb. 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 1902; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the operations in Natal, March-June; those in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July–29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Belfast (26–27 Aug.) and Lydenberg (5–8 Sept.), receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. On his return to England he left the Army with rank of Lieut., and went to Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A. 1907), afterwards becoming a partner in the family banking business of Messrs. Frederick Huth & Co. On the outbreak of the European War he enlisted in the Middlesex Regt. (Public School Battn.), and was given a Capt.’s commission with the 4th East Surrey Regt., 28 Oct. 1914; went to France, Jan. 1915, and was att. to the 1st East Surreys. He was killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915; unm. The Brig.-Gen. wrote: “I had a long talk with him in his trench that night. I was much impressed at the time with his zeal, keenness, and thoroughness, and the measures that he was taking to put his trench on a thoroughly sound footing. Sir Charles Fergusson (the Corps Commander) in a letter to me spoke of the East Surreys as ‘The heroes of the occasion,’ and later on he said ‘You may well be proud of your East Surreys.’ His life was given in the hour of victory for King and country in the performance of a magnificent exploit in capturing and consolidating our hold on Hill 60, a point of extreme importance to the well-being of the Allied front.”

=HUTT, HAROLD VERNON=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., yr. s. of Arthur William Hutt, of The Moorings, Wallington, Surrey, Member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Margaret Sarah, dau. of William Rees, J.P., Glamorganshire, and gdson. of the Rev. John Charles Hutt, Vicar of St. Silas, Pentonville; b. Enfield, co. Middlesex, 4 Oct. 1887; educ. Eastbourne College, and Finsbury Technical College; graduated B.Sc. (Eng.) with honours at University of London and passed the A.M. Inst.C.E. examination, taking first place, and obtaining the Bayliss Prize. For the four years preceding the war he was engaged on tube railway work: the Central London Railway extension to Liverpool Street, and the Queen’s Park extension of the Bakerloo Railway. He joined the Artists’ Rifles in Aug. 1914, went to France with them in Oct., and, after serving in the trenches for a time, joined the Artists’ O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Royal Sussex. He was killed in action while defending the Keep at Cuinchy, 27 Jan. 1915, and was buried in Cuinchy Cemetery; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “During the short time your son was with us he endeared himself to all his comrades and showed very high promise; and we all feel that we have lost a comrade who would have been sure to distinguish himself. He died a soldier’s death in the forefront of the fight.” and the Commanding Officer of the Artists’ Rifles wrote: “Your son acted splendidly from the day of mobilisation in Aug. last, and had the goodwill and esteem of every man in the Regt. He had done much to uphold all the best traditions, and his name will always be remembered by all with pride.” 2nd Lieut. Hutt was a descendant of Capt. John Hutt, of H.M.S. Queen, who greatly distinguished himself in the victory obtained off Brest on 1 June, 1794, and to whom a monument was erected in Westminster Abbey by public subscription.

=HUTTON, GEORGE=, A.B., 223256, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=HUTTON, IAN CAMPBELL=, Private, No. 2367, 9th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), 1st s. of William Hutton, of 26, Nile Grove, Edinburgh, Superintending Engineer, Indian Public Works, by his wife, Annie Dickson, dau. of Edward Boyes; b. Tanjore, Southern India, 8 Aug. 1896; brought home to Scotland at the age of three, and was educ. Dollar Academy, where he distinguished himself in sports and was a member of the Cadet Corps. On leaving there he entered the Clydesdale Bank in Edinburgh, for training for Indian banking, but after the outbreak of war joined the 9th Battn. of The Royal Scots in Sept. 1914. After a period of training at Edinburgh, he went to the Front in Feb., and was killed instantaneously by a bullet, at the Second Battle of Ypres, 16 May, 1915. He was buried in Bellewaarde Wood, Hooge. He was a member of St. Matthew’s Parish Church, Edinburgh. His brother, 2nd Lieut. Gordon C. Hutton, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, was with him at Ypres, and is still (1916) on active service.

=HYLAND, JOHN EDWARD=, Lieut., Royal Marine L.I., Portsmouth Battn. Royal Naval Division, eldest s. of the Rev. John Black Hyland, Rector of Combe Florey, Taunton, by his wife, Julia Harriet, dau. of the late Thomas Jourdain Hay, of Tower House, Millbrook, Hants; b. Arreton Vicarage, I.W., 24 Oct. 1895; educ. privately; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Marines, 20 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. March, 1915; left for the Dardanelles with the R.N.D., 27 Feb. 1915; took part in the landing there, 26 April, and was killed in action “leading and encouraging his men,” 10 May following; unm. Buried in Anzac Cove. Lieut.-Col. F. Luard (himself killed in action, 13 July, 1915), commanding Portsmouth Battn., wrote: “It may comfort you to know that ever since he joined the Battn. he had been conspicuous for good work, and that in consequence I had come to look upon him as one of the most promising and reliable of the younger officers. During the very severe fighting which took place on the four days before his death, and of which the brunt was borne by his company, he had shown extreme gallantry, and had come through scatheless, cheery, and full of spirit up to the last, enjoying every moment of his active responsibilities”; and Lieut. S. D. Wilmot-Sitwell (himself killed in action, 13 July, 1915): “On 10 May, early in the morning, the Battn. was turned out, and had to charge up a steep slope. The whole of the ridge at the top was swept by rifle and machine-gun fire. John led his platoon up the slope, and was, I believe, the first to reach the top, but I was further to the left myself. When he got to the top he turned to encourage his men to a last burst, when he was hit in the back by either a rifle or a machine-gun bullet. He was picked up by a stretcher-party, and died while being carried down to the dressing station. He was buried by the side of another officer who was hit while standing alongside him just before. A rough cross marks the place where they are buried.” Mrs. Stockley, wife of his Capt., also wrote: “I am writing for my husband, who was severely wounded on the same day as your son was so very unfortunately killed, and he wishes me to tell you how very well he did commanding his platoon, during a most trying three days in the trenches under practically incessant fire the whole time. My husband was always, from the time he joined his company, very pleased with the work your son did. He always showed great keenness in his work, and was a most promising young officer, always cheerful and bright and eager, and very popular with his men. The night before he was killed he and Mr. Fulton and my husband were sharing the same dug-out together, and they were both in such brave spirits in spite of all they had been through, that my husband says he could not help being proud of having such officers serving with him. One of your son’s last acts was to try and help my husband after he was wounded, but of course he had to go on and look after his men.”

=HYNES, JAMES=, A.B. (Coastguard), 166525 (Devon.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HYNES, JAMES JOSEPH=, Private, No. 1095, D Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., only s. of the late John Hynes [b. St. John’s, Newfoundland, died Halifax, N.S., 1900], by his wife, Margaret (now wife of John Paul Francis, of 285, South Side, St. John’s, Newfoundland), dau. of Stephen Fitzgerald; b. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 12 Dec. 1896; educ. Christian Brothers’ Schools there; was serving his time as a Cooper with Mr. E. G. Cousens, Mercantile Cooperage, St. John’s, when war broke out; volunteered for Imperial service, joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, 8 Feb. 1915; left for England, 20 March, went to the Dardanelles, 12 Sept., and was killed in action there, 18 Nov. 1915; unm. Buried Borderers Ravine, 117 J. 3 Grave 41. A comrade wrote that they were having a rest in the support trench just behind the firing line, when at 9 a.m. they were sent up to the firing line to dig some dug-outs. They had been working for an hour when they were discovered by a Turkish sniper and Hynes was struck, being killed instantly, adding “Jimmie was one of the finest young men in our regt.; well liked by all.”

=IMRIE, JAMES WALTER=, Private, No. 63470, 13th Battn. (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of James Harrison Imrie, retired Civil Engineer, Poona, India, by his wife, Letitia Ellen, dau. of the late Thomas Edward Kelly, Indian Police (who had the Mutiny medal of 1857); b. Khandwa, Central Provinces, India, 14 March, 1887; educ. Blairlodge School, Polmont, Stirlingshire, where he won several prizes for shooting and also the Spencer Cup at Bisley in 1903, and upon leaving there studied Civil Engineering in Scotland, and later went through a course of training at the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. He left for Canada in the autumn of 1910, being employed in Civil Engineering in various towns there, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 23rd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force. He came over with the second contingent in March, 1915, and was drafted to the 13th Battn. Royal Highlanders then at the Front. He went into action on 15 May, and was killed in action a week later during the active operations at the Orchard, 23 May, 1915; unm. He was buried by a shell in the communication trench leading to the Orchard at Festubert, and the official statement concluded “unfortunately there are no marks by which the place can be located.”

=IMS, ROBERT THOMAS=, Rifleman, No. 1577, 16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the late Edwin George Ims, by his wife, Sarah Homred (34, Besborough Place, Pimlico), dau. of John Henley, of Broadway, Westminster; b. Westminster, 23 May, 1895; educ. Christ Church, Westminster, and Westminster City School; was a second grade Clerk in the Board of Education (Scottish Department); joined the Queen’s Westminster Rifles in 1912, having previously served in a Yeomanry Corps and the Civil Service Cadets; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; trained at St. Albans; went to France in Oct. 1914; took part in the First Battle of Ypres, Oct. and Nov.; the Battle of Festubert, Second Battle of Ypres, and the Battle of Hooge; went through his course of training as a bomber, and then through the Machine Gun School, where it was requested that he should be lent to the School as an Instructor, but his commanding officer could not spare him, and was killed in action at Ypres, 23 Aug. 1915, by shell fire; unm. Buried at Ypres. He had been recommended for a commission, and the papers were found in his pockets and sent to his mother.

=INGATE, WALTER WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4050B, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=INGHAM, JOHN THOMAS=, Private, No. 1559, 5th Battn. Supernumerary West Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.); b. co. Lancaster, 28 Feb. 1853; served in the 14th, 15th and 7th Hussars; took part in the Afghan War, 1878–80 (Afghan medal); the Boer War, 1881, and with the Royal Reserve Hussars; in the South African War, 1899; joined the National Reserve in Leeds, soon after its formation, and was accepted in April, 1915, at the age of 62, as medically fit for Reserve Service, and attached to the 5th Supernumerary West Yorkshire Regt. He died in North Ormesby Hospital, Middlesbrough, 25 June, 1915. He m. at Barwick-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, Eliza (6, Shepherd’s Place, Harehills Avenue, Leeds), dau. of Thomas Laford, of Garforth, Yorkshire, and had three surviving children. His second son, Sergt.-Major Ingham, is now (1916) on active service with the West Yorkshire Regt.

=INGLES, ALEXANDER WIGHTON=, Major, 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., only s. of the Rev. Canon David Ingles, Vicar of Witham, co. Essex, M.A., by his wife, Anna, dau. of the Rev. Arthur Scrivener; b. at Apsley End, co. Herts, 20 May, 1869; educ. Haileybury; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the West Yorkshire Regt., from the Militia, 12 March, 1892; and promoted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1894; Capt. 26 March, 1900, and Major 7 March, 1914, was Adjutant of volunteers from 10 Jan. 1902, to 9 Jan. 1907; served in the South African War, 1899–1901, including operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900–Dec. 1901 (Queen’s medal with clasp); and with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 24 Sept. 1914. The second in Command of the 1st West Yorkshires wrote: “You will be proud to know that he died a glorious death at the head of his Coy. The companies on the firing line were tricked by the Germans, who advanced under cover of the white flag, and then opened fire and enfiladed our men in the trenches. Your husband then shouted out, ‘All who will not surrender follow me,’ and retired fighting to the trenches on the left and was soon shot down and killed by a rifle bullet. He was buried where he fell with others of the Coy. I know no more details as no officers have returned in A, B, or D Coy.” Major Ingles m. at Hartley Wintney, Winchfield, Hants, Eugenia Ellen (93, Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea, S.W.), dau. of Major-Gen. Charles Henry Owen, late R.A., of Camberley, co. Surrey.

=INGLIS, CHARLES NORTH DALRYMPLE=, Lieut., Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attd. 2/8th Gurkha Rifles, 4th s. of Robert Inglis, Lovestone, Girvan, Ayrshire, J.P., by his wife, Isabella F., dau. of the Rev. Alexander Willison; b. Lovestone afsd., 17 June, 1880; educ. Ayr Academy, and afterwards went through an engineering course in Glasgow, on completing which he obtained a Government appointment in India in 1904, on the Eastern Bengal State Railway. He took a great interest in the Volunteer movement and was a Capt. in the Railway Volunteers. After the outbreak of war he was gazetted Lieut. to the Indian Reserve of Officers in Feb. 1915. He left India for France attached to the 2/8th Gurkha Rifles, in March, 1915, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. Buried in a trench at the corner of Bois de Biez Wood. On this occasion the 2/8th Gurkhas lost their Col. and eleven of their officers killed and wounded and only 100 out of 600 of the regiment escaped. Inglis was a keen Rugby player; was a member of Turnberry Golf Club, and played in many matches. He was also an excellent tennis player. He and his brother (Capt. David Inglis, also killed, see following notice) did a good deal of shooting together in India, and both secured some fine big game trophies.

=INGLIS, DAVID=, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. 4th Gurkha Rifles, yst. s. of Robert Inglis, Lovestone, Girvan, Ayrshire, J.P., by his wife, Isabella F., dau. of the Rev. Alexander Willison; b. Girvan afsd., 21 April, 1884; educ. Ayr Academy (1893–97); Glasgow Academy (1897–1900); and Bedford (1900–2), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1902–3); gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached, Indian Army, 19 Aug. 1903; served his first year with the Northamptonshire Regt., and was posted to the 4th Gurkhas at Bakloh, 18 Dec. 1904; promoted Lieut. 18 Nov. 1905, and Capt. 19 Aug. 1912; appointed Double Company Officer, 1 March, 1906, and Adjutant, 21 March, 1913; went to France with his regiment, leaving India 24 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Givenchy, 19 Dec. 1914; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. His sports were Rugby, which he continued out in India, winning with the Gurkha team General Brown’s Cup in 1906; golf, member of Turnberry Golf Club, shooting and fishing.

=INGRAM, FREDERICK JAMES=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 556, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=INGRAM, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3705), S.S. 1032, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=INGRAM, JAMES=, Private, No. 63467, 3rd Battn. (West Mounted Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of John Jonas Ingram, of 15, Syphon Street, Porth, co. Glamorgan, Collier, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of late James Dyer; b. Porth, 25 July, 1894; educ. Winford and Dundry, near Bristol; emigrated to Montreal in 1912; joined the Canadian Grenadier Guards, for Home Defence, shortly after the declaration of war; was subsequently transferred to the West Mounted Rifles in order to go to the front; came over with the 2nd Contingent in Jan. 1915, went to France in May, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 June, 1915; unm. Buried at Ducks Bill there.

=INGRAM, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class, 293088, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=INGRAM, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111804, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=INNES, ALEXANDER BEROWALD=, of Raemoir, Cowie, and Dunnottar, Lieut., 7th Battn. Gordon Highlander (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Alexander Innes, Younger of Raemoir, Cowie and Dunnottar, J.P., D.L., by his first wife, Helen Eytham, only child of the Rev. S. W. King, Rector of Saxlingham, Norfolk; b. Cowie House, Stonehaven, co. Kincardine, 10 Sept. 1872; educ. King’s College, Canterbury, and Trinity College, Glenalmond, and on leaving the latter, studied practical Engineering. He served in the South African War, 1901–2, with the Scottish Horse and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. In 1900, he succeeded to the estates of Raemoir and Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, and was a J.P., and D.L. for that county, and a member of His Majesty’s Body Guard of Archers. On the outbreak of the European War he was gazetted Lieut. 7th Gordon Highlanders, 10 Oct. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 18 June, 1915. Buried, Le Touret. He m. at Dunfermline, 1 Dec. 1910, Mary, sister of 2nd Lieut. David Alexander Beveridge, R.F.A. (died on active service, 13 Sept. 1915), and only dau. of Erskine Beveridge, of St. Leonard’s Hill, Dunfermline, and Vallay, North Uist; LL.D.; s.p.

=INNES, DANIEL COTTIER=, E.R.A., 1st Class (Pensioner), 269616, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=INNES, IAN CHARLES=, Lieut., 2nd Battn., 2nd King Edward’s Own Gurkha Rifles (Sirmoor Rifles), Indian Army, only surviving s. of the late Charles Innes, of Inverness, by his wife, Constance (Bishops Thorpe, Inverness), dau. of John Andrew; b. 23 Oct. 1885; educ. The College, Inverness, and Fettes College, Edinburgh; gazetted 2nd Lieut., East Kent Regt., from the Militia, 16 Jan. 1907, and promoted Lieut., 16 April, 1909; served at Harrismith, South Africa, and Hong Kong; transferred to the Indian Army in 1909; came to Europe with the Indian Expeditionary Force in Oct. 1914; and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “His death was a gallant one, in keeping with his character and life. The enemy had, by high explosive shell fire, obliterated and rendered untenable the trenches occupied by us. Innes with a few others gathered together and made a final charge against the advancing Germans, and so met his death.” While at Fettes College he was in the cricket XI and Fives X.

=INNES, JAMES IAN=, Private, No. 2040, 1/14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of William Innes, of Clinterty, Kinnellar, co. Aberdeen, by his wife, Christina, dau. of James R. Grieve; b. Merriness, Tibbermore, co. Perth, 12 Aug. 1893; educ. Ashley Road School, and Gordon’s College, Aberdeen; served his apprenticeship in the Royal Bank there, and was appointed to the London Office of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 1 Sept. 1913; joined the London Scottish, 2 March, 1914; mobilised on the outbreak of war in Aug., and volunteered for foreign service; went to France with the 2nd draft of the 1st Battn. 23 Nov.; went into the trenches 22 Dec. and was killed in action at Givenchy, 3 Jan. 1915; unm. He was buried there in the vicinity of a farm outside the trenches. His company commander, Capt. Claude Low, D.S.O., in returning a testament found on him, wrote: “I was very sorry to lose such a fine soldier and I will ever bear in mind the calm way in which he and his comrades kept their ground with no sign of fear, and earned for us the thanks of those in higher authority.” He was a keen lover of sport, a member of the Bank’s cricket and football teams, and the secretary of the cricket club, in a letter of sympathy, said how highly he was esteemed by all who knew him, adding “to use a cricketing phrase, ‘he always played the straight bat in everything that he did.’”

=INNES, JOHN=, Private, No. 11068, 4th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late James Innes, Distillery Worker, and Mary Mason (758 Great Northern Road, Woodside, Aberdeen), dau. of the late James Thompson, of Botriphnie; b. Botriphnie, co. Banff, 17 Jan. 1894; educ. Keith Public School; went to Canada in June, 1911, and after working on the Railway at Winnipeg went to Oakville and entered the employ of the firm of James Langmuir; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France in Feb., and died at the Casualty Clearing Station, 26 April, 1915, of wounds received in action in the Ypres; unm. Buried in Hazebrouck Cemetery. A Canadian Officer wrote: “Your son was one to be proud of. I knew him for years. He was a steady pushing young man, a keen soldier, and died a hero.”

=INNOCENT, JAMES ALFRED=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 1743), 206250, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=INSTONE, LEONARD FREDERICK=, Private, No. 10128, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Louis Frederick Instone, now Coy. Sergt.-Major, 14th East Yorkshires, by his wife, Constance Evelyn (66, Seaton Street, Fountain Road, Hull), dau. of Allan Greenwood Cameron Templeton; b. Belgaum, India, 20 July, 1897; educ. Newland Avenue Council School, Hull; on 16 May, 1913, when barely 16, he enlisted in the 1st Battn. of the Coldstreams (giving his age as 18 years and 10 months) and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, accompanied them to France, went through the retreat from Mons and came home slightly wounded in the foot; he was then attached to the 3rd Battn. and returned to the Front, 22 Oct. and was in the trenches off and on until 1 May, 1915, when he was shot through the head about 9 p.m. while trench digging at Givenchy. He was buried in the Military Cemetery, “Windy Corner,” Givenchy; unm. Instone was an exceptionally fine swimmer, winning the cup for the Junior Champion Swimmer of Hull, also a silver watch.

=IRELAND, WILLIAM=, A.B., R.F.R., 162585, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=IRONS, ERNEST=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 8011, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=IRONSIDE, ROBERT STEWART=, D.C.M., Battery-Sergt.-Major, No. 33255, 120th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, eldest s. of Coy.-Sergt.-Major William Stewart Ironside, of the Tynemouth Artillery Volunteers, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Robert Roberts; b. Sheffield Barracks, 8 Oct. 1883; educ. Elementary Schools, Leeds and Scarborough. He enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers, 28 July, 1903, and was transferred to the R.F.A. in Nov. of the same year, joining his battery at Newbridge, Ireland. Drafted to India in Oct. 1906, he served first in Kirkee and then in Karachi, returning with the 29th Battery to Ireland. He was promoted Sergt. and sent to the 120th Battery, then serving in Newbridge, where he was when war was declared. Leaving with that Battery for the Front, he served in France and Flanders, was seriously wounded in action on 8 Nov. 1914, and died the following day, without recovering consciousness, in No. 2 Clearing Station, Bailleul; unm. Major L. Wilson wrote to his sister: “You will, I am sure, be proud to know of the splendid record he has left behind in his Battery. He had been promoted Battery-Sergt.-Major ten days or so ago, and only yesterday morning we received information that he had been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He had just come back from seeing the General, who had sent for him to congratulate him on this distinction, when a shell fell in the trench where the Battery headquarters were, almost on the top of him, and he was dangerously wounded. You have the sympathy of the officers and men in the Battery. The Army can ill spare such a brave and capable soldier as your brother was.” He was awarded the D.C.M. [London Gazette, 11 Nov. 1914], the official record stating: “Although wounded at St. Ghislain on 23 Aug., 1914, he continued to act as No. 1 of his Sub-Section under heavy gun and rifle fire and for subsequent valuable work.” His younger brother, Sergt. William Stewart Ironside, was promoted Lieut. for service in the field, 1 Oct. 1914, and won the Military Cross at Hooge on 14 Aug. 1915.

=IRVEN, WALTER JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3648), 176302, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=IRVINE, CHRISTOPHER THEODORE CORRIE=, Lieut., 25th Punjabis, yst. s. of the late Inspector-Gen. Gerard James Irvine, R.N., by his wife, Henrietta (St. Andrew’s, Naini Tal, India), dau. of William Byrom Corrie, of Cheltenham, and nephew of Charles Edward Robert Alexander Irvine, of Drumgoon Manor, co. Fermanagh; b. 27 Jan. 1889; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Connaught Rangers, from the Special Reserve, 11 Dec. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 11 Feb. 1911; transferred to the Indian Army in Aug. 1912, serving temporarily with the 25th Punjabi Cavalry; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915; unm. His eldest brother Capt. Gerard Byrom Corrie Irvine, Bopal Infantry, was wounded in the early part of the war.

=IRVINE, FRANCIS DUNCAN=, Major, R.E., Brigade Major, 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of Duncan Irvine, of 45, Cathcart Road, S.W., I.C.S. (ret.), by his wife, Emily Gertrudes, dau. of Thomas Maguire; b. Waltain, Madras Presidency, India, 20 Jan. 1875; educ. Clifton College, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E., 15 March, 1895; promoted Lieut. 15 March, 1898, Capt. 1 April, 1904, and Major 30 Oct. 1914; took part in the Waziristan Expedition, N.W. Frontier of India, 1901–2 (medal with clasp); served with his regt. at Bangalore, and elsewhere in India, until July, 1913, when he was appointed for duty with the Australian Forces, serving as a General Staff Officer (3rd Grade), and, on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, was appointed Brigade Major, 1st Infantry Brigade, A.I.F., under the command of Col. McLaurin; trained his Brigade in Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 24–25 April, 1915, and was killed in action on the 27th at Gaba Tepe, being shot by a sniper in the firing line. He was buried near the spot where he fell. Col. ... wrote: “To my great regret your son was killed on Tuesday, 22 April, while doing his duty sorting troops into trenches.... We, too, have suffered a loss, as your son had from the time of the organisation of the force laboured unceasingly, and it was greatly due to his efforts that the 1st Rifle Brigade had reached the standard of efficiency to which the supreme test showed it had attained. In your son I have lost a comrade to whom I was greatly indebted. He was General Staff Officer of the 2nd Military District (N.S.W.) and I am glad to be able to tell you in all sincerity that on the outbreak of war a vast amount of the work was put in hand smoothly and methodically by reason of the efficient preparation which your son had made. I can never be sufficiently grateful for the thorough and whole hearted help which he gave.” Major Irvine m. at The Oratory, Brompton, London, 23 Oct. 1906, Emily Marion, dau. of Col. Terence McGann, I.M.S., and had a son, Ian Robert, b. Bangalore, 14 Feb. 1910.

=IRVINE, STANNUS CHARLES EDWARD=, Lieut., Northern Rhodesian Rifles, 4th s. of the late Col. John Gerard Irvine, of Killadeas, co. Fermanagh, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Elizabeth Daniell (Killadeas, co. Fermanagh), dau. of William Daniell, of Ballymackney, co. Monaghan; b. Kingstown, co. Dublin, 18 June, 1873; educ. Trinity College, Dublin; was a Civil Engineer; went to Rhodesia in March, 1897 and afterwards took up farming; joined the Northern Rhodesian Rifles on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, and died at Fife, N.R., 18 April, 1915, from wounds received in action on the North-East Frontier, Northern Rhodesia, while capturing a German stockade; unm. He was the first to enter the stockade, and was buried in the cemetery at Fife, Northern Rhodesia, with full military honours.

=IRVINE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14223 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=IRVING, JOHN VICTOR=, Private, No. 2650, 4th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of John Irving, of 31, Scotland Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Jemima, dau. of the late James McIntosh, lessee Craigleith Quarry; b. Mossgiel, Corstorphine, co. Midlothian, 5 June, 1887; educ. Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh; was a Clerk in the North British and Mercantile Insurance Office; volunteered after the outbreak of war and enlisted in the 4th Royal Scots in Nov. 1914; trained at Edinburgh; left for the Dardanelles, 23 May, 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July, 1915, during a counter-attack on the Turkish position; unm. He was Organist and Choirmaster in the John Ker Memorial Church, Edinburgh.

=IRVING, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Leading Stoker, 300112, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=IRWIN, GEORGE=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 154211, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=ISAACS, ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5295), 178510, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ISAAC, HOPKIN=, Private, No. 8672, A Coy., 3rd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., 5th s. of Howell Isaac, Collier, Navigation Colliery, Treharris, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Lewis Lewis; b. Treharris, co. Glamorgan, 30 Jan. 1888; educ. Board School there; was a Colliery Haulier; served for about eight months in the Monmouthshire R.E. in 1906; enlisted in the Dorsetshire Regt., after the outbreak of war, 31 Aug. 1914, trained at Weymouth; went to France, 13 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the second Battle of Ypres, 2 May, 1915; unm. He was a good athlete, and won several prizes for racing, cycling, and boxing, also medals for football.

=ISTED, WILLIAM=, Trooper, No. 125, 1st Australian Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of the late John Isted, Farm Bailiff, by his wife, Fanny (Burwash Common, co. Sussex), dau. of the late Alfred Wells, of Burwash; b. Mayfield, co. Sussex, 2 July, 1892; educ. St. Philip’s School, Burwash Weald; went to Australia in 1912; settled at an up-country station, Cootamundra, where he was an employee on a large farm; subsequently returned to Sydney, and then took up a situation at Mr. Morgan’s, Torrilla, near Scone, N.S.W.; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the 1st Australian Light Horse; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and died at No. 1 Australian General Hospital, Cairo, 16 Aug. 1915, of gunshot wounds received in action at Gallipoli; unm. Buried in Old Cairo Cemetery. His company officer wrote referring to the loss which the Regt. had sustained, and spoke in the highest terms of his popularity and fine soldierly qualities. His three brothers, Private Victor Isted, Private George Isted, and Private Frank Isted, are now (1916) on active service.

=IVE, DAVID=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., eldest s. of Ernest Ive, of The Hermitage, Meadvale, Redhill, Surrey, Assoc. M.Inst.C.E., by his wife, St. Claire, dau. of William George Taylor, of Carshalton, Surrey; b. Kensington, 27 May, 1894; educ. Reigate Grammar School, where he was a cadet in the O.T.C.; passed the Army Qualifying Examination in Nov. 1913; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Special Reserve of Officers, 1 Oct. 1913, receiving his preliminary training with the 1st Battn. Royal West Surreys; posted to the 2nd Battn. 1 Sept. 1914; went to France with his regt., which formed part of the 7th Division, on 5 Oct. 1914; took part in the severe fighting on the way to Ypres, and was killed in action there, 23 Oct. 1914; unm. Buried at Ypres.

=IVES, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., 5624 (R.F.R., B. 1189), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=IVINS, JOHN HERBERT=, L.-Corpl., No. 7794, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of John Arthur Ivins, of 1, Flaxley Road, Stechford, Birmingham, Carpet Planner with Chamberlain, King & Jones, Birmingham, by his wife, Jessie Maude, dau. of James Nicholds, of Woodville, Selly Park, Birmingham; b. Yardley, Birmingham, 12 March, 1892; educ. Yardley School and St. John’s Sparkhill, Birmingham; enlisted 13 April, 1908; went to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was given his stripe at the Front; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and the advance to the Belgian frontier, etc., and was killed in action at Eppinette, 29 Dec. 1914; unm. Sergt. Leaman wrote: “We were being relieved when Jack, who was getting out of the trench, was hit in the head by a stray bullet, and before we got to him was dead.” He was buried in Le Touret Cemetery.

=IZZARD, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R. Ch. B. 7556), S.S. 102795, H.M.S. Aboukir lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JACKMAN, ALBERT EDWARD=, Chief Armourer, 341931; served some time in H.M.S. Cressy (discharged 24 July, 1914); then joined H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JACKSON, EDWARD PHILLIPS=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., attd. 1st South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of the Rev. William Edward Jackson, M.A., Rector of Loughton, co. Bucks, formerly scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, by his wife, Mary Louisa, dau. of John Broadhurst, of Congleton; b. Monks Kirby Vicarage, co. Warwick, 11 Dec. 1893; educ. Newchurch Grammar School, King’s School, Warwick, and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Royal Warwicks, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; left for France, 25 Dec. 1914, when he was attached to the 1st South Wales Borderers, and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 9 May, 1915. Buried there; unm. His Major wrote: “He was absolutely fearless and was very popular with those over him and under him.”

=JACKSON, FREDERICK JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 58, 1st Battn. The Rifle Brigade, Machine Gun Section, 2nd s. of Harry Mayland Jackson, of The Ben Jonson, Goodman’s Yard, Minories, E.C., by his wife, Louisa Greenslade, dau. of the late James Young, of the Ferndale Hotel, Manor Way, Woolwich; b. Woolwich, 16 Sept. 1892; educ. St. Leonard Road Board School, Bromley-by-Bow, E.; enlisted in the 1st Rifle Brigade, May, 1913; left for France, 8th Aug. 1914; att. to 1st Battn. (Special Reserve), and was killed in action, near Pilken, 6 July, 1915; unm. Sergt. P. Blent, of the Machine Gun Section of his Battn., wrote: “Firstly, I must tell you that if any man earned the V.C. in the war, he did, for the part he took in the attack of ours on 6 July. He was trying to get his gun into action when he was wounded, first of all in the shoulder; this did not deter him, for he still endeavoured to do what he had set out to do, but unfortunately he was wounded again, this time in the face. He then had to give up the attempt, and took to his right and opened fire, and it was while doing this he met his death, for a piece of shrapnel entered the back of his head, and he died almost instantly. His conduct throughout was magnificent and he died a real hero.” The two brothers of L.-Corpl. Jackson are serving in the Army, one of whom, L.-Corpl. A. E. Jackson, of the 3rd Wiltshire Regt., was wounded at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915.

=JACKSON, JOHN=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 3123, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JACKSON, JOHN GEORGE=, Private, No. 8972, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Frank Leighton, of Howden, Yorks, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Alice, dau. of James Jackson; b. Howden, Yorks, 13 Jan. 1880; educ. Church of England School there; enlisted in 1911, went to France, 1914, and died a prisoner of war at Schneidemühl, in Germany, 8 Feb. 1915; unm.

=JACKSON, JOSHUA GRAHAM=, Corpl., No. 10/570, 3rd Auckland Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Joshua Jackson, of Auckland, New Zealand, J.P., Sharebroker; b. Auckland, New Zealand, 3 Aug. 1881; educ. Northcote School there; and was in the employ of the Railway Service. On the outbreak of war he volunteered, left New Zealand with the main body in Oct. 1914; trained in Egypt during the winter; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April; was seriously wounded that day and invalided to England, where he spent several months; returned to duty in Nov. and had only been two days at Gallipoli when he was shot in the stomach by a sniper, while going to the beach to get water. He died on board the Hospital Ship Neuralia, 11 Nov. 1915, and was buried at sea between Rhodes and Alexandria; unm.

=JACKSON, SOLOMON=, Private, R.M.L.I., 11701 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1876), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JACKSON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 5451, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., s. of George Jackson, of 11, Smalley Street, Grimshaw Park, Blackburn; b. Primrose Hill, 28 Sept. 1891; enlisted in the East Lancashires, passed into the Reserve, 22 Oct. 1913; rejoined his Battn. on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action during the advance of the 8th Division against the German position at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=JACKSON, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 6620, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JACKSON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17559, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JACQUES, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS=, Lieut.-Col., 14th (King George’s Own) Ferozepore Sikhs, 3rd s. of the Rev. Canon Kinton Jacques, Rector of Brindle, co. Lancs. (died 24 April, 1915), by his wife, Caroline Augusta, dau. of the Rev. Gardnor Baldwin; b. Leyland, co. Lancaster, 9 April, 1867; educ. Rossall School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 6 Nov. 1887, and promoted Lieut. 22 March, 1890; served for a few months with the 11th Rajputs and was then posted to the 14th Sikhs; joined the Indian S.C., 6 Sept. 1890, and transferred to the Indian Army, becoming Capt. 16 Nov. 1898, Major 16 Nov. 1905, and Lieut.-Col. 16 Nov. 1913. He served with the Hazara Expedition, 1891 (medal with clasp); with the Waziristan Expedition in 1894–5 (clasp); in the Tochi Campaign on the North-West Frontier, 1897–8 (medal with clasp), and in 1900 with the force that went to China (medal), and was temporarily Second in Command of the 45th Sikhs from Dec. 1909 to Dec. 1910, and of the 29th Punjabis, April to Oct. 1911. After the outbreak of the European War he went with his regt. to Egypt, took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, afterwards proceeding to the Dardanelles, where he was killed in action, 4 June, 1915. A brother officer wrote: “I don’t think your husband knew what fear was, he was always so cheery when there was any show going on that it did one good to see him and be near him, and so it must have been to the last;” and his subaltern, who was two yards from him when he was killed, wrote: “I shall always appreciate your husband’s memory, not only as my double company Commander, but as a friend. Your husband was wonderfully cool and calm in action, much the same as when on parade. He knew that we had little chance of coming out of the advance alive, but he was cheerful to the last. His last words to me before breakfast were that he did not fear death at all, because you and his children were well provided for. That was about the only time I saw him in what one might call a serious mood.” He m. at Brindle, co. Lancaster, 27 July, 1904, Olivia Katherine, dau. of Burkill Jacques, of San Diego, California, and had two daughters: Barbara Caroline, b. 18 Jan. 1912; and Ruth Olivia, b. 6 Feb. 1914.

=JAGGER, OLIVER ROBIN OCTAVIUS=, Cadet Royal Navy, H.M.S. Bulwark, yst. s. of Arthur Edward Jagger, of Coundon Lodge, near Coventry, Chairman of Singer & Co., Ltd., Coventry, by his wife, Sarah Lucy, dau. of William Burton, of Allesley, near Coventry; b. Coundon Lodge, near Coventry, 27 Sept. 1898; educ. Pretoria House, Folkestone, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; appointed Cadet to H.M.S. Bulwark, 2 Aug. 1914; and was lost when that ship was blown up in Sheerness Harbour, 26 Nov. following.

=JAMES, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 6581), 354275, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JAMES, DAVID=, Petty Officer, 183045, R.N.; killed in action at Tsing-tau, 22 Aug. 1914, on board H.M. Destroyer Kennet, while engaged in chasing the German destroyer S. 90.

=JAMES, ERIC SAMUEL PENNANT KINGSBURY=, Capt. 6th (Reserve), attd. 4th, Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only s. of Edward Lewis James, of Holly Lodge, Larkhall Rise, S.W., F. Chemical S., F.R.H.S., by his wife, Sarah; b. Clapham, 4 Sept. 1887; educ. Manor House School, Clapham; St. Paul’s School (Foundation Scholar); Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (an Open Classical Exhibitioner, John Stock Exhibitioner and College Prizeman, B.A. (2nd Class Honours Classical Tripos) 1909; and M.A. 1914); and the University of Paris; was assistant-master and house-master at Oundle School, 1910; assistant-master at Merchant Taylors’ School, 1913; appointed 2nd Lieut. Territorial Force (unattd. list), 23 March, 1910; promoted Lieut. 18 Oct. 1912, and Capt. 15 Jan. 1914, and served in the O.T.C. at Oundle and Merchant Taylors’; gazetted Capt. to 6th (Reserve) Battn. K.R.R.C., 20 Sept. 1914; left for France, 6 Jan. 1915, and was attached to 4th Battn., and was killed in action about 21 miles from Dickebusch, at midnight on 17 March, 1915; unm. Capt. Hugo Watson, then temporarily in command of the 4th K.R.R.C. wrote: “He was shot in the head last night, about 11.45, while standing behind a breastwork, superintending his men at work filling sandbags. He was killed instantly. We buried him to-day in the Military Cemetery at Dickebusch, four miles from Ypres and 2½ miles from where he was killed.... I cannot tell you what a great loss he is. I was Adjutant of the 6th K.R.R.C., till recently when I came out here.... I know what splendid work he did at Sheerness, and how Colonel Brownlow depended on him. I was with him last Sunday, when we had a very nasty time; he was very cool and did admirably”; and Lieut.-Col. Brownlow, commanding the 6th Battalion, wrote: “He did excellent work for me down here, and I heard he was doing real well in France. He was most popular and looked up to by everybody, and was a very smart and efficient soldier.” The 4th Battn. K.R.R.C. was specially mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April, 1915, for “a very gallant attack on the enemy’s trenches on 2 March.” Capt. James was an excellent oarsman. He was Second Boat Captain at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, rowed in the College boat at Henley, 1909, and was a member of the Thames Rowing Club. He was also a good rifle shot and passed the School of Musketry at Hythe. He annually visited the Continent and was a good linguist, and at Merchant Taylors’ he attracted considerable attention by the success of his original methods of teaching history.

=JAMES, GEORGE MILLAIS=, Capt. 1st Battn. The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), and Brigade-Major, 22nd Infantry Brigade, 7th Division, elder s. of the late Major William Christopher James, Royal Scots Greys and 16th Lancers, by his wife, Effie Grey, dau. of the late Sir John Millais, 1st Bart., P.R.A., the eminent painter, and grandson of the late Lord Justice Sir William Milburn James; b. London, 15 Nov. 1880; educ. Cheltenham and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, 6 Dec. 1899; promoted Lieut. 17 Feb. 1900; and Capt. 30 May, 1904. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902; taking part in operations in Orange Free State, April to May, 1900, in the Transvaal, West of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, including action at Venterskroon, in which he was slightly wounded; in Orange River Colony, May to July, 1900, including action at Rhenoster River; in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to Jan. 1902; and in Cape Colony, Jan. to 31 May, 1902. For his services he was mentioned twice in Despatches [London Gazette, 9 July and 10 Sept. 1901] and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s with two clasps. After the war, he was stationed with his battn. at Wynberg, Cape Colony, in Mauritius, and in India, and was Adjutant from 1 Oct. 1903 to 30 Sept. 1906. He was transferred to the 1st Buffs, then at Aldershot, 20 May, 1908, and in 1910 entered the Staff College, and, having passed through it with distinction, was, on 7 Sept. 1912, appointed Brigade-Major, Pretoria District, South Africa. On the outbreak of war he returned to England and was appointed Brigade-Major, 22nd Infantry Brigade, 18 Sept. 1914. He left for France with the famous and ill-fated 7th Division, under Gen. Capper, on 4 Oct. his Brigadier being Gen. Lawford, and was killed in action near Ypres, during the first battle of that name, 3 Nov. following. Buried in a wood, about three miles S.W. of Ypres. Capt. James m. in London, 16 Oct. 1907, Hylda Madeleine, only dau. of Sir James Heath, of Oxendon Hall, Market Harborough, 1st Bart., and had two daus.: Eileen Alice, b. 19 June, 1909; and Daphne Millais, b. 13 Jan. 1911.

=JAMES, JOHN STEPHEN HARVEY=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only child of Quintus Stephen Harvey James, of Croft Lodge, Mill Hill, N.W., by his wife, Josephine, dau. of John Rees, of Stafford House, South Hampstead; b. London, 22 Jan. 1894; educ. Colet Court and St. Paul’s School, and at the outbreak of war was a student at Guy’s Hospital. He had joined the Artists’ Rifles in May, 1914, and on the outbreak of war was among the first to volunteer for foreign service, and left for the Front on 25 Oct. 1914. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 17 March following, and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué during a successful endeavour to capture some of the enemy’s trenches, in the Battle of Festubert, 15–16 May, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was under me all the time he was with us. He was always cheerful, imperturbable, and a thorough soldier. He died very bravely;” and Major Armstrong: “Your boy had actually reached the German trench when he was killed. We all deplore his loss.”

=JAMES, PERCY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8187), S.S. 1720, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JAMES, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7911), S.S. 103598, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JAMES, THOMAS SPENCER=, Rifleman, No. 2177, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Major Arthur James, Suffolk Regt., by his wife, Hannah Caroline (Newbury Quadrant Road, Thornton Heath), dau. of William Ling, of Bury St. Edmunds; b. Ely, co. Cambridge, 30 Oct. 1891; educ. Whitgift School, Croydon; joined The Rangers, 14 Aug. 1914; landed in France with the battn. on Christmas Day following, and died in the 1st N.M. Field Ambulance, 8 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Fortuin, near Ypres, on the 6th. Buried in Soldiers’ Cemetery, Hazebrouck; unm. His Platoon Officer wrote: “Your boy was so generally liked by all his comrades, whose spirits he greatly helped to keep alive, that his loss will be much felt, particularly when we do get together again. We went through so much together in my Platoon;” and a comrade: “24 April, we attacked in open order in support of 1st Suffolks, to back up the Canadians, who were gassed out. After this we were under continuous shell-fire both night and day, and our Platoon was reduced to four men, when in the early morning of May 6 a shell burst in our trench, and we were all put out of action. Your son was much liked in the Company, always ready to do a good turn to anybody; he was full of pluck and always the first to volunteer for any desperate task, in fact he was a soldier and a man worthy to be the son of a soldier.”

=JAMESON, ARTHUR GEORGE=, Lieut.-Com., R.N., 3rd s. of Robert William Jameson, of Campfield House, Dundrum, co. Dublin, F.S.I., J.P., by his wife, Katherine Anne, dau. of Tooke Luscombe; b. Dublin, 30 Sept. 1883; educ. Monkton Combe School, near Bath, and H.M.S. Britannia, which he joined in Sept. 1898; appointed Naval Cadet, 15 May, 1900, and Midshipman, 30 May following, and served on board the Theseus and Repulse on the Mediterranean Station; promoted Sub-Lieut. 30 July, 1903, and went through the various courses and examinations to qualify for the rank of Lieut., taking four “firsts”; served at home in the destroyer Waveney and on North American Station in the Ariadne, flagship of Sir Day Bosanquet. He was promoted Lieut. 30 July, 1905, and in the same year joined H.M.S. Forth to qualify in submarines, and was shortly afterwards appointed to the command of A8, in which he served until May, 1908. He was then appointed to H.M.S. Thames for command of C2, and in Jan. 1911, was appointed to H.M.S. Neptune, the flagship of the Home Fleet, where he served under Sir Francis Bridgeman and Sir George Callaghan. In April, 1912, he was selected for the War Staff Course, being the junior officer of the class and, after completing the course was, in Feb. 1913, appointed to the Antrim for War Staff duties, where he served under Rear-Admiral Madden and Rear-Admiral Pakenham. He was promoted Lieut.-Com. 3 July following, and in March, 1914, he returned to the submarine service, being appointed to the command of D2 in 8th Flotilla. He took part in the Battle of the Bight of Heligoland; was mentioned in the despatch of Commander Keyes, C.M., M.V.O., 17 Oct. 1914, and was drowned off Yarmouth on 23 Nov. following, being washed overboard from submarine D2 while on active service. His body was not recovered. He m. at St. Mary’s Church, North Huish, Devon, 5 Aug. 1908, Isabel, yst. dau. of Augustus J. Pitman, of The Manor House, North Huish, and had a dau., Isabel Valerie, b. 10 Dec. 1913.

=JAMESON, HAROLD GORDON=, 2nd Lieut., 65th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, 6th s. of Robert William Jameson, of Campfield House, Dundrum, co. Dublin, F.S.I., J.P., by his wife, Katherine Anne, dau. of the late Tooke Luscombe; b. Corgrig Lodge, Foynes, co. Limerick, 11 Oct. 1888; educ. Monkton Combe School, near Bath, and Trinity College, Dublin. Having completed his course at the University he was, in Oct. 1911, appointed Assistant Director of Works in the Sudan Irrigation Service (a branch of the P.W.D., Egyptian Government), and remained in this service until the summer of 1914, much of his time being spent in the Upper Nile Provinces, where he got some big game shooting, and secured several good specimens, including three elephants. He was in Ireland when war broke out, and, having applied for a commission, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Engineers (S.R.), 1 Oct. 1914, and subsequently attached to the 65th Field Coy. After training at Chatham and at the Curragh, he left for the Dardanelles with the 10th Division in July, 1915, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on the night of 15–16 Aug. 1915, on a ridge on the Karakol Dagh which his company had been called out to help to hold; unm. His commanding officer (who was himself wounded on the 14 or 15 Aug.) wrote: “He was a general favourite amongst officers and men. We had a hard time at the Dardanelles, but your son’s never-failing courage and cheerfulness under these adverse circumstances were of the greatest help to us all. His death is a great loss to the 65th Coy., and to the R.E. of the 10th Division.”

=JAMESON, HAROLD RISBOROUGH=, Rifleman, No. 1931, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Alexander Jameson, of Lynton, Warren Road, Purley, by his wife, Emma Risborough, dau. of Henry Risborough Sharman, Barrister-at-Law; b. West Norwood, S.E., 16 June, 1892; educ. Whitgift Middle School, Croydon; was employed in the Anglo-South American Bank; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles in Aug. 1914; left for France 22 March, and died 4 April, 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day at Richebourg, where he was shot by a sniper. Buried in Bethune Cemetery; unm. Capt. C. W. B. Heslop wrote: “I reached your brother about five minutes after he received his wound. He showed splendid pluck, for though in some pain, he remained quite cheerful and smiling, and when carried away by stretcher-bearers, called out greetings to all he knew.”

=JAMESON, MAURICE GURNEY=, Private, No. 1116, 1st Battn. The Honourable Artillery Company, 3rd s. of the Rev. Hampden Gurney Jameson, M.A., Vicar of St. Peter’s, Eastbourne, by his wife, Amy Agnes, dau. of Robert Bayly, Barrister-at-Law, and a nephew of “Edna Lyall” (the late Miss Ada Ellen Bayly), the novelist; b. St. Peter’s Vicarage, Eastbourne, 3 Jan. 1887; educ. Eastbourne College, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; was engaged in farming in Oxfordshire when war broke out; joined the H.A.C. 6 Aug. 1914; left for France, 30 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 6 March, 1915. Buried at Kemmel; unm.

=JAMIESON, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class, 308993, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JAMIESON, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7287), S.S. 102309, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JAMIESON, MABEL ELIZABETH=, Staff Nurse, New Zealand Army Nursing Service, yst. dau. of Thomas Jamieson, of Seddon Street, Kumara, Westland, South Island, New Zealand, Gold Miner, by his wife, Frances Jane, dau. of the late Capt. Thomas Payne; b. Kumara, 21 July, 1881; educ. Kumara District High School, and while there passed Senior Civil Service and Matriculation Examinations; entered Kumara Hospital as a probationer, 1904, and two years later joined Staff of Palmerston North Hospital, where she remained until her professional training was completed; was Sister in Grey River Hospital for four years, and then took up private nursing in Wellington; joined New Zealand Army Nursing Service, 12 April, 1915, at which time she was in charge of the Berhampope Military Hospital, Wellington; left for Egypt in the Hospital Ship Maheno, 10 July, 1915, and was stationed in No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, Port Said; left for Salonika in the transport Marquetta, 19 Oct. following, and was lost when that ship was sunk by torpedo fire in the Ægean Sea on the 23rd.

=JANASZ, JAMES GEORGE GEE=, 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Wiltshire Regt., only s. of Józef Janasz, of Boscombe, co. Hants; b. London, 4 Jan. 1893; educ. Sherborne (where he was for several years in the O.T.C.) and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 3rd Dorsets, 4 Nov. 1914; left for France, 24 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 15 June following, while leading his platoon in an attack on the German trenches; unm. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. W. S. Brown, wrote: “I must express to you our great admiration of your son. He died gallantly leading his men against the enemy, and was shot through the head about 200 yards in front of the German trenches. His Capt., who is the only officer not hit in the two leading companies, could not say enough in his praise to-day.”

=JARDINE, JAMES MAXWELL MULLIN=, Private, No. 16642, 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), eldest s. of Robert Maxwell Jardine, of 101, Blackburn Street, Plantation, Glasgow, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of James Maxwell Mullin; b. Glasgow, 3 July, 1896; educ. St. Saviour’s School, Summerton Road, Glasgow; joined the 13th Royal Scots, 18 Dec. 1914; left for France early in Sept. 1915; and was killed in action on the 17th of that month; unm.

=JARRAM, ERNEST=, A.B., 206322, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JARRETT, AYLMER VIVIAN, D.S.O.=, Capt., 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 4th s. of Col. Henry Sullivan Jarrett, South Lodge, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, C.I.E., by his wife, Agnes Delacour, dau. of the late Francis Beaufort, Bengal C.S.; b. Calcutta, 11 July, 1879; educ. Stonyhurst College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd York and Lancaster Regt. 12 Aug. 1899; promoted Lieut. 16 Dec. 1900; and Capt. 1 Jan. 1906; was Adjutant of his Battn. from 1 Dec. 1904, to 3 Nov. 1907, and from 29 Aug. 1908, to 19 Oct. 1911, was att. to the West African Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished service in the field and awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], his name having been sent up four times for special recognition, and died on 22 June, 1915, at Vlamatinghe of wounds received in action the same day near Ypres. Buried near Vlamatinghe; unm. His elder brother, Major C. H. B. Jarrett, was killed at the Dardanelles (see following notice).

=JARRETT, CHARLES HARRY BROWNLOW=, Major, 1st Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, eldest s. of Col. Henry Sullivan Jarrett, of South Lodge, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, C.I.E., by his wife, Agnes Delacour, dau. of the late Francis Beaufort, Bengal C.S.; b. Calcutta, 26 Nov. 1874; educ. Stonyhurst College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, 10 Oct. 1894, and promoted Lieut. 2 Aug. 1897; Capt. 14 Jan. 1902, and Major, 19 Aug. 1914; served in the South African War, 1901–2, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal, April to 31 May, 1902, and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. to April, 1902, and May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; and was killed at Beach V, Gallipoli, during the Battle of the Landing, 25 April, 1915; unm.

=JARROLD, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, Ordinary Seaman, R.N.V.R. (Sussex), 1/296, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JARVIS, EDWARD WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 311111, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=JARVIS, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 4636 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JASPER, WILLIAM=, A.B., 214626, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JAY, CHRISTOPHER=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9637), 202532, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JAY, JOHN HENRY=, Chief Electrician, 2nd Class, 345147, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JAYES, GEORGE WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4071), 191019, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JEFFERSON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9649, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DUNNINGTON-JEFFERSON, WILFRED MERVYN=, 2nd Lieut., 7th, attd. 3rd, Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), yst. s. of the late Capt. Mervyn Dunnington-Jefferson, 33rd Regt., by his wife, Louisa Dorothy (Ashcroft, Old Nunthorpe, York), dau. of the Rev. J. Barry, Rector of Great Smeaton, Yorkshire; b. at Middlethorpe Hall, York, 2 April, 1892; educ. Radley, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with honours; entered the Inner Temple, 1912; volunteered on the outbreak of war; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th Royal Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front in April, 1915, attd. to the 3rd Battn., and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 25 April, 1915; unm. His elder brother, Major J. A. Dunnington-Jefferson, is (1916) serving on the Headquarters Staff with the Expeditionary Force in France.

=JEFFERY, CLAUD GIFFARD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. A.P.W.O. Yorkshire Regt. (Green Howards), eldest s. of Herbert James Jeffery, of Oak Mount, Manningham, Bradford, Solicitor, by his wife, Bertha Greenwood, dau. of John Greenwood Sugden, of Eastwood House, Keighley, Yorks, and grandson of Charles Jeffery, of Swaffham, Norfolk; b. Manningham, Bradford, 13 April, 1880; educ. Bradford Grammar School and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; joined the Service Coy. of the Vol. Battn. Yorkshire Regt., Dec. 1899, and went to South Africa in Feb. 1900. He took part in operations in the Orange Free State, May, 1900, including actions at Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River (5 and 6 May), and Zand River; in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill; in operations East of Pretoria, July to Oct. 1900, including actions at Belfast (26 and 27 Aug.), and in those in Cape Colony. For his services in South Africa he received the Queen’s medal with six clasps, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Yorkshires (Green Howards) on Lord Kitchener’s nomination, 14 Sept. 1901. He served in India and again in South Africa, being promoted Lieut. 12 May, 1904, and Capt. 25 Aug. 1909, while from 1 March, 1910, to 12 April, 1912 (when he was seconded for service with the Egyptian Army), he was Adjutant to his battn. at York and Blackdown. He was restored to the Establishment, 12 April, 1914; left for France with his battn. 4 Oct. 1914, and died at Ypres on the 24th of the same month, of wounds received in action on the 22nd near Gheluvelt. Buried in the cemetery at Ypres. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. Capt. Jeffery was a keen all-round sportsman, his activities embracing pig-sticking, polo, big game shooting, hunting, athletics and regimental steeplechasing. He m. at Barbon, co. Westmoreland, 10 Feb. 1914, Nellie, widow of Spencer Anketell-Jones, and dau. of John George Wilding, of Preston, co. Lancashire; s.p.

=JEFFERY, ROBERT BERRY=, A.B., 195604 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JEFFERY, WILLIAM ALLEN=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 28350, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Wilfred John Jeffery, of 2, Elm Leigh Villas, Ash, Aldershot, co. Surrey; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JEFFREY, JOHN=, Trooper, No. 784, 1st Light Horse Regt., Australian Imperial Force, only s. of John Hogg Forrester Jeffrey, of 5, Albany Street, Blairhill, Coatbridge, co. Lanark, Analytical and Metallurgical Chemist, by his wife, Jeannie, dau. of John Brownlie; b. Coatbridge, 22 May, 1895; educ. Gartsherrie Academy, Coatbridge, and Allan Glens School, Glasgow; on leaving school was for three years in the Engineering Works of Messrs. Murray and Paterson of Coatbridge, and then went to Australia to take up sheep-farming; joined the 1st Australian Light Horse at Sydney, N.S.W. 27 Nov. 1914; left for Egypt, 6 Feb. 1915; proceeded to the Dardanelles, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, on the morning of 7 Aug. following, in the heroic charge of the 1st Light Horse, from which only 13 out of 300 returned; unm.

=JEFFRIES, HERBERT JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3423), 188870, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JENINGS, GEORGE PIERSE CREAGH=, Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., 3rd s. of Lieut.-Col. Ulick Albert Jenings, of Ironpool, co. Galway and Mervue, Monkstown, co. Dublin, late Army Medical Service, J.P., by his wife, Isabel, dau. of Simon Macnamara Creagh; b. Dublin, 4 Jan. 1885; educ. Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st King’s Shropshire L.I., 16 Aug. 1905, and promoted Lieut., 20 Jan. 1907; left for France in Aug. 1914; was Assistant Adjutant to his battn., and was killed in action at the Rue de Bois, near Armentières, 6 Nov. 1914. Buried at the Rue de Bois; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was machine-gun officer and was using his glasses at the barrier to find a target for his gun, 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 regt., but to the Army. He was very popular with officers and men, and had done real good work throughout the war”; and an A.D.C., Headquarters, 6th Division, wrote: “He had been most dashing and gallant ... and is a terrible loss.”

=JENKINS, JOHN REGINALD=, Sergt., No. 1853, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.). eldest s. of James Jenkins, of 24, Wallingford Avenue, North Kensington, W., Ironmonger, by his wife, Catherine Letitia, dau. of Daniel Howell; b. Hammersmith, 12 Dec. 1885; educ. Lower Latimer School there; was an Ironmonger’s Assistant; joined the Kensingtons about 1908; volunteered for Imperial service on outbreak of war; left for France, 3 Nov. 1914; and was killed in action in the advance against the Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, on which occasion the Kensingtons most brilliantly distinguished themselves, carrying three lines of German trenches with the bayonet, and holding them until the German fire made them untenable; unm. His Platoon Officer, 2nd Lieut. J. E. Lewin, wrote: “Sergt. Jenkins was my Sergt. in No. 6 Platoon, and when the two Platoons of ‘B’ Company, which were ahead of us, were left without officers, it became necessary for me to go to the front and lead. This I did, and my Platoon kept with me, with Sergt. Jenkins well to the front. We forced the German front trench, and proceeded to take up an arranged position. We had taken this, when I thought it necessary to find a better and safer one, and so I accordingly called for someone to follow, in order to go forward and scout for a proposed better line of defence. Sergt. Jenkins and another Sergt. (one on either side) came, and it was while thus doing one of the most important and vital acts upon which depended the safety of the whole of ‘B’ Company and probably the whole Battn. that I lost a comrade and friend. The two Sergts. were both shot by rifle fire and died instantaneously, and it is a sickening thought that I myself of the three was the only man to return. I cannot praise too highly the actions of Sergt. Jenkins on that day, which were but ordinary specimens of his everyday actions, and of a true and brave British soldier.”

=JENKINS, ROBERT=, Private, No. 3845, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), 3rd s. of Robert Jenkins, of Townhead, Glasgow, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of (—) Hamilton; b. Glasgow, 27 June, 1882; educ. Saint Rollox Board School, Glasgow; was in the employment of the Steel Company of Scotland at their Garthamloch Collieries; joined the 2nd Royal Scots, 7 Sept. 1914; left for France in Dec., and was killed in action near Hooge, 25 Sept. 1915. He m. at Glasgow, 31 Dec. 1908, Janet, dau. of Arthur Morrow, of Hogganfield, and had a son and a daughter: Arthur, b. 15 Jan. 1910; and Mary Jane, b. 8 Jan. 1911.

=JENKINS, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7610), S.S. 1394 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JENKINSON, JOHN BANKS=, Capt., Rifle Brigade, eldest s. and heir of Sir George Banks Jenkinson, of Eastwood, co. Gloucester, 12th Baronet, by his wife, Madeline (Eastwood Park, Falfield; Hawkesbury, Chippenham), eldest dau. of Arthur Holme Sumner, of Hatchlands, Surrey; b. London, 9 June, 1881; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Rifle Brigade, 10 March, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 18 March, 1901, and Captain, 6 May, 1908; served in the South African War 1901–2, being employed with the Mounted Infantry; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, April to Dec. 1901, and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); was Adjutant, School of Mounted Infantry, Egypt, 11 June, 1905, to 5 May, 1908; went through the Staff College, 1910–11; was G.S.O. (3rd Grade) to Sir James Grierson, Eastern Command, 1911–13, and Brigade Major, 3rd Infantry Brigade, at Bordon, and at the Front, 1913 to 14 Sept. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914. Buried at Vendresse. Capt. Jenkinson was a well-known big game hunter, and had secured rare trophies from countries, including South Africa, Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Rocky Mountains, the Canadian Prairies, and Southern Tunisia. He was also a keen polo player. He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, 9 Nov. 1907, Joan (The White House, Hook, Hants), only dau. of Colonel Joseph Hill, of Wollaston Hall, Northamptonshire, C.B., and had two children: Sir Anthony Banks Jenkinson, 13th Baronet, b. 3 July, 1912; succeeded his grandfather, 5 June, 1915; and Elizabeth Deborah, b. 27 Oct. 1908.

=JENNINGS, ALLEN WILLIAM MARK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2401), 165648, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JENNINGS, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6422), 305498, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JENNINGS, FREDERICK=, A.B., R.F.R., S.S. 2437, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JENNINGS, FREDERICK SINCLAIR WILLS=, Private, No. 63495, 23rd Battn., subsequently attd. 14th Reserve Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Frederick Wills Jennings, of 8, Selborne Place, Hove, formerly of Ealing and Streatham, B.A., retired H.C.S.; b. Wandsworth Common, co. Surrey, 11 Nov. 1881; educ. St. Paul’s School (foundation scholar), Wren’s; Edinburgh University and Bangor University (Agricultural Department); after finishing his course there, he went to Canada and took up land in British Columbia, but on the outbreak of war volunteered for active service overseas with the West Mounted Rifles, 23rd Battn., at Calgary, 4 Nov. 1914. After training in Quebec, he came over with the Reserve Battn. of the 1st Contingent to Shorncliffe in March, 1915, went to the Front in May, and was shot through the head by a sniper while on duty in the trenches, near the Bois de Ploegsteert, Belgium, 6 July, 1915; unm. He was buried the same day in a small cemetery in Ploegsteert Wood. His Platoon Commander wrote: “He joined my platoon from the 23rd Regt. early in May, after the Battle of Ypres, and I was struck from the first by his cheerfulness, quiet obedience, and a striking devotion to duty in face of the many obstacles we have to contend with. He received his baptism of fire shortly after coming to this country at the Battle of Festubert, and was with us at Givenchy, coming successfully through these ordeals.” Jennings was in the 1st XV. at St. Paul’s, and joined the Cadet Corps during the South African War.

=JENNINGS, JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 593V, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JENNINGS, REGINALD JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 2355, 18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of William Jennings, of West View, Blagdon Hill, Taunton, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Francis Lancashire, of St. Helier’s, Jersey; b. St. Helier’s, Jersey, 1 Feb. 1888; educ. Huish Grammar School, Taunton, and St. Mark’s College, Chelsea; was a Schoolmaster at Bridge Council Schools, Wealdstone; served in the 10th Middlesex Territorial Regt., 1907–11, and enlisted for Imperial service in Sept. 1914; left with his regt. for the Front, 9 March, 1915, served in France and Flanders, and was seriously wounded at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died the day following. Buried in cemetery at Noeux les Mines; unm.

=JENNINGS, RICHARD LOUIS=, A.B., 213174, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=JENNINGS, WILLIAM=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 13997, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JENOURE, GEORGE ETHELREAD=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 21192, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JEPHSON, JOHN NOBLE=, Major, 6th (Service) Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd s. of the late Dep.-Inspector-General William Holmes Jephson, M.D., by his wife, Mary Harden, dau. of the late Major Horatio Nelson Noble, Indian Army, and grandson of the late John Jephson, of Limerick, J.P.; b. Bangalore, India, 8 Oct. 1864; educ. Norwood (Exeter), Newton Abbot College, Kelly College, and Sandhurst; gazetted to Manchester Regt. in 1885, joining the Indian Army (5th Bengal L.I.) in 1889. He obtained his majority in 1903, but becoming subject to malaria, retired from the Indian Army in 1905, and joined the Territorial force in Devon, with the Command of the 4th Wessex Brigade, R.F.A. He resigned this command shortly before the outbreak of war in 1914, when he again offered his services, and was appointed second in command of the 6th Royal Munster Fusiliers in Sept. 1914. He took part in the landing of that Regt. in Suvla Bay on 7 Aug. 1915, and in the subsequent fighting on the Karakol Dagh; on his own initiative he took an important position there, which was subsequently officially named “Jephson’s Post”; he was shot through the head on 15 Aug. while charging at the head of his men in the attack on Kiretch Tepe Sirt, and died of his wounds in Mudros Hospital on 29 Aug. 1915. His Colonel wrote of him: “From the first the loyalty he always showed to me, though junior to him in years, never slackened or failed; when we got into the active sphere of operations, his energy and keenness were marvellous; he practically alone captured an important height which the Brigadier always afterwards in his orders called ‘Jephson’s Post,’ and it was in the defence of this post that he was shot. For absolute dash and fearlessness he had not an equal, and his loss is irreparable.” He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Dispatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916], for good work done in Gallipoli. Major Jephson was a keen sportsman and a first-class shot. He m. at Lucknow, 20 Dec. 1890, Lilian Bell Bere, only child of the late Capt. Edward Septimus Wood, of the Indian Forests Department (formerly of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), by his wife, Bessie Bella Gordon, dau. of the late Major B. Edward Baker Bere, 16th Lancers, and had issue two sons: Edward William Francis (gazetted to R.F.A. Feb. 1915), b. 5 Nov. 1897; and John Arthur Holmes, b. 13 March, 1902.

=JEROME, JOHN WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., 1st Class), 7427, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JEROME, RALPH CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 8502, 2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt., yst. s. of Charles Jerome, of 15, Ormeley Road, Balham, Solicitor, Freeman of the City of London by purchase (1883), formerly a member of the New Malden Local Board, and afterwards a member of the L.C.C. for Brixton (1895–1901), by his wife, Florence Elizabeth (died in his absence at the Front), dau. of John Jacobs, of Basingstoke; b. Locksley Lodge, New Malden, 15 Feb. 1888; educ. Malden College, Merchant Taylors’ School, Dulwich College, and Margate College; enlisted at Stratford, Middlesex, on 25 Oct. 1906, aged 18 years 9 months, was seven years with the Army and five years on the Reserve; served with his Battn. at Cairo, Alexandria, Khartoum, and other places, and finally at Sialkot in the Punjab; returned to England and received his discharge with an exemplary character; rejoined his old regt. on the outbreak of war; left for France on or about 21 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, two miles west of Aubers, on the morning of 12 March, 1915. Buried on the field; unm. Sergt. Wrist, who stood beside him when he was shot, wrote: “He died a gallant death; the men of his section miss him very much,” and 2nd Lieut. H.S.R. Montesole of the Royal Sussex Regt., attd. 2nd Yorkshires, since killed in action, wrote that he was “always a good soldier, and died as a soldier should.”

=JERRAM, HARRY ESCOMBE RAVENHILL=, Midshipman, R.N., H.M.S. Hawke, 2nd s. of the Rev. Arnold Escombe Jerram, of St. Augustine’s Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, M.A., S.P.G., Organising Secretary for the Midland Dioceses and late Vicar of Langford, co. Oxon, by his wife, Anna Christina, dau. of William Waldron Ravenhill, of the Inner Temple, Recorder of Andover; b. Bradley Vicarage, Huddersfield, 31 Aug. 1897; educ. Hinwick House, near Wellingborough, Osborne and Dartmouth; appointed Midshipman, H.M.S. Hawke, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was sunk by torpedo fire in the North Sea, 15 Oct. following. He was a cousin of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas M. Jerram, K.C.B., late Commander-in-Chief on the China Station, and great-nephew of the late Right Hon. Harry Escombe, P.C., Q.C., M.L.S., Premier of Natal.

=JERRED, FRANK=, Private, R.M.L.I., 15184, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JESSE, ROBERT TURVILLE=, A.B., 227397, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JESSOP, NAPIER ARNOTT=, Lieut., 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late George Henry Jessop, of Crediton, Devonshire, by his wife, Ethel Marian, only dau. of the late John Frederick Bell, Capt. Loyal North Lancashire Regt.; b. Taunton, co. Somerset, 28 May, 1889; educ. private school at Bishop’s Stortford; went to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in 1908, where he was first farming, and later went into real estate business, received a commission as Lieut. in 88th Victoria Fusiliers, 16 Sept. 1912, and served with them on strike duty at Nanaimo, B.C., from Aug. 1913 until the outbreak of war; appointed Lieut. in 7th Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 22 Sept. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; left for France, 10 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien during the heroic stand of the Canadians in the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Lieut. Jessop was on the right of our battn. line, the section which was first surrounded, and which was later practically wiped out. Lieut. Jessop, all agree, was perfectly splendid under the fierce attack that was thrown against us that day. He was an inspiration to his men. There is not much to tell, for his platoon were in trenches throughout, and merely fought the Germans off by rifle fire. There was nothing spectacular about it, but it was the height of enduring courage.”

=JOB, BERNARD CRAIG KEBLE=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st Battn., The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., only s. of the Rev. Frederick William Job, Vicar of Lower Gornal, co. Stafford, by his wife, Emily Frances, dau. of William Young Craig, M.P., for N. Staffordshire (1880–85); b. Liverpool, 9 June, 1887; educ. Radley College; went to Liverpool to enlist in the Liverpool Scottish the day War was declared, 4 Aug. 1914, and was sworn in 6 Aug. He received his commission 1 Nov., went to the Front with a draft of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, arriving in France on Good Friday, and a few days later was attd. to the 1st Battn. of his own regt. and was killed in action in the counter-attack on Hill 60, 18 April, 1915. Writing to his father, Major Robinson, commanding the 1st Battn., said: “He was shot by a bullet and died almost immediately on the morning of April 18 in the heavy fighting which followed our capture of a portion of the enemy’s position called Hill 60, 2½ miles S.E. of Ypres. I understand that he died almost instantly after being hit and that he could have felt no pain. It was not possible during the fighting to bury his body. I am, however, informed that all the dead have since been buried, so your son no doubt lies at rest among the other officers and men who fought with him. Your son had only joined this Battn. a few days before his death, but from the little I saw of him, I formed the opinion that he was a gallant and valuable officer.” Col. Sir Arthur G. Boscawen, of the 3rd Battn., wrote: “He was a universal favourite and the soul of courage, had he lived he would have made a very fine officer.”

=JOBBINS, THOMAS ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7733), S.S. 103098, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, ALBERT=, Ship’s Steward, 173611, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JOHNSON, ALBERT CHAPMAN=, Private, No. 73915, 28th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, Bombers’ Section, s. of John Johnson, of 44, Burton Stone Lane, Clifton, York, Gardener, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James (and Ann) Chapman; b. Wiggington Grange, near York, 13 Nov. 1883; educ. Skelton, near York, and Eythorne, Kent; was for some time a telegraph messenger at the Post Office, York, and later an attendant first at the North Riding Asylum, and after Aug. 1910, at the Mimico Asylum, Canada, and afterwards was successively employed on the Canadian Pacific Railway, at a lumber camp, and on the Grand Trunk Railway; joined the 28th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1 Oct. 1914, and came over with the 2nd Contingent in June, 1915; left for France, 17 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action during the advance from Loos, 8 Oct. following; unm. His Company Officer wrote of him as “a man ever ready to do his duty—no growler, but always bright and willing.”

=JOHNSON, ALFRED ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4543), S.S. 1613, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JOHNSON, DAVID=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 282), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, GEORGE ALBERT WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5028B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, GEORGE GUMBRELL=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 3069), 148022 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Shipwright, 2nd Class, 346902, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3644), 190781, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 10411, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of James Johnson, of 1, Field Street, North Road, Darlington; b. Stockton-on-Tees, 20 Nov. 1889; educ. St. Patrick’s School, Coatbridge, Scotland; enlisted 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, 8 Aug. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and died a prisoner of war at Field Moorslede, Germany, 19 June, 1915, of wounds received at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, on the preceding 12 March. Buried in Moorslede Parish Cemetery; unm.

=JOHNSON, LUTHER VINCENT BURGOYNE=, Capt., 8th Batt. Durham L.I. (T.F.), eldest s. of Major John Burgoyne Johnson, of Brockley, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, 8th Batt. Durham L.I., J.P., co. Durham; b. Middlemoor, near Richmond, co. York, 5 Sept. 1890; educ. Aysgarth School, Newton-le-Willows, Yorkshire; Charterhouse, Godalming; and King’s College, Cambridge (B.A.); joined the Hamsteels Company of the 8th Durham L.I., being gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 April, 1910; Lieut. 12 May, 1912, and Capt. 12 Sept. 1914. He went to the Front in April, and was killed a few days later, in action at Grafenstafel Ridge, N.E. of Ypres, 25 April, 1915. At the outbreak of war Capt. Johnson was serving his articles as a solicitor with the firm of Messrs. Cochrane and Belk, of Middlesbrough. He was well known in cricket and football circles, and had qualified in musketry course and machine gun course (distinguished) at Hythe.

=JOHNSON, RICHARD DIGBY=, Major, 3rd, attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, yr. surviving s. of the late Edward Mayson Johnson, by his wife, Emma Jane (28, St. Mary’s, York), dau. of the late William Emmerson Bowman, and gdson. of the late Richard Johnson, of York, the well-known racing judge and handicapper in the North of England in the middle of the last century; b. York, 30 June, 1876; educ. St. Peter’s, York; joined the staff of the York City and County Bank at the age of 17, leaving it four years later for a tour round the world, and on his arrival at Capetown, the South African War broke out; he at once returned to England and obtained a commission in the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, June 1900. He served with the 11th Mounted Infantry in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Aug. 1901 to 31 May, 1902; was invalided home with enteric fever, receiving for his services the Queen’s medal with four clasps. On returning home he qualified at Hythe, and became Instructor of Musketry to the Kildare Battn. and he was promoted Capt. 7 Oct. 1905, and Major 18 Dec. 1914. He went to France to join the 2nd Battn. of his regt. early in Dec.; was wounded near St. Julien, 25 April, 1915, and granted a week’s leave; rejoined his regt. on 10 May, falling in action a fortnight later, 24 May, 1915. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch, 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June] 1915. Major Johnson was a freeman of the City of York, and had the Coronation medal. He m. at St. Michael’s Church, Camberley, Surrey, 21 Sept. 1904, Claudine Trower (Camoys, Braintree), 6th dau. of Col. Theodore William Hogg, of Eastwick, Camberley, Surrey, late Indian Staff Corps, and had a son and dau.: Richard Edward Digby, b. 16 Dec. 1911; and Claudine Blanche Mayson, b. 8 July 1905.

=JOHNSON, ROBERT WARREN=, Capt., R.N., H.M.S. Cressy, 2nd s. of the late Vice-Admiral John Ormsby Johnson, R.N., by his wife, Edith Renira, dau. of the Rev. Charles Edward Twyford; b. Dovercourt, co. Essex, 10 May 1867; educ. Cornwallis, Maidenhead, and Foster’s Naval Academy, Stubbington; entered the Service as a Cadet, 15 July, 1881; appointed Midshipman, 13 Nov. 1883; promoted Sub.-Lieut. 13 Nov. 1887; Lieut. 1 April, 1891; Commander, 31 Dec. 1904, and Capt. 31 Dec. 1910, and after the outbreak of war, was appointed to the command of H.M.S. Cressy. He was lost when that cruiser, together with the Aboukir and the Hogue, was sunk by torpedo-fire while engaged in patrolling off the Dutch coast on the morning of 22 Sept. 1914. One of the surviving officers of the ill-fated Cressy wrote: “Our Commander, Capt. Johnson, died like a hero; he had his confidential book lashed to his arm when he went down. He deserved ten Victoria Crosses, for he stopped on board until the last moment,” and Stoker William Wake, of Sunderland, another survivor, stated that the Capt. remained on the bridge until he was up to his neck in water, and that he was cheered again and again by the men as he sank out of sight. A Petty Officer wrote that the last he saw of the Capt. was when he called out to a young sailor and gave him the bit of plank on which he was supporting himself, remarking: “Here, you are a young chap, take this.” Capt. Johnson m. at Portsmouth, 11 July, 1906, Grace Isobel (Fintry Cottage, Warblington, Havant), dau. of the late Algernon Paley, Barrister-at-Law, and had two sons and a dau.: John Paley, b. 12 June, 1907; Peter Warren, b. 13 Nov. 1908; and Elisabeth Freda, b. 11 Sept. 1913.

=JOHNSON, THOMAS=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8948), 20661, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 10850, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action 14 Oct. 1914.

=JOHNSON, WALTER=, Private, No. 6700, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Warrington, co. Lancaster; enlisted 5 March, 1907; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914.

=JOHNSON, WALTER=, Private, No. 2831, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; reported missing after the fighting at St. Julien, 21 Oct. 1914, and later to have been killed on or about that date, and to have been buried by the German authorities in the Cemetery of Ehrenfriedhof 2, near Poelkapelle; m.

=JOHNSON, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 15485, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JOHNSON, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5231), 205964, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CROOM-JOHNSON, BRIAN=, Lieut., 4th (Denbighshire) Battn. Royal Welch Fusiliers (T.F.), yst. s. of Harry Croom-Johnson, of the Elms, Wrexham, J.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Roden, dau. of the late George Bradley, of Wrexham, J.P.; b. Wrexham, 16 Sept. 1890; educ. Mostyn House School, Cheshire, and Clifton College (Spence’s House); after leaving school adopted the profession of an engineer and on the completion of three years’ articles was appointed Assistant Engineer to the Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the Welch Fusiliers, 3 May, 1913, and promoted Lieut. 8 Sept. 1914. He left for France 5 Nov. 1914, and on the 23 Dec. following was personally complimented by the General Officer Commanding for leading a party of 30 men laden with ammunition to the firing-trenches and carrying out this duty without a single casualty, though under fire the whole time; and on 25 Jan. 1915, he was one of three officers who, with a few men, recaptured a trench at Givenchy from which they had been ordered to retire and made prisoners 35 Germans, including two officers. He was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, France, 9 May, 1915, while leading his company against the German trenches; unm.

=VINER-JOHNSON, PERCY JOSEPH VINER=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Wiltshire Regt., yr. s. of the late Joseph Viner Viner-Johnson, of Beech House, Market Lavington, co. Wilts, Capt. Imperial Yeomanry (who served in the South African War, 1900–1902), by his wife, Clara (The Nutgrove, Chew Magna, Bristol), dau. of the late Thomas Donders Perry, of Ealing; b. London 13 Oct. 1875; educ. St. Paul’s School; served in the 1st Vol. Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps from 1898 to 1902, when he went to South Africa, where he was for some time A.R.M. at Harrismith, and afterwards Relief Magistrate at various places in the Orange Free State. At home on leave when war broke out, he obtained permission from the South African Government, and was gazetted Capt. to 3rd Wiltshires, 18 Sept. 1914. He left for France on 24 Dec. 1914, when he was attd. to the 1st Battn. and commanded A Coy. and was killed in action at Spanbroek Molen, 12 March, 1915. Buried near Spanbroek Molen; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He fell most gallantly leading his men. His conduct was so gallant and brave that, although he is now dead, I have recommended him for the D.S.O. In addition to being a very gallant and brave man, he was a most valuable officer, and his death is a very great loss to his regiment. As a comrade he has endeared himself to all his brother officers and men, and his death is deeply deplored by us all.” Capt. Viner-Johnson was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915.

=JOHNSTON, BRUCE ALLEN=, L.-Corpl., No. 69474, B Coy. 26th Battn. (New Brunswick Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Andrew Charles Johnston, of Costigan, Victoria co., New Brunswick [b. there in 1849 of Scottish descent], by his wife, Sarah Jane, dau. of Henry Bowmaster; b. Costigan, 18 Nov. 1889, educ. Public School there; was a Farmer; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914, following the outbreak of war; left Canada with the Second contingent on 12 June, 1915, and died in Etaples, France, 13 Nov. 1915, from wounds in the head received in action on the 11th. He was unm. and was buried in the Camiers Road Cemetery, Etaples.

=JOHNSTON, GEORGE ALBERT=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4759), 293876, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSTON, JAMES CECIL=, Capt. and Adjutant, 6th (Service) Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, eldest s. of Robert Edgeworth Johnston, of Glencore House, co. Fermanagh, by his wife, Edythe Grace, dau. of John Reynolds Dickson, of Woodville and Tullaghan House, co. Leitrim; b. Glencore House, co. Fermanagh, 29 Dec. 1880; educ. Charterhouse and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unatt. 8 Jan. 1901; posted to the 14th Hussars, 9 March following; served in the South African War, 1901–2, taking part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps); and resigned his commission in 1903. He was Deputy Ranger of the Curragh of Kildare, 1910–12; Master of the Horse to the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord-Lieut. of Ireland, 1910–15; High Sheriff co. Fermanagh, 1910; and Private Secretary to Lord Aberdeen, 1912–15. On the outbreak of war he offered his services and was gazetted Capt. 6th Royal Irish Fusiliers, 28 Sept. 1914, being appointed Adjutant of the Battn., 20 Oct. following. He left for the Dardanelles with the 10th (Irish) Division, under Major-Gen. Sir Bryan Mahon, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 9 Aug. following. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. F. A. R. Greer, wrote; “We reached the point we were making for, and your husband and I were trying to make out exactly how the situation was, when a shell from some sort of machine gun came over from our right front, caught me on the arm and exploded practically on him. His death, of course, was instantaneous. I saw that much before I had to clear out myself; there were none but dead and dying just there. It will comfort you to know he died a brave and gallant soldier, looked on by all of us as one of the best. I can safely add the sympathy of every officer and man to mine. He died at the farthest point the Battn. reached that day,” and a brother officer: “I saw Johnston in a redoubt early next morning and during Sunday (8 Aug.), like most of us, he was very tired that day, as we had no sleep and practically no food. He was in good spirits, however. His death has been a great blow to us, as he was very popular, and deservedly so, in the regt. He was confident that he would come back all right.” Capt. Johnston m. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 28 Oct. 1903, Violet Myrtle (Rosemont, Booterstown, Dublin), dau. of Samuel Abraham Walker Waters, Assistant Inspector-Gen., Royal Irish Constabulary, and had three daus.: Myrtle, b. 7 March, 1909; Marjorie Helen, b. 18 Jan. 1911; and Mary Nuala, b. 29 May, 1914.

=JOHNSTON, JAMES HOGARTH=, Private, No. 29230, G Coy. 14th Platoon, 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd and only surviving s. of Patrick Johnston, of Broomhill, Fivemiletown, co. Tyrone, by his wife, Susan Elliot, dau. of the late James Hogarth Rutherfurd, of Kelso: b. Cecil Augher, co. Tyrone, 21 Dec. 1886; educ. Carntall, Clogher, N.S. and Portora Royal School, Enniskillen; worked for a time at Combe Barbour’s Engineering Works, and at those of McLean at Belfast: went to New Zealand in Nov. 1905 at the age of 19, and remained there five years; returned to Ireland, and nine months later went to Winnipeg, Canada; joined the Canadian Scottish at Winnipeg, Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; left for France 4 Feb. and was killed in action in the heroic charge of the Canadian Scottish near St. Julien, on the night of 23–24 April, 1915. at the beginning of the First Battle of Ypres; unm.

=JOHNSTON, REUBEN JOHN=, Sick Berth Steward, 350469, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1915.

=JOHNSTON, ROBERT=, Armourer, 340521, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept, 1914.

=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 407, 9th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; a native of co. Ayr; served in Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there that day.

=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5958), 188608, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM HENRY, V.C.=, Capt. and Brevet Major, R.E., 2nd s. of the late Major William Johnston. R.A.; b. at Leith, 21 Dec. 1879; passed into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1897, and was gazetted to a commission in the Royal Engineers on 23 March, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 19 Nov. 1901, and Capt. 23 March, 1908. His first period of foreign service was passed in Gibraltar, from 1900 to 1905, during part of which time he was employed under the Intelligence Department. On his return to England he was attached to the Survey Department, and on leaving it in 1908 was gazetted as a General Staff Officer (3rd Grade) for service in China. From 11 July, 1908, to 26 Oct. 1911, he was employed in North China, travelling extensively, while engaged on Intelligence work, in the course of which he visited eleven of the eighteen provinces of China. During this time he was also employed in surveying the boundary of the New Territory of Hong Kong. In 1911 he was transferred to the South China Command as General Staff Officer. At the expiration of this period, 27 July, 1912, he was employed at the War Office for about 11 months (2 Sept. 1912 to 9 Aug. 1913), in the geographical section. He entered the Staff College, Camberley, in 1913, and began his course there in Jan. 1914. After the declaration of war he was posted to the 59th Field Coy. R.E., went out with the Expeditionary Force and served with it throughout the winter of 1914–5, including the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Aisne, the Marne, Neuve Chapelle, 1st and 2nd Battles of Ypres, etc. He was four times mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 19 Oct. and 25 Nov. 1914 and 17 Feb. and 22 June, 1915], and was awarded the Victoria Cross on 25 Nov. for conspicuous gallantry “at Misy on 14 Sept., when, under a heavy fire all day until 7 p.m., he worked with his own hands two rafts, bringing back wounded and returning with ammunition, thus enabling the advanced brigade to maintain its position across the river.” In March he was appointed to the command of the 172nd Coy., and on 2 May, Brigade Major of the 15th Infantry Brigade. He was made Brevet Major under date 3 June [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], and was killed in action four days later near Ypres, 7 June, 1915; unm.

=JOHNSTONE, MILLER=, Private, No. 1078, B Coy. 2nd Battn. 1st Australian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Alexander Johnstone, b. Bannockburn, co. Stirling, 12 March, 1892; educ. Larbert, Stirling; went to Australia in Jan. 1913, and settled at Lockhart, New South Wales, as an Agriculturalist; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted at Kennington, New South Wales, 27 Aug. 1914, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and died of wounds on H.M. Hospital Ship Derfflinger, 29 April. The Chaplain wrote that Johnstone had carried a wounded Lieut. down to the shore to a place of safety and was returning to the firing line when he was hit and mortally wounded. He was taken on board the hospital ship the following day, and died at sea on his way to Alexandria; unm.

=JOHNSTONE, PETER=, Private, No. 2938, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action near Ypres.

=JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 349, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 22 Dec. 1914.

=JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 8900, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of William Johnstone, of Newton Stewart, co. Wigton; b. Newton Stewart; enlisted 12 March, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

=HOPE-JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM GORDON TOLLEMACHE=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, formerly 32nd Lancers, Indian Army, 4th s. of William James Hope-Johnstone, of Brownleigh, Feltham [descended from the Hon. Charles Hope-Vere of Craigiehall, 2nd s. of Charles, 1st Earl of Hopetoun, K.T.], by his wife, Emily Mary, dau. of Capt. Edward Bailie, 10th Hussars; b. Esher, co. Surrey, 5 July, 1887; educ. Cheltenham and Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 6th Dragoon Guards, Feb. 1907, and was promoted Lieut. May, 1909. He transferred to the Indian Army in Sept. 1912, with the rank of Squadron Officer in the 32nd Lancers and retired early in 1914. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and was given a lieutenancy in the 4th Royal Fusiliers, 5 Sept., left for France on 8 Oct. and was killed in action at Laventie on the 25th of that month. His next elder brother, Henry Murray, is now (1916) serving with the Royal Fusiliers.

=JOLLIFF, JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2928C., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOLIFFE, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109240, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=JOLLIFFE, WILLIAM JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3133), 306590, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, ADRIAN HERBERT=, Private, No. 1632, 1/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Herbert Daniel Jones, of 35, Osterley Park Road, Southall, Clerk in charge of Telegraph Dept. G.W.R. Southall Station, by his wife, Selina, dau. of William Hughes, of the Park, Clee Hill, Ludlow, Salop; b. Shrewsbury, 6 May, 1895; educ. All Saints’ School, Shrewsbury, and Featherstone Road School, Southall; was a clerk in the employ of the Great Western Railway at the Hotel Paddington, and afterwards Clerk Great Northern Railway, at King’s Cross; joined 1/3rd Royal Fusiliers, July, 1912; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and left for Malta at the end of 1914; proceeded to France, 2 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle about 5.30 p.m. on 10 March following, during a successful attack on a part of the German trenches which had held out all day; unm. One of his officers wrote: “He died a very gallant death. The Army has lost a very brave soldier.” From information received by his relatives it would appear that in the charge in which he fell he showed conspicuous courage and sang froid, and that his last words were: “Come on; give me a leg up,” as he was getting over the German parapet. Private Jones had a fine voice and was a member of the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Southall. His elder brother, Gunner S. W. Jones, was drowned while on active service, 21 July, 1916.

=JONES, ALFRED EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5794), S.S. 100725, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JONES, ALFRED POOLE=, Private, No. 2214, 1/24th Battn. (The Queen’s) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Arthur Daniel Jones, of 40, De Burgh Street, Cardiff, by his wife, Elizabeth Annie (now the wife of James Newton Paterson, of 5, Western Drive, Woodend Park, Grassendale Road, Liverpool), dau. of Jacob Lewis, Farmer; b. Cardiff, 4 Nov. 1890; educ. Higher Grade School, Cardiff; was in the milling and flour trade, first with Messrs. James Thomas Co., Newport, Isle of Wight, and latterly with Messrs. H. N. Bathgate & Co., London; joined the 24th London, 6 Aug. 1914; left for France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 26 May following, in an attack by his battn. and the 23rd London on the German trenches. Buried, Givenchy, in the Soldiers’ cemetery, about half a mile behind the trenches; unm. His Captain wrote: “We captured the trenches which were our objective, but lost over half the battn. in doing so. In C Coy. alone 44 were killed and 70 wounded.” A comrade wrote: “When Alf fell, I ran down the slope to see what I could do for him. He was lying on his back at the bottom. He said he was hit in the stomach, but would not let me attend to him. ‘Never mind about me, get on with the firing, lad,’ he said, and I had to, as our line was very thin then.” This was the action in which L.-Corpl. Keyworth, of the 23rd London, won the V.C., and several other decorations were earned by the officers and men of the two battns. engaged. Private Jones was a keen footballer and played for his regt. on many occasions.

=JONES, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 65503, 24th Battn. (Victoria Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late William Jones; b. Sedgeley, 27 Jan. 1884; went to Canada in June, 1912, and settled in Montreal. After the outbreak of war he volunteered for service overseas, joined the Victoria Rifles in Oct. 1914, and after a period of training came over to England in May, 1915; left for the Front, 15 Sept. 1915; and was killed in action in France in his dug-out by a shell, 12 Oct. 1915, and was buried in the Canadian Burial Ground; unm.

=JONES, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14776, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, ARTHUR WYNN=, L.-Corpl., No. 2352, 1/5th Battn. the Welsh Regt. (T.F.), third and yst. s. of Thomas Jones, of The Hall, Llanfyllin, Solicitor, Town Clerk and Clerk to the County and Borough Magistrates, by his wife, Elizabeth Alice, dau. of the late Thomas Edwards, of Penybontfawr, Montgomeryshire; b. Llanfyllin, co. Montgomery, 23 March, 1880; educ. The Grammar School, Oswestry; was for many years Cashier in the National Provincial Bank, first at the Horsefield Branch, Bristol, and then at Cowbridge Branch, Glamorgan; enlisted soon after the declaration of war; was promoted L.-Corpl. 18 July, 1915; left England with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 10 Aug. 1915; unm.

=JONES, CHARLES=, Sergt.-Major, 5th Battn. Welsh Regt. (T.F.); served through the South African War (medal), and was afterwards employed at the Bedlinog Collieries; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to the Dardanelles; was promoted Sergt.-Major, and was killed in action there, 21 Aug. 1915. He m. Annie (Greenfield Terrace, Gellefaelog, Dowlais), dau. of (—), and had three sons, of whom David John is (1916) a Private in the 5th Welsh and served with his father at the Dardanelles.

=JONES, ERNEST DAVID=, Rifleman, No. 22874, 1st Battn. The Rifle Brigade, yst. s. of Thomas Bowen Jones, of 18, Stockfield Road, Streatham, S.W., by his wife, Alice Louisa, dau. of John Hazell, of Kensington; b. Dulwich, 22 Feb. 1887; educ. the South London School, Dulwich; enlisted 1st Rifle Brigade, 10 Sept. 1914; left for France in March, 1915, and was killed in action while taking part in an attack on the German trenches, near Hooge, 6 July following. Buried, Talna Farm; unm.

=JONES, EDWIN=, Private, No. 10968, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Edgar Jones, of 1, Grove Avenue, Lawley, Birmingham, Gas Stoker, by his wife, Annie, dau. of George Tyler; b. Birmingham, 16 April, 1896; educ. St. Matthew’s School, Lupin Street, Birmingham; enlisted, 13 Aug. 1914; left for France, 26 Nov. 1914; and was killed in action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. following; unm.

=JONES, FENN=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (R.F.R., A. 1919), 128745, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, FRANCIS GEORGE=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 1st Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; eldest s. of the late Rev. Edward George Jones, of Cecilstown Lodge, Mallow, co. Cork, by his late wife, Eliza Wilhelmina, dau. of Abraham Symes; b. at Kilmurrey Rectory, 8 April, 1864; educ. Trinity College, Dublin; gazetted Lieut. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers from the Militia, 16 Dec. 1885, and promoted Capt., 1 Feb. 1893; Brevet Major, 29 Nov. 1900; Major, 23 May, 1903; and Lieut.-Col., 19 Feb. 1914; was Assistant Superintendent of Signalling in Burma, 1892–3; Adjutant of his battalion, 31 Oct. 1894, to 30 Oct. 1898, and of the Militia, 1 Aug. 1901, to 22 May, 1903; took part (1) in the operations in the Northern Chin Hills, Burma, 1892–3 (medal with clasp); (2) in the operations on the North East Frontier, India, 1897–8, with Peshawar Column of 5th Brigade, Tirah Expeditionary Force, including operations in Bara Valley, 7 to 14 Dec. 1897 (medal with two clasps); and (3) in the South African War, 1899–1900; was Adjutant, 1st Battn. R.I.F., from 16 Dec. 1899, to 24 Feb. 1900; took part in the relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; operations of 17–24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5–7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights (14–27 Feb. 1900) etc. (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. and 10 Sept. 1901]; Brevet of Major; Queen’s medal with three clasps); served in Crete, 1907, Malta, 1908–9, North China, 1909–12 and India, 1912–14, where he took over the command of the 1st Battn., 19 Feb. 1914. After the outbreak of war he brought the battalion home from Secunderabad in Jan. 1915, to Rugby, and left with it as part of the 29th Division, 87th Brigade, for Gallipoli, 17 March following; was in command during the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, and during the subsequent week’s severe fighting; was severely wounded near Krithia on 2 May, and died of his wounds three days later, 5 May, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in General Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 12 June [London Gazette, 5 Aug. 1915], for gallant and distinguished service in the field

=JONES, FRED=, Private, No. 2366, 2nd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of William David Jones, Miner; b. Upper Cwmbran, co. Monmouth; educ. Board Schools, Cwmbran; joined 2nd Monmouths, Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915. He m. at Pontypool, Matilda, dau. of (—), and had five sons and two daus.

=JONES, FREDERICK CHARLES=, A.B., J. 15499, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Chief Petty Officer (N.S.), 172545, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7306), S.S. 102172, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, HARRY=, Private, No. 38300, 5th Battn. Welsh Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the late Thomas Jones, of Brynhyfryd, Nelson; b. 1877; joined the 5th Welsh Territorials; served with the Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action, 13 Aug. 1915; unm.

=JONES, HARRY DUKINFIELD=, Private, No. 2504, Honourable Artillery Coy., yst. s. of Edward Dukinfield Jones, of Castro, Reigate, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of Holbrook Gaskell; b. Saõ Paulo, Brazil, 11 April, 1890; came to England when 12 years of age; educ. Liverpool College Preparatory School and Lancing College. From an early age he devoted himself to music, and decided to make it his profession, choosing the piano as his instrument. For about four years he worked in the Leschetizky method, under Mr. George Magrath. Early in 1912 he went to Vienna and studied under Frau Bree, with occasional lessons from Leschetizky himself. On his return to England in 1913 he continued his studies under Mr. Howard-Jones, at the R.C.M., taking singing as his second study. He joined the Honourable Artillery Coy. in Oct. 1914, went to the Front with a draft for the 1st Battn. at the end of Dec., in April was “doing very stiff work” somewhere near Ypres, and was killed in action in the charge of the Honourable Artillery Coy. at Hooge, 16 June, 1915; unm.

=JONES, HENRY DAVID=, Seaman, R.N.R., B. 5059, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, IAN MONTGOMERY=, Private, No. 5137, 20th (Service) Battn. (3rd Public Schools) Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Thomas Abraham Jones, of 5, Chatsworth Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, Branch Manager of the General Accident Company; by his wife, Marion, dau. of the late Rev. Wollaston Goode, M.A. [by his wife, Amelia Agnese, yr. dau. of Sir Charles Munro, 9th Baronet of Foulis, who served in the 85th Regt. under Wellington in the Peninsular War, 1811–14, being wounded at Badajos, and received the medal with clasps for Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, Nives, Orthes, and Toulouse]; and grandson of Thomas Jones, of Montgomery, who joined the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry at the outbreak of the Crimean War; b. Cirencester, co. Gloucester, 11 June, 1897; educ. Bromsgrove School, where he was a member of the O.T.C., and made his mark as a Rugby football player; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the 1st unit of the 20th Royal Fusiliers, 12 Aug. 1914, and died at the 3rd General Military Hospital, Wandsworth, of cerebro-spinal-meningitis, contracted while on service, 20 March, 1915; unm. Buried in Southern Cemetery, Manchester, with full military honours. His Coy. Commander, Capt. T. L. Boyce, wrote: “He was a smart soldier, trusted by his officers and appreciated and liked by his comrades.” And a comrade wrote: “No man was, no man could be, better loved and respected, and no man ever merited our love and respect more than Ian.” He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Battn. Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regt., 29 Sept. 1914, but being only just 17, had asked that the appointment might be cancelled for a few months.

