The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 (part 3 of 10)

The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 (part 3 of 10)

=BRENAN, BYRON EDWARD=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., yst. s. of Edward Vincent Brenan, of Poulton, Sneyd Park, Bristol, late Commissioner Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs (died July, 1915), by his wife, Marion Mabel, dau. of Major-Gen. John Thornhill Watson, B.S.C.; b. Hong-Kong, 22 March, 1895; educ. Clifton College, was in the O.T.C. there; joined the Army on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Gloucestershire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914. On 19 March he was attached to the 2nd battn. at the front, and was killed while leading his men to repair a trench which had been absolutely destroyed by a shell, 18 April, 1915; buried at Ypres; unm.

=BRENCHLEY, ARTHUR=, Leading Seaman, 215494, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRENCHLEY, GEORGE CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6640), 223932, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRENCHLEY, ROBERT HENRY=, 1st Class P.O. Blacksmith, No. 156247, H.M.S. Cressy, s. of Henry Brenchley, of St. Peters, Thanet, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Epps; b. 25 Jan. 1868; educ. St. Peter’s National School; served in the Navy for twenty-two years, and in 1912 became an attendant at the Broadstairs Cinema. On the outbreak of the war was recalled, 3 Aug. 1914, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Broadstairs, 11 Nov. 1903, Louisa (20 Albion Street, Broadstairs), dau. of Henry Mawlings of Walford, near Ross, co. Hereford, and left a dau., Mary Louise, b. 7 May, 1905.

=BRESLIN, ANDREW=, Private, No. 3103, 1st Battn. Irish Guards, s. of Patrick Breslin, of Ballyorr, near Londonderry, Labourer; b. St. Johnston, co. Donegal, 4 Dec. 1885; enlisted Aug. 1908, served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action during a charge on a strong enemy position, 1 Nov. 1914; unm.

=BRESLIN, PETER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8656), S.S. 105078, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRETT, CHARLES=, A.B., 162505, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BRETT, CHARLES=, Private, No. 1707, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Walter Brett, of Lodge Farm, Wingfield, Harleston, Norfolk, Farmer, by his wife, Sarah Jane, dau. of the late John Welsh Berry, of Great Yarmouth; b. Styleham, Suffolk, 22 Oct. 1886; educ. Brockdish Council School, Norfolk; emigrated to Australia in July, 1911; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 9 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action between 9 and 11 Aug. 1915, at Gallipoli; unm.

=BRETT, CHARLES ARTHUR HUGH, D.S.O.=, Lieut.-Col., 2nd Battn. The Suffolk Regt., eldest s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Arthur Brett, A.P.D., formerly of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), by his wife, Georgina, dau. of Hugh Hannay, Paymaster R.N. (who served through the Napoleonic War and was taken prisoner at Verdun in 1812); b. Muttra, India, 28 March, 1865; educ. privately and at Sandhurst; entered the Army as Lieut. 9 May, 1885; was promoted Capt. 15 June, 1894; Major, 24 Feb. 1906, and Lieut.-Col., 24 Feb. 1914. From Jan. 1895–Jan. 1899, he was Adjutant of the 1st Battn. of the Suffolk Regt., and of the 4th Battn. at Ely in 1900, and from Dec. 1909 to Dec. 1912 was in command of the Depot at Bury St. Edmunds. He served in the Hazara Expedition in 1888 and received the medal with clasp, and in the South African War, 1899–1901. He was in command of one of the four companies of the 1st Suffolks which, on 5 Jan., made the night attack on a ridge in the Colesberg district, and when they suffered repulse he found himself in charge of the party of 107 which was cut off, and after making a gallant resistance, until their ammunition gave out, and during which Capt. Brett was severely wounded, had no alternative but to surrender. After his release he rejoined his regt. and saw service in the operations east of Pretoria, and in the Orange River Colony, from July to Oct. 1900. He was mentioned in the general’s despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and also the D.S.O. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Le Cateau, France, 26 Aug. 1914. The 2nd Battn. of the Suffolks arrived at Le Cateau about 7 p.m. on the 25th, and bivouacked at the barn, and made themselves comfortable for the night, although the Germans were following close on their heels. The remainder of the Brigade was fairly close at hand. On the 26th the Suffolks had breakfast at 3 a.m., and fell in at 4 a.m. to take up their allotted positions, which were about half a mile to their rear. Two of the battns. (Nos. 3 and 4) of the Brigade were to occupy the trenches which had already been prepared for them, and the Suffolks (No. 1 Battn.) and the 4th Battn. of the Brigade was placed in reserve. Afterwards the Suffolks were moved out in front of the battery and No. 4 Battn. to the right, to protect the guns. The Suffolks had barely taken up their position and commenced to use the web equipment entrenching tool when the Germans opened fire on the battery and dropped a shell right among them. The fight developed and the regt. hung on, protecting the guns, but had to put up with a good deal of shelling which was intended for the battery. They also came in for a good deal of enfilading fire from the German guns. This went on for several hours. It was very difficult to feed the firing line with ammunition, especially when the German infantry drew near. Our infantry and maxim guns simply mowed them down, but still they pressed on, and for a time they recoiled, and then came on again. The battery at one time was firing at them at about 800 yards range, and some of our men, especially of C Coy. (Capt. Orford), got hit with our own shells. Nothing could show itself in the open without drawing a terrible fire from the enemy. The first line of transport was ordered to retire and get away the best way it could. The batteries and the infantry brigade stuck to their positions, and continued the fire, hoping to be reinforced, as General Sir Charles Fergusson had given out that 40,000 French troops were expected. Eventually the order to retire was given, but the old Suffolks had little ammunition left, and the casualties were enormous; very few men were able to retire. In the early part of the fight about 50 wounded Suffolks were carried to the dressing station and to the field hospital. These, together with the other wounded, were shown as “missing,” with the exception of Col. Brett, who was killed early in the fight by a shell. Col. Brett was buried on the battlefield and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 7 Sept. 1914. A brother officer wrote: “If ever there was a commanding officer that I would wish to have gone on service with, it was he whose loss we now mourn. The one consolation is that he fell as a soldier at the head of his regt. for whom he did so much, and who, everyone of them, looked up to him, admired him. and tried to follow his grand example in everything. His life was noble and straight, and his death was the same. We of the regt., or what is left of it, mourn his loss as the best of comrades”; and another one wrote: “I don’t suppose there was a single commanding officer in the service more beloved by the officers and men. We had all so looked forward to his getting command, and were delighted at the prospect of serving under him. His loss to the regt., as it is to you, is absolutely irreparable.... It will be a long time before we cease to grieve for a gallant soldier, and one of the best and kindest of men.” One of his former subalterns also wrote: “I thought I would like to write to you to tell you that I was his subaltern that night at Colesberg in 1900 when he was shot, and to say that he was a very gallant fellow. Though shot through the lungs, he kept up command of his Coy., and actually charged the Boer trenches in this state, until he fell exhausted from loss of blood. I have no doubt he was just as brave in France when he met his glorious death, and I write these few words in the hope that should they be shown to his wife, it may console her just a little to know that there are a few of his comrades of that night left, who will remember him always as one of old England’s most gallant sons.” Col. Brett was fond of travel and astronomy, and joined when on leave Sir W. Christie’s party to Sfax, Tunisia, 1905, to witness the Eclipse, and received thanks from the Admiralty for his assistance to the Astronomer Royal. During other leave he visited Mesopotamia, and was interested in exploring Muscat, Bagdad, Babylon, and other places. He m. at St. Mary-at-the-Walls Church, Colchester, 6 Jan. 1909, Enid Geraldine (The Cottage, Lexden, Colchester), eldest dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Harry Hamersley St. George, Senior Ordnance Officer, Scottish District (and sister of Lieut. G. S. W. St. George, 1st Gurkha Rifles, who was killed in action, 27 April, 1915, see his notice), and had one dau., Ione Moncrieff St. George, b. 10 Oct. 1909.

=BRETTELL, SAMUEL THOMAS=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 210526, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BREWER, FRANK=, A.B., 207025 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=BREWER, JOHN HAROLD=, Private, No. 169, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of John Brewer, late Worcester Regt., by his wife, Emily Isabella Margery, dau. of John Harley Bedford, late Superintendant of Post Offices, Bombay Presidency; b. Poona, India, 7 June, 1892; educ. Church School, Liskeard, Cornwall, and on leaving there served as an errand boy with Mr. Rapson, the Mayor for three years there; joined the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. in 1908, and two years later emigrated to Australia, where he was employed at the Parkside Tannery, Preston, until the outbreak of the war when he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action in Gallipoli, 8 May, 1915; unm.

=BREWER, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, Private, No. 10398, 1st Battn. Wiltshire Regt., 2nd s. of George Brewer, of 81, Shamrock Cottage, Chippenham, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of William Neate, of 42, Wood Lane, Chippenham; b. Chippenham, co. Wilts, 19 May, 1893, and educ. British School there; an old Territorial he enlisted in the Wilts Regt. 1 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action at Ypres 13 Nov. 1914; unm. A comrade wrote: “The officer called for volunteers to rush a road, and he was the first to leave trench, and by so doing was killed with a Maxim gun.” Private Brewer was a well-known Wiltshire footballer, and was formerly a captain of Chippenham Town, but in 1913 signed on for Swindon and played one match with the first eleven.

=BREWIN, WILLIAM HENRY FRANK=, Private, No. 1749, 7th Battn, Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Henry Brewin, of 90, St. Loys Road, Bruce Grove, Tottenham, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of Richard Henry Calvert; b. Stoke Newington, 12 May, 1896; educ. Earls Mead School there; joined the Middlesex Territorials about 1911; volunteered for foreign service Aug. 1914; went to France the last week in Feb., and was killed in action there, 13 April, 1915; unm.

=BREWSTER, HERBERT JOHN=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4774), 169829, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRIAN, HERBERT CECIL=, 2nd Lieut. 59th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, eldest s. of Hyla Edwin Brian, Military School, Cairo, and of Holmbury, Berkhampstead, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Charles Elliott; b. Abbassieh, Cairo, Egypt, 23 Dec. 1891; educ. Berkhampstead School, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted to the 18th Battery 20 Dec. 1912, with which he served in England until June, 1914, when he left to join the 59th Battery in India, and returned the following Dec. to Portsmouth, and went from there to the Front early in March, 1915. He was present and took part in the action of Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action near Fromelles, while performing the duty of forward observing officer in the trenches, 9 May, 1915. He was unm. and was buried in an orchard near where he fell. His commanding officer wrote of him: “He was a splendid officer and absolutely fearless in the execution of his duty.”

=BRICE, HENRY COPELAND=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Leicestershire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Francis Strange Brice, of Middlemeade, Stoughton Drive, Leicester, J.P., by his wife, Margaret Alice, dau. of Thomas Henry Downing; b. Leicester, 28 Nov. 1893; educ. Mill Hill School, London; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. 10 May, 1913. When war was declared he volunteered for Imperial Service, was gazetted Lieut., 22 Oct. 1914, and died at Bailleul, France, 12 June, 1915, of wounds caused by the premature explosion of a rifle grenade at Dranoutre, Belgium. He was buried at Bailleul. His commanding officer wrote: “I cannot forbear saying how profoundly I regret his death, and how great a loss he is to the battn. He was the Grenade Officer and had charge of the bomb throwers. His work in that position was of a high quality. He was absolutely fearless, and I believe that his men would have followed him anywhere. He was of the type of which leaders are made, and the Army can ill afford to lose such men.”

=BRICKETT, RALPH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7013), S.S. 101618, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRICKWOOD, ARTHUR CYRIL=, Lieut., 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., elder s. of Sir John Brickwood, of Southsea and Hindhead, by his 2nd wife, Jessie, dau. of the late John Cooper, of Burghfield; b. Southsea, 1 Nov. 1896; educ. Twyford, near Winchester, and Charterhouse; entered Sandhurst, Feb. 1914; gazetted to York and Lancaster Regt., 30 Sept. and was engaged on coast defence at Cleadon and South Shields. On 2 Feb. 1915, he took out drafts of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to France, and on arrival was sent to Rouen Hospital suffering from a sharp attack of influenza. On recovery he rejoined, and was in and out of the trenches seven times. He was taken ill in the trenches with septic throat, 11 April, and was sent back to the base hospital at Boulogne, where, after two operations, he died 15 April, 1915; buried at Grayshott.

=BRIDGELAND, HUBERT EDWARD=, Private, No. 11478, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; 5th s. of the late John George Bridgeland, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, Carpenter, by his wife Eliza (16 Silverlands Road, Silver Hill, St. Leonards-on-Sea), dau. of George Dearing, of St. Leonards-on-Sea; b. Hastings, 8 Feb. 1897; educ. Tower Road Board School; enlisted the last week in Aug. 1914; went to France 8 April 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 27 Sept. 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “It was while we were advancing that he met his fate, a shell exploding just in front of him, the shock proving fatal. He was neither hit nor wounded, it was purely the shock.”

=BRIERLY, ALWIN HUARD=, Private, No. 1281, 25th Battn., 7th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, Marine Painter to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by his 2nd wife, Louise Marie, eldest dau. of Louis Huard, of 37, Onslow Square, S.W., and Brussels; b. London, 26 Jan. 1877; educ. in London; went to South Africa as a lad in 1895, and after some years there left for New Zealand, and finally settled in Australia about 1907. After the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and enlisted at Mackay, North Queensland, in Oct. 1914, and after training at Enogerra Camp, Brisbane, from March to Aug. 1915, left for Egypt with the second reinforcements. He died in No. 27 General Hospital at Mudros, 1 Jan. 1916, from uremia, brought on by exposure in the trenches, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm.

=BRIGGS, CHARLEY=, Private, No. 6479, 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., 1st s. of Samuel Briggs, of 1, Ganny Yard, Elland Road, by his wife, Emma; b. Brighouse, co. York, 9 Jan. 1886; educ. there; enlisted 7 Aug. 1902, and was killed in action 1½ miles S.E. of Tyron, 20 Sept. 1914. He m. at Southowram, 13 Aug. 1910, Emma Jane (5, Elland Road, Brookfoot, Brighouse, co. York), dau. of (--), and had three daus., Mary, b. 9 Feb. 1911; Mabel, b. 5 Jan. 1913; and Muriel, b. 6 Oct. 1914.

=BRIGGS, GEORGE CLARK=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, only s. of Francis Briggs, of Huntington, near Haddington, Teak Merchant and Shipowner, by his wife, Esther White, dau. of James Munro, of Moffat, M.D. [by his wife (--), dau. of Dr. George Smith, Fleet Surgeon, R.N., who at one time served with Nelson]; b. at Edinburgh, 4 March, 1878; educ. Edinburgh Academy, Malvern College and Clare College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 3 May, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 24 Feb. 1900, and Capt. 18 April, 1915. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902, taking part in the Relief of Ladysmith and was taken prisoner at Colenso, but was released on the entry of Lord Roberts into Pretoria. He was sent with Boer prisoners to Ceylon. On his return he took part in the operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, including the actions at Frederickstad, 17–25 Oct. 1900, and was employed with the Rand Rifles from Dec. 1901, to June, 1902, and was then chosen for the Mounted Infantry. For his services he received the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two. He afterwards served in India, again in South Africa and accompanied the first Expeditionary Force to France. He was killed in action at Vailly-sur-Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, while extracting his men out of a position from which they had to retire. Capt. Briggs was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914, for gallant conduct during the retreat from Mons. Corpl. T. Gibson and Private Cox of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, both home wounded, related in The Scotsman of 17 Oct. the following incident: “In the retreat from Jemappes the Germans were pressing the Fusiliers closely, and towards evening the coy. reached the village, dead beat after a long march. Capt. Briggs got the men together and gave the order to fix bayonets. At the same time he spoke a few patriotic words with regard to the regt. and its illustrious history, pointing out that it had never been known to surrender. The Capt. said he was prepared to make a last stand and with bayonets fixed the men waited on the enemy coming through. The last stand was not needed, however, as the Germans did not press home their advantages.”

=BRIMBLE, CYRIL GEORGE MICHAEL=, Private, No 72029, Machine Gun Section, 27th Battn. (Winnipeg L.I.), 6th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force; 4th and yst. s. of Edward Henry Brimble, of Milton, Weston-super-Mare, retired Banker, by his wife, Agnes Edith, dau. of George Shadbolt, P.R.M.S.; b. Fish Ponds, co. Gloucester, 11 Sept. 1888; educ. Lewisham School, Weston-super-Mare; went to Canada in March, 1911, and settled at Winnipeg. In Feb. 1915, he volunteered and joined the Winnipeg L.I., and was killed in action at Neuve Eglise, 16 Oct. 1915, being the first of his battn. to fall; unm. He was buried in Locre churchyard the following day with full military honours.

=BRIMBLECOMBE, THOMAS=, Private, No. 91133, 7th (Service) Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 13 Aug. 1915.

=BRINDLE, JAMES=, Private, No. 17367, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancashire Regt., s. of Hugh Brindle, of 29, Pickup Street, Blackburn, by his wife, Jane Eliza, dau. of Henry Tomlinson; b. Blackburn, 16 Sept. 1893; educ. Holy Trinity School there; prior to the outbreak of the war was employed as a weaver in Sparrow’s Mill, Quarry Street; joined the Army 25 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 8 May, 1915; unm. Five of his brothers are, or were, on active service, Private Joseph Brindle, 3rd Battn. East Lancashires; Ewen, 4th Battn. East Lancashires; and Alfred, Lancashire Fusiliers, are serving in France; George is in the Navy; and the yst., Private Thomas Brindle, Scottish Rifles, has been discharged, having had his finger blown off at the Battle of the Aisne.

=BRINDLEY, THOMAS LESLIE ST. JOHN=, Private, No. 12037, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. Worcester; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915; unm.

=BRINGLOE, THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 470, 1/5th. Battn. (The Buffs) East Kent Regt. (T.F.), 5th s. of the late John Bringloe, of Cranbrook, co. Kent, by his wife, Mary (Lauriston, High Street, Cranbrook), dau. of Henry Curry of Foulden, Norfolk; b. Didlington, co. Norfolk, 6 April, 1891; educ. Didlington and Cranbrook National Schools, and was Gardener to Col. Alexander; joined the Cranbrook Territorials in 1906; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for India (Kamptee) in Oct. 1914; went to Mesopotamia, Dec. 1915; and died 8 Jan. 1916, from wounds received in action at the Battle of Sheikh Saad, the previous day; unm. He was bugler to Col. Munn-Mace.

=BRISTOW, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Gunner, R.M.A., 10280, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BRISTOWE, ROBERT OWEN=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., only s. of the late Stanley Bristowe, Member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Ethel (now wife of William Henry Harrison, of 13, Oakley Street, Chelsea, S.W.), dau. of John Pike, and grandson of Robert Henry Bristowe, of Wavertree, Sydenham Hill, S.E.; b. Sydenham, 5 Sept. 1888; educ. Parkfield, Haywards Heath; Charterhouse, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Devonshire Regt., 14 Oct. 1908, and joined at Plymouth 21 Nov. following; served in Crete, Malta and Egypt, and was promoted Lieut. 4 May, 1911. He obtained a “distinguished” in both the rifle and machine gun courses at the Hythe School of Musketry between Jan. and March, 1913, and was Acting Adjutant in Cairo and at the front. When the European War broke out he was home on leave from Cairo and was sent to the camp at Saltash, Cornwall. He rejoined his battn. on its return from Egypt, and proceeded with it to the front on 5 Nov. 1914; came home on short leave 21 Jan. 1915, returning to the front on the 27th of the month, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. He was mentioned for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 5 April, 1915 [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915]. The second in command of the battn. wrote: “His loss to the regt. is immense, and to me, personally, more than I can say...; he was always so cheery, and the whole of the officers, N.C.O.’s and men of the battalion share your grief.... He was cool and collected as he always was under all circumstances, and he led his platoon splendidly.” The officer commanding his company at the time said: “To me it seems impossible that such a catastrophe could have happened to the most wonderful nature I have ever met. His death has left all of us that remain in the battn. simply stupefied.... You will remember that he took his platoon over that machine gun and rifle swept ground, losing half his platoon, and when they arrived at the German trench the remnants laid down under the German parapet, while Bob knelt up and fired from two to three dozen shots at Germans who were firing at our troops advancing further to the left. There seems no doubt at all that he accounted for some dozen and a-half of them, until one of them spotted him and hit him behind the left ear.... Only 18 men out of 53 now remain of his platoon ... more than one gulped down a lump when reminded of their beloved officer and friend. They just loved the old lad. I have never known any person so universally admired and loved as he was by everyone”; adding: “his advance greatly helped to cause the whole German line to retire.” A private wrote: “I feel sure that I am expressing not only my own thoughts but those of my comrades of the platoon which has had the honour of serving under the leadership of so brave a gentleman as the late Lieut. Bristowe. It is hardly necessary for me to add that his loss is most keenly felt by us all.” The platoon sergt. wrote: “I trust you can now realise how bravely and fearlessly our gallant leader met his death, not caring about himself as long as he could make the attack successful.” His cousin, Private Stanley Bristowe, died on active service 18 June, 1915 (see following notice).

=BRISTOWE, STANLEY=, Private, No. 2063, Hon. Artillery Company, eldest s. of Percy Robert Bristowe, of Roundwood, Hutton, Essex, member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Elizabeth Frances Mary, dau. of Henry Edward Milner (late of) Woodlawn, Kingswood Road, Norwood, and grandson of Robert Henry Bristowe, of Wavertree, Sydenham Hill, S.E.; b. Waverley, Bromley, Kent, 29 May, 1893; educ. Charterhouse; joined the Hon. Artillery Company in Sept. 1914, and died in hospital, St. Omer, France, of illness contracted while on active service in France, 18 June, 1915. He was buried in the Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer; unm. His cousin-german, Lieut. R. O. Bristowe, was killed in action 14 March, 1915 (see preceding notice).

=BRITT, ALBERT HENRY=, Private, No. 3245, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; enlisted 16 Jan. 1900; served in South Africa, 7 Nov. 1901 to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 11 Sept. to 29 Oct. 1914; was reported missing on the latter date, and is now assumed to have been killed in action 29 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1914. He m. Rose (1, The Row, Elmdon Heath, Salihill, Birmingham) and had six children.

=BROAD, EDWARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 281620, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=BROAD, GEORGE ALFRED=, Private, No. 7751, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Oct. 1914; m.

=BROAD, WALTER=, Sergt. Shoemaker, No. 5641, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Broad, of North Evington, Leicester; b. Leicester, 3 Jan. 1883; educ. there; served with the 3rd Battn. Leicester Regt. in the South African War (Queen’s medal with two clasps “Cape Colony,” “South Africa, 1902”); enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, 8 Aug. 1904; became L.-Corpl. 3 Oct. 1905; Corpl. 5 Jan. 1909; Sergt. and Sergt. Shoemaker 26 July, 1913; served in Egypt 29 Sept. 1906, to 20 Oct. 1908, and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Mons, 16 Sept. 1914. He m. at St. Peter’s Church, Mount Sorrell,--Aug. 1910, Nellie (170, Main Street, Mount Sorrell, Leicestershire), dau. of Harry Rudkin, of 170, Main Street, Mount Sorrell, and had two children: Walter, b. 29 Oct. 1914; and May, b. 2 May, 1912.

=BROADHURST, JOSEPH HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 6723), S.S. 101291, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BROADRICK, JAMES GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4540), 282164, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROADWAY, HUGH ALEXANDER=, Lieut., R.E., eldest s. of Alexander Broadway, Magistrate and Landowner in the Punjab, India, by his wife, Lizzie Welford, dau. of Kinsey Beaumont Thomas, of Upton, co. Worcester; b. Mussoorie, India, 23 June, 1891; educ. Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; obtained his commission, 25 July, 1912. On the conclusion of the usual two years’ course at the S.M.E., he volunteered for India, and was sent to Gosport in July, 1914, for an electric lighting course prior to embarkation. On the outbreak of war, Broadway was at first employed in hutting the troops for coast defence, and then on some miscellaneous work at Netley Hospital and in the Southampton district, to his great and natural disappointment. But it was not for long, and in Nov. he was ordered to report at Chatham for service in a field company to be sent to the front, where he afterwards served in the 15th Field Coy. under Major P. K. Betty, R.E., to which he appears to have been transferred at the front. Here Broadway was specially commended for good work in design and execution of defences in an important position, christened “Port Arthur,” and specially commended for the excellent and gallant work carried out by himself and his section of the 15th Coy. R.E. by the Brig.-Gen. commanding the 24th Infantry Brigade, through the Headquarters of the 8th Division in March, 1915. The 10 March saw Broadway preparing the defences of a post captured outside Neuve Chapelle, and in the afternoon of that day he was bending down in an exposed position to bandage one of his sappers who had been shot when he was himself hit in the shoulder, and the bullet injured his spine. He was immediately carried to the dressing station and sent out to the base hospital, but eventually died there on 30 March. Hugh Broadway was specially fond of Rugby football among games, was a keen soldier, and very popular with his fellows, and put all his energy into the subject in hand. Many letters testify similarly to that of the Major commanding his company, who wrote: “Your son, during the short time he was in the company, endeared himself to us all, and worked hard at whatever he undertook,” and his all too brief career was crowned by his posthumous mention in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, “for gallant and distinguished service in the field.”

=BROADWELL, THOMAS=, Private, No. 6675, 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., 2nd s. of Robert Broadwell, of Hull, Blacksmith, by his wife, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Peterson; b. Hull, 5 Sept. 1876; educ. Blundell Street Board School there; served for six or seven years in the 1st East Yorks Rifle Volunteers; worked for 21 years with Charles Hatfield, of Hull, Coal Merchant, and after the latter’s death in 1912, for himself as a coal dealer; was called up on the outbreak of the war (11 Aug. 1914), and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 9 April, 1915. He m. at Sculcoates Parish Church, Hull, Lily (7, Walter’s Terrace, West Parade, Hull), dau. of William Atkinson, and had five children: Robert William, b. 8 March, 1903; Harry, b. 29 May, 1904; Laura, b. 7 Feb. 1899; Lily, b. 27 Sept. 1907; and Muriel, b. 2 July, 1912.

=BROADWOOD, MAXIMILIAN FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Queen’s Own West Kent Regt., s. of Francis Broadwood, of Hever Court, Singlewell, Gravesend, and his wife, Mary Sylvia, dau. of the late Maximilian Hammond Dallson, of Hamptons, co. Kent, J.P., and grandson of the late Thomas Broadwood, of Holmbush, co. Sussex; b. Brunswick Place, Hove, co. Sussex, 1 April, 1893; educ. Evelyns (G. T. Worsley), Hillingdon, Uxbridge; Wellington College, Berks; and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt. 4 Sept. 1912, and joined the 1st Battn. in Dublin 9 Oct. following. He was killed in action near Wasmes, during the retreat from Mons, 24 Aug. 1914; unm. Col. Martyn, the officer commanding the battn. at the time of his death and during his two years’ service, wrote: “He was a boy with a future before him; was beloved by us all, always cheerful, and a great loss not only to his family but to his regiment and his country. He was killed at the same time as Major Bereford and Capt. Phillips, both in his company, which had been sent to help another battn. in difficulties.”

=BROCK, JOHN=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 344374, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=BROCK, JOHN RAMSAY=, L.-Sergt., No. 28957 16th Battn. (72nd Seaforth Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force; only s. of George Dunning Brock, of Greattree Estate, Chagford, Devon, by his wife, Seraphina Wagstaff dau. of Andrew Devoy Ramsay; b. Brantford, Ontario, 21 Sept. 1876; educ. Lapford College, North Devon; went to Canada in Aug. 1903, and was a builder, but on the outbreak of war enlisted, 18 Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent, Oct. 1914, went to the front Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert between 18 and 20 May, 1915. He m. at Chagford, Devon, 19 Nov. 1894, Rose Edith (1860, 14th Avenue East, Vancouver, B.C.), 2nd dau. of William Lyddon, of Portland House, Chagford, and has two sons and three daus.: Jack Ramsay, b. 31 March, 1904; Roy Dunning, b. 29 July, 1906; Rita Ramsay, b. 30 April, 1900; Violet Palmer, b. 10 Oct. 1901; and Emily Wilfreda, b. 14 April, 1911.

=BROCKBANK, SIEGFRIED HARRISON=, Private, No. 2559, 7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of James Harrison Brockbank, by his wife, Nettie Carpenter (the distinguished violinist known as Madame Nettie Carpenter), dau. of Dr. Wesley M. Carpenter, of New York; b. Highgate, 4 Feb. 1895; educ. Westminster Cathedral Choir School, and after spending five years there went to St. Edmund’s as a church student in Sept. 1908. He was placed in the 2nd School of Rudiments, but showing more than average ability, was promoted to the 1st School of Rudiments at the beginning of the spring term, 1909. At the end of the year, feeling that he had no vocation to the priesthood, he left the college and returned to the Choir School, where he remained for about a year. In Oct. 1910, he entered the Civil Service, but only remained there 18 months, as by that time a position in a London bank was offered him, which he accepted. In this profession he was making rapid progress when the war broke out. Cheerfully sacrificing all future prospects, he was among the first to join the New Army, enlisting in the 7th Middlesex Territorials on 10 Aug. Owing to previous experience in the Civil Service Cadet Corps, where he had obtained the rank of colour-sergt., he was dispensed from preliminary training, and on 2 Sept. he left England to take up garrison duty at Gibraltar. After six months spent at the Mediterranean fortress, he returned to London about the middle of Feb., and on 12 March left for active service in France. In a letter dated 27 May, 1915, he wrote: “Before the scourge, as we call the attack we made or helped to make on the 9 May, I had been feeling rather seedy for some time back, but I recovered just in time, and was luckily feeling fit. On the 7th I took part in what ‘Eye-witness’ in The Times of the 13th describes as a brilliant little affair of outposts, which took place in front of our trenches. The next platoon to us was holding the head of a sap, a sort of trench that ran from our lines slant-wise up to within 30 yards of the German trench. On the night of the 7th some Allemands raided the head and got in, but were speedily put to flight. We had sustained a few casualties, but they left four dead on the spot. While it was going on a wounded fellow of ours rushed up and said that the Germans were inside the sap. You can imagine the feelings with which I, one of the first to reinforce, went up to this sap in the pitch darkness, expecting every moment to find the Germans in possession. Luckily it was all over, except for an anxious all-night watch. The next evening was filled with preparation for the attack. Wire-cutting parties, ladder carrying parties, grenadiers, and lastly the assaulting troops coming in at night. We were moved a little in rear occupying a redoubt. After our bombardment we saw our fellows going over the parapet, their bayonets gleaming in the lovely sunshine--a stirring sight. We heard they had carried three lines of enemy trenches. Then the Germans shelled us, being the supports, and I think the strongest of us got terrified as the shells burst all around us. We were all heartily glad when in the evening the order came to man the trenches, and we found our fellows had been beaten back. The trench (our firing trench) was full of the remnants of the battns., and the whole air alive with hubbub. The Germans turned a heavy machine gun fire on to us, and the artillery started sending red-hot shells across the black sky. Morning revealed many painful sights, but we were glad to hear that the French had advanced considerably at the same time as we made our attack. We had drawn their reinforcements to us. I do not think our casualties were over heavy, as very many wounded crawled back under cover of night, and they will mostly recover. I have taken on a job the nature of which I must not mention, which precludes me from the trenches for a little while.” This it afterwards transpired was to learn grenade throwing, some 200 yards behind the firing trenches. On 5 June, the enemy finding the range of the French headquarters by means of their aeroplanes, subjected them to heavy shell fire. He fell covered with wounds, and expired a few minutes later from shock without regaining consciousness. Writing to his mother, his Capt. said: “He was always bright and cheerful and a thoroughly good soldier, and was liked and respected by officers and men alike. His company put a small wooden cross on his grave with I.H.S. upon it, which they took from a ruined church near by, knowing he was a Catholic.”

=BROCKELBANK, LAURENCE SEYMOUR=, Lieut., 3rd, attached 1st, Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of George Seymour Brockelbank, of Elm Lodge, Blackheath, member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Julia, dau. of the late Henry Turner, of Court Lodge, Knockholt, Kent; b. Eliot Park, Blackheath, 21 Sept. 1892; educ. Lindesfurn, Lee and Tonbridge School; entered the army as 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. King’s Own, 5 May, 1914, and is believed to have been killed at the Battle of Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914, being reported missing from that date. Lieut. Douglas C. Robinson wrote, 1 Nov. 1914: “On 26 Aug. all the young officers had been accounted for except your boy. Some of the Lancashire Fusiliers told me when they went up to clear away the wounded that they saw a very young-looking officer, the description of which tallied with your son, lying dead absolutely next to our Colonel (Col. Dykes). Unfortunately we could not get up to them afterwards.” From a statement made to the Rev. Gabin McFadyeen, of Saltash, by Private Copperwhaite, who had for some time acted as Lieut. Brockelbank’s servant, it appears that the “King’s Own” had been surprised by the German machine guns and lost heavily. Lieut. Brockelbank led his men heroically after he had been wounded, but a retreat became necessary, and while that was in progress he was killed instantaneously by the bursting of a shell. According to the list compiled by Capt Davy, R.A.M.C., he was buried at Hautcourt, between Cambray and Le Cateau. He was gazetted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; unm.

=FITZHERBERT-BROCKHOLES, THOMAS JOSEPH=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of William Joseph Fitzherbert-Brockholes, of Claughton Hall, Garstang, co. Lancaster, J.P., D.L., C.A., by his 2nd wife, Blanche Winifred Mary, dau. of the late Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir Henry Hugh Clifford, V.C., K.C.M.G., C.B.; b. London, 4 May, 1887; educ. The Oratory School, Edgbaston, and New College, Oxford; gazetted to 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, then in England, 24 June, 1908, but exchanged in July, 1910, to the 2nd Battn. then at Calcutta; was promoted Lieut. 15 Feb. 1911, became Adjutant 21 Feb. 1914. On the outbreak of war he returned with his battn. to England (Oct.), and went with it to the Front early in Nov., and was promoted Capt. on the 15th of that month. He was wounded on 20 Dec., but not seriously, and was able to remain on duty, and was on constant service with his battn. in the trenches (with the exception of a short leave of seven days) until the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, when the 2nd Battn. was given a leading part in the attack, and was the first to get through the village on 10 March and entrench themselves on the far side of it. Two days later he was shot through the head while directing the fire of a machine gun in beating off a violent counter-attack, and died 14 March without recovering consciousness. Capt. Fitzherbert-Brockholes was mentioned for his services in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May. When in India he secured a special certificate at the School of Signalling at Kasauli, and a First Class at the School of Musketry. He was very keen and good at games and all kinds of sport, did excellent work in the cricket field for the Oxford University Authentics and the Green Jackets, and played polo for his regiment. All who came in contact with him spoke in the highest terms of his efficiency as a soldier, of his absolute fearlessness, and of his consideration for others.

=BROCKIE, DAVID=, Private, No. 75230, A Coy., 29th (Vancouver) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of the late Thomas Brockie, of Hawthornside, Hawick, co. Roxburgh, Farmer, by his wife, Anne Henderson, dau. of the late William Renwick, of Byrecleuch and Chapel Mains, co. Berwick; b. Hawthornside afsd., 1 Dec. 1878; educ. Hobkirk Public School, and Teviot Grove Academy, Hawick, and after a business training went to India, where he was for seven years with Whitaway, Laidlaw & Co. After a brief visit home he went to Vancouver about 1911, and after the declaration of war volunteered and joined the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada in Oct. 1914. He was transferred to the 29th Battn., came over with the second Contingent, went to France, 17 Sept. 1915, and was mortally wounded on 4 Nov. following, and died two days later in No. 2 Clearing Station at Bailleul. He was buried in the cemetery there; unm. For going to his assistance when he fell wounded and carrying him to a place of safety while under heavy fire, L.-Corpl. Alfred J. Hourston was awarded the D.C.M.

=BROCKLEHURST, EDWARD HENRY=, Capt., 6th (Rifle) Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 5th s. of the late Henry Brocklehurst, of Sefton Park, Liverpool, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of William Hutchings; b. Waterloo, near Liverpool, 15 May, 1878; educ. Harrow, and became a chartered accountant. He joined the volunteers in 1900 and was made Capt. of the 6th Battn. King’s Regt. 22 June, 1910, when he secured the certificate of proficiency qualifying him for higher rank. He was on the Special Reserve of officers, and had been gazetted as regimental instructor of musketry a short time before war broke out. He immediately volunteered for foreign service, and was killed while leading a charge at Hill 60, near Ypres, 5 May, 1915; unm.

=BROCKLESBY, DENNIS=, Armourer’s Crew, M. 6674, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BROCKWELL, WILLIAM JAMES=, Stoker, Petty Officer, K. 2386, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRODIE, EWEN JAMES=, 11th of Lethen and Coulmony, co. Nairn, D.L., Capt., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 2nd and only surviving s. of the late James Campbell John Brodie, 9th Laird of Lethen and Coulmony, Lord Lieut. of co. Nairn, by his wife Fanny Sophia Constance, dau. of Edmund Thomas Wedgwood Wood, of Henley Hall, co. Salop; b. at Lethen, 17 July, 1878; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted as 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the 2nd Battn. of the Cameron Highlanders, 26 May, 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1902, and Capt. 3 May 1911. He served in the Mediterranean, Africa and China, and from 1909 to 1913 was Adjutant to Lovat Scouts (T.F.), when he rejoined the 1st Battn. of the Camerons at Edinburgh Castle. On the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914., he went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, took part in the Battle of the Aisne, and all the fighting preliminary to the First Battle of Ypres, and fell in action, in the encounter with the Prussian Guards at Ypres, 11 Nov 1914. At the time of his death he was acting as Adjutant of his battn. and was one of the only three survivors of the officers of the regt. who had left Edinburgh Castle ten weeks before. He was buried near some men of his regt., close to the spot where he fell. He m. 4 Jan. 1911, Marion Louisa, eldest dau. of William Stirling, of Fairburn and Monar, co. Ross, and had three children, David James, b. 27 Oct. 1911; Peter Ewen, b. 6 May, 1914; and Helen Charlotte, b. 22 June, 1913.

=BROMLEY, CUTHBERT=, Major and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, s. of the late Sir John Bromley, C.B., J.P., formerly of the Exchequer and Audit Department, Somerset House, afterwards Accountant General of the Board of Education, by his wife, Marie Louise (Sutton Corner, Seaford, Sussex), dau. of the late Richard Bowman, of Maidenhead; b. Earl’s Terrace, London, W., 19 Sept. 1878; educ. St. Paul’s School and received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Lancashire Fusiliers from the Militia, 4 May, 1898, and was promoted Lieut. 28 Dec. 1898. In Sept. 1899, he was sent from Aldershot to Malta and received his company, 15 June, 1901. It is interesting to note the fact that when he received his company he was barely twenty-two, and he and a junior Subaltern (Gaspard de Coligny Le Marchant) are said to have been the two youngest captains in the British Army. While in Malta, the South African War broke out, and in order to be fully qualified he and Capt Le Marchant joined the Malta Mounted Infantry, but as his Commanding Officer (Capt. Hamilton) fell ill, he had to remain behind in Malta temporarily to take his place. In 1901–3 Major Bromley was seconded for service with the West African Frontier Force, and took part in the punitive expedition in the Aro country, and had the West African (S. Nigeria) 1901–2 and Aro medals with clasps. While in Southern Nigeria he gained the Royal Humane Society’s Certificate for saving a native’s life from drowning, by holding him up 8½ hours in the water. During 1906–7, he was Superintendent of Gymnasia, Irish Command, but resigned this post to rejoin his own regt. the Lancashire Fusiliers, and in 1909 went with it to India, serving for some time as Transport Officer. He was appointed Adjutant, 4 May, 1914, and took keen interest in the regimental sport and in organising the men’s games. His regt., with others from India, arrived in England 13 Jan. 1915, and started on the Dardanelles Expedition on 15 March, 1915; he was in the 29th Division and his Brigade (the 86th Infantry) was the first to land on W. Beach (Lancashire “Landing”) on that memorable 25 April, their duty being to cover the disembarkation of the rest of the Division. An officer who was there said, “Bromley and Needham were always forward, leading and cheering on; all were good, but then were splendid.” On 28 April, Major Bromley was wounded in the thigh, and when examined by the doctors was found to have been wounded in the back on the day of the landing. After three weeks in hospital, he rejoined his regt. on the Gallipoli Peninsula and was again wounded by shrapnel in the foot on 28 June. An officer wrote: “He was wounded at the beginning of the charge from our trenches. When he was picked up he made the men help him forward to lead the attack.” After six weeks in hospital at Cairo and at Troodos, he started from Alexandria for Cape Hellas on the ill-fated Royal Edward, with a draft of sixty-four men, as senior military officer “Commanding the troops on board.” The ship was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea and sank in about 4½ minutes, on 14 Aug. 1915. Major Bromley had not been well that morning, having a touch of fever and was the last to jump overboard. He was injured in the head by wreckage and rendered partially unconscious, and but for that would undoubtedly have had strength to swim to the Hospital Ship Sudan. His fate was the more tragic as from boyhood he had always been such an expert swimmer, and when at Malta swam five miles, from there to the Island of Gozo. His Commanding Officer wrote: “So passed one of the bravest officers I have known, my friend for years, and one of the most popular men in the regt.” He was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 20 May [London Gazette, 5 Aug.], 1915, and had been gazetted temporary Major [London Gazette, 3 Aug. 1915] to rank as from 6 June. He was unm.

=BROMLEY, HERBERT ASSHETON= (Jett), Lieut., No. 3 Coy., 7th Battn (1st British Columbia Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Sir Henry Bromley, 5th Bt., by his wife, Ada, only child of Westley Richards; b. Stoke Newark, 16 Oct. 1879; educ. Farnborough and Eton, was Private Secretary to his brother, Sir Robert Bromley, Bt., Administrator of St. Christopher and Nevis (1905–6) and afterwards to the Hon. James Dunsmuir, Lieut.-Gov. of British Columbia; joined the 88th Fusiliers at Victoria, B.C., when that battn. was formed three years ago; on the outbreak of war volunteered for service overseas, was gazetted Lieut. on formation of Canadian Expeditionary Force, 21 Sept. 1911, and was killed in action at the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. Describing his death, a comrade said: “He was badly wounded in the trenches, but leaped out and led his men in a magnificent charge, calling out ‘we have got to win, follow me.’ He was quite alone away in front of his men and died a glorious death.” His Company Commander, Major R. C. Cooper, wrote to the Editor as follows: “I would, as the late Lieut. H. A. Bromley’s Company Commander, like to express my very high appreciation of him, both as an officer with the welfare of his men at heart, and as a personal friend. Mr. Bromley was invaluable to me in France with his intimate knowledge of the language and customs. His men were devoted to him and missed him greatly when wounded in the head on the 16 March at Fleurbaix. He returned to us on 27 March and remained with the battn. up to ‘Our Day’--doing duty in the trenches from the 14 to the 19 April, two days in billets and then the gas and subsequent heavy fighting. In Victoria, B.C., he was a member of the 88th Victoria Fusiliers, some time as a Company Officer and the remainder as Adjutant. He served with the regt. in the coal strikes at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, 1913–14. On the outbreak of war he was one of the first officers selected for Active Service, being posted to my company, left for Valcartier, 28 Aug. 1914, and for England, 27 Sept. 1914, arriving at Plymouth, 15 Oct. 1914--four months of rain at Salisbury Plain and then to France. We all mourn ‘Brom.’ as a pal and soldier. His last idea, and his was a forlorn hope, was to charge and scupper some of the Boches before going under himself. His platoon on 21 April lost twenty-one killed, sixteen wounded, three prisoners and eight wounded and prisoners. This record tells of his work.”

=BROOKE, JAMES ANSON OTHO=, =V.C.=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Gordon Highlanders, eldest s. of Capt. Harry Vesey Brooke, of Fairley, Countesswells, co. Aberdeen, J.P., D.L., late 92nd Gordon Highlanders, by his wife, Patricia, only child of James Gregory Moir Byres, of Tonley, co. Aberdeen, and gdson. of the late Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke, of Colebrooke Park, co. Fermanagh, 2nd Bt., M.P.; b. Fairley, Aberdeenshire, 3 Feb. 1884; educ. Wellington and Sandhurst, and received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Gordon Highlanders, 11 Oct. 1905, and joined the 1st Battn. at Cork in November. The following year he was promoted Lieut. (5 Aug. 1907) and transferred to the 2nd battn. in India, where he served till 1913. He was present at the Delhi Durbar and as Senior Subaltern he was one of the officers who received new colours from King George, and was awarded the Durbar medal. In 1913, the regt. went to Egypt and were stationed there till the outbreak of war, when (Oct. 1914) they were ordered to the Front. Lieut. Brooke was the Senior Subaltern and acting as assistant Adjutant. The 2nd battn. of the Gordons landed at Zeebrugge and after many days’ severe fighting, the regt. along with the rest of the Division found themselves on 29 Oct. attacked by very superior forces at Gheluvelt. Here it was that Lieut. Brooke was killed, having, as his Col. wrote, by his gallantry “saved the situation.” The Germans having broken through, he changed the formation of the line three times and finally led an assault on, and captured an important trench at a most critical moment. For this he was mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Victoria Cross, the official record stating: “For conspicuous bravery and great ability near Gheluvelt on 29 Oct. in leading two attacks on the German trenches under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, regaining a lost trench at a very critical moment. He was killed on that day. By his marked coolness and promptitude on this occasion Lieut. Brooke prevented the enemy from breaking through our line at a time when a general counter-attack could not have been organised.” At Sandhurst he was Capt. of the Shooting Eight, was senior Colour-Sergt. of the College, won the Sword of Honour, tied for the Saddle, etc. He was unm.

=BROOKE, VICTOR REGINALD, C.I.E., D.S.O.=, Major, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers, 5th s. of the late Sir Victor Alexander Brooke, of Colebrooke, 3rd Bt. by his wife, Alice Sophia (Villa Ballenia, St. Jean de Luz, B.P., France), 2nd dau. of Sir Alan Edward Bellingham, 3rd Bt.; b. 53, Eaton Square, London, 22 Jan. 1873; educ. at Pau, Basses Pyrénées and at Storrington, and obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 9th Lancers, 12 Dec. 1894, and became Lieu. 29 April, 1896, Capt. 6 May, 1901, Major 7 June, 1905, and temporary Lieut.-Col. 1 June, 1907. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902, where he greatly distinguished himself. He took part in the advance on, and relief of, Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein, and in the operations in the Orange Free State from Feb. to May, 1900, including the actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, and Karee Siding, and was A.D.C. to the Lieut.-Gen. commanding the Headquarters staff in South Africa from Nov. 1901 to Sept. 1902. He was wounded in the Transvaal, and was twice mentioned in despatches [16 April, 1901, and 31 May, 1902], and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two. From 1902 to 1907 he was A.D.C. and then Assistant Mil. Secretary to Lord Kitchener, and was sent by him to Kabul in 1904, and afterwards became Mil. Secretary to the Viceroy of India (Lord Minto), and was made a C.I.E. in 1910. He returned with Lord Minto Dec. 1910, and served with his regt. at Canterbury and Tidworth. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force and died in hospital at Compiègne of wounds received in action during the retreat from Mons, 29 Aug. 1914; unm. The following appreciation by “A Friend” appeared in the Daily Telegraph of 12 Sept. 1914: “It was a fine ending to a fine life, Victor Brooke was known, if only as Military Secretary in India, to thousands; but it was by tens of thousands that he was liked and loved. He was almost the first man wounded in the South African War. The writer picked up the diary of a wounded Boer, in which was set down the enemy’s regret that so good a friend and fighter had been as they thought killed. Upon my conscience, I believe that the Boers who wounded him in 1899 will take an intentional and bitter revenge for his death in 1914, when they came to grips with the Germans in South West Africa. As to the manner of his death and burial, there is something to be recorded. He died on the night of 29 Aug. and he was buried early next morning at Chateau d’Annel, near Compiègne. The house had been turned into a hospital by Mrs. Depew, to whom most men who speak English will be glad to pay in full a willing debt of gratitude whenever and wherever the claim is presented. They left at eleven on the same day. I now quote the words of others: ‘The estate carpenter made his coffin, and one of the old men on the estate dug his grave. After the burial the old man said to Mrs. Depew, “Regardez, Madame.” He pointed out a gravestone to the north of the grave, which had the inscription underneath the date, 1870, “Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur.” It belonged to one of the family which owned Chateau d’Annel in those days, all of whom were buried there. Beside them the old grave-digger thought it right to lay Victor Brook--Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur indeed.”

=BROOKE, VIVIAN CYRIL=, Private, No. 98, A Coy., 12th Battn., 3rd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late Robert Parkinson Brooke, of Tasmania, formerly of India, Indigo Planter, by his wife, Amy (Rialannah, Swanston Street, New Town, Hobart, Tasmania), b. New Town, Tasmania, 19 June, 1887; educ. Queen’s College and Friend’s High School, Hobart, Tasmania; was a cashier in the Commonwealth Bank, Hobart, but on the outbreak of war volunteered and enlisted 20 Aug. 1914. He left for Egypt with the first Expeditionary Force; took part in the landing at Gaba Tepe on 25 April, 1915, when the 12th Battn. held the post of honour as covering party; was wounded and taken prisoner on that occasion and died a prisoner of war in the Turkish Military Hospital at Biga, Asia Minor, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=BROOKE, WALTER=, Sergt., 6506, 26 Coy. R.E., s. of Alfred Brooke, of Oxford Road, Mistley, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Scott, of Sutton; b. Lawford, co. Essex, 3 Feb. 1885; educ. Mistley Wesleyan School; enlisted in the R.E. in 1899, and was killed in action by a shell, 10 Nov. 1914; unm.

=BROOKER, HORACE BRIAN=, Rifleman, 9th (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) London Regt., only s. of Horace Sidney Brooker, of Queen’s Road, Weybridge, Draper and Outfitter, by his wife, Kate, dau. of John Jonas Couzens; b. Weybridge, 20 June, 1888; educ. St. James School there, and enlisted in the 9th London Regt. 21 Aug. 1914, going into camp three days later. He was home only once subsequently, for a few hours, immediately preceding his departure for the front on 2 Nov. After a fortnight’s training in France, he went with his regt. straight into the firing line, and there he remained, with intervals of relief, right up to the memorable fight for possession of Hill 60, where he was killed in action, 21 April, 1915; unm. In his last letter, dated 14 April, he referred to a visit of Zeppelins which had dropped 11 bombs within 200 yards of the regt., making holes 24 ft. in diameter. A comrade (Rifleman Barry) wrote: “I have been closely associated with Brian since we came out in November last, and during the dreary months of bad weather in the trenches his cheery influence did much to keep us going. There is not the slightest doubt that the hill would have been lost but for the timely arrival of our regt. and the courage shown both by officers and men, who were determined to hang on like grim death, even when some men of other regts. were beginning to give way. No. 1 platoon had to get out of the trenches and charge across the open and occupy a small German trench in front, and it was while doing this that Brian was killed.” Brooker was a well-known Surrey athlete, he had captained the Weybridge Football Club for several seasons, and achieved international A.F.A. honours, thrice accompanying representative teams to the Continent.

=BROOKER, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1282), 199598, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BROOKING, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman, 234617, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROOKS, ALFRED HAROLD=, Private R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1888), late Ch./12955 H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROOKS, AUGUSTUS=, Private, No. 27310, C Coy. 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders of Toronto), Canadian Expeditionary Force; b. about 1889; was admitted to Dr. Barnardo’s Homes, 16 Oct. 1895; emigrated to Canada in July, 1898, and settled at Riga, North-West Territory, the reports received concerning him being “uniformly good over the whole period of his stay in Canada”; volunteered for service overseas on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left Canada with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France, Feb. 1915; was wounded in the left shoulder at Langemarck, and was in hospital for a time, and was killed in action at Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm.

=BROOKS, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4515), S.S. 103523, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BROOKS, JAMES VINCENT=, Private, No. 6/203, C Coy., Canterbury Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of James Brooks, of 88, Valley, Wakefield, Nelson, New Zealand, Farmer; b. Wakefield, New Zealand, 3 July, 1894; educ. there; volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 18 Aug. 1914; 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, 8 May following; unm.

=BROOKS, ROWLAND CAUSER=, 2nd Lieut., 1/6th Battn. The Manchester Regt (T.F.), 2nd s. of Buckley Brooks, of The Manor House, Hale Barns, co. Chester, by his wife, Anna, dau. of Henry Causer, of Melbourne, Victoria; b. Cheetham, Manchester, 12 April, 1892; educ. Merton House, Penmanmaur, and Dean Close, Cheltenham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2/6th Battn. Manchester Regt. 31 Oct. 1914; joined the 1st Battn. in Egypt early in 1915, and proceeded with it to the Dardanelles. He was killed in action, whilst leading his men in the famous charge at Krithia on 4 June, 1915, from which only five officers and less than 200 men returned out of the 6th Battn.; unm.

=BROOKSBANK, HUGH GODFREY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regt., 3rd s. of Edward Clitherow Brooksbank, of Healaugh Old Hall, Tadcaster, late Major, Yorkshire Artillery, by his wife, Katherine Graham, dau. of the late Hugh Morris Lang, of Broadmeadows, Selkirk, and grandson of Edward Brooksbank, Lord of the Manor and Patron of Healaugh; b. 24 Nov. 1893; educ. Radley; received his commission in the Yorkshire’s, 5 Feb. 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1914. He was severely wounded at the first Battle of Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914, and died in London 16 Dec. following; unm. He was twice mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches [16 Jan. and 31 May, 1915] for conspicuous gallantry in the field, and writing of his conduct at Ypres the senior officer of the regt. said: “A braver lad never stepped this earth; he was left in command of B Coy. when all his seniors had been shot. He commanded it like a veteran and on two occasions was largely responsible for the regt. being saved. He has been recommended for decoration.”

=BROOMHAM, WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 2605), 172555, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROSTER, JESSEP=, Ship’s Cook, 343743, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROTCHIE, ROBERT TRAILL=, Surgeon, R.N.V.R., only s. of James Brotchie, of Swanney, Orkney, Tea Merchant, by his wife, Janet Catharine, dau. of Richard Brotchie, of Yorkshire; b. Crouch End, London, 29 Aug. 1885; educ. St. Paul’s School, London, and the London Hospital; served in the British Red Crescent Expedition in Tripoli, 1912, for which he received a medal; joined R.N.V.R. 13 Nov. 1913, and before being called up on 4 Aug. 1914 was in practice in Tarbert Loch, Tyne. He was lost on board H.M.S. Bulwark when that ship was blown up at Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914. He m. at Kingston-on-Thames, 6 July, 1910, Theo., 4th dau. of Robert Horne, of Kendal, co. Westmoreland, and had three children: Lindsay Drummond, b. 10 Jan. 1912 (deceased), Jean Muriel and Joan Dora, twins, b. 27 May, 1913.

=BROTHERSTON, ROBERT THOMAS=, Private, No 2605, 7th Durham L.I., 2nd s. of James Brotherston, of Rowlandson Terrace, Sunderland, engineer, by his wife, Jeannie, dau. of Alexander Henderson; b. Sunderland, 26 Dec. 1894; educ. Cowan Terrace Juvenile School, and Argyle House School, Sunderland; joined the 7th Durham L.I. 6 Sept. 1914, and died at the Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 5 May, 1915, of wounds received in action. He was buried in the East Cemetery there; unm.

=BROTHERTON, RICHARD=, Private, No. 6015, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 1st s. of Richard Brotherton, of 34, Lindum Avenue, Lincoln, formerly an Engine Driver, Great Northern Railway, by his wife, Betsy, dau. of John Graves; b. Lincoln, 2 Feb. 1881; educ. St. Peter at Gowts public school there; enlisted 18 Jan. 1905, and served three years with the colours, then joining the Huddersfield Borough Police Force. On mobilization, 5 Aug. 1914, he was called up, went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was reported missing after the fighting at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and is assumed to have been killed on or about that date. He m. at Lincoln, 24 May, 1908, Fanny (8, Fairfield Street, off Monk’s Road, Lincoln), yst. dau. of the late George Brown, of Poolham Hall, Horncastle, and had a posthumous son, George Richard, b. 9 (d. 31) Jan. 1915.

=BROUGH, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4819), S.S. 104209, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BROUGHTON, ERNEST CHAMIER=, Lieut.-Col., 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., s. of Robert John Porcher Broughton, M.A., Cambridge, Solicitor by Royal Appointment to the Coldstream Guards; b. London 3 June, 1858; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; entered the Army as a Sub-Lieut. in the 6th Foot in Nov. 1876, and was transferred to the 65th (2nd North Riding) Foot in Jan. 1878, and served with them in India. In 1884 his regt. was ordered home, but were disembarked at Suakim, and took part in the Soudan Campaign, including the Battles of El Teb and Tamai. He got his company in 1885 and field rank in 1894 when he was posted to the 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (the old 84th) in South Africa and subsequently served in Mauritius and India till 1901, when he retired. Immediately on his arrival home he joined the 3rd Battn. (Doncaster Militia) of his old regt. as a Capt. Three months later he was appointed Major for service in the South African War, and at the close of that campaign reverted to a company command. In 1908 he was again promoted to field rank, thus gaining the unusual distinction of being three times a Major. Three months later he received the honorary rank of Lieut.-Col., and 20 April, 1909, was promoted to substantive rank to command the 3rd York and Lancaster Special Reserve, and had two extensions of service. He died in the Armstrong College Military Hospital, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 17 Dec. 1914, while in command of his regt. then on east coast defence duty. Col. Broughton m. at Brighton, 2 Feb. 1888, Jane Henrietta King (The Cedar, Castle Donington, near Derby), dau. of Major Benjamin Bloomfield Keane, Ceylon Rifles, by his wife, Rebecca Kate, dau. of Capt. Harloe Dennis, of Galway, but had no issue. For over 25 years he was Editor of the regimental journal, “The Tiger and the Rose.”

=BROWN, ALBERT EDWARD=, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, L. 4305, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROWN, ALBERT MOORE=, Private, No. 5011, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Edward Brown; enlisted 16 Feb. 1903, went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, was wounded on 14 Sept., and was first reported as missing on 2 Jan. 1915, and later, to have been killed on that date. He m. at Offenham, 16 May, 1914, Emma (Offenham, near Eversham), dau. of James Clarke.

=BROWN, ALBERT VICTOR=. D.C.M., L.-Corpl., No. 4943, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Edward Brown, of 34, Cemetery Road, Forest Gate; b. co. Middlesex; enlisted as a Boy, 2 Jan. 1903; became a Driver 5 Aug. 1908, and L.-Corpl. 26 May, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914; was awarded the Distinguished Conduct medal [London Gazette, 17 Dec. 1914] “for gallantry on 28 Sept. 1914, in assisting to remove into safety the wounded who were lying exposed in the open,” and was killed in action at Rentel, 5 Nov. following. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 9 Dec.] 1914.

=BROWN, ALBERT WILLIAM=, Private, No. 63087, 3rd Battn. (Canadian Grenadier Guards) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Albert Charles Brown, of Balsham, co. Cambs., by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Purkiss; b. Balsham, 19 Aug. 1889; educ. County Council school there, and went to Canada, 22 March, 1912. He had joined the Canadian Grenadiers in June, 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, came over with the 2nd Contingent, and after a period of training at Shorncliffe went to the Western front. He had only been in France a month when he was killed in action, 26 May, 1915; unm.

=BROWN, ALEXANDER BALFOUR=, Private, No. 9695, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, s. of William Brown, of Newlyle, co. Forfar; b. Ceres, Coupar, co. Fife; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 Jan. 1915.

=BROWN, ARTHUR EDWARD=, Sergt., No. 692, 3rd Dragoon Guards (C Squadron), yst. s. of Thomas Brown, of Barlby, near Selby, Farmer; b. Kirkdeighton, 1889; educ. Barlby; enlisted about 1907, and when war was declared was in Egypt with his regt. He came home, went to the Front on 9 Nov., was wounded in action at Poperinghe on the 16th, and died two days later, 18 Nov. 1914. He m. at Aldershot, (--), and left one dau.

=BROWN, ARTHUR KENNISH=, Private, No. 6188, 7th Platoon, 2nd Coy., 1st Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Rev. William Cowell Brown, by his wife, Fannie (20, Wellington Road, Brighton), dau. of William Isaac Lefeaux; b. Dalston, London, 22 May, 1878; educ. Coopers’ Company School, London, and Manor House School (Dr. Maxwell’s), Clapham; went to Canada in April, 1913; enlisted at London, Ontario, about a fortnight after war was declared; came over with the 1st Contingent, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 23 May, 1915; unm. The following report in connection with his death was sent by the Canadian Record Office: “On the night of 23–24 May our company was out on a working party. The work in question was the digging of a trench in front of the firing line. The men were working in pairs, and I was detailed with Private Brown. After working for about three hours, we were observed by the enemy, who immediately opened on us with artillery fire. The first shell landed four feet in front of me and a piece of the casing struck Private Brown in the head, killing him instantly. I cannot say what was done with his body, but I understand that the company holding the front line brought it in early the following morning. I believe he was buried in rear of our first line trench. This was at Festubert. It is impossible to give map location of the spot referred to.”

=BROWN, BERTRAM=, Private, No. 2524, 1/9th Battn., Royal Scots (Highlanders) (T.F.), s. of late George Brown, by his wife, Christina Jane Adie (15, Warrender Park Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of the late William Mitchell, of Leith; b. Leith, 27 Sept. 1892; educ. Edinburgh: prior to the outbreak of war was serving as 2nd Engineer on the s.s. Glitra, which was sunk by U-17, being one of the first of our merchant ships to suffer that fate. Brown and his comrades were compelled to row to the Norwegian coast in their boats. A week later (31 Oct.) he enlisted in the “Dandy Ninth,” and was shot by a sniper at Ypres, 9 April, 1915, when entering the trenches with supplies; unm.

=BROWN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 5171, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Brown, of Wookey, Wells, Somerset; b. co. Somerset; enlisted 24 Aug. 1903; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914; killed in action at Rentel, 8 Nov. 1914; unm.

=BROWN, CHARLES ALFRED=, Trooper, No. 830, Royal Canadian Dragoons, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Charles Ambrose Brown, of 93, Harcourt Avenue, Toronto, Canada (who served with the 12th York Rangers in the Fenian raid, 1866); by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John J. Lunan; b. Markham, York, co. Ontario, 1 March, 1883; educ. Toronto; joined the 1st Canadian Garrison Artillery at Halifax, N.S., in Feb. 1900, and after serving two years, came home and enlisted in the 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles for service in South Africa, being given the rank of Corpl. He afterwards served in the Royal North West Mounted Police, and was one of the body of picked men sent over to attend the Coronation of King George and received the Silver Coronation Medal. On the outbreak of the European War, he re-enlisted 19 Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent, 1 Oct. 1914; went to France April, 1915, and was killed in action at Messines, 20 Sept. 1915; unm.

=BROWN, EDWARD=, Private, No. 81105, 8th (formerly 32nd) Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of George Edward Brown, of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada, formerly cashier at the Woolley and North Gawber Collieries, Barnsley, now farming at Lloydminster, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of Richard Horner, of Outwood, New Wakefield; b. Darton, near Barnsley, co. York, 5 Aug. 1888; educ. Darton Grammar School and St. Mary’s Church School, Barnsley; went to Canada with his family, with the Barr party of Colonists, leaving Liverpool, 30 March, 1903, and reached what is now known as the Lloydminster District in the following May, after trekking about 200 miles from Saskatoon, the nearest railway point at that time. After the outbreak of war he volunteered and enlisted at Lloydminster, 10 Nov. 1914; came over in March, 1915, went to the Front 26–27 April, 1915; was seriously wounded on the night of 20–21 May, 1915, at or near Festubert, and died on the 23rd; unm. He was buried in the ground of Hinges Chateau.

=BROWN, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15571. H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BROWN, FREDERICK JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 7549, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BROWN, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10327, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Brown, of 2, Treadway Road, Hackney Road, N.E.; b. co. Middlesex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Cuinchy, 6 Feb. 1915.

=BROWN, GEORGE=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 306510, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=BROWN, GEORGE=, Private, No. 7870, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, s. of William Brown, of Burnside Cottage, Newmill, Keith; b. Keith, co. Banff; enlisted 24 March, 1911, aged 20; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 11 Nov. 1914; unm.

=BROWN, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15562, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BROWN, GEORGE SHIPTON=, L.-Corpl., R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 10513, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BROWN, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No' 8563, 1st Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of Frederick William Brown, of Chaplin’s Cottage, Caple St. Mary, near Ipswich, formerly of Gosbeck, Suffolk, Shepherd, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Dye, of Helmingham; b. Stowmarket, Suffolk, 12 Aug. 1893; educ. Ashbocking and Gosbeck schools; joined the Army 18 June, 1912, and was killed in action 7 May, 1915; unm.

=BROWN, HARRY JAMES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4010A, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROWN, HEDLEY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15474, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROWN, HENRY AUGUSTUS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10013), 206254, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROWN, HERBERT HENRY=, Bugler, R.M.A., 11965, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HURST-BROWN, DUDLEY=, 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., yst. s. of W. Hurst-Brown, of Hurstbourne, 62, Oxford Gardens, W.; b. 8 June, 1897; educ. at Cardwallis, Maidenhead, and Winchester, where he was in the O.T.C. It had been intended that he should proceed to Oxford in the autumn, but war breaking out in the interval, he offered his services and received his commission in the Special Reserve on 11 Aug. 1914. He was at the Front five months, during which time he went through some of the most severe fighting, but escaped injury until receiving his fatal wounds in action in Flanders, 15 June, 1915. He died the same day; unm. In a letter received the day before his death he stated how glad he was he went to the Front, although the fighting was becoming something frightful, and that he saw but little chance as a junior officer of ever getting safely home again, and concluded the letter with the famous Latin epitaph of Horace, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”

=BROWN, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8655), S.S. 105081, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROWN, JAMES=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BROWN, JAMES CARTMELL DENNISON=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), yr. s. of Sir Frank Brown, of Norton Priory, Stockton-on-Tees, D.L., by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of John Hedley, of South Hetton, co. Durham; b. Stockton-on-Tees, 2 Sept. 1893; educ. Rugby (1907), and Pembroke College, Cambridge (1912). On the outbreak of war he at once applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Durham L.I., 28 Aug. 1914. He went to France on 17 April, 1915, for divisional training, but consequent on the German attack with asphixiating gas his division was at once pushed to the front and engaged, and took part in the fighting around Ypres, 23 and 25 April, 1915. On Sunday, 25 April, he was wounded twice. He was first treated at Poperinghe Hospital, then removed to Hazebrouck, where he died on 27 April, 1915. His Colonel wrote: “He was one of the best officers we had, and did his duty to the last. On the day he was hit he had done valuable reconnaissance work in the morning, and, when hit, had taken part in a very good little attack. Although wounded in two places, he showed his pluck by returning unhelped to our lines. It is only by such examples as this that we may hope to conquer the enemy and keep up the tradition of the country.” A brother officer also wrote: “We all liked him very much, he was such a cheerful fellow, and so conscientious that I knew that anything entrusted to him, however slight or wearisome, would be properly carried out.” The Medical wrote: “He was a tremendous favourite with us all, and I can say I never had to attend to a pluckier lad.” His elder brother, Lieut. Frank D. Brown, of the same battn., was wounded near Ypres in May, 1915, and is again (1916) on active service.

=BROWN, JOHN ALEXANDER=, Rifleman, No. 3215, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Brown, Corpl., A Coy. 1st Battn. (London Irish) The London Regt. (with 28 years’ service), by his wife, Sarah; b. Old Street, Shoreditch, 10 April, 1876; educ. St. John’s Road Higher Grade School there; served 12 years with the London Irish, and after the outbreak of war joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles, 10 Sept. 1914; was wounded at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died in King George’s Hospital, Stamford Street, 21 Nov. following. He m. at Hoxton, 4 Jan. 1897, Alice Rosina (18, Hemsworth Street, Hoxton), dau. of John Brown, and had seven children: John Alexander, b. 2 Aug. 1902; George Arthur, b. 22 March, 1905; William Charles Joseph, b. 3 April, 1907; Alice Rosina, b. 23 July, 1897; Minnie, b. 18 Sept. 1900; Florence Marion, b. 22 Sept. 1910; and Blanche Mabel, b. 16 Sept. 1912.

=BROWN, JOHN EDWARD GUY=, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., yst. s. of Alexander Francis Garden Brown, of Magonet-Stoke Gabriel, co. Devon, by his wife, Charlotte Mary, dau. of James William Alston, of Stockbriggs, co. Lanark; b. Swindrigemuir, co. Ayr, 28 Aug. 1892, and was educ. at Bradfield College. He received his commission in the 2nd Battn. of the Royal West Kent Regt., then in India, on 20 Sept. 1911, when just 19. Having been applied for in 1913, as an officer for the 64th Pioneers by the Commandant, he successfully passed two examinations in Indian languages, winning thereby a substantial prize given by the Indian Government, and intended to pass the final in the autumn of 1914. He became Lieut. on 1 July, 1914, and was at home on leave when war broke out. He was then attached on its formation to the 6th Service Battn. of the Royal West Kents in the new army. In Oct. 1914, in consequence of the heavy losses sustained by the 1st Battn. in the Battle of Ypres, he was sent out to join it, but by an error in the Army List copied in the newspaper accounts he was given as attached to the Royal Berkshire Regt. On leaving the 6th Battn. his commanding officer wrote: “I am very sorry to lose your son; he did very good work while with my battn. and I can ill afford to lose him. However, his work will bear its fruit in the future.” He spent the winter in the trenches between Messines and Zillebeke and went through some heavy fighting in Nov. when the battn. lost so many officers, that he, though a junior, had to act as company commander during the months of Dec. and Jan. During this time in the trenches he passed a course of instruction under the R.E. officer attached to the battn. which qualified him as a regimental scout and bomb officer, a post he held at the time of his death. He was killed in action at Hill 60, near Zillebeke, Flanders. 22 Feb. 1915; unm. His commanding officer, Col. P. M. Robinson, wrote: “I regret your son’s death immensely, he was a gallant man and a good officer, always ready to do rather than to talk. He had won my admiration on several occasions during the time I have been commanding this battn., and I had a very high opinion of him. I much regret his career has been cut short”; and Capt. Molony (who joined the battn. in Feb. from the reserve of officers): “During the short time I knew your son I acquired a very real respect and a great liking for him. This being my first experience of trench work, he really commanded the company, while I watched his methods and learnt from him. I was very much struck by his thorough efficiency as well as his imperturbable courage. Having left the Army nearly eight years ago and never before having been in action, I badly wanted someone to put me in the way of it. No one could have done it more thoroughly and at the same time tactfully than your son. During this time he was offered and accepted the very honourable, but at the same time dangerous position of battn. scout officer. I did not like it much because it would mean that I should very often be deprived of his assistance, but I heard the commanding officer, when discussing his suitableness, say among other things ‘He is as brave as a lion.’ He is a great loss to the regt. and his qualities would have carried him very far in his profession had he been spared. I hope it will be some consolation to you to know that he did not suffer. When I heard he was hit I went to him at once. He was quite unconscious, and remained so until he died, perhaps some two minutes later.” Speaking of his death, the Adjutant said: “He was setting a splendid example, and, regardless of danger, was walking about laughing at the bombs, and greatly encouraging his men by his behaviour.”

=BROWN, JOHN SAMUEL=, Chief Armourer, 341170, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROWN, JOHN SAMUEL=, A.B., 201534 (Chat.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BROWN, NORMAN=, Private, No. 12/1569, 15th North Auckland Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Arthur Brown, formerly of co. Down, Ireland, by his wife, Mary (44, Springfield Road, Christchurch, New Zealand), dau. of Abernethy Patterson; b. Christchurch, New Zealand, March, 1881; educ. St. Alban’s School, Christchurch; volunteered Dec. 1914, and died of wounds at Gaba Tepe, 11 May, 1915; unm.

=BROWN, NORMAN McLEOD=, Sergt., No. 1057, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Robert Brown, of Kirkcaldy, co. Fife, Draper, by his wife, Mary Davidson, dau. of David Findlay; b. Kirkcaldy, 16 Nov. 1888; educ. High School there; entered the Civil Service and received an appointment in the India Office, where he was engaged till he volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war. He had been a member of the London Scottish for some seven years, went to France with them as a corpl., was promoted Sergt. at the Front, and at the time of his death had been recommended for a commission. He was shot in the trenches at Givenchy by a sniper, 24 Dec. 1914, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm.

=BROWN, OSCAR=, Lieut., 7th Lancers, Indian Army, attd. 4th Dragoon Guards, 8th s. of the late William Hooper Masters Brown, of Highfield House, Sherborne, co. Dorset, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William James, of Pembroke, b. Sherborne, 20 May, 1888; educ. Sherborne School, and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 48th Northamptonshire Regt. 19 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 7 May, 1910. In Sept. 1912 he exchanged into the Indian Army, and joined the 7th (Hariana) Lancers. While riding for the Delhi Cup in 1913 his horse fell and injured him to such an extent that he was invalided home, and on the outbreak of the war, being still in England, he was attached to the 4th Dragoon Guards, going to France with them in Sept. 1914. He was killed in action by a shell at Ypres, 24 April, 1915, and was buried at Elverdinghe; unm.

=BROWN, PHILIP GEORGE MORTIMER=, Private, No. 9704, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late Frederick Robert Brown, Solicitor, by his wife, Emily Louisa (Thirlmere, Dukesthorpe Road, Sydenham, S.E.), dau. of George Phillips, of Beckenham, b. Sundridge Park, co. Kent, 15 Oct. 1896; educ. The Hall, Sydenham Preparatory School, and Dulwich College. He joined the London Rifle Brigade early in 1914, and on the outbreak of war was with his regt. at Eastbourne for the midsummer manœuvres. Volunteering for foreign service, he left with his regt. for France early in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 3 May, 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He died doing his duty to the last, and was buried the same night. After he was slightly wounded himself, he spent all his time attending to other wounded friends, and it was whilst performing this duty that he was killed.”

=BROWN, WALTER GILBERT=, Seaman, R.N.R., 13630, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROWN= (alias =BROWNING=), =WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (N.C.S.), 298889, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WREFORD-BROWN, CLAUDE, D.S.O.=, Capt., 2nd Battn. 5th Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), 5th s. of the late William Wreford-Brown, by his wife, Clara Jane (5, Litfield Place, Clifton, Bristol), dau. of Henry Clark, M.D.; b. Clifton, 17 Feb. 1876: educ. Waynflete, Durdham Downs; Wells House, Malvern Wells; and Charterhouse. After serving in the Royal Warwickshire Militia, he obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. of the “Fighting Fifth,” 15 May, 1897, being promoted Lieut. 24 Nov. 1899, and Capt. 15 April, 1901. In 1898 he took part in the Soudan Campaign under Lord Kitchener, being present at the Battle of Omdurman and the capture of Khartoum (Queen’s medal and Egyptian medal with clasp). He was employed in the occupation of Crete in 1898, and then, under Lord Methuen, served throughout the South African War, 1899–1902. He took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein. Afterwards he took part in the operations in the Orange Free State (March-May, 1900) and in the Transvaal (July-Nov. 1900), including actions at Venterskroom and Rhenoster River. Twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 9 July and 10 Sept. 1901], he received the D.S.O. for his services at Lichtenburg and the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He was selected to represent his regt. at the Coronation of King Edward VII. In April, 1908, he was on the North-West Frontier of India, and while serving in the Mohmand Campaign was seriously wounded. On 4 Sept. 1912. he was appointed an instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, which post he filled until 17 Feb. 1915, when he joined the 2nd Battn. of his regt., then in France. Capt. Wreford-Brown was killed on the Menin Road, south of Ypres, 200 yards east of Wieltje Farm, north of Hooge, on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915; unm. His regt. had been practically wiped out on the 13th, and when he heard of this he insisted on leaving Boulogne, where he was in hospital, and going back to reform the regt. He arrived at headquarters west of Ypres, Friday, 21 May, and there found 85 worn-out men of his battn., and about 450 of the 5th Fusiliers and Durham L.I., and 15 officers, a new draft which had just arrived, all from the same depôt. These he formed into a battn., and on Sunday, 23 May, was ordered to join the Brigade--only two clear days to form a new regt.! They marched between 15 and 29 miles on a sweltering hot day, losing several men on the way under shell fire. They arrived at Menin Road on Monday (Empire Day) the 24th; and were ordered out into support at 6 a.m. Wreford-Brown was commanding. At about 1 p.m. he received orders to advance to a certain point and attack a position which was allotted to him. The battn. shortly after leaving its support position came under heavy fire, and for a distance of two and a-half miles across country of open fields of buttercups, was continually under high explosive fire and shrapnel, machine and rifle fire. The regt. was formed up for the attack on the ridge which they took, but with very heavy casualties. Ten of the officers were wounded in this, leaving Wreford-Brown and two lieutenants. These and the remaining men dug themselves in, and on getting to the ridge they found the Germans very strong in a farm called Wieltje: it looked as if the Germans were on three sides of them. The regt. on the right could not be found, and two companies of the 5th were taking on three miles of Germans. At 7 p.m. he sent word as to his position and the heavy casualties. The answer came back: “You must try and take it and hold it at all costs.” One of the captains in the firing line who was wounded and lying in a ditch reports that Wreford-Brown told him to go back to hospital, and congratulated him on getting back to England wounded, and said: “Good-bye, old fellow, I shall not see you again. I am ordered to attack the place, it is hopeless, but I shall lead my men to it”; and with that he turned to his men and called for a rifle and bayonet and said: “Now we will make the final charge of the Mohicans,” which he did, leading the men. The Germans had 20 to 25 machine guns concentrated on them: Wreford-Brown fell 10 yards from the German trench mortally wounded. The remaining Lieut. reformed for a second attack and got wounded; the remaining few retired back to the trench behind the hedge, which they had dug after gaining the ridge. Only one officer got back safely, and he was with the machine gun a long way behind, which did not come into action. The regt. on the right had been delayed and came up afterwards. In the opinion of all he was shot several times and was certainly killed. Several attempts were made to recover his body, but it lay between two trenches of the Germans, and it was impossible owing to their withering fire. The Commander-in-Chief came round himself and thanked the survivors for their bravery. His brother officers bore general testimony to his capability and great courage. His brother, Capt. O. E. Wreford-Brown, died 7 July, 1916, of wounds received in action on the Somme.

=BROWNE, ARTHUR GEORGE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Notts. and Derbyshire Regt. (Sherwood Foresters), s. of the late John Barrett Browne, Bandmaster 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers, by his wife, Isabella Helen, dau. of the late Hon. Capt. A. J. White, Indian A.C. Dept.; b. Mount Abu, India, 2 Sept. 1889; educ. Laurence Military Asylum, Sanawar, India; joined the Army 2nd Sept. 1903, at the age of 14, and served in the band of the 1st Battn. of the Gloucestershire Regt. for eight years, when he became an N.C.O., and joined the ranks, later becoming Sergt. He received his commission for “services in the field,” 1 Oct. 1914, and was transferred to the Notts. and Derbyshire Regt. He was killed in action near Armentières, 20 Oct. 1914; unm.

=BROWNE, GORDON STEWART=, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Wiltshire Regt., 4th s. of Henry John Browne, of Grosvenor House, Faversham and Chatham, Merchant, by his wife, Emily Martha, dau. of George William Gill, of Rochester; b. Chatham, 15 May, 1890; educ. Haileybury and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Wiltshire Regt. 18 Sept. 1909; promoted Lieut. 26 Jan. 1911, and Capt. 25 Oct. 1914. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was wounded at Caudry on the fourth day of the retreat from Mons, but recovered and returned to the Front. On 17 Nov. he was badly wounded during the fighting at Hooge and died at the Allied Forces Base Hospital, Boulogne, 27 Nov. 1914. His body was brought home and buried at St. Margaret’s Cemetery, Rochester. Capt. Browne, who was unm., was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915 for “gallant and distinguished service in the field.”

=BROWNE, HAROLD VERNON=, Capt., Queen’s Own Dorset Yeomanry, yr. s. of Leonard Gilbert Browne, of Hoburne, Christchurch, co. Hants, formerly of Buckland Park, South Australia, by his wife, Helen Mary, dau. of Henry Strong Brice; b. Buckland Park, 25 Aug. 1885; educ. Hazlewood, Limpsfield and Wellington College. He resided from 1909–14 at Cheriton Manor, Templecombe, and after that at Preston House, Iwerne Minster. In 1908 he joined the Dorsetshire Yeomanry and became Lieut. 4 Oct. 1913, and Capt. July, 1915. On the outbreak of the war he volunteered for foreign service, and was sent on special service in July, 1915, from Egypt to Gallipoli, and was military landing officer at Suvla Bay all through the August landing. He was killed by a shell on the beach while doing his work of landing troops, 7 Sept. 1915, and was buried there. His commanding officer at Suvla Bay wrote: “I, like all who came in contact with him, had learnt to be very fond of and admire him. He was a splendid man and a brave soldier, who did not seem to know such a thing as fear or danger, and he met his death, I think and trust, a painless one, when nobly doing his duty, and actually giving an order in connection with it. He was a true and good soldier and died a soldier’s death.” He was a very fine all-round athlete, he played in the school cricket eleven at Wellington, and afterwards for Dorset County, was a first-class golfer and lawn tennis player, hunted regularly with the Blackmore Vale Hounds, and rode in many point-to-point races and steeplechases. Capt. Browne m. at St. Peter’s, Eton Square, 24 June, 1908, Doris (Preston House, Iwerne Minster, Blandford), elder dau. of John Tillard, of Blakeney, co. Norfolk, and had three sons and one dau.: Anthony Harold Scott, b. 21 April, 1909; Peter Francis William, b. 1 Jan. 1912; Nigel Philip, b. 20 Jan. 1913; and Ursula Patricia, b. 24 Nov. 1915.

=COLLIS-BROWNE, ALFRED ULICK=, Lieut., 1st. Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., yst. s. of William Alfred Collis-Browne, of Monteagle, Godalming, Major (ret.) 5th Battn. Rifle Brigade; b. Byfleet, co. Surrey, 13 June 1889; educ. Killcott, Godalming; represented the R.M.A. at Association Football, 1908; joined the Yorkshire L.I. in South Africa, 1910, and was promoted Lieut. 27 July, 1914. On the outbreak of war he proceeded with his regt. to the Front, was appointed Machine Gun Officer, and was killed in action whilst making a reconnaissance of a trench at Ypres, 13 April, 1915. He was buried at Zonnebeke, near Ypres; unm. The Adjutant of his battn. wrote: “He was one of the pluckiest fellows I ever knew. Only a fortnight ago, in an action we had, the captain in the trenches reported how splendidly he worked his guns, and the good effect it had on his men, by whom he was greatly beloved.” He was mentioned in F M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

=BROWNING, FRANK HERBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10905, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROWNING, JAMES ALEXANDER=, Major, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), yr. s. of Edward Campbell Browning, of Rushden House, co. Northants, by his wife, Alice Louisa, dau. of C. Pratt Barlow; b. Onslow Square, London, 25 June, 1878; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; obtained his commission, 11 May, 1898, and was promoted Lieut. 16 Aug. 1899; Capt. 14 Sept. 1901, and Major 5 July, 1911. From 1906–09 he acted as Adjutant to the Queen’s Bays and was A.D.C. to the Inspector-Gen. of Cavalry in the early stages of the South African War, and in 1901–02 he took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, the Transvaal and Cape Colony, for which he received the Queen’s medal with five clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed by a shell at Messines, 31 Oct. 1914, while in command of his regt. He was buried at Wulverghem, and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Capt. Browning m. at St. Mary’s Church, Higham Ferrers, co. Northants, 21 March, 1903, Lilian Brenda (Stonycroft, Aldershot), only dau. of Capt. Basil John Fisher, U.S.A., and had two sons: Geoffrey Alexander, b. 21 March, 1907; and Peter Campbell, b. 18 March, 1910.

=BROWNLEE, JAMES ALEXANDER=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 185918, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROWNLOW, MARK=, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 271387, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BROYD, ERNEST JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9569), 203287, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRUCE, ALFRED=, Private, No. 1239, 1/4th Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late William Bruce, by his wife, Alice Annie (40, Chatsworth Place, Harrogate); b. Aldboro’, Borobridge, co. York, 17 May, 1893; educ. Grove Road Board School, and Technical School, Harrogate; entered the service of the Educational Offices, Wakefield, where he was on the permanent clerical staff, but after the outbreak of war enlisted in Sept. 1914. and was accidentally drowned with six other soldiers at Gainsborough in a pontoon accident, 19 Feb. 1915; unm. He won the West Riding County Minor Scholarship in May, 1904, and passed the Oxford Junior Examination at the age of 14.

=BRUCE, GERVASE RONALD=, Midshipman, R.N., s. of Percy Robert Bruce, of Downhill, co. Londonderry, and Clifton Hall, Notts, Major, South Notts Hussars, by his wife, Aletheia Georgina, dau. of the Right Hon. Sir Richard Horner Paget, of Cranmore Hall, Somerset, 1st Bart., P.C., and grandson of Lieut.-Col. Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce, of Downhill, near Coleraine, and Clifton Hall, Nottingham, 4th Bart., late Coldstream Guards; b. London, 19 Jan. 1899; educ. Osborne and Dartmouth Colleges; mobilised from Dartmouth. Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in the Battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, by the sinking of H.M.S. Monmouth, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BRUCE, JOHN ELLIOTT LIDDERDALE=, R.A., Major, Royal Garrison Artillery, 2nd s. of Col. Elliott Armstrong Bruce, of Stenhouse, Barnstaple, Indian Army [grandson of Sir William Bruce, of Stenhouse, 7th Bart.], by his 1st wife, Mary Rebecca, dau. of the Rev. William Dawson; b. Rangoon, 10 Jan. 1870; educ. Carshalton House, Carshalton, Surrey; St. Paul’s School and Woolwich Academy; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Artillery, 15 Feb. 1889, and promoted Lieut. 15 Feb. 1892, Capt. 19 July, 1899, and Major, 7 Aug. 1909; was D.A.A.G. for Royal Artillery in India, 29 March, 1906, to 31 May, 1907; Staff Capt., India, 1 June, 1907, to 16 March, 1908, and Brigade Major, India, 17 March, 1908, to 28 March, 1910; served (1) in Burma as Orderly Officer, 1891, with the Wuntho Expedition (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 9 Feb. 1892] (medal with clasp); (2) with the Waziristan Expedition, 1894–5 (clasp); (3) in the operations in the North-West Frontier, India, 1897–8, with the Tochi Field Force (medal with clasp); (4) in South African War, 1900; took part in operations in the Transvaal, Orange Free State, and Cape Colony, March to Sept. (Queen’s medal with three clasps); (5) on North-West Frontier, India, 1908, as D.A.Q.M.G. (12–31 May) to Field Force during operations in the Mohmand country; and (6) with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, 1915; took part in the landing, 25 April, and was killed in action there 29 May following, being mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatches [London Gazette, 5 Aug. 1915]. Major Bruce m. at Tilford, Surrey, 12 Sept. 1900, Charlotte Mabel, yst. dau. of the late T. J. G. Johnstone, of the Ceylon Civil Service, and had two sons: John Charles Douglas, b. 2 Aug. 1902; and Henry Malcolm, b. 28 Feb. 1904.

=BRUCE, JONATHAN MAXWELL=, Major, 107th Pioneers, Indian Army, eldest s. of Richard Isaac Bruce, of Quetta, Teddington, C.I.E. late Commissioner in the Punjab (who received the thanks of the Indian Government on several occasions for distinguished frontier service), by his wife, Lilla, dau. of the Rev. John Beavor Webb, Rector of Dunderrow, co. Cork, and gdson. of Jonathan Bruce, of Miltown Castle, co. Cork; b. Dharmsala, India, 22 June, 1873; educ. Haileybury and Sandhurst; obtained his commission, 16 Jan. 1895, and was promoted Lieut. 16 April, 1897, Capt. 16 Jan. 1904, Double Company Officer 8 March, 1908, and Major 16 Jan. 1913. He saw active service on the North-West Frontier of India in 1897–8, taking part in the defence and relief of Malakand, the action at Landaki and the operations in the Mahmund Country, receiving the medal with two clasps. Major Bruce was killed in action at Festubert, 24 Nov. 1914, and was buried at Bethune. He m. at St. Alban’s Church, Teddington, 14 Sept. 1905, Mabel Waldron (Kenilworth, Seymour Road, Hampton Wick), 3rd dau. of Henry Trengronse, of Hampton Wick, J.P., and had two daus.--Mary Aileen, b. 5 May, 1908, Barbara Maxwell, b. 11 March, 1910.

=BRUCE, WILLIAM ARTHUR McCRAE=, Lieut., 59th Scinde Rifles, Frontier Force, Indian Army, only s. of Col. Andrew McCrae Bruce, of Roch d’Or, Sanares, Jersey, C.B., Unemployed Supry. List, Indian Army; by his wife, Margaret Hay; b. 15 June, 1890; educ. Mr. Bickerstith’s Preparatory School, Netherwood, Hastings; Mr. Reynold’s Preparatory School, Cliff House, Southbourne, Hants; Victoria College, Jersey, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Was a King’s Indian Cadet, and after passing out of Sandhurst in the autumn of 1909 was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the unattached list for the Indian Army 29 Jan. 1910, and sailed for India in H.M. Troopship Plassy, on 11 Feb. from Southampton. On arrival in India he was ordered in join 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, to which regt. he was attached; after serving with them for one year he was posted to the 59th Scinde Rifles F.F. at Kohat, Punjab, and joined on 8 March, 1911. In 1911–12 he took part with his regt. in one or two small affairs against Wuzeerie Raiders. In 1912, he passed in musketry and signalling. In the autumn of 1913, he marched with his regt. from Kohat to Qullundur, arriving there on 17 Dec. 1913. In June, 1914, Col. Fenner, commanding the regt. wrote of him: “A big, fine and promising young officer of excellent ability. As Transport and Signalling Officer, has performed his duties with marked success. Personally popular, good at games and a fine rider. He is good tempered, has tact, judgment, self-reliance, reliability and common sense. His influence with officers and men is good, he is active and temperate.” In 1914, he was granted eight months’ leave to England where he arrived on 10 April. On the outbreak of war he was ordered to rejoin his regt. and sailed for India in H.M. Trooper Dongola on 10 Aug. On arrival in Egypt he was ordered to disembark and proceed to Cairo and await the arrival of his regt. With his regt, he arrived in Marseilles about 17 Sept. and in Oct. joined the fighting line. He took part in all the work done by his regt. until he was killed on 19 Dec. 1914. Major I. L. Leede, commanding the 59th Scinde Rifles F.F. wrote on 20 Dec. 1914: “I am deeply grieved to have to write and tell you that your son Lieut. Bruce was killed yesterday, during a night attack. He met his death in a German trench which we had taken, he was shot through the chest and killed instantly.... Until Col Fenner was killed, your son was my company officer, and I was very fond of him indeed, and I am more grieved than I can say to have to tell you of his death. I consider him to have been a young officer of most exceptional promise, and I have seen him under fire off and on for two months. Will you please accept the very sincere sympathy and condolence of the whole regt.” Capt. Anderson of 59th Scinde Rifles F.F. writing on 20 Dec. 1914, to Gen. J. R. B. Atkinson, said. “A N.C.O. of mine got back last night. He had been with Bruce, who was the first man into his part of the trench, and died most gallantly holding it. He (the N.C.O.) says he told his men to retire, but they said the Sahib had ordered them not to, so they died there.” Lieut. C. J. S. Le Cornu, 56th Punjab Rifles F.F. with the 33rd Div. Sig. Coy., writing on 27 Dec. 1914, said: “I had a long talk with Anderson, the Adjutant. He said to me: ‘If you are writing to Bruce’s people do tell them how very fond we all of us in the regt. were of him, and that he died doing an extremely plucky thing....’ He was leading a bombing party, ... and the men who were with and near him that night cannot speak too highly of him.... Every single officer and man in the 59th I saw to-day had a word of sympathy for you, and they one and all said how very pluckily your son had died.” Capt. Scales, attached to the 59th Scinde Rifles, who was very severely wounded in the same attack, wrote on 9 Jan. 1915: “Your son was with me just a minute or two before we left our trenches to attack the German trenches, he was in splendid spirits and ready for anything.... His loss will be felt by everyone in the regt. as he was the best of good fellows, and absolutely fearless.”

=BRUMPTON, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A., 5923, (R.F.R., B. 547), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRUNS, THOMAS JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13363, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRYANT, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 10225, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRYANT, HENRY EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4220), S.S. 102908 H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BRYANT, JOHN WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8959), 207950, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRYANT, RICHARD=, Chief Armourer, 168951, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BRYANT, THOMAS HENRY=, Armourer’s Crew, M. 7291, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BINGHAM-BRYDEN, EDWARD CARRUTHERS=, Private, No. 1137, D Coy., 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late Edward Carruthers Bryden, of Birklees, Goulburn, New South Wales, Dental Surgeon, by his wife, Anna Maria (Birklees, Goulburn, New South Wales), dau. of the late Henry Bingham, of Annagh House, co. Mayo [2nd s. of Robert Augustus Bingham, of Bingham Castle, co. Mayo]; b. Birklees, Goulburn, 30 July, 1894; educ. Goulburn and afterwards at an Agricultural College, and when war broke out was on a station learning farming previous to taking up land for himself; volunteered for Imperial service at the end of Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force on the Euripides, 19 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the following day; unm. His company officer wrote: “He was in my company and under me since we left Sydney. I wanted you to know he died as a true soldier. His body was buried on the battlefield.”

=BUCHANAN, DUNCAN ALLAN=, Private, No. 1837, 1/8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), eldest s. of Thomas Watters Buchanan, of Oak Bank, Oban, Sheep Farmer, by his wife, Jane Cooper, dau. of the late William Allan, of Morningside, Edinburgh; b. Colisnacone Farm, Glencoe, co. Argyle, 19 Dec. 1894; educ. Oban High School; prior to the outbreak of the war was in the employment of Messrs. Hosack & Sutherland, Lawyers at Oban, but volunteered his services immediately and enlisted in the Cycle Corps of the 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, going with his regt. to Flanders in May. On 11 June, 1915, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were in the trenches near Festubert, and as the men were short of rations, parties of ten from each platoon were organised to go to the rear for the purpose of obtaining food. No. 16 platoon, of which Buchanan was a member, went first. The firing trench was only between 50 and 100 yards from the enemy, and the men had to run about 100 yards across the open to get into the communication trench. When they were about half way across the Germans opened fire. Buchanan was badly wounded by a bullet in the thigh. He was brought home and died in Netley Hospital 6 July, following, from haemorrhage caused by the rupture of an artery. In all the letters from officers and comrades, also the nurses and orderlies, reference was made to his brightness and to his cheerful obliging disposition under all circumstances. He was unm.

=BUCHANAN, JAMES HERBERT=, Lieut., 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached 1st Battn. Leinster Regt., only s. of George Buchanan, of Prospect House, Ballyward, Banbridge, co. Down, retired teacher and farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Ochiltree; b. Ballyward, 12 Aug. 1892; educ. Excelsior Academy, Banbridge, and Queen’s University, Belfast, where he studied with a view to entering the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. While at Queen’s University he was for three years a member of the O.T.C. and rose to the rank of Sergt. On 24 June, 1914, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., being posted to the 4th Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers. After joining he spent some time training at Carrickfergus, was promoted Lieut. 2 Nov. 1914, and on 16 Feb. left for France with a draft of 200 men. They arrived on the 18th and spent five days at the base. He was then attached to the Leinster Regt. and served with them in the trenches until 15 March, when he received his fatal wound. Writing of his death his Captain said: “On the evening of 14 March he led his men against a German trench, and with great valour took it and held it till morning when it was found to be untenable. At daylight the order was given to retreat, and while assembling his men he was shot twice through the body by snipers.” He was carried to the Field Hospital where he died next morning (16 March, 1915) at 11 o’clock and was buried the same evening in the officers’ cemetery at Dickebush. A commanding officer wrote: “To say that Lieut. Buchanan was loved by his men is not enough, they idolised him.”

=BUCHANAN, WILLIAM=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 166810, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=GRAY-BUCHANAN, CECIL GORDON=, Trooper, 2nd Light Horse, Australian Imp. Force, yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. (Hon. Col.) James Ross Gray-Buchanan, of Eastfleld, Cambuslang, and Scotstoun, co. Lanark, late Commanding 3rd and 4th Battns. The Cameronians, and previously for many years with the 26th Cameronians; by his wife, Kate, dau. of James Farie, of Farme, co. Lanark, and grandson of Thomas Gray-Buchanan, of Ardoch and Scotstoun; b. Eastfleld, Rutherglen, 9 Sept. 1886; educ. Cargilfield School and Fettes College, Edinburgh; joined the Australian Light Horse on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 14 May, 1915. The Col. commanding the regt. wrote that he had had the opportunity of observing him on a good many occasions, both on shipboard and in Egypt, and his service was ever a credit to himself and his family and that he was seen to fall gallantly doing his duty to the last.

=GRAY-BUCHANAN, CLAUDE=, Capt., 35th Sikhs, Indian Army, eldest s. of Lieut.-Col. Michael Rowand Gray-Buchanan, of Ettrick Dale, Isle of Bute, by his wife, Frederica, 7th dau. of Henry Stuart, of Montford, Isle of Bute [and granddau. of Rear-Admiral Lord George Stuart, C.B., 7th s. of John, 4th Earl, and 1st Marquis of Bute], and grandson of Thomas Gray-Buchanan, of Ardoch and Scotstoun: b. Timaru, New Zealand, 17 Feb. 1878; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst, out of which he passed first in 1898; when he was attached to the 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt. as a probationer for the Indian Army. He served with that regt. at Lundi Kotal (Khyber Pass) and on the North West Frontier of India from October, 1898 to October, 1899, when he was appointed to the 35th Sikhs, and promoted Lieut. 30 Oct. 1900. He served through the Waziri Campaign in 1901, for which he received the medal and clasp. He received his company, 20 July, 1907, and passed out of the Staff College, Quetta, in Dec. 1913. Early in Aug. he was appointed to the Headquarters Staff of the Royal Flying Corps, Expeditionary Force and on 2 Nov. 1914, was attached to the 8th Gurkhas. He was at first reported missing, but afterwards officially reported as having been killed in action near Festubert, 4 Nov. 1914. He m. at St. Augustine’s Church, Dumbarton, 2 July, 1914, Jane Cecilia Hope, only dau. of Major Robert Elmsall Findlay, of Boturich Castle, co. Dumbarton, s.p.

=GRAY-BUCHANAN, WALTER BRUCE=, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), fourth s. of Lieut.-Col (Hon. Col.) James Ross Gray-Buchanan, of Eastfleld, Cambuslang, and Scotstoun. co. Lanark, late commanding 3rd and 4th battns. The Cameronians, and previously for many years with the 26th Cameronians; by his wife, Kate, dau. of James Farie, of Farme, co. Lanark, and grandson of Thomas Gray-Buchanan, of Ardoch and Scotstoun; b. Eastfield, Rutherglen, 20 Aug. 1885; educ. Cargilfield School and Fettes College, Edinburgh; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. Cameronians, 16 Feb. 1905, transferred to 2nd Battn. 16 Feb. 1907, promoted Lieut. 13 Oct. 1909, and Capt. 3rd Nov. 1914, and appointed Adjutant 8 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle 10 March, 1915, and was buried there; unm. A comrade wrote: “One of those whose memories will never be forgotten and whose deeds will add to the glories of the old regiment.”

=BUCK, FREDERICK=, Petty Officer, 210184, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BUCK, THOMAS CYRIL=, D.C.M., Sergt., No. 7584, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; s. of John Buck, of Frettenham, co. Norfolk, Agricultural Labourer, by his wife, Maria Buck, dau. of the late William Cooke, of Buxton; b. Frettenham, 3 Nov. 1891; educ. Elementary School there; enlisted at Norwich, 27 Dec. 1907; was promoted Sergt. in Sept. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, greatly distinguishing himself at Givenchy and again a week later near Gheluvelt, and was killed in action at Richebourg on the morning of 9 May, 1915, being hit by a shrapnel bullet. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal “For conspicuous gallantry and ability at Givenchy, 21 to 23 Dec. 1914, in going forward under heavy fire to select positions for machine guns, and subsequently for rescuing a wounded man who was lying out under fire. He also behaved gallantly on 29 Oct., near Gheluvelt, when in charge of machine guns.” Lieut. T. A. Tapp wrote: “As officer in charge of the machine gun section I feel I must write to you and tell you how dreadfully cut up we all are at losing Sergt. Buck, who had made a name for himself, not only for his machine gun section, which was the best in the Army, but also for his own great personal bravery and devotion to duty. I feel I shall never have any chance of getting another Sergt. even half so good as Sergt. Buck was,” and Col. J. A G. R. Drummond Hay, Commanding Coldstream Guards, writing at the wish of Col. Ponsonby said: “I will quote Colonel Ponsonby’s own words as they evidently convey the feeling in the battn. as to the conspicuously gallant manner in which Sergt. Buck has conducted himself throughout the war. ‘Sergt. T. Buck, who got the D.C.M. a little time ago and was my machine gun Sergt. was killed (this was in a big fight that took place on Sunday, 9 May). He will be a great loss. He has been right through the war, and was one of the bravest and coolest men under fire I have ever seen. I had already mentioned him twice before for that reason and was so glad when he was given D.C.M., which he had so well earned.’”

=BUCKETT, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, 309963, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUCKINGHAM, ALBERT=, Petty Officer (O.S.), 186259, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUCKINGHAM, ALFRED THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 13830, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUCKINGHAM, AUBREY WEBSTER=, Major, 3rd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 3rd s. of the late Joseph Hicks Buckingham, of Lancaster Gate, W., and Truro, by his wife, Lucy Webster, dau. of Benjamin Hallewell, of Leeds; b. London. 11 Oct. 1870; educ. Elstree, and Harrow; gazetted Lieut. in the London Scottish volunteers in 1892, and saw service in the South African War, 1899–1902. He took part in the operations in Natal in 1899 in command on volunteer details, and was afterwards appointed garrison adjutant at Green Point Camp, and for his services received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He was given the rank of honorary Capt. in the Army, 31 May, 1901, and that of Major 11 Jan. 1902, and was attached to the 3rd Battn. (Reserve of Officers) of the Gordon Highlanders. He settled at Harrietsham in 1902, purchasing a large portion of the Stede Hill Estate and becoming lord of the manor. On the outbreak of war he was transferred to the 1st Battn. and went to the front on 6 Sept. 1914. He was killed in action near Hooge, 17 Nov. 1914. Major Buckingham m. at Harrietsham, 2 June, 1908, Mabel Felizardae (Harrietsham Manor, Kent), dau. of the late Col. Walter Reginald Rudge, of Stede Court, Harrietsham, R.A.; s.p.

=BUCKINGHAM, JAMES=, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 10250), 181522, H.M.S Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUCKINGHAM, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 280012, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BUCKLE, HENRY WHITE=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 2775), 210616, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BUCKLEY, MOSES MILLER SHAW=, Boy 1st Class, J. 24636 (Devon.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BUCKLEY, CLARENCE JAMES=, Private, No. 69090, A Coy., 26th Battn., 5th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of James Buckley, of 31, Suffolk Street, St. John West, New Brunswick; b. (--); educ. St. Patrick’s School, St. John West; was employed in the Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive Works; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in Oct. 1914, and died shortly after sunset on Wednesday, 13 Oct. 1915, from wounds received in action in France at 4 p.m.; unm. He was buried in the cemetery of the 26th Battn. His Lieut. wrote: “He was killed in action Wednesday last doing his duty. When wounded, even though he knew he had not a chance of recovering, he bore himself as a man.” And a comrade: “My work is First Aid in the field, and as I am a stretcher-bearer in C Coy., and was detailed for the support of A Coy. on the memorable 13 Oct., I was an intimate friend of your son, and carried him in from the field when he was wounded, and gave him the best care within my knowledge. He was very badly wounded, and after I had given him enough morphine to deaden his pain, I made him as easy as possible. I was terribly busy that day, but every time I came in I went over to where Clarence was lying to see if he was resting easy. You have every reason to be proud of your brave lad. Although he was mortally wounded he would say, ‘How goes it, Doc.’ (Doc. is my nickname here), and he always had a smile for me.”

=BUCKNILL, JOHN CHARLES=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Hampshire Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of John Townsend Bucknill, of Thomfield, near Bitterne, co. Hants., Lieut-Col. late R.E., by his wife, Catharine Raworth, only surviving child of William Rudkin Morris, of Luffenham, co. Rutland, and grandson of the late Sir John Charles Bucknill, M.D., F.R.S.; b. Ditton Hill, Surrey, 19 Oct. 1879; educ. Wellington College, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (B.A.), and became an architect, studying in London and Italy. He practised at Southampton. At the outbreak of the war he applied for a commission, and finally obtained one, 12 Sept. 1914, in the 4th Battn. (T.F.) of the Hants Regt., and with it left for India, Oct. 1914: going to Mesopotamia in March, 1915. During the summer the battn. was quartered at Basrah, and the damp heat, often 110° F. in the shade, killed seven men by sunstroke, the older men and officers, including the subject of this memoir, his age being 36, only being able to stand it. Later the battn. took part in the advance up the Tigris and Euphrates, and in the affair at Gurma Safha and the engagement at Nasiriyeh, where only five officers of the battn. got through unwounded; Bucknill was one of them. Soon afterwards they were brought back to Kurna and sent up the Tigris, a party of the 4th Hants being employed on river work and assisting to clear the barrage, Bucknill as a yachtsman being usefully employed. At Amara they rested for some time to garrison this base, and for seven weeks he acted as paymaster, and subsequently as quartermaster. In the advance on Baghdad under Gen. Townshend one company took part, and the rest of the battn. went up with Gen. Aylmer’s relief force, and fought at the Battle of Filahey in support of the attack by the Black Watch and Seaforths. These battns. and the 4th Hants lost most of their officers and men killed and wounded, among whom Lieut. Bucknill was first reported as missing, 21 Jan. 1916, but on 12 April he was officially reported in England as “killed in action” 21 Jan. 1916. He was a most useful and keen officer, and much appreciated in his battn. He was mentioned in Sir John Nixon’s Despatches of 1 Jan. [London Gazette, 6 April, 1916] for services on Euphrates, 26 June-25 July, 1915, and on 17 April, 1916, it was announced that he had been granted the Military Cross by His Majesty the King. He m. at Bitterne, 22 Sept. 1908, Margaret Maria Mary, dau. of Clement Lister; s.p.

=BUCKNILL, LLEWELLYN MORRIS=, Major, Royal Field Artillery, yr s. of John Townsend Bucknill, of Thomfield, near Bitterne, co. Hants, Lieut.-Col. late R.E., by his wife, Catharine Raworth, only surviving child of William Rudkin Morris, of Luffenham, co. Rutland, and grandson of the late Sir John Charles Bucknill, M.D., F.R.S; b. Notting Hill, London, 20 June, 1881; educ. Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the R.F.A. 12 May, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 3 April, 1901, Capt. 13 Feb. 1910, and Major 30 Oct. 1914. He served in Northern Nigeria on special work, April, 1907–June, 1908, and with the 22nd Brigade in South Africa, Sept. 1912–Aug. 1914. The Brigade returned to Europe in August, and mobilised for war in the New Forest, forming part of the 7th Division which embarked for Belgium 5 Oct. 1914. He was promoted Major on the 30th, and soon after was appointed to command of the 105th Battery. On 16 May he was severely wounded in the spine. His signaller most gallantly carried him back under heavy fire, but early on the 18th he died in hospital at Bethune. He was buried in the town cemetery there. Major Bucknill was twice mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches, first on 17 Feb. 1915, for his services during the early fighting at Ypres, and again on 1 Jan. 1916. Col. Alexander, V.C., Officer commanding 22nd brigade R.F.A., wrote: “Your husband was severely wounded whilst performing his duty in his usual fearless manner,” and Major H. W. Hill, R.F.A., wrote: “During the early part of the war I had the privilege of commanding the 105th Battery, and Major Bucknill was then my Capt. On all occasions he proved himself a most capable and conscientious soldier, full of dash and resource, and a very loyal comrade. His magnificent bravery at Ypres, and in the early days of November, near Gheluvelt, did not happen to be officially recognised, but was known and appreciated by his brother officers.... Major Bucknill will long be remembered by those who served with him.” Many other letters of a like nature from his brother officers and men were received by his widow and his father. Major Bucknill was a fine horseman, and when his Brigade went to Ireland in 1911 he became master of the regimental pack of harriers at Cahir. He was also a good shikar and captured some fine heads in N. Nigeria, although game was scarce. He was a scientific collector of coleoptera and lepidoptera, and able to interest professors at the British Museum. He m. at St. Michael’s Church, Hathersage, co. Derby, 24 Sept. 1913, Mary Ashton, dau. of the late Col. Ashton John Shuttleworth, of Hathersage Hall, co. Derby, R.A.; s.p.

=BUCKNOLE, WALTER SAMUEL=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4239A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUCKTROUT, HORACE=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19976, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BUDD, WRINCH JOSEPH CHARLES=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of Ebenezer Budd, of 84, Melrose Avenue, Norbury, co. Surrey, by his wife, Mary Maria, dau. of William Bristow, of Chelsea; b. 23 Sept. 1877; educ. United Westminster Schools; and in Feb. 1904 was appointed Chief Clerk in the employ of the Shanghai Municipal Council Electricity Dept. He was with the Queen’s Westminsters from 1894 to 1900, and passed for sergt., and served with the City of London Imperial Volunteers (M.I.) in South Africa, 1900. From 1905–8 he was a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, and served with the reserve company from 1908 to 1914. At the outbreak of war he volunteered and was granted a commission in Shanghai on 14 Dec. 1914. On his arrival in England he was promoted Lieut. 22 Feb. 1915, and was attached to the 9th Battn. South Wales Borderers stationed at Pembroke Dock and left home with a draft for the East, at the end of May. He landed at the Dardanelles, 10 June, 1915, and was killed on 28 June following; unm. He won several prizes for shooting, and formed one of the Shanghai team at Bisley in 1901, and was a Freemason.

=BUHAGIAR, CARMELO=, Officers’ Steward, 1st Class, 360408, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BULL, ALFRED GEORGE=, A.B., 221911, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BULL, ARTHUR EDWARD=, Fitter, No. 42616, 118th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, eldest s. of Edward Bull, Steward at the Bishop’s Stortford Golf Club, late Sergt.-Major, Rifle Brigade, by his wife, Annie Maria, dau. of Mathew Barnard; b. Farnham, co. Surrey, 27 Aug. 1890; educ. Army Schools; joined the Army, 5 March, 1906, and was trained as a fitter at the Ordnance College, Woolwich; he went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was at first reported missing, and later killed in action. From one of the only two survivors of the two gun sections of the 118th Battery, who was exchanged as disabled in Feb. 1915, it was learnt that Bull was knocked over and killed on 27 Aug. 1914, as he was taking out a round from the ammunition boxes to hand up to the gun at Etreux during the retreat from Mons; unm.

=BULL, BERNARD WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10511), 214140, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BULL, GODFREY JOHN OSWALD=, Lieut., 2nd East Lancashire Field Co., R.E., 3rd s. of Col. William Henry Bull, F.R.C.S., K.H.S., V.D., J.P., Assistant Director of Medical Services, South Midland Division, by his wife Emma Elizabeth Cherry, dau. of the late Edward Hoare Garole, of Ballinacurra House, Midleton, co. Cork; b. St. Oswald’s House, Stony Stratford, co. Bucks, 3 Aug. 1890; educ. Wellington College and Magdalen College, Cambridge (B.A. 1st class honours). On leaving Cambridge he became a pupil at the Westinghouse Works, Manchester, and joined the East Lancashire R.E. (T.F.) as a 2nd Lieut. 10 June, 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 7 Jan. 1914. He left for Egypt in Sept. 1914, and proceeded to the Dardanelles in the following May, was slightly wounded in the leg during the fighting that month, and was killed in action there 8 July following; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He met his death early in the morning whilst surveying the work his men had been engaged upon during the night in order to send in his report which is called for each morning. Death was instantaneous, being shot through the brain by a sniper. Your son was a noble lad and a good soldier, and an untiring worker; if any man ever served his country well as a junior officer it was your son and our comrade.” His two brothers are now (1916) on active service, Capt. W. E. H. Bull with the Mounted Brigade, Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), and Capt. H. C. H. Bull with the 8th Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I.

=BULL, HERBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2165), 215077, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BULL, PHILIP=, Stoker, 1st, Class, K. 1422, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BULL, WILLIAM ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 548), 280624, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BULLER, FREDERICK DERICK EDWIN=, Volunteer, East African Mounted Rifles, British East Africa, 3rd s. of Rev. George Buller, Rector of Oakford, Devon, by his wife, Margaret Mildred, dau. of Sir John William Hamilton Anson, 2nd Bt.; b. Burrough Green, Cambs., 14 July, 1891; educ. Eton, and Trinity College, Oxford. On going down from Oxford in 1913 he bought a large farm in British East Africa, and on the outbreak of the European War immediately volunteered his services and joined the King’s Mounted Rifles. He was killed in the fighting on 25 Sept. 1914 in the Ingito Hills between the Magadi Railway and the frontier. It appears that a German force of about 35 Europeans and 150 natives, with two Maxim guns, attacked a body of the East African Mounted Rifles (C Squadron), only 30 in number, commanded by Capt. Chapman. After one hour’s severe fighting in thick bush country the enemy were repulsed, and retired hastily towards Longido. At Eton Buller rowed in his house fours, and at Oxford he stroked the winning trial eight in his first year. He was unm.

=BULLINARIA, HENRY WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3766), 188856, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BULLOCK, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Gunner (R.F.R., Immed. Class 14), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BULMAN, THOMAS=, Carpenter’s Crew, M. 4701, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BULPITT, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6089), S.S. 682 (Chat.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BUNCE, CHARLES HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1123), 158786, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=BUNCE, CHARLES RALPH THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7195), S.S. 102156, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BUNCE, EDWARD=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1987), 163524, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUNCE, JOHN HENRY=, Private, No. 2418, 15th Battn. (P.W.O. Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Samuel Bunce, of 21, Dyson Road, Leytonstone, by his wife, Alice Amilia, dau. of Henry Allen; b. Forest Gate, co. Essex, 24 Aug. 1894; educ. Swaffield Road and Wadsworth Technical Institute; joined the Civil Service Rifles in Aug. after the outbreak of war and died of wounds received accidentally at a bomb instruction near Bethune, 24 July, 1915. He was buried in the cemetery Noeux des Mines; unm. His Capt. wrote: “Your son was a universal favourite--cheerful, willing, and a hard worker, and a very promising soldier”; and his platoon sergt.: “In the Army the best that can be said of any man is that ‘he is a good soldier.’ Without any hesitation I can say that your son had fully qualified for this high standard. He was well disciplined, obedient, and always ready to do anything he was called on to undertake; the mere fact that he was selected for instruction in bomb throwing shows that his superiors had a thorough confidence in his abilities.”

=BUNN, GEORGE=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5222B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUNYAN, BENJAMIN JAMES=, Ship’s Steward, 340125, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BURBRIDGE, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 794), S.S. 103586, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BURCH, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Private, No. 27, 8th Battn. (90th Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of George Burch, of Woodnesborough, co. Kent, Agricultural Labourer, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of the late William Oldfield; b. Woodnesborough, 20 Dec. 1887; educ. there; emigrated to Canada in July, 1910; enlisted on the outbreak of the war, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres between 24–30 April, 1915; unm. He was at first reported missing, then in Aug. to have died, and finally (2 Dec. 1915) was officially stated to have been killed between the dates given above.

=BURCH, WILLIAM JOHN=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 229), 153490, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURCHELL, FRED=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 11716, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BURCHELL, FREDERICK HUGH=, A.B., J. 9672, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BURCHETT, ARTHUR=, Sergt., No. 7882, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late William Burchett, Labourer, by his wife, Eliza (Peal Common, Elstead), dau. of George Pullen, Farmer; b. Peal Common, Elstead, co. Surrey, 3 March, 1890; educ. National School there; enlisted 10 June, 1908, and served in Egypt 1909–11, and afterwards became a postman at Elstead. On the outbreak of war he was called up, went to France 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. following, being buried at Soupir; unm. His brother, Private Thomas Burchett, No. 7285 (sometime a postman at Godalming), was officially reported missing, 30 Aug. 1914, and is (1916) a prisoner in Germany.

=BURCHILL, THOMAS=, Leading Stoker, 276152 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURDEKIN, GEOFFREY ERIC=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Notts and Derby Regt. (Sherwood Foresters), attd. 1st Loyal North Lancashires; yst. s. of Benjamin Thomas Burdekin, of Sheffield and Baslow, co. Derby, Solicitor, by his wife, Emily Jane, dau. of the Rev. Jeremiah Stockdale, Vicar of Baslow; b. Sheffield, 29 March, 1893; educ. Bramcote, Scarborough, Rugby and Woolwich. He was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt. 20 Sept. 1911, and served with it in India for two years. In 1913 he resigned his commission owing to ill-health, and was articled to his father as a solicitor. At the outbreak of the European War he applied for a commission, and was given one in the 3rd Reserve Battn. of the Sherwood Foresters, and was afterwards attached to the 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regt. with which he was serving when he was killed in action at Beuvry, 26 Jan. 1915. He was buried at a farm near Beuvry; unm. His Capt. wrote: “The circumstances under which your boy and many other valuable men lost their lives were perhaps the most unfortunate that can be imagined. We were some four miles distant from the firing line at the time, and it was one of three shells that happened to strike us when the battn. orderly room was being held in the morning. Being in temporary command, I was taking orderly room myself and was only some six or seven yards distant from the spot where the shell burst, and how I and the Adjutant, who was standing beside me, escaped I really don’t know, for men within a couple of yards of us were killed instantaneously. What I remember was a deafening crash, a blackness, and the noise of broken glass falling. As soon as the air had cleared of débris we saw the fearful havoc that had been caused. You have one great consolation, however. Your son was spared all pain and suffering, for death was absolutely instantaneous; also that he was buried. The inability to bury one’s dead owing to their having been killed on the ground between the opposing trenches has, I think, been one of the most horrible features of the war. It is, I think, unnecessary for me to assure you that your son maintained to the end the high traditions of a British officer and gentleman. We were together during the night attack on 31 Dec., and his coolness under a heavy fire was very marked. Although he did not belong to the Loyal North Lancashires but to his own county regt., yet he always took an interest in his men and was a zealous officer. On the very morning that he was killed, I had picked him out to take command of a company because I had the greatest confidence in him. He was always cheerful, and had endeared himself to us all. We feel the loss greatly.”

=BURDISS, WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 2985T. H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURDON, EDWARD=, Pioneer. No. 110982, Royal Engineers, 3rd s. of Edward Burdon, of Southwick-on-Wear, Joiner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Richard Wake, of Southwick; b. Southwick, 26 Dec. 1873; educ. Southwick Board School, and was a miner. He enlisted for the period of the war, 29 July, 1915; went to France the following week; was invalided home, 16 Sept. 1915; and died on active service, 13 Oct. 1915, following an operation for appendicitis. He m. at St. Columbus, Southwick, 7 June, 1887, Isabella (18, Edward Murdis Street, Southwick, Sunderland), dau. of James Turnbull, of Southwick, and had seven children: Edward, b. 19 Sept. 1888; James, b. 28 Aug. 1889; Sidney, b. 2 May, 1903; Nicholas, b. 29 Dec. 1908; Thomas, b. 28 Dec. 1910; Mary, b. 7 May, 1905; and Jenny, twin with Thomas.

=BURGES, WILLIAM ARMSTRONG=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, 2nd s. of the late Francis Lockie Burges, of Irwin House, Irwin, Western Australia, Squatter, and grandson of the late Francis Carleton Burges, of Fethard, co. Tipperary, M.D.; b. Irwin aforesaid, 3 June, 1889; educ. Campbell College, Belfast; Armagh Royal School, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, 20 April, 1910, transferred to the 1st Battn. 20 April, 1911, and promoted Lieut. 15 Oct. 1914; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, while leading a charge of his platoon, 10 March, 1915; unm. Rifleman James Scott of this regt. wrote that in the attack on the German second line they “were met with a murderous fire from a machine gun which for an instant made our men waver. An officer, Lieut. Burges, leading our platoon, No. 8, B Coy., dashed into a stream of water which reached to his neck, and which ran parallel to the second German line wire entanglements. He called out as he plunged into the water: ‘Follow me, No. 8; be quick and we will capture that machine gun.’ Straight away every man followed this gallant officer. Once across the stream, ‘Form up, No. 8,’ and away we went towards the machine gun like hounds after the hare. We followed this officer over the German third line of trenches, and away in full cry towards the village of Neuve Chapelle, in our efforts to capture the accursed machine gun, which was playing the deuce with our men. Dashing forward to a wood on our right where the gun was concealed, our gallant officer received a bullet wound in the neck, which ended in his death.... As our Colonel said, by his dash and contempt of death, he brought victory to our arms and credit to our regt. At 12 noon our regt. found itself close up to the village, more advanced than any other regt. of the division, thanks to the gallant lead of a gallant officer.” Lieut. Burges was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in this action.

=BURGESS, HERBERT WILLIAM=, 1st Class Stoker, Ch/SS. 103633, R.F.R., B. 7981, R.N.R., s. of Charles Henry Burgess, of 2, Gills Cottages, Wouldham, Rochester, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late John Callhoming; b. Wouldham, 25 Jan. 1890; educ. National School there; joined the Navy 2 April 1906, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea; unm.

=BURGESS, JOHN DONALD=, Volunteer, King’s East African Mounted Rifles, 3rd s. of Rev. Samuel Burgess, of 10, Holly Road, Edgbaston, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late John Peed, of Whittlesey, Solicitor; b. Guilsborough, Northampton, 23 March, 1876; educ. Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy, Southsea. At the outbreak of the European War was the Engineer of the Magadi Soda Co., but immediately joined the King’s Mounted Rifles, and was killed in action at Ingito Hill, British East Africa, 25 Sept. 1914. His commanding officer wrote: “He was one of a party of 30 men who had followed up what was said to be a smaller party of Germans, but when they came up with them were found to consist of about 150 men with two maxims. The Germans opened fire at once, and for a time there was some little confusion. The four men of the Magadi Force, one of whom was your husband, stood fast, however, and returned the fire, and then our men rallied. This lasted for about 10 minutes, when the Germans started to advance. The officer in command decided that our men could not hold out, so he ordered a retirement, and Burgess and three others were told off to cover it. They lay down, taking cover as best they could, and when next day our men went out (the Germans having retired) all four were found dead, just as they had laid down; and if ever men gave their lives to save others, it was those four.” He m. at Christ Church, Woburn Place, London, 21 Oct. 1902, Ethel M., 2nd dau. of the late W. J. Roseby, of Doncaster, and left two daus.: Kathleen Constance and Joyce Averil.