=JONES, JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1883), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, JOHN RICHARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., 4685 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 162), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, OCTAVIUS=, Private, No. 1198, 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Edwin Jones, for 38 years a guard on Great Western Railway, by his wife, Martha; b. Snatchwood, Abersychan, near Pontypool, 8 Oct. 1881; educ. Snatchwood Schools, Abersychan; went to Australia, 11 May, 1911, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of war, and died from wounds received in action in Gallipoli, 22 May, 1915; unm.

=JONES, ROWLAND SAMUEL=, Private, No. 538, 2nd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Thomas Hanbury Jones, of 75, Monnow Street, Monmouth, Builder and Decorator, member of the Monmouth Town Council, by his wife, Rachel, dau. of Rowland Samuel Bevan, of Penlarken Farm, Pontypool, Mon.; b. Monmouth, 7 Dec. 1883; educ. St. Mary’s National School, Monmouth; was a Sanitary Plumber, etc.; joined the Monmouth Volunteers, which became, on the formation of the Territorial Force, the 2nd Monmouthshire Regt., 1902; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and went into training with his battn. at Pontypool, although barely recovered from a serious cycling accident which befell him on the day of mobilisation; left for France, 5 Nov. 1914; served in the trenches throughout the following winter, and was highly complimented by his officers on his ability as a practical plumber in keeping the pumps in working order, and was placed in charge of 18 pumps; took part in the 2nd Battle of Ypres in which his battn. acquitted itself most gallantly and suffered severe losses, and died in the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station, at Bailleul, 16 June, 1915, of wounds received while on sentry duty at 5.30 a.m. on the 14th, near Ypres. The Rev. A. T. G. Fletcher, Chaplain to the Forces (C.E.), wrote that he was admitted to the Clearing Station unconscious, with a terrible wound in the head, caused by shrapnel, and died without recovering consciousness. He added: “I buried him in Bailleul Cemetery in grave No. 1313. A cross has been erected on his grave bearing his name and regimental number and giving the cause of his death. He died nobly, while bravely doing his duty.” Private Jones had been repeatedly offered promotion to non-commissioned rank, but had always refused it. He m. at the Parish Church, Newland, Gloucestershire, 31 Aug. 1909, Sarah, dau. of Herbert Furneyhough, of Highbury Farm, Newland, co. Gloucester, and had two sons and a dau.: Thomas Hambury Herbert, b. 28 May, 1910; Rowland Leonard, b. 17 Aug. 1911; and Dorothy Rachael May, b. 26 May, 1914, died 19 March, 1915. Two of his brothers, Hambury John Jones, Bombardier, No. 43491, R.G.A. (volunteered in Aug. 1914 from Bristol City Police Force); and Thomas Hambury Jones, Sergt., No. 1430, The London Regt. (Auditor in Exchequer and Audit Department, Whitehall), are now (1916) on active service in France, and the 4th, Leonard Hambury Jones, Cadet, Monmouth Grammar School Corps, has been medically rejected.

=JONES, SAMUEL WILLIAM JOHN=, Driver, No. 935, Ammunition Column, 3rd Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd s. of Jabez Jones, of 52, Clifton Street, Swindon, co. Wilts; b. South Cerney, co. Gloucester, 6 Sept. 1887; educ. Swindon; joined the 3rd Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, from the Yeomanry in Feb. 1914; was thrown from a horse at Malmesbury, 23 Jan. 1915, while trying to catch another that had thrown his comrade, and died the following day. He m. at Winchcombe, co. Glos., 8 June, 1912, Alice, 3rd dau. of the late George Wasley, of Castle Street, Winchcombe, and had two children: Harry George, b. 14 March, 1913, and Winifred Mary, b. 6 Dec. 1914, d. 17 Dec. 1915.

=JONES, SYDNEY EVERARD=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Pioneers The Welsh Regt., 2nd s. of William Henry Jones, of Bhim Tal Estate, Kumaon, U.P., India; b. Bhim Tal aforesaid, 4 Sept. 1892; was educ. at Naini Tal up to the age of 15, and then went to England, and after a little study matriculated at London, and joined The City and Guilds Institute, where he obtained the Diplomas of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and completed two years in the Civil Engineering Course. He was two years a Cadet in the Naini Tal Volunteer Rifles, and later for another two years was in the University of London O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, and meanwhile joined the 3rd County of London Yeomanry as a trooper. In Nov. 1914, he was gazetted temp. Second Lieut. in the 8th Battn. The Welsh Regt., and qualified as a machine-gun officer at Erith. He proceeded to the Dardanelles for active service and on the 8th Aug. 1915, during the attack on Sari Bahr, his Battn. with New Zealanders took part in the storming of the Turkish position, from the crest of which they were relieved the following day. He was wounded early in the assault, but bound up his wound and rejoined his platoon. Later in the same day he was shot through the heart, while leading his men and he was buried in the Gallipoli Peninsula; unm. A Senior officer wrote: “I knew your brother well, and liked him immensely, and express my deep sympathy with you, and that of his men who were very fond of ‘Uncle Jack’ as they called him. He fell at the front of his men like the brave fellow he was.” His brother, Lieut. Bertram Owen Jones, is (1916) on active service with the South Wales Borderers.

=JONES, SIDNEY WILLIAM=, Gunner, No. 816, Royal Horse Artillery (T.F.), eldest s. of Herbert Daniel Jones, of 35, Osterley Park Road, Southall, Clerk in charge of Telegraph Department, G.W.R. Southall Station, by his wife, Selina, dau. of William Hughes, of the Park, Clee Hill, Ludlow, co. Salop; b. Shrewsbury, 11 Nov. 1891; educ. All Saints’, Shrewsbury and Featherstone School, Southall; was employed as a Clerk at Otto Monsteds, Ltd., Margarine Works, Southall, and afterwards with Morgan & Sons, Linen Drapers, Cardiff; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 4 Nov. 1914; transferred to the Shropshire R.H.A. Dec. 1915, and was drowned at 9.30 a.m. 21 July, 1916, while bathing; unm. He is supposed to have been seized with cramp. He was buried at Southall with full military honours. Capt. Darling spoke very highly of him, describing him as one of the best lads he had, and saying that he was universally liked by all the battery. His yr. brother, Private A. H. Jones, was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915.

=JONES, STANLEY=, Capt., 1st Batt. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, eldest s. of the late Sir Howard Sutton Jones, K.C.B., R.M.L.I., by his wife, Katherine, dau. of Major Adam von Beverhoudt, 58th Regt.; b. Plymouth, 26 Oct. 1880; educ. Cowley College, Oxford, and Hanover; after serving in the Militia was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Welsh Fusiliers, 5 Jan. 1901, promoted Lieut. 21 Sept. 1904, and obtained his coy. 21 Aug. 1911; served in China, with the West African Frontier Force, Oct. 1905 to May, 1910, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914 to May, 1915; he was wounded in October, and was killed at Festubert on the night of 16–17 May, when leading his coy. in an attack on the German trenches; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “His loss is a great one to the Regt. as he was an exceptionally able and keen officer. He was buried with seven of his brother officers,” between the Rue du Bois and the Rue de la Quinque, near Festubert.

=JONES, WALTER=, Private, No. 10/396, 7th Wellington Infantry Regt. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of John Jones, of Gelli Fanw, Llanbedr, Crickhowel, co. Brecon, by his wife, Caroline, dau. of William Peters; b. Crickhowel, 23 April, 1893; educ. Crickhowel National School and Brecon County School; went to New Zealand in Sept. 1911; joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on its formation, 15 Aug. 1914, and died of wounds received in action at Gallipoli, 11 May, 1915; unm.

=JONES, WALTER FREDERICK=, A.B., J. 9034, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, WILLIAM=, Chief Yeoman Signalman (A. 2234), 115951, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, WILLIAM=, Gunner, 9582, R.M.A., H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Signalman (R.F.R., B. 197), 143418, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, WILLIAM JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5270), 218593, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, WILLIAM PERCY=, Private, No. 10493, No. 2 Coy. 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of Thomas Jones, of 70, Salop Road, Oswestry, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Jones; b. Sweeney, near Oswestry, 7 Nov. 1892; educ. National School there; enlisted, 14 Nov. 1913; left for France, 22 Aug 1914, and was killed in action in the brickfields at Cuinchy, 13 Feb. 1915, being shot by a sniper. Buried at Cuinchy; unm.

=JONES, WILLIAM WALTER=, L.-Corpl., No. 506, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Day Jones, of 18, Birley Street, Lavender Hill, S.W., Clerk at the Labour Exchange, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Walter Shattock, of Taunton; b. Kensington, 19 Dec. 1886; educ. at Gideon Road, Lavender Hill, and St. Martin’s-in-the-Field’s Council Schools; was Head Clerk at the A.B.C. Coupler Co., Queen Anne’s Chambers, Tothill Street; joined the Queen’s Westminster Rifles in Oct. 1908; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Houplines, 14 Jan. 1915; unm. Sergt. Cecil C. N. Mighall wrote on the 16th: “During a heavy shelling of the German lines it was necessary for us to observe the result and it was in doing this that he was hit by a rifle bullet (through a loophole), death being instantaneous.” And Sergt. V. B. Finlayson: “He was easily the most liked N.C.O. in the company.” He was buried in the Military Cemetery there, side by side with Sergt. Mighall, who was killed shortly after.

=EVAN-JONES, HILARY GRESFORD=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Welsh Regiment, yr. s. of the Rev. Richard Evan-Jones, M.A., Vicar of Llanllwchaiarn, Newtown, co. Montgomery, Rural Dean of Cedewain, and Canon and Precentor of St. Asaph Cathedral, by his wife, Hannah Rose, widow of the late Samuel Richardson Bishop, of St. Helens, and dau. of the late Edward Evans of Bronwylfn, Wrexham, J.P. and D.L., and grandson of the late Rev. James Evan-Jones, M.A., formerly Vicar of Bagyillt, co. Flint; b. Llanllwchaiarn Vicarage, 22 Jan. 1889; educ. Charterhouse and Hertford College, Oxford, where he was Colour-Sergt. in the O.T.C., and won the Williams Prize which is given to the most efficient N.C.O. in the Corps, and was so enthusiastic in recruiting that he multiplied the strength of his College detachment by ten. He graduated B.A. in 1910, and on 5 Oct. of that year was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Welsh, being promoted Lieut. 20 Nov. 1911. He was stationed at Cairo, Cyprus, Chakrata and Agra, and when war broke out was on his way to Cyprus, where he was to have been married at Troodos, on 28 Aug. 1914, to Nancy, only dau. of Major W. N. Bolton, late of the Wiltshire Regiment, Commissioner of Kyrenia, but his leave was cancelled, and he was recalled to rejoin his battn. with which he landed in England on 22 Dec. 1914. He left for France, 16 Jan. 1915, and to judge from a letter written shortly before he met his death, must have had some exciting experiences: “We have just finished our first eight days—divided between the supports and the firing line. I had the worst bit of trench to look after with my platoon and did all right, but had a good few casualties, considering the 96 hours I was actually up—two killed and nine wounded. I made two night expeditions by myself with some bombs, which I successfully dropped into the German trenches. During my first I met a German gentleman apparently at the same job as myself. My revolver accounted for him all right, as we were only two feet apart. The trenches are from 30 to 75 feet apart in most places and sometimes closer. We are now off on a four days’ rest, which is absolutely ripping. It is splendid to get out of the noise and to get some proper food and sleep. I think, if anything, I am rather enjoying this. Cold feet are the worst part of the show, but my men are all such rippers, it makes up for lots. I hate having them hit, otherwise it is quite cheery. I had a sing-song in my trench the other evening, which did not please the Germans. I sat in a chair, which collapsed, and I went straight to sleep where I lay. The strain is fairly big up there.” He was killed in action near Ypres, 16 Feb. 1915, and buried with two other brother officers, Capt. G. A. Lloyd and Lieut. R. T. B. Pope, who were killed the same day in the trenches, in the gardens of the Chateau Rosendal, three miles S.E. of Ypres. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. T. O. Marden, wrote: “I regret most deeply having to inform you of the death on the 16th inst., in the trenches, of your gallant son Hilary. As far as we can ascertain, his death was instantaneous from a rifle bullet, but many of his platoon were shot down at the same time, and there was no one in the trench who could give accurate information as to what happened. He is a great loss to us, as he was such a good soldier and so popular with all ranks. As you know, probably, he was selected to lead the Second Grenadier platoon, and had behaved so gallantly during his former turn of duty in the trenches, where he kept the spirits of his whole platoon up by his energy and enterprise, that I brought his name specially to the notice of the Brigadier. He crept out of the trenches alone on several occasions and threw bombs into the enemy’s trenches.” Lieut. Evan-Jones was a keen sportsman and a well-known figure in the hunting field in Montgomeryshire. He was also an excellent shot. At Cairo he made a considerable reputation as a polo player, and both in Cyprus and at Agra he was Master of the Hunt. Lieut. Evan-Jones was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. His elder brother, the Rev. Basil Evan-Jones, M.A. (Charterhouse and University College, Oxford), formerly curate of Gaulsfield, co. Montgomery, a well-known antiquary, and sub-editor of the Powysland Collections, resigned his curacy on the outbreak of the war and joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers as a private, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. 15 Jan. 1915, Lieut. 1 Oct. 1915, and Capt. 10 June, 1916.

=LLEWELLYN-JONES, VIVIAN BRUFORD=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., att. 1st Welsh Regt., only s. of Arthur Llewellyn-Jones, of Ritherdon House, Upper Tooting, S.W., by his wife, Emelie Louise, dau. of Edward Round, of Streatham; b. Wallington, co. Surrey, 24 Sept. 1891; educ. Cranleigh School, Surrey; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Suffolks, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 22 Feb. 1915, att. 1st Welsh; was wounded on 18 April, and was killed in action near Ypres, 4 May, 1915; unm.

=WYNNE-JONES, MORYS=, Lieut., 54th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, only s. of the Rev. John William Wynne-Jones, of Treiorwerth, Anglesey, Vicar of Carnarvon, by his wife, the Hon. Jessie Frances née Bruce, dau. of Henry Austin, 1st Baron Aberdare; b. Carnarvon, 13 May, 1887; educ. Fonthill, Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he rowed in his college boat and won his oar. He graduated B.A. 1909, and after passing his A.M. Inst. C.E. examination, was for nearly two years an engineer on the Cardiff Railway, under the late Lord Merthyr, being subsequently appointed one of the engineers of the Mexican Eagle Oil Co., at Tampico, Mexico. He had joined the Special Reserve of Officers of the Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieut. 26 June, 1912, and on the outbreak of war, without waiting to be summoned, he at once returned to England. He was promoted Lieut. 4 Oct. 1914; left for France 4 Oct. 1914, with the 7th Division, and was killed in action at Zandevoorde, during the 1st Battle of Ypres on the 29th of the same month; unm. Capt. (now Major) Guy Williams, commanding 54th Field Coy., wrote that they were called upon to counter-attack with the Yorkshire Regt. at a point where the Germans had broken through the British firing line. “Lieut. Wynne-Jones was leading his section when the enemy’s shrapnel found them, and he was killed instantaneously. The Coy. feel his loss very much. He understood his men and his job. I miss him personally as an excellent and most efficient subaltern and as a good friend.” Capt. R. M. Burgoyne, 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, now a prisoner in Germany, also wrote of two engineer officers, Lieut. Wynne-Jones and Lieut. J. M. Smeathman, who, he said, “Did a lot of good work for them, both as engineers and infantry, always being ready to take a rifle and bear a hand. They were two very gallant fellows.”

=DE JONGH, FRANK=, Corpl., No. 2778, Lord Strathcona’s Horse, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Francis de Jongh, of 6, Avenue Theatre, Lausanne, by his wife, Nellie, dau. of Henry Lahee, of Croydon; b. Lausanne, 22 June, 1889; educ. there; went to Canada in Sept. 1906, and settled at Montreal; joined Lord Strathcona’s Horse in Sept. 1914, came over in Oct. 1914; went to the Front, March, 1915, and died of wounds received in action at Messines, 6 Aug. 1915; unm. Buried at Neuve Eglise, Flanders. An officer wrote: “He was a splendid fellow and beloved by everyone with whom he came in contact and deservedly enjoyed a respect and love of which very few men can boast.”

=JORDAN, ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3733), 182347, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JORDAN, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5111B., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JORDAN, GEORGE GRAEME=, Private, No. 2302, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Silas Jordan, of 21, Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, Director of Edwards & Sons, Ltd., Dairy Farmers and Dairymen, by his wife, Cecilia Annetta, dau. of Theodore Brooke Jones, of Harrogate; b. Lewisham, S.E., 10 June, 1896; educ. Colf’s Grammar School, Lewisham Hill; was in business with Messrs. Yencken & Co., Tower Hill, Australian Merchants; joined the 2nd Battn. London Scottish, with his elder brother, 20 Aug. 1914; transferred to the 1st Battn. and left for France, 16 Sept. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the Military Hospital, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), 20 Nov. following, of wounds received in the first charge of the London Scottish at Messines on 1 Nov. Buried, Aix-la-Chapelle; unm.

=JORDAN, WALTER JOHN LAVERNE=, Trooper, No. 2254, 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry (T.F.), only s. of Alfred John Jordan, of Montreal, by his wife, Laverna (36, Tivoli Crescent, Brighton), dau. of Frederick Walter Yateman, of Bound’s Green, N., and Preston Park; b. London, 3 June, 1891; educ. Brighton Grammar School; was a Motor Engineer; joined Sussex Yeomanry, 16 Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 26 Sept. 1915, and died on board H.M. Hospital Ship Assaye 20 Dec. following, of wounds received in action in Gallipoli. A comrade (L. J. Cooke) wrote: “The regt. was ordered to move off to support troops in the trenches, this move was carried out whilst a heavy bombardment from both sides was in progress. Whilst the Sussex Yeomanry were marching up the Gully, high explosive shells were falling in the Gully; these shells were endeavouring to silence a British battery which was situated on the left of the Gully on the high cliff. One of these shells fell near to the Squadron your brother belonged to, and six of them were wounded. I was coming up in the rear of the regt. with the Doctor, and we had a message that some ‘boys’ had been hit. When we arrived on the spot we found three badly wounded and three slightly wounded. Your brother had received a severe wound situated at the base of the left lung, the wound was large enough to put a person’s fore finger and thumb in, being a triangular shaped wound, the sides of which were about 2½ inches. While the party were dressing the wounded three more shells exploded about 8 yards from us, the second of which was nearer to us than the other two, and this shell knocked us all over and blew the dressing off your brother’s back which we had just got clean and in position, and covering him with dirt. When the dust had cleared I expected to find everybody blown to pieces, and marvelled at my own lucky escape of only being down away about 6 feet ... I should like to mention that your brother was absolutely one of the best liked fellows in the regt., and had all sorts of nicknames. He was always so jovial, and he is greatly missed by all the old boys.” He was the half-mile champion of Sussex, and a member of the Brighton and County Harriers. Buried at sea, 1 mile off Cape Helles. He m. at Brighton, 14 Oct. 1913, Edith Sarah, dau. of (—) Raymond; s.p.

=JORDAN, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, No. 5456, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; enlisted 5 March, 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 21 Aug. 1914; killed in action on or about 29 Oct. 1914.

=JOSEPHS, ARCHIBALD EDWIN=, Private, No. 9614, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action on or about 14 Sept. 1914.

=JOSEPHS, CHERIBIM=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JOSEPHS, GEORGE=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JOSLIN, JOHN FRANCIS=, Major, 2nd, attd. 1st, Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., only surviving s. of the late John Joslin, of St. Helier’s, Jersey, by his wife, Mary (7, Almorah Crescent, St. Helier’s Jersey), dau. of Francis Philip Cabot; b. St. Helier’s, 2 Sept. 1874; educ. Victoria College, Jersey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Royal West Kents, from the Militia, 7 Dec. 1895, and promoted Lieut. 13 Nov. 1897; served in the South African War 1900–2, taking part in the operations in the Orange Free State, April to May, 1900; in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen (1 to 29 July); in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1900; in the Transvaal, Aug. to Sept. 1901, and April to 31 May, 1902; and in the Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to Aug. 1901, and Sept. 1901 to April, 1902. For his service he was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1901], and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He was promoted Capt. 7 Jan. 1903, and from 16 Nov. 1904 to 15 Nov. 1907 was Adjutant to his Battn. After passing through the Staff College he acted as Brigade-Major to Gen. Braithwaite at the Durbar, for which he received the medal, and was promoted Major 3 Sept. 1914. He left for France 24 Oct., and in Nov. became Commandant on the lines of communication. Having been attd. to the 1st Battn. of his regt., he led the storming party (1st West Kents and 2nd K.O.S.B.’s) which captured Hill 60 on the evening of 17 April, 1915, but after holding the hill all night and repulsing three counter-attacks, he was killed as the West Kents were being relieved in the early hours of the 18th. He was the last to leave the position, and was shot in the act of leaving, death being almost instantaneous. He was unm. A brother officer wrote of him: “And in action he was splendid, quite without fear, and able by his example to inspire and encourage those around him. But in your sorrow should mingle pride, for to the very end he did his duty right well, and did much to keep the regimental standard of self-sacrifice as high as it now is. And such records never die.”

=JOURNEAUX, WILLIAM FRANCIS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21979, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JOYCE, LEUI HAROLD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25447, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JUDGE, FREDERICK DAVID=, L.-Corpl., No. 8439, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of George Judge, of 54, Yarmouth Road, Watford, Gardener, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Brown; b. Sarratt, co. Herts, 8 Feb. 1888; educ. there; enlisted, 12 Aug. 1909, served three years with the Colours and then took up his trade again as a Printer, until called up on mobilisation, 4 Aug. 1914. He went to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force, served through the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in a bayonet charge at Cuinchy, near La Bassée, 1 Feb. 1915, being buried in Cuinchy Cemetery; unm.

=JUKES, RONALD WORTHINGTON=, Sub-Lieut., Collingwood Battn. Royal Naval Division, only surviving s. of the Rev. Worthington Jukes, Rector of Shobrooke, near Crediton, co. Devon, by his wife, Emily, dau. of (—) Crossley, of Belfast; b. Shobrooke Rectory, 10 Dec. 1892; educ. Crediton Grammar School and King’s College, Taunton, and afterwards trained on H.M.S. Worcester for the Mercantile Marine, which he entered 12 April, 1911; gazetted Sub-Lieut. R.N.D. 14 Nov. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915, and was killed in action in Gallipoli during the attack on the Krithia-Achi Baba position, 4 June, following; unm. Lieut.-Commander West, of the Collingwood Battn. wrote: “Your son was one of our best platoon commanders.” And Petty-Officer Finnigan, of his Platoon (11th Platoon, C Coy.), wrote: “He had been last seen fighting gallantly with a few men, against the enemy, who had cut them off, the enemy being in such force that rescue was impossible.”

=JULIETTE, PHILIP=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JULIN, THOMAS FAWCETT=, Colour-Sergt., R.M.L.I., 17057, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JUPE, BRUCE DUNNING=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 784, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JUPP, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2524), 215170, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JURY, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8886, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JUSTICE, MAURICE=, Plumber’s Mate, 310303, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JUSTICE, PERCY HAROLD=, 1st Class Machine Gunner, No. 9032, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd. s. of Caleb William Justice, of Napton, Rugby, co. Warwick, by his wife, Janie, dau. of the Rev. Ravenor Edward Rose, of Colyton, co. Devon; b. Napton, 23 June, 1890; enlisted, in March, 1911, went to France with his regt. in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 24 Jan, 1915; unm. He was buried 25 yards S.W. of the Railway Bridge over the Canal, 400 yards N.W. of Pont Fixe, Cuinchy. His Commanding Officer, Lieut. T. A. Tapp, wrote: “I was in charge of the machine-gun section for some months in France, and among a splendid team your boy and W. Wright stood out as the two most brilliant members: poor Wright was killed on 25 Jan., and I feel it will be impossible ever to replace him and your boy. They could neither have been more perfect as machine gunners, or more brave, and always first to wish to take the place of danger. Your boy was killed on 24 Jan. by a chance shot in the head, just south of the La Bassée Canal, where he was with the machine gun, in a very dangerous and important position. I had come to feel I should always be safe to be able to get up my guns under no matter what fire, and have them brilliantly served as long as I had these two men with me. I had spent some months continuously with them, and now not only feel I have lost two irreplaceable men, but also two friends. Your son died doing his duty as he had always done, most gallantly.” Justice was one of the winning team for the Machine-gun Cup in 1913.

=KADWELL, WILLIAM=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./13957, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KAIN, STANLEY=, S.B.S., 250914, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KALLAWAY, EDGAR=, Private, No. 6761, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of the late James Kallaway, of 46, Grays Road, Taunton, by his wife, Jane, dau. of John Lewis, of Bridgwater; b. West Monkton, Taunton, co. Somerset 19 Sept. 1886; educ. Taunton; enlisted, 2 May, 1906; served three years with the Colours and then went to Canada in 1913 and settled in Manitoba. On the declaration of war he was called up, arrived in England, 7 Sept. 1914, and left for France, 7 Oct. following. His last post card was written on 26 Oct. In the action at Ypres, on the 29th of that month, the 1st Battn. suffered very heavily, and after it Kallaway was reported missing. He is now assumed to have been killed that day; unm.

=KANE, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, 302531, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KAVANAGH, THOMAS JOSEPH CUTHBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1521), 177201, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEABLE, JOSEPH WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14165, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEAM, GEORGE JAMES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 1893 D., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEATES, ARTHUR SYDNEY=, A. B., R.N.V.R. Mersey, Z/24, C Coy. Howe Battn., s. of William Keates, of Anfield, by his wife, Jane Ann, dau. of the late David Greenwood, of Liverpool, Ship’s Carpenter, and gdson. of the late John Keates, of Liverpool, formerly Coldstream Guards; b. Bessbrook, co. Armagh, 27 May, 1897; educ. Walton Lane Council School, Liverpool, enlisted following the outbreak of war, 7 Sept. 1914, and d. in No. 17 Hospital, Alexandria, 15 May, 1915, from wounds in the left hand and shoulder, received in action in Gallipoli on Sunday, 2 May. On the eve of embarking at Bristol he wrote to his father: “I am going without the slightest fear of death and with a true confidence in my Maker. My motto is duty.”

=KEATES, REGINALD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6237), S.S. 2565, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KEATES, THOMAS TRANCER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14113, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEELAN, JOHN=, Private, No. 14908, 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, eldest s. of Patrick Keelan, of 13, Greville Street, Mullingar, J.P., General Draper, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Skerrin Kilkenny; b. Mullingar, 13 Dec. 1882; educ. Christian Brothers Schools there; after the outbreak of war enlisted in the Royal Irish Rifles on or about 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Kemmel, in France, 30 Jan. 1915; unm.

=KEELER, SIDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7234), S.S. 102151, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEEN, FRED=, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, L. 2470, Portsmouth, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KEENE, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13675, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KEENE, OSWALD REES=, Private, No. 15866, 2nd Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt., eldest s. of the late Rev. Rees Keene, M.A., Oxon, Theological Lecturer at St. Bees College, and afterwards Rector of Gosforth, co. Cumberland, 1895–1910; by his wife, Louisa Margaret, 2nd dau. of the late Sir Augustus Helder, M.P.; b. St. Bees, co. Cumberland, 30 April, 1891; educ. Alton School, Plymouth; The School, Malvern Link, and Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Border Territorial Regt., 31 May, 1911, but was obliged to retire through ill-health. On the outbreak of war he volunteered, and enlisted in the 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 12 Dec. 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the Duke of Wellington’s. Left for the Front, 28 April, 1915, and was killed in action on Hill 60 by poisoned gas, 5 May, 1915. Buried at Ypres; unm.

=KEENLYSIDE, CECIL ALEXANDER HEADLAM=, Capt., 1st Cambridgeshire Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Francis Headlam Keenlyside, of Gally Law, Weybridge, Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Mary Anne Hales, 2nd dau. of Edward Charles Hales Wilkie, Lieut., 1st Dragoon Guards (gddau. of Lieut.-Col. Fletcher Wilkie, 35th and 38th Regt, and gt. gddau. of Thomas Wilkie, Lieut. 30th Regt., who died in the American War, 1781); b. Surbiton, 23 Oct. 1881; educ. Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Oxford; and while at the latter joined the Oxfordshire L.I. and served with them in the South African War. He afterwards obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Cambridge Territorials 24 Feb. 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 26 Aug. 1914, and Capt. 16 Sept. following. On the outbreak of the European War he volunteered for Imperial service; went to France with his regt., 14 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Armentières, 20 July, 1915. He was struck by a splinter of shell in the throat and immediately became unconscious, and died a quarter of an hour later. Col. Copeman, Commanding 1st Cambridgeshires wrote to his widow: “You ought to be told that his death is the most grievous blow that has yet befallen the Battn. That he was at all times an inspiration and help to us all and his loss is irreparable.” He was a very keen cricket and racquet player; played cricket for his school Charterhouse, and also several times for Cambridge county. A very active member of the National Service League. He m. at Weybridge, 14 Sept. 1910, Gladys Mary, dau. of the late Henry Ernest Milne, of Warrenhurst, Weybridge, Barrister-at-Law, and had two children: Francis Hugh, b. 7 July, 1911; and Phoebe Lavender, b. 28 Aug. 1914. His brother, Capt. G. F. H. Keenlyside, died of wounds (see following notice).

=KEENLYSIDE, GUY FRANCIS HEADLAM=, Capt., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., 2nd s. of the late Francis Headlam Keenlyside, of Gally Law, Weybridge, Barrister-at-Law, etc. (see preceding notice); b. 9 Jan. 1880, educ. Charterhouse and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal West Kent Regt., 12 Aug. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 5 June, 1901, and Capt. 21 Sept. 1904; was Adjutant of Volunteers, 16 July, 1906, to 31 March, 1908, and of Territorials, 1 April, 1908, to Aug. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died in Hospital at Boulogne, 29 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle. He m. 1906, Rose Margaret (Braemar, Kingston Road, Staines), dau. of Seymour Henry Knyvett, I.S.O., and had two sons: Richard Headlam, b. 13 May, 1909; and Christopher Headlam, b. 4 May, 1913.

=KEIGHT, JOSEPH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2842), 198973 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KELLAS, ARTHUR=, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., Capt., tempy. Major, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), attd. 89th Field Ambulance, 86th Infantry Brigade, 29th Division, yst. s. of the late James Fowler Kellas, Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine for the Port of Aberdeen, by his wife, Mary Boyd (48, Carden Place, Aberdeen), dau. of Peter Mitchell, of Ballater, Aberdeenshire; b. Aberdeen, 1 March, 1884; educ. Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.B. in 1906, and in the following year took the degree of D.P.H. In 1914 he obtained the new diploma of psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh. For a short time he was Resident Physician and Surgeon in the Sick Children’s Hospital, and subsequently held the appointment of Senior Medical Assistant at the Royal Asylum, Aberdeen. While a student at Aberdeen University he served for some time in the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) and afterwards in the University Corps of the Scottish Horse. He received a commission as Lieut. in 1st Highland Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 2 Feb. 1909, and was promoted Capt., 2 Aug. 1912. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service; left for the Dardanelles with the 29th Division on 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 6 Aug. following. Buried in Military Cemetery at Lancashire Landing, Gallipoli; unm. Lieut.-Col. Thomas Fraser, commanding 1st Highland Field Ambulance, wrote: “To everyone in the Ambulance, Arthur had endeared himself by his excellent qualities of head and heart, by his devotion to duty and by his keen interest in everything that pertained to the good of the Ambulance as a whole. The men of his own section adored him, and there was no better trained or harder working unit in the Peninsula. To myself personally his loss is irreparable. Amongst a group of excellent officers, I regarded him as outstanding. He had been the greatest possible help to me, first as Transport Officer and then as Commander of C Section. We had been working together for just a year, and our most intimate association had been absolutely without friction. He had a great capacity for work, was an excellent organiser with a firm grasp of detail, of cool and sane judgment and a high sense of discipline, which was an outstanding example to all. Of his personal qualities and his unswerving loyalty I shall say nothing, save that they leave with me a lasting and unclouded memory which is full of pleasantness and cannot be effaced. We are all shocked by the suddenness of his end, though glad that it was a painless one. He was hit in the head by a sniper while making final arrangements before an action, during which it was his turn to take charge of our advanced Dressing Station. This was over 4 miles from our camp, but I decided that his body should be brought back to the Military Cemetery at Lancashire Landing, near which we have been stationed so long. There we buried him, wrapped in the colours for which he had given his life, yesterday afternoon at 2.14. A Church of England clergyman officiated. It was a most impressive service, to an accompaniment of shells from Achi Baba, which has been our daily and nightly portion for so long. There he sleeps in the company of many heroes who have laid down their lives for their country on these inhospitable and deadly shores, none of whom did his duty more earnestly or gallantly than he. I have received the enclosed letter from Col. Yarr, who at the landing was A.D.M.S. of the 29th Division. It speaks for itself, and shows how your son was regarded and appreciated at Headquarters.” The letter from Col. Yarr was as follows: “I hope you will express not only the regret of his unit but the grief of the whole 29th Division at the loss of a gallant comrade. Both in the 29th Division and in the 8th Army Corps, of which it forms part, I have known Capt. Kellas well; his watchword was Duty, and he died as he lived, a fearless, gallant officer and gentleman.” In the course of a notice of Major Kellas’s death which appeared in “Nature” (28 Aug. 1915), the writer observed: “His tenure of office at the Royal Asylum was a strikingly successful one; on both the therapeutic and the administrative sides he evinced gifts of no ordinary type.”

=KELLEHER, CHRISTOPHER=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16289, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KELLEY, GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 98), lte. Ch./2399, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1916.

=KELLIE, ESMOND LAWRENCE=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., yr. s. of Lawrence Kellie, of 191, Portsdown Road, Maida Vale, London, W., Musical Composer and Singer, by his wife, Gertrude Mary, dau. of John Stonier, of Post Hill, Staffordshire; b. Portsdown Road, London, 27 April, 1894; educ. Loudoun House School, St. John’s Wood, N.W., and Westminster School, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; obtained a 1st Class in the London University Matriculation Examination; joined the Artists’ Rifles as Private, 3 Aug. 1914, and went with that regt. to France in the following Oct.; was gazetted 2nd Lieut., Unattached List, 1 Jan. 1915, and later posted to the 1st Bedfords. On 19 April following he was wounded in the thigh while defending a trench captured from the enemy at Hill 60, and while being carried from the trench, was killed by a shell, which also wounded the stretcher-bearers. Buried, Hill 60; unm. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. C. R. J. Griffith, D.S.O., wrote that he was “a most courageous and useful officer and very popular with all in the regt.” He was a keen all-round sportsman, and had also artistic and musical tastes.

=KELLY, ARTHUR=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., 1st Class 66), 211500, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KELLY, HARRY HOLDSWORTH=, Capt., R.E., yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. Henry Holdsworth Kelly, R.M.A. (ret.), of Montrose House, Southsea, by his wife, Elizabeth Eleanor, dau. of John Collum, of Bellevere, co. Fermanagh; b. Staff Officers’ House, Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth, 24 Aug. 1880; educ. Rugby and R.M.A., Woolwich (Feb. 1897–99); gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 8 March, 1899; promoted Lieut. 25 July, 1901, and Capt. 8 March, 1908; served with the Egyptian Army, 1903–13; was Resident Engineer for the construction of the Town and Harbour of Port Sudan, 1904–08, and received the 4th Class Osmanieh for services in connection with this, 28 June, 1908; was Inspector of Roads and Communications for the Sudan, 13 Nov., 1908, serving as a member of the Lado Enclave Commission in 1911; Commissioner for the Sudan Government in the Sudan-Uganda Boundary Commission, 1913, and was responsible for the Reconnaissance to the Boma Plateau, carried out in the same year; took part in the operations in the Atwot Region, Sudan, in 1910 (Sudan medal), was Intelligence Officer in the operations against the Beir and Anuak tribes in South Eastern Sudan (clasp to Sudan medal and 3rd Class Medjidieh) 1912; decorated with the 3rd Class Osmanieh, 1913; re-absorbed into the British Establishment, Nov. 1913. He served with the 38th Field Coy. R.E. in France, and was killed in action at Bois Grenier, near Armentières, 24 Oct. 1914, while superintending wire entanglement work between the British and German trenches; buried at Bois Grenier; unm. His Commanding Officer, Major F. M. Browne, wrote: “He was killed early this morning while on duty in the trenches. He was struck by two bullets, one in the head and one in the back, and I feel sure that death was instantaneous and painless. We were enabled to recover his body, which was to-day buried simply by the chaplain in the presence of all the Coy. His grave lies by the roadside near a pretty country town and we are at present erecting a cross and railings to enclose it.... I need hardly tell you what a great loss your son’s death is to me, both as a friend and an officer. He was invaluable to me in every way and the country has lost in him a most valuable officer”; and writing home from a Colchester Hospital, Lieut. Arthur Evans, Royal Engineers (of Carnarvon), paid a tribute to the bravery and kindness shown by Capt. Kelly, who commanded his coy., in attending to him when he was wounded, four days before Capt. Kelly himself was killed. The letter states: “It was a great blow to me to read of Kelly having been killed in action just after I had written him a letter thanking him for being so decent to me after I was hit. He came down to me some miles from Coy. headquarters to the trenches, which must have been under heavy fire, saw me into the dressing station, and did not leave me until just before I left in the ambulance wagon. The dressing station was under fire, and was struck by a shell just before I got away. He was a fine man, 6 ft. 6 in. in his socks, beautifully built, popular and known everywhere, and I was very proud of his friendship.” Capt. Kelly won the Army and Navy Heavyweight Boxing Championship in 1901. He carried out explorations in Abyssinia in 1907, 1911 and 1913.

=KELLY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3286), 302040, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KEMP, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 101861, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEMP, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1818, C Coy. 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Sergt. Harry Kemp, of the same Battn., by his wife, Kate (Sunny Bank, Wadhurst, Sussex), dau. of James Patey; b. Moseham, Wadhurst, co. Sussex, 6 Oct. 1898; educ. Wadhurst Council School; joined the Sussex Territorials in March, 1914, and on the outbreak of war went with his Battn. to Dover and from thence to the Tower, where he volunteered for foreign service. He died in King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, 16 Jan. 1915, from pneumonia, contracted while trench digging at Whiligh. He had been a prominent member of the Wadhurst Boy Scouts, which he joined at its inception by Mr. E. Courthope. He was a patrol leader of the Rattlesnakes, and obtained a number of badges. He was also bugler of the troop.

=KEMP, SYDNEY=, Ordinary Seaman, No. J. 17067, Ch., 2nd s. of George Kemp, of 66, Plough Road, Battersea, S.W., by his wife, Anna Maria; b. Hoxton, N., 8 April, 1896; educ. Clapton Road School; joined the Royal Navy about 15 April, 1912; and was lost when H.M.S. Cressy, together with the Aboukir and the Hogue, were sunk by torpedoe-fire off the Dutch coast, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=KEMPSTER, JOHN DOUGLAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., A. 3714), B. 2226, 212890, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KEMPTON, HARRY LEONARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., A. 3714), 305750, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KEMSLEY, WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY=, Private, No. 2331, Royal Army Medical Corps (T.F.), 2/1st Home Counties F.A., s. of George Albert Kemsley, of 1, Railway Place, Lower Halling, near Rochester; b. Snodland, 20 June, 1896; educ. Halling Board School; joined the R.A.M.C. Aug. 1914, and died at Windsor, 10 Feb. 1915, of cerebral hæmorrhage, while training. Buried, Halling Cemetery; unm.

=KENDALL, JESSE=, Cooper, 282542, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KENNARD, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 8557, 2nd Battn. The Hampshire Regt., yr. and only surviving s. of the late Edmund Arthur Kennard, of Hartfield, Tunbridge Wells, Master at Ipswich Grammar School (who d. 13 April, 1891), by his wife, Annie M. (Cairo Cottage, Southwater, Horsham), dau. of the late George Greenfield; b. posthumous at Hartfield, co. Sussex, 21 July, 1891; educ. Southwater Council School; joined the 1st Hants. Regt. at Portsmouth, 1 Jan. 1910, going direct to Londonderry till the Autumn, and then to Aldershot, where he was transferred to the 2nd Battn. for foreign service in the autumn of 1911; served Wynberg, South Africa; Mauritius and Mhow, Central India; came home suffering with malarial fever and was unable to accompany his regt. to the Front in March, 1915, but went out to the Dardanelles with a draft the following July. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, in the great charge at Krithia, 6 Aug. 1915. On this occasion, out of the 900 who went into the action, only 250 returned.

=KENNARD, STANLEY CHARLES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1981), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KENNEDY, ARTHUR ST. CLAIR=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, yst. s. of Francis George Holland Kennedy, of Tivoli, co. Limerick, by his wife, Mary St. Clair, dau. of the late William Doyle Hobson, of Myler’s Park, co. Wexford; b. Shelbourne, co. Limerick, 12 Jan. 1892; educ. Aravon, Bray, co. Wicklow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.D.F. 10 June, 1914, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; was invalided home after the Battle of the Aisne, and subsequently sent on duty to Cork with the 3rd Battn. of his regt. There, while expecting to be again sent to the Front with a draft, he contracted pneumonia and died in the Royal Military Hospital, 6 March, 1915; unm. He was buried with full military honours on the 8th, in Cork Military Cemetery.

=KENNEDY, JOHN HORACE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Somerset L.I., attd. 2nd Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), only s. of Capt. William Horace Kennedy, of Annfield, Brannockstown, co. Kildare, late 60th Rifles; by his wife, Ada Constance, dau. of Surgeon Major-Gen. John Warren; b. Oaklands, Berkhamsted, co. Herts, 19 Oct. 1890; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Connaught Rangers, 27 March, 1912, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Oct. 1913; transferred as 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Somerset L.I., 10 June, 1914; left for France, and was killed in action in the trenches near Esterre when attd. to the 2nd Cameronians, 10 Jan. 1915. Buried near Esterre; unm.

=KENNEDY, JOHN PITT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd s. of the late Charles Napier Kennedy; b. London, 12 Aug. 1884; educ. Marlborough (House “Littlefield”) and Sandhurst: gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Cameronians, 10 Oct. 1903; promoted Lieut. 14 April, 1909, and Capt. 14 May, 1913; and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915. Buried near the village of Rouge Croix on the road between Neuve Chapelle and Estaires. Capt. Kennedy m. at Ootacamund, India, 13 July, 1908, Norah, dau. of Lieut.-Col. W. E. Baddeley, R.E., Indian Army, and had a son, Richard Pitt, b. 4 Sept. 1910.

=KENNEL, JOHN HENRY=, Private, No. 6802, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Timothy Kennel, of Arundel Road, Whittington Moor, by his wife, Sarah Ann; b. Ripley, co. Derby, 7 March, 1888; enlisted, 12 June, 1906, and was killed in action at Soupir, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914. He m. at Windsor, 17 May, 1913, Emily (5 Red Lion Row, Thames Avenue, Windsor), dau. of Thomas Hobbs, of Windsor, and had issue, John Henry Ernest, b. 4 Nov. 1913.

=KENNETT, PERCY WILLIAM BISHOP=, Private, No. 12009, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of George Bishop Kennett, of Yellands, South Zeal, near Okehampton, co. Devon, Civil Servant (retired), by his wife, Ada (Grace), dau. of W. Cone; b. Finchley Road, London, N.W., 13 Sept. 1893; educ. Bradley High School, Newton Abbott, Devon; enlisted 8 Sept. 1914; left for France, 7 Jan. 1915, and died in the 3rd Field Ambulance, 4 March, 1915, of wounds received in action near Givenchy, 2 March, 1915. Buried Bethune Cemetery; unm.

=KENT, ALEXANDER JAMES=, Ch. E.R.A (Pensioner), 132323. H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KENT, ALFRED HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3666), 203801, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KENYON, JOHN DE WINTON=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., 2nd s. of the late Ernest Kenyon, of Manchester, Drysalter, by his wife, Eliza Gertrude (14 Farnborough Road, Birkdale. Southport), dau. of Edwin Muir, C.E., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., F.G.S.; b. Birkdale, Southport, 13 Sept. 1896; educ. Giggleswick, Yorkshire, where he was in the first Rugby Football XV and first Cricket XI for two years, was co-editor of the School Chronicle, a cadet officer of the O.T.C. and a preposter; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. The King’s, 15 Aug. 1914; was transferred to the 1st Battn., 13 Sept. 1914; went to France, 9 April. 1914, with the 6th Brigade (2nd Division), and was killed in action at Richebourg St. Vaast, 16 May, 1915, while engaged in locating the exact position whence the heavy rifle fire kept up by the enemy was proceeding. Buried at Richebourg St. Vaast; unm. Lieut.-Col. C. J. Steavenson, commanding 1st King’s Liverpools, wrote: “He had only been with us a few days, but had shown that, had he been spared, he would have made an excellent officer,” and Mr. R. N. Douglas, Head Master of Giggleswick School, wrote: “Only last Sept. I was looking to having Jack here as Head of the School, and was feeling the greatest confidence that now all would go well with us, and that we should have a strong and upright leader. Of all the boys I have had in my five years here, his has been the character which has interested me most and given me the most pleasure. And I looked forward to a life of infinite usefulness for him. Now it is over, but I am sure that his usefulness has been exerted, his strength of character has justified itself, and his example has been an inspiration.”

=KEOGHAN, LESLIE OWEN=, Gunner, 2/1594 C. Battery, New Zealand Artillery New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Sigismund Owen Keoghan, of Denniston, Westport, New Zealand; b. Bainham, 15 Sept. 1894; educ. Bainham, Collingwood, Nelson. He left school at the age of fourteen and was employed for a time in a cheese factory, after which he studied agriculture on his father’s farm at Bainham. At seventeen he went with his parents to reside at Denniston, Westport, and engaged in farming and other occupations until the outbreak of war. He joined the New Zealand Artillery, 20 Dec. 1914, and after six weeks’ training at Trentham, Wellington, sailed with the third contingent for Egypt; served at the Dardanelles; was admitted to the Egyptian Military Hospital, 28 May and died 1 June, 1915, of fever. Buried, Cairo; unm. Gunner Keoghan was a young man of exceptionally fine physique and remarkable strength.

=KEOHAN, PATRICK JOSEPH=, W.T. Operator, R.N.R., W.T.S. 149, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=KER, ARTHUR MILFORD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. (92nd) Gordon Highlanders, only s. of Sir Arthur Milford Ker, C.I.E., M.V.O., Knight of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Peter Mitchell; b. Simla, 7 Sept. 1882; educ. Tunbridge Castle School and Cheltenham College. When the Boer War broke out he joined the East Surrey Militia and went out to South Africa with them, receiving a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 19 March, 1901, and served through that campaign, 1900–2, including the operations in the Orange Free State, June to July, 1901, and in the Transvaal, Nov. 1901 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps). Promoted Lieut. 21 Feb. 1906, and Capt. 19 May, 1911; he was killed in action near Bethune, 14 Oct. 1914; unm. Buried in Bethune Cemetery.

=KER, CECIL HOWARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of George Darling Ker, of Milcote, Branksome Park, Bournemouth, formerly Secretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Madras, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of the late Capt. Charles Thomas Bently, 78th Highlanders; b. Madras, 4 Nov. 1883; educ. Cheltenham College; served in South African War, 1902, with the 4th Battn. Cheshire Regt. (Militia), taking part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Bedfords, 4 July, 1903; promoted Lieut. 27 March, 1905, and Capt. 20 Nov. 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, in which his Battn. formed part of the 15th Brigade (5th Division), took part in the Battle of Mons, the subsequent retreat, the Battle of the Marne, and the advance to the Aisne, and was killed in action near Missy-sur-Aisne, 15 Sept. following, being shot through the heart by a rifle bullet. Buried at Missy-sur-Aisne. His Commanding Officer wrote: “We have lost in him a very gallant officer and a dear friend.” He was a good all-round sportsman. He played cricket and football for his school, was a first-class rifle shot, and an excellent racquet and hockey player. In 1910, he and Capt. Leader of the Bedfords, were the runners-up for the Military Doubles Racquets Championship, and in 1909, when the Bedfords won the Army Hockey Championship, he captained the regimental team. He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 31 Dec. 1912, Dorothy, yst. dau. of Lieut.-Col. William Hill-Climo, of Fir Glen Yateley, co. Hants, Army Medical Staff (ret.), and had a son, Johnnie George Skipton, b. 4 June, 1914.

=KERBY, ALFRED=, Private. No. G. 7453, 2nd Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 14 March, 1915; m.

=KERFOOT, HARRY VICTOR=, Private, No. 5214, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Henry Kerfoot, of 77, Malmesbury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, Compositor, by his wife, Hannah Maria, dau. of the late Edward Ford, of Wolverhampton, Painter; b. Leicester, 25 March, 1887; educ. Birmingham Council School; enlisted in Oct. 1903; went out to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force, lost his right arm in the action at Landrecies, 25 Aug. 1914, and was taken prisoner in hospital. He was conveyed to the Garrison Camp, at Zerbst, Anhalt, where he died of double pneumonia, 1 March, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Garrison Cemetery there. Kerfoot had served three years in Egypt, and in a letter to his father the Bishop of Khartoum said: “He was a very earnest and sincere soldier when I knew him, and just the kind of man to do his share in that wonderful fight at Landrecies which kept the Germans from enveloping our whole Army.”

=KERL, WILLIAM AUSTEN=, Rifleman, No. 1910, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt., only s. of William James Kerl, Auctioneer and Surveyor, of Old Jewry, E.C. and a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Curriers (died 17 Feb. 1903), by his wife, Emily (19, Solon New Road, Clapham, S.W.), dau. of the late Henry Jeffrey Austen, of Wadhurst, co. Sussex, Auctioneer; b. Beckenham, co. Kent, 9 Sept. 1893; educ. City Freemen’s School, Brixton, and on leaving school entered the wholesale drapery warehouse of Messrs. John Howell & Co., Ltd., St. Paul’s Churchyard, E.C.; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined The Queen’s Westminster Rifles, 6 Aug. 1914; went to France with his Battn. 1 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action, 4 June, 1915, by a shell bursting in the reserve trenches in front of Ypres while waiting to occupy the first line fire trenches. Buried at “Cross Roads,” Potyze, Ypres-Zonnebeke Road; unm. Letters from officers and men testify to his great courage and lovable disposition.

=KERLEY, HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3838), 192057, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KERR, ALEXANDER=, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269478, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KERR, ARCHIBALD DAVID=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9932), S.S. 2542, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KERR, DAVID ANSELM=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, yr. s. of Major-Gen. Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, late Col. 10th Hussars, K.C.B., by his wife, Lady Anne, née Fitzalan-Howard, 6th dau. of Henry Granville, 14th Duke of Norfolk, and grandson of John Williams Robert, 7th Marquis of Lothian; b. Curragh Camp, Ireland, 21 April, 1893; educ. Oratory School, Birmingham, and New College, Oxford, at which latter he was a member of the Officer’s Training Corps; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, 7 Aug. 1914; served in France and Flanders, and was killed near Bethune, 13 Oct. 1914. Buried, Croix Barbée, near Bethune; unm.

=KERR, HERMAN HENRY=, Private, No. 8/63, 10th (Otago Infantry), Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late (—) Kerr; b. Hamilton South, New Zealand, 5 Dec. 1893; educ. there; joined the 10th Battn. Otago Infantry after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the Main Force in Oct., took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915 and died 19 May, following, of wounds received in action there; unm.

=KERR, HUBERT RAYNSFORD GORDON=, Lieut., 1st Battn. (71st) Highland L.I., only s. of Frederick Kerr, of 27, Hereford Square, London, S.W., by his wife, Esther Barbara Nicloux, dau. of the late Robert Raynsford Jackson, of 31, Harrington Gardens, S.W.; b. at the British Consulate, Santiago, Chili, 16 March, 1892; educ. St. Cyprians, Eastbourne; Cheltenham College (Newick House, Mr. Scot Skirving), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Highland L.I., 13 March, 1912, and joined 21 April following; left for India to join the regt., 12 Sept. 1912, was promoted Lieut. 21 Sept. 1914; went to France with his regt. in the Lahore Division, and was killed at Givenchy, 19 Dec. following. Col. (now Brig.-Gen.) R. W. H. Ronaldson wrote: “he was killed on the 19th Dec. gallantly leading his men in action against a machine gun. I fear not one of them escaped and all were shot down. Gallantly he led, and as gallantly he died with all the honours of war, a soldier’s death.... I hope it may be some consolation to you all to know that he was so absolutely happy here on service among us all, and that he went to his death without a moment’s hesitation, determined to do his duty, come what might. He spoke to me a few moments before and was full of life and go there in the thick of it all. He was seen to fall just as the dawn came up for we had made a night attack on the German trenches. It seems so hard such a young life should have been so quickly cut down but you must find consolation in that he did his duty without a thought for himself, and met his death like the fine young soldier he was.”

=KERR, WILLIAM JOHNSTON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7865), S.S. 105934, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=RAIT-KERR, SYLVESTER CECIL=, Capt., 22nd Trench Howitzer Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd s. of Sylvester Rait-Kerr, of Rathmoyle, Edenderry, King’s co., Ireland, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Major-General Charles Scrope Hutchinson, C.B., R.E.; b. Rathmoyle, afsd., 14 Oct. 1887; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Rugby School, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 18 Dec. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 18 Dec. 1910; went to South Africa in Oct. 1910, with the 100th Battery, R.F.A. and afterwards proceeded to India and was home on leave from India when war broke out. He was employed for some weeks in training men in various places, being promoted Capt. 30 Oct. 1914, and on 6 Nov. left for France with “G” Battery, R.H.A., but was subsequently transferred to the 41st Battery, R.F.A. In April, 1915, he was given the command of a Trench Howitzer Battery, with which he went into the trenches near Wieltje on 6 May, and was killed in action on the 13th, being shot through the head by a German sniper whilst carrying bombs to his guns. Buried in the trenches close to the spot where he fell; unm. The General Officer Commanding the 11th Infantry Brigade, wrote: “I have been informed that you would like a few particulars of the gallant work done by your son and the 22nd Trench Mortar Battery while they were under me in the hard fighting of May 9 to 13, during the 2nd Battle of Ypres. Your son was posted in the trenches to the left of a building, named by the troops ‘Shelltrap Farm,’ which was about the hottest part of the line, and his duty was to assist the infantry in keeping back the enemy from sapping up to the farm buildings, and to endeavour to blow in their saps. The enemy’s shelling was so intense that time after time the trench mortars were silenced and the crews buried, but they were dug out and started on again, and they refused to be relieved. Cooke, the subaltern, was hit and his shoulder dislocated, but he refused to go to hospital, and the whole battery displayed a similar spirit all through the fighting, the severity of which may be judged from the fact that Shelltrap Farm was lost and retaken with the bayonet three times in twenty-four hours.” And the General Officer Commanding the 4th Division: “I remember Rait-Kerr and his 22nd Trench Mortar Battery well. It was the best battery of that sort that we ever had with the 4th Division, and under him it did invaluable service in the front trenches during the fighting from the 6th to the 13th of May (1915), which was some of the worst we had in France. I know he was a great loss to the Division and to the service.” The officer in charge of the Trench Howitzer School, 2nd Army Corps, wrote: “He had done magnificently with his Trench battery and had received the congratulations of the Divisional and Brigade commanders to whom his battery was attached. He was a great friend of mine, and without doubt the finest officer who had passed through the Trench Howitzer School. There was no officer in the British Army who could have done it better. He was a gallant fellow. He was the ideal British officer, a real tiger with his men, but loved and admired by them. In this Army (the 2nd) he made trench howitzers. He was, of course, recommended for a decoration, and he richly deserved it,” and the subaltern under him in his battery wrote: “His death was a great blow to all of us in the battery. He was a splendid fellow, and did not know what fear was. He was recommended to General Commanding 4th Division for gallantry during the action by officer commanding the 2nd Monmouths, who told me he had upheld the best traditions of the Royal Artillery.” His brother, Capt. W. C. Rait-Kerr, was killed in action at Veldhoek, 10 Nov. 1914 (see following notice).

=RAIT-KERR, WILLIAM CHARLES, D.S.O.=, Capt., 57th Howitzer Battery, R.F.A. eldest s. of Sylvester Rait-Kerr, of Rathmoyle, Edenderry, King’s co. Ireland, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Major-General Charles Scrope Hutchinson, C.B., R.E.; b. Rathmoyle, afsd. 6 Aug. 1886; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Rugby School, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 23 July, 1907; and promoted Lieut. 23 July, 1910, and Capt. 30 Oct., 1914; went to France 16 Aug. 1914, with the 1st Division, commanded by Sir Douglas Haig, as Lieut. in 57th Howitzer Battery, 43rd Brigade, R.F.A.; took part in the Battle of, and retreat from, Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and the 1st Battle of Ypres, and was killed in action at Veldhoek, near Ypres, 10 Nov. following, whilst in charge of an advanced gun 250 yards from the enemy, being shot through the head by a German sniper. The rest of his battery had gone to the rear to rest and refit, having been out since the beginning of the war. Buried at Veldhoek, beside the gun “he had commanded so well”; unm. He was awarded the D.S.O. “For gallant conduct in bringing up a gun to within 250 yards of the enemy in a wood, and blowing down a house in which the enemy were working a machine-gun” [London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1914]; and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. His Colonel wrote: “He was in charge of a gun which had for some days been placed in a forward position for a special purpose, to destroy some houses from which some German snipers were causing heavy losses in our trenches. He had been doing splendid work, which had been specially noticed by the General, and only the day before his death the Commander of the French troops on our left had sent a letter of thanks for one particularly useful lot of shooting which he had put in and destroyed some German trenches in front of them. He was a brave and excellent officer and man. He had just appeared in the Gazette as Capt. and was so delighted that I had been able to get him posted to one of my batteries.” Another officer wrote: “He was up in the infantry trenches with one gun close behind, in communication by telephone with him. He was there about a fortnight, and in that time did very fine work, knocking houses down with Germans and machine-guns in them, and various other jobs. He was highly praised by all the people up there, and by the General in command of the Infantry Brigade. He had a very rough time from both shell and rifle fire, but had done great execution in spite of it.” His brother, Capt. S. C. Rait-Kerr, was killed in action 13 May, 1915 (see previous notice).

=KERRAY, JAMES=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3918), 284967, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KERRISON, ARTHUR JAMES=, Boy Servt., L. 4831, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KERWIN, ALBERT=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115602 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=KESSELL, HARRY=, Lieut., Commanding Machine-Gun Section, 15th Infantry Battn. (Queensland), Australian Imperial Force, only s. of Thomas Norman Kessell, of Leederville, Western Australia, by his wife, Sophia: b. Leamington Spa, co. Warwick, 13 Jan. 1874; went to New Zealand with his parents and was educ. at the Normal School, Dunedin, afterwards settling in Australia. He joined the Victorian Rangers, 11 Dec. 1892, as a gunner in the Nordenfelt Battery; became Senior Sergt. 17 April, 1893; Lieut. G Coy., 23 Nov. 1895, Acting Signalling Inspector, 1 May, 1896, and after obtained the Flag Signalling Certificate (No. 600) 1 Aug. 1896, Signalling Instructor. He passed for promotion to the rank of Capt. Victorian Rangers, 10 Oct. 1897, and for the Militia with Special Certificate, No. 78, and obtained the extra Musketry Certificate, No. 12, 22 Oct. 1898, and re-qualified as Flag Signaller, 17 Dec. 1898. He served through the South African War, was appointed Lieut. to the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles: at Middleberg, 1901, acting as Troop Leader and Squadron Commander on various occasions, and was mentioned by Lord Kitchener in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902] and awarded the Queen’s medal with four clasps. After the close of the campaign he acted as Adjutant for the returning Australian Troops on board H.M.S. Britannia. On the outbreak of the European War, in Aug. 1914, he joined the Australian Imperial Force, serving with the 15th Infantry Battn. (Queensland), and died at No. 1 General Hospital, Heliopolis, 3rd July, 1915, of shrapnel wounds received in action in Gallipoli on May 9; unm. Of Lieut. Kessell’s last hours an Army chaplain wrote as follows: “He was grand, a regular inspiration to some other patients, who ceased worrying over their own troubles in the presence of a man who suffered greater things and yet never ceased to be a cheerful pattern to them.”

=KETTERIDGE, JAMES WILLIAM=, Bombardier, No. 63852, 11th Battery, R.F.A., and First-Class signaller, s. of William Ketteridge, of Waggon Lane, Lower Tottenham, co. Middlesex, Munition Worker; b. there 5 Nov. 1891; educ. St. James’ School, Fore Street, Upper Edmonton, enlisted, 12 Jan. 1911; awarded 2nd Class Certificate at Army School, 27 June, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and while reconnoitring at midnight on 21 Aug. 1914 at le Cateau was shot by the French by mistake. He m. at Kildare Parish Church, 1914, Mary Florence, dau. of Benjamin Robert Singleton, late of the Northamptonshire Regt., and had one child, Rosary Annie Le Cateau, b. 20 Dec. 1914.

=KIDBY, ARTHUR=, Rifleman, No. 2894, C Coy., 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt., 2nd s. of Frederick Arthur Kidby, of 19, Hertford Road, Hoddesdon, Clerk, Building Department, Hoddesdon Brewery, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Stephen Elkins; b. Hoddesdon, co. Herts, 4 Jan. 1896; educ. Hoddesdon Church of England School and Broxbourne, Herts; was Clerk in wholesale drapery trade; joined Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 20 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Wulverghem 3 March following; unm. His company commander, Capt. Herbert Fleming, wrote: “He was shot through the head on the 3rd inst. during a heavy burst of fire from the German trenches. He had only been here a short time, but he proved himself a keen and brave soldier. I deplore his loss more than I can say. I was with your boy when he died; he was unconscious, and only lived for a few minutes after he was shot. He has been buried in the churchyard at Wulverghem, and I will see that a cross is erected to his memory.” Private Kidby was a good athlete, and was captain of his school football team. He had a good voice and was a member of the Hoddesdon Church choir.

=KIDD, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7865), 299560, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KILBEY, ALBERT JOHN=, Private, No. 2881, 7th Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.); only s. of John Charles Kilbey, of 11, Royston Street, Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, Waterside Labourer, by his wife, Harriet Rossetta, dau. of George Frederick Walker; b. Bethnal Green, 29 March, 1895; educ. Wolverley Street School there; joined the 7th London, 23 Sept. 1914; left for France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 17 May following; unm.

=KILBOURNE, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 16154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KILGOUR, WILLIAM=, Sapper, No. 615, 51st Signal Coy., Highland Division, Royal Engineers (T.F.), elder s. of William Thomas Kilgour, of Tighnabruaich, Fort William, co. Inverness, by his wife, Annie Hossack, dau. of William Macdougall, of Fort William; b. Fort William, 23 Nov. 1895; educ. Fort William; gained a very high place in the competitive examination for entrance to the Post Office service and was employed as a Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist at Grangemouth, Bo’ness, Linlithgow and Fort William; volunteered and joined 4th Battn. Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), in Aug. 1914, and, while training at Bedford, transferred from that corps to the 51st Signal Coy., Highland Division, R.E. (T.F.); left for France, 30 April, 1915, and was killed in action at La Coutiere, 27 May, 1915, by a high explosive shell, death being instantaneous. Buried at Vieille Chapelle; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “As your son worked his instrument in the same room that I occupy myself, I had the opportunity of watching him closely, and without any exaggeration I can truthfully say that he was one of the finest young soldiers I ever met. He was always willing and ready to do his work at any time, and when we were very busy he was quite pleased to work his 12 hours on end without grumbling. He had such a happy disposition that we all feel we have lost a very good comrade and an excellent worker.”

=KILLICK, ALFRED HENRY=, C.E.R.A. (Pensioner), 154516, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KILLING, JOHN WILLIAM=, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269868, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=KIMBERLEY, ARTHUR=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ply. 11904, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KING, ALEXANDER DUNCAN CAMPBELL=, Tempy. Lieut., 11th Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, attd. 18th Hussars, s. of Robert King, of Craigpark, Torphichen, co. Linlithgow, by his wife, Sara, dau. of Duncan Campbell, of Paisley; b. Torphichen aforesaid, 20 May, 1886; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 11th Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, 20 Sept. 1914; promoted Tempy. Lieut., 24 Feb. 1915; left for France, 17 May; was attached there to the 18th Hussars, and died at Hooge, near Ypres, 24 May, 1915, from the effects of poisoned gas, which on that day was employed by the enemy against the British front between Shelltrap Farm and the Bellewaerde Lake for 4½ hours without intermission, the cloud in some places rising to a height of 40 feet. Buried west of Ypres, between Poperinghe and Vlamertinghe; unm.

=KING, ALFRED CHARLES LAWRENCE=, Stoker, 2nd. Class, K. 17463, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KING, CHARLES GLAZIER=, Private, No. 9936, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Henry King, of Lower Vobster, Coleford, near Bath; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914.

=KING, CHARLES SEALY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, yr. s. of Charles Sealy King, of Richmount, Bandon, co. Cork, J.P., by his wife, Beatrice Ada, dau. of William Jocelyn Bradford, M.D., T.C.D.; b. Bandon, 18 Aug. 1894; educ. Catherington House Preparatory School, Hordean, Hants, from which he gained a scholarship to St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate; passed his Army Qualifying Examination in 1911; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 27 Jan. 1912, and after serving six months’ probation with the 2nd Battn. was promoted Lieut. 22 Aug. following, and on the outbreak of war was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Munsters, 14 Aug. 1914; was promoted temporary Lieut. from 30 Aug. 1914, and substantive Lieut. from 30 Nov. 1914; joined his Battn. in France, 18 Feb. 1915 and was killed in action at the Rue du Bois, near Festubert, 9 May, 1915; unm. His Adjutant, Capt. T. W. Filgate, wrote: “During an attack on the German trenches just south of Neuve Chapelle on Sunday morning your son was killed while gallantly leading his platoon. He was perfectly wonderful, and as cool and collected as if nothing was happening. He dashed forward ahead of his men, and was killed right up against the German parapet. It may be a little consolation to you to know that it was very largely owing to his and a few others’ gallant leading and dash that we were the only regt. in the brigade of which part reached the first line German trenches. We are all very proud of the gallant fellows that fell, and their names will never be forgotten in the regt. We were not able to recover your son’s body, which is close up to the German trenches.”

=KING, EDWARD=, Private, No. 7647, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Marston, Bedford; enlisted 24 May, 1910; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was severely wounded in action in the arm and thigh, admitted to the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, 3 Nov. 1914, and died there on the 16th of that month.

=KING, EDWARD=, Signal Boy, J. 22608, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KING, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1949, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John King, of 97, Sumatra Road, West Hampstead, Bootmaker, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Charles Chaffey; b. South Hampstead, 8 Feb. 1898; educ. Broomleigh Street Council School, West Hampstead; joined the 3rd Battn. London Regt. June, 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. Lieut. Reeves in giving some particulars of the action wrote: “F. A. King was under me when he was killed, I saw him lying right on top of the captured German trench—I believe he was killed by a high explosive, because I noticed his face was black. He was quite a good youngster.”

=KING, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7995), S.S. 103737, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KING, HENRY WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1419U., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KING, HORACE ANDREW=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9004), 190503, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KING, JAMES=, Private, No. 4444, 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, s. of John King, of Blackhill, Cookstown, Millworker, b. Clogog, Cookstown, co. Tyrone, Aug. 1893; educ. Cookstown; joined 3rd Inniskilling Fusiliers, 8 Aug 1914; left for the Dardanelles with a draft for the 1st Battn., and died 14 Aug. following, of wounds received at Suvla Bay; unm.

=KING, NICHOLAS MAINGER=, Stoker, R.N.R., U. 1640, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=KING, ROBERT NEAL=, Capt., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., only s. of the late Robert King, M.D., F.R.C.P., London, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Thomas Case; b. in London, 14 Sept. 1874; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Lincolns, from Militia, 6 June, 1896; promoted Lieut. 31 July, 1899, and Capt. 19 Nov. 1904; served in the Nile Expedition, 1898, and was present at the Battle of the Atbara (medal; Egyptian medal with clasp); in the South African War, 1902, where he was employed with Mounted Infantry in operations in the Transvaal and Cape Colony, April and May, 1902, and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. to March, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and from 24 Dec. to 31 Dec. 1901, was on special service. He retired 21 June, 1911, and was placed in the Reserve of Officers, but rejoined his regt. on the outbreak of war; left for France, Sept. 1914, and was reported killed in action at Wystchaete, 1 Nov. following. Capt. King m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 19 Dec. 1910, Klara Alice Fanny, 2nd dau. of Robert Shand Kynoch Shand, of Hillside, co. Kincardine, and the Linn Keith, co. Banff, and had two sons: Robert McKerrell, b. 24 Nov. 1911, died 3 Nov. 1914; and Philip Marshall, b. 23 March, 1914.

=KING, SAMUEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5284), 203896, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KING, SIDNEY HORACE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15574, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KING, THOMAS=, Sailmaker, 175250, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KING, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110209, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KINGSTON, SYDNEY=, S.B.S., 2nd Class, 351152, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KINKEAD, RICHARD CROFTON GEORGE MOORE=, M.B., M.Ch., B.A.O. Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 10th Royal Hussars, only s. of Richard John Kinkead, of Galway, M.D., Dublin, J.P., Professor, Queen’s College, Galway, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Hubert Moore; b. Galway, 12 June, 1883; educ. Erasmus Smith’s School, Galway; Portora Royal School, Enniskillen; Queen’s College, Galway, and Royal University of Ireland, where he graduated, M.B., M.Ch. and B.A.O. While a student at the University he joined and went through a course of training in the South of Ireland Yeomanry (now the South Irish Horse). After serving for a year as house surgeon to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, he passed into the R.A.M.C., being gazetted Lieut., 31 July, 1909, and promoted Capt. 31 Jan. 1913. He was stationed in the Cork district, Ireland, 1909–11, and in South Africa, Jan. 1912, to Sept. 1914, when he was recalled to England with the regular troops and attd. to the 10th Royal Hussars. He left for France with that regt. which formed part of the 3rd Cavalry Division, 7 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Klein Zillebeke, during the 1st Battle of Ypres on the 31st of the same month; unm. Lieut.-Col. Barnes, commanding the 10th Hussars, wrote: “He was a gallant officer and loved and respected by all ranks of the 10th Hussars. I especially asked that he might go to the war with the regt. and so I feel that fate has scarcely been kind.” Major the Hon. C. B. O. Mitford, D.S.O., of the same regt. wrote: “He with two other officers got one of my men and myself out of the trenches at considerable personal risk. He was just as cool helping the wounded under fire as if he was in a surgery. I hope it may be some slight consolation to you to know how he will be missed in the regiment and that his good work was appreciated by all.” Major, afterwards Lt. Col. Shearman, wrote: “You will be proud to know that he was possessed of great personal courage and his one thought here was his duty and care of the wounded, which he in many cases personally collected. Your son was buried by the Rev. C. S. Ensell, in the cemetery at Ypres. His grave is next that of Lord Charles Nairne, who was killed at the same time.” And a colonel of the R.A.M.C. wrote: “Capt. Kinkead was regarded as a daring and fearless soldier, with strikingly attractive qualities, and was immensely popular with the men of the regiment. Over and over again he risked his life in the discharge of his duties in the field.”

=KINNAIRD, HON. DOUGLAS ARTHUR=, Master of Kinnaird, Capt., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, eldest s. of Arthur Fitzgerald, 11th Lord Kinnaird, K.T., by his wife, Mary Alma Victoria, dau. of Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lochnaw, 8th Baronet; b. Rossie Priory, Inchture, co. Perth, 20 Aug. 1879; educ. Cheam School, Surrey; Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1901, M.A. 1905); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Scots Guards, 22 May, 1901. and promoted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1904, and Capt. 3 Feb. 1912; transferring to the 2nd Battn. when the 3rd was disbanded; went to Antwerp with his Battn. in the 7th Division; served through the retreat from that place and was killed in action, 23 Oct. 1914, during one of the numerous rearguard actions, to protect the retirement of the Belgian Army. Buried with another officer at Zonnebeke Farm, near Poligne, Belgium; unm. Capt. Kinnaird was in the Volunteer Corps at Eton and Cambridge, and travelled much on the Continent to study Art and Literature. In 1906, he went to East Africa for big game shooting, and made a large collection of heads and trophies. He also visited India for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi in 1911.

=KINNAIRD, FRANCIS JOSEPH=, Capt., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., 2nd s. of the late Francis Henry Kinnaird, of London; b. London, 16 March, 1875; educ. privately; obtained a commission in the 4th South Stafford in 1907; passed the School of instruction and qualified as Instructor of Musketry; became Capt. 4 Nov. 1910; went to France 16 March, 1915; was wounded in action at Richebourg, 16 May, 1915, and died in King Edward’s Hospital, London, 10 June, following; buried at Astley, Worcestershire. He m. in London, 5 Oct. 1901, Gertrude (16, Titchfield Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.), dau. of Robert Green, and had a dau.: Mary Gertrude, b. 21 Sept. 1904.

=KIPLING, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4772 B., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KIRKBY, BERTRAM JAMES=, 1st Writer, 220342, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=KIRBY, HENRY JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8167), S.S. 103966, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KIRBY, JOHN RUSSELL=, Private, No. 2517, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late John William Kirby, of Ivy House, Wortham, co. Suffolk, Farmer, by his wife, Annie M., dau. of John Rash; b. Wortham, 13 Nov. 1886; educ. Eye Grammar School; was a Motor Bodymaker at Messrs. Barkers & Co., Kensington; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Kensingtons, 1 Sept. 1914; left for France, 7 Feb. 1915, and died at No. 2 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 27 March, 1915, of wounds received at Neuve Chapelle on 10–12 March. Buried at Boulogne; unm.

=KIRK, ALAN=, Gunner, No. 57708, 49th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd s. of John Robert Kirk, of Belton, near Doncaster, Schoolmaster, by his wife, Betsy, dau. of John Rookledge; b. York, 13 June, 1891; educ. Ackworth Church School, of which his father was head master; joined Pontefract Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I. (T.F.), ... 1909; enlisted R.F.A., June, 1909; left for France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. following. Buried midway between Braine and Chessemy; unm.

=KIRK, GERALD=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Alfred Samuel Kirk of Greenwood Leghe, Ingleton, and of Leeds, and the only s. by his 2nd wife, Isabella Ann, widow of William Norman Greenwood and dau. of Richardson Balderstone; b. Bramley, near Leeds, 14 July, 1883; educ. Ilkley and Pocklington, but after the declaration of war enlisted in the King’s Own, 2 Sept. 1914, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the same, 3 Jan. 1915. At the Second Battle of Ypres the 5th Battn. of the King’s Own were with the Canadians in the great charge on Friday, 23 April, and Lieut. Kirk was severely wounded and died on the night of the following day at Poperinghe. Col. Lord Richard Cavendish wrote: “He was mortally wounded when bravely leading his men against a very strong position of the enemy. Although he had only been in the Battn. a comparatively short time he had endeared himself to us all, and he will be deeply mourned and long remembered. He had proved himself an extremely efficient officer.” Capt. Gerald W. Sharpe wrote: “He died a noble and gallant death, leading his platoon across an absolute inferno of shot and shell, he was wounded through the chest by a bullet. Four of his men carried him back to the dressing station where he was made as comfortable as possible and he was the first to be sent off in the motor ambulance.” He was buried in the hospital cemetery at Poperinghe. Kirk was the well-known amateur centre half-back, and had played for both Bradford City and Leeds City. He was the first Hon. Secretary of the Ingleton Conservative Club, and the originator and first Hon. Secretary of the Ingleton Farmers’ Association, etc., and a sidesman at St. Mary’s Church. He was also an ardent follower of the Vale of Lune Hounds, an excellent shot, and a keen cricketer and tennis player. He m. at Casterton, near Kirkby Lonsdale, 21 April, 1909, Jane, dau. of Edmund Capstick, of Barnoldswick, Burton-on-Lonsdale; s.p.

=KIRK, RANDAL=, Private, No. 8716, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of the late Bruce Kirk, of Newland, Hull, by his wife, Cecilia (49, Linnaeus Street, Hull), dau. of the late Thomas Clarke, of Goole, and grandson of the late William Kirk, of Hull, Printer; b. Hull, 22 Sept. 1885; educ. The Crossley and Porter School, Halifax; was nine years (1900–09) in the Hull Rating Department, Posterngate, and for six years held the rank of Sergt. in the Hull Rifles (Cyclist Corps); joined the 1st Coldstream Guards the day previous to King Edward’s death, 1910, and served three years with the Colours; rejoined the battn. on the outbreak of war; left for France with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the German XV Army Corps Hospital at Laon, 27 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action during the first days of the retreat from Mons; unm.

=KIRKLAND, THOMAS LINDSAY=, Petty Officer, 170934, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KIRKPATRICK, ALEXANDER DOUGLAS=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force (1st Canadian Contingent), s. of Alexander Mainwaring Morris Kirkpatrick, of 204, Rusholme Road, Toronto, by his wife, Caroline Adelaide, dau. of Col. George Taylor Denison, the Veteran Canadian Cavalry leader and writer on Imperial Defence; b. Toronto, 1 Jan. 1891; gazetted Lieut. in Governor General’s Body Guard, 10 July, 1910, transferred to the 2nd Regt. (Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada), 14 Aug. 1914, went overseas with the 3rd Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 26 Sept. following, and was killed in action, near St. Julien, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm.

=KITCHING, ABNER PERCIVAL=, Private, No. 8620, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Abner Kitching, of Crouch Farm Highworth; b. Chadlington, co. Oxon, 1883; enlisted 28 Feb. 1910; left for France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; and died 24 Sept. following, of wounds received at the Battle of Mons on 23 Aug. Buried, Military Cemetery, Netley. He m. in Swindon, 14 April, 1914, Elizabeth, dau. of William Collins, of the Buildings, Highworth, and had a dau., Elise, b. posthumous, 12 March, 1915.

=KLITZ, EVELYN ANTHONY=, Private, No. 9512, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of William Lawson Klitz, of 88, High Street, Lymington, co. Hants, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Thomas Gossling; b. Lymington, 7 Nov. 1894; educ. Gillingham Grammar School; joined the London Rifle Brigade early in 1913; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; and died at the Rawal Pindi Hospital, Wimereux, near Boulogne, 12 March, 1915, of wounds received in action on the preceding 12 Feb. at Ploegsteert. Buried in a private grave in Wimereux Cemetery; unm. Private Klitz was one of the company of the London Rifle Brigade who took part in the march in full kit from the Duke of York’s Column to the Aquarium at Brighton, on 18 April, 1914, in 14 hours 23 mins., thereby breaking the world’s record. For this feat he was awarded a bronze medal.

=KLOSS, SIDNEY ALBERT EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, 310981, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KNIGHT, ALBERT ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11029, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KNIGHT, HENRY ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3397), S.S. 101168, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KNIGHT, HENRY CHARLES=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 2701), 160065, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KNIGHT, JOSEPH=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1363), 128345 (Port.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KNIGHT, STEPHEN=, Leading Stoker, 1st Class (A. 1584), 126510, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KNIGHT, THOMAS=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 3041), 307737, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KNOCKER, ARTHUR PAGET=, Capt., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., only s. of Col. Herbert Paget Knocker, of Bushey Ruff, Eastbourne, late R.E., by his wife, Maud, dau. of Major-Gen. Philip Ravenhill, C.B., R.E.; b. Kensington, 3 Aug. 1889; educ. Eastbourne College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st Hampshires, 18 Sept. 1909; promoted Lieut. 9 Aug. 1911, and temp. Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; left for France, 22 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 8 Feb. 1915. Buried, Ploegsteert Cemetery; unm.

=KNOTT, HENRY=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 354781, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KNOWLES, JONATHAN EDWARD=, Capt., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt. eldest s. of the late Edward Sugden Knowles, and grandson of the late Jonathan Knowles, of Rawdon, co. York; b. Sandgate, Queensland, Australia, 21 May, 1882; educ. Sedbergh School; joined the 2nd Vol. Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., as 2nd Lieut.; served with the 4th Durham L.I. (Militia) in the South African War, 1902, and took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st Middlesex, 4 July, 1903, and served with his Battn. in India, Burma and at Aden; promoted Lieut. 14 Jan. 1906, and Capt. 1 Feb. 1914, when he was transferred to the 4th Battn.; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, in which the 4th “Diehards” formed part of the 8th Brigade (3rd Division), and was killed in action at the Battle of Mons, on the 23rd of the same month. Buried in Cemetery at Maisieres. He m. at St. Peter’s Church, Bexhill, Sussex, 3 June, 1909, Viva Brabazon, dau. of the late C. F. Bagot, and had three children: Jonathan Maynard, b. 11 Oct. 1913; Nina Mary, b. 21 April, 1910; and Viva Joan, b. 14 Aug. 1912.

=KNOWLES, WILLIAM ALFRED=, A.B., 239360, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KNOX, RALPH=, Private, No. 9748, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), eldest s. of Ralph Knox, now serving as a private in the Canadian Highlanders, by his wife, Isabella, 2nd dau. of John Flood; b. Berwick-on-Tweed, 9 May, 1888; educ. Boys’ National School there; enlisted 9 Oct. 1906: went to France 23 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, on the night of the 14–15 May, 1915, being shot by a sniper while engaged in carrying rations to the trenches; unm.

=KOCH, WILLIAM JAMES=, Trooper, No. 2518, Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary’s Regt.) (T.F.), yst. s. of Oswald Hugo Koch, of 24, Cranmer Road, West Croydon, by his wife, Frances (24, Cranmer Road, West Croydon), dau. of William Wood, of Shirley; b. Croydon, 25 July, 1896; educ. Brighton Road Board Schools, Croydon; was a Grocer’s Assistant with Francis of Brixton; volunteered and joined the Surrey Yeomanry, 6 Jan. 1915, and died at 73, King’s Avenue, Clapham, 5 Feb. following, from injuries caused by a fall from his horse two days previously. Buried Mitcham Road Cemetery, Croydon; unm.

=KYDD, JAMES PHILLIP=, Leading Seaman, 215363, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KYLE, ROBERT BRUCE=, Private, No. 1781, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late John Kyle, M.I.C.E., Resident Engineer, Harbour Works, Colombo, Ceylon, by his wife, Agnes (100, Station Road, Barnes, London, S.W.); b. Colombo, 30 April, 1893; educ. Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, and Royal High School, Edinburgh; was a member of the foreign staff of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank; joined the London Scottish Jan. 1913; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for France, 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 1 Nov. following. He was at first reported missing, and it was not until the 15 Feb. 1915, that definite news that he had fallen was received. He was unm.

=KYNOCH, COLIN SMITH=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Robert Kynoch, of Stocksfield-on-Tyne, by his wife, Jennie, dau. of Silvanus Smith; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 8 Sept. 1883; educ. at a Private School, Newcastle-on-Tyne; was a Traveller in the Corn and Flour Trade; volunteered on the outbreak of war and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6 Oct. 1914; went to France, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien, Ypres, 26 April, 1915. Buried near Hill 60; unm.

=KYTE, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Private, No. 9332, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Kyte, of Horton, near Devizes, co. Wilts, a pensioner, Royal Marines, by his wife, Eliza Jane, dau. of James Wiltshire; b. Easterton, co. Wilts, 9 Dec. 1893; educ. Easterton National School; joined 1st Coldstream Guards, 18 Nov. 1911; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; was wounded and invalided home in Nov.; returned to the Front, 17 Dec., was reported missing after the fighting at Givenchy, 22 Dec. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; unm.

=LACEY, CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1250), late R.M.A. 11447 H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LACEY, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4724), S.S. 104080, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LACK, PERCY EDMUND=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4868), S.S. 104284, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LACY, FRANCIS PRIOR, M.C.=, Capt., Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, attd. 170 Coy. Royal Engineers, s. of Dyson Lacy, Hobart, Tasmania, by his wife, Francis Amelia, dau. of Capt. J. Irwin, R.N.; b. Mackay, North Queensland, Australia, 28 Jan. 1887; educ. Stubbington, also Felsted, Essex, England, and the Royal School of Mines, Kensington, London; on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, 14 Oct. 1914, and was killed by a counter mine, 13 Aug. 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], and awarded the Military Cross.

=LACY, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 11087, Royal Marines, only s. of Frederick Lacy, Sweep; b. 1882; lost in the North Sea on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Stepney Parish Church, 19 Oct. 1913, Sarah Catherine (115, Shandy Street, Stepney, E.), dau. of Thomas John Dobson, and had a dau., Sarah Elizabeth, b. 24 June, 1915.

=LADD, ERNEST WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 18430, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LADD, ROBERT JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3295 A., H.M.S. Cressy, s. of the late Edward Ladd, of Southwold, Mariner, by his wife, E. (3, School Green, Southwold); b. Southwold, 13 Nov. 1888; educ. National Schools there; joined the R.N.R. in 1909; lost in action in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=LADDS, FREDERICK=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3435C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAFONE, CLAUDE ALEXANDER, D.S.O.=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., elder s. of Alfred William Lafone, of Springfield, Walton-on-Thames, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of the Rev. James Lawrence, M.A., b. Hanworth, co. Middlesex, 24 Feb. 1877; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to 2nd Devons from 3rd Devon Militia, 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 9 March, 1899, and Capt. 20 Dec. 1901; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the Relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; in operations of 17–24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; in operations of 5–7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; in operations on Tugela Heights (14–27 Feb. 1900), and action at Pieters Hill; in Natal, March to June, 1900, including action at Laing’s Nek (6–9 June); in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], Queen’s medal with five clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); went to France, 8 Nov. 1914, and on 26 Jan. following was awarded the D.S.O., “for conspicuous gallantry on the night of 18 Dec. 1914, near Neuve Chapelle, in capturing a trench from the enemy” [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915], and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm.

=LAIDLAW, CHARLES GLASS PLAYFAIR=, Private, No. 3375, D Coy. 1/14th (The London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th s. of the late Dr. Robert Laidlaw, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., sometime Medical Government Officer in the Seychelles Islands, by his wife, Elizabeth (Woodside, Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge), dau. of Patrick Playfair, of Ardmillan, co. Ayr; b. Stoke Newington, London, N., 13 Dec. 1887; educ. The Perse School, Cambridge, from which in Dec. 1906, he was elected to an Entrance Scholarship for Natural Science at St. John’s College. At school he was football capt., sergt. in the cadet corps, a member of the cricket team, and head of the school. While still at school he played water polo for the university when the team was one short. Later he played, lacrosse for his college and sometimes for the University. He commenced residence in Oct. 1907. He obtained a First Class in Part 1 of the Natural Science Tripos in 1909, and in June of that year was elected a Foundation scholar of the College. He took the Second Part of the Tripos in 1910, obtaining a First Class for Botany. In June, 1911, he was elected a Hutchinson Student of the College, and took up research in Plant Physiology at the Botany School of the University, under the direction of Mr. F. F. Blackman, the University Reader in Botany. The subject of his research was an electrical method of determining carbon dioxide in relation to photo-synthesis. In 1912 he was elected by the governing body of Gonville and Caius College to a Frank Smart Studentship, a recognition of the promising nature of his investigations. At the same time he was offered a Research Scholarship by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; after some hesitation he accepted this latter offer, which necessitated his removal to London. From the autumn of 1912, until the outbreak of war, Laidlaw worked at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, under the direction of Prof. V. H. Blackman. Here he entered on an investigation of the Physiological conditions of plants forced under glass, working also at the effect of temperature on the rate of growth of a fungus, Sclerotinia libutiana. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and joined the London Scottish as a Private, 21 Oct. 1914, and after a period of training, embarked at Southampton with a draft of some 600 officers and men for the 1st Battn., 10 March, 1915. On Good Friday, 2 April, his (D) Coy. were in some barricades at Richebourg l’Avoué, south of Neuve Chapelle. After having been in the trenches all night, he was smoking after breakfast in what seemed a perfectly safe place, when a stray bullet passed through a sandbag and penetrated the right side of his chest. To his comrades the wound seemed a slight one, and after first aid was given he was removed to No. 3 Field Ambulance, near Bethune. There it was discovered that internal hæmorrhage had set in, and he died in the early hours of the morning on 3 April, 1915, and was buried in Bethune Cemetery.

=LAING, THEODORE=, Private, No. 2131, 1/14 Battn. (The London Scottish) London Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of William Arthur Laing, of Dalmahoy, Horsell, Woking, an old member of the London Scottish, by his wife, Lucy Glanvill, dau. of William Walters; b. Tooting Graveney, 16 May, 1897; educ. City of London School, where he was for two years in the O.T.C.; enlisted in his father’s old regiment the day before the declaration of war, 4 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, 15 Sept. and fell in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 1 Nov. 1914. His Capt. wrote: “Your brave son was shot through the head, and death must have been almost instantaneous. He was one of our keenest soldiers in the company, and his loss will be greatly felt by all his comrades with whom he was a great favourite. I, personally, shall miss him intensely.” Though not 18, Laing was over 6 ft. in height, big and broad in proportion, also he was a first-class shot.

=LAIRD, JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 2852, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of John Laird, of 6, Ann Street, Greenock; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LAKE, TOM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2598), 169200, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAMBERT, CHARLES HENRY=, Private, No. 2136, A Coy., 1st Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Charles Lambert, of Newport, Monmouth, by his wife, Louis, dau. of Charles Henry Collins; b. Loughborough, co. Leicester, 14 April, 1895; enlisted two days after the declaration of war, 7 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 23 March, 1915; unm. A letter, evidently written shortly before his death, in which he says: “We have just finished our four days in the firing line, and our casualties are very small,” was found on him and sent to his mother.

=LAMBERT, CHARLES HENRY=, Lieut., A.V.C. attd. 58th Brigade, R.F.A., eldest s. of John Henry Lambert, of Redmount, Ballinasloe, co. Galway, J.P., by his wife, Adelaide, dau. of William Tombes Dewè; b. Redmount, Ballinasloe, 20 July, 1882; educ. privately, and when war broke out had been for some years with Mr. H. S. Persse, the well-known trainer at Chattis Hill, Stockbridge, Hants. He joined the Army, May, 1915, and was appointed temporary Lieut. in June 1915; left for Egypt in May, 1915, and died in the General Hospital, Alexandria, 16 Aug. 1915, two weeks after a severe operation, while on active service; unm. He was buried at Alexandria. Lieut. Lambert was a good all-round sportsman; and rode several point-to-point winners.

=LAMBERT, FRANCIS HENRY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., only s. of Fitzgerald Gage Lambert, of Rockbourne, Salisbury, Civil Engineer (retired), by his wife, Nina Marie Louise, dau. of the late Francis Bradley Dyne, of Gore Court, Kent, and grandson of the late Capt. Edward Henry Gage Lambert, R.N. [3rd s. of Sir Henry John Lambert, 5th Bart.], by his wife, Renira Anna (who m. secondly Admiral the Hon. Fitzgerald Foley), dau. of the Rev. Richard Fortescue Purvis, LL.B.; b. Province of Lucknow, India, 17 Oct. 1895; educ. Charterhouse and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Hampshires, 1 Oct. 1914, and was attached to the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. until 26 Dec. following, when he went to France to join the 1st Battn.; was accidentally wounded there, and returned to England on sick leave and remained until 29 April, when he left for the Dardanelles in charge of a draft to the 2nd Battn.; was promoted Lieut. 27 May following; was wounded in the British attack on the Krithia-Achi-Baba position, Gallipoli, on 5 June, and taken on board the hospital ship “Somali,” where he died on the 7th. Buried at sea; unm.

=LAMBERT, JACK FELLOWS=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, eldest and only surviving s. of the late Ernest Lambert, Financier (d. 1898), by his wife, May (23, Terlingham Gardens, Folkestone), dau. of the late Hon. James Israel Fellows, Agent-General for New Brunswick (d. 1894); b. Coombe, Malden, co. Surrey, 3 Sept. 1891; educ. Marlborough, and Merton College, Oxford, where he was in King Edward’s Horse; was manager of a cocoanut estate in the Malay States when war broke out; came home and applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the K.R.R.C., 27 April, 1915; went to France in May, was in action near Ypres early in June; and was killed in the counter-attack on the German position at Hooge, 30 July, 1915; unm. He was at first reported missing, and it was not until March, 1916, that he was officially returned as killed. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was a splendid Platoon Commander and his men loved him.”

=LAMBERT, JOHN MOUNSEY=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, only s. of the late Major-Gen. George Craster Lambert, of Bolton Hall, Alnwick, late 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers, by his wife, Isabella, 3rd dau. of Major Alexander Browne, of Doxford Hall, Chathill; b. Breamish House, Alnwick, co. Northumberland, 21 Dec. 1883; educ. Mr. Moore’s School, Alnmouth, and Wellington College; joined the Northumberland Militia, now the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 1903, promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1906, and Capt. 29 Aug. 1914; went to France, 30 Aug. 1914, when he was attached to the 1st Battn. of his regt., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 27 Oct. following. Buried near where he fell; unm.

=LAMBERT, STAMFORD LEIGH=, Private, No. 2106, 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (R.F.), 29th Division, 4th s. of John Lambert, of 86, Chesterton Road, Cambridge, late Postmaster of that town, by his wife, Annie M., dau. of John Mostock; b. Lincoln, 10 Sept. 1890; educ. Perse School, and Training ship Worcester; served in the Milne and Ellerman and Bucknall S.S. lines as 3rd officer; joined the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, 28 Sept. 1914; left for the Dardanelles with the 29th Division, 21 March 1915; was present at Beach W., Gallipoli, during the landing on 25 April and following days, at the actions of 24 June and 4 July, near Krithia and Gully Ravine, and at the Aug. landing at Suvla Bay, and the subsequent operations, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 26 Aug. 1915. Buried Suvla; unm. On the day preceding his death his name was sent up for mention in Despatches for his work during the campaign. One of his officers wrote: “He was a brave, fearless fellow, one of the best boys we had in my section.” And another: “Voicing the opinion of the whole corps, he was one of the most popular men, ready to assist in anything which was required, and to help anybody who was in trouble.”

=LAMBERT, STEPHEN HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 10268, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LAMBRE, JOHN=, Chief Shipwright, 344348, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAMKIN, CHARLES AMBROSE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7786), S.S. 103257, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAMONT, HENRY McCUAIG=, Private, No. 9410, D Coy., 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), 2nd s. of John Lamont, of 125, Norfolk Street, Glasgow, by his wife, Maggie, dau. of Henry McCuaig, of Queensland, formerly of Islay; b. Port Ellen, Kildalton, Islay, 18 April, 1888; educ. Kinning Park Public School, Glasgow; enlisted, in Oct. 1906, and served seven years with the Colours and then passed into the Reserve, and obtained employment in the G.P.O., but on the outbreak of war rejoined his regt.; left for France with the Expeditionary Force (9th Brigade, 3rd Division), and was killed in action at the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 Aug. following.

=LAMPARD, TOM SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111443 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANCHBURY, ALFRED=, Sergt., No. 5402, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Alfred Lanchbury, of 81, Grange Road, Longford, near Coventry, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of James Blackford; b. Coventry, 13 April, 1883; educ. Foxford Council School; enlisted 19 Feb. 1904; appointed L.-Corpl. 29 Nov. 1905; Corpl. 1 Jan. 1907; L.-Sergt. 24 Sept. 1907, and Sergt. 5 Feb. 1913; served in Egypt, 6 Jan. 1909, to 23 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 12 Aug. 1914, to 27 Sept. 1915, on which day he was killed in action, near Vermellen, during the Battle of Loos. He m. in London, 3 Oct., Ida Margaret (33, St. Thomas Road, Longford, Coventry), dau. of Frederick (and Margaret) Simmonds, and had three children: Donald Crawford, b. 4 June, 1913; Norah Ida, b. 15 Sept. 1909: and Muriel Rosamund, b. 15 Nov. 1914. His brother, L.-Sergt. W. C. Lanchbury, was also killed in action (see following notice).