=BURGESS, RICHARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10674), 238875, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURGESS, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111339, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURGESS, WILLIAM HENRY GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3611), 185552, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DE BURIATTE, JOHN PHILIP=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., yr. s. of William Warwick de Buriatte, of The Mill House, Wraysbury, co. Bucks, by his 1st wife, Mary, dau. of James Edmund Huxley, M.D., and niece of Prof. Huxley; b. Aylesford, Kent, 28 Oct. 1887; educ. Dulwich College, and Manchester University, where he studied in the Faculty of Technology, in chemical technology (paper manufacture) from 1905–8; joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1912, and went to France as Sergt. with them, 28 Oct. 1914; was given a commission in the 2nd East Surrey Regt., 14 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action leading his platoon at Lindenhoeck during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915, and was buried 20 yards behind the trenches.

=BURINI, CHARLES LEWIS=, Sergt., No. 7510, 2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt. (the “Green Howards”), s. of the late Sergt. Lewis Augustus Burini, for ten years drill instructor of the local company of the 2nd Vol. Battn. of the Yorkshire Regt., by his wife, Maria (Scorton, Darlington), dau. of William Winslow, of Trowbridge, co. Wilts (who served for 21 years in the Army); b. Norton, Malton, co. York, 2 Aug. 1891; educ. Bower Memorial Schools, Norton; enlisted 2 Oct. 1903, appointed L.-Corpl. 16 Feb. 1914, served in India for 15 months, in Africa for three years, and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 5 Oct. 1914 to 20 March, 1915, on which latter date he was severely wounded in the head in action at Neuve Chapelle, and died in No. 2 Stationary Hospital at Boulogne, 20 March following; unm. He was buried in the Casten Cemetery there, grave No. 136.

=BURKE, CORNELIUS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7775), S.S. 103254, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURKE, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9051), S.S. 2130, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURKE, THOMAS CAMPBELL=, Capt., 1st King George’s Own Gurkha Rifles, 2nd s. of Joseph Francis Burke, of Stratford-on-Avon, Civil Engineer, by his wife, Kate Marlow, dau. of the late William Cruickshank, Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals (who served through the Crimean War, for which he received medal, and died at Simla during the Indian Mutiny); b. Stratford-on-Avon, 27 May, 1877; educ. Trinity College, Stratford-on-Avon and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached, Indian Army, 4 Aug. 1897; served his first year with the Royal Irish Rifles; entered the Indian S.C., 23 Oct. 1898, and was appointed to the 125th (Napier’s) Rifles, being promoted Lieut. 4 Nov. 1889, and Capt. 4 Aug. 1906. He served in China in 1900 with the 122nd Rajputana Infantry during the Boxer Rebellion, receiving the medal, and was afterwards Assistant Inspector of Imperial Service Troops in Rajputana from 1903–6. After three years’ service as Adjutant of the Bangalore Volunteer Rifles (during which time he started the first corps of Boy Scouts in India); he was (26 March, 1912) transferred as Double Company Commander to the 1st Gurkha Rifles, then stationed at Dharmsala, Punjab. On the outbreak of the European War the regt. was ordered to France, but was detained for 10 weeks guarding the Suez Canal, and arrived at the Front late in Nov. 1914. He was killed in action at Festubert, 19 Dec. 1914. He was ordered to lead a party against a German advanced trench, but the men were waist deep in mud, and he was only able to get 24 ready to start, and with these and his subaltern, Lieut. Rundall (who was ordered not to go, but would not let his Capt. go alone), left the trench in broad daylight. The Colonel stated the action was most gallant, and recommended him for the V.C. The Brigade-Major officially reported that Capt. Burke and Lieut. Rundall were killed, and more than 50 per cent. other ranks hit. He m. at Agra, 1906, Ada Mary Jane, dau. of the Rev. J. Langshaw.

=BURKETT, WALTER=, Private, No. 1976, machine gun section, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John Isaac Burkett, of 12, Remus Road, Old Ford, E., by his wife, Annie; b. Old Ford, Bow, 26 Dec. 1896; educ. Smeed Road Board School; enlisted, 8 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Morrock, France, on the night of 22 Sept. 1915, being shot through the body while with a working party; unm. Sergt. Morgan wrote of him as one of his best men and a general favourite.

=BURN, JOHN=, Private, No. 8806, 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of Thomas Burn, of 113, Conyers Road, Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Labourer; b. Byker, 27 March, 1885; educ. Jubilee School, Byker Hill; was employed in Locke Blackett’s Lead Works, St. Anthony’s; joined the Army 29 Aug. 1914; died of wounds received in action at Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915, and was buried in the cemetery there. He m. at Byker 6 Aug. 1906, Mary Jane (113, Conyers Road, Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne), dau. of Aaron, Richardson, and had three children: Thomas, b. 22 Nov. 1906; Margaret Richardson, b. 9 Oct. 1908; and Elizabeth Collins, b. 28 Dec. 1910.

=BURN, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 8356, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt. served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 13 Sept. 1914; m.

=BURNAND, CYRIL FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, only s. of Charles Hubert Burnand, of 1, Cavendish Square, London, Banker, by his wife, Mary Tirzah, dau. of James Nelson, and grandson of Sir Francis Burnand, late Editor of “Punch”; b. at 1, Cavendish Square, London, 31 July, 1891; educ. Downside School, and Trinity College, Cambridge. When the war broke out he was in the General Superintendent’s department of the Midland Railway at Nottingham, but immediately offered his services and was given a commission in the Special Reserve of the Grenadier Guards, 18 Aug. 1914, and later appointed to the 1st Battn. at the front. He was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; unm. Lieut. Burnand was a Cambridge rowing “blue,” and Capt. of the 1st Trinity Rowing Club.

=BURNARD. LEONARD=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1153), 149707. H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURNELL, GEORGE CUTHBERTSON=, 2nd Lieut., 10th Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Robert Burnell, of Egremont, co. Chester, by his wife, Mary (The Bungalow, Whitby, near Chester), dau. of John Cuthbertson, of Govan, M.D.; b. Egremont, co. Chester, 6 April, 1890; educ. Liscard High School; joined the Liverpool Scottish as a private the day war broke out, and after three months’ training at Edinburgh and Tunbridge Wells, went out with his battn., 31 Oct. 1914. He was given a commission in his own regt. 16 March, 1915. He was wounded at Hooge, 16 June, 1915, while leading his platoon in the famous charge of the Liverpool Scottish, and lay on the battlefield for two and a-half days, and at last crawled within sight of the British trenches, when an officer saw him and brought him in. He died at No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 24 June, 1915, from his wounds; unm. Lieut. Burnell played Rugby for the Cheshire XV for two seasons, and was a member of the Birkenhead Park Football Club.

=BURNELL, JOHN SIDNEY=, Private, No. 2321, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Burnell, an employee of Watney, Coombe & Reid, Brewers, by his wife, Elizabeth (14, Castle Buildings Castle Lane, Westminster), dau. of James Woodland; b. Holborn, 7 Sept. 1891; educ. St. Albans, Holborn; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Armentières, 19 May, 1915. He was buried in Esquingham Cemetery; unm. 2nd Lieut. Frank C. Langley, 2nd Battn. The London Regt., wrote from France: “He was engaged with other fellows filling sandbags when it happened, and he was awfully brave right up to the time he was sent to hospital. I was proud to feel that he was in my platoon”; and the Chaplain, 17th Field Ambulance, writing to his father, said: “Your son ... has died of a bullet wound received yesterday. It went through his right arm and into his stomach. An operation was attempted, but in vain. He did not suffer much pain, and was very calm and brave.” The following extract is from a letter to his mother, sent by L.-Corpl. A. N. Fegat, No. 2134, No. 9 Platoon, C Coy., 2nd Battn. London Regt.: “Your son, who was in my section, was wounded yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock. He was working behind the trench when a bullet hit his arm, inflicting a cut 1½ inches long and ¾ inch deep. The bullet then ricochetted across his stomach, inflicting a very nasty wound. The doctor attended immediately and we soon got him to hospital. The news from there was very good at first, but later reports were not so hopeful, and the news came through this morning that he died peacefully at 6.30 a.m.”

=BURNET, ROBERT=, Lieut.-Col. and Sanitary Staff Officer, 1st Wessex Division, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 4th s. of George Burnet, of Wigan, co. Lancaster; b. 9 Feb. 1875; educ. King William’s College, Isle of Man, and University College, Liverpool, graduating B.Sc. Hons. 1897, M.B., Ch.B., 1900, and M.Sc. 1904. Four years later he qualified D.P.H., Birmingham. After holding appointment as House Surgeon to the Rawcliffe Hospital, Chorley, he secured the appointment of Medical Officer of Health for the County Borough of Bury, and Medical Superintendent, Bury and District Joint Hospital Board, Fever and Smallpox Hospital, and Aitken Sanatorium for Consumption. Later he was appointed Medical Officer of Health for Cornwall and Principal Medical Officer, Cornwall Education Committee. He joined the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) in 1907, was for some time Capt. 2nd Wessex Field Ambulance, and in Feb. 1913 was promoted Major upon appointment as Divisional Sanitary Officer to the 1st Division. On the outbreak of war he joined his unit for active service, and was promoted Lieut.-Col. On the afternoon of Thursday, 28 Jan. 1915, he was riding between Newton St. Cyres and Exeter, accompanied by Col. H. J. Mackay, when his horse was frightened by some colts in a field near the roadway, and bolted. Half a mile further on Col. Burnet was thrown and died within a few minutes from injuries caused by a fracture of the skull. He was buried at Chorley, Lancashire, the family burial place. An order issued by Brig.-Gen. G. S. McD. Elliott, Commanding R.A.M.C. (T.F.), Wessex Division said: “Lieut.-Col. Burnet was an officer of very high professional attainments, and these he devoted unceasingly with never-failing energy and earnestness to the welfare of the Division. By his death the Army has been deprived of the services of an officer who can ill be spared, and those who knew him have lost a valued friend.” Col. Burnet was a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and a member of the British Medical Association, and had held the offices of Senior Steward in Phœnix Lodge of Honour and Prudence, No. 331, Truro, and of Junior Steward in the Royal Cornubian Chapter, No. 331, Truro, of Royal Arch Masons. He was author of “Poliomyelitis and Dust Nuisance,” in The British Medical Journal, 1911; and “Poliomyelitis, as illustrated by an English Epidemic,” Paris Health Congress, 1913. He m. at Whalley Range, Manchester, 2 April, 1903, Alice, 3rd dau. of Thomas Thornber, of Vivary Bridge, Colne, co. Lancaster, and Westbourne, Rusholme, Manchester, and had three children: Gordon, b. 29 Sept. 1904; Georgina, b. 28 Jan. 1906; and Monica, b. 12 June, 1912.

=BURNETT, CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10276), 204551, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURNETT, FRANCIS=, Private, No. 8578, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of J. Burnett, of Slew House, Broadwood Widger, Difton, Devon; b. Ashwater, Holsworthy, co. Devon; enlisted 19 March, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914.

=BURNETT, GEORGE=, Private, No. 7591, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Burnett of Chichester; served with the Expeditionary Force; reported missing and now assumed to have been killed in action between 29 Oct. and 2 Nov. 1914.

=BURNETT, NOEL FLETCHER=, Private, No. 6/18, Machine Gun Section, 1st Canterbury Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of James Burnett, M.Inst.C.E., Chief Engineer, New Zealand Government Railways, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Wilson Gibson, of Waitangi Station, South Canterbury, New Zealand; b. Christchurch, New Zealand, 2 Dec. 1889; educ. Wellington College, Victoria College and Canterbury College (all New Zealand), where he was in his last term at the Engineering School when war broke out; volunteered and enlisted in the Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main body in Oct. 1914; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915; in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and in the great attack on Krithia, where he was severely wounded by a bullet in the lung; was six weeks in hospital at Alexandria, and was then invalided to England, where he was in various hospitals till Oct., when he rejoined at the Base Camp, Weymouth; went out with a draft, 15 Nov., and returned to the trenches early in Dec. and was shot at Chunock Bair, near Anzac, on the 13th of that month, and died the same day on board the hospital ship Dunluce Castle. Buried at sea between Anzac and Lemnos the same night; unm. His College Professor wrote: “He was a thoroughly sterling character, and commanded alike the respect and affection of his fellow-students and teachers. It was really his great influence which led to many College men enlisting after he had set the example. As a power for good and a standard for manliness amongst the students I shall greatly feel his loss.” He was a keen sportsman and athlete, member of his college football fifteen for three years, and secretary of the College Engineering Society.

=BURNHAM, CHARLES RICHARD=, Private, No. 1791, 4th Battn. West Riding Regt., s. of John Burnham, Commercial Traveller; b. Halifax, 16 Oct. 1872; educ. there. He was a member of the National Reserve, and on the outbreak of war joined the 4th Battn. West Riding Regt., 8 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 4 May, 1915, while carrying rations and water from the headquarters to the trenches. He was buried in the Military Burial Ground, Sailly. He m. at the Parish Church, Halifax, 19 May, 1894, Mary Emma, dau. of Isaiah Tawton, and had a dau: Ivy Eastwood, b. 16 May, 1907.

=BURNS, ALBERT HORACE=, Private, No. 10720, 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., s. of Harry Walter Burns, of 97, Chingford Road, Walthamstow, Silversmith, by his wife, Emma Esther, dau. of Richard Rolph; b. Camden Town, 4 Feb. 1899; educ. Oldfield Road School, Willesden; joined the Army at the outbreak of the war, 11 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 14 May, 1915, five days after his brother, Drummer Harry Walter Burns (see his notice); unm.

=BURNS, DAVID=, Private, No. 9413, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Keith, co. Banff; enlisted 23 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died a prisoner of war, 27 Jan. 1915, and was buried at Pont-a-Vendin, Pas de Calais, by the German authorities.

=BURNS, HARRY WALTER=, Drummer, No. 1441, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Harry Walter Burns, Silversmith, by his wife, Emma Esther, dau. of Richard Rolph; b. Kentish Town, London, 20 Nov. 1896; educ. Oldfield Road School, Willesden; enlisted 22 Feb. 1911, and was killed in action at Festubert, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=BURNS, JOHN=, Private, No. 77984, 15th Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late Robert Burns, of Dublin, by his wife, Lizzie (20, Longford Street, Dublin); b. Dublin, 10 April, 1890; educ. there; went to Canada about 1907, and settled in Victoria, British Columbia; volunteered after the outbreak of war; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Oct. 1914; came over with the second contingent; went to France, and was killed in action at Festubert, 20 May, 1915. Buried first line trenches, north-east of Festubert village, about 500 yards from church. He m. at Victoria, B.C., 16 Nov. 1912, May (Box 934 Nelson, British Columbia, Canada), dau. of Thomas Carlisle, and had a son: John Carlisle, b. 15 June, 1914.

=BURNS, MICHAEL=, Private, No. 5973, 2nd Battn, The Border Regt.; served through the South African War with the 1st Border Regt. (Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm. Previous to the outbreak of the European War he was employed at the Ravensworth Colliery, Gateshead.

=BURNS, THOMAS=, Private, No. 10646, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Patrick Burns, of 4, Spring Row, Knowle Park, Keighley, Yorkshire; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing 29 Oct. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action that day.

=BURNS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 3321, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Thomas Burns, of 299, Hilltown, Dundee; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in the 13th General Hospital at Boulogne, 28 May, 1915, from wounds received in action.

=BURNS, WILLIAM GORDON=, L.-Corpl., No. 9217, 1st Section, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., b. Dumfries, 14 Sept. 1885; educ. there; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 5 Aug. 1915. He was buried north of Hop Store, just outside Vlamertinghe, on the Poperinghe Road. He m. at Wallsend-on-Tyne, Northumberland, Jennie (now training as a Nurse), eldest dau. of John Steele, of Wallsend-on-Tyne; s.p.

=BURR, HAROLD=, A.B., J. 2742, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURRARD, NORMAN SIDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14263 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURRELL, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 13676, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Richard Burrell, of 70, Victoria Street, Shotton Colliery, Durham, Miner, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of William Keen, of Haswell; b. Haswell, co. Durham, 2 May, 1894; enlisted at Sunderland, 14 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Vermelles, 29 Sept. 1915; unm.

=BURRELL, FREDERICK=, A.B., 192688, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURRELL, JOHN WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 1519, B Coy., 9th Battn. 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, s. of Richard William Burrell, of 46, Croyland Road, Lower Edmonton, N., Confectioner, by his wife, Louisa Matilda, dau. of George Watling; b. Islington, 19 Sept. 1895; educ. Chequer Street School, E.C.; went to Australia, and enlisted there in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; unm. His elder brother was killed in France in Sept. (see following notice).

=BURRELL, RICHARD GEORGE=, Corpl., No. 1197, D Coy., 7th Battn. The London Regt., 47th London Division (T.F.), eldest s. of Richard William Burrell, of 46, Croyland Road, Lower Edmonton, N., and elder brother of the preceding; b. St. Luke’s, E.C., 13 July, 1893; educ. Chequer Street School, E.C.; enlisted in June, 1911, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915. He m. at Watford, 16 March, 1915, May, dau. of Henry Knowles, of King’s Road, Fairfield Road, Edmonton.

=BURRELL, WILLIAM MATTHEW=, of Broome Park, co. Northumberland, and Hampton Court, co. Hereford, Major, Northumberland Hussars Yeomanry, elder s. of William John Burrell, by his wife, Helena Elizabeth, 2nd dau. of Major Alexander Browne, of Doxford Hall; b. Glen Allen, Alnwick, co. Northumberland, 2 Feb. 1876; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 12th Royal Lancers, 15 May, 1897, and promoted Lieut. 1900, and Capt. 22 Nov. 1902; served in South African War, 1899–1902; took part in advance on, and relief of, Kimberley, including action at Maggersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Lindley, Bethlehem and Wittebergen; operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900, to July, 1901; and in Cape Colony, July, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four claps and King’s medal with two clasps); and retired 15 May, 1907. He then joined the Northumberland Yeomanry Hussars; was Adjutant for three years, and became Major, 7 June, 1913. On the outbreak of war he was en route for France with his regt. when he contracted pneumonia at Southampton, and died of septic pneumonia at a nursing home in Bath, 10 Nov. 1914. He m. at Carham, 13 May, 1903, Nancy (Hampton Court, Leominster, Herefordshire), 2nd dau. of the late Charles Perkins, of Carham Hall, Coldstream, N.B., and Birkley Hall, co. Durham, and had four children: Michael, b. 8 July, 1909, d. 4 Jan. 1910; Charles Dominic (now of Broome Park), b. 11 Aug. 1914; Cornelia Mary, b. 12 Jan. 1911; and Philippa, b. 25 Aug. 1912.

=BURRIDGE, ARTHUR CHARLES=, L.-Corpl., East African King’s Mounted Rifles, elder s. of the late Arthur Francis Burridge, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and a Vice-President of that Society, by his wife, Emily (Elmington, Bexley, Kent), dau. of Major-Gen. Charles James Green, R.E., for many years Chief Engineer of Mysore; b. Bedford Park, W., 7 Jan. 1883; educ. Rugby 1896–99, winning his house cup for running; entered Huth’s Bank 1899, and joined the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps; but in 1910 emigrated to British East Africa, where he took up a large tract of land; became a coffee planter, and started the raising of the Legion of Frontiersmen. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in C Squadron, King’s Mounted Rifles, was made L.-Corpl., and took part in the fighting along the British-German frontier during Sept. On 25 Sept. he was one of a small party, 30 in number, of the Rifles who were attacked in the Ingito Hills by a greatly superior force of the enemy, with two Maxim guns. After an hour’s severe fighting the enemy were driven off, but not until the Rifles had lost eight of their number killed, among them Mr. Burridge. The “Morning Post” for 1 Jan. 1915, contained a letter, in which the writer says: “One poor youngster in my section and mess got shot through the leg, and a man named Burridge attended him in the firing line and refused to retreat when the order was given. That was the last seen of either of them alive, for when we returned later the poor boy was found bayoneted through the neck and his companion shot through the head.” He was buried in the Ingito Hills the following day, and a handsome brass memorial tablet was placed in Bexley Parish Church.

=BURRIDGE, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 15303, H.M.S. Hawke, lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=BURRIDGE, HENRY GARDINER (Lal)=, Lieut., 107th Pioneers, Indian Army, s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Francis John Burridge, R.A. (2nd s. of the late William Burridge, of Bradford Court, West Somerset), by his wife, Kitty (The Croft, Lee-on-the-Solent), dau. of Capt. E. Stannard, R.H.A.; b. Bareilly, India, 20 Jan. 1890; educ. Winton House, Winchester, Wellington College (1902–8), and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Sept. 1909, he was attached to the North Staffordshire Regt. at Nowshera for a year, and on 31 Dec. 1910, was transferred to the Indian Army and posted to the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs; promoted Lieut. 8 Dec. 1911, he transferred to the 107th Pioneers in 1912, and was killed in action (being shot through the head) while ascertaining the extent of damage done by high explosives at La Bassée, 17 Nov. 1914; unm. He was buried in Bethune Cemetery, the men of his company carrying his body back some three miles. His Colonel wrote: “During the short time I knew him I got to recognise and admire his many qualities. He was always bright and jolly whatever his hardships might be, and I have seldom met a more unselfish fellow. He was always keen both at work and play, and was much loved by his men. Since we have been at the front I have much relied on his judgment, and he was my right hand. I miss him greatly. He had endeared himself to me.” At Wellington he was second of three brothers in the Anglesey, a school prefect, a member of the XI and XV, and a gentleman of the Hunt, and won the Challenge Cup in 1908. In 1908 he was passed for Sandhurst, but was sent to the infantry company attached to the R.M.A.

=BURRINGTON, HARLEY=, Private, No. 13615, Grenade Coy., 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of the late Gilbert George Burrington, of Bridgwater, co. Somerset, Bank Manager, by his wife, Amelia Frances (Burnham, co. Somerset), dau. of Edward Bryant; b. Bridgwater, 1 Dec. 1883; educ. Haileybury College; went to Canada in 1902; enlisted on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; went to France in Feb.; was wounded when coming out of the trenches at Festubert, and died in the General Hospital at Boulogne, 23 July, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Eastern Cemetery there.

=BURROW, THOMAS=, Private, No. 20447, 10th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late James Burrow, Water Bailiff (died 1905), by his wife, Agnes (Grange Fell, Grange Over Sands, co. Lancaster), dau. of John Rigg, of Hill Farm, Cartmel; b. Grange Over Sands, 5 May, 1893; educ. National School there; went to Canada in 1913, and settled in Alberta. He joined the 103rd Calgary Regt. in 1913, and after the outbreak of war volunteered for service oversea. He came to England with the first Canadian Contingent, was severely wounded at 3 p.m. on 20 March, 1915, in action at Neuve Chapelle, and died the following evening; unm. He was buried in Merivale Cemetery, France.

=BURROWS, LEOPOLD CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10748), 203733, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURROWS, SAMUEL JOSEPH=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 12278, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BURSNALL, FRANCIS GEORGE=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1734U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURT, ROBERT WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4559), S.S. 103678, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BURTON, ALFRED WILLIAM=, Private, No. 7803, 1st Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., s. of the late William Burton; b. Haynford, 5 Feb. 1888; educ. there; enlisted 7 Dec. 1904; died 14 March, 1915, of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle two days previously. He m. at Haynford, 7 Oct. 1913, Edith Miriam, dau. of Charles Golding; s.p.

=BURTON, JAMES ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7513), S.S. 102819, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURTON, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10637 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BURTON, REES THOMAS=, Private, No. 64831, Royal Field Artillery, s. of the late William Burton (died 20 May, 1898); b. Tylorstown, co. Glamorgan, 26 Sept. 1888; educ. there; enlisted 24 March, 1911, and had finished his three years’ service just five months before the outbreak of war; he immediately rejoined and was killed in action in France between 11 and 14 Sept. 1914; unm.

=BURTON, WILLIAM HARRY=, Sergt., No. 1420, C Coy., 1st/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Herbert Burton, of North Street, Atherstone, Foreman Hatter, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Lucas; b. Atherstone, 15 March, 1887; educ. Atherstone Grammar School; joined the London Scottish 1910, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 27 May, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer, Capt. Claud Low, wrote he “was killed by a shell at 10.15 this morning, in a trench about 2,000 yards east of Vermelles. At the moment of writing this letter your son has not been buried but I am making arrangements for this. If the shelling does not stop before nightfall it will be done then. It may interest you to know that when the shells commenced to strike in this section this morning, your son immediately took steps to get his men into safety, and it was in doing so, in the exercise of his duty as a non-commissioned officer, that he lost his life.”

=BUSH, ARTHUR DOUGLAS=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 6857, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BUSH, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 819), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUSHELL, WILLIAM THEODORE=, L.-Corpl., No. 2816, A Coy., 16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Arthur Forest Bushell, of 39, Moreton Place, Pimlico, S.W., and Biggin Hill, Westerham, Kent, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of William Cooper, of Milton, Kent; b. Pimlico, 17 July, 1883; educ. Westminster Training College, and was for some 14 years in the employ of Messrs. J. W. Benson, Ltd., of Ludgate Hill. On 27 Feb. 1899, at the age of 15, he joined the 1st Cadet Battn. of the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., and leaving them 11 Jan. 1900, joined the old 13th Middlesex Queen’s Westminster Volunteers 5 Nov. following, with whom he served till 8 Dec. 1904. After the outbreak of war he rejoined 2 Sept. 1914, and went to the Front at the end of Jan. The Westminsters were stationed at Houplines, near Armentières, until 28 May, when they were moved up to Ypres. At the Battle of Hooge they were in reserve and were heavily bombarded the whole time. Bushell was hit in the head by a piece of shrapnel shell, and was killed instantaneously at midnight on 16–17 June, 1915. He was unm., and was buried on the side of the Potjhe-Hooge Road, about half a mile from Potjhe. His Commanding Officer, Capt. Stanley Low, wrote: “He was killed by shrapnel whilst doing his duty nobly in the trenches. He was very popular and will be sadly missed by his comrades. I should like to say how well his brother (who recently joined us) behaved, by restraining his natural inclination to go to his brother’s assistance, and remaining on sentry go until someone came to relieve him”; and Lieut. R. S. Dickinson wrote of him as “One of the best soldiers” in his platoon. His third brother, Harry George, joined the Warwickshires on the outbreak of war, and was later transferred to the Westminsters, being with his brother when he was killed. He is now (1916) a 2nd Lieut. in the 10th Suffolks. His next brother, Arthur Frederick, is serving with the Army Service Corps.

=BUSK, EDWARD TESHMAKER=, Lieut., London Electrical Engineers (T.F.), s. of Thomas Teshmaker Busk, of Fords Grove, Winchmore Hill, and Hermongers, Rudgwick, co. Sussex, M.A., J.P., by his wife, Mary, dau. of Nathaniel Brindley Acworth, of the Hook, co. Herts, J.P., Chairman of Petty Sessions; b. Fords Grove afsd., 8 March, 1886; educ. Bilton Grange, Rugby, Harrow (Mr. Marshall’s House, 1900–04) and King’s College (Foundation Scholar), Cambridge, where he secured a 1st Class in Part 1 of the Mechanical Sciences Tripos (1907), and carried off the John Winbolt prize next year. He joined the staff of the Royal Aircraft Factory as Assistant Engineer in charge of physical experimental work on 10 June, 1912. There he devoted much of his time to the mathematics and dynamics of stable flight on the full size, as distinct from the model aeroplane. He introduced many valuable improvements, of which it is not permissible to give particulars at the present juncture, his work not being confined to the solution of aeroplane stability, but covering a wide and varied range. His valuable researches into the nature and cause of wind gusts and his work in connection with the offensive and defensive uses of aircraft in warfare may be specially mentioned. He also guided his branch in the production of aeroplane instruments, some of which were exhibited at the Royal Society in May and June, 1913, by permission of the Superintendent, Mr. Mervyn O’Gorman, C.B., Royal Aircraft Factory. By the autumn of 1913, Mr. Busk had carried his researches so far that complete stability without material loss of efficiency could be obtained for any aeroplane designed in accordance with his results. Such an aeroplane was then produced for the first time, and in Nov. 1913, he was able to make flights of several hours’ duration in winds up to thirty-eight miles per hour, without at any time using any balancing, controlling, or steering mechanism whatever, save for alighting purposes. He took Col. Seely on such an uncontrolled flight, and later on made demonstration flights before the King and Queen. The matter was introduced in practical form to the Royal Flying Corps by his taking his Commanding Officer, Col. Sykes, as passenger, from the Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough, to Salisbury Plain and back, while both passenger and flier, being freed from the use of controls, wrote notes and observations continuously throughout the journey. This trial was repeated by Col. now Gen. Brancker as pilot as well as many other officers. When at the Wilbur Wright Memorial Banquet (1914), Col. Seely made the first public announcement of his flight on the stable aeroplane produced at the Royal Aircraft Factory, the pilot’s name was veiled in anonymity, only a privileged few knowing that Lieut. Busk was, in fact, the designer of the R.E. 1 now known as B.E. 2C. He was flying over Laffan’s Plain in his own stable aeroplane on 5 Nov. 1914, when it was destroyed by fire at a height of some 800 ft. The cause of the accident is unknown, as he was engaged on experimental work of which he had not given information. Mr. Busk’s scientific attainments and versatility were shown by the variety of matters entrusted to him by the Superintendent of the Royal Aircraft Factory. He resembled other men of genius in the simplicity of his methods, and the speed at which he worked, and he was remarkable for the soundness of the scientific judgments he reached. His mother received the following letter from H.M. the King:--

Buckingham Palace, 11 Nov. 1914.

Dear Mrs. Busk,

The King has heard with much concern of the tragic death of your son Mr. Busk. His Majesty well remembers meeting him at the Royal Aircraft Factory on the occasion of Their Majesties visit to Aldershot last summer, and was much struck by his ability and technical knowledge of the machinery of aeroplanes.

The King and Queen also saw him give an exhibition of flying in a stable aeroplane of his own invention.

In offering you his sincere sympathy in your bereavement, the King feels that the Country has lost the services of one, who, by experiment and research, contributed, in no small measure, towards the Science of flying.

Yours very truly, (Signed) CLIVE WIGRAM.

Mr. Mervyn O’Gorman, C.B., Superintendent R.A.F. wrote: “He did the most magnificent things without announcing any intention and without applauding audience. He merely took all the sane precautions of a clever engineer. Later with his hair blown about by a hatless flight, he would walk into my office, report the success of an experiment. He knew it was interesting, he forgot that it was brilliant or it did not occur to him. He worked out a result, knew he was right, but simply had his results checked and then proved them in his own person over and again. He was a genius, that we knew and you knew. He knew what he was about when he relinquished his volunteer regimental duty for the risks of this service, he talked it all over with me and he took this course, because he knew that he served his country better that way”; and Lord Rayleigh, President, writing on behalf of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: “At the National Physical Laboratory the assistance he was constantly able to give, from his experience in actual flying and his wide knowledge of his subject, in the critical examination of the difficult problems presented for investigation was very greatly valued.... The Committee have had many opportunities of appreciating the services he was able to render to the development of flying, and to his country, and wish to offer their tribute of admiration of the courage, skill, and devotion he brought to his work.” He was also awarded the posthumous honour of the Gold Medal of the Aeronautical Society.

=BUTCHER, CHARLES GEOFFREY=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., 3rd s. of George William James Butcher, of 9, Tregunter Road, South Kensington, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Samuel Debenham; educ. St. Paul’s School, and was for some time in the H.A.C. He was gazetted to the Special Reserve in Aug. 1912. On 10 June, 1914, he joined the 2nd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., and on the outbreak of war was appointed to the 1st Battn. At La Bassée on 22 Oct. 1914, he was wounded in the leg by a bullet, his life being saved by Sergt. H. Cox, of the Dorsetshire Regt. who carried him from the trenches into cover under a very heavy fire. For this Sergt. Cox received the D.C.M. Lieut. Butcher was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1914, returning to the Front on 25 March. He was killed in action by asphyxiating gas at Hill 60 on 2 May, 1915, and was buried at Reninghelst, Belgium; unm. His Adjutant wrote: “I knew him very well and looked upon him always as a man of unusual character, ability, and promise; his loss is a severe one for the Dorset Regt.”; and another officer wrote “He is a real loss to the regt. in every way. I am sure he had great prospects before him as he was an extraordinarily keen subaltern and very popular with both officers and men. He was always ready for any amount of work.” Two of his brothers are in the Army and one in the Navy.

=BUTCHER, HARRY STANLEY=, A.B., J. 3004, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUTCHER, WILLIAM=, Signalman, J. 6825, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=BUTLER, CHARLES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3442C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUTLER, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1441), 198254, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BUTLER, HARRY WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1990), 199217, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BUTLER, JOHN=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch./8249, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BUTLER, JOHN=, Private, No. 3545, 5th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Henry Butler, of Sutton Scotney, near Winchester, Hants, by his wife, Abigail, 3rd dau. of John Stocker, of Hampshire; b. Crookham, co. Berks, 24 April, 1885; educ. West Clandon (Surrey) Council School; and had worked on Lord Rendel’s estate at East Clandon for nine years; enlisted 16 Nov. 1914, and died at the London South-Western Fever Hospital, Stockwell, 25 Feb. 1915, of measles and double pneumonia, contracted while on active service. He m. at Edmonton, London, 25 April, 1907, Ellen (2, Westfield Cottages, Great Bookham, Surrey), 3rd dau. of William Savage, of Bones Cottage, West Clandon, and had four children: William John, b. 17 May, 1910; Henry Louvain, b. 18 Dec. 1914; Edith Annie, b. 22 July, 1908; and Dora Irene, b. 1 Aug. 1912.

=BUTLER, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4345), S.S. 101226, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BUTLER, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class, 311362, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BUTLER, WILLIAM LEWIS=, Private, No. 3187, 1/13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Butler, of Prior’s Lea, Barrow-in-Furness, Solicitor, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of John Lewis; b. Barrow-in-Furness, 1 Dec. 1892; educ. Lancing College; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Kensingtons in Sept. 1914; went to France, March, 1915, and was killed in action, 19 April, 1915. He was buried in La Croix Marechal Cemetery, Rue David, near Armentières.

=BUTTERWICK, ALEXANDER MIDDLETON=, Rifleman, No. 3636, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Charles Matthias Butterwick, of Walthamstow, House and Estate Agent, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of R. Adnams, formerly of Reading; b. Walthamstow, co. Essex, 20 April, 1895. After his father’s death, when a child, he was taken and brought up by his uncle, A. M. Butterwick (Master Mariner, retired), who saw service in Burma, 1885–7, now of Broxton, Kew, Surrey; educ. Richmond (Surrey) County School and Gunnersbury High School, and on leaving there became an articled pupil in the firm of Breadmore and Webb, F.A.I., Auctioneers and Estate Agents, of Richmond. After the outbreak of war he volunteered and enlisted in Queen Victoria’s Rifles in Nov. 1914; went to France, March, 1915, and was killed in action in Flanders, 13 July, 1915; unm. Buried in 13th Infantry Brigade Cemetery, Voormeezelle. At the time of his death his name was down for a commission. He was a keen athlete, and held prizes for drill and swimming, also certificates for life saving and first-aid.

=BUTTON, JOHN SAMUEL=, Seaman, R.N.R., 1540D, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BYATT, HARRY VIVIAN BYATT=, Capt., R.A.M.C., elder s. of Henry Byatt, author, late of 36, Warwick Gardens, Kensington; b. Kensington, 16 Dec. 1882; educ. Summer Fields, Summertown, Oxford, 1891; obtained an entrance scholarship at Charterhouse School, Godalming, 1896, and left there with the Charterhouse Science Exhibition, 1901, entering Clare College, Cambridge, with a Science Scholarship the same year. He left Cambridge with a second class in the Natural Science Tripos, and proceeded to the London Hospital, qualifying M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 1907. He was gazetted Lieut. R.A.M.C. the same year, and appointed to Netley Hospital. From there he proceeded to Poona in 1909, was promoted Capt. 29 Jan. 1911, and after five years’ service in India, joined the Expeditionary Force in France in Oct., being attached to the 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade. He attended to the trenches between Laventie and Estaires, and died 11 March, 1915, from wounds received at Neuve Chapelle while dressing the wound in the head of Machine Gun Sergt. Marriage. He was buried at Estaires. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was hit while attending to a wounded man and I never saw him again. He was taken to the 25th Field Ambulance at Estaires and died there. He was shot by a rifle bullet in the chest.” While at Clare College he was first secretary and then captain of the Clare Rowing Club, and under his leadership Clare rowing improved so greatly that the well-known footer college was placed in the first division on the river for the first time for many years.

=BYE, FRANK EDWIN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17384, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BYHAM, EDWARD ARTHUR GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 12937, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BYRNE, HERBERT HENRY=, Leading Seaman, 184370, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BYRNE, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2235), 204649, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BYRNE, THOMAS=, Private, No. 5334, 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, s. of the late Thomas Byrne, Royal Irish Rifles, by his wife, Anne (Castledermot, co. Kildare), dau. of James Grace; b. Carlow, 14 Aug. 1895; educ. Castledermot; joined the Army in Aug. 1911, and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 Jan. 1915; unm.

=CADGER, WILLIAM LAW=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 4793), 293766 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CADMAN, ISAIAH=, Private, No. 10213, 3rd Battn. Cheshire Regt., s. of the late Samuel Cadman, of Bilston, co. Staffs, Collier, by his wife, Ann (9, Taylor’s Buildings, Heywood, Lanes, Manchester), dau. of Joseph Reynolds; b. Awsworth, co. Notts. ...; educ. Bilston; enlisted 12 Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Dec., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 13 March, 1915; unm.

=CAESAR, AUGUSTUS BENJAMIN=, Private, No. 1896, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Julius Cæsar, of 49, Chippenham Road, Elgin Avenue, W., formerly of Southampton, M.P.S., F.S.M.C., by his wife, Emma (49, Chippenham Road, Elgin Avenue, W.), dau. of James Baker; b. at 49, Chippenham Road aforesaid, 12 April, 1897; educ. at Vale College, Maida Vale, W., afterwards at the City of London Freeman’s School, where he obtained the bronze medal for rifle shooting at Bisley; he was an optician and microscopical demonstrator attached to the firm of H. F. Angus & Co., Wigmore Street, W.; joined the 1st City of London Regt., 17 Aug. 1914; trained at Croydon; left for Malta, 19 Sept. 1914; returned to England, Feb. 1915; went to France, 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, at the Battle of Aubers Ridge.

=CAFFYN, HAROLD HUNT=, Capt., 1st Battn., North Staffordshire Regt., eldest s. of Stephen Mannington Caffyn, of 6, Cedar Gardens, S.W., M.D., by his wife, Kathleen, Novelist (Iota) (Lacey Green, Princes Risborough), dau. of William de Vere Hunt, of Waterloo House, co. Tipperary; b. at Mount Sandria, South Australia, 10 Feb. 1882; educ. Rugby and Sandhurst; gazetted second Lieut., unattached, 8 Jan. 1901; posted to the 2nd North Staffordshires 9 March following and promoted Lieut., 16 Feb. 1904; served in the South African War (Queen’s medal with 2 clasps) 1901–2, and afterwards in India and retired in 1912. Subsequently he was for eighteen months Private Secretary to Sir Wilfred Collett, Governor of British Honduras, but after the outbreak of war volunteered and was gazetted Capt., 14 Nov. 1914. He rejoined his old regiment in Jan., went to France, 7 Jan., 1915, and was killed in action in front of the trenches near Armentières, 21 March, 1915, while reconnoitring; unm.

=CAHILL, HENRY THOMAS=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1709), 152629, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CAINAN, DAVID WALTER=, Corpl., No. 9866, 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade, 4th s. of William Cainan, of 49, Albert Street, Llanelly, South Wales, Marine Engineer, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of William Perrott, of Llanelly; b. Llanelly, 9 April, 1886; educ. Copper Works School; joined the Army 4 May, 1903, and after being stationed at Malta for 12 months, he went to India, where he did 11 years’ service, returning to Europe with his regt. after the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between the 10–14 March, 1915; unm. He was an all-round athlete, having gained the light-weight boxing championship of India, as well as a record for long jump and high jump.

=CAIRD, JAMES ROBERT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, s. of Major Lindsay Henryson Caird (late Border Regt.), Assistant to Colonel in charge of Records, No. 2 District, by his wife, the late Janet Laura, 5th dau. of the late Rowland Hunt, of Boreatton Park, co. Salop, and Kibworth Hall, co. Leicester, and grandson of the late Right Hon. Sir James Caird, of Cassencary, Kirkcudbrightshire; b. Dalhousie, India, 4 Nov. 1892; educ. Bedford and Carlisle Grammar Schools; was in the office of the Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co., Ltd., but when war broke out at once applied for a commission, and being a member of the Inns of Court O.T.C., was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. K.O.S.B. 15 Aug. 1914. He was promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. following, and went to the Front in Dec., being attached to the 2nd Highland L.I. until March, when he came home on short leave. On his return to the Front he was posted to the 2nd Battn. of his regt., and was killed in action while leading his platoon over open ground in the advance upon St. Julien, near Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm. He was promoted Capt. after his death to rank as from 2 Feb. 1915. Major Hilton, who was in command of the battn. during the action and was himself seriously wounded, wrote: “Capt. Caird was a gallant fellow, and we can ill afford to lose his kind.... I didn’t get much detail of the manner of his death as I was also knocked over, but I know enough to say that he died game and led his men well until killed.” And Sergt. Hugh McMurchy, in a sworn statement, declared: “I saw Lieut. Caird killed on 23 April in the advance at St. Julien. He was advancing in front of me and was shot through the forehead, being killed instantaneously.” Capt. Caird’s experience of active service had brought him to the conviction that he preferred a military to a civil career, and his application for a permanent commission had been sent in before his death. His last letter to his father contained an interesting account of the assault and capture of Hill 60, in which he took part.

=CAIRNIE, GILBERT JAMES BRYAN=, Corporal, No. 12/50, A Coy., 3rd Auckland Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of James Bryan Cairnie, of Taranaki, New Zealand, retired Farmer; b. Lymington, near Kilmarnock, co. Ayr, 5 June, 1881; educ. Tarbolton, Ayr, and Higher Grade School, Deansgate, Manchester; went to New Zealand and was Computing Draughtsman, Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, N.Z.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and joined the N.Z.E.F. Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force, and from there went to the Dardanelles, where he was killed in action during a night sortie, 5 June, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Despatches with his Coy. Sergt.-Major, for bringing in a wounded man under heavy fire. He was for a long time reported as missing, and Sapper L. J. Poff wrote: “The last that was seen of Jim as far as I can ascertain was that he was by himself in a Turkish trench. I hope he was taken prisoner rather than that he has been killed, for he has proved himself as brave as a lion. I sought out the Sergt.-Major of Jim’s company, who was with him in bringing in a wounded man, of which I wrote some time ago. He tells me that they were both ‘Mentioned in Despatches’ for it. The Sergt.-Major says that the sortie in which Jim became missing was a purely voluntary one, but practically the whole of his section went. They sallied out, did their work, and what was left returned with the wounded. The dead they could not bring in then. A few nights afterwards a party went out and gathered the identity discs of those who were killed. They also procured those of the men whose dead bodies were thrown out of the Turkish trenches, accounting for all but six. Jim’s disc was not among them, so let us hope he is a prisoner,” but later he was officially returned as killed in action, 5 June, 1915.

=CAIRNS, JOHN=, Sergt., No. 3515, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, s. of the late Thomas Cairns, Gunner, Mid-Ulster Artillery, by his wife, Phoebe (Ballygawley, co. Tyrone), dau. of James Montgomery, of Feddan, Ballygawley, co. Tyrone; b. Ballygawley, co. Tyrone, 12 May, 1891; educ. National School there; enlisted originally in 1909, was called up on mobilisation, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines 31 Oct. following; unm. His brother, Private William Cairns, No. 17584, 9th Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, is now (1916) on Active Service.

=CALE, ALBERT=, P.O., 2nd Class (R.F.R., A. 2006), 143929 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CALLANDER, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2332, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 6th s. of the late Thomas Edward Callander, late of Richmond, Surrey, by his wife, Mary Ann Henrietta, dau. of the late Edward Faggetter; b. Richmond, Surrey, 21 June, 1886; educ. Commercial Travellers’ Schools, Pinner; was manager of the costume department at Messrs. Green & Co., Oxford Circus Mansions; volunteered after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the London Scottish; went to France in March, and was killed in action, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=CALLEY, OLIVER JOHN=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Wiltshire Regt., only s. of the Rev. John Henry Calley, Vicar of Figheldean, Salisbury, by his wife, Elizabeth Isabella Maria, yst. dau. of Major John Haverfield; b. Chiseldon, 4 July, 1892; educ. at The Old Ride, Branksome, Bournemouth, and St. John’s School, Leatherhead; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Territorial Force to the Wiltshire Regiment, 4 Dec. 1912, joining at Tidworth in Jan. 1913, and being transferred the following Sept. to the 2nd Battn. at Gibraltar. He was promoted Lieut. 27 Oct. 1914; went to the Front the same month, and was invalided home a few weeks later. He left for the Front again in Dec., and was killed in action, 12 March, 1915; unm. Buried, Spanbrock Molen. His Colonel said of him that he deplored the loss of such a valuable and trustworthy officer.

=CALROW, WILLIAM ROBERT LAUNCELOT=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., s. of Gerald Walton Calrow, of Boerne, Kendall Co., Texas, U.S.A., by his wife, Mabel Selina Elizabeth, dau. of the late Edmund King, formerly of Bury St. Edmunds and later of Boerne, Texas, and gdson. of the late Robert Calrow, of Cuzgarth, Adel, Leeds; b. San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., 12 March, 1895; educ. Seascale, The School House, Rugby, and Sandhurst; received his commission 17 Sept. 1913, joined his regt. early in Nov. 1913, and accompanied it to France, 12 Aug. 1914. He was in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, at which latter he was killed by a high explosive shell, 7 Oct. 1914. He was buried near Vendresse, on the Aisne, about 12 miles from Braye; unm. Letters from his superior officers testify to his great courage, his capability, and the esteem in which he was held in the regt.

=CALVERLEY=, JAMES, Armourer, 342978, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CALVERLEY, LAWRENCE BASIL=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 13727, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CALVERT, HERBERT EDWIN=, Private, No. 6994, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Edwin Calvert, ex-Police Constable; b. Lincoln, 13 Dec. 1888; enlisted Oct. 1906; served in Egypt Jan. 1908 to April, 1911; was badly wounded in the leg at the Battle of the Aisne, and died in hospital in Paris following the amputation of his leg, 24 Sept, 1914. Private Blanchard, who was severely wounded the same day, writing from hospital at Woolwich, said: “I sincerely hope Calvert is not dead. He was one of my best friends. He was the one that carried me to safety.” Calvert m. Lincoln, 13 April, 1914, Alice Maud, dau. of James Barnes, of Norwich, and had a posthumous son, Herbert Edwin, b. 14 Dec. 1914.

=CALVERT, JOHN DUTTON=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, elder s. of Edmund Percy Calvert, of The Manor House, Spexhall, Halesworth, by his wife, Susan May, eldest dau. of the late Col. the Hon. Charles Dutton, of Twigworth Lodge, Gloucester [5th s. of James Henry Legge, 3rd Baron Sherborne]; b. Abbotswood, Romsey, 26 Feb. 1891; educ. Winton House, Winchester, Osborne, Dartmouth and Sandhurst (1909); was gazetted to the Rifle Brigade 20 Sept. 1911, joined the 4th Battn. in Cairo in Nov. 1911, and proceeded with it a year later to India. He was promoted Lieut. 16 April, 1914, and left Dagshai with his battn. the following Oct. for Winchester, and from there went to Flanders 20 Dec. 1914. Lieut. Calvert was killed in action near Ypres, 15 Feb. 1915, during a heavy bombardment. He came out of his dug-out to help a wounded man, and was killed instantaneously by a shrapnel shell. A few days previously he had assisted to bring in a wounded rifleman under difficult conditions, owing to the mud and wet, and that it was a fairly bright night, with Germans sniping. He was buried at Dickebusch; unm.

=CAMBRIDGE, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No. 6235, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William James Cambridge, of 2, Brocks Cottages, Fairfield South, Kingston-on-Thames, by his wife, Martha Ellen, dau. of George Greenfield; b. Wandsworth, S.W., 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Swathfield Road School there; enlisted 20 June, 1905; was wounded at Landrecies, 25 Aug. 1914, during the retreat from Mons, and invalided home on the 31st, but returned to France on 22 Oct.; was again wounded in action at Bethune, and died in the 4th Field Ambulance Dressing Station, 7 Feb. 1915. He was buried in Bethune Cemetery. He m. at Kingston-on-Thames, 22 Nov. 1909, Kiziah (34, Fairfield Place, Kingston-on-Thames), dau. of Richard George Goldsmith, and had a dau., Emily Martha Ethel, b. 2 May, 1910, d. 7 Feb. 1915.

=CAMERON, ALLAN GEORGE=, Capt., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron (79th) Highlanders, 3rd s. of the late Donald Cameron, of Lochiel, Twenty-fourth Chief of Clan Cameron, by his wife, Lady Margaret, 2nd dau. of Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch; b. Achnacarry, 27 July, 1880; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. Cameron Highlanders, 4 Oct. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 30 April, 1901, and Capt. 14 May, 1910; served with them at Gibraltar, Malta, Crete and in South Africa, where he was for a time in the Mounted Infantry, and was Adjutant of Lovat’s Scouts Dec. 1907–Feb. 1911, on vacating which appointment he was posted to the 1st Battn. On the outbreak of war he accompanied his battn. to France on 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near the Aisne, 25 Sept. 1914; buried at Bourg-et-Comin. Capt. E. J. Brodie (Adjutant 1st Camerons) wrote of him: “We were sent to relieve the Black Watch north of Verneiulle on the 24th. On the 25th we were again heavily shelled. Capt. Miers was in command of the regt., and at 7 a.m. he got wounded in the right arm, and decided to go to Verneiulle to get it dressed. He sent a message to Allan Cameron, who was next senior, to that effect. Before he could get away heavy shell fire again started, so he delayed going. Allan Cameron, however, came straight to Headquarters. Just as Allan Cameron got to the trench--or rather cave--a huge high explosive shell burst on the top and blew it in. The cave contained headquarters, signallers, stretcher-bearers, etc. Death to all must have been instantaneous. It took us three nights to get the bodies out, 31 in all. We could only work in the dark, as the place was shelled by day. We buried the officers and the Sergt.-Major at Bourg. Capt. Miers, Allan Cameron, Meiklejohn, Napier Cameron and Dr. Crockett were the officers killed.” In 1902 Capt. Cameron won the Royal Humane Society’s certificate for saving a boy’s life at Oban by jumping over the esplanade into the sea and bringing him out. At the Scottish Command Rifle Meeting in 1913 he won the Officers’ Aggregate for the highest number of points and was third in the individual aggregate of all ranks. He m. at Inverness Cathedral, 6 Oct. 1908, Hester Vere (Aldourie, Inverness), dau. of Col. Edward Grant Fraser-Tytler, of Aldourie, D.L., and had one son, Angus Ewen, b. 20 Jan. 1914.

=CAMERON, ARCHIE=, Private, No. 12693, A Coy., 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Angus Cameron, of Virden, Manitoba, Canada, Farmer and Liveryman [b. St. Catherine’s, Ontario, emigrated to Manitoba in 1880]; b. Virden, 22 Aug. 1884; educ. Public School and Collegiate Institute there, and was for five years a trooper in the 12th Manitoba Dragoons; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted 14 Oct. 1914; left with the 1st Canadian Contingent in Oct.; went to France in Feb., and died 25 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Festubert, the previous day: unm. He was buried in the New Cemetery, Choques, France [No. 75, Row B.]. Private Cameron was a good sportsman, a typical Western pioneer, and an enthusiastic soldier and sincere Imperialist.

=CAMERON, ARTHUR IAN DOUGLAS=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 2nd s. of the Rev. Angus Cameron, of St. Andrew’s, Tain, by his wife, Elizabeth Anna, dau. of the late Benjamin Liddall, of Press Castle, co. Berwick; b. St. John’s Rectory, Arpafeelie, Ross-shire, 28 Sept. 1893; educ. Trinity College, Glenalmond, Norwich, and Hanover; joined the Special Reserve of the Seaforth Highlanders, 13 July, 1913. On the outbreak of war was attached to the 2nd Battn., and died 25 April, 1915, from wounds received while in action at St. Julien; unm. Col. R. S. Vandaleur, writing to Mr. Cameron, said: “I saw and spoke to him not long before he fell, and he was then leading his men gallantly into the firing line. You will have heard how our brigade was ordered to attack early in the morning of 25 April; not knowing the ground or the exact position of the enemy we suffered terribly. We and the Warwicks, supported by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, were attacking on the left of the road leading to St. Julien, when we came under the fire of machine guns in a farm immediately in front of us. Your son’s company was in support, and the last I saw of him was when he was leading his platoon up on the right of that farm,” and Capt. the Hon. Eric Campbell wrote: “He was a very gallant officer, whose loss will be felt very much by us all. His company commander, Major Campion, told me before I left the Battn., that he had done extremely well the day he met his death on 25 April. We were carrying out an attack on St. Julien, north-east of Ypres, about dawn. We came upon the enemy in trenches and occupying houses sooner than we expected; they inflicted heavy losses on us. Your son, after behaving with the utmost bravery, was hit, I should think, about 6 a.m., and died some hours later. We buried him and four other officers near a farm on the road between Ypres and St. Julien.” Two of his brothers are now (1916) on active service.

=CAMERON, DONALD EWAN=, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lieut., Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., yst. s. of the late Archibald Cameron, Manager of the Merchants’ Bank of Canada, Toronto, by his wife, Agnes Margaret, dau. of Major James Barwick, 79th Cameron Highlanders, and grandson of Lieut.-Col. Duncan Cameron, C.B., 79th Cameron Highlanders (who fought at Waterloo); b. Toronto, 18 Dec. 1870; educ. Trinity College School, Port Hope, and the Montreal High School, and on leaving school entered the service of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. In 1902 he formed the Lilley and Cameron Cartage Co., and later the Terminal Warehouse & Cartage Co. of Montreal. In 1912 he became associated with the Dominion Securities Corporation. He served in the Canadian Militia for many years--first in the Victoria Rifles of Canada, then in all the ranks up to that of Major in the Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars, and went on the Reserve of Officers. He joined the Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I. upon the organisation of the regt. for service in Aug. 1914; sailed with the Canadian Contingent in Oct.; was encamped on Salisbury Plain and at Winchester, and left for France on 20 Dec. 1914. The regt. was sent up to the trenches in the neighbourhood of Ypres, and was constantly engaged. He fell in the counter-attack upon the Germans at St. Eloi, 15 March, 1915, and was buried in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I. cemetery at Voormezeele; unm. His brother, Col. Kenneth Cameron, of Montreal, was the officer in charge of the Surgical Division of No. 1 Canadian General Hospital at Netheravon on Salisbury Plain, and Etaples, France, and later officer commanding No. 2 Canadian General Hospital at Le Tréport, France.

=CAMERON, EVAN STUART=, Corpl., No. 25931 (Royal Montreal Regt.), 14th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest surviving s. of Sir Edward John Cameron, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gambia, by his wife, Eva Selwyn, dau. of the late Robert Mackintosh Isaacs, LL.D., of New South Wales; b. Turks Island, West Indies, 21 Sept. 1893; educ. Blundell’s School, Tiverton (1905–12), where he was head for two years, and on leaving there in Sept. 1912, went to Montreal to join the Royal Bank of Canada. He enlisted in the Canadian Contingent on the outbreak of war, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near St. Julien, 24 April, 1915; unm. Major Beatty. A.D.C. to General Alderson, Commanding 1st Canadian Contingent, wrote: “He was dearly loved by all his comrades, and he had earned the respect and admiration of all, and had behaved with the greatest gallantry all through that dreadful time from 5 p.m. on Thursday, 22 April, up to the time of his death.” His Capt. said: “He handled his men wonderfully, and would have been given a commission had he survived the battle,” and the head master of Blundells: “As I look back upon his school career I feel that we have lost one of the most sterling of the old pupils whom I remember in my long experience of 40 years.” He was a good cricketer, and was capt. of the cricket eleven and football fifteen for two years at Blundells and won the average bat four years in succession. He played against the Australian XI in 1913 and made the first century of the season for the McGill Cricket Club in July, 1914. He also played at Lords in 1912 in a Public Schools XI.

=CAMERON, JOSEPH=, stoker, P.O., 292522, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CAMERON, MORTON AUGUSTUS=, Private, No. 22557, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Augustus Morton Cameron, of St. Stephen’s, New Brunswick, Canada, Labourer, by his wife, Isabella Mary, dau. of Caleb Hennessey; b. St. Stephen’s afsd. 27 Nov. 1896; educ. Mark Street School there; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in the 71st New Brunswick Regt. at St. Stephen’s, 8 Aug. 1914. After 3 weeks at Fredericton, N.B., he was sent to Valcartier, where he was transferred to the 12th Battn., and left for England with the first Canadian contingent. They landed at Plymouth on 14 Oct. and trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15. On 23 April. 1915, he was transferred to the 15th Battn., and went over to France with a draft for that Battn. and joined it in the trenches at Ypres. He went through the fighting at Ploegsteert Wood and Festubert, and was killed in action at Messines, 10 Nov. 1915; unm. He was buried in the Military Cemetery near Ration Hill. His captain wrote that he had been sent out with a party to repair the front trench, and that a piece of shell hit him on the head killing him almost instantaneously.

=CAMERON, PEDRO=, Corporal, No. 1685, 2nd Coy., 1/4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), eldest s. of George Cameron y Mackenzie, of Street Delicias 213, Valparaiso, Chili, by his wife, (--), dau. of (--) Zanartie; b. Tocopilla, Chili; educ. Valparaiso Liceum; came home in 1907 to finish his education with his uncle, afterwards serving his apprenticeship at Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow. On the outbreak of war enlisted in the 4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), Nov. 1914, proceeded with his regt. to the Front, and was killed in action in France, in an attack on Hill 60, 9 May, 1915. Buried side by side with two of his cousins, who were killed in the same action; unm.

=CAMERON, THOMAS ALBERT=, L.-Corpl., 2nd Kimberley Regt., South African Force, s. of Thomas Cameron, of Kimberley, Diamond Miner, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late John Richardson, of Frizington, co. Cumberland; b. Bridgefoot, Cumberland, 2 June. 1891; went to Kimberley with his parents in 1895, and was educ. at the Boys’ High School there. He afterwards returned to England and worked as an electrician with Messrs. Dick, Kerr & Co., of Preston; but in 1911 returned to Kimberley, and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, joined General Botha’s Army. He was killed in action at Trekkopjies, German South-West Africa, 26 April, 1915. His Commanding Officer, Col. Rodgers, wrote: “He was cut down in the act of doing a very brave deed. Ammunition was urgently required at one of the most exposed trenches. Volunteers were called for to carry the same, and without the slightest hesitation your gallant husband came forward, took the case of ammunition and had just put it down where wanted when he was killed. He died without any pain. We all--officers and men--mourn with you in your loss. His conduct was such that I, in my official report to the Officer Commanding, brought his name to official notice, as in my opinion such a deed of gallantry deserved recognition.” He played for Oldham in the Northern Rugby Union. He m. at Preston, 9 March, 1910, Grace, dau. of the late Alexander White, of Frizington, Cumberland, and had two sons: Thomas Alexander, b. Frizington, 9 May, 1911, and John Head, b. Kimberley, South Africa, 12 Sept. 1914.

=CAMERON, WILLIAM MATHESON=, Lieut., A Coy., 2nd Battn. Transvaal Scottish, yst. s. of Duncan Cameron, of Balbair, Edderton, Ross-shire, Bank Agent at Tain, Ross-shire (d. Nov. 1915); b. Thurso, 17 June, 1870; educ. Tain Royal Academy, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and entered the Commercial Bank, Glasgow, leaving it on the outbreak of the South African War to join the Imperial Yeomanry. He served throughout that war, was given a commission as Lieut., and received two medals and five clasps. After the war he settled in Johannesburg, where he was secretary to the manager of the Angelo Section of the East Rand Proprietary Mines, and on the outbreak of the European War volunteered and was appointed Lieut. in the Transvaal Scottish. He served under General Botha in German West Africa, and was killed in action by a shell, at Trekkopjis, on the morning of 26 April, 1915. He m. (--), dau. of John Munro, Manager for Barnato Bros., and ex-President of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, and left a dau., Constance, b. 1912. Lieut. Cameron was an excellent tennis player, and for several years held the Singles Championship of the East Rand Club.

=CAMFFERMAN, ALEXANDER=, Corpl., No. 1581, 1/7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John James Camfferman. of Sunnyside, Whetstone, Nurseryman, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of Charles Athron; b. Whetstone, co. Middlesex, 7 April, 1895; educ. Christ’s College, Finchley; was a Nurseryman in his father’s business; joined the 7th Middlesex Territorials on his seventeenth birthday, and was in camp when war was declared. He volunteered for foreign service, and went out with his regt. to Gibraltar at the beginning of Sept. 1914, with one of the earliest convoys of Territorials for foreign service. The Battn. returned to England in Feb., and crossed to France, 12 March, 1915, and he was killed in action at the Battle of Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was buried in Rue Petillon La Cordonerie, France. His commanding officer wrote: “He was an excellent soldier, a fine shot, a clean liver and speaker, in short a young Englishman of the best type. I wish we had more like him.” Passionately fond of the rifle, he soon became the best shot in the Battn., and was the winner of many prizes.