=LANCHBURY, WILLIAM CHARLES=, L.-Sergt., No. 8711, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of Alfred Lanchbury, of 81, Grange Road, Longford, near Coventry, co. Warwick, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of James Blackford (see preceding notice); b. Longford aforesaid, 9 Oct. 1889; educ. Foxford Council School; enlisted 28 April, 1910; appointed L.-Corpl. 9 Jan. 1912; Corpl. 21 Aug. 1913, and L.-Sergt. 7 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914; and was reported wounded and missing after the fighting on the 25th of that month during the retreat from Mons; and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; unm.

=LANCHESTER, THORNTON=, Seaman, R.N.R., 1577C, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANDELLS, JOHN OLIVER=, E.R.A., R.N.R., 244 E.B., H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LANDEN, JAMES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, R.F.R., B. 2871, 308019, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LANDER, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Chief Shipwright, 340787, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LANE, FRANK EVERETT=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16811, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LANE, JOHN HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8033), 293067, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANE, JOHN WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9786), S.S. 107274. H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANG, HENRY ASTELL=, Major, 4th Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late George Lukis Lang, of the Indian Civil Service, by his wife, Louisa Wynyard, dau. of Henry Godfrey Astell, of Ickwell House, Biggleswade; b. Biggleswade, co. Bedford, 12 March, 1874; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford; Marlborough College, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Worcestershire Regt. Dec. 1895; and promoted Lieut. 10 May, 1899, Capt. in Sept. 1900, and Major 24 May, 1913; was Adjutant of his Battn. 23 Nov. 1904, to 22 Nov. 1907; A.D.C. to Sir Henry Fane Grant, Governor of Malta, 1906–8; served (1) in the South African War from 1899 to 1901; took part in advance on Kimberley, including actions at Modder River, and Magersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg (17 to 26 Feb.); Poplar Grove and Dreifontein; operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including action at Bothaville; operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to Dec. 1900, in the Orange River Colony, Dec. 1900, and in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900 to March, 1901 (slightly wounded; Queen’s medal with five clasps); and (2) with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 6 June, 1915; unm. Buried in Gulf Ravine, Gallipoli. Major Lang was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 22 Sept. [London Gazette, 5 Nov.] 1915. A brother officer wrote in Berrows Worcester Journal: “It is not stretching a point to say that seldom has there been in the regt., a more popular officer with all ranks than the late Major Harry Lang, who fell in action at the Dardanelles. Possessing a marked charm of manner, he endeared himself to all men. He was a fine sportsman; at polo he was a bold and fine player. He rode hard and hit hard from the moment the ball was thrown in till the bell rang. As a cricketer and capt. of the 4th Worcestershires cricket team, he did yeoman service for his side, and led them to many victories. His loss will be much felt throughout the whole regt. As a soldier he was respected by and for his smart appearance and knowledge of his duties. He served with distinction in the South African War, and in the most adverse circumstances was always bright and cheerful. He was Adjutant to Col. Edwards, now commanding at the Depôt, when the Col. commanded the 4th Battn.,” and another: “He was the first up to every trench, armed with a walking stick; walking straight across to prospect amidst a perfect hail of bullets, and then would saunter back to his troops and head them forward. Never was he excited—fear he knew not; courage and confidence flowed from him to all of us.” Major Lang was a very keen fisherman and naturalist. He did a great deal of big game shooting in Nepal, Kashmir and the Tirai and secured several exceptionally good heads of gond, barasingh, and sambhur, besides tigers, leopards and bears.

=LANG, VIVIAN=, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, 356268 Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LANG, WILLIAM BRYNMER=, Capt., 1/5th (Renfrewshire) Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), yr. s. of William Lang, of Elmbank, Gourock, Quarrymaster and Contractor, by his wife, Margaret Jane, dau. of Alexander Robertson, of Chesterfield, Gourock; b. Gourock, co. Renfrew, 26 April, 1882; educ. Greenock Academy; served with the 1st Vol. (now the 5th Territorial) Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 15 Sept. 1899, to 22 March, 1905; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 May, 1906; and promoted Lieut. 9 April, 1911, and Capt. 1 Nov. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, left for the Dardanelles, 31 May, 1915, and was killed during the attack on the Krithia-Achi-Baba position, 12 July following; unm.

=LANGFORD, ALBERT GEORGE=, A.B., (R.F.R., I.C. 509), 235942, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LANGFORD, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1394, 4th Battn. L.I., Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of John Langford, of 34, Cross Row, Westmoor, Killingworth, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Archibald Whitehead; b. Spittal, Berwick-on-Tweed, 9 Sept. 1890; educ. Blaydon and Gateshead Council Schools; went to Australia, 28 Aug. 1914, and worked as a Miner; volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Dec. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force, Feb. 1915; took part in the landing at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 25 April, and died of wounds between that date and 28 April following; unm.

=LANGFORD, WALLACE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B 6017), 182043, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANGHAM, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Rifleman, No. 1564, 1/6th (Rifle) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Horton Henry Langham, Chief Officer s.s. William Cliff, by his wife, Florence Edith, yst. dau. of John Coulson of Manchester, Solicitor; b. Liverpool, 24 Jan. 1896, educ. Seamen’s Orphanage, Newsham Park, Liverpool; was a Clerk in Liverpool Gas Co.; joined the 1/6th Liverpools, about March, 1914; volunteered for Imperial service and went to France, 24 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 3 May following. Buried south of Verbranden Molen; unm. One of his comrades wrote: “It was a great shock to us when this (? news) was passed to us that Freddie had been killed. He was a splendid chap, liked by all, so everything possible was done to give him a decent burial.” A Church worker in Liverpool wrote: “He was a member of the St. Mary Magdalene’s Church Choir and a Sunday School teacher; in the Church his valuable help and cheery presence will be sorely missed.” His brother, Horton Egerton Langham, R.F.A., is now (1916) on active service.

=LANGLANDS, ALAN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of the late Major John Shakespear Langlands, 43rd Oxfordshire L.I., sometime Adjutant, Montgomeryshire Militia, by his wife, Lucy Alice (now wife of Major Charles Harold Longfield Beatty, of Borodale, co. Wexford, D.S.O.), dau. of the late Edward Peck; b. Longrood, Rugby, 25 Sept. 1895; educ. Stubbington and Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd South Wales Borderers, 7 Oct. 1914; transferred to the 1st Battn., went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action near Bethune, 9 May, 1915; unm. Buried at St. Vaast’s Post.

=LANGLEY, WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 27), 9807, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action of Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LANGRIDGE, FRANCIS BERTRAM=, Private, No. 10/1553, Canterbury Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Harry Montague Langridge, of 16, River Bank, Wanganui, New Zealand, formerly of Sussex, England; b. Westport, New Zealand, 3 Nov. 1891; educ. Wanganui District Boys’ School; enlisted after the outbreak of war and left for Egypt in Feb. 1915, with the third reinforcements; was for some time a L.-Corpl. in the Wellington Battn., but on being transferred to the Canterbury Battn. had to go back to the ranks; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and was killed in action, 8 May, 1915; unm. His brother, Sergt.-Major J. W. Langridge, was twice wounded at the Dardanelles.

=LANGRISH, HENRY WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13463 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANSLEY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 301754, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LARBY, WALTER=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 20455, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LARDNER, RODERICK DONALD=, Yeoman of Signals, 221290, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LARKING, CHARLES ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9130), 208699, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LARVIN, JAMES=, Private, No. 10562, 6th Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., s. of Thomas Larvin, of No. 3, Marsh Street, off Scott Street, Hull, co. York, builder for Levitts, Contractors, by his wife, Mary Elisabeth; b. Hull; educ. St. Paul’s Schools there; was an employee of Messrs. Crosslands, Stevedores, at the Hull Docks; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 18 Aug. 1914; trained at Belton Park, Grantham; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 21 Aug. 1915; unm.

=LARSON, OKEN FRANK=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 31), 8553, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LASHBROOK, HENRY CHARLES=, Petty Officer, 177834, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LASLETT, FRANK ROLAND=, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, L. 1791, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LATHAM, CHARLES EDWARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 288526, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LATTA, CHARLES KEITH=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Gordon Highlanders, 3rd s. of the late John Latta, of 17, Royal Circus, Edinburgh, S.S.C., by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late John Jopp, writer to the Signet; b. Edinburgh, 2 Dec. 1889; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 10 Aug. 1911; killed in action near Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm. His Commanding Officer, Col. Uniacke, in notifying his death, wrote: “He gave his life for his country in a gallant fight which was necessary for the safety not only of his own regt. but of a larger force.... He has always proved himself a fine example, and you may well be proud of him as we are, and also all those of his own command. He is a great loss to us and the Army.”

=LAUDER, STANISLAUS JOSEPH=, Private, No. 4070, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Charles Lauder, Supt. Royal Alfred Sailors’ Home, Bombay; b. Bombay, 8 Nov. 1885; educ. St. Mary’s College, Bombay, and London School of Medicine; served with the Red Crescent Medical Mission in Tripoli for seven months in 1912, and with the British Red Cross in Montenegro during the Balkan War, was present with the Montenegrin Army during the siege and capture of Scutari; received the Order of Danilo (3rd Class) from the King of Montenegro, and the British Red Cross Medal with clasp; joined the London Scottish, 5 Dec. 1914, and volunteered for foreign service; went to the Front in July, 1915, and died of wounds received while attending wounded men under fire, 14 Oct. 1915; unm. He was buried in the soldiers’ cemetery at Lapugny, near Bethune.

=LAURENCE, ANDREW=, Sapper, No. 11982, 38th Coy. R.E., s. of the late Andrew Laurence, of Craiglockhart Terrace, Edinburgh, Mason, by his wife, Christina B., dau. of David Brunton, of Kinross; b. Muckhart, co. Perth. 16 Nov. 1882; educ. Muckhart School; served in the South African War with the 3rd Vol. Battn. Royal Scots (Queen’s medal with three clasps); joined the R.E., 11 Nov. 1902; went to France, 7 Sept. 1914, and died in Motor Ambulance, 27 May, 1915, of wounds received in Belgium the same day. Buried in field adjoining the Convent School, Brandholk; unm.

=LAURENCE, EDWARD JAMES=, Private, No. 1945, 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of William George Laurence, of 9, Argyle Road, Teddington, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Alexander Mellish; b. Windsor, 2 Nov. 1892; educ. Teddington Public School; was a Barman; enlisted at Hampton about 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and died of wounds received in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

=LAURIE, NATHANIEL JOHN=, Rifleman, No. 3224, 1/12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Robert Turner Laurie, of 153, Eswyn Road, Tooting, S.W., Corrector of the Press, by his wife, Amy, dau. of John Saunders; b. London, 3 April, 1891; educ. L.C.C. Schools; was a Clerk to Advertisement Contractors; joined The Rangers, 14 Sept. 1914; went to France on Christmas Day following, and died at Casualty Clearing Station, near Rouen, 29 April, 1915, of wounds in the head caused by fragments of high explosive shell received on the 26th at St. Jean during the Second Battle of Ypres. Buried in Bailleul Cemetery; unm. A comrade wrote of him: “In all that he did Laurie acted as a soldier and a gentleman.” Private Laurie was an active Free Church worker, chiefly amongst children.

=LAVERTY, DANIEL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10565), S.S. 108512. H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LAW, JOHN THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 15121, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LAW, PAUL=, Private, No. 1650, 1/4th Battn. West Riding Regt. (T.F.), s. of Joe Law, of Luddenfoot. Halifax, Teamer; b. Lower Oldfield, Luddenfoot, 1 Sept. 1895; educ. National School there; joined 1/4th West Ridings, March, 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action 10 May, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm.

=LAW, PERCY PEACOCK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9963), S.S. 2587, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LAW, THOMAS PAKENHAM=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Irish Guards, 3rd s. of the late Thomas Pakenham Law, K.C., by his wife, Amelia Catherine (Elsinore, Howth. co. Dublin), dau. of Horace Rochfort, of Clogremane, co. Carlow; b. Dublin, 27 May, 1879; educ. Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his degrees in Arts and Law; called to the English Bar, Lincoln’s Inn, 1905, and practised at the Chancery Bar; gave up this on the outbreak of war and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Irish Guards, 4 June, 1915; went to France and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. following, dying three hours later. Buried in a garden at Loos; unm.

=LAWES, FREDERICK JOHN=, Private. No. 10693, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Benjamin Lawes, of Swanington, near Norwich, Labourer, by his wife, Susanna Elizabeth, dau. of George Carr; b. Swanington, 17 July, 1889; educ. Elementary Church School, there; worked on the land from the time he left school until he enlisted, except for two years (1911–13), when he worked in a coal pit at Newcastle-on-Tyne; enlisted in April, 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

=LAWRENCE, CHAS. EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110970, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LAWRENCE, CHARLES SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6360, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAWRENCE, CHRISTOPHER HAL=, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. s. of the late Hon. Henry Arnold Lawrence, by his wife, Constance Charlotte (9, Chantry House. Eccleston Street, S.W.), only surviving dau. of the late Rev. George Irving Davies, Rector of Kelsale, Suffolk, and grandson of John, 1st Baron Lawrence; b. Harrington Gardens, London, S.W., 11 Nov. 1893; educ. Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the University O.T.C.; applied for a commission on the day war was declared, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th K.R.R.C. 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 20 Sept. 1914, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. of his regt. (2nd Brigade, 1st Division), and was killed in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Oct. 1914, being shot by a sniper. Buried at Bourg, near Troyon; unm. His only brother, Lieut. M. E. Lawrence, was killed in action near Givenchy, 10 Jan. 1915 (see his notice).

=LAWRENCE, EDGAR ERNEST ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3634), 191271, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5216), 179879, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAWRENCE, MALCOLM EYTON=, Lieut., 6th (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only surviving s. of the late Hon. Henry Arnold Lawrence, by his wife, Constance Charlotte (9, Chantrey House, Eccleston Street, S.W.), eldest surviving dau. of the late Rev. George Irving Davies, Rector of Kelsale, Suffolk, and grandson of John, 1st Baron Lawrence; b. Harrington Gardens, London, S.W., 10 March, 1889; educ. Eton; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., 1 Oct. 1908, and served for one year; went to British Columbia in Feb. 1910, where he bought and cleared land, built a house and was latterly given Government employment (sub-warden of the Isles); enlisted in the 88th Victoria Fusiliers on the declaration of war and came over with the first contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th K.R.R.C. 4 Nov. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915; went to France 3 Dec. 1914, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. and was killed in action near Givenchy, 10 Jan. 1915, while leading his men in a charge. Buried in village of Cuinchy; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “On reaching the position he found that a brother officer, who had led another storming party, was in need of assistance as he had lost more than half his men. Lawrence dashed over the intervening 70 yards with some of his men, and was no doubt responsible for getting back his brother officer who was now left alone and would have been cut off.”

=LAWRENCE, WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 9794), 297574, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAWRIE, ERNEST NORMAN=, 2nd Lieut., 13 Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington Rifles) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John Lawrie, Managing Director of Whiteleys’, London, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Elliott; b. West Hampstead, 30 April, 1893; educ. County School, Richmond, and Haberdashers’ School, Cricklewood; entered the employment of Messrs. Elkington, of Regent Street, in Feb. 1912; enlisted in the Kensingtons a few days after the commencement of war, 10 Aug. 1914, and after training at Abbots Langley left to join the British Expeditionary Force at the Front, 31 Oct. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut, in his own regt., 3 April, 1915; was present at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, near Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm. His body was not recovered as the spot where he fell remained in the possession of the Germans. Major H. J. Stafford, writing on behalf of the Colonel, said: “He met his death leading his men in the true British way, and under circumstances as exacting as any that troops could be called upon to face. I knew your son very well, as prior to his gaining his commission he was attached to me as my runner, and was constantly with me. I soon discovered his fearless nature, and his devotion. As an officer he had already won the esteem of all ranks, and showed great promise as a leader of men.” An interesting account of how he captured a German flag appeared in the “Daily Mirror” of June 9, 1915.

=LAWRIE, JAMES BLACK=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 268155, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAWSON, FREDERICK HENRY=, Capt., 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), eldest s. of Frederick Lawson, of Dalton, co. Northumberland, late of Nelthorpe, Gosforth, Merchant, by his wife, Eleoner Francis, dau. of the late John Walker; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 23 July, 1887; educ. Durham Grammar School; served his articles with Messrs. Newcomb and Newcomb, Architects, of Newcastle, and was afterwards with Mr. Arthur Stockwell, of that City; joined the Northumberland Yeomanry in 1907; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, 15 May, 1909; promoted Lieut. 17 July, 1910, and Capt. 1 Nov. 1912; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 13 April, 1915; and was killed in action at St. Jean, near Ypres, 24 May following; unm. His Col. wrote: “Capt. Lawson was one of my best officers, thoroughly capable and reliable.”

=LAWSON, WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 2433), 290533, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LAWTON, JOSEPH SYDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9403), 296679, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAWTON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9652), S.S. 106992, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAYDON, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9332, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Laydon, of 17, Dunns Terrace, Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, by his wife, (—), dau. of William Wild, of Newcastle; b. Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 22 Sept. 1882; educ. St. Dominic’s Catholic School there; enlisted 22 Oct. 1911, and was killed in action at Soupir, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; unm.

=LAYTON, FRANK THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10003), S.S. 107616, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAZENBY, ARTHUR=, A.B., J. 4916, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEA, THOMAS LAMPIT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5043), 201762, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEACH, GERALD KEMBALL=, Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. Border Regt.; 2nd s. of the late Arthur Francis Leach, of 34, Elm Park Gardens, London, S.W., Charity Commissioner, by his wife, Emily Archer, dau. of S. Kemball Cook; b. London, 10 Aug. 1883; educ. Ashdown House, Forest Row, Sussex, from which he obtained a scholarship at Bradfield College, where he was senior Prefect and Captain of the Association Football Team, afterwards gaining an exhibition at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he rowed in the College boat; was in the Association Football and Cricket teams, and became a Lieut. in the University O.T.C. He was appointed an assistant in the Chinese Maritime Customs in 1904, and was quartered successively at Chefoo, Wuhu, Peking, Hankow, and Changsha. He resigned his appointment in Jan. 1915, in order to return home and join the army and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th Border Regt., 1 March, 1915; left for the Dardanelles with the 11th (Northern) Division, 1 July following, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on 10 Aug., during the operations which followed the landing on the 6th and 7th; unm.

=LEADER, FRANCIS WILLIAM MOWBRAY=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Connaught Rangers, elder s. of Francis Henry Mowbray Leader, of Classas, Coachford, co. Cork, late Lt. Royal Field Artillery, by his wife, Agnes Letitia, dau. of Thomas Broderick; b. Plymouth, 6 Nov. 1881; educ. Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy, and in France and Germany; joined the Manchester Militia as 2nd Lieut. 1901, and served with them in the South African War, 1901–2, taking part in the operations in Cape Colony, Oct. 1901, and in Orange River Colony, Oct. 1901 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps), being specially recommended by his Colonel for a regular commission; was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Connaught Rangers, 28 Jan. 1903, and promoted Lieut. 30 Dec. 1905 and Capt. 1 Aug. 1914; served with the 1st Battn. for several years in India, and after its return home was attached to the West African Frontier Force, and saw service in Southern Nigeria, 1909–10 (medal with clasp); was at home on leave when war broke out, went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action while in command of a rearguard of 50 men covering the retirement of his regt. at Le Cateau, 26 Aug. following. A prisoner of war in Germany wrote: “Got back to cross road with some stragglers and French wounded, and found Capt. Leader and 50 men with Turner left as rearguard to the battn. Joined them, and we started to gain the rest when suddenly we received news of two battns. of Germans on our right and quite close. Soon after we came under a hot fire from them, and poor Leader was killed.”

=LEAKES, BERTRAM ALFRED=, A.B. (B. 3610), S.S. 979, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEAMAN, JOSEPH HERBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26743, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LEARY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3391), S.S. 101169, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEATHER, CHRISTOPHER=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st. Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 6th and yst. s. of the late Frederick John Leather, of Middleton Hall, Belford, co. Northumberland, J.P., by his wife, Gertrude Elizabeth Sophia (The Friary, Tickhill, co. York), dau. of the Rev. Charles Walters, M.A. Oxon; b. The Friary, Tickhill, 15 July, 1882; educ. Hazelwood, Limpsfield, and privately; received a commission as Lieut. in the 3rd Battn. Durham L.I. (Militia), 23 Dec. 1899; served in South African War, Jan. 1900 to May, 1902, being att. to the Mounted Infantry. For his services he was given a regular commission in the 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He retired in 1904; but on the outbreak of the European War rejoined his old regt., 20 Aug. 1914; went to France, where he was attd. to the 1st Battn., and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 26 Oct. following. Buried behind the trenches, near Neuve Chapelle; unm. He was an enthusiastic motorist and fisherman, and is described as “a good officer and friend.” He was one of six brothers, all of whom served both in South Africa and in the European War. The third and fifth brothers were also killed in action (see their notices), and the second and fourth, Capt. P. C. du Sautoy Leather and Lieut.-Col. Kenneth J. Walters Leather, were severely wounded, and the eldest, Major G. F. T. Leather, Northumberland Fusiliers, is now (1916) on active service.

=LEATHER, EDWARD WILBERFORCE=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt., attd. 2nd King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., 5th s. of the late Frederick John Leather, of Middleton Hall, Belford, co. Northumberland, J.P., by his wife, Gertrude Elizabeth Sophia (The Friary, Tickhill, co. York), dau. of the Rev. Charles Walters, M.A., Oxon; b. The Friary, Tickhill, 23 Nov. 1879; educ. Hazelwood Preparatory School and Wellington College; joined the 3rd Battn. Yorkshire Regt. (5th West Yorks Militia) in 1899, and was promoted Lieut. 13 Dec. 1900; served in the South African War, 1899–1900, 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps and King’s medal with two clasps), and retired in 1904. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he at once rejoined his regt.; was promoted Capt. 1 Feb. 1915; went to the Front, 11 Nov. 1914, attd. to the 2nd King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., and was killed in action at Hill 60, 18 April, 1915; unm.

=LEATHER, ERNEST ARTHUR=, Major, Northumberland Fusiliers, 3rd s. of the late Frederick John Leather, of Middleton Hall, Belford, co. Northumberland, J.P., by his wife, Gertrude Elizabeth Sophia (The Friary, Tickhill, co. York), dau. of the Rev. Charles Walters, M.A. Oxon; b. at South Penge, co. Surrey, 18 Oct. 1868; educ. privately; joined the 5th Militia Battn. of the Northumberland Fusiliers as 2nd Lieut., 23 May, 1900; and served at Malta during the South African War, 1900 (medal), retired with the rank of Capt. in 1910, but on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914 joined his old regt., and obtained his Majority 20 Oct. following; went to France, 11 Jan. 1916, and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 10 Feb. 1916. Buried at La Croix Marechal. He m. at Hexham Abbey, 25 Oct. 1904, Mildred Louise, dau. of Charles Augustus Harrison, of Beacon Grange, Hexham, and had two children: Vivien Mildred, b. 22 March, 1907; and Anne du Sautoy, b. 13 Sept. 1913.

=LEATHWOOD, JOHN PEARSON=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 219283, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LE BRUN, CHRIS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21950, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LECKIE, MALCOLM, D.S.O.=, Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, yr. surviving s. of James Blyth Leckie, of Monkstown, Crowborough, co. Sussex, and Peebles, formerly of Blackheath, co. Kent, by his wife, Selina, dau. of Robert Bousfield; b. Eltham, co. Kent, 18 April, 1880; educ. Blackheath Preparatory School, privately abroad, and Guy’s Hospital; gazetted Lieut., R.A.M.C., 4 Feb. 1908, and promoted Capt. 4 Aug. 1911; was attd. to the Egyptian Army from 1 Feb. 1910 to Feb. 1914, and served in Upper Egypt, the Soudan, and in an expedition up the Blue Nile; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, being attd. to the 1st Northumberland Fusiliers (9th Brigade, 3rd Division), and died at Frameries, near Mons, on the 28th of that month, of wounds received there on the 24th. Buried in the cemetery at Frameries; unm. He was awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 8 Dec. 1914] “for gallant conduct and exceptional devotion to duty in attending to the wounded at Frameries, where he was himself wounded.” Capt. Leckie was one of the best hockey players of his day. He was a member of the Blackheath Hockey Club, and Captain of Guy’s Hospital Club when there; played for the Kent Hockey Club, for the Army, and for England against France. He was a descendant of the Leckies of the Barony of Leckie in Stirlingshire, 1352. One of his ancestors, Sir Walter Leckie, of King Charles VII of France’s Bodyguard, commanded the Scottish troops at the Battle of Lagny on 10 Aug. 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 Marne his left wing rested on Lagny.

=LEDGER, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4248), 220386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEDGER, RAYMOND KIRWOOD=, Lieut., 6th (Reserve) Battn. Rifle Brigade, attd. 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 4th s. of the Rev. Charles George Ledger, M.A., Vicar of St. Paul’s, Tupsley, co. Hereford, by his wife, Isabel Mary, dau. of the Rev. George Henry Kirwood; b. Hereford, 26 Oct. 1891; educ. Marlborough (Scholar), and Wadham College, Oxford (graduated B.A. with honours in Modern History, and was Captain of his college tennis, hockey and Association football teams); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 19 Dec. 1914; went to France 13 Nov. 1914; was attached to 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 13 April, 1915, being shot by a sniper while in the trenches. He was buried the same night near Picantin, side by side with Lieut. Gladstone; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He had done more reconnaissance work than any other officer in the battn. He volunteered for everything possible, and carried out successfully whatever he set himself to do. What he did at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle was characteristic; he volunteered to go and find where the 21st Brigade was when it had got out of touch with his own Brigade (the 22nd). The way he took was sprinkled with the dead bodies of those who had tried, before him, to get across; he managed to do it and returned with valuable information. He was away seven hours.” He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915.

=LEDIARD, FRANCIS=, Private, No. 7948, B Coy., 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of the late Henry Lediard, of Birmingham, Cab Proprietor, formerly a Police Constable in the Birmingham Force, by his wife, Sarah; b. Birmingham, 25 Nov. 1867; educ. St. Thomas Church Schools there; was a Cab Driver in Birmingham, but enlisted in the Royal Scots in 1902; served eight years with the Colours and four years with the Reserve, during which time he held a good position in a motor garage in Birmingham; was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; rejoined his old regt.; went to France about 18 Aug., and was killed in action on the 26th, during the retreat from Mons; unm.

=LEE, ALBERT ALFRED=, Private, No. 2132, A Coy., 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Alfred Lee, of 16, Waltham Road, Southall, Basketmaker, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Ruben Kempster; b. Southall, 29 Dec. 1896; educ. Featherstone Road Boys’ School there; was employed in the Boxmaking Department of Messrs. Otto Monsted, Ltd., Margarine Works, Southall; joined the 1/8th Middlesex Territorials in April, 1913; mobilised from the training camp on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; volunteered for foreign service; went to Gibraltar with his regt. in Sept.; returned to England in Feb. 1915; went to France, 8 March, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, 1 May, 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres; unm. Buried there. Capt. A. H. Woodbridge, Officer Commanding A Coy., wrote: “It is with infinite regret that I write to tell you of your son’s death, which occurred in the fighting near Ypres on 1 May. In your great grief it may be some comfort to you to know that he suffered no pain and met his end nobly doing his duty.”

=LEE, CHARLES=, Private, No. 5086, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., eldest s. of Samuel Herbert Lee, of Alnwick Street, Burnley, by his wife, Margaret Ann, dau. of William Whittaker; b. Burnley, 20 Feb. 1893; educ. St. Peter’s School there; joined 2nd East Lancashires, 16 May, 1912, previously to which he was employed at Towneley Collieries; went to France, 1 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm.

=LEE, CHARLES=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 3954), 155422, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LEE, GEORGE FRANCIS=, Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5473), 301936, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEE, LENNOX CLELAND LEE=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Irish Guards (Special Reserve), elder s. of Lennox Bertram Lee, of How Caple Court, near Ross, co. Hereford, by his wife, Edith, dau. of the late Malcolm MacLellan, of Clairmont Gardens, Glasgow; b. Knutsford, co. Chester, 27 March, 1893; educ. St. David’s, Reigate; Eton, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; and when war broke out was awaiting examination for the Diplomatic Service; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Irish Guards (Special Reserve), 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915. Buried there; unm.

=LEE, LEWIS (DICK)=, L.-Corpl., No. 9915, 6th Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd s. of George Lee, of 26, Trafford Street, Scunthorpe, Steel Worker, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Richard Walker; b. Crowle, co. Lincoln, 23 Sept. 1890; educ. Scunthorpe; was employed in steel works; enlisted after the outbreak of war, Aug. 1914; trained at Frensham Camp, Farnham; went to the Dardanelles in June, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 29 Aug. 1915; unm. Two of his brothers are (1916) on active service.

=LEE, REGINALD=, alias =THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 1574, 5th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Thomas Lee, of Elsted, Sussex, Police Constable, by his wife, Ellen; b. Brighton, 29 Jan. 1895; educ. Amberly, Bognor, and Funtington, co. Sussex; enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery, 9 Nov. 1910, and served three years, taking his discharge while at Simon’s Town, Cape Colony, 9 May, 1913; he then went to Adelaide, and was getting on well when war was declared. He immediately joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and after a short period of training at Melbourne, was sent to Egypt and from there to the Dardanelles, where he was wounded by a shell while fetching up ammunition and died on board the Hospital Ship Royal George, between Alexandria and Malta, 16 May, 1915; unm.

=LEE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9000), S.S. 105811, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEECH, WILLIAM LEONARD BOGHURST=, Rifleman, 1/9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late Arthur Herbert Leech, M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A. (who was in practice at Woolpit and afterwards at Broseley, where he died in 1894), by his wife, Annie Madeline (28, Egerton Gardens, West Ealing, W.), dau. of William Philip Boghurst; b. The White House, Woolpit, co. Suffolk, 22 Nov. 1887; educ. Epsom College; passed his A.R.I.B.A. in June, 1913, and was assistant in the firm of Messrs. Wratten and Godfrey, London; volunteered on the outbreak of war, but was five times refused at the recruiting station on account of wearing glasses, and acted as Special Constable from Aug. to Nov. 1914, when he was at last accepted by Queen Victoria’s Rifles, and joined the 1st Battn.; trained at Crowborough Camp, where he twice refused Corporal’s stripes, as he thought it would keep him in England longer; went to France with a draft, 27 March, 1915; was severely wounded in the head on 8 April, 1915, and died at Overcliff Red Cross Hospital, Westcliff-on-Sea, on 14 May following; unm.

=LEEK, WILLIAM=, A.B., 218963, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEES, EDMUND HASTINGS HARCOURT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Border Regt., s. of Thomas Orde Hastings Lees, of Guilsborough, co. Northampton, Barrister-at-Law, formerly Chief Constable of that county; b. Northampton, 21 Dec. 1875; educ. Marlborough, Royal Academy, Gosport, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Border Regt., 5 Sept. 1896, promoted Lieut. 10 Feb. 1900, and Capt. 24 June, 1906; was Adjutant to a Territorial Battn. (The Artists’ Rifles), 19 Oct. 1909 to 20 Oct. 1912; served in the South African War, 1899–1901; took part in operations in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1899; in Natal, 1899; relief of Ladysmith, including actions at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5 to 7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights (14 to 27 Feb. 1900), and action at Pieter’s Hill; operations in the Orange Free State, April and May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal, June, 1900; in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July, 1900; in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to Nov. 1900, in Orange River Colony, May, 1900; in Cape Colony, north of Orange River, May, 1900; in the Transvaal from 30 Nov. 1900 (was wounded and mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], received Queen’s medal with six clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Sept. 1914 to 26 Oct. 1914, was killed in action at Ruiseek, near Ypres (whilst defending Calais) on the latter date. An officer referring to this action wrote: “Our men fought desperately from nine o’clock till six, when the Germans withdrew, and our little remnant was ordered to retire. We have only about 400 men left out of over 1,000 and hardly any N.C.O’s.”

=LEES, PERCY BERESFORD=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., s. of Col. Charles Percy Lees, of Herne Lodge, Oundle, co. Northampton, by his wife, Anna Madeleine, dau. of Edward Whetham Allpress; b. Newton Hall, Middlewich, co. Chester, 12 June, 1890; educ. Wellington College and the School of Mines, Camborne, where he took his degree; was engaged in mining in Canada when war broke out, and at once returned to England, applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Northamptons, 14 Oct. 1914; went to France, 1 March, 1915, where he joined the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. Buried at Neuve Chapelle; unm.

=LEES, THOMAS PRIOR=, Major, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Alfred Lees, by his wife, Rosa Matilda, dau. of Thomas Flood; b. at the Old Priory, Bedford, 3 Sept. 1874; educ. Bedford Modern School and Clare College, Cambridge (M.A. and 8th Senior Optime). Entered the Home Civil Service, Senior Division, and was Assistant Secretary, Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens. Joined the old Victoria and St. George’s Rifles, 22 May, 1889; became Capt., March, 1905, and Major, 15 Aug. 1913; obtained Special Certificate, Chelsea Barracks, and passed the Army examinations for Field Rank (distinguished). He volunteered with the officers of his regt. for active service during the South African War, but only a limited number were required, and he remained in England. Volunteered for the present war, landed in France, 5 Nov. 1915. The battn. went straight into the trenches and was afterwards attached to 13th Infantry Brigade. On 17 April the brigade was detailed for the capture of “Hill 60.” The fighting was so severe during the 17th, 18th and 19th that the West Kents, Scottish Borderers, Yorks L.I and West Riding Regts., who had fought magnificently, were withdrawn and another brigade brought up. The Queen Victoria’s had been occupied in carrying munitions to the front trenches, but miraculously escaped with few casualties. They were not relieved with their brigade. On the night of the 20th the enemy took the trenches on the top of the hill, and Major Lees counter-attacked with two companies, the rest of the battn. being held in reserve in dug-outs near the foot of the hill, where they were subjected to a terrible bombardment lasting for hours. Major Lees’ night assault was successful. He then found he was the senior officer left alive on the hill and reorganised the defence. The German artillery and machine-gun fire was continuous, save when they launched repeated infantry attacks against our trenches. About 5 a.m. on the 21st, Major Lees had gone to the most exposed trench held by the Bedford Regt., in which there were nearly 300 of our killed and wounded. The enemy were assaulting, showering grenades into the trench and sweeping the parapet with machine-gun fire. It was at this critical moment that he was shot through the head and heart, only 10 yards from the Germans, while shouting orders to hold on. He fell off the parapet into the arms of a Sergt. of the Bedfords and never spoke again. The N.C.Os. and riflemen were heroic. Out of the 150 men with Major Lees all were killed and wounded, except 20 who were still holding on with 2nd Lieut. Wolley, V.C., when relieved by the Devons and Camerons. Lieut.-Col. Shipley, C.M.G., wrote to his brother, Major Lees, late 3rd South Wales Borderers: “He died like a hero, having retaken and made good a position of primary importance which the enemy were on the point of re-occupying. His last gallant charge was, as he would have wished it, to the assistance of his county regt., the Bedfordshires. The last words I heard him speak as he led his company off into the trenches were: ‘Now, remember, if anyone is wounded, the others must carry on. If I am hit, go on.’ It was his initiative and courageous behaviour that has enabled us to hold on to the position. I cannot even attempt to tell you what a stupendous loss his is to the regt. and myself, but we must console ourselves by remembering and trying to emulate your brother’s unswerving devotion to duty and the unflinching gallantry shown by him in all times of stress; his life so earnestly devoted to others will live in our memories for all time.” He was buried in the larch wood near Hill 60.

=LEGGAT, WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 7th Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (T.F.), eldest s. of James Leggat, of 89, Wilson Street, Glasgow, Wholesale Provision Merchant, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Robert Carswell, of Duncarnock, Newton Mearns; b. Strathbungo, Glasgow, 29 Jan. 1883; educ. Bellahouston Academy, Glasgow; was a Wholesale Provision Merchant in Glasgow, served four years with the Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers until they were disbanded on the organisation of the T.F.; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 7th Cameronians, 21 March, 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for the Dardanelles, May, 1915, and died at Malta, 2 July following, of wounds received in the Allied attack on the Krithia-Achi Baba position, Gallipoli, on 28 June. Buried Pieta Cemetery, Malta; unm.

=LEGGATT, EDWARD=, E.R.A., 1st Class (Pensioner), 159975, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEGGE, RONALD GEORGE=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., 7th and yst. s. of the late Hon. Charles Gounter Legge, H.M. Inspector of Constabulary, by his wife, Mary, eldest dau. of the late Very Rev. Thomas Garnier, Dean of Lincoln, and grandson of William, 4th Earl of Dartmouth; b. Southgate, co. Middlesex, 4 July, 1878; educ. Sherborne School; served with the 59th Coy. Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War, 1900–1 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Devons, 23 April, 1902; and promoted Lieut. 13 March 1906, and Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; was Adjutant to the Territorial Force, 30 April, 1910, to 29 Oct. 1913; went to France, 5 Nov. 1914, and was killed near Neuve Chapelle, 18 Dec. following. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth, 19 Nov. 1910, Phyllis Mildred, dau. of the Rev. Mortimer Ford, of Yarcombe, co. Devon, and had a son, Rupert Mortimer, b. 8 Sept. 1911.

=LEGGE, STAFFORD HENRY=, Private, No. 847, 16th (Service) Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 1 March, 1915.

=LEGGETT, ALAN RANDALL AUFRÈRE=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Prince of Wales’s North Staffordshire Regt., yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. Frederick Octavius Leggett, of Underhill House, Cheriton, co. Kent, late Army Ordnance Dept., by his wife, Maria (Minnie), dau. of Thomas Browning; b. Delce Grange, Rochester, co. Kent, 31 May, 1893; educ. Oxford Preparatory School, Tonbridge School, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he was Hon. King’s Cadet, 1911–12; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st North Staffords, 4 Sept. 1912, and was promoted Lieut. 18 Sept. 1914; went to France, 4 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches near Armentières, during the First Battle of Ypres, 31 Oct. 1914. Buried St. Martin’s Churchyard, Cheriton, Kent; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914–14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], in respect of an action on 20 Oct. 1914, when he was sent with his platoon to support the Leinster Regt., which was hard pressed, and by “his steadiness, good leadership, and well considered action held up the enemy’s attack and enabled the offensive to be resumed.” His commanding officer wrote: “He did his duty cheerfully and fully, without a thought of self.”

=LEGGETT, GEORGE=, Stoker, R.N.R., 2068U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEGGETT, GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./15320, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEIGH, ALBERT EDWARD=, L.-Corpl., No. 9814, 1st Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 Sept. 1915.

=LEIGH, CHANDOS, D.S.O.=, Major, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, elder s. of the late Hon. Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, K.C., K.C.B., by his wife, Katherine Fanny (Knuston Hall, Irchester, Northants; 45, Upper Grosvenor Street, W.), dau. of the late James Rigby, of Moss House, Lancashire, D.L., and gdson. of Chandos, 1st Lord Leigh; b. 29 Aug. 1873; educ. Harrow and Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, from the Militia, 29 May, 1895, and promoted Lieut. 22 Sept. 1897, Capt. 1 April, 1901, and Major, 17 June, 1914; served (1) in the South African War, 1900–2, employed with the Mounted Infantry; took part in the advance on, and relief of, Kimberley; operations in Orange Free State, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal, May–June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill; operations in Orange River Colony, 1900, including actions at Wittebergen and Bothaville; and in operations in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901]. Queen’s medal with five clasps, D.S.O.); (2) with the Egyptian Army, 17 April, 1902, to 1912; took part in Bahr-el-Ghazal Expedition against the Nyam-Nyam Tribes 1905–6 (Egyptian medal with clasp; Medijidich and Osmanich Orders); and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 13 Aug. 1914; was reported missing and wounded after the Battle of Mons, 23 Aug. 1914, and died at Boussu shortly afterwards. When last seen, though severely wounded, he told his men to go on and never mind him, as the enemy were in great strength, and it was imperative to get back to blow up the canal bridge against their advance. Major Leigh was a fine horseman and polo player, winning his regimental cup the year he joined the Army. He was well known with the Meath, Pytchley and other packs, won honours in the open jumping at the Dublin Horse Show, and headed the winning record for steeplechase riders, both amateurs and professional, on the Cairo Turf. He m. 6 June, 1912, Winifred Madeline, dau. of the late Rt. Hon. Arthur Frederick Jeffreys, of Burkham, Hampshire, P.C., M.P.; s.p.

=LEIGH, CHARLES=, Petty Officer, 174539, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LEIGH, EDWARD=, Major, 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., yr. s. of the late Francis Augustine Leigh, of Rosegarland, co. Wexford, Ireland, J.P., D.L., formerly Lieut., 10th Hussars, by his wife, Augustine, dau. of Charles Perrier, of Metz, Lorraine; b. Rosegarland, 25 Aug. 1867; educ. St. Columba’s, co. Dublin; gazetted 2nd Lieut., from the Militia, to the Hampshire Regt., 9 May, 1888; and promoted Lieut. 4 Jan. 1890, Capt. 22 April, 1894, and Major, 22 July, 1905; joined the 2nd Battn. at Chatham in 1888, but transferred in 1897 to the 1st Battn. then serving on the Indian Frontier at Mooltan, Lundi Kotal, Peshawar, etc.; volunteered for active service in the South African War, in which he was employed with the Mounted Infantry, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to Jan. 1902; in Orange River Colony, Dec. 1900 to Oct. 1901; in Cape Colony, Feb. to March, 1901; commanded the 7th (Hampshire) Mounted Infantry in the operations against De Wet, until he was severely wounded at Onverwacht, near Ermelo, 4 Jan. 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 25 April, 1902], Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); was Adjutant to 4th (Volunteer) Battn. Hampshire Regt., from 20 May, 1904, to 21 July, 1905, when, on promotion to the rank of Major, he rejoined 2nd Battn. as second in command and served with it (temporarily commanding at various times during 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914, and at the time of his death) whilst in Bermuda, South Africa, Mauritius, India and Gallipoli; left for the Dardanelles, 19 March, 1915; took part in the landing there on 25 April, and was killed in action during the Turkish attack on the Allied trenches S.W. of Krithia, Gallipoli, on the night of 1–2 May, 1915. Buried close to where he fell. Major Leigh m. at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, 11 April, 1912, Mary Meade (Ladies’ Empire Club, 69, Grosvenor Street, W.), only dau. of the Hon. Sir John Buchanan, of Clareinch, Claremont, South Africa, LL.D., Knight of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem, and had a son, Edward Buchanan, b. at Vacoas, Mauritius, 19 June, 1913.

=LEIGH, EDWARD HENRY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, yr. s. of the late Hon. Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, K.C., K.C.B. (who died suddenly, 18 May, 1915, three days after hearing of the death of his last surviving son), by his wife, Katherine Fanny (Knuston Hall, Irchester, Northants; 45, Upper Grosvenor Street, W.), dau. of the late James Rigby, of Moss House, Lancashire, D.L., and grandson of Chandos, 1st Lord Leigh; b. 14 July, 1888; educ. Harrow and Cambridge; gazetted Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, 17 April, 1913; left with his regt. for France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in the attack upon the Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915; unm. Lieut. Leigh was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

=LEIGH, THOMAS HORATIO ALFRED=, Private, No. 5624, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. s. of Samuel Leigh, of Jubilee Terrace, New Road, Armitage, co. Stafford, Potter, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Dissington, of Cobridge, Staffs.; b. Armitage, 25 May, 1886; educ. Elementary School there; enlisted 21 July, 1904; served in Egypt, 16 Jan. 1908, to 23 March, 1911, where he was attached to the Camel Corps, and was one of a company sent up the Nile to suppress a native rising; passed into the Reserve, 20 July, 1912; called up on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 21 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914; unm. Buried on the battlefield. He had two good conduct badges, and two first-class badges for shooting, and had passed classes in swimming.

=LEIVERS, JOHN ROBINSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5638), 229452 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LE MARCHAND, JOHN WHARTON JONES=, Lieut., 56th Rifles, Frontier Force, Indian Army, attd. 1/6th Gurkha Rifles, s. of Walter John Le Marchand, District Supt. of Punjab Police, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of J........ G...... Jones, P.W.D., Punjab, India; b. at Gujranwalla, Punjab, 30 Dec. 1887; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.), 25 Jan. 1908; posted to Indian Army, 14 March, 1909, and promoted Lieut., 25 April, 1910; served on N.W. Frontier of India, 1908, including the operations in the Mohmand country and engagement at Mutta (medal with clasp), and with the Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, 1915; killed in action at Sari Bagh, 9 Aug. 1915; buried on the field. Col. Sir Cecil Allanson, commanding the 1/6th Gurkha Rifles, wrote: “Your son was killed with this regt. on 9 Aug. Every single officer in it was killed or wounded; he only joined it about 20 July and we only came under fire after a three weeks’ rest on 5 Aug. The following brief report is what the regt. did and what I have said (in my diary) about your son. No words of mine can express my admiration for his gallantry, his magnificent compliance with difficult orders and his superb control of men whom he hardly knew and who hardly knew him. His death is an example to all on the Peninsula.... The following are the entries referred to: ‘7 Aug.—Advance towards the Ridge 791, 6th Gurkhas leading, Le Marchand leading them; reach a height about 450. Few casualties through skilful use of ground. 8 Aug.—Advance to Hill 791 to within 100 yards. No digging in took place as ground extremely hard and we dare not move. Through the night we had to retain an immensely difficult position with the Turks right above us, every man in the regt. in the firing line. 9 Aug.—Attacked at dawn on the portion of the Ridge 791 in front of us, which was successfully carried, though subsequently evacuated. The position of the night before was held throughout the day.’ The reference made to Lieut. Le Marchand in report sent in to 90th Indian Brigade was as follows: ‘Lieut. Le Marchand led the leading double company to the attack on 7 and 8 Aug.; he had only been with the regt. 15 days and did not know the Goorkha language. His great personal gallantry gave him an extraordinary influence over his men, and he stopped two further rushes of the enemy on the night of the 8th and 9th in a most gallant manner. He remained on the Ridge 791 till the very last and was killed gallantly tackling single handed a large number of Turks.’ The only officer actually unwounded at this moment was Capt. Phipson, I.M.S., who succeeded in obtaining your son’s body and gave it a proper burial that night as near the spot he died as possible, and we have very carefully marked the position.... His death was absolutely instantaneous and painless, as he was shot through the base of the brain”; and in his report to the Colonel of the 5/6th Rifles he said: “Le Marchand’s conduct on the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th was superb. We were very short of officers, and during that time he never had a wink of sleep and very little food or water. No commanding officer could have been better served. No regt. could have wished for a better officer to maintain its reputation. We alone succeeded in getting on the key of the local position, and we fought for three days and three nights and were never for one second out of fire throughout that time. We lost 100 per cent. of our officers and 45 per cent. of our fighting strength in men. It would be a long story to give you all the details, but before Le Marchand died (a few minutes) he placed his foot on the long ridge which surrounds this Peninsula, and had we been able to stay there it would have been splendid. It was no fault of ours whatever that we could not. Gen. Godley, in congratulating the regt., said that had Le Marchand lived he would have recommended him for the V.C.” In his official report of the battle, Sir Cecil wrote: “Lieut. J. W. J. Le Marchand, 56th Rifles, Frontier Force, attd. 1/6th Gurkha Rifles, led the leading double company to the attack on the 8th and 9th. He had only been with the regt. 15 days and did not know the language. His great personal gallantry gave him an extraordinary influence over his men, and he stopped a forward rush of the enemy on the night of the 8th and 9th in a most gallant manner. He was shot dead immediately after landing his company up on the ridge after two days and two nights continuous fighting, during the whole of which time a steady advance was made. No officer could have done finer work than he did and the regt. is deeply indebted to him for his great personal gallantry. I can only thank your regt. for sending us so fine an officer and regret extremely that he should have lost his life with us.”

=LE MARCHANT, LOUIS ST. GRATIEN, D.S.O.=, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 6th and yst. s. of the Rev. Robert Le Marchant, Rector of Little Risington, by his wife, Eliza Catherine, dau. of D. Tupper, of Guernsey; b. Little Risington, co. Gloucester, 2 Dec. 1866; educ. Somerset College, Bath, and privately; gazetted Lieut. to the East Lancashire Regt., from the Gloucestershire Militia, 10 Nov. 1886, and promoted Capt. 11 Dec. 1895, Major, 11 April, 1906, and Lieut.-Col. 23 Sept. 1913; was Adjutant, 1st Battn., 29 Oct. 1898 to 28 Oct. 1902; Brigade Major, India, 9 July, 1906, to 1 March, 1908, and D.A.A.G., India, 2 March, 1908, to 3 July, 1910; served (1) with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895 (medal with clasp); (2) in the South African War, 1900–2; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Karee Siding, Vet River (5–6 May), and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal, May and 30 Nov. 1900 to Oct. 1901, including action near Johannesburg; and operations in Orange River Colony, Oct. 1901 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps, King’s medal with two clasps, D.S.O.); and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug. to 9 Sept. 1914 (mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French, 9 Oct. [London Gazette, 18 Oct.] 1914), and was killed in action at La Ferté sous Jouarre, during the Battle of the Marne, 9 Sept. 1914; unm.

=LE MASURIER, JOHN EDWARD=, Gunner, No. 2708, 3rd Brigade Ammunition Column, 3rd F.A. Brigade, 1st Australian Division, 2nd s. of Charles Henry John Le Masurier, of 3, Elizabeth Terrace, Tower Road, Jersey, Seaman, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Philip Edward Beaugié; b. St. Heliers, Jersey, 19 Aug. 1889; educ. National Boys’ School there; went to Australia, 19 Aug. 1910, and worked as a Steam Navvy on the North Coast Railway at Telegraph Point, N.S.W.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the 3rd Ammunition Column, Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt, 18 Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles in April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 29 May following, while attached to the Indian Mountain Battery; unm. A comrade wrote: “He was killed in action on the evening of 29 May by a shrapnel shell. There was only a small party of us together. We were attached to an Indian Mountain Battery looking after field telephones and doing such work as the Indians could not do, and they could not speak English. I cannot say how sorry we were to lose Jack, as he was one of the best—in fact, what we call, a white man. He was recommended for the D.C.M. for keeping up communications under heavy fire the morning of 29 May, but do not know if it ever went through. We buried him at night on the top of a high headland overlooking the sea at Anzac. The head is known as Pluggy’s Plateau, and was the first place taken on the morning of the Australian landing.”

=LE MESURIER, ALFRED CLIVE=, Lieut., 12th Indian Cavalry, attd. 33rd Q.V.L.H., yst. s. of the late Col. Andrew Alfred Le Mesurier, C.B., Commandant of the 8th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., by his wife, Kate Josephine (Jersey, Channel Islands), dau. of William Henry Vyse, of Cornwall; b. Weymouth, co. Dorset, 8 Sept. 1888; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, and Wellington College, co. Bucks; settled in Upper Assam as a tea planter; joined the Assam Valley Light Horse; obtained a commission in the 12th Indian Cavalry after the outbreak of war, 30 Oct. 1914; went to Mesopotamia early in Feb., attd. to the 33rd Q.V.L.H., and was killed in action there, 29 April, 1915; unm. He was buried beside Major M. H. Anderson, 33rd Q.V.O.L.C., and Lieut. Bailward, 26th K.G.O.L.C., at Brackey, some 30 miles from Ahwaz, near the Karum River, in Persia. It appears that two squadrons were sent out on a reconnaissance some 15 miles from camp. They were met by Arabs, who pretended to be friendly, and warned them that the Turkish army were only three hours’ march away and to go back. They went back about one mile and watered their horses, and stayed there for some time. When the squadrons had finished watering their commander mounted the men and, wheeling them about, marched them off. The hostile Arabs, who had been collecting round under the cloak of the friendlies, opened fire. More mounted Arabs closed in, and Lieut. Le Mesurier was hit and fell from his horse, killed.

=LEMMON, MONTAGUE HAGUE=, Private, No. 1001, Honourable Artillery Coy. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late John Lemmon, of Chichester, by his wife, Martha Elizabeth (afterwards wife of Arthur William Wyatt, of South Gate), dau. of Jonas Hague; b. Chichester, 23 June, 1887; educ. Prebendal School there; was a member of the London Staff of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance, Co., Ltd.; volunteered and joined the H.A.C. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; trained at Headquarters and Aveley Park; went to France in Sept. 1914, and died at Bailleul, 8 June, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres on the 5th; unm. Buried at Bailleul.

=LEMON, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1375S, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LENCH, JAMES SYDNEY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 93), 145290 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEONARD, ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5112), 207650, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEONARD, THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16977, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LE PAGE, EDMOND JOHN=, A.B., B. 4180, S.S. 1351, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LE SUEUR, CLEMENT GEORGE=, Private, No. 3158, 1/5th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only child of Clement George Le Sueur, of 155, Chevening Road, Brondesbury Park, N.W., Clerk in the War Office, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Thomas Cull, and grandson of Clement Le Sueur, late of Jersey; b. Hampstead, N.W., 23 March, 1893; educ. Kilburn Grammar School and King’s College, London; was a Clerk in the Metropolitan Water Board; volunteered and joined the Seaforth Highlanders, 7 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action while on sentry duty in the trenches near Laventie, 17 July, 1915; unm. His company officer wrote: “I hear from his comrades in the ranks that he was a fine soldier, and that his never failing good spirits helped others over the many depressing times we have here”; and the Church of England Chaplain: “It fell to my lot to lay him to rest in the little soldiers’ cemetery [by the roadside, Rue de Bacquerot], not far from Laventie. I know how greatly he is missed and mourned.” A comrade also wrote: “It should be some consolation to you to know that Clem’s high character and good spirits stood the very searching test that this life out here enforces with complete success. His loss was keenly felt by all who had been brought into contact with him”; and the magazine “Aquarius” referred to him as follows: “Mr. Le Sueur entered the service (Metropolitan Water Board) in 1910. He possessed marked ability and great business aptitude and a successful future seemed in store for him.”

=LESTER, JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 283924, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LETFORD, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3739 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEVERINGTON, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 2677, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LE VESCONTE, JOHN THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, 302978, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEVI, KEITH MAURICE=, Capt., A.A.M.C., attached as Regimental Medical Officer to the 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt. 29th Division, yst. s. of Joseph Levi, of Liverpool Buildings, 153, William Street, Melbourne, formerly of Lulinghi, Princes Street, St. Kilda, J.P., by his wife, Katherine S. dau. of Maurice C. Davies, and gdson. of the late Hon. Nathaniel Levi, M.L.C.; b. St. Kilda, Victoria, 6 Oct. 1890. He was educated at Cumloden and Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, afterwards proceeding to the Melbourne University. He was a student at Ormond College and took his M.B. degree in April, 1914. Whilst at the University he took great interest in the Sports Union and was for some time Capt. of B grade hockey team and played in inter-varsity matches. He was also a member of the University Rifles. After graduating in medicine he was appointed a Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital, and later on joined the Staff of Perth Public Hospital. Volunteering for active service on the third day after war was declared, he served as Medical Officer at Blackboy Camp, W.A. and afterwards at the Broadmeadows Camp, Victoria. He left Victoria on Feb. 6 for Egypt, with the Light Horse reinforcements, and was stationed at the First Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, for two months. Proceeding thence to the Dardanelles he was for a time on hospital ships bringing wounded back from Lemnos to Alexandria. He was sent to organise a rest camp on the island of Imbros, and it was from there on June 29th he was ordered to Cape Hellas, and attd. to the 2nd Hampshire Regt. 29th Division, as Regimental Medical Officer. Major J. G. Bell, R.A.M.C., Acting Director of Medical Services, 29th Division, wrote: “I am writing to you about your son’s death. Being separated as he was from his own Australian Troops, it is possible that no one else may write you any particulars. He joined this division (29th) and was placed in medical charge of the 2nd Hampshire Regt. This suited him; he liked his work and became most popular with the regt. He was one of the best regimental Medical Officers in the Division. On the 6th of this month [Aug.] the brigade to which his regiment belonged became engaged and suffered severe casualties. He worked splendidly just behind the firing line all that afternoon and all night getting back the wounded, dressing and attending to them. At about 6.30 on the morning of the 7th when his work was practically over, and he was standing with another officer, a Turkish shrapnel shell fell close to him killing him dead, together with some five other men. He was buried where he fell, next to a Captain of the Hants, with two officers of the Essex Regt. close by. He is buried in an open nullah. I saw his grave this morning, and a suitable cross is being put up this afternoon by the regt. Your son’s death is a great loss; he took such an interest in his work, was so keen about it, and had done so well”; and in a letter to his mother, Lieut. and Q.M. A. Smith, of the Hampshire Regt. wrote: “I was within two yards of your son when he was killed. I am the Quartermaster of this Battn. and knew your son more intimately than anyone else in the Battn. as we were almost always together. All the officers and men liked and respected him for his calmness and coolness in all the trials and dangers of this campaign; I am asked to convey to you and yours the sincere condolence of the officers of this Battn. in your great bereavement, and I am sure it will be of great comfort to you to know that he was killed instantaneously and did not suffer any pain. On Aug. 6 an attack was made by our Brigade on the Turkish trenches, your son being in the same place as myself. When the attack was launched about 3.45 p.m. the wounded began to come in and they came through the Battn. Dressing Station all night, about 220 officers, non-commissioned officers and men were dressed (their wounds being attended to) and sent down to the base, your son working continuously all through the night. At 6.45 a.m. we were ordered to move back and a fresh battn. was sent to relieve us, your son and myself were having some breakfast before starting (as the dressing station was being taken over and cleaned up), when a high explosive shell came from the enemy and exploded close to us, killing three, and wounding four, all of whom had been attending on the wounded. Your son was amongst the killed, a piece of the shell killing him instantaneously. He was buried in a separate grave close to the spot where he was killed, a stone with his name marking the spot.” Col. A. Thackeray Beckwith, Commanding Officer 2nd Hampshire Regt., also wrote: “Though I was not present on 7 Aug. when he was killed I heard exactly about it from Lt. & Q.M. A. Smith of my Battn. who was with him, and I know the spot intimately. Your son had worked like a Trojan, attending to the very large number of wounded in the attack of 6 Aug., and with the Quartermaster and about five other N.C.Os. and men was curiously enough in a hollow just behind the front trench where no shells had ever pitched before, when two shells came down quite close to each other, a piece of one hitting your son in the chest, killing him instantaneously by shock and not by laceration. His loss was a very great one to us, he had done sterling work for the Battn. and in spite of the danger was never absent from our trenches, used most conscientiously to go round them seeing to all the sanitation, attending the wounded, etc. And on one particular occasion went out of his way to help bring in a wounded Canadian officer from a dangerously exposed place.” Capt. Keith M. Levi was mentioned in General Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916]. He was unm.

=LEVINGE, SIR RICHARD WILLIAM=, 10th Bart. of Knockdrin, D.L., co. Westmeath, Lieut., 1st Life Guards, eldest s. of Sir William Levinge, of Knockdrin Castle, 9th Bart., by his wife, Emily Judith (Knockdrin Castle, Westmeath), 2nd dau. of Sir Richard Sutton, 4th Bart.; b. Ryde, I.W., 12 July, 1878; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 8th Hussars, 27 May, 1899; transferred to South Irish Horse and served with them in the South African War, 1900–1; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, and in those in the Transvaal, Dec. 1900 to Jan. 1901, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He succeeded his father 17 April, 1900, and on his return from South Africa retired from the Army, but offered his services again immediately the European War broke out, and was gazetted Lieut. to the Reserve of Officers, 8th Hussars, 19 Aug. 1914, and posted to the 1st Life Guards, 1 Sept. following. He went to France, 4 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914. Col. Stanley, 1st Life Guards, wrote: “The trenches were very small, and your husband was passing from one to another when he was shot dead by a bullet in the neck. I need hardly tell you the awful shock it has given the squadron officers and men, and the loss of one to whom we were devoted will remain with us for ever. Your husband knew no fear, and was always so ready and willing to help me in any way he could with the squadron.” He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, W., 15 Feb. 1910, Irene Marguerite (10, Hans Place, London, S.W.), elder dau. of the late John Henry Charles Pix, of Bradford, Yorks, and had an only son, now Sir Richard Vere Henry Levinge, of Knockdrin Castle, 11th Bart., b. 30 April, 1911.

=LEVISTON, JOSEPH JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 12740, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEVITT, LOFTUS GEORGE=, Leading Seaman, 218265, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEWCOCK, ALGERNON GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16871, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEWES, ERNEST=, Chief Stoker, 276271, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEWES, PRICE VAUGHAN, C.B., D.S.O.=, Capt., R.N., 2nd s. of Col. John Lewes, of Llanlear, co. Cardigan, The Buffs (who served through the Crimean War), by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of the Rev. Charles Griffith; b. Llanlear aforesaid, 27 Feb. 1865; educ. Reading, H.M.S. Britannia, and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; entered the Royal Navy, 1878; and became Lieut. 1888; Commander 1898, and Capt. 1905. He served in China, 1885–88, and in the operations against the Somalis in British East Africa for the murder of Mr. Hamilton, an officer of the East African Company, and the relief of two Englishmen on board the s.s. Kenia in the Juba River, and as Sub-Lieut. of H.M.S. Blanche, landed at Kimayu, Zanzibar, in command of 40 volunteers from that ship and so successfully led this small force, exposed as it was to the attack of 150 riflemen and 600 spearmen, that they captured and destroyed the village of Magareda, up the Juba River, succoured the Englishmen and struck so decisive a blow against the enemy that a punitive expedition was rendered unnecessary. For this service he received the D.S.O., and the general Africa medal with Juba River clasp, and was officially thanked by Government. In 1898, being in command of H.M.S. Hazard and Senior Naval Official, Crete, he landed during the Moslem attack on 6 Sept., and after heavy fighting rescued and brought off the Col. commanding the troops and his soldiers, and for this he was again thanked by Government, and promoted Commander. From 1907 to 1909, he served on the Pacific Station, and was afterwards Deputy Commissioner, Western Pacific, and was officially thanked for his services as such by the New Zealand Government. He received the C.B. on the King’s birthday, 1913. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he was on sick leave, but immediately resumed command of his ship, H.M.S. Superb, but in the beginning of Nov. was invalided home and died in the Naval Hospital at Devonport, 10 Nov. 1914. He m. in London, 30 April, 1894, Anne Josephine, dau. of Lieut.-Col. J. G. M. Tulloch, 21st (Royal Scots) Regt., and had a son, Martyn Vaughan, Lieut., 3rd Welsh Regt., attd. R.F.C., b. 21 April, 1895; killed in flying accident, 15 July, 1916.

=LEWINGTON, ALFRED CHARLES=, Private, No. 1637, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Lewington, of 14, Eresbury Road, Kilburn, Lamplighter; b. Kilburn; joined the Royal Fusiliers about 1912, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915. Three of his brothers served with the Expeditionary Force.

=LEWINGTON, WILLIAM=, Yeoman of Signals, 188764, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEWIS, ALFRED EDWARD=, Leading Stoker, 302447, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LEWIS, CHARLES VERNON=, Lieut., 11th (Service) Battn. (2nd Gwent), South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of Thomas Charles Lewis, of The Sycamores, Conway, by his wife, Catherine Maria Lloyd, dau. of Thomas Lloyd Roberts, of Garthgyman, near Ruthen; b. Frondeg, Bangor, 14 March, 1883; educ. Rydal Mount School, Colwyn Bay; served three years with the Denbighshire Yeomanry, and afterwards represented Messrs. Harrisons and Crosfields, Tea Merchants, London; joined the South Wales Borderers after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914, and died at Weymouth, 18 Aug. 1915, after an operation for appendicitis, contracted while in training. He m. at Langbank, Renfrewshire, 16 June, 1915, Edith Isabel Collingwood, dau. of the Rev. Archibald B. D. Alexander, D.D., of Langbank; s.p.

=LEWIS, DAVID=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9616), S.S. 106974, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEWIS, DAVID WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4638), S.S. 1630, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEWIS, EDWIN CHARLES=, Petty Officer, 195389 (Chatham), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEWIS, GEORGE ARTHUR DUNALLEY=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder s. of Col. Arthur William Drummond Lewis, of 31, Midvale Road, Jersey, by his wife, Emilie Mary, dau. of Mark Morris, and grandson of the late Hon. Arthur James Lewis, Advocate-General of Bombay, ..., member of Council, ..., and of Guestling Lodge, Sussex; b. St. Helens, Hastings, 24 Jan. 1895; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, where he was for four years a member of the O.T.C.; was employed as a Clerk in the Capital and Counties Bank at Weymouth, but on the outbreak of war obtained a commission in the South Staffords, 3 Oct. 1914; trained at Jersey; passed through a machine-gun course during the winter and was machine-gun instructor to the battn.; went to France in May, 1915, when he was attached to the 1st Royal Warwicks, and was killed in action, 8 July, 1915, just after having got his men into position to go to the relief of the Lancashire Fusiliers; unm. He was buried on the banks of the Yser Canal, north of Ypres and south of Pilken. The officer commanding the 1st Warwicks wrote: “We all admired him, he had made himself very popular and we all deplore his loss. His Adjutant, Company Commander and servant all speak in the highest praise of his character, bravery and cheerfulness when under fire, and that he was a fine soldier, and beloved by all ranks.”

=LEWIS, HARRY FRANCIS=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3891), Ch./174438, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEWIS, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6215), 187617, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEWIS, HENRY EDWARD=, A.B., J. 20038, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LEWIS, HERBERT BENJAMIN THOMAS=, Corpl., No. 16296, 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late Robert Lewis, of Hackleton, Northampton, Farmer, by his wife, Mary, 2nd dau. of the late Benjamin (and Elizabeth) Thomas, of Waunfawr Farm, Llanboidy, near Whitland, South Wales; b. Whitland, 22 March, 1879; educ. Northampton Grammar School; was Managing Clerk for Mr. J. S. Campion, Auctioneer and Valuer, Northampton; enlisted in the 3rd Northamptonshire Regt. 31 Oct. 1914, afterwards transferring to the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 2 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915; unm. Lieut. Haldane wrote: “I am sorry to say that details as to what happened on 9 May are very hard to get, but I do know that Herbert B. T. Lewis advanced with his company in the attack. They were the leading company, and he with many of his company were caught by machine-gun fire, and were killed whilst advancing to the enemy’s trench. I was very sorry to lose him, as I had already noticed him when inspecting his company, and had realised what a very excellent N.C.O. he was, and had hoped he would have been spared to rise to much higher rank, which he deserved.”

=LEWIS, ISAAC=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10496), S.S. 108181, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LEWIS, JAMES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7473), S.S. 102603, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LEWIS, JOSEPH=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 7208, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LEWIS, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, No. 2019, 5th Battn. Welsh Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Daniel Lewis, by his wife, Mary (26, Castle Street, Dowlais); b. Dowlais, co. Glamorgan, 12 Aug. 1892; educ. Elementary Schools there, and was a Blacksmith at the Dowlais Iron Works; served with the Welsh Territorials for four years, and rejoined, 10 June, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of the European War; went to the Dardanelles, 14 July, 1915, and was killed in action there, 2 Sept. following; unm.

=LIBBITER, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9591, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LICKFOLD, EDWARD=, Private, No. 2160, 11th Battn. 3rd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of John Lickfold, of Billinghurst, co. Sussex, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Henry Criswick; b. Southampton, 27 Feb. 1878; educ. Wokingham Church School; went to Perth, West Australia, in 1907, and joined the Australian Imperial Force early in 1915; left for Egypt; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 6 Aug. 1915; unm.

=LIDBETTER, ALBERT WILLIAM=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24716 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of William Lidbetter, of 13, Holden Cottages, Broadwater, near Worthing; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LIDDELL, CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3631), 186862, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LIDDLE, FRANK CHARLES=, Private, No. 9166, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 26 March, 1915, of enteric fever, while on active service.

=LIEBERT, FREDERICK ALEXANDER CHARLES=, Capt., North Somerset Yeomanry (T.F.), only s. of John Frederick Liebert, by his wife, Lena Henrietta, dau. of Jean Spreet de Bay, and grandson of Edmund Liebert, of Swinton Hall, co. Lancaster; b. Bruges, Belgium, 9th March, 1882; educ. there, and Beaumont College, and on leaving there received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, from which he retired in 1905, and joined the North Somerset Yeomanry (T.F.), as a 2nd Lieut., 20 Dec. 1905, being promoted Capt., 5 Aug. 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action during the First Battle of Ypres, 17 Nov. following. Buried in Ypres Cemetery. The particular action in which he lost his life was the first action in which the North Somerset Yeomanry took a prominent part, was only over a space of ground some 500 yards square and B Squadron, led by Capt. Liebert, held the first of a series of trenches, upon which a vigorous shell fire of an appalling character was directed. The Germans got to within 15 yards of the trenches, but the attack was repelled, with very heavy losses to them. Letters from his Colonel and brother officers testify to his valuable services as an officer, his high sense of duty combined with much cheerfulness in difficulties and also to the great respect and affection his squadron had for him. Capt. Liebert was Assistant Secretary to the Blackmore Vale Hounds and Secretary to the Wincanton Races; was devoted to hunting, a keen golfer and cricketer, and Freemason. He m. at Pinhoe, 21 July, 1905, Frances (The Elms, Charlton Musgrove, Wincanton, co. Somerset), yr. dau. of Arthur Chamberlayne Chichester, of Gipsy Hill, Pinhoe, co. Devon; s.p.

=LIFTON, ALBERT HUMPHREY=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 342645, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LIGHT, ARTHUR PERCY=, Ship’s Steward’s Assistant (Pensioner), 148076, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LIGHTWOOD, JAMES=, Leading Seaman, 233265, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LIHOU, THOMAS ELISHA=, A.B. (B. 3473), 226505, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LILLY, EDWARD AUGUSTUS=, Private, No. 8582, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 8 Oct. 1914; m.

=LILLIE, JAMES=, Private, No. 904, 18th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; died 30 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action there.

=LILLEY, ALBERT EDWARD=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21849, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LINCOLN, WILLIAM HARRY=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 208647, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LINDLEY, HARRY=, A.B., J. 2174, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LINDRIDGE, CHARLES MALCOLM=, Private, No. 10023, 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Edwin Lindridge, of Spitzbrook Cottage, Marden, Kent; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing 29 Oct. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date.

=LINDSAY, ALEXANDER CAMERON=, Private, No. 2462, 1/9th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of the late William Lindsay, Clothier, by his wife, Jane (55, Montpelier Park, Edinburgh), dau. of Alexander Cameron; b. Edinburgh, 18 Aug. 1895; educ. George Heriot’s School; joined the Royal Scots after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915, while helping a wounded schoolfellow after being twice wounded himself. Buried near St. Jean, two and half miles N.E. of Ypres.

=LINDSAY, DAVID SAUNDERS BROWN=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26630 (Devon.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LINDSAY, GEORGE LAWRENCE=, Chief Stoker, 176607, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LINDSAY, JAMES HARPER=, Capt., No. 1 Coy., Forth Royal Garrison Artillery (T.F.), yr. s. of the late James Lindsay, J.P., by his wife, Ann (Edzell Lodge, Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of James Harper, of Edinburgh; b. Edinburgh, 15 April, 1885; educ. Edinburgh Institution; was a partner in firm of Wm. Lindsay & Son, Cannon Mills, Edinburgh; joined the R.G.A. as 2nd Lieut. 1905; promoted Lieut., 1909, and Captain, 1 June, 1913; was called up on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and died in Craigleith Military Hospital, Edinburgh, 24 June, 1915, from the result of injuries received in a motor accident, while on service; unm. He was a keen Rugby footballer and played for the Edinburgh Institution F.P’s. for ten years, six of which he was captain of the team, and on retiring from play he was elected to the Scottish Rugby Union, of which body he was a member until his death. He took great interest in his artillery work, and took his company, which was qualified to shoot for the King’s Cup, to the Isle of Wight for the contest.

=LING, GEORGE BATTELY=, Rifleman, No. Y211, 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd s. of the late William Page Ling, of Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer, by his wife, Christina Morrison (252, Spring Road, Ipswich), dau. of George Mitchell, of Alloa, and grandson of the late William Girling Ling, of Brooks Hall Road, Ipswich; b. Auckland, 4 Jan. 1891; educ. Ipswich Municipal Secondary School; was an Ironmonger; joined the King’s Royal Rifles after the outbreak of war, 29 Aug. 1914; went to France, 5 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 10 May, 1915; unm.

=LING, WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 8008, 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., s. of Samuel Ling, of Theberton, Suffolk, by his wife, Maria; b. Lowestoft, 20 April, 1888; educ. Board School there; enlisted 6 June, 1906; served in Malta and Egypt, from 18 Jan. 1911 to Oct. 1914; and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from Nov. to 10–14 March, 1915, between which latter dates he was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle. He m. at St. Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft, 8 Dec. 1910, Barbara Ellen, 3rd dau. of Edward Cannell, of Lowestoft; s.p.

=LINNEY, ALFRED=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class, R.F.R. (B. 1996), 194089, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LINSDELL, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3328), 162235, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LINTERN, ALFRED TENNYSON=, Private, No. 13189, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Edward George Lintern, of Hill Side Road, St. George’s, Bristol, Foreman under the Bristol Council, by his wife, Clara (144, Two Mile Hill, Kingswood, Bristol), dau. of the late James Hicks, of St. George’s, Bristol; b. Bristol 18 July, 1892; educ. Summer Hill Board School, St. George Glou, Bristol; was for three years a member of the 6th (Territorial) Battn. of the Gloucestershire Regt., and in 1912 joined the Metropolitan Police Force. After the outbreak of war he enlisted, 14 Oct. 1914; went to France, 28 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Laventie, 29 Dec. 1915; unm. Buried Fauquissart.

=LINTON, JOHN THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 2539), 303386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LINTON, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11369, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, yst. s. of John Paterson Linton, of Knowepark, Heriot, co. Midlothian, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Anderson, Blainslie; b. Knowepark aforesaid, 15 Aug. 1896; educ. Heriot Public School, Dalkeith, and Lasswade Secondary Schools, and was about to enter upon his college and University course when war was declared; enlisted in the Scots Guards, 22 Sept. 1914; went to France, 31 March, 1915, and died a prisoner of war in the German Field Hospital at Seclin, 21 May, 1915, from wounds received in action at Festubert on the 18th. It is said that he was one of the 80 Scots Guards who, at Festubert, sold their lives so dearly and fell to a man, after firing their last cartridge. At Heriot School he won all the chief prizes of his years, including a Secondary Education Bursary, open to the county, and at Dalkeith and Lasswade Schools the Intermediate and Junior Students’ Certificates respectively. As a rifle shot he did yeoman service to the Heriot Ride Club in their interclub matches, won the club championship (Mathison Cup) twice, and at the International Meeting in Glasgow he won the cup as boy champion of Scotland and the same cup at Edinburgh in the following year.

=LINTORN, JOHN THOMAS=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1288), late R.M.A., 9658, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LINTOTT, ALBERT EDWARD=, L.-Corpl., No. 7987, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 8 Sept. 1914; unm.

=LINTOTT, CHARLES FRANK=, Private, No. 8776, 2nd Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Zonnebeke, 21 Oct. 1914.

=LION, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private, No. 265, 3rd City of London Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), only s. of Juan Joaquin Lion, of 28, Frognal, Hampstead, N.W., Agent, by his wife, Anna, dau. of Henry Boehmer; b. Stanmore, co. Middlesex, 23 Jan. 1895; educ. Lower School of John Lyon, Harrow-on-the-Hill; was a member of the staff of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.; volunteered and joined the R.A.M.C. (T.F.), after the outbreak of war, 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, 16 Jan. 1915, and died at a Field Hospital, 28 Sept. 1915, of wounds received during the Battle of Loos. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. His section officer wrote: “He was one of those upon whom one could always rely to undertake any duty at any time and to do it well and cheerfully, and with good will. He was one of those competent men in whom his officers always had confidence, and they were never disappointed. He died gallantly in this battle, being hit by a shell in the trenches at the very outset, and died the same night in the Field Hospital. Two other members of his stretcher squad were killed at his side. He fell doing his duty and after having done it well for many months.”; and a friend: “He was a fine fellow in every sense of the word, always ready to do anything, and there is not a man in the Corps that was not cut up about it.”

=LIPSETT, WILLIAM ALFRED=, Barrister-at-Law, Private, No. 20330, 10th Battn. Canadian Infantry, yst. s. of the late Robert Lipsett, Ballyshannon, Ireland; b. at Ballyshannon, 29 Jan. 1886; educ. St. Andrew’s College, Dublin, and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of the Irish Bar, but in the spring of 1914 went out to Canada and was engaged in legal work in Calgary, Alberta. Two days after war broke out he volunteered, enlisting as a private, and refusing a commission. He came home with the 1st Canadian Contingent, and went to France with them in Feb. 1915. He was killed on the night of 22–23 April, 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres during the charge of the 10th and 16th Canadian Battns. on the wood to the west of St. Julien. It will be remembered that these regts. charged through the wood, against far superior numbers, under the heaviest machine-gun fire, and actually reached a point 500 yards in advance of the wood, retaking the four British guns which had been lost in the afternoon of 22 April. Unfortunately the casualties were very high. The 10th Battn. went into the wood 1,000 strong, and came out only 200 strong. Mr. Lipsett played a gallant part in this attack. As Major Ormond, who took over command of the 10th Battn. after Col. Boyle was killed, wrote: “I saw Lipsett the night that he was killed; we went into action charging the wood west of St. Julien at 11.50 p.m., April 22. The Grenadiers were grouped on our left flank and did exceptionally well, Lipsett being one of them. As soon as we had taken the trench, they continued along to the left until they were stopped. Lipsett like the others was very cool and appeared to have no fear. They were subject to the most severe machine-gun fire I have known, but pressed on until all were killed and wounded. I regret to say that as he was killed within 10 or 15 yards from the German redoubt at the corner of the wood we were unable to recover his body. He was an excellent soldier.” His Adjutant also wrote: “He was a gallant soldier and is deeply regretted by all ranks,” and again, “He rendered valuable service to his Battn. and is universally regretted.” His eldest brother, Captain Lewis R. Lipsett, also a member of the Irish Bar, is (1916) serving in the Army Service Corps, with the Expeditionary Force in France. His cousin, Brigadier-General Lewis J. Lipsett, formerly of the Royal Irish Regt., was appointed a C.M.G. for his services at the Second Battle of Ypres, while in command of the 8th Battn. Canadian Infantry.

=LIPTROTT, ERIC CARR=, Lieut., 6th Jat. L.I., only s. of the Rev. Boulton Brander Liptrott, M.A., Vicar of St James’s, Teignmouth, co. Devon, by his wife, Louisa Constance, dau. of George Carr, of Greenlawalls, Northumberland; b. Plymouth, 14 Oct. 1887; educ. Sutton Valence, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; was attd. to the West Yorks; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached Indian Army, 17 Aug. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 17 Nov. 1909; was attd. to the West Yorks Regt. for his first year, then joined the 6th Jats.; served in the Mohmand Expedition of 1908, with the West Yorkshire Regt. (medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 20 Oct. to 26 Nov. 1914, on which later date he died in the Casino Hospital at Boulogne, from wounds received in action at Festubert on the 21st; unm. Buried in the New Cemetery at Boulogne. Col. H. I. Roche, Commanding Officer of the 6th Jats., wrote: “It was with the deepest sorrow we heard of your son’s death, and you have the sympathy of all his brother officers in the sad loss you have sustained. We hoped so much he was going to be spared as, though he had sustained a very severe wound, there seemed some hope he might pull through. He is a great loss to the regt. as he had been doing so particularly well, and indeed, he had been specially brought to notice for his gallant behaviour in an attack on the night of 16 Nov.”; and Major P. H. Dundas: “I am very sorry indeed to see from the papers that your son succumbed to his wound. He had been my subaltern since 1911, and I never wish to have a better. He was always keen, full of energy and cheery as possible at anything he was asked to do. Four days before he was hit he helped me in a night attack on some German trenches, and it was very largely due to his cool leading of the left half of the attack that we brought the affair off successfully. Believe me you have the sincerest sympathy of the whole regt. in your loss.” He was the best revolver shot of his year at Sandhurst, and also represented Sandhurst against Woolwich in the revolver shooting competition. He was an expert at all games, especially golf, rugby football, for which he gained his cap at Sutton Valence, and tennis, for which he also won two firsts at the Teignmouth Tournament in 1914, and when in India he captained the West Yorkshire Rugby football team which won the cup at Lahore.

=LITSON, CHARLES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17688, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LITTLE, ANDREW (DREW)=, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Andrew Little, of Hexham, Miller and Corn Merchant, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Shanks; b. Hexham, 25 May, 1886, educ. Bilton Grange, Harrogate; was with his brother John George Little, joint Managing Director of Messrs. A. & G. Little, Ltd., Millers, and a partner in the County Roller Flour Mills at Hexham, but on the outbreak of war joined the Army. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3 Nov. 1914, left Newcastle for the Front, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, six days later (Sunday, 25 April); unm. Writing to his mother, Capt. J. E. Raine of the B Coy. said: “He died at the head of his platoon, leading his men in an advance. We were being shelled and I had just walked up to him to say something, when a shell burst. Death was instantaneous, and we buried him later in a little churchyard near Voloerenhook, Belgium, and marked the place with a cross. This was Sunday, about 6 p.m. Nothing could have been better than the magnificent way in which he behaved throughout the few days we were in this zone.” Little was a playing member of the Tyneside Athletic Association, took a keen interest in lawn tennis, and acted as joint secretary of the annual open tournament promoted by the above Association. Alongside with his brother, Mr. J. C. Little, he regularly used to figure in the matches of the Tynedale Hockey Club, and for several years represented Northumberland County.

=LITTLE, WILLIAM ERIC=, Private, No. 2594, 1/15th Battn. (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Little, of Nile House, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, Tea Dealer and Provision Merchant, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late W. Aynsley, of Consett, J.P.; b. Whitley Bay, 12 Oct. 1896; educ. Park County Council Schools there and Rutherford College, Newcastle; passed his examination for the Civil Service and was appointed to National Health Insurance Office, London; joined the Civil Service Rifles in Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and died at St. Omer Hospital, 6 April, 1915, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Buried in the French Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer. His Lieut. wrote: “Your son was a good soldier and did his duty, and I personally am very sorry to lose him. He was always in the leading four of my platoon, and I used to love his merry face. He died as soldier; he was ready, and that is all a soldier can do.”

=LITTLEHALES, RICHARD=, Private, No. 11988, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of the Rev. Walter Gough Littlehales, of 21, Princes Avenue, Muswell Hill, N., Clerk in Holy Orders, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the Rev. J. E. Robinson, Vicar of Chieveley, Berks; b. Bulvan Rectory, near Romford, co. Essex, 21 Sept. 1881; educ. Forest School, Walthamstow, and Chelsea Technical College, where he trained as an engineer; after working for several well-known firms, joined the staff of the East Surrey Traction Co.; volunteered and enlisted in the Coldstreams in Sept. 1914; went to France, 22 Jan. 1915, and died at Netley Red Cross Hospital, 13 June, 1915, of shell wounds received in action at Givenchy, 22–25 April; unm.

=LITTLEJOHN, ERIC GEORGE=, Private, No. 2596, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of George Littlejohn, of 245, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Christina, dau. of William Gardner; b. Edinburgh, 30 Nov. 1894; educ. George Heriot’s School; was an employee in the firm of Messrs. Dowell, of George Street, Edinburgh, but after the outbreak of war joined the Royal Scots, Sept. 1914; volunteered for foreign service; went to the Dardanelles, 6 May, and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915. Letters from his officers and comrades all speak of his popularity, courage and soldierly capabilities. He was a football player at George Heriot’s School, played forward for his Battn.’s Rugby XV during the winter 1914–15, and was one of the team that secured the second Gold Medals at the Military Sports at Melrose in April, 1915. His yr. brother, Sapper Arthur William Gardner Littlejohn, is (1916) on active service with the City of Edinburgh (Fortress) Royal Engineers.

=LITTLEWOOD, ARTHUR FRANCIS BEWICKE=, Corpl., No. 1603, 1st Battn. Pioneer Section, Honourable Artillery Coy. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the Rev. Elijah Harrison Littlewood, of Lingfield Lodge, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, formerly vicar of Biggleswade, co. Beds, by his wife, Julia Fanny, dau. of Henry Bellmam; b. Peterboro’, 18 July, 1884; educ. Haileybury and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a member of the O.T.C., was Assistant Master at Haywards Heath and Eastbourne; volunteered and joined the H.A.C. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Sept. following; worked for six months on the communication lines, and was then sent to the firing line, where he was attd. to the Pioneer Section, and it was while in command of this section that he died at No. 23 General Hospital, Etaples, 7 July, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres on the 5th; unm. Buried at Etaples. His Capt. wrote: “He was a very fine fellow, and will be a great loss to me,” and a comrade: “He was one of the nicest fellows I ever knew, and men of many regiments thought the same. He had been promoted Corpl. since he came out and was thought very highly of.” At Haileybury he played for the 1st XI and for the Rugby XV.

=LIUNSTIE, PERCY=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LIVINGSTONE, WESTLEY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3031), 197062, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LLOYD, EDWARD RAYMOND=, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, elder surviving s. of Lieut.-Col. Edward Lloyd, of Bedford, late Indian Cavalry, by his wife, Mary Katharine, dau. of the Rev. John Harding; b. 13 Nov. 1882; educ. Bedford Grammar School and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. of the Inniskillings, 22 Oct. 1902, promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1905, and subsequently transferred to the 2nd Battn. then in Egypt, of which corps he was successively assistant adjutant and (29 Aug. 1911) adjutant. He received his coy. 21 Feb. 1912, went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, was wounded in the fighting about Cambray Le-Cateau on 26 Aug. and died of wounds in the hospital at Cambray, 3 Dec. following; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A good all-round sportsman, he represented his school in the Public Schools Boxing Competition held at Aldershot in 1899, and was a keen follower of the hounds and a frequent rider in point-to-point hunt steeplechases. He was also a good shot both with gun and rifle.

=LLOYD, FREDERICK ALLAN=, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./18106, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LLOYD, FRANK=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12644, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LLOYD, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, 298028, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LLOYD, GERALD AYLMER=, Capt., 1st Battn. The Welsh Regt., yr. s. of Francis Aylmer Lloyd, of Eastwood, Bridgwater Road, Weybridge; b. London, 17 April, 1888; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Welsh Regt., 19 Sept. 1908; and promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911, and Capt. 16 Nov. 1914; passed through the Hythe Musketry School with distinction in 1912; served in the Camel Corps, Egypt, 1912–13; was Adjutant of the Missouri Volunteer Rifles in India from March to Aug. 1914; returned to England in Dec. 1914; went to France, 14 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 16 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried at Chateau Rosendal. His brother, Lieut. Francis Charles Aylmer Lloyd, Highland L.I., died of wounds, 8 Oct. 1915.

=LLOYD, LEWIS JOHN BUCKNALL=, Lieut., Acting Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., only s. of John Bucknall Lloyd, of Dorrington Grove, Shrewsbury, J.P., by his wife, Adela Maud, dau. of the late Percival Spearman Wilkinson, of Mount Oswald, Durham, J.P.; b. Toronto, Kansas, U.S.A., 19 Sept. 1886; educ. Charterhouse and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. Shropshire L.I., 9 Oct. 1907, and promoted Lieut., 24 July, 1912; transferred to the 2nd Battn. in 1912 and served with it at Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, India, returning to England in Nov. 1914; went to France, 19 Dec. 1914, and from early in March, 1915, was acting Capt., and was killed in action during the Second Battle of Ypres, 28 April, 1915, while leading an attack on a German trench near Zillebeke; unm. He was last seen wounded and leaning against the wire of the German trench he was charging. Buried near Zillebeke.

=LLOYD, THOMAS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115871, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LLOYD, WALTER=, Capt., 8th (Service) Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Thomas Lloyd, of Leghorn, Italy, and of Minard, co. Argyle, by his wife, Anne, 2nd dau. of John Campbell, of Kilberry, Argyleshire; b. Casa Mansi, Bagni-de-Lucca, Italy, 17 July, 1874; educ. Farnborough School and Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, from the Militia, 24 June, 1896; and promoted Lieut. 21 April, 1898, and Capt. 1 Jan. 1905; served in Malta; Cairo; Crete, where, during International occupation, he acted as Interpreter at the sittings of the International Committee; Hong Kong; and India; was Adjutant of Volunteers from Jan. 1905 to 31 March, 1908, and of Territorial Force from 1 April to 9 July, 1908; joined the Reserve of Officers; was called up on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and posted to the 8th Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers; went to the Dardanelles, 28 June, 1915, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. following, while leading his coy. in an attack on a Turkish trench. Buried at Quinn’s Post. He m. at St. John’s Cathedral, Hong Kong, 8 Nov. 1899, Phyllis, 2nd dau. of Admiral Sir Francis Powell, K.C.M.G., C.B., and had two daus.: Phyllis Joan, b. Hong Kong, 25 Sept. 1901; and Alma, b. at Minard Castle, Argyleshire, 21 May, 1904.

=LLOYD, WALTER REGINALD=, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 5th and yst. s. of the late Sampson Samuel Lloyd, of Dolobran, co. Montgomery, and Janoway Hill, co. Surrey, M.P. for Plymouth (1874–80), and South Warwickshire (1885–86), Chairman of Lloyd’s Bank, and yr. s., by his 2nd wife, the late Marie Wilhelmine Sophie Christine (Danesrood, Guildford), dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Frederick William Menckhoff, Prussian Army; b. at The Farm, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, 18 Aug. 1868; educ. Eton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd North Lancashire Regt., 22 Aug. 1888; and promoted Lieut. 21 June, 1891; Capt. 2 Dec. 1895; Major 1 June, 1906; and Lieut.-Col. (two days before his death) 12 Sept. 1914; was Adjutant, 3 July, 1897, to 3 July, 1901; served in the South African War with 1st Battn., 1901–02; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, July, 1901, to March, 1902, and in those in Cape Colony, March to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from Aug. 1914, and was killed in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. following; unm. He rowed in the Eton Eight in 1886.

=LOBB, RICHARD JAMES=, Leading Carpenter’s Crew, No. M. 2882, R.N.; killed on H.M.S. Highflyer in action with the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, off the Ouro River, on the West African Coast, Aug. 1914.

=LOBJOIT, WILLIAM BENJAMIN=, Private, No. 3474, 2/10th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Benjamin Lobjoit, of 1, Glebe Street, Chiswick, W., Plumber, by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Philip Buckland; b. Chiswick, 20 Dec. 1894; educ. Hogarth Boys’ School there; was a Milk Carrier; enlisted, 5 April, 1915; left England with his Regt. for the Dardanelles on 17 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 14 Aug. following; unm.

=LOCK, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3845), 231925, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LOCKE, ARCHIBALD CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7470), S.S. 102630, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOCKE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 13927, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Henry Locke, of 44, Gloster Road, Upper Edmonton; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 11 May, 1915.

=LOCKSMORE, RICHARD JAMES=, Private, No. 9867, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 16 May, 1915; m.

=LOCKWOOD, MARK=, Private, No. 7346, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. York; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital, Coulommiers, 9 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action. Buried at Boitron in a field adjoining road, and a cross erected; unm.

=ELIOTT-LOCKHART, PERCY CLARE, D.S.O.=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 59th Scinde Rifles, Frontier Force, only s. of Col. William Eliott-Lockhart, of Glentromie, Camberley, Royal (Madras) Artillery (died 23 Aug. 1915), by his wife, Ada Clare, dau. of Henry Clan Cardew, Lieut., 94th Regt.; b. Kamptee, India, 21 Sept. 1867; educ. Somerset College, Bath, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.) Indian Army, 23 Nov. 1887; served for one year with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and then for two years (1888–90) with the Indian Staff Corps, 14 Nov. 1890; was appointed to Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides in 1892; and became Capt. 23 Nov. 1898; Major 23 Nov. 1905, and Lieut.-Col. 16 Nov. 1913; served (1) as Brig. Transport Officer in the Waziristan Expedition, 1894–95 (medal with clasp); (2) with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895, present at storming of the Malakand Pass (medal with clasp); (3) on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897–98; took part in the defence, and relief of, Malakand; the relief of Chakdara, Malakand; operations in Bajaur and in the Mamund country; Utman Kiel and Buner (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1897], medal with two clasps, D.S.O.); (4) in China, 1900 (medal); (5) in East Africa, 1903–04 as D.A.A. and Q.M.G., 2nd Brigade. Somaliland Field Force; took part in operations in Somaliland; action at Jidballi (again mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 2 Sept. 1914], medal with two clasps): and (6) with the Expeditionary Force in France, in command of the 59th Scinde Rifles from 28 Jan. 1915, and died 12 March, 1915, from wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle, a few hours previously. Buried about a mile to the west of Neuve Chapelle. He m. at High Leigh, Cheshire, 26 April, 1905, Katherine Mary, dau. of James Worrall, of High Leigh, and had two children: William, b. 11 Feb 1906; and Katharine Clare, b. 3 March, 1909.

=LOFT, ALMA JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1847U, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOFTS, BERNARD=, Private, No. 1966, 6th, attd. 8th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of Alfred Lofts, of Amersham, co. Bucks, Provision Merchant, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of William Hicks, of Looe, Cornwall; b. Canonbury, N., 20 April, 1891; educ. Watford Grammar School, and Bethany House School, Goudhurst, co. Kent; was apprenticed to the drapery trade at Uxbridge; and was successively employed by Eaden and Lilley, Cambridge; Hitchcock Williams, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and C. Jenner and Co., Edinburgh; joined the Royal Scots after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915; unm. Buried near Festubert.

=LOFTS, JAMES=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 306070, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1915; m.

=LOGAN, JAMES AIRD=, A.B., 215575, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOGAN, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9595), S.S. 106972, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOMAX, GERALD DAVID=, Lieut. 3rd Battn. The Welch Regt., 2nd s. of the late Capt. David Alexander Napier Lomax, Welch Regt. (killed in action at Driefontein, 10 March, 1900 during the South African War), by his wife, Annette (now wife of Major Frank Towle, of 3, Clarence Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.); b. Manorbier, co. Pembroke, 6 Jan. 1895; educ. Marlborough College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., The Welch Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 14 March, 1915; went to France, 12 March, whilst there was attd. to the 2nd Royal Berkshire Regt., and died in the hospital barge, 11 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Fromelles two days previously; unm. Buried at Estaires, in the English Cemetery. His Doctor wrote: “We did all we could to make him comfortable, but his wounds were so severe that medically speaking he never had a chance; fortunately he suffered very little pain, and died as I fancy he must have lived, bravely thinking of others more than himself.” His brother, Capt. C. E. N. Lomax, also Welch Regt., is now (1916) on active service, being a Temporary Major in the Manchester Regt.

=LOMAX, HARRY=, Private, No. 2164, 2nd Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Robert Lomax, of 4, Birmingham Street, Bolton, Mechanic, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Smith; b. Bolton, co. Lancaster, 10 Jan. 1885; educ. St. Matthew’s Church of England Schools and Bolton Municipal Secondary School; sometime employed at the Bolton Post Office; emigrated to New Zealand in Sept. 1909, and later went to Sydney, Australia, where he was a member of the Lancashire Association; volunteered for Imperial service, 4 May, 1915, and joined the 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt, 16 June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 1 Aug., and was killed in action there, 6–9 Aug. 1915, during the fighting at Lone Pine; unm.

=LONG, FREDERICK RICHARD RANDOLPH=, Bugler, R.M.A., 10307, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LONG, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Cl. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7397), S.S. 102426, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LONG, STEWART SHACROFT=, Leading Seaman, 231412, H.M.S Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LONGBOURNE, WILLIAM LOUIS JENNINGS=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (F.), 4th surviving s. of the late Charles R. V. Longbourne, of Ripsley, co. Sussex, by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Ainslie, dau. of the late Rev. and Hon. James Norton, of Anningsley Park, co. Surrey [4th son of Hon. Fletcher Norton, a baron of the exchequer in Scotland, and gdson. of Fletcher, 1st Baron Grantley, P.C.]; b. Ripsley, 24 Aug. 1887; educ. Malvern College, passed all the Law examinations for a Solicitor; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Battn. The Queen’s, 9 May, 1914, promoted Lieut., took part in the landing at Suvla Bay on the early morning of 9 Aug. 1915, and in the subsequent attack on Chocolate Hill, the same day; while leading his platoon in the attack he was badly wounded when near the top of the hill, but refused to allow his men to help him, telling them to go on. Afterwards, owing to the cross fire and nature of the country, it was found impossible to get to him and he was never seen again.

=LONGHURST, CHARLES=, Private, No. 10029, 2nd Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Charles Longhurst, of 68, Regent Street, Whitstable, Kent; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Gheluvelt, 29 Oct. 1914.