=CAMFIELD, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 310864, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; m.

=CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class, 283219, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CAMPBELL, COLIN FREDERICK FITZROY=, Capt., 1st Battn. Scots Guards, only s. of Major-Gen. Frederick Lorn Campbell, of Highfield House, West Byfleet, co. Surrey, late Scots Guards (of the Melfort family, Argyll), by his wife, Caroline, dau of John Alexander Smyth, and gdson. of Rear-Admiral Frederick Archibald Campbell; b. London, 29 Sept. 1880; educ. Stubbington and Haileybury; obtained his first commission in the Cameron Highlanders from the Militia, 5 Jan. 1901; became Lieut. 3 Aug. 1904; transferred to the Scots Guards, 29 March, 1905; was Adjutant of the Guards Depot at Caterham from 1911 to 1913, being promoted Capt. 29 Oct. 1914, the same day on which he was killed in action close to the village of Gheluvelt, near Ypres. He m. at the Guards’ Chapel, London, 11 June, 1914, Helen Margaret, eldest dau. of Charles John Stewart, of 32, Eccleston Square, S.W., by his wife, Lady Mary Graham, née Toler; s.p.

=CAMPBELL, DONALD, M.B.=, Lieut., R.A.M.C., attd. 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late John Campbell, for 43 years Tenant of Blair Mills, by his wife, Isabella (Fincastle, Bridge of Tilt, Blair Atholl), dau. of Alexander McBeath; b. Blair Atholl, 20 Jan. 1887; educ. at Blair Atholl Public School, Pitlochry Higher Grade School, where he won the County Council Bursary, and George Watson’s College (1904–6), from which he entered Edinburgh University as an Arts Student in 1906, gaining the same year the McDougal Bursary. He graduated M.A. in 1909, and M.B. Ch.B in 1913. In 1910 he shared the Vans Dunlop Scholarship with another student. When war broke out he was house surgeon in Sheffield Royal Hospital, and receiving a commission in the R.A.M.C. 16 Dec. 1914, went to the Front in Jan. as Medical Officer to the 2nd East Yorks Regt. He was killed on 17 Feb. 1915, near the village of Zillebeke while going to the assistance of a wounded man, and was buried at St. Eloi; unm. An officer of the 2nd East Yorks Regt. wrote: “He was only with me a short time, but it is no exaggeration to say that he left behind him not mere acquaintances, but real friends, who mourn his loss more than I can tell you. He lived always in the same billet with me and the headquarters staff, and shared all our rough food, delicacies and hardships just as they came, and for my part I find he has left a blank that will take a long time to fill. He met his death going up to the front to help a wounded man. A stretcher-bearer was with him at the time, and as they crossed an open space they came under the fire of the enemy in a house some 200 yards away, and both were shot dead.” For two years he was joint secretary for the Edinburgh University Musical Society, was a keen golfer, and for several years was a member of the Edinburgh Northern Hockey Club.

=CAMPBELL, DONALD HENRY BRUCE=, Sergt., No. 6999, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th surviving s. of Alexander Campbell, of Highland Grove, Ontario, Canada, Proprietor and Farmer, by his wife, Helen Isabella, dau. of Alexander Grant, of Blackhill, Bower, Caithness; b. Dalnacloich, Rosskeen, co. Ross, 11 Dec. 1894; educ. Munlochy and Arpafeelie Episcopal (where he was Dux and won the silver medal for head scholar, etc.) Schools, Ross; went to Canada with his parents in March, 1910; joined the Canadian Territorials in 1912, and was given the rank of Sergt. then; volunteered for service overseas on the outbreak of war; left Canada with the first contingent; went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unm. His company officer, Lieut. R. R. Brown (who was himself wounded on this occasion) wrote that Campbell was his platoon sergt. and that he had a very high opinion of him, adding: “During the attack circumstances were such that I had to leave my own men under another officer (Lieut. Sims) while I took command of men of another company, thereby failing to witness the fate of so many of my brave men. During the fight one of my own men came up to me (I could not say who it was) and said Sergt. Campbell had just been killed.”

=CAMPBELL, DUNCAN=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), elder s. of Col. Edward Parker Campbell, of South Hall, co. Argyle, J.P., D.L., Major, The Black Watch, by his wife, Alice Isabel, 3rd dau. of Lieut.-Col. Thomas Goulbourn Parker, of Browsholme, co. York, and Alkincoats, co. Lancaster; b. South Hall aforesaid, 24 Oct. 1880; educ. Rugby; joined the 3rd (Royal Perth Militia) Battn. of The Black Watch, Dec. 1899, and on the outbreak of the Boer War volunteered for active service. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. The Black Watch, 27 Oct. 1900, and served in South Africa with the 2nd Battn. from 27 Oct. to 22 Dec. 1900, when he was transferred to the 1st Battn. in India. He served with them again in South Africa from 6 Dec. 1901, to 27 Oct. 1902, and took part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State from Dec. 1901, to 31 May, 1902, and was promoted Lieut. 24 May, 1902, and received the Queen’s medal with five clasps. From 16 Sept. 1905, to 29 Sept. 1910, he served in Northern Nigeria with the West African Force, and in 1906 took part in the Hodeija Campaign (medal with clasp). Promoted Capt. 8 Jan. 1910, he was in 1912 transferred back to the 2nd Battn. of his regt. in India and proceeded with the battn. to France with the Indian Expeditionary Force in the autumn of 1914. He was wounded in December and invalided home, but rejoined early in 1915; was present at the Battles of Neuve Chapelle, Richebourg, etc., and in all the other engagements in which his battn. took part. He was killed in action in the trenches near the Bois-de-Biez, 18 May, 1915, by a shell which burst on the parapet of the trench, the repair of which he was directing. Letters from his commanding officers speak most highly of him as an officer and testify to the love and respect entertained for him by his men. He was unm. His yr. brother, Lieut. Patrick Colin Campbell, Royal Flying Corps, is now (1916) on active service with the British Expeditionary Force in France.

=CAMPBELL, FREDERICK JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4781), S.S. 104136, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; m.

=CAMPBELL, GEORGE EDWARD FORMAN=, Lieut., 2/10th Gurkha Rifles, yst. and only surviving s. of Col. Robert Neil Campbell, C.B., C.I.E., M.B., I.M.S. (ret.), by his wife, Ethel, dau. of Benjamin Bensley; b. Strathyre, Balquhidder, 27 Aug. 1893; educ. at Edinburgh Academy and Sandhurst, and gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 Aug. 1912. A year later he was appointed to the Indian Army, and posted to the 2nd Battn. of the 10th Gurkha, 23 Nov. 1913. He was promoted Lieut. 24 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, on Rhododendron Spur, Chanak Bair, 7 August, 1915, in a charge on the Turkish trenches with two battns. of New Zealanders (Auckland). He was mentioned in Dispatches by Sir Ian Hamilton, 22 Sept. 1915; unm. His elder brother, Capt. R. C. C. Campbell, died of wounds received at Ypres (see his notice).

=CAMPBELL, GEORGE JACKSON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8270), S.S. 104251, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CAMPBELL, HAROLD EDGAR=, Cook’s Mate, M. 2482, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CAMPBELL, JAMES=, Private, No. 4121, 1st Battn. Irish Guards, 3rd s. of Michael Campbell, of Tubberfin, Drogheda, Labourer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of the late Patrick Kelly, of Howth; b. Sheephouse, Drogheda, 20 July, 1890; educ. Donore National Schools; enlisted 20 May, 1912, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 11 March, 1915; unm.

=CAMPBELL, JOHN=, Private, No. 19984, 4th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Archibald Campbell, by his wife, Helen Hogg (1, St. Ninian’s Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of the late James Lawson; b. Glencorse, Midlothian, 24 Dec. 1878; educ. George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh; joined the Army and served with the Irish Guards, 1900–3, and afterwards went to British Columbia gold mining. He joined the 4th Battn. 1st Canadian Contingent, 1914, and died at No. 1 Canadian Field Ambulance, 24 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; unm.

=CAMPBELL, JOHN DAVIES=, Lieut., L Battery, R.H.A., eldest s. of John Davies Campbell, of Howden Court, Tiverton; b. Tacna, Chili, 1 March, 1883; educ. Cheltenham College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered the Army, 21 Dec. 1901, was promoted Lieut. 21 Dec. 1904, and was killed in action at Nery, near Compiégne 1 Sept. 1914. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914.

=CAMPBELL, JOHN GORDON=, Private, No. 4296, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd s. of Hugh Campbell, of 852, New City Road, Glasgow, and Clam Cottage, Cloverhill, Glasgow, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of James Munro; b. at North Woodside Road, 16 Sept. 1876; educ. Henderson Street School, Glasgow; enlisted 1891, and was a Reservist when called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; killed in action at Kemmel, 22 April, 1915. He m. at Glasgow, 20 Feb. 1903, Alice (Clare Cottage, Clover Hill, Drumchapel, Glasgow), dau. of Alexander McDonald, and had a dau., Isabella Munro, b. 6 Aug. 1906.

=CAMPBELL, KEITH MOREHEAD GUNNING=, Sub-Lieut., R.N., yst. s. of Col. Gunning Campbell, Royal Marine Artillery, by his wife, Sophia Charlotte Jean, dau of the Rev. George Barber Peregrine Viner, M.A., and great-gdson, of William Campbell, of Fairfield; b. Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth, 23 Dec. 1892; educ. Haskoll’s School, Folkestone, Suffolk House, Cheltenham, Pelham House, Folkestone, and the Osborne (15 Sept. 1905, to 14 Sept. 1907) and Dartmouth (15 Sept. 1907, to 14 Sept. 1909) Royal Naval Colleges, being Chief Cadet Capt. at the latter. He served on H.M.S. St. Vincent (May, 1910–June, 1911); the Cochrane, which formed one of the escort on the occasion of the King’s visit to India (June, 1911–May, 1912), the Achilles (May, 1912–Sept. 1913), and the Albemarle, joining H.M.S. Lawford in the spring of 1914. He was present at the sinking of the Konigin Louise, and the engagement off the Bight of Heligoland. He was commissioned to the Arrogant on 30 Nov. 1914, for submarine service, and died between 4 and 12 Jan. the following year while on Active Service on Submarine C 31; unm. A fine Rugby three-quarter back, he several times played in the Royal Navy and United Services Fifteens, his last important match being in the R.N. officers’ team against the Harlequins at the turn of the season of 1913–14 at Queen’s Club.

=CAMPBELL, KENNETH JAMES=, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of Robert Story Campbell, of Achnashie, Rosneath, co. Dumbarton, retired East Indian Merchant, by his wife, Evelyn Rose, dau. of the late Rev. William Henry Stokes, Vicar of Goring, a nephew of the late Sir James Campbell, K.C.I.E. (of the Bombay Civil Service and compiler of the Bombay Gazetteer), and, gdson. of the late Rev. John Macleod Campbell, D.D.; b. Bombay, 4 Jan. 1891; educ. at Rottingdean and Marlborough, he proceeded with a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his degree with honours in History in 1912, and in “Greats” in 1914. He had originally intended to take orders in the Church of England, and on leaving the University in 1913 joined the Magdalen College Mission in the Euston Road. On the outbreak of war, however, having been for eight years a cadet in the O.T.C. at Marlborough and Oxford, he applied for a commission, and on 2 Sept. was gazetted to the 1/9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, leaving Bedford with his regt. on 19 Feb. for France. He was killed in action near Ypres, being struck by a shell while in charge of machine guns, 10 May. 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote that he died “doing his duty nobly.” His platoon Sergt. that “He was a brave young officer and the pride of all the platoon.” A brother officer, writing on 13 May, stated: “I was myself slightly wounded the same day, so was not on the spot when he was killed, but I understand that he was wounded by a shell, but that he continued to serve the gun until a second shell killed him.” He was stroke of his college boat in the Torpids when Magdalen was head of the river in Feb. 1913.

=CAMPBELL, KENNETH McKENZIE=, Corpl., No. 17101, 7th Battn. (British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of James Campbell Campbell, of Dublin, by his wife, Jane Davidson, dau. of the late John Christie, of Bankhead, Aberdeen, and gdson. of the late Sergt. and Master Tailor Alexander Campbell, 93rd Sutherland Highlanders (who served 28 years); b. Dublin, 3 Aug. 1884; educ. Hardwicke National School there; went to Canada in April, 1906; enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent; was wounded at Festubert, 23 April, 1915; and promoted Corpl. on his return to duty, 16 May following, but was killed in action at Givenchy eight days later, 24 May, 1915; unm.

=CAMPBELL, MALCOLM DRING=, Lieut., R.N.V.R., 3rd s. of the Rev. Herbert Ernest Campbell, of The Abbey, Carlisle, Canon of Carlisle; b. St. George’s Vicarage, Millom, 5 Sept. 1890; educ. Loretto; was a Cotton Broker in the firm of Bushby Bros., Liverpool, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. joined the R.N.V.R. He served through the siege of Antwerp, and was afterwards sent to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 2 May, 1915; unm. He was a good sportsman, played football for Birkenhead Park, and rowed for the Mersey Rowing Club.

=CAMPBELL, MALCOLM JAMES=, Private, No. 53323, 18th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late Malcolm Campbell, of Lismore, co. Argyle, by his wife, Mary (Backwater School House. Dykends, by Alyth, co. Perth), dau. of George M. Forrester, of Tayport; b. Tayport, co. Fife, 4 Aug. 1894; educ. at Tayport; emigrated to Canada in Oct. 1912, and after the outbreak of war enlisted at Kingsville in Nov. 1914. After going through a course of training at London, Ontario, he came to England in May, 1915, and was in camp at Sandling, Kent, till Sept., when the battn. went to the Western Front. Private Campbell was killed in action near Ypres, 13 Oct. 1915; unm. The Chaplain wrote that he “had indeed proved himself a very faithful soldier,” and had “done his part always well.” He was buried in Ridgewood Cemetery, Dickebusch, south-west of Ypres, Belgium.

=CAMPBELL, ROBERT=, Private, No. 2105, 4th Battn., 1st Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Kenneth Campbell, of Wick, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of David Sutherland, of Duncansbay; b. Wick, 13 Jan. 1873; educ. there; went to Australia in 19--, and settled at Sydney. After the outbreak of war he joined (Feb. 1915) the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, between the 6–9 Aug. 1915. He was one of the few who took the Turkish trench, and was found beyond it. A letter from the Chaplain said: “He fought like a hero, and died as such, and they buried him a few days later in the military cemetery at Burrows Dip.” He m. at Barry, co. Glamorgan, 6 Aug. 1904, Flora Hannah (9, Trenwith Terrace, St. Ives, Cornwall), dau. of the Rev. Henry Roe, and had a dau., René, b. 7 Aug. 1905.

=CAMPBELL, ROBERT CHARLES COWBURN=, Capt., 3rd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, s. of Col. Robert Neil Campbell, of Elsieshields, Lochmaben, co. Dumfries, C.B., C.I.E., M.B., I.M.S. (ret.), by his wife, Ethel, dau. of Benjamin Bensley; b. Shillong, Assam, India, 26 March, 1889; educ. Dollar Institution, Edinburgh Academy and King’s College, Cambridge. He entered the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, Ltd., in 1910, and was home on leave when war broke out. He volunteered, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 4 Sept. 1914, being promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. 5 Feb. 1915. He was attached to the 2nd Highland L.I., and served with them in the trenches from Dec. 1914, to March 1915, and at Givenchy and Neuve Chapelle. He reverted to the 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers in April, 1915; was in the attack and capture of Hill 60, and was wounded in the counter-attack at Ypres on 23 April, 1915. He died at Queen Alexandra’s Hospital for Officers, Highgate, 19 May following; unm. He was in the Rugby and cricket teams of the Edinburgh Academy, and obtained his Blue at Cambridge for Rugby football, and was in the King’s College Rugby and soccer football, cricket and hockey teams. His yst. and only surviving brother, Lieut. G. E. F. Campbell, was killed in action at the Dardanelles (see his notice).

=CANDY, PHILIP SADLER=, Midshipman. R.N., 2nd s. of John Alfred Sadler Candy, of Kingston, Angmering, co. Sussex, by his wife, Emily Louisa French, dau. of Capt. Edward Holland Hills, R.N., of Littlehampton, co. Sussex; b. 24 Feb. 1899; educ. Charlecote, Worthing; entered the Osborne Class on H.M.S. Conway, Jan. 1911, and afterwards went through a course of training at Dartmouth. He became Midshipman in Aug. 1914, and was lost on H.M.S. Monmouth in the naval action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. A tablet to his memory was placed in Ferring Parish Church, near Worthing.

=CANHAM, HERBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 861), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CANN, CHARLES=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 4211, H.M.S. Hogue, s. of Robert Cann, of 81, Percy Place, Dublin; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CANN, ROBERT HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14258, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CANNON, CHARLES EDWIN=, Private, No. 1972, 5th Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late (--) Cannon, by his wife, S. (Felix Cottages, Updown Hill, Windlesham, Surrey); b. Windlesham, co. Surrey, 16 April, 1885; educ. Windlesham Board School; joined the Surrey Territorials in 1912; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; left England with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force ....; was severely wounded in the chest at the Dardanelles and sent to Alexandria, and died on the hospital ship Asturias on his way back to England at 2 p.m. 23 Sept. 1915; unm. Buried at sea.

=CANNON, HUGH STANLEY=, Corpl., No. 28754, and Motor Despatch Rider, R.E., 2nd s. of the late Alfred Cannon, of Sandford-on-Thames, Oxford; b. Sandford-on-Thames, 15 Oct. 1888; educ. Roysse’s School and Magdalen College, Oxford. On the outbreak of war enlisted in the R.E., was promoted Corpl., attached to the 6th Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division (as despatch rider), and left for the Front, 6 Oct. 1914; served in France and Flanders, and was killed whilst on his motor bicycle carrying Despatches at the First Battle of Ypres, 31 Oct. 1914; unm. He was buried at Ypres Menin. His commanding officer wrote: “He was one of the nicest men to work with I have ever met, and all the officers on the staff think the same. He was always cheerful and keen to do his best, which was very good.”

=CANNONS, FRANK JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3952), S.S. 101990, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CANTON, CHARLES JOHN=, Gunner, No. 2/299, 1st Battery New Zealand Field Artillery, 3rd s. of the late George Canton, of Palmerston North, New Zealand, Farmer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Roberts, of Nelson, New Zealand; b. Ngatimoti, Nelson, New Zealand, 22 Aug. 1876; educ. Public School there. On the outbreak of war joined the New Zealand E.F., 8 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 19 May, 1915; unm. Col. Meldrum wrote he “was hit and killed instantly by a Turkish bullet on the 19th., I met him two days previously, he had put in three weeks’ work with his guns. He was happy and elated, he was having the time of his life”; and Major McGilp, O.C. 1st Battery: “His grave is on the heights of Anzac, in a nice spot close to the battery, which enables our men to keep it in proper order. We obtained a large wooden cross from Egypt, which will answer the purpose until a more permanent memorial can be erected.” He was a County Councillor, member of the Wellington Land Board, etc., and a keen and enthusiastic sportsman.

=CANTON, HERBERT WESTRUP=, Lieut., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., only s. of Frank Canton, Merchant (of a Huguenot family), by his wife, Florence; b. Walton-on-Thames, 6 March, 1892; educ. Magdalen College School, Oxford, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13 March, 1912; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; first came under fire at Le Cateau, where his platoon suffered heavy casualties; took part in the retreat from Mons, and was present at the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne. Through the winter of 1914 he was with his regt. in the trenches near Armentières, and was killed in action in the trenches near Ypres, 13 May, 1915, after repelling a strong German attack. He was buried at Wieltje; unm. Though promoted to the command of his company from 5 Mar. 1915, his appointment to rank as from 31 March, 1915, was only gazetted after his death.

=CAPELL, ARTHUR GEORGE CONINGSBY=, Capt., 2nd Northamptonshire Regt., only s. of the Rev. George Marie Capell, Rector of Passenham, co. Northampton (d. 1 Feb. 1915), by his wife, Annie, dau. of Peter Stanley Lowe, of Whitehall Churchstow, co. Devon, and gdson. of the Hon. Adolphus Capell, brother of Arthur Algernon, 6th Earl of Essex; b. Passenham, Stony Stratford, 28 June, 1879; educ. by private tutor; joined the Northamptonshire Imperial Yeomanry in Jan. 1900, sailing with them for South Africa, 16 March the same year; took part in the operations in the Transvaal (Queen’s medal with five clasps); returned in June, 1901, and 12 months later joined 3rd Battn. Northants Militia, obtaining one of the late Earl Roberts’ commissions, 17 May, 1902, for which he was specially recommended by his Adjutant. He was promoted Lieut. 27 Feb. 1904, and obtained his company 20 Nov. 1910. On the outbreak of war he was with his regt. in Alexandria; they returned to England and went to France, 4 Nov. 1914. In the fighting near Neuve Chapelle on 12 March, 1915, he was twice wounded in the hand and side, but refused to fall out, and went on leading and cheering his men till finally shot through the head, falling into the arms of his colonel, Col. C. Richard, D.S.O., C.B. He was buried behind the lines at Neuve Chapelle with his great friend, Capt. H. Power, adjutant to the regt., and 19 men of his company who fell that same day. The second in command wrote: “He was a brilliant officer, and deeply regretted by all the regt.” Capt. Capell m. at Whatstandwell, 20 Oct. 1914, Phyllis, dau. of Maurice Deacon, of Chase Cliffe, Whatstandwell, co. Derby, s.p. Capt. Capell was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished services.

=CAPPER, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4253), S.S. 102941, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; m.

=CARBAN, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2796), 165857, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; m.

=CARBERY, MILES BERTIE CUNNINGHAME=, Capt., 1st Battn. Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers, yst. s. of the late William Edward Carbery, of 17, Hartington Mansions, Eastbourne, by his wife, Florence, dau. of the late Charles William Jebb, formerly in the 60th Rifles; b. at Bangalore, 6 June, 1877; educ. at the Oxford Military College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1 Dec. 1897, and promoted Lieut., 1 Dec. 1899, and Capt., 17 Feb. 1903, and was Adjutant to the Special Reserve, 10 March, 1910, to 2 Nov. 1913; served in South African War, 1899–1900; was present at the operations in Natal, including the action at Talana, where he was dangerously wounded (Queen’s medal with clasp); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from Aug. 1914; was killed in action at Houplines, Northern France, 17 Oct. 1914, while bravely leading his men. He m. at St. Columba’s, Pont Street, S.W., 24 Sept. 1908, Dora, dau. of the late Right Hon. Thomas Sinclair, P.C., of Hopefield House, Belfast; s.p.

=CARDEN, DERRICK ALFRED=, Major, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs), and temp. Lieut.-Col., 7th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, yst. s. of the late Sir John Craven Carden, of Templemore Abbey, 4th Bt., by his 2nd wife, Julia Isabella (Wertown, Straffan, co. Kildare), dau. of Admiral Charles Gepp Robinson; b. Templemore Abbey, co. Tipperary, 27 March, 1875; educ. Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Seaforth Highlanders from the Militia, 7 Dec. 1895, and promoted Lieut., 30 Aug. 1899, Capt., 3 July, 1901, and Major, 23 May, 1915, and was Adjutant from 10 May, 1911, to 9 May, 1914. He served in the Nile Expedition, 1898, and was present at the Battles of Atbara and Khartoum; and subsequently on the North-West Frontier of India, 1908, and during the operations in the Zakka Khel country (medal with clasp). On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was wounded on the Aisne in Sept. 1914, and was invalided home; returning to the Front in Dec. On 7 March, 1915, he was given command of the 7th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, with the rank of Lieut.-Col., and died of wounds received in action near Ypres, 25 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the Military Cemetery at Hazebrouck.

=CARDY, GEORGE JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, 302500, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914; m.

=CAREW, FRANCIS LUDOVIC=, 2nd Lieut., 20th Hussars, yr. s. of Charles Robert Sydenham Carew, of Warnicombe, Tiverton, co. Devon, M.P. [grandson of the Rev. Thomas Carew, of Collipriest House, 3rd s. of Sir Thomas Carew of Haccombe, 6th Bart.], by his wife, Muriel Mary, dau. of Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Bart.; b. Collipriest, Tiverton, 4 March, 1895; educ. Malvern (Mr. Douglas’) and Winchester College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 20th Hussars 24 Feb. 1914; joined at Colchester, 24 Mar. and was killed in action at Oostaverne, near Ypres, 30 Oct. 1914.

=CAREW, JASPER=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., yr. s. of the late Rev. Henry William Carew, Vicar of Rattery, South Brent, co. Devon [great-gdson. of Sir Henry Carew, of Haccombe, 7th Bart.], by his wife, Maude Eliza (Airlea, South Brent, Devon), dau. of the Rev. Fitzwilliam John Taylor, Rector of Haccombe and Ogwell; b. Rattery Vicarage, South Brent, co. Devon, 29 June, 1894; educ. The School, Malvern Link, Blundell’s School, Tiverton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the 1st West Yorkshire Regt. as 2nd Lieut. 22 Feb. 1914, and was killed in action while leading his platoon near Hazebrouck, 14 Oct. 1914. He was buried in the cemetery at Doulieu, Nord, France, and a stone with his name, etc., on it was erected by the Canadians. Lieut. Carew’s Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He fell while gallantly leading his platoon in an advance guard action near Hazebrouck. It was quite instantaneous, and he suffered no pain and never moved. He was beloved by every one, always cheery and bright under all circumstances, and we had some trying ones. A most promising officer, absolutely fearless, and had done so well.”

=CAREY, EDWARD=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 17011, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CAREY, JEFFREY HUELIN=, Private, No. 3555, 1/4th Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Ernest Rutherford Carey, of Melbourne, Australia, Accountant, by his wife, Mabel Marion (6, Park Road, Brentwood, Middlesex), dau. of Thomas Shann Detham, of Leeds, Yorks; b. Melbourne, Victoria, 13 Oct. 1898; educ. Merivale, Bexhill-on-Sea, City of London School (1909–11) and Brentwood Grammar School (1911–14); joined the 1/4th London Regt. 6 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 27 April, 1915; unm. His Major wrote in a letter of sympathy: “Your son was a good boy, and faced the fire without fear. He was unfortunately hit, death being instantaneous. I enclose you a small sketch map, showing the spot where I had him buried by the side of a comrade who was killed at the same time. I hope the map will be clear to you; the grave lies in the corner of the field about 3 yards from each hedge, and at present has a small cross at its head bearing his name, number and regt.”

=CAREY, JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14142, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CARGO, JAMES ROY=, Lieut., Taranaki Coy., Wellington Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late (--) Cargo; b. Auckland, 1892; educ. Auckland Grammar School; was a member of the Highland Rifles, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered for Imperial service; left for Egypt in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April; was promoted Coy. Sergt.-Major, 8 May, 1915, and Lieut., on 29 May, and was transferred to the Ruakine Coy. on 2 June, 1915. He was killed in action at Courtney’s Post, Gallipoli, 3 June, 1915, and was buried in New Zealand Officers’ Cemetery there; unm. Sergt.-Major Seldon wrote: “He was shot through the head, and died before they could take him out of the trenches. I have the personal guarantee of the doctor who attended him (Dr. Ross, of New Plymouth) that he did not regain consciousness. Major Cox entrusted me personally with the duties of his burial. That evening I called for volunteers, and the whole of his company was forthcoming. We restricted it to a few of his most intimate friends, all ranks being represented. Under heavy shrapnel fire, but under cover of darkness, we buried dear old Roy with full soldier’s funeral rites and honours under the hill overlooking the sea,” adding, “Roy was the first in our battn. to receive a commission on his merits from the ranks. Having speedily proved his worth as a soldier he was on 8 May promoted to Coy. Sergt.-Major, and on 29 May was appointed Lieut., being transferred to the Ruahine Coy. on 2 June. Alas! his chance of further distinguishing himself was soon cut off, for in his first action as Lieut. he was, 3 June, sadly accounted for. It was at Courtney’s Post he gave his life for his country.”

=CARLETON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 12491, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Patrick Carleton, of 7, Wellington Place, Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh, Master Tailor, by his wife, Anne, dau. of William Maguire, of Drumlyon; b. Enniskillen, 16 Sept. 1894; educ. Presentation Bothes’ School there; went to London in 1912, and was a Vanman. After the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Coldstreams, 14 Sept. 1914, went out to the Front in Feb. 1915, and was killed by a sniper whilst on outpost duty, 1 April, 1915; unm. He was buried on the east side of the road from Rue de Berceaux to Rue du Bois.

=CARLISLE, JOHN EDWARD GORDON=, Capt., 107th Pioneers, Indian Army, eldest s. of Edward Carlisle, M.A., Army Tutor, of 7, Lexham Gardens, London, W., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of William Clegg, late of Highbury; b. Wargrave-on-Thames, 10 June, 1885; educ. St. Paul’s School, where he was a member of the O.T.C., and Sandhurst. On passing out of Sandhurst on the unattached list for the Indian Army, he was attached to the North Staffordshire Regt., 13 Aug. 1904, and afterwards joined the 114th Mahrattas, being subsequently transferred to the 107th Pioneers. He was promoted Lieut. 7 Jan. 1907, and Capt. 13 Aug. 1913; went to France with his regt. in Sept. 1914, and died in the military hospital, Bethune, 11 May, 1915, of wounds received in action near Neuve Chapelle on the 9th. He was buried in the Civil Cemetery, Bethune; unm. A brother officer wrote: “He went up with our machine gun in support of the Dehra Dun Brigade when they were attacked. He got up with the guns as far as the firing line, but then they got the order to retire, and as he was retiring with the machine gun detachment down a trench he was shot through his belt. He was unable to move but quite sensible, and told the machine gun section to leave him with his pistol. They, however, carried him back and got him to the dressing station. It has cast a gloom over the regt., as he was very popular, and all the Sepoys are very sad about it. He was attached to the 2nd Gurkhas when he received his death wound, and the commanding officer of that regt. spoke very highly of the conduct of the machine gunners. You have the consolation that he died a very gallant death, right up in the firing line, doing his job to the last.” Capt. Carlisle was the holder of the Officers’ Light Weight (Boxing) Championship of India, won at the Delhi Durbar.

=CARLTON, GEORGE EDWARD=, A.B., 228168, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=CARLTON, LAURENCE=, Private, No. 36562, 40th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C., only s. of Arthur Carlton, High Sheriff and Alderman of Worcester, owner of several London and provincial places of amusement, by his wife, Maude, dau. of Graham Seymour; b. London, 4 May, 1892; educ. City of London School, Worcester Royal Grammar School, and Birmingham University, matriculating at London University. He had passed all his examinations for the dental profession except the final, and was to have taken that in Nov., but war breaking out in Aug. 1914, he volunteered and enlisted in the R.A.M.C. on the 29th of that month, and was attached to the Nursing Section. He left for the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at 5.30 a.m. on 9 Aug. 1915; unm. The Adjutant (Capt. E. F. Burke) wrote: “We had gone out to a valley and had opened up an advanced dressing station there to attend to the wounded. They were just behind the firing line, and were under shell and rifle fire all the time. Your son was bravely dressing a wounded man on a stretcher, and as he was kneeling down adjusting the bandage a machine gun opened fire on us, and he was shot through the heart whilst doing his duty. He died a very brave soldier’s death, and had all along displayed the greatest courage under fire. He was buried by his comrades where he died. He was a very great favourite with all.” Carlton was a good amateur athlete. He won the mile race at the University Sports on three occasions, and also won the Old Boys’ race at the Grammar School Sports.

=CARLYLE, ROBERT=, 2nd Lieut., 1/5th (Dumfries and Galloway) Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers (T.F.), elder s. of Thomas Robert Carlyle, of Waterbeck, co. Dumfries, by his wife, Jean Graham, dau. of Alexander Miller, of Caithness; b. Waterbeck, 12 Oct. 1892; educ. St. Mary’s, Melrose, and Edinburgh Academy; volunteered and enlisted in the 5th King’s Own Scottish Borderers immediately on the outbreak of war; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 26 Aug. 1914; left for Gallipoli 28 May; landed at the Dardanelles 8 June, and was killed in action there 12 July, 1915; unm. He was a member of the Academy Rugby XV, who were Scottish School Champions for the season 1910–11.

=CARMICHAEL, DAVID=, Private, No. 1922, 10th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of James Carmichael, of Whin Cottage, Comrie, co. Perth, Builder; b. Comrie, 8 March, 1886; educ. Comrie Public School; became a mason, and after serving his apprenticeship went to Melbourne about 1907; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war; left with the fifth reinforcement for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 14 Aug. 1915. He was a student of natural history, could tell a bird at a glance, and had made a fine collection of British ferns. Private Carmichael m. in Australia, Carrie, dau. of (----) Kinnley; s.p.

=CARMICHAEL, JOHN=, Corpl., No. 3653, 1st Battn. Royal Scots, s. of John Carmichael; b. Glasgow, 3 June, 1877; enlisted 20 July, 1894 (No. 5095); served in India, 21 Oct. 1896, to 1 March, 1902, and in South Africa (medal with clasp “Transvaal, 1902”), 2 March to 27 Sept. 1902; obtained his discharge, 19 July, 1906; worked as a Dock Labourer; re-enlisted 27 Aug. 1914; became L.-Corpl. 26 Sept. 1914; Acting Corpl., 27 Oct. following, and Corpl., 2 Feb. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 2 Feb. to 24 Feb. 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action in the trenches, being shot through the head. He m. at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Glasgow, 25 Nov., Bridget (168, French Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow), dau. of William Little, and had seven sons: William John, b. 27 June, 1895; James, b. 27 June, 1897; Patrick, b. 23 Aug. 1903; Peter, b. 14 Aug. 1905; George, b. 9 April, 1911; and Joseph and David (twins), b. 18 Dec. 1913.

=CARMICHAEL, ROBERT HENRY MORRIS=, Lieut., 5th Battn. (Princess Louise’s) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 4th and yst. s. of Thomas Carmichael, of Netherton, Greenock, by his wife, Nina Jane Isabella, dau. of the Rev. David Arthur, of Belize; b. Greenock, 27 Jan. 1895; educ. Collegiate School, Greenock, and Loretto School, Musselburgh, at which latter he joined the Cadet Corps, and became an expert Signaller. On leaving school he was apprenticed to Messrs. Hardie and Rowan, of Greenock, Chartered Accountants, and obtained a commission in the 5th (Renfrew) Battn. (T.F.) of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 11 March, 1913. He was promoted temp. Lieut. 1 Nov. 1914, this rank being soon afterwards made substantive; landed at the Dardanelles with his battn., and was killed by shrapnel at the head of his company in the attack on the first line of Turkish trenches at Aki Baba in the Gallipoli Peninsula, 12 July, 1915; unm. His three elder brothers are now (1916) on active service, and his two sisters are V.A.D. nurses.

=CARNAGHAN, STANLEY GEORGE=, Corpl., No. 2153, D Coy., 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Carnaghan, of 174–178, Old London Road, Hastings, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Henry Clarke; b. Ore, near Hastings, co. Sussex, 18 March, 1888; educ. Clive Vale Board School there; was an ironmonger’s assistant; served in the 1st Cinque Ports Volunteer Rifle Corps (No. 4678) from 25 Oct. 1906, to 31 March, 1908, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service and enlisted, 12 Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg St. Vaast, France, 30 March, 1915; unm. Carnaghan was a good shot, and won first prize at the annual competition in 1907, also two silver spoons, etc. He was buried in the field adjoining the first farm on the east side of the road leading from Windy Corner, Rue des Berceaux to Rue du Bois. Lieut. J. B. Aiton wrote: “As senior subaltern of D Coy. (which is now the old G and H Coys.), I knew your son well, and can assure you we felt his loss deeply. He was a universal favourite, always cheerful, hard working and attentive to his duties.”

=CARNEGIE, ALEXANDER=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 343178, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914; m.

=CARNEY, FRANK=, Private, No. 712, 1st Australian Light Horse, Australian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of the late James Carney, Sergt., 3rd King’s Own Hussars, by his wife, Margaret, (5, Queen Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester); b. The Curragh, Ireland, 31 Aug. 1893; emigrated to Australia in 1912; joined the 1st Australian Light Horse in Aug. 1914, on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915, during the general assault on the Turkish position that day; unm.

=CARNEY, HAROLD=, Rifleman, No. Z/781, 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, yr. s. of the late James Carney, Sergt., 3rd King’s Own Hussars, by his wife, Margaret, (5, Queen Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester); b. Salford, co. Lancaster, ... June, 1896; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914, and after four months’ training, left for the Front with a draft for his Battn., and a fortnight later was in the trenches. He received a gunshot wound in the neck on 10 March, 1915, during the first day of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and was taken to Boulogne, where he died in hospital on the 16th of the month. He was buried in the Cemetery there; unm. One of the Army Chaplains wrote: “He was a brave boy and bore his suffering with fortitude.”

=CARNOCHAN, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 269, 15th Infantry Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late Alexander Carnochan, of Southsea, formerly Manager of the Bow and Stepney branches of the London & South-Western Bank, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Charles Carter; b. London & South-Western Bank, Bow, 11 March, 1871; served over 15 years in the 1st Royal Scots, and fought throughout the Boer War. He emigrated to Australia, 4 June, 1914, and at the outbreak of the European War joined the Australian Imperial Force. He was wounded on 7 Aug. 1915, at Suvla Bay, near Walker’s Ridge, and died in the 2nd Stationary Hospital at Lemnos on 10 Aug. following. He m. at St. Pancras, 11 Oct. 1899, Edith Rose (82, Lady Margaret Road, Tufnell Park, N.), dau. of Joseph Warren, of co. Herts. and had issue: Douglas Alexander, b. 12 Dec. 1908; Edith Emily Mary, b. 13 June, 1900; Iva Lilian, b. 21 Jan. 1906; and Vera Millicent, b. 17 Jan. 1913.

=CARON, RENE=, Private, No. 61987, Platoon 9, C Coy., 22nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, only child of Alfred Caron, of 19, Rue Pacific, Verdun, Montreal, Canada, by his wife, Marie Louise, dau. of Joseph Bélanger; b. West Farnham, P.Q., 15 July, 1896; enlisted Jan. 1915; left Canada with the second contingent; went to France, 15 Sept., and was killed in action, 17 Oct. 1915; unm.

=CARPENTER, DAVID REID=, Lieut., 3rd Auckland Regt. (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Robert Carpenter, Major (retired), N.Z.S. Corps, late A.G. and Q.M.G., Auckland Military District, by his wife, Louisa Catherina Gabrielena, dau. of Simon Peter van Blerk, of Simons Town, South Africa; b. Hounslow, co. Middlesex, 23 Jan. 1893; educ. Grafton Road Public School, Auckland Grammar School, and Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australia (1911–12), and on leaving there entered the employ of Mr. T. H. Dawson, of Auckland, Barrister and Solicitor. He was appointed a 2nd Lieut. in Coast Defence Detachment, 31 May, 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and joined the 3rd Auckland Regt., of which Major T. H. Dawson was appointed Major and officer commanding. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 8 May, 1915; unm. Lieut. Carpenter represented Auckland Grammar School in athletics, and was also capt. of No. 8 Company of the School Battn. of Defence Cadets.

=CARPENTER, EDGAR STANLEY=, Corpl., No. 1494, C Coy., 6th Battn. (Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Francis George Carpenter, of Bath, by his wife, Alice Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Wickham, 1st class Petty Officer, R.N.; b. Bath, 2 Aug. 1890; educ. Central Walcot School, and in 1905 went to the City Secondary School, where he won a bursarship and student teachership. In 1909 he passed the Oxford Local Examination with first-class honours, and was head of the school, receiving the much-coveted gold medal. Taking up his student teachership at Central Walcot Schools, he showed much promise, and went to Cheltenham Training College, where he remained two years, being in 1913 especially selected for an assistant mastership at a County Council school in London. While at the Bath Secondary School, Carpenter excelled at sports as well as in studies, and on going to St Paul’s, Cheltenham, was placed in the College Rugby XV. He joined the 6th London Rifles soon after coming to town, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 21 April, 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote, speaking in the highest terms of his bravery in action, and saying that he died while leading and encouraging his comrades. He was buried in an orchard 300 yards north of Givenchy Cemetery.

=CARPENTER, GEORGE HENRY=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21585, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CARPENTER, JOHN HENRY=, Private, No. 8316, 2nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of John Martin Carpenter, by his wife, Mary Ann (74, Grecian Street, Maidstone), dau. of Henry Wilson; b. Maidstone, co. Kent, 5 Sept. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s Church School there; went to Canada in April, 1911; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war, came over with the first contingent, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 8 May, 1915; unm.

=CARPENTER, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Immed. Class, 314), 203198; H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CARR, JAMES=, Private, No. 2115, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of James Carr, of Fettercairn, co. Kincardine, Master Tailor, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Robert Milne; b. Fettercairn, 10 Dec. 1874; educ. at Public School there; joined Fincastle’s Horse in 1900, and served through the South African War, after which he joined the South African Mounted Police, in which he served three years, then going to Australia. After the outbreak of the European war he enlisted in March, 1915, in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles between 6 and 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

=CARR, JOHN WILLIAM=, Private, No. 8463, 4th Battn. West Yorkshire Regt.; b. Durham, 16 July, 1878; enlisted in the Yorkshire Regt. (Green Howards); served through the South African War; re-enlisted in the 4th West Yorkshire Regt. 14 Aug. 1914, and died in the General Hospital, Boulogne, as the result of wounds received in action, 26 April, 1915; buried at Boulogne (Grave No. 1713). He m. at Scarborough, 15 Oct. 1898, Elizabeth (2, Eliza’s Place, Canning Street, Hull), dau. of Charles Dyson Whitaker, and had a dau., Christiana, b. 1 Dec. 1906.

=CARR, STANLEY JESSE=, Private, No. 1285, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Walter Carr, L.C.C. Tramway Driver, by his wife, Elizabeth (1, Chesson Road, West Kensington), dau. of the late George Ballam; b. Iron Acton, co. Gloucester, 31 Dec. 1893; educ. North End Road Council School, Fulham; joined the Kensingtons in April, 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service with his regt., and was killed in action while trench digging at Laventie, France, 4 March, 1915; unm. Buried on a farm on the La Bassée road, about a mile and a-half from Neuve Chapelle.

=CARR, TOM ADAMTHWAITE=, Corpl., No. 1037, North Riding Battery, R.F.A., 2nd Northumbrian Division, only child of Edward Carr, of Beaconsfield Villas, Scalby, Gardener, by his wife, Jane, dau. of John Hunter Adamthwaite; b. Scalby, 4 Jan. 1881; educ. there; enlisted in 1911, and was killed in action at Ypres, 24 May, 1915; unm.

=CARRIERE, ALFRED=, Private, No. 448043, 25th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Auguste Carrière, of 607, Johette Street, Hochelaga, Montreal, Canada, by his wife, Elmire, dau. of Antoine Carrière; b. St. Jacques Dembrun, Ontario, 11 Nov. 1898; educ. School of the Nativity, Hochelaga; enlisted in the 57th Battn., 30 June, 1915, and transferred to the 25th, 13 July following; left Canada 9 Aug. 1915, and was killed in action in France, 7 Dec. 1915. Buried in Laletterie Cemetery.

=CARROL, PETER JAMES=, Private, No. 29430, 16th Battn. (91st Highlanders) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of James Carrol, of 156, Cannon Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Machinist [b. at Lariston, Scotland], by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Jardine; b. Terra Cotta, Peel Co., Ontario, 16 Oct. 1881; educ. Hamilton, aforesaid; joined the 4th Field Battery in 1898; served with them three years; joined the 91st Canadian Highlanders in 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at St. Julien, 23 April, 1915, while on a sniping expedition immediately after the Battle of St. Julien. Buried about 30 yards from the wood of St. Julien. The Corpl. in charge of the expedition wrote from hospital in England: “On the night of 22 April we made a charge, and on the morning of 23 April, just at daybreak, I was sent about 20 yards from the German trench to dig ourselves in with seven men, and Private Peter Carrol, 29430, was one of the men who went with me. It was close to the wood we had taken the night before, so we did not go so far down in the ground when we found we were being fired at from all sides, and there were only three of us left in five minutes, so we tried to move round to the main tunnel, and it was in doing that that Private Carrol was shot through the head. He was as cool under fire as he always was, and had his pipe in his mouth when he left the trench to go out, and sat joking when we were under heavy fire.” Private Carrol m. at Hamilton, 21 Dec. 1903, Margaret Ethel (1, Birch Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), dau. of Alexander McIsaac, and had two children: Forence, b. 14 July, 1905; and Auralie, b. 9 May, 1908.

=CARSON, GEORGE ALFRED=, Sergt., No. 811, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, yst. s. of the late Edward Carson, of Manchester, Draper, by his wife, Annie (74, Sandy Lane, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester), dau. of Thomas Wallworth, of Manchester; b. Bradford, 13 March, 1885; educ. Manchester Higher Grade School, and the Science and Art School; enlisted in the 16th (Queen’s) Lancers in 1902, and served two years in South Africa; obtained his discharge by purchase on the death of his father in 1905; went to Canada in 1909 to take up farming, but afterwards went into the Post Office in Regina; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and joined the Regina Legion of Frontiersmen, 9 Aug. 1914, subsequently transferring to Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry; came over in Oct. 1914; went to France in Dec.; was in action on the 25th, and was promoted Sergt. on the field; was wounded by a stray shell while going to Headquarters at Ypres, 9 May, 1915, and died in the 13th General Hospital, Boulogne, on the 18th. Buried in the Military Cemetery at Boulogne. He greatly distinguished himself after the repulse of the German attack on 8 May by bringing in the wounded, and a comrade wrote: “He returned [from the support trenches to the open] and carried a wounded man back to our trenches. To do this he had to cross an open space 300ft. wide swept by shrapnel and machine guns, he returned four times and brought back a wounded man each time--how he escaped unhurt I cannot imagine. Our company sergt. shook him by the hand and said ‘You are the bravest man I ever met.’” Captain Adamson also wrote speaking highly of his conduct, and added “No braver man ever gave his life for his country.” He m. at Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 22 Aug. 1914, Frances Emily, yst. dau. of Thomas (and Marcella) Bolton, of Carlow; s.p.

=CARSWELL, ROBERT NEVIN=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. The King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., eldest s. of John George Carswell, of St. Aubyn’s Park, Tiverton, Devon, by his wife, Sarah Constance, dau. of William Nevin Bell; b. at Shortlands, Kent, 31 Aug. 1889; educ. Blundell’s and Sheffield University, at both of which he was in the O.T.C.; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Special Reserve of Officers, 11 Sept. to rank as from 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 7 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 26 Oct. 1914; unm.

=CARTER, ARTHUR DONALD DUNDAS=, Lieut. 4th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, elder s. of Roderick Edmond Carter, of Waratilla, Wimborne Road, Bournemouth, formerly of the Public Works Dept., Bengal, by his wife, Mary Ursula, dau. of Donald William Dundas; b. Arrah, Bengal, 6 Sept. 1888; educ. Charterhouse and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 4th Gurkhas, 9 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1910. He was attached to the Shropshire L.I. from Sept. 1908 till Sept. 1909; served in the Abor Expedition in 1913, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders during the winter of 1914–15, being accidentally killed near Merville, France, 20 July, 1915, by the explosion of a bomb while instructing his men. He was buried in Merville Cemetery; unm.

=CARTER, CHARLES HERBERT EDGAR=, Private, No. 10113, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Charles William Peter Carter, of Rose Cottage, Gracious Pond, Chobham, by his wife, Eliza, widow of Amos Packham, dau. of the late William Sadler; b. Laleham, co. Middlesex, 16 Feb. 1895; educ. Long Cross School, near Chertsey; enlisted 2 May, 1913, and was killed in action near Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

=CARTER, EDWARD CHARLES=, Rifleman, No. 2373, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of John James Carter, of 73, Narrow Street, Limehouse, by his wife, Ada, dau. of James Smith; b. Stepney, 10 May, 1894; educ. St. John’s School, Limehouse; enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy on Monday, 17 May, 1915. He was shot through the head, and died shortly afterwards without regaining consciousness, being buried on Tuesday close to the trenches. He m. at St. John’s, Limehouse, 4 Sept. 1911, Eliza Amelia (17, Taylors Place, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney), dau. of Thomas Robert Blundell, and had a son and dau.: Edward Kitchiner, b. posthumous, 6 March, 1915; and Eliza Amelia, b. 25 Jan. 1913.

=CARTER, ERNEST GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1983), Chatham, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CARTER, FREDERICK JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9668, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CARTER, GEORGE=, Private, No. 1359, 7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Walter Carter of 71, Park Road, Crouch End; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 28 July, 1915.

=CARTER, GERALD FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 7th (Service) Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only s. of Alfred Henry Carter, of The Lindens, Abingdon, formerly of Birmingham, M.D., F.R.C.P. (Lond.), by his wife, Elizabeth Marian, dau. of the late William Henry King, of Pedmore House, Stourbridge; b. Edgbaston, Birmingham, 30 Nov. 1896; educ. St. Ninian’s Moffat, and Winchester College; was preparing for the Indian Forest Service, and was already entered as an undergraduate at St. John’s College, Oxford, when war was declared. He enlisted in the Public School Corps (16th Middlesex Regt.) in Sept. 1914, and became L.-Corpl., being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 6 April, 1915. He went to the Front in May. On 30 July he was gallantly leading a bombing party in a counter attack on some trenches at Hooge when only a few yards from the enemy he was severely wounded. L.-Corpl. Standing (who has since been promoted for his bravery), assisted by three of his men, carried Mr. Carter out of action, but he died of his wounds shortly afterwards. He was buried close by, in Sanctuary Wood. The lieut.-col. commanding his battn. wrote: “He behaved most gallantly, and was leading his men when he was struck down. He was a great loss to the regt. as a soldier and a friend. I could always rely on him to do the right thing, and always so cheery. We were all very fond of him, and I am sure he enjoyed himself soldiering.” And the major wrote in much the same terms, referring also to the gallantry of the men who carried him out of action. At Winchester Lieut. Carter won the headmaster’s gold medal for gymnastics two years in succession, also two cups for diving. He was a good all-round athlete and a first-class shot. Dr. Carter, who was formerly professor of medicine at Birmingham University and a member of the City Council, is now (1916) on Active Service as Major in the R.A.M.C.

=CARTER, HARRY GORDON=, Private, No. G. 4120, 2nd Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of William H. Carter, of Rawlings Garage, Halkin Street, Belgravia, S.W.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915.

=CARTER, HERBERT=, A.B., 213907, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CARTER, LESLIE=, Private, No. 10469, 2nd Battn. Sussex Regt., s. of Amos Carter, of Holmbush Cottages, Findon, near Worthing, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 9 May, 1915.

=CARTER, THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 10269, 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., s. of James Carter, of 81, Queen Street, Preston, Labourer, by his wife, Ann Eliza; b. Preston, 7 May, 1893; educ. St. Saviour’s Public School; was afterwards a Spinner at Messrs. Harrocks, Crewdson & Co.; served three years in the Preston Territorial Force, and entered the Regular Forces, 28 Dec. 1901[?]. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed at Ypres, 23 Oct.; unm. Buried at Langemarck. L.-Corpl. Carter was one of a family of fifteen children, nine of whom survive him, and two of his brothers are now (1916) on active service in France.

=CARTER, WALTER JOSEPH STEVENS=, Private, No. 2966, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Walter William Carter, of 16, South Molton Street, W., Alpine Boot Maker and Tourist Outfitter, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of the late Joseph Bennett, of “The Daily Telegraph”; b. Brondesbury, 29 Aug. 1893; educ. Haberdashers School, Cricklewood; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 9 May, 1915; buried in Military Cemetery, near the village of Croix Blanche; unm.

=CARTER, WILLIAM ARTHUR ROWE=, Capt., 5th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of the late James Carter, F.G.S., Chairman of Directors, James Carter & Sons, Ltd., quarry proprietors, Clitheroe, by his wife, Margaret Anne (Wyreside, Fleetwood, Lancashire), dau. of Ralph Millner Lomax; b. Blackburn, 15 March, 1880; educ. University College, Southport; joined the Territorial Forces, was gazetted Lieut. to the 5th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., 20 July, 1911, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service; he was promoted Capt. 15 Sept. 1914, and was shot through the head while leading his company to the attack at Ypres, 23 April, 1915; buried at H.Q. Farm, near Potijie, north of Ypres; unm. Writing to his mother, his colonel, Lord Richard Cavendish, said: “He had led his men on most gallantly against a very strong position of the enemy, and was occupying the most advanced position when he was shot through the head. He was buried the following night, and I was glad to be able to read the burial service over him. His grave is close to a farmhouse, and can be easily found. Your son was universally beloved by all ranks in the battn. He was an exceedingly good officer, and his invariable cheerfulness under any circumstances was really wonderful.” Major Bates wrote: “We were ordered into action last Friday to attack the position described to the papers under that date. He led his men right to the front, like the gallant lad he was, reaching his position in safety. He was warning two junior officers to keep down as the position was dangerous, and must have exposed himself; he was shot through the head.” And Lieut. Saer (5th King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt.): “Owing to the breaking of the French line by the enemy, we were ordered to advance on the 23rd to drive them back and fill the gap. Capt. Carter had brought his company forward in the attack to its allotted position, when he was shot through the head and died instantaneously. I am sure that, could he have chosen, he would have desired no other death than he died. Having served under him for five years I knew his fine qualities as a man and as a soldier.”

=CARTER, WILLIAM McEVOY=, Private, No. 12/1585, Auckland Infantry Battn. (16th Wiakato Regt.) New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late William Carter, Butcher; b. Gisborne, New Zealand, 10 Sept. 1894; educ. Avondale School, Auckland, and prior to the outbreak of the war was in the service of Messrs. T. Gagger & Co, Auckland; volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Dec. 1914; left with the third reinforcements for the Dardanelles; was killed in action at Cape Helles during the Battle of Achi Baba, 8 May, 1915; unm. He was a keen sportsman and an enthusiastic member of the Otahuka Football Club.

=BONHAM-CARTER, GUY=, Capt., 19th (Queen Alexandra’s Own Royal) Hussars, 3rd s. of the late Alfred Bonham-Carter, C.B., sometime Referee of Private Bills in the House of Commons, by his wife, Mary, dau. of George Warde Norman, of Bromley Common; b. London, 25 May, 1884; educ. Horris Hill, Winchester, and Magdalen College, Oxford; joined the 19th Hussars as 2nd Lieut. 29 Nov. 1905; promoted Lieut. 9 March, 1907, and Capt. 4 Sept. 1912; served with Mounted Infantry in Northern Nigeria (1910–11), and was appointed Adjutant of Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars, 17 Feb. 1913; proceeded with that regt. to the Front in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 14 May, 1915; buried at Vlamertinghe. Capt. Bonham-Carter was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. He m. at Cromford, co. Derby, 18 Oct. 1911, Kathleen Rebecca, only dau. of Frederic Arkwright, of Willersley, Matlock, co. Derby, and had a son and dau.: John Arkwright, b. 27 March, 1915; and Diana, b. 31 Jan. 1913.

=CARTLEDGE, EVERITT PERCIVAL JOHN=, Leading Signaller (R.F.R., B. 2618), 201260, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CARTWRIGHT, JOHN DIGBY=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., eldest s. of the Rev. William Digby Cartwright, Rector of Aynhoe, by his wife, Lucy Harriette Maud, dau. of Edward Bury, and gdson. of Col. Henry Cartwright, Grenadier Guards, J.P., M.P. [7th s. of Lieut.-Col. William Ralph Cartwright, of Aynhoe Park, M.P.]; b. Aynhoe, co. Northants, 23 June, 1895; educ. Durnford, Wellington College and Sandhurst; received his commission in the 3rd Reserve Battn. of the Durham L.I., 10 Nov. 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battn. He went to the Front, 15 June, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, being buried there; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch dated 30 Nov. 1915.

=CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12222, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CARVER, BERTRAM JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 90), 117768, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CARVIL, ERNEST=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16260; H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CASE, HENRY=, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 302), 277037, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CASEY, JAMES=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 205528, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CASH, GEORGE RICHARD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26705, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CASLEY, HUGH DE CHASTELAI=, Lieut. 6th (Service) Battn. Yorkshire Regt., only s. of Wilbraham John Braddick Casley, of Coatham, Redcar, co. York, Civil Engineer; b. Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 31 Aug. 1886; educ. Coatham Grammar School and Charterhouse, where he was in the O.T.C. He was articled to Head, Wrightson & Co., Ltd., of Stockton-on-Tees, as an engineer, leaving that firm to go to Dorman, Long & Co., Ltd., of Middlesbro’, and became a member of the Cleveland Institute of Engineers. At the outbreak of war he was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the 6th (Service) Battn. Yorkshire Regt., 17 Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915, and appointed to the command of the machine gun section. He left England in July for the Dardanelles, and landed 6 Aug. at Suvla Bay with his battn., which was the first to land there. He survived the fierce fighting on that day on Lala Baba, where so many of the officers and men of his regt. fell, but he was killed on the following day (7 Aug) whilst leading his men across the Salt Lake to the attack on Anafarta; he was buried where he fell at the foot of Chocolate Hill; unm.

=CASSIDY, CYRIL MARTIN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yst. s. of Thomas Cassidy, of Church End, Finchley; b. Ilford, co. Essex, ... Jan. 1893; educ. Mercers’ School, London, and King’s College, from which latter he obtained, by open competition, a clerkship in the Estate Duty Office, Somerset House; joined the Artists’ Rifles in Oct. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left for France with the 1st Battn. 27 Oct. 1914, and after passing through the Cadet School at Bailleul was given a temporary commission in 1st King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 23 April, 1915. He was mortally wounded during the advance near Richebourg l’Avoué, in the Battle of Festubert, on the night of 15–16 May, 1915, while leading his platoon over the parapet of a German trench, and died in the Field Ambulance the following night. Buried in the Town Cemetery, Bethune, 18 May, 1915; unm.

=CASTLE, GEORGE PHIL=, Private, No. 1925, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late George William Castle, L.L.C. Fireman, by his wife, Annie (now wife of P.C. Harry Hebborn, of 10, Police Station, Paddington Green, W.); b. Faraday Road Fire Station, North Kensington, 1 Nov. 1889; educ. St. Peter’s Schools, Paddington; and went to Australia. He had been a member of the Paddington Rifles (10th London Regt.), and after the outbreak of war volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Lone Pine, Anzac, between 6–9 Aug. 1915; unm.

=CASTLE, JOHN=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 343174, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CASTLE, JOHN GEORGE=, Private, No. 2375, 1/5th Battn. West Yorks Regt., s. of the late John Buckle Castle, Stationmaster; b. Church Fenton, 19 Oct. 1894; educ. Higher Grade School, York; was in the employ of Councillor W. Lee, of Millgate, Selby; volunteered and enlisted 7 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 21 July, 1915; unm. His Capt. wrote: “I was very sorry to lose him, as I have known him for some time now and was able to appreciate his soldierly qualities. He is buried in our little cemetery, and we are having a cross put over his grave”; and the Sergt.-Major: “He was a member of my platoon during the whole of his service, so that I am in a position to judge and desire to testify to his sterling qualities as a soldier. This, together with his general disposition, won for him the respect of all with whom he came in contact.”

=CASTLEDINE, MONTAGU CYRIL=, Private, No. 9261, 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 3rd s. of George Henry Castledine, of 55, Lyndhurst Grove, Peckham, S.E., Lithographic Artist, by his wife, Emma Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Austin Blake, H.M.C.: b. Camberwell, S.E., 16 Feb. 1889; educ. Bancrofts School, Woodford, co. Essex. Prior to the outbreak of the war he was for eight years in the London County and Westminster Bank, and at the time of his enlistment, 11 Nov. 1914, was cashier at the Sudbury branch, Suffolk. After four months’ training at the Duke of York’s Military School, Dover, he was sent with a draft to the Front early in March, 1915, and was killed in action in the Battle of Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915; unm.

=CATT, BERT=, Private, No. 2641, 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., 2nd s. of William Catt, of Hayes Farm, Beckley, by his wife, Elizabeth Caroline, dau. of William Feilder, of Oak Hill, Beckley; b. Beckley, co. Sussex, 15 June, 1898; educ. Udimore Council School; enlisted. 28 Sept. 1914; went to France, 20 Feb., 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 20 March, 1915. He was buried in a garden near Festubert.

=CATT, EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6389), 189109, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CATT, PERCY HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R. Ch. B. 9112), 198317, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CAULFEILD, JAMES CROSBIE=, Lieut., 2nd Manchester Regt., 4th and yst. s. of Brig.-Gen. James Edward Wilmott Smyth Caulfield, of Corozal, Jersey, commanding 8th Reserve Infantry Brigade [4th in descent from the Hon. Toby Caulfeild, of Clone, 3rd s. of William, 5th Lord and 1st Viscount Charlemont], by his wife, Sophia Morley, dau. of William Alexander Parker, late Chief Justice of British Honduras; b. Southsea, 21 Feb. 1892; educ. Bradfield College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. 9 Sept. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 9 Sept. 1914. He went to France in 6th Divisional Train, 20 Aug. 1914, and was transferred at his own request to 2nd Manchester Regt., 20 Oct. 1914. He took part in the great retreat from Mons, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, 18 Nov. 1914, while in command of C Coy.; unm.

=CAUTLEY, WILLIAM OXENHAM, D.S.O.=, Major, 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., eldest s. of the late Capt. William Thompson Cautley, 1st South Staffordshire Regt. (who died of typhoid while on Active Service in Egypt, 1883), by his wife, Emily Marion, dau. of Henry Oxenham, nephew of the Rev. Proby Littler Cautley, Rector of Quainton, co. Bucks, and gdson. of Major-Gen. George Cautley, 8th Bengal Cavalry; b. Gosport, 7 Oct. 1875; educ. Bradfield College, where he distinguished himself in athletics, and was known in particular as a fast sprinter, his favourite races being the 100 yards and the half-mile. He joined the 3rd Reserve Battn. of the Suffolks in Nov. 1894, and received a commission in the 3rd Hussars in May, 1897. He subsequently rejoined the 3rd Suffolks, a battn. that was chosen for service at the time of the Boer War, though instead of going to South Africa it was sent, to the disappointment of all concerned, to do garrison work in the Island of Alderney. At the outbreak of war last Aug. the 3rd Suffolks had become a reserve battn. under the new system, and Major Cautley, joining his unit and acting as a Capt. with the honorary rank of Major, was for some while in charge of a fort at Felixstowe. Volunteering for service on the Continent, he left at the end of Oct. for France, being first attached to the Sussex Regt., and then to the 1st Northamptons, who had lost many of their officers. Throughout the remainder of the year he saw a great deal of severe fighting, his company particularly distinguishing itself during the furious German attack on the night of 22 Dec., the following special Brigade Order being issued later by General C. B. Westmacott: “The Brigadier-General desires to take this opportunity of congratulating D Coy., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., on its gallant and steady behaviour during the action of 22 Dec. The manner in which, under the command of Major Cautley, of the 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., it resisted the German counter attack, and the steadiness with which it finally withdrew in face of superior numbers and eventually occupied a position in the rear to cover the gap made in the line was worthy of all praise, and adds fresh laurels to the fine record of the old 48th. The Brigadier-General has heard of numerous individual gallant exploits in this engagement, and congratulates himself on having such a gallant body of men in his Brigade. He desires that this Order be read out to the battn. on parade.” In Jan. last Major Cautley was gazetted Major; while for his services on 22 Dec. he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, the announcement in the London Gazette of 10 March reading as follows: “For conspicuous gallantry on 22 Dec. 1914, near La Quinque Rue, when he handled his men with great skill under very critical circumstances.” There were a series of furious attacks and counter attacks from Thursday to Saturday night during the week ending 8 May, and early on Sunday morning, the 9th, Major Cautley was wounded while leading his men against the German trenches, and no sooner had he been attended to than another bullet struck him, death being instantaneous. In the Battn. Orders issued by Lieut.-Col. S. E. Hussy Lloyd, commanding 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., Felixstowe, under date 20 May, appears the following: “It is with deep regret that the Commanding Officer has to announce the death of Major W. O. Cautley, D.S.O., killed in action. Major Cautley by the keen interest he always took in the welfare of the battn., endeared himself to all ranks, and in the end brought a great distinction not only to himself, but to the battn. to which he was so devoted. The Commanding Officer has lost a personal friend, and the Suffolk Regt. a brilliant soldier.” Major Cautley m. at Blairgowrie, co. Perth, 10 April, 1901, Agnes, second dau. of the late Charles Hill-Whitson, of Park Hill, Blairgowrie, late Scots Greys, and had a son and two daus.: William Hill, b. 25 Aug. 1906; Beatrice Sylvia Aimée, b. 25 May, 1902; and Marian Agnita, b. 16 Oct. 1904.

=CAVELL, FRANK CORNELIUS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3860), 180672, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CAVENDISH, GODFREY LIONEL JOHN=, Capt., 97th Deccan Infantry, attd. 9th Bhopals, Indian Army, eldest surviving s. of Reginald Richard Frederick Cavendish, of Willand, Devon [gdson. of General the Hon. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish, Col. 2nd Dragoon Guards, 3rd s. of Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and nephew of William, 5th Duke of Devonshire, K.G.], by his wife, Mary Constance, dau. of the late Rev. Harry Dupuis, Vicar of Richmond, Surrey; b. Eastbourne, 30 March, 1884; educ. Framlingham and Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Manchester Regt., then stationed at Singapore, 22 April, 1903. Two years later he received his Lieutenancy (5 Aug. 1905), and was transferred to the Indian Army, 97th Deccan Infantry, and became Capt. 22 April, 1912. At the outbreak of war he was recalled from leave to rejoin his regt., which was remaining in India, but so keen was he to serve in the great war, that at his special request he was attached to the Reserve of Officers and sent to France in Nov. 1914. He was temporarily attached to the 1/9th Gurkha Rifles until 15 Dec., when he was transferred to the 9th Bhopal Infantry. He had only joined the latter regt. five days when he received the wounds from which he died two days later in a field hospital at Lillers, and was buried in the Lillers Cemetery on 23 Dec. 1914. A brother officer wrote: “On 17 Dec. the half battn. he was commanding was ordered up to the support trenches at Givenchy. We remained in support until the morning of 20 Dec., when Capt. Cavendish received orders to take us up to support the regt. ahead of us, which was being attacked. On the way up he received orders to halt, and Capt. Cavendish went forward a few yards to find out what was wanted when he was hit by a rifle bullet in the neck. We tied up his wound, and were all relieved to think, as he did, that the wound was slight. He walked back two miles to the hospital apparently quite cheery and not in much pain. It was a great blow to us to hear a few days later that he had died of his wounds in the hospital on 22 Dec. During the few days we were under fire together he was always cheery, and helped us when we were ‘down in our luck.’... He pulled together both officers and men under him by his cheery stories and sense of humour.” A writer in the “East Anglian Daily News” (6 Jan. 1915), said: “He left Framlingham at the end of the summer term, 1901. He was one of those fellows who pass through a public school without attaining any particular distinction in either work or games but at the same time gain a certain position and influence by virtue of outstanding personality, and I remember that, though he had not a very large number of intimate friends, anything he said or did was of interest to quite a large circle. He was a kinsman of the Duke of Devonshire, and also connected with the earldom of Clare, and it was often remarked among his contemporaries that he possessed a remarkable family likeness, both in facial appearance and in character, to what may almost be called the Cavendish tradition of which the late Duke was so conspicuous an example.” Capt. Cavendish m. at Long Melford, Suffolk, 22 March, 1911, Cora Grace Graham, yst. dau. of Joseph Alphonsus Horsford, of Long Melford, co. Suffolk, M.R.C.S., and had two sons: Godfrey Herbert Richard, b. 14 Jan. 1912; and Hubert Gordon Compton, b. 26 Feb. 1913.

=CAVENDISH, LORD JOHN SPENCER, D.S.O.=, Major, 1st Life Guards, brother of Victor, 9th Duke of Devonshire, P.C., G.C.V.O., 3rd s. of the late Lord Edward Cavendish, M.P., by his wife, Emma Elizabeth (6, Carlos Place, W.), dau. of the Right Hon. the Hon. William Sebright Lascelles, P.C., and grandau. of Henry, 3rd Earl of Harewood; b. 25 March, 1875; and was educ. at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. After serving in the Militia he was given a commission in the 1st Life Guards, 3 Feb. 1897, and was promoted Lieut. 2 April, 1898, Capt. 23 Aug. 1902, and Major 12 April, 1911. He served with distinction on the staff in the South African War 1899–1906, being divisional Signalling Officer to the 2nd Infantry Division 9 Oct. 1899 to 18 June, 1900, and Brigade Signalling Officer, 19 June to 12 Oct. 1900; took part in the relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900; and action at Spion Kop; the operations of 5 to 7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; the operations on Tugela Heights (14 to 27 Feb.); the engagement at Pieter’s Hill; and the subsequent march from Bloemfontein to Pretoria; including actions at Zand River, near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11 to 12 June), also in the Transvaal west of Pretoria; actions at Eland’s River (4 to 16 Aug.) and in the Orange Free State, actions at Bethlehem (7 July) and Wittebergen (15 to 29 July). His services were mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 1 Feb. 1901] and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Queen’s medal with six clasps. He was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 29 June, 1907, to 6 Sept. 1910. After his brother’s succession to the title he was granted precedence as son of a Duke of Royal Warrant, Nov. 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force and was killed in action 20 Oct. 1914; unm.

=CAVEY, SIDNEY=, Corpl., No. 357, B Coy., 13th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of William John Cavey, of 198, Cromwell Road, Peterboro’, Farmer, by his wife, Catherine Martha, dau. of John Barker; b. Plumstead, 9 Jan. 1884; educ. Woolwich Polytechnic; joined the Bedfordshire Yeomanry in 1906, and rose to the rank of Sergt. He afterwards emigrated to Australia in Feb. 1912, and was engaged in farming when war was declared. He at once joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and died in hospital at W. Mudros, Lemnos Island, of pneumonia, 11 Oct. 1915. He was buried in the military cemetery there; unm.

=CAWLEY, HAROLD THOMAS=, M.P., Capt., 6th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Sir Frederick Cawley, 1st Bart., M.P.; b. Crumpsall, co. Lancaster, 12 June, 1878: educ. Rugby and New College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1900 with honours in the History School, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1902, and practised on the Northern Circuit in the Palatine Chancery Court. He was returned as Liberal Member for Heywood at the General Elections in Jan. 1910, and again in Dec. the same year, and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr. Runciman, at the Board of Education, March, 1910, to Nov. 1911, and to Mr. McKenna at the Home Office from Nov. 1911 to Aug. 1914. He joined the Mounted Infantry Company of the old 2nd Manchester Volunteers (now the 6th Manchester Regt.) in 1904, and became Capt. 1 June, 1913. On the declaration of war he volunteered for foreign service, and went to Egypt in Sept. 1914, as A.D.C. to Major-Gen. Douglas, commanding the East Lancashire Territorial Division. In Aug. he exchanged the comparative safety of Divisional Headquarters for the fighting line, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 Sept. 1915; unm. He was buried in the Lancashire Cemetery at Gallipoli. His Colonel wrote: “When we went to the front line it was greatly due to his coolness and bravery that the men were kept cool and every one in his place when we had a very large mine blown up just against our trench;” and the Right Hon. C. F. G. Masterman: “Courage, mental and physical, was the outstanding element in Harold Cawley’s character. In the House of Commons he commenced by advocating an unpopular cause in his constituency and opposed those who desired to effect economies through retrenchment in the Navy. He made short speeches, putting his points with lucidity and ability.” In a letter to a friend, Capt. Cawley wrote: “I told the General I wanted to join the Battn., and he has sent the application forward; I was ashamed of being behind here whilst all those fellows were being killed.” Capt. Cawley was a good sportsman, and he was known as a hard rider. He won the North Hereford point-to-point in 1913 and the Bar point-to-point in 1914. He was the third Member of the Commons killed in action. His next yr. brother, Major J. Stephen Cawley, was killed in action in France (see following notice).

=CAWLEY, JOHN STEPHEN=, Major, 20th Hussars, and Brigade-Major, 1st Cavalry Brigade, 3rd s. of Sir Frederick Cawley, 1st Bart., M.P.; b. Crumpsall, co. Lancaster, 27 Oct. 1879; educ. Lockers Park, Rugby and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and obtained his commission in the 20th Hussars, 3 Aug. 1898, joining them at Mhow, India. He became Lieut. 8 Jan. 1900, and obtained his troop, 12 Oct. 1906. He served in the South African War, going to the Cape in 1901; was signalling officer to General Lowe’s Column, being present at the operations in the Orange Free State and Cape Colony, for which he received the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He subsequently served in Egypt, and was Adjutant of his regt. 7 Nov. 1903 to 6 May, 1907; and after passing through the Staff College, he became instructor at the Cavalry School at Netheravon, 8 Aug. 1910, and the following year (12 Aug. 1911) was appointed General Staff Officer at the War Office, an appointment he held till 15 April, 1913. On 16 April, 1913, he was made Brigade Major of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot, and on the outbreak of war accompanied it to France. He was killed in action at Nery during the retreat from Mons, 1 Sept. 1914; was buried there; unm. A brother officer gave the following account of his death: “Our brigade was attacked soon after dawn at Nery by a force double our number--a cavalry division with 12 guns. Owing to thick mist they managed to get within 600 yards of us; 350 horses of the ‘Bays’ stampeded and their men went after them, and the L Battery was cut to pieces. The occasion was one which called for personal example, and Major Cawley, by permission of the General, went to help to restore order and get the broken remnants in their places. The situation being met and every one being in his place, he joined the advance line and was almost immediately killed by a piece of shell. The splendid manner in which he met his death in deliberately facing the awful fire to help others where he really need not have done so, is only what his whole life has led us to expect.” And a well-known cavalry officer, in a letter to “The Times,” said: “We had billeted in a village, and when day broke there was a thick mist. Our patrol came back saying that a German force was close by. My regt. got the warning first, and we had time to get our men into position behind some, thick walls; but the Artillery and the ‘Bays,’ who had picketed their horses in the open, were too late and were caught by a terrific fire. All the officers of the battery were killed or wounded, and the ‘Bays’ had nine casualties amongst their officers. They were very hard pressed, and Cawley, who was in the village, ran out into the open to try and collect some men and take them up into support. Just then a shell burst, and he was hit in the head. He was unconscious from the moment he was hit, and died in about a quarter of an hour.” General Briggs, commanding the Brigade, wrote of him: “He has been a true friend and always a conscientious staff officer to me for nearly two years, and it is needless to say how much I feel his death. He proved himself to be a real fighter in war, and was always cool and collected.” Major Cawley was a good all round sportsman. He was in the Rugby football team and shooting eight at Sandhurst, and in the hockey team, and was whip to the Drag at the Staff College; played for his regt. at polo when they won the Inter-Regimental Cup in India (Meerut), 1901; the Clements Polo Cup in South Africa (Pretoria), 1903; and the Inter-Regimental Cup (Hurlingham), 1906 and 1907. He won the Officers’ Riding and Jumping prize at the Royal Military Tournament in 1905, and was well known with the North Hereford and Whaddon Chase Hunts.

=CAWSE, SAMUEL GEORGE=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 13420, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CAWTHRA, HAROLD=, Private, No. 3739, 1/10th Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Carl Barber Cawthra; b. Arwick Green, Manchester, 10 June, 1895; educ. Claughton Higher Grade School, Birkenhead; joined the Army at the outbreak of the war, 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 13 March, 1915; unm.

=CAYME, BERNARD GLYDE=, Private, No. 81142, 10th Battn. (Western Canada Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Harry Cayme, of The Red House, Horndean, co. Hants, by his wife, Minnie Annie, dau. of Edward Culver, of 9, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, N.; b. Stamford Hill, 17 Feb. 1891; educ. Ardingly College, Haywards Heath, in 1908 emigrated to Canada to take up farming, and eventually settled at Manson, Manitoba, where he purchased land. On the outbreak of war he joined the 3rd Battn. Western Canada Regt., came to England with the 2nd Contingent early in the spring of 1915, was quartered at Shorncliffe, and ordered to France to reinforce the Canadians after the first memorable attack of gas by the Germans in April, being then transferred to the 10th Battn. He was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 22 May, 1915, being killed instantly with some 10 comrades by shrapnel; unm. Officers and men alike wrote in high praise of his courage and constant cheerfulness under any circumstances however difficult, and being the only man of his platoon who could speak French he was in constant request whilst in billets. He has been offered promotion in Canada, and on four occasions at the Front, all of which he refused, declining to forsake his comrades. The Caymes are of Huguenot descent and settled at Rye after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and Bernard Glyde Cayme, who was the last of the name in the male line, now lies in the land from which his family originated.

=CECIL, GEORGE EDWARD=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, only s. of Lord Edward Cecil, K.C.M.G., D.S.O. Brevet Col., Coldstream Guards, Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government since 1912, by his wife, Violet Georgina, 2nd dau. of Admiral Frederick Augustus Maxse, of Dunley Hill, Surrey, and gdson. of Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., P.C.; b. 20, Arlington Street, W., 9 Sept. 1895; educ. Winchester, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he took a prize cadetship in 1912, passing out at the end of 1913. He passed his examination for a French cadetship in Jan. 1914, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, 25 Feb. following. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, the 2nd Battn. went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and Lieut. Cecil acted as orderly officer to General Scott Kerr at the Battle of Landrecies. He was killed in the severe action fought by the rearguard of the 4th Brigade, near Villers-Cotterets, 1 Sept. 1914; unm.

=GASCOYNE-CECIL, RUPERT EDWARD=, 2nd Lieut., 4th, attd. 1st, Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 4th s. of the Rev. Canon Lord William Rupert Ernest Gascoyne-Cecil, Rector of Hatfield, by his wife, Lady Florence Mary, née Bootle Wilbraham, 3rd dau. of Edward, 1st Earl of Lathom, G.C.B., P.C., and gdson. of Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O.; b. St. Audrey’s, Hatfield, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; joined the Public School Corps on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914, and obtained his commission in the 4th Bedfordshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action near Ypres, 11 July, 1915, during a bombardment succeeding the blowing up of a very big mine by the Germans between the trenches, and was buried close to the Ypres-Cominis line, in the brigade headquarters cemetery; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “Your son was only with us unfortunately for a very short time, but he had endeared himself to all who knew him by his cheerfulness and soldierly qualities.” Capt. Curtis also wrote: “The Germans exploded a very large mine between two of our trenches about 7.15 p.m. and then shelled us heavily. On hearing the explosion your son immediately tried to get up to the fire trench, of which he was in charge, but unfortunately he was struck on the head by a fragment of shell, and was killed instantaneously.... He was always beloved by all his fellow officers, and above all by his men, who had a great respect for him. We all feel the loss which the regt. has sustained by his death but we are proud he was doing his duty so nobly when he was killed. A good many men were stunned and confused by the explosion, but your son remained cool and met his death going to his post.” 2nd Lieut. Cecil rowed in the Torpids at Oxford, and was keenly interested in bell-ringing. His three brothers are all now (1916) on Active Service: Randle William, 2nd Lieut. 93rd Brigade, R.F.A.; Victor Alexander, Capt., Hampshire Regt. (twice wounded); and John Arthur, Lieut. and Adjutant, 19th Brigade, R.F.A.

=CHADD, BENJAMIN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4134), S.S. 102612, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CHADWICK, FREDERICK JAMES=, Capt., 104th Wellesley Rifles, Indian Army, eldest s. of the late Col. Edward Frederick Chadwick, 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regt., by his wife, Amy (Westfield, Dorchester), yst. dau. of the late Rev. Charles Torkington; b. Chetnole, co. Dorset, 31 Aug. 1883; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth, Cheltenham College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 19 Aug. 1903, and attd. for a year to the 59th Foot, then stationed at Poona; was appointed to the 104th Wellesley Rifles in Nov. 1904, being promoted Lieut. 19 Nov. 1905, and after serving with his regt. in the Mekran (gun-running) Expedition of 1911, Capt. 19 Aug. 1912. He died of wounds received the same day while leading his machine gun section at the Battle of Shaiba, Mesopotamia, 13 April, 1915; buried at Shaiba; unm. Capt. Chadwick was mentioned in Despatches [published in India in Feb. 1915] “for gallantry,” and recommended for reward. His yst. brother, 2nd Lieut. R. M. Chadwick, died of wounds, 13 May, 1915 (see following notice).

=CHADWICK, RICHARD MARKHAM=, 2nd Lieut., 11th Siege Battery, R.G.A., 3rd and yst. s. of the late Col. Edward Frederick Chadwick, 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regt., etc. (see preceding notice); b. Chetnole, co. Dorset, 20 Nov. 1894; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth; Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Artillery, 19 Dec. 1913; joined the 10th Coy. R.G.A. at Spike Island, Feb. 1914; went to Lydd for a Siege Course in Dec., and left for France with the 11th Siege Battery towards the end of April, 1915; he was seriously wounded while on observation duty for his battery, and died the following day, near Bethune, France, 13 May, 1915; buried Bethune; unm.

=CHAFER, HERBERT JOHN=, Sergt., No. 5342, C Coy., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., s. of George Chafer, by his wife, Evelina, dau. of G. Houlton; b. Broughton, near Brigg, co. Lincoln; educ. at Broughton; joined the Army, 16 June, 1899, served through the South African War (Queen’s medal with bars), and afterwards in India. On completing his eight years with the Colours in 1907, joined the Reserve, and became a dock policeman at Immingham; but on mobilisation rejoined, was promoted Sergt. while at the Front, 1 Oct. 1914, and is reported to have been killed in action, 27 Oct. 1914, while serving with the Expeditionary Force in France. He m. at Sheffield, 19 April, 1908, Elizabeth W. (14, Storm Street, Chippinghouse Road, Sheffield), dau. of James Candow, and had three sons: Leslie James, b. 31 Jan. 1909; Sydney Herbert, b. 6 June, 1911; and Reginald George, b. 4 Jan. 1914.

=CHALLIS, FRANK WALTER=, P.O. (N.S.), 203516, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CHALLIS, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Gunner, No. 71677, 114th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of William Isaac Challis, of 212, Fulbourne Road, Forest Road, Walthamstow, House Decorator, by his wife, Maude Mary, dau. of William Holloway, of Harefield Road, Uxbridge; b. Tottenham, 3 March, 1894; educ. St. Andrew’s Road Board School, Higham Hill, Walthamstow; joined the 3rd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. in March, 1911; transferred to the Royal Field Artillery, with which he proceeded to the Front on the outbreak of war; took part in the Battles of Mons and the Marne, and was killed in action at the Aisne while going to the assistance of his superior officer, who had been seriously wounded, 20 Sept. 1914. Buried above the village of Paissy Soissons; unm. His elder brother is now (1916) serving in Egypt.

=CHALLIS, WALTER=, Leading Signalman, 224820, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHALLONER, ALAN CRAWHALL=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., only s. of Frederick Charlton Turner Challoner, of Ealing, co. Middlesex, by his wife, Elspeth, dau. of the late Joseph Crawhall; b. Ealing, 18 Dec. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s School, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; obtained his commission in the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. 31 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Hooge, 30 July, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Sanctuary Wood, in front of Hooge, Flanders, with six brother officers. Col. M. Stokoe wrote: “Ever since your son went to France he had done splendidly. He was brave and fearless, and always was a great assistance in attending the wounded owing to his medical knowledge. He was extremely popular with the men and handled them excellently. He was just the stamp of man to make an officer and leader of men, and we shall have great difficulty in replacing him.” Major Carew Barnett also wrote, saying: “He was doing splendidly, and at the time of being wounded he was in command of a company, all the officers of which had been killed or wounded. The gap he creates is, indeed, a hard one to fill, both as an officer and a friend.” A few days before he was killed, Lieut. Challoner got permission to do a little reconnoitring on his own account in a wood to the north of Menin Road, and was warned not to show himself, as it was shelled by the enemy on the least suspicion of the presence of any English; going up with one of his men he came upon a number of dead British and German soldiers, a large number of accoutrements, and in a dug-out about 100 rounds of trench mortar shells, etc., also the body of an English officer of the rank of Capt., Royal Fusilier badge and ribbon of the Military Cross, which he took steps to have buried. Subsequent inquiry proved the identity of the officer who had been killed by a shell five weeks earlier evidently by concussion as the body was found lying close to a shell hole but unwounded by a doctor and party, who removed it to a place of safety for burial, but on returning later it had disappeared, and was not found until Lieut. Challoner came upon it in the wood. Its presence and the bodies of the British and German soldiers, etc., remain a mystery. Returning to camp with as many of the mortar shells as he and his man could carry, Lieut. Challoner’s attention was drawn to the fact that the wood was being heavily shelled. When he observed, “Yes, I know, before leaving I showed myself at the edge of the wood to draw the enemy’s fire, which they are wasting quite satisfactorily.”

=CHALMERS, WILLIAM ROBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24697 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Robert Chalmers, of 11, Linton Street, Leicester; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=INGLES-CHAMBERLAYNE, RUPERT HENRY=, Midshipman, R.N., only s. of the late Henry Ingles-Chamberlayne, J.P., by his wife, Louisa Grace (The Hyde, Stow-on-the-Wold), dau. of the Rev. Charles Dallas Marston, Vicar of St. Paul’s, Onslow Square, S.W.; b. Maugersbury Manor, Stow-on-the-Wold, 4 July, 1897; educ. Winton House, Winchester, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He was appointed to H.M.S. Hawke, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed. His late tutor at Dartmouth wrote: “His pleasant, open smiling face was so very attractive. The first glance I had of it left no doubt in my mind of his character and his upbringing, and all that I ever saw or heard of him merely strengthened my first impression. He was a clean-hearted English gentleman, and worthy of the great service to which you so generously gave him.” And Lieut.-Commander R. R. Rosoman, R.N., H.M.S. Hawke: “I feel certain the boy stuck to his post to the very last, because he was a splendid fellow.”

=CHAMBERS, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1151), 276444, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAMBERS, PERCY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10030), 107623, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAMBERS, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17362, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CHAMP, FRANCIS LOGAN=, Sergt., R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 2978, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CHAMPION, EDWARD THOMAS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21840, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CHAMPION, VICTOR ALFRED RICHARD=, Bugler, No. 1468, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Frank Champion, of 36, Portnall Road, Paddington, by his wife, Anna, dau. of John Sawyer, of Lincolnshire; b. Woodfield Place, Harrow Road, Paddington, 2 March, 1897; educ. Moberley Board School there; joined the Kensingtons, 13 June, 1913; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to France 2 Nov. 1914; was wounded in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, two days later; unm.

=CHAMPS, SIDNEY=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 2058), 163578, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CHANCE, JOSEPH=, Leading Stoker, K. 1158, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CHANCELLOR, SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110580, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHANDLER, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 8271, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CHANDLER, HENRY NORMAN=, L.-Corpl., No. 59, 3rd Coy. Divisional Engineers, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Henry Chandler, Plumber, by his wife, Elizabeth (71, Eldon Road, Wood Green, London), dau. of Joseph Newman; b. Twickenham, co. Middlesex, 8 March, 1891; educ. Hammersmith; emigrated to Australia in 1911, and was employed on the Broken Hill mines as a carpenter. On the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered, left Australia with the first contingent, and received promotion at the Dardanelles. He was killed in action there, 1 Aug. 1915; unm. Before enlisting he was secretary of the Broken Hill Congregational Church Choir, and also took part in the singing. He was a foundation member of the Young Men’s Christian Society of the same church. He belonged to the Y.M.C.A., in the work of which association he took an active part.

=CHANDLER, JOHN KELLMAN=, Private, No. 25935, H Coy., 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of John Kellman Chandler, Planter and Proprietor of Sugar Cane Plantation, Barbados, by his wife, Mary Ida, dau. of Samuel Chandler; b. Barbados, B.W.I., 9 Sept. 1889; educ. Combermere School, Bridgetown, Barbados; and on leaving there spent a few years as an Overseer on various Sugar Plantations in Barbados. In May, 1913, he went to Canada and joined the Staff of the C.P.R., but on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered and joined the Royal Montreal Regt. 11 Aug. 1914. He came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent in Oct. 1914 and while training on Salisbury Plain preparatory to going to the Front contracted spinal meningitis and died at Bulford Cottage Hospital, 23 Jan. 1915; unm. Major Gault McCombey wrote: “Kellman joined my company of the Royal Montreal Regt. in Aug., and I had formed a very high regard for him as he was one of my most reliable and best men.”

=CHANDLER, NORMAN=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CHAPLIN, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3573), S.S. 101235, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CHAPLIN, CHARLES SLINGSBY=, Lieut-Col., 9th (Service) Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, s. of the late Clifford Waterman Chaplin, of Burrough Hill, Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, J.P., by his wife, Rosa, dau. of William Chaplin, M.P.; b. Norfolk Square, Hyde Park, London, 31 May, 1863; educ. Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford; joined the City of London Regt. in May, 1885, from the Militia, and was transferred the same month to the “Green Jackets,” and gazetted Capt. to the King’s Royal Rifles 1894; served with the Chitral Force under General Low (medal with clasp); and in the South African war as Special Service Officer for Mounted Infantry; and later, from Aug. 1901, in command of the 1st Regt. of Mounted Infantry, doing excellent work in the Transvaal and the line of the Orange River (mentioned in Despatches, medal with five clasps). After the campaign he obtained his majority in 1903, and was posted to the 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifles at Gharial, in the Punjab; he succeeded to the command of the 3rd Battn. 18 March, 1908, at Crete, and later took the battn. to Malta, afterwards returning to India and serving at Umballa. From half-pay in 1912 he retired, and was placed in the Reserve of Officers, being at the top of the list when mobilisation took place, and was one of the big batch of officers who were given command on 19 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action after a 12 hours’ fight, when he and his men had just captured a trench, being shot through the head at Hooge, in Flanders, at 3.30 p.m. 30 July, 1915. He was buried at Chateau Hooge, close to where he fell. The following telegram was sent to the 9th Service Battn. from Headquarters, 2nd Army, at 1 p.m. on 31 July, 1915: “The Army Corps Commander wishes you to convey to the officers and men of the 9th Battn. King’s Royal Rifles his appreciation of the way in which they carried out the attack on the trenches north of the Menin Road yesterday afternoon, and maintained themselves under heavy artillery fire.” Lieut.-Col. Chaplin m. at Bombay, India, 29 Sept. 1905, Gwladys Hamilton (Erbistock House, Ruabon), dau. of Col. Stanley Creek, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and had three sons and a dau.: Clifford, b. 23 Sept. 1906; Nigel Gilbert Forbes, b. 9 Jan. 1908; Patrick Slingsby, b. 4 July, 1910; and Zara, b. 18 March, 1914.

=CHAPLIN, EDWARD ROBERT=, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 6421), 223109, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAPLIN, HUMPHREY MARMADUKE=, Lieut. 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. Cheshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late Marmaduke Kaye Chaplin, of Etwall, co. Derby; b. Etwall, 8 Jan. 1892; educ. Glyngarth School, Cheltenham, and Rossall School, and was a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and a member of the O.T.C. He received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Cheshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914; was attached to the 2nd Battn. on its return from India in Jan. 1915, and left for the Front the same month, being promoted Lieut. Feb. 1915. He was slightly wounded 13 March, and rejoined a month later (19 April). The battn. was moved up immediately afterwards to the advanced trenches in the Ypres salient, from which only a few men returned after the termination of the second battle for Ypres. Lieut. Chaplin was posted missing 11 May, 1915, and was afterwards reported as having been killed in action near Ypres on 8–9 May. He was buried by the Germans near St. Julien; unm. Lieut. Chaplin was a Craven scholar, and had gained a first in Moderations, and was a Charles Oldham Prizeman.

=CHAPMAN, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10042), S.S. 112062, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAPMAN, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Capt., 3rd Battn. East Surrey Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Chapman, of Croydon; b. Croydon, 20 April, 1873; educ. Whitgift School; joined the Volunteers (Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.) as a Private in 1888; was Trooper in the Hampshire Carabiniers (Yeomanry) from 1893 to 1897, and 2nd Lieut., to the 3rd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt. ... 1899, from which he resigned owing to ill-health. He afterwards joined the 1st Battn. Surrey National Reserve as Lieut. in 1910, was promoted Capt. ... 1912, and after the outbreak of war in 1914 volunteered for foreign service. After a period of training with the 3rd East Surreys, he was attached as a Lieut. (13 Sept. 1914) to the 1st Hampshires, and spent the winter with them in the trenches, being promoted Capt. 2 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Zonnebeke, during the second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “He won for himself a place in the hearts of his men and of the officers in the regt. during the few short months he was with us, that made his loss one of the worst blows we have received during the war. His solicitude for his men exceeded anything I have ever seen before.... All through the winter in the Plug Street trenches he was simply indefatigable, and withal as cheery as a sandboy--rain, mud, cold and German snipers were individually and collectively unable to subdue his good spirits. I was not with his regt. when the fighting in the Ypres Salient took place, but I have heard the story of that particular day’s fighting in which he was killed. The regt. was ordered to support the 28th Division, which had become exposed by the retirement of the Canadians. It reached a position an hour before dawn, and dug itself in. A small post in a house on the left flank of the line was rushed by Germans, who were thereby able to enfilade our trenches. It was thus we lost Capt. Sandeman, your husband and many men.... He set an example of devotion to the highest ideal of duty which is possible for any one to do in giving his life for his country, when only his own unbending sense of duty was there to urge him forward.” Capt. Chapman was one of the founders of modern Coulsdon. Going there nearly a dozen years ago he purchased the land which now forms the Smitham Downs Estate, and proceeded to at once develop it. He took an active interest in the formation of St. Andrew’s district in the year 1906, and became one of the first churchwardens of the temporary church. At the time of his death he was still serving as sidesman. He was married, but had no issue.

=CHAPMAN, CLEMENT=, Sailmaker’s Mate (R.F.R., B. 3220), 169201, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAPMAN, EDWARD HENRY=, Lieut.-Col., 6th (Service) Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt., 1st s. of Edward Henry Chapman, of Cobrey Park, Ross, co. Hereford, by his late wife, Elizabeth Eden, dau. of James Walker, of Airy Hill, Whitby; b. Budleigh Salterton, co. Devon; educ. Aysgarth School, Yorkshire, United Services College, Westward Ho! and Sandhurst; obtained his commission in the 2nd Yorkshires, 20 Feb. 1895; and was promoted Lieut. 18 Aug. 1897, Capt. 29 Sept. 1901, Major 11 Feb. 1911, and Lieut.-Col. 19 Aug. 1914. He served in India and Burmah; took part in the Tirah Campaign, 1897–8, including the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes, the action at Saran Sar, and the operations round Dwatoi and against the Khani and Khel Chamkanis, and received the Tirah medal with two clasps. When war was declared in Aug. 1914, he was in charge of the Richmond Depôt, and undertook the raising of the 6th Battn., which formed part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action, 7 Aug. 1915, at the capture of the hill at Lalla Baba. The Chaplain of the 32nd Brigade, writing to his father, said: “He died as he would have wished to die--a gallant soldier leading his men, himself at the very front of the regt., on the summit of Lala Baba. As you have perhaps since learned we were to make a fresh landing on the night of the 6th inst. There were urgent reasons why we should capture the hill in silence, at the point of the bayonet without firing a shot. The moment we landed we were met with a very hot and accurate fire, which accounted for many casualties before our task was accomplished. Our advance, however, was irresistible, and despite the hail of bullets and the shower of shrapnel which had now got the range, the Yorkshires pushed forward to the Turkish trenches on the crest of the hill. There it was that the colonel’s gifts of leadership made themselves felt. ‘Come on the Yorkshires,’ he cried, and at their head with fixed bayonets, the lads he trained so well swept forward with irresistible force and the hill was ours. This brilliant little initial victory was, however, very dearly bought, for on the summit lay our colonel dead, and scattered all around a mass of wounded, dead and dying. With dawn we were able to estimate our losses. The losses among the men were heavy, but by no means proportional to the officers. The officers are young men who have received their commissions since the formation of the New Army. I go to see them in the firing line as often as I can. Their wonderful confidence and courage pass all belief. Confronted with a task that would try the nerve and test the skill of the most experienced soldier, commanded by a junior captain of 24 years, this little band of lads (for they are little more) with a wonderful courage, inspire with confidence and hope the men so unexpectedly committed to their care. It is a fresh and glorious page to be written in the history of the ‘Green Howards.’ Your son died instantaneously, shot through the neck. I was by his side not long afterwards, and so was able to prepare roughly for his burial. We buried him the same day in the same grave as his cousin, Wilfred Chapman, and two other officers, and have since erected a rough cross over the grave. At the moment of the accomplishment of the task he had been ordered to perform, with a quiet happy smile upon his face, he met his end as I know he would have chosen had the choice been his--the end of an English gentleman and a very gallant soldier.--P.S.--I am writing this under shell fire, so you must excuse its many errors.” He was unm. A tablet to his memory was placed in Richmond Parish Church, Yorkshire.

=CHAPMAN, FRANK JAMES ALBERT=, Private, No. 2856, 5th Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Frank William Chapman, Driver A.S.C. (now on service in France), by his wife, Elizabeth Eliza (Dale Hill, Ticehurst, Sussex), dau. of James Francis; b. Frimwell, co. Sussex, 9 Sept. 1895; educ. Ticehurst Council School; enlisted about 18–19 Nov. 1914; went to France, 20 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm. His brother, Driver Walter Reginald Chapman, No. 092582, A.S.C., is now (1916) on active service in Egypt.

=CHAPMAN, FRED CHARLES=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8421), 294415, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAPMAN, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9954), S.S. 107663, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAPMAN, GEORGE ERNEST=, Private, No. 9073, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Henry Chapman, of Thorpe Salvin, Worksop, Farm Horseman, by his wife, Harriett, dau. of William Good; b. Thorpe Salvin, co. Nottingham, 29 Nov. 1889; enlisted 10 April, 1911, and served three years with the Colours, then passing into the Reserve and joining the Nottingham County Constabulary. He was stationed at headquarters during his brief service with the force, and his superior officers spoke highly of him. On the declaration of war in August following, however, he was called up and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

=CHAPMAN, GEORGE MARTIN=, M.A., M.B., M.R.C.S., Lieut., R.A.M.C., attached 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), 2nd s. of the Hon. Mr. Justice Frederick Revans Chapman, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, by his wife, Clara, dau. of George Cook, of Dunedin, Barrister, and gdson. of the late Hon. Henry Samuel Chapman, also a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand; b. Dunedin, New Zealand, 26 March, 1887; educ. Waitaki High School, Oamaru, New Zealand, and the Otago University Medical School, and on leaving there went to London to study medicine and passed the conjoint Boards Examination, under which he subsequently became M.R.C.S. In 1907, however, he decided to go to Cambridge, where he remained until 1910, studying medicine and graduating in Arts. He then returned to the London Hospital and went through all the appointments held by the Junior Staff. When war broke out he was House Physician, but was already appointed House Surgeon. Owing to shortage he had to hold both appointments until he went to Shorncliffe in Sept. 1914. He was gazetted a Lieut., R.A.M.C., on the 11th of that month, went to the Front, and was attached to the 2nd Dragoon Guards in Feb. While serving in No. 11 General Hospital at Boulogne, a small vessel was wrecked in a gale on 7 Dec. All but the skipper got away from her. Two British soldiers attempted without success to rescue this man and had themselves to be put under treatment. Lieut. Chapman swam out and gripped the old skipper as he was drowning, and both were dragged ashore. For this he was awarded, by the French Government, the Gold Medaille de Souvetage, inscribed “pour courage et dévouement,” and was commended in a British Routine Order. The two privates received silver medals. He was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 13 May, 1915, when his regt. was holding the trenches on the Zonnebeke Road, a little east of Ypres. He and the men who were standing by him were killed instantaneously by a shell while attending the wounded machine gunners, and was buried with two other officers of the same regt. in the grounds of the Chateau of Potijge; unm. The Major of the Bays wrote: “We were in the trenches under a very severe shell fire. Your son was most gallantly attending to the wounded when a shell killed him instantly, as well as two men who were standing by him. We took his body back and buried him in the grounds of a chateau just east of Potijge cross roads, a small village east of Ypres. I cannot tell you what a loss he is to this regt.; he had only been with us two months, but was most popular with officers and men. Please accept the sympathy of the entire regt. with your great loss, and you have the great consolation that he died doing his duty very gallantly as a soldier should”; and the Col. of the 1st Cavalry Division: “I, in common with all who knew your son, would like to express our sincere condolence to his family. His gallant conduct throughout the engagement won him the admiration of officers and men alike; he died a noble death attending wounded in the trenches under a murderous fire. His death deprives me of one of the best officers that ever served under me, and I again tender you my deepest sympathy in your great bereavement.” When at Cambridge he was a noted athlete, taking his blue in Rugby football in 1907, and subsequently his half-blue in boxing. In both of these sports he upheld the name of his hospital when in London, and also played for other clubs, notably, for the Harlequins. One of his teachers, writing in the British Medical Journal, 29 May, 1915, said: “Perhaps at his age it is inevitable that his athletic gifts should attract more attention than his high mental abilities and sterling moral sense, which in later years would have readily won him a new renown. He was cast in a heroic mould, and, while it is no doubt true nothing became him more than the manner of his death, it is but cold comfort to many who mourn the early end of so admirable a life--the sudden quenching of so much vital and kindly force.”

=CHAPMAN, HARRY REYNOLDS=, Major, 10th (Service) Battn. Durham L.I., eldest s. of the late Capt. Abel Henry Chapman, formerly 19th Hussars, and chairman-director of Messrs. Clarke, Chapman & Co.’s Works, Gateshead-on-Tyne, by his wife, Mary (Colinton, Midlothian), dau. of John Fraser; b. Benares, India, 27 April, 1868; educ. Uppingham. On leaving school in 1891 he entered his father’s works and became a director in 1893. He was keenly interested in a volunteer corps of Royal Engineers raised in the works, of which he became Major. On the outbreak of the war he offered his services and received a commission in the 10th Service Battn. of the Durhams. Major Chapman was killed in action in France, 27 June, 1915. He m. Elinore Phyllis (Wingfield, Eagle Lane, Snaresbrook, Essex), dau. of John Larkin, and left three daus.; Elinore Mary, b. 15 Feb. 1899; Dorothy Harriet, b. 5 Aug. 1900; and Phyllis Agatha, b. 8 May, 1904.

=CHAPMAN, HERBERT ALFRED=, Private, No. 2221, 4th Suffolk Regt., s. of William Chapman, of Norwich, Carpenter; b. Norwich, 9 March, 1870; educ. Boys’ Model School there; was in the employ of Messrs. Cowell, Ltd., as a Compositor for over 20 years; volunteered and enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, was wounded in action there, 16 May, 1915, and died at the Dover Military Hospital, 21 May following. Capt. E. L. Brown wrote: “I consider him a man of the highest rank. No officer could want a more willing soldier, no soldier could desire a better comrade.” Lieut. A. Brunzee also wrote saying what a splendid example he set his younger companions. He m. at St. Nicholas’ Chapel, Ipswich, 21 Aug. 1898, Priscilla Jane, dau. of Thomas Pizzy, of High Street, Ipswich, Greengrocer, and had seven children: Arthur Frederick, b. 4 March, 1907; Millicent Bertha, b. 9 Jan. 1900; Dorothy May, b. 11 Feb. 1902; Ruby Cecily, b. 20 March, 1905; Marjorie Florence, b. 5 Aug. 1908; Winnifred Laura, b. 7 June, 1910; and Ellen Mary, b. 27 May, 1913.

=CHAPMAN, JOE=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8437), 294702, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAPMAN, PERCEVAL CHRISTIAN=, Capt., Royal Artillery, attd. 26th (Jacob’s) Mountain Battery, 2nd s. of the Rev. Theodore Charles Chapman, M.A., Secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, and late Vicar of Christ Church, Clifton, by his wife, Alice Barr, dau. of the late Patrick Keith, of 26, Queen’s Gate Gardens, S.W.: b. Laxey Parsonage, Isle of Man, 10 March, 1884; educ. Clifton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was Tombs Memorial scholar. He was gazetted to the Royal Garrison Artillery, 15 July, 1903, and promoted Lieut. 15 July, 1906. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, was promoted Capt. 30 Oct. 1914. From July, 1907, he had served with the 26th (Jacob’s) Mountain Battery of the Indian Army. He died at Alexandria, 1 May, 1915, of wounds received in action during the landing at Gaba Tepe on 25 April, 1915; unm.

=CHAPMAN, PHILIP GEORGE=, Private, No. 1742 (Pioneer), B Coy., 4th Battn. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of Philip George Chapman, of 3A, Franche Court Road, Tooting, S.W., Coachbuilder, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of the Rev. Charles Carter, Baptist Minister; b. Tostock, co. Suffolk, 13 Feb. 1884; educ. Waldron Road L.C.C. School, Wandsworth; left England for Australia in Aug. 1911, and was for some time in the bush, afterwards working in Blackbutt, Queensland, and then going to Sydney. He enlisted in Jan. 1915, and was wounded in the charge of the Australians at Lone Pine, 14 Aug. 1915, dying the day following at Alexandria; unm. He had been ordered a rest because of his eyes being weak, but would not go upon hearing of the impending charge. Chapman was a keen athlete, holding many medals for swimming, gymnastics and football.

=CHAPMAN, RICHARD KEPPEL GEORGE SUTTON=, Midshipman, R.N., yst. s. of Francis Hay Chapman, Commander R.N. (retired), of 12, Foster Road, Alverstoke, Hants, by his wife, Amy Georgiana, 2nd dau. of the late Capt. Frederick Sutton, 11th Hussars, and granddau. of Capt. Robert Nassau Sutton, 7th Fusiliers, A.D.C. to Sir Ralph Abercrombie in Egypt [3rd son of Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Bart., M.P.]; b. Blackheath, S.E., 26 Oct. 1898; educ. Shirley House School, Old Charlton, Weymouth College, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; joined H.M.S. Bulwark, 3 Aug. 1914, when the Fleet mobilised for war. He was killed at Sheerness in the explosion on board that ship, 26 Nov. 1914. Chapman was a general favourite and a keen sportsman. A former tutor wrote: “May the thought that no finer or more upright lad ever wore naval uniform in some small measure be your consolation,” and another wrote: “No one that had anything to do with Dickie could help loving him.”

=CHAPMAN, WILFRID HUBERT=, Capt., 6th (Service) Battn. Alexandra Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regt., 4th and yst. surviving s. of the late Joseph John Chapman, of St. Hilda’s Terrace, Whitby, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Henry Simpson, and gdson. of Joseph Barker Chapman; b. Goudhurst, co. Kent, 13 Dec. 1879; and went to Eton (Mr. Hale’s in 1894, and afterwards with his brother, Harold, in 1895 to Mr. Somerville’s). Here he soon became known as a boy of independent, original character, and a promising athlete. In 1897 he was first Whip of the Beagles and second Captain of the Boats; he won the school steeplechase, mile and half-mile, and rowed bow of the eight which won at Henley. In 1898 he won the Steeplechase again, and for the second time rowed bow of the eight which won the Ladies Plate at Henley. From Eton he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1899 rowed bow of the eight which beat Oxford for the first time for 10 years. At the time of the South African War he was given (10 July, 1900) a commission as Lieut. in the 4th (Militia) Battn. of the Yorkshires, and served through that campaign, being promoted Capt. 25 Feb. 1901, and receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps. At the end of the war he retired, returned to Cambridge, and was in the winning Cambridge crews of 1902 and 1903, and was president of the Cambridge University Boating Club in the latter year. On leaving Cambridge he went into business in London, but still kept up his rowing. He was in the Third Trinity eight which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1902, and the four that won the Stewards’ Challenge Cup the same year, on both occasions beating Leander in the finals. In 1903 for Third Trinity, which won the Stewards’ Challenge Cup. This was said to be the best four ever seen at Henley up to that date. In the Grand Challenge Cup Third Trinity were only beaten by six feet after a most exciting struggle, in which each boat took the lead alternately. In 1904 he was in the Leander eight which won the Grand Challenge Cup, and in the Third Trinity four which won the Stewards’ Challenge Cup. In 1905 he went to India as an assistant in the Bombay Co., and when war was declared he was manager of the company in Karachi. He immediately joined the Sind Volunteer Field Artillery, but being desirous of going to the Front and failing to get permission from the company, he threw up his appointment, came home and rejoined the Yorkshires as Capt. in June, 1915. The regt. left England for the Dardanelles early the following month, and Capt. Chapman was killed in the landing at Suvla Bay, 6 Aug. 1915. He m. at Barkway, co. Herts, 5 Aug. 1909, May Campbell, dau. of Alexander Sinclair, of 5e, Montagu Mansions, Portman Square, W., and had two daus.: Elizabeth Mary, b. 22 April, 1911; and Annie Wilfrida Sinclair, b. 31 Dec. 1913. His elder brother, Percy, Lieut., 21st Lancers, died of enteric in the Sudan in 1905; another brother, Harold, a Capt. in the Yorkshires, was wounded in Gallipoli a day or two after his brother was killed.

=CHAPMAN, WILLIAM ALFRED=, Private, No. 16431, 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, s. of William George Chapman, Police Sergeant, Herts Constabulary, in charge of the police station at Royston; b. Weston, co. Herts, 24 Nov. 1894; commenced his career in the engineering works of the Dacre Motor Car Co. at Letchworth, and after a short time in the Heatly Gresham Works, enlisted in the Grenadier Guards, 24 April, 1913. He left England with his regt. on or about 12 Aug. 1914, was in the retreat from Mons, and in the various subsequent engagements, being taken prisoner in Nov. but managed to escape. He was killed in action near Béthune, while carrying a despatch from the firing line to Headquarters. A comrade wrote that when the bullet struck him he smiled and fell down dead. Chapman was recommended in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=CHAPPLE, JOHN HENRY=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 14863, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CHARITY, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21839, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CHARLES, GEORGE=, Private, No. 4242, 1st Battn. Royal Scots, s. of the late George Charles, of Leven, co. Fife, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of the late Alexander Mitchell, of Leven; b. Leith, 1871; educ. Bonnington Road School there; enlisted Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 4 May, 1915. He m. at Leith, 29 July, 1894, Catherine (died 30 April, 1911), dau. of James Dalgleish, and had two sons and four daus.: George, Private, No. 6410, Royal Scots Fusiliers (twice wounded), b. 1895; James, Private, No. 1942, -- Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, b. 1897 (both on active service); Barbara; Lizzie, b. 9 June, 1901; Kate, and Isabella, b. 3 Oct. 1907.

=CHARLES, JAMES ARTHUR MERRIMAN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., only s. of the Rev. James Hamilton Charles, M.A., R.D., Vicar of Oakham, by his wife, Elisabeth, dau. of the late John Jones Merriman, of 45, Kensington Square, W., M.D.; b. Whittlesea, Peterborough, 7 Feb. 1890; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1912); joined Special Reserve, King’s Shropshire L.I. 4 Nov. 1912, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. 5 Nov. 1914. He was wounded in action at Rue du Bois, Armentières, 23 Oct. 1914, having been chosen by his colonel to hold some advance trenches only 400 yards away from the Germans. Many of his men had fallen round him and he had sent his servant with a message asking for reinforcements, to which the colonel replied on a piece of paper that he was to “hold on.” It was while reading this message that he was shot through the head, after which, though partially paralysed and unable to speak clearly, he lay in the trench for eight hours giving orders to his men through his servant, till the latter was also wounded. Two men then volunteered to carry him to the dressing station, which they did under heavy fire. He was at once removed to Boulogne and later to England, and died after a serious operation in King Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers, 9, Grosvenor Gardens, London, 10 Feb. 1915; unm.

=CHARLETON, THOMAS HOLT=, Private, No. 19588, Scottish Rifles, 2nd s. of James Parker Charleton, of Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, Shipyard Labourer, by his wife, Ann (21, Thomas Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of James Holt, of Oldham; b. Southwick-on-Wear, 15 Sept. 1894; educ. National School there; was employed at Pickergill’s, Sunderland; enlisted 1 Feb. 1915; went to the Front 2 Aug. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. He was buried on a farm near Loos, just behind the firing line.

=MUSTARD CHARLETON, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 2254, 7th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), eldest s. of James Mustard, of Southwick, Bottleblower, by his wife, Jane, dau. of William Charleton, of Southwick; b. Southwick-on-Wear, 28 Oct. 1890; educ. National School there; was employed at Priestman’s Yard, Sunderland; joined the 7th (Territorial) Battn. of the Durham L.I. 5 May, 1913, but signed on again, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial Service, went to the Front 24 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 24 May, 1915. He m. at Sunderland, 5 April, 1913, Alice (16, Ogle Terrace, Southwick-on-Wear), 4th dau. of Samuel Kirkham, of Middlesbro’, and had two sons: William, b. 23 Sept. 1913, and John, b. 28 Feb. 1915.

=CHARLTON, JOHN RAYWOOD=, Teleg., J. 11054, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CHARLTON, BENJAMIN DAVID=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 9493, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CHARLTON, ST. JOHN ALAN=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of St. John Charlton, of Cholmondeley Malpas, co. Chester, Agent to the Marquess of Cholmondeley, by his wife, Elisabeth Bronwen, dau. of the late Hugh Robert Hughes, of Kinmel, co. Derby, and Lady Florentia Emily, née Liddell, dau. of Henry Thomas, 1st Earl of Ravensworth; b. Cholmondeley, 17 Nov. 1889; educ. Eton College, and was given a commission in the 4th Special Reserve Battn. of the Bedfords, 2 Dec. 1911. On the declaration of war he volunteered for foreign service, went to the Front with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Festubert, 26 Oct. 1914; unm. Lieut. Charlton was a well-known member of the Cheshire Hunt.

=CHARMAN, JOHN EDWARD=, Private, No. 1738, 4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Charman, of 1, Friday Street, Warnham; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 21 Aug. 1915.

=CHARMAN, JOSEPH PHILIP=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8880), 194784, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CHARMAN, WILLIAM=, Private, No. G. 3557, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of William Charman, of 22, Lawnsmead, Wonersh, Guildfield; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

=CHARRINGTON, ARTHUR CRAVEN=, Capt., 1st Royal Dragoons, yr. s. of the late Nicholas Edward Charrington, of Bures Manor, Reigate, by his wife, Isabella (Offham House, Lewes, co. Sussex), dau. of George Arthur Fuller, of The Rookery, Dorking; b. Marden Ash, Ongar, Essex, 17 May, 1882; educ. Eton, where he was a member of Mr. Ainger’s House from 1896–1901. On leaving there he joined the Militia of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, whence he was gazetted into the 1st Royal Dragoons, 26 March, 1902, joining the regt. in India in 1903. He was promoted Lieut. 24 June, 1905, and Capt. 12 April, 1910. From Oct. 1911, to Oct. 1912, he was A.D.C. to General Sir O’Moore Creagh, V.C., Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies, having previously acted in the same capacity to Lord Minto and Lord Kitchener. At the time of the outbreak of the European War Capt. Charrington was stationed with his regt. in S. Africa. In Sept. the regt. was ordered home, and within a fortnight of its arrival was sent to France. Capt. Charrington was the first officer of the 1st Dragoons to fall. He was killed 20 Oct. 1914, being struck by shrapnel in the trenches around Ypres, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm. Although at the Front but a very short time, he had the good fortune to take part in a very successful raid in an armoured car. “I had a great piece of luck yesterday,” he wrote to his mother on 12 Oct. “The division was halted at a place for the day, and I was sent out with another officer on a reconnaissance in two armoured cars, each carrying a Maxim gun. We also had an armoured car with 10 men. After scouring the country for some time without seeing anything we eventually got to a town where they told us the Germans had left a day or two previously. We went on through the town, stopped outside, and had a look round through our glasses. I saw a few men whom I took to be Germans about a mile away in a farmyard. They had evidently seen us, as they were running backwards and forwards, and seemed very excited. We then went on for about a mile and made a detour round to the farm where I had seen them. When we got there the inhabitants told us that nine mounted Germans had just left. We set off in pursuit. It was really just like a hunt. All the inhabitants of every village rushed out and told us they were just ahead of us. We eventually came up to them suddenly round a corner, standing by the side of the road, two of them dismounted. We let fly into the middle of them with the Maxim at 200 yards. They fled for their lives, leaving behind them four lances and two helmets. The three dismounted men ran across a field. We jumped out of the car and pursued them on foot with revolvers and rifles. It was rather like potting rabbits, as they dodged behind trees and bushes We eventually bagged one officer, four men and a horse, the officer and two men being wounded. The remaining four streaked away across country. We returned in triumph with our prisoners, and they gave us a tremendous reception. It was really great sport, and I have the honour of being the first to draw blood. Then the cars went out again this morning and captured the remaining four, so that I think we mopped up the whole covey” Always most thoughtful of the men in his troop, Capt. Charrington was immensely popular with them. Sergt. Ridley, who had served under him from the time he joined the regt., and who came from York to London to attend a memorial service to his troop officer, on his own account afterwards wrote to Mrs. Charrington: “I required no thanks for coming, as it was only natural for me to attend, considering that he was my troop officer when he first joined us on our return from South Africa in 1903 after the Boer War. He soon became most popular, not only because of his smartness, but because he took a great interest in the N.C.Os. and men belonging to his troop. He was a general favourite with us all, and your sad loss is shared by every single man of the Royal Dragoons.” It is evident from the many letters written by his friends that Capt. Charrington, known to his intimates as “The Kid.” had a singularly lovable disposition and the gift of inspiring affection in others. He was a famous gentleman jockey and well-known at Sandown, and was recognised as one of the best riders in India. As a race-rider Capt. Charrington established a record which must surely remain as a memento to his equestrian skill for all time. He was riding out at a meeting at Simla during the course of which he accepted 15 mounts. Of these, he brought 13 home in front, and one of the other two was second, an almost incredible performance. In 1909 he won the Army Cup on Capt. Gibb’s Pommard, while in the following year he won the same race on Major Campion’s Injas, and the Indian Grand National on Major Wilson’s Kaffirpan. Also as a game shot Capt. Charrington achieved considerable reputation, having made several expeditions to Kashmir and the Central Provinces, and while out shooting with Sir John Hewitt, the Governor of the United Provinces, he bagged two tigers.

=CHARTERIS, MALCOLM MAXWELL McINNES=, Private, No. 12874, 16th (Waikato) Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of David Charteris, of New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand, Land Agent; (a native of Dumfrieshire, Scotland); b. South Canterbury, New Zealand, 27 Jan. 1887; educ. Temuka, and Taranaki; was living near Rotorua, Auckland Province, when war broke out, and at once volunteered for Imperial Service; left for England with the Main Body, 16 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day; unm. He was a great athlete and a representative footballer. One of his nephews and a cousin-german were also killed in action.

=CHASTY, RICHARD CHRISTOPHER=, L.-Corpl., No. 9834, 1st Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers,] s. of James Chasty, Caretaker for the High School, 40, Harcourt Street, Dublin, naval pensioner of 38 years (10 Jan. 1876 to 27 July, 1914), by his wife, Clara Lucretia, dau. of Samuel How; b. Portaferry, co. Down, 24 Aug. 1893; educ. Strangford, Lower Moville, co. Donegal, and Shanaher Belmullet, co. Mayo, National Schools; enlisted in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers about 25 Sept. 1909; was wounded in action at the Dardanelles, 22 May, 1915, and died at Netley Hospital, 7 Sept. following; unm.

=CHATTERIS, TOM BRODIE=, Capt., attd. 2nd Battn. Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt., 4th s. of the late Charles C. Chatteris, of Chatteris, Nicholls & Chatteris, Chartered Accountants; b. London, W., 9 March, 1881; educ. Sherborne; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Militia) Battn. Sherwood Foresters, 1 Feb. 1900; and promoted Lieut., 19 March, 1902; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with one clasp), and retired with the rank of Hon. Lieut. in the Army, joining the Special Reserve of Officers. He then engaged in forestry work in Siam for the Borneo Co., London, but when war broke out returned home and rejoined his regt., 24 Dec. 1914; went to France in May, 1915, being gazetted Tempy. Capt. in June, and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. following; unm.

=CHAWNER, JOHN HENRY=, A.B., J. 5865, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=CHAYTOR, ALBAN KINGSFORD=, 2nd Lieut., 6th, attd. 3rd, Battn. Worcester Regt., 2nd s. of the Rev. Charles Chaytor, Rector of St. Helens, and St. Albans with St. Michael’s, Worcester, since 1881; b. there 23 Oct. 1891; educ. at King’s School (Cathedral), Worcester, where he was successively captain of cricket and of the boats, and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he held the Worfield Scholarship and the Inge Exhibition. On leaving there he took up tea planting in Ceylon, was a member of the Volunteer Defence Force, and on the outbreak of war joined the Ceylon Rifle Corps. Early in 1915 he came to England, obtained a commission in the County Regt. 6 Feb. 1915, and (while serving later with the 3rd Battn.) was severely wounded in the trenches near Ypres, 24 May, 1915, and died in a field hospital two days later; unm. His colonel and brother officers wrote of him as “a most promising officer,” a “born soldier,” “always ready to volunteer on any dangerous venture.” He was buried in the churchyard of La Clytte.

=CHEALES, CLEMENT BELLINGHAM=, Able Seaman in Public School Corps of the Naval Brigade, Hawke Battn., brother of the Rev. John Patey Cheales, Vicar of Friskney, and s. of the late Rev. Henry John Cheales, formerly Vicar of that place, 1869–99, by his wife, Edith Maria, dau. of the Rev. Thomas Booth; b. Friskney, 6 April, 1876; educ. Marlborough College; served with the Imperial Yeomanry during the South African War (medal with two clasps), and was in South Africa when the European War broke out. He immediately came home in Jan. 1915, and enlisted in the Public Schools Battn. of the Royal Naval Brigade, spent the winter in training at the Crystal Palace, and went to the Dardanelles in April. His work lay with the machine gun section of the Division. He died in hospital at Alexandria, 5 Sept. 1915, of fever contracted in Gallipoli, where he had been fighting until 20 Aug.; unm. His commanding officer wrote that he had decided to recommend him for a commission when death intervened.

=CHEESE, ALFRED=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 989), late R.M.A., 7113, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHEESE, WILLIAM JOHN=, Private, No. 55979, 19th Battn. (Lincoln Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Frederick John Cheese, of 42, North Street, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, formerly Imperial Navy and Mercantile Marine (who volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war, and was serving in the North Atlantic Squadron at the time of his son’s death), by his wife, Susan, dau. of James Harris, of Brixham, Devon; b. Dagenham, co. Essex, 4 Feb. 1898; educ. Hornchurch, Essex, England, and at Chatham, Ontario, Canada; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 24 Aug. 1914; was for a short time attached to the “Welland Canal Guard,” during which time he was instrumental in obtaining information which led to the capture of nine Austrians who were living in close proximity to the canal, and who were subsequently interned. Volunteered for service overseas in Oct. 1914; was accepted and attached to the 19th Battn., who received their training at Toronto Exhibition Grounds Camp. He was among those of that unit who broke all records for the route marching from Long Branch to the Exhibition Ground Camp, covering the distance of 11 miles in heavy marching order (carrying 65 lbs.) in 2 hours 8 minutes. The 19th Battn. left for Shorncliffe in May, 1915, where Private Cheese proved himself a crack shot with the rifle, making 95 points out of a possible 100. His ambition was to become a sniper at the Front, but unfortunately he met with an accident which necessitated an operation. While recovering from this he contracted typhoid, and died at Lidwells, Goudhurst, Kent, 17 Sept. 1915; unm. His battn. had left for the Front the previous day.