=LONGMAN, FREDERICK=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Charles James Longman, of Upp Hall, Braughing, Ware, and 39, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., M.A., J.P., Publisher, by his wife, Harriet Ann, 2nd dau. of Sir John Evans, K.C.B., F.R.S.; b. Norfolk Square, London, 9 May, 1890; educ. Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge; joined the Hertfordshire Territorials in 1910; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Fusiliers, 13 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 24 Aug. 1914; went to France 13 Aug.; was wounded in the arm at the Battle of the Marne, but rejoined his regt. after a short stay at a base hospital, and was killed in action at Herlies, 18 Oct. following; unm. On this day his regiment was holding the village of Le Riez close to Herlies and he was resting in a farm with some brother officers, when a shell burst over this house. Lieut. Longman ran to put on his equipment and join his men; but another shell exploded just outside the window, and a pellet struck him in the temple, killing him instantaneously. His Colonel (since killed in action) wrote: “Please accept my deepest sympathy and be consoled with the thought that his work on active service was as sound and valuable as his conduct has been brave and dutiful. His rapid return to duty after the wound received after crossing the Marne marked him specially as a genuine soldier, and his loss will be very much felt by all of us, professionally and socially.” A brother officer also wrote: “He was always cheery, and it did us all good to see the way he did his job, and never grumbled at anything. He was one of the gallantest fellows I ever saw, and nothing ever frightened him. We are all proud of him, and his name will always go on in the Regiment’s history as a hero”; and another said he noticed, on the retreat from Mons, how he carried far more than his share of the necessaries, and constantly cheered his men by word and example in their temporary depression. While at Harrow, he was a member of the School Corps, and of the Football XI in 1907, in which year he was also a Dolphin and champion featherweight boxer. He was a member of the O.T.C. at Cambridge, and later held a commission in the Hertfordshire Territorial Regt., for which he recruited a section of 41 men in the neighbourhood of his home at Braughing. He was an active member of the local rifle club and gave much time to training lads from the village school at the miniature range, some of whom became excellent shots. In the army he devoted himself to training his men in shooting and boxing, and represented his battn. in the competition for the Army championship at rifle shooting. In regard to his boxing in the Southern Command Boxing Meeting of 1914, the judge remarked that his fight was the finest thing he had ever seen, and held it up to the men as an example of British pluck and endurance.

=LONGSDON, ALFRED ALLEN=, St. John Ambulance Brigade, s. of the late Robert Longsdon, of Bromley, Kent, Civil Engineer, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Richard (and Sarah) Allen; b. Bromley, 16 Feb. 1866; educ. Wellington College, was a scientist; joined the St. John Ambulance Association after the outbreak of war, in Oct. 1914; went to France in the early part Dec., and was accidentally killed at Havre, 6 Jan. 1915, while on service. In returning to the hospital situated on the docks, Mr. Longsdon, who was owner-driver of a Fiat motor ambulance, had to pass near the edge of one of the quays. In the darkness he must have misjudged the distance, for the ambulance car fell into the basin and when he was got out of the water he was found to have sustained a fractured skull, and he died without recovering consciousness. Buried at Havre. He m. at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 5 Sept. 1896, Ellen Mary (Addison Mansions, Kensington), yst. dau. of Joseph Allen, and had five children: Robert Cyril, b. 28 March, 1900; Grant Allen, b. (posthumous) 2 June, 1915; Nancy, b. 22 July, 1902; Marion, b. 1 May, 1908; and Merritt Jean, b. 23 June, 1911.

=LONSDALE, ARTHUR CARR GLYN=, Lieut., 6th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yr. s. of the late Rev. John Henry Lonsdale, M.A., Rector of Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, by his wife, Katharine Carr (The Further House, Wimborne, co. Dorset), dau. of Capt. Carr Stuart Glyn, of Wood Leage, Wimborne, and gdson. of the late Canon John Gilby Lonsdale, of Lichfield; b. Wall Vicarage, Lichfield, co. Stafford, 7 Sept. 1891; educ. Summerfields, Oxford; Radley, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was intending to take orders, but on the outbreak of war, obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, from the C.U.O.T.C., 15 Aug. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915; went to France in Nov., 1914; was subsequently attd. to the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915, while leading his platoon; unm. Buried there. While at Summerfields, he won an Eton and a Radley Scholarship; at Radley he was capt. of rackets and of fives, and at Cambridge where he graduated in 1910, he represented his college at tennis.

=LONSDALE, DAVID=, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 1005), 284049, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LOOS, CECIL GEORGE BERTRAM=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., yr. s. of the late Hon. Frederick Charles Loos, C.M.G., by his wife, Isabel (Roseneath, Darley Road, Colombo, Ceylon); b. Colombo, 3 Oct. 1884; educ. Bedford Grammar School; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Buffs (Militia), 1904; transferred to the 1st Worcestershire Regt., 27 May, 1908, and joined the Reserve of Officers, 1912; on the outbreak of war rejoined the 3rd Battn. of his regt.; was promoted Lieut. in Dec.; went to France, 3 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 12 March, 1915. Buried there near the chateau. He m. at St. Leonards-on-Sea, 16 April, 1912, Helen, dau. of John Hines, of Seddlescombe Lodge, St. Leonards-on-Sea, and had one son, Frederick Charles, b. May, 1913.

=LORAM, ALLEN=, Stoker, 1st Class, 294257, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LORD, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2358), 184692, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LORD, HERBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, B. 4301, S.S. 103147, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LORD, WILLIAM HERBERT=, A.B., J. 13484, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action, 22 Sept., 1914.

=LOUCH, THOMAS=, Private, No. 13590, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late Thomas Louch (died 17 June, 1905), by his wife, Mary Ann (Newbold-upon-Avon), dau. of the late Matthew Davies, of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire; b. Newbold-on-Avon, near Rugby, co. Warwick, 12 May, 1883; educ. Council School there, and afterwards attended night schools and gained several certificates. He was engaged in the building trade, but after the declaration of war, answered his country’s call and enlisted in Nov. 1914. He was sent to the Front in July, 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 8 Oct. 1915; unm. He was a member of the Newbold Football Club and of the Committee of the Cricket Club. He was also a member of the Church Choir and for several seasons spent most of his leisure time in helping to beautify the churchyard.

=LOVATT, WILLIAM HENRY TURNER=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports. 7248), R.F.R., Ch. B. 1203, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOVEDAY, ARTHUR EDWARD=, Private, No. 9411, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Joseph Joel Loveday, of 58, Yew Tree Road, Witton, Birmingham, late Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of William Green, of Berkshire; b. Saltley, Birmingham, 15 April, 1893; educ. College School there, enlisted 8 Jan. 1912; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 5 Nov. following; unm.

=LOW, ANDREW LESLIE=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 1084, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOW, DAVID=, Private, No. 4104, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Alexander Low; b. Edinburgh, 23 Dec. 1881; educ. Cranstoun Street School there; enlisted 1897; served in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s and King’s medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action near Kemmel, 21 Jan. 1915. He m. at Edinburgh, 1903, Catherine (16, South Richmond Street, Edinburgh), dau. of Hugh Flaherty, and had four children: Alexander, b. 15 Feb. 1909; Hugh, b. 31 Jan. 1914; Catherine Muir, b. 18 Nov. 1903; and Helen Pringle, b. 24 Oct. 1912.

=LOW, ROBERT THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8900), 199042, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LOWE, BERTIE GUY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1713), 10813, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOWE, HENRY STANLEY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late Rev. Edward Jackson Lowe, Vicar of Stallingborough, and only s. by his 2nd wife; b. Stallingborough, co. Lincoln, 7 Feb. 1891; educ. Glengarth Preparatory School, Cheltenham; Bilton Grange, near Rugby; Rugby, and in Sandhurst Company at Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1913; joined his regt. in Jhansi, India, in Jan. 1910; returned to Aldershot in 1913; went to France, and died at Paris, 21 Oct. following, of wounds received in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept.; unm. Buried at St. Germain-en-Laye.

=LOWE, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7944), S.S. 1554, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Thomas Lowe, of 6, Shepherd Place Buildings, Lees Mews, Park Street, London, W.; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LOWE, THOMAS=, A.B., B. 1529, 190575, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LOWERY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1236 U., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOWIN, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9654), S.S. 107099, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOWRIE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115510, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LOWRY, JOHN=, A.B., R.F.R., B. 3218, S.S. 741, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LOWTH, JAMES FRANCIS ALEXANDER=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./14721, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOXLEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 14657, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of the late William Loxley, Engine Fitter, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of the late Edward Stringer; b. Ecclesfleld, co. York, 26 Oct. 1885; educ. there; was a stove and grate fitter; volunteered and enlisted 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, 15 Aug. 1915, and died in Convalescent Home, Westbury, co. Wilts, 27 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action during the Battle of Loos, 27–29 Sept. 1915. He m. at Grimsby, 4 Aug. 1912, Edith Mary (3, Burton Street, Langsett Road, Sheffield), widow of Philip Munty, and dau. of the late Frederick Charles Unwin; s.p.

=LOXTON, CHARLES EDWARD HOLDEN=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Charles Adshead Loxton, of Shoal Hill House, Cannock, LL.B., Solicitor, of Walsall, by his wife, Emily Clara, youngest dau. of Sir Edward Thomas Holden, of Great Barr, formerly M.P. and Mayor of Walsall; b. at Walsall, 3 June, 1892; educ. Sandroyd School, Stanmore; Harrow (Druries), and University College, Oxford; was a student at the Inner Temple, and after passing Moderations with honours (Classics) at Oxford, became a student also in the faculty of Medicine and Surgery; volunteered on the outbreak of war and gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th North Staffordshires, Aug. 1914; went to France, 3 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, early on Sunday morning, 23 May, 1915; unm. Soon after midnight he was with his men repairing some wiring in front of the trench, when he was struck by a bullet, and died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital. Buried at Neuve Eglise, Belgium. His commanding officer, Col. Knight, wrote: “He was certainly the bravest man I have seen out here, and endeared himself to all of us. We did our best to make him more cautious, but he would set the example—as he did to all of us—to his platoon, and he made them into a splendid lot of men.” The President of the Officer’s Mess also wrote: “I need only say that he was universally beloved by both officers and men, and his platoon would have done anything for him and followed him anywhere, and by his splendid behaviour in the face of danger he has left us a grand example.” The Platoon Sergt. writing on behalf of the platoon said: “In any work one or more of us were engaged in, he was always ready with a helping hand, thus in no small way in his capacity of an officer, displaying his desire to encourage us, and he always proved himself to be of an unselfish and thoughtful disposition.” Lieut. Loxton was fond of yatching and had just returned from a yatching cruise on the West of Scotland when the war broke out. While a boy at Stanmore, he became a member of the University and Public Schools Camp, and attended each year with the Anglesey Camp. He regarded these camps with real affection, and said they taught a boy the manliness of religion and not to be ashamed of it. His Housemaster at the Druries Harrow, wrote: “Edward Loxton came to Harrow in 1906. A steady worker if not an accomplished scholar in the technical sense, he had a strong appreciation of the best in literature, and spent a year in the highest form in the school. But it was in the house that his gifts of character were most clearly to be discerned. To a personality of great charm, and an exceptional talent for friendship, he added an unostentatious force of character, a self-less devotion to duty and all the simplicity of a finely touched spirit. Passionately loyal himself, he abhorred all that was mean or base. It surprises none who loved him to read of his bravery in the field, as he was sans reproche, he would be sans peur. He is deeply mourned in a house which has given many lives of bright promise in England’s cause.”

=LUCY, REGINALD ERIC=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Northamptonshire Regt., elder s. of Major Reginald Horace Lucy, of 9, The Crescent, Plymouth, M.B., F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth, by his wife, Emily Susan, dau. of Robert Shackleford Cross; b. Plymouth, 28 July, 1893; educ. Ellerslie, Fremington, N. Devon, Malvern College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 22 Jan. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 8 July, 1914; served with his regt. in Malta and Egypt until the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; returned to England in Oct.; went to France with the 8th Division, in Nov., and died at No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 19 March, 1915, of wounds received in action near Neuve Chapelle on the 12th; unm.

=LUFF, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, No. 10450, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Frederick Luff, of 2, Court, 2, Newton Lane, Sheffield, by his wife, Lily, dau. of Thomas Clarke; b. Sheffield, 27 June, 1895; educ. St. Mary’s Church School there; enlisted in Nov. 1913; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 27 Oct. following.

=LUKIS, THEODORE STEWART=, M.D., M.R.C.P., Capt., 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Surgeon-Gen. Sir Charles Pardey Lukis, K.C.S.I., M.D., F.R.C.S., Director-Gen. I.M.S., by his wife, Lilian, dau. of the late Col. John Stewart, C.I.E., R.A.; b. Cawnpore, India, 7 Dec. 1885; educ. Tonbridge School; entered at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, in 1903, M.D. (Gold medal) London, 1912; M.R.C.P. London, 1913; Assistant Physician Queen’s Hospital for children; Demonst. Physiol. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Fellow of London Medical Society, some time Home Physician to the Children’s Hospital in Great Ormond Street, and House Physician and Opth. Surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s. On the outbreak of war enlisted in the Kensingtons, 20 Aug. 1914, for service in the ranks; was gazetted Lieut. 15 Dec. 1914, and Capt. 13 March, 1915; severely wounded at “Port Arthur,” Neuve Chapelle, on 12 March, 1915, he died in No. 7 Base Hospital at Boulogne, 15 March following; unm. He won the open science scholarship in 1904, and the gold medal in medicine at the London University in 1912, and was elected to the Junior Staff of St. Bartholomew’s, and the Queen’s Hospital for children. “His great ability was recognised by all, and he was profoundly interested in medical research. But his deepest interest was in the condition of the London poor, and he early tried to give practical relief by throwing himself heart and soul into the Boy Scout movement. He commanded the East London Torynbee Hall Scouts for some years. On the outbreak of war, after much heart searching, he decided to enlist and thus set an example in its simplest form, and he was followed to the recruiting office by 80 ex-scouts, and scoutmasters.”

=LUMSDEN, ANDREW STEEDMAN=, Private No. 2153, 1/4th Battn. The Royal Scots,(T.F.), 2nd s. of Andrew Steedman Lumsden, of 14, Bruntsfield Avenue, Edinburgh, A. Mus. T.C.L., Teacher of Music, by his wife, Lillias Ellen, dau. of William Gray Tennant, Merchant, of Leith; b. Edinburgh, 2 Dec. 1891; educ. Bruntsfield School, Edinburgh; was assistant to Mr. Alex. G. Pyrie, Grocer, Edinburgh; volunteered and joined the Royal Scots, 7 Sept. 1914; left Larbert for Liverpool on the morning of 22 May, 1915, just escaped the railway disaster at Gretna Green on that date, being in the train that preceded the one that was wrecked; left Liverpool on or about the 23rd May, 1915, for Gallipoli, and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915; unm. On 10 June, 1915, he wrote; “We have now left for Alexandria, started yesterday morning and are on our way to an unknown destination”; and on 25 June, 1915, he wrote from Gallipoli stating; “We have been in the trenches and are now in the rest camp.”

=LUMSDEN, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 25), 135850, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LUNON, ARTHUR JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14117, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LUPTON, REGINALD=, Capt., 9th (Service) Battn. Prince of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regt., yr. s. of William Charles Lupton, of 14, Claremont, Bradford, Member of the firm of John Lupton and Son, Ltd., Wine Merchants, Bradford, Leeds and Leith, three years Mayor of Bradford, by his wife, Sarah Woodhead, dau. of the late William Bentley, of Greenside, Bradford; b. Claremont, Bradford, 17 June, 1882; educ. Sedbergh; was a Director of John Lupton and Sons, Ltd.; served for many years in the 6th West Yorkshire Regt. (Bradford Rifles), and was on the Reserve of Officers when war broke out. He obtained a commission as Capt. in the 9th West Yorkshire Regt., 9 Sept. 1914; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1 July, and died on H.M.H.S. Valdivia, of wounds received after the landing at Suvla Bay, 7 Aug. 1915, and was buried at sea the following day; unm. He was carrying a wounded man to the dressing station, when he was shot in the abdomen. His elder brother, Major A. W. Lupton, 2nd West Yorkshire Regt., was invalided home from the western front early in 1915.

=LUSH, ARTHUR GEORGE=, Private, No. 12407, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of Thomas Lush, of The Buddens, Bower Chalk, co. Wilts, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Williams; b. Bower Chalk, 24 March, 1895; educ. National School there; was a Baker by trade; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, 21 Jan. 1915, and died in a General Hospital, Rouen, 14 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action on 17 Oct. previously; unm. Buried at Rouen.

=LUSH, CHARLES ARTHUR=, 1st Class Chief Petty Officer, Ch. Sh. Ck., 353904, 2nd s. of Jesse Lush, Naval Pensioner, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Richard (and Elizabeth) Freemantle; b. Portsea, co. Hants, 2 June, 1878; educ. there; joined the Navy, 3 May, 1895; and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea. He held the Long Service and Good Conduct medals. He m. at St. Margaret’s Church, Leiston, co. Suffolk, 25 Dec. 1905, Ethel (49, Sizewell Road, Leiston), eldest dau. of John Forsdike, of Leiston, and had three children: Kenneth Charles, b. 18 Jan. 1907; Charles Frank Trevor, b. 5 Sept. 1914; and Clare Helen Ruth, b. 28 Sept. 1910.

=LUSTY, SAMUEL MORLEY=, Petty Officer, 160608, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LYDALL, HERBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1584), 285739, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LYDEKKER, CYRIL RICHARD=, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Richard Lydekker, of Harpenden Lodge, co. Hertford, F.R.S., J.P. (died 16 April, 1915), by his wife, Lucy Marianne, elder dau. of the Rev. Canon Owen William Davys, Rector of Wheathampstead, co. Herts; b. Harpenden Lodge, 8 Nov. 1889; educ. Haileybury and on leaving there entered Messrs. Barclay & Cos’. Bank (8 Oct. 1906), where he remained until the outbreak of war. He joined the Hertfordshire Artillery (4th East Anglian Brigade, T.F.) in the autumn of 1910, and after serving his three years in the Battery, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 5th Bedfordshire Territorials, 14 March, 1914, and promoted Lieut., 29 Aug. following. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he was away on the annual fortnight’s training with his Regt., and immediately volunteered for foreign service. After training on the East Coast, and at St. Alban’s, he left for the Dardanelles with his Regt., 26 July, 1915; landed at Suvla Bay, 11 Aug.; went into action with his Regt. on the 15th, and was killed in action the same day, being shot through the head, while leading his platoon in a charge; unm. His Commanding Officer, in writing to his sister, said: “He died most gallantly leading his platoon. We found your brother right up in the front and he now lies close up behind the trenches, on the ground that he helped to win.” He was fond of all outdoor sports, especially riding and cricket, and was a great lover of animals, his life being spent almost entirely in the country. He was very fond of music. His brother, Lieut. and Qr.-Mr. Gerard Owen Lydekker, is now (1916) on active service with the same Regt.

=LYMN, JOSEPH EWART=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3305), 218307, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LYNCH, HAROLD JEROME=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd s. of the late Francis Lynch (d. 4 June, 1913), by his wife, Josephine (Glascoed Hall, Wrexham, co. Denbigh), dau. of Francis Reynolds, of Hillside, Woolton; b. Glascoed Hall, 9 Dec. 1895; educ. Stonyhurst College, left there 1 Aug. 1914, and on the outbreak of war applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., Reserve of Officers, 9 Sept.; promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915, and posted to the 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers as 2nd Lieut., 4 April following; went to France 26 Jan., and was killed in action at Festubert 16 May, 1915, while leading his men in a successful attack on the German trenches. Buried near Essar, off Rue Calloux, with six other officers of the R.W.F. who fell that day. He was captain of his College, 1913–14, and also of the football team, and a member of the O.T.C. For two years in succession he won the mile, half mile, quarter mile and hurdles, and his class won the shooting medal in 1914.

=LYNCH, JOHN=, Private, No. 12191, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in No. 2 Ambulance Flotilla, 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=LYNDEN, JOHN HENRY=, Private, No. 2848, 2/7th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Benjamin Lynden, of 57, Farrant Avenue, Wood Green, N., Clerk, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Pearmain; b. Wood Green, co. Middlesex, 30 July, 1892; educ. Higher Grade School there; was a Clerk; enlisted, 7 Sept. 1914; went to Gibraltar for garrison duty, 1 Feb. 1915, and died in Hospital at Gibraltar, 9 March following, while on active service; unm.

=LYNDSELL, PHILIP=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ports. 12672, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LYNES, BERTIE FREDERICK=, Private No. 6835, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; enlisted 2 July, 1906; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 13 Aug. 1914; died in the Hospital train near Willereaux, 18 Sept. following, of wounds received in action.

=LYNN, ERNEST=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3784), S.S. 1077, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LYON, ALBERT EDWARD=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345360, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LYON, JOHN JAMES=, Private, No. 4011, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Charles Lyon, Colliery Manager at Chorley, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of John Thurlby; b. Chorley, co. Lancs., 8 Nov. 1881; educ. St. George’s School there; enlisted 22 Jan. 1901; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 12 Feb. 1909, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 26 Aug. 1914, to 8 Oct. 1915, and died at No. 5 General Hospital, Rouen, 16 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action at Loos on the latter date. Buried in St. Sivier Cemetery there. He m. at St. Edward’s R.C. Church, Palace Street, London, S.W., 4 April, 1904, Catherine (1, Hill View, Eastwood Road, Bramley, near Guildford), dau. of Jeremiah Donovan, and had two children: Sidney Francis, b. 15 July, 1912; and Kathleen Lucy, b. 27 Feb. 1914.

=LYON, ROBERT MAIR=, Sergt., No. 1239, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Robert Lyon, of Galston, co. Ayr, and of Tottenham, N., M.D., C.M., by his wife, Annie (10, Baskerville Road, Wandsworth Common), dau. of Robert Mair; b. Newmilns, co. Ayr, 24 Jan. 1891; educ. Grocer’s Company School, Hackney Downs, and La Villa, Lausanne; was in the London office of Browne and Tawse, Iron and Steel Merchants; joined the London Scottish in 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Hulluch, 13 Oct. 1915, while leading a platoon; unm.

=BOWES LYON, CHARLES LINDSAY CLAUDE=, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st. Battn., The Black Watch, eldest s. of the Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon, formerly Lieut.-Col. commanding 5th Battn. Black Watch, by his wife, Lady Anne, dau. of Alexander, 25th Earl of Crawford, and gdson. of Claude, 13th Earl of Strathmore; b. 15 Sept. 1885; educ. Eton, studied at the Royal College of Science, Newcastle, for electrical engineering, Member of the Inst. C.E. He joined the Forfarshire and Kincardine Militia Artillery in April, 1906, and in 1910 was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. (Special Reserve) of the Black Watch. In 1911, obtaining an engineering appointment in India, he spent two and a half years at Bombay, and on his return home with a friend via Japan and Canada in May, 1914, was one of the few survivors in the terrible disaster and loss of the Empress of Ireland liner on the St. Lawrence. Shortly afterwards, his battn. was mobilized on the outbreak of war. He was attd. to the 1st Battn. of the Black Watch in the First Army Corps, and joined the Expeditionary Force in France early in Sept.; served through the memorable battles of the Marne and Aisne, and the fierce struggles in the first battles round Ypres. He was twice slightly wounded, and after three days’ incessant fighting from 20 Oct. was killed in action on 23 Oct. at Pilken, during an attack to recover the lost trenches. He was buried in the churchyard at Boesinghe; unm. A keen cricketer and sportsman, his scientific career had been of brilliant promise, and his attractive disposition had endeared him to a wide circle of friends. A well-known chaplain with the Expeditionary Force wrote: “Capt. — spoke most splendidly of B. L. and his example, and said, amongst other things, that he was one of the finest characters he had ever met.”

=LYONS, ERNEST=, Private, No. 13344, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Edward Lyons, of 52, Princess Street, Plumstead; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 14 March, 1915.

=LYTTLE, DAVID JOHN ALBERT=, Lieut., 14th Battn. South Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of John Lyttle, of Chatton Road, Gore, New Zealand, formerly a Master at Longridge School, Gore, by his wife, Catherine (Rina), dau. of the late David Gardner, of Stanley Hill Gore, formerly of Blairmains Farm, Shotts, Scotland; b. Waikaia, New Zealand, 1888; educ. at his father’s school, Longridge, and Southland Boys’ High School, Invercargill (Scholar), and took a prominent part in the school sports; started his career as Third Assistant in Gore School, and was later transferred to Kaitangata as Second Assistant. After two years’ service there he returned as First Assistant in Gore School; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the New Zealand Territorials, while at Kaitangata; volunteered for Imperial service immediately the European war broke out, and was given a commission as Lieut.; left for Egypt with the main body, 16 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 2 May following; unm. While at Gore School he founded the Boy Scout movement there, and acted as District Commander for several years. He was an authority on local geology and botany; was well-known as a mountaineer, especially in connection with the exploration of the West Coasts Sound’s Region, and during one of these trips discovered falls 1,000 ft. high, now known as the “Lyttle Falls.”

=McALLISTER, ANDREW=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7656), S.S. 103005, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MACATEER, JOHN=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21973, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACAUSLAND, OLIVER BABINGTON=, Lieut., attd. 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, yr. s. of Lieut.-Col. Redmond Conynham Samuel Macausland, of Woodbank, Garvagh, co. Derry, J.P., Indian Army (ret.), by his wife, Jane Isabella, dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Henry Keown, 15th King’s Hussars and Royal North Down Militia; b. Rawalpindi, Punjab, India, 28 Nov. 1895; educ. Haileybury College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (prize cadet); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. list, Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and the same month joined the 4th Battn. (Special Reserve) Royal Irish Rifles, at Holywood, co. Down. In March, 1915, he was posted to the 1st Battn. of that regt. then on active service in France, and given the rank of Lieut. He was killed in action during the advance of the 8th Division from Rouges Bancs towards Fromelles, and the northern part of the Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, in which our men came up against unbroken wire and parapets and sustained very heavy casualties. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was a young soldier with a soldierly faculty; gentle, just, and clear-sighted.”; and the Adjutant wrote of him: “He was always more than ready to do any dangerous patrols that were to be done; and it was so nice to know that we could depend on him to do whatever was to be done without any further supervision. When he met his death, he was gallantly leading his platoon in the charge at Fromelles early on the 9th.” He was unm. A marble tablet to his memory was placed in Errigal Church, Garvagh, co. Derry.

=MACBEAN, DUNCAN GILLIES FORBES=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only child of Major-General Forbes Macbean, C.V.O., C.B., formerly A.D.C. to H.M. the King, late Gordon Highlanders, by his wife, Mary Katharine Fishburn, dau. of the late Capt. Forbes Jackson, R.N., and gdson. of Col. Forbes Macbean, 92nd Gordon Highlanders, Sergt.-at-Arms to Queen Victoria, and great-grand-nephew of Sir William Macbean, K.C.B., K.T.S., also of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders; b. R. M. C. Terrace, Yorktown, 19 July, 1893; educ. Aysgarth School, Wellington College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Gordon Highlanders, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 30 Oct. 1914. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he went to France with his regt., was wounded at Gheluvelt, 28 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Festubert, 18 June, 1915; unm. He was buried in the garden of the Chateau de Gorre, near Bethune. Lieut. Macbean was a fine all-round sportsman. He excelled as a Rugby football player, and was a member of the XV at Wellington and Sandhurst. He was also a very good shot with both gun and rifle, and most popular with all who knew him.

=McBRIDE, GILBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7954), S.S. 103628, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McCABE, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 1603, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Alexander McCabe, of Killagorman, Killishandra, by his wife, Rose Ann, dau. of Daniel Kelly, of Killagorman, Killishandra; b. Dumnlara, Killishandra, co. Cavan, 30 April, 1877; educ. Killagorman National School; went to Sydney, Australia, 1907; when war broke out volunteered and joined the Australian Imperial Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 July, 1915; unm.

=MACCABE, ROBERT MAXWELL=, Lieut. 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Thomas Maccabe, of 22, Landscape Terrace, Belfast, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Robert Maxwell; b. Belfast, co. Antrim, 25 Aug. 1884; educ. Clifton Park National School and Queen’s University, Belfast and was Telegraphist, G.P.O. He joined Queen’s University O.T.C. in 1910, and gained his “A” certificate in infantry training and entered for his “B” certificate. He also acted as Musketry Lecturer, and received a medal from Count Gleichen for excellent work in the O.T.C. After the outbreak of war he was given a commission in the Post Office Rifles as 2nd Lieut. 5 Sept. 1914, and went to France with his battn. where he acted as bomb officer. On 23 April a small detachment of the battn. was stationed in a dug-out near Givenchy when a shell burst, wounding him severely. He was taken to the Military Hospital at Bethune, where he died, 23 April, 1915, and was buried in the Civil Cemetery there. Lieut. Maccabe was a keen sportsman and was for a long period captain of the Glendorra Lawn Tennis Club. He was also Hon. Treasurer of the Silverstream Hockey Club, and was a member of the committee of the Clytonville Football and Cricket Clubs. He m. at Belfast, 21 Nov. 1914, Amy Constance Robb, yst. dau. of Thomas McDowell, of Belfast; s.p.

=MACCABEE, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Private No. 7379, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Reg., s. of late William Maccabee, Royal Garrison Artillery; b. Portsmouth, 20 May, 1881; enlisted Feb. 1902, and was killed in action at Troyon, France, 7 Oct. 1914. He m. at Portsmouth, 23 Feb. 1914, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Ford, of Glastonbury, and had a posthumous dau., Eva Winnifred, b. 3 March 1915.

=McCALL, ROBERT JAMES=, Private, No. 8/1276, Otago Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of James William McCall, of York Bar, Wellington, Plumber; b. Blenheim, Nov. 1884; educ. at Terrace End School; worked as an assistant to his father and afterwards with his brother, J. McCall, of Main Street, Palmerston; volunteered on the outbreak of war; enlisted and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; was drafted to Otago Infantry Battn., and left New Zealand in Dec. 1914, with the Second Contingent; died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915; unm. McCall was well-known in football circles as a member of the Old Kai Toa Club, and later of the Orientals.

=McCANN, FRANK RICHARD=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 24018, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McCAROGHER, JOHN OMMANNEY=, Private, No. 1848, 1/14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Ernest Joseph Chilton McCarogher, of Croydon, Bank Manager; b. Croydon, 19 May, 1895; educ. St. Dunstan’s College; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 and was killed in action at Messines, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. Buried on the battlefield.

=McCARTEN, WILLIAM JAMES DANIEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3556), 216332, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=McCARTHY, DENIS=, Rifleman, No. 289, 3rd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of the late Denis McCarthy, of Cardiff, by his wife, Kathleen; b. Cardiff, 30 July, 1882; educ. St. Patrick School, Grangetown, there; enlisted in 1904, and, on completing his term of service with the Colours, became a tram conductor at Cardiff. When war broke out he rejoined his Battn.; went to France, 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Armentières, 23 Oct. 1914. He m. at Cardiff, 24 Dec. 1907, Mary Ann (16, Tyler Street, Roath, Cardiff), dau. of the late Ambrose Turner, of London, and had three children: William Denis, b. 25 Feb. 1911; Kathleen May, b. 15 Dec. 1909, and Eileen Mary, b. 6 Aug. 1913.

=McCARTHY, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3235), S.S. 748. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=McCARTHY, JERRY JOSEPH=, L.-Corpl., No. 870. 2nd Battn. 1st Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, s. of Florence McCarthy, of Bantry, co. Cork, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Denis McCarthy; b. Bantry, 6 Jan. 1876; educ. there; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, about 1895, became corpl. about 1897; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with clasps and King’s medal with clasps), and afterwards went to Australia, about 1905. When the European War broke out he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 3 May, 1915, during an attack on the Turkish trenches; unm.

=McCARTHY, WILFRED CYRIL=, Private, No. 1573, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late David McCarthy, of Derby, Coal Merchant, by his wife, Edith Annie (34, York Street, Derby), dau. of Joseph Hirst; b. Derby, 14 Aug. 1884; educ. Ashbourne Road Council Schools, Derby, and emigrated to Australia in July, 1913; enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force shortly after the outbreak of war, and was killed in the Gallipoli Peninsula, 8 May, 1915; unm.

=McCARTNEY, JOSEPH DONKIN=, Petty Officer, 175178, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McCARTY, MARTIN=, Private, No. 8357, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of John McCarty, of Glenmash, Westport, co. Mayo; b. Glenmash aforesaid; enlisted 5 Aug. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

=McCAUGHERTY, DAVID=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3079), 176815, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=McCLELLAND, CHARLES STEEN=, Private, No. 2086, 1/4th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots (T.F.), 2nd s. of the Rev. Robert McClelland, Minister of Inchinnan, by his wife, Isabella Coutts, dau. of the Rev. William Corson, Minister of Girvan; b. Inchinnan Manse, co. Renfrew, 27 Jan. 1889; educ. Inchinnan Public School and Paisley Grammar School, and on leaving there entered the Union Bank of Scotland, Paisley, where he served his apprenticeship to banking, and was afterwards employed as ledger clerk in the Govan and Kinning Park, Glasgow branches of the same. In March, 1910, he accepted a post in a bank in Canada, but returned to Scotland the June following, and entered the Office of Messrs. McAndrew, Murray and Wright, of 9, Albyn Place, Edinburgh, where he was for some three years. On the outbreak of war he joined the 1/4th Royal Scots, in Sept. 1914, and after training at Edinburgh and Larbert, left for the East at the end of May, 1915. He arrived at the Dardanelles, 12 to 15 June, and was killed in action in the attack on the Turkish position on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, on 28 June, 1915; unm.

=McCLELLAND, SIDNEY=, Private, No. S. 6895, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of John McClelland, of 3, Dowsett Road, Tottenham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 28 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=McCLELLAND, THOMAS=, 2nd Lieut., 7th Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Thomas McClelland, of St. Anne’s Mount, Aigburth, Liverpool, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of David Smart, of Liverpool; b. Liverpool, 7 Feb. 1893; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool; Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in B.A., with honours in Jurisprudence, July, 1914. On the outbreak of war he joined the King’s Liverpool Regt., 12 Aug. 1914, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 Sept. 1914, and went to the Front early in March, 1915. He was killed in action, while leading his platoon in the attack on the enemy’s trenches at Richebourg L’Avoué, 16 May, 1915, and was buried in the Rue du Bois, about 2 miles west of Neuve Chapelle; unm. A cross bearing his name marks the spot. He was a keen fisher and motor cyclist.

=McCLUSKEY, ALFRED JOHN=, L.-Corpl. No. 450, 10th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Andrew McCluskey, Ship’s Steward, by his wife, Hannah Louisa (17, North Church Street, Bute Dock, Cardiff), dau. of Alfred Budding, of Cardiff, Shipwright; b. Cardiff, 20 May, 1877; educ. Mount Stuart Square National School there, and on leaving started work as a wagon builder in the North Central Wagon Works, Cardiff. Tiring of wagon building he followed in his dead father’s footsteps and took to the sea. In Feb. 1907, he emigrated to Australia, and catching the “get rich quick” fever started out as a prospector with varying success. What money he made he speedily lost in speculation. Later he took up sheep farming, and worked in Western Australia until the outbreak of war, when he joined the Commonwealth Force, and was killed in action at Walkers Ridge, Anzac Beach, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “I personally knew that he was a good soldier, as during the whole of our training he personally came under my notice a great deal.”

=McCOMB, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5565), S.S. 100505, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=McCORMACK, JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 28), 10131, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=McCORMICK, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class, 304180, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=McCREADIL, CHARLES=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26680 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McDERMOTT, FREDERICK AYLWARD=, Private, No. 857, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, yst. s. of the late Cornelius William McDermott, Paymaster-in-Chief, R.N., by his wife, Mary Anne (7, Leigham Terrace, Plymouth); b. Rhyd-y-Gors, co. Carmarthen, 29 June, 1879; educ. Richmond (Yorkshire) Grammar School and Mannamead College, Plymouth; after the declaration of war enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Sydney, 1 Sept. 1914, and was killed, 7 June, 1915, while on observation duty in the firing line by the bursting of a Turkish high explosive shell, a piece of which pierced his heart. He was buried by the padre in the Anzac Beach cemetery; unm. General Sir William Birdwood wrote his sympathy in the loss of a son, who died so gallantly for his King and country. The Adjutant wrote that the late Private F. McDermott was thought very highly of by his late Capt. A. J. Shout, V.C., in whose company he was.

=McDIARMID, KENNETH=, Capt., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, s. of the late John McDiarmid, of Auchenvin, Dalbeattie, Scotland, Shipowner, by his wife, Mary A. J. dau. of the late James Hosack; b. Liverpool, 26 Oct. 1881; educ. Sedbergh School and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; held an appointment in Burma with the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, Ltd., and being home on leave at the outbreak of war, applied for a commission; was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. on 4 Sept., and later was transferred to the 2nd Battn.; promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. subsequent to his death, 5 May, 1915, to date as from 2 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action on Hill 60 near Ypres, 18 April, 1915; unm. Writing to his mother, his commanding officer said: “He not only showed a splendid example of leadership, but of great heroism. Though wounded he refused to go away from the fighting line, and, finally, when his platoon was very much reduced in numbers and the Germans were in consequence pressing on to the parapet, he leapt on to the parapet himself and met his end most valiantly fighting at close quarters. He was an officer whose brave deeds will never be forgotten in the regt. and whose charming personality made a great impression on me for the short three weeks I knew him.” A brother officer wrote: “He was wounded through the arm first, but refused to leave the firing line. About 6 a.m., while cheering on the Scottish Borderers, he was shot clean through the head and killed instantaneously. Your son was beloved by his men and fellow officers, and in losing him the regt. has lost one of its best officers, and myself one of my best chums. It is some little consolation to know that his bravery pulled his men together at a very critical point, and his memory will never be forgotten.” And another officer: “The conduct of A Coy. was extraordinarily good. They had between 120 and 130 casualties out of 160. Lieut. McDiarmid did extraordinarily well there. Although severely wounded he kept up a rapid rifle fire behind a blockade until he was killed. I was told his conduct was absolutely heroic, for he succeeded in holding a very important communication trench, thus saving a rather dangerous situation, as but for his action it might well have resulted in our communications being cut.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

=McDONALD, ALEXANDER TOM CLARK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11267, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=McDONALD, ARCHIBALD=, Private, No. 10076, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Barony, Glasgow; enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, aged 40; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914; m. at Glasgow, 31 Dec. 1902, Annie, dau. of (—) Fay, and had two children: Archibald, b. 7 April, 1915; and Isabella, b. 5 June, 1904.

=MACDONALD, ARCHIBALD=, Private, No. 10151, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died 31 Oct. 1914.

=McDONALD, ANGUS=, Private, No. 10741, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of Donald McDonald, of 47, Hopehill Road, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 20 March, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=MACDONALD, REV. CHARLES GORDON=, 2nd Lieut., 1/6th Scottish Rifles (The Cameronians) (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Edward Ellice Macdonald, Rector of Hillhead High School, Glasgow, by his wife, Johanna Margaret, dau. of the late John Adam, of India; b. Hillhead, Glasgow, 7 March, 1889; educ. Hillhead High School and Glasgow University, where he graduated M.A. and B.D. and where he was actively associated with the O.T.C., and in May, 1914, was licensed by the Presbytery and appointed Assistant Minister in Hamilton. On the outbreak of war he resigned his position and was gazetted to the 1/6th Scottish Rifles as 2nd Lieut., 5 Sept. 1914; went to France early in March, and was killed in action at Festubert, 15 June, 1915, in an attack on the enemy’s trenches. The attack was planned on the night of the 14th, Lieut. Macdonald, with his company, was appointed to lead the charge, and his own platoon, with himself at their head, was the first to advance. They had to traverse 300 yards of open ground to reach the German first line trenches, and in his last letter, written that night, Lieut. Macdonald said that he was proud at having been selected to lead the charge, but that it was very unlikely that he would come out of it with his life. He was unm. A brother officer wrote: “Your son was brave beyond all words; Lieut. Macdonald was asked to lead that charge, and he did lead that charge. He had smiles all over his face and shouted: ‘Come on, men!’ He had a rifle with the bayonet fixed, and he ran in front of his men to encourage them. It was a brave piece of work. He knew no fear.” The Rev. J. H. Dickie, Minister of New Kilpatrick, to whom Lieut. Macdonald acted as assistant for a time, in the course of an appreciation of the deceased, wrote: “The Church of Scotland is poorer to-day, because of the death of Gordon Macdonald. For he was a man of not only outstanding ability, but of exceptional spiritual power. A brilliant student, Master of Arts, with first-class honours in literature, he had all the makings of a powerful preacher, for he possessed a soul—soul all afire with vivid sense of the Divine. I was privileged to know him well, to share his inmost thoughts, and with sincerity I can say that Gordon Macdonald was one of the most spiritually-minded men I ever knew.” His brother, Lieut. Edward Ellice Macdonald, is now on active service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France.

=McDONALD, DONALD=, Stoker, 1st Class, 284481, Petty Officer, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACDONALD, EVAN RONALD HORATIO KEITH=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Highland L.I., 2nd and only surviving s. of the late Keith Norman MacDonald, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., the well-known collector of, and authority on, Highland music, by his wife, Eliza Mary (21, Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh), dau. of Francis Burgess Niblett, of Ermston, Wardie, near Edinburgh, and grandson of Charles MacDonald, of Ord; b. Edinbane, Isle of Skye, 10 April, 1893; educ. Edinburgh Academy, Harrogate, Southport, and the Edinburgh Institution, also receiving private tuition from Capt. Johnstone, R.E., of Edinburgh; joined the 3rd Battn. Highland L.I. 3 July, 1912, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. 10 June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with his regt. 13 Aug. 1914, came into action at Paturages on 24 Aug. and was killed, being shot through the right temple, at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914; unm. He was buried near where he fell, about 1 mile north of the village of Verneuil, and 6 miles east of Vailly, on the River Aisne. A cross of wood was erected over his grave and a description of the place taken. His commanding officer, Col. Wolfe Murray, wrote to 2nd Lieut. MacDonald’s mother: “I am thankful to say it was quite instantaneous, while he was most pluckily directing the fire of his men. I feel his loss very much. He was an excellent young officer, keen, quick and reliable, and his company commander. Capt. Mayne, who has seen a good deal of service, told me how cool he was under fire and that he showed great promise.” He was keenly interested in everything Highland, and was a keen athlete, and loved to play the slower music of the pìob mhór. While at school he captained the first fifteen in seasons 1910–11–12 and afterwards played in the former pupils’ team. At the school sports in 1911 he won the cup for the mile race, and at the time of his death was one of the secretaries of the Institution Athletic Sports. His diary from 13 Aug. to 20 Sept. 1914, was printed in the Highland L.I. “Chronicle” for Oct. Lieut. MacDonald was predeceased a few years ago by his elder brother, the late Lieut. Reginald Francis Norman Keith MacDonald, 4th Battn. Highland L.I., who served in the South African War.

=McDONALD, GEORGE=, Private, No. 11457, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Alexander McDonald, of Milton of Culloden Farm, Allanfearie, co. Inverness, Cattleman, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Alexander Ross, Ploughman; b. Tomich, Muir of Ord, 6 Aug. 1895; educ. Urray Public School; was a Gardener at Forres; joined the Royal Scots 22 Feb.; went to France 7 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

=McDONALD, GEORGE DUFFUS=, E.R.A., R.N.R., 31 E.C., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACDONALD, JAMES=, Corpl., No. 15171, 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, yst. s. of John Macdonald, of Kilnhillock, Glenrinnes, co. Banff, Crofter, by his wife, Jane, dau. of William Gordon; b. Dufftown, 28 Feb. 1895; educ. Mortlach Higher Grade School there; was apprenticed as a draper to the Central Cash Drapery Warehouse, Dufftown, and afterwards proceeded to Greenock; joined the Royal Scots soon after war was declared, 3 Sept. 1914; went to France July, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. 1915; unm.

=McDONALD, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9968), 296416, H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McDONALD, JOHN WILLIAM SCOTT=, Private, No. 1991, 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), only s. of John McDonald, of 22, Downfield Place, Edinburgh, by his wife, Agnes Taylor, dau. of William Scott; b. Edinburgh, 14 Oct. 1895; educ. Dairy Public School there; enlisted, 14 Aug. 1914; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot through the chest, 22 March following, while erecting barbed wire entanglements before our trenches at St. Eloi. He was removed to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died on 3 April, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He was a brave and plucky lad”; and his company commander: “I knew him well as being always keen on his work and ready to do anything to help at any time.”

=McDONALD, KENNETH STUART=, Corpl., No. 1534, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Thomas McDonald, of Beauly, co. Inverness, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Richard Mathews, of Compton, Berkshire; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 23 Jan. 1881; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School; joined the Victoria and St. George’s Rifles (1st Middlesex), 24 April, 1900, retiring 29 Jan. 1907, and joining the London Scottish, 4 Feb. following, and was promoted Corpl., 1 Nov. 1913. He served in the South African War of 1899–1902 with the Imperial Yeomanry, and received the Queen’s medal. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered for foreign service; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 Nov. 1914, while assisting a wounded comrade from the firing line. He was buried near a chateau, 1¼ miles west of Ypres, on the Ypres-Vlamertinghe road. He m. at Brixton, 8 Feb. 1902, Caroline, only dau. of Edwin Chambers Macreight, of Hauteville, Jersey; s.p.

=MACDONALD, RONALD MOSSE=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (the 79th), elder s. of Capt. William Mosse Macdonald, of Glenmore Cottage, Bournemouth, formerly 3rd Battn. Cameron Highlanders, by his wife, Helena, dau. of Samuel Harvey Twining; b. Bombay, 9 Dec. 1890; educ. Horris Hill, Newbury; Winchester College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Cameron Highlanders, 16 Nov. 1910, and promoted Lieut., 1 May, 1914; left Edinburgh with his regt. for the Front, 12 Aug. following; was wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, during the heavy fighting to the west of the sugar factory at Troyon, 14 Sept. 1914, on which occasion the 1st Camerons lost 17 officers and 500 men, and was invalided to Angers, France; rejoined his battn. 8 Oct., and was killed at Veldhock, near Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. Lieut. Macdonald was an excellent cricketer and played for the Aldershot Command for two years. He was also an accomplished violinist. His only brother is serving in the same regt.

=McDONNELL, THOMAS=, A.B., Sapper, No. 14, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, yst. s. of the late Thomas McDonnell, of Newfound Well, Drogheda, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of William Keeley, of Drogheda; b. Newfound Well, 12 Feb. 1885; educ. at the Christian Brothers School, Drogheda; joined the Royal Naval Reserve in 1902, was for several years in the employ of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co., went to Australia in 1911, and in the early part of 1915 enlisted in the Australian Contingent at Victoria. In a letter to his mother announcing this he said he knew she would be glad to know he was doing his bit. He died on board H.M.S. Canada, 27 Aug. 1915, of enteric fever, contracted while serving in the Dardanelles; unm.

=MACDUFF, ALEXANDER=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, only s. of Alexander Macduff, of Bonhard, co. Perth, J.P., by his wife, Edith Alexandrine, dau. of John Shiell, of Smithfield, co. Forfar; b. Bonhard, aforesaid, 6 July, 1884; educ. Cargilfield, Winchester, and New College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Cameron Highlanders, 19 April, 1905; promoted Lieut. 11 Jan. 1911, and Capt. 12 Oct. 1914; went to France, 20 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. Buried near where he fell.

=MACE, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9390), S.S. 106745, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McEVOY, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1500U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McEVOY, PATRICK=, Leading Stoker, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 2899), 285115, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=McEWAN, ROBERT=, S.B.A., M. 5850, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACFARLANE, JOHN SHEPHARD=, Private, No. 1819, F Coy., 9th Battn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Macfarlane, of 65, Reidvale Street, Dennistown, Glasgow, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Cockburn; b. Glasgow, 10 Feb. 1897; educ. Thompson Street Public School; was in the employ of Messrs. Barclay, Curle and Co., Glasgow, Boilermakers; joined the Glasgow Highlanders, 4 March, 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Richebourg, 17 May, 1915, by the bursting of a shell. Buried there. A comrade wrote: “I suppose you know now of our losses when in the trenches last time. One shell killed Hugh Macpherson, George Laing, Wee McFarlane, and three others, also wounded Lieut. Spens. I was at the door of the dug-out with my head outside when this big shell came through the roof and burst inside. When I got rid of the debris with which I was covered and looked in I nearly collapsed. All were dead except the Lieut.” His elder brother. L.-Corpl. David MacFarlane, was killed in action at the Persian Gulf, 7 Jan. 1916.

=MACFARLANE, ROBERT CRAIG=, Midshipman, R.N., 2nd s. of Robert Craig Macfarlane, of Roode Berg, South Africa [s. of Alexander Macfarlane, Jun., of Thornhill, Stirlingshire], by his wife, Jessie Wardlaw, dau. of James Wardlaw Reid; b. Glendenning, Graaff Reinet, South Africa, 5 July, 1897; educ. Ascham St. Vincent’s, Eastbourne, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; entered the Navy, June, 1914, and was lost in H.M.S. Hawke when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McFARLANE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10630), S.S. 108637, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MACFIE, CLAUD WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of the late Claud Macfie, of Gogar Burn, Midlothian, by his wife, Mary (Warrix, North Berwick), dau. of W. S. Young, of Burntisland; b. Gogar Burn aforesaid, 8 Dec. 1892; educ. at Cargilfield, Midlothian, from which school he obtained a scholarship for Marlborough, where he was in the Hockey XI and the Gymnasium VIII, and won the Fisher Divinity Prize; afterwards proceeding to New College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in Modern History. It had been his intention to enter the Diplomatic Service, but on the outbreak of war he enlisted in Lovat’s Scouts, but being nominated by his college for a University commission, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd South Staffordshires, 11 Nov. 1914. He went to the Front, 20 May, 1915. and was there attached to the 2nd Bedfords. He was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, while leading his platoon in an attack on a German trench. The official report of his death is as follows: “2nd Lieut. Macfie, C. W., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshires, attd. 2nd Battn. Bedford Regt., Givenchy, June 16, killed, was in command of the first platoon which assaulted the Crater. He led his platoon most gallantly and fearlessly, and was killed shortly after his men obtained a footing in the enemy’s lines.” The report was accompanied by the following message from the General Officer Commanding, 7th Division, British Expeditionary Force, to the deceased officer’s mother: “The enclosed is a report of the action of 2nd Lieut. C. W. Macfie, 3rd South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., as brought to Gen. Gough’s notice, and he thinks you would like to have a copy. He cannot express too deeply his opinion of this officer’s gallantry or his sympathy for you in your great loss.” The Officer Commanding 2nd Bedfords wrote: “He died a glorious soldier’s death, leading his platoon gallantly against the enemy. We took the enemy’s trench, but unfortunately were unable to retain possession of it for long, and those who were left got themselves away with difficulty and were unable to carry the dead back, so I am very sorry to say that your son’s body was left where he had met his end. I think I am allowed to tell you that I am reporting to the Brigadier-General that he led his men with great dash and gallantry, which was witnessed by several people. He had not been with us long enough for us to get to know him well, but he showed signs of making an excellent officer, and I am very sorry indeed to have lost his services.” His company commander wrote of him: “He was an excellent officer and a very good friend, and his behaviour under fire was the finest example his men could have. He fell leading his men on after we had captured the German trench on the top of the old Mine Crater. This spot is quite close to the village of Givenchy, near Festubert”; and an officer of his company: “He showed splendid spirit all the way through and constantly went down along the trench to see that the men were keeping their spirits up. When the attack was ordered, we had to charge, one platoon at a time, and No. 8, your son’s, was the first to leave the trench. Several officers of the other regts. besides those of our own who were near, remarked upon the way your son led the charge; he was easily the first man at the Germans, and he was seen climbing up over the German ‘crater’ while the rest were still streaming across the open. Soon afterwards he was killed.” 2nd Lieut. Macfie was mentioned by Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French in his Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was unm.

=McGEACHIE, JAMES ANDERSON=, Private, No. 1218, 18th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of William McGeachie, of 60, Jameson Terrace, New Milns, Ayrshire, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of James Anderson, of Dalrymple, St. Girvan, Ayrshire; b. New Milns, aforesaid, 22 April, 1889; educ. Public School there; went to Australia in Feb. 1911, and settled at Stockenkingle, New South Wales; was a Bushman; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force shortly after the outbreak of war; left for Egypt about June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action near Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 22 Aug. 1915; unm.

=McGINNITY, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6631), 215701, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MCGEE, JAMES MICHAEL=, Private, No. 3 605, No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, s. of Bernard McGee, of Greymouth, New Zealand, Goldminer (a native of co. Donegal, who died 5 July, 1916); b. Westland, New Zealand, 6 July, 1879; educ. Convent of Mercy, Greymouth, New Zealand; and was a Merchant Sailor; joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 20 May, 1915; and was drowned on the transport Marquette, when that ship was torpedoed in the Ægean Sea, 23 Oct. 1915; unm. Three of his brothers, viz.: Timothy, Lawrence and Daniel, are on active service with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.

=McGINTY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 16982, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots, s. of William McGinty, of Addiewell, Midlothian, Candlemaker; b. Blackburn, West Lothian, Aug. 1870; educ. Addiewell; was a Coal Miner; joined the Royal Scots, 4 Jan. 1915; went to France, July, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 70, during the Battle of Loos, 26 Sep. 1915. He m. at West Calder, Midlothian, 26 Feb. 1908, Martha (23, Westwood Rows, West Calder), dau. of Alexander Watson, and had four children: William and Alexander (twins), b. 1 March, 1913; Elizabeth, b. 24 Dec. 1911; and Margaret Calder, b. 20 May, 1915.

=McGLASHAN, JOHN EWING=, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 2nd s. of Walter Charles Stuart McGlashan, of Moidart, Gourock, and the firm of Messrs. McGlashan, Sons and Co., Ltd., of Glasgow, by his wife, Agnes Templeton, dau. of the late David James; b. Shawlands, Glasgow, 16 March, 1884; educ. Greenock Academy, and afterwards entered his father’s business. He joined the Volunteers, 1900, and became 2nd Lieut. 1904, and having passed the school of instruction for regular service as Lieut. in the Renfrew Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 26 Aug. 1914, was gazetted as Lieut. to 1/5th Argylls. He left with his Battn. for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action near Krithia, 12 July, 1915; unm.

=MACGREGOR, CORTLANDT RICHARD=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. South Wales Borderers, elder s. of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan, J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; b. Orange County, Florida, U.S.A., 7 Feb. 1894; educ. abroad and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1912–1913); gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, 5 Feb. 1913, and joined at Chatham; but, having applied for foreign service, was transferred to the 2nd Battn., and sailed with it for China in Sept. 1913. He took part in the siege of Tsing-tau, and was promoted Lieut., 17 Sept. 1914. Returning to England in Jan. 1915, he left for the Mediterranean in March, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; unm. His only brother, 2nd Lieut. Kenneth Cortlandt MacGregor, of the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, had fallen in action near Ypres on 26 Feb. preceding (see following notice).

=MACGREGOR, KENNETH CORTLANDT=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, yr. s. of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan. J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; b. Brecon, 21 Jan. 1896; educ. Lancing College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 30 Sept. 1914; joined at Portland the following day, went to the Front with a Draft for the 2nd Battn., 5 Dec., and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 Feb. 1915. He was buried at Verbranden Molen.

=McGREGOR, SAMUEL BEGG=, Sergt., No. 183, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of John McGregor, of Aberfoyle, Perth, Blacksmith; b. Leith, 15 April, 1882; educ. Bells School there; enlisted 4 Jan. 1900; served in South Africa, 1900–02 (Queen’s and King’s medals); promoted Sergt. Aug. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and died 11 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day at Kemmel.

=McGUFFICK, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9257), S.S. 106438, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McGUILEY, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9103), S.S. 105931. H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McGUINNESS, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1472U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HART-McHARG, WILLIAM FREDERICK RICHARD=, Lieut.-Col., 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late Hon. Major William Hart-McHarg, 44th (Essex) Regt., by his wife, Jane Scott (10, Netherhall Gardens, N.W.), dau. of the late Capt. Thomsett, 44th Regt.; b. Kilkenny, 16 Feb. 1869; educ. Bruges; went to Canada about 1885 and was a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, practising at Vancouver, where he was a partner in the firm of Abbott, Hart-McHarg & Duncan. He joined the Canadian Militia about 1895 as a Private and rose to the command of the 7th (Vancouver) Regt., receiving the medal for 20 years’ service. He served in the South African War, 1900–2, with the first contingent (Royal Canadian Regt.) and obtained the Queen’s medal with four clasps (Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg and Cape Colony), and in 1911 was one of the Canadian contingent present at the Coronation of King George V. On the outbreak of the European War, Lieut.-Col. Hart-McHarg was given command of the 7th Regt. and came over with the first contingent and went to France in Feb. 1915. At the Second Battle of Ypres, the 7th formed part of the 3rd Brigade, and on Friday, 23 April, occupied a position on the forward crest of a ridge, with its left flank near St. Julien. This position was severely shelled by the Germans during that day, and about 4.30 Col. Hart-McHarg, Major (now Lieut.-Col. Commanding) Odlum and Lieut. Mathewson, of the Canadian Engineers, went out to reconnoitre the ground. The exact location of the German forces opposed to them was not known, and they moved down the slope to the ruined village of Keerselaere—a distance of about 300 yards—in broad daylight without drawing a shot, but when they reached there they saw the Germans not 100 yards away, and they accordingly turned and began to retire. They were followed by a burst of rapid fire the moment they cleared the shelter of the ruins. Col. Hart-McHarg and Major Odlum managed to get into a shell-hole near by, but not before the former had been severely wounded. When Major Odlum discovered this, he raced up the hill under heavy fire in search of surgical aid. He found Capt. G. Gibson, Medical Officer, 7th Battn., who, accompanied by Sergt. J. Dryden, went down to the shell-hole immediately. They managed to move the Colonel into a ditch and there dressed his wound and remained with him till after dark, when he was carried back to Battn. Headquarters. He died the following day, 24 April, 1915, in hospital at Poperinghe, and was buried there in the New Cemetery with Col. Boyle, who fell the same day. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. Col. Hart-McHarg was well known as a fine rifle shot. In 1908 he gained the Gold Medal of Canada after a close contest with three redoubtable antagonists from Toronto and Ottawa. He had shot several times in Canada’s national teams, and had distinguished himself in the matches for the Palma International Trophy against the selected teams of the United States, Great Britain, Australia and other countries. He held the record individual score in the match, being in this respect a world’s champion. He had also shot for Canada in the Empire Trophy match, founded by the Australians as an inter-Empire competition. He was a member of the Canadian team at Bisley in 1907, 1910 and 1914, and was spoken of as the next commandant of the Canadian team for Bisley. He shot for the Dominion here in both the Mackinnon and Kolapore Imperial matches, and in 1910 he tied for the Prince of Wales’s Prize with the British Army champion, the famous Capt. Wallingford, who is now with the New Zealand Force. Each scored 85, the highest possible, with 17 bull’s-eyes at 300 and 600 yards. Col Hart-McHarg lost on shooting off the tie, but he won the Bronze Cross of the Bisley Grand Aggregate. In Aug. 1913, he won the Governor-General’s prize for the second time—the Blue Riband—at the Dominion of Canada rifle meeting at Ottawa and the Long Range Championship of the World with army rifle at the international matches, Camp Perry, Ohio. He was unm.

=MACHIN, CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 10028, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Machin, of Tunstall, by his wife, Annie (3, Cardigan Road, Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury), dau. of Thomas Walker; b. Longton, co. Stafford; educ. Catholic School, Tunstall; enlisted, 17 March, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914, during the desperate fighting on the Aisne. He was unm.

=McHUGH, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1879S, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McINTOSH, ALFRED JAMES GRAHAM=, A.B., 221937, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McINTOSH, LAURENCE SCOTT=, Stoker, 1st Class, 283715 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McINTOSH, ROBERT RAE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, yst. s. of the Rev. Robert McIntosh, D.D., Senior Minister of the Alva West United Free Church, by his wife, Helen, dau. of the late Thomas Stevens, of Ardline, Helensburgh; b. The West Manse, Alva, near Stirling, 8 May, 1888; educ. at the Dollar Academy and Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A., 1908, and when war broke out was working for his LL.B. degree; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the Cameron Highlanders, 14 April, 1914, and joined his regt. 1 July following. He went to France 20 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the night of 23–24 April, 1915. Buried near “Hill 60” to the east of the Ypres-Lille railway; unm.

=MACK, FRED=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21187, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACK, JAMES WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2793), 193570, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACK, WILLIAM BELL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8084). S.S. 103925, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKAIN, JAMES FERGUS=, Capt., 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army, elder s. of the Rev. William James Mackain, of Ardnamurchan, Aubrey Lodge, Merton Park, formerly Rector of Parham, Sussex, and subsequently Vicar of Little Waldingfield and Poslingford, Suffolk, by his wife, Helen Clifford, dau. of the late John Johnstone Elton Morecroft, of Hollymount, West Derby, Liverpool; b. Bognor, co. Sussex, 28 Oct. 1885; educ. Warden House School, Upper Deal; Clifton College (where he was a member of the Bisley VIII of 1902), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached, Indian Army, 9 Jan. 1904, and after serving for his first year with the Gordon Highlanders at Sialkote and Peshawar, was posted to the 34th Sikh Pioneers, 8 March, 1905. During the great earthquake in the Punjab in 1905 he was in charge of a relief convoy from Lahore to Kulu and did good work there, and his name appeared in a telegram from the Viceroy to the Secretary of State. He entered the Kasauli Army Signalling College, and on the completion of his course received a special certificate. He was engaged in the Mohmand Expedition of 1908, for which he received a medal with clasp. Seconded from his regt. in 1901, he was one of the first officers appointed to the newly raised Signal Companies of the Sappers and Miners and served with the 31st Signal Coy. as second in command for three years at Futtehghur and other stations. He was promoted Lieut., 9 April, 1906, and Capt., 9 Jan. 1913. Home on furlough when the war broke out, he rejoined his regt. in Egypt in Aug. 1914, and proceeded with it to France. He fell in action near Festubert, Flanders, on 23 Nov. 1914, while gallantly defending his trench against a determined assault of the enemy. Capt. Mackain, though wounded in the face from the splinter of a shell, rallied his men and while he lived kept the enemy at bay. He was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. A brother officer wrote: “He was commanding his company (No. 4) at the time, and was shot through the head in a very gallant attempt to stem an attack in great force by the enemy through breaches blown in our trenches. The enemy were armed with hand-grenades, which they threw into the trenches. Your son, while shooting down the grenadiers with his revolver over the top of the trench, was unhappily himself shot dead through the head. His loss to us personally, and to us as a regt., I cannot yet realise. He was such a fine stamp of Christian soldier, and we looked on him as one likely to go a very long way.” The “Civil and Military Gazette” of India, of 4 Dec. 1914, said: “Capt. Mackain was known throughout Northern India as a keen Churchman and one of the main stays of the Church of England Men’s Society.” A memorial tablet to the memory of Capt. Mackain, erected by his father, was unveiled in the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W., by the Chaplain-General on 29 Sept. 1915, and another was placed in Lahore Cathedral by his friends in India.

=MACKAY, ALASTAIR SUTTON=, Private, No. 2113, 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of William Falconer Mackay, of Invergordon, Merchant, by his wife, Flora, dau. of Thomas Morrison; b. Moose Factory, Hudson Bay, Canada, 7 Dec. 1889; educ. Invergordon and Aberdeen; in his sixteenth year passed for a boy clerkship in the Civil Service, and was sent to the G.P.O., West Kensington. From here he passed as assistant clerk, and was transferred to the National Health Insurance Office in Edinburgh. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 9th Royal Scots (the Dandy Ninth), left for the Front on 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot by a stray bullet while carrying rations from the transports on 29 April. He died the same day, and was buried on the 30th on a farm at Hooge, near Ypres; unm.

=MACKAY, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13442 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKAY, JOHN=, Petty Officer, 175154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACKAY, WALTER EDWARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 174303, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MCKECHNIE, WILLIAM GEORGE ERNEST=, 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 1777, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MCKEE, JAMES=, Signalman, 224740, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 14 Oct. 1914.

=MACKENZIE, COLIN LANDSEER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., only s. of Landseer Mackenzie, of St. Bernard, Bournemouth [Cadet of Mackenzie of Redcastle], by his wife, Laura, dau. of David Dobell, and a great-nephew of Sir Edwin Landseer, the celebrated painter; b. Malvern, 4 May, 1892, and was educ. at Haley Preparatory School, Bournemouth; Stubbington Naval School, and Cheltenham College, where he entered the O.T.C. at so early an age as to be physically unfit to carry his rifle on a march, and won the school prize for German. On leaving Cheltenham, he joined the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders as 2nd Lieut. on probation, in which rank he was subsequently confirmed, and, after passing his “Army Competition,” was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., 24 May, 1913. On 13 Aug. 1914, he proceeded with his battn., which formed part of the 5th Brigade, to France, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne on 20 Sept. following. His company commander, Capt. Chichester, wrote of him: “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, when he was shot in the head, death being instantaneous. He was a gallant fellow and a good officer; his death is much deplored.” He was buried on the ridge above Vernieul; unm.

=MACKENZIE, CORTLANDT GRAHAM GORDON=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; b. Toronto, 3 Nov. 1889; educ. Upper Canada College, Toronto, and the Royal Military College, Kingston; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Scots Fusiliers, 30 Aug. 1911, and promoted Lieut., 17 Feb. 1912; went to France with his regt. about 30 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Gheluvelt, near Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and was buried there; unm. His eldest brother, Lieut. G. A. G. Mackenzie, was killed at Festubert (see following notice), and his yst. brother, Lieut. John G. Mackenzie, is in the 92nd Highlanders, Canadian Expeditionary Force.

=MACKENZIE, GORDON ALEXANDER GORDON=, Lieut., 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law, of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; b. Toronto, 22 Aug. 1882; educ. Ridley College, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, and at the Royal Military College, Kingston; joined the Queen’s Own Rifles, Toronto, about 1901, being placed on the Reserve of Officers about 1907, and when the war broke out was fruit farming in British Columbia. He immediately offered his services and was appointed to the 30th (British Columbia) Battn., being afterwards transferred to the 16th Battn. He came over with the second contingent, Feb. 1915; went to France about 1 May, and was killed at Festubert, 21 May, 1915; unm.

=MACKENZIE, JAMES, V.C.=, Private, No. 8185, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of the late Alexander Mackenzie, by his wife, Marion, dau. of Hugh Miller, of Meikle, Borneleugh, Irongray, Dumfries, Farmer; b. West Glen, New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire, 2 April, 1889; educ. Laurieknowe Public School, Maxwelltown; enlisted 16 Feb. 1912; killed in action at Rouges Bancs, France, at 2 p.m. 19 Dec. 1914, while acting as stretcher-bearer, in a brave endeavour to bring in a wounded comrade. For a similar act of bravery on the same day he was awarded the Victoria Cross, 18 Feb. following, the official record stating: “For conspicuous bravery at Rouges Bancs, on 19 Dec., in rescuing a severely wounded man from the front of the German trenches, under a very heavy fire, and after a stretcher-bearer party had been compelled to abandon the attempt. Private Mackenzie was subsequently killed on that day whilst in performance of a similar act of gallant conduct.” A comrade wrote: “He was returning to the trenches along with me and another stretcher-bearer when it occurred. We had only two or three cases that morning, so the last one was taken by us three. After we took the wounded soldier to hospital, we returned to see if there were any more. There was a very dangerous place to pass. I went first, followed by another, then James came behind, which caused his death. He was shot in the heart by a sniper, and only lived five minutes.” A memorial tablet, erected by friends in the Burgh of Maxwelltown and parishioners of Troqueer, was placed in the east vestibule of Troqueer Parish Church. A portrait has also been hung in his old school.

=MACKENZIE, JAMES=, L.-Sergt., No. 806, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late John Mackenzie, Coachman, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John McKenzie; b. Strathpeffer, co. Ross, 10 June, 1881; educ. Lochbroom Public School, and after working for some time in an engineering shop in Glasgow, went to Queensland about 1902, and was employed there in well sinking; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to Egypt in Dec.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 23 May following. He was a widower; s.p. On hearing of his death, his brother William enlisted in the R.G.A., and is now (1916) on active service.

=MACKENZIE, KEITH BETHUNE=, Capt., 2nd. attd. 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, attd. 1st Gordon Highlanders, elder s. of the late James MacKenzie, of Daresbury, Malvern, Worcestershire, by his wife, Jane (Woodham House, Horsell, Woking), only dau. of the Rev. Neil Bethune, of Thamesford, Ontario; b. Shanghai, China, 1 Dec. 1879; educ. Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia, 5 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut., 5 April, 1904, and Capt., 3 June, 1911; served in the South African War, 1900–2, taking part in the operations in Cape Colony, Aug. 1900–Jan. 1902; Orange Free State, Jan.-March, 1902; and in the Transvaal, March-May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 14 Oct.-12 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 12 Nov. 1914. He was buried at Hooge. He was a Knight of the Saxe Ernestine Family Order. He m. at St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, 22 Jan. 1912, Louise, dau. of the late James Scott, of Craigholme, Edinburgh; s.p.

=MACKENZIE, KENNETH=, Blacksmith, 342118, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=McKENZIE, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 8876, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, eldest s. of William McKenzie, of 5, Ritchie Place, Edinburgh, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Robert Stuart, of Logie-Almond, Perthshire; b. Edinburgh, 8 Oct. 1886; educ. Fountainbridge Public School, Edinburgh; enlisted, 20 Aug. 1904; went to France with his battn., 21 Aug. 1914, and was wounded at Hazebrouck, 13 Oct. 1914, and invalided home, but returned to the Front, 19 Jan. 1915. Early on the morning of 25 April, 1915, the 10th Brigade, in which were the 2nd Seaforths, received orders to retake the village of St. Julien, which had been captured by the enemy on the previous day. The attack was pushed up to the very edge of the houses, when it was checked by a murderous maxim-gun fire. The 10th Brigade suffered terrible losses and Sergt. McKenzie was mortally wounded. He was removed to the Dressing Station at Hazebrouck, where he died early the following morning (the 26th). He was buried near a burned farmhouse to the left of the St. Jean-St. Julien road, 1,000 yards south of St. Julien. Sergt. McKenzie m. at Edinburgh, 18 May, 1909, Annie (2, Roseburn Street, Murravfield, Edinburgh), dau. of Henry Dunnet, and had a dau., Marion Margot Stuart, b. 15 Aug. 1912.

=MACKEY, HARRY=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 789), late R.M.A. 5753, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKIE, REGINALD ERNEST=, Lieut. and posthumous Capt., 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Councillor James Wyse Mackie, J.P., of the firm of I. W. Mackie & Sons, Ltd., Princes Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth (16, Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh), dau. of the late John Burnett; b. Edinburgh, 6 July, 1884; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and studied at the Surgeon’s Hall, and then entered his father’s firm. He joined the Queen’s Own Edinburgh Rifles, which on the formation of the Territorial Force became the 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots, in 1907, and on 10 March, 1910, having passed in tactics and obtained a certificate from the School of Instruction, was gazetted Lieut. On the outbreak of war, he volunteered for Imperial service; left with his battn. for the Dardanelles, Saturday, 22 May, and was killed in the attack on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; unm. He went out as Capt., but was not gazetted until after death, and to rank as from 26 May, 1915.

=MACKIE, ROBERT COLE=, Private, No. 6/499, 2nd South Canterbury Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; b. Cathcart, Glasgow, 26 Feb. 1885; educ. Public School there; went to New Zealand; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the 2nd South Canterbury Regt.; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there between that date and 1 May; unm.

=McKINNON, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 537, 1st Australian Light Horse, 2nd s. of Alexander McKinnon, of Brownhill, Pitglassie, Turriff, co. Aberdeen, Farmer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Myles Morrison; b. Easter Elchies, co. Moray, 13 Aug. 1882; educ. Craigellachie and Aberlour Secondary School; was a Coppersmith; went to Australia in 1912, and settled in Queensland. He joined the Scottish Horse on the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, and served with that corps in South Africa, and when the European War began in Aug. 1914, he enlisted in the 1st Australian Light Horse, and died in hospital at Malta, 1 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli on or about 8 Aug.; unm.

=MACKINNON, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7581), S.S. 102965, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKINTOSH, JAMES LAWTON=, Lieut., attd. 1st Battn. Highland Light Infantry, yr. surviving s. of the late Hugh Mackintosh, of Braeval, Nairn, Shipowner, by his wife, Henrietta (12, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh), dau. of Richard Lawton; b. Nairn, 4 Jan. 1895; educ. Nairn Academy, Edinburgh Academy, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. List, Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and was given a temporary lieutenancy in the 1st Highland L.I., Dec. 1914; went to France, 26 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 1 May, 1915; unm. Buried near Ypres. Lieut.-Col. Hill, of the 1st Highland L.I.. wrote: “I had recognised his rare promise as an officer and he had endeared himself to all. He was leading his platoon in the attack when he was shot in the head, and died at once, without any pain.”

=MACKIRDY, PETER MACKAY=, Lieut.-Commander. R.N.V.R., Anson Battn. Royal Naval Division, twin s. of Robert MacKirdy, of Greenock and Glasgow, Sugar Broker, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Mackay of Greenock; b. Greenock, 1 Sept. 1888; educ. Collegiate School, Greenock; was an Engineer; Sub-Lieut., R.N.V.R., 17 July, 1910; Lieut., 10 April, 1913. and Lieut.-Commander, 10 April, 1913; died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 29 May, 1915; unm. His twin brother. Capt. R. F. MacKirdy, was killed in action there, 12 July following (see next notice).

=MACKIRDY, ROBERT FINGLAND=, Capt., 5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.). twin s. of Robert MacKirdy, of Greenock and Glasgow, Sugar Broker, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Mackay, of Greenock; b. Greenock, 1 Sept. 1888; educ. Collegiate School, Greenock, and was a Commission Agent; joined the 5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 22 March, 1907; became 2nd Lieut., 23 March, 1908; Lieut., 20 Jan. 1912. and Capt., 1 Nov. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for Southampton; went to the Dardanelles, 3 June, 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July, 1915; unm.

=MACKLIN, ALFRED HENRY=, Private, No. 5064, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; eldest s. of William Macklin, of Long Street, Enford, near Pewsey, by his wife. Emily, dau. of the late John Cox; b. Enford, Wilts, 18 Oct. 1881; educ. there, enlisted on or about 4 Aug. 1903; killed in action at La Bassée, 25 Dec. 1914, and buried close to the west wall of the brewery at Givinchy. He m. at Enford, 1 Aug. 1908, Ellen Beatrice (Enford, Pewsey, Wilts), dau. of William Eyres, of Enford, Pewsey, and had a son, Reginald William, b. 24 June, 1909.

=MACKRELL, THOMAS=, Canteen Manager. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACKWORTH, FRANCIS JULIAN AUDLEY=, Major, Royal Artillery, 3rd s. of the late Col. Sir Arthur William Mackworth, 6th Bart., R.E., C.B., D.L., J.P., by his wife, Alice, dau. of Joseph Cubitt, of Park Street, Westminster, C E.; b. Clifton, Bristol, 15 Sept. 1876; educ. Cathedral School, Llandaff, Malvern College (scholar) and Selwyn College, Cambridge (scholar, Mathematical Tripos, 1898); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 June, 1898; promoted Lieut. 16 Feb. 1901, Capt. 15 April, 1906, and Major 30 Oct. 1914; was employed with the West African Frontier Force from 2 April, 1904, to 25 June, 1908; passed into the Staff College in 1909; was Adjutant, 26th Brigade, R.F.A., from Feb. 1912 to Sept. 1913, and Brigade Major, R.A., 3rd Division, Oct. 1913 to the time of his death; went to France, 16 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near La Couture, Pas de Calais, 1 Nov. 1914. Buried at Fosse, Pas de Calais. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.], 1914. He m. at Llantilio, Pertholey, co. Monmouth. 4 Aug. 1910, Dorothy Conran (The Mardy. Abergavenny), only dau. of Arthur Hastings Lascelles, and had two daus.: Cecily Joan, b. 15 Aug. 1911; and Helen Margaret, b. 18 Feb. 1914. His eldest brother, Capt. Digby Mackworth, was killed in action at Ladysmith in Jan. 1900. His yr. brother, Capt. Harry Llewelyn Mackworth, D.S.O., is now (1916) at the Front with the Australian troops. Another, Commander Geoffrey Mackworth is in the R.N.; and Capt. John Mackworth is (1916) on active service with the Royal Flying Corps.

=McLARDY, HENRY=, Staff Sergt.-Major, No. 1122, 8th Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Donald McLardy, of Glasgow, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late (—) Slater; b. Glasgow, 26 June, 1875; educ. there; enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders at Glasgow. 4 Aug. 1891; served in Chitral, 1895, including the attack on, and capture of, Dargai Heights; and through the South African War. 1899–1902, and received the Queen’s medal with four bars (Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast) and the King’s medal with two bars (1901–02). He then returned to India, was present at the Delhi Durbar (medal), and obtained his discharge, 31 Aug. 1910, with the rank of Sergt. after 19 years’ service with the Colours, seven of which were abroad. He went to New Zealand the same year and joined the Defence Staff as Drill Instructor Sergt.-Major, and on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, volunteered for foreign service and left for Egypt with the main body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and was killed in a bayonet charge on Walker’s Ridge on the night of 2 May, 1915, being buried in the Infantry Cemetery at the foot of that ridge. He m. at Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand, 28 Feb. 1913, Elizabeth (Nen Street. Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand), eldest dau. of the late John Fraser, and had two sons: Donald Gordon, b. 1 Dec. 1913; and Henry Thomas, b. 17 Jan. 1915.

=MCLAREN, ERIC ANDREW=, Private, No. 12/1740. A Coy,. 3rd Auckland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Thomas McLaren, of Waitahuna, Miner (b. in Ireland), by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Andrew Chapman; b. Waitahuna, Otago, New Zealand, 11 July, 1891; educ. Union Street School, Dunedin, and Richmond Road School, Auckland; enlisted 14 Dec. 1914; left for Egypt with the third reinforcements, 13 Feb.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, and was killed in action at Daisy Patch. Cape Hellas, Gallipoli, 8 May, 1915; unm.

=MACLEAN, ALISTAIR ALLAN=, Private, No. 1730, 14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.); 3rd s. of Alexander Maclean, of Gordon Hall, Kingussie, co. Inverness, Farmer, by his wife, Margery, dau. of Finlay McGillivray; b. Gordon Hall aforesaid, 4 May, 1894; educ. Kinguissie Higher Grade School; was a Clerk in the London Branch of the Bank of Montreal; joined the London Scottish in 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 15 Sept.; was wounded at the First Battle of Ypres, 11 Nov. 1914, during the famous charge of the London Scottish, and died at Poperinghe three days later, 14 Nov.; unm. He was buried at Poperinghe.

=MACLEAN, ANDREW DE VERE=, Capt., 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., only surviving s. of Kaid Sir Harry Maclean, of Tangier, Morocco; b. Morocco City, 18 Oct. 1882; educ. Wellington; and served with the Militia in the South African War. 1901–02 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and was gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the 1st East Surreys, 28 April, 1902. He was promoted Lieut. 2 April, 1904. and Capt. 1910, and retired 23 April, 1913, when he joined the Special Reserve. He rejoined his Battn., in Dublin, on the outbreak of war; went with the 14th Brigade to France, and was killed in action at Missy-sur-Aisne, 19 Sept. 1914, and was buried there. He m. at Bombay, 20 Nov. 1907, Dulce (Westlands, Ewhurst, Surrey), only dau. of the late Major-Gen. T. J. Maclachlan, R.H.A.; s.p.

=MACLEAN, ANGUS ROBERT=, Private, 1363, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force. 3rd s. of Angus Maclean, of Korrumburra, Victoria, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of George McGregor; b. Deep Creek, Victoria, 16 June, 1889; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, took part in the landing and was killed in action there, 17 July, 1915; unm.

=MCLEAN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 2583, 2nd Battn. (Prince of Wales’ Volunteers) South Lancashire Regt., s. of Michael McLean; b. Liverpool, 34 years ago; educ. St. Sylvester School, Liverpool; enlisted following the outbreak of war, 11 Aug. 1914, and died of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle, 13 March, 1915; buried Bailleul Cemetery. He m. Liverpool, 8 Aug. 1906, Sarah, dau. of Felix Grimes, of Liverpool, and had five children: Michael, b. 2 June. 1907; Felix, b. 17 March. 1909; Gerard, b. 15 Jan. 1913; Sarah, b. 14 March, 1911; and Mary, b. 8 April, 1915.

=MCLEAN, WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., R.N.R. 5329A, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea. 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACLEHOSE, NORMAN CRAWFORD=, Lieut., 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Norman Macmillan MacLehose, of 18, Harley Street, London, W., and of Little Heath, Berkhamsted, Herts, M.B., Ophthalmic Surgeon, by his wife, Olive, dau. of the late Alexander Macmillan, Publisher; b. London, 21 April, 1889; educ. at Rugby, where he was “King’s Medallist,” and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A., with 2nd Class honours in Modern History, 1911; was a student of the Inner Temple and a member of the staff of the “Umpire’s Office” in connection with the Insurance Act (Part II for Unemployment). For some time after leaving Oxford he resided at, and worked for, Toynbee Hall, and he kept up his connection with that institution until the war broke out. He joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1912, and in the following year obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Post Office Rifles. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and was promoted Lieut., 19 Aug. 1914. He left for France with his battn. in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert on 26 May following; unm. He was buried at Lindez Farm, Festubert. In a letter written a few days before his death he said; “Well, the war is a bad business, but there are compensations. People had so often told us the race was degenerate that I had almost begun to wonder whether it was not true, but I know now.... Some of our fellow’s used to grouse and seem soft in England, but there is no doubt about them here. They are made of the right stuff, as I believe the whole nation is.” His commanding officer wrote of him: “He was a very valuable officer and will be greatly missed”; and a brother officer said: “His men loved him.”

=MACLENNAN, IAN DOUGLAS=, Sergt., No. 2690, 5th Battn., Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of the Rev. George Robert Maclennan, M.A., Parish Minister of Thurso, by his late wife, Barbara Johnston, dau. of the late Robert Johnston, Jeweller, Glasgow; b. Campbeltown, co. Argyle, 16 April. 1894; educ. St James School, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh; won the medal for junior vocalists at the “mod” of “An Comunn Gaidhealach” in 1907; and on leaving Edinburgh in 1911 entered the Thurso Branch of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, and was an active and enthusiastic worker in his father’s church at Thurso. He joined the 5th Battn., Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.) in May, 1911; volunteered on the outbreak of war for foreign service; was promoted Sergt. 19 April, 1915; went to France on the following Saturday, and was killed in action at 6.30 on the evening of 15 June, 1915, in an attack upon the German trenches a few miles N.N.E., Festubert; unm. His chaplain, the Rev. D. Macfarlane, wrote: “Sergt. Maclennan was killed in action last night when our battn. had severe losses. His coy. (C) was chosen to lead an attack, and he with several others, among them two of the officers, were cut down by machine gun and shell fire. He always willingly led the praise for me at the coy. services. On Friday afternoon I had a service with his coy. in preparation for the trench work and its hazards, and he led the hymns for us so lustily. He was an influence for good among the men, and was most highly respected and beloved by his own coy.” A comrade wrote: “Everyone here has great reason in feeling very proud of Ian. I saw him last just before we left the trench to charge, and as usual, he was cheerily talking to us and looking as cool as could possibly be. It is a comfort for you to know that Ian’s remains have had a very decent burial just behind the trench from which we charged, and a Sergt. from B Coy. has put up a very neat cross on the grave.” Another comrade paid the following tribute to his memory: “Happiness was one of his great possessions, he was never downhearted. He was one to march with or to rest with, a man in a hundred to fight alongside, for he had the two essential qualities of a good comrade—great spirits, and ceaseless unselfishness. His death, like his life, was a glorious one, and I am sure that he met it as he met good and bad fortune alike—with a smile.”

=MACLEOD, ALASTAIR RODERICK=, Lieut., “Y” Battery, R.H.A., yr. s. of Simon John Fraser Macleod, of 26, Albert Hall Mansions, Kensington. S.W., K.C., one of H.M. Commissioners of the Board of Control, by his wife, Catherine Florence, dau. of the late William Nelson, of Salisbury Green, Edinburgh; b. 44, Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, W., 20 Jan. 1892; educ. Cheltenham, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., 23 Dec. 1911; appointed to 135th Battery, and promoted Lieut. 23 Dec. 1914. He proceeded with his battery to France in Aug. 1914, his brigade being attached to the 4th Division, and took part in the memorable retreat from Mons to Melan, and subsequently in the general advance and the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne. While on observation duty for his battery in our first line trenches near Le Gheir before daybreak on the morning of 21 Oct., the trenches were captured by a battn. of the 104th Saxon Regt. and he himself and some 40 men made prisoners. They were well treated by their captors and placed in the cellars of a convent for protection from the bombardment of their own guns, and later in the day, when a counter-attack recovered the lost trenches, were released. In Nov. he was wounded by shrapnel in the shoulder and got concussion from the effects of high explosive shells, and was invalided home. He rejoined at Woolwich in Jan. 1915, and getting his “jacket” was in March appointed to “Y” Battery, R.H.A., and proceeded to the Dardanelles with the 29th Division. He was mortally wounded at Beach W, Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915. Having been selected on 23 April by the officer in command of the R.H.A., of the Division to act as observation officer to certain of the ships, whose guns were to cover the landing of the troops near Cape Helles, he, with his servant and five signallers, went on board the Caledonia, and on the morning of the 25th he and his men landed with the Lancashire Fusiliers at Beach W, between Capes Tekke and Helles, to control and direct the fire of the warships. Lieut. Macleod was the only R.H.A. officer to participate in this gallant feat of arms. Our men suffered heavily while still on the water, and, on landing, came up against unbroken lines of barbed wire, while, from the cliffs, snipers and concealed machine-guns and quick-firers rained death upon them. Lieut. Macleod and his signallers, with the exception of one, who fell severely wounded directly he left the boat, succeeded in crossing the beach and gaining some shelter on the cliffs; but, in attempting to move forward to a more commanding position, he was mortally wounded by a pom-pom bullet. Just after being hit, he sent off a military message to the Fleet, ending with the words: “I’m done for!” His servant, Gunner McCarthy, raised him up and dragged him into some slight shelter, and he was within a short time placed in a boat and taken to H.M.S. Euryalus, but died as he was being lifted on board. He was buried at sea the following day together with 16 other officers, the Brigadier-General and all the officers of the Headquarters’ staff being present; unm. The officer commanding his battery in France wrote: “I had an extremely high opinion of the boy, both as a friend and an officer, and the regt. has lost one of a type which is rare to find. He combined every virtue that one could wish to find; a charming companion, very popular with the officers and equally so with the men, and they had a great respect for him. Hard working, always thorough at his duties and keen on his profession, he was an absolutely straight gentleman. His one fault I fear may have been his undoing, and that was his total disregard for his own safety”; and the Colonel commanding the R.H.A. Brigade at the Dardanelles wrote: “He had a particular charm about him with his very boyish appearance and manner, and I had taken a great liking to him. His selection for so important a job is a sufficient proof of what was thought of him as an officer. The desperate enterprise succeeded on that beach, and you, with many others, will have your grief tempered by pride in one of the most glorious achievements of this war.” Lieut. Macleod was a fine rider, and on 25 April, 1914—exactly a year before his death—won the Bar Point-to-Point Open Steeplechase on his own horse in a field of 23. He was known to his intimates as “Hamish.”

=McLEOD, ARCHIBALD ALASTAIR=, Capt., 1st Battn. Gloucester Regt., 3rd s. of the late Lieut.-Gen. William Kelty McLeod, Col., The Highland L.I., by his wife, Emilie Godfrey, dau. of the late James Thomson, of Gibraltar, nephew of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir John McLeod, G.C.B., Col., Black Watch, and gdson. of the late Col. Alexander McLeod, C.B., 61st Regt.; b. Singapore, 3 June, 1877; educ. Wimbledon School, the Oxford Military College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., 8 Sept. 1897, and promoted Lieut. 24 Feb. 1900, and Capt. 13 Oct. 1905; served (1) in the South African War, 1900–02, was employed with Mounted Infantry, took part in relief of Kimberley operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg (17–26 Feb.), Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River (5–6 May) and Zand River, operations in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11–12 June), operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, operations in Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Wittebergen (1–29 July), Bothaville, Caledon River (27–29 Nov.), in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1900, and in Cape Colony, north of Orange River, operations in Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to Aug. 1901, and Oct. 1901 to 31 May, 1902, and operations in Cape Colony, Feb. to March, 1901, and Sept, to Oct. 1901 (Queen’s medal with six clasps, King’s medal with two clasps); (2) in Nigeria being employed with West African Frontier Force, 29 Sept. 1906 to 1908, when he joined 1st Battn.; and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914; went to the Front with the 1st Division, was present at the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action while leading his Coy. in an attack on a farm held by tin-Germans, 2 Nov. 1914. Capt. McLeod was distinguished in musketry, and had the Special Certificate of signalling granted to him at Pretoria in June, 1904. His Coy. were winners of the Douglas Shield (a Regimental trophy) in 1912. His recreations were hunting, polo and shooting. He m. at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, 18 June, 1914, Marie Jeanette Amelia, yst. dau. of Lord Henry Fitzwarrine Chichester, and gdson. of Edward, 4th Marquis of Donegall; s.p.

=MACLEOD, DAVID FERGUSON=, L.-Corpl. No. 270, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late David Ferguson Macleod, of 29, Polworth Gardens, Edinburgh, and of the General Post Office, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Henry John Gibson, Aberdeenshire; b. Edinburgh, 12 Sept. 1889; educ. George Heriot’s School; went to Australia, Oct. 1913, and settled at Sydney, New South Wales; was a Secretary; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of the European War; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died on the hospital ship Devanha, 10 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action after Lone Pine, 9 Aug. 1915; unm. He was buried at sea 10 miles south-east of Mudros Harbour, Lemnos Island.

=MACLEOD, IAN BREAC=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Black Watch, only s. of the Rev. Roderick Charles Macleod, Vicar of Mitford, Morpeth, by his wife, Katharine Louisa, dau. of the Rev. William Edward Jelf, of Caerdeon, Dolgelly, and gdson. of Norman Macleod of Macleod, of Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye, J.P., D.L., 22nd chief of his clan; b. Bolney, co. Sussex, 4 Sept. 1893; educ. Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Black Watch, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 9 Sept. 1914; joined the 2nd Battn. in India, Nov. 1912, with it went to France in Oct. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches near Neuve Chapelle, 17 April, 1915; unm. Buried in the cemetery at Veille Chapelle. Col. Harvey wrote: “Your son was a most excellent young officer, and since the Battn. has been in France he has done most sterling work, especially when his Coy. Commander was wounded before Christmas—a time which tried all ranks very highly. Your son was killed while he was carrying out his duties in the trenches, and I understand died without pain.” And Major Wauchope: “Believe me that for all great and important qualities such as truthfulness, courage, kindliness, a most ready sympathy (most rare in one so young), consistent unselfishness—in all these he was, I believe, superior to most.... I have seen no one more cool and collected in hours of great danger.... As his Capt., and I do indeed trust as his friend, I can say there are few indeed I know who have qualities that are so ‘becoming to an officer and a gentleman.’ You can guess how all the men loved ‘Mr. I. B.’ All who knew him, officers and men, mourn his loss. I do not think he ever had an unkind thought for anyone, but it is only since the war began I understood his value as an officer.”

=McLEOD, DUNCAN=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9671), S.S. 201449, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct 1914.

=MACLEOD, TORQUIL HARRY LIONEL=, Midshipman, R.N., H.M.S. Goliath, 2nd s. of Roderick Willoughby Macleod, of Invergordon Castle and Cadboll, co. Cromarty, and 10, Ovington Gardens, London, formerly Capt., Cameron Highlanders (who served in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882), by his wife, Alice Olivia, 2nd dau. of Edward Tierney Gilchrist Darell; b. Invergordon Castle, aforesaid, 11 Sept. 1899: educ. Hillbrow, Eastbourne, and the Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; joined H.M.S. Goliath as a Naval Cadet, 1 Aug. 1914, and was drowned when that battleship was sunk by a torpedo from a Turkish destroyer in the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915. His Commander, H. Peel-Ritchie, V.C., wrote of him: “All the time he was my A.D.C. I had every reason to be more than pleased with his keenness and zeal and the cheery way he did everything. He was a great favourite with officers and men, and I feel sure that, as he had made such a very good start, he would very quickly have made his mark in the Service.”

=McLOUGHLIN, FRANCIS=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3640, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McMILLAN, ALEXANDER=, Driver, No. 5/692 A., New Zealand Army Service Corps, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Archibald McMillan, Farmer, by his wife (—), dau. of Andrew Gilmour, of Waipawa, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, Engineer and Surveyor; b. Kumeroa, 26 Feb. 1888; educ. Waipawa District High School; enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, left for Egypt with the Main Expeditionary Force, and died of enteric fever, 3 Nov. 1915, in the 17th General Hospital, Alexandria, and was buried there; unm. He was a most prominent cricketer and Rugby football player, and prior to his departure from New Zealand represented the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in a football match against the Christchurch Rugby Team.

=McMILLAN, JAMES=, Blacksmith (Pensioner), 163582, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McMULLEN, THOMAS=. Sergt., No. 7360, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of the late William McMullen, of 40, Bell Street, Sunderland, Labourer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Richard Copping; b. Sunderland, 8 May, 1889; educ. St. Joseph’s there and Albert Road School, Darlington; was a Shipyard Labourer; enlisted, 28 July, 1908, and reached the rank of Sergt. after about five years’ service; went to France with his battn. in Aug. 1914; took part in the Battle of Mons and the other engagements in which the 2nd Coldstreams so greatly distinguished themselves, and was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant conduct in the field. He was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915, in the same affair in which L.-Corpl. Michael O’Leary, 7th Irish Guards, won the V.C. Buried at Cuinchy; unm. Immediately the news of his death was received, one of his brothers, John McMullen, a married man with three children, enlisted in the Royal Engineers, in order that the family might still be represented in the Army, but was invalided out after six months’ service.

=McMURRAN, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7687), S.S. 103004, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McNALLY, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9696), S.S. 107103, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McNAMARA, JAMES=, A.B., 196451 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=McNEALE, FRANK HANSFORD=, Petty Officer, Tele. 233305, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McNEALY, MATTHEW=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 637), 281510, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=McNEILL, HENRY GEORGE=, Trooper, No. 735, 10th Australian Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 3rd s. of John O’Brien McNeill, of 13, Diamond (—), Londonderry, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of Charles Howard Cullen, of Drumbawn, Newport, co. Tipperary; b. Queenstown, co. Cork, 10 Jan. 1896; educ. there and Mallow, co. Cork; went to Western Australia early in 1914 with the intention of taking up farming, but gave this up on the outbreak of the European War and joined the 10th Australian Light Horse at Perth, 5 Jan. 1915; went to Egypt, 9 March, and, after training there, volunteered to go as an Infantryman with his regt. to the Dardanelles; served there from 14 May to 7 Aug. 1915, on which date he was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge during the famous charge of the Light Horse. A comrade wrote: “It was on the morning of 7 Aug. when our unlucky regt. and another charged from Walker’s Ridge, and almost all got wiped out. When we had to retire back to the trenches that we started from, I looked for your son and to my sorrow could see him lying a few yards out. I watched him for a few minutes and could not see him move. I knew that he had given his life doing his bit. We could not get him in until it got dark, as it was only 50 yards off the Turkish trenches and it was death to show your hand over the trench. But that night we got him and several more in and carried them down to our medical station. We could not bury them that night, as we could not be spared from the firing line for long, but the next night we carried your son down and gave him a decent burial, our Army Chaplain reading the burial service and saying a short prayer. We mounded his grave up with stones and put a small wooden cross at the head of it with his name and regt. on it.” His 2nd brother, Corpl. John Elder McNeill (No. 7266), serving with the R.A.M.C., then attd. to the 2nd Inniskilling Fusiliers in France, was officially announced to have been awarded the D.C.M. the same day as his brother was killed, and his eldest brother, Gunner Charles Simpson McNeill (No. 31907), Royal Garrison Artillery, is also at the Front. Of his mother’s brothers, two served in the South African War and four are now on active service.

=MACNEILL, WILLIAM MACKINNON=, 2nd Lieut., 16th Lancers, 2nd s. of the late Duncan Macneill, of Winchester House, Old Broad Street, E.C., by his wife, Louisa Lucia, 4th dau. of Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lochnaw Castle, 8th Baronet, Wigtonshire; b. Tyndale House, Wimbledon Common, 7 March, 1890; educ. Repton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 16th Lancers (Special Reserve) from the Carmarthenshire Militia, 22 June, 1909; obtained his Pilot’s Certificate, qualifying to serve as a flying officer, 1 Jan. 1913; went to France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Mont des Cats, near Hazebrouck, 12 Oct. 1914, being buried in the Monastery there; unm.

=MACNICOL, HORATIUS BONAR=, 2nd Lieut., 1/10th Royal Scots (T.F.), elder s. of the late Rev. Duncan Clarke Macnicol, B.D., United Free Church Minister of Stockbridge, Edinburgh, by his wife, Emily Florence (74, Grange Loan, Edinburgh), dau. of the Rev. Horatius Bonar, of Grange, Edinburgh, D.D.; b. Glasgow, 13 April, 1896; educ. Edinburgh Academy, and Trent College, Derbyshire; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1/10th Royal Scots, 17 April, 1915, and was drowned in Belhaven Bay, Dunbar, 30 July, 1915, in a gallant attempt to save a private named Watson, of his battn., who had been seized with cramp; unm.

=MACNIVEN, ROBERT=, Private, No. 606, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; a native of co. Lanark; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed, 6–9 Aug. 1915.

=McNULTY, JAMES=, Private, No. 3385, 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); a native of co. Sligo; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action near Ypres, 15 May, 1915.

=McNULTY, PETER=, Private, No. 1455, 1/4th Battn. East Lancashire Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late John McNulty (died 8 March, 1912), by his wife, Ellen (37, Eldon Place, Blackburn), dau. of (—) Ingham; b. Blackburn, 25 April, 1894; educ. St. Albans Higher Grade School there; was an engineer; joined the Lancashire Territorials in Nov. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for Egypt in Sept. following; served at the Dardanelles, and died 1 July, 1915, of wounds received in action there; unm. Buried in Cape Helles Cemetery.

=McPHERSON, DONALD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13741, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACPHERSON, DUNCAN STUART ROSS=, Lieut., 7th, attd. 2/8th, Gurkha Rifles, only child of Surgeon-Gen. William Grant Macpherson, Army Medical Service, C.B., C.M.G., K.H.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Anne, dau. of J. Clunas, of New Orleans and Nairn; b. Bushey Heath, co. Herts, 23 Aug. 1889; educ. Westminster, Fettes College, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattd. List, 20 Jan. 1909; served his first year in India with the 2nd Black Watch; was appointed to the Indian Army, 11 March, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 20 April, 1911; served in India with the 7th Gurkha Rifles at Quetta and, during the winter of 1912–13, on the Persian Frontier; was in England on leave when war was declared in Aug. 1914, and was appointed Assistant Adjutant of the 8th (Service) Battn. The Black Watch at Aldershot, where he took an active part in the training of the battn. He went to France early in Nov. 1914, and was attd. to the 8th Gurkha Rifles. They were in the trenches at Festubert until the night of 22 Nov., when they were relieved. Shortly afterwards the enemy attacked and took the line of trenches they had handed over, and the battn. was ordered to return and counter-attack on the 23rd; this they did, eventually regaining the lost positions. It was during this attack that Lieut. Macpherson was killed while in command of the leading coy.; unm. Buried at Bethune. Lieut. Macpherson was a keen golfer and polo player, and had passed the examination for promotion to Capt. with distinction.

=MACPHERSON, JOHN=, Cadet, R.N., elder s. of John Lumsden Macpherson, Lieut.-Col. commanding 7th (Reserve) Battn. The Gordon Highlanders, T.D., Solicitor, by his wife, Mabel Jeanie, dau. of the late Rev. Robert Nimmo Smith, L.L.D., Minister of the First Charge of Haddington; b. St. Andrews, Fifeshire, 6 Nov. 1898; educ. Clifton Bank, St. Andrews and privately; entered Osborne in Sept. 1911; joined H.M.S. Bulwark from Dartmouth on the outbreak of war, and was lost when that ship was blown up at Sheerness on 26 Nov. 1914; unm.

=McCRAE, GEORGE=, Capt., 6th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), attd. 1/4th Royal Scots, eldest s. of Col. Sir George McCrae, of Torluish Grange, Edinburgh, Vice-President of the Local Government Board for Scotland, and Commanding Officer 16th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots, by his wife, Elizabeth Cameron, dau. of William Russell; b. Edinburgh, 10 Dec. 1883; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and on leaving there entered his father’s firm, Messrs. McCrae (Ltd.), Hosiers, of Princes Street, Edinburgh, of which he became managing director. On 23 May, 1898, at the age of 15, he joined the 4th Royal Scots (Volunteer), afterwards the 6th Royal Scots (T.F.), as a bugler; he became a private, 23 May, 1901, 2nd Lieut., 12 June, 1901, Lieut., 22 April, 1903, and Capt., 26 Sept. 1905. Volunteering for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, he was transferred to the 1/4th Royal Scots and placed in charge of a double company. He left with a draft of this battn. for the Dardanelles in April, 1915, and was killed in action during an attack on the Turkish position on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, on 28 June, 1915. He was first wounded in the leg, but continued to lead his men on, until he was shot through the head and killed instantly. He was buried in the battlefield. “A keen and hard-working officer,” said the “Watsonian”; “his cheery and generous disposition made him popular alike with men and officers. On the voyage out, at a time of great danger, he insisted on giving his lifebelt to a private. His men here, who are left, will miss him.” He m. at Glasgow, 24 Sept. 1910, Jemima, dau. of Alexander Ross, of that city; s.p. Two of his brothers are (1916) on active service, Lieut. W. K. McCrae, in the 1st Lowland R.G.A., and Capt. K. McCrae, in the Cameron Highlanders.

=MACRAE, IVOR ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn., King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only s. of Donald MacDonald MacRae, of Stenhouse, Thornhill, co. Dumfries, by his wife, Rosalie, dau. of the late Edward Lloyd, of Sittingbourne; b. Stenhouse aforesaid, 8 March, 1895; educ. Aldro, Eastbourne, and Harrow (The Grove); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. K.O.S.B., 10 Jan. 1914, and attached to the 2nd Battn. for training at Dublin, 14 April following; went to France, 8 Sept. 1914, and died at Bethune, 14 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action near Cuinchy, the previous day, while leading his platoon. They had been ordered to drive the enemy out from an entrenched position and during the attack nine-tenths of his men were killed or wounded. He was buried in Bethune Cemetery; unm.

=MACRAE, KENNETH CHARLES ERNEST=, L.-Corpl., No. 1348, 14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Kenneth Macrae, of Durham Road, East Finchley, N.W., by his wife, Frances Gertrude (18, White Hall Park, Hornsey Lane, N.), dau. of Henry Double, of Ramsgate; b. Highgate, 5 June, 1893; educ. Highfield, Muswell Hill; was a Civil Servant, Somerset House; joined the London Scottish in Sept. 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France with his battn. in Sept. 1914, and died of wounds in the 13th Hospital at Boulogne on 26 Nov. following. He was shot in the spine by a German sniper at Ypres; unm.

=MACRAE, VICTOR CHARLES JAMES=, Corpl., No. 5327, 4th Battn. Gordon Highlanders (T.F.), 3rd s. of Donald Macrae, of 123, Blenheim Place, Aberdeen, formerly Station Master of Plockton, Ross-shire, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Alexander Ferguson, of Inverness, Goldsmith; b. Inverness, 12 Oct. 1892; educ. Plockton Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, and Aberdeen University, where he graduated in classics with 1st Class honours and was captain of the University Shinty Club and won his blue; had been in the Territorial Battn. of the Gordon Highlanders but had retired. On the outbreak of war he re-enlisted, 2 Oct. 1914; went to France, 22 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Frierstraghte, Belgium, 21 April, 1915, while succouring a wounded comrade; unm. His Commander wrote of him as one of his best non-commissioned officers, and Major G. H. Smith, of the 4th Gordons, wrote: “Your son was a brave soldier, and it was just characteristic of him that he gave his life for his comrade. He was shot through the heart while attempting to lift up a wounded comrade and hold a cup of water for him to drink.”

=MACREIGHT, ARTHUR WILLIAM JAMES=, Lieut., 18th Battn. (London Irish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Albert Francis Henry Macreight, of The Cottage, Gammaton, North Devon, by his wife, Alma Jane, dau. of the late Joseph Ede Hamley; b. Kenython, St. Just-in-Penwith, Cornwall, 21 Jan. 1892; educ. Worcester Royal Grammar School, and H.M.S. Worcester, Thames Nautical Training College, and was for 18 months a Cadet on board the British Indian steamship Chyebassa. He joined the London Irish Rifles as 2nd Lieut. 9 June, 1913, on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and went to the Front with his regt., but was invalided home, and died at Bournemouth, 23 Nov. 1915, after undergoing several operations; unm.

=McSPARRON, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private. No. 541, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of George McSparron, of Straidarran, co. Derry, Farmer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Matthew Millar; b. Straid, afsd., 16 June, 1891; educ. Tyrglasson National School; went to Australia in 1912, and was working in Sydney when war broke out; volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt, 18 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was wounded shortly afterwards; returned to duty in June, and was killed in action in the fight for the Lone Pine trenches, between 6–9 Aug. 1915; unm.

=MACSWAN, ANGUS=, Private, No. 6247, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 4th s. of the late Donald MacSwan, Diver to the Leith Dock Commission, by his wife, Flora (139, Great Junction Street, Leith), dau. of the late Ronald Macdonald, Registrar, of Sleat, Skye; b. South Leith, 16 Dec. 1881; educ. Dr. Bell’s School there; enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders, 23 Aug. 1898; served with the 2nd Battn. through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); after this campaign transferred to the 1st Battn. in India; obtained his discharge, 28 Sept. 1905, and joined the Reserve; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914, and rejoined the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 16 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 25 April, 1915, while acting as orderly to the Capt. of B Coy.; unm. He was buried at a farm close to where he fell. Private MacSwan was a good all-round sportsman; was a marksman; a great footballer, and a member of the Regimental XI when they were the champions of India in 1905.

=McTURK, HORATIO ANDREW DAVID=, Trooper, No. 1269, Essex Yeomanry, yst. s. of Robert McTurk, of Frieze Hall, South Weald, Brentwood, Essex, Farmer, by his wife, Janet, dau. of John Crawford, of Sproulston, co. Renfrew; b. Frieze Hall afsd., 12 March, 1896; educ. High School, Brentwood; enlisted Sept. 1914; went to the Front, Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres in the famous charge of the 8th Cavalry Brigade, the 10th Hussars, the Blues and the Essex Yeomanry, on 13 May, 1915; unm.

=McVEIGH, GEORGE=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4826B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McVEY, JAMES=, Gunner, 11425, R.M.A., H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=McVITTIE, GEORGE HENRY=, 2nd Lieut. 2/4th Battn. The Border Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Richard McVittie, of 34, Brunswick Square, Penrith, Boot and Shoe Merchant, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Henry Hill, of Carlisle; b. Penrith, 24 Sept., 1895; educ. Brunswick Road Council School, Penrith; Penrith Grammar School (Sept. 1908 to July, 1914, Scholar), and Christ College, Cambridge (Exhibitioner); was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Border Regt. 4 Jan. 1915; left for India on 6 March, 1915, on H.M. Transport Dongola, and died on active service on H.M. Transport Tunisian the following day of strain and exposure caused by a collision between the Dongola and another ship in the Bristol Channel. He was unm.; and was buried at sea with full Military honours off the Scilly Isles. Col. Haswell wrote: “It is very sad that such a promising boy should be cut off so early, and the only comfort I can give you is that he did not suffer any pain, but quietly slept away. He was a good lad, keen at his work, and would have made a good soldier. We wrapped him in the Union Jack this afternoon (8 March), and buried him in the Atlantic.” While at the Grammar School he passed the Oxford Junior Local in 1910, the Senior in 1911, and took second-class honours in 1912. Having chosen the scholastic profession, Mr. McVittie in March, 1913, took the teacher’s preliminary certificate, with distinction in mathematics and geography, and taught for a year at the Boys’ National School. Prior to going Cambridge he was extremely anxious to respond to his country’s call and enlist as a private, but as the arrangements for going to Cambridge had been completed he went there and joined the Officers’ Training Corps. As a boy he was an enthusiastic member of the Penrith Boy Scouts, and he was also keenly interested in the Penrith Y.M.C.A.

=MACWHINNIE, NORMAN HENRY, D.C.M.=, Regimental Sergt.-Major, No. 5177, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only s. of James Tait Macwhinnie, of Ayr, Marine Engineer, by his wife, Elizabeth (14, St. Michael Street, Dumfries), dau. of the late John Carruthers, of Maxwellbank. Kirkcudbrightshire; b. Glencaple, co. Dumfries, 9 Aug. 1877; educ. St. Joseph’s College, Dumfries, subsequently entering the office of Charles M’Kie, the Sheriff clerk. He attached himself to the Dumfries Volunteers, and as soon as he had reached the age of 18 joined the 1st Battn. of the Scottish Borderers at York, 22 Jan. 1895, being promoted Corpl. in October the following year. During the South African war he accompanied his regt. to the Front and served with Lord Roberts’ column all the way to Pretoria, passing through the campaign without a scratch, and receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps; he also took part in the engagement at Karee Siding, near Bloemfontein, in which the Scottish Borderers were badly cut up, and for this gained the Distinguished Conduct Medal. In Jan. 1900 he became Sergt., in the following year Colour-Sergt., and while stationed at Cairo in 1908 Quartermaster-Sergt., having in the meantime seen service in Egypt and the Soudan; his final promotion came when he left Khartoum to take up the Sergt.-Majorship of the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Berwick in 1910. On the outbreak of war he was offered a commission, but preferred to stay with his regt., with which he proceeded to the Front, being killed in action at the Aisne River, 13 Sept. 1914. He was buried about two miles from Saarcy. Sergt.-Major Macwhinnie was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 9 Oct. 1914, and was awarded the Military Cross and the French Medaille Militaire; he also held the regulation medal for long service and good conduct, and King George’s Coronation Medal. He m. at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Belfast, 28 April, 1904, Caroline Christina, dau. of William Hart, 1st Class Staff Sergt.-Major, A.S.C., and had a son and dau.: Norman, b. Cairo, 29 Jan. 1908; and Elizabeth Madge, b. Colchester, 1 Dec. 1905.

=McWHIRTER, HUGH WALTER=, Private, No. 902, 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of Henry McWhirter, of Humbermouth, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, by his wife, Lottie, dau. of Henry Lilsed Harris; b. New Richmond, Quebec, 18 March, 1894; educ. Bay of Islands; volunteered and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt. in 1915; left for Britain 20 March, 1915, went to the Dardanelles, 19 Sept., and was killed in action there, 22 Sept. 1915; unm.

=MACWILLIAM, JAMES JULIAN GORDON=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only child of James MacWilliam, of 22, Forbes Road, Edinburgh, Solicitor in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, by his wife, Ella Julie de Lorn, dau. of Charles William Gordon MacDougall; b. Edinburgh, 16 Aug. 1895; educ. Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Gordon Highlanders, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 11 Dec. following; was for some time A.D.C. to Major Oakeley, Commandant of the O.T.C. at Barry Camp; went to France about 10 Sept.; joined his battn. at Fère-en-Jardenois; marched to La Bassée early in October, and was wounded by shrapnel on the 12th; rejoined the battn. about 19 Nov., when he took over his coy. temporarily, and was killed in action at Maedelsted Spur, Wytschaete, 14 Dec. 1914, while leading his platoon. His Commanding Officer, Major Baird, wrote: “On 14 Dec. three companies of his battn. were ordered to attack a German trench. Your boy’s coy. was one of these. The artillery previously bombarded the German trench, and it was hoped that it would have been made practically untenable. So far from this proving to be the case, as soon as our men advanced they were met by a terrific fire, through which they pushed forward in spite of heavy losses to within fifty yards, and in some places nearer still, of the German trench. It was when your boy was gallantly rising to lead his men for a final rush from this forward position that he was shot through the head and killed instantly. These are the particulars given me by a sergt. who was with the body of men under your son and who saw him fall. The Germans’ fire was so heavy that our men, in spite of their splendid advance, could not assault and carry the trench; their losses during the advance had been terrible, yet they hung on all day from 8 a.m. till dusk, and then had to withdraw. It was to my deep regret impossible to bring your boy’s body back for burial. Even after dark, the Germans kept up a heavy fire at this very close range, but he was lying so near the German trench that there is no doubt that they will have taken him behind their lines and buried him. I cannot express sufficiently the deep sorrow which I, and all of us, feel at the loss of a brother officer, 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. I know how little there is I can say that can bring consolation to you in your great sorrow, and will only add that your son’s death occurred in an action which, though it failed in its purpose, has been as fine an exhibition of sacrifice and determination as any in the annals of this regt., and I hope that you may be able to feel that your boy has died in covering himself with glory.” And Sergt. P. Benzies (since killed) on behalf of the N.C.Os. and men of C Coy., wrote: “On the morning of 14 Dec., the Gordon Highlanders made a glorious charge, two platoons of C Coy. leading, the other two to support. Your son was in charge of Nos. 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 we had got to within fifty yards of the German trenches we had to lie down for a minute to get our breath before the final assault. It was when he raised his head to give the order to advance that he was killed. He died instantaneously, and therefore suffered no pain. You ought to be very proud of yourself to have had such a gallant son, for he was a thorough hero, and we all admired him very much. I was also with your son when he was wounded on 12 Oct. 1914. I gave him a snapshot photograph, which was taken about the beginning of Oct., and which I hope he sent home. He gave a few of us cigarette lighters just a few days before the charge, and we all treasure them very much now.” Another officer writing home said: “Poor young MacWilliam, who had just rejoined after recovering from a wound, was shot dead through the head. I have since then taken over temporary command of C Coy., and in drawing up a report of its work during the day of the attack (14 Dec.) find that the men speak in the most glowing terms of the bravery of George and Mr. MacWilliam, and of the gallant way in which they led up their men to the advance under heavy machine gun and rifle fire. In fact the Commanding Officer has expressed extreme satisfaction and praise for the altogether splendid way in which they led their men in face of overpowering odds. Although victory was not achieved, the glory of unselfish bravery, such as reaches the highest achievements of the British Army, is attached to the names of the men who took part in that charge.” At Edinburgh Academy he was a L.-Sergt. in the O.T.C., and a member of the Shooting VIII, and shot for his school at Bisley.

=MADDANS, FREDERICK=, Private, No. G6535, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 3 May, 1915; unm.

=MADDEN, THOMAS HYLTON=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., only s. of the Ven. Thomas John Madden, Archdeacon of Liverpool, and Vicar of St. Luke’s Church there, by his wife, Jane, dau. of William Henry Horrocks, M.D.; b. Liverpool, 30 April, 1895; educ. Liverpool College and was to have entered Emmanuel, Cambridge, in Oct. 1914, but war breaking out he gave up his studies and applied for a commission. He had joined the Liverpool College O.T.C. in 1909, and at 16 commanded a coy. of the “King’s” Cadets under the late Lieut.-Col. A. T. S. MacIver. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (Reserve of Officers), 2 Aug. 1914; mobilised 5 Aug. following, and after training at Seaforth left there for the Front, 29 Sept.; reaching the firing line, 13 Nov. He received a regular commission in the 1st Battn. of his regt., 2 Feb. 1915; led the charge of his platoon against the German trenches on 10 March following, and was in the act of throwing a bomb over the barbed wire entanglements when he was shot down by a machine gun and fell mortally wounded. The Adjutant (Capt. S. E. Norris) wrote: “He fell leading his platoon in an assault on the German trenches at Givenchy about 8.15 yesterday (10 March). Capt. Feneran and Lieut. Young were also killed, and Lieut. Millar (all the officers of your son’s Coy., A) was wounded. From the evidence of the few men who returned I am sure they were all killed instantly. The whole history of the British Army has nothing finer to show than the work of A Coy. yesterday. Col. Carter was wounded, so I am writing this for him. Your son was one of the most promising young officers in the regt.”; and a Capt. of the 5th King’s: “On 10 March there was a general attack by the whole of the 1st Division, and on the whole it succeeded. The 6th Brigade, of which ‘The King’s’ Liverpool Regt. formed part, attacked at Givenchy, and in the attack by his regt. Hylton led the second party on the left. The first party had come under exceptionally heavy fire, and he must have known that he had to face more than the usual risk. He never faltered nor hesitated. He led his men well, and fell a victim to machine-gun fire. I think he must have died instantaneously. When the history of this war comes to be written, the story of ‘The King’s’ charge at Givenchy will rank equally with any of its heroic deeds in the past. The attack of our brigade failed, and the King’s Royal Rifles, the Liverpools and the South Staffords lost heavily in officers and men. But the force of their attack caused the Germans to bring reinforcements to Givenchy, and enabled success to be achieved elsewhere.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A memorial tablet and window has been placed in St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool, and a memorial tablet in Christ Church, Southport.

=MADDISON, ALFRED=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26723 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Arthur Maddison, of 7, Railway View, Dringhouses, near York; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MADDOCK, THOMAS HENRY=, Private, No. 10066, 1st Battn. Royal Scots, s. of George Maddock, of Stratford, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Henry Rand; b. Stratford, co. Essex, 21 March, 1890; educ. Carpenter’s Road Council School there; enlisted 19 July, 1907; went to France, 30 Jan. 1915, and died at a Clearing Station on 27 Feb. 1915, of wounds received at St. Eloi the previous day. He was buried in Bailleul Cemetery; unm.

=MADIGAN, JAMES FRANCIS JOSEPH=, Private, 12 1703, Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war; joined his unit at the Dardanelles, 8 May, 1915, and was killed in action, 8 June following.

=MAGEE, RICHARD EDWARD=, Master-at-Arms, 164813, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MAGILL, HUGH=, L.-Corpl., No. 11355, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of Hugh Magill, of 17, Ardenlea Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11–18 March, 1915.

=MAGUIRE, CHARLES=, Private, No. 8081, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of James Maguire, of Newton Farm, East Wemyss, Fife; b. Carnoustie, co. Forfar; enlisted 13 Nov. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; dangerously wounded in the spine in action; admitted to hospital at Aldershot, 6 Nov. 1914, and died there, 12 July, 1915.

=MAHONEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 12317, 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt., s. of John Mahoney, of Convent Street, Bandon, co. Cork, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Gilman; b. Convent Hill, Bandon, co. Cork; educ. Convent School, Bandon; enlisted in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and served nine years with the Colours, going through the South African War, for which he received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He then enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery at Tralee, 4 April, 1901, and served his time in Halifax. On the outbreak of the European War he again enlisted in the 2nd Welsh, 22 Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 Dec. 1914. He m. at the R.C. Church, Dowlais, 29 Aug. 1897, Emily (29, Greenfield Terrace, Penydarren, near Merthyr), dau. of William Mitchell, and had two children: Daniel, b. 17 June, 1905; and Minnie, b. 11 June, 1898. While with the Munster Fusiliers Mahoney was a prominent regimental athlete.

=MAHONY, FREDERICK HENRY=, Capt., 1st Battn. Cheshire Regt., only s. of Capt. Frederick Henry Mahony, late York and Lancaster Regt., for some years Adjutant of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Hounslow, by his wife, Elizabeth Mary, dau. of Lawrence Cahill; b. Lucknow, 24 Aug. 1874; educ. Dover College, and by Mr. Miller Maguire, the Army Tutor, etc.; enlisted in 1892 in the York and Lancaster Regt., and served for five years in the ranks. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Cheshires, 24 Aug. 1898, and promoted Lieut., 2 June, 1900, and Capt., 10 Feb. 1906; served in the South African War, 1900; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, attd. to the A.S.C., including actions at Dreifontein, Vet River, (5–6 May), and Zand River; in the Transvaal, May to June, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11–12 June), and in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria, July to Nov., including action at Belfast (26–27 Aug.), etc. (Queen’s medal with five clasps); was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 28 Nov. 1900 to 9 July, 1904, first in Northern Nigeria, during operations against the Emir of Yola, 1901 (medal with clasp), and subsequently in Southern Nigeria with the Aro Expedition 1901–2 (clasp). From 8 Jan. 1906 to 31 March, 1908, he was Adjutant of the Durham L.I. Volunteers and of the Territorial Battn., 1 April, 1908, to Jan. 1909. He went to France with his battn. which formed part of the 15th Brigade, under Major-Gen. Count Gleichen, in Aug. 1914, and which he commanded in Oct. during the first desperate fighting in which the 2nd Army Corps was engaged in the neighbourhood of La Bassée. During this time he led a successful bayonet charge under very heavy artillery fire, and showed excellent coolness and courage, and was complimented by General Count Gleichen on the excellent work of his battn. On 22 Oct., near La Bassée, while on his way to give orders to some men in the trenches, he was mortally wounded by a bullet from a German sniper, who fired at him from a cottage window, over 1,000 yards distant, the bullet striking him in the shoulder and penetrating to the lungs. He was removed to the Clearing (114) Hospital at Bethune, where he died a couple of hours after his arrival. Before starting on his fatal journey to the trenches he had been asked, “Why not send a man with the message?” to which he replied: “I won’t ask a man to do what I won’t do myself.” He was buried in Bethune Cemetery. Capt. Mahony was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 14 Jan. 1915. He had been strongly recommended for the D.S.O. by General Count Gleichen, and according to information received by his relatives from the War Office this honour would have been duly awarded him had he lived. He m. at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, 12 July, 1905, Ethel, dau. of John Paterson, of 42, Holland Park, W., and 1, Wallbrook, City, and had issue: Frederick Henry Patrick, b. 11 Feb. 1911; and Cynthia Patricia, b. 14 March, 1909.

=MAINE, JOSEPH LESLIE=, Corpl., No. 10399, 7th (Service) Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., s. of Thomas Maine, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of Thomas Preece; b. Grangetown, Cardiff, 1 Aug. 1888; educ. Grange Schools, Cardiff; enlisted, Aug. 1914; promoted Corpl., 26 Sept.; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the 13th Division at the Dardanelles from 17 June to 8 Aug. 1915, on which date he was killed in action there. He was a well-known member of the Bream Rugby Football Club. He m. at the Baptist Chapel, Parkend, 26 Dec. 1912, Hannah (Breams Tufts), dau. of Thomas Preece.

=MAINWOOD, WILLIAM RICHARD=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., 10397 (R.F.R., Ch. A. 666), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MAIR, JOHN=, Private, No. 3334, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Walter Mair, of Church Street, Newarthill, Motherwell, by his wife, Annie Glen, dau. of (—) Buchanan; b. Newarthill, co. Lanark, 13 May, 1880; educ. there; enlisted 12 Nov. 1901; went to France, 6 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines, 17 Nov. 1914. He m. at Forsyth, Newarthill, 8 April, 1910, Annie (now wife of James Reid, of 25, Drygate Street, Larkhall), dau. of John Dobbie, and had three children: Mary Sneddon, b. 26 June, 1910; Annie Glen Buchanan, b. 29 Jan. 1911; and Margaret Dobbie, b. 8 Dec. 1913. He was awarded the Second Class Certificate of Education, 9 April, 1908, and had the Mounted Infantry Certificate.

=MAIRS, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7130), S.S. 101872, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of John Mairs, of Kellswater Station, Randalstown, co. Antrim; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MAISEY, FRANK DOUGLAS=, Rifleman, No. 2326, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Arthur George Maisey; b. London, 28 Feb. 1893; educ. Commercial Travellers’ Schools, Pinner; enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to France, March, 1915; and was killed in action at Hill 60 21 April following, on the occasion on which the Q.V.Rs. so greatly distinguished themselves, and 2nd Lieut. Geoffrey H. Woolley of that battn. won the V.C.; unm.

=MAISEY, WALTER SRAFFORD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8384), 203623, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MALCOLM, JAMES (HAMISH) WADDELL=, 2nd Lieut., 5th (City of Glasgow) Battn. Highland L.I. (T.F.), s. of John Malcolm, of 3, Kensington Gate, Dowanhill, Glasgow, Shipowner and Shipbroker, by his wife, Margaret Black, dau. of the late James Waddell, of Airdriehill; b. Hillhead, Glasgow, 19 Sept. 1894; educ. Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 9 April, 1913; on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service with the battn., and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 12 July, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916], for gallantry in the field. Writing to his father, July 16 his Colonel stated: “A Coy. was detached as support to the 6th Highland L.I., and early on the evening of the 12th was ordered up to reinforce that battn. which had captured several trenches, but was held up at one advanced trench running diagonally across its front. Our men carried the near end of the trench, but the Turks retained the far end, and for a long time the struggle raged up and down at very close quarters between hurriedly constructed barriers of sand bags. Major Downie was severely wounded early in the fight, and for some time Hamish was the only officer of the company at that part of the trench. The men all speak in the highest terms of his pluck and the manner in which he cheered them on and kept them at it. They say that he fainted from exhaustion, but as soon as he came to, insisted on getting forward again although he was urged to rest for a little. A good deal of hand grenade work was going on on both sides, and he set the example of picking up the enemy’s grenades and throwing them back. Eventually he was struck by a grenade which exploded and killed him on the spot.”

=MALET, HUGH ARTHUR GRENVILLE=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, elder s. of Allan Arthur Grenville Malet, of The Butts, Harrow-on-the-Hill, M.I.C.E., Madras P.W.D. (ret.), Deputy Chief Engineering Inspector, Local Government Board, by his wife, Elizabeth Anne, dau. of William Lysaght, of Beechmount, co. Cork; and gdson. of the late Lieut.-Col. George Grenville Malet, 33rd (old 3rd) Queen’s Own Bombay Light Cavalry [killed in action at Bushire in the Persian War, 1857; 4th s. of Sir Charles Warre Malet, 1st Bart., F.R.S., F.S.A.]; b. Duggirala, Kistua, India, 22 Sept. 1892; educ. Harrow, and Caius College, Cambridge; was in the O.T.C. at School and College, and on entering the Inner Temple in 1913; joined the Inns of Court Squadron; volunteered for active service the day war was declared, and obtained a Special Reserve Commission in, and joined, the 3rd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Aug. 1914, and was given a commission as a University Candidate in the Connaught Rangers, 26 Sept. 1914, but at the special request of the Col., 3rd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, was transferred to them; was promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following; joined the 2nd Battn. of his regt. 26 Nov., and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 18 April, 1915; unm. Buried at Hill 60. An officer wrote: “Everyone here speaks very highly of him. And they all say he was absolutely fearless. I understand his name was sent in for ‘mention in Despatches’ for some very useful work he did in scouting. Those who were present on Hill 60 say that he was killed while trying to take a communication trench which was held by German bomb-throwers. I am told he was killed instantaneously, which is a blessing. I am really proud to have known him.” A wounded Private of his platoon wrote from a Base Hospital: “At the request of Major Bindloss, R.A.M.C., I will endeavour to the best of my ability to describe to you how your son conducted himself during his period of active service. I cannot say for certain when he joined us out here, but it was either the end of Nov. or the first days in Dec. that he was posted to No. 3 Platoon of A Coy., which I belonged to. I know we were not exactly delighted at the time, for he just looked like a young boy, and we of No. 3 did not like the idea of being led into action by a lad whom we thought had no experience, but he was not with us many days when we changed our opinion regarding him. It was our first turn in wet trenches when we began to take a little more notice of him. He came amongst us cheering us up and giving us all the help he possibly could to make things more comfortable until we were relieved. The next time we went in, your son, at a very great risk to himself, went about looking for different ways into the trench, so that we should not have to go through the communication trenches which were full of water, and he always found a way which took us into the trench with dry feet, which meant a great deal to our comfort. He was always the same every time we went into the trenches. The comfort of the men came first; this continued during the hard winter which we put in. Spring came, and with it dangerous work. Your son was always the first to volunteer, in fact he was the only officer in A Coy. who ever did any of that work. He used to go out in front of the trench scouting along with six men, perhaps he would stay out one hour, perhaps two, and then again I’ve known him stay out from 8 o’clock at night until 4 in the morning, trying to find out who were in front of us. Then came the order we were to help at Hill 60. We lay in dug-outs while our artillery shelled the Hill; the Germans replied; the air seemed to be alive; it was awful, but we sat tight until the hour arrived, 7 a.m. It was then the Hill went up; it was like a huge crater, and shook the earth for miles around. We then advanced on the Hill, and, of course, we took it. We could not see a German anywhere, but bullets and bombs came amongst us, doing frightful damage. Your son then said, ‘Follow me, men, I’ll find the Germans for you.’ We went after him, he found them, but I regret to say, they found him first. His death was instantaneous, he suffered no pain. Madam, your son died a hero, and he should have had the V.C., but unfortunately there was no one there to recommend him for same. His death was deeply regretted, not only by the men of his platoon, but by every man who was left alive in his Coy. We not only lost our best officer, but we had lost a friend.” The Medical Officer, after taking a statement from two wounded men of his platoon, wrote; “Lieut. Hugh Malet took command of the trench, and in less than an hour he was killed in an exactly similar way by a rifle bullet. His death was instantaneous. He fell within five yards of the place where Capt. Wingate was lying.... Lieut. Malet was considered by these men to be a wonderfully brave officer, he invariably volunteered for all dangerous duties; quite recently he had gone out four nights in command of scouts in front of the British trenches to try and capture German ‘listening’ posts and snipers who were suspected of using explosive bullets. The two men said that we men always said that he would either get a V.C. or be killed; Lieut. Malet used to come back from these night scouting expeditions covered from head to foot in mud, from the ditches he had crawled through.”

=MALKIN, PERCY=, Private, No. G. 2941, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 8 May, 1915.

=MALLINS, CLAUDE JOSEPH O’CONOR=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Batt. Connaught Rangers, eldest s. of the late Capt. Frederick William Mallins, 3rd East Lancashire Regt., by his wife, Eliza (now the wife of Henry O’Connell-Fitzsimon, of 31, Pembroke Road, Dublin), yst. dau. of the late Roderic Joseph O’Conor, of Milton, co. Roscommon, J.P.; b. Dublin, 3 Oct. 1894; educ. Stonyhurst College, Wimbledon, and Sandhurst; was gazetted from the Reserve of Officers to the Connaught Rangers, 14 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force on 2 Sept. and was killed close to Mollemsarrelhoek, near Ypres, while directing the fire of his platoon, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. He had been acting as Adjutant for some weeks. His Commanding Officer wrote deploring the loss of a very valuable officer who “knew no fear.”

=MANCER, ARTHUR JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3083), 210896, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MANDERS, NEVILLE=, Col., Army Medical Staff, yst. s. of the late Major Thomas Manders, 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), afterwards Adjutant, P.W.O., Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of John Hacking; b. Marlborough, co. Wilts, 12 Dec. 1859; educ. Marlborough College, and after qualifying (with honours) as L.R.C.P. (Lond.), and M.R.C.S. (Eng.), entered the Army Medical Service as a Surgeon, 2 Aug. 1884; was gazetted Major, R.A.M.C., 2 Aug. 1896, and promoted Lieut.-Col 2 Aug. 1904; and Col, 21 Dec. 1910; served in the Suakim Campaign, 1885 (medal with clasp, Khedive’s Bronze Star), and with the Burmese Expedition of 1887–89, in which he was severely wounded (medal with two clasps); was Senior Medical Officer, Ceylon, 1908 to 1911, and at the Curragh, 1912 to Dec. 1913, and was appointed Deputy Director of the Medical Service in Egypt, 21 Dec. 1913, a position which he retained until Jan. 1915, when he was, by special request, attd. to the Headquarters Staff of the Australian and New Zealand Forces as A.D.M.S., going with them to the Dardanelles in April, 1915. He was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 9 Aug. 1915, during the attack on Sari Bair, and was buried on the beach at No. 3 Post. Gen. Sir Alexander Godley, General Officer Commanding, New Zealand and A Division, wrote: “He had endeared himself to us all, and had so thoroughly identified himself with this force and had been such a help to us, that his loss will be irreparable. I can hardly say how much I shall miss him and all the help he gave me. He was killed while making plans for the relief of the wounded, on the field in the execution of his duty, and I only hope it may be some slight consolation to you to know this, and to know how highly we all thought of him, and how much we shall miss him both as a Staff Officer and a comrade.” Col. Manders was a prominent Entomologist, having done much research work in that branch of science. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society, and a Fellow of the Zoological Society, and the Bombay Natural History Society. He m. at St. Michael’s, Colombo, Ceylon, 15 Sept. 1900, Maude Braybrooke (Glenthorne, Dorset Road, Bexhill-on-Sea), only child of Frederick William Vane, I.S.O., Ceylon C.S. (retired), and of Louisa Frances, his wife, and had a dau., Una Jim Chester, b. 1 Nov. 1901.

=MANLEY, HERBERT JOHN=, Gunner, No. 2/330, New Zealand Field Artillery, s. of the late John Manley, of Rathdrum, co. Wicklow, Ireland, for over 30 years Relieving Officer under Rathdrum Board of Guardians (who died 11 Dec. 1910), by his wife, Maria, dau. of the late Arch Manning Greenane; b. Rathdrum, co. Wicklow, 20 June, 1892; educ. Rathdrum High School; went to New Zealand with his mother and brothers and sisters after his father’s death in 1910, and after the outbreak of war joined the Expeditionary Force, 2 Oct. 1914, and was killed instantaneously in action at Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915, being shot through the heart; unm. He was buried in a gully near the sea, close to the spot where he fell, and a wooden cross was erected by his comrades.

=MANLEY, JOHN DUNDAS=, 2nd. Lieut., 26th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, eldest s. of the late Herbert Manley, of West Bromwich, M.D., Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Alice (1, Bank Mansions, Golders Green, London, N.W.), dau. of Capt. Robert Thomas Dundas, R.N.R.; b. West Bromwich, co. Stafford, 24 Jan. 1892; educ. Cheltenham College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. on probation, to the Special Reserve of the Royal Engineers, 21 June, 1913, and confirmed in that rank, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the 26th Field Coy. R.E., attd. to the 1st Division, of the Expeditionary Force, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, during the Battle of the Aisne, 26 Sept. following, and was buried in Vendresse churchyard about a mile from the spot where he fell; unm. An oak cross set in stone and bearing his name and rank was erected by the men of the 26th Coy. Major H. L. Pritchard, D.S.O., R.E., wrote: “I cannot tell you how much all the officers of the 26th Coy. sympathise with you in your bereavement, and how much we mourn the loss of your son, while to me, his commanding officer, it is a serious handicap to lose such a brave 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;” and Lieut.-Col. A. L. Schreiber, R.E., D.S.O.: “I feel that I must write to tell you 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 line of the 3rd Brigade, and the General (Loudon) and his Staff Officer, Major Grant, 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 out his independent duties. There must be this consolation that his death must have been instantaneous ... also there is the feeling, of which you should be proud, that he was killed actually on the field of battle while in the execution of his duty, and he had borne his share of the great hardships the company had gone through, and was much appreciated by his brother officers.”

=MANN, ERNEST WALTER CHARLES=, Private, No. 9489, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., eldest s. of Albert Mann, of 61, Rosebery Road, Ipswich, Sawyer, by his wife, Ellen; b. Westbourne, near Ipswich, 1878; enlisted in the Suffolks at the age of 18, and served eight years with the Colours and four in the Reserve, and after the outbreak of war rejoined his old regt. in Sept. 1914; went to France, in Nov., and was killed in action at La Bassée, 8 Jan. 1915. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich, 2 Dec. 1905, Ethel Frances (12, Benhall Green, Saxmundham), dau. of Thomas Holland, and had a son: Ronald Albert, b. 27 June, 1912.

=MANN, HOWARD WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 11617, 12th (Service) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., s. of George Mann, of Blakeney, co. Glos., Wood Sawyer; b. Blakeney, 17 Nov. 1877; educ. Council School there; enlisted in the Monmouth R.E. (Militia) in April, 1895; served for two years and five days, and obtained his discharge by purchase, July, 1897; later became a member of the Cyclist Coy. Liverpool Battn. National Reserve, and on the outbreak of war re-enlisted in the Liverpool Regt., Aug. 1914; died of pneumonia at Aldershot, 21 Dec. 1914. He m. at Gloucester, 24 Dec. 1898, Sarah Jane, dau. of John Papps, of Stroud; s.p.

=MANN, REUBEN=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 22131 (Ports.), H.M.S Hawke, s. of William Mann, of Bishops Itchington, Leamington Spa; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MANN, WILLIAM HORACE=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. E. 13136, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MANNERING, ARTHUR LIDSTONE=, Cook’s Mate, M. 5540, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MANNING, ALFRED=, Private, No. 1618, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Alfred Manning, Coal Porter; b. Canning Town, E., 27 Aug. 1895; educ. Cyprus Place Council School, New Beckton, E.; joined the Rangers, 12 June, 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France with his Battn. at the end of Dec. 1914, and died of wounds received in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 24–26 April, 1915; unm.

=MANSFIELD, JOHN RICHARD=, A.B., 213674 (Ports), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MANSFIELD, THOMAS RICHARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5775), S.S. 487, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MANSFIELD, WILLIAM=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 276756, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MANSON, MAGNUS MURRAY=, Rifleman, No. 1999, A Coy. 1/21st (1st Surrey Rifles), London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of James Alexander Manson, of 4, Cornwall Avenue, Church End, Finchley, author and journalist, by his wife, Margaret Emily, dau. of Charles Deering; b. at Herne Hill, London, 30 Sept. 1891; educ. Alleyn’s School, Dulwich; was a Clerk, first in the Education Department of the London County Council and, secondly, in the London Office of the Guaranty Trust of New York; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 15 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 9 April, 1915; unm. He was buried the same day in the little churchyard there behind the firing line. Capt. Quintin Walford, his Coy. Officer, wrote: “His loss is much felt by his comrades of ‘A’ Coy. and by me. He was conscientious and hard working, and died doing his duty for his King and Country.”

=MANT, WILLIAM=, S.P.O., 306427. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MAPLESTONE, JAMES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1857), 290210, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MAPPLETHORPE, CLAUDE=, Rifleman, No. 1508, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Frank Mapplethorpe, of 9, Delamere Terrace, Paddington. Tailor, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Alexander Mould; b. Lumley Street, Oxford Street, W., 5 May. 1892; educ. Camble Street Council School, N. Paddington; was by trade a Tailor; joined the Rangers about 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France in Dec. 1914, and died in the 5th General Hospital, Rouen, on 2 July, 1915, of wounds received at St. Julien, near Ypres, on 3 May. He was buried in the cemetery at St. Sever, Rouen; unm. His brother Frank, serving in the same battn., was wounded and taken prisoner on 8 May. Their platoon sergt. wrote of them: “Both brothers did some splendid work while we were in the trenches, and stood by me like bricks.”

=MARDELL, EDWARD=, Private. R.M.L.I., Ch. 16690, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MARKER, RAYMOND JOHN, D.S.O.=, Col., Coldstream Guards, 1888–1913. Staff Officer, eldest s. of Richard Marker, of Combe, Honiton, co. Devon. J.P., D.L., late Capt. 1st Devon Yeomanry, by his wife, the Hon. Victoria Alexandrina, née Digby, eldest dau. of Edward, 9th Baron Digby; b. Upcerne Manor, Dorchester, 18 April, 1867; educ. Evelyns Preparatory School, Eton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards, 15 Nov. 1888, and promoted Lieut., 29 Sept. 1890; Capt. 1st Battn. 24 Jan. 1898; Brevet Major, 26 June, 1902; Major, 29 Nov. 1903; Lieut.-Col. 2nd Battn. 11 March, 1911, and Col. 5 Aug. 1914; was Adjutant, Coldstream Guards, 7 March, 1892, to 6 March, 1896; A.D.C. to Gov. and Com.-in-Chief (Sir Joseph West Ridgway), Ceylon, 7 March, 1896, to 5 Dec., 1897; A.D.C. to Viceroy of India, 6 Jan. 1899 to 9 March, 1900; on special service in South Africa, 7 April, 1900, to 8 March, 1901; and A.D.C. to General Officer, Com.-in-Chief the Forces, South Africa, 9 March, 1901, to Sept. 1902; served through that campaign; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, April to May, 1900, including actions at Vet River and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal, May to June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill; operations in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria, July to Aug. 1900, including action at Belfast; operations in Orange River Colony, Sept. to 29 Nov. 1900 and 30 Nov. to Dec. 1900; operations in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900 to March 1901, and operations in the Transvaal, March, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (three times mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 23 April, 7 May, and 10 Sept. 1901]; Brevet of Major, Queen’s medal with five clasps, King’s medal with two clasps, D.S.O.; placed on list of officers concerned qualified for stall employment, in consequence of services on the Staff in the Field); was in charge at Vereeniging during deliberations of Boer Generals and with Col. (afterwards Major-Gen.) Hubert Hamilton brought home peace despatches to Windsor, June. 1902; A.D.C. to Com.-in-Chief, East Indies, 28 Nov. 1902 to 30 April, 1904; Private Secretary of State for War (Mr. Arnold Foster), 1 Jan. 1905 to 18 Oct. 1905; A.D.C. to Com.-in-Chief East Indies, 5 Nov. 1905 to 27 Oct. 1906; General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, Home Counties Division, E. Command, 1 April, 1908 to 12 June, 1910; in command of 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, March 1912 to Nov. 1913; A.Q.M.G. Aldershot Command, 29 Nov. 1913 to Aug. 1914; A.A. and Q.M.G. 1st Army Corps, British Expeditionary Force, in France; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914, and 17 Feb. 1915]; Cross of Officer of the Legion of Honour); was wounded at Ypres, 4 Nov. 1914, and died at Boulogne on the 13th. Buried at Gittisham, Honiton. He m. at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, 21 Nov. 1906, Beatrice Minnie Shrieve, 3rd dau. of Sir Thomas Jackson, of Stansted House, Essex, 1st Bart., and had a son: Richard Raymond Kitchener, b. 18 June, 1908.

=MARKHAM, ALLAN=, S.P.O. (R.F.R., B. 8683), 295344, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MARKHAM, JOHN ADDIS=, Capt., 1st Battn. The East Yorkshire Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Markham, of Popenhoe, Wisbech, Norfolk, by his wife, Henrietta Jane, dau. of William Addis, of London; b. Faulkner House, Walpole-St.-Peter, Wisbech, 31 Dec. 1886; educ. Dover College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st East Yorkshires from the Militia, 27 May, 1908, and promoted Lieut. 3 Sept. 1910. He was appointed temporary Capt. 15 Nov. 1914, and this rank was made substantive, 6 Feb. 1915. He went to France with the 6th Division in Sept. 1914, and was mortally wounded by a sniper’s bullet in the trenches near Armentières, 7 May, 1915, and died two hours later, being buried in Le Bizet Convent; unm. Major I. L. I. Clarke, commanding 1st East Yorkshires, wrote: “I looked upon Markham as my most reliable Company Commander, always cheery and a splendid example to all under him. He was beloved by his men, and exceedingly popular with his brother officers”; and Private John Brady, of his company: “He was the gentleman who led my platoon to the trenches on the Aisne, the platoon that was the first to come under the fire of the Germans’ famous coalboxes. He laughed at those shells, bucked us up, making us so that we could not do anything else but follow him.” Capt. Markham was a fine horseman, and in 1913 he won the East Yorkshire’s Regimental Point-to-Point Race, on his horse, Loretto.

=MARKILLIE, EDGAR JOHN=, Private, No. 944, Machine Gun Section, 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late John Adam Markillie, Mayor of Camberwell in 1908, by his wife, Frances J. (85, Norbury Crescent, Norbury), dau. of Thomas Morris, of Harrow, Tailor; b. Peckham, 1 Dec. 1890; educ. Bellingdon Road Higher Grade School, South London School, Camberwell, and Clarke’s College, Lewisham; went to Sydney, New South Wales, 3 Aug. 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered and joined the Australian Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, Aug. 1915; unm. He had gained accountancy examination just before enlistment, also examination in book-keeping, first class. He excelled in sport of all kind, and was one of the crack shots of the second Australian contingent. His brother, Ernest Stuart, was killed in Belgium (see his notice).

=MARKILLIE, ERNEST STUART=, Private, No. 156, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late John Adam Markillie, Mayor of Camberwell in 1908, by his wife, Frances J. (85, Norbury Crescent, Norbury), dau. of Thomas Morris, of Harrow, Tailor; b. Peckham, 24 March, 1895; educ. Bellingdon Road Higher Grade School, and South London School, Camberwell; was a Clerk in the London County and Midland Bank, 1913–14; volunteered and enlisted on the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914; went to France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Bailleul, 18 Jan. 1915, while fixing barbed wire; unm. He was in first Rugby team, and was a fine swimmer. His brother, Edgar John, was killed at the Dardanelles (see his notice).

=MARKQUICK, ARTHUR CHRISTIAN=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23520, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MARLER, ALBERT WALTER=, Officer’s Steward, R.N.V.R., Sussex 1/305, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Albert Marler, of 116, Montgomery Street, Hove; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MARQUER, TOUSSAINT MARYS=, Shipwright, 2nd Class, 342455, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MARROW, EDWARD ARMFIELD=, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only surviving s. of the late Major Peter Marrow, of the King’s Dragoon Guards, by his wife, Mary (Belhaven Hill, Dunbar), dau. of the Rev. Alexander Stewart, Rector of Liverpool; b. Blantyre, co. Lanark, 26 Sept. 1883; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford, Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the K.O.S.B., 18 Jan. 1902, and promoted Lieut. 24 Jan. 1906, and Capt. 1 April, 1910; served with the 2nd Battn. in India, 1902–06; was at the depot at Berwick-on-Tweed from 1908 to 1912, and then joined the 1st Battn. in India, and was appointed Adjutant, 15 May, 1914. He returned with his Battn. to England on 31 Dec. 1914, and was at Rugby till 17 March, 1915, when they embarked for the Dardanelles, took part in the landing at Y beach, Gallipoli, on 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Y Beach the following day. He was buried just above the landing place there. He m. at Norham, Berwickshire, 11 Jan. 1911, Constance Marion (Belchester, Coldstream), 2nd dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Bloomfield Gough, 9th Lancers, and had three children: Peter, b. 11 Jan. 1913; Edward Charles Gough, b. posthumous, 21 Nov. 1915; and Margaret Constance, b. 29 Nov. 1911, died in infancy.

=MARSH, ARTHUR=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 3940, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MARSH, CECIL FRANK=, Private, No. 14953, 10th (Service) Battn. Hampshire Regt., s. of William John Marsh, a Painter, working on Sir George A. Cooper’s Hursley Park Estate, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Hilbert Whitmarsh; b. Winchester, 15 Aug. 1897; educ. Church of England School, Ampfield; enlisted, 4 Jan. 1915; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 21 Aug. following; unm.

=MARSH, HENRY HERBERT STANLEY=, Major, 4th London Field Coy., R.E. 2nd London Division (T.F.), only s. of Thomas Herbert Marsh, of London, Engineer and Manufacturer, by his wife, Agnes Amelia, dau. of Thomas Towers, of Ontario, Canada; b. Toronto, Canada, 26 Oct. 1875; and was educ. Kent House, Eastbourne, and Faraday House. He began work as an engineer under Sir Benjamin Baker, and in 1897 was appointed Assistant Engineer to the City and South London Railway; subsequently he worked for Sir Alexander B. W. Kennedy; was a member of the Engineers’ Lodge of Freemasons, of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and of the Junior Institution of Engineers, and Vice-President of the Faraday House Old Students’ Association. He obtained a commission in the 1st Middlesex R.E. (Volunteers) in March, 1900, and served in the South African War in command of the 2nd Service Section of that regt., for which he was mentioned in Lord Kitchener’s Despatch of 29 July, 1902, and received the Queen’s medal with five clasps, and was gazetted an Hon. Lieut. in the Army, 1902. He afterwards commanded the Telegraph Coy. 2nd London Divisional Engineers (T.F.), for several years, and was gazetted Capt. 3rd London Field Coy. 3 Aug. 1913, and Major, 4th London Field Coy. 10 Sept. 1914. On 14 March, 1915, he went with his company to France, and was wounded by a shell at Cuinchy, April, 1915, while superintending a working party under fire, and died the following day. He was buried in Bethune Town Cemetery. The A.A. and G.M.G. wrote “We have lost in your husband not only a friend, but a really good officer, whose value lay in his keenness and conscientious sense of duty.” He m. at St. Jude’s, South Kensington, 20 April, 1904, Grace Marie (86, Lansdowne Road, London, W.), 2nd dau. of the late Francis Cheyne Hare, late 53rd Regt. and had issue: Thomas Francis Herbert, b. 9 Nov. 1905; Agnes Marie, b. 1 June, 1908, and Margaret Grace, b. 19 May, 1912.

=MARSHALL, ALBERT FRANK=, Plumber, 340898, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MARSHALL, ALFRED ERNEST=, Leading Stoker, 293716, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MARSHALL, ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4648), 212798, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MARSHALL, AUGUSTUS DE LA PERE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 2nd s. of the late John Harcourt Hamilton Marshall, by his wife, Blanche Isabella (73, Muswell Road, Muswell Hill, N.), dau. of Augustus De la Pere Robinson, of Cloughkeating Castle, co. Tipperary; b. Melbourne, Australia, 23 Nov. 1892; educ. Seapoint High School, Cape Town, and Bedford Modern School. He joined the 28th London Territorials (Artists’ Rifles), 16 April, 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and went to France, 26 Oct. 1914. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., and was posted to the 2nd East Lancashires, 27 March, 1915. He was killed in action during the attack on Aubers Ridge, near Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; and was buried in “Cameron Lane,” off the La Bassée Road, near Neuve Chapelle; unm. He was a keen cricketer and hockey player. He won his Second Cricket XI when at Bedford, was Capt. of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Cricket Club, and Vice-Capt. of the Bowes Park Hockey Club.

=MARSHALL, EVELYN SAFFREY=, Capt., 9th (Service) Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., 6th s. of the Rev. Edward Thory Marshall, M.A., Vicar of Sutton-in-the-Isle, Hon. Canon of Ely, by his wife, Lucy Charlotte Emma, dau. and co-heiress of the Rev. Charles Henry Knight, of Barrells, Warwickshire; b. Manea, Isle of Ely, 28 Jan. 1887; educ. Stancliffe Hall School and Repton; and Camborne School of Mines; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Empire Battn. Royal Fusiliers, Sept. 1914, as a Motor-cycle Despatch Rider; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. Royal Warwickshire Regt. 25 Jan. 1915, and promoted Capt. 7 Aug. 1915; left for Gallipoli, 19 June, 1915, and took part in both evacuations at the end of the year; was specially mentioned for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field, in Gen. Monro’s Despatches from the Dardanelles; joined Mesopotamian Relief Force, March, 1916, and died in Hospital on 6 April of wounds received the previous day at Falahiyeh (El Hannel); unm. In reporting his death, Col. Gordon wrote: “We are all most deeply grieved. He led his company most gallantly at Falahiyeh, and in no small measure contributed to the brilliant success and capture of the Turkish trenches. He was one of the noblest men I have ever known, brave to a fault, modest, warmhearted, cheerful when everyone else was depressed, enduring and the most capable leader of men. His company was devoted to him, and all wanted to stay by him on his stretcher.” A brother officer wrote: “At Suvla, when most people fell sick, he was one of the mainstays of the battn., and kept things going when most others were ready to give in. I can remember how at one time he hung on with great grit against an overcoming sickness which would have sent others down to the hospital ship.” Another letter said: “All his men worshipped him, and would have followed him anywhere.” An officer wounded in Gallipoli told how Capt. Marshall practically saved his life by ripping the fleecy lining out of his coat and sending him down to the hospital in it. His brother, Capt. J. E. Marshall, was also killed in action (see his notice).

=MARSHALL, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Private, No. 11469, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of John William Marshall, by his wife, Isabella (41, Curzon Street, Birmingham), dau. of William Hoare; b. Birmingham, 30 May, 1890; educ. Cowper Street Council School there; was a Brass Polisher; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 5 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Cambrin, 9 July, 1915, by a rifle grenade while on sentry duty; unm. An officer of his battn. wrote to his brother: “He was killed by a rifle grenade which fell into the trench close by him, but as he was shot through the heart death must have been instantaneous and quite painless.... Ever since I have known him, some three months, your brother did well in everything, being one of the first to volunteer for a patrol about five weeks ago, and, which is a more difficult thing than any momentary act of bravery, whether in the trenches or in billets, he invariably did his duty cheerfully and willingly, an excellent example to all. He will be buried in Cambrin Churchyard, a village close to Bethune.”

=MARSHALL, GEORGE GARTH=, Lieut., 11th Hussars, 2nd s. of Victor Alexander Ernest Garth Marshall, of Monk Coniston, co. Lancaster, by his wife, Victoria Alberta Alexandrina, eldest dau. of Gen. the Hon. Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, K.C.B., M.P., and granddau. of George, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, K.G., K.T., P.C., Prime Minister (1852–55); b. South Kensington, 6 Dec. 1884; educ. Marlborough; joined the Lancashire R.F.A. (Militia) in 1904, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 11th Hussars, 20 Dec. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 16 Sept. 1909. He was stationed in Dublin, and afterwards at Shorncliffe and Aldershot, and was appointed A.D.C. to Gen. Sir E. H. Allenby, K.C.B., commanding Cavalry Corps just before the outbreak of war. He went to France in Aug. 1914, served in the retreat from Mons, the advance to the Aisne, and the movement to the Calais front, and was killed in Ypres by a shell while carrying a despatch to Gen. Haig, commanding 1st Army Corps, on 6 Nov. 1914. Gen. Allenby wrote: “He was a devoted A.D.C., indefatigable and capable.” A brother officer wrote: “If there is a consolation it is in the memory of his example, which will always live with us who knew him,” and Gen. Hamilton Gordon, commanding at Aldershot, said: “We all loved him.” He was unm.

=MARSHALL, ISAIAH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9597), S.S. 106977, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MARSHALL, JENNER STEPHEN CHANCE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., only s. of the late Jenner Guest Marshall, of Westcott Barton Manor, co. Oxford, J.P., by his wife, Grace Eleanor (now wife of the Rev. George Miller, Rector of Teffont Ewyas, near Salisbury), dau. of A. de Peyster Chance, of Wheatfields, Worcester, J.P.; b. Hagley, co. Worcester, 1 June, 1895; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth Verites, Charterhouse, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Oxford and Bucks L.I., 17 Sept. 1913; went to France with his Battn., which formed part of the 5th Brigade, in Aug. 1914, and died on 23 Oct. following, of wounds received on the 21st. near Langemarck, Ypres. Buried in Ypres Cemetery; unm.

=MARSHALL, JOHN EDWARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 2nd s. of the Rev. Edward Thory Marshall, M.A., Vicar of Sutton-in-the-Isle, Hon. Canon of Ely, by his wife, Lucy Charlotte Emma, dau. and co-heiress of the Rev. Charles Henry Knight, of Barrells, Warwickshire; b. Coveney, Isle of Ely, 3 June, 1881; educ. Llandaff Cathedral School and Repton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Garrison Regt. from the Militia, 28 Jan. 1903; promoted Lieut. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. 17 Oct. 1906, and Capt. 30 Aug. 1914; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in Orange River Colony, Dec. 1901 to Feb. 1902, and in Cape Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); with the West African Regt. from 29 Aug. 1908 to 2 April, 1913, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 18 Dec. 1914 to 30 March, 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Kemmel; unm. Buried there. Brig.-Gen. J. S. Maude, commanding 4th Infantry Brigade, wrote: “I just wanted as General Commanding the Brigade to bear testimony to the splendid work which has been done by your gallant son since he has been with us. It was not my good fortune to know your son intimately, but I had noted him especially on several occasions for his quiet unassuming manner, a characteristic which is often associated with more sterling qualities. He was in every respect a thoroughly capable and efficient officer; he fell as a gallant soldier at the head of his men, a brilliant example of personal bravery and devotion to duty”; and Major H. T. Cantan: “He is a great loss to the regt., being a very smart officer, and one of my best company commanders, a man to whom I had hardly to express my wishes before the matter was done or placed in hand. He had always shown great bravery, and did not, I think, know fear. I only hope that my boys will grow up with the same pluck and endurance.” Capt. W. T. Brooks also wrote: “My regard for your son was sincere, and I admired greatly the way he handled his men under very trying circumstances. His loss to me is very great, and to our regt. of which we are so proud.... I must say again what a severe loss we have suffered, for your son was not only a fine officer, who looked well after his men and feared nothing, but when out of the trenches he kept people going.” A yr. brother, Capt. E. S. Marshall, 9th Royal Warwicks, died of wounds in Mesopotamia, 6 April, 1916.

=MARSHALL, PERCY STANLEY THOMAS=, Private, No. 7905, 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd s. of William Marshall, of 4, Lochinvar Street, Balham, S.W., late Trooper, Royal Horse Guards, by his wife, Lucy Jane, dau. of William Bartholomew Pestete, of Bacton. Norfolk; b. Southwark, S.E., 11 April, 1891; educ. Cavendish Road School, Balham; enlisted in the Lincolnshire Regt. in Jan. 1907; served seven years with the Colours, and then joined the Reserve; mobilised on 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and died at Jemappes, 11 Sept. following, of wounds received in action there, 23 or 24 Aug.; unm. Buried in the garden of the Institute of St. Ferdinand, Jemappes.

=MARSHALL, ROGER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham Light Infantry, yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. Anthony Marshall, of Annstead, Chathill, Northumberland, late 3rd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers; b. Annstead afsd., 25 Jan. 1891; educ. privately; joined the Special Reserve, R.F.A., 10 Aug. 1910; was granted Aviator’s Certificate of the Royal Aero Club. 30 April, 1913; passed Army Examination, March, 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the 2nd Durham L.I., 15 July, 1914, and joined 6 Aug. 1914; went with his battn. as part of the 6th Division to France in Sept., and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914, only four days after his arrival at the Front; unm.

=BURT-MARSHALL, WILLIAM MARSHALL=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, yst. s. of the late James Burt-Marshall, of Luncarty, co. Perth, J.P., by his wife, Katherine, dau. of the late David Bannerman, J.P.; b. Luncarty, 14 July, 1887; educ. at Rugby, where he was in the XI and XV (playing half-back), Steward of Athletics, and winner of the School Mile and passed into Sandhurst in 1906. He was in the XV of 1906–7, captaining the team of 1907 when they beat Woolwich by a score which was a record up to that period. He was also in the XI of 1908. On 19 Sept. 1908 he was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders then in South Africa, where they remained until Jan. 1910, when the regiment returned to Scotland. He was promoted Lieut., 10 Sept. 1910. On 9 Aug. 1914 the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders left Fort George for France, and from then onwards were in the thick of all the fighting. They were personally complimented by Sir John French on their performance in the Battle of Le Cateau. In Sept. Lieut. Burt-Marshall was in command of A Coy., which command he held, save for one short period, until he fell. Capt. H. Clark, writing of him, said “All through the retreat he was strong of heart and untiring in 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 company grew to its original strength again. On 8 Nov. a special duty in Ploegsteert Wood was detailed to us. The capture of an advanced German trench which had proved a veritable thorn in the British side was imperative, and the 93rd were asked to do what others had already tried to do and failed. All through the 9th the battn. lay in the wood shelled at intervals; the attack was ordered for that night, three companies were to advance from different points against the enemy 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 head of his men 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 where he fell again. No one could get up to him, and those who were able crawled back to reform with the remnants of the companies.” For some months it was hoped that news might come that he was a prisoner, but on 8 Feb. the War Office reported that Capt. Burt-Marshall had died of wounds in a German Field Hospital at Quesnoy on 17 Nov. 1914.

=MARSON, HERBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class K. 14685 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MARSON, JOHN CHARLES=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. The Welsh Regt. (13th Divisional Pioneers), only s. of the Rev. Charles Latimer Marson, Vicar of Hambridge, Somerset (died 3 March, 1914), by his wife, Clotilda (86, Oakwood Road, Golders Green, N.W.). dau. of Dr. Peter Bayne, author of “Chief Actors of the Puritan Revolution,” etc., and gdson. of the Rev. Charles Marson, Vicar of Clevedon; b. 62, Gower Street, London, 15 April, 1896; educ. Eastington, Clevedon; Honiton Grammar School; Sherborne (1910–13), and matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in the latter year. As he, however, wished to become a naval architect, he changed to Glasgow University, and spent a year between there and Fairfield Shipbuilding Works. At Sherborne and Glasgow University he had belonged to the O.T.C.’s, and he was offered a commission the day war broke out, and at once signed on for foreign service. On 1 Sept. 1914, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., and after a month’s training at Barry Camp, was drafted into the 6th Battn. of the Loyal North Lancashires. He was for some months in training at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth. Early in 1915 the officers of the 6th North Lancashires who had any engineering experience were invited to volunteer for the 13th Pioneer Division of the Welsh Regt. Marson at once responded and migrated to Tournay Barracks, Aldershot, where he stayed in training until his regt. left for the Dardanelles on Tuesday, 15 June, 1915. They were nearly five weeks at Lemnos before crossing to the Peninsula. On 7 Aug. he wrote to his mother from the trenches:—“To-night is a supreme test of the men of K.s Army. Numbers are bound to be killed. This may be the last letter. However, I have a conviction it will not be yet.” Early on the following morning (Sunday) he was killed in action with the Anzacs. He was shot through the forehead and killed instantaneously on the summit of Chunuk Bair. Capt. Gordon Williams, his commanding officer, wrote: “He was a great favourite with us all, and he made an excellent officer, always showing plenty of keenness and was never, if I may so say, without a cheery smile on his face. We had to hold a hill that day with the New Zealanders against terrific counter attacks, and your son, throughout the action, behaved magnificently, finally to be shot down, bayonet and rifle in hand, surrounded by Turks. His men brought him in, and Lieut. Gwyther had him placed on a stretcher during the fight, but he died at once, and could only be buried then and there, right in the midst of the fighting. We all feel his death awfully, and that of our brother officers who fell that day. The hill was lost next day by the regts. that relieved us, so there our dead officers and men lie buried by the Turks who are very chivalrous in this respect. The regt. earned a great name for itself that day, but suffered severely”; and Lieut. Evan B. Gwyther: “He died leading his men on, and yards in front of all; and he was last seen alive fighting 10 or 15 Turks all by himself. He did not know what fear was, and everybody admired his pluck, and was amazed at his courage. There wasn’t a man in his platoon that could speak too highly of his courage, pluck and determination. I am glad to tell you his sufferings were nil, as he died the moment he fell.” The Lieut.-Col. (J. A. Bald) also wrote: “I was unfortunately wounded myself that day before the regt. as a whole went into action, and so missed what I had been looking forward to so keenly, namely, to go into action with them all, and also could not see how all my brave officers led their men, but I did hear that the last seen of your son was, that he was gallantly leading his platoon in the face of what must have been a very severe fire, rifle in hand, more than ready to do his share. I always looked on him as absolutely without fear and knew, when it came to the point, he would show himself a good leader. The regt. lost many good officers it could ill spare, who will be a loss both to it and the Army at large. Your son before the fighting began showed himself a keen officer and did some very hard work for me when we were at Lemnos.” Major H. Lynn Stevens, Adjutant of the 8th Welsh, wrote: “It will be a source of never-ending pride to know that your son died fighting most gallantly in a hand-to-hand attack upon the enemy at the summit of Chunuk Bair. He would not suffer restraint, but charged forward outstripping everybody in his resolve to do his duty.”

=MARTIN, ALBERT HENRY=, Private, No. 2107, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Martin, of Capel House Lodge, Turkey Street, Waltham Cross, Herts, Gardener, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John and (Ann) Savage; b. Romford, co. Essex, 11 Aug. 1895; educ. Forty Hill, Enfield and Ramsbury, Wilts; was employed in the garden at Capel House; joined the Middlesex Territorials, 6 March, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 March, 1915, and died at No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station, Merville, 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May previous; unm. Buried in Merville Cemetery.

=MARTIN, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16124, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MARTIN, AYLMER RICHARD SANCTON=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 2nd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of the late Rev. H. Martin, Vicar of Thatcham, Newbury, Berkshire; b. Newbury, co. Berks, 19 Nov. 1870; educ. Bradfield College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the Royal Fusiliers, 4 March, 1891, and Lieut. 26 June, 1892 and later the same year transferred to the Royal Lancaster Regt.; became Capt. 25 Jan. 1900, Brevet Major 29 Nov. 1900, Major 8 Sept. 1906, and Lieut.-Col. 13 Dec. 1912; served through the South African War, 1899–1901, including the relief of Ladysmith and the actions at Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz, Tugela Heights (14–22 Feb. 1900, wounded) and Laing’s Nek, and acted as Adjutant to the 2nd Battn., 2 Nov. 1899 to 8 Jan. 1900, and 25 Jan to 15 Sept. 1900 (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. and 10 Sept. 1910], Queen’s medal with six clasps, Brevet of Major). On his return to England, after passing through the Staff College he was attached to the General Staff at the War Office from 1904 to 1906 and from 1907 to 1912 was Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Scottish Command. In 1912 he was given the command of the 2nd Battn. of the King’s Own, then in India. Col. Martin was killed in action at Frezenberg during the fighting around Ypres, 8 May, 1915. He m. at Surbiton, 21 July, 1896, Mary Beatrice, dau. of General Charles Terrington Aitchison, C.B., Indian Army, and had a dau., Eileen, b. 15 Oct. 1898.

=MARTIN, BASIL CUTHBERT DANVERS=, 2nd Lieut., 13th (Service), attd. 4th, Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., only s. of the Rev. Henry Basil Martin, Rector of Pudleston, Leominster, co. Hereford, by his wife, Gertrude May, eldest dau. of the Rev. Thomas Hannington Irving Child, formerly Rector of Stratton, co. Gloucester; b. Sunhill Ranch, Loomis, Placer Co., California, U.S.A., 6 Oct. 1896; educ. Wolborough Hill School, Newton Abbott, South Devon, and Lancing College, Sussex; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13th Worcesters, 14 Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 20 May, 1915, where he was attached to the 4th Battn., and was killed in action there, 4 June following; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “I was not near him at the time, but those who were said that he showed perfect coolness and courage all the time. During the few days he was with us I especially noticed him for his keenness and desire to get on and feel very sure that if he had been spared he would have done well.” While at Lancing he was a keen member of the O.T.C., shooting twice at Bisley, where he helped to gain the Cadets’ Challenge Trophy in 1913, and the Public Schools Rapid in 1914, besides gaining several other medals at school, his first being Lord Roberts’s Miniature Rifle Clubs Society, which he won at Wolborough Hill School at the age of 13.

=MARTIN, CECIL TAYLOR=, Assistant Clerk, R.N., elder s. of George Martin, of 4, Park Terrace, Silloth, L.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.I., by his wife, Margaret Emily, dau. of Robert Taylor; b. Silloth, co. Cumberland, 15 June, 1897; educ. Preparatory School there, Cherbourg, Malvern, and St. Bee’s School, Cumberland; joined the Navy as Assistant Clerk, 1 Aug. 1914; was appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MARTIN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 8758, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 30 Oct. 1914; m.

=MARTIN, CHARLES EDWARD JOHN=, Private, No. 7974, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Charles Martin, of 41, Ashbrooke Road, Upper Holloway; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died, 4 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action.

=MARTIN, CHARLES HERBERT GEORGE=, M.A., F.Z.S., Lieut., 3rd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late Edward Pritchard Martin, of The Hill, Abergavenny, Mining Engineer and Colliery Owner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of C. H. James, of Merthyr; b. Dowlais, co. Glamorgan, 5 Oct. 1882, and was educ. at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a high standard of efficiency in biology and obtained his degrees. He was demonstrator in Zoology to the University of Glasgow, and Lecturer at Oxford, and was well-known at Cambridge and at Naples, and was a scientist of European reputation. At Glasgow he joined the University O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. (T.F.), 12 Oct. 1909, and posted to the 3rd Monmouths, 5 June, 1912. He was promoted Lieut. 29 Aug. 1914, being subsequently machine-gun officer. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and was killed in action N.E. of Ypres, 2 May, 1915. He was buried between St. Julien and Freezenberg. He published several books on protozoology. When war broke out he was preparing papers for the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden. He was also an ardent all-round sportsman, a keen follower of the Monmouthshire Hounds, and was Master of the Crickhowell Harriers. He m. at St. Mary’s Church, Abergavenny, 11 June, 1912, Beatrice Elise (The Hill, Abergavenny), only child of Ferdinand Packington John Hanbury, of Nantoer, Abergavenny, J.P., D.L., co. Monmouth, and had a son, Charles Edward Capel, b. 21 April, 1913.

=MARTIN, HERBERT EDWARD=, A.B., J. 11840, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=MARTIN, JOHN=, Private, No. 7875, 1st. Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., s. of John Martin, of 79, Mill Road, Lewisham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914.

=MARTIN, JOHN WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7909, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chill, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MARTIN, JOSEPH EDWARD=, Chief Stoker, (R.F.R., A. 1793), 152383, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MARTIN, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11808, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MARTIN, WILLIAM HERBERT=, Private, No. 1522, E Coy. 7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of William Albert Martin, of 10, Shakespeare Road, Edmonton, Labourer at Woolwich Arsenal, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Robert Rawlinson; b. Sawston, co. Cambridge, 8 June, 1896; educ. Bruce Grove Board Schools, Tottenham; was a Carpenter and Joiner; joined the Middlesex Territorials in June, 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; trained at Sittingbourne; went to Gibraltar, 7 Sept. 1914, and died in the Military Hospital there, 23 Jan. 1915, after undergoing an operation for appendicitis, contracted on service; unm.

=WOOD-MARTIN, FRANCIS WINCHESTER=, Capt., 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., 4th and yst. s. of Col. William Gregory Wood-Martin, of Cleveragh, co. Sligo, A.D.C., J.P., D.L., by his wife, Frances Dora, dau. of Roger Dodwell Robinson, of Wellmount, co. Sligo, J.P.; b. London, 27 Feb. 1880; educ. Cheltenham; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., 12 Aug. 1899; promoted Lieut. 30 Aug. 1900, and Capt. 11 Feb. 1906; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1899–1902, including actions at Colesberg (1–5 Jan.) being taken prisoner, but was released in the following June when Lord Roberts entered Pretoria. He was appointed Station Officer in the Transvaal and took part in the operations east of Pretoria, July-29 Nov. 1900, and in the Transvaal, Dec. 1900–31 May, 1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he served with his regt. in the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action near Ypres, 17 Feb. 1915; unm. His elder brother, Capt. J. I. Wood-Martin, was killed at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915 (see following notice), and a memorial was erected to their memory in St. Anne’s Parish Church, Strandhill, and in the Cathedral at Khartoum.

=WOOD-MARTIN, JAMES ISIDORE=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt. (58th), eldest s. of Col. William Gregory Wood-Martin, of Cleveragh, co. Sligo, A.D.C., late R.G.A. and 44th Regt., etc. (see preceding notice); b. 3 Sept. 1874; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., 20 Feb. 1895; promoted Lieut. 23 Feb. 1898, and Capt. 2 June, 1903; served with the Mounted Infantry in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal west of Pretoria, July to Nov, 1900; including action at Venterskroon (7–9 Aug.), operations in the Orange River Colony, May to Nov. 1900; including actions at Lindley (1 June), and Rhenoster River; operations in the Transvaal, May, 1901, to May, 1902 (severely wounded, Queen’s medal with three clasps, and King’s medal with two clasps). On the conclusion of the war he was attached to the Egyptian Army, 4 April, 1903, to 3 April, 1913, being Lieut.-Col. Commanding the 9th and 11th Sudanese. In 1905, he took part in the operations in the Sudan against the Nyam Nyam tribes in the Bahr-el-Ghazal Province (Egyptian medal with clasps). On the outbreak of the European War he left with his regt. for the Front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, while leading his men in a charge against the enemy, near Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm. His yr. brother, Capt. F. W. Wood-Martin, was killed, 17 Feb. 1915 (see preceding notice).

=MARTYN, EDWARD THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8487), 194645 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MARVIN, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8452), 203011 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MASEFIELD, ROBERT=, Major, 1st Batt. King’s Shropshire L.I., eldest s. of Valentine Vickers Masefield, of Akaroa, New Zealand, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of (—) McKay, of Pigeon’s Bay, New Zealand, and nephew and adopted s. of Col. Robert Taylor Masefield, C.B., formerly commanding 4th Battn. Shropshire L.I., late of Ellerton Hall, Newport, Salop, and now of Woodbury, Devon; b. Gough’s Bay, Canterbury, New Zealand, 24 May, 1872; educ. Marlborough (Crescent), 1884–90, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., 18 June, 1892, and shortly after posted to the 1st Battn. at Hong Kong, going with it to India; became Lieut. 21 Aug. 1895, and Capt. 9 June, 1901; joined the 2nd Battn. in South Africa in 1902, took part in the operations in the Transvaal, March 31 to May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps) and returned with it to India on the close of the campaign; promoted Major at Secunderabad, 18 Sept. 1912. On the outbreak of the European War he was home on furlough, and was ordered to join the 1st Battn. at Tipperary, 8 Aug. 1914. They proceeded to the Front on 8 Sept. and were in the trenches on the Aisne, near Vailly. On 12 Oct. the Shropshires were moved north to help to bar the first rush on Calais, and during the following days—hastily entrenched and holding an extended front in flat country—had to beat back incessant and determined attacks from superior numbers. On 24 Oct. Major Masefield, commanding A Coy., was also left 2nd in command of the battn., and was killed in the trenches near Bois-Grenier, between Armentières and Lille. Of his death on that day his Capt. wrote: “It was in the trenches of A Coy. We had been fighting hard for five days, and D Coy. had lost all their officers except one, so at 12 o’clock I was taken from A to go to D Coy. trenches. I said good-bye, and he took my seat. It was there at about 4.30 p.m. he was killed instantaneously by shrapnel shell in the back.” Many tributes to his memory were received from his brother officers and men, and his feelings for them may be best 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.” A Private in A Coy. wrote: “His last thoughts were for his men, his last words telling us to keep our heads down as much as possible”; and a Sergt.: “It was a critical time as another strong attack was expected ... he himself was (standing against the traverse) watching the front ... cheering his men and preventing any signs of possible panic or unnecessary risk at a most nerve-trying time.... He died, as he had lived, a gallant gentleman.” Brother officers wrote: “You know we all loved him, from the Colonel down to the newest recruit....” and “we always said the regt. would be all right as long as Masefield was with it”; and his Colonel (himself wounded): “Always cheery and ready for work under all conditions, he will be hard to replace.” A fine soldier and sportsman, he was a first-class shot, both big and small game, and a keen fisherman, and he also excelled in all games, in most of which he played for his regt. He m. at Farnham, co. Surrey, 2 July, 1908, Esmé, dau. of Col. Henry Spencer Wheatley, C.B. (late 3rd Gurkhas), of the Knoll, Farnham; s.p.

=MASON, ALBERT EDWARD=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16559, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MASON, ANDREW NIMMO=, Private, No. 919, 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders; b. Edinburgh, 14 Oct. 1893; educ. Morningside Board School there; was employed as a Vanman with Messrs. Buchan, Dairymen, of Balcarris Street, Edinburgh; enlisted 22 Feb. 1912; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 2 Nov. following.

=MASON, ARTHUR=, Rifleman, No. 2367, A Coy, 1/18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Joseph Mason, of 11, Tower Terrace, Wood Green, N., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Hammond, of Lower Guiting; b. Wood Green, N., 4 Feb. 1883; educ. Higher Grade School there; was a Mercantile Clerk; enlisted in the 2nd Battn. of the London Irish Rifles, 2 Sept. 1914, and trained with them at the White City, London, and Reigate; later he volunteered for the 1st Battn. then at St. Albans, and left with them for France on 10 March, 1915. He was killed in action during the famous charge made by the London Irish at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

=MASON, EDWARD=, 2nd Lieut. 3rd (attached 2nd) Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., the distinguished ’Cellist and Conductor; only s. of Jeremiah Mason, of 1, Ingoldsby Mansions, West Kensington, and Coventry, by his wife Sarah, dau. of William Sutton, of Kenilworth; b. Coventry, 24 June, 1878; educ. privately in Coventry and in Germany; began his musical life as a chorister in St. Michael’s Church, during the period Dr. A. H. Brewer was organist and choirmaster, and when he entered the Royal College of Music, he had already gained some proficiency as a violinist, ’cellist and pianist. In the course of his studentship he won several exhibitions, and obtained his diploma of Associateship. On leaving there, he was, in 1897, appointed assistant to Dr. C. H. Lloyd at Eton, a post he held until the outbreak of the war. He made his first appearance in London as a ’cellist at the Bechstein Hall in 1900, and was well-known both as a soloist and as a quartet player at Chamber concerts in London and the country. He was a Director of, and principal ’cellist in the New Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted on its first appearance at the Queen’s Hall, in 1906, and was engaged in the orchestras of most of the principal musical festivals. In 1907, he established the Edward Mason Choir, formed principally in order to produce new works by the younger British composers, who by his death lost a good friend. Following the outbreak of war, he joined the Universities and Public Schools Battn. early in Sept., received his commission 24 Feb. 1915; went to France at the end of March, and was killed in action near Fromelles, 9 May. In a letter to his father, a brother officer said: “He was killed gallantly leading his men in the attack on 9 May against the German trenches”; and his platoon sergt. wrote that Mr. Mason’s detachment came under a devastating fire from German machine guns near Fromelles, and that he fell in a hail of bullets. His portrait was hung in the music school at Eton, where he taught so long and so successfully. Another portrait hangs in the Students’ Room of the Royal College of Music. The R.C.M. Magazine for No. 3 Term, 1915, says: “Edward Mason, the man, had many lovable qualities, which endeared him to his friends. He was generous-hearted, good-humoured, and at all times a charming companion. He hated any kind of pose or pretence, and might be described as the antithesis of the conventional musician of the ‘long-haired’ variety.” “He was a fine fellow, and one of the best musicians I ever knew,” wrote Dr. C. H. Lloyd, his former chief at Eton. “And all who knew Edward Mason well will endorse this very apt and true summary of his qualities.” He m. at Ealing 14 Aug. 1905, Jessie, (the violinist and leader of the Grimson String Quartet) dau. of Samuel Dean Grimson.

=MASON, GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 7021, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MASON, HENRY THOMAS=, Chief Stoker, 170258, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MASON, JAMES=, Private, No. 5779, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Mason, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Lincoln; b. Sprowston, co. Norwich, 14 May, 1886; enlisted 18 Oct. 1904; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 20 Oct. 1908, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Landrecies, 25 Aug. 1914. He m. at Norwich, 19 Aug. 1911, Clara (7, Pearces Fields, Sprowston, Norwich), dau. of James Hazelton, and had a dau., Clara Ada, b. 5 Feb. 1913.

=MASON, JOHN=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 196093, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MASON, JOHN=, Color-Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 7778. H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MASON, THEOPHILUS=, Drummer, No. 1614, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of Theophilus Mason, of 3, Pitley Place, Walworth, S.E., retired Policeman: b. New Kent Road, London, S.E., 23 Feb. 1884; educ. Sayer Street Board School; enlisted as a Drummer, 2 May, 1898; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy Brickfields, 1 Feb. 1915. Buried in Cuinchy Cemetery (Grave No. 14 F). Sergt.-Drummer A. Douglas of his battn. wrote to the widow; “I feel I must write and tell you how sorry we all feel for you in your sad bereavement. It may be some consolation to you to know that your husband died like a hero and a true soldier. He always had my deepest respect, and I with the remainder of the drummers feel his loss very deeply.” He m. at St. Stephen’s Church, Walworth, S.E., 1 Nov. 1902, Ellen (14, Russell Street, Windsor), dau. of Charles Eagle, of 39, Eltham Street, Walworth, S.E., and had five children: Theophilus, b. 26 May, 1904; Charles, b. 15 April, 1907; Horace, b. 17 April, 1910; Ellen, b. 23 Nov. 1905; and Muriel Irene, b. 12 March, 1913.

=MASON, WALTER TROWER=, Shipwright, 342914, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MASON, WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 3625), 133388, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MASSEY. CHARLES THOMAS=, Chief Petty Officer (W.T.O.), R.N.R., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea 22 Sept. 1914.

=MASSIE, JOHN HAMON, D.S.O.=, Major, Royal Garrison Artillery, yr. s. of Edward Richard Massie, of Coddington, Cheshire, and Annefield, Gresford, North Wales, formerly Lieut. 78th Highlanders, by his first wife, Baroness Olga Marie, dau. of Baron von Wessenberg-Ampringen and granddau. of Henry, Baron von Wessenberg-Ampringen, formerly Austrian Ambassador, at St. James’, and grandson of Admiral Thomas Leche Massie; b. Eaux Chaudes, Basses Pyrenees, France, 10 June, 1872; educ. Stubbington House (Mr. M. Foster), and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1 May, 1892; promoted Lieut. 1 May, 1895; Capt. 19 Jan. 1900, and Major, 15 Feb. 1913; served in Chitral, 1895, with the Relief Force (medal with clasp); and in the South African War, 1900–2, attd. to the Transport Department; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill; operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including action at Wittebergen; operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to March, 1902, and those in the Orange River Colony, March to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 17 Jan. 1902], Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps, D.S.O.); was Instructor at the Royal Military Academy from 1 Jan. to 11 Sept. 1904; Commander of a company of Gentleman Cadets there from 12 Sept. 1904 to 31 Dec. 1908, and Staff Capt. School of Gunnery, Shoeburyness, Nov. 1910 to Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 9 Oct. 1914, and died in the Field Ambulance, near Ypres, 15 Nov. following, of wounds received in action on the 13th, when in command of the 26th Battery, Heavy Artillery. Buried in Ypres Cemetery. Major Massie m. at Southsea, co. Hants, 3 Sept. 1903, Maria Margaret, elder dau. of Major-Gen. Ernest Archibald Berger, late 10th (The Lincolnshire) Regt.; s.p.

=MASTER, CHARLES LIONEL=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, s. of the late William Edward Master, of Kotmalie, Ceylon, Tea Planter, by his wife, Jeanette, dau. of Samuel Newson Gissing, nephew of Harcourt Master, of Rotherhurst, Liss, co. Hants, grandson of Lieut.-Col. Harcourt Master, 1st Dragoon Guards, and 4th Queen’s Own Light Dragoons, and great-grandson of Lieut.-Col. Harcourt Master, 52nd Foot; b. in Ceylon, 24 March, 1881; educ. Bradfield College; joined the Royal Irish Rifles from the Louth Militia, as 2nd Lieut. 5 Jan. 1901; promoted Lieut. 28 March, 1905; Adjutant, 25 Jan. 1908; and Captain, 28 June, 1908; served in the South African War, taking part in the operations in the Orange Free State and Transvaal, Aug. 1901–May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps). On the outbreak of the European War, he went out with his regt. to France, took part in the retreat from Mons, and the subsequent engagements prior to meeting his death in action at La Couture, on 12 Oct. 1914, from a shrapnel shell, when leading his coy. in the attack. He was buried at Vielle Chapelle; unm. He was mentioned for distinguished conduct in the field in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s despatch of 8 Oct. 1914. Capt. Master was much beloved by both officers and men, as will be seen from the following extracts from letters received since his death. The wife of his late Colonel wrote: “As Capt. Master was my husband’s Adjutant, we got to know him so well, and he was invaluable to my husband being such a dependable, able soldier”; and an officer: “His death was a dreadful blow to me, as it was to us all, and we shall miss him terribly, and mourn him always. It is no exaggeration to say that he was beloved by officers and men alike, for we recognised his great ability and worth, and I know that Col. Bird thought very highly of him as a thoroughly sound and reliable soldier. Had he lived, I am sure he would have done particularly well in this war, and he has already been mentioned in despatches.” Capt. Master was a keen sportsman, being a member of his football eleven at school, and after joining his regiment kept up his interest in the game, and did his utmost to inculcate the love of pure sport amongst his men. It was owing in a large measure to his tuition and untiring efforts that the Royal Irish Rifles turned out a team which was a tower of strength for several years in regimental contests, and had the proud distinction of winning the Army Cup. He was also devoted to hunting, and whenever the opportunity occurred he might be seen out with the various packs in the neighbourhood in which his regt. happened to be quartered.

=MASTERS, TREVOR MONRO HOARE=, Midshipman, R.N., eldest s. of the late Lieut. Charles Monro Masters, R.N., late H.M.S. Cressy (died 21 Aug. 1902), by his wife, Susan (now wife of Capt. William Firth Slayter, R.N.), dau. of (—), of New Zealand, and gdson. of Canon James Hoare Masters, of The Close, Chichester; b. Sydney, N.S.W., 13 May, 1895; educ. privately (Rev. C. Royle, Stanmore Park, near Harrow); entered the Navy, became Midshipman in Jan. 1911, was appointed to H.M.S. Formidable, Nov. 1914, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the English Channel, 1 Jan. 1915; unm.

=SMITH-MASTERS, GEORGE ARTHUR=, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt., yst. s. of the Rev. John Ernest Smith-Masters, M.A., Vicar of South Banbury, formerly Vicar of Stewkley, Bucks, and Rural Dean of Mursley, by his wife, Eliza Margaret, dau. of Samuel Swinton Melville, I.C.S., and grandson of the late Rev. Allan Smith-Masters, of Camer, Kent, J.P.; b. Kidmore End, co. Oxon, 29 Dec. 1894, and after receiving his early education at Eversley School, was elected to a scholarship at Haileybury College. He matriculated at Keble College, Oxford, in Jan. 1914, intending to prepare for Holy Orders, but on the outbreak of war applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Oxford University O.T.C. on 21 Aug. 1914, and left England with his regt. 30 July, 1915. He had always taken a great interest in the Church Lads’ Brigade, and had been appointed Lieut. in the 5th Oxford Cadet Corps (C.L.B.) in July, 1914. In the early days of the war he was, with his father, in charge of the lads of the Stewkley Coy. of C.L.B. in their work of guarding bridges on the main line of the London & North Western Railway by day and night. He went out near midnight on 19 Aug. 1915, along with a Sergt. to endeavour to locate shots which were endangering the lives of his men employed in digging trenches, and was shot through the heart by a sniper. His Colonel wrote to his mother: “Your dear son was a favourite with us all, and there was not an officer or a man who stood with me round his grave who did not feel they had lost a personal friend. He was such a charming boy, a God-fearing, straight-living English boy. An English gentleman, he died doing his duty, a very brave action. Col. des Vœux, who commands the operations there, said that nobody but one of the best and bravest would have attempted to do what your son wished to do.” His company officer wrote: “One thing you will be proud to know is that he died doing his duty in an exceptionally brave manner, not in broad daylight, when it is easier to be brave, but in the dead of night, a mile behind the firing line. The whole of his company was able to attend his last parade, when we laid him to rest yesterday evening.” A drummer of his company wrote home: “He was a great favourite with us all, both with the other officers and with us men. He was the best officer in the battn.; he was something like a brother might be, and was missed quite as much.” He was buried in the English cemetery at Dranoutre, the Service being taken by the Senior Chaplain of the Brigade. The General and officers from all the regiments in the Brigade were present, his uncle, Col. J. S. Melville, commanding 8th E. Lancs. Regt., attending as chief mourner.

=MATHER, JAMES=, Private, No. 8884, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Charles Mather, of 25, Fraser Street, Bolton, Labourer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Ralph Hough, Stripper and Grinder; b. Halliwell, Bolton, co. Lancaster, 17 Nov. 1890; educ. Brownlow-fold Council School; enlisted 3 Oct. 1910, and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 2 Nov. 1914; unm.

=MATHER, JOHN KEARSLEY=, Lieut., 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 5th s. of Arthur Mather, of Avonhill, Cheltenham, by his wife, Ethel Madeline, dau. of the late Rev. Charles Francis Willis, M.A.; b. Cheltenham, 25 Jan. 1890; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Sandhurst Division); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st York and Lancaster Regt. 18 Sept. 1909, and joined his battn. at Quetta, India, in the following Dec.; served in India five years, being promoted Lieut. 8 Dec. 1911; came home with his battn. in Dec. 1914; went to France, 15 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action by shell fire near Ypres, 18 Feb. 1915, and buried at Verbranden Molen; unm.

=MATHERRON, EDWARD JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8050), S.S. 103773, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MATHESON, JOHN RODERICK FLETCHER=, Private, No. 8919, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of the Rev. Dugald Matheson, United Free Church of Scotland, Minister of Tarbat; b. Kiltearn, co. Ross, June, 1880; educ. Tarbat Old Public School and Inverness; enlisted in the Highland L.I. in 1909, served through the South African War, and obtained his discharge in 1913. On the outbreak of war he was in Canada, but immediately re-enlisted, came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent, obtained his transfer to his old regt.; went to the Front at the end of Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. He m. at Winnipeg, Canada, 1909, Bella, dau. of D. M. Davidson, of co. Inverness, but had no children.

=MATHEWS, ALFRED FELTON=, Rifleman, No. 2657, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Felton Mathews, of Highworth, Wilts, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Shewry, of Southampton; b. 2 Sept. 1894; educ. Carlton Road Council School and Polytechnic, Regent Street; and was on the staff of Messrs. H. I. Nicoll & Co., of Regent Street, London, W., when war broke out, but was intending to enter a missionary college as a student. He joined the Rangers on 5 Sept. 1914, went to France on the following Christmas Day, and was killed in action near Ypres on 5 May, 1915. He was acting as a stretcher-bearer when a shell burst close to him, wounding him in the arm; but he pluckily refused to give in until quite exhausted, when he laid his groundsheet down and fell asleep. Shortly afterwards, another shell came and killed him. Buried in the grounds of the Asylum, Ypres; unm.

=MATHURIN, JOHN=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MATHWIN, DOUGLAS GATECLIFF=, 2nd Lieut., 1/9th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), only surviving s. of the late Henry Mathwin, of Bickerton House, Birkdale, Southport, Schoolmaster, M.A., by his wife, Agnes (3, Bickerton Road, Southport), dau. of John William Gatecliff; b. Bickerton House, afsd., 9 June, 1885; educ. Bickerton House School; and was a Chartered Accountant; on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1/9th Liverpools, 11 Nov. 1914; went to France, 12 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Richebourg l’Avoué on 9 May, 1915, being buried behind the trenches; unm. He was acting captain at the time of his death.

=MATRAVERS, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3204), S.S. 100832, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MATSON, CLIFFORD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10394, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MATTHEWS, CHARLES HENRY=, Private, No. 5533, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Henry Matthews, of 42, Butlin Street, Nechells, Birmingham, Millwright, by his wife, Frances; b. 24 June, 1885; educ. Cromwell Street Council School; enlisted 30 April, 1904; went to France, 17 Aug. 1914, and was reported missing after the severe fighting on 29 Oct. 1914, on which day the 2nd Coldstreams and the rest of the 1st Division were at one time driven from their trenches near Gheluvelt; and is now assumed to have been killed on that day. He m. at St. Clement’s Church, Nechells, 3 Oct. 1909, Charlotte (18, Brighton Grove, Great Francis Street, Birmingham), dau. of Samuel Woodin, Painter, and had two children: Charles Henry, b. 9 Feb. 1915, d. 9 Jan. 1916; and Edna Francis, b. 9 Dec. 1910.

=MATTHEWS, FRANCIS=, Stoker H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MATTHEWS, FRANK=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12178, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MATTHEWS, FRANK GEORGE=, Midshipman, R.N., yr. s. of Brig.-Gen. Frank Broadwood Matthews, of Old Raven House, Hook, co. Hants, C.B., D.S.O., late commanding 2nd Battn. The King’s Own Regt., and his wife, Edith Mabel Warner, dau. of the late Ralph George Price, of 26, Hyde Park Gardens, London, W.; b. Lichfield, co. Stafford, 9 Feb. 1898; educ. Parkside, Ewell, Surrey (Mr. A. Vaughan Pott); Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1914; was appointed to H.M.S. Cressy, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. following.

=MATTHEWS, HAROLD CAREY=, Major, 4th Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regt. (The Green Howards) (T.F.), eldest s. of Frederick William White Matthews, of Low Hall, Sinnington, Yorks, J.P., formerly manager of Barclay’s Bank, at Leyburn; by his wife, Ellen Georgiana, dau. of the late Rev. Hewett Carey; b. Hawes, Wensleydale, co. York, 25 April, 1879; educ. The School, Aysgarth, Yorks, entered Barclay’s Bank, and at the time of the outbreak of war was second in charge of their Market Weighton Branch. He had joined the London Rifle Brigade as a Private in 1897, and was afterwards given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 4th Yorks Regt., and served in the South African War in command of the 2nd Service Company of that Regt. For his services he received the Queen’s medal with five clasps and was made an Hon. Lieut, in the Army, 26 July, 1902. He was promoted Capt. 30 April, 1904, and on the outbreak of the European War volunteered for foreign service, and was gazetted Major, 29 Aug. 1914. He left for France on 17 April, and was killed in action at St. Julien, north of Ypres, a few days later, 25 April, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was killed in action leading his men in work which earned the compliments of the General.” Major Matthews m. at Dringhouses Parish Church, York, 12 July, 1911, Marjory Phyllis, yst. dau. of Gervas Woodhouse, of 196, Mount Vale, York, and had issue: Frederick Gervas, b. 24 Dec. 1912; and Marjory Phyllis, b. posthumous, 13 Oct. 1915.

=MAUGHAN, JOHN=, Mechanician, 284270, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov., 1914.