=CHEESEMAN, PERCY=, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 2026, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CHEESEMAR, STANLEY WILLIAM=, A.B., Private, R.M.L.I., J. 12085, H.M.S Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CHENEY, WILLIAM JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 8287, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of Joseph Cheney, Horsekeeper, formerly of Laughton, co, Leicester, by his wife Lucy, widow of (--) Allwood, dau. of John Wall, Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire; b. Birmingham, 29 May, 1888; educ. Highgate Council School; enlisted 24 Jan. 1909, and was for some time Orderly to the commanding officer before being transferred to the Reserve in March, 1913. He then joined the Isle of Ely Constabulary, and was for 18 months police constable at Ely and Littleport. On the outbreak of war he was called up, went to the Front with the first Expeditionary Force, served through the retreat from Mons, etc., and was shot by a sniper at Rentel, near Ypres, 14 Nov. 1914. The Capt. wrote that he was just returning to his place in the trench when he was shot in the back by a sniper, the bullet penetrating his left lung and killing him instantly. A letter was found on him and sent to his widow, in which the writer thanked Cheney and another man named Booth for attending to him when he was wounded, apparently in the right arm, for the letter was written with the left hand, and ran: “I can never tell you how grateful I am to you, old chap, for fixing me up at the critical moment, for I know that I should soon have bled to death.” He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, W., 26 Sept. 1912, Mary Martha (Silver Street, Ely), dau. of Samuel Tustin, of Hampton-in-Arden, and had two children: Joseph William John, b. 16 Sept. 1914; and Clara Lucy Anita, b. 7 July, 1913. His half-brother, Sergt. H. Allwood, 3rd Coldstream Guards, is now (1916) on Active Service with the British Expeditionary Force.

=CHENNELL, ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7424), 291447, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHESTER, GREVILLE ARTHUR BAGOT=, 2nd Lieut., Special Reserve, 3rd Battn. North Staffordshire Regt, eldest s. of the Rev. John Greville Chester, M.A., Vicar of Gilling, Richmond, co. York [great-gdson. of Charles Bagot, afterwards Chester, brother of William, 1st Baron Bagot, and 2nd son of Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, 5th Bart., by his wife, Amy, dau. of Arthur Hughes; b. Pyrton, co. Oxford, 3 April, 1891; educ. Rossall School and St. John’s College, Oxford; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. North Staffords, 5 Feb. 1913, and attached to the 1st Battn. on the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Oulterstern, near Hazebrouk, 13 Oct. 1914, while leading his platoon in an attack on German rearguard, and was buried at Meris, Flanders; unm. Lieut. Chester’s commanding officer wrote: “The battn. was carrying out an attack on a German rearguard at Oulterstern, a small village a few miles east of Hazebrouk. Your boy’s company was in front, and stood the brunt of the attack, and his Capt., Hume Kelly (who was himself killed a few days later), told me he behaved exceedingly well, and showed not only courage but common sense in leading his platoon. I personally am very sorry to lose him, for he was not only a thoroughly nice lad, but had the making of a first-rate officer--willing, keen and reliable.”

=CHESTER, WILLIAM JAMES=, Private, No. 40617, 3rd Battery, 1st Artillery Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Thomas Chester (who served in the Nile Expedition); b. 1 Jan. 1891; educ. Brockville (P. Ontario) Public School: volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted 10 Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the Front in Feb., and died in No. 3 Casualty Clearing Hospital at Bailleul, 15 July, 1915, of wounds received in action. He m. at Gananoque, 24 May, 1910, Margaret Evelyn (Gananoque, Ontario, Canada), dau. of the late John MacDonald, and had two children: Margaret, b. 21 July, 1912; and Rita, b. 28 April, 1914.

=CHESTNEY, ARTHUR=, A.B., 233864, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHEVONS, JIM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 446). Ch./8359, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHEYNE, ANDREW=, L.-Corpl., No. 1972, 9th Battn. (Highlanders) Royal Scots (T.F.), yst. s. of Robert Cheyne, Chief Clerk of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, Edinburgh (11, Denham Green Place, Trinity), by his wife, Violet, 4th dau. of the late Thomas Fairgrieve, of Musselburgh; b. Edinburgh, 4 April, 1896; educ. Royal High School, Edinburgh; enlisted on the outbreak of war, was promoted L.-Corpl. Jan. 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 14 April, 1915, from wounds received in France (presumably at Ypres). He was buried at Boulogne; unm. An elder brother, L.-Corpl. Harry Cheyne, 6th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Contingent, Canadian Expeditionary Force, is now (1916) serving at the Front.

=CHEYNEY, SYDNEY BERNARD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26788, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CHILDS, CHARLES ROBERT=, A.B., 179912, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CHILES, STANLEY MOORE=, Leading Seaman, 210508 H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHILMAN, EDWARD RENNE=, Seaman, R.N.R., 37453, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHILTON, FRANK=, Lieut., 13th (Service) Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, only s. of Dr. Charles Chilton, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., etc., Professor of Biology, Canterbury College, New Zealand, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Jack; b. Port Chalmers, New Zealand, 27 Sept. 1892: educ. West Christchurch District High School, Waitaki Boys’ High School and Edinburgh University, where he was a member of the O.T.C. Prior to the outbreak of war Lieut. Chilton was studying medicine, but he immediately applied for and received a commission in the 3rd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 15 Aug. 1914; was promoted Lieut., 31 Oct. 1914, and transferred to the 13th (Service) Battn., and left for the Dardanelles in May, 1915, being attached for service to the 2nd Hampshires. He was killed in action there, 4 June, 1915; unm.

=CHILTON, FREE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7510), S.S. 102823, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHILVERS, PERCY ERNEST=, Gunner, R.M.A., 13375, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHING, HUGH= (alias =HUGH WILLIAM POWER=), Private, No. 1631, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regiment (T.F.), only s. of Richard Ching, of 180, Esywn Road, Tooting, London, by his wife, Annie; b. London, 25 Jan. 1887; educ. Stockwell Board School, was an Advertising Expert and Agent; joined Queen Victoria’s Rifles in 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, Oct. 1914, and died in Hospital at Ypres, 26 March, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres two days previously. Buried in the ramparts of Ypres. His Capt. wrote: “All who knew your husband appreciated him very much, he was in every way a good soldier, no higher praise can be given to a man”; and 2nd Lieut. K. Lloyd wrote: “I only joined the 1st Battn. here in Jan., but he was then on the list of ‘staunch ones,’ which my platoon sergt. gave me. Ever since that first night when he took out a listening patrol, he has been a great rock of comfort to me. It is just the men like him that give such a feeling of confidence to us when we feel a touch of downheartedness. I am glad to say I was able to go back to him for a moment after he had been hit and the last I heard of him was his calling ‘Good luck’ to his friends as they filed past him along the path.” He m. at Manchester, 2 May, 1914, Pollie (Meadowside, New Mills, Derbyshire), 4th dau. of James Henry Pimley; s.p.

=CHIPCHASE, CHARLES WILSON=, Private, No. 4333, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Chipchase, of Hull, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Charles Leadley; b. Scott Street, Hull, 12 Sept. 1880; educ. Charterhouse Lane Board School; enlisted 19 Aug. 1901; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 5 Nov. 1914, being buried in Rentel Wood. He m. at St. Saviour’s Wilmington, Hull, 10 June, 1906, Elizabeth (31, Poplar Avenue, Poplar Road, Hull), dau. of Edward Pritchard, and left four children: Charles Edward, b. 2 Sept. 1907; Percy Pritchard, b. 15 Feb. 1909; Stanley Pritchard, b. 18 Nov. 1910; and David William, b. 20 Nov. 1912.

=CHISHOLM, ALEXANDER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4308), 188284, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CHISIM, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9121), S.S. 105949, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CHISNALL, GEORGE HENRY=, M.B., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Lieut., R.A.M.C., s. of Charles Henry Chisnall, of Frating Abbey, Colchester, co. Essex, by his wife, Eugénie Ellen (Frating Abbey, Colchester), dau. of Thomas Patrick Hitchcock, of Lavenham, co. Suffolk; b. Great Bentley, co. Essex, 4 April, 1886; educ. Framlingham College, Suffolk, and The London Hospital Medical College. He received his commission as temporary Lieut. in the R.A.M.C. on 6 Aug. 1914, having qualified in 1908, and taken the M.B. (Lond.) in 1910. Leaving England on the outbreak of war, he was attached to and started work in the surgical ward of No. 7 General Hospital set up at Amiens. This had to be abandoned in the retreat from Mons, and he was afterwards attached to the 1st Battn. Cameron Highlanders. He was struck by a shell while attending the wounded in the open during an engagement north of Ypres, and died the following day, 24 Oct. 1914, in hospital at Elverdinghe. He was buried in the churchyard there. He was the only Chisnall at that time on the British Medical Register, and the first F.R.C.S. to fall in the war.

=CHITTENDEN, FRANK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5685), 186140, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHIVAS, EDWIN JOHN=, Private, No. 27051, 15th Battn. (48th Canadian Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of William Hay Chivas, of 74, Chisley Avenue, London, Ontario (who served for 16 years in the 3rd Battn. Gordon Highlanders and then settled in Canada), b. Fraserburgh, co. Aberdeen; educ. there; went to Canada with his parents in 1901; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left with the first Contingent in Oct.; went to the Front in Feb., and was killed in action at St. Julien, Belgium, 24 April, 1915; unm. Sergt. L. D. Anderson, A. Coy. 15th Battn., who was invalided back to Canada after this action, gave the following account: “I was in charge of the fort in which he was, and we retired together after being forced out by the gas fumes in the Battle of St. Julien, 24 April. Twenty or more of us lay all day under a terrible shell fire, being unconscious for most of the time, from early morning--5 o’clock--till dusk. At dusk, I being the senior, and having come to my senses, decided that we must start to gain shelter or else we should all be lost, as our breathing was coming harder and I felt I was becoming worse. I crawled over to him and braced him up, with my arms around him, telling him that we would try to get across two fields to a road; here I felt we might get water or aid. Your son’s strength had so far gone that he could walk but a very few paces and then dropped to the ground. Whether he died then or later I cannot tell you, as I, with two others, forced my way till I lay exhausted, only to be rescued by two artillerymen and brought back to life in the hospital. Your son was very much beloved by all his comrades and always was cheery and happy. We slept side by side for a long time, and so I knew him very well. When on several occasions, as I was accustomed to read from the ‘Book’ on Sundays, I forgot, your son would remind me, and our little group would sit in a quiet corner and have a quiet read of some of St. Paul or the Ninety-first Psalm. Your son was a good and true soldier.” His three brothers are all on active service, two with the Divisional Ammunition Column, and the third as a baker in the A.S.C.

=CHOLMLEY, GEORGE FRANCIS=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., 2nd s. of Alfred John Cholmley, of Place Newton, Rillington, co. York, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of the Rev. Francis Simpson, of Foston, co. York; b. Place Newton, 1 Sept. 1882; educ. Summerfield’s 1893–5, and Mann’s Preparatory School for Navy 1895–7; joined the Britannia, 1897, was appointed to the Barfleur, Rear-Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald’s flagship, on the China Station in Sept. 1898, and served through the China War, for which he received the medal; was on the Niobe from Dec. 1900, to May, 1902, and after passing through Greenwich, entered the submarine service in 1903. He was serving as Sub-Lieut. with A 1 when she was sunk in 1904. On the day she was lost he had been sent to take temporary charge of another submarine, and was returning to A 1, about 4.30 p.m., when no trace of her could be found. After the A 1 was raised he was given six months’ promotion, being made Lieut. and put in command of her; afterwards commanded B, C and D boats, and from Feb. 1907, to March, 1909, served on the Bedford on the China Station, and in July of the latter year was appointed to the command of Submarine C 27. On 31 March, 1912, he was promoted Lieut.-Commander, and in May appointed to the Alecto for duty with submarines, and in 1913 received an expression of the Lords of the Admiralty’s high appreciation of the way in which he had handled his ship when towing H.M.S. Jackal into Dundee Harbour during a storm. He was given command of Submarine E 3 in June, 1914, and was killed in action in the Bight of Heligoland, 18 Oct. 1914. In Sept. he picked up a German seaplane which had been in the water for 20 hours about 30 miles off the Island of Borkum, and after destroying the remains of the seaplane he brought the officer and his mechanic as prisoners to Harwich. Lieut.-Commander Cholmley m. at St. Saviour’s Church, Mayfair, London, 9 Sept. 1911, Violet Penelope Munro (Hillcot, Shakespeare Road, Worthing), dau. of Robert James Trown Thomson, Indian P.W.D., by his wife, May Forbes, dau. of the Very Rev. Principal William Robinson Pirie, D.D., Aberdeen; s.p.

=CHOLMONDELEY, CHARLES ALMERIC JOHN=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Border Regt., yr. s. of the late Lord Henry Vere Cholmondeley (2nd s. of William Henry Hugh, 3rd Marquis of Cholmondeley), by his wife, Frances Isabella Catherine, 2nd dau. of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. George Augustus Spencer [2nd s. of Francis Almeric, 1st Baron Churchill, and gdson. of George, 4th Duke of Marlborough]; b. London, 5 March, 1880; educ. Charterhouse; gazetted to the Border Regt. from the Militia, 4 April, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 4 Jan. 1902, and Capt. 23 July, 1910. In the Army Exercise at Northampton, 1913, Capt. Cholmondeley had a small command in the skeleton force under Major-General Munro, which operated so well from Daventry Heights. He was killed in action near Ypres, 28 Oct. 1914; unm.

=CHORLEY, DUDLEY CECIL=, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., 2nd s. of Charles John Chorley, of The Grange, Woodcote Valley Road, Purley, Wine Merchant, by his wife, Florence, dau. of William John Noad: b. Dulwich, 7 July, 1889; educ. St. Dunstan’s College; spent several years in Chili, Peru, Bolivia, and other parts of South America; was afterwards connected with the Union-Castle Line of steamships, and became their youngest purser, being in charge of the Gloucester Castle. On the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Naval Reserve as an Assistant Paymaster, 8 Sept. 1914; was commended by the commander of his first ship, H.M.S. Royal Arthur, and after three months’ service in this cruiser was appointed Assistant Paymaster (in charge) on H.M.S. Bayano, the youngest then holding that office in His Majesty’s Fleet. The Bayano left Glasgow on a Wednesday, and was torpedoed the following morning at 5 a.m., 11 March, 1915. His body was never recovered. He was a member of the Purley Cricket and Lawn Tennis Clubs, and a good sportsman. His marriage was fixed for his next return to port.

=CHOWN, HERBERT=, Private, R.M.L.l. (R.F.R., B. 1828), 186777, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHRISTOPHER, LEONARD DE LONA=, Capt., 40th Pathans, Indian Army, elder s. of Major-General Leonard William Christopher, C.B., Indian Army (retired), of Harcourt House, Camberley, by his wife, Florence, 4th dau. of the late Major-Gen. Charles Stuart Lane, C.B., and gdson. of the late Major-Gen. Leonard Raisbeck Christopher; b. Mansfield, Iver Heath, co. Bucks, 21 Oct. 1883; educ. Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the North Staffordshire Regt. then in India, 9 Jan. 1904; was promoted Lieut. 2 March, 1905, being the same month transferred to the Indian Army and posted to the 40th Pathans. He obtained his company 9 Jan. 1913; was Adjutant 12 April, 1911, to April, 1915, and took part in the operations in the Mohmand country (medal with clasp), 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he came home with his regt., served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the Second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915; buried in a farm three-quarters of a mile north-east of the village of St. Jean. His colonel wrote: “The regt. was in the first line of attack, and had to cross over open ground for over 1,000 yards under a fearful fire of machine guns and shells, both front and flank.... A native officer of ours near him loosened his belt for him, and Chris said “Mehrbani” and died.... He performed his duty nobly to the end.” And a brother officer: “He was dearly loved in the regt., and died a very gallant death at the head of his men, and helped to make the regt. he loved so well famous in that reckless charge.” Capt. Christopher m. at East Barnet, co. Herts, 4 June, 1913, Edith Marian, 4th dau. of Albert Robinson Bulman, of Trevor Hall, East Barnet, co. Herts, late of Indian Civil Service.

=CHRYSTIE, JOHN=, Major, 3rd Battery, Medium Siege Artillery Brigade, R.G.A., 2nd s. of Col. George Chrystie, of Shortheath Lodge, Farnham, J.P., Supernumerary List, Indian Army, who served in the Indian Mutiny in 1858 (medal), by his wife, Helen Anne Thomasine, dau. of William Robertson Myers, Colonial Secretary, Jamaica; b. Mangalore, India, 9 March, 1872; educ. Surrey County School, Cranleigh, and Portsmouth Grammar School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. 24 July, 1891, and promoted Lieut. 24 July, 1894, Capt. 8 Nov. 1899, and Major 7 Oct. 1911, and was Adjutant in the Volunteer Forces, Nov. 1905, to March, 1907. He served in India with A Mountain Battery and R.G.A. from 1896 to 1905; was Instructor in Gunnery to the Hoogly Defences, 1901–5, and made three tours in Sierra Leone between 1907 and 1912 as Instructor in Gunnery. He left for France in command of No. 3 Battery, 1st Medium Siege Artillery Brigade, on 17 Sept. 1914; took part in the Battle of the Aisne, and on 12 Oct. was moved to the neighbourhood of Ypres. He was killed in action in the First Battle of Ypres at Zillebeke, near Ypres, on 17 Nov. 1914; and was buried in Ypres Cemetery. His colonel wrote of him: “He left behind him the lasting memorial of a shining example, of how we ought to live and die, and we shall not forget it. He came to this brigade at my invitation, stayed in it at my invitation, and so far as we all are concerned he remains in it for ever. We shall not see his like any more.” Major Chrystie was a keen sportsman, and won the Silver Spear of the Allahabad Tent Club in 1897 for pig sticking. His great-uncles, Lieut. John Chrystie, R.N., and Capt. Thomas Chrystie, R.N., served under Nelson. The former was in the Victory immediately before Trafalgar, but was transferred on promotion. The latter was at Trafalgar in the Defiance. His twin brother, Major George Chrystie, 25th Cavalry, Frontier Force, Indian Army, was killed in a raid on the North-West Frontier of India on 2 May, 1913. Major Chrystie m. at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, 15 Jan. 1913, Mignonne Muriel Maude (5, Portland Terrace, Southsea), dau. of Charles Lennox Brice Cumming, late of the Indian Civil Service, and had a dau.: Leslie Mignonne Comyn, b. 6 June, 1914.

=CHUDLEY, JOHN FREDERICK=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 330, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Chudley, by his wife, Lydia, dau. of Jesse Hattam; b. Sydenham, 8 Sept. 1875; educ. St. Mary’s School, Brook Green, London; enlisted in the 1st Royal Fusiliers (Volunteers) in 1894, and served through the Boer war, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he volunteered for foreign service, and died of wounds caused by an explosion of a bomb in the trenches at Merville, 12 June, 1915, and was buried in the cemetery there. He m. at St. Paul’s Church, Wimbledon Park, S.W., 29 Jan. 1910, Charlotte Susannah (206, Balvernie Grove, Southfields, S.W.), yst. dau. of James Thomas Mortimer, and had one dau., Doris, b. 13 April, 1912. Capt. Glover wrote: “I personally have known the Sergt.-Major for nearly thirteen years, and a soldier with a keener sense of duty and a man straighter in all dealings I have never met. By his death I have lost a friend and a comrade, and one who has never failed me in any circumstances.” Besides the South African medal, Sergt.-Major Chudley had the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal.

=CHURCHILL, DAVID EDWIN STANLEY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16325, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHURCHILL, JOHN WILFRED=, L.-Corpl., No. 8109, 3rd East Yorkshire Regt., s. of Nehemiah Churchill; b. Netherton, near Dudley, 6 June, 1885; enlisted Jan. 1905, and was killed in action at Paradis, 18 Oct. 1914; unm.

=CHUTE, CHALLONER FRANCIS TREVOR=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 3rd s. of the late Francis Blennerhassett Chute, of Chute Hall, Tralee, co. Kerry, J.P., by his wife, Cherry Herbert (22, Ashburton Road, Southsea), dau. of Norcott D’Esterre Roberts, of Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin; b. Chute Hall, Tralee, 2 April, 1885; received his commission from the Militia in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, 28 Nov. 1905 and was promoted Lieut. 9 Feb. 1908. Reported “missing” after the Battle of Mons, it was afterwards officially announced that he was killed in action near Etreux, France, 27 Aug. 1914. Capt. H. S. Jervis, the senior surviving officer of the battn., gave the following account of the fight on 27 Aug. in which Lieut. Chute met his death: “The regt. was left in a somewhat exposed position, and the orders for a withdrawal seem to have gone astray. Chute, with his guns which he handled during the day with wonderful skill, covered the withdrawal of my company at mid-day. It was pouring with rain, and with entire disregard to personal comfort, characteristic of him, he lay down in six inches of water to manipulate his guns better. The Germans were crossing the front, and he never neglected an opportunity of delaying their advance. He withdrew them from one position to another all day, forming an invaluable escort to the two field guns we had attached to us. The withdrawal continued through a village at about 5.30 p.m., and at the other side of it he came into action again, firing right down the road, on both edges of which Capt. Rawlinson’s company was withdrawing. Owing to the help of your husband’s guns the company got safely through, and rejoined the battn. The enemy were now on three sides of us, and their artillery opened fire. Chute brought his machine guns back at the gallop along the road under a positive hail of lead. It was a splendid feat, and was successfully accomplished, and once again the guns were placed in position. We were now completely surrounded, and your husband crossed the road to try to find a target to aim at. As he crossed he was shot in the right side and thigh, and fell dead. Up to the last he was cheery and full of spirits as ever; in fact, he was the life and soul of the mess. He was looked upon as the best machine gun officer of the brigade, and his work during the day only served to confirm this view. Yesterday, the 28th, the Germans allowed us to send out a burial party of our own men, and they found Chuty and buried him with the eight other officers of the regt. who were killed in a grave separate from the men. He was buried with all his personal effects on him. His heavier kit is with the regimental transport, the only part of the regt. to escape.” Lieut. Chute m. 29 June, 1911, Maud Emily St. Clair, only dau. of the late Edward O’Brien Hobson, of Myler’s Park, co. Wexford, and had two sons: Desmond, b. 10 Aug. 1913; and Challoner, b. 18 March, 1915.

=CLAIR, WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1406U, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept., 1914.

=CLAPP, ALBERT GEORGE=, Po. /16499, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLARE, SAMUEL JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8218), 293806, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLARK, EDWARD=, Private, No. 13619, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force. 4th s. of the late Edward Clark, of Morley, co. York (died 28 April, 1909), by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Walker Clark, of Morley; b. Morley, 8 Feb. 1888; educ. Queen Street Wesleyan School there; went to Canada about 1906, and settled first at Elkron, Manitoba, three years later moving further west to Swift Currents, Sask. He enlisted there on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and came to England with the first Canadian contingent, arriving in Oct. After training at Salisbury during the winter he went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915; unm. His company officer, Lieut. L. F. Page, wrote: “He has been under my command ever since the first days at Valcartier, and I got to know him very well. He was an excellent soldier, always willing, obliging and brave. His death, I know, was all he would have wished it to be. He was killed capturing a German position; his loss is greatly felt by us all. May we each die as fine a death as he did.”

=CLARK, FREDERICK JAMES=, Gunner, No. 57600, Royal Field Artillery, s. of James Clark, of 2, Philip Street, Bath; b. Tiverton, Bath, 2 Feb. 1891; educ. there; enlisted in May, 1909; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Ypres, 31 Oct. 1914; unm. His brother is now (1916) serving with the 4th Somersets.

=CLARK, HENRY WILLIAM=, Rifleman, No. 2612, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt., 3rd s. of Frederick Clark, of 42, Goldsmith Road, Hackney, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Callan; b. Bethnal Green, 19 May, 1893; educ. Haggerston; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914, was killed in the trenches 10 Nov. 1915, and was buried behind Lone Tree, near Hulluch, Loos; unm. Lieut. W. A. Clarke wrote that “He was always a good and devoted soldier, and did his duty splendidly.” And his comrades, in a joint letter of sympathy sent to his mother, said: “Owing to heavy rain the hole in the side of the trench in which he used to sleep when off duty collapsed, and he was buried under the heap of earth, although we made every effort to dig him out; but I am sorry to say he had passed away before we achieved our task. He was buried behind the old German line in front of Loos, which we captured in our recent attack, and a little wooden cross now marks the spot where he now lies in rest.”

=CLARK, JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4915), 279038, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLARK, NELLIE=, Sister, a nursing member of Lady Ralph Paget’s Serbian Relief Expedition, dau. of Thomas Clark, of Bilsley, Alford, co. Lincoln, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Tammos, of Hardley, Norfolk; b. Cumberworth, 6 March, 1888; educ. Bilsby County School; and was a private nurse, having passed all degrees. She joined Lady Ralph Paget’s first unit for Serbia, in Oct. 1914, and died at Skopje, Serbia, 25 Dec. 1914, of septic poisoning, contracted while performing her duty, and was buried there. Lady Ralph Paget wrote: “She was the best nurse we had, and was so very sweet and gentle that she was loved by every one who had the honour of knowing her. As for the wounded men she nursed they simply adored her, and it was touching to see their grief when they heard of her death.”

=CLARK, OWEN WALTER=, Regimental Sergt.-Major, No. 5289, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Walter Clark, by his wife, Mary, dau. of (--) Humphreys, of Bow; b. at Bow, 30 Oct. 1877; educ. Bromley-by-Bow; enlisted in the 1st Royal Scots at Chatham in 1895, and after a short time at Edinburgh, and some years at the depot, Glencorse, was in 1903 drafted to the 2nd Battn., then at Kamptee, India. He returned from India in Oct. 1905, and on the occasion of the visit of the King and Queen to Edinburgh Castle in 1911 was, with three other N.C.Os., placed in charge of the Regalia. He also carried the new Colours which His Majesty presented to the battn. at Holyrood Palace on this occasion. The following year he was Worshipful Master of the Regimental Masonic Lodge, “Unity, Peace and Concord.” When war broke out he was Q.M. Sergt., and left Crownhill, Plymouth, with the 2nd Battn. for the Front on 13 Aug. 1914. He was granted first class Warrant rank, and promoted Regimental Sergt.-Major in Dec. 1914; was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 17 Feb. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field, and was killed in action at Hooge, 14 July, 1915, within nine months of completing 21 years with the Colours. He had been presented with the Good Conduct Medal by General Sir H. Smith-Dorrien at Crownhill in 1913, and numerous letters from his officers show that he had made himself beloved and respected by all ranks. Sergt.-Major Clark m. at Walthamstow Parish Church, 5 May, 1900, Alice Maud Mary (735, High Road, Leyton, Essex), dau. of Edward Carr, of Leyton, Essex, and had four children: Percy, b. 13 March, 1901; Roland, b. 17 Oct. 1902; Ivy, b. 26 Sept. 1906; and Marjorie, b. 12 Sept. 1910.

=CLARK, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9966, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CLARKE, ALBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 14643, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CLARKE, ALGERNON PERCY=, 2nd Lieut., 1/23rd Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd and elder surviving s. of Joseph Percy Clarke, of 14, Hans Court, S.W., formerly of Buenos Ayres, M.Inst.C.E., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Edward Glover; b. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, 8 July, 1894; educ. at Marlborough College, and at the outbreak of war was an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Cambridge. From the O.T.C. Cambridge, he received his commission as 2nd Lieut. Territorial Force as from 29 Aug. 1914. He at once joined the 1st/23rd London Regt., and, volunteering for foreign service, trained with his regt. until 14 March, 1915, when they embarked for France. He went through a course of machine-gun instruction at St. Omer, France, and was made machine gun officer to his battn. After several months in the trenches he was badly wounded in both legs on 21 July, by a German shell which burst in the room where he and two other officers were resting, south of La Bassee, and he died on 24 July, 1915, at No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, and was buried in the new cemetery at Chocques, France. Writing to his father, Lieut.-Col. Streatfield said: “I pray that you may be able to derive some comfort from the knowledge of how splendidly your boy has done since he has been out here. We all loved him, and the men of his platoon would have done just anything in the world he asked them to. By his good heartedness and cheeriness he had endeared himself to them in a way it has been the lot of few men to do.” Lieut.-Col. Lord Herbert A. M. Douglas Scott, D.S.O. (formerly commanding 1/23rd The London Regt.), wrote from the War Office, 29 July, 1915: “Your son was doing so extremely well under my command and I heard from Lieut.-Col. Streatfield the same good account of his work. Your loss is the country’s loss also.” His brother, Harold Percy, of the Rifle Brigade, was killed on 9 May, two and a-half months earlier (see his notice).

=CLARKE, AMBROSE CHILDS=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Leicestershire Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of William Arthur Clarke, of The Homestead, Manor Road, Leicester, Solicitor, by his wife, Ruth Lilian, dau. of Charles Baimbridge Rendle, of Russell Road, Kensington, Surgeon; b. Stoke, Devonport, co. Devon, 12 July, 1896; educ. Stoneygate School, Leicester, King’s College Choir School, Cambridge, and Malvern College. At the outbreak of war he was in camp with the Malvern College contingent of the O.T.C., and returned to Leicester, receiving his commission two days afterwards, 6 Aug. 1914. He was killed in the trenches near Messines, 9 May, 1915, during a heavy bombardment. He was placing his men under cover, refusing to take shelter himself until all his men were out of danger, and he had just got his last men under cover when he was killed by a shell instantaneously. He was buried in what had formerly been “Packhorse Farm,” Wulverghem, at the back of the English lines near Bailleul. A brother officer, who has since been killed, wrote: “He honestly was one of the cheeriest, best, most capable and well-loved officers in the battn., especially taking his age into consideration.”

=CLARKE, BASIL HEATHCOTE=, Rifleman, No. 2336, 1/9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Henry Heathcote Clarke, of 17, Birchwood Mansions, Muswell Hill, N., formerly of Durban, Natal, Journalist, by his wife, Florence Annie, dau. of Charles Samuel Clarke; b. Stamford Hill, N., 4 March, 1894; educ. Oakfield School, Crouch End, N.; was a member of the office staff of the London Electric Supply Corporation, Ltd., 25A, Cockspur Street, S.W., but on the declaration of war volunteered for Active Service, and enlisted in Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 3 Sept. 1914; landed in France, 23 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, 6 March, 1915, only two days after his twenty-first birthday; unm. He was buried in the military burial ground near Wulverghem Church. Coy. Sergt.-Major Ashton wrote: “He was on the look out at the time, and he was struck by a rifle bullet, and death was instantaneous.... He had only been with us such a short while, and we have lost a brave and good comrade.” Clarke was a server at St. Peter le Poer, Friern Barnet, and also assistant scout-master of the 91st London Troop.

=CLARKE, CHARLES PRIOR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1190), 205888, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLARKE, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 6419), 298869, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLARKE, EDWARD THOMAS=, Private, No. 27621, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Joseph Edward Clarke, of 26, Lagham Road, South Godstone, Surrey, Groom Gardener; by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of Mark Chapman; b. St. John’s Wood, London, 12 Dec. 1893; educ. Blindley Heath National School, Surrey; went to Canada on his fourteenth birthday in 1907, and settled at Sweetsburg, working as a farm hand. He joined the 13th Scottish Light Dragoons, and gained his certificate as Sergt.-Major at the Royal Cavalry School at St. Jean, Quebec, 15 Feb. 1913. On the outbreak of war he joined the 48th Highlanders as a Private, came to England with the First Canadian Contingent, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to the Western Front, 11 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 22–24 April, 1915; unm.

=CLARKE, ERNEST=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5535A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLARKE, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 302310, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CLARKE, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9094), 201471, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLARKE, GEORGE RANKIN=, Private, No. 271, B. Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of Captain John Clarke, of Brigus, Newfoundland, Fisherman and Seafaring man; b. Brigus, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, 20 Oct. 1897; educ. Brigus Methodist Academy, and Methodist College, St. John’s; volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt. after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914, and d. in hospital at Mudros, 24 Nov. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service; unm.

=CLARKE, HAROLD MARTIN=, Barrister-at-Law, Lieut., 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of George William Clarke, of The Glen, Forest Hill, S.E., Town Clerk of Stepney, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of William Edwin Hill; b. Kirby-le-Soken, co. Essex, 25 Feb. 1889; educ. Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon, and Clare College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1911. On 9 May, 1913, he obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Poplar and Stepney Rifles, and on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914, at once volunteered for foreign service and was promoted Lieut. 29 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with his regt. 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26–27 Sept. 1915. The following order was issued shortly before this action (sent to England after Lieut. Clarke’s death): “The Major-General wishes to place on record his appreciation of the good work which has been done during the last four months by the following instructors at the Divisional Bomb School: Instructor Lieut. Martin Clarke, &c.--Headquarters, 10.25 p.m.” At Whitgift he was Colour-Sergt. in the Cadet Corps, and in the History Sixth, and at Clare he received his Lent and May colours. Lieut. Clarke m. at St. Albans in 1914, Daisy Emily (120, Croxted Road, West Dulwich), dau. of Philip Early Fenton Keatch, of India; s.p.

=CLARKE, HAROLD PERCY=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Special Reserve, attd. 2nd, Battn. The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own), eldest s. of Joseph Percy Clarke, of 14, Hans Court, S.W., formerly of Buenos Ayres, M.Inst. C.E., etc., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Edward Glover; b. Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentine Republic, 18 March, 1888; educ. Marlborough College; trained as a civil engineer, and became an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1913. He was constructing engineer on the Central Argentine Railway, and, arriving in England soon after the outbreak of war, he obtained through the Cambridge O.T.C. his commission in the Special Reserve of Officers as 2nd Lieut. from 15 Aug. 1914, joining the 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade at Sheerness. He went to the Front in November, but was shortly after invalided home with influenza and a slight attack of pneumonia. He rejoined the reserve battn. (6th) in February, 1915, and went to France, 17 March, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn., joining A Coy. He was killed on 9 May, 1915, in the attack on Fromelles and the Aubers Ridge as he was leading his platoon to take the German trenches. He was buried near Basseye, a little north of Kemmel, France. Almost all the officers of the battn. were casualties in this attack, but Capt. Nugent, company officer, 2nd Rifle Brigade, wrote: “Your son commanded his platoon with the greatest dash and gallantry, and showed himself to be a splendid officer.” He had already gained distinction in his professional career as a civil engineer, important works having been entrusted to his care, and was a keen sportsman in every way. His next brother, Algernon Percy, was killed also in France, two and a-half months later, July 24 (see his notice).

=CLARKE, HERBERT CHARLES=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21948, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLARKE, HERBERT EDGAR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R.B., 8114), S.S. 103947, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CLARKE, HENRY HAMES=, Chief Ship’s Cook (Pensioner), 153478, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLARKE, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5108), 175327, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLARKE, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109357, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLARKE, JAMES GEORGE=, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, L. 5276, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CLARKE, MAURICE TREDWAY=, Private, No. 29752, 10th Battn., 1st Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. s. of Tredway Sydenham Clarke, Barrister-at-Law, late of Lincoln’s Inn, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Edmund Dewar Bourdillon; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 22 March, 1883; educ. Malvern College, Eastbourne College and St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge; went to Canada in June, 1905, and took up land near Eagle Butte, Medicine Hat, Alberta, and in 1910 obtained an appointment under the Dominion Forestry Department, which he held until Sept. 1913. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered for Imperial service; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France, Feb. 1915; was slightly wounded in the early stages of the Second Battle of Ypres, and died 24 April, 1915, from injuries received whilst the ambulance was passing through Ypres; unm. He was buried at Vlamertinghe.

=CLARKE, MONTAGU CHRISTIAN CUTHBERT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, only s. of the late Montagu Charles Clarke, of the Southern Mahratta Railway, India, by his wife, Ada Georgina, dau. of Daniel Booth Rowbotham; b. Lindfield, co. Sussex, 3 Oct. 1893; educ. Radley College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 12 Dec. 1914. He was killed in action at Ypres, 8 May, 1915, and buried in graveyard of the temporary hospital on the Menin Road, about one mile from Ypres; unm.

=CLARKE, MORDAUNT EDWARD LEONARD HANNAM=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late Col. Francis Coningsby Hannam Clarke, C.M.G., R.A., sometime Surveyor-General of Ceylon, by his wife, Elizabeth Stainton (24, The Grove, Boltons, S.W.), dau. of S. W. Brown, F.R.C.S.; b. Bath, 13 Oct. 1884; educ. Marlborough College and University College Oxford; served first in the Kent Artillery from which he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Worcestershire Regt., 29 May, 1907, and was promoted Lieut. 22 Oct. 1910, serving for the next 3 or 4 years as Scout Officer to his regt. On the outbreak of the European war he left with his regt. for France, and was shot through the head by a bullet from a shell at Candry, near Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914; unm. He was carried to the Civil Hospital at Marly, but never regained consciousness. He received the following “mention” in Aug. 1913:--“I am to inform you that the G.O.C. 7th Brigade, wishes you to know how much he appreciates your work as Scout Officer during Brigade training. As this matter was not mentioned at the Pow-Wow he desired that you should be informed at once.”

=CLARKE, VICTOR=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8513), 194420, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CLARKE, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 308, A Coy., 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd s. of George Clarke, pit top man, by his wife, Mary, dau. of George Kelk; b. Blyth, 4 June, 1885; educ. there and Austerfield; enlisted in May, 1903, and served eight years in India, Egypt and Malta, and was a Reservist when war broke out. He was gassed at the Battle of Hill 60, but recovered and was sent back to the trenches, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 June, 1915, and was buried at La Brique, a mile and a-half away from Ypres, near Turco Farm. He had put his head over the parapet of the trench to aim at a German sniper, and was shot through the head, being killed instantaneously. 2nd Lieut. Granger wrote: “He was an excellent soldier, a splendid N.C.O., who took an interest in his work, and whatever he did he did well. He was as plucky a man as it is possible to meet. I deeply regret his death, and may say that there is no one else in the company whose loss would be more keenly felt.” Sergt. Clarke was mentioned for conspicuous bravery on the field. He also had six medals which he received while serving in India, etc. He m. at St. James’ Church, Doncaster, 3 Aug. 1913, Harriet (61, Concrete Cottages, Wombwell, near Barnsley), dau. of Thomas Schorah, and had twin children: Laurence and Doris (died 26 Aug. 1914), b. 4 July, 1914.

=CLARKE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5843), S.S. 100711, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CLARKE, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17297, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLARKE, WILLIAM JOB=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10258), 208608, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLARKSON, ARTHUR EDWIN=, Private, No. 1122, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Annie (now wife of Maurice Barker, of St. Rose du Lac, Manitoba, Canada, and relict of John Cahill, of Scarborough); b. Scarborough, co. York; educ. Scarborough Board School; went to Canada with his mother in June, 1903; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted at Portage la Perrée, Man., 14 Aug. 1914; left Canada with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the Front in Feb., and was killed in action at Langemarck, 25 April, 1915. He m. at St. Mary’s Church, Scarborough, 8 May, .... Sarah (21, Hadden Street, Aberdeen), dau. of (----) Newcombe; s.p. His half-brother, Private John Cahill, 45th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force is now (1916) on active service.

=CLARKSON, ERNEST=, E.R.A., 4th Class, 272189, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLARKSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., only s. of the late Col. Frederick William Clarkson, 39th Dorsetshire Regt., by his wife, Ella Rosa (who m. 2ndly, Col. Sir Augustus Riversdale Warren, 5th Bart., of Warren’s Court, co. Cork), dau. of Major-General John Octavius Chichester, 39th Regt.; b. Dorchester, 6 Oct. 1883; became a cadet H.M.S. Britannia, in 1899; Midshipman within four months, Sub-Lieut. in 1892, Lieut. in 1904 and Lieut.-Commander, 1912. He was lost in H.M.S. Hawke when that ship was torpedoed 15 Oct. 1914; unm.

=CLARKSON, GERALD RICHARD=, Corpl., No. 4, 525, Divisional Signal Coy., New Zealand Engineers, elder s. of the late Richard Potts Clarkson, M.A., Director of Technical Education, Hawkes Bay District, and Headmaster, Napier Technical College; by his wife, Rosina, dau. of (----) O’Shaughnessy, and nephew of John Bowes Clarkson, of Christchurch, New Zealand; b. Palmerston North, New Zealand, 26 Oct. 1893; educ. Normanby Public School, Stratford High School, and Napier Technical College; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 May, 1915, while patrolling Telegraph Lines in “No Man’s Land”; unm. Buried with three other New Zealanders near where he fell before a general Cemetery was decided on.

=CLARKSON, ROBERT=, Signalman, 190401, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLARRICOATES, GEORGE HENRY=, Stoker, P.O., 306293, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLAW, SIDNEY THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9334), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLAXTON, EDWIN ARNOLD=, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, Pensioner, 157283; reported missing after the sinking of H.M.S. Speedy by a mine 30 miles off the East Coast, 3 Sept. 1914.

=CLAY, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3895), S.S. 101752, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLAY, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110996, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLAY, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8970), S.S. 105678, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLAYDON, JAMES LEMARQUE=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1105), R.M.A. 11040, 4th s. of William Tilbrook Claydon, of Cambridge, by his wife, Emily; joined the Royal Marine Artillery in Nov. 1904; purchased his discharge in March, 1911, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve; was called up for service on the outbreak of hostilities, and was lost in action in H.M.S. Hogue in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLAYHILLS, GEORGE, D.S.O.=, Capt., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 4th s. of Thomas Clayhills, of Invergowrie, co. Forfar, and Thornton-le-Moor, co. York, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Rob, of Catton Hall, co. York; b. Darlington; educ. Cheltenham College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Received his commission and joined the 4th Militia Battn. of the Cheshire Regt. 8 Sept. 1896, from which he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt. 4 Jan. 1899; promoted Lieut. 4 June, 1900; and Capt. 8 Feb. 1908; and was Adjutant from April, 1906, to April, 1909. He went with his regt. to South Africa and served with the 8th Mounted Infantry during the war 1900–2, and took part in the operations at Paardeberg, and actions at Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Karee Siding, Vet River and Zand River, being twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901, and 17 May, 1902], and receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps, and the D.S.O. On the outbreak of the European War he left with his regt. for the Front, served in France and Flanders, took part in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action at the first Battle of Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. He was buried about three miles north of Armentières, one mile east of the Ploegsteert-le Cheir Road.

=CLAYTON, ARTHUR GARDNER=, Private, No. 18000, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., 2nd s. of Arthur Gardner Clayton, of the Colonial Secretary’s office, Ceylon, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of the late Ven. R. Sutton, Archdeacon of Lewes and Vicar of Pevensey; b. Belize, British Honduras, 2 July, 1893; educ. King’s School, Bruton, co. Somerset, and was afterwards a clerk in the Saskatoon branch of the Bank of Montreal. On the outbreak of the European War he enlisted in Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., and was killed in action at Dickebusch, near St. Eloi, 15 Feb. 1915; unm.

=CLAYTON, GERALD EDWARD CRIRIE=, of Penarwel, Llanbedrog, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, 2nd Lieut., Royal Marines, R.N.D., only s. of Ralph Cririe Clayton (grandson of Ralph Clayton, of Leyland and Crooke Hall, co. Lancaster), by his wife, Caroline, only dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. John Ffolliott Crofton; b. Liverpool, 27 Dec. 1879; educ. at Liverpool College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. and M.A., and was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1904. He was for three years a Lieut. in the Army Motor Reserve, but this corps was disbanded in Dec. 1913. After the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered with his motor car as a Despatch Rider, and was given a commission in the Royal Naval Division, 24 Sept. 1914. He went to France and subsequently to Belgium, and was in the retreat from Antwerp in Oct. 1914, his motor car being the last British car but one to leave that city. On the return of the Naval Brigade he was stationed at the Crystal Palace training the Naval Reserves, and while on Active Service there in Feb. 1915, contracted epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, from which he died at The Little Manor, Hertingfordbury, 2 Sept. following. He m. at St. James’, Spanish Place, W., 28 April, 1908, Ione (Penarwel, Llanbedrog, Pwllheli, North Wales), dau. of Major Oscar William de Satgé de Thoren, 45th and 38th Regt., and granddau. of Oscar Joseph de Satgé, 13th Baron de Thoren, of the Château de Thoren, Pyr. Or., France, and had three children: Ralph Dominic de Satgé, b. 18 Feb. 1909; Aymar Sinclair Joseph de Satgé, b. 6 July, 1912; and Eveline Mary Alice de Satgé, b. 26 May, and died 10 June, 1910.

=CLAYTON, ROBERT WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13470, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CLAYTON, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4542), S.S. 103649, I.C. 127, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLEAVER, SIDNEY=, Private, No. 7722, 1st Battn. Gloucester Regt., s. of Samuel Cleaver, by his wife, Mary; b. Bristol, 1884 or 1886; educ. Northgate Wesleyan School, Gloucester; enlisted 23 Aug. 1904; served for three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve; was employed prior to the outbreak of the war in the Celynen Colliery; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 Aug. and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 26 Sept. 1914. He m. at Gloucester, 30 Nov. 1909, Francis Sarah Ann (33, Swan Road, Kingsholme, Gloucester), dau. of Emanuel Charles Symonds, and had three daus.: Gwendoline Frances, b. 28 Dec. 1909; Mary Elizabeth, b. 13 Sept. 1911; and Iris May, b. 14 April, 1914. His Capt. wrote: “He was a plucky young soldier, always ready for anything--a man I could thoroughly trust. Only ten minutes before his death he had volunteered to go out with his platoon commander to reconnoitre some of the enemy trenches, a task requiring pluck, which was carried quite satisfactorily.”

=CLELAND, MATTHEW=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8945), S.S. 105660, H.M.S Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLEMENS, ARCHIBALD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10709), 208488, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLEMENTS, BERT RICHARD=, L.-Corpl., No. 14488, 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, only surviving s. of William Clements, late of the King’s Royal Rifles (who served in the Afghan campaign and died 31 May, 1908), by his wife, Elizabeth (30, Brook Street, Barry Dock, Cardiff), dau. of William Western; b. Barry Dock, near Cardiff, 20 April, 1892; educ. Council Schools, Barry Dock; was for two years a telegraph boy at the Barry Dock Post Office; enlisted in the R.G.A., but being an only son was claimed out by his mother; then enlisted in the Grenadier Guards at Cardiff Barracks, 2 Jan. 1909; saw three years’ service with the Colours, and afterwards joined the Cardiff City Police Force. On the outbreak of war he was called up, 5 Aug. 1914, went through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Aisne, and was killed in action at Ypres by shrapnel, 7 Nov. 1914; buried at Zillebeke, near Ypres; unm.

=CLEMENTS, BERTRAM SARGENT=, Leading Seaman, 168315, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLEMENTS, JACK=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12014, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CLEMENTS, THOMAS HAROLD=, Trooper, No. 2803, 2nd Life Guards, s. of the late Robert Henry Clements, by his wife, Harriett (St. Mary’s Street, Monmouth), dau. of Richard Smith; b. Monmouth, 17 Oct. 1892; educ. Grammar School there (1907–1911), winning several scholarships. He joined the Army, 17 Oct. 1911, and went to the Front, 15 Aug. 1914. On the night of 12 May, 1915, he was in the trenches at Potijze, and was under very heavy shell fire for three hours. The trenches were blown in, and while returning to the support trenches, he was struck by shrapnel and killed instantly. He was buried at Potijze, 1 mile north-east of Ypres; unm. Trooper Clements was an excellent athlete, and one of the finest forwards of the school Rugby football team, his work in the open and at the line-outs being particularly good, besides being a fearless tackler. He also played several times for the Monmouth Rugby Club. While at the school he secured prizes at the sports, and in last year won the mile in 5 mins. 28 secs., and secured second place in the open hurdles. In 1910 he rowed in the school crew and also was a member of the crew in 1911 which defeated Hereford Cathedral School at Hereford by three lengths, this being the first victory for the Monmouth crew for some years. The triumphant crew led from the start. When Trooper Clements joined the Guards he interested himself in the regimental athletics and was a member of their team which was defeated in the final Army Cup, 1912–13 season. He was for many years a member of the parish church choir and also a server.

=CLEMSON, GEORGE ERNEST=, 1st Class Stoker, R.F.R.B., 8133, Ch/S.S. 103962, 4th s. of the late Thomas Thornhill Clemson, Cowman, by his wife, Ellen Matilda (Syneham, near Chipping Norton, Oxford) (College Farm, Milton-under-Wychwood, Oxon), dau. of Charles Stone; b. Idbury, 26 Aug. 1883; educ. Chilson, near Charlbury; joined the Navy, and at the time of the outbreak of war was a Reservist. He was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=CLERK, SMOLLETT DAVID MACGREGOR=, Private, No. 1388, B Coy., 1/4th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) Royal Scots, (T.F.), elder s. of Claude Louis Clerk, employed in the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., Singapore, by his wife, Lily (158, Braid Road, Edinburgh), dau. of the late David Aitken, of Gourock, Scotland, Advocate, Solicitor and Notary Public, Straits Settlements; b. Singapore, 25 April, 1895; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and in 1911 entered the National Bank of Scotland. On the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles, Royal Scots, left with the 1/4th Battn. for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; unm.

=CLERY, CARLETON LUMLEY ST. CLAIR=, 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, attached 4th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., elder s. of Col. Carleton Buckley Laming Clery, 104th Wellesley’s Rifles, Indian Army, C.B., by his wife, Jessie Violet, dau. of C. P. Fielon, and nephew of Lumley Clery, of Riverdene, Broxbourne; b. Burmah, 5 Dec. 1895; educ. Malvern College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, when he passed into the Indian Army. On the outbreak of war he was attached to the 4th Battn. of the Liverpool Regt., 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 5 March, 1915, and had only been there a week when he was killed in action, being struck by a shell at Richebourg St. Vaast, Flanders, 12 March, 1915; unm.

=CLEVERLEY, ALBERT ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15596, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLIFF, ARTHUR JAMES=, Carpenter’s Crew, M. 4114, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLIFF, HERBERT THEODORE=, Major, 3rd Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., yst. s. of William Dewhirst Cliff, of Meanwood Towers, Leeds, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Wade; b. Highfield House, Wortley, Leeds; educ. Cothill (Abingdon) and Repton College; joined the Militia in 1901, and was promoted Capt. Aug. 1901; when the Militia was disbanded he joined the Special Reserve of Officers, receiving his majority 19 May, 1913. He served in the South African war, and was specially selected for accelerated promotion, and remained as Musketry Inspector till the post was done away with; and also in the Mediterranean, receiving a medal. On the outbreak of the European war he rejoined, and left with his regt. for the Front at the end of Sept. 1914. On the morning of 13 Oct. he was wounded, but he fought gallantly and refused to give in, and officers present at the time spoke with great praise of his bravery. Later the same day he was killed by a shell. Major Cliff was a keen sportsman, and played frequently for the Yorkshire Gentlemen, of which cricket club he was a member for many years; he was also a regular follower of the Bramham Moor, York and Ainsty, and Lord Middleton’s hounds. He m. at Walton-on-Thames, Mary Alice, dau. of Arnold Trinder, of River House, Walton-on-Thames, and had a son, Anthony Dewhirst, b. 15 Aug. 1913.

=CLIFF, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R. A. 3958), 144621, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLIFFE, NICKOLAS HENRY=, Private, No. 14700, Fort Garry Horse, attd. 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late William Cliff, of Fleece Inn, Preston, Publican, by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Burton; b. Preston, co. Lancaster, 15 July, 1881; enlisted in the Loyal North Lancashire Regt. at the time of the South African War, and served through that campaign, afterwards going to Canada and settling in Winnipeg. After the outbreak of the European War he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 22 May, 1915; unm.

=CLIFFORD= (formerly =WILLIAMS=), =ANTHONY CLIFFORD=, B.A., M.B., B.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Lieut., Reserve of Officers, 3rd Dragoon Guards, yst. s. of the late Rev. Henry Williams. M.A., C.M.S. Missionary in India, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the Rev. John Bryant Clifford, Vicar of St. Matthew’s, Kingsdown, Bristol; b. Bristol, 13 July, 1888; educ. St. Oswald’s School, Clifton, and Marlborough; went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1900, when he took the name of Clifford. He belonged to the University O.T.C., and after taking his B.A. degree, went to Guy’s Hospital in 1909, where he took his M.B., and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Reserve of Officers, 18 May, 1912. At the outbreak of war he had just qualified as a doctor, but was called up for active service; was attached to the 3rd Dragoon Guards; went to the Front as a machine-gun officer in May, and was killed in action at Hooge, 2 June, 1915. He was remounting his gun in a new position after the first position had been blown in, when he was shot through the head and killed instantly. Buried in the annexe of the churchyard at Vlamertinghe. Trooper W. Spencer in a letter home wrote: “A hundred shells fell in twenty minutes around our left Maxim gun. Lieut. Clifford timed them as cool as a cucumber, with his watch in his hand. This brave officer lost his life later in the day. Our officers worked like heroes. They were Capt. Holt and Lieut. Clifford.”

=CLIFTON, FREDERICK CHARLES=, E.R.A., 4th Class, 272033, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLIFTON, HAROLD NORTON=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. s. of William Edward Clifton, of 7, East India Avenue, London, E.C., Architect and Surveyor, and 12, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London, W., Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the Surveyors’ Institution, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of the late James Nelson, of Carlisle; b. 32, Ashley Gardens, Westminster, 7 May, 1894; educ. St. Peter’s Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1913, and went with the Corps to France in Oct. 1914, as a Corpl., obtaining a commission in the Coldstream Guards, 1 Jan. 1915. He was severely wounded at Cuinchy, near La Bassée, 25 Jan. 1915, and died of his wounds in a German field hospital, 1 Feb. following, and was buried at Billy Berclau, near La Bassée; unm. At Harrow, 2nd Lieut. Clifton was in the Sixth Form, a school monitor, head of his house (Druries), a member of the football eleven, captain of the swimming and middle-weight boxer for the school for two years, competing in the Public Schools Competition at Aldershot. He was also a member of the Richmond Football Club.

=CLIFTON, HERBERT PERCIVILLE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4555), S.S. 103666, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CLIFTON, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 2938, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLINTON, RICHARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 296947, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLOSE, MAX ARTHUR=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Highland L.I., elder s. of George Arthur Close, of Westbury, East Finchley, N. by his wife, Sarah, dau. of the late William Swift, of Smethwick, Staffordshire; b. Stroud Green, co. Middlesex, 14 Sept. 1889; educ. Christ’s College, Finchley, and afterwards in France and Germany. He joined the 1st Battn. Artists’ Rifles in 1908, and on the outbreak of the war, volunteering for foreign service, was sent to France in Oct. 1914. He did his probationary work in the 2nd Border Regt. at Ypres in Nov. 1914, and was gazetted to the 1st Battn. Highland L.I., 1 Jan. 1915, and promoted Lieut. While gallantly leading his platoon in an attack from Neuve Chapelle on 12 March, 1915, he was hit in the head, and died shortly afterwards. He was buried outside the trenches, south-east of Neuve Chapelle; unm. Col. E. R. Hill, officer commanding 1st Highland L.I., wrote: “In him we mourn one more of those gallant fellows who responded so promptly to the call of duty and set an example to the country.” Lieut.-Col. H. A. R. May, officer commanding Artists’ Rifles, also wrote: “Your son unswervingly persisted in carrying out what he conceived to be his duty. He splendidly upheld all the best traditions of the British Army, and he won the esteem of all with whom he came in contact. His name will always be remembered by us with pride.”

=CLOUGH, ALEXANDER JAMES=, Chief Stoker, 291102, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CLOUGH, THOMAS WOODHEAD=, Private, No. 2017, C. Coy. 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Thomas Woodhead Lister Clough, of 8, Marsfield Terrace, West Bowling, Bradford, co. Yorks, retired Milk Dealer, by his wife, Alice (died 17 Feb. 1914), dau. of William (and Martha) Downes; b. West Bowling, 31 Dec. 1887; educ. Marshfield School, where he gained certificates entitling him to give lessons in shorthand, typing, etc.; and after serving 7 years with Messrs. Wright and Morgan, solicitors, Bradford and Shipley, secured an important position in their London Office. He had joined the Manchester Territorials, 15 Jan. 1912, and was transferred to the London Scottish, 31 Jan. 1914. On the outbreak of war the London Scottish at once volunteered for foreign service and were the first Territorial Force to go into action. In a letter to his father dated 30 Oct. (found subsequent to his death and forwarded 18 Nov.) he wrote: “Our regt. are now in the firing line. We joined it here yesterday. The big guns of the Germans are banging away whilst I am writing this letter. Sir John French has just sent for us. Good-bye. Don’t worry. Love to all. Your affectionate Son, Thomas.” He was mortally wounded in the great charge of the London Scottish at Messines, France, 31 Oct. 1914, and died at the 1st London General Hospital, St. Gabriel College, Camberwell, S.E., from gunshot wound in the groin, Sunday, 18 Nov. following, and was buried in Camberwell Borough Cemetery; unm. Lieut.-Col. Malcolm, commanding the London Scottish, wrote to Private Clough’s father: “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.” On this occasion F.M. Sir John French telegraphed to Col. Malcolm: “I wish you and your splendid, splendid regt. to accept my warmest congratulations and thanks for the fine work you did yesterday at Messines. You have given a glorious lead and example to all Territorial troops who are going to fight in France,” and in forwarding it Major-General E. H. Allenby, G.O.C. Cavalry Corps, wrote: “The behaviour of officers and men of the London Scottish was worthy of the best traditions of British Regular troops. Only their steadiness and courage saved a situation that was as difficult and critical to deal with as will ever occur.”

=CLOUGHLEY, JOSEPH ERNEST=, Private, No. 47828, 15th Battn. (48th Canadian Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Thomas Henry Cloughley, of Barrie, Ontario, Canada; b. Colwell, Ontario, 31 March, 1893; enlisted in the 37th Battn. at Barrie in Dec. 1914; was transferred to the 17th Battn., on landing in England in June, and on 17 July was drafted to the 15th Battn. and sent to the Front. He died in No. 1 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples, 6 Nov., 1915, of wounds received in action. A comrade in writing home spoke of him as “such a brave, courageous fellow, ever found willing and ready to render assistance whenever necessary.”

=CLOVER, REGINALD WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R. B. 6552), 202676, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CLUBLEY, IRIS=, 1st Class, K. 9588, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CLUTTERBUCK, HENRY=, Capt., 1st Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., eldest s. of the late James Jacques Clutterbuck, of Hampton Lovett, Droitwich, formerly of Gloucester, by his wife, Elizabeth Anna, dau. of Rudolph Appell; b. Chacewater, Cornwall, 23 Jan. 1874; educ. King Edward’s School, Birmingham; enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, 28 July, 1893, became L.-Corpl. 22 June, 1894; Corpl. 22 May, 1896; L.-Sergt. 12 Dec. 1896; Sergt. 1 Dec. 1897, and Orderly Room Sergt. 1 Dec. 1897. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Yorkshire L.I. 25 Aug. 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 23 Nov. 1901, and Capt. in the Royal Lancashire Regt. 20 Nov. 1907. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902, being attached to the Army Service Corps from 1 June, 1901. He took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein. He was present during the operations in the Orange Free State, including those at Paardeberg (17–26 Feb.), and the actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Karee Siding, Vet River (5–6 May) and Zand River. He was also in the operations in the Transvaal, May to Sept. 1900, and from Nov. 1900 to May, 1902, and received the Queen’s medal with six clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. Capt. Clutterbuck was Adjutant to the King’s Own Malta Regt. from 20 June, 1904, to 9 July, 1909, and afterwards served in India, interesting himself in the welfare of the soldiers, and in encouraging temperance and thrift among them, and was commended by the Commander-in-Chief of India for his work. He was to have taken up the appointment of Garrison Adjutant at Bordon, 1 Oct. 1914, but on the outbreak of war, left for France, 21 Aug. and was killed in action at Haucourt, France, between Le Cateau and Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914, and was buried in the cemetery there. Capt. Clutterbuck was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s despatch of 21 Aug. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.], 1914, “for his conspicuous bravery under heavy shell fire, and his gallantry in leading bayonet charges.” A brother officer wrote: “On the fateful 20 Aug., Capt. Clutterbuck, Mr. ........ and self were in a village, and about 8.30 p.m. about 150 Germans made a night attack on us. Just when the attack was starting Capt. Clutterbuck came up with about 50 men to help, as things looked bad. Capt. Clutterbuck then performed an act of great gallantry; he personally led 15 men with Mr. ........ to drive about 50 of the Germans away from a church where our wounded were. They called upon Capt. Clutterbuck to surrender; he would not, and I am afraid was then instantaneously killed. He had absolutely no suffering and his body was taken into the church.... This act of Capt. Clutterbuck’s was most gallant, he would not entertain anybody else doing the noble work which he did, thereby saving the lives of most of us....” Another officer wrote: “I thought perhaps you might care to hear from me, as I was with your husband the whole of the first day. He and I lay under very heavy shell fire, with about 100 men, for the whole morning and afternoon, and it was entirely through his influence that we kept the men together at all. After dark we went down to a village in order to turn some Germans out with about 30 men, which was all we could collect. We met them there in force, your husband ordered and led a charge against them which was so successful and well led by him that we cleared the village. He was shot leading us against a party a great deal stronger than our lot, who were at one end of a street. Throughout the day he was perfectly marvellous and cheerful in the worst times, and the men have since told me when talking about it, that his coolness and gallantry in leading charges in the street fighting was extraordinary. Of course, he was exactly the sort of officer who has made our regt. as famous as it is.” He m. at Valletta, Malta, 27 April, 1908, Cora Gwendoline Rajaela, yst. dau. of the late Gerard Myburgh, of Orange Grove, Cape Town, Consul-General for the Netherlands in South Africa; s.p.