=MAULE, ROBERT=, Lieut., 5th, attd. 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt., T.F.), only s. of Sir Robert Maule, of Ashbrook, Edinburgh, J.P., by his wife, Janet, dau. of Robert McIntosh, of Leith; b. at Trinity, Edinburgh; 1884; educ. Morrison’s Academy, Crieff; the Leys School, Cambridge, and Christ’s College, Cambridge (M.A. 19..); and on leaving the University joined his father’s firm, Robert Maule & Son, Princes Street, Edinburgh, and became a director in 1913. He obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots, 24 Nov. 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; was promoted Lieut. 16 Sept. 1914, and attd. to 1st Battn.; went to Egypt with his Battn. in March, 1915, and was there nominated by his Commanding Officer, Col. J. T. A. Wilson, to command the section to form an escort to the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton, but at his own request was allowed to rejoin his regt.; went to the Dardanelles in May, and was killed in action there, 29 May, 1915; unm. His brother-in-law, Capt. Edgar Walker, 1st East Yorks, was also killed in action.

=MAUNDER, LEONARD=, Rifleman, No. 7692, 3rd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, s. of Henry Maunder; b. Downley, High Wycombe, co. Bucks, 29 Aug. 1883; enlisted in March, 1899; served in France and Flanders from 9 Sept. to 29 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action on the latter date. Buried the Quarries by Champs d’Ering, near Soupir. He m. at St. Peter’s, Winchester, 2 Aug. 1909, Ada Susan (2, Middle Brook Street, Winchester), dau. of Alfred Charles Dillow, and had a son Leonard Charles, b. 12 June, 1910.

=MAURICE, FRANCIS DENNISON=, Lieut., 1st (Canterbury) Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Frank Augustus Maurice, of 41, Alma Square, St John’s Wood, London, N.W., R.A.M., Can. Coll., Professor of Music and Singing, by his 1st wife, Gertrude, dau. of John Gibbs Hart, of Christchurch, New Zealand, and great-grandnephew of the Rev. Peter Maurice, D.D., Rector of Oxford; b. Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 Aug. 1891; and was educ. at Temuka High School, and Canterbury College, New Zealand. He was a brilliant scholar, winning the Junior Scholarship at the age of 12, coming out third of the whole of Canterbury, and the Senior two years after, coming out second. He matriculated when 15 years of age, so he paid for all his education; and at the age of 18 was assistant master at Burnham Industrial School; and at 19, Head Master at Longridge, Southland. He was five years in the Senior Cadets, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the formation of the New Zealand Universal Training Army, and Lieut. just before the war broke out, and had passed his captaincy examination. He volunteered for Imperial service, left New Zealand for Egypt with the first reinforcements on R.M.S. Athenic in the following Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and died 10 May, 1915, on H.M.S. Braemar Castle, of wounds received two days previously in Gallipoli. He was buried at sea; unm. For over two years he was a master of the Waimate District High School, where a memorial tablet was erected to his memory. He was an enthusiastic hockey player and instructor; his Waimate ladies’ team of six-a-side winning the championship, and was on the Committee of the South Canterbury Hockey Association.

=MAW, WILLIAM FRANCIS=, A.B., J. 12612, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MAXTED, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7844), S.S. 1471, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MAXWELL, AYMER EDWARD=, Younger of Monreith, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 4th (Collingwood) Battn. 1st brigade, R.N. Division, only surviving s. of the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Bart., P.C., F.R.S.; b. Edinburgh, 26 Oct. 1877; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Grenadier Guards, 8 Sept. 1897; served in South African War 1899–1900; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont and Enslin (Queen’s medal with clasp); invalided home, 1900; and retired with rank of Captain, 4 Sept. 1907, joining the Reserve of Officers; Capt. Lovat’s Scouts (Yeo.), 1911. On mobilisation, Aug. 1914, he immediately rejoined the Grenadier Guards, and subsequently volunteered for service as Adjutant and second in command in the newly-formed Royal Naval Division. He received command, with the rank of Lieut.-Col. of the Collingwood Battn. then in camp at Walmer, and with it accompanied the expedition to Antwerp. He was wounded in the head by the first shell of the bombardment of 8 Oct. after four days and nights of ceaseless exertion, almost entirely without sleep or rest, and died the following day in the Military Hospital there, being buried in the garden. The officer commanding the Brigade, wrote: “His death is a severe loss to my brigade. I personally have lost a friend, the whole brigade has lost one of its finest officers. His energy, earnestness and singleness of purpose inspired his whole Battn., and both his officers and men were animated by his fine spirit from the moment he assumed command of them.” He was gazetted temporary Lieut.-Col. Royal Marines (10 Nov.) after his death. Colonel Maxwell was a J.P., D.L. and County Councillor for Wigtownshire, a Director of the Crichton Royal Institution and author of various works and articles on sporting subjects. He m., London, 20 Oct. 1909, Lady Mary Percy, dau. of Henry George, 7th Duke of Northumberland, K.G., P.C., by his wife, Lady Edith Campbell, eldest dau. of George, 8th Duke of Argyll, K.G., K.T., P.C., and had issue three sons and a dau.: Aymer, b. 7 Dec. 1911; Eustace, b. 24 Feb. 1913; Gavin, b. 15 July, 1914; and Christian, b. 31 July, 1910.

=MAXWELL= (alias =ROBERTS=), =BERTRAM JESSE=, Chief Petty Officer, No. 282914, R.N., s. of Louisa (now wife of Robert Roberts, of 19, Clarendon Road, Havant), dau. of the late George Maxwell; b. Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 10 May, 1878; educ. St. Faith’s, Havant, was adopted and brought up by his stepfather; entered the Navy under the name of Roberts, 1896; but afterwards resumed his own name; served in China (medal); and was lost in H.M.S. Invincible in the Battle off Jutland, 31 May, 1916. He m. at Langrish, 31 April, 1904, Agnes, dau. of Thomas (and Annie) Nash, of Stroud, Petersfield, and had two daus.: May, b. 11 April, 1906, and Gladys, b. 14 Sept. 1913. His half brother, L.-Corpl. F. W. Roberts was killed in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915 (see his notice).

=MAY, EDWARD THOMAS=, Petty Officer (C.G.), 142724 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MAY, FRANK JUBILEE=, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 4586), S.S. 103696, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MAY, JOHN=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16137, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MAY, JOHN EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8452, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MAY, SIDNEY CHARLES=, Sapper, No. 1507 Kent (Fortress) R.E. (T.F.), s. of William May, of Elm Cottage, Oxonhoath, West Peckham, Tonbridge; b. Oxonhoath aforesaid; educ. there; joined the Navy, 27 Oct. 1914; and was lost when H.M.S. Hythe was sunk in the Ægean Sea, 27 Oct. 1915; unm.

=MAY, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1089), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MAY, WILLIAM RICHARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10340), S.S. 108083, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MAYCOCK, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 4858), S.S. 104278, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MAYLIN, FREDERICK FRANCIS=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26753, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MAYNARD, DANIEL=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 862), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MAYNARD, JOHN WILMOT=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. s. of Edmund Anthony Jefferson Maynard, of Hoon Ridge, co. Derby, J.P., by his wife, Margaret Blanche, elder dau. of Robert Sacheverell Wilmot-Sitwell, of Stainsby House, Derbyshire, J.P., D.L.; b. Eastbourne, 8 June, 1896; educ. St. Peter’s Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 23 Dec. 1914; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action during the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried in the north-west corner of the Polygone de Zonnebeke Wood, 5 miles due east of Ypres.

=MAYO, GEORGE PATRICK=, Petty Officer, 210642, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MEAD, BERNARD WALLACE=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, yst. s. of Henry John Mead, of 27 Ladbroke Gardens, Kensington, W., Solicitor, by his wife, Edith Charlotte, dau. of the late Rev. Joseph Gifford, Vicar of Newport, Barnstaple; b. Kensington, W., 2 Aug. 1893; educ. Cranleigh School, and on leaving joined the staff of the Sun Fire Office. He had belonged to the 28th London Regt. (Artists’ Rifles) for some years, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered for foreign service and went to France with them in Oct. 1914. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the unattached list, 5 April, 1915, and immediately afterwards appointed to the 4th Royal Fusiliers, a corps which had been in the thick of the fighting since the Battle of Mons. On the night of 30 May, 1915, near Ypres, he received orders to relieve another officer in a trench about 25 yards from the German lines. While on his way, accompanied by his Capt. and a N.C.O., the party met two other officers belonging to another Corps. The enemy sent up a flare and opened fire upon the group of five and Lieut. Mead fell mortally wounded. He died three days later (2 June) at Bailleul, and was buried in the Military Cemetery there; unm.

=MEAD, CHRISTOPHER=, Lieut., A Coy. 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., 2nd s. of John Phillips Mead, of the firm of Mead & Co., 2, King’s Bench Walk, Inner Temple, and of St. Mary’s, Teddington, Solicitor, by his wife, Maud Helen Kate, dau. of Samuel King Church; b. Fopstone Road, Earl’s Court, S.W., 10 May, 1888; educ., Street Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and Charterhouse (Bodeites); was admitted a Solicitor in 1913, and was a junior partner in his father’s firm; joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1910, and after serving in it four years, joined the Reserve. He rejoined on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Battn., East Surrey Regt., 15 Aug., and promoted Lieut. 8 Sept. [London Gazette, 11 Nov.], 1915; trained at Devonport; went to France, 11 May, 1915, and was there attached to the 2nd Battn.; served through the gas attack on Whit Monday, his regiment being in the front trenches, and was shot in the temple by a bullet in July, but remained on duty at the time; was given five days’ leave in Aug., and was killed in action in the assault on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, Vermelles, 28 Sept. 1915, while leading a bombing party of A Coy., and after having been throwing bombs incessantly for over three hours; unm. His Commanding Officer, Col. F. Montague Bates, wrote: “Your son was killed by a bomb on the 28th. He was commanding A Coy. at the time of his death and was gallantly leading a bombing party of his men forward when he was hit by a German bomb and killed instantaneously. I thought a great deal of him, he was an excellent soldier, daring and gallant; he was beloved by his men and popular with all ranks; his loss to me as commanding officer is a great blow. He was brave as a lion and died a glorious death”; and in a later letter: “Your boy was killed by a bomb in a trench leading out of the Hohenzollern Redoubt; he was running up a trench towards the Germans, who were in the same trench, and throwing bombs and driving the Germans back. He, of course, was in the thickest of the fighting.” Capt. A. Dowler of his regt. wrote: “Doubtless you know how popular Mead was with everybody and his work in the Hohenzollern would undoubtedly have earned him some distinction”; and Major F. Clifford, of The King’s Liverpool Regt., wrote from Egypt: “Today the Colonel of the East Surrey Regt. was here, he told me that young Mead had behaved in a very gallant manner and that he probably would be awarded some posthumous honour.” Lieut. Mead was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], for conspicuous gallantry in the field. At Charterhouse he was in the Cricket and Football Elevens in 1906. His brother, Corpl. G. P. Mead, died on active service (see following notice), and two surviving brothers are now (1916) serving with the British Forces.

=MEAD, GEOFFREY PHILLIPS=, Corpl., No. 54268, Despatch Rider, 32nd Signal Section, Royal Engineers, 3rd s. of John Phillips Mead, of the firm of Mead & Co., 2, King’s Bench Walk, Inner Temple, E.C., and of St. Mary’s, Teddington, Solicitor, by his wife, Maud Helen Kate, dau. of Samuel King Church; b. London, 28 Oct. 1892; educ. Street Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and Charterhouse (Bodeites), where he matriculated in the first class; studied surveying, and held a post under the Egyptian Government Survey Dept. from March, 1912, to Sept. 1914, when he returned to England to join the Army. He enlisted as a Motor Cyclist Despatch Rider, and after training at various camps, went to the Eastern Front in Aug. 1915, and died while on active service in the Military Hospital at Alexandria, 2 Dec. 1915, of pneumonia, following enteric fever, which he contracted while carrying despatches in Egypt; unm. He was buried with military honours at Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria. His brother, Lieut. C. Mead, was killed in action two months previously (see preceding notice).

=MEAD, HENRY GEORGE FREDERICK, D.C.M.=, Private, No. 6926, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Henry Robert Mead, Carpenter; b. Edgware, 1 April, 1882; educ. Kilburn; served eight years with the Colours, and five and a half with the Reserve; took part in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with four bars), and was called up from the Reserve on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action, 5 Nov. 1914. Buried in Croix Barbée Cemetery. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal [London Gazette, 1 April, 1915] “for conspicuous gallantry on 5 Nov. 1914, near Neuve Chapelle, in attempting to rescue a wounded non-commissioned officer from in front of the enemy’s trenches. He was killed in the attempt.” He was also given the Russian medal of St. George (3rd class). He m. at St. Anne’s Church, Wandsworth, 10 Oct. 1909, Ethel Maud (84, Larch Road, Bedford Hill, Balham), eldest dau. of the late J. E. Sheldon, Private, No. 3446, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, and had two children: Henry Edwin, b. 8 April, 1912; and Ethel Violet Lilly, b. 21 July, 1910.

=MEADOWS, ERNEST=, Private, No. 1188, 14th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of William Henry Meadows, of 61, Mountford Street, Sparkhill, Birmingham, Baker; b. Vaughan Street, Birmingham, 26 Sept. 1883; educ. Clifton Road Church School there; went to Australia, 9 March, 1914; enlisted on the outbreak of war; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and died in the General Hospital, Alexandria, 14 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli; unm.

=MEADOWS, JAMES HORATIO=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 488), 278492, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MEAKIN, HERBERT=, Gunner, No. 26735, 75th Battn. R.F.A., s. of Jacob Meakin, of 18, Vine Street, Rotherham, Bricklayer, by his wife, Maggie, dau. of Neri (and Elizabeth) Irons, of Ilkeston; b. at Nottingham, 7 May, 1884; educ. Rotherham; enlisted R.F.A., 3 Sept. 1902, and on completing his term of service with the Colours was employed as a cleaner of machinery in a mill at Huddersfield. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his battery, and was killed in action near Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried near Ypres. He m. at Huddersfield, 13 April, 1906, Susannah (11, Heath House, Golcar, near Huddersfield), dau. of James David Giles, Stone Mason, and had a dau., Katie, b. 29 June, 1912.

=MEAKINGS, JAMES WILLIAM=, Rifleman, No. 1625, 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, only s. of John William Meakings, of 305, Brantford Road, Ipswich, Carpenter, formerly for 19¾ yrs. in the R.A., by his wife Ellen, dau. of William Firman, for 33½ yrs. a member of the Ipswich Borough Police Force; b. Shoeburyness, co. Essex, 25 Feb. 1888; educ. Bramford Road School, Ipswich; enlisted in the 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 26 March, 1906, and afterwards transferred to the 3rd Battn., then stationed at Malta. In Dec. 1907, he left Malta to join the 2nd Battn. in India, where he remained until his battn. was ordered to France on the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between 10 and 14 March, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote of him: “There was no better soldier in the British Army.” He belonged to the Army Temperance Association in India, and received two medals. He was also in the Garrison Military Police at the Delhi Durbar.

=MEARNS, WILLIAM MELLIS=, M.B., Surgeon, R.N., eldest s. of William Mearns, of Berwick Road, Gateshead, M.A., M.D., V.D., J.P., late Lt.-Col. R.A.M.C. (T.F.), now attached Royal Engineers, by his wife, M. A., dau. of John Mellis, Surgeon; b. Gateshead-on-Tyne, co. Durham, 7 Dec. 1884; educ. Aldenham School, Elstree, Herts, and Aberdeen University, graduating M.B., Ch. B., 1908. He entered the Navy the same year; served in H.M. Ships Pembroke, 1909; Action, 1909–10; Redbreast, in the Persian Gulf, 1910–11; Pembroke, 1911; Teal, in the Upper Yangtse River, China, 1911–14; and had only returned from abroad ten days when the European War broke out. He was ordered to join H.M.S. Formidable, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the Channel, 1 Jan. 1915; unm.

=MEAUTYS, THOMAS GILLIAT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Prince of Wales’s Own West Yorks Regt., elder s. of Thomas Arrowsmith Meautys, of Hammonds Place, Burgess Hill, Sussex, Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, M.A. Oxon, J.P., Surrey, for some time Chairman of the Wimbledon Petty Sessional Division, by his wife, Ellen Gertrude, 3rd dau. of Gilliat Hatfield of Morden Hall, Morden, Surrey, b. Wimbledon, co. Surrey, 13 June, 1889; educ. Marlborough, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1908); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd West Yorkshires, 18 Sept. 1909, but transferred to the 1st Battn., and went to India in Dec. following. He was promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1910. In Sept. 1914 he went with his Battn. which formed part of the 18th Brigade, in the 6th Division, to France to reinforce the Expeditionary Force, then on the Aisne, and was in charge of the machine gun section. He died on the 22nd of that month of wounds received on the 20th, during the Battle of the Aisne, and was buried in Troyon Churchyard. A brother officer wrote: “He was conspicuous for his bravery and coolness under fire.... He conveyed an officer of the Horse Guards (who was wounded and afterwards died) back under cover, although he was under fire the whole time.” While at Marlborough he was in the Rugby Football XV (1906); won the School Boxing Competition in his class in two successive years, and represented Marlborough in the Public Schools’ Competition at Aldershot. He m. at the Parish Church, Hambledon, Hants. 16 June, 1914, Norah Nell, only dau. of the late Herbert Hotblack, of Brighton, and had a son, Thomas Gilliat, b. posthumous 29 April, 1915.

=MEDHURST, JOHN EDWIN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7839). 298939, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MEDHURST, WILLIAM RICHARD=, Leading Stoker, 8958 R.F.R., O.N. 291342, Royal Navy, eldest s. of William Gayner Medhurst, of Leytonstone, by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of (—) Weller; b. Old Ford, 18 April, 1881; educ. Leyton; joined Royal Navy, 1 Feb. 1899; and was lost in H.M.S. Cressy when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at West Ham, 1 Oct. 1995, Ellen Rose (55, West Road, Portway, West Ham), dau. of Robert Taylor Jamieson, of 56, Woodstock Road, Upton Park, E., and had three children: William Albert, b. 23 Aug. 1907; Edward George, b. 19 June, 1909; and Ellen Beatrice, b. 16 Aug. 1912.

=HASTINGS-MEDHURST, FRANCIS LESLIE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of the late Francis Hastings-Medhurst, of 20, Hampstead Lane, Highgate, N., by his wife, Mary (11, St. Dunstan’s Road, Baron’s Court, W.), dau. of the Rev. Robert Leslie Morris, of Rothes, Hampton Hill; b. 7, Campden Hill Square, Kensington, 28 July, 1895; educ. Malvern College (where he was house prefect) and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (Prize Cadet), and was to have entered the Indian Army, but on the outbreak of war, he was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the Worcestershires, 14 Aug. 1914. He went to France, 26 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Illies, near La Bassée, 17 Oct. 1914. On this occasion the Worcesters had suffered severely, and he had volunteered to go for reinforcements. He was almost in safety when he was killed by a maxim gun, but fortunately the forces coming up saw him and were in time to succour the few left alive. He had been wounded in the head three days previously, but refused to go into hospital, owing to shortage of officers. He was buried by his men the same night, 700 yards north-west of Illies Church; unm. His Colonel wrote to his widowed mother that he was a most promising officer, loved by all his men, and a real loss to his regiment; and another officer wrote: “We all loved him, and his men were very fond of him and would go anywhere with him. He was always so cheerful and extremely cool in action. As an officer remarked to me, ‘an awfully nice fellow, a most promising soldier and one we can ill afford to lose.’”

=MEDLAND, WILLIAM HARRY WILSON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4864), S.S. 104067, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MEEHAN, FRANCIS JAMES=, Private, No. 981, 12th Battn. (15th North Auckland Infantry Regt.) New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Thomas Meehan, of Queen Street, Feilding, New Zealand, Carrier, formerly of Waterford, Ireland, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late Bernard Maynes, of Terraquin, Omagh, co. Tyrone, Farmer; b. Feilding, 30 Sept. 1888; educ. at the State School there; was employed for some years at the firm of Grey & Menzies, Auckland. After the outbreak of war, enlisted 23 Aug. 1914; was severely wounded in action at the Dardanelles, 29 April, 1915, and died in the 17th General Hospital at Alexandria 5 May following; unm. Writing to his mother the Rev. J. McMenamin, R.C. Chaplain, N.Z.F., said: “Frank arrived here fit and well with his regt. on Sunday, 25 April, and carried himself bravely through the first four days’ terrible fighting. Then, on Thursday, 29 April, he was stooping down in a trench when a bullet entered his head. He was rendered unconscious mercifully.... Everything possible was done for him, and he was taken away to hospital in Alexandria without any delay.” He was buried at the Chatby Military Cemetery [Grave No. 235).

=MEEHAN, WILLIAM=, C.E.R.A., 124820, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MEEKER, CHARLES EDWARD=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 20933, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MEGAW, WILLIAM CECIL KENNEDY, M.C.=, Capt., 1st Battn. Norfolk Regt., yr. s. of Kennedy Megaw, of 18, Chesham Road, Brighton, by his wife, Mary Augusta, dau. of (—) Zouche; b. Farnborough, co. Kent, 8 May, 1885; educ. Wellington College, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Norfolk Regt., 16 Aug. 1905; promoted Lieut. 20 March, 1908, and Capt. 26 March, 1913; served as Adjutant of his regt. from 1910–13; went to France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 31 March, 1915; being buried by the ramparts of Ypres. He served as acting Adjutant from the Battle of Mons till the time of his death, and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915]; and twice mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 17 Feb. and 22 June, 1915]. Capt. Megaw m. at St. Mark’s Church, South Farnborough, 1 Oct. 1913, Alice May (Rhudlan, West Hove, near Brighton), elder dau. of Col. John Samuel Gaussen, of Hollymouth, South Farnborough, co. Hants; s.p.

=MEHEUX, GEORGE THOMAS SHELTON=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R.. B. 9701), 233279, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MEIKLEJOHN, KENNETH FORBES=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Cameron Highlanders, 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. John Forbes Meiklejohn. of 147, Victoria Street S.W., late R.H.A., by his wife, Edith Mary, dau. of Thomas Dives, and grandson of the late Rev. Robert Meiklejohn, of Strathdon, Aberdeenshire; b. at Woolwich, 18 June, 1885; educ. Rugby and passed 3rd into the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Cameron Highlanders, 27 Feb. 1904, and promoted Lieut. 13 Sept. 1909; was appointed Adjutant, 13 March, 1913; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Marne, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 25 Sept. 1914. On that day what was left of the 1st Camerons—they had lost 17 officers and 500 men in the action of the 14th—had moved up to relieve the 1st Black Watch in the trenches just west of the village of Beaulne, and the battn. headquarters occupied one of the caves in the chalk of the plateau. During the morning a German shell fell on the top of the cave and buried the inmates, amongst whom was Lieut. Meiklejohn, and five officers and some 30 men were subsequently found dead, including Capt. D. N. Miers, then temporarily in command of the battn., Capt. A. G. Cameron, of Lochiel, Capt. Napier Cameron, and Lieut. Meiklejohn, who was buried in the grounds of the Chateau of Verneuille. Lieut. Meiklejohn had qualified as first class interpreter in both Russian and French. He m. at Edinburgh, 14 April, 1914, Sybil Maud, only dau. of John Charles Stewart, of Kinlochmoidart and Glenmoidart, co. Inverness, J.P., and had a son, Kenneth Mathew, b. posthumous, 14 Jan. 1915.

=MELIA, EDWARD=, Corpl., No. 705, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of P. Melia, of Liverpool; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 2 May, 1915.

=MELLETT, MARTIN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4459), S.S. 103473, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MELLISH, CHARLES HERBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11127, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MELSON, JOHN RAITHBY=, L.-Corpl., No. 11754, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Tom Melson, of 4, Whostenholme Place, off Powell Street, Sheffield, by his wife, Jemima, dau. of John Richardson; b. Sheffield, 15 Aug. 1889; educ. St. John’s National School, there; was a Rigger by trade; enlisted soon after the outbreak of war, 7 Sept. 1914; went to France, 21 Jan. 1915, and died in No. 10 Stationary Hospital, St. Omer, 5 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action, 11 July, and was buried in the French Souvenir Cemetery at St. Omer; unm.

=MELSON, ROBERT=, Private, No. 11564, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. s. of Tom Melson, of 4, Whostenholme Place, Powell Street, Sheffield, by his wife, Jemima, dau. of John Richardson; b. Sheffield, co. York. 21 Jan. 1894; educ. St. John’s National School, Sheffield; was a Steel Warehouseman; enlisted 6 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 21 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Cuinchy, 7 Feb. following, and buried in Bethune Churchyard. Belgium; unm. He was the younger of the two brothers, but the first to be killed.

=MELVILLE, WILLIAM=, Private, No 14481, King’s Coy., 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, s. of Hugh Melville, of Portgower, Helmsdale, co. Sutherland, by his wife, Betsy, dau. of James Morrison, of Scourie; b. Portgower afsd., 15 Oct. 1886; educ. Portgower School; was a member of the Edinburgh City Police, and later of the Metropolitan Police; joined the Grenadier Guards in Sept. 1909; was selected as one of the special guards at the Coronation of King George; serving three years with the Colours, he was placed on the Reserve for 10 years, and emigrated to Canada in 1912, where he joined the Winnipeg Police, being rapidly promoted to the rank of detective. On the outbreak of the European War he was called to rejoin his regiment; left for England, 17 Aug. 1914; went to France, 8 Sept.; took part in the severe fighting till 12 Jan. 1915, when he got entangled in barbed wire around a German trench, and was so wounded that he was removed to hospital; rejoined his regt. 5 March, and died in No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station, 13 March. 1915. from wounds received in action the previous day at the battle of Neuve Chapelle; unm. Buried in Merville Cemetery. A brass tablet to his memory, subscribed for by his comrades, was placed in the Central Police Station at Winnipeg.

=MEMBREY, EDWARD JOHN=, S.S.A., M. 7318, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MERCER, ARCHIBALD ARIEL=, Major, 2nd Battn. Dorset Regt., 2nd s. of the late Charles Mercer, of Lansdowne Lodge, Weymouth, by his wife, Grace Ewart (Weymouth), dau. of Edward Clark; b. Uxbridge, 24 Feb. 1875; educ. Marlborough and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. Dorset Regt. then stationed at Wellington, Madras, 16 March, 1895; and promoted Lieut. 12 July, 1897; Capt. 19 Nov. 1901, and Major 19 Nov. 1913. He served with the 1st Dorsets in the Tirah Campaign of 1896–97, taking part in the actions at Chagru and Dargai, in the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga passes and in the reconnaissance of the Saran Sar, where he was severely wounded on 9 Nov. 1897, and received the Tirah Medal with two clasps. He afterwards joined the 2nd Battn. of his regt. in India, and in Nov. 1914, sailed with the Poona Brigade, of which the 2nd Dorsets formed part, for the Persian Gulf. He was killed in action at Sahil, near Basra on the Shat-el-Arab, on the 17th of that month, and was buried at Sahil. Major Mercer was a qualified musketry instructor and a first-class interpreter of Hindustani. He m. at Ugley, Essex, 14 Aug. 1913, Margaret Edith, dau. of William Augustus Tennant, of Orford House, Ugley, and had a dau., Ariel Margaret, b. posthumous, 30 Nov. 1914.

=MERCER, EDWARD ALLAN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14665 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MERCER, ERIC CAMERON=, 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, attd. 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, 5th surviving s. of Col. Charles Archibald Mercer, of Belgrave House, Dover, Indian Army (ret.), late 4th Gurkha Rifles, by his wife, Helen E., eldest dau. of the late Major-Gen. J. S. Rawlins, Indian Army, formerly 1st Gurkha L.I.; b. Bakloh, Punjab, India, 17 Nov. 1894; educ. Junior School, Westward Ho, co. Devon, Dover College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Indian Army, unattd. List, 15 Aug. 1914, and attd. to the 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers; went to France, 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Meteren, near Bailleul, 13 Oct. 1914; unm. He was buried in a field there, belonging to M. Cokelaere. At Dover College, he was in the football XV, 1910–11–12, and the hockey XI, 1911–12–13, and at Sandhurst he was in the 2nd football XV, 1913–14.

=MERCER, GEORGE EDWARD=, Private, No. 8237, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, s. of Thomas Mercer; enlisted in the Seaforths; took part in the Somaliland Expedition 1902–4 (medal); was afterwards employed on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Bolton Road Goods Station; was called up with the Reserve on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died 25 April, 1915, of wounds received in action. He m. St. Luke’s Church, Blackburn, 5 Sept. 1912 (—), dau. of (—) Gibson, and had a son, Harold, b. 2 Oct. 1913.

=MERCER, WALLER CARPENTER=, Rifleman, No. 3246, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Peter Brit Mercer (died 4 Aug. 1894), by his wife, Mary Jane (“Merton,” Plympton Avenue, Brondesbury, N.W.), dau. of Thomas Hooper; b. London, 5 Oct. 1885; educ. Philological School, Marylebone, N.W.; enlisted on the outbreak of war, served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, being shot through the head while on sentry duty in the trenches, at Houplines, near Armentières, 9 April, 1915. He was buried in the Military Cemetery there; unm.

=MERCHANT, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2559), 207436, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MERRETT, ALBERT JOHN=, A.B. 236732, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MERRETT, JOSEPH WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3281), S.S. 101000, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MERRICK, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4529), S.S. 103702, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MERRILEES, STUART=, Private, No. 10228, Northumberland Fusiliers, 4th s. of James Merrilees, of 42, Coomassie Road, Crofton, Blyth, Plasterer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Gilroy; b. Blyth, co. Northumberland, 6 Aug. 1897; educ. there; enlisted 22 Sept. 1914; went to France, 19 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action there, 11 Feb. 1916, being shot by a sniper while working in a triangle trench; unm. His brother, William, was killed, 15 Feb. 1915.

=MERRILEES, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 3086, 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 3rd s. of James Merrilees, of 42, Coomassie Road, Crofton, Blyth, Plasterer, by his wife Mary, dau. of James Gilroy; b. Blyth, co. Northumberland, 14 Feb. 1893; educ. Wright Street School there; enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1910; went to France 18 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action, 16 Feb. 1915, after delivering a message; unm. Capt. O. B. Foster, commanding C Coy., wrote: “He had volunteered to come back from the trenches in broad daylight under a heavy fire to take back a message to battn. headquarters, that ammunition was urgently required. He accomplished this dangerous duty successfully, being slightly wounded in the arm on the way. While at battn. headquarters where his wound had been attended to by the doctor, a shell struck the building in which he was, a fragment of it hit him on the head, killing him instantly. Had he lived he would have probably been awarded the medal for Distinguished Conduct in the Field.” And again, after saying that a “strong recommendation” had been forwarded to the authorities, giving full particulars of his brave act, added: “He certainly well deserved it. Since I wrote I found he took a further message by means of which our artillery, which had been firing in a wrong direction, was directed at the proper place; this was the means of saving a number of our men’s lives. In any other war but this he would certainly have gained a V.C., but, as you can imagine, a terribly high standard of courage is required to win anything now. We had a very hard time with our company, but lately things have been a little easier. As we are not now in the same district, I can give you the following information: Your son was buried by a farmhouse 2½ miles south of Ypres; the farm is south of the Ypres-Comines Canal, and is 1,200 yards south-east of Chateau Langrof. This may enable it to be traced after the war. A cross was erected over it.”

=MERRIMAN, GORDON=, Volunteer, Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve, yr. s. of Thomas Mark Merriman, of 96, Finchley Road, N.W., and 3, Mitre Court, Temple, E.C., Solicitor, by his wife, Ellen Charlotte, dau. of Matthew Marshall; b. Hampstead, N.W., 5 Feb. 1885; educ. St. Andrews, Eastbourne, Uppingham, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and was a Planter in Nyasaland, where he owned the Nanglukutichi Estate, near Blantyre. He was a member of the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve, serving with the Nyasaland Field Force, and was in charge of a Maxim gun which he was working when wounded in an encounter with the Germans at Karonga, and died 9 Sept. 1914; unm. He was buried at Karonga, N.W. of Lake Nyasa. He was mentioned by the Governor of Nyasaland in his Despatch of 1 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 3 Aug. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field “while working Maxim guns under heavy fire with coolness and effect.”

=MERRITT, CECIL MACK=, Capt., 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish, 72nd Seaforth Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, last surviving s. of Lieut.-Col. William Ingersoll Merritt, of 6, Sumner Place, South Kensington, London, late 30th (East Lancashire) and 4th Manchester Regts., by his wife, Mary Beatrice, 3rd dau. of Major-Gen. Frank Adams, C.B., and granddau. of Henry Cadwallader Adams, of Anstey Hall, co. Warwick, J.P., D.L.; b. St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada, 6 Jan. 1877; educ. St. Paul’s School, London; went to Canada in 1895, and joined the Royal Grenadier (Militia) Regt. in 1896. He was one of the few who went into Dawson in the rush of ’98 over the Edmonton trail, the journey taking him two years. After leaving the Yukon he returned to England and was for a short time on the London Stock Exchange. He went to Vancouver in 1904, and when the 72nd Regt. Seaforth Highlanders of Canada was formed in Nov. 1910, he was appointed one of its senior Capts. He received his Majority in that Regt. 13 Oct. 1914. He was on Major-Gen. Sir Sam Hughes’s Staff during his visit to the Imperial Army manœuvres in 1912, and on the outbreak of war at once volunteered for Imperial service, and was given command of a coy. in the 16th Battn. “Canadian Scottish,” 1st Canadian Division. He went with them to France in Feb. 1915, and was present at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. On 22 April, 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres he was leading his coy. in the charge made by the Canadian Scottish near St. Julien, to check the first rush of the Germans after their gas attack, when he was wounded in the leg. He refused to leave his men, and with them occupied the German trenches. Next morning he was killed while encouraging his men during a counter-attack. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. His commanding officer, Col. R. E. Edwards Leckey, wrote: “Cecil Merritt was one of the finest officers I ever knew. He was wounded in the charge, but not severely, and still continued to lead his men on. He remained in the trenches we had captured, and when a counter-attack was threatened he got up to shoot over the parapet with his revolver. It was then he received his fatal wound. No one could have been braver and no one could have led his men better than he did. His name has been submitted for the Military Cross”; and brother officers speak of his “personal bravery and spirit of dash and tenacity,” and of the admiration which his men had for him; and a Private wrote: “He was wounded twice but would not expose his men to be carried back to the dressing station, and after some hours in the captured trenches heard there was a counter-charge from the Germans, and it was then he received the fatal shot in his head.” At St. Paul’s he took a leading part in the school life, being captain of the football XV. He was one of the first captains of the well-known Harlequin Rugby Football Club. He m. at Vancouver, B.C., 4 Dec. 1905, Sophie Almon, eldest dau. of the Hon. Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, K.C.M.G., and had two sons and a dau.: Charles Cecil Ingersoll, b. 10 Nov. 1908; Francis William, b. 16 Aug. 1913; and Beatrice Ormonde, b. 14 Feb. 1907.

=MERRITT, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2400), 201016, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MESSAGE, EDGAR=, Private, No. 2479, 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Herbert Message, of The Old School House, Rush Lake Green, Warbleton, Sussex, by his wife, Miriam, dau. of the late Thomas Rumery, of Warbleton; b. Rush Lake Green, 30 April, 1893; educ. Warbleton National School; enlisted 9 Sept. 1914; went to France, 21 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg, 9 May following, being shot through the head; unm. Buried in cemetery at Richebourg.

=MESSAM, JOHN WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16830, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=METCALFE, RICHARD=, Master-at-Arms, 159487, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=METHUEN, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 7902, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, s. of William Methuen, of Edinburgh, late 78th Seaforth Highlanders, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Hamilton; b. Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 23 Sept. 1878; educ. North Merchiston School; enlisted 21 Jan. 1901, and was killed in action in Belgium, 14 Dec. 1914. He m. at Edinburgh, 1906, Margaret (10, McLeod Street, Edinburgh), dau. of the late James Bathgate, of Edinburgh, and had four children: James, b. 11 April, 1914; Alison, b. 5 Nov. 1906; Mary, b. 16 Dec. 1907; and Agnes, b. 16 June, 1912.

=MICKELS, THOMAS EDWARD=, S.S.A., M. 2159, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MIDDLETON, JOHN LIDDLE=, Private No. 2731, 1/8th Battn. Durham Light Infantry (T.F.), yst. s. of Thomas Middleton, of 38, South Burns, Chester-le-Street, co. Durham, Brewery Mason, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late George Brown, of Washington, co. Durham; b. Chester-le-Street, 8 May, 1895; enlisted 12 Sept. 1914, following the outbreak of war; was wounded in the fighting at Ypres on 26 April, 1915, by a gunshot wound in the head, and taken prisoner, and is stated to have laid for 36 hours in a greenhouse without water or care. He died of his wounds at Ostneeuw Kerke, Belgium, two days after his twentieth birthday, 10 May, 1915; unm.

=MIDMER, HARRY GEORGE=, A.B., No. S.S. 2026, Ch. R.F.R. B8844, R.N. eldest s. of George Midmer, of Mabbs Hill, Stonegate, Ticehurst, Roadman, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Henry Taylor, of Horsham; b. Stonegate, Ticehurst, 10 Oct. 1888; educ. there; joined the Navy, 29 July, 1907, and was lost in H.M.S. Cressy, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=MIELL, CHARLES FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10220), 183675, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MIGHALL, CECIL CHARLES NEWMAN=, Sergt., No. 560, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late William Mignall, of East Grinstead, by his wife, Mary Ann (now wife of William Prodger, of 53, Brook Hill Road, Woolwich), dau. of Charles Newman, of Findon, near Worthing, Sussex; b. East Grinstead, co. Sussex, 3 Aug. 1890; educ. East Grinstead Council Schools, and entered the employ of Messrs. Pugh & Co., of 16, Buckingham Palace Road, as a Clerk in 1906; joined the Queen’s Westminster Rifles in 1908, became L.-Corpl., 1910; and, passing the examination, was promoted to Corp., 1911. On the outbreak of war, he volunteered for foreign service, was promoted Sergt.; went with his regt. to the Front, and was killed in action, in the trenches at Houplines, France, 7 Feb. 1915; unm. Letters from his Commanding Officer and others speak highly of his capabilities and great courage. Sergt. Mighall took part in the pageant held by the regt. at Chelsea in 1913, and he also held the Trollope Cup.

=MILES, DAVID=, Private, No. 1126, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., eldest s. of David Miles, of Malt House, Llanblethian, Cowbridge, Quarry Labourer, by his wife, Angelina, dau. of Thomas Bond; b. Cadoxton Barry, co. Glamorgan, 15 Dec. 1897; educ. Denas Powis National School; enlisted, 4 Sept. 1914; went to France, 11 Jan., and was killed in action at Richebourg St. Vaast, 9 May, 1915. He was a great favourite in the regt. and his officers described him as a fearless and efficient soldier; unm.

=MILEY, JOHN=, Stoker, R.N.R., 804U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MILLAR, ARTHUR JAMES=, Capt., 3rd, attd. 1st Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, 2nd s. of James Millar, of 87, Eglantine Avenue, Belfast, F.C.I.S., by his wife, Jane Isabella, dau. of William Hardie, of Edinburgh; b. Belfast, 10 Sept. 1890; educ. Methodist College and Queen’s University there, where he attended the medical course, and served for over three years in the O.T.C., from which he joined the Special Reserve of Officers, and was attd. as 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, 25 May, 1912; promoted Lieut. 21 Nov. 1914, and Capt. 10 April, 1915; joined his regt. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France with a draft in Sept.; was in the trenches during the winter, 1914–15, and was killed in action near St. Julien, 25 April, 1915; unm. An officer wrote: “He met his soldier’s death gallantly leading his platoon forward against very heavy rifle and machine-gun fire—the way he led his platoon was splendid. Almost the last act under this fire was to crawl over and bandage a man of his platoon who had been wounded, and was certainly one of the most gallant things I have ever seen done. It was almost immediately after this that he was so very unfortunately killed. His name was sent forward prior to the 25th for his excellent work during the whole time he was out here, and has now been sent forward for his most gallant conduct on the 25th, and I only hope he will get the reward he so thoroughly deserves. He is buried with his men where he fell on the field between the villages of Fortuin and St. Julien, north-east of Ypres. His name will ever be remembered in the regt. and its glorious annals.”

=MILLAR, JOHN JAMES=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 25646 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MILLAR, JOHN TROTTER=, Private, No. G 5023, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., yr. s. of William Millar, of 107, Trinity Road, Edinburgh, formerly of St. Margaret’s, Musselburgh, and of 7, Gladstone Place, Stirling, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Trotter, of Stirling, Merchant; b. Stirling, 14 May, 1878; educ. Stirling High School; was a Head Cashier; enlisted, Sept. 1914; went to France, 4 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between 10 and 14 March, 1915; unm.

=MILLER, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 2564, 3rd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Margaret (32, Victoria Street, Dunbar), dau. of Peter Miller; b. Dunbar, 24 Dec. 1892; educ. Dunbar Burgh School; enlisted 13 July, 1914; went to France and was killed in the trenches in France on 21 Feb. 1915. He was an outworker before enlisting.

=MILLER, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 289617, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MILLER, EDWARD=, Probationary 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 7799, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MILLER, ERNEST CHARLES WILLIAM=, Private, No. 8959, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Henry Miller, of Framfield, Carter, by his wife, Sarah Jane (Wilmington, Polegate, Sussex), dau. of Joseph Wood; b. Framfield, co. Sussex, 6 Dec. 1893; educ. Wilmington, Sussex; enlisted, 10 Jan. 1911, and was reported missing after the fighting at Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed on that date.

=MILLER, ERNEST CYRIL=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 3rd s. of the late William Pitt Miller, of Merlewood, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, and of Thistleton, Kirkham, Lancashire, by his wife, Emilie Mary (Merlewood, Grange-over-Sands); b. Grange-over-Sands afsd., 13 June, 1878; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia (now the 3rd Special Reserve Battn. Loyal North Lancashires), 1902; promoted Lieut. July, 1905, and Capt. 2 June, 1906. On the abolition of the Militia, he was transferred to the Special Reserve of Officers. He was called up to his Regt. on the outbreak of war, and was attd. to the 1st Battn.; went to France, 20 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Pilken, in Flanders, during the First Battle of Ypres, 23 Oct. 1914. He was buried near a farm between Pilken and Bixschoote. Capt. Miller m. at Copdock, Suffolk, 5 Nov. 1913, Dulcie Katharine, yst. dau. of Arthur Montague Bernard, of Copdock, Ipswich; s.p.

=MILLER, GODFREY LYALL=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Engineers, elder s. of Sir John Ontario Miller, of Rowley Lodge, Arkley, Herts, K.C.S.I., late Indian Civil Service, by his wife, Mary Evelina, dau. of the late Sir Alfred Lyall; b. Cawnpore, India, 14 Feb. 1893; educ. Warden House School, Deal, Rugby, and Woolwich, where he gained the King’s Gold Medal; was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.E., 20 Dec. 1912; visited Germany twice during leave to study the language; was appointed on mobilisation to the 11th Field Coy. R.E. attd. to the 2nd Division, with which he left for France on 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action while in charge of a bridge over a canal at Pont Arcy, 14 Sept. 1914, during the crossing of the Aisne; unm. Buried where he fell.

=MILLER, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4694), 230012, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MILLER, INGLIS FRANCIS ROWLEY=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd, Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd and only surviving s. of the late Major Rowley Alexander Rowley Miller, of Millbank, Omagh, co. Tyrone, by his wife, Ella Frances, dau. of the late Rev. Thomas Mason of All Saints’, Blackrock, Dublin; b. Millbank, 19 Jan. 1893; educ. Berkhamsted; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. (Royal Tyrone Militia) Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 26 July, 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, attd. to the 2nd Battn, and was wounded in the shoulder and leg in the first battle—at Cambray—26 Aug. during the retreat from Mons, and was taken prisoner. A week later his father received a card from him stating that he was doing well, and was well cared for. Tetanus, however, supervened, and he died at Venelon Hospital, France, 14 Sept. 1914; unm. It was not till the end of Jan. 1915, that notice of his death was received through the American Ambassador. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.] 1914, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. He was gazetted to the 2nd Inniskilling Fusiliers, 19 Nov. 1914.

=MILLER, JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 793), 7086, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MILLER, LIONEL=, A.B., 172493, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MILLER, RICHARD LESLIE=, Private, No. 15245, A Coy. 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., s. of the late Horace Edward Miller, of Royton, co. Suffolk, and Zions Hill, Fincastle, Virginia, U.S.A., by his wife, Alice (now the wife of Harry Ernest Ling, of Little Cornard, Sudbury, Suffolk), dau. of Edward May, of Capel St. Andrew, Suffolk; b. Virginia, U.S.A., 8 Sept. 1882; educ. Haverstock Hill, London; was a Gardener; enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 26 July following; unm. He was buried at Spoilbank, between Lankhop Chateau and Chester Farm. His Commanding Officer spoke very highly of him in writing to his mother, and said that he died a heroic death.

=MILLER, THOMAS JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 686, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MILLER, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4590), S.S. 103698, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MILLETT, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 2176, 5th Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I. (T.F.), yr. s. of Alfred Miller, of Newgate, Pontefract, Miner; b. Newgate, 25 July, 1895; educ. St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Pontefract; was a Colliery Driver; enlisted 26 July, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 13 March, and was mortally wounded 18 June, 1915, while assisting to repair a barbed-wire fence in front of our first-line trenches at Bois Grenier, and died the same day. Buried there; unm. His coy. officer wrote: “He was one of the nicest and cheeriest lads in the platoon, and I feel I have lost one of the best and bravest. I can assure you that all the lads of his platoon feel his loss deeply, as he was one of the most popular amongst them.... The time he was shot he was with a working party at night, in front of the parapet, repairing barbed wire, when several shots came across rapidly. Arthur lost consciousness almost at once, and when the end came he had not regained it, so that he practically suffered no pain.” Of his two brothers, the eldest, Sergt. Alfred Millett, R.E., was wounded in France, and the younger, William, is (1916) a Corpl. in the King’s Own Yorkshire L.I.

=MILLETT, FREDERICK=, Stoker, R.N.R., T. 3025, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MILLINGTON, GEORGE ERNEST=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1710), 190050, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MILLINGTON, HERBERT HUGH=, Rifleman, No. 1881, 18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Rev. William Millington, Rector of Cottingham, Northamptonshire, by his wife, Margaret (St. Margaret’s, Westcott, near Dorking, Surrey), dau. of George Smith, Manufacturer; b. Wandsworth Common, 14 May, 1873; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School, and Tucson Mining College, Arizona, U.S.A., and was a mining engineer and surveyor in America. Being in England on a holiday when war broke out, he joined the London Irish Rifles the next day; went to France in March, 1915, was wounded at Givenchy on 16 May, during the Second Battle of Ypres, and died on 17 May, 1915, of wounds; unm. Buried in the cemetery at Aire. A stained-glass window was erected to his memory in Cottingham Church.

=MILLS, ARCHIBALD HARDING=, S.S.A., M. 6886 (Ports.), H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MILLS, CHARLES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 10422, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MILLS, CHARLES DANIEL=, Boy Servant, L. 5452, H.M.S. Cressy, eldest s. of Henry Albert Mills, of 39, Boleyn Road, East Ham, Packing Case Maker, by his wife, Elizabeth Jane, dau. of Daniel Hills Hobbs, Carpenter and Joiner; b. Stratford New Town, co. Essex, 8 Dec. 1897; educ. Plashet Lane Council School, East Ham; joined the Navy, 16 June, 1914, and was lost when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=MILLS, EDWARD GEORGE=, Private, No. 10465, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., eldest s. of Percy Mills, of The Kennels, Findon, co. Sussex, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of James Kent; b. Littlehampton, 3 Oct. 1895; educ. there; was an Under Cowman; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 28 Aug. 1914; trained at Dover; went to France, 24 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

=MILLS, EWDIN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3937), 197120, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MILLS, GEORGE HARVEY=, Private, No. 23128, 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, only surviving s. of George Mills, of Edinburgh, Draper, by his wife, Bertha Agnes, dau. of David Smith; b. Edinburgh, 22 March, 1894; educ. Musselburgh Grammar School, and Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh; was Cashier with Messrs. Maxton, Graham & Syme, Chartered Accountants, Edinburgh; joined the Royal Scots, 1 June, 1915; went to France, 2 Oct. 1915, and was killed in action near Vermelles, 19 Nov. following, by the bursting of a shell, which entered the dug-out where he was; unm. Buried at Le Haie, east of Vermelles.

=MILLS, JESSE=, Sergt., No. 7159, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Jesse Matthew Mills, of 45, Chapel Street, Bognor, by his wife, Janet, dau. of Henry Horner, of Bognor; b. Bognor, Sussex, 4 Feb. 1888; educ. Council School there; enlisted at Chichester, 4 March, 1907; served four years in England and three in Egypt; and then, in Jan. 1914, joined the Police Force at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He was recalled to the Colours, 4 Aug. following; left for France on the 29th; was wounded in action at Ypres on 21 Oct., and died in the Mater Hospital at Dublin, 16 Nov. 1914; unm.

=MILLS, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9433), S.S. 106665, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MILLS, JOSEPH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4920), S.S. 1772, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MILLS, JOSEPH HENRY=, Private, 15/978, North Auckland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Joseph Mills, of Westport, Gold Miner; b. Charleston, New Zealand, 9 July, 1889; educ. Public School there; was a Carter in Auckland; on the outbreak of war joined the Expeditionary Force, 5 Sept. 1914, left for Egypt with the second contingent; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, and died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=MILLS, MARK=, Private, No. B. 1549, Ch. 9860, R.M.L.I., s. of Mark Mills, of Holloway, London, by his wife, Caroline, dau. of (—) Williamson; b. London, 11 Sept. 1879; educ. there; joined the Navy, 18 Aug. 1897, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, when that ship was sunk in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at St. Paul’s Church, Upper Holloway, 27 Feb. 1910, Florence Caroline (53A, Ormiston Road, Shepherd’s Bush, W.), dau. of Albert Aldridge, and had three children: Mark, b. 5 Sept. 1911; Cecil, b. 25 July, 1913; and Margery, b. 26 July, 1910.

=MILLS, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2795), 186948, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MILLWARD, HENRY WOODVINE=, Deckhand, No. 365 D.A., Trawler Section, R.N.R.; lost when the mine-sweeping trawler No. 61 (Thomas W. Irvine, of North Shields) was sunk by a mine, Aug. 1914.

=MILNE, FRANCIS JAMES=, Private, No. 1555, 1st Battn. Honourable Artillery Coy., elder s. of James Milne, of 14, Park Houses, Willesden Green, N.W., by his wife, Harriette Eugenie, dau. of William Southwood, of Exeter, and grandson of John Milne, formerly of New Merdrum, Rhynie, co. Aberdeen; b. Willesden Green, afsd. 20 Dec. 1891; educ. The Haberdashers’ School, West Hampstead; was a Commercial Traveller; on the outbreak of war joined the H.A.C., with his brother, Hugh, and volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 18 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Rouge Croix, 14 Nov. 1914, during the Battle for Calais; unm. Buried with full military honours in a farm garden, Les Lobes, La Conture, Pas-de-Calais. He was the first man in the H.A.C. to fall. Two days before he was killed he wrote: “Hugh and I are in the best of health. Don’t worry if you do not hear regularly from us. The post is very uncertain. We are quite safe and glad to be out here doing our duty.” Lieut.-Col. Treffery wrote: “He died as many others have done during the past few months, doing his duty and putting in the best he could for his country”; and Capt. A. L. Ward: “I think perhaps it may lessen your grief to know how well he has done his duty during the trying and difficult times we have had for the past three weeks, and as his captain, I can assure you of my sorrow at losing such an excellent soldier.” While at school he passed the junior Cambridge examination, and won V form prize. He gained many prizes and certificates for shooting and swimming, including life-saving, and was enrolled as first-class shot in National Roll of Marksmen; was a member of the Cadet Corps; Capt. of the Rifle Club, and best shot in the school. At Bisley in 1908 he won the 1st Prize, Silver Cigarette Case, in Marydown Competition; 2nd prize, Silver Watch, Cheylesmore Cup Competition; the Patriotic Society’s Badge and the Bisley medal.

=MILNE, JAMES=, Private, No. 1364, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, elder s. of James Milne, of East Grange, Kinloss, by Forres, a Platelayer on the Highland Railway, by his wife, Jane Milne, dau. of John Bower, Road Contractor, Dufftown; b. Rothes, 23 March, 1893; educ. Inchberry and Alves Public Schools, afterwards being employed on the Highland Railway at Inverness; went to Australia in 1911, and was engaged in gold mining at Cobar; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Australian Imperial Force in Feb. 1915; went to the Dardanelles, and died of wounds received in action there, 13 Oct. 1915; unm.

=MILNE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9383, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of William Milne, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of James McFarlane; b. Edinburgh, 1889; educ. St. Leonard Street Public School, Edinburgh; enlisted in 1900; went to France, 6th March, 1915, and died 23 April, 1915, of wounds received in the 2nd Battle of Ypres. He m. at Dundee, 1 Oct. 1905, Williamine (40, Watson’s Lane, Dundee), dau. of James Donnelly, of that city, and had a son, James, b. 17 Nov. 1910.

=MILNER, JOHN LEWIS=, M.A., 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, eldest s. of John William Milner, of 31 Penkett Road, Liscard, Wallasey, Merchant, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Henry Lewis; b. Liverpool, 26 Feb. 1892; educ. St. Bee’s School, Cumberland, and graduated B.A. in 1911, and M.A. in 1913. He was a brilliant scholar, and held Sir Edward Grey’s nomination for a position under the Foreign Office, and had spent some time abroad making a special study of modern languages, but on the outbreak of war, applied for a commission, and was gazetted to the reserve of officers, and went to Woolwich in Aug. 1914. He went out to the Front the first week in Jan. 1915, received a commission in the regular Army, 15 Feb., and was killed in action near Ypres, on Sunday, 9 May, 1915; unm. “He was in the trenches,” wrote his Colonel, “observing the fire of his battery. The Germans rushed our front trenches, and all the infantry officers at that point were killed. In rallying the Infantry to retake the trench, he was shot through the head. He was a very gallant officer.”

=MILNES, EDMUND=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4099), S.S. 1312, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MILNES, JESSE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5824), 206965, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MINIHAN, PATRICK=, Boatman C.G., 284271, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MINNO, JOSEPH=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MINTER, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4556), 172760, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MINTON, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., 11718, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MITCHELL, ALBERT CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9137), 203369 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MITCHELL, ARTHUR JAMES=, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 3202 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MITCHELL, AUGUSTUS JAMES=, A.B., J. 3087, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MITCHELL, BERTIE FREDERICK=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8923), 200567, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MITCHELL, FREDERICK EUGENE HOBART=, A.B., J. 3975, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MITCHELL, GEORGE JOHN=, Carpenter’s Mate (Pensioner), 157320 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MITCHELL, JAMES BANNERMAN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8054), S.S. 103779, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MITCHELL, JOHN MONFRIES=, Capt., 1/7th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Alexander Mitchell, Senior Partner in the firm of John Mitchell & Co. Timber Merchants, Leith, by his wife, Annie (101, Trinity Road, Edinburgh), dau. of Alexander Alexander, of Leith; b. Leith, 24 Sept. 1882; educ. Royal High School Edinburgh, and Blairlodge School, Polmont, and was a partner in his father’s firm. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th (then the 5th Vol.) Battn. Royal Scots, 18 Feb. 1905, and was promoted Lieut. 31 March, 1908, and Capt. 17 April, 1912. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, but was killed on his way to the Front in the railway disaster at Gretna, 22 May, 1915; unm.

=MITCHELL, WILLIAM ALEXANDER=, Corpl., No. 8/437, 8th Southland Coy. Otago Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of David Mitchell, of Southland, New Zealand, Manager, Ocean Beach Freezing Works there, by his wife, Ann, dau. of William Crabb, of Laverock Hall, Carmyllie, Scotland; b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 29 Sept. 1891; educ. Bluff Public School and the Southland Boys’ High School; was on the staff of the mercantile firm of J. G. Ward & Co., but on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered and joined the 8th Southland Coy. 12 Aug. 1914. He was wounded in the fighting at the Dardanelles, 2 May, 1915, and died at Alexandria, 29 May following; unm. He was buried in the Military Cemetery there. L.-Corpl. J. McLeary wrote: “When I was wounded on Sunday night (May 2) I had to crawl back to the Red Cross, and on my way I met Alic Mitchell. He said ‘I will see you up this rise,’ but he had no sooner spoken than he was moaning on the ground, shot in the mouth and arm. He seemed very bad, but we managed to get back without further injury, though the bullets from Turkish rifles and machine-guns were ploughing up the dirt all around us.” Corpl. Mitchell was a keen Territorial and a prominent athlete. For many years he represented Southland at Association football as half back. He was also a Rugby and tennis player and a member of the Bluff Cricket Club.

=MITTEN, THOMAS HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15477, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MOFFAT, ARCHIBALD SKIRVING WOOLERY=, Lieut.-Col., 2nd Battn. Border Regt., 4th and yst. s. of James Moffat, of Ken Ervie, co. Kirkcudbright, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Capt. Robert Skirving of Croys; b. Castle Douglas, co. Kirkcudbright, 14 Nov. 1867; educ. Craigmount, Edinburgh, and in Switzerland; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Border Regt. from the Militia, 10 Nov. 1888; and promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1890; Capt. 26 Aug. 1896; Major, 20 Oct. 1909, and Lieut.-Col. (posthumous) 22 June, 1915, to rank as from 3 May, 1915, and from June 1899, to June, 1903 was Adjutant. He served in the Waziristan Expedition of 1894–95, and received the medal with clasp. At the end of 1909 he joined the 1st Battn. of his regt. in India, and shortly afterwards proceeded to Burma, where he was second in command when war broke out. The battn. was ordered home and arrived in England in Jan. 1915, when he proceeded to France, and rejoined the 2nd Battn. as second in command. He was killed in action whilst leading a charge, during the Battle of Festubert, 16–17 May, 1915, and was buried near the spot where he fell. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 30 Nov. 1915. Lieut.-Col. Moffat excelled in all outdoor games and sports, and did much to encourage athletics among the men of his regt. Almost all his leaves were spent in big game shooting, and he had a fine collection of trophies. He m. at Newara-Eliya, Ceylon, 27 April, 1912, Marjorie Armstrong, dau. of Arthur Jadick Just, of Morireby, Newara-Eliya, Ceylon, and had a son: Archibald James, b. (posthumous), 18 Aug. 1915.

=MOFFET, JOHN LEESON=, B.Sc. (Hons.), A.M.I.E.E., 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, elder s. of Thomas Moffet, of Ingleside, Kingsfield Road, Watford, Assistant Estate and Land Agent to the London & North-Western Railway Co., Chairman of the Watford Public Library and a member of the Watford Urban District Council, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of the late John Leeson, of Rugby; b. Watford, co. Herts, 17 May, 1888; educ. Watford Grammar School, City and Guilds of London Technical College, Finsbury, and Manchester University, where he graduated B.Sc. (Engineering) with honours. On leaving there he became an Engineering Assistant at the Horwich Locomotive Works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co. and in 1913 left there to take a position as Electrical Expert to the Chloride Electrical Storage and Battery Co., Clifton, Manchester. At Manchester University he had been in the O.T.C. for four years and a half, and had obtained certificates A and B; on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Royal Scots Fusiliers, 5 Sept. 1914, and at this date was at Portland in charge of electrical work on a submarine. He went to France on 26 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March following; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was a most promising officer, keen and anxious to learn. He had a high sense of duty and had plenty of confidence in himself”; and another officer: “I last spoke to your son on the morning of March 10 while we were waiting for the artillery bombardment to cease. He was then quite cheery, and certainly not as nervous as a good many of us.” “I was in the same company as your son,” wrote another officer, “and only ten yards away when he was killed. We had been advancing in extended order just after the capture of the German first line of defence, when we suddenly struck some heavy rifle fire. Your son was in front of me with his platoon, and had just given the order to his men to lie down, when he was struck by a bullet through the left lung and died at once, without speaking. He died a noble death, leading his men into action, and it was through turning round himself to warn his men to take cover that he himself was hit.” Lieut. Moffet was an Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and while in training at Greenock received a unanimous invitation to accept the Chairmanship of the Manchester Students’ Section of the Institution. He was awarded the Premium Prize of the Institution for a paper on “Possibilities of Electrical Traction on Railways.” His younger brother, Lieut. Thomas Arthur Moffet, King’s Liverpool Regt. is now (1916) a Railway Transport Officer with the Expeditionary Force in France.

=MOGG, FREDERICK HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7907), S.S. 103585, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MOGGRIDGE, ROBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16964, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MOHR, JOHN CARL BERNHARDT=, No. G. 1420,2nd Battn. Sussex Regt. s. of Charles Mohr, of 91, Sumner Road, Peckham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 4 Feb. 1915.

=MOIR, ARCHIBALD GIFFORD=, Lieut., 7th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), elder s. of Archibald Patrick Moir, of Marshill, Alloa, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Robert Gifford, of London; b. Alloa aforesaid, 17 March, 1890; educ. Edinburgh Academy, Banstead Hall, Surrey, and Fettes College, Edinburgh, and on leaving there studied law, qualifying in 1914, with the intention of joining his father in business. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 12 May, 1914, and promoted Lieut. 7 Sept. following; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug.; went to France in Dec., and was killed in action at Ypres, near Hill 60, 25 April, 1915; unm. Buried near St. Jean. Col. Carden, who was killed shortly afterwards, wrote: “He was the most popular officer in the regt. and the best at his work;” and one of his men: “You were asking about Mr. Moir, he was the finest officer in the Battn., everybody liked him. When he fell he was leading us. I have been to his grave, it is behind the firing trench. Everyone of us miss him. We have had other officers, but none like him. All he thought of was his men.” Lieut. Moir was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. At Banstead Hall he was captain of the School, and gained all the important athletic prizes; at Fettes College he gained the gold medal in 1908, as the best athlete of his year; was captain of the Cricket XI; was also a brilliant three-quarter back at football, and seemed to be marked out for International honours, but an accident to his knee while playing for the Edinburgh Academicals stopped his football career. He played for his county regularly at cricket, and had many brilliant innings.

=MOIR, JAMES=, Private, No. 1794, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt, and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 8 Aug. 1915.

=MOIR, JOHN ANDREW ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, elder s. of Andrew John Moir, of 15, Clive Row, Calcutta, Merchant and Skipper; b. London. 1 Dec. 1897; educ. in Germany, and at Southport Modern School, and St. John’s College, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, where he was a Prefect, and on the outbreak of war, at once volunteered and joined the London Scottish (14th London Regt.), 28 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with them in 28 Nov. following; served in the trenches during the winter of 1914–15, and was selected for a commission and gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5 April, 1915. He fell leading an attack on a small party of Germans in the early morning of 16 June, 1915. His Col., Lieut.-Col. Gore, wrote of him: “I cannot tell you how sorry I am to have lost him. He was a most promising young officer and brave almost to recklessness, and, though he had been with us only a short time, was much liked and esteemed by all his comrades.” He was buried in Ration Farm Cemetery (Bois Grenier), near Armentières. He was an excellent horseman, motor cyclist and swimmer, and founded and managed the Thamesmouth Football Club until it was disbanded on the outbreak of war.

=MOLE, HERBERT=, Sergt., No. 6067, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Henry Mole, of Charlecote, Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 27 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action.

=MOLESWORTH, ERNEST KERR=, Major, Royal Engineers, attd. 2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners, Indian Army, 3rd s. of Lieut.-Col. Anthony Oliver Molesworth, of 3, Priory Street, Cheltenham, and of Cruicksfield, Duns, Berwickshire, late R.A., by his wife, Ann Elizabeth, yst. dau. of Major William Hope Smith, H.E.I.C.S., and gdson. of Capt. Anthony Oliver Molesworth, R.A., [brother of Richard Pigott, 7th Viscount Molesworth]; b. Montrose, 28 March, 1878; educ. privately and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 23 March, 1898, and promoted Lieut. 14 Feb. 1901; Capt. 23 March, 1907 and Major 30 Oct. 1914. He took part in the Tibet Expedition of 1903–4, and was present at the Delhi Durbars (medals). In 1907 he was attd. to the 2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners, Indian Army, with headquarters at Bangalore, being appointed Company Commander, April, 1911. He left with the Indian Expeditionary Force for France, 16 Oct. 1914, and was accidentally shot at St. Hilaire, on 31 Dec. following. Major Molesworth m. in London, 31 May, 1905, Hilda Rosalie, dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Henry Alexander Brownlow, R.E., and had two children: Brownlow David, b. 10 Feb. 1913; and Mollie Rosalie, b. 11 March, 1907.

=MOLINEUX, GEORGE KING=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, elder s. of Major Harold Parminter Molineux, of The Cottage, Isfield, Sussex, late Essex (56th) Regt., by his wife, Ross Eugenie Katherine, 2nd dau. of the late Henry King, of Isfield Place, Sussex; b. Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 15 April, 1887; educ. Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford; after serving two years in the 3rd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt. he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 11 Dec. 1909, and served in England with his Regt. until Sept. 1913, when he proceeded with it to India, being promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1913, and Capt. 16 Jan. 1915. He was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, then Viceroy of India, in Aug. 1914, but resigned this appointment in Nov. 1914 in order to accompany his regt. to France on active service. He landed in France in Jan. 1915, and was engaged in transport work for a short time previous to going into the trenches in the Ypres district. On the 7 and 8 May, the Germans concentrated their guns on the salient held by the Brigade in advance of Ypres, the bombardment of the trenches being exceptionally severe. In the assault by the enemy which followed, owing to the giving way of a unit on the right of the Northumberland Fusiliers, the right flank of that regt. was overwhelmed, and Capt. Molineux was last seen wounded and unconscious in his trench, between Wieltje and Frezenberg, by the survivors who retired. He was most popular in his regt. and was beloved by all who knew him. He was unm. At Winchester he was in the cricket eleven in 1906, and was captain of Commoner Football. He gained his Harlequin colours at Oxford, and played in several matches for the University, also for Gentlemen of England against Oxford University and for the M.C.C. He was a first-class cricketer, shot, horseman, fisherman, and a good naturalist.

=MOLLOY, CHARLES=, Chief Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 2975), 171847, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MOLONEY, JOHN LAWRENCE=, Sergt.-Major, Warrant Officer (1st Class), No. 68888, 22nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, s. of Michael Moloney, Sergt. Sussex Regt., by his wife, Mary; b. Chichester, co. Sussex, 17 June, 1873; enlisted, 24 Sept. 1888; served in the South African War (wounded at Lindley; Queen’s medal with two clasps); and with the 7th Division of the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 5 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Gheluvelt, Belgium, 29 Oct. following. An officer wrote: “We were in a position near the village of Gheluvelt and were being heavily shelled. The Brigade Staff horses were in a farm shed behind our position, and as a shell set it on fire, Mr. Moloney ordered the horses to be taken out. He saw all safely out and led out the last one himself. Before he was ten yards away from the building, another shell burst near him killing him almost instantly. As you will see from this he died doing his duty; he is buried near where he fell, and the spot is marked by a cross bearing his name. You have all our sympathy, and his loss was deeply felt by all ranks.” Sergt.-Major Moloney was an all-round sportsman and had won many cups and medals for riding and jumping, tentpegging and shooting. He had the Silver Medal for best Man-at-Arms, Bombay Army, won at Poona, 1903, and was for many years a successful competitor at the London Military Tournament. He had the Good Conduct medal. He m. at Wimborne, Dorset, 17 Jan. 1905, Janet Christine (14, New Boro’, Wimborne), twin dau. of Samuel and Isabella Foster, of Homeleigh, Wimborne; s.p.

=MOLLOY, MICHAEL VALLANCEY=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Sherwood Foresters, elder s. of the Rev. Eben Molloy, Vicar of Shenstone, B.A., by his wife, Harriet Rachel Emily, dau. of the late Rev. Thomas Maule Wetherall, Rector of Pelham Parva, M.A. [gdson. of Lieut.-Gen. Vallancey, R.E.]; b. Keyston Rectory, co. Huntingdon, 29 Sept. 1894; educ. Mr. Strahan’s School, Hythe, and Rossall School (Mr. Furneaux’s House), where he was in the O.T.C., and obtained Certificate “A”; later joined the Birmingham University O.T.C., and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of Officers, 15 Aug. 1914, being at his own request attd. to the 3rd Sherwood Foresters; went to France early in Jan. 1915, attd. to the 2nd Battn., as Machine Gun Officer, and in April was given a commission in the regular Army; and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, while attending to his guns in a captured German trench; unm. Buried in Sanctuary Wood, Hooge. Gen. Congreve, V.C., wrote: “I knew him better than almost any of the young officers. I don’t quite know how, and feel I have myself lost a friend. He was an excellent officer—chosen because he was so, for the machine gun command, and he was killed when looking after the guns in a battle in which his brigade did everything it was asked to do”; and Major C. I. D. Hobbs, the commanding officer: “He is a great loss to the regt., as, in addition to being such a keen young officer, full of pluck, he was universally popular with officers and men. He was shot by a bullet through the heart while leading his men against the enemy, and must have been killed instantaneously.” Capt. Chidlow-Roberts, officer commanding C Coy., also wrote: “Everybody is most awfully cut up about it, as he was a top-hole fellow and a jolly good soldier. He was a great friend of mine. The word of it was he was too brave, and shouldn’t have gone down to see about the gun”; and Capt. Noel Chance, R.A.: “Mollie (as we all called him) was to me as dear as a younger brother. No loss has affected me so much in this war, and it has caused a gap that cannot be filled. You must, indeed, be proud to have such a son; brave, extraordinarily courteous, and always anxious to help and be a pleasure to others. He died a death we should all prefer, and he could have felt nothing. I have had two short letters from the regt., and in each case (one from Major Hobbs, the commanding officer, and one from Roberts), the outstanding comment is the loss of ‘Mollie.’ I have never known a boy of his age have so many friends among both senior and junior officers.”

=MOLSON, ERIC ELSDALE=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Major John Elsdale Molson, of Goring Hall, Worthing, and 3, Morton Terrace, Gainsborough, J.P., R.A.M.C. (T.F.), by his wife, Mary, dau. of Dr. Arthur Edmund Leeson, M.A., M.D., Trinity College, Dublin; b. Chelmsford, co. Essex, 26 March, 1894; educ. Cheltenham College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Scots, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; went to France, 21 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action in Flanders, 1 April, 1915, while on duty in a gap between two trenches; unm. Buried behind the trenches where he fell. His Colonel wrote: “I had a great admiration for the boy. He was universally popular. We should have considered ourselves very fortunate to get him to come into the regt. permanently. He was such a delightful type of an English gentleman, I often used to think when I looked at him”; and another: “He was very popular with everyone in the battn. and especially with his own platoon. Although he was a strict disciplinarian and insisted on things being thoroughly done, he always did the most dangerous work himself, such as going in front of his trench to put up the barbed wire, with the result that his men had absolute confidence in him. He did some particularly daring sniping work, which resulted in his being twice grazed by the German snipers, once in the head. For this work his name was sent in to the General.” While at Cheltenham he was captain of the College Football XV, 1912–13, a Prefect of the College and winner of the Hornby Prize. His father is (1916) on active service at Newhaven, attached to Military Hospital and Garrison, and his two brothers are (1916) Harold Elsdale Molson, 2nd Lieut., King’s Royal Rifles, who has been wounded, and Gerald Elsdale Molson, Sub-Lieut. in the Royal Navy.

=MONCK, THE HON. CHARLES HENRY STANLEY=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, elder and only surviving s. of Henry Power Charles Stanley, 5th Viscount Monck, late Capt., Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Lady Edith Caroline Sophia, née Scott, dau. of John, 3rd Earl of Clonmell; b. London, S.W., 9 Nov. 1876; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Coldstream Guards from the Militia, 15 May, 1897, and promoted Lieut., 9 Nov. 1898, and Capt., 21 Nov. 1903; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the advance on, and relief of, Kimberley, including actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, Feb.-May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Vet River and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill; operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to Oct. 1900, including action at Belfast; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, Nov. 1900; in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1900; in the Transvaal, Nov. to Dec. 1900; and those in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900, to 31 May, 1902; receiving the Queen’s medal with seven clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps; went to France with the British Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914; was wounded in the thigh, 8 Sept., but rejoined his regt. on the 24th, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 21 Oct. 1914. Buried there. He m. at Wellington Barracks Chapel, London, 16 Feb. 1904, Mary Florence, 2nd dau. of Sir William Wyndham Portal, of Laverstoke, 2nd Bart., and had three children: Henry Wyndham Stanley, b. 11 Dec. 1905; Elizabeth Noel, b. 25 Dec. 1908; and Mary Patricia, b. 22 June, 1911.

=MONCKTON, MARMADUKE HENRY=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Garrison Artillery, attd. Royal Flying Corps, elder s. of Commander Henry Grant Monckton, by his wife, Maud Lilian, dau. of the Rev. John W. Hallowell; b. Clifton, Bristol, 31 May, 1891; educ. Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.G.A., 23 Dec. 1910; went to France, 1914, in charge of an anti-aircraft gun, and was attached to the Royal Flying Corps, 19 March, 1915. He was killed in action on 9 July, 1915, while flying over the enemy’s line near Bailleul. Buried at Bailleul; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was killed at mid-day to-day, while flying over the enemy’s lines. The attendant circumstances will never be accurately known, but it seems probable from evidence of onlookers that the machine, a Bristol scout, was hit by a fragment of shell and became uncontrollable from about 4,000 feet. Your nephew’s death was instantaneous. He was a gallant pilot and a fine, fearless soldier”; and in a later letter he spoke of his faithful and loyal services to himself.

=MONCUR, GEORGE CLARK=, L.-Corpl., No. 3457, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John William Moncur, of Aberdeen, Hotel Proprietor (retired), by his wife, Elizabeth S. M., dau. of James S. Paterson; b. Aberdeen, 5 Feb. 1894; educ. Ashley Road School there; was a Window Dresser; joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, 11 Nov. 1914, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 25 April, 1915. Buried at Headquarter Farm (c. 16–3, Reference Map, Belgium 281/40,000); unm. His brother, Sergt. Nicol Moncur, Dragoons, went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and is still (1916) serving there.

=MONDAY, TOM=, Farrier-Sergt., No. 769, 1st Battery, 2nd Northumbrian Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late George Monday, of 59, East Cheap, Hull, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Tom Auckland; b. Hull, 7 Nov. 1878; educ. Collier Street School, Hull; was a Farrier Blacksmith; enlisted 23 March, 1908; was promoted Sergt. about Aug. 1912; went to the Front, 18 April, 1915; was killed in action at Ypres, 24 May following, and was buried there. He m. at St. Stephen’s Church, Hull, 1 May, Susanna (Waterloo Cottage, The Dene, Stainland, near Halifax), dau. of Jim Hardwick, and had ten children: George, b. 31 Dec. 1900; Jim, b. 24 Dec. 1905; Tom, b. 20 Dec. 1907; John, b. 2 Dec. 1913; Arthur, b. (posthumous), 25 Aug. 1915; Florence, b. 19 Feb. 1892; Fanny Elizabeth, b. 2 Dec. 1895; Sarah, b. 4 Dec. 1903; Alice, b. 19 Jan. 1909; and Edith, b. 26 Nov. 1911.

=MONEY, HENRY IRONSIDE=, Capt., 1st Battn. 1st King George’s Own Gurkha Rifles, the yr. s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Ernie Edmund Money, Commandant, 9th Bengal Lancers (who was killed in India in command of his regt., 20 Dec. 1894), by his wife, Alice Mary (Gardenia, Torquay Road, Paignton, South Devon), sister of Major Eric Grey Drummond, killed in action, 13 Nov. 1914, and dau. of the late Major-Gen. Henry Drummond, Bengal R.E., and gdson. of the late Rev. William Money, of Walthamstow, and Lea Marston, co. Warwick; b. Kasauli, Punjab, India, 21 Sept. 1883; educ. Marlborough College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.), Indian Army, 27 Aug. 1902; served his first year with the Somerset L.I.; and joined the 1/1st Gurkha Rifles 18 Jan. 1904; was promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. following, and Capt. 27 Aug. 1911; passed and received his certificate in the Maxim Machine Gun Examination at the Erith Works, 29 Oct. 1909; attended the manœuvres near Wetzlar, Germany, in 1909, and those in Switzerland in the spring of 1914; was home on leave, when the European War broke out, and joined his regt. in Egypt during Aug. 1914; landed with them at Marseilles at the end of Nov., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 20 Dec. 1914; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A brother officer wrote: “Since we have been in France he has been in charge of our bomb-throwers, and has done magnificent work. Had he lived he would have been recommended for the D.S.O.”; and another: “He was last seen fighting most valiantly and with the greatest coolness. His name has gone in for D.S.O., and richly he deserved it.” Another: “He proved himself to be a magnificent soldier, and literally covered himself with glory. One can say that he died as he would have wished—leading and encouraging his men with whom he was enormously popular.”

=MONK, GEORGE BERTRAM FIFIELD=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., yr. s. of Dr. Charles James Monk, of 15, Harley Street, W., and 3, Linnell Close, Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W., Surgeon Dentist; b. Wiesbaden, Germany, 15 Sept. 1891; educ. St. George’s, Harpenden, Herts; Michigan University, U.S.A., and Guy’s Hospital, London, and was a Medical Student. He had joined the 28th Battn. (Artists’ Rifles) London Regt. in Jan. 1914; volunteered for foreign service and went to France with them, 27 Oct. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Warwicks (7th Division, 4th Corps), 11 Nov. 1914. He was killed in action in an attack on the enemy’s trenches near Armentières on 18 Dec. following; unm. Capt. I. H. G. White wrote: “Your son died a very gallant death. He was found, together with four other officers and 34 men, within a few yards of a German machine gun, and it was obvious that he was one of a party that had made an extraordinary gallant effort to capture the gun and prevent it killing their comrades who were coming up behind. We buried him the next morning on the spot on which he fell”; and an officer of the 2nd Queen’s: “On the 28th a general attack was ordered on the German position with a view to keeping the attention of the enemy fixed while important operations took place elsewhere. I was on duty in the trenches when the attacking party went out. Bertram went up the scaling ladder with a smile on his face. The moment the enemy’s fire broke out it was clear that no one could live in such a storm. Our men were assailed with a torrent of rifle bullets, machine-gun fire and hand grenades. The bravest might have blenched before this awful ordeal. As the fire died down the wounded began to crawl back to our lines; our patrols devotedly went out, helping them in. As the night wore on and I saw nothing of the officers of your son’s regt., I began to fear he was amongst the killed or was lying too badly wounded to come in. At daybreak the Germans made signs to us to come over and pick up our wounded. I went out; after a long search I found your brave son just where I should have expected. He was lying dead within 30 yards of the German trenches, half-way across the wire entanglements, his right hand outstretched as though pointing the way to his men. Death must have been instantaneous, for his head was pierced by two bullets from the machine gun. He was buried between the English and German trenches with his comrades. On Christmas Day we had another armistice to finish clearing the ground, and a funeral service was held, attended by a large gathering of German and English officers. It was a strange and impressive sight.” Capt. Bare, Artists’ Rifles, also wrote: “The following is an extract from a letter written by the Divisional General to our Colonel: “2nd Lieut. G. B. Monk was killed right on the enemy’s wire entanglement, well in front of his battn. and opposite a machine-gun position.... While deeply deploring the loss of these most promising young officers, it must be satisfactory for you to know that they gloriously upheld the traditions of your regt....’ The Colonel has ordered the General’s letter to be read to all the men in the regt., and we are proud to remember that your son belonged to C Coy. and to know that he could not have died a finer death.” Lieut. Monk was an excellent athlete, he represented his school at cricket and Rugby football and was in the Guy’s Hospital Rugby football team. A poem was written in 2nd Lieut. Monk’s honour by Canon Rawnsley and published in a book entitled ”The European War, 1914–1915.”

=MONK, HENRY WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MONK, OSWALD FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10558, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MONTGOMERY, ADAM=, Private, No. 20231, 2/5th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late William Montgomery, of Possilpark, Glasgow, Road Surfaceman in the employ of the Glasgow Corporation, by his wife, Margaret (378, Garscube Road, Glasgow), dau. of Gilbert Connell; b. Dunoon, co. Argyle, 15 July, 1884; educ. Dunoon Grammar School, was a Plumber in the employ of R. Munro & Son, Springburn; enlisted 25 Jan. 1915; joined at Glencorse Barracks on Monday the 29th; was sent to Weymouth the following Wednesday for training; crossed to France, 1 May; was wounded in action on the 16th of that month and invalided into hospital; discharged from there 21st and was back in the firing line on the 23rd, and was killed in action at Ypres, 26 May, 1915; unm.

=MONTGOMERY, SIDNEY GEORGE=, Signaller, No. 9857, 6th (Service) Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., s. of George Montgomery, formerly of the 2nd Battn. of that Regt., by his wife, Annie, dau. of George Grundy, of Lincoln, Machine Fitter; b. Lincoln, 5 June, 1893; educ. St. Martin’s School there; was a Clerk in Messrs. Dawson’s Leather Works at Lincoln, but enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

=MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM SPROAT=, Capt., 6th (Rifle) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Hugh Montgomery, of The Allports, Bromborough, Cheshire, member of the firm of Simmonds, Hunt & Montgomery, of Liverpool; b. Liverpool, 25 May, 1881; educ. Liverpool College. He had joined the 6th (Territorial) Battn. of the King’s Liverpool Regt., 14 March, 1909, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service. He passed the School of Instruction and obtained his company, 8 Sept. 1914, and went to France, 22 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action at Ypres, 13 March, 1915; unm. He was a well-known Rugby football player, and played for his county of Lancashire and the Liverpool Rugby Football Club, which he captained in the season of 1908–9 and in which for several years he held the post of Secretary. He was also a member of the Racquet and the Royal Liverpool Clubs. It was said of him: “In business life and in private life, as well as in the battn. of which he was a member, Capt. Montgomery was persona grata to all with whom he came in contact.”

=PIGOT-MOODIE, CHARLES ALFRED=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade, yst. s. of the late George Pigot-Moodie, of Westbrooke, Rondebosch, Cape Colony; M.L.C. of Cape Colony, and sometime Surveyor-General of the Transvaal, by his wife, Rose, dau. of Stephen Spranger, F.R.C.S. Eng., and gdson. of Lieut. Donald Moodie, R.N. Colonial Secretary of Natal (1845–49), and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (1857) [3rd s. of Major James Moodie, 9th Laird of Melsetter, Orkney]; b. Westbrooke, 30 May, 1890; educ. Windlesham House, Brighton, Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Kemmel, Belgium, 13 Jan. 1915; unm. His elder brother, Lieut. George Frederick Arthur Pigot-Moodie, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys), is now on active service in France. He was wounded on 12 Sept. 1914, at Vailly, during the Battle of the Aisne, and was awarded the Military Cross, and the 3rd class Order of St. Anne of Russia (with swords).

=MOODY, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Chief Armourer (Pensioner), 154309, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914

=MOODY, ROBERT RONALD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24634 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MOOR, CHRISTOPHER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., eldest s. of the Rev. Charles Moor, D.D., sometime Vicar of Barton-on-Humber and of Gainsborough and Canon of Lincoln, by his wife, Constance Mary, dau. of Robert Moon, M.A., Barrister-at-Law; b. at Barton-on-Humber, 2 Feb. 1892; educ. at Abbotsholme, at Bradfield. and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took his degree with honours in Mechanical Science, afterwards taking a post-graduate course at McGill University, Montreal. He was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. Hants Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battn. and sent to Gallipoli in May, 1915. After being invalided to Egypt, he returned to the front in July and took part in a very gallant charge at Krithia on 6 Aug. 1915, when he was one of the few to reach the Turkish trench, where he fell on the parapet, shot through the heart. He had given early promise of distinction in various fields of human culture and was a keen student of engineering, of architecture and of literature. He taught himself to read hieroglyphic writing and had compiled for his own use a vocabulary of ancient Egyptian words and was deeply interested in the history of Egypt. In his short military career he had trained the signaller of several battns. and was regarded as an extremely keen and promising officer

=MOORE, ALFRED=, L.-Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./10271, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MOORE, ANTHONY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13950 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MOORE, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1990, 5th Battn. Australian Expeditionary Force; s. of Henry Albert Moore, of Park House, Whatley, near Frome, Somerset, by his wife, Elizabeth Thurzia, dau. of James Burge Whatley; b. 9 April, 1879; educ. Warminster Grammar School; went to Australia in 1900, and settled at Melbourne and Sydney; enlisted at Melbourne in Feb. 1915; was wounded at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915, and invalided home to England, and died in King George’s Hospital, 29 Feb. 1916; unm.

=MOORE, CHARLES JAMES=, Private, No. 1772, 7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Francis Moore, of Nile Street, St. Luke’s, Picture Framer, by his wife, Amelia, dau. of Thomas Richard (and Elizabeth) Wells; b. St. Luke’s, London, 13 Dec. 1888; educ. Old Street Parochial School there; and on leaving school entered the employ of Messrs. Badcock, Golden Lane, City, Tailor, for whom he worked as a cutter for fifteen years. He joined the 7th London on 6 Aug. 1914, two days after war broke out; went to France 17 Feb. 1915, and died in hospital at Bethune, 17 May, 1915, of wounds received in action on the 14th. Buried in Bethune Cemetery; unm.

=MOORE, FREDERICK=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 177856, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MOORE, GEORGE=, A.B., J. 5422, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MOORE, HENRY GLANVILLE ALLEN=, Lieut.-Col., 6th (Service) Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (Pioneers), only s. of the late Rev. Henry Dawson Moore, Vicar of Misterton, 1858–80, subsequently Vicar of Hornby, co. York, and Private Chaplain to the 9th Duke of Leeds, by his wife, Harriet Louisa (Roydwood, Kirkburton, co. York), dau. of the Rev. William Richards, M.A. Oxon., Vicar of Dawley Magna, Salop; b. Misterton, co. Nottingham, 28 Oct. 1865; educ. Aysgarth, Bedale, from which he gained an open junior scholarship for Rossall, at the age of 13; on leaving the latter in 1883 he was for three years a student at the Sussex County Hospital, and being then too old to enter the Army in any other way, enlisted in the Grenadier Guards in 1886; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Warwickshire Regt., 2 Sept. 1891, and promoted Lieut., 3 March, 1893; Capt., 21 Sept. 1898; Major, 21 Feb. 1908; and Lieut.-Col., 19 Aug. 1914; was Adjutant of his battn., 28 Jan. 1894 to 8 Dec. 1896, and of the King’s Own Malta Militia, 24 Sept. 1902 to 23 Sept. 1907; took part in the Egyptian Campaign, 1898 (medal, Egyptian medal with clasp); transferred to the East Yorks Regt., 8 July, 1908; was on half-pay, 3 Sept. 1910 to 28 Aug. 1911, and on the outbreak of war was appointed Lieut.-Col. commanding the 6th Battn., constituted as Pioneers in Nov. following; went to the Dardanelles, 22 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 7–11 Aug. 1915, from a bayonet thrust in a skirmish after the landing there. He was specially selected to raise the 6th Sappers of the New Army in Aug. 1914, and was mentioned in Despatches by Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916] for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Lieut.-Col. Moore m. at the Cathedral, Kandy, Ceylon, 3 June, 1893, Julia Margaret (Dorset Lodge, Tonbridge), 7th dau. of the late William Parry-Okenden, of Turnworth, co. Dorset, and had two daus.: Marjorie Gladys, b. 18 April, 1894; and Katherine Georgina, b. 4 Feb. 1899.

=MOORE, HENRY JOHN=, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 272213, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MOORE, JOHN THOMAS WARREN=, 2nd S.B.S., 154465, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MOORE, REGINALD HENRY HAMILTON=, Capt., 1st Battn. Border Regt., eldest s. of the late Col. Joseph Henry Moore, of Easterlands, Wellington, Somerset, R.A.M.C., by his wife, Jessie, dau. of John Pope; b. Bareilly, India, 2 Dec. 1884; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Border Regt., 10 Oct. 1903; promoted Lieut., 16 Nov. 1905, and Capt., 29 Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 16 March, 1915, with the 29th Division, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 11 June, following; unm. Buried in Gully Cemetery. His commanding officer wrote: “On 10 June we captured a trench; early the following morning the Turks counter-attacked, and in the confusion it seemed as if they would probably drive our men back. Your son, who was at the time acting as Adjutant, volunteered to lead an assaulting party back. Those with him say how magnificently he behaved, and at the head of his men he re-took the lost portion of the trench in a few minutes. He was the best type of officer and had proved himself several times in action”; and a brother officer: “For a short, but critical, period in the Gallipoli operations he commanded the battn., and his quiet and firm command earned the respect and confidence of all ranks....” Another wrote: “On this occasion he again displayed that personal courage and coolness in danger which had been an example to his men from the commencement of the campaign.” Capt. Moore was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 12 June, 1915.

=MOORE, THOMAS=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 3729), 302799, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MOORE, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9618), S.S. 106969, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MOORE, WILLIAM ALBERT=, A.B., S.S. 132, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MOOREY, FRANK LESLIE=, Private, No. 1714, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Edmund Moorey, Head of the Estate and Survey Department of John Barker & Co., Ltd., of Kensington (formerly of Christchurch, and for many years a member of the Town Council and President of the Bournemouth and District Cricket League, etc.), by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of George Picken, of Kings Norton, co. Warwick; b. Christchurch, co. Hants, 20 March, 1894; educ. Bournemouth Public School, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; on leaving school, he received an appointment on the head office staff of the Bank of British North America, at 5, Gracechurch Street, E.C., and two days after the outbreak of war joined (7 Aug. 1914) the Kensingtons; leaving for France with his regt. 5 Nov. 1914. On the 18 Nov. he was wounded, went into hospital in France, but recovered, and was back again in the trenches before Christmas. During the fighting around La Bassée, in Jan. 1915, a German shell burst in the dug-out where he was, hitting some and practically burying others, whose mouths, nostrils and ears were filled with the clay. A virulent germ from this attacked him, and though sent home to England with frostbite in both feet (arriving 26 Jan.), septic pneumonia developed soon after his arrival, and he died in the 1st Eastern General Hospital at Cambridge, 19 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried with full military honours in the Kensington Cemetery, 24 Feb. following. He was well-known in hockey circles in Hampshire and Kent, being an expert player, and was an excellent sculler, as well as a good footballer and cricketer. His elder brother, William Edward, joined the 10th City Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers and is now (1916) at the Front.

=MOORHOUSE, WILLIAM APPLEYARD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26717 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=RHODES-MOORHOUSE, WILLIAM BARNARD, V.C.=, Lieut., Royal Flying Corps, elder s. of Edward Moorhouse, of Parnham House, Dorsetshire, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of the Hon. William Bernard Rhodes, M.L.C., New Zealand; b. in London, 26 Sept. 1887 educ. The Golden Parsonage, Hertfordshire Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and after leaving there was engaged in monoplane experiments at Huntingdon in 1909–10, and has been truthfully described as “one of the pioneers” of aviation in England. He made many long flights before taking his pilot’s certificate in Oct. 1911. and was then considered probably the finest cross-country flier in this country, and quite the equal of anyone abroad.” He finished third in the Aerial Derby for 1912, and the same year established a record in aviation as the first pilot to make a Channel-crossing with two passengers (one of whom was his wife). Soon after joining the R.F.C. in Aug. 1914, he was placed in charge of work shops at Aircraft Park, South Farnborough, and remained there till 20 March, 1915, when he was sent out to the Front to join the No. 2 Squadron, No. 1 Wing, at Merville, as a flying officer. His promotion to the rank of Lieut. was gazetted after his death to rank as from 24 April, 1915. On Monday, 26 April, during the Second Battle of Ypres, an urgent message came through from Headquarters ordering the immediate destruction of the railway line at Courtrai Junction to prevent the bringing up of German reinforcements, and he was detailed for this important task, his instructions being “to use his own discretion as to his height at which he would drop his bomb.” He left Merville flying ground at 3.5 p.m., and returned again mortally wounded at 4.15, having piloted his machine over 35 miles under conditions of extreme difficulty after receiving his first serious wound. He made a full report before he was taken to hospital, so that Sir John French was able to record the destruction of Courtrai Junction in his Report from Headquarters despatched the same evening. He died of his wounds next day, but before his death received the following message: “But for pressure of urgent work the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief would have visited 2nd Lieut. Moorhouse himself to express his admiration of his courage and the way in which he carried out his duties yesterday.” [The Battle of Ypres was then in progress and Merville was over 30 miles from General Headquarters.] The following are extracts from the official accounts of his exploit: From Sir John French’s Report from Headquarters, 26 April, “One of our airmen bombed Courtrai Station this afternoon and destroyed the junction. Although wounded, he brought his machine back to our lines.” Extract from the Daily Bulletin issued to the troops (first issued by special request to the Indian Corps), who “had seen him flying back and were so impressed by his astounding courage” that they asked for further details and translated them into Hindustani, and it was afterwards circulated among all our troops at the Front. Dated 29 April, 1915. “British Air Raid on Courtrai. Details are now to hand of the successful air raid carried out on the 26th inst., and mentioned in yesterday’s bulletin. It is a story of amazing gallantry and heroism, and and is worthy of special notice. The aviator, 2nd Lieut. W. B. Rhodes-Moorhouse, left Merville at 3.5 in the afternoon, alone in a biplane, to drop a heavy bomb on the railway junction at Courtrai. Arriving at his destination, he volplaned down to a height of 300 ft. and successfully dropped the bomb on his objective, the effect of the explosion being felt by the aviator at a height of 300 ft. While at this low altitude he was subject to a tornado of fire from thousands of rifles, machine-guns and shell fire. He was severely wounded in the thigh (part of which was torn away), but instead of descending into the German lines where his life might have been saved, and to prevent his machine from falling into the hands of the Germans, he turned and made for the British lines. To increase his speed he descended a further 200 ft., and crossed the German lines at a height of 100 ft. only. He was again severely wounded by a bullet which ripped open his abdomen. Instead of landing at Ypres, he flew the whole way back to the flying ground at Merville, and made his report. We regret to say that he succumbed to his wounds 24 hours later. He was an aviator who had always performed several daring feats, and was the first man to do the ‘tail slide,’ and also the only man who had flown across the Channel with two passengers. This would appear worthy to be ranked among the most heroic stories of the world’s history.” Extract from Eye-witness’s communication dated 30 April: “The raid on Courtrai, unfortunately cost the nation a very gallant life, but it will live as one of the most heroic episodes of the war. The aviator started on the enterprise alone in a biplane. On arrival at Courtrai he glided down to a height of 300 ft., and dropped a large bomb on the railway junction. While he did this he was the target of hundreds of rifles, of machine guns, and of anti-aircraft armament, and was severely wounded in the thigh. Though he might have saved his life by at once coming down in the enemy’s lines, he decided to save his machine at all costs, and made for the British lines. Descending to a height of only 100 ft. in order to increase his speed, he continued to fly and was again wounded, this time mortally. He still flew on, however, and without coming down at the nearest of our aerodromes, went all the way back to his own base, where he executed a perfect landing and made his report. He died in hospital not long afterwards.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 3 May, 1915, and was awarded the V.C. [London Gazette, 22 May, 1915] “for most conspicuous bravery on 26 April, 1915, in flying to Courtrai, and dropping bombs on the railway line near that station. On starting the return journey he was mortally wounded, but succeeded in flying for 35 miles to his destination at a very low altitude and reported the successful accomplishment of his object. He has since died of his wounds.” Lieut. Rhodes-Moorhouse m. at St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, 25 June, 1912, Linda Beatrice (Parnham House, Beaminster, Dorset), yst. dau. of the late Robert Ambrose Morritt, of Rokeby, Yorkshire, and had a son: William Henry, b. 4 March, 1914. In accordance with the will of his grandfather he assumed the name of Rhodes in addition to, and before, that of Moorhouse by Royal Licence, 21 Jan. 1913.

=MORAN, JOHN BARROW=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9651), S.S. 107013, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MORAN, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 7776, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Michael Moran, of 9, Chatburn Avenue, Tanshelf, Pontefract, Miner, by his wife, Julianne, dau. of Patrick Tierney; b. Sharleston, near Wakefield, co. York, ... May, 1888; educ. Colliery School there; enlisted 1908; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons and the subsequent fighting on the Marne and Aisne, and died in hospital at Versailles, 24 Sept. 1914, of wounds received at La Cour de Soupir, on the Aisne, on the 17th. He was buried in Versailles Cemetery; unm.