=COARD, HENRY HAROLD=, Private, No. 13245, B Coy., 1st Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., 2nd s. of John Henry Coard, Postman, Raheney, co. Dublin, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late Henry Moore, of Dundrum, Dublin; b. Raheney, co. Dublin, 2 April, 1889; educ. Howth Road School, Clontarf; was foreman gardener to the Earl of Mar and Kellie at Alloa Park, but on the outbreak of war left and joined the Colours, 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front in January, 1915, took part in the fighting at Neuve Chapelle and Hill 60 and the first and second Battles at Ypres, and was killed in action during the latter, near Hooge, 8 May, 1915; unm.

=COATES, GEORGE BERNARD=, Private, No. 148, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of George Coates, of Sproatley, near Hull, Gardener; by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of W. Mason, of Hull; b. Wyton, Hull, East Yorkshire, 12 May, 1891; educ. Sproatley Endowed School; was for some time in the Halifax Territorials; went to Australia 6 June, 1913; joined the Australian Imperial Force at Melbourne on the outbreak of war and was wounded in the left arm at the landing at Suvla Bay on 25 April, 1915. He was invalided to Malta, but returned to the firing line about the end of July, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 9–10 Aug., 1915; unm.

=COATSWORTH, EDGAR=, Corpl., No. 8058, B. Coy., 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., 2nd s. of Arthur Thomas Coatsworth, of 20, Earl Street, Maidstone, a Corpl. in the National Reserve Guard; b. Maidstone, 5 Aug. 1887; educ. St. Faith’s Schools there; enlisted 16 Aug. 1904, and after serving seven years with the Colours, passed into the Reserve and became a postman at Marden, Kent. He was called up on the outbreak of war; was promoted Corpl. early in Jan. 1915; went to France and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 9 May, 1915. His Coy. Sergt.-Major in a letter of sympathy to his wife said that he was killed whilst gallantly leading his men in the attack on the enemy’s trenches, and added “he was a great favourite of all the men of his platoon, who speak very highly of his conduct when under a very heavy shell fire.” He m. at St. Faith’s Church, Maidstone, 17 March (--), dau. of William Cummings, and had two children: Edgar, b. 5 July, 1912, and Marian, b. 21 Aug. 1913.

=COBB, ARTHUR VICTOR JUBILEE=, Signal Boy, J. 24845, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=COBB, JOHN WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 1345), 206567, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COBBETT, ALBERT=, A.B., J. 14137, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COBBOLD, ROBERT HENRY WANKLYN=, Lieut., 6th. attd. 2nd. Battn. (The Prince Consort’s Own) Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of the Rev. Robert Russell Cobbold, M.A., Rector of Hitcham, Ipswich, by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of the late Frederick Wanklyn, of Buenos Aires, and gdson. of the late Rev. Robert Henry Cobbold, Rector of Ross; b. Earl’s Barton Vicarage, co. Northampton, 3 Dec 1892; educ. King’s College Choir School, Marlborough College (Foundation Scholar and Junior Scholar), and at St. John’s College, Cambridge (Classical Scholar). At Cambridge he took an active part in the work of the O.T.C., and on the outbreak of war was given a commission in the Rifle Brigade, 7 Nov. 1914, to date from 14 Aug. To quote the “Eagle,” vol. xxxvi, Dec. 1914: “At the beginning of the term the task was a formidable one. There was plenty of enthusiasm, but very little experience--a mass of untrained material. But in R. H. W. Cobbold A Coy. had an almost ideal O.T.C. officer. The work which he did for the month before his knee got strong enough for him to take a commission in the Rifle Brigade was absolutely invaluable. When he went the most difficult part of the task was over.” He was promoted Lieut. 19 Dec. following; went to the Front, 13 May, 1915, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. and appointed machine gun officer, and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 9 Sept. 1915; unm. Major-Gen. H. Hudson, commanding 8th Division, wrote: “Your son had done excellent work whilst serving in this division, and was a most promising officer. You have every reason to be proud of his gallantry and devotion to duty.” And Lieut.-Col. F. Nugent, commanding 2nd Rifle Brigade: “Your boy was machine gun officer to this battn., and I had a special opportunity of knowing what a splendid fellow he was. Absolutely fearless, and a really fine leader of men. His machine gunners loved him, and would have followed him anywhere. A really good machine gun officer like him is rare.” At Cambridge he rowed in his college first boat.

=COBBY, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, E.R.A., 3rd Class, 271735, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COBERN, WESLEY VINCENT=, Private, No. 8502, 3rd Rifle Brigade, 3rd s. of Thomas William Cobern, of 72, Parchment Street, Winchester, Merchant Tailor, by his wife, Agnes Eliza, dau. of George Drew; b. Winchester, 6 May, 1883; educ. Wesleyan Day School there; joined the 3rd Rifle Brigade, 27 June, 1901; and on the outbreak of war went out to France with the first Expeditionary Force. On the night of 17–18 Oct. 1914, the 3rd Rifle Brigade were billeted at a school near Armentières. On the early morning of 18 Oct. they were preparing breakfast when bugle sounded “Stand to Arms” at 5.30 a.m. The attack on a village called Prehencies commenced at 6. The railway from Armentières to Lille had to be crossed near Le Halte Station. Cobern was shot in the left arm, almost at the same time Sergt. Smith was shot in the head. He threw off his equipment and helped to bandage the Sergt.’s wound. Remembering that he had a scarf in his valise that would be useful, he went to where his equipment was lying on the railway, and was shot dead. He was buried with many others of the regt. who fell at the same time by the 139th Saxon Regt. of the German Army. There were 600 casualties on that day in the 3rd Rifle Brigade alone. His brother, L.-Corpl. W. G. Cobern died on active service, 13 June, 1915 (see following notice).

=COBERN, WILFRID GEORGE=, Corpl., No. 2570, 4th Battn. Hampshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Thomas William Cobern, of 72, Parchment Street, Winchester, Merchant Tailor, etc. (see preceding notice); b. Winchester, 1 Sept. 1878; educ. Wesleyan Day School there; served for over 10 years in the 1st Volunteer Battn. of the Hampshire Regt., and on the outbreak of the war joined the 4th Battn. of the Hants Regt. for foreign service, 6 Aug. 1914. He died of heat stroke at Basra, in the Persian Gulf, 13 June, 1915; unm.

=COCHRAN, LIONEL FRANCIS ABINGDON=, Capt., 72nd, attd. 92nd, Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late Col. Francis Cochran, 1st Hampshire Regt., who was Deputy Judge-Advocate under the late Lord St. Helier (then Sir Francis Jeune) during the South African war, by his wife, Amy Isabel Gray, eldest dau. of Abingdon Compton, Bombay Civil Service, and gdson. of Francis Cochran, of Balfour; b. Edinburgh, 20 March, 1882; educ. by private tutors and in Germany, where he was when the Boer war broke out. He joined the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Leinster Regt. at Queenstown when only 17 in Feb. 1900, and, proceeding with it to South Africa, served on the lines of communications, being twice given responsible posts and a commission from Lord Roberts in the Worcester Regt., and the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut. 21 Dec. following, and after being first attached to the 1st Hants Regt., was transferred in 1901 to the Indian Army. He joined the 72nd Punjabis in Burmah, became double company officer, 7 July, 1905, received his company 17 Nov. 1909, and served with them until Sept. 1914, when he was selected to proceed with the 92nd Punjabis on Active Service. They were sent to guard the canal at Ismailia, and Capt. Cochran was killed in action while leading his men at Tussum on the Suez Canal, 4 Feb. 1915. He was buried at Ismailia; unm. He was specially mentioned in Gen. Sir John Maxwell’s Despatch of 16 Feb. 1915 [London Gazette, 21 June, 1916]. The officers of the 72nd Punjabis erected a mural tablet to his memory in St. Mary Bolton’s Church, S.W., and the officers of the 92nd Punjabis put up a cross and stone on his grave at Ismailia. Capt. Cochran was a great traveller, having gone nearly all over the world during his leave, and an expert motorist; also he was a fine horseman. He several times filled the appointment of Station Staff Officer and Cantonment Magistrate in India with great credit.

=COCHRANE, CHARLES=, Private, No. 11101, 2nd Battn. Cameron Highlanders, s. of William Cochrane; b. South Shields, 21 April, 1889; educ. Drummond Street School, Edinburgh; was a Hairdresser; volunteered and enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, went to France in April, and died of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle 11 May, 1915. He m. 3 June, 1900, Catherine (2, Blackfriars St., Edinburgh), dau. of Owen Airlie, of 49, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, and had a son and three daus.: Francis, b. 24 May, 1906; Mary Jane, b. 8 April, 1901; Agnes, b. 10 Feb. 1910; and Maria, b. 3 May, 1911.

=COCKAYNE, WALTER=, Officer’s Cook, 3rd Class, L. 4215, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COCKBURN, CHARLES JAMES=, Lieut., 6th Jats L.I., Indian Army, yr. s. of the late Major Charles James Cockburn, Royal Warwickshire Regt., by his wife, Kate Alice (Bagshot, Surrey), dau. of the late John Waterer; b. Malta, 27 March, 1891; educ. Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3 Sept. 1910; was attd. to the Berkshire Regt. in India, and was transferred to the Indian Army, 29 Oct. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 3 Dec. 1912. He served in France with the Meerut Division, and afterwards in Mesopotamia, and was killed in action with General Aylmer’s Relief Force, 7 Jan. 1916. Lieut. Cockburn was amongst the first to receive the Military Cross. He m. at Cobham, Kent, 16 July, 1915, Helen, dau. of Laman Herbert Evans; s.p. His elder brother, Lieut J. Cockburn, was killed in action, 25 April, 1915.

=COCKBURN, JOHN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder s. of the late Major Charles James Cockburn, Royal Warwickshire Regt., by his wife, Kate Alice (Bagshot, Surrey), dau. of the late John Waterer, of Bagshot; b. Malta, 3 March, 1890; educ. Wellington College. On the outbreak of war volunteered as a Despatch Rider, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in his father’s old regt. 3 March, 1915. He was killed while leading his men into action at St. Julien, near Ypres; unm.

=COCKER, EDGAR CHARLES=, Private, No. 81163, 10th (late 32nd) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Edgar Charles Cocker, of Lintlaw, via Margo, Sask., Canada, Farmer and Stonemason, now Private, No. 887330, 188th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force (who served thirteen years with the 4th East Surrey Volunteers before leaving England), by his wife, Alice Jane, dau. of the late Charles Collier, of Homerton, London; b. Peckham, London, 9 Oct. 1895; educ. Peckham Park School, S.E.; Beachville, Ontario; and Yorkton, Sask.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and enlisted, 7 Sept. 1914; left Canada with the second contingent, 22 Feb. 1915; went to France, 27 April, and was killed in action in the front line trench at Festubert on the morning of 21 May, 1915, by the bursting of a shell; unm. He was buried behind the trench close to where the second line trench crosses the head of Willow Road, and a cross marks the spot.

=COCKMAN, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9045, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COCKRILL, ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9255), S.S. 2208, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=COCKS, ALBERT=, Sapper, No. 75, 2nd Signal Coy. (Headquarters Section), Royal Canadian Engineers, 4th s. of James Cocks, of Bexley Heath, Kent, formerly of Chenies, Builder (who was seven years with the 36th (now 18th) Middlesex Regt.); b. Putney, co. Surrey, 12 Dec. 1876; educ. Chenies, Rickmansworth, Herts, and was a Decorator. He joined the R.E. in 1900, and was attached to the 57th Field Coy. at Chatham, and won the Education (2nd class) Certificate, but after serving three years retired through ill-health. In 1910 went to Ottawa, Canada. There he joined the Governor-General’s Foot Guards, but afterwards transferred to the Canadian Engineers, and was attached to the 3rd Field Coy. When the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, he immediately volunteered for service overseas and joined the 2nd Divisional Signal Royal Canadian Engineers, and obtained the Army Signalling Certificate. He left for England with the second contingent in May, 1915, and was stationed at Shorncliffe till Sept. They were ordered to proceed to France on 8 Sept., and on the 4th of the month he was given leave to wish his relatives in London good-bye. At 8.30 p.m. the same day he was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Parliament Street, Westminster, receiving a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was taken to Westminster Hospital, where he died after three operations, 21 Sept. 1915. He was buried at Kensal Green in the Canadian Government part. His commanding officer wrote: “His work with me was of the very best. He had proved a very valuable man, the like of whom our Empire could not afford to lose.” He m. at Christ Church, Ottawa, 3 June, 1914, Lillian, formerly of Toronto, dau. of the late Henry Hodges Weller; s.p.

=CODD, HARRY CARR=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17530, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CODLING, ALFRED INCH=, A.B., 219051, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COE, BARNABAS WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1150), 276443, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COE, HERBERT CLYDE=, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 20, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=COHEN, GEORGE HUBERT=, B.A., LL.B., Lieut 5th King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Alderman Louis Samuel Cohen, of The Priory, St. Michael’s Hamlet, Liverpool, J.P., an ex-Lord Mayor of Liverpool, by his wife, May, dau. of the Hon. Louis Wolfe Levy, M.L.C., Sydney, N.S.W.; b. Liverpool, 26 Jan. 1878; educ. Cheltenham and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated with honours B.A., LL.B., in 1901. He was called to the Bar in 1903, and practised law in Liverpool in the Northern Circuit, and was a member of the Inner Temple. He had always been a keen Volunteer, having been a sergt. both in the Cadet Corps at Cheltenham College and in the C.V.R.U. at Cambridge, and was for many years in the Inns of Court O.T.C., and gained the Long Service medal. On the outbreak of war he was travelling in Norway, and hastened to England and immediately enlisted in the Public Schools Battn. of the Middlesex Regt., but within a week he was given (19 Sept. 1914) a Lieut.’s commission in the 5th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., in which his brother, Stanley, was Major. He went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915; unm. His colonel, J. M. McMaster, wrote: “He died as glorious a death as any soldier could ever wish for or hope for, gallantly leading his men in a charge against the enemy’s trenches. It was a difficult and dangerous task, but he and his men went to the assault in the way we expect British soldiers to act, without fear or hesitation. We mourn his loss and respect his memory. His disposition was kindliness itself, and he had thoroughly endeared himself to us all. We took the German trench and more than 120 prisoners surrendered to us. Your son lies buried in all honour near the field of battle at Richebourg L’Avoué. I am sorry to say that Stanley (his yr. brother, Major, now (1916) Lieut.-Col. S. Cohen) incurred a wound, which I hope and believe is only slight, in voluntarily going out in the attempt to reach George and succour him. Capt. Fairclough, on the same errand of mercy, was also wounded.”

=COKE, HON. ARTHUR GEORGE=, Lieut., R.N.V.R., Armoured Cars Division, 2nd s. of Thomas William, 3rd Earl of Leicester, G.C.V.O., C.M.G., by his wife, the Hon. Alice Emily, née White, dau. of Luke, 2nd Lord Annaly; b. London, 6 April, 1882; educ. H.M.S. Britannia; joined the Navy, 1897, and retired with the rank of Lieut. after some six years’ service. On the outbreak of the war he obtained a commission of 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons), 5 Sept. 1914, but was almost immediately transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, and served with that regt. in Flanders, including the first Battle of Ypres, until he was transferred as Lieut. to the Armoured Cars Division, R.N.V.R., in Jan. 1915. He was killed In action at the Dardanelles, 2 May, 1915. He m. in London, 10 May, 1906, Phyllis Hermione (Flaunden, Chesham, Bucks), only dau. of Francis Saxham E. Drury, of Pont Street, London, and had a son and dau.: Anthony Lovel, b. 14 Sept. 1909; and Deana Muriel, b. 7 Nov. 1907.

=COKE, FREDERICK=, A.B., 239092, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=COKER, CADWALLADER JOHN=, Lieut., 1st Welsh Regt., yr. s. of the late James Gould Coker, by his wife, Florence Emily (The Grove, Mayfield Sussex), 2nd dau. of Cotterill Scholefield; b. Somerset Place, Bath, 11 May, 1892; educ. Wellington College and Oriel College, Oxford; and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Welsh Regt. 15 Sept. 1914. He was promoted Tempy. Lieut. 14 Jan. 1915, and Lieut. 1 Feb. 1915; went to the Front, 5 March following, and was killed in action in the trenches at St. Eloi by a German sniper, 22 June, 1915, being buried in a military cemetery near Dickebusch; unm. He had previously been wounded at Hooge, 24 May, and the Medical Officer in writing of this said: “Your son was slightly wounded on Whit Monday in a street which was heavily shelled by the enemy. About 40 officers and men were hit in a short time. Mr. Coker refused all attention until the others were seen to, helped to carry and dress them, and set a magnificent example to the rest of the wounded by his pluck and coolness. It hardly struck me at the time, it was so entirely what one would have expected of him. He was a fine type of officer and gentleman.” At Wellington Lieut. Coker was a college prefect, in the cricket eleven and a gymnasium officer, and was a Sergt. in the O.T.C., which rank he also held in the O.T.C. at Oxford. He played cricket, hockey and football for his college at the latter place, and was in the shooting team. He was a member of Vincents, Authentics and Cryptics. Had he lived one day longer he would have obtained his temporary captaincy. His commanding officer wrote of him: “We were very sorry to lose your son, who was always most gallant and very popular.”

=COKER, HORACE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7715), S.S. 103095, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COLBOURNE, EDWARD JAMES=, Private, No. 12/1594, 16th Auckland Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, elder s. of Robert James Colbourne, of 7, Clarendon Crescent, Leamington Spa, by his wife, Emily Florence; b. 8 Jan. 1892; educ. at Stanley House, Margate, and Solihull Grammar School; went to New Zealand in Dec. 1911; enlisted in the 16th Auckland Infantry, Nov. 1914; left on 13 Feb. with the third reinforcements, and was killed in Gallipoli on 8 May, 1915; unm.

=COLBOURNE, ERIC KRABBÉ=, M.C., 2nd Lieut., 3rd Royal Berkshire Regt., 3rd s. of Louis Colbourne, of Beckenham, Kent, M.D., by his wife, Henrietta Leonora, dau. of Charles Brehmer Krabbé; b. Buenos Ayres, 25 June, 1888; educ. Berkhamsted School; went to British Columbia in 1907 and settled in Victoria, but after the outbreak of war came home and was given a commission in the 3rd Berkshires, 19 Jan. 1915. He died at Choques, 27 June, 1915, of wounds received in action, and was buried in the military cemetery there. He was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 24 July, 1915] for “conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Cuinchy on the early morning of 22 June, 1915.” The Germans, following a gas attack, exploded a mine in front of one of our own in which was a Sergt. and about eight of our men, but owing to the gallant efforts of 2nd Lieut. Colbourne, another officer and a few men, who repeatedly went down among the fumes, all the men were rescued, although the rescuers suffered considerably. Lieut. Colbourne m. at Victoria, British Columbia, 31 Dec. 1912, Florence Marion, only dau. of George Gillespie, of Victoria, British Columbia; s.p.

=COLE, ERNEST=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2732), S.S. 58, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COLE, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3834), 198991, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COLE, FREDERICK GEORGE PARKER=, E.R.A., 3rd Class, 272386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COLE, FREDERICK THOMAS=, Private, No. 61489, 3rd Battn. (Canterbury Infantry), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Thomas Cole, of Butcombe Farm, Blagdon, Bristol, Farmer, by his wife, Anna, dau. of Benjamin Warford; b. Stock Farm, Langford, Bristol, co. Somerset, 29 Nov. 1881; educ. at Churchill Public School; was a farmer; left England for New Zealand, 25 April, 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Nov. 1914; left for Egypt with the third reinforcements and was in action at Cape Helles and Anzac Cove from 12 May to 4 June, 1915. On the latter date he was one of a party of volunteers sent to clear and hold part of a Turkish trench at Quinn’s Post, and was among those killed in the attempt. He was unm.

=COLE, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9802), 213861, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COLE, GEORGE HENRY=, Corpl., No. 8152, Signalling Section, 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., eldest s. of Alma Cole, of Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Joseph King; b. Sutton, Woodbridge, co. Suffolk, 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Bramford Road Board School, Ipswich; enlisted 14 Dec. 1904, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 16 Feb. 1915; buried at R.E. Farm, Wulverghem; unm.

=COLE, SIDNEY LIONEL FLINN=, Assistant Paymaster, Royal Naval Reserve, only child of William George Cole, Chief Constructor (Royal Corps of Naval Constructors) H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness, and late of H.M. Dockyard, Gibraltar, by his wife, Emma Elizabeth, dau. of John Robert Flinn; b. Sheerness, co. Kent, 14 July, 1888; and was educ. Portsmouth Grammar School, and Oliver’s Mile End House School, Portsmouth. He entered the services of the Capital and Counties Bank, Ltd., at Newton Abbot, Devon, in Feb. 1906, and afterwards served at Ashburton, Haslemere, and Andover, from whence, at the outbreak of war, he joined the Navy for the period of the war, 5 Nov. 1914. He first served on H.M.S. Duke of Albany, and afterwards in the mine-layer H.M.S. Princess Irene, and was lost when that ship was blown up in Sheerness Harbour, 27 May, 1915. With the exception of a stoker, every officer and man, to the number of 280, including 78 Dockyard workmen from Sheerness Dockyard, were lost. Cole was the only officer whose body was (9 June) recovered, and it was interred in the Isle of Sheppey Cemetery with Naval honours on 12 June, preparatory to which a short service was held in the Royal Dockyard Chapel at Sheerness, where 27 years before he had been christened. He was unm.

=COLE, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Private, No. 4940, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Frederick Cole, of Long Newton, Tetbury, co. Gloucester, Labourer, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of Frederick Long, of Newton, near Tetbury; b. Bagpath, co. Gloucester, 21 March, 1880; educ. Cam, near Dursley; enlisted at Devizes, 30 Dec. 1902; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died from shell wounds in left thigh, received in action, 27 Sept. 1914, being buried in Veill Arcy Cemetery. He m. at Tetbury, 28 Aug. 1912, Elizabeth Emily (New Church Street, Tetbury), dau. of William Baker, of Tetbury, and had a dau., Elizabeth Mary Florence, b. 3 Oct. 1912.

=COLEMAN, GEORGE HENRY=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21846, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=COLEMAN, GEORGE MANSFIELD=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3356A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COLEMAN, JOHN MORRIS=, Private, No. 9832, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of James Coleman, of 10, Erith Street, Dover; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., died at Braisne 24 Sept. 1914, from wounds received in action.

=COLEMAN, SAMUEL GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4380), S.S. 103358, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COLEMAN, THOMAS BARNES=, Private, No. 561, No. 1 Coy., 14th Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Frank Coleman, of Marsh Green, Brighstone, Isle of Wight, Labourer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Barnes; b. Marsh Green, 17 July, 1888; educ. National School, Brighstone; emigrated to Victoria in 1913, joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge, north of Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, between 26 and 28 Aug. 1915; unm.

=COLEMAN, WILLIAM=, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 9090, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=COLEMAN, WILLIAM ALBERT=, Rifleman, No. 7512, 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifles, only s. of Albert William Coleman, of Ipswich, Builder, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Thomas Whitmore; b. Ipswich, 4 May, 1886; educ. there; enlisted 10 May, 1906; went to France 20 Aug. 1914; was taken a prisoner at Ypres, 4 Nov. 1914, and d. of fever at the prisoners’ camp, Gustrow, Mecklenburg, 24 Jan. 1915. He m. at St. Luke’s Church, South Norwood, 18 Oct. 1913, Laura Harriet (19, Southcote Road, South Norwood), dau. of James Holdstock and had a dau., Evelyn Laura, b. 28 July, 1914.

=COLENUTT, ALBERT EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14944 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COLES, CHARLES GEORGE=, Private, No. 1946, E. Coy., 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), s. of James Coles, formerly of Hadlow, Kent, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Sewell; b. Deptford, London, 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Lucas Street Board School there; joined the Volunteer Force in 1903, and was later transferred to the Territorials. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915. Private Coles m. at Leiston, Suffolk, 4 March, 1911, Beatrice Mary (30, Paradise Place, Leiston, Suffolk), dau. of Thomas Chilvers, and had one son, Charles James Thomas, b. 11 Aug. 1911.

=COLES, EDGAR RALPH=, Capt., 3rd (Prince of Wales’) Dragoon Guards, 2nd s. of Ernest Harry Coles, of Arnolds, Holmwood, co. Surrey, by his wife, Adela Caroline, dau. of James Heslop Powell; b. Caterham, co. Surrey, 13 May, 1889; educ. Hazlewood (Limpsfield), Marlborough, and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, whence, having taken his degree, he entered the Army as a University candidate, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Dragoon Guards, 23 Feb. 1910. He was promoted Lieut. 28 March, 1911, and Capt. 18 Nov. 1914; was with his regt. in Cairo for two years, returning to England in the summer of 1914, when he went to Aldershot to learn signalling. On the outbreak of war he left with his regt. for the Front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the trenches near Hooge, late on the night of 12 May (the eve of his twenty-sixth birthday). He was buried at Witte Poort Farm, two miles east of Ypres; unm. Capt. Coles was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for exceedingly good work in carrying messages and maintaining communication under heavy shell fire at Zillebeke in Nov. 1914. His commanding officer, Major Burt, wrote: “His gallantry had already been recognised by the authorities, and his splendid example and comradeship will be greatly missed by all ranks in the regt.” Lieut. Holt, Acting Adjutant, 3rd Dragoon Guards, said: “His gallantry was an inspiration to his men,” and his soldier servant, Private Harvey, who had been with him ever since he joined the Army: “He was one of the coolest officers that was ever under fire.”

=COLES, EWART JOHN=, Private, No. 876, 1/6th Battn. East Surrey Regt. (T.F.), attd. D. Coy. 2nd Battn. Norfolk Regt., s. of the late William Coles, House and Church Decorator [b. Cheddar, co. Somerset], by his wife, Eliza Ellen (7, Wilton Avenue, Richmond, Surrey), dau. of James Summerhayes; b. Paddington, London, 9 Aug. 1893; educ. Holy Trinity Church School, Richmond, Surrey, and was in the employ of the Pearl Assurance Co. He had joined the East Surrey Territorials in March, 1908, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; mobilised 4 Aug. 1914; went to India 29 Oct. 1914, and in Sept. 1915, left with the British Expeditionary Force for the Persian Gulf, and was killed in action at Ctesiphon, 22 Nov. 1915; unm. Writing to Mrs. Coles, Lieut.-Col. A. P. Drayson said: “I have known your son for a good many years, and have always looked upon him as the right stamp of soldier, always willing, smart and keen in any work he had to do,” adding that he felt that by his death they had “lost one of the best men in the regt.”

=COLES, ROBERT=, L.-Corpl., No. 7043, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Coles, of Eton Place, High Street, Crediton, by his wife, Emma, dau. of the late William Williams, of Llanvihangel, near Monmouth; b. Shobrooke, Crediton, co. Devon, 26 Jan. 1887; educ. there; enlisted 1907, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 18 Sept. 1914, being buried in Soupir Cemetery; unm. He was well known as a crack shot, having taken part in the Army Competition at Bisley on several occasions, and had won a number of cups and medals.

=COLLES, ARTHUR GROVE=, Capt., 4th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only s. of Alexander Colles, of 3, Elgin Road, co. Dublin, Inspector, Registrar of Petty Sessions Office, Dublin Castle, by his wife, Georgina, dau. of Robert George Cullin; b. Dublin, 12 Feb. 1891; educ. St. Andrew’s College, Dublin; joined the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 11 Nov. 1910, and was gazetted Lieut. April, 1912, and Capt. Dec. 1914. He was attached for a year to the Connaught Rangers at the Curragh. Shortly after the outbreak of war he was sent to the Front with the 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, to which regt. he was gazetted 2 March, 1915. Capt. Colles fought at Neuve Chapelle, 10–12 March, 1915, and was killed in action in the village of that name on the last-mentioned date. He was buried in the orchard of the château at Neuve Chapelle; unm. Letters from his brother officers and the men of his battn. all bear testimony to his great capabilities and his fearlessness in the face of danger. A brother officer says that the last he saw of him was “charging for all he was worth at the head of his men.”

=COLLET, CHARLES HERBERT, D.S.O.=, Lieut., Royal Marine Artillery, and Flight Commander, Royal Naval Air Service, 2nd s. of James Francis Herbert Collet, of Millbrook, Southampton, late of the Public Works Department of the Government of India, Engineer, by his wife, Teresa, dau. of Francis (and Teresa) Pilley; b. Calcutta, 4 Feb. 1888; educ. Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and Dulwich College, London, S.E.; joined the Royal Marine Artillery, 1 Sept. 1905, and was promoted Lieut. 1 July. 1906, and transferred to the Naval Wing of Royal Flying Corps in 1913, in which he was gazetted Flight Commander 23 Feb. 1915. On the outbreak of war he served on the Western Front, taking part in the defence of Antwerp until the evacuation, and subsequently at the Dardanelles. On 23 Sept. British aeroplanes of the Naval Wing delivered an attack on the Zeppelin sheds at Düsseldorf. Conditions were rendered very difficult by the misty weather, but Flight Lieut. Collet, as he then was, flying a Sopwith tractor biplane, made a long flight, and dropped three bombs on the Zeppelin shed, approaching within 400 ft. His machine was struck by one projectile, but he returned safely to his point of departure. For this exploit, which was the pioneer exploit of its kind, he received the Distinguished Service Order, and the Director of the Air Department of the Admiralty, in a memorandum dated 11 Oct., described the “feat as notable--gliding down from 6,000 ft., the last 1,500 ft. in mist, he finally coming in sight of the airship shed, when at a height of 400 ft., and when only a quarter of a mile distant”; adding “The importance of this incident lies in the fact that it shows that in the event of further bombs being dropped into Antwerp or other Belgian towns measures of reprisal can certainly be adopted, if desired, to almost any extent.” He was twice brought down in France, but managed to escape; on the first occasion being forced to alight between the firing lines. On the second occasion, his engine being damaged by shrapnel over the German lines, he had to volplane, just managing to reach the Belgian lines, and coming under fire from both sides, as the Belgians mistook him for a German and seized him as a prisoner. In the Dardanelles he participated in the landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula, 25 April, 1915, and engaged in several combats with hostile aeroplanes. He lost his life in the Eastern Mediterranean while on patrol duty, by an accident to his aeroplane resulting from engine failure, 19 Aug. 1915; unm. For his gallantry in endeavouring to rescue Capt. Collet, Michael Sullivan Keogh, Chief Petty Officer, H.M.S. Ark Royal, received the Albert Medal (2nd Class), the official record [London Gazette, 14 Jan. 1916], being as follows: “On 19 Aug. 1915, an aeroplane, piloted by the late Capt. C. H. Collet, D.S.O., R.M.A., was ascending from Imbros Aerodrome, and had reached a height of 150 ft. when the engine stopped. The machine was upset by the powerful air currents from the cliffs, and fell vertically to the ground, while the petrol carried burst into flames, which immediately enveloped the aeroplane and pilot. Chief Petty Officer Keogh, upon arriving at the scene of the accident, at once made an attempt to save Capt. Collet by dashing into the midst of the wreckage, which was a mass of flames. He had succeeded in dragging the fatally injured officer nearly clear of the flames when he was himself overcome by the burns which he had received from the blazing petrol.” Capt. Collet was regarded as one of the best naval airmen, having first attracted attention by his flying on the big biplane bought by the Admiralty from the Deutsche Flugzeug Werke of Leipzig in 1913. Early in 1914 he had this machine equipped with a huge petrol tank in place of the passenger’s seat, and started from Plymouth on a non-stop flight to John o’ Groats. He was brought down by engine trouble at Grimsby, but the flight stood as a British “record” for distance across country. While stationed at the Royal Naval Flying School at Eastchurch, Collet was the first officer in the Naval Air Service to loop the loop. A General officer with whom he served for a time on observation duty at the Dardanelles, wrote of him to his father in the highest terms. He held several trophies for boxing and shooting; he was a winner of the Navy and Marine light-weight boxing championship, and was in the final for the Army and Navy light-weight championships. He received the Distinguished Service Order 21 Oct. 1914, and was twice mentioned in Despatches: first by the Admiralty [London Gazette, 21 Oct. 1914], and again by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915]. He was unm.

=COLLETT, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4691), S.S. 1669, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COLLIER, ALFRED ERNEST=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2529), 215083, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COLLIER, FREDERICK HENRY=, Private, No. 9986, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of Charles Collier, of 3, Beach Street, Dover; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 Oct. 1914.

=COLLIER, GEORGE=, Private, No. 9822, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 5 May, 1915; m.

=COLLIER, THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., 10587, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; unm.

=COLLINGE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9986, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Leyland, co. Lancaster; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914, aged 20; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing after the fighting on 25 Jan. 1915.

=COLLINGS, WALLACE=, Private, No. 1627, 2nd Battn. South Lancashire Regt., 6th s. of Henry Bence Collings, of 16, Stour Street, Kirkdale, by his wife Helen, dau. of John Rowe, of Exeter; b. Liverpool, 20 July, 1895; educ. Council Schools there; enlisted 4 Oct. 1911, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 27 Oct. 1914; unm.

=COLLINGWOOD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 6540, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd s. of the late John Collingwood, of Denton Burn, Scotswood, Northumberland, Coal Miner, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of William Millar; b. Newburn, co. Northumberland, 25 Nov. 1876; educ. Denton Burn, and was afterwards employed at the Montagu Colliery, Denton Burn; enlisted in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Berwick-on-Tweed, 31 Oct. 1898, and served with them through the South African War, being present at operations in Paardeberg, Johannesburg and Cape Colony, for which he received the Queen’s and King’s medals and five bars, also a certificate for good services in the Mounted Infantry, 26 May, 1903. On the outbreak of the European War he was called to the Colours 4 Aug. 1914; left with the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers for France 15 Aug.; was in the Battle of Mons and the retreat to Compiègne, after which he returned home for a time on sick leave. He left again for the Front at the end of Oct., and was in the First Battle of Ypres and several subsequent engagements in Belgium, and was killed in action by shrapnel shell bursting in trench at the Second Battle of Ypres, 5 March, 1915. He was buried at Zillebeke, near Ypres. Private Collingwood m. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 6 March, 1909, Mary Jane (98, Delaval Road, West Benwell, Newcastle), eldest dau. of Jacob Heslop, and had a son and two daus.: George Heslop, b. 13 Nov. 1911; Winifred, b. 11 Oct. 1909; and Eleanor, b. 1 April, 1914.

=COLLINS, CHARLES JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1175), 194403, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COLLINS, CHRISTOPHER=, Able Seaman, No. 4727, R.N.R., 3rd and yst. s. of Christopher Collins, of 5, Ulster Lane, Drogheda, Sailor, by his wife, Mary; b. Drogheda, 27 May, 1886; educ. Christian Brothers’ School there; joined the Navy in 1906, and was lost in the North Sea, when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=COLLINS, DAVID=, P.O., 1st Class, 208619, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COLLINS, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3932), S.S. 101811, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COLLINS, EDWARD WILLIAM ELGER=, Private, No. 7077, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action 25 Oct. 1914; unm.

=COLLINS, ERNEST GEORGE STEPHEN=, Gunner, R.M.A., 11488, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COLLINS, HARRY=, Sqdn. Sergt.-Major, No. 2358, Lord Strathcona’s Horse (R.C.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late John Collins, Staff-Sergt., Royal Marine Artillery (who saw service in New Zealand war, and was champion shot of the British Army in 1877), by his wife, Clara Ann (14, St. Philip’s Terrace, Gratton Road, Cheltenham), dau. of William Minnell, of Fratton, Portsmouth; b. Fort Cumberland, Portsmouth, 22 April, 1877; educ. Amersham (Bucks) Commercial School; enlisted in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, July, 1896, and served 12 years. He was through the South African War (medal with two clasps), 1900–2, and after retiring, emigrated to Canada in 1908. There he was for some time in the North-West Mounted Police, and in May, 1912, joined Lord Strathcona’s Horse as a Corpl. He was made Sqdn. Sergt.-Major in June, 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug.; came over with the first contingent, went to the Front in April, 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Eglise, 26 July, 1915, by a shell as he was leaving the trenches. He was buried with full military honours in Neuve Eglise churchyard, “just over the wall near the tree”; unm.

=COLLINS, HARRY=, Private, No. 2631, 1/4th Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), s. of Charles Collins, of 53, Stretton Road, Addiscombe, Decorator; b. East Grinstead, co. Sussex, 28 May, 1892; educ. Croydon Council School; enlisted 24 Oct. 1914; and d. in Amarah Military Hospital, 26 Oct. 1915, while serving in the Persian Gulf, and was buried in the British Cemetery there; unm.

=COLLINS, HENRY SILVESTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4458, I.C. 238), 233478, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COLLINS, HERBERT CHARLES=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25469 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=COLLINS, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5107), 199840, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COLLINS, RICHARD=, Corpl., No. 9882, 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of the late (--) Collins, and nephew of Mrs. Collins, of 7, Tower Street, Harrogate; b. Brentford, co. Middlesex, 24 May, 1885; enlisted in 1904, and after serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers for eight years, joined the East Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary in Sept. 1912. On the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914, he was recalled to his regt. and went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 9 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 6 Nov. 1914; unm. Corpl. Collins had served with his regt. in India, and had taken part in some frontier fighting, for which he had a medal. He was one of the best shots in the regt.

=COLLINS, SAMUEL=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 23622 (Dev.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COLLINS, STANLEY BERTRAM=, Naval Schoolmaster, M. 4740, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of William Collins, of 46, West Side, Wandsworth Commons, S.W.; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=COLLINS, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 106440, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=COLLINS, WILLIE GEORGE=, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1562), 115537, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COLLISSON, CEDRIC HAZLEDINE=, Sergt., No. 16846, 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late Rev. Sydney Garbett Collisson, Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon, and Minor Canon of Bristol Cathedral, by his wife, Sophy (8, Westfield Park, Bristol), dau. of the Rev. William Hazledine, Vicar of The Temple Church; b. Bristol, 24 Aug. 1887; and was educ. Warminster Grammar School (1 Jan. 1898–July, 1906) and Bristol University. He entered the teaching profession, was a Lieut. in the Devon Territorials, and in 1910 proceeded to Canada, where he joined the staff of the University School at Victoria. There he was offered and accepted a Lieutenancy in the 88th Victoria Militia Regt., in which he served until the outbreak of the European War, obtaining his Captain’s certificate. In order that he might at once proceed to England with the first Canadian Contingent, he resigned his commission and enlisted in the 7th Battn. British Columbia Regt., and was immediately promoted Sergt. He came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; went to France in Feb. 1915, and was mortally wounded in action at Hill 60 on 24 April, 1915, and died two days later. He was unm.

=COLSON, WILLIAM JOHN=, Sergt., No. 6285, 1st Battn. (West Ontario Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Corpl. John Colson, R.F.A., by his wife, Ellen, dau. of George Weller, of Wilmington; b. Erith, co. Kent, 25 Nov. 1878; educ. Erith Board School; enlisted in the R.F.A. 1 Dec. 1896; served 16 years--seven years with the Colours and nine years with the Reserve--including four and a-half years abroad; obtained his discharge, 30 Nov. 1912; went to Canada, 30 Oct. 1913; was employed at Ford’s Motor Works, Windsor, Ontario; on the outbreak of war joined in the West Ontario Regt., and was appointed Sergt.; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914, and was stationed at Bustard Camp, Salisbury, during the winter of 1914–15; went to the Front, 6 Feb. and was killed in action at Ypres, 24 April, 1915, when the Canadians so gallantly “saved the situation.” He was buried in a grave with 16 others on the east side of the Ypres to Pilkem Road, near the shrine about 400 yards from where the pontoon bridge crosses the road. He m. at All Saints’ Church, Belvedere, Kent, 5 Aug. 1905, Emily (32, Upper Grove Road, Belvedere, Kent), yst. dau. of Richard Spicer, of Belvedere, and had five children; Cyril Arthur, b. 27 March, 1906; Albert William, b. 10 April, 1913; Kathleen Adelaide, b. 13 Dec. 1907; Winifred Emily, b. 10 Aug. 1909; and Margaret Ellen, b. 21 July, 1911.

=BOWEN-COLTHURST, ROBERT MACGREGOR=, Capt., 4th (Special Reserve), attd. 1st, Battn. Leinster Regt., 2nd s. of the late Robert Walter Travers Bowen-Colthurst, of Oak Grove, etc., J.P., by his wife, Georgina de Bellasis (Oak Grove, Killinardrish, co. Cork), only dau. of Alfred Greet, of Dripsey House, co. Cork, J.P.; b. Oak Grove, Killinardrish, co. Cork, 15 Sept. 1883; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and on leaving the latter in 1905 joined the staff of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, first as assistant private secretary, and later as vice-chamberlain, which post he held until 1912. He then undertook work in connection with the Irish Department of Agriculture, and later succeeded the Earl of Carrick as Inspector for Irish Agricultural interests in Great Britain, which post he held until the outbreak of war. Acting on his conviction that every man ought to be trained in time of peace for the defence of the country, he had joined the 4th (Special Reserve) Battn. of the Leinsters in 1910, received his Lieutenancy, 12 March, 1912, and, volunteering for Imperial service, was gazetted Capt. 14 Aug. 1914. He went to the Front on 5 March, 1915, and was killed in action on the 15th of that month at St. Eloi. Lieut.-Col. C. B. Prowse, commanding 1st Leinster Regt., wrote: “The battn. had to retake some trenches which had been lost by another regt., and your husband bravely led his men and took and occupied the trench as he was ordered to. But early the following morning he was shot through the head over the parapet of a trench, and died, I hear, without pain--in fact, death was instantaneous. During the few days he was with us he had done splendid work and behaved most gallantly, and the men would follow him anywhere, and I do greatly sympathise with you and yours in your loss, and the regt.’s loss, too. I am sending your husband’s name to the General for ‘gallant conduct,’ and I also enclose a note which he wrote previous to the night attack, which was to be given to you.” And a brother officer: “I know Col. Prowse has written to you, but I think, perhaps, you might like to hear a second account of everything that happened. It might throw fresh light on details that you have heard from the commanding officer. Your husband arrived up here last Thursday week, 11 March. We were just going to start our eight days’ tour of duty in the trenches and were marching to them. He, with Capt. Radcliff from the 5th Battn., joined just about 5 p.m., when we were having a halt for tea. I remember how delighted I was to see him again, as he had always been so good to me, and it was just like a link with home seeing him again. He and Capt. Radcliff came with us into the trenches, your husband taking command of A Coy. We came out of the trenches again on Saturday night, arriving in our billets about 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, the 14th. I did not see much of him that day, as we were all sleeping off the effects of the 48 hours in the trenches. About 4.30 p.m. in the afternoon of Sunday, the 14th, a tremendous bombardment by our guns started. We were very soon turned out and hurried up to a ruined village not far behind the trenches. We learned that the Germans had captured our trenches, and it was decided that we must counter attack at 2 a.m. on Monday morning. Your husband was detailed with his company to recapture a trench, No. 20. He was full of keenness and enthusiasm about it, as he was always about everything. Just before midnight, before we started off, I met him in the dressing station, where he gave a letter to Dr. Kenny, our medical officer, asking him to send it to you by registered post if he was killed. The medical officer said ‘Nonsense,’ not to talk that way, as he would not be killed. Your husband replied cheerfully that it did not worry him a bit, only he wanted the letter sent if he were. After that we started off. He was ahead of me. About 12.45 I caught him up with my company, and gave him a lot of empty sandbags we had been carrying for his company. This was about 500 yards from the enemy’s trenches, and the bullets were flying about. I said ‘Good-night,’ wishing him the best of luck. He was very cheery and happy then. That is the last time I saw him alive. From Coy. Sergt.-Major Kershaw, whose home address is 22, Clarendon Street, Bradford, I got the following details. He was with your husband the whole time. At 2 a.m. they charged and captured the trench, any Germans who were in it running away; but after some time found they were being so hotly fired on into the trench from the right flank that they decided to fall back into a trench just behind. As they did this a young subaltern, named Buchanan, of the Irish Fusiliers, who was attached to A Coy., was badly wounded. As soon as your husband got his company into a trench behind, he, with the Coy. Sergt.-Major and a volunteer, went back under heavy fire and brought Buchanan into the trench. By the time it was 5.15 a.m., just daylight. At 5.30 a.m. the Sergt.-Major saw a lot of men retiring out of the left flank of the trench they were in, and went to see what it meant. Your husband followed him. They were walking along inside the trench, but your husband’s head must have been exposed (his height was 6 feet 4 inches), for a bullet came over the parapet and went right through his head. He knew nothing about it, but just dropped, death being instantaneous. It would seem almost as if he had a premonition of his death, as several times he repeated to his Coy. Sergt.-Major, ‘Be sure, if I am shot, that you bury me where I fall, as I am too big and heavy for the men to carry in.’ Up to the very end he was always thinking of others. He was buried as soon as it was dark on Monday evening, 15 March, in a little plot of ground on the left hand side of the road just as you leave the ruined village of St. Eloi for Ypres. This spot is exactly opposite the last ruined cottage on the right as you leave the village. We are going back to this post to-morrow evening for another eight days’ work. I am getting the Battn. Sergt.-Major--Sergt.-Major Shaw--who buried him, to point me out the spot, so that I will know should I ever return alive. I can then tell you exactly. A wooden cross with his name and regt. will be put up to mark the place. I am very glad to say I understand the commanding officer is recommending your husband for the D.S.O. for the good work he did that night.” He m. at. Bilton, near Rugby, 7 Dec. 1907, Winifred, dau. of the late Rev. Charles Frederick Cumber West, Vicar of Charlbury, Oxford, and had a son and three daus.: Charles Patrick Russell, b. 25 Feb. 1913; Peggy Winifred Isabel, b. 2 Aug. 1909; Honor Georgina Beatrice, b. 13 Sept. 1911; and Marian Elizabeth Hope, b. 12 Oct. 1914.

=COLUMBUS, FRED=, Private, No. 912, D. Coy., 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2nd s. of Frank Columbus, of Shallop Cove, St. George’s Newfoundland, by his wife, Susan, dau. of Peter Benoit, of Flat Bay, Newfoundland; b. Shallop Cove aforesaid, 18 April, 1893; educ. Shallop Cove and Grand River, Newfoundland; was a Lumberman; joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, 3 Jan. 1915; left for England in March, went to the Dardanelles, 19 Aug. 1915, and died at Alexandria, Egypt, 9 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action at Gallipoli on the 1st (?); unm. Buried in the Chatby Military Cemetery at Alexandria.

=COLVIN, ROBERT ALEXANDER=, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., s. of the late John C. Colvin, of Sutton Veney, co. Wilts: b. 5 Nov. 1889; gazetted 2nd Lieut. West Yorkshires, 18 Sept. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 2 July, 1909, and appointed Adjutant 1 Aug. 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action on the Western Front, 12 March, 1915; unm.

=COLYER, REGINALD JAMES=, Leading Seaman, 194323, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COMYN, WILLIAM NUGENT=, L.-Corpl., No. 119777, 2nd Battn. The Wiltshire Regt., s. of Francis Sarsfield Comyn, Master Mariner, by his wife, Eliza Jane (209, Alcester Road, King’s Heath, Birmingham), dau. of George Barber, and only gdson. of the late Capt. William Nugent Comyn, R.N. [descended from the Comyns of co. Clare]; b. Upton Park, London, 27 Feb. 1881; educ. privately in Birmingham; was independent; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Wiltshires at Lavington, 8 Sept. 1914, trained at Weymouth; was promoted L.-Corpl. Nov. 1914, went to France 12 Dec., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm.

=CONDRON, EDWARD=, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., B. 8605), 295103, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CONDUITT, ROBERT BRUCE=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, yr. s. of Henry Walter Conduitt, of 38, St. Alban’s Road, Edinburgh, late Examiner of Public Works Accounts, India, by his wife, Agnes Lennox, dau. of Robert Bruce; b. Allahabad, United Provinces, India, 13 April, 1890; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Fetter’s College, Edinburgh; was by profession a banker, and had been attached to offices in Scotland, Canada and India. He served in the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers for a year, and in the 4th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.) for the same length of time, and joined the 14th Battn (London Scottish) The London Regt. 4 Aug. 1914, the day before the declaration of war. He went with them to France on 19 Sept. 1914, and served in the trenches throughout the winter of 1914–15. On 3 April he was given a commission in the Seaforth Highlanders, and joined on the 12th, being killed in action in the front line of trenches close to Neuve Chapelle four days later, 16 April, 1915. He was buried in the cemetery at Vieille Chapelle; unm. Capt. A. R. Baillie Hamilton, 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, wrote: “Although he had only joined my company the day we moved into the trenches (12th), I saw a great deal of him during the few days, and I formed a very high opinion of him, and was congratulating myself on having such a nice lad posted to me. He seemed to get on exceptionally well with the men, and I have overheard several nice things said of him by them. He had the makings of a really efficient officer.”

=CONGDON, RICHARD HENRY=, Stoker, P.O., 2nd Class (R.F.R., A. 1829), 123974, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CONN, GEORGE DENHOLM=, Private, No. 24466, 13th Battn. (5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Neil Stalker Conn, of Stevenston, by his wife ... (Park Avenue, Brockville, Ontario, Canada), dau. of Robert Montgomery; b. Ardrossan, co. Ayr, 10 March, 1896; educ. Public School, Saltcoats; went to Canada, 10 March, 1911; enlisted in Aug. 1914, on the outbreak of war; left with the first contingent in Oct., and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at the Battle of Langemarck, 24 April, 1915; unm.

=CONNELL, GILBERT=, Private, No. 2387, 1/5th West Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Joseph Connell, of 6, Barlow Terrace, Denison Road, Selby, Churchwarden at Selby Abbey, by his wife, Celia; b. Selby, co. York, 10 April, 1892; educ. Abbey Church School there; served his apprenticeship as a fitter and engineer at Messrs. Cochrane & Sons, Ltd., shipbuilders, Selby, and on the outbreak of war joined the 1/5th West Yorkshires in Sept. 1914. He was killed by a grenade at Ypres, 21 July, 1915, two Harrogate Territorials, who were in the trench with him, also meeting their death from the same explosive. He was unm., and was buried just behind the trenches. His commanding officer wrote: “He was an excellent and cheery soldier.” One of his brothers is at the Front, and the other has joined the Army.

=CONNELLAN, PETER MARTIN=, Capt. and Local Major, 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., only s. of Major James Hercules Fitzwalter Henry Connellan, of Coolmore, Thomastown, co. Kilkenny, J.P., D.L., formerly Hon. Col. 5th Royal Irish Regt. and Capt. Hampshire Regt., by his wife, Laura Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Ussher Roberts; b. Sale, co. Chester, 19 Feb. 1882; educ. Harrow, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Hampshires (then in India), 8 Jan. 1901, being promoted Lieut. 30 Nov. 1903, and Capt. 9 May, 1907. He served in Aden, 1903–4, took part in the operations in the hinterland, and acted as signalling officer to the brigade under Brig.-Gen. Scallon with the Boundary Delimitation Commission, and was present at the attack by Arabs on the camp at Awabil; also in the expedition against the Kotaibis. He was Adjutant to the 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., 23 Oct. 1906, to 22 Oct. 1909, and of the Hampshire depot and 3rd Battn. from 23 Jan. 1911, to Jan. 1914, when he rejoined the 1st Battn. at Colchester. The Battn. left for the Front in the 11th Brigade, 4th Division, in the third week of Aug. 1914, and was closely engaged in covering the British retirement from Mons, the Division earning the warm approval of the Commander-in-Chief. Capt. Connellan bore a very conspicuous part in holding the railway line near Caudry on 26 Aug., being under heavy fire all day in a most exposed position, also in the retirement on Ligny, and subsequent engagements. On 7 Sept. 1914, he was promoted Tempy. Major (a rank which he continued to hold until he fell), and given the command of his battn., which he retained during the engagements at the Marne and the Aisne. After being relieved by the French near Buez-le-Long on 4 Oct. the Brigade was engaged in the neighbourhood of Armentières, to the north-east of which Major Connellan fell (shot through the neck by shrapnel) on 20 Oct., when second in command of his battn. He was buried at Pont-de-Nieppe. Major Connellan was twice mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette, 9 Dec. 1914, and 17 Feb. 1915), and especially recommended for promotion and reward by his Brigadier, who described him as one of his ablest commanders and a born soldier. He was a keen sportsman, a fine rider, very fond of hunting and salmon fishing, also of games; was a member of the battn polo team, and a good player of hockey, tennis, Badminton, etc. He held the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving one of the men of his regt. from drowning. Major Connellan m. at St. Thomas’ Church, Winchester, 18 Oct. 1911, Winifred (New Empress Club), 3rd dau. of the late Arthur Niblett, formerly of Haresfield Court, co. Gloucester; s.p.

=CONNER, RICHARD=, Major, 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., 2nd s. of the late Capt. Daniel Conner, of Ballybricken, Monkstown, co. Cork, Royal Marine L.I., J.P., by his wife, Emily, dau. of Henry Steigen Berger, of 30, Cleveland Square, Hyde Park; b. Ballybricken aforesaid, 29 Dec. 1868; educ. St. Edward’s School, Oxford, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Gloucesters, 11 Feb. 1888, and was gazetted Lieut. 3 July, 1889, Capt. 26 May, 1897, and Major, 25 Oct. 1907; served through the South African war, 1899–1902, took part in operations in Natal, 1899, including actions at Rietfontein and Lombards Kop (slightly wounded), and afterwards on Staff as Station Officer and as Commandant at Kaffir River Bridge, also in operations in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, July, 1901, to 31 May, 1902, mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps; and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Dec. 1914, to 9 May, 1915, when he was wounded and taken prisoner at Ypres, and died in London, 7 Sept. 1915, after exchange as an incapacitated prisoner of war; unm.

=CONNETT, HENRY=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 885), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CONNOLLY, EDWARD=, Corpl. No. 90396, R.F.A., 3rd s. of Thomas Connolly, of 16, Mary Street, Sunderland, Riveter, by his wife, Frances, dau. of Peter Patrick, of Sunderland; b. Southwick-on-Wear, 7 Nov. 1890; educ. National School there; was employed at Priestman’s, Sunderland; joined the R.G.A. (T.F.) and rose to the rank of Sergt., taking his discharge in June, 1914, as medically unfit; rejoined 16 Aug. following for the period of the war, and died of wounds, 12 Dec. 1915, received in a farmhouse near Ypres; unm. He was buried in O-Beal Cemetery.

=CONWAY, JOHN=, L.-Corpl. No. 73535, D Coy., 28th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Patrick Conway, of Ivy Cottage, Ennistymon, co. Clare, ex-Sergt. Royal Irish Constabulary, by his wife, Hanna, dau. of William O’Sullivan, Bonane, Kenmare, co. Kerry; b. Iries, Castletownbere, co. Cork, 13 July, 1874; educ. Bantry and Castletownbere; enlisted in the Grenadier Guards about 1894, and served with the Sudan Expedition, including the Battle of Omdurman and the capture of Khartoum; and through the South African war, 1899–1902 (receiving three medals). He then went to Canada about 1906 and settled in Ottawa, and was working on the railroad, but on the outbreak of the European war joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, came over with the second contingent, and was killed in action in Belgium, 17 Oct. 1915; unm. He was in charge of a machine gun, when a shell fell within 15 yards of his post, killing him and three more instantly. His commanding officer, Major C. R. Hill, wrote: “He was a splendid soldier, and on the 16th had been promoted L.-Corpl. He died at his post, and no man could do more.”

=CONWAY, JOHN CHARLES=, Mechanician, 282316, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; unm.

=COOK, ALFRED JOHN=, A.B., 211035, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COOK, BERNARD HENRY=, Rifleman, No. 2361, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Frederick Thomas Cook, of Harleston; b. Harlesden, N.W., 11 Dec. 1895; educ. Upper Latymer School, Hammersmith, and the Polytechnic, Regent Street; joined The Rangers, Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 15 Feb. 1915, being buried in Menin cemetery, near St. Eloi. He was just finishing his three years’ course as an architectural student.

=COOK, EDGAR PRESTON=, Corpl., No. 6780, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Robert Cook, of Loring, Ontario, Canada, by his wife, Rovy, dau. of John Currie; b. 6 Feb. 1896; educ. Loring Public School; enlisted 23 Sept. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the Front, 7 Feb. 1915; was commended by his Commanding Officer, 4 June, 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field at the Battle of St. Julien, and promoted Corpl., and was killed in action at Festubert, France, 15 June, 1915; unm.

=COOK, EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./1323, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept 1914.

=COOK, EDWARD=, Private, No. 2642, 1/7th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Cook, of Thornley, Fruiterer and Florist, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Peel; b. Thornley, co. Durham, 12 Jan. 1891; educ. Council School there, Henry Smith’s Secondary School, Hartlepool, and the Training College for Teachers, Sunderland, 1909–11, and having obtained his certificate was appointed assistant master at the Thornley Council School, which post he held at the outbreak of war. While going through his course at Sunderland Training College he had joined the Territorial Battn. of the Durham L.I., and on 9 Sept. 1914, volunteered for Imperial service. He left Gateshead for France on 19 April, and on arrival the Durham L.I. were immediately sent up to the trenches at Ypres, and he was killed in action there on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915; unm. His body was found six weeks afterwards in front of the first line of trenches and buried by a comrade. His yr. brother, Private Percy Cook, Durham L.I., also a trained teacher, was killed in action on the Somme, 27 July, 1916.

=COOK, EDWARD PERCY=, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./17952, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COOK, ERNEST VICTOR=, Private, No. 656, 90th Winnipeg Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Thurstan Cook, of 16, Killarney Road, Wandsworth, S.W., formerly of Ryder Street, St. James’, Military Boot Maker, by his wife Lucy, dau. of John Palmer; b. Wandsworth, 16 May, 1887; educ. Sir Walter St. John’s School, Battersea, and on leaving school entered the employ of Messrs. Tyser & Co., shipping insurance agents, and afterwards of Lloyds. Leaving for Canada in Nov. 1910, he was for a time at Montreal, and then went to Winnipeg. When war was declared in Aug. 1914, he immediately joined the 90th Winnipeg Rifles, and came to England with the first Canadian contingent, which arrived at Plymouth, 14 Oct. 1914. After training on Salisbury Plain during the winter months, he went to the Front early in 1915, and during the heavy fighting at Ypres, 22–25 April, suffered badly from gas poisoning, but recovered and was in the trenches again in May. He was hit by shrapnel at the Battle of Festubert on 20 May, 1915, and died a few hours later, being buried in Bethune Town Cemetery; unm.

=COOK, FRANCIS JOSHUA=, Cook’s Mate, M. 2956, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COOK, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 10356, 2nd South Wales Borderers, only s. of William Cook, of 15, Tre-Edwards, Rhymney, Brewery Worker, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Aaron Powell; b. Rhymney, 11 Aug. 1891; educ. there; enlisted 23 Feb. 1910; served in South Africa, 31 Jan. 1912–3 Oct. 1912; North China, Oct. 1912 (including Battle of Tsing-Tau); and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 25 May, 1915; unm.

=COOK, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Private, No. 7105, A Coy., 1st Battn. Norfolk Regt., 2nd s. of Arthur Cook, of 30, Long Street, Ipswich, by his wife, Amelia, dau. of James Thorrington; b. Ipswich, 12 Nov. 1891; educ. there; joined the Special (Army) Reserve in 1911; d. 11 July, 1915, from wounds received in action at Blauvepoort, near Ypres; unm. His Commanding Officer, 2nd Lieut. Kenney, writing on 12 July, said: “He was working in the trenches the night before last when a bullet struck him in the back, afterwards passing through his side and arm,” adding: “He is a great loss to the regt. but died a noble death in doing the finest thing any man can do--giving his life for the sake of his country.”

=COOK, HAROLD=, Private, No. 113, 21st Battn. 6th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late James Cook, of Stockwell, Marble Mason (who d. 1889); b. Stockwell, London, 30 July, 1885; educ. Stockwell College; went to Australia, 5 Dec. 1913, and settled at Melbourne; enlisted there in Feb. 1915; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles and d. of pneumonia in No. 15 Base Hospital, Alexandria, 28 Dec. 1915; unm.

=COOK, HARRY JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 113688, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COOK, ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 8030, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COOK, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3171 C., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COOK, WILLIAM GEORGE=, L.-Corpl., No. 1916, 1/5th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Alfred Henry Cook, of Bank Cottage, South Ascot, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of William Rew Maunders, of Bristol; b. Warfield, co. Berks, 25 May, 1890; educ. Rangleigh Elementary School, Windsor Forest; was a carman for Mr. Corbett, Builder, Bagshot; joined the Surrey Territorials, 19 Feb. 1909; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war, and was sent with his battn. to Lucknow, where he was promoted L.-Corpl. In May, 1915, a call was made for a draft of men from the 5th Queen’s to join the 2nd Norfolks, then engaged in operations in the Persian Gulf, and Cook was one of those who volunteered. He was drowned in the Tigris, 6 Aug. 1915, when on duty; unm.; an officer wrote that he was one of the best of their N.C.Os. and that he “was full of keenness at his work and cheeriness on the march, and an excellent example of smartness both on and off duty.”