=MORGAN, ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2767), S.S. 674, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MORGAN ALBERT ERNEST=, Lieut., 6th (Special Reserve) Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Albert Charles Frederick Morgan, of 135, Oakwood Court, Kensington, by his wife, Marion Grimston, 4th dau. of John Alexander Fladgate, 1st Baron da Roeda in Portugal, and grandson of the late Thomas Morgan, F.S.A.; b. London, 24 May, 1889; educ. at Summerfield, Oxford, and at Westminster School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 22 May, 1911; promoted Lieut. 1913; and attd. to the Royal Flying Corps on 15 Sept. 1914; acted as Assistant Instructor at the Upavon Flying School until he proceeded to the Front in France, in December, 1914. He was killed by a shell whilst observing for artillery fire from an aeroplane, during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, on 10 March, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=MORGAN, ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 968), 141514, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MORGAN, EDWARD CHARLES=, 2nd Lieut., 1st, attd. to 5th Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., elder s. of Charles Morgan, of Guildford, Surrey and formerly of Burdon Hall, Shackleford, M.A. Cantab., late Naval Instructor, R.N., by his wife, Kathleen Courtenay, dau. of Edward Robinson, of West Meath, and granddau. of the late Thomas Morgan, F.S.A.; b. Blackheath, 19 Dec. 1897; educ. at Haileybury and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; obtained his first commission, 15 July, 1914, and shortly afterwards proceeded to France as an observer in the Royal Flying Corps, subsequently joining his Battn. in the trenches. He was killed by a shell when in charge of a machine gun, with three of his men, several others being wounded, on 18 Dec. 1915; unm. He was buried in Windy Corner (the Guards’ Cemetery), Givenchy. Lieut.-Col. F. W. Foley, in command of his Battn., wrote: “he was killed by a large shell, the first one from the German artillery on their suddenly opening fire in this locality.... I always felt in the position of a parent to him, he was so young ... all his officers loved him, and none more than I did; he was a perfectly delightful boy, and a first-rate officer.... I arranged with the Chaplain to bury him to-morrow morning in a coffin, and I will see that a cross is put up to his memory.”

=MORGAN, FRANCIS MATTHEW=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5502, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MORGAN, GEORGE=, Private, No. 4058, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of the late William Morgan, of Worminster, near Shepton Mallet, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Billing; b. North Wooten, near Shepton Mallet, co. Somerset, 12 May, 1883; educ. North Wooten Church of England School; enlisted 6 Feb. 1901; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action by the explosion of a bomb at Vermelles, Belgium, 8 Oct. 1915. He m. at Shepton Mallet, 19 Sept. 1905, Florence (The Mill House, Shepton Mallet), 7th dau. of William Woolley, of Shepton Mallet, Farmer, and had four children: Ethel, b. 14 Oct. 1906; Edith Gwendoline, b. 9 Sept. 1907; Lillian Beatrice, b. 20 Feb. 1909; and Marion Olive, b. 27 Nov. 1910.

=MORGAN, HARRY=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Auckland (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own) Regt., s. of William Morgan, of Birmingham, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of James Duffield; b. West Bromwich, co. Stafford; educ. Birmingham; went to New Zealand about 1891 and was for some time Officer Commanding the 88th Coy. of Senior Cadets, Auckland. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Auckland Regt., 28 March, 1912, and promoted Lieut., 8 April, 1915, being Provost-Marshal while in Epsom Camp before proceeding with his regt. to the Front. He was killed in action at Cape Helles, 8 May, 1915. Capt. Frazer, since invalided to Auckland, told Lieut. Morgan’s wife: “The day on which he fell there had been a terrible charge. He was one of those to get back to the trenches safely, but, on peering out, saw some wounded still under fire. At his own risk he went out and brought one man in who had been shot in the thigh, and then started out for a brother officer, whom he had passed when getting the wounded man in. Unfortunately a sniper got him, and ended a glorious career”; and Lieut. Topham, Gallipoli, wrote: “I was quite near to him when he fell; he was shot through the head and only lived a few minutes. It had always been said that he would either get killed in action or win a V.C. He was so daring and had absolutely no fear. It happened down at Cape Helles on 8 May, the day on which the New Zealand Infantry made history.... He fell in the thick of the fight and died game, and was buried that night where he fell. A wooden cross was placed at the head of his grave by some of the men of his company.” An Auckland nurse from the 15th General Hospital, Alexandria, stated: “The soldier who told me of his death said his conduct had been most heroic, and that he was seen night after night creeping out of the trenches to help back the wounded soldiers.” Lieut. Morgan m. at Auckland, 12 May, 1897, Euphemia Margaret (“Waiuna,” Rata Street, New Lynn, Auckland), yst. dau. of David Heron, late Madras Commissariat Department, India, and had one dau., Gwendolen Margaret, b. 6 June, 1911.

=MORGAN, ROBERT WILLIAM=, Private, No. 696, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late William Henry Morgan, of 13, Albert Road, Leyton, Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Mary Ann (25, Wellesley Road, Leytonstone), dau. of Joseph Barnes, of Torquay, Devon; b. Leyton, co. Essex, 3 Sept. 1884; educ. Newport School, Leyton; enlisted in the 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., 28 Jan. 1901; served in the South African War and afterwards in India, where he finished his service with the Colours. In 1909 he emigrated to Western Australia, and on the outbreak of war joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force and sailed for Egypt, Sept. 1914. He died on board H.M. Hospital Ship Sicilian, 9 June, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles on the 4th of that month while on observation duty; unm.

=MORGAN, STEPHEN BEVERLEY=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd attd. 1st Battn. Leicestershire Regt., 2nd s. of Frederick Beverley Morgan, of Muscalls, Paddock Wood, Kent, by his wife, Clara Elizabeth, dau. of Major Edgworth Horrocks; b. Tunbridge Wells, 22 April, 1896; educ. Hurstleigh, Tunbridge Wells, and Clifton College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Leicestershires, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France attached to the 1st Battn., and was killed in action by shell fire in the trenches near Armentières, 14 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the Regimental Burial Ground behind the trenches. He was a well-known cricketer, and played for the Public Schools at Lords, in the summer of 1914.

=MORGANS, THOMAS ALFRED=, Leading Seaman, 239252, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MORIARTY, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3851), 204033, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MORKILL, RONALD FALSHAW=, Lieut., 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. and Flying Officer, Royal Flying Corps; 2nd s. of John William Morkill, of Newfield Hall, Malhamdale, Yorkshire, M.A., J.P., by his wife, Hannah Shaw, yst. dau. of Peter Hobson, of Castle Lodge, Yorkshire, and niece and co-heiress of Sir James Falshaw, Bart.; b. Edinburgh, 22 Nov. 1891; educ. Radley, and University College, London; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. 4th (Special Reserve) Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. 1 Oct. 1911, and was promoted Lieut. 3 Dec. 1912. After the outbreak of war he was (14 Aug. 1914) gazetted to the 1st West Yorkshires and the following day went to the Front as Lieut. attd. to the 1st East Yorkshires, with which he served through the winter of 1914–15. On 1 July, 1913, he gained a pilot’s certificate from the Royal Aero Club, and in Feb. 1915, was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a probationer. He qualified as a flying officer on 19 June, and was gazetted to the Corps on 15 July, after his death. Under orders on 22 June he piloted a Blériot Monoplane from Gosport to Shoreham, leaving the latter place on his return journey shortly after 6 o’clock in the evening. He had risen barely 200 feet when his engine was noticed to miss fire and finally stop. Having insufficient space beneath him he was unable to keep control of his craft which dived to the earth causing injuries by the impact from which he died in the Military Hospital a few hours later. A letter of sympathy from the N.C.Os. and men of the section he commanded, dated 3 July, 1915, contains the following passage: “The hardest and most terribly trying time—last winter—he spent in the trenches with us, and never a murmur of complaint was ever heard to fall from his lips. To say he was loved by all men would be to express our feelings in the mildest form.” Buried at Kirby-in-Malhamdale, Yorkshire. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Heywood, Westbury, Wilts, 23 Sept. 1914, Ellen Mary, yst. dau. of the late Thomas Loyzelure Wilkinson, of Neasham Abbey, near Darlington; s.p.

=MORLAND, HENRY ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111650 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MORONEY, EDWARD FRANCIS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3965), S.S. 102026, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MORPETH, MOORE=, Private, No. 12/1039, 6th Hauraki Coy., Auckland Infantry Battn., 5th s. of Henry Douglas Morpeth, Town Clerk of Waiki, Auckland, New Zealand; b. Auckland, 10 May, 1894; educ. Waiki District High School; was studying law in Auckland when war broke out, and was one of three brothers who at once volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force early in Aug. 1914. He left for Egypt with the main body on 16 Oct., and on 12 April embarked from there for the Dardanelles, taking part in the landing at Gaba Tepe on the 25th of that month. He was one of a small body of New Zealanders and Australians who, after making good their landing, had gained the ridges above Anzac Cove, but the enemy coming at them in force they were obliged to retire. One of the Australians was struck down, and Morpeth made over to his assistance, when he received a mortal wound that paralysed him. His comrades, in the face of advancing Turks, could do nothing for him, and next day when the ground was retaken his dead body was found where he fell; unm.

=MORPHEW, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115038, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MORPHEW, ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7934), S.S. 103605, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MORRIS, ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2176), 194828, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MORRIS, CLIVE WILSON=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 6th s. of Frank Robert-Morris, of Crofton, near Orpington, Kent; b. Oak Hill Park, Hampstead, N., 4 March, 1894; educ St. Cyprian’s, Eastbourne, and Repton; volunteered and joined the Artists’ Rifles on the outbreak of war, Oct. 1914; went to France in Oct.; was given a commission in the 2nd King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 1 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, France, 9 May following; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was killed in an attack on a very strong German position, as he was gallantly leading his platoon across the open.”

=MORRIS, HON. GEORGE HENRY=, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. Irish Guards, 2nd s. of Michael, 1st Lord Morris and Killanin, P.C., Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, by his wife, Anna, dau. of the Hon. George Henry Hughes, a Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland; b. co. Galway, 16 July, 1872; educ. The Oratory School, Birmingham, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, then stationed in India, 12 March, 1892, and promoted Lieut., 16 May, 1894; took part in the operations on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, with the Tochi Field Force, for which he received the medal with clasp, and from 7 Jan. 1897, to 6 Jan. 1901, was Adjutant of his battn., receiving his company, 16 Aug. 1899. In 1901 he entered the Staff College, but left soon afterwards and went out to South Africa and served with Damant’s Horse in the latter stage of the Boer War, taking part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, Feb. to March, 1902, and in those in the Transvaal, March to 31 May, 1902, and was mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 18 July, 1902] and received the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He then returned to the Staff College and passed out in 1903, and after being D.A.A.G. at Belfast (8–31 March, 1904), was Staff Capt., Army Headquarters, 1 April, 1904, to 12 March, 1906. He was gazetted Major to the 1st Battn. Irish Guards, 3 March, 1906, and on 15 May, 1908, was appointed D.A.A.G. (General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade), with the rank of temp. Lieut.-Col. at the Staff College, where he remained until 1911. On 15 July, 1913, he obtained command of his Battn., and in Aug. 1914, he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, in which the 1st Irish Guards formed part of the 4th Brigade (2nd Division, 1st Army Corps). He was killed in action during the retreat from Mons, while endeavouring to extricate some of his men from an impossible position, in the woods of Compiègne, near Villers Cotterets on 1 Sept. following. When the Battn. reassembled after a difficult rearguard fight through the beech woods, Lieut.-Col. Morris missed some of No. 4 Coy. and went back alone to find them, but they were hopelessly outnumbered, and he was killed while leading a final bayonet charge. He was buried in Villers Cotterets Cemetery. Lieut.-Col. Morris was a brilliant Lecturer on Military History and Tactics, and was universally regarded as one of the cleverest men of his age in the Army. The men of the Irish Guards were deeply attached to him and he was immensely proud of his battn. He m. at Westminster Cathedral, 29 April, 1913, Dora Wesley (10, Chesham Place, S.W.), dau. of the late James Wesley Hall, of Melbourne, and had a son, Michael, b. 30 July, 1914.

=MORRIS, HENRY GAGE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., only surviving child of Col. Henry Gage Morris, late commanding 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., and great-great-grandson of Col. Roger Morris of York, by his wife, Maude, dau. of the late Preston Gilbert Wallis, of Park Hill, Bodmin; b. Bodmin, co. Cornwall, 14 Aug. 1897; educ. Preparatory School, The Hoe, Plymouth; Marlborough College (Sept. 1911–July, 1914), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 12 Jan. 1915, aged 17½ years; went to France, 15 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at the second Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915, being buried where he fell. His commanding officer wrote: “He was such a nice boy, and a very brave and gallant lad, and died gallantly. He was killed in a counter-attack we made with the 13th Brigade, the East Yorks., York and Lancs., and 4th Canadians on the 23rd. I was commanding the Battn. at the time, and the last I saw of him he passed me with a platoon of C Coy., which was in Reserve. He came past me with a very cheerful face, and laughing under a very heavy cross-fire from machine guns, and sang out to me, ‘Shall I push on?’ and I answered, ‘Go on, laddie, as hard as you can.’ Poor lad, I did not see him again, but heard he was shot in the head, but he would not let anyone stay with him. He was such a good boy, always cheerful and always ready to do anything that was wanted. He was very popular with everyone—officers and men;” and Private W. Board, C Coy., Duke of Cornwall’s L.I.: “You must be proud to know your son was as brave a man as anyone could wish to meet. I was his servant while he was in France, and a better master I never had. The men in the platoon loved him, and would do anything for him. He was always cheerful and had friends every where he went. I was not with him when he got hit, but I heard he wanted to go on, and refused to be bandaged, as he said there were men who were hit more badly than himself. He always thought of others before himself.” A writer in his School Magazine (“The Marlburian,” 19 May, 1915) said: “From his earliest days in the school—in ‘A’ House, his company was a real pleasure. Always bright and full of fun, and merry talk, he had from the first great personal charm; and as he developed, one saw behind him those qualities of modesty, generosity, and straightness, which mark the perfect gentleman.”

=MORRIS, JAMES=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 279187, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MORRIS, JOHN=, Leading Stoker (C.G.), 151804, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MORRIS, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115482, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MORRIS, WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman, 214875, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MORRISON, EDWIN DUNCAN RUTHERFORD=, Private No. 10/1007, 9th Hawkes Bay Regt., Wellington Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; s. of George Morrison, of Normanby, New Zealand, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Thomas Novis; b. Cust, Canterbury, New Zealand, 21 Nov. 1889; educ. Belfast, Canterbury. On the outbreak of war in August, 1914, he joined the N.Z.E.F. at Napier, Hawkes Bay; left for Egypt with the first contingent, took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 28 April following; unm. Throughout the whole of the day of his death Private Morrison had been fighting and escaped injury, but was fatally hit in the evening while digging a trench. He was an excellent shot, and before going to the Dardanelles had been selected as a sniper.

=MORRISON, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 4972, 1st Battn. (The Prince Consort’s Own) The Rifle Brigade, s. of Frank Saunderson Morrison, of The Cottage, Hallaton, co. Leicester, F.R.C.S., J.P.; b. Dublin, 19 Aug. 1882; educ. Dundalk Educational Institution; St. John’s College, near Preston, and Trinity College, Dublin, of which he became a graduate and honour man; qualified as an engineer and went to Rhodesia; volunteered his services for the suppression of the rising in Natal, 1906–7, for which he received the King’s medal, and on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he, with three other old University comrades, returned to England and joined the Rifle Brigade in Sept.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was killed in action during the engagement at Ploegsteert, 7 Feb. 1915; unm. He was a good athlete and footballer, playing for his school and college; a hard rider to hounds, well-known to the Louth Pack and Harriers.

=MORRISON, GERARD HUMPHREYS=, Capt., 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of John Hebb Morrison, of 63, Hamilton Terrace, London, Member of Lloyds; b. London, 16 March, 1889; educ. Harrow, and Magdalen College, Oxford (where he was in the O.T.C.); received a commission in the London Rifle Brigade, on leaving Oxford, and was promoted Lieut. 18 Sept. 1913, and Capt. 25 Feb. 1915; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Oct., and was killed in action near Armentières, 31 March. 1915; unm. Buried in the Rifle Brigade Cemetery in Ploegsteert Wood. His Col., Lord Cairns, wrote: “We all loved him—he was not only a personal friend to us all, but also a good and capable officer. He was a splendid example of cheerfulness and devotion to duty, and I am convinced that his men would have followed him anywhere”; and his Major: “Universally loved by us all, a born leader of men, it is impossible for me to tell you what a gap your son’s death will make in the regiment.” While at Harrow he was head of his house (H.O.D. Davidson’s), and in the football XI; at Oxford he took his degree with honours in law, and was made President I.C.R.

=MORRISON, HERBERT HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4507), 176230, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MORRISON, JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 5181, 1st Battn. Black Watch, 2nd surviving s. of John Morrison, Head Gamekeeper to Major, The Brodie of Brodie, Brodie Castle, Forres, by his wife Margaret, dau. of the late Alexander Ross, North Lodge, Orton, co. Moray; b. Inveravon, Banffshire, 14 Nov. 1885; enlisted 7 Sept. 1914, drafted to France in Nov.; killed during heavy fighting, in which his regt. was engaged at La Bassée, on 25 Jan. 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “The attack was fierce, and John got a bullet in the leg. Nevertheless, he crawled to the assistance of his officer, 2nd Lieut. L. H. Willet, also wounded, and was in the act of helping him to remove his pack when fatally shot. He was promoted L.-Corpl. only a few days before.” 2nd Lieut. Willet said: “Some gallant fellow crawled up to me shortly after I was hit, and attempted to assist me off with my pack, but owing to the nature of my wound, I was unable to turn my neck sufficiently round to see who it was. I heard he was hit, and asked him if it was so. He replied: ‘Yes, Sir’; and when I inquired later, I received no reply, but could just touch his hand by reaching back, and found he was dead. From the sound of his voice I thought it was your brother, who was in my Platoon, and I hoped it wasn’t so, and that I had made a mistake, for he was one of my most valued men.... His end was a gallant one, and his was a peaceful conclusion to a career, which, had he been spared to prolong it, he could have looked back on with the justifiable pride of one who has done his work well.” His brother, George James, is a 2nd Lieut. 3/6th Seaforth Highlanders.

=MORROW, ROBERT, V.C.=, Private, No. 10531, 1st Battn. Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers, s. of Hugh Morrow (who died 21 years ago), by his wife Margaret Jane, dau. of Isaac William Ash McKnight, Tailor; b. Sessia, near Newmills, East Tyrone, 28 March, 1892; educ. Carland National School, 1909; enlisted about 1910; went to the Front with his battn. on the outbreak of war, and greatly distinguished himself at Messines on 12 April, 1915, by rescuing several wounded soldiers who were lying exposed to a dreadful rain of shell and rifle fire. For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the official record stating that it was granted “For most conspicuous bravery near Messines on 12 April, 1915, when he rescued and carried successively to places of comparative safety several men who had been buried in the débris of trenches wrecked by shell fire. Private Morrow carried out this gallant work on his own initiative, and under very heavy fire from the enemy.” On 25 April, barely a fortnight later, he was killed at St. Julien while in the act of again succouring the wounded. The Victoria Cross was forwarded to his mother, to whom His Majesty the King sent an autograph letter regretting that Private Morrow’s death had deprived him of the pride of personally conferring the Victoria Cross, “the greatest of all distinctions.” The Emperor of Russia also conferred on him the medal of St. George (3rd Class) for his “gallantry and distinguished service in the field,” the War Office in forwarding the decoration stated that it was to be retained as a memorial of the deceased soldier’s distinguished conduct. He was unm.

=MORRISON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., T. 1981, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MORSE, GORDON THOMAS HARCOURT=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Richard Edward Ricketts Morse, of Chargrove House, near Cheltenham, by his wife, Kathleen, dau. of the late Col. Neville Hill Shute (64th), North Staffordshire Regt.; b. Mian Meer, Punjab, India, 6 Dec. 1893; educ. Cheltenham College (Sept. 1908–Dec. 1912), and Royal Military College, Sandhurst (12 Feb. 1913–July, 1914), where he was an Hon. King’s Cadet; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Middlesex Regt., 8 Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 13 Oct. 1914; unm. He was buried at Rouge-Croix, France. His Col. wrote that he was killed instantaneously being shot while leading his platoon in an attack, and that “during the short time he was with the regiment he had become popular with both officers and men.” At College he rose to be a prefect, and his house-master said of him: “He was industrious at work, fearless at games, loyal to his friends, and esteemed by all.”

=MORSE, GURTH STEPHEN=, 2nd Lieut., 34th Batty. Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of Amyas Morse, of The Bourne, Bourne End, Bucks, late Superintending Engineer, Indian Public Works Department, by his wife, Rose, dau. of the late Rev. Henry John Maddock; b. Lahore, Punjab, India, 20 March, 1894; educ. Ashampstead, Eastbourne; Clifton College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A., 18 July, 1913; went to France, 12 Sept. 1914, and died in Hospital at Bailleul, on 9 Dec. following, of wounds received in action on the 4th, while observing for his battery at Bois Grenier, near Armentières. He was buried in the Communal Cemetery, Bailleul; unm.

=MORTAR, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10391, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MORTIMER, HARRY BROOKS=, Private, No. 2731, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late William Henry Mortimer, of Heaton Moor, near Stockport, by his wife, Mary Ann (Oakin Clough, Limehurst, Ashton-under-Lyne), dau. of the late Samuel Brooks; b. Longsight, Manchester, 31 Jan. 1883; educ. Grammar School, Longsight, and was a Manager of a Restaurant for John Lewis, Oxford Street, London. On the outbreak of war he joined the Kensingtons, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France on 3 Nov.; took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March, 1915, and in the attack on the German position near Fromelles on 9 May, in which his Battn. most brilliantly distinguished itself, and died in No. 6 Clearing Station, Merville, 12 May, 1915, from wounds received at the latter. He was buried in Merville Cemetery; unm.

=MORTON, EDGAR DOUGLAS=, Trooper, No. 1391, 1st (Service) squadron, Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles (Yeomanry), only s. of Edgar Morton, of The Studio, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, by his wife, Eleanor Jane, dau. of Edward John Wall, of Great Chesterford; b. London, 7 June, 1895; educ. Ashford Grammar School (Sept. 1906, to Easter, 1913), and on leaving there entered the Canterbury Motor Works, where he was when war broke out. He joined the Waldershare Troop of the East Kent Yeomanry, 7 Sept. 1914, and was quartered with the regt. in huts on the Military Polo Ground at Canterbury during the autumn and winter. He died in the Canterbury V.A.D. Hospital, 22 Feb. 1915, from pneumonia and pleurisy contracted while on service. He was a good all-round sportsman and a crack shot. At Ashford he was the school prefect, and Capt. of the football team, and twice won the Strathcona shooting trophy. His former Headmaster (Mr. A. S. Lamprey) wrote: “One of the best, straightest, pluckiest boys I have ever known,” and Major Ffrench Blake “He was a general favourite, and we all mourn the loss of a young but keen soldier.”

=MORTON, HENRY=, Private, No. 1790, 1st Sussex Yeomanry, 3rd s. of the late Thomas Morton (who served 21 years in India with the 2nd Bengal Fusiliers, and received the Good Conduct medal, etc., and afterwards for 15 years on the staff of the old Wicklow Rifles); b. Wicklow, 15 Dec. 1867; educ. Wicklow Church School; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, 15 June, 1887; transferred into the Grenadier Guards, 1 Oct. following, and was posted to the 3rd Battn. He served through the South African War, 1899–1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with six bars (Belmont, Modder River, Dreifontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast) and the King’s medal with two bars (1901, 1902), and obtained his discharge at his own request in Sept. 1906, after being with the Colours 19 years and 87 days, when he was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct medal. He was servant to Capt. Weller-Poley, re-enlisted in the Sussex Yeomanry the day war was declared; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Sept., 1915, and was killed in action, 13 Nov. 1915; unm. He was buried in Anglesea Gully, Gallipoli. Writing to his brother, Mr. George Morton, of 4, North Road, Prestwich, Manchester, Capt. Weller-Poley said: “I feel that I have lost a true friend and trusted servant who can never be replaced,” and Mr. Thomas Weller-Poley, of Chichester, J.P.: “Your brother Henry had been with us so long and was so much liked and respected by everyone, that the news of his death is a genuine sorrow to us and to the whole establishment.”

=MORTON, JAMES FAIRFAX AMPHLETT=, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve Battn., attd. 2nd, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd s. of James Amphlett Morton, of Puxton House, Kidderminster, by his wife, Edith Mary, dau. of the Rev. John Garland, Vicar of Ombersley, Worcestershire; b. Puxton House, afsd., 6 May, 1892; and was educ. at Repton and Clare College, Cambridge, where he rowed stroke in his college boat in the May Races, 1914. On the outbreak of war he at once applied for a commission through the University O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th (Service) Battn. K.R.R.C., early in Sept. 1914. After spending three weeks at a training camp for officers at Royston, Herts, he joined his battalion at Aldershot, but was subsequently transferred to the 6th (Reserve) Battn. at Sheerness. He left for France at the end of Nov. 1914, and was attached to the 2nd K.R.R.C. (2nd Brigade, 1st Division). He was killed in action near La Bassée, 10 Jan. 1915, during a counter-attack by the enemy to recover one of their trenches against which he had just led a successful assault. Buried in a garden at Cuinchy; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

=MORTON, WILFRED=, Private, No. 2581, 1/7th Battn. Durham Light Infantry (T.F.), eldest s. of William Morton, of 47, Otto Terrace, Sunderland, Quantity Surveyor, by his wife, Evelyn Mary, dau. of Lancelot Steel; b. Sunderland, 1 Dec. 1895; educ. Great Ayton, Sunderland, and Ackworth; was a pupil in his father’s office; enlisted 6 Sept. 1914; went to the front, 19 April, 1915, was wounded and taken prisoner at Hooge, on Whit Monday, and was afterwards officially reported to have died, whilst a prisoner of war, in the Krieg Lazarette, Rossclare, 30 May, 1915, from wounds, and was buried at Rossclare; unm.

=BOYD-MOSS, ERNEST WILLIAM, D.S.O.=, Major, 4th, attd. 9th, Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yr. s. of the late Matthew Henry Moss, of Belsize, Worthing; b. 26 Sept. 1876; educ. Tonbridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. Worcestershire Regt. from the Militia, 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 2 Jan. 1900; Capt. 6 Feb. 1901, and temp. Major of the Battn., 22 Oct. 1914; was attd. to the West African Frontier Force, 12 Nov. 1904, to 11 July, 1907; served (1) in West Africa, 1898–9; took part in the operations in Sierra Leone (medal with clasp); (2) in the South African War, 1900–2, took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations in Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Ladybrand, 2–5 Sept, for which he was awarded the D.S.O.; operations in the Transvaal, Jan.-June, 1901; operations in Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900–Jan. 1901, and June, 1901–Feb. 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901]; Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps); and (3) with the Mediterranaean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Sari Bair, 10 Aug. 1915. Major Boyd-Moss m. at Christ Church, Gorakhpur, U.P., India, Mary Elizabeth Grace (Elsie), dau. of Frank Middliton Howard, of Zehra, Gorakhpur, aforesaid, and had a son, Deryck Frank, b. 11 April, 1913.

=MOSS, HERBERT=, Private, No. 126, A Coy., 8th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Herbert Moss, of 182, Queen’s Road, Upton Park, by his wife, Emily Ann, dau. of the late John Samuel Field; b. New Eltham, co. Kent, 29 June, 1894; educ. Stock Street Schools, Albert Road, Plaistow; went to Australia, 6 May, 1912, and when war broke out was employed on a farm belonging to Mrs. J. Greenbank, in Snake Valley, Victoria. He at once volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; sailed for Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day, being shot through the forehead in a charge; unm. Letters from his former employer and from his officers and comrades speak very highly of him.

=MOSS, HORACE GEORGE=, Signalman, J. 12422, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MOSS, SAMUEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3653), 177261. H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MOTRONI, PETER GEORGE=, Private, No. 8727, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of Anthony Motroni, of 14, Permit Office Street, Ipswich, by his wife, Carmela, dau. of Dominico Marcantonio, of Atina, Italy; b. Colchester, co. Essex, 1 July, 1895; educ. St. Pancras R.C. School, and St. Mary’s Convent School, Ipswich; enlisted 4 April, 1913; went to France, 11 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooges, near Ypres, 19 July, 1915; unm.

=MOTRONI, UMBERTO AMEDIE=, Corpl. No. 1756, Suffolk Regt., 3rd s. of Anthony Motroni, of 14, Permit Office Street, Ipswich by his wife, Carmela, dau. of Dominico Marcantonio, of Atina, Italy; b. at Ipswich, 1898; enlisted 7 Oct. 1913; went to France, 6 Nov. 1914, was promoted Corpl. in March, 1916, and was killed in action, 15 July, 1916; unm.

=MOTT, GEORGE=, Chief Petty Officer (N.S.) (R.F.R., A. 1944), 148075, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MOUCHER, THOMAS HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4009), 291032, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MOULD, ALBERT ARTHUR=, Rifleman, No. 1487, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of William Arthur Mould, of 3, Buckingham Terrace, Notting Hill, W. (who served for 25 years with the 18th Middlesex Volunteers), by his wife, Emily, dau. of George Harris, Jeweller; b. London, 6 Feb. 1891; educ. Buckingham Terrace Public School; was a Porter at a Court Milliner’s, joined the Rangers in Sept. 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Dec. following, and died in the 2nd Eastern General Hospital, Brighton, 25 May, 1915, of wounds received in action during the Second Battle of Ypres; unm.

=MOULL, WILLIAM DANIEL=, Chief Sick Berth Steward, 350416, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MOUNTAIN, GEORGE=, Acting Leading Stoker, 306050, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Mountain, of 3, Thomas Street, Craghead; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MOXEY, CHARLES GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6819), S.S. 1043, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MUCHALL, GEORGE WILLIAM STEWART=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of the late Colour-Sergt. William Angus Muchall, who served for 21 years in the 8th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt.; b. Orford Barracks, Warrington, 12 June, 1881; enlisted in the King’s Own, 4 Jan. 1901, reached the rank of Colour-Sergt., and was serving with his Regt. in India when the European War broke out in Aug. 1914. He came home with his regt., reaching England at Christmas; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., in the 2nd King’s Own, 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, and was killed in action in the desperate fighting on the Frezenberg Ridge, near Ypres, 8 May, 1915. Lieut. Muchall was three years Battn. Champion shot, and in 1909 he won the J. H. Steward Jewel for judging distance at Bisley, and was fourth in the grand aggregate. He m. at Scotforth Church, Lancaster, 6 Jan. 1906, Elizabeth (15, Cheltenham Road, Lancaster), dau. of William Jackson, of 15, Cheltenham Road, Lancaster, and had three children: William J., b. 18 Feb. 1907; George, b. 13 Aug. 1914; and Lilian M., b. 6 April, 1911.

=MUDDIMAN, OLIVER=, L.-Corpl., No. 4868, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of the late Alfred Muddiman, 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, by his wife, Kate, dau. of William and Sarah Burgess; b. Winchester, 1 June, 1883; educ. Winchester Council School; enlisted 22 Oct. 1902; promoted L.-Corpl., 9 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 21 Aug., and was reported wounded and missing after the fighting at La Cour de Soupir on the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed on that date. He m. at Fulham, 5 Oct. 1907, May Louise (19, Dunton Road, Leyton, Essex), dau. of John Charles Everett, Engine Driver, G.N.R., and had two sons: Oliver, b. 17 July, 1908; and Eric Charles, b. 31 Jan. 1914.

=MUDFORD, WALTER=, Bombardier, R.M A. (R.F.R., I.C. 15), 9004, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MUIR, GEORGE CHALMERS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5821), 285210, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MUIR, GEORGE WATSON=, Midshipman, R.N., elder s. of Andrew Gray Muir, of 17, Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh, writer to the “Signet,” by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Thomson Henderson, of Leghorn, and great-grandson of the Rev. John Muir, of St. Vigeans, co. Forfar; b. Edinburgh, 2 May, 1899; educ. Edinburgh Academy; Stubbington, Hampshire; and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was sunk in action in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MUIRHEAD, JAMES GRAHAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17214, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MULADY, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5091, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MULHOLLAND, ARTHUR=, 2nd Ship’s Steward, 344220, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MULLEN, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9230), S.S. 106287, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MULLIGAN, ALEXANDER=, Private No. 7462, 1st Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, s. of Alexander Mulligan, of 16, Newport Street, Dublin, by his wife, Sarah Jane, dau. of Adam Russell; b. Ellen Field, Drumcondra, Dublin, 16 Sept. 1882; educ. St. James’ Schools, Dublin; joined the Army, 22 Dec. 1902, and was killed in action, being shot through the head at the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. 1914. He m., Dublin, 15 Jan. 1908, Elizabeth Beatrice (12, St. John’s Cottages, High Road, Kilmainham, Dublin), dau. of the late John Sadleir, and had issue a son and dau., Alexander John, b. 14 June, 1911, and Annette Rosabella, b. 14 June, 1909.

=MULLINS, JOHN OLLIS=, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve) Battn. Middlesex Regt., attd. Royal Flying Corps, 3rd s. of the late Edwin Roscoe Mullins, of London, Sculptor, by his wife, Alice, dau. of the late John Pelton, of Croydon; b. London, 6 March, 1892; educ. University College School, London (where he was captain of the school, and Colour-Sergt. of the O.T.C.); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2 April, 1913; attd. to the 6th Middlesex, 6 Aug. 1914, transferred to Royal Flying Corps, 1 Feb. 1915, and was killed in an aeroplane accident at Upavon, 29 March, 1915, while going through a course of instruction there; unm. His Adjutant wrote that he was “a promising young officer, who in his short career in the 6th Middlesex had already shown a marked capacity for the handling of men.”

=MULLOY, JOHN THOMAS=, Signalman, (R.F.R., B. 5053), 204138, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MUMFORD, GEORGE=, Officer’s Cook, 2nd Class, L. 4183, H.M.S. Hawke; s. of George Felix Mumford, of 28, Albury Grove Road, Waltham Cross; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MUMFORD, HARRY=, A.B., J. 13954, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MUNBY, ERNEST JOHN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st East Anglian Field Coy., R.E. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Rev. George Frederick Woodhouse Munby, Rector of Turvey, Bedford (1869–1905), by his wife, Harriet Louisa, dau. of the Rev. Canon Linton; b. Turvey Rectory, 19 May, 1875; educ. Rugby and Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A., where he took his degree as Mechanical Engineer, and became M.Am. S.M.E. and A.I.M. and M. As a Mining Engineer, he worked in Colorado and Borneo, and was subsequently engaged with Lord Cowdray (then Sir Weetman Pearson) in constructing the tunnel under the Hudson River to New York. He was afterwards employed by the Gardner Electric Drill and Hammer Company, and had latterly been engaged at the St. John’s Mine, Montezuma, Colorado. On the outbreak of war he returned to England and applied for a commission. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st East Anglian Coy., R.E., 14 Sept. 1914; went to France at the end of Dec., and was killed in action near Bethune, 31 Jan. 1915, being buried at Le Touret. He m. at Croydon, 7 Nov. 1905, Emily Louisa Ann, widow of Capt. Herbert Turner Turner Emery, of Baddow Park, Essex, and dau. of Charles Henry Coxhead; s.p.

=MUNDAY, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10124), S.S. 107841, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MUNDEN, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., A. 3767), 148102, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MUNN, DUNCAN=, Painter, 2nd Class, 183670, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MUNN, GEORGE ANDERSON=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 340648, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MUNRO, DAVID SINCLAIR=, Sergt., No. 8/678, 4th (Otago Infantry) Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Sinclair McKay Munro, of 21, Selwyn Road, N.E. Valley, Dunedin (a native of Wick, Caithness), Storeman; b. Dunedin, N.Z., 13 Aug. 1895; educ. N.E. Valley School, Dunedin; volunteered and enlisted, 13 Aug. 1914; was promoted Sergt.; left for Egypt with the Main Body in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 9 May following, being shot through the temple in an attack on a Turkish position. Buried, Cape Helles, Gallipoli; unm.

=MUNRO, ROBERT WILLIAM=, Farrier, No. 13/106, 4th Troop, 3rd Regt. Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of John Alexander Munro, of Clevedon, Blacksmith, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Franz Bartosh, and great grandson of Robert Munro, who served through the Peninsula War; b. Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 Dec. 1893; educ. there; joined the 3rd Regt. of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, 1 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 18 May, 1915; unm.

=MUNRO, RODERICK=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 4519, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MUNTON, FRANK BOUGHTON=, Sergt., No. 1958, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Field Boughton Munton, of 10, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd’s Bush, Ironmonger, by his wife, Jenny, dau. of George Blair, of Queen’s Road, Bayswater; b. Shepherd’s Bush, 23 Jan. 1869; educ. Westbourne Park School, and was a Builder by trade. He joined the 18th Middlesex Volunteers in 1899. This, on the introduction of the Territorial system, became the 10th County of London Regt., and for some years he was Sergt.-Instructor of the Maxim-Gun Team, and was Quartermaster-Sergt. when the regt. was disbanded in 1912. Much of the work which the disbandment entailed fell to his share, and he was presented with a silver cup and a set of silver spoons by his old comrades. On the outbreak of war, notwithstanding that he was 45 years of age, he at once volunteered, and joined the Kensingtons as a Private, leaving a well-established business and large family to do so. He was promoted Sergt. early in March, 1915; went to France, 3 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action by machine-gun fire on 9 May, 1915, in the attack delivered by the 8th Division upon the German position at Fromelles and the northern part of the Aubers Ridge, on which occasion the Kensingtons most brilliantly distinguished themselves and sustained heavy losses. He was a first class shot and his Commanding Officer wrote saying how greatly his help would be missed, adding, “he was invaluable to me.” He m. at St. James Norlands, London, 14 Feb. 1890, Elizabeth (23, Caxton Road, Shepherd’s Bush, W.), dau. of Charles Hazard, and had three sons and five daus.: Frank Boughton, b. 25 Dec. 1899; Clifford Arthur, b. 17 April, 1904; Ernest Percy, b. 30 May, 1906; Jeannette Frances, b. 13 July, 1891; Constance May, b. 17 April, 1894; Irene Elizabeth, b. 27 May, 1897; Phyllis, b. 28 Nov. 1901; and Marjorie Joyce, b. 1 April, 1910.

=MURGATROYD, WALTER ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14723, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MURIEL, SIDNEY HERBERT FOSTER=, Capt., 1st Battn. The Border Regt., only s. of the late Rev. William Carter Muriel, Vicar of Fulham (d. 30 March, 1916), by his wife, Lucie, 2nd dau. of the late Edmond Foster, of Cambridge; b. Cambridge, 9 Sept. 1877; educ. St. George’s, Harpenden, Westminster, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Border Regt. 16 Feb. 1898, and promoted Lieut. 27 Aug. 1901; and Capt. 13 April, 1909. From 1 Oct. 1904, to 30 Sept. 1907, he was Adjutant of his battn. and of the Territorial Force from 13 April, 1909, to 12 April, 1912. He served with his regt. in the South African War, 1899–1902, took part in the operations in Cape Colony, South of the Orange River, 1899; operations in Natal, including the relief of Ladysmith and operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900 (slightly wounded 20 Jan.); operations in the Orange Free State, April to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal, June, 1900, and in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July, and west of Pretoria, July to Nov. 1900, and in the Transvaal from 30 Nov. 1900, in which he was slightly wounded, and afterwards in the operations in the Orange Free State, Transvaal and Cape Colony. For his services he was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902] and received the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. In 1915 the Border Regiment formed part of the 29th Division of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and Capt. Muriel left England with his regt. on 8 March, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles on 25–26 April, 1915, and was killed in action there four days later (30 April); unm. Buried near Sedd-el-Bahr.

=MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER FOWLER=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., yr s. of the Rev. Canon Richard William Murphy, M.A., Rector of Clifden, Connemara, and formerly of Tuam, by his wife, Mary Louisa, dau. of the late Christopher Mulvany, C.E.; b. Dublin, 17 May, 1889; educ. Abbey School, Tipperary, and Trinity College, Dublin; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Oxford and Bucks L.I., from the R.F.A., Special Reserve, 7 Dec. 1910; promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1914; went to France, 27 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres, 21 Oct. 1914, while leading his company in an attack; unm. He was buried near Ypres on the road to St. Julien and Poelcapelle. Lieut.-Col. Davies, in command of the 2nd Battn., wrote: “He will be a great loss to us both personally and as a soldier. He died gallantly doing his duty in leading his men on to the attack”; and Lieut. Wingfield: “He died bravely a brave man’s death, and his last moments made me very proud of him as a brother officer.”

=MURPHY, GEORGE PATRICK=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21976, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MURPHY, JOACHIM=, Private, No. 696, C Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., eldest s. of Joseph Murphy, of St. John’s, Newfoundland, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Patrick Dunn, of Mundy’s Pond; b. St. John’s, aforesaid, 16 July, 1896; educ. Christian Brothers School there; and on leaving in 1908 entered the employ of the Colonial Cordage Company; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2 Sept. 1914; left for England, 4 Feb. 1915, went to the Dardanelles, 16 Oct. and died on board the Hospital Ship Morea, 7 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action on the 5th. Volunteers were called for to go to the assistance of some men on Cariboo Hill; Murphy formed one of them and though they were successful in their object, they suffered heavily—Murphy was hit in eight or nine places. He was buried at sea; unm.

=MURPHY, JOHN=, Private, No. 189, 25th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; s. of John Murphy, of Keane’s Lane, Boherbee, Tralee, co. Kerry, by his wife, Julia, dau. of (—) Tobin; b. Tralee, Aug. 1885; educ. Strand Street School there; was for nine years in the employ of Messrs. Baily, of Tralee, Government Contractors, and went to Brisbane about 1910; on the outbreak of war joined the Australian Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Apex Chailak Dere, Gallipoli, 7 Oct. 1915; unm. He was buried there the same evening at 7.30 p.m. His brother Maurice was killed at the Battle of Mons, and his uncle Michael at Ypres. Another uncle served with the Expeditionary Force in France, was wounded and invalided home, and later was sent to the Dardanelles.

=MURPHY, JOHN CORNELIUS MATTHIAS=, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./17860, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MURPHY, JOHN FRANCIS=, Ship’s Cook, 347632, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MURPHY, MAURICE=, Private, No. 10158, 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, s. of John Murphy, of Keane’s Lane, Boherbee, Tralee, co. Kerry, etc. (see under Private John Murphy); b. at Boherbee, Tralee, 1896; killed in action at the Battle of Mons, Aug. 1914; unm.

=MURPHY, MICHAEL=, L.-Corpl., No. 2786, 1st Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, s. of John Murphy, of Tralee, and uncle of John and Maurice Murphy (see their notices); b. Tralee about 1884; educ. Christian Brothers School there, and was killed in action at Ypres, 12 Nov. 1914. He m. at Tralee, Ellenor Hannah (2, Keane’s Lane, Boherbee, Tralee), dau. of (—), and had two children.

=MURPHY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., 1.C. 589, late B. 8132), S.S. 103963, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MURPHY, WALTER LEONARD=, Private, No. 407, B Coy., 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of John Joseph Murphy, of 20, Buchanan Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Checker, Reid Newfoundland Railway Co., by his wife, Alice, dau. of Peter Hamilton, of Carbonear, Newfoundland; b. Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, 6 April, 1897; educ. Roman Catholic Academy there, and Christian Brothers’ (Holy Cross) Schools, St. John’s; was in the employ of Messrs. James Baird, Ltd., of St. John’s, but on the outbreak of the European War resigned his post and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt. 16 Aug. 1914; left for England on steamship Florizel, 4 Oct. 1914, and died at Mudros, 29 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service in Gallipoli; unm. He was a keen student, and won many prizes and honours in his schools; was a pianist of no mean ability, a good all-round sportsman and an expert in amateur photography. His brother, Private Michael Patrick Murphy, Canadian Infantry, is now (1916) on active service in France.

=MURRAY, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 535, 5th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Donald Murray, of The Poles, Dornoch, by his wife Isabella (The Poles, Dornoch, Sutherland), dau. of Lewis Grant; b. Bernarmin, Clyne, co. Sutherland, 19 May, 1895; educ. Dornoch; joined the 5th Seaforths, March, 1912; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 8 June, 1915; unm.

=MURRAY, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 2883, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MURRAY, ARTHUR JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4800), S.S. 104146, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MURRAY, CHARLES JOHN=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Charles Archibald Murray, of Taymount Stanley, co. Perth [grandson of David William, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, K.T.], and only s. by his second wife, Blanche, 5th dau. of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Bart.; b. Taymount, co. Perth, 1 Dec. 1881, educ. Haileybury College; joined the Black Watch Militia in Dec. 1899; gazetted Lieut. Coldstream Guards, 4 Dec. 1901; and promoted Lieut. 7 Sept. 1904; served in the South African War, 1902; took part in operations in Cape Colony in May (Queen’s medal with two clasps); was A.D.C. to High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, N. Nigeria, 10 March, 1907, to 6 May, 1908, to Governor and Commander-in-Chief, N. Nigeria, 7 May, 1908 to 1909, and subsequently to Governor of East African Protectorate, 1909–12, when he resigned his commission to take up farming, and the breeding and training of horses there. On the outbreak of war he returned to England, and rejoined the Coldstream Guards at Windsor, 19 Sept. 1914; left with his regt. for France, 7 Oct. following, and was killed in action when leading an attack on Poezelhoek, near Ypres, 26 Oct. 1914; unm.

=MURRAY, FANE WRIGHT STAPLETON=, Capt., 12th Royal Lancers, eldest s. of the late Col. Charles Edward Gostling Murray, of Whitton Park, Hounslow, and the Moat, Charing, Kent, J.P., D.L. [grandson of the Right Rev. Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. David’s, 2nd s. of John, 3rd Duke of Atholl, K.T.], by his 2nd wife, Margaret Frances Elizabeth, only dau. of the Rev. John William Conant; b. Whitton Park, Hounslow, 16 Oct. 1879; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 12th Lancers from the Militia, 20 Dec. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 3 Oct. 1900, Capt. 27 Nov. 1907; served in the South African War, 1899–1902, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal and Cape Colony (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914, and was shot through the heart in the trenches at Wytchaete, between St. Eloi and Messines, 30 Oct. 1914. As immediately after he fell, the 12th Lancers were obliged to abandon their trenches, his body was never recovered. He was unm.

=MURRAY, JOHN THOMAS=, Leading Stoker, S.S. 102034 (Portsmouth I.C. 243), R.N., and Sergt., No. 5664, Legion of Frontiersmen, eldest s. of Joseph Murray, of 8, William Street, Lintz Colliery, Burnopfield, co. Durham, member of the Legion of Frontiersmen, formerly 3rd Northumberland Fusiliers, by his wife, Mary Elizabeth; b. North Shields, 25 May, 1886; educ. Leazes Board School (where he was one of the most brilliant scholars turned out by its headmaster, Mr. Abbott, J.P., who said that his late scholar “was a credit and reward of many anxious years of toil”); in the Tanfield U.D., co. Durham, afterwards being employed in the Lintz Colliery. Joined the Royal Navy, 10 Jan. 1906, his first ships being in rotation: the Nelson (in which he won the Gold Cross Guns and Gold Star), Brazen, Albermarle, Prince of Wales, Cressy, submarine A.E. 1, the Glasgow, and lastly, in 1906, the Good Hope, on which ship he was serving when she made her record cruise of 30,000 miles, also when she formed one of the squadron representing England at Jamestown Exposition; was one of the Good Hope crew presented by Princess Christian with a shield, on behalf of the women of South Africa, and one of the Guard of Honour to the German Emperor in 1908. After leaving the Navy he joined the Legion of Frontiersmen in Dec. 1911, the commanding officer, Col. Driscoll, D.S.O., writing to Sergt.-Major Harding, of Sunderland, “Use this man, he will be a credit to you; he is an ideal Frontiersman.” He was not long in being made Trooper, Corpl., and finally Sergt., and organised the North-West Durham subunit of the Legion, becoming its Chief Recruiting and Organising Officer and Hon. Secretary. On the outbreak of war he rejoined the Good Hope, and was killed in action when that ship was sunk with H.M.S. Monmouth in the battle off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. He had the Good Conduct badge, the St. John’s Ambulance certificate, etc., and had a good knowledge of French, Spanish, Hindustani and Zulu; also possessed certificate in mining engineering, and had taken a deep interest in ornithology and history.

=MURRAY, PATRICK MAXWELL=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), only surviving s. of Arthur Turnour Murray, of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister-at-Law, and Red Towers, Melton, Suffolk, and of Nora Alice, dau. of the late Hugh Maxwell, of The Elgin Mills Company, Cawnpore; b. 1, Radnor Place, Hyde Park, London, 24 April, 1890; educ. Gisburne House, Watford (W. H. Wright), 1898–1903; Repton (The Priory, H. Vassall), 1903–08, and Woolwich (Sandhurst Detachment), 1908–09; received commission, 18 Sept. 1909, joined Oct. 1909, went through musketry and machine gun course at Hythe, 1911, and qualified in both; Assistant Adjutant, 1911–14; promoted Lieut., 16 Aug. 1911; while at Repton he shot at Bisley, 1906, in the team which won the rapid-firing prize, and also in 1907 and 1908, and his house team won the House Challenge Shield for shooting in 1908 and the House Drill Shield in 1907 and 1908. He also won prizes at the school sports (150 yards, and hurdles). During his Assistant Adjutancy the shooting of his battn. improved, and the following prizes were won:—(a) Seymour Challenge Cup—team snap-shooting at Western Rifle Meeting, 1911; (b) Young Able Seamen and Soldiers’ Cup—teams under two years’ service, 1911; (c) Evelyn Wood Cup—time march ending with ball-firing at unknown ranges, 1912; (d) Judging Distance Shield, 1912; (e) Fairfax Cup—Western Rifle Meeting, 1913. As to the Evelyn Wood Cup, the “Regimental Annual,” 1913, says: “Lieut. Murray commanded the team and led them over the previously unknown nine miles of country with excellent judgment.” He was killed in action on Sunday, 20 Sept. 1914, at the Battle of the Aisne, while retaking a trench captured by the enemy by a ruse from another regt. In this section five officers were killed and nine wounded. His Capt. wrote: “He did so well on that dreadful Sunday—perfectly cool and collected the whole time.” His Colonel, who had reported of him in the highest terms at the last inspection, said: “His death was in every way worthy of the man he had proved himself to be, and his life was freely given in the noblest of causes. After a very dashing advance in which he was one of the first to gain the trenches from which the enemy had driven another British corps, he was there killed instantaneously while encouraging his men and watching every turn of the fight at his own peril.” All accounts agree that the 2nd Sherwoods saved a dangerous situation. He is buried near Troyon.

=MURRAY, PETCHELL BURTT=, Flight Sub-Lieut., R.N.R., Royal Naval Air Service, attd. H.M.S. Pembroke, yr. s. of George Irving Murray, of Broad Oak Park, Worsley, member of Home Defence Corps VII, by his wife, Janie, dau. of William Lees; b. Didsbury, co. Lancaster, 27 July, 1884; educ. Eccles Grammar School, Sedbergh School, and Manchester Technical College, afterwards going to Germany for a time, and then entering his father’s business. He and his brother early devoted themselves to aviation, and in 1912–13, produced an aeroplane of their own construction. In 1911 he gave a lecture on the future of the hydro-aeroplane, in which he foreshadowed the lines of development, and was one of the first half-dozen to obtain his flying certificate off water (at Windermere). On 29 July, 1914, he applied for a commission in the Royal Naval Air Service, and was gazetted Flight Sub-Lieut. on 13 Sept. following, and attd. to H.M.S. Pembroke. He had attained an unusual degree of proficiency for his experience when he was killed in an accident at Rushall Down, Salisbury Plain, 4 Nov. 1914. He was returning to the Central Flying School, Upavon, after making a trial flight in a high speed B.E. Army biplane, when he was overtaken by a dense fog, which, it is assumed, prevented him from seeing the ground to regulate his descent. Flight Sub-Lieut. Murray was a member of the Executive Committee of the Manchester Cavendish Society, a society formed to enlist the help of young men of education in public work, and he gave much time and service to the work in connection with the Collyhurst Recreation Rooms in that City, and was immensely popular with the poor lads of Collyhurst.

=MURRAY, RUPERT AURIOL CONANT GOSTLING=, Capt., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 3rd s. of the late Col. Charles Edward Gostling Murray, of Whitton Park, Hounslow, and the Moat, Charing, Kent [gdson. of the Right Rev. Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. Davids, 2nd s. of John, 3rd Duke of Atholl, K.T.], by his 2nd wife, Margaret Francis Elizabeth, only dau. of the Rev. John William Conant; b. Whitton Park, Hounslow, 29 Sept. 1882; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Seaforth Highlanders, 22 Oct. 1902, and promoted Lieut. 15 Jan. 1908. and Capt. 22 Oct. 1914; went to France from India, and died in Lilliers Hospital, 11 March, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day at Neuve Chapelle. Buried in Lilliers Cemetery. He m. at Pluckly, Ashford, Kent, 12 Aug. 1913, Ivy Maud, eldest dau. of Sir Henry Edward Dering, 10th Baronet, and had a son, Antony Ian Rupert, b. 13 June, 1914. His eldest brother, Capt. Fane Murray, was killed in action 30 Oct. 1914.

=MURRAY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., I.C. 243), S.S. 102034, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MURRAY, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9576), S.S. 106966, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MURRAY, WALTER STANLEY=, Private, No. 2221, 1/4th Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Richard Henry Murray, of 93, St. George’s Road, Hull, Shipping Clerk (retired), by his wife, Martha, dau. of Joseph Williams, of that town; b. Hull, 30 Dec. 1877; educ. Bridlington and Hull; was for 15 years a clerk in the firm of Messrs. Beckett & Sons, of Hull; enlisted on the first call for recruits, 1 Sept. 1914, trained at Hull and Newcastle; left for France, 17 April, 1915, and went straight up to the trenches; took part in the Second Battle of Ypres, in which occasion his battn. sustained heavy casualties and was subsequently complimented by Sir John (now Lord) French on the gallantry it had displayed; and was accidentally shot by one of his own comrades in the trenches near Ypres, 11 June, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer, Capt. W. T. Wilkinson, wrote expressing the deep sorrow of himself and the battn. at the loss of “so fearless and gallant a soldier.”

=MURRAY, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 3rd s. of Surgeon Lieut.-Col. John Murray, of 12, Ashburn Gardens, S.W.; b. Hong Kong, China, 23 Dec. 1880; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Jan. 1901, and posted to the 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 9 March following; promoted Lieut. 30 May, 1904; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in operations in the Transvaal, June, 1901, to 31 May, 1902; in Orange River Colony, Dec. 1901, and in Cape Colony, May, 1901 (Queen’s medal with clasp); was attd. to West African Frontier Force, 12 March to 28 Sept. 1904. He retired from active service in 1906 following an attack of blackwater fever, contracted in West Africa, and joined the Reserve of Officers from which he was gazetted to the 3rd Special Reserve Battn. of his regt. 4 Oct. 1913. On the outbreak of war he immediately rejoined his regt. at Aberdeen, was promoted Capt. 10 Aug. 1914; and after guarding the wireless station there for three weeks, was, on Aug. 31, sent with a draft of 100 men, to join the 1st Battn. at the Front. They had suffered so heavily during the retreat from Mons that the remnants were sent back to the base and Capt. Murray and his draft were temporarily attd. to the 2nd Seaforths. He joined them at Juarre before the crossing of the Marne. “They were a splendid lot of fellows,” wrote Sergt. A. H. Fraser of the 2nd Seaforths from Broadwater Hospital. “We had some very trying marches, following up the retiring Germans until we came to the crossing of the Aisne. We crossed the river on the night of 13 Sept. under cover of darkness and took up a position on the heights of the north bank of the river near Soissons. The following morning when dawn broke, we found ourselves within a thousand yards of the German position. They were not long before they made their presence felt, and we had to dig ourselves into the face of the bank under a heavy shell fire. Capt. Murray was beside me and dug himself in with my entrenching tool, but he did not occupy it very much for I saw him out on the road giving his men advice to entrench themselves, and this, whilst shrapnel was whistling about his ears, at which he only laughed. Later on, after our Colonel was killed, Capt. Murray was ordered to reinforce a part of our line, and with these words, ‘Come on the Gordons,’ he went up with about half of his party, and in less than ten minutes I was informed he was killed. Every man of his party expressed deepest sympathy for his death; they felt it very keenly. Personally, I have never seen a man so cool under fire before or since. His name, I am sure, will be remembered in my regt. when all our battles are fought over again.” His last words, addressed to a private who was binding up the wound in his head, were: “You must hold on here at all costs,” and when, after nearly two days, they were relieved, only seven of Capt. Murray’s draft remained in a fighting condition. Brig.-Gen. A. Haldane, Commanding 11th Brigade, wrote: “The Gordons, under Capt. Murray, advanced with the greatest coolness and dash under a very heavy and accurate shrapnel fire. Their officer was killed but they went forward and won the admiration of the Seaforth Highlanders. They are as fine a draft as I have ever seen, and it is with great regret that I part with them. They are true Gordon Highlanders—sans peur et sans reproche”; and the Adjutant, Capt. E. Campbell: “Early on the morning of the 11th we took up a position north of the Aisne just before light. We had not time to entrench properly, and throughout the day were shelled. As an attack was anticipated, the Commanding Officer strengthened the firing line and half the men under Murray were sent up into the firing line. Almost immediately he was killed, his death being instantaneous, I believe. He was buried in a rough coffin that night about 12.30 a.m. within a quarter of a mile from where he fell. On one side of him we buried Col. Sir E. Bradford and on the other Lieut. Williamson of my regt. They all had rough crosses placed over their graves, and several others were buried there. In fact, I think it has been railed off now as a small cemetery. It is a very pretty spot on the slope of the hill overlooking the Aisne Valley, towards Soissons, quite close to a farm called La Montague Ferme, just above Buey de Long.” He m. at the Royal Bavarian Chapel, London, 31 July, 1906, Lilias Caroline Drummond Leslie (The Manor House, Littlehampton, Sussex), only dau. of Edward Drummond, of St. James’ Place, late Bengal Civil Service, and had three children: Edward John, b. 17 June, 1907; Sybil Lilias, b. 21 June, 1909; and Mary Katherine, b. 8 Sept. 1910.

=MUSGRAVE, ANDREW BREMNER=, Private, No. 2408, 3rd Battn. 1st. Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Edgar Musgrave, of Bradford, Chartered Accountant, by his wife, Catherine Wares Rittie, dau. of James Bremner, of Kirkhill, Wick, Caithness; b. Bradford, York, 21 Dec. 1887; educ. Bradford Grammar School, where he won a Scholarship in 1900; was engaged in the woollen trade, and in 1911 went to Melbourne; when war broke out he enlisted in the Australian Expeditionary Force at Sydney in Oct. 1914, and was killed in action during the landing in Gallipoli on 25 April, 1915; unm. Writing to his mother, Capt. C. H. Howel Price said: “He was killed in action on 25 April the day of landing on the peninsula of Gallipoli, whilst nobly doing his share of the work allotted to us.... He was a great favourite in his company.”

=MUSGROVE, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10429), 205575, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MUSHETT, FRANK=, Private, No. 1730, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died 17 April, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=MUSKETT, ALFRED=, A.B., J. 1475, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MUSSETT, JOHN WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., B. 2633, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MUSSETT, WILLIAM HENRY=, Acting Leading Stoker, 297573, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MUSSO, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 10550, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Joseph Musso, of 74, Canal Road, Mile End; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, died on active service, 4 Nov. 1914.

=MUSSON, JOHN HARDY=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., eldest s. of Samuel Peter Musson, of Kinnaird House, Upper Norwood, by his wife, Naomi, dau. of Abraham Hardy; b. Streatham, 21 Aug. 1894; educ. Stanley House School, Cliftonville, Margate; King’s School, Canterbury (member of the O.T.C.; in the first boat, first athletic team, and second football team); Lycée Faidherbe, Lille (2nd prize for public school fencing); Lille University (diploma 1914); London University, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Queen’s, 17 Feb. 1915; went to France, 24 May, and was killed in action near Bethune on 19 July following; unm. Buried at St. Vaast Post, near Bethune. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915; and his Commanding Officer wrote “The battn. has lost a brave and valuable young officer.”

=MUSTARD, ALEXANDER=, L.-Corpl., No. 1160, 5th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; b. Elgin, co. Moray, 5 March, 1886; educ. Urquhart Public School, Morayshire; went to Australia; volunteered and joined the Australian Imperial Force, 5 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 10 May following; unm. His commanding officer wrote that he very gallantly volunteered to go for his comrades with the water bottles slung across his shoulders, and was shot by a sniper when quite close to the well.

=MYDDELTON, EDWARD GEOFFREY=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., only surviving s. of Edward Brackenbury Myddelton, of Bank House, Wellingborough; b. Boston, 22 Aug. 1893; educ. Lancing, Wellingborough, and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was in the Officers’ Training Corps, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., 4 June, 1913. On the outbreak of war he went to the front with the 2nd Battn., was in the retreat from Mons, and was unofficially reported killed at Le Cateau on 26 Aug. 1914. Coy. Sergt.-Major Crack, of the Suffolks, who was taken prisoner in this action, writing from Sennelager, 15 Jan. 1915, says: “I am very sorry to say that 2nd Lieut. Myddelton was killed about 12 o’clock on Aug. 26; also his platoon Sergt. was killed at the same time, both by the same shrapnel. The men of his platoon were all very much grieved to have lost their leader, as they were all very fond of him.” Lieut. Myddelton had passed the first part of the Mathematical Tripos with 1st Class honours.

=MYER, ERNEST ALEX=, Major, 6th (City of London) Battn. The London Regt. (Rifles) (T.F.), 4th s. of Sydney Myer, of Southampton, by his wife, Sophy Alex, dau. of Montagu Alex, of Hereford; b. Southampton, 23 Nov. 1874; educ. St. John’s Wood School, and University College School, London, and was admitted a Solicitor in 1897, practising at 46–47 London Wall, E.C. He was a keen volunteer, and soon after leaving the University College School, joined the Victoria Volunteer Regt. which was afterwards amalgamated with the St. George’s Rifles; and on 26 Nov. 1901, received a commission in the 2nd London Rifles, which became the 6th City of London Rifles on the organisation of the Territorial Force. He was promoted Capt. in 1898, and on the outbreak of war at once volunteered for foreign service. He received his Majority, 5 Aug. 1914, and during the arduous months of training was for a considerable period in command of the Battn. The 2nd London Division, to which he was attached, left for the Front, 20 March, 1915, and he was killed in action near Givenchy, 3 April following, being struck by shrapnel while passing through the trenches on inspection duty with Col. Simpson. Buried at Cuinchy close to where he fell. In a letter to Mrs. Myer, Col. Simpson wrote: “This Battn. has lost an officer who cannot be replaced—he was loved and respected by all ranks. Our country has lost a fine English gentleman, who had a very keen sense of duty and the determination to do it. He died the death of the brave soldier that he was.” He was an authority on apprenticeship (published a text book on apprenticeship entitled “Apprenticeship Law”), and acted for many years as hon. solicitor to the Industrial Department of the Jewish Board of Guardians, to the Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Association, and to the Apprenticeship Committee of the Women’s University Settlement; he was one of the founders of the Brady Street Club in East London. Major Myer was called “The Boys’ Friend.” He was very keenly interested in their welfare, and many a boy in good and lucrative situations to-day owes it only to his help. In a quiet unassuming way he did splendid service for the Boys’ Clubs, and for the young men belonging to them, and never spared himself where the lads’ interest and welfare were concerned. Many of the old members and others have cause to be grateful to him for a start in life, and many for valuable help in other ways. The Maidenhead Club Scouts, too, owe their foundation to him, being the first troop in the country to be completely fitted out, and he was always keenly interested in their welfare. On one occasion he went out of his way, and went specially to visit their camps at Gosport to see that the boys were well provided for. He m. at Bayswater Synagogue, London, Emmy (123, Inverness Terrace, Bayswater), dau. of Charles (and Jeanette) Jacob; s.p.

=MYERS, GEORGE MAURICE=, Private, No. 2250, 7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Henry Myers, Wholesale Tobacconist (died 1908), by his wife, Amelia, dau. of J. B. George, of Paris; b. Regent’s Park Road, N.W., 10 April, 1894; educ. Kilburn Grammar School; enlisted early in Sept. 1914, following the outbreak of war; went to the Front, March, 1915, was badly wounded on the night of 12 Sept. following, and died two days later (14 Sept.) in No. 18 Casualty Clearing Station; unm. His commanding officer, Capt. C. J. Salkeld Green, wrote that he had been “marked for promotion when opportunity arose” and that “when he received his wounds he was on a working party on a very important piece of work.” He was buried at Lapugnoy, near Bethune. Lieut. Sydney Frankenburg, in a letter to Mrs. Myers, said: “He was buried in accordance with Jewish ritual in a part of the soldiers’ cemetery set apart for Jews. I performed the ceremony yesterday [15 Sept.] afternoon, and also spent some hours with him before his death. To show you the esteem that your son was held in by his comrades and officers I may mention that a party of soldiers from his platoon of their own free will marched several miles to attend his funeral. His Coy. Commander was present.”

=MYERS, SIDNEY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24128, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MYLAM, ALFRED CLAUDE=, Rifleman, No. 1728, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Henry Mylam, of 441, King’s Road, Chelsea, Ironmonger, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Henry Cornwall; b. Chelsea, 29 May, 1889; educ. St. Mark’s College School there; was a Solicitor’s Clerk; joined the Rangers in Sept. 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 24 Dec. 1914, and died at St. Julien, 26 April, 1915, of wounds received in action while advancing to relieve the Canadians; unm. Buried at Hazebrouck.

=NAIRN, WALTER=, Bugler, No. 1366, 7th Battn. Durham Light Infantry (T.F.), 4th s. of the late John Nairn, of Southwick-on-Wear, Fruiterer, by his wife, Isabella (23, Grosvenor Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Benjamin Cook, of Monkwearmouth; b. Southwick, 12 Dec. 1895; educ. Board School there; joined the 7th Territorial Battn. of the Durhams, 26 March, 1911, and was employed at Priestman’s Yard, Sunderland; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action “somewhere” in France, 22 June, 1915, by a sniper; unm. His four brothers are all on active service, a fact upon which their mother was complimented by H.M. the King.

=MERCER-NAIRNE, LORD CHARLES GEORGE FRANCIS=, C.V.O., formerly Fitzmaurice, of Meikleour and Tullybeagles, co. Perth, and of Aldie, co. Kinross, Major, 1st Royal Dragoons, yr. s. of Henry Charles, 5th Marquis of Lansdowne, K.G., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., etc., by his wife, Lady Maud Evelyn, née Hamilton, C.I., V.A, Extra Lady of the Bedchamber to H.M. Queen Alexandra, 7th and yst. dau. of James, 1st Duke of Abercorn, K.G.; b. London, 12 Feb. 1874; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st Dragoons from the Royal Scots Militia, 29 May, 1895; and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1898, Capt. 27 June, 1901, and Major 30 June, 1910; was A.D.C. to G.O.C. the Forces in Ireland, 29 May, 1897, to 19 Oct. 1899; A.D.C. to Commander-in-chief (F.M. Earl Roberts), 3 Jan. 1901 to 11 Feb. 1904; Equerry-in-Ordinary to King George V when Prince of Wales, 1 April, 1909, to 6 May, 1910, and to His Majesty, 10 June, 1910, to Sept. 1914; created C.V.O. 1911; served (1) in the South African War, 1899–1900; took part in the relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5 to 7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights, 14 to 27 Feb. 1900, and action at Pieters Hill; operations in Natal, March, 1900, and in the Orange Free State, May, 1900 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 6 Oct. to 30 Oct. 1914, on which date he was killed in action near Klein Zillebeke, Ypres. He was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French President for gallantry in the field. He m. at Calcutta, 20 Jan. 1909, Lady Violet Mary, née Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (11, Hyde Park Terrace, W.), yst. dau. of Gilbert John, 4th Earl of Minto), K.G., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., and had issue, George John Charles, now of Meikleour, etc., b. 27 Nov. 1912, for whom H.M. King George V was sponsor; and Mary Margaret Elizabeth, b. 6 Feb. 1910, for whom H.M. Queen Mary was sponsor.

=NAISH, WILLIAM CHARLES GATTON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6656), 196269, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NAISMITH, PERCY THOMAS=, Private, No. 1543, C Coy., 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Naismith, of 589, Romford Road, Woodgrange, and Thomas Street, Burdett Road, E., formerly of Eastfield, Leith, Licensed Victualler; b. Poplar, 17 March, 1894; educ. Thomas Street School, Burdett Road, and Pitman’s, Southampton Row; joined the London Scottish; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died in Boulogne Hospital, 11 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines on 30 Oct. Buried in Boulogne Cemetery; unm.

=NANCARROW, JOHN VIVIAN=, Capt., 4th Battn. Yorkshire Regt., York and Durham Infantry Brigade, Northumbrian Division T.F., eldest s. of George Bennett Nancarrow, of Ravenscroft, Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, a partner in the firm of W. B. Peat & Co., Chartered Accountants, by his wife, Charlotte Alice, dau. of Capt. Josiah Thomas; b. Middlesbrough, 6 June, 1885; educ. Leys School and King’s College, Cambridge (M.A., LL.B.); admitted a Solicitor, 1909, and became Secretary to the Middlesbrough Chamber of Commerce. He joined the 1st Vol. Battn. Durham L.I. in 1907, was later attached to the Northumberland Fusiliers at Newcastle and then to the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., before settling in Middlesbrough where he became Lieut. in the 4th Yorks, and after passing through a school of instruction, was promoted to the Captaincy in the latter part of 1913. On the outbreak of war he undertook Imperial service obligations and landed in France with his Battn. in the middle of April 1915; they were immediately hurried up to the front in consequence of the French troops north of Ypres having been “gassed” on 22 April, and on the afternoon of the 24th were ordered to attack the German lines near the village of Fortuin, near St. Julien, a few miles north-east of Ypres. During the day. Capt, Nancarrow was seen cheering on his men, and in the advance, he stopped to bind up the wound of a Private who had fallen and then hurried forward. After making several rushes at the head of his men towards the enemy’s position, he was shot and died almost instantaneously. His Colonel wrote of him that “he behaved like a hero.” Capt. Nancarrow had taken a very active part in the Boy Scouts’ movement in connection with the settlement in Newport Road, Middlesbrough. He was engaged to be married to Miss Elsie Harkess of Stokesley.

=NASH, EDWARD RADCLIFFE=, Capt., 16th Lancers, elder s. of Lieut.-Col. Edward Nash, of Ballycarty, Tralee, co. Kerry, and 56, Sloane Street, London, S.W., J.P., late Essex Regt., by his wife, Constance, dau. of John Radcliffe, of Moorfield, Withington, J.P.; b. London, 9 June, 1888; educ. Mr. Bull’s Preparatory School, Westgate-On-Sea (1898–1902), Eton (1902–July, 1905), and Sandhurst, into which he passed in Sept. 1905, at the earliest possible age, giving up for the sake of seniority all that another two years at Eton would have meant to him; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 16th Lancers, 29 Aug. 1906, and promoted Lieut. 15 Jan. 1909, and Capt. 10 Oct. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; took part in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne, and the Aisne, and the First Battle of Ypres, and was killed in action near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915, when the 16th Lancers suffered severely through the blowing up of a trench; unm. At the time of his death he was acting Adjutant of his regt. Capt. Nash was a splendid all-round sportsman. At Eton he distinguished himself as a long distance runner and as a “wet-bob,” and in 1905 won the Junior Sculls and stroked his Junior House Four up to “head,” the last time that the colours of Miss Evan’s were seen on the River; while at Sandhurst he proved himself a remarkable athlete, winning against competitors considerably older than himself the equivalent of the “Victor Ludorum” Cup. After joining the 16th Lancers he ran twice in the Army Championship for the mile, being second on each occasion with practically no training, but he devoted himself chiefly to riding, and was one of the finest horsemen in the Army. He was well known at Olympia, and was one of the team which represented Great Britain at the last Olympic Games at Stockholm in 1912. He was first and second in successive years at the Grafton Point-to-Point, won his Regimental Light Weight Steeplechase on two occasions, and was “placed” at a number of other meetings at which he rode. As conspicuous for dash, energy and endurance in war as in sport, he was the ideal cavalry officer and appeared to have a distinguished career before him. His exuberant vitality found expression in all that he said or did, and one who knew him well observed, on hearing that he had been killed: “Of all the deaths in this war, his death is the hardest to realise.” Capt. Nash was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch, of 8 [London Gazette, 19] Oct. 1914. His younger brother, Capt. L. C. Nash, died of wounds 28 Sept. following (see following notice).

=NASH, LLEWELLYN CHARLES=, 2nd Lieut. (temp. Capt.), 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. s. of Lieut.-Col. Edward Nash, of Ballycarty, Tralee, co. Kerry, and 56, Sloane Street, S.W., J.P., late Essex Regt., by his wife, Constance, dau. of John Radcliffe, of Moorfield, Withington, J.P.; b. Cefn Ila, Usk, co. Monmouth, 23 June, 1895; educ. at Wixenford (Mr. Morton’s), Eton (Mr. Mill’s House, Jan. 1910–July, 1914), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 11 Nov. 1914, and Lieut. 1 Aug. 1915; left for France in Jan. 1915; took part in the Battles of Neuve Chapelle and Festubert; was promoted Capt. 12 July, and died in hospital at Lozinghem, 28 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action near Vermelles on the 25th, the first day of the Battle of Loos. He was wounded early in the morning of the 25th, but was not found until late in the afternoon, and one of his brother officers wrote: “The fact that we found him wounded almost through the German wire shows the splendid determination and courage with which he went forward.” He was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John French [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], and a General officer under whom he served wrote: “He was Battn. bombing officer and easily the best in the Division, and was constantly sent for when they wanted advice on the subject.” Buried at Lozinghem, near Lillers; unm. At Eton he was a Sergt. in the O.T.C., a whip to the Beagles, and won the School Sculling in 1914, being ninth man of the Eight that year. In all branches of sport he was keen, especially excelling as a fisherman. A writer in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle said: “To know “The Fat Boy” as Nash was affectionately called, was to love him. Always cheery and keen for work, he set a magnificent example to those under him. If he was in charge of a party working in the trenches he buckled to and worked harder than anyone else. At Eton he had the reputation of working his hardest at work or play, and this reputation he fully justified while he was in the Regt. His character was eminently fitted for the stern combination of work and sport entailed by active service, and his success as a soldier is shown by the fact that at the age of 20, with less than a year’s service, he had already been gazetted to the rank of Capt.” His elder brother, Capt. E. R. Nash, was killed in action near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915.

=NASH, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, No. 2346, 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Nash (now Sergt. No. 110331, in the 1st Labour Battn. Royal Engineers, on active service in France), by his wife, Ellen, dau. of the late George Williams, of Hawley; b. Hampton Hill, co. Middlesex, 10 April, 1895; educ. there; was a Chauffeur and Student in the S.C.S.; enlisted 25 Feb. 1914; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action, in the German trenches, at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, while bomb throwing; unm.

=NASMYTH, JAMES THOMAS HUTCHINSON=, Capt., 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of John Nasmyth, of Mount Forest, by his wife, Jane P., dau. of John Morrison; b. Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada, 23 Aug. 1874; joined the 46th Durham Regt. about 1900, and, after going through a course of instruction at the Stanley Barracks, Toronto, was given a commission as Lieut., two years later, and promoted Capt. in 1912, after taking a second course; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, and was appointed Lieut. 10th Battn. 22 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was promoted Capt. at the Front; and was killed in action near St. Julien, 23 April, 1915, during the heroic stand of the Canadians at the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres. He m. at Janetville, Ontario, Canada, 22 Oct. 1896, Emma Amelia, dau. of Christopher Armstrong, of Janetville; s.p.

=NATTON, REUBEN WALTER=, Private, No. 1005, Royal Army Medical Corps, 3rd s. of James Natton, of Stockton-on-Tees, Shipyard Labourer, by his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, dau. of James Jeffries, of Stockton-on-Tees; b. Thornaby-on-Tees, co. Durham, 17 March, 1889; educ. New Board School there; enlisted there in the Coldstream Guards in Aug. 1905, but was bought out the following October; in June, 1906, he enlisted in the R.A.M.C. and after serving three years passed into the Reserve and found employment at Doxford’s Yard, Sunderland; on mobilization, 5 Aug. 1914, he was called up, went to France with the first Expeditionary Force and was wounded at Ypres in November; invalided home to Wandsworth Hospital he was found unfit for further active service and was placed on the Hospital Ship Neuralia; on the voyage out to Bombay he contracted fever and was landed at Alexandria, where he died at No. 15 General Hospital, 2 June, 1915, and was buried in the Chatby Military Cemetery near there. He m. at Haswell Parish Church, 27 July, 1908, Rosina (14, John Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Thomas Brown, of Easington, and had four children: Reuben Walter, b. 18 Oct. 1910; Robert William, b. 19 Sept. 1914; Rosina, b. 3 May, 1909; and Margaret, b. 29 Feb. 1912.

=NAYLOR, CLARENCE EDGAR=, A.B., 209926 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=NAZARETH, JOHN XAVIER=, Officers’ Cook, 2nd Class, L. 694, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NEAL, HENRY JOSEPH=, A.B., 194903, Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NEALE, ROY GORDON KING=, A.B., J. 6046, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NEARY, HENRY FRANK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9031), S.S. 2128, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NEAVE, ARUNDELL=, Major, 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers, yr. s. of the late Sir Arundell Neave, 4th Bart., by his wife, the Hon. Gwyn Gertrude, née Hughes (Llysdulas, Amlwch, Anglesey), yst. dau. of William Lewis, 1st Lord Dinorben; b. London, 2 July, 1875; educ. Evelyn’s, Uxbridge, and Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 16th Lancers, from the Royal Anglesey R.E. Militia, 11 May, 1898, and promoted Lieut. 17 Oct. 1899; Capt. 1 April, 1903, and Major 19 Dec. 1914; served (1) in South Africa War, 1900–2; took part in the relief of Kimberley; operations in Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg (17–26 Feb.), Poplar Grove; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, Aug. to Sept. 1900; in Orange River Colony, Sept. to Nov. 1900, and Feb. to June, 1901; operations in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900, to Jan. 1901, and July, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps, King’s medal with two clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French, 17 Sept. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.] 1914; and died, 21 Feb. 1915, of wounds received while leading his squadron into action near Ypres the same day. Buried in Ypres Cemetery. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour for gallantry in the field. Major Neave was a fine horseman and a good all-round sportsman.

=NEILL, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9342), S.S. 106586, H.M.S Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NEILL, JOHN THOMAS=, Petty Officer, 171483, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=NEILL, WILLIAM=, Chief Ship’s Cook (Pensioner), 147941, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NEILSON, WILLIAM=, Regt. Sergt.-Major, No. 25, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Victorian Contingent, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late William Neilson, of Ashgillhead, Dalserf, by his wife, Grace, dau. of James Copland; b. Muirkirk, co. Ayr, 30 Nov. 1864; educ. Blackwood, co. Lanark; enlisted in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Oct. 1882, and served nine years with them in India (Queen’s medal with one clasp); joined the Scottish Horse when the South African War broke out, and served through that campaign (Queen’s medal with four clasps). After spending four years in business in Glasgow, he went to Australia in Sept. 1911, settled at Melbourne and later at St. Kilda, but on the outbreak of the European War, again enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt with the main force; arrived at the Dardanelles in April, and was killed in action there, 19 May, 1915. Buried at Gaba Tepe. He m. at Dalserf, co. Lanark, 1 Dec. 1893, Janet Penman (12, Moodie Place, St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia), dau. of Thomas Renwick, of Dalserf, and had six children: William, b. 27 May, 1899; John Renwick, b. 6 March, 1902; Abram Renwick, b. 10 Dec. 1906: Janet Douglas, b. 23 Aug. 1894; Grace Copland, b. 18 Dec. 1896; and Isabel Renwick, b. 5 July, 1903.

=NEKREWES, DAVID SMITH=, Private, No. 2024, A Coy., 3rd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late David Smith Nekrewes, of 3, Carisbrook Road, Maindee, Newport, Monmouth, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Michael Buckley; b. Newport, 20 July, 1883; educ. Shaftesbury School, Newport. He enlisted at Abergavenny on the outbreak of war, proceeded with his regt. to France on 16 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Frezenberg, 16 May, 1915; unm. Private Nekrewes was well known in South Wales as an athlete. He represented his school on two occasions in the School’s Swimming Championship, and also in the School’s Gymnastic Competition; he also played Rugby football for Bridgend, Glam., and (three-quarter), Pontypridd, Mountain Ash, Pontypool, and Glamorgan County. He met with considerable success as a sprinter.

=NELIS, JAMES EDWARD THORNHILL=, Lieut., 5th (Service) Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, only s. of Lieut.-Col. James Alexander Nelis, of 1, Seaview Terrace, Donnybrook, late I.M.S., by his wife, Anna, dau. of the late Cudbert Bensley Thornhill, C.S.I., Indian Civil Service; b. Abbottabad, India, 31 Dec. 1891; educ. at Haileybury; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Inniskilling Fusiliers, 26 Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 19 Nov. following; left for the Dardanelles, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action there, 15 Aug. following; unm.

=NELSON, GEORGE=, Private, No. 1162, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Francis Nelson, of 2, Stafford Street, East End, Sunderland; b. Sunderland; educ. St. John’s School there; enlisted in the Coldstreams after the outbreak of war, 26 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died a prisoner of war in No. 2 German Field Hospital, 25 Feb. 1915, of frozen feet; unm. Buried at Pont à Vendin.

=NESMITH, JAMES=, Capt., 5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), eldest s. of the late James Nesmith of Glencairn, Port Glasgow, Accountant, by his wife, Catherine (Glencairn, Port Glasgow), dau. of Donald Gillies, of Craigenterue, Argyleshire; b. Glasgow, 17 July, 1881; educ. Greenock Academy, and Glasgow University; was a Solicitor practising in Glasgow; joined the E Coy. (Port Glasgow) of the 1st Renfrew Volunteer (afterwards the 5th Territorial) Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 10 April, 1900, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 29 Nov. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 22 Feb. 1911, and Capt. 13 July, 1912; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, left for the Dardanelles, 28 May, 1915; and was killed in action during the British attack on the Krithia-Achi Baba position, Gallipoli, 12 July following. Buried on the field; unm.

=NESS, GORDON STUART=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yst. and only surviving s. of the late Patrick Ness, of Braco Castle, Perthshire, by his wife, Charlotte Jane Wells (19, Dawson Place, Notting Hill Gate, W.), dau. of Stephen Powell; b. London, 4 Nov. 1885; educ. Westminster School, and Clare College, Cambridge; was elected an underwriting member of Lloyds in 1909; joined the 3rd Battn. (Royal Ayr and Wigtown Militia) Royal Scots Fusiliers, as 2nd Lieut. 7 April, 1906, and was promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1909; went to France 11 Sept. 1914, attached to the 1st Battn. of his Regt.; and was killed in action during the 1st Battle of Ypres, 11 Nov. 1914. Buried near Ypres. He m. in London, Gladys, dau. of Charles Ernest Gwynne Harrison; and had a son and daughter: Patrick, b. 15 June, 1914; and Marguerite Gordon, b. 3 June, 1915.

=NEVE, BASIL HOVENDEN=, Acting Chief E.R.A., 2nd Class, 270424, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=NEVE, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 184688, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NEVETT, THOMAS ALFRED=, L.-Corpl., No. 13041, 5th Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., yst. s. of William Berber Nevett, of Cotsbrook Hall, co. Salop, by his wife, Emily, dau. of the late Richard Jones, of Norton, co. Salop; b. Sansaw, co. Salop, 24 June, 1895; educ. Elleray Park, Wallasey, and Shrewsbury School (1911–13), and on leaving there took up an agricultural life, but on the outbreak of war volunteered and joined the King’s Shropshire L.I. with several other Salopians. After some months of training he was placed in the battn. machine-gun section, and went with this unit to France in May, 1915. During the violent attacks and counter-attacks around Hooge in Aug. he was wounded on the 9th by a shell which destroyed his gun, and on the way to the dressing station he received another and more severe wound from shrapnel, resulting in spinal injury and paralysis, from which he died in Edmonton Military Hospital, 10 Sept. 1915; unm. The Headmaster of Shrewsbury said of him: “He was one of those unselfish boys whose real goodness gives them an influence out of all proportion to their prominence in school life.” His eldest bro., Sergt. W. P. Nevett, was killed at the Dardanelles landing (see his notice).

=NEVETT, WILLIAM PERCY=, Sergt., No. 851, 12th Battn. Australian L.I., Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of William Barber Nevett, of Cotsbrook Hall, co. Salop, by his wife, Emily, dau. of the late Richard Jones, of Norton, co. Salop; b. Sansaw, co. Salop, 4 June, 1889; educ. Bridgnorth Grammar School and Birmingham University and after securing first-class in the Engineering Course, 1906–9, became Assistant Engineer to the Miners’ Water Supply, Perth, Western Australia. On the outbreak of war he joined the Australian L.I., and having been a member of the O.T.C. at Birmingham University, was set immediately to train recruits. He left for Egypt in Nov. 1914, and while there was offered a commission in the New Army at home but declined it, preferring to stay with his comrades. He was killed in action during the landing of the Australians at Sedd-el-Bahr, Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915; unm. The Sergt.-Major of his battn. wrote: “Nevett was on the left flank on the Sunday we effected a landing here, and at this point the fighting was particularly heavy. Your brother was hit in the firing line, and was carried to a place of more safety by Private Michie, another of our good men since killed. The wound was so serious that before the stretcher-bearers could get him to the beach, he died. He was one of our most efficient and popular N.C.O.’s, and my best friend.”

=NEW, ALEXANDER HERBERT=, Private, No. 5712, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Harry New, of Bournemouth, by his wife, Theresa, dau. of (—) Hazel; b. Ringwood, co. Hants, 5 June, 1886; educ. at Bournemouth; enlisted 12 Sept. 1904; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906, to 14 Feb. 1908; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at La Tretoire, 8 Sept. 1914, being buried in the wood there. His company officer wrote saying that he was a good soldier, and fought gallantly, and cheerfully carried out the hard marching of the first three weeks of the campaign; also how well he helped to maintain the reputation of the Coldstream Guards and the British Army. He m. at St. Luke’s, Burton, Christchurch, 18 April, 1910, Fanny (67, Forton Road, Gosport), only dau. of Charles Langrish; s.p.

=NEWBURY, WILLIAM JOHN=, Chief Ship’s Cook, 165257, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=NEWBY, GEORGE EDWIN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2629), 207242, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NEWCOMBE, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10707 (Ports.), H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NEWHAM, ARTHUR JOHN=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 208884, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NEWMAN, CHARLES HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2948), S.S. 264, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NEWMAN, CORMIE AUBREY=, E.R.A., 3rd Class, M. 1478, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NEWMAN, FRANCIS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2512), 201770, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NEWMAN, HARRY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Petty Officer, 6325, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=NEWMAN, HENRY=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NEWMAN, RICHARD HARRY=, Chief Petty Officer, Tel. 183585, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=NEWMAN, SAMUEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 1706, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=NEWMAN, STANLEY FRANCIS=, Sergt., No. 1093, Essex Yeomanry, 3rd s. of Francis Newman, of Moor Hall, Thorley, Bishop’s Stortford, Farmer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Richard Stock; b. Moor Hall, Thorley, co. Hertford, 18 July, 1885; educ. Bishop’s Stortford College; served six years in the Essex Yeomanry, 1906–12; then went to Singapore and later to Australia, where he was farming; returned to England in July, 1914, and when war broke out the following month, immediately rejoined his old regt. and volunteered for foreign service. He went to France, 28 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action in an attack on the German trenches at Ypres, 13 May, 1915; unm. The Capt. commanding C Squadron wrote: “The regt. was sent up to reinforce the infantry at this part of the line about a week ago. On the 13th the Germans succeeded in taking a bit of our line and the regt., together with the two other regts. of our Brigade, was ordered to retake it. They had to advance 500 yards of open ground, most of it going under a very heavy fire from shells, rifle, and machine-gun fire. Your son reached the enemy’s trenches safely, and helped to recapture them, but a few minutes later he was shot while standing near Mr. Holt who was also wounded. His death is a great blow to us all, officers and men alike, and he leaves a place in the Squadron which will be hard to fill. Everybody agreed that he was one of the very best N.C.Os. in the regt. and his troop would do anything for him.” And Trooper H. J. Tucker writing to his father said: “Will you just break the news on my behalf, that my two comrades, Sergt. Stanley Newman and Corpl. Frank Bird, have both been killed in action during a great charge, which took place two days ago. When there was a roll call the whole regt. had 168 casualties—killed, wounded and missing; amongst them our Colonel and many officers.”

=NEWMAN, WILLIAM HENRY=, Acting Chief Stoker, 293000, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NEWMAN, WILLIAM HERBERT=, Private, No. 3082, 1/8th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Harry Newman, of 15, Marlow Road, Southall, Police Sergeant, by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of Thomas Betts, for 53 years on L. & N.W.R.; b. Haggerston, N., 23 June, 1895; educ. Featherstone Road Boys’ School, Southall; was a clerk with Messrs. Kearby & Sons, Rubastic Road, Southall; joined the Middlesex Territorials, 5 Sept. 1914; volunteered for foreign service; trained at Hampton and Staines; left for Gibraltar, 1 Feb. 1915; went to France at the end of July; took part in the Battle of Loos, 25–26 Sept. and was killed in action near La Bassée, 19 Oct. 1915; unm. Buried at Wye Farm.

=NEWPORT, WILLIAM JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 13141, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Newport, of The Green, Beyton, Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=NEWSHAM, CHARLES=, Private, No. 2763, 16th Platoon, C Coy., 9th (Highlanders) Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of Robert Newsham, of 6, Broadway, Withington, Manchester, a buyer for Ralli Bros., of Manchester, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of John Gorrie, Manchester; b. Cheetham, Manchester, 16 May, 1885; educ. Cheetham Higher Grade School; was a buyer for Ralli Bros., and a member of the Manchester Royal Exchange. On the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Scots with his great friend Gerard G. S. Frost (who was afterwards killed during the same bombardment as himself), 10 Nov. 1914, and after training at Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, left for the Front towards the end of Feb.; he lost his life during the bombardment of Ypres, three shells dropping into the billets of his company, killing him and six of his comrades, 7 April, 1915. He was the first member of the Manchester Royal Exchange killed in the war.

=NEWSHAM, RICHARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13680, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NEWSTEAD, GEORGE POPE=, Major, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., and Tempy, Lieut.-Col. Sierra Leone Battn., West African Frontier Force, only s. of James Newstead, of Ashby Manor, Horncastle, co. Lincoln, by his wife, Louisa Anne, dau. of George Pope; b. Bristol, 23 Sept. 1875; educ. Rugby School (1889–94, where he was in the cricket eleven and football fifteen, and won the Athletic Sports’ Challenge Cup) and New College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Suffolks, 15 May, 1897, and promoted Lieut. 24 June, 1899, Capt. 15 March, 1905, and Major, Nov. 1914; served in the South African War, 1899–1902, being employed with the Mounted Infantry; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1899–1900, including action at Colesberg (1–6 Jan.); in the Orange Free State, April and May, 1900; in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Pretoria; in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900; in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to Dec. 1900; and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); seconded for service with the West African Frontier Force, 16 Sept. 1905; served with the Sierra Leone Battn. at Freetown and in the bush under Major Palmer until 26 Oct. 1909; then returned to England and rejoined the 2nd Suffolks, but in Aug. 1910, he again went to West Africa, and on 1 April, 1913, was promoted Tempy. Lieut.-Col. He died at Bare, Cameroons, West Africa, 5 March, 1915, of wounds received at Stoebel’s Farm on the previous day. Buried at Bare. Describing the action, an officer wrote: “On 4 March, 1915, I was with the advanced guard, which the colonel was commanding, and we came under a very hot fire—he, his Adjutant and myself being all together for about half an hour. He then ordered me to take our Maxim gun back a little way, and came with me to select a new position for it. After this he left me and went forward to the right under a very heavy fire to make further dispositions, and I lost sight of him; but about five minutes later his Adjutant ran past me and called out that he himself was hit in the face and that the Colonel had been shot in the side.” He m. Maude Aileen, dau. of the late Col. Hanley, R.E.; s.p.

=NEWTH, WALTER JOSEPH=, Trooper, No. 11/495 2nd Queen Alexandra’s Squadron, Wellington Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th s. of George Charles Newth, of Sandy Farm, Luckington, Chippenham, Wilts, Farmer, by his wife, Charlotte Mary, dau. of J. H. Harris; b. Sandy Farm, Luckington, Chippenham, co. Wilts, 23 April, 1891; educ. Village School there; left home in July, 1912, to take up farming in New Zealand; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted Sept. 1914; left with 2nd reinforcements, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 27 Aug. 1915; unm.

=NEWTON, ERNEST=, Armourer’s Crew, M. 2643, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NEWTON, FREDERICK=, L.-Corpl., No. 9311, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died at Coulommieres, 9 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action. Buried in Cemetery there; unm.

=NEWTON, GEORGE HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6696), S.S. 968, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=NEWTON, WILLIAM HENRY=, Gunner, R.M.A., 13524, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NIBLETT, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, 225960, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NICHOLL, CHRISTOPHER BENONI=, Lieut., 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Rev. Edward Powell Nicholl, of Ogmore, Manitou, Manitoba; formerly vicar of Ascott-sub-Wychwood, co. Oxon, and recently Incumbent of Mission of St. Luke, Pembina Crossing, Manitoba, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Jenkyns, of Llanblethian, Glamorgan, and grandson of the late Right Hon. John Nicholl, of Merthyr Mawr, co. Glamorgan; b. Leighton Buzzard, co. Bedford, 15 Dec. 1881; educ. Manitoba Public Schools, and St. John’s Collegiate School, Winnipeg; was a Chemist; received a commission as Lieut. in the 16th Saskatchewan Light Horse, Nov. 1911; and on the outbreak of war at once volunteered for Imperial service, and was appointed Lieut. 5th Battn. 22 Sept. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. following; went to France, 25 May, and died in No. 3 Casualty Clearing Hospital, Bailleul, 30 July, 1915, of wounds received on the 29th, when on night patrol near Ploegsteert, examining the wire entanglements in front of the trenches; unm. In the Battn. journal his comrades wrote of him: “A quiet and unostentatious officer was Lieut. Nicholl. But he was one whose conscience was keen for good service ... those who were privileged to know him knew an honest heart and a nature entirely true and faithful.”

=NICHOLAS, GEORGE ARTHUR=, No. 2101, A Coy., 1/4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of James Nicholas, of Limehurst Lodge, Haywards Heath, Gardener, by his wife, Ruth Mary, dau. of George Mitchell; b. Wivelsfield, co. Sussex, 31 May. 1895; educ. St. Wilfred’s School, Haywards Heath; was a Butcher’s Assistant, enlisted 31 Aug. 1914; left with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 16 July, 1915, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 11 Sept. 1915; unm.

=NICHOLAS, ROBERT STANLEY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., 1871), late Ch./12017, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NICHOLLS, HARRY=, Chief Armourer, 151366, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NICHOLLS, HENRY ARTHUR=, Private, No. 8777, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late James Nicholls, of Birmingham; b. Birmingham. 19 Feb. 1895; educ. Highfield Road School there; enlisted 30 June, 1910, served three years with the Colours, and then entered the employ of the G.W.R. as a carman. On the declaration of war, 5 Aug. 1914, he was called up, went to the Front with his regt. and served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and all the severe fighting from 26 Oct. to 20 Nov. when in the words of the Brigadier-General Commanding the 4th (Guards) Brigade, “the Coldstreams held their line intact under hardships and strain that it is impossible to describe.” During these four weeks they had occupied trenches dug on a hill full of natural springs, and which were “undrainable, and constantly full of water above the knee for 23 days. The gale of about 2 Nov. cleared the wood in which they were, of every particle of cover, the trees having been all pierced through by shrapnel and bullets. Hand grenades thrown at them were, on one occasion when they did not explode, picked up and hurled back again, and they finally rejoined the Brigade on the right flank of this part of the British line on 17 Nov. in as good heart as the day they left England.” On 20 Nov. they were withdrawn for a short rest, but were soon back in the firing line and Nicholls died of wounds received in action the same day at La Bassée, 31 Jan. 1915, and was buried in Cuinchy Churchyard. He m. at Walworth, London, 29 June, 1913, Helen Adelaide (119, Albany Road, Camberwell, S.E.), dau. of (—) Ware, and had a dau., Phyllis May, b. 30 April, 1914.

=NICHOLLS, JOHN WILLIAM ERNEST=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26610, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=NICHOLLS, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Private, No. 19427, 1st Battn. The Welsh Regt., s. of William Charles Nicholls, Sailor; b. Penzance, 7 Dec. 1880; educ. National School there, enlisted following the outbreak of war, 15 Nov. 1914, served in France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed at Zillebeke, 25 May, 1915. He m. at Penzance, 22 Sept. 1901, Alice Maud, dau. of George James Pidwell, and had six sons: William Charles, b. 4 Nov. 1901; George James, b. 30 Jan. 1905; Richard John, b. 26 Oct. 1907; Stephen, b. 18 Nov. 1909; Arthur Reginald, b. 26 Nov. 1912; and Edward Harvey, b. 22 Oct. 1914.

=NICHOLLS, WILLIAM JAMES=, Chief Stoker, 170482, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NICHOLSON, ARTHUR KNIGHT=, 2nd Lieut., 18th (Queen Mary’s Own) Hussars, only s. of Herbert Nicholson, of Ridborough Hall, Tunbridge Wells, J.P., C.C., by his wife, Stella, dau. of Edward W. Knight; b. Helena, Montana, U.S.A., 6 Oct. 1893; educ. St. Andrew’s, Harrow, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 18th Hussars, 22 Jan. 1913; went to France, Aug. 1914; and was killed in action at St. Eloi, 31 Oct. following. Buried near Chateau Hollebeke; unm.

=NICHOLS, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class, 310744, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NICHOLS, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4613), 173115, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NICHOLSON, BASIL LEE=, Lieut., 3rd Staffordshire Battery, North Midland Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.), yst. s. of Sir Arthur Nicholson, of Highfield Hall, Leek, co. Stafford, J.P., C.C., by his wife, Marianne Lee, dau. of Robert Falkner, of Kersal; b. Highfield Hall, 24 Oct. 1890; educ. Malvern, Rugby, and afterwards in Germany and Switzerland, joined the Territorial Force shortly after its formation, served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in the trenches near Ypres, while making observations, 24 July, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Dranoutre Churchyard. Col. Sir Hill Child, Bart., wrote: “He was shot through the head this afternoon, when on duty as observing officer in the trenches. His brother (who was wounded the previous Wednesday) is quite heart-broken, as indeed we all are. I have always considered your two sons the two best young officers in my brigade.” His two brothers, Capt. A. Falkner Nicholson and Capt. Malcolm Nicholson, are both (1916) serving with the R.F.A.

=NICHOLSON, DAVID BEVERIDGE=, Private, No. 3035, 1/5th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) (T.F.), 2nd s. of Rev. Thomas Brown Nicholson, of Chalmers Street, Dunfermline, Minister of the United Free Church of Scotland, M.A., by his wife, Barbara Stevenson, dau. of the late David Beveridge, of Kingskettle; b. Hamilton, co. Lanark, 22 Dec. 1895; educ. Dunfermline High School, and was afterwards engaged as an apprentice with Oliver Melville, Robb & Scott, Electrical Engineers, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy. In Dec. 1914 he enlisted in the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles, and was chosen as one of a draft in May, 1915, to go to Gallipoli to strengthen the 5th Royal Scots, reaching there just before the heavy fighting in which that regt. so distinguished itself. He took part in the famous charge of 28 June, 1915, and was thereafter reported missing, until 7 March, 1916, when he was posted as killed in action; unm. A comrade wrote: “I knew him well and I was much attached to the young lad. We had talks together and shared our dug-outs together often and on the awful day, we went over the parapet together. I was wounded in the attack and he went on, so, of course, from that time I knew nothing further. I shall ever treasure the memory of him, and shall ever think of him as the brave young lad who did not seem to know fear.” “I have put my faith in God, and am ready for whatever happens,” he wrote, in one of his last letters.

=NICHOLSON, JOHN BEVERIDGE=, Private, No. 2253, 1/4th (City of Dundee) Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (T.F.), eldest s. of the Rev. Thomas Brown Nicholson, M.A., Minister of the Chalmers Street United Free Church, Dumfermline, by his wife, Barbara Stevenson, dau. of the late David Beveridge, of Kingskettle, Manufacturer; b. Hamilton, 24 May, 1894; educ. High School, Dumfermline; was a journalist and a member of the literary Staff of John Leng & Co., Dundee; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the 1/4th Black Watch, 10 Aug. 1914; left for France on Tuesday, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 12 July following, being shot by a sniper while repairing the trenches at midnight. Buried, Grave No. 7, Row H, Sheet, France, Bethune, Square R. 32d. 7.5; unm. Capt. E. Leslie Boase, commanding D Coy. to which he belonged (himself killed in France in Aug. 1916), wrote: “He was to me not only a comrade-in-arms, but also a friend. I have known young Nicholson to volunteer for a very dangerous bit of work, and keep at it unflinchingly till finished without, so to speak, turning a hair. He went at Neuve Chapelle twice with me, his Capt., on quite a dangerous errand of mercy—voluntarily, and if anything had been necessary to assure me of his bravery, I had it then. His death came like a cruel blow to me.” A comrade, L-Corpl. W. C. Andrews, wrote: “There was not a man in the platoon who was not his friend. I knew him and liked him in civilian days, but it was out here, amid hardships and dangers, that I learned how splendid in manhood he was; how fine and fearless in thought and act. I never knew him do or say a mean thing. He was the very soul of chivalry. Long shall we miss his cheery laughter, his little acts of exquisite courtesy and thoughtfulness.” Another comrade, L.-Corpl. Joseph Lee, wrote: “He passed to his death in the fearless manner in which he faced all that was uncongenial to one of his refined and artistic disposition in our present environment.” The editor of “Answers,” wrote: “As fine a fellow as ever donned a Black Watch kilt; he sent home several of the most realistic letters from the firing-line that have been published since the outbreak of the war.” And the “Dundee Advertiser” remarked: “It is indeed a singularly promising career which has been cut short. While yet a mere boy, he had acquired a bright, clear and forcible style of writing; he had both fancy and wit; he had read much and felt a keen interest in all human affairs. His achievement already was considerable, and there can be no doubt that, with matured powers and wider experience, he would have attained distinction as a journalist and writer of fiction. Some of his poems written at the Front have won high praise from qualified critics for their fine feeling and delicate phrasing, while his prose descriptions of battlefield scenes are full of vigour.” Among his writings may be mentioned his recruiting appeal “A call from the trenches,” which was printed in pamphlet form and given away by the military authorities in street distribution; some charming verses entitled “On hearing a lark singing at dawn in the trenches,” and a poem of singular beauty, “The Crucifix,” which has been widely cited and which would alone suffice to stamp the writer as a poet of a very high order. His brother David was also killed in action (see his notice).

=NICHOLSON, JOHN CHARLES=, Private, No. 10347, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John William Nicholson, of 15, Villa Terrace, Alexandra Street, Hull; b. co. York; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Zillebeke, 19 Nov. 1914; unm. Buried there.

=NICHOLSON, LAWRENCE CAIL, D.S.O.=, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st. Battn. Princess Charlotte of Wales’ Royal Berkshire Regt., 4th s. of Frederick William Nicholson, of Shiplake, Henley-on-Thames, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Benjamin Cail, of Maidenhead; b. Maidenhead, co. Berks, 30 Aug. 1882; educ. Uppingham; was embodied with Militia 1 year 38 days, and attd. to Regulars 362 days; served in South African War with Mounted Infantry, 1899–1901; was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 14th (King’s) Hussars, 26 March, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 24 Jan. 1905; retired and joined the Special Reserve of Officers; appointed Lieut., 3rd Berkshire Regt., 28 July, 1914; went to France, 30 Aug. 1914, attd. to the 1st Battn.; “led and commanded his platoon admirably during an attack on German position Passchendaele-Becelaere Road, which resulted in the taking of the enemy’s trenches and 70 prisoners,” for which he was awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1914]; was wounded in action near Ypres, 23 Oct. 1914, and died of wounds in London. 2 Nov. following; unm.

=NICHOLSON, LEONARD SAMPSON=, 2nd Lieut., 1/12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Nicholson, of Tanshelf Mills, Pontefract, co. York, Matting Manufacturer, by his wife, Elizabeth (West View, Ackworth Road. Pontefract), dau. of Leonard Sampson, of Humburton Grange, Boro’bridge, Yorks; b. Pontefract, 14 July, 1890; educ. King’s School, Pontefract; on leaving school he entered a wholesale iron and steel business in London; became a member of the Polytechnic, and in March, 1909, joined The Rangers; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and left for France with his battn. on Christmas Eve, 1914, holding the rank of Platoon Sergt.; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 14 April, 1915. He was killed in action at Verlorenhoek, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 2 May following. His Commanding Officer. Lieut.-Col. A. D. Bayliffe, wrote: “His death was a great loss to the Rangers; he would have made a very valuable officer had he been spared.” He was greatly esteemed by his men and, to quote from a letter written by one of them, “there was not a man in his platoon who would not have died for him if occasion had arisen. He faithfully upheld the honour of the British Army, and died doing his best for King and Country.”

=NICKLIN, GEORGE=, Acting Chief Armourer, 342117, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=NICOL, ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 1/5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 4th s. of the late John S. Nicol, of 85, Brisbane Street, Greenock, Coal Merchant, by his wife, Agnes Berwick, eldest dau. of the late Charles Mill, of Greenock, Shipowner; b. Greenock. 5 Nov. 1893; educ. Greenock Academy; was qualifying as a C.A. with Messrs. Kidston, Goff & Findlay, C.A., Glasgow. He received a commission as 2nd Lieut., 1/5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 16 Jan. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; went to the Dardanelles in June, 1915, and was killed in action during the attack on the Krithia-Achi Baba position, Gallipoli, 12 July following; unm. Two of his brothers, Capt. C. M. Nicol, R.A.M.C. (Regular Army prior to outbreak of war), and Lieut. John E. Nicol, R.N.V.R., are (1916) on active service.

=NICOL, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7237), S.S. 102206, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NICOL, HUGH JOHN=, Sergt., No. 741, 1/4th Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late John Nicol, of Edinburgh, Principal Stamper, Inland Revenue, by his wife, Ann S. (1c, Maxwell Street, Edinburgh), dau. of John McIntosh, of 2, Bangholm Terrace, Edinburgh; b. Edinburgh, 11 Nov. 1889; educ. South Morningside Board School there; and was in the office of the Assistant Secretary and Comptroller, Inland Revenue, Edinburgh. He had joined the 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the Royal Scots in 1909, and after the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915; unm. He was a member of St. Matthew’s Parish Church, Edinburgh. His brothers, Corpl. David Nicol, No. 13266, Cameron Highlanders, and L.-Corpl. William C. Nicol, No. 4130 (Highlanders) Royal Scots, are both on active service.

=NICOL, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14678 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NICOLSON, JOHN=, Private, No. 2283, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of John Nicolson, of 5, Lower Ollach, Braes, Portree, Skye, Crofter, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Ross, of Camusknioag; b. Braes, aforesaid, 15 July, 1896; educ. Braes Public School, and Portree Higher Grade School, Skye; went to Australia, 3 May, 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles between 6 and 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

=NIGHTINGALE, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., I.C. 84), 140682, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NILSON, CECIL EDGAR=, Private, No. 2063, D Coy. 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Julius Nilson, of 12, Welham Road, Streatham, S.W., Organ Tuner, by his wife, Emma Annie, dau. of the late William Goodwin Brightling, of Kennington, S.E.; b. Kennington, 19 Aug. 1894; educ. L.C.C. School, Mitcham Lane, Streatham; was employed by Liberty & Co.; enlisted on the outbreak of war, 31 Aug. 1914; was terribly wounded in action, 24 Feb. 1915, and died in a Clearing Hospital at Merville, France, the same evening; unm. Buried in the cemetery there. A comrade wrote: “I am very sorry to inform you that our comrade Nilson got wounded on a working party the other day. We were out at a place which is named by our troops as ..., and I can assure you it was a perfect hell. The Germans had a machine-gun trained upon the gates and at night to get to our duty posts we had to dodge a perfect fusilade of shot. In front of our post one could see two dead cows which could not be buried owing to the terrific danger, and it was at this place when our friend Nilson was shot. We were working at night strengthening a trench when the Germans sent up a very brilliant star shell followed by heavy fire.... The Leicesters with whom we were working informed me that they had never seen a man bear such pain so bravely; the shot entered his back and went through his stomach.”

=NIXON, FRANCIS EUGENE ARCHER=, Ship’s Steward, 219829, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=NIXON, GERARD FERRERS=, Lieut., 129th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of Major-Gen. Arundel James Nixon, of Clone, Ballyragget, co. Kilkenny, D.L., late R.A., by his wife, Maria Lucy, dau. of the late John Laurence, D.L.; b. Stoke, Devonport, 25 Jan. 1891; educ. Cheltenham College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., 23 Dec. 1910, and promoted Lieut. 23 Dec 1913; left for France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 24 Oct. following. Buried Fauquissart, in an orchard in the Rue de Bacquerot; unm. The Officer commanding his battery wrote: “It is a very great sorrow indeed to us all that we have lost him. Officers and men were devoted to him. He was a gallant little fellow and a first-class officer.” He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. He was a keen sportsman; rode very well and was very good at all games.

=NIXON, WILLIAM=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26752 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=NOBBS, WILLIAM ROBERT=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2282A, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NOBLE, CHARLES CRAWFORD=, Private, No. 6/698, 13th Canterbury and Westland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of George Noble, of Blue Spur, Hokitika, New Zealand, Gold Miner, by his wife, Jeannie A. S., dau. of Alexander Walker, of Strichen; b. Fraserburgh, 31 Jan. 1887; educ. All Saints’ School, Strichen; went to New Zealand, 7 May, 1906; volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, after the outbreak of war, 17 Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main body in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died on board H.M.S. Royal George, 12 May following, of wounds received in action at Cape Helles on the 8th; unm.

=NOBLE, CORNELIUS=, Private, No. 1856, 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), yst. s. of John Noble, of 310, Church Street, Walker, co. Northumberland, by his wife. Alice; b. Walker, 7 June, 1895; educ. West Walker Council Schools; joined the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, 1 June, 1913; volunteered for Imperial service, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 20 April, 1915, and was killed in action 24 May, 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 24 May, 1915. Buried, Boulogne; unm.

=NOBLE, GEORGE=, Private, No. 6507, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., s. of Thomas Noble, of 25, Sigismund Street, Blackwall; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 26 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action.

=NOBLE, GEORGE=, Driver, No. 8125, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action 28 Oct. 1914; m.

=NOBLE, JACK EDWARD=, Private, No. 15184, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of George Noble, of High Wycombe, Bucks; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 21 March, 1915.

=NOBLE, ROBERT=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 4521), 171089, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NOBLE, THOMAS=, of Aberdeen, lost when the mine-sweeping trawler No. 61 (Crathie, of Aberdeen) was sunk by a mine, Aug. 1914.

=NOEL, HERBERT BISHOP=, C.E.R.A., 2nd Class (Pensioner), 269614, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NOLAN, MYLES PATRICK=, Private, No. 2754, 2nd Battn. 8th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late William Nolan, of Fulham, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Michael (and Mary) Murphy, of Dublin; b. Fulham, S.W., 3 June, 1897; educ. Council School there; was an Assistant Engineer, P.O. Telegraph; joined the 10th Middlesex Territorials in June, 1912; volunteered for foreign service, Aug. 1914; was transferred to the 2/8th Middlesex, and was drafted to Gibraltar, Sept. 1914, returning to England, Feb. 1915; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Rye, France, 21 Oct. 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm. Letters from his officers speak of him as a good soldier and a general favourite.

=NOOTT, MERVYN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), yst. s. of William Mathias Noott, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A., and his wife, Louisa (Upton Lodge, St. Peter’s, Thanet), eldest dau. of the late Sir Alfred Hickman, 1st Bart., M.P.; b. Kensington Park Road, London, 19 May, 1890; educ. Mr. Edminson’s, Tan-y-bryn, Llandudno, and Fauconberg School, Beccles; joined the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. The Buffs as 2nd Lieut. 15 March, 1911, and promoted Lieut. 20 Jan. 1913; passed into the Regulars as 2nd Lieut., 1st Buffs, 24 May, 1913; left for France, 16 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action at Radinghem Wood, near Lille, 20 Oct. following; unm. Capt. R. Bright wrote: “Your son was killed in action on the 20th. He was gallantly leading his men under heavy fire, and every one who was near him cannot speak too highly of his conduct. I cannot tell you how sorry I am to lose him, and how I feel for you in your loss. But he died gallantly and knew nothing of being hit, being killed instantaneously. He was a good soldier and thoroughly popular with both officers and men, and we can ill afford to lose him.” Major (Brig.-Gen.) E. H. Finch-Hatton, D.S.O., wrote: “There is one thing that I can bear witness to, and that is a more noble and more chivalrous boy has never fallen on the field of battle. His enthusiasm and his sense of duty and chivalry were quite out of the ordinary. He was more like a knight of old, and it is such as he who have made the glory of the British Army to be what it is to-day—the wonder and the admiration of the world.” And L.-Corpl. Kisby wrote: “The platoon would have followed him anywhere. Yes, every man was devoted to him. He won this by his many acts of kindness and cheerfulness, and, above all, they had a great respect for him as a brave man, for undoubtedly he knew no fear.” He had taken a flying certificate and hoped to join the Royal Flying Corps.

=NORLEY, SIDNEY HENRY=, Acting Chief Stoker, 195527, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NORMAN, ALBERT EDMUND=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. East Surrey Regt., attd. Army Cyclist Corps, yst. s. of the late Henry Alexander Norman, of Croydon, by his wife, Annie, dau. of (—) Roberts; b. Croydon, 7 April, 1875; educ. Whitgift Middle School, Croydon; was in a Bank; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 1st Vol. Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt. 7 Jan. 1905; gazetted Lieut., 3rd East Surreys, 11 Sept. 1914; attd. Army Cyclist Corps, 1 Dec. following; promoted Capt. 24 March, 1915, and went to France 27 March, and died in hospital at Merville, 11 May, 1915, of wounds received in the advance against the Aubers Ridge on the 9th. Buried at Merville. The N.C.Os. and men of his company erected a stone to his memory. A comrade wrote: “He very much distinguished himself in offering to take a despatch message under heavy fire. He was successful in getting it through, but was wounded on returning to Headquarters.” He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916]. He m. at Croydon, 5 Jan. 1905, Linda Burnell, dau. of the late William Bust Turner, of Croydon, Surrey; s.p.

=NORMAN, EDWARD=, A.B., 226971, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NORMAN, ERRINGTON HOUNSOME=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9676), S.S. 2428, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NORMAN, ROBERT=, Private, No. 2200, A Coy., 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt., s. of Robert Norman, Sailor; b. Ipswich, 18 Oct. 1882; educ. St. Clement’s School, Ipswich; was a Labourer at Paul’s Barley Factory, Ipswich; volunteered and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to France, 6 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915. Capt. S. L. Brown wrote: “Your husband was a soldier from head to foot, and an Englishman, and the example he set to the younger men was grand—I shall never have a better man to go with me anywhere. It may, perhaps, be a little comfort to you to know that his death was instantaneous: a soldier’s death without pain.” He m. at St. Helen’s Church, Ipswich, 25 Dec. 1906, Alice Maud (50, Rosebery Road, Ipswich), dau. of George (and Ellen) Prebble, of Ipswich, and had three children: Robert William, b. 14 Sept. 1907; Arthur George, b. 31 May, 1913; and Elsie May, b. 6 Nov. 1900.

=NORMAN, ROBERT=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., I.C. 35), 186027, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NORMANLY, MARTIN=, Private, No. 9791, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Normanly, of Montuaigh, Curry, co. Sligo, Farmer, by his wife, Bridget, dau. of Thomas Gallagher; b. Montuaigh, Curry, afsd. 14 Oct. 1892; educ. National School there; was a Coal Miner; joined the Coldstreams in Oct. 1912; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Mons, on the 25th; unm.

=NORRIS, GEORGE CROSSLEY=, Deckhand, No. 207 D.A., Trawler Section, R.N.R.; lost when the mine-sweeping trawler No. 61 called “Crathie” (Thomas W. Irvine, of North Shields) was sunk by a mine, Aug. 1914.

=NORRIS, OSWALD MARK=, Private, No. 61221, 1st Canterbury Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 7th s. and yst. child of Thomas C. Norris, of Christchurch, J.P., late Secretary and Treasurer to North Canterbury Hospital Board, by his wife, Mary; b. Christchurch, New Zealand, 15 June, 1892; educ. Christ’s College, Canterbury, New Zealand, after which he took up sheep farming in Hawkes Bay, and while there joined the local Regt. of Mounted Rifles, in which he was a corpl. when war broke out. He volunteered for Imperial service, 12 Oct. 1914; left for Egypt with the main body; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action during the landing at Gebe Tepe, Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “In our camp life your son’s sterling qualities and high principles made him very popular. The memory of your son Oswald—a brave and true man—will ever remain dear to us”; and another: “He was a favourite among all, and everybody admired his strength of character and his great lovable disposition.”

=NORRIS, REGINALD HAYDEN=, Corpl., No. 9096, 2nd Battn. The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of William Norris, of 6, Pleasant Place, Chalvey, by his wife, Mary Ann; b. Chalvey, Slough, 8 March, 1889; educ. Board School there; enlisted 22 Oct. 1906; left for France, 20 Sept., and was killed in action at Metrean, 13 Oct. 1914. Buried there. He m. at Scotforth, Lancaster, 25 Dec. 1913, Helena Eleanor (12, Abbey Terrace, Scotforth, Lancaster), dau. of Joseph Kendall, of Scotforth; s.p.

=NORRIS, ROBERT=, Engine Room Artificer, 2nd Class, No. Ch. 149732, R.N., s. of Robert Norris; b. Chatham, co. Kent, 22 Aug. 1866; educ. St. Paul’s School there; joined the Navy, 23 May, 1889; served in South African War (medal), and on H.M.S. Cressy, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm. He had the Long Service and Good Conduct medal.

=NORRIS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10734, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of Joseph Norris, of 35, Albert Road, Tamworth, Warwick, Carpenter (a native of Lancashire), by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of David Marney, of Melbourne, Victoria; b. Melbourne, 28 Nov. 1893, came to England with his parents when two years of age, and was educ. at Tamworth Council School; was employed as a Platelayer on the L. &. N.W. Railway; enlisted in May, 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

=NORSWORTHY, EDWARD CUTHBERT=, Major, 13th Battn. (Royal Highlanders of Canada), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of James Counter Norsworthy, of Ingersoll, P. Ontario, Canada, by his wife, Mary Jane, eldest dau. of Alexander Cuthbert, of Ingersoll, and gdson. of John Norsworthy, of the Parish of Widdicombe, co. Devon, England (who went to Canada in 1852); b. Ingersoll afsd., 29 May, 1879; killed in action in the Battle of Langemarck on 22 May, 1915; educ. Ingersoll and St. Thomas’ Public Schools, from which he passed to the Upper Canada College, and thence matriculated to McGill University, at which time he won the Governor-General’s gold medal for mathematics. He subsequently became registered as a Student of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain along with his younger brother Stanley. At the examination held that year, there were thirty-six candidates writing in the Dominion; of this number five were successful, including Major Norsworthy and his brother. In his student days he had been connected with the Cadet Corps at St. Thomas’ Collegiate Institute, and the Upper Canada College Rifle Corps. Deciding to adopt a career in the financial world, he obtained a position with Messrs. G. A. Stimson & Co., of Toronto, and in 1901 he opened an office in Montreal as Manager for the Dominion Securities Corporation. He joined the 5th Royal Highlanders as a subaltern, shortly after his arrival there, and after passing his examination at St. John’s (Quebec) Military School, he became Capt. in 1905, and Adjutant three years later, and Major in 1909. On the outbreak of war, Major Norsworthy volunteered his services, and helped to organise the 13th Battn. for active service, and accompanied it to Europe as Senior Major and Second in Command. While in England, he was offered an appointment with Sir Max Aitken, the Canadian “Eye Witness,” but preferred to remain with his regt.; unm. On 22 April, 1915, the Germans, using virulent and asphyxiating gasses for the first time, were able to overcome a portion of the French troops adjoining our line. In the words of Sir John French’s Despatch of 15 June, 1915: “The left flank of the Canadian Division was thus left dangerously exposed to serious attack in flank, and there appeared to be a prospect of their being overwhelmed, and of a successful attempt by the Germans to cut off the British troops occupying the salient to the east. In spite of the danger to which they were exposed, the Royal Highlanders of Canada held their ground with a magnificent display of tenacity and courage; and it is not too much to say that the bearing and conduct of these splendid troops averted a disaster which might have been attended with the most serious consequences.” The 13th Battn. (5th Royal Highlanders) were the first Canadian troops to meet a charge of the Germans, and notwithstanding they were greatly outnumbered, and were being attacked in flank in their dug-outs, Major Norsworthy skilfully led his men out to the Ypres-Poelcapelle Road, manning the road ditches facing the advancing Germans, and heroically holding their position, and refusing to give one inch of ground, thereby setting the pace for the whole division. Major Norsworthy’s part in the action was thus described by one of the privates present: “After having remained in the dug-outs for about one hour, with our throats parched and our eyes watering, caused by the gas, we could see that the Germans had broken our lines. It was reported to Major Norsworthy, and he gave the order to ‘stand to’ which we were waiting anxiously to do, and he led us out to the Ypres-Poelcapelle Road. It was not long before they began to pick our boys off. Major Norsworthy was hit in the neck by a bullet, but it did not stop him from walking up and down our line, encouraging our men to hold fast. It was not until he received the second bullet that he had to give in and lie down. We bound him up as well as we could, but the second wound was serious, and he died about three-quarters of an hour after.” Another private who was with Major Norsworthy said: “As we advanced out of our dug-outs and trenches—that were being enfiladed—we met a perfect storm of shell and rifle bullets, when some inclinations of hesitancy and flinching were shown. Seeing this, Major Norsworthy sprang to the front and called out, ‘Come on, men, remember that we are Canadians and all the eyes of Canada are upon us.’ His action and words steadied those that were wavering, and we all followed him with a wild cheer, and advanced to the Ypres-Poelcapelle Road ditches—facing the advancing Germans—which gave us some little protection, and we stuck it there to the last man.” The following are extracts spoken to the first Canadian Division after the twelve days and nights of fighting included in the period from 22 of April to the 4th of May, 1915; “I tell you truly that my heart is so full I hardly know how to speak to you. It is full of sorrow for the loss of those comrades of ours who have gone, and pride in what the first Canadian Division has done. I think it is possible that you do not all of you quite realise that if we had retired in the evening of 22 April, when our Allies fell back before the gas and left our left flank quite open, the whole of the 27th and 28th Division would probably have been cut off. This is what our Commander-in-Chief meant when he telegraphed as he did: ‘The Canadians saved the situation.’ My lads, if ever men have had a right to be praised in this work, you have.” Major Norsworthy was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=NORTH, ARTHUR=, Sergt., No. G. 582, 9th (Service) Battn. East Kent Regt.; died in Dover Military Hospital, 4 June, 1915; m.

=NORTH, FREDERICK ALBERT=, Sergt., No. 8010, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died 3 April, 1915, of wounds received in action; m.

=NORTH, CHARLES NAPIER=, Major, 5th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, eldest s. of the late Col. Roger North, R.A., by his wife Fanny Ellen (Briarwood, Camberley), dau. of Stephen Beeching, of Tunbridge Wells; b. Bristol, 16 Aug. 1874; educ. Radley College, where he gained the Heathcote Mathematical Scholarship, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 10 Feb. 1893, and promoted Lieut. 10 Feb. 1896, Capt. 1 April, 1904, and Major, 25 July, 1913; served (1) in the South African War, 1899–1902, took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, March to May 1900, in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, Aug. to Nov. 1900, in the Orange River Colony, May to June 1900, in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1899–1900, and in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, 1901–2; and was afterwards on the Staff, and from 20 May, 1902 to 7 Aug. 1902, was employed under the Dir. Mil. Intelligence (Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 15 Aug. to 1 Nov. 1914, on which latter date he was killed in action near Zonnebeke, during the First Battle of Ypres, being shot by a sniper while engaged in inspecting the erection of barbed wire entanglements in an exposed position. Buried in Zonnebeke Wood, N.E. of Ypres. The General Officer Commanding, Royal Engineers, 2nd Division, wrote: “Major North’s death was a severe loss not only to his own company, but to the Royal Engineers and the service generally, as on several occasions his devotion to duty and his excellent work had come under my observation, and I have no doubt his example conduced largely to the fine performance of the 5th Field Coy.” Major North was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. He m. at St. Mary Abbott’s Church, Kensington, 18 Dec. 1913, Norah, dau. of the late Col. Gribbon, of Inverness Terrace, W., and had a dau. Elizabeth, b. posthumous, 31 March, 1915.

=NORTH, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2721), 286931, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NORTHCOTT, ALBERT HENRY=, Shipwright, No. Chat. 345561, Royal Navy, s. of Lieut. Albert Northcott, R.N., by his wife, Mary Elizabeth Swete (4, Springfield Terrace, Elburton Cross, near Plymouth), dau. of Samuel Tolcher; b. Plymouth, co. Devon, 6 April, 1887; educ. Ryders High School, Stoke Devonport; was for some time a Shipwright Apprentice in Devonport Dockyard; joined the Navy in 1907; served on H.M. ships Cyclops, London, and Cressy; took part in the Battle of Heligoland, and was lost when the Cressy was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=NORTHEY, ALFRED=, Lieut., 4th, attd. 3rd, Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yr. s. of the late Rev. Alfred Edward Northey, formerly Vicar of Rickmansworth, co. Hertford, by his wife, Alice (Lisworney, Torquay), dau. of Frederick Hatton, and grandson of Lieut.-Col. William Brook Northey, of The Mount, Sevenoaks, Coldstream Guards, J.P., D.L.; b. at The Vicarage, Rickmansworth, 10 Sept. 1886; educ. at Rottingdean, Sherborne School, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Worcesters 3 Feb. 1906, and promoted Lieut. 24 Oct. 1908; joined his battn. at Malta, where he was stationed until Nov. 1908, when it proceeded to Bareilly, India. Returning from India on sick leave in Feb. 1911, he was sent to the Depôt at Worcester, and was there when war broke out. He acted as Machine-Gun Officer at Tregantle, Cornwall, until 30 Aug. 1914, when he left for France in charge of a draft, and, after being stationed for three weeks at St. Nazaire, joined the 3rd Worcesters (7th Brigade, 3rd Division) at the Front. He was killed in action, 12 Oct. following, close to Richebourg St. Vaast, while the battn. was fighting its way through Richebourg to Neuve Chapelle. He was unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was killed whilst leading his men in the attack. He was killed instantly, and did not suffer. He was a splendid officer, and can ill be spared. I hope it may be some little comfort to you, that he died leading his men in the most gallant manner.” He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb., 1915.] Lieut. Northey was an excellent musician, playing both piano and violin; a good all-round sportsman, and very popular with both officers and men.

=NORTON, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, No. 3582, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Thomas Norton, of 21, Newman Road, Plaistow, Labourer, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Smith, Master Baker; b. Poplar, 7 Dec. 1898; educ. West Ham; trained in the West Ham Boys’ Naval Brigade for 2½ years under A. E. Cleave, commanding officer; was employed as a Coppersmith at the Plaistow Railway Works; volunteered and joined the 2nd Royal Fusiliers, 13 Feb. 1915; went to France, 17 April, and died at No. 2 Casualty Clearing Station, Bailleul, 6 June, 1915, of a gunshot wound in the head, received in action, 31 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the Civil Cemetery, Bailleul.

=NOTTON, HARRY GUY=, A.B., J. 2639, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=NOURISH, THOMAS ALDERMAN=, Private, No. 6118, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Nourish, of Highland House, Kilby Road, Fleckney, Leicester, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Anthony Loomes, of North Kilworth; b. Illston-on-the-Hill, co. Leicester, 8 March, 1881; educ. Fleckney Church of England School; enlisted 23 Feb. 1905; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 29 Jan. 1909; obtained his discharge and joined the Reserve, 23 Feb. 1908; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug., and died in No. 4 General Hospital, Boulogne, 4 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at Rentel, 29 Oct.; unm. Buried in Wimereux Churchyard (Grave No. 21).

=NOVELL, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3819), 189603, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=NUNN, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 228989, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=NUNN, FRANK ALFRED=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7311, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=NUNN, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Leading Cook’s Mate, 347626, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=NUNN, MERVYN HENRY=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 9th (Service) Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of William Henry Nunn, of Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells, by his wife, Sophie Caroline, dau. of Major Richard Rollo Houghton, late of the Buffs; b. Woolhampton, co. Berks, 17 Nov. 1864; educ. Harrow; was gazetted Lieut. to the Worcestershire Regt. from the Militia, 28 April, 1886, and promoted Capt. July, 1892, Major 13 Nov. 1901, and Lieut.-Col. 8 Jan. 1915; was employed with Egyptian Army, 27 Dec. 1896 to 1 Oct. 1897; served in the Nile Expedition, 1897 (Egyptian medal with clasp, and medal); and in the South African War, 1902; was in command of the Imperial Yeomanry Battn., from 26 Feb. 1902; took part in operations in Natal (Queen’s medal with clasp); retired and joined the Reserve of Officers, 11 April, 1906, but rejoined his old Regt. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 24 June, 1915, and was killed in action at Chunik Bair, 10 Aug. following; unm. He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Col. Nunn was a fine sportsman, a good man to hounds and a good polo player.

=NUTCHER, MONTAGUE CYRIL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3961), S.S. 1224, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=OAKELEY, FRANCIS ECKLEY=, Lieut., R.N., 5th s. of the late Rev. James Oakeley, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Hereford, by his wife, Frances E. (Westdale, Chilston, Torquay), dau. of John Eckley, of Credenhill Park, Hereford; b. Hereford, 3 Feb. 1891; educ. Hereford Cathedral School, Eastman’s, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; was one of the second batch of cadets entered under the “new scheme,” and passed out from Dartmouth, 15 Sept. 1908; became Midshipman, 15 Sept. 1908, Sub-Lieut. 30 Nov. 1911, and Lieut. Nov. 1913; served in H.M. ships London (flagship of Rear-Admiral Startin, Channel Fleet, Sept. 1908); Invincible (Capt. Mark Kerr, 1st Cruiser Squadron, March, 1909); the Téméraire (1st Battle Squadron, Nov. 1909); Warrior (2nd Cruiser Squadron, Jan. 1910); Ure (2nd Destroyer Flotilla, July, 1910); Dreadnought (flagship of Sir William May, Home Fleet, Sept. 1910); Formidable (Atlantic Fleet, April to Sept. 1911); Superb (1st Battle Squadron, Nov. 1911); Dolphin (Portsmouth Submarine Depot for Instruction, Jan. to May, 1913); and from the last was transferred to H.M.S. Forth at Devonport for submarines. In Sept. 1913, he returned to Portsmouth on appointment to the Arrogant for C 7, and after the outbreak of war was appointed to the Maidstone, additional for D 2. He was lost in D 2 during the last week in Nov. 1914; unm. He was widely known for so junior an officer on account of his remarkable merit as a Rugby football player. He was in 1913’s English International Fifteen v. Scotland, and was looked upon as the most promising player of the United Services. He began playing for the Services First Twenty when he was still a Midshipman The following season Oakeley and Davis played magnificently against Ireland at Twickenham, and against Scotland at Inverleith—two matches that England won. Lieut. Oakeley had two caps against Scotland, one each against Ireland and France, and he was always on the winning side. He won the second prize for the cadet competition Sabre v. Sabre at the Royal Naval and Military Tournament, 1906, and the first prize cadet competition, Foil v. Foil, in the following year.

=OAKES, ALEXANDER MONTAGUE=, Private, No. 11, 19th Battn. 5th Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late Alfred Charles Oakes, of Camden House, Sussex Street, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Civil Service, by his wife, Eliza Jane, dau. of George Robb; b. Cape Town, 26 Dec. 1885; educ. Normal College and St. George’s Grammar School, Cape Town; served for some time in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Mounted Rifles before going to Australia on 30 Jan. 1913. On the outbreak of war he immediately volunteered and joined the 1st Naval and Military Contingent which left Sydney, N.S.W., early in Aug. 1914, in the steamer Berrima, accompanied by H.M.A. ships Sydney and Australia, for the conquest of German New Guinea. In this expedition he lost, by an accident, the use of three fingers of his right hand and was for some time in Hospital at Sydney, but upon being discharged immediately re-enlisted in the 19th Battn. and left Australia in the Ceramic, 25 June, 1915. He was killed in action in Gallipoli, 29 Sept. 1915; unm. The battn. were on fatigue work with the engineers improving the firing line when it occurred, and Oakes was putting up sand bags, when about 4 a.m. a stray bullet struck him over the heart killing him instantaneously. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. W. K. S. MacKenzie, wrote: “Your son was on my staff at the Liverpool Camp in Sydney before we left Australia and during our stay in Egypt before we came to the Front. I saw much of him and was attached to him, and I feel his loss deeply, it was a great shock to me. He was a fine soldier, and was liked by everyone in the regt. He died bravely fighting for the Empire.” He was buried the same afternoon at the foot of a gully near the sea, and a cross with his name, etc., was erected by his comrades.

=OAKES, ORBELL=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt., 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Orbell Henry Oakes, of Nowton Court, Bury St. Edmunds, late 1st Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., by his wife, Laura Eliza Josephine, dau. of George Clifton, formerly R.N.; b. Mhow, India, 7 Nov. 1880; educ. Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Regt. 28 Jan. 1903, and promoted Lieut. 2nd Yorkshire Regt. 3 Oct. 1906, and Capt. 29 Jan. 1913; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, 1901–2 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 6 April, 1910, to 3 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Moulin du Pietre, near Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm. Buried there. The late Lieut.-Col. W. L. Alexander wrote: “He died in action on 12 March, gallantly doing his duty in a trench near the Moulin du Pietre. He was hit in the head by a bullet, and death must have been instantaneous. He had been doing splendid work with his company since he rejoined the battn., and his loss will be deeply felt by us, both as an officer and a comrade, for he had endeared himself to us all.”

=OAKES, RICHARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109616, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=OAKLEY, GEORGE HOWARD=, A.B., 222020, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=O’BRIEN, HUGH CONOR HENRY=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, eldest s. of Henry Joseph O’Brien, of Whitepoint House, Weston, Queenstown, co. Cork, late Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C., by his wife, Ethel, dau. of Henry Banister; b. Stoke Damarel, co. Devon, 19 Nov. 1880; educ. Clongowes Wood College; Stonyhurst (1896) and Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1899–1900); gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 11 Aug. 1900, and promoted Lieut. 6 March, 1903, and Capt. 1 April, 1910; served (1) in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Jan. to July, 1901; operations in the Orange River Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902, and in Cape Colony, July, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with clasp); (2) on the North West Frontier, India, 1908, as Brigade Signalling Officer, attd. 3rd Brigade, during operations in the Mohmand country (medal with clasp); and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914. On 5 Sept. 1914, he left with the 2nd Battn. for Flanders where, and on the Aisne, he served in the trenches, except for one week’s leave home, until Dec. 1914. On 22 Dec. 1914, after a forced march from Bailleul, the regt. was ordered to retake, at all costs, trenches at Festubert which had been evacuated by Indian troops; advancing over open heavy ground in daylight, Capt. O’Brien, at the head of his company, was first wounded in the left side and fell, but was still able to encourage his men, calling out “Go on Munsters, now is your time to get back your own”; a few minutes later he was killed outright by shrapnel bursting over him; unm. An officer wrote: “He was ever a gallant officer, and died a glorious death after helping a wounded comrade to cover; by his death the regt. lost a most efficient and popular officer whom the men would follow anywhere.” Col. Bent, who was badly wounded, in the same regt., wrote: “I wish to tell you what a splendid officer your son was; you will have this testimony from others, but I must tell you what he was to me, as his commanding officer. He was of the best in every way, and as a company commander was of the greatest use to me—absolutely reliable, he had his company in first-class order. Beloved by all the men and officers, he was such a splendid man and soldier that it seems particularly cruel that he should have been taken so early.” Major Ryan, one of the few surviving officers of that fight, wrote: “From all accounts of everyone nothing could have been more gallant than the way he led his men.” When in India he got a Special Certificate at the School of Signalling, Kasauli. He was a keen sportsman and a good shot with gun and rifle, and on two trips to Cashmere and Baltistan made good bags of big game.

=O’BRIEN, JAMES JOSEPH=, Private, No. 1160, 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of James O’Brien, of 27, Adelaide Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Cooper, by his wife, Mary; b. St. John’s, Newfoundland, 8 April, 1891; educ. Christian Brothers’ School there; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted, 1 Feb. 1915; and died in Edinburgh Hospital, 2 Oct. 1915, following an operation; umn.

=O’CALLAGHAN, DUNCAN MCKAY MACDONALD=, 2nd Lieut. 3rd attd. 2nd. Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 2nd s. of the late Surgeon-Major George Henry Kenneth O’Callaghan, A.M.S., and eldest s. by his 2nd wife, Suzanne Charlotte (Minto House, Newquay, Cornwall), dau. of the late Thomas Harding, of Wick House, Brislington; b. Ludlow, co. Salop, 4 June, 1891; educ. Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Oxford; obtained his commission 10 Aug. 1914, being gazetted to the 3rd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., served with the 2nd Battn. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at St. Eloi, 14 March, 1915; buried in Military Cemetery, Dickebusch, Flanders; unm. At Cheltenham he won the Junior School Championship in Athletic Sports and represented the College in cricket and football. He was a College Prefect and Head of his House. On leaving, he gained a classical scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was elected member of the Oxford University Authentics Cricket Club. He played in the Freshmen’s and Seniors’ matches in football and cricket, and, after leaving Oxford, was a prominent member of the London Irish Football Club.

=OCHS, RONALD PHILIP=, 2nd Lieut., 5th, attd. 4th. Battn. The Middlesex Regt., yr. s. of Capt. James Frank Ochs, of 4, Sloane Gardens, S.W., now (1916) M.L.O. at Dieppe, by his wife, Amy, eldest dau. of Philip Goldsmith; b. 4, Sloane Gardens, S.W., 20 Nov. 1896; educ. at Chertsey, Sunningdale School, and Marlborough College; joined the Public School Battn. of the Middlesex Regt. on the outbreak of war, and was given a commission, 10 Feb. 1915; went to France early in June, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, Flanders, 27 Sept. 1915, and buried the next day at Brandhoek.

=ODDY, JOSEPH ETHELBERT=, A.B., 207511 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=ODGERS, NICHOLAS=, Leading Seaman (C.G.), 179652 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ODLING, ERIC ROBERT MEADE=, Lieut., Royal Engineers, only s. of Charles William Odling, of Craignoon, Ridgway Gardens, Wimbledon, C.S.I., formerly Secretary to the Government of India P.W.D., and Inspector-General of Irrigation, by his wife, Alice Ronayne Mary, dau. of Robert Warren Meade, of Dublin; b. Darjeeling, India, 30 Oct. 1893; educ. Cheltenham College (scholar), passing 3rd on the list into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 20 Dec. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 12 Nov. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and after various services was appointed Acting Adjutant to the Signalling Coy. at Headquarters; invalided home in Oct. but returned to duty the following Jan. joining the 11th Field Coy. at Givenchy, 11 March, and was killed in action at Festubert, a fortnight later, 25 March, 1915; unm. Buried at Chateau Gorre, near Festubert.

=THOMAS-O’DONEL, GEORGE O’DONEL FREDERICK, M.C.=, Capt. and Adjutant, 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Edwin Thomas-O’Donel, of Newport House, Newport, co. Mayo, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Melicent Agnes, dau. of Capt. Richard Annesley O’Donel; b. Dublin, 21 Oct. 1884; educ. Cheltenham College, and abroad; joined the Royal Donegal Artillery Militia in 1902; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 4th Royal Fusiliers, 23 May, 1906; promoted Lieut. 10 April, 1909, and Capt. 26 Nov. 1914; appointed Adjutant, 15 Jan. 1913; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915. Capt. O’Dond was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 19 Feb. 1915]; and was twice mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914, and 18 Feb. 1915]. Brig.-Gen. McMahon, commanding the Brigade, wrote on 5 Nov. 1914: “I think the Battn. has done very well out here, and I hope it will continue to do so. George is going strong and is fitter than when he started, and can claim a very large share in producing such good results as may have been attained”; and Col. Hely-Hutchinson wrote: “I cannot tell you what a shock the whole thing has been to me, we were the closest of friends, we slept together, we fed together, we rode together, and we fought together, and we never had a row for seven months, and the only time we had been separated, George goes and gets killed, and I get off. It is too sad after all the months he had been out and the good work he had done. I myself got a small touch of a shell on the head and have come home for a bit, thank God, as I don’t think I could have carried on any longer out there without George and the rest—we lost six killed and nine wounded officers, and I had no heart and was just tired out and so was George, he just went on till he dropped.” Major F. R. Mallock: “His death is a great loss to his country and the regt.—he served so gallantly and so well; there are few of us left who went out with the Battn., George was the only one of the combatant officers left after the fighting at Ypres. I had a great affection and admiration for him, he did work splendidly right through.” Brig.-Gen. Reginald Pinney, formerly commanding 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, also wrote to the late Capt. Thomas O’Donel’s father: “I am most distressed for you and his mother at George’s death—also for the regt. and the army, for he was fulfilling all the promise he showed when he joined; seeing his name gave me a special shock, for I had just heard of my getting a division, and had been talking of Staff and had hoped to get George appointed a G.S.O.” He m. in London, 26 Nov. 1914, Florence Violet (Newlands, co. Wexford), only dau. of George Claud Flood Braddell, of Newlands, co. Wexford, and Luckington, co. Wilts; s.p.

=O’DONNELL, MARTIN=, Seaman. R.N.R., 2729A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=O’GRAM, CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5549), S.S. 2104, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=O’HAIRE, DAVID=, Private, No. 11058, 6th Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, 2nd s. of the late David O’Haire, by his wife, Agnes (now wife of Private William John McCallister, of Dromore Street, Rathfriland, co. Down, now (1916) on active service with the Royal Irish Rifles), dau. of Thomas O’Haire; b. Lierkelly, Ballyroney, co. Down, 17 July, 1897; educ. Newry Street National School, Rathgueanel; was an active member of the Ulster Volunteer Force; enlisted, 27 Aug. 1914; left Basingstoke, with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, July, 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles on or about 6 Aug. 1915; unm.

=O’HARA, HENRY DESMOND, D.S.O.=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only s. of William James O’Hara, of Oriel House, Ballincollig, Cork, Resident Magistrate, by his wife, Cecilia, 7th and yst. dau. of the late Peter Connellan, of Colmore, co. Kilkenny, J.P., D.L., and gdson. of the late Rev. James Dunn O’Hara, of O’Hara Brook and The Castle, Portstewart, co. Antrim; b. Ballydulf, Thomastown, co. Kilkenny, 21 May, 1892; educ. Dunchurch Hall, Rugby; Charterhouse, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 4 Sept. 1912; promoted Lieut. 29 April, 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 17 March, 1915; took part in the heavy fighting following the landing there, and died on the hospital ship Arcadian, 29 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action on the 12th; unm. Buried in the military cemetery, Gibraltar. “On 25 April, 1915, at Sedd-el-Bahr, he took command of his battn. when all other officers had been killed or wounded. At night, when the enemy broke through the line, he displayed great initiative and resource in organising a successful counter-attack, restoring the line and causing great loss to the enemy.” For this he was awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 3 June, 1915]. Lieut. O’Hara was also mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 20 May [London Gazette, 5 Aug.], 1915, for his conduct during, and after, the landing of the 29th Division on 25 April.

=O’KEEFFE, THOMAS=, Corpl., No. 11022, 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 29th Division, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Richard O’Keeffe, by his wife, Ellen (Dublin Road, Carlow), dau. of Andrew O’Neill; b. Ballykealy Ballon, co. Carlow, 10 Dec. 1892; educ. Christian Brothers Academy, Carlow; enlisted 10 Jan. 1911; was appointed L.-Corpl. 1912, and promoted Corpl. 1913; served in India, Nov. 1913, to Nov. 1914; left England with his regt. for the Dardanelles, 16 March, 1915; took part in the landing there, 25–26 April, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 10 July, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote of him: “On one occasion we were advancing and the enemy’s trenches were about three or four hundred yards in front. At all events, a Sergt. of the Worcestershire Regt. twigged a wounded man lying out in front. At this time we were halted in a ravine preparing to advance, and the enemy’s fire was very heavy; at any rate, the Sergt. shouted at his men that there was a wounded man in front: would some of them go out and take him in? But the fellows all passed it down the line that there was a wounded man out in front: would someone go out and bring him in? At any rate Tom heard it, and asked immediately where the wounded man was. The Sergt. showed him, and Tom shouted round at me, ‘Will you come, Terry?’ Then without waiting for an answer he was out over the top and started running towards the wounded chap. I rushed out after Tom, and between us we got the chap in. He told us he had been lying out there two days—in reality he had been there since about 11 a.m. that morning; it was then about 6 p.m. He was wounded in the shoulder, side, arm and thigh, and had lost an awful lot of blood. He was in that much pain that he thought he had been there two days. The Dublins and Munsters were that weak then that they combined the two regiments and called us the Dubsters. Well, after bringing in that chap we advanced, and succeeded in routing the Turks and dug ourselves in in a new position, from which the New Zealanders relieved us the next day. Well, that is just one of the many little moves I was in with poor old Tom. Now I wasn’t present when Tom was killed; I was in the trenches, and Tom was in charge of a ration party going back along a nullah to draw the company’s rations, when he was killed by a sniper. It appears this sniper had command of this part of the nullah, and blankets and sandbag barricades were put to knock off the sniper, but all to no purpose; he must have been concealed on a hill. It was him that killed poor Tom. The bullet pierced his brain, and he only lived for a couple of minutes afterwards, during which time he was unconscious, so never spoke after being hit. The medical officer was present on the spot, but could not do anything. Tom is buried in a very nice cemetery in a separate grave.” His yr. brother. Richard O’Keeffe, is now (1916) on active service with the London Regt.

=OLDBURY, FREDERICK=, Chief Armourer, 340522, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=OLDFIELD, GUY CHRISTOPHER OTTLEY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regt., attd. King’s African Rifles, only s. of Lieut.-Col. Christopher George Oldfield, late Royal Artillery, by his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, dau. of the late Cortlandt J. Le Bailly, and gdson. of Sir Richard Charles Oldfield; b. Poona, India, 17 Sept. 1888; educ. Clifton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal West Surrey Regt. 19 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911; was seconded for service with Uganda Battn. of the King’s African Rifles, 3 Dec. 1913; served in the Jubaland Expedition in the spring of 1914, and was killed in action at Tsavo, Mombassa, British East Africa, 6 Sept. 1914, while defending the Nairobi Railway against a superior German force armed with maxim guns; unm. His body was recovered two days later and buried at Tsavo. A brother Officer wrote: “It is quite impossible for me to convey to you in words how we all loved the dear lad. Such a shining example of a true Christian gentleman and sportsman.”

=OLDHAM, JOHN HASLOPE=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., attd. 2nd Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., only s. of Ernest Haslope Oldham, of Oakfield, Chudleigh, co. Devon, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Charles Baker, of Portland Square, Bristol; b. Southgate, co. Middlesex, 7 Jan. 1891; educ. Blatchington Place, Sussex, Lancing College, and Hertford College, Oxford (graduated B.A. July, 1913), and on leaving there became junior master at Summer Fields, St. Leonards-on-Sea, in Sept. 1913; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Reserve of Officers, 16 July, 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and gazetted to the 3rd Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 11 Aug. 1914; went to France, 4 Jan. 1915, where he was attd. to the 2nd King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., and was killed in action during the Battle for Hill 60, near Ypres, 18 April, 1915; unm. Buried near where he fell. His Col. wrote: “He behaved in a most gallant manner and will be a great loss to my battn.”; and his Capt. “He was most capable and keen on his work and had done most awfully well all the time he had been out there. He was absolutely fearless, and he fell in the attack on Hill 60 gallantly leading his men forward. He was hit by a bullet early in the charge, but ignoring his wound he went on to the top of the hill. He had just jumped up on the parapet and started to run over the crest of the hill, when he was shot and killed instantly.” An In Memoriam, from the Summer Fields Magazine, stated: “It came as a great shock to us all to read of the death of Lieut. J. H. Oldham who fell at the head of his men on Hill 60. Mr. Oldham, who was educated at Lancing College, and Hertford College, Oxford, came to us as a master in Sept. 1913, and during his 12 months’ stay endeared himself to everybody by his unaffected kindliness, his energy and unselfishness. He was always ready to help the youngest boys, constantly improvising new indoor games for their benefit, and just as keen as he could be on the outdoor games, and the work of the school. We little thought when we said good-bye to him at the end of last Summer Term that we should see him no more, but it was like him to be among the very first to volunteer for active service, without hesitation as without fuss. He was sent to the Front in Jan. and died fighting gallantly early in April. Only a few days before his death he had sent cheery messages to the boys, with snapshots taken in the trenches and numerous inquiries and good wishes for their welfare. His noble example and good influence here will long be remembered.”

=OLDHAM, LESLIE WILLIAM SEARLES=, Major, R.E., only s. of the late Brigade Surgeon Charles Frederick Oldham, by his wife, Harriet Bertha (The Lodge, Bealings, Suffolk), dau. of Thomas Bailey, of Gloucester; b. London, 3 Feb. 1870; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 27 July, 1889; promoted Lieut. 27 July, 1892; Capt. 5 May, 1900 and Major, 27 July, 1909; was in command of the R.E. with the Chitral Relief Force from Gilgit, 1895; was present at the actions at Chakalwat and Nisa Gol and was mentioned in Despatches. In 1899 he joined the Indian Public Works Department and did excellent work especially in connection with water supplies. After the outbreak of war he was recalled; was put in command of the 63rd Field Coy. and went to France in May, and was killed in action on the afternoon of 28 July, 1915, being shot by a sniper while inspecting work in the “Orchard” trench, near Festubert. He was a good all-round sportsman, particularly keen on polo and big game shooting, having done a good deal of the latter on the Pamirs and in the Central Provinces of India. He m. at Jubbulpore, Central Provinces, India, 27 Aug. 1900, Caroline Mary Burton, sister of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and dau. of the late Charles Altamont Doyle, of Edinburgh, and had a dau., Claire Annette, b. Nagpur, India, 5 Sept. 1906.

=OLDMAN, WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2354B., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=OLDREWE, PERCIVAL=, L.-Sergt., No. 8684, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Devon; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 13 Nov. 1914; unm.

=OLDREY, ROBERT JOHN BLATCHFORD=, Capt., 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, eldest s. of the late Robert Blatchford Oldrey, of Harpole Hall, co. Northants, by his wife, Hannah Jane Powell, of The Laws House, Turvey, co. Beds., dau. of the late Richard John James; b. Northampton, 18 June, 1883; educ. Uppingham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Dragoon Guards from the Militia, 26 March, 1902; promoted Lieut. 27 Feb. 1905, and Capt. 21 Jan. 1911; was Adjutant from Jan. to 27 Oct. 1914; served in India, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 15 Aug. 1914; took part in the retreat from Mons, and the severe fighting during Sept, and Oct. and was killed in action while in command of a squadron at Richebourg, Neuve Chapelle, 29 Oct. 1914; unm. He was a keen polo player, and represented his regt. in the Inter-Regimental tournaments; and as a horseman had made his name famous in cavalry circles, being chosen to represent England in the jumping at Olympia, before King Edward and Queen Alexandra, at the 1st Olympian shows. He was also a prominent figure in the hunting world, being an ardent follower of the Oakley and Beaufort Hunt and a winner of many point-to-point races.

=OLIVE, JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A., 7618, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=OLIVER, ERNEST JAMES=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1936), 154787, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=OLIVER, PERCY FREDERICK=, Armourer’s Crew, M. 7341, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=OLLEY, MATT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13391, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=OLLIFF, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 51370, 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of William Olliff, of 13, Grainger Street West, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Motor and Cycle Agent; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 29 March, 1888; educ. Royal Grammar School there; served his apprenticeship with Messrs. C. A. Parsons & Co., Ltd., Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne; went to sea as an Engineer and took a 2nd Engineer’s certificate, afterwards going to British Columbia in Feb. 1913; worked for a time at the Esquimault Dockyard, leaving there to enter the motor trade in Victoria; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Victoria Rifles; came over in Feb. 1915, being one of a hundred picked men for the P.P.L.I., but was drafted to the 16th Canadian Scottish (Gordon Highlanders), and after only a fortnight in England, went with his regt. for the Front; came unhurt through the heavy fighting at Ypres 22–25 April, and was killed by a high explosive shell while resting by the roadside, on the night of 26–27 April, 1915; unm. Private Olliff was offered a commission, but as this entailed a return to Canada, refused it.

=O’MALLEY, EDWARD=, Stoker, R.N.R., 728V, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=O’NEILL, SAMUEL=, Lieut., 6th Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers (T.F.), 2nd s. of Adolf George O’Neill, of Marland Grange, near Rochdale, co. Lancaster, J.P., Manufacturer, by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Holt, J.P.; b. Castleton, near Manchester, 11 June, 1894; educ. Parkgate (Mostyn House School) and Shrewsbury, and on leaving there entered the business of Messrs. Samuel O’Neill & Sons, Paper Tube Manufacturers, of Castleton; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut, in the Territorial Battn. of the Lancashire Fusiliers in Nov. 1911, promoted Lieut. 6 Jan. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; went to the Dardanelles from Egypt, and was killed in action there, 10 June. 1915; unm. He was congratulated by Major-Gen. W. Douglas, Commanding 42nd East Lancashire Division, on an action performed 4–5 June, 1915.

=ONSLOW, BRIAN WALTON=, Lieut., 11th (King’s Edward’s Own) Lancers (Probyn’s Horse), Indian Army, and A.D.C. to Gen. Sir William Birdwood, yst. s. of the late Col. Gerald Charles Penrice Onslow, Royal Engineers, by his wife, Flora Frances Mary (Camperdown, Crowborough, co. Sussex), dau. of the late William Donald, of Lisle House, Cheltenham; b. Gillingham, co. Kent, 24 Aug. 1892; educ. Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Unattached List, 6 Sept. 1911; served his first year with the Royal West Kent Regt., passed into the Indian Army, 3 Dec. 1912. and was promoted Lieut. 6 Dec, 1913; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 28 July, 1915; unm. Buried at Anzac Cove. He was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s despatch of 22 Sept. [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1915]. Gen. Sir William Birdwood wrote: “A finer fellow or better example of the true English gentleman never lived. A son of whom any mother must always have been most justly proud. Never out of temper, always doing what he could to help others, able far above the average. I had hoped a brilliant career was in store for him. Every individual here regrets and feels his death. I have lost the best and bravest of officers, the truest and trustiest of friends”; and a brother officer: “Few people could be so ill-spared. I never met or hope to meet a more lovable character; best at everything he ever did, both in work and play, and always so cheerful. I never heard anyone say anything but good of him, and he was quite the most popular officer both with the men and in the mess.” Admiral ........ wrote from the Dardanelles: “He was a splendid young fellow. We on board only knew him for a few months, but in that short time he made himself very popular with us all. Everybody liked him and admired him, and we looked on him as the true ideal of a British soldier. I fully realise what a great loss his services must be to Gen. Birdwood and to the service generally.” And the Principal of Cheltenham College: “He has left an influence and power behind him that many an older man would be proud to leave.” While at Cheltenham he won a mathematical scholarship, and was one of the most prominent members of the hockey eleven and football fifteen. He was a keen athlete, a good polo player, pigsticker, golfer, etc. Two of his brothers and two brothers-in-law are (1916) serving either in the Army or Navy. His eldest brother, Lieut.-Commander A. G. Onslow, D.S.C., was killed in action in the Battle of Jutland, 1 June, 1916.

=OPIE, ARTHUR GEORGE=, Petty Officer, 204207, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=OPIE, WILLIAM EDWIN=, Cook’s Mate, M. 4659. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=ORFORD, CHARLES THOMAS=, Private, No. 14240. 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late Henry Orford, Platelayer, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Booker; b. Bromsgrove, co. Worcester, 24 Feb. 1882; educ. Stourbridge Road Board School there; worked at the Midland Carriage Works, Bromsgrove; joined the 8th Worcestershire Territorials, 3 April, 1912; was called up on mobilization, 5 Aug. 1914; trained with them until 18 Dec. 1914, when he was discharged as medically unfit for further service, but joined the Coldstream Guards the next day; went to France in Aug. 1915, and died at No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, 18 Oct. following, of wounds received in action. He m. at St. John’s Church, Bromsgrove, 1905, Louisa (17, Homes Cottages, Station Street, Bromsgrove), dau. of Samuel Perrys, and had five children: Henry George, b. 11 Sept. 1905; Charles William and Edna May (twins), b. 12 Sept. 1913; Annie Maud, b. 1 Dec. 1907; and Phylis Mary, b. 4 Feb. 1911.

=ORLEBAR, ROBERT EVELYN=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regt., only child of Lieut.-Col. Evelyn Henry Orlebar, of Rutt House, Ivybridge, South Devon, Royal Marine L.I., Plymouth Division, by his wife, Mary Louisa, dau. of William Morris, of Manchester [Cadet of Orlebar, of Hinwick, co. Bedford]; b. Walmer, co. Kent, 16 June, 1894; educ. Plymouth and Mannamead School, Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Middlesex Regt. 17 Sept. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1914; joined his regt. at Malta in Jan. 1914; went to France, 4 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 9 Jan. 1915, while on duty in the trenches; unm. He was buried in an orchard behind the battn.’s headquarters. Letters from his officers all testify to his courage and sterling qualities. He was good at all school games, hunted with the Dartmoor Fox Hounds, and had his first polo season at Malta.

=ORR, ROBERT WATSON=, 2nd Lieut., 1/18th (London Irish Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 6th s. of John Orr, of 24, Belmont Gardens, Glasgow, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Abreauden Ross, Railway Contractor; b. Glasgow, 19 Dec. 1878; educ. at the Academy there. He commenced his business career in Glasgow in the office of the United Kingdom Provident Institution, and remained with them until he joined the Scottish Life Assurance Co. as Assistant Secretary in London in 1908, and was still in the latter company’s employ when he joined the O.T.C. at the Inns of Court. He was training at Berkhampstead for four months, when he obtained his commission, 5 March, 1915. He joined his regt. at St. Albans, and proceeded with it to France nine days later, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915. He was buried at North Maroc, near Grenay. A good many years ago 2nd Lieut. Orr won a high reputation as a golfer. He was one of the foremost players in the Prestwick St. Nicholas Club, and gained many individual successes; but he will be remembered even more for his resourcefulness in the foursome form of the game. A neat and stylish golfer, he possessed temperamental qualities which made him an ideal partner in double harness. In 1908 he had the distinction of winning with his partner for the New Alban Club (Edinburgh) the “Evening Times” foursome tournament; and, in the same year, he was one of the quartette of players who enabled the New Alban Club to carry off also the “Evening Dispatch” trophy. When he went to London he joined the Northwood Club, and, in partnership with another member, succeeded in winning the London Amateur Foursomes in 1912. Though he never gained the highest honours in the Amateur Championship, 2nd Lieut. Orr was among the last eight in 1906; he also qualified three times—in fact, each time he entered—for the Open Championship. Brig.-Gen. Thwaites wrote to his wife: “He died in the full performance of his duty, superintending the establishment of communications for his battn. He came to his death ... as a brave soldier and gallant English gentleman should do.” He m. at Belhaven Church, Glasgow, 3 April, 1909, Annie Margaret (8, Springfield Road, St. John’s Wood, N.W.), dau. of the late James Crichton, of Edinburgh, J.P.; s.p.

=ORR, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 7938, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., s. of William Orr, of 19, Carlisle Road, Londonderry; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 16 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Richebourg.

=ORROW, ALBERT WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 6317, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ORSLER, GEORGE HENRY=, Private, No. 9144, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, s. of John Orsler, of Bridge Street, Framlingham, co. Suffolk; b. Framlingham; enlisted 14 Oct. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 1 Jan. 1915.

=ORTON, JAMES=, Private, No. 7602, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of James Orton, of 3, Victoria Street, Hinckley, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Samuel Spare; b. Hinckley, co. Leicester, 31 July, 1887; educ. Hinckley Church School; enlisted 11 Jan. 1908; went to France, August, 1914. and was killed instantly in action near Vermelles, Belgium, 24 Oct. 1915; unm. Sergt. Maddison wrote “he had always done his duty well, and was performing a dangerous task when he was shot.” His brother was killed in action, 20 Dec. 1915.

=ORTON, JOHN THOMAS=, Private. No. 12933, B Coy., 8th (Service) Battn. Leicestershire Regt., 3rd s. of James Orton, of 3, Victoria Street, Hinckley, by his wife. Maria, dau. of Samuel Spare; educ. Hinckley Council School; was a Shoe Hand; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and joined the 8th Leicesters, 3 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 28 July to 20 Dec. 1915, on which day he was killed in action, two months after his elder brother; unm. His company officer, Capt. H. L. Beardsley, wrote: “It is with much regret, and the deep sympathy of myself and the other officers of my company, that I have to convey the sad news of the death of your boy, who was killed by a sniper on the 20th inst. whilst carrying out his duties; he was shot through the heart and died almost immediately. A thorough, conscientious, hard-working lad, he will be sadly missed by us all.”

=OSBEN, GEORGE THOMAS=, Private. R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 11918, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=OSBORNE, ALBERT VINCENT=, Private, No. 1837, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Albert Osborne, of Water Mill, Guestling, by his wife, Kate, dau. of William Dennett; b. Guestling, co. Sussex, 23 Nov. 1893; educ. there; was a Milkman; joined the Sussex Territorials, 26 Feb. 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was sent to Dover, and then to the Tower; went to France, 18 Feb. 1915, and, after being in the trenches, was resting at a farm on 16 May, when a shell burst, killing and wounding many. Osborne was sent to the 2nd General Hospital at Manchester, where he died, 24 May, 1915; unm.

=OSBORNE, BRIAN=, Capt., 15th (The King’s) Hussars, yr. s. of the late Capt. Frank Osborn, of Harbury Hall, near Leamington, 13th Hussars, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Thomas Lever Rushton; b. Sydney, N.S.W., 18 Nov. 1888; educ. Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 15th Hussars, 8 Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1909, and Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; went to France, 23 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, 11 Nov. 1914, during the assault on the trenches near Herenthaze Château by the Prussian Guard. He had been sent with his machine gun to support the Duke of Wellington’s Regt. He was at first reported missing, and it was not until the following March that confirmation of his death was received in a letter from one of his machine gun section, a prisoner of war in Germany; unm. At Harrow he was successful in both cricket and football, and was first string at racquets; at Sandhurst he won the sword of honour; and in 1908, after joining the 15th Hussars, he attained a great record of first-spears in pig-sticking when quartered at Muttra. As a polo player he came to the front with amazing rapidity, playing for his regimental team and winning the South African Inter-Regimental Tournament in 1911, and repeating the event against more powerful opponents in the English Inter-Regimental Tournament at Hurlingham in 1913. As a member of the Cavalry School team and the Cavalry Club team he lent his aid successfully, and was invited by Lord Ashby St. Ledger, now Lord Wimborne, to practise in the international team of 1914, as choice for the American Expedition. He was a fine rider to hounds, and well known in the Warwickshire country.

=OSBORNE, FRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9092), 198537, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=OSBORNE, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 1597, 1/6th (Cyclist) Battn. Suffolk Regt.(T.F.), 2nd s. of William Osborne, of 33, Salisbury Road, South Lowestoft, one of the staff of Lowestoft Central Station, by his wife, Mary Ann. dau. of (—) Hill, of London; b. Lowestoft, 19 April, 1892; educ. there; was a Waiter at the Imperial Hotel, Lowestoft; volunteered and joined the Cyclist Battn. of the Suffolk Regt. in Oct. 1914, and died in the Isolation Hospital, Lowestoft, 2 Feb. 1915, of disease contracted while on active service; unm.

=OSBORNE, JOHN ALFRED VICTOR=, Private, No. 3204, 2/1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of George Christopher Osborne, ex-Sergt. Criminal Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard, by his wife, Louisa Helen, dau. of George Peall, of Chertsey, Surrey; b. Marylebone, London, 17 June, 1897; educ. Barnsbury Park High Grade School; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Royal Fusiliers, 12 Nov. 1914; trained at Tonbridge; went to Malta, 1 Feb. 1915, where the regt. performed garrison duty until 9 Sept., when they were sent to Egypt, and thence to the Dardanelles on the 19th, where he died, 27 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action; unm. A comrade wrote; “I was out with your son on the night he was killed, but was not very near to him, so I did not see the last of him. He was shot in the muscle of the arm by an explosive bullet, and got wounded very severely, dying on admission to the hospital. He was buried by some of his fellow mates, and a cross erected over his grave with suitable wording. If ever a man died doing his duty for his King and Country, your son did, and it was a marvel to me how the remainder of us out that night did not get killed.... Our platoon have been very unlucky, and out of Jack’s section there are only about three of us left.”

=OSBORNE, JOHN HENRY=, Leading Stoker (Coastguard), 308083, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=OSBORNE, LESLIE HALL=, Lieut., 9th Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd s. of John Hall Osborne, of Summer Court, Queen’s Walk, Ealing, formerly of China, by his wife, Jane Jenkinson, dau. of Capt. John Whittle; b. Shanghai, China, 2 July, 1894; educ. St. Edmund’s, Canterbury, where he won distinction on the Modern side, and went into residence at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in Oct. 1912. Having tried for an Honorary Entrance Scholarship in Medieval and Modern Languages in 1911, he was placed 2nd Class in that subject in the Intercollegiate examination of July, 1914, and was given his degree in the following year under the regulations for men on active service. He was studying at Greifswold when war was declared, and going (5 Aug. 1914) to Stettin to appeal for help to the British Consul, was arrested as a spy and detained for four days, when he was released and ordered to leave the country. At St. Edmund’s he had been a keen member of the O.T.C., gaining Certificates A and B, and on reaching England he applied for a commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut., 9th Lancashire Fusiliers, 2 Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 June, 1915. He left England with his regt. early in July; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay on the night of 6 Aug. 1915, and fell the following day early in the advance to the attack of Hill 10, shot through the heart. His body was recovered next night and buried with those of five brother officers in rising ground about the middle of Suvla Beach, just north of the Canal that leads into the Salt Lake; unm. His elder brother, 2nd Lieut. W. J. Osborne, was mortally wounded in the same action. While at Christ’s College, Cambridge, he took an active part in the Hockey XI. and in the Lent term, 1913, played in goal in most of the University matches. He also occasionally played for the Surrey Club.

=OSBORNE, MAURICE GODOLPHIN=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, 3rd and yst. s. of the late Sidney Goldolphin Osborne, Commissioner of Inland Revenue (died 1903), by his wife, Margaret Dulcibella (51, Elm Park Gardens, London, S.W.), dau. of Hugh Hammersley, of 6, Cromwell Gardens, London, and grandson of the late Rev. Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne [yr. bro. of George, 8th Duke of Leeds]; b. London, S.W., 1 July, 1889; educ. The Old Ride, Bournemouth and Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Rifle Brigade, 20 April, 1910; promoted Lieut. 23 Dec. 1911, and Capt. 15 Dec. 1914; was appointed machine gun officer in May, 1913; went to France, 5 Sept. 1914, and died in Bailleul Hospital, 25 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action in the trenches near Armentières on the 10th, while making an emplacement for one of his machine guns; unm. Buried at Bailleul. Capt. Osborne was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 23 June, 1915. He was a member of the Army Revolver Thirty in 1912, and won several cups and prizes in the All-Ireland Rifle Meeting of 1912 and 1913, both individually and in the Regimental Officers’ Team, and in 1911 he won the Regimental Heavyweight Point-to-Point, on his own horse Chance.

=OSBORNE, WILLIAM JOHN=, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, eldest s. of John Hall Osborne, of Summer Court, Queen’s Walk, Ealing, formerly of China, by his wife, Jane Jenkinson, dau. of Capt. John Whittle; b. Tientsin, China, 9 Nov. 1891; educ. St. Edmunds, Canterbury, and in Germany for some months, and after spending two years in the office of a Chartered Accountant, entered his father’s office in London, and was to have taken up an appointment in China in Oct. 1914. At school he was a member of the O.T.C., and during his subsequent residence in London joined the H.A.C., but had resigned some time before war was declared. He enlisted in the 18th Battn. (1st Public School) Royal Fusiliers, 11 Sept. 1914, and was given a commission, 24 Nov., and posted to the 9th (Service) Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers with which regt. he left England in July. On 6 Aug. they landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. He was wounded the following morning in an attack on Hill 10, and died of his wounds two days later (9th) on board the Hospital Ship Sudan. His company commander (Capt. Milnes), writing from Alexandria, said: “The men who are back here wounded, all say how very well he did during the landing. He was an excellent officer who looked after his men, often at the expense of himself, and no work was too big for him. He never left anything unfinished. He was a good friend and my right hand platoon officer.” A brother officer who picked him up, and had him carried off the field, said he was quite cheerful though very weak, and only anxious about his men and his brother (Lieut. L. H. Osborne, who was killed there the same day, see his notice). 2nd Lieut. Osborne was conspicuous at school as an athlete, especially in hockey and football, and was always deeply interested in natural history, especially in birds; in fact, sports of all kinds appealed to him very strongly. He was a member of the Wild Fowlers’ Association and of the True Waltonian Society.

=O’SHEA, MICHAEL JOHN=, Private, No. 5111, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, s. of Patrick O’Shea, of 70, Ethel Street, Cardiff, Labourer, by his wife, Mary; b. Cardiff, 3 Jan. 1897; educ. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School, Canton, Cardiff; enlisted 1 Nov. 1913; went to France 21 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée 21 Dec. following. His company officer, Capt. Ford, wrote highly of him, and added he “was buried beside a shrine, and his grave is beautifully turfed and has a cross with his name on it.”

=OSMOND, ERNEST HERBERT=, Pensioner, Blacksmith, 340821, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=OSMOND, HAROLD COOMBS=, Cook’s Mate M. 5542, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=O’SULLIVAN, ARTHUR MOORE=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, only s. of the late Patrick O’Sullivan, Advocate-General, Madras Presidency, by his wife, Sydney Jane (Auburn, Greystones, co. Wicklow), dau. of William Daniel Moore, M.D.; b. Ootacamund, India, 19 Aug. 1878; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and Hertford College, Oxford; enlisted in the Oxfordshire L.I. in 1900; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Irish Rifles, 23 July, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1906; Capt. 11 March, 1910; was adjutant of his regiment from 1 Jan. 1910 to 31 Dec. 1912; served in the South African War, 1900–01; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal, April, 1900, to April, 1901 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 1 Oct. 1905 to 22 Nov. 1907; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm. Capt. O’Sullivan was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=OTELLIE, WILLIAM GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3678), 196618, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=OTTLEY, GEOFFREY CLAUDE LANGDALE, D.S.O.=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, only child of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Langdale Ottley, of 17, Queen’s Gate Gardens, S.W., and Coruanan, Fort William, Inverness-shire, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O., by his wife, Kathleen Margaret, dau. of Col. Alexander Stewart, R.A., and grandson of the Rev. Lawrence Ottley, Canon of Ripon; b. Southsea, co. Hants, 20 Jan. 1896; educ. Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Scots Guards, 1 Oct. 1914; promoted Lieut. 10 Dec. (ante-dated to 9 Nov.); went to France, 7 Nov., and died in the Australian Voluntary Hospital, Wimereux, near Boulogne, 21 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action while leading an attack on the enemy’s trenches on the 18th. Lieut. Ottley was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous gallantry and good reconnaissance work.

=OUSLEY, GEORGE=, Leading Seaman, 230179, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=OWEN, ALFRED FREDERICK=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 204497, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=OWEN, CHARLES=, L.-Corpl., No. 7668, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 23 Aug. 1914.

=OWEN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 9004, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 1 Jan. 1915.

=OWEN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 10022, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Bushey, co. Renfrew; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 16–18 May, 1915. Buried near Richebourg St. Vaast, in front of Dead Cow Farm; m.

=OWEN, EDWARD REID=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 107833, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=OWEN, ERNEST HADDON=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., attd. 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, elder s. of William Haddon Owen, of Louth, co. Lincoln, formerly of Little Grimsby Hall, co. Lincoln, Solicitor, by his wife, Elizabeth Vincent, dau. of Charles Leftwich Oldfeld Bartlett, of Burton House, Sherborne; b. Louth, 4 Feb. 1886; educ. Llandaff Cathedral School, Stancliffe Hall Preparatory, and Haileybury, where he was in the College Cadet Corps; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th (Militia) Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 15 Oct. 1904; later transferring to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn., and was promoted Lieut. 8 May, 1911, and was Musketry Instructor; left the Army in 1912; was admitted a Solicitor in 1909, joining the firm of Haddon Owen & Son, of Louth. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his old regt., 15 Aug. 1914, with the rank of 2nd Lieut., and was gazetted Lieut. 23 Dec. 1914; went to France, 12 Nov., being attd. to the South Wales Borderers, and was killed in action at Festubert, 21 Dec. 1914; unm. Buried on the battlefield. His commanding officer wrote: “He was killed 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”; and a brother subaltern: “Your son was in the leading company. We had to drive the Germans from the trenches which the Indians had lost the day previously. You will be glad to hear we got those trenches. He was most brave in the advance, and those of us who saw him advance could not help but note his coolness and unconcern.”

=OWEN, FRANK JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I., 12974 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1437), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=OWEN, GEORGE WEBSTER=, Capt., 1/10th Battn. The Manchester Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Thomas Owen, of The Pollards, Penketh, near Warrington; b. Eccleston, co. Lancaster, 27 July, 1882; educ. Warrington Grammar School, and Manchester University (where he was in the O.T.C.), and later was a Yarn Agent in Manchester. He joined the 2nd Volunteer Battn. Manchester Regt. in 1899; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., in the 10th Battn. Manchester Territorials, ... April, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 15 March, 1912, and Capt. 31 Aug. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 6 June, 1915, during the attack on Krithia. Lieut.-Col. J. B. Rye wrote: “He was with his company, which had been attd. to the Royal Fusiliers, and during the three days’ hard fighting had made quite a name for himself, by the leading of his men and the example he set them, and it was whilst taking them on to recapture a Turkish trench that he was killed. Please accept the most sincere sympathy of myself and all the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of his Battn. in your great loss. We have lost a cheerful and popular comrade.” Capt. Owen m. at Unnston, co. Lincoln, 20 July, 1910, Ruth Mary (Glentworth, Ramillies Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire), dau. of S. W. Cocks, of Unnston; s.p.

=OWEN, HUGH=, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd Battn. The Border Regt., yr. s. of Sol Owen, of Odessa, Russia, Merchant, by his wife, Elizabeth dau. of William Rees; b. Sevastopol, Crimea, 30 May, 1890; educ. Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Cranbrook (1901–7); Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne (1907–10); and Durham University, where he obtained his degree of B.Sc. While at Cranbrook he was in the Cadet Corps, attd. 2nd Volunteer Battn. The Buffs, East Kent Regt., and at Durham University was a Corpl. in the O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Border Regt., 21 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 8 April, 1915; went to the Front, 13 Nov. 1914; was wounded at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; returned to duty on 6 April, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915; unm.

=OWEN, NORMAN MOORE=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, yr. s. of the Rev. Octavius Edward Owen, Rector of Over Wallop, co. Hants, formerly Lieut. Royal Marine Artillery, by his wife, Ella Jane, yr. dau. of Col. John Patrick Briggs, of Strathairly, Fife, late Indian Army, b. Flempton Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds, 16 Dec. 1893; educ. Stubbington House, Fareham, and Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 18 July, 1913; went to France 18 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. 1914; unm. Buried at Chassemy, France.

=OWEN, THOMAS=, Private, No. G./1234 (8th Service) Battn. Royal Fusiliers; served with the Expeditionary Force in France etc.; died 29 July, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=OXENBRIDGE, GEORGE HERBERT=, Private, No. 3644, 2/4th Battn. Royal West Kent Regt. (T.F.), only s. of George Edward Oxenbridge, Private, Royal Sussex Regt. (now serving in Egypt), by his wife, Eliza Annie (33, Shelly Cottage, Denny Bottom, Tunbridge Wells); b. Tunbridge Wells, 26 April, 1897; educ. Rusthall and Church of England Schools there; enlisted 21 Dec. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 22 Aug. 1915, while acting as a stretcher-bearer, and was buried at Anafarta Plain. An officer of his platoon wrote: “It was on 22 Aug., a man was wounded outside the trench; your son went out after him to bring him in, and was shot dead. I was sorry indeed, as he was a very good soldier, cheerful and very willing, also a general favourite amongst his fellow comrades. He did a very brave act, and I am very sorry indeed to lose him”; and a comrade: “We were in some heavy fighting that day and chaps were shot down anyhow, and one Welsh boy was severely wounded and laid out in front of our lines, and as they asked for volunteers to fetch him in, Pat, who was a stretcher-bearer, volunteered and was shot before he got to the chap; it was a very brave deed and deserved the D.C.M. All our company miss him very much.”

=OZANNE, EDWARD GRAEME=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Edward Chepmell Ozanne, of Le Platon, Guernsey, Bailiff of Guernsey, by his wife, Frances; b. Guernsey, 5 April, 1883; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Fusiliers, 8 May, 1901, and promoted Lieut. 19 Oct. 1904, and Capt. 23 April, 1912; served in the South African War, 1902; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, and in those of the Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, Feb.-31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 18 Jan. to 14 Feb. 1915; and was killed in action in trenches at Ypres on the latter date. Buried in the Ramparts there. He m. at Bombay, India, 17 Oct. 1913, Aline (52, Lower Sloane Street, S.W.), dau. of the late Lieut.-General Josias Gordon Cloete, Indian Army; s.p.

=PACKER, REGINALD CHARLES=, Sergt., No. 53, A Squadron, Essex Yeomanry (T.F.), s. of the late Handal Henrico Packer, Architect and Surveyor, Proprietor of Angel Hotel, Wellingboro’, and subsequently of the Cliff Hotel, Dovercourt, by his wife, Emily Mary Jane (Cliff Hotel, Dovercourt), dau. of (—) Hobbs, of Stroud, Glos.; b. Wellingborough, 5 Dec. 1888; educ. Wellingborough and Eye Grammar Schools; worked with his father until his death in 1909, and subsequently managed the Cliff Hotel, Dovercourt, for his mother; joined the Essex Yeomanry in 1908; was promoted Sergt. in 1912 for work in connection with regimental signalling, and was in charge of the signallers of the regt.; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war; went to France 29 Nov. 1914; was selected in Jan. for a special signalling course, with about 50 others, from which he passed out No. 11, and died in Hazebrouck Military Hospital, 19 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres on the 13th. Buried in Hazebrouck Cemetery. Capt. Parker, of the Essex Yeomanry, wrote: “I can a little realise your loss, for I have been learning signalling lately and have seen a good deal of him, and have learnt what a charming fellow he was. As you probably know he was a signaller of exceptional ability and in that way alone he was a serious loss to the regt. But apart from that he has become a very good soldier and his troop officer during the last two months has been continuous in his praise of the work he has done. He is a sad loss to the Squadron, and was very popular with all and we shall miss him sadly.” He m. at Ufford, co. Suffolk, 28 Nov. 1914, Marion (2, Station Road, Dovercourt), elder dau. of the late Quartermaster-Sergt. George Thomas Rushton-Rudd, of the Essex Regt.; s.p.

=PADDAY, WILLIAM HAMILTON=, Capt., 36th, attd. 47th Sikhs, Indian Army, yr. s. of the late Col. Arthur Charles Padday, Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, by his wife, Alice Hamilton (30, Orsett Terrace, Hyde Park W.), dau. of the late Thomas Campbell Foster, Q.C., Bencher of the Middle Temple, and Recorder of Warwick; b. Stoke Devonport, 21 Sept. 1881; educ. Bath College (where he was a prominent member of the football XV in 1898); and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1900–01); gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.) Indian Army, 8 Jan. 1901; served his first year with the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. then in the Punjab; was gazetted to the 36th Sikhs, 7 April, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 8 April, 1903, and Capt. 20 July, 1911; was for some time attd. to the Military Police in Assam, but rejoined his regt. in 1910. Home on leave when the European War broke out, he was for a short time attd. to the 8th Service Battn. West Riding Regt. at Belton Camp, but early in Nov. joined the 47th Sikhs in France, and was serving with that regt. when he was killed in action near Givenchy, 21 Dec. 1914; unm. His Col. wrote that he “died a most gallant death gallantly performing a difficult task”; and an officer who was in the trenches with him: “His coolness and great personal bravery alone commanded admiration, and his unfailing cheerfulness under any circumstances.” And another: “When we had reached the bit of trench we had been told to retake, the Germans were found to be in each end of it with machine guns. On previous occasions it had been found that the most effective method of turning the enemy out of such positions was for parties of bomb-throwers to creep up to the part occupied by the Germans, and by throwing bombs amongst them, drive them out bit by bit. Your son was in charge of our regimental party of bomb-throwers, whom he had personally trained, and he went off with the party to try and dislodge the Germans. A Sepoy who was with him says that he had thrown two bombs and was preparing a third, when he was shot at close range through the head.... Owing to the heavy fire the Germans opened on the party it was quite impossible to remove the body. The party had to make their way back, and just then a retirement was ordered and the trench was evacuated. The subsequent counter-attack, in which the regt. did not participate, did not reach that trench at all, so it was never possible to recover the bodies of those who had died there.” He was a keen sportsman, fond of shooting, fishing and yachting. He was Hon. Secretary of both the Lucknow and Naini Tal Yacht Clubs, and won several cups when racing in the latter club.

=PADDOCK, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109803, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=PADDY, ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10197), S.S. 2639, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=PAGE, ALBERT=, Private, No. 7345, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late William Page, by his wife, Jane (12, Andover Road, Hornsey Road, Holloway), dau. of William Finch; b. Highgate, 27 Nov. 1887; educ. St. Mary’s School there; enlisted 12 July, 1907; served three years with the Colours and then passed into the Reserve, and worked as a Carman; was mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was killed in action 30 Oct. following; unm. Buried in Rentel Woods. His brother, Private Frederick Page, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., was killed in action, 10–14 March, 1915, and his two other brothers are now (1916) on active service.

=PAGE, ALFRED=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8840), 198471, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=PAGE, DAVID=, Gunner, R.M.A., 10386, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=PAGE, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 11334, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of the late William Page, by his wife, Jane (12, Andover Road, Hornsey Road, Holloway), dau. of William Finch; b. 4 May, 1889; educ. Arkley School, Barnet; enlisted 15 Oct. 1906; served seven years with the Colours (including five years in India), then became a Carman with Carter Patersons; mobilised Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept., was wounded 15 Oct. (the same month his brother, Private Albert Page, was killed, see his notice), and invalided home; returned to the Front in Feb., and was killed in action between 10–14 March, 1915; unm.

=PAGE, JOHN=, Petty Officer (T.), 194013, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=PAGE, THOMAS=, Colour-Sergt., R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., A. 589), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=PAGE, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7537), 291867, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=PAGE, WILLIAM WILLIE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9632), S.S. 2347, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=PAGET, GEORGE GODFREY BRANDRETH=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only child of Charles Edward Paget, of Great Houghton House, near Northampton, by his wife, Ethel Pilkington, dau. of the late Rev. Canon William Harper Brandreth, Rector of Standish, Lancs.; and gdson. of the late Sir George Edward Paget, K.C.B., M.D., F.R.S.; b. North Bentcliffe, Eccles, co. Lancaster, 6 April, 1891; educ. St. Andrew’s School, Eastbourne (1901–05), and Charterhouse (1905–08); joined the 3rd (Militia) Battn. of the Northamptonshire Regt. as 2nd Lieut., 29 April, 1908, and was promoted Lieut. in the Special Reserve, 26 July, 1910; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the 1st Battn., 14 Aug. 1914, having crossed with it to France on the 12th; served through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Marne, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; unm. “His Coy. were attacking under a very heavy shell fire and rifle fire also,” wrote Lieut. Farrer. “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 all the time.” The Adjutant, Capt. Lloyd, also wrote: “You know he died doing his duty, and that his name will be handed down to posterity, amongst the others of the Regt., as being one who assisted to uphold the glorious traditions of our Regt., and who emulated the deeds of times gone by.” His body was not recovered, but was seen on 17 Sept. about 40–50 yards from the German trench, when a Coldstream officer succeeded in getting some letters out of his pocket by which his body was identified. The body was lying about 300 yards in front of our trenches.

=PAINE, CHARLES PERCIVAL=, Corpl., No. 554, Army Service Corps. (Motor Transport Section), s. of Charles Paine, Master Tailor, by his wife, Emma; b. Old Kent Road, E., 19 May, 1876; educ. Dulwich; joined the 22nd Middlesex Volunteers about 1894; attaining the rank of Sergt.; served in the South African War, 1899–1900, with the C.I.V. Mounted Infantry (Queen’s medal with three clasps); joined the Motor Transport Special Reserve in Oct. 1912; was called up on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force on the 6th; was promoted Corpl. in Dec. for valuable services rendered in the field, and died in No. 10 Military Hospital, St. Omer, 17 Feb. 1915, from cerebro-spinal meningitis. Buried in the Cemetery of Remembrance there. He m. at the Baptist Church, Attleborough, 17 Sept. 1901, Harriet Jane (52, Thorpebank Road, Shepherd’s Bush, W.), eldest dau. of Francis (and Harriet) Smith-Newby, of Attleborough, co. Norfolk, and had four children: Francis Percival, b. 11 Oct. 1902; Charles George, b. 21 Oct. 1905; Geoffrey Herbert, b. 24 Feb. 1908; and Evelyn Hattie, b. 16 Feb. 1904.

=PAINE, CHARLES WILLIAM STANLEY=, Capt., Royal Marine L.I., eldest s. of William Henry Paine, of Derwent House, Canterbury, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Buss; b. Canterbury, 22 Dec. 1876; educ. Tonbridge (The School House, 1891–95); and on leaving there qualified as an Electrical Engineer. After being some time in Queensland, he went to South Africa, and took part with the Border Police in putting down the native rising in Bechuanaland. When the South African War broke out he was in England. He volunteered and went out with the Electrical Engineers, serving later with Steinecker’s Horse, and receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps. At the end of the war he returned to England, and was for some time once more at the electrical power station in the Isle of Thanet. In May, 1905, he returned to South Africa, and cleared and farmed a large tract of land in Mashonaland. Towards the end of 1909 he returned to England, and was farming in Hampshire when war began. The day after war was declared he left home to serve with the Legion of Frontiersmen, but after three months of duty at Southampton, finding that the Legion had little chance of being sent to the Front, he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.N.D., 19 Nov. 1914. He was promoted Lieut., R.M. attd. R.N.D., 23 Nov., and Capt., R.M., on 8 Dec. 1914. He went out to the Dardanelles in May with the Benbow Battn. of the R.N.D., and was in action almost immediately. On the disbanding of the Benbow Battn. he was transferred to the Hood Battn., and was instantaneously killed in action, 17 July, 1915, being shot by a sniper while attempting to get help for a wounded man. He was buried in the trench—Ferril Gap, where he fell. “He was,” wrote one who knew him well, “a thorough sportsman, a man of unfailing courage and cheerfulness, equally ready to share his purse and his last meal, not only with friends, but with anyone who seemed in need of either. No one has ever more cheerfully and unassumingly lived the golden rule than he, as scores of men down on their luck, and many a tired animal too, could testify.” He had a distinct literary and poetical bent, and published, as a rule, anonymously, a good many things, mostly short stories, both in English and in Rhodesian magazines. Two of his short poems, one entitled “The Dead,” appeared in the “Westminster Gazette” in 1915. He m. at St. George’s Cathedral, Capetown, 24 Aug. 1908, Lilian Josephine (Barnfield, Medstead, Hants), 2nd dau. of the late Joseph Naylor, of Hull, and had three children: Geoffrey William Wright Halden, b. Umbali, Rhodesia, 27 Aug. 1909; Catherine Mary, b. 27 Dec. 1910; and Josephine Halden, b. 8 Feb. 1914.

=PAINE, SYDNEY WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Divisional Field Coy. New Zealand Engineers, only s. of William John Paine, of Ashton Road, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, Accountant, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Shadrick Moordaff; b. Auckland, 9 April, 1891; educ. Maungakaramea County School, Wellesley Street City School, and Auckland Grammar School; joined the New Zealand Engineers (Volunteers) in 1906, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in No. 3 (Auckland) Coy. 21 Feb. 1911; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war and joined the Expeditionary Force as a Sapper, but was shortly afterwards given a commission, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 20 May, 1915; unm. Buried there. Lieut.-Col. Pridham wrote: “It may be some consolation to you to know that he had done wonderfully good work ever since he landed here, and the loss to the Engineers will be very severely felt. He was absolutely trusted by the men under him and was, I think, the most unconcerned under fire of us all. He died on duty, reconnoitring for a fresh advance against the enemy”; and Capt. W. Limm: “Your son was with me—I knew him really well, and he was a personal friend of mine and was a splendid chap. I cannot tell you all I know of him in a letter, but you can be very proud of him.” Sapper F. Leyland also wrote: “We got a shock last night, for we lost our section officer, Lieut. S. W. Paine. He was the best officer we had, and I had known him for years. He was at the Grammar School when I was, and was in the same company of Engineers as I was in Auckland. A finer chap I never met—his first thoughts were always for the men, and he always mixed up with them. Just before he was shot he was laughing and joking with us. When the news came down that he was shot and had rolled down the gully, we rushed up to get him, but by the time we found him he was dead. We feel lost without him, and are feeling pretty miserable.” He was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Bronze Medal for saving a comrade from drowning at Fort Cantley, and was congratulated by Col. Wolffe on being the first Territorial in camp to receive it.

=PAINE, THOMAS HARRY=, Leading Telegraphist, 239741, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=PAINTIN, SHAYLER=, Sergt., No. 9784, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, yst. s. of the late Joseph Paintin, of West End, Witney, Carpenter, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of J. Mann, of Witney; b. Witney, co. Oxon, 5 April, 1885; educ. Wesleyan Higher Grade School there; was a Grocer; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 17 Sept. 1906; went to India with the 1st Battn. in 1909; served there until the outbreak of war; returned to England, Nov. 1914; went to France the following month, and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 12 May, 1915; unm. His Coy. Sergt.-Major wrote: “He was highly respected by the officers, N.C.Os. and men, and a better soldier never wore the uniform. He died like a good British soldier in the trench not far from the machine gun he was in charge of. We buried him in the Bellewarde Wood, near the village of Hooge, about 4 kilometres from the now ruined city of Ypres.” Sergt. Paintin was a keen sportsman and a first-class shot, and at the Royal Scots Rifle Meeting he won the championship medal, India, 1912; he was in C Coy. hockey team, which won the Meay Ahmed Hockey Cup, 1911–12, and at the Royal Scots Rifle Meeting he won third prize, aggregate, 1914.

=PAKENHAM, CHARLES JOHN WINGFIELD=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., s. of Major Charles Pakenham, of Headon Hall, Alum Bay, I.W., late 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers and Royal Irish Fusiliers [gdson. of the Hon. Sir Thomas Pakenham, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, 3rd s. of Thomas, 1st Earl of Longford], by his 2nd wife, Gertrude Edith Mary, yst. dau. of William Wingfield; b. Northam, near Bideford, co. Devon, 25 April, 1892; educ. Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Victoria College, Jersey; joined the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. of the Hampshire Regt., in Aug. 1910; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn., then at Mhow, India, 21 Jan. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. following; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there three days later (28 April); unm.

=PAKENHAM, ROBERT EDWARD MICHAEL=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Munster Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Major Charles Pakenham, of Headon Hall, Alum Bay, I.W., late 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers and Royal Irish Fusiliers [gdson. of the Hon. Sir Thomas Pakenham, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, 3rd s. of Thomas, 1st Earl of Longford], by his wife, Emily Blanche, dau. of Charles Hercules Harrison, of Singapore; b. Armagh, 27 July, 1874; educ. Lausanne House, Worthing, and United Service College, Westward Ho!; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 March, 1897, and promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1898, and Capt. 1 May, 1902; served (1) in the South African War, 1899–1900, 1902; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including action at Belmont; operations in the Orange Free State, April to May, 1900, and those in Orange River Colony, May to June, 1900 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died in the Military Hospital, Boulogne, 17 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action. He m., 12 Sept. 1900, Nancye (Ballinacurragh, co. Cork), 2nd dau. of William Fowler, of Broadlands Park, Liverpool, and had three children: Ivo Robert Lygon, b. 4 Dec. 1903; Osmund Edward Michael, b. 20 April, 1905, d. 13 April 1906; and Emilie Estelle Rosemary, b. 4 Feb. 1907. His yr. brother, Lieut. C. J. W. Pakenham, was killed in the Dardanelles (see his notice).