=COOKE, ALBERT EDWARD=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 8455, 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., s. of Edward Cooke, of 35, Langton Street, Cathay, Bristol, retired Army Warrant Officer and Barrack Master, late M.W.D., India, by his wife, Elizabeth Catherine, dau. of W. Davis; b. Bareilly, India, 6 Sept. 1889; educ. Military School, India, and Secondary School, Gloucester; enlisted in the 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. 20 Aug. 1906, and served seven years with the Colours and then passed into the Reserve. He held the Army Acting Schoolmaster’s certificate, and as long as the rules permitted he had charge of the Depot Military School at Bodmin, Cornwall. On leaving the Army he joined the City of London Police Force, and was attached to the Clock Lane division until called up on the outbreak of the war, 5 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action in France on 4 June, 1915; unm. The officer commanding (Lieut.-Col. M. Turner), 1st Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., wrote that he “Was killed in action early yesterday morning (Friday). He was accompanying the company commander, Capt. B. Woodham, D.S.O., round the trenches--the night was a very dark one--and was shot in the head, dying shortly afterwards. The medical officer informs me that he could not have felt any pain whatever, which may be a comfort for you to know. I myself had known your son for some years, and he was at Bodmin with me when I commanded the depot. His loss is very deeply deplored by all here--officers, N.C.O.’s, and men. He was one of the finest, if not the finest, N.C.O. in the battn., utterly fearless and daring, a splendid disciplinarian, and an all-round good fellow. He is a great loss to the battn. and to the country. He had been recommended by Major Canton (he was in command when I was home wounded) for a commission, and we are all sorry that he did not live to receive it. He was buried yesterday (Friday) afternoon in our regimental cemetery here, a charming little spot, and I and several officers and as many men as could be spared attended the funeral. I trust you will accept the deepest sympathy of the battn., of which your son was one of the best, in your bereavement. He died like a soldier for his King and country.” Of his three brothers, Lieut. J. H. Cooke, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, was killed in action at the Dardanelles landing; Corpl. W. D. Cooke, of 5th Divisional Cyclist Coy., is now (1916) a prisoner of war in Germany; and Sergt. A. W. Cooke was (16 Sept. 1914 to 4 Jan. 1915) Drill Instructor to the 15th Gloucesters, and was then with the 13th and later with the 16th Battns., returning to Police duty 6 Jan. 1916.

=COOKE, JOSEPH HENRY=, Lieut., 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Alfred Edward Cooke, of 35, Langton Street, Cathay, Bristol, retired Army Warrant Officer, and Barrack Master, late M.W.D., India, by his wife, Elizabeth Catherine, dau. of W. Davis; b. Dinapore, India, 26 Oct. 1882; educ. in Military Schools in India; enlisted in the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1899, and served with them 12 years; went to Western Australia and settled at Wickepin; volunteered on the outbreak of war; was made Sergt. and later promoted Lieut.; served at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there 2 May, 1915. He m. at Malta, Rosie (Wickepin, Western Australia), dau. of (--) Peffers, and had three children. His brother, Coy. Sergt.-Major A. E. Cooke, was also killed in action.

=COOKSLEY, ARTHUR GEORGE=, Gunner, R.M.A. 8388, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COOLEY, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9339), S.S. 106582, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COOLEY, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4035), S.S. 102438, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COOLEY, WILLIAM JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./7606 (R.F.R., B. 880), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COOLING, JOHN JOSEPH=, Private, No. 379, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of John Joseph Cooling, of Windgates, co. Wicklow, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Boyd; b. Windgates, 31 Jan. 1891; educ. Bray National School; went to Australia in 1910 and settled at Sydney. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914, leaving for Egypt with the first contingent. He was severely wounded on 26 April during the historic landing at the Dardanelles, and was invalided back to Cairo, but rejoined his unit in July. Shortly afterwards he was reported as missing, and later was officially stated to have been killed in action between 6 and 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

=COOLLEDGE, JOHN HENRY=, Leading Stoker, Ch./305541, R.F.R. B. 8475, 2nd. s. of Job Coolledge, of Purleigh, Essex, Shoemaker, by his wife, Sarah; b. Purleigh, 25 July, 1882; educ. there; joined the Navy in Sept. 1902, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 23 Sept. 1914. He m. at Leigh-on-Sea, 29 July, 1911, Alice H. (4, Reginald Cottages, High Street, Leigh-on-Sea), dau. of Walter Carey; s.p.

=COOMBES, ALBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., 11496, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COOMBES, ARTHUR ROBERT=, Private, No. 1920, 3rd Battn. Australian L.I., s. of James Coombes, of Hammersmith, by his wife, Emily; b. Hammersmith, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Paul’s C.E. School there; joined the Australian Imperial Force after the outbreak of war, and was killed in the fighting at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, on 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

=COOMBES, CECIL ROBERT=, Private, No. 4215, 14th Battn. (The London Scottish). The London Regt. (T.F.), 1st s. of James Robert Coombes, of 35, Knollys Road, Streatham, S.W., Madras Provincial Civil Service, late Presidency Magistrate, Madras, and Treasury Officer, Salem, by his wife, Camellia Ruth, dau. of Sergt. Stephen Pincott, 1st Madras Fusiliers; b. Cuddalore, South India, 18 March, 1897; educ. Champion Hill School, Denmark Hill (1905–6), Doveton Protestant College, Madras (1906–13), and Birkbeck College (1914); joined the London Scottish for Imperial Service, 2 Jan. 1915; went to the Front, 4 July, 1915; was severely wounded in the stomach in the attack on the Hohenzollern trenches during the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died in the 2nd Field Ambulance the following day; unm. He was buried in the British cemetery at Vermelles. While in India, 1906–13, he was a Boy Scout, then a cadet, and finally a Volunteer in the Madras Volunteer Guards. A keen sportsman and shot, he was captain of Doveton College football and hockey teams, prefect of the school, and sub-editor of the school magazine. He had been selected and trained for the machine gun section, and successfully passed the snipers’ test, for eventual employment in that capacity.

=COOMBS, ARTHUR ERSKINE GURNEY=, Lieut., R.N., elder s. of Richard Samuel Gurney Coombs, of Church House, Oundle, by his wife, Kathleen Maria, dau. of Adolphe Philippe de Chastelain; b. Kensington, 3 Feb. 1888; educ. Oundle School; entered H.M.S. Britannia as a cadet, Jan. 1903, at the head of the list; appointed Midshipman, H.M.S. Ocean (China Station), April, 1904; transferred to H.M.S. Goliath (Mediterranean Station), 1905, and to H.M.S. Illustrious, March, 1907; appointed to Royal Naval College, Greenwich, for special course, April, 1908, and obtained four 1st classes; promoted Sub-Lieut. 30 July, 1908, and appointed to H.M.S. Dee (Destroyer), Jan. 1909; promoted Lieut. 30 April, 1909; appointed to H.M.S. Hindustan (Battleship), Sept. 1909, and to H.M.S. Dryad for navigation course, Jan. 1910; qualified as Lieut. (Navigating), and appointed to H.M.S. Essex (Cruiser), Aug. 1910, and to H.M.S. Blanche (Cruiser), Feb. 1911; transferred to H.M.S. Foresight (Light Cruiser), March following, and appointed to H.M.S. Diamond (Cruiser), Nov. 1912; and as Navigating Lieut. to H.M.S. Juno, Dec. following; appointed for first class ship’s course in navigation at Portsmouth, Jan. 1914, and obtained first place in examination; appointed Navigating Lieut. to H.M.S. Hawke, Feb. 1914, and was lost in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914, when that Cruiser was torpedoed. At the time of the attack Lieut. Coombs was on navigating duty on the bridge with the Capt. (Williams), and they remained there together until the ship sank. Coombs was subsequently seen in the water by survivors among the crew, but is presumed to have perished from the cold. He was unm.

=COONEY, JOHN DANIEL=, Private, No. 2486, 6th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Patrick Cooney, J.P., by his wife, Mary (Garranlea House, Cahir, co. Tipperary), dau. of Daniel Joseph Geary; b. Cahir, 20 Aug. 1889; educ. Rockwell College and Blackrock College, Ireland; enlisted in the Manchester Regt. on the outbreak of war, went with his battn. to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 29 May, 1915. He had been nominated for a commission, against his express wishes, just before his death; unm. Private Cooney played Rugby football regularly for the Manchester City Club and Lancashire County. He was a good boxer and a first-rate athlete, winning many prizes at 440 and 880 yards.

=COOPER, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4085), S.S. 102471, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COOPER, ALFRED=, Private, No. 9720, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Croix Barbée, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=COOPER, ANDREW=, Private, No. 14288, 4th Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died at Zolobes, 14 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action.

=COOPER, EDWARD WYNDHAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5932), 215711, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COOPER, ERNEST=, Private, No. 10041, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 30 Aug. 1914.

=COOPER, ERNEST ROBERT=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1202T, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COOPER, HANWAY=, Sub-Lieut., R.N., yst. s. of the late William Cooper, M.A. Oxford, by his wife, Marion (Gravel Hill, Boxmoor, co. Herts), dau. of the late Major James German, of Maywood, Sevenoaks, J.P., D.L., grandson of John Cooper, of The Oaks, Preston, co. Lancs, and great-great-nephew of Admiral Sir James Hanway Plumridge, who fought in the Crimea; b. Hampstead, co. Middlesex, 2 May, 1892; educ. St. Christopher’s School, Eastbourne, the Royal Naval College, Osborne (entered 12 Jan. 1905), and Britannia College, Dartmouth; and was promoted Acting Sub-Lieut. 15 Sept. 1912, and Sub-Lieut. 15 Nov. following. He served on H.M. ships Commonwealth (15 Sept. 1909–14 Sept. 1910), Rattlesnake (15 Sept. 1910–14 Nov. 1910), Warrior (15 Nov. 1910–4 April, 1911), Britannia (14 Sept. 1911–2 Sept. 1912, “a zealous, hard-working officer”), Dryad (3 Sept.-9 Oct. 1912), Circe (10 Oct. 1912–6 March, 1914, “has carried out the duties of executive officer with zeal and ability”), Pembroke (7 March–22 March, 1914), and Shannon (23 March–30 July, 1914, “a very capable and promising officer”), and on the outbreak of war was appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth. He was killed in the naval action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, when the Monmouth and Good Hope were lost with all hands, 1 Nov. 1914. Sub-Lieut. Cooper was to have been promoted to the rank of Lieut. 15 Nov. following his death.

=COOPER, HENRY=, Private, No. 10894, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died on active service, 4 Nov. 1914, of enteric fever.

=COOPER, JAMES HAMILTON=, Private, No. 8551, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of Alfred Cooper, of The Lilac, Plantation Road, Hextable; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 29 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=COOPER, JOHN=, Fleet Paymaster, R.N., yr. s. of James Cooper Cooper, formerly Tuthill, of Cooper Hill, Clarina, co. Limerick, J.P., by his first wife, Mary, dau. of Charles Pickering, of Roebuck, co. Dublin; b. Cooper Hill, 4 July, 1869; educ. Burney’s School, Gosport; joined the Navy as an Assistant Clerk in 1886, becoming Paymaster in 1900, Staff Paymaster in 1904, and Fleet Paymaster, 1 Feb. 1908. He served in H.M. Yacht Osborne from 1899–1902, and was afterwards Secretary to Admiral Custance in the Venerable, and to Admiral Sir Charles Briggs in the Lord Nelson and the Dreadnought. He joined H.M.S. Monmouth, 1 Aug. 1914, and was lost in action when that ship was sunk in the Battle off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914. He m. at St. Peter’s, Cranley Gardens, S.W., 5 June, 1905, Marguerite Sutherland (Chiltern House, Chesham), dau. of the late Capt. Francis Sutherland, Royal Scots Greys, and had three children: James Francis, b. 5 May, 1906; John Christopher, b. 15 May, 1907; and Elizabeth Mary, b. 20 Feb. 1909.

=COOPER, LEONARD GOSSE=, 2nd Lieut., 4th (Service) Battn. South Wales Borderers, yst. s. of Walter Percy Cooper, of Ambleside, Abergavenny, Managing Director of Seargeant Bros., Ltd.; b. Abergavenny, 15 June, 1892; educ. Llandovery College, and Jesus College, Oxford, where he won a classical scholarship and also a Goldsmith’s Exhibition, and was placed in the first class in Honour Classical Moderations in 1914. On the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, and was gazetted to the South Wales Borderers, 29 Aug. 1914, accompanied the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action 9 Aug. 1915; unm. He was buried in the 29th Field Ambulance Cemetery, at the mouth of the Aghyl Dere, Gallipoli, near Col. Gillispie and Major Sir Lennox Napier. Capt. C. E. Kitchen, commanding the C Coy., wrote: “It was early on 9 Aug. that the Turks attempted a surprise attack upon us where we were holding a very difficult position which we had not time to properly strengthen. My company had to occupy a rough knoll, covered with scrub, and in the semi-darkness it was very difficult to see the enemy. I immediately ordered up two platoons--No. 12 (your son’s) and No. 11 (Mr. Miller’s)--and was successful in keeping back the Turks. Unhappily Leonard, whilst gallantly leading and encouraging his men, was shot through the body, and passed away almost at once.” The regt. was congratulated by Sir Ian Hamilton for their conduct on this day.

=COOPER, STANLEY JAMES=, Armourer’s Crew, 228727, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COOPER, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14542, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=COOPER, THOMAS WILFRED=, Private, No. 12629, 4th (Service) Battn. South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of George Cooper, of Joyford Hill, Coleford, by his wife, Jessie, dau. of George Taylor, of Joyford Hill; b. Coleford, co. Gloucester, 13 April, 1890; was employed at the Connop Collieries; volunteered and enlisted, Aug. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles from 29 June, 1915, to 10 Aug. 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action there; unm.

=COPE, HARRY FITZGERALD=, Private, No. 81177, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Gilbert Augustus Cope, of Russell, Manitoba, Canada, Farmer, formerly of Tralee, co. Kerry, and Sydenham, co. Kent, Organist of St. Michael’s, Lower Sydenham, 1882–88, by his late wife, Annie, dau. of the late William Burley, of Hastings, Sussex; b. Kilmalkeader Farm, Russell Co., Manitoba, 8 May, 1896; educ. Londonderry, near Russell, and Russell High School; joined the 32nd Manitoba Light Horse on its formation in May, 1913; trained at Sewell, 1913–14; volunteered for overseas service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and was drafted to the 32nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, at Winnipeg; came over with reinforcements for the first contingent, 17 Feb. 1915; trained at Shorncliffe Camp; went to the Front, 29 April, 1915; transferred to 8th Battn., 8 May (his 19th birthday); wounded in the left shoulder in action at Givenchy, 21 June, 1915, by a piece of shrapnel, but remained in the trenches with his company; appointed Headquarters Runner to the Battn., 1 Aug.; killed in action at Ploegsteert, Belgium, about 11 p.m., 12 Sept. 1915, while repairing trench under fire, being shot near the heart. Buried in the 90th Rifles graveyard in Ploegsteert Wood; unm. Capt. L. Gysin wrote: “He had been so familiar and well-liked a figure amongst us, as he had always been a good soldier and seldom without a smile, that his death will be a great loss to us”; and Private C. Robin: “All the Russell boys, in fact all the boys who knew him, feel pretty bad. He was one of the best, always cheery and cool under fire.”

=BIDDLE-COPE, ANTHONY CYPRIAN PROSPER=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., s. of James Cyprian Biddle-Cope, formerly of Broadwood Hall, co. Salop, by his wife, Marie Louise, dau. of Edward Angell Saunders; b. London, 9 May, 1889; educ. Barnabite College, Florence, Italy; and was afterwards a Cadet on H.M.S. Conway, where he received the King’s gold medal. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., 10 Aug. 1910, and went to the Front with them on the outbreak of war. He was present when the general move of the British Army was made in Belgium and Northern France, and when the Germans made their first attempt to capture Calais, and was killed in action while saving the life of a friend, near Ypres, 26 April, 1915; unm. A Major of the 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., in a letter to his family, wrote: “The death of your son was not a surprise to me, for I knew it must only be a question of time before he was either killed or wounded seriously enough to lay him up for the rest of the war, for he was one of the bravest men I have ever met. I knew him first at the depot at Shrewsbury, when he first joined in 1910, and even then I was so much impressed with his pluck and his constant desire to do his duty in everything that I used to say that if ever I went on service I should rather have him to help me in a tight place than any other young officer I knew. When we were out on the Aisne, if ever there was any dangerous job that required to be done he would volunteer to do it, and yet the way he carried it out showed that he had caution and sense besides mere pluck. When he was first wounded, on 23 Oct., he came up to me with his hand bound up, and was all for leading a bayonet charge in daylight. The day before that he had walked across an open space of 50 yards to bring me a message, with the bullets spattering all around him, and nothing I could say would make him wait till dark before going back.” Another officer, who was wounded in the same engagement as that in which Lieut. Biddle-Cope met his death, wrote: “During the fight round Ypres two companies were ordered with the machine guns to reinforce a regt. who were having a very had time. On arrival there some selected men of our company were ordered to take a trench held by the Germans, and I was one of the officers, and while waiting to move out of our trench to attack, Biddle-Cope came up and chatted with me and wished me good luck; and I left my stick with him till I came back. The order to advance was given, and we charged, and just before we got to the enemy’s trench Biddle-Cope rushed by at a terrific pace, and was shot as he got to the enemy’s trench. When just in front of me he fired two shots from his revolver, and I think was again hit. I dropped down beside him and fired at the German who had shot, him, but can’t say whether I hit him or not. I myself had damaged my knee so severely that I could not walk at the time, and I saw no use trying to do any more, so collected the few men left--about five at the moment--and crawled back in. Biddle-Cope was machine gun officer, and should not have been there, but I can only think that he saw things were going badly and came out to help me.”

=COPE, MICHAEL WILLIAM=, Private, No. 6317, No. 3 Coy. 1st Battn. 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Michael Brown Cope, of The Corner House, Castledermott, co. Kildare, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of John Brown, of Woodlands, Castledermott; b. Castledermott, 1 Sept. 1892; educ. there; went to Canada, 24 May. 1912, and after a few months in Arkona, Thedford, Ontario, with his uncle, George Brown, J.P., became a clerk on the Canadian Pacific Railway at Windsor, Ontario. On the outbreak of war he enlisted and came to England with the first Canadian contingent, and after training at Salisbury during the winter, left for the Front, 7 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action between Bethune and La Bassée on the evening of 1 June, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “He was killed in one of the most daring attacks of this war. It commenced at 6 p.m. The hail of bullets and shrapnel which swept over our parapet was perfectly ranged; it was suicide to show oneself over the breastwork, for the enemy were less than 75 yards away. In spite of all, not a man hesitated. The whole platoon, of which William was one of my best chums, crossed the parapet with our heads down and a muttered prayer. We made straight for the German lines. We dropped into shell holes for a breather, and I glanced back and saw half of the boys (chums all of them since leaving Windsor, Ontario) lying dead and wounded. William, I afterwards learned, suffered no pain; his death was instantaneous. We had many debts to pay--Ypres, Festubert--and we alleged together to form one terrible effort, which carried us to their third line. William was with us through all our trouble at Ypres and Festubert, and has won the love and respect of us all. There are but few survivors left of the willing bands that landed in France last February.”

=COPELAND, TOM=, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, 357988, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=COPELAND, WILLIAM GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10384), 206235, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COPELAND, WILLIAM JOHN=, Corpl., No. 10666, Machine Gun Section Wellington L.I., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Thomas Mercer Copeland, of 30, Liffeton Street, Wanganui, New Zealand, Building Inspector etc., for Wanganui Borough Council, by his wife, Emma; b. Wanganui, 23 Jan. 1890; and was educated at the District High School and at Mossten, Wanganui. He joined the Defence Cadets as a boy, winning a cup for shooting at the age of 15, and afterwards attained the rank of Lieut. of the Senior Cadets acting at Capt. for eighteen months, but had to resign on leaving Wanganui for New Plymouth to take up other work. He was a Mechanical Engineer and Motor Expert by trade and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial Service and joined the Wellington Infantry Battn., 18 Aug. 1914. He left New Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force, was promoted Corpl. while in Egypt on Christmas Day, 1914, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; unm. Col. Malone wrote: “When on the death of all his superior officers I placed him in charge of my four machine guns and recommended him for a commission to be my Machine Gun Officer. He was trying to locate the Turk’s fire which was harassing them when he was shot,” adding that “it was an extremely plucky act.”

=COPLAND, DUDLEY CHARLES JAMES=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.), only s. of Charles Copland, Professor of Singing, R.A.M; b. Hampstead, 2 May, 1896; educ. St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir School and Denstone College; joined the 28th Battn. (Artists’ Rifles) The London Regt., and was gazetted to the Sherwood Foresters, 2 March, 1915. He was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, being buried in the cemetery at La Cordonnierie.

=COPLAND, LEONARD GEORGE=, Ordinary Telegraphist, J. 14426, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COPLAND, MAURICE=, Private, No. 2363, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of John Albert Copland, of Chelmsford, Solicitor, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Isaac King; b. Chelmsford, co. Essex, 21 Dec. 1876; educ. Chelmsford Grammar School, New College, Eastbourne, and Pembroke College, Cambridge; enlisted 8 Sept. 1914; proceeded with his regt. to the Front, and died in the Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 21 March, 1915, while on Active Service; buried in Wimereux Military Cemetery, Boulogne Base, Grave No. 285; unm.

=COPPINGER, CYRIL DOUGLAS=, Private, No. 12650, 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only s. of Col. Thomas Stephen Coppinger, of 168, Worple Road, Wimbledon, late 11th Regt., and Chief Paymaster, A.P.D. (who served in the Zulu war of 1879 and the last South African war), by his wife, Aldegonde Emily, dau. of Edward Thomas ffrench Beytagh, Q.C.; b. Maidstone, 26 July, 1890; educ. Wimbledon College, Edge Hill; was a journalist on the stall of the “Evening Standard,” and latterly a sub-editor on the staff of the Exchange Telegraph Co. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Northamptonshire Regt., joining the 1st Battn. at the Front, 2 Feb. 1915; he took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action in a charge on the German trenches at the Aubers Ridge, between Richebourg l’Avoue and Festubert, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was buried north of the Rue du Bois, between Richebourg St. Vaast and Richebourg l’Avoue. In announcing his death, the “Pall Mall Gazette” stated: “He was a young man of great promise, and several of his short stories, which recently appeared in a number of London magazines, attracted considerable attention.”

=COPPINS, HUGH JOSEPH=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 15587, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CORBALLY, LOUIS WILLIAM=, Capt., R.F.A., 3rd s. of the late Matthew James Corbally, of Rathbeale Hall, Swords, co. Dublin, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Sara Louisa, dau. of Thomas O’Kelly, of Bridge House, co. Kerry; b. Dublin, 27 May, 1876; educ. Stonyhurst and The Oratory School, Edgbaston; served with the Irish Hunt Yeomanry through the South African War (medal and clasps), and was gazetted Capt. R.F.A., 29 Sept. 1914. On the outbreak of the European War he left with the R.F.A. for the Front; served in France and Flanders, and died from wounds received in action, at Bailleul, near Ypres, 6 May, 1915. He m. at The Oratory, Brompton, London, 26 April, 1906, Nancy, 4th dau. of John Joseph Whyte, of Loughbrickland, co. Down, D.L., and had two sons and two daus.; Marcus, b. 29 Aug. 1907; Edward, b. 15 Jan. 1909; Dorothy, b. 25 June, 1910; and May, b. 29 Dec. 1912. A brother officer wrote: “Our position was on the railway about 4 miles N.E. of Ypres, and it was going back to see the first line ... about ½ a mile along the track that the shelling took place. It was more or less a chance shell but there was a good deal all three days. I can only repeat how much Capt. Corbally is regretted and missed by all ranks in the Battery. One has to censor their letters and the sympathetic allusions to him have been very touching. As you know the funeral was at Bailleul in France.”

=CORBET, SIR ROLAND JAMES=, 5th Bart., Lieut., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. and only surviving s. of the late Sir Walter Orlando Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, 4th Bart., Capt., Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Caroline Douglas (now wife of Reginald Basil Astley, of Compton Beauchamp, Shrivenham), only child of the late Capt. James Affleck Stewart, of St. Fort, Fife, 11th Hussars; b. 19 Park Lane, W., 19 Aug. 1892; educ. Malvern and Sandhurst; suc. his father, 20 Dec. 1910; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 22 Jan. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914–15, and was severely wounded at La Tretoire, near Rebais, on 8 Sept. and invalided home. From 28 Oct. to 22 Dec. 1914, he was on light duty at Windsor, returning to the Front on the latter date. On 6 Feb. 1915, he led successfully a most gallant attack on the Brickfields, for which he was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915], and was killed in action at Givenchy, France, 15 April, 1915; unm.

=CORBETT, GEORGE=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 20391, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CORBETT, MICHAEL PATRICK=, Leading Stoker, 305374, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CORBIN, ALONZO JOSEPH=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4187A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CORBYN, VERNON HECTOR=, Midshipman, R.N., only s. of the late Major Hector Corbyn, R.H.A., by his wife, Lylie Evelyn (Stair Lodge, Wokingham, Berks.), dau. of Samuel Orby Carey: b. Ely Court, Llandaff, 16 Jan. 1898; educ. “Fonthill,” East Grinstead, Osborne, 1911, and Dartmouth; joined H.M.S. Cressy, 3 Aug. 1914, with which he went down in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CORDER, ERNEST=, Ordinary Seaman (R.N.V.R.), 297 (Sussex), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CORDER, HUGH GERALD ANNERLY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt., only surviving s. of Major Arthur Annerly Corder, of Glendoone, Havant, Hants., A.O.D., D.A.D.O.S. (who served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles), by his wife, Lucy Ellen, dau. of George Armitage; b. Maesyneuadd Hall, co. Merioneth, 24 Jan. 1894: educ. Plymouth College and Sandhurst; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Welsh Regt. 17 Sept. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 4 Nov. 1914; went to France with the original Expeditionary Force, took part in the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Aisne, the Marne and Ypres, being wounded by shrapnel at the latter place on 2 Nov. and was invalided home. He returned to the Front on 9 April, and was killed while leading his men into action at Richebourg l’Avoue, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was buried in the British cemetery near Rue de Bois.

=CORDWELL, WILLIAM SAM=, Gunner, R.M.A. 7989 (R.F.R., B. 1103), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COREN, EDWARD WALKER=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, only s. of the late John William Coren, of Guyscliffe, Gloucester, Solicitor; b. Gloucester 8 Feb. 1893; educ. Cheltenham College, and on leaving there did 12 months’ training at Aldershot with the R.F.A. Special Reserve. He then went to the Malay States, but on the outbreak of war returned, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Special Reserve of the R.F.A., 23 Dec. 1914, and into the Regular Army, 25 May, 1915. He went to the Front in March, and was severely wounded on the night of 14 June, 1915, while out with a party of men laying telephone wires. They had had to take shelter three times owing to the heavy shell fire. Lieut. Coren made a fourth attempt to finish the work, but he and three out of the four men with him were so severely wounded that they died the following day. The fourth man, a driver, was seriously wounded, but survived. He was buried at Ypres; unm. His Col. wrote speaking very highly of the work he had done while under his command. Coren was a good all-round athlete and sportsman. At Cheltenham he was a prefect and in the cricket eleven, and was considered a good bowler. He also played football and won the High Jump two years in succession. He was also an exceptionally good horseman.

=CORFIELD, HARRY=, Private, No. 6063, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Annagh, co. Mayo; enlisted 22 May, 1905; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 16 May, 1915; unm.

=CORK, JOHN HENRY=, Leading Seaman, 223677, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CORKE, ARTHUR NOEL=, Rifleman, No. 1783, 1/18th (London Irish Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of George Johnson Corke, of 9, Adelaide Road, Brentford, W., Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Clara Maria, dau. of the late John Boys; b. Chiswick, W., 25 Dec. 1893; educ. Gunnersbury College, Chiswick, and Rothschild School, Brentford; enlisted on 7 Aug. 1914, two days after the outbreak of war, served in France and Flanders, was wounded at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died at Abbeville, 15 Oct. following, being buried there; unm. A comrade wrote: “Corke always had a quiet and gentlemanly air about him, and was thoroughly liked by all.... With regard to his life in the trenches, he did not seem to know the meaning of fear, and always took anything in that cool fashion of his which I have often envied during a heavy shelling.... In conclusion, one can say he was a good soldier, above all a good friend.” Four of his brothers joined the Army after war was declared: one the 10th Middlesex (T.F.), two the Australian Contingent, and a third the Queen Victoria Rifles.

=CORKRAN, REGINALD SEYMOUR=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, yst. s. of Col. Charles Seymour Corkran, of Chipstead, co. Surrey, late Grenadier Guards, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Sir Charles Lennox Peel, G.C.B., and gdson. of Charles Corkran, of Long Ditton, Surrey, by his wife, Georgiana Isabella, sister of the 5th Marquis of Hertford and dau. of Admiral Sir George Seymour; b. London, 28 June, 1890; educ. “Evelyns,” Uxbridge, and Eton. Was on the Stock Exchange, but on the outbreak of war enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company, served eight months and was promoted Corpl. and Sergt., receiving a commission in 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, May, 1915. He served in France and Flanders, was seriously wounded in action by shrapnel, 7 June, 1915, and died in the Duchess of Westminster’s Hospital at Le Toquet, four days later; unm. He was buried at Chipstead, co. Surrey.

=CORMICAN, HUGH PATRICK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10490), S.S. 108467 H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CORNER, ALBERT JUST=, Private, No. 1416, 4th Battn. Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), 8th s. of William Corner, of Brockside, Drummond Road, Inverness, late Actuary, Savings Bank, Inverness, by his wife, Hedwig, dau. of Heinrich Wolfgang Just; b. Inverness, 27 July, 1895; educ. High School and Royal Academy there; joined the 4th Camerons 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered with his company, went to France, 19 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm. He had been trained for a bank life, and was a member of the Bankers’ Institute of Scotland. His elder brother, Otto, was also killed in action (see following notice).

=CORNER, OTTO HEINRICH=, Private, No. 22979, 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 6th s. of William Corner, of Brookside, Drummond Road, Inverness, etc. (see preceding notice); b. Inverness, 7 July, 1892; educ. High School and Royal Academy there, and went to Canada 14 Aug. 1913; on the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and joined the Royal Montreal Regt., came over with the first contingent, and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 7 July, 1915; unm. Like his brother, he had been trained for a bank life, and was a member of the Bankers’ Institute of Scotland.

=CORNER, STEPHEN HENRY=, A.B., No. 118, Royal Naval Brigade, 4th s. of John Corner, of 5, James Armt Street, Sunderland, by his wife, Maria, dau. of John Tucker, of Sunderland; b. Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 28 July, 1892; educ. Council Schools there; was a miner; enlisted in the Durham L.I. 23 Aug. 1914; was later transferred to the Naval Brigade; served through the Antwerp Expedition and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 15 June, 1915; unm.

=CORNICK, DANIEL=, Officer’s Cook, 1st Class, L. 989, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CORNISH, CHARLES LAWSON=, Lieut. 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., yr. s. of the late Henry Cornish, Barrister-at-Law and Co-Proprietor of the “Madras Mail,” India (died 7 June, 1915), by his wife, Emily Henrietta (Glastonbury, Lovelace Road, Surbiton), dau. of Charles William Engelbach; b. Brighton, 13 Aug. 1887; educ. Stoke House, near Slough, Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A.), from which he entered the Army as a University candidate. He was for some time attached to the King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Highland L.I. in June, 1909, to rank as from 18 Sept. 1909. At the beginning of 1914 he resigned his commission, and was gazetted to the Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his regt., and was with it in the retreat from Mons, and through the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and round Ypres, and was killed in action near the last-named town, 13 Nov. 1914; unm. He was buried alongside the Passchendael-Becelaere Road.

=CORNISH. HENRY GEORGE WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 1249, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CORNWALL, GEOFFREY=, Private, No. 1667, 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of (--) Cornwall; b. .. June, 1896; educ. Hadlow Down (Sussex) School; was employed by Mr. H. Morriss, of Stonebridge; joined the 5th (Territorial) Battn. of the Royal Sussex Regt. about 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of the war, and went to France 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action in the charge of the Sussex Regt. at Richebourg, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=CORNWELL, ABIJAH=, Sergt., No. 981, 1/8th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Eliphaz Cornwell, by his wife, Caroline (66, Queen’s Road, Southall, Middlesex), dau. of Joseph Brown; b. Southall, co. Middlesex, 5 Oct. 1877, and had been for some nine years in the employ of the Southall Gas Works when war broke out. He had joined the Southall Coy. of the Middlesex Territorials in 1908, and had risen to the rank of Sergt. He immediately volunteered for foreign service, and after going to Gibraltar with his regt., returned to England and went to France, 8 April, 1915; was wounded during the fighting at Ypres on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915, and died in No. 13 Stationary Hospital at Boulogne on the following Friday morning, the 28th. He was a well-known and popular cricketer and footballer. He first played for the Norwood Green Cricket Club, later played for a short period for the St. James’ Electric Light Co. eleven, and then in 1906 joined the Brentford Gas Works cricket team, with which he continued to play for eight years. He m. at St. John’s Church, Southall, 8 Sept. 1900, Minnie Flora (66, Queen’s Road, Southall, Middlesex), dau. of William Cullen, and had six children: Eva Caroline, b. 31 March, 1901; Minnie Faith, b. 9 Dec. 1902; Dorothy Kate, b. 23 Dec. 1904; Ethel Mary, b. 19 July, 1906; Edith Florence, b. 20 Aug. 1908; Ida Ruth, b. 10 Dec. 1912 (d. 1915).

=CORREGAN, THOMAS HOWARD=, Bomber, No. 1037, Grenade Corps, A Coy., 8th Battn. (Winnipeg Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late Thomas Howard Corregan, of Nirvana Glen, Whitemouth, Manitoba, Canada, Merchant and Inventor, by his wife, Alice, dau. of William Henderson, of Kildonan, Manitoba; b. Springfield, Manitoba, 9 Oct. 1886; educ. Winnipeg High School; and American College, Chicago, U.S.A.; was a conductor in the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway; volunteered and joined the Winnipeg Rifles on the outbreak of the European War, 15 Aug. 1914, and came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915; was appointed a Bomber, 1 March, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May following, while leading and encouraging his bombing party with the rally call “Come on boys, follow me.” After clearing an enemy trench, he went on although wounded to capture a machine gun. His Major wrote: “I have seen, heard and read of many stories of brave conduct of our men, but what those who returned tell me of your son, is equal to any act for which men are decorated. He led the attack of the whole battn. engaged, and really took the position which we still hold. He was still leading in the gallant dash to silence the machine gun, but this cost him his life. Nothing could equal the manner in which he went after the Germans that morning, as calm as though he were out for a morning walk. We old boys of his company all believe that Corregan’s action easily won the V.C.” He was a good all-round sportsman.

=CORTIS, JOHN HALSTEAD=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, att. 2nd, Battn. Wiltshire Regt., eldest s. of Arthur Brownhill Cortis, of Outspan, Downview Road, Worthing, by his wife, Lilian, dau. of Henry Alexander Papps; b. Worthing, 21 Dec. 1894; educ. United Service College, and Christ’s Hospital, where for two years he was in the Bisley Shooting Team. He afterwards entered the employ of the Capital and Counties Bank, and had passed the final examination of the Bankers’ Institute in all but two subjects. After the declaration of war he threw up his post and joined the Public Schools and University Corps, afterwards passing through Sandhurst, where he was promoted to Sergt. of his company and obtained his commission, 17 March, 1915. He went to France on 25 May, and was killed in action by a shell, while leading an attack on the German trenches at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unm. His battn. was not in this attack but he had volunteered to take the place of an officer who was ill. In this action out of eight officers only one returned and he was wounded in three places, and of the two companies every other man was wounded. His Col. wrote: “I took the greatest fancy to your boy when he joined us. He was extremely keen to go into action and was a first-rate soldier. The regt. feel the loss of such men as this; when we are able to do so we will erect a cross over his grave.”

=COSENS, HAROLD STANLEY FREDERICK=, Lieut., 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., only s. of Frederick George Cosens, of Bacton, co. Norfolk, and 7 Observatory Gardens, Kensington, W., by his wife, Fanny Louisa Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Henry Ambrose, of Copford, Essex, and Manchester Square, London; b. Kensington, 2 Dec. 1889; educ. St. Paul’s School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the East Yorkshire Regt. 18 Sept. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 28 Feb. 1912. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 28 Oct. 1914; unm. Major W. Boyle wrote: “He was my subaltern, and I never want a better, always cheery and ready for any work that came in his way, and to take on any hard job, even when out of his turn, as often happened when I wanted a man I could trust to do any difficult or jumpy piece of work. I could not want for a nicer, more cheery and hard-working officer to soldier with.... The exact circumstances are these: He had led his men to retake some trenches from the Germans, and had carried out his work successfully, and was actually in the trench, doing a kindly act to one of the enemy, who wanted to surrender, when a sniper shot him from another direction. It is extremely painful to write thus, as it was sheer bad luck! My company are very cut up indeed. He died a gallant gentleman.” He was very keen on the Boy Scout movement, and the Vicar of St. Agatha’s (the Rev. Everard Digby) records in St. Agatha’s “Messenger” for Dec. 1914: “The year before last he gave up every evening of his two months’ leave to go down to different troops in East London to teach our scouts signalling. To give up every evening, to forego such luxuries as dining out, theatres, etc., for the whole of his furlough, involved no little self-sacrifice, but he never missed once, and he was so thoroughly good tempered and patient that even the stupidest boys managed to learn a good deal from him. The fruit of all is seen in the number of our lads serving with the Colours to-day. Several of the fellows he taught are now Army or Navy Signallers, and one or two are wearing the stripes of an N.C.O. as the result of his self-sacrificing labours. One thing was certain, whether they picked up more quickly or not, every Boy Scout he taught was a better chap for knowing him.” Lieut. Cosens had been on several occasions employed with the Mounted Infantry, and had passed with distinction through the schools of Signalling and Musketry.

=COSTELLO, PETER=, Stoker, R.N.R., 2108S., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COSTELLOW, WILLIAM JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14616, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=COSTIN, BRUCE DUFFUS=, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Prince of Wales’s Own West Yorkshire Regt., only s. of John Duffus Costin, of New South Wales, and his wife, Adele (now wife of Walter Hobson, of Tan-y-bryn, Bangor); b. Strathfield, New South Wales, 20 June, 1889; educ. Bedford and Sandhurst; received his commission in the West Yorkshires, 18 Sept. 1909, and was promoted Lieut. 16 April, 1910. He died in hospital at Boulogne, 24 Oct. 1914, from wounds received in action on 20 Oct. at the Battle of Ypres, and was buried in Boulogne Cemetery. His commanding officer wrote: “You know without my telling you what a favourite he was with all ranks of the regt. and how we shall all miss him. He had done splendidly throughout the war, and was invaluable to us. He was always cool and cheery under fire, quite fearless, and had done very well on the 20th under an appalling shell fire. He is a great loss in every way to the regt. and the mess, so keen on both work and play, and the Rugby team will be nothing without him.” And the Chaplain: “He was a splendid officer, and a splendid man. I had many opportunities for forming an estimate of his character, for I knew him well, and I know he was a man of highest qualities and ideals, brave, honourable, respected by all who knew him, and loved by his brother officers and men under his command. His loss is a loss to the whole Army, and the cutting off of a keen soldier, who had promise of a brilliant career.” Lieut. Costin was good at all sports, a splendid rider and a keen follower to hounds in the South Staffordshire country. He played Rugby for the college fifteen at Sandhurst and for Rosslyn Park, and was capt. of the regimental football team. At Sandhurst he was in the winning teams for rifle and revolver shooting, and for riding.

=COTTAM, HARRY FREDERICK=, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 271794, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COTTER, JOHN JOSEPH=, Leading Seaman, 194875, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COTTINGHAM, HERBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6015), 210795, H.M.S. Aboukir lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COTTON, HENRY ALBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26631, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=COTTON, PHILIP=, Private, No. 6746, 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Regt., s. of Thomas Cotton, Chimney Sweep; b. New Ross, co. Hereford, 1885; educ. there; served 13 years in the Royal Irish Regt. (India medal, 1895); re-enlisted after the outbreak of war, 21 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in the trenches by a flash of lightning, 22 May, 1915. He m. at New Ross, 20 May, 1907, Kate (2, Michael Street, New Ross), dau. of James Hennebury, of New Ross, and had three daus.: Anastatia, b. 1 Jan. 1908; Elizabeth, b. 1 Feb. 1912; and May, b. 27 Feb. 1915.

=COTTON, SIDNEY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5176), S.S. 1858, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COTTON, THOMAS FREDERICK=, Chief E.R.A., 1st Class (Pensioner), 149729 (Po.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COTTRELL, GEORGE FREDERICK=, 2nd Lieut. 108th Heavy Battery, R.G.A., s. of George Anderson Cottrell, of Allandale, Sandon Road, Edgbaston, by his wife, Mary Agnes, dau. of the late Alexander Smith, of Bingley, Yorks.; b. West Bromwich, co. Stafford, 27 Oct. 1892; educ. Bromsgrove School and King Edward’s School, Birmingham, where he was Colour-Sergt. in the O.T.C., and was awarded the Coronation medal as the best all-round boy. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and there was senior Sergt., and won prizes for infantry training and military law. He received his commission, 18 July, 1913, and until the outbreak of the war was stationed in the Isle of Wight. In Sept. 1914, he left for the Front, and was attached to an ammunition column of the Indian Army, being posted to the 108th Heavy Battery, R.G.A., in Jan. 1915. He was killed in action at Ypres, 11 May, 1915, and was buried in a railed off piece of ground used as a war cemetery, in the grounds of the chateau of the Gold Fish, Ypres; unm. A stained glass window, subscribed for by his brother officers friends, was placed in the church used by the R.G.A. at Freshwater, I.W. Lieut. Cottrell was one of the “shop” fifteen while at Woolwich, and afterwards was a member of the United Services Football Club, and also played for the Army and three counties on various occasions.

=COTTRELL, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 7305, 1st Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of Edward Cottrell, Iron moulder, by his wife, Phoebe, dau. of Joseph Dean; b. Tipton, co. Staffs, 26 Oct. 1884; educ. Council Schools there; enlisted 6 Nov. 1902, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10–13 March, 1915; unm.

=COTTRELL, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 5209), 303575, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COUCH, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Engineer Lieut.-Commander, R.N., 4th s. of James Couch, Major, late 2nd North Staffordshire Regt., by his wife, Helen, dau. of William Hollis; b. Malta, 3 Sept. 1879; educ. Mile End House School, Portsmouth, and Keyham College, Devonport. Entering the Navy in 1905 he was promoted Lieut.-Commander in Aug. 1913, and appointed in July, 1914, to H.M.S. Good Hope, on which he was killed in action, off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. following. Engineer Lieut.-Commander Couch had the Messina medal. He m. at Portsmouth, 18 Dec. 1906, Edith Cecila (Grace’s Farm, Martyr Worthy, Winchester, Hants), dau. of the late Richard King, Royal Mail Contractor, and had a son and dau.: Richard John Hollis, b. 16 Nov. 1907; and Cecile Mary, b. 12 Nov. 1909.

=COULL, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Leading Shipwright, 347244, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COULSON, JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17211, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=COULTART, WILLIAM PERCY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 16961, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COUNTER, WILLIAM GILL=, Private, R.M.L.I., 13098 (R.F.R., B. 1831), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COUPER, WALTER=, Private, No. 9128, 4th Coy., 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of William Clark Couper, of 36, St. Mary’s Road, Watford, Herts, Police Constable, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Henry Gulliver; b. Kensington, W., 24 March, 1892; educ. St. James’ School, Norlands, Notting Hill; joined the 1st Battn. Herts Regt. (T.F.) in May, 1909, and enlisted in the Coldstreams, 7 June, 1911; served three years with the Colours, and then passed into the Reserve, from which he was called on the outbreak of war. He went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, and died in No. 11 General Hospital, Boulogne, 10 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action on the 2nd. He was buried in Boulogne Cemetery (Grave No. c/19). A comrade wrote: “On 1 Nov. Corporal Palmer was wounded in the arm, and Walter took him to hospital. Walter did not come back till mid-day on Monday, the 2nd. I met him in the communication trench, and he had two letters for some one in another platoon. The Sergt. of this other platoon was behind him, so he had to turn round in the trench. The trench being rather narrow he had to show his head above the top. No sooner did his head show above the trench when a German sniper shot, and the bullet cut the side of his head where he had a bald patch. I obtained help at once, and our machine gun officer bound the wound up for him. He was then taken away on a stretcher. On 23 Oct. our platoon held a line of trenches from which the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) had retired. It was open ground, and the bullets were whizzing over us pretty rapid. About 80 yards in front of us lay a fellow of the Queen’s, badly wounded. Seeing that he couldn’t crawl in, Couper ran out to him, cut his equipment off, and with the help of Corpl. Palmer, who had run out afterwards, got the wounded fellow on his back. He then carried him in by himself. There were only a few of us who saw this, and hardly any one else heard about it. There are a good many brave actions done out here which nobody hears about. I think if any one deserves the D.C.M. it is Private Couper.” His elder brother, Corpl. W. F. Couper, 4th Middlesex Regt., was taken prisoner at the Battle of Mons, and is now (1916) confined at Senneläger.

=COUPLAND, HENRY=, Lieut., 5th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Lieut.-Col. Henry Coupland, of Stonewell, Lancaster, V.D., 5th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., now commanding the National Reserves at Lewes, Sussex, by his wife, Lilliere, dau. of Charles Innocent; b. Lancaster, 15 Dec. 1894; educ. Royal Lancaster Grammar School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., 1 Jan. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Dec. following; served in France and Flanders, and died from wounds received in action, near Ypres, at the Clearing Station, Bailleul, 24 April, 1915; unm. He was buried in the cemetery at Bailleul.

=COURCOUX, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2879), S.S. 196, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COURT, CHARLES=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 9663), 297567, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COURT, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Chief Armourer, 340995, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COURT, WILLIAM HUBERT ROYLANCE (ALGY)=, Capt., 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers, only s. of William Roylance Court, of Manor House, Middlewich, co. Chester, J.P., Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Mary Carlaw, eldest dau. of Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, 1st Bart., of Osmaston Manor, co. Derby; b. Osmaston Manor, aforesaid, 26 Sept. 1885; educ. Wixenford Preparatory School and at Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Royal Garrison Artillery Militia to the 9th Lancers, 6 July, 1907; became Lieut. 4 March, 1910, and Capt. 23 April, 1913, and was for a lengthy period stationed with his regt. at Potchefstroom, South Africa. When the war broke out in August the 9th Lancers were at Mooltan Barracks, Tidworth, from whence they proceeded direct to France, being among the first contingent of the British Army to take part in the fighting in Belgium. It will be remembered that in the early stages of the war in particular the 9th Lancers did splendid work, and in his letters home Capt. Roylance Court related some stirring incidents. About Dec. he was wounded in the foot by shrapnel, and after being in hospital for a short time came home for a few days. On 24 May, 1915 (the day he fell), Capt. Roylance Court was second in command of B Squadron, the senior officer being Capt. Francis O. Grenfell, V.C. The force occupied trenches near Hooge, some 60 to 80 yards from those of the enemy. Capt. Court was in the act of communicating by telephone with the Base regarding the enemy’s gas attack and the general situation, when he was shot through the head and killed instantly. Capts. Grenfell, Noel Edwards and many men fell that day. The Adjutant of the 9th Lancers, when writing to a friend some time after the 24th, referred to the incidents and said: “It certainly was a bad day, but the regt. came out with much praise from everybody. This is some consolation to us for the loss of a great many friends, and in spite of losses the reputation of the regt. increases. ‘Algy’ did a particularly gallant thing on the day he was killed. When reinforcements were required he went down from the fire trenches through a terrific shell fire (any messengers we sent on this day were killed or wounded) and led up a company of the Buffs, showed them where they were wanted. They suffered severely on the way, having to cross about 2,000 yards of very open ground, which was swept by an absolute curtain of shell fire.” Capt. Roylance Court was buried during the night after the battle in the churchyard at Vlamertinghe, in Flanders, close to the grave of Capt. Grenfell, whose remains were interred at the same time. He was a very capable officer and a thorough sportsman, and when on leave was a familiar figure in the Cheshire Hunt, of which his father was joint-Master for four years. He was an enthusiastic polo player, and won several point-to-point races for his regt. and several of his friends. Golf was another sport of which he was very fond.

=COURTIS, ERNEST GEORGE=, Chief Gunner, R.N., s. of James Courtis, Engine Fitter, by his wife, Mary Catherine, dau. of Walter Perry Jenkins; b. Cornwall, 3 March, 1873; educ. St. James’ School, Keyham, Devonport; joined the Navy, 7 Dec. 1888, and reached Warrant rank, 1 Nov. 1898. He served on the Algerine during the Boxer rebellion in China, 1900, being Gunnery Officer of that ship during the bombardment of the Taku Forts. In the latter part of the engagement the starboard after 3-pr. quick-firing gun recoiled off the netting, fracturing almost all the small parts of the machinery and breech mechanism. He remounted it in a position (from which it was effectively used) in the Captain’s cabin in less than 15 minutes. Later, having observed a line of electric observation mines ahead, he put off in a dinghy with one man, and personally performed the dangerous service of destroying five of the mines by cutting wires, removing detonators and primers, and sinking the mines, thus probably saving many lives. He was subsequently landed in charge of two of the ship’s 4-inch quick-firing guns, and accompanied them to the Tientsin lines, where they were urgently required to outrange the enemy; afterwards took one gun some 4 miles from the supports and base and mounted it under a brisk shell fire, continuing in command of that gun during the remainder of the bombardment and capture of Tientsin City. At Sin-Ho he was appointed Transport Officer, which post he held for four months and was promoted Chief Gunner 1 Nov. 1913. He had the China medal (1900) with two bars. Chief Gunner Courtis lost his life on the occasion of the sinking of H.M.S. Clan McNaughton, 3 Feb. 1915. He m. at Belmont Wesleyan Church, Devonport, 12 Feb. 1900, Gertrude, dau. of Charles Montague, and had a son and dau.: Geoffrey Ernest Montague, b. 2 April, 1907; and Gertrude Ellen Mary, b. 1 Sept. 1904.

=COURTNEY, JOHN HENRY=, alias =JOHN HENRY ALFRED ADKINS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9614), S.S. 106961, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; unm.

=COUSENS, ARTHUR=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2403C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COUSINS, JAMES=, Private, No. 8490, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, s. of William Cousins, of Lurgan, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Robert Guiney; b. Dollingstown, Lurgan, co. Down ..., March, 1892; educ. National School there; enlisted 1 Jan. 1906; served two years in China, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 7 Sept. 1914; unm. On that evening the Inniskillings went out to take up an outpost line. Just before they reached the Ferme de la Grande Lodge they met a small force of Uhlans, which they drove off and closed up again, not suspecting that any more of the enemy were near, and while in close order two batteries opened fire at 1,200 yards. The company was immediately formed for attack, but the enemy’s fire was terrific for a short time, and it was here that Lieut. Boyd and Private Cousins fell. They were buried that night in a corner of a field in which the farmhouse of La Ferme des Arceries stands.

=COVER, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 41, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=COWAN, ANDREW GALBRAITH=, Major, 74th Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late Hugh Cowan, Advocate, Sheriff Substitute of Renfrew and Bute, by his wife, Williamina, dau. of the late Andrew Galbraith, Lord Provost of Glasgow, 1857–60; b. Belmont, Paisley, 26 Aug. 1876; educ. Paisley Grammar School, Trinity College, Glenalmond, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Unattached List for the Indian Army, 20 Jan. 1897. He was at first posted to the Duke of Connaught’s 129th Own Baluchis, but was later transferred to the 74th Punjabis. He was promoted Lieut. 20 April, 1899, and Capt. 20 Jan. 1906, and served for one year (1911–12) on the staff of the Quartermaster-General at Simla. On 27 March, 1913, he was appointed Double Company Commander, and when the European War broke out was with his Double Company at Hong Kong. In Dec. 1914, he was attached to the 53rd Sikhs for service with the Indian Expeditionary Force, and went with them to Egypt, where he was promoted Major. At a parade of troops there on 12 April he was formally presented with the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society which had been awarded him in recognition of gallantry in going to the assistance of a native officer of his regt. at great risk to his own life during a bathing parade in Hong Kong Harbour. He died while on active service at Suez on 1 June, 1915, and was buried there. He m. at Madras, Dec. 1903, Rosalind, dau. of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Lewis Moore, I.C.S., Judge of the High Court, Madras, and had two children: Hugh, b. 25 Oct. 1904; and Rosalind Eileen, b. 22 April, 1907.

=COWAN, ROBERT CRAIG=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, elder s. of Robert Craig Cowan, of Eskhill, Inveresk, co. Midlothian, by his wife, Mabel Agnes, dau. of Robert Orr, of Cowdonhall, and gdson. of Charles William Cowan, of Loganhouse; b. Craigiebield, Penicuik, co. Midlothian, 5 March, 1894; educ. Cargilfield, Cheltenham, and Pembroke College, Cambridge; joined the Army on the outbreak of war, being gazetted to the 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots from the O.T.C. 15 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action at La Plinche during the Battle of Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914, while attached to the 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, and was buried at Chapigny, near Neuve Chapelle; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “We miss him not only as a comrade, but as a very gallant boy, who has set a noble example of courage and fearless execution of his duty.”

=COWARD, LESLIE GRAHAM=, Capt., 1st Battn. Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regt., yst. s. of the late Christopher Thomas Coward, of Limehouse, L.F.P.S.G., L.S.A., by his wife, Emily (Park Lane, Stoke Newington), dau. of James Bennett; b. Limehouse, 1 Feb. 1890; educ. Owen’s School, Islington, and University of London (matriculated 1906). His health having broken down while he was reading for the Intermediate B.A., he secured a clerkship under the London County Council. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and having been a member of the London University O.T.C., was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th Special Reserve Battn. of the Middlesex Regt. 15 Aug. 1914. Transferred later to the 1st Battn., he was promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915, and Capt. 3 April, 1915. He was killed in action at Flanders, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. Writing to his mother, Col. F. Rowley said he “was killed yesterday while gallantly leading his platoon to storm German trenches. His death was instantaneous, and he could not have suffered any pain. I have had the privilege of knowing him for some months, and as his colonel had formed a very high opinion of him. He was very keen and devoted to his duty, and had done a lot of most excellent work while he was with the regt.” The regt. lost very heavily on this occasion, 12 officers being killed, 1 missing and 5 wounded. He was buried with four others in a little churchyard at Cambrin.

=COWELL, CLAUDE=, Leading Seaman, 223743 (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COWLEY, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3874), 190567, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 25 Oct. 1914; m.

=COWLING, WALTER SIDNEY=, Private, No. 16990, 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late William Frederick Cowling, by his wife, Sarah Maria (64, St. Anne’s Road, Tottenham, London, N.), dau. of Benjamin Charles Osborne; b. Hackney, 8 Sept. 1891; educ. Stamford Hill Board School; went to Canada 22 Feb. 1910, and settled at Revelstoke, B.C., and worked as locomotive fireman on the freight trains that went up the Rockies; enlisted in Aug. 1914, after the declaration of war, and was killed in action at Messines, 27 Sept. 1915, by shell fire. He was buried in Ploegsteert Woods.

=COWNIE, JOHN BURNETT=, Coy. Q.M. Sergt., No. 7711, 2nd Battn. Welsh Regt., s. of Francis Sonley Cownie, of Edinburgh, S.S.C.; b. Edinburgh, 24 Sept. 1886; educ. Edinburgh; joined the Army, 25 Nov. 1902, and was killed in action near Gheluvelt, Belgium, 29 Oct. 1914. 2nd Lieut. Hewett wrote: “He was with my platoon when he was killed.... He was a splendid fellow, as plucky as you make them, and a very fine leader and organiser. He would have made his mark and name in this war had he lived. He was also a first-class sniper. He met his death in the trench on my left flank, trying to locate a machine gun. He was in front of the others, and it was owing to this that we could not get his body in, though a Sergt. and myself tried. However, about 30 yards from it we got caught by machine gun fire and had to get back. He was killed outright and suffered no pain. He is a great loss to us all.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 7 Sept. [London Gazette, 20 Oct. 1914.]

=COX, ALAN EDWARD GEORGE=, Ordinary Telegraphist, No. 15439, H.M.S. Cressy, 1st s. of William Edward Cox, of 138, Chingford Road, Walthamstow, Metropolitan Police Constable, by his wife, Clara Louisa, dau. of the late William McNally; b. Devonport, 30 Nov. 1895; educ. William Morris School, Walthamstow; joined the Navy, 10 Jan. 1911, and was lost when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm. Letters from surviving comrades to the parents tell how he remained bravely at his post until the last moment. He had been specially promoted to be Telegraphist by Capt. Johnson on 1 Sept., and was a very promising operator. After leaving the training ship Impregnable, he served in several ships as wireless boy, and his first rating as Wireless Operator was on the ill-fated Cressy.

=COX, ANTHONY=, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 978), 281549, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COX, CHARLES=, Chief Ship’s Cook, 344105, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COX, CHARLES ALBINE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5348), 194734, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COX, ERNEST WILKIN=, Private, No. 12/710, 16th Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th s. of Edmund Blatchford Cox, of Roto-o-Rangi, Cambridge, Auckland, New Zealand, by his wife, David Ann, dau. of Robert Wilkin, of Christchurch, New Zealand; b. Hamilton, Waikato, Auckland, 11 April, 1893; educ. Waikato; was employed on his father’s property; volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the Main Body in Oct.; embarked for the Dardanelles, 12 April, 1915, and was killed in the landing at Gaba Tepe on the 25th of that month; unm. He was a great athlete, with a strong inclination for engineering.

=COX, FRANCIS THOMAS=, Ch. E.R.A., 1st Class, 268129, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COX, FRANCIS WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., I.C. 668), 195409, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COX, HARRY=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4978B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COX, HORACE RAYMOND=, Private, No. 1125, 10th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; 3rd s. of William Cox, Butcher, by his wife, Ada Cox (26, Brock Street, Kirkdale, Liverpool), dau. of Henry Boden; b. Kirkdale, Liverpool, 12 May, 1893; educ. Westminster Road Schools, and Training Ship Indefatigable; was for sometime in the employ of the White Star Line, and emigrated to Australia in August, 1910. He joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war; was wounded in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died in Hospital at Cairo, 8 May following; unm.

=COX, HUBERT POMEROY=, Rifleman, No. 2089, 1/16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd and yst. s. of the late Henry Cox, Permanent Way Inspector, Great Western Railway, by his wife, Kate (158, Darnley Road, Gravesend, Kent), dau. of the late Henry Courteen, of Redbrook, co. Monmouth; b. Weston-super-Mare, co. Somerset, 5 March, 1891; educ. Watford. He enlisted in the Queen’s Westminster Rifles on the day war was declared, went out to France with his regt. 3 Nov. 1914, and passed through all the critical fighting of Nov. and Dec., until he was killed in action by a shell at Chapelle d’Armentières Town Hall, 19 Dec. 1914. He was buried in the military cemetery, Armentières; unm. The following is an extract from a letter from the officer commanding his platoon: “He had done so well in the company since he joined and proved himself a hard worker and a good soldier.” And his Sergt. wrote, describing his death: “The battn. had come out of the trenches, and A Coy. were in their billet (Town Hall) when the shell burst. We were all so sorry about it for he was very much loved by all his comrades.” He was a man of splendid physique, taking an active part in all athletic games. At the school sports during his last term he carried off no fewer than 13 prizes and medals.

=COX, RICHARD ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9957), S.S. 2497, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COX, SWITHIN JOHN=, Third Writer, 347960, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=COX, SYDNEY DOUGLAS=, Private, No. 2130, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, yst. s. of Harry Cox, of 20, Manners Road, Ilkeston, Derby, formerly of Aldershot and Andover, retired Printer and Stationer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Stephenson, of Burley Road, Leeds; b. Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, 7 Aug. 1891; educ. Broomy Hill Academy, Hereford; relinquished a lucrative position on the Midland Railway and went to Australia to take up farming in May, 1910, commencing as a farm hand at Stratford, Gippsland, and after three years being placed in charge of the farm. When the call of the Motherland was heard “down under,” he instantly responded, was enrolled in the 2nd, but was afterwards transferred to the 1st, Australian Contingent, took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 8 May, 1915; unm. He was a good linguist, being able to speak two or three languages fluently.

=COX, THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 11359, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Charles William Cox, of 3, Folkestone Road, Swindon, Foreman, Swindon Suridge Works, late Private, Grenadier Guards, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of Thomas Jenings, of Ossett, Essex; b. Swindon, co. Wilts, 29 Oct. 1894; educ. King William Street Church School there; enlisted in the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. of the Wiltshire Regt., 9 May, 1910, and passed into the 2nd Battn. 21 Oct. 1910, obtaining his discharge, 30 Jan. 1911. He was then employed in the Great Western Railway Works at Swindon until the outbreak of war, when he enlisted in the Coldstreams, 29 Aug. 1914. He was wounded in action at Givenchy, 23 Dec. 1914, and died in hospital at Wimereux on 29 Dec. 1914; unm.

=COX, WALTER=, Private, No. 6964, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Cox, by his wife, Maria (Alveston, Stratford-on-Avon), dau. of (--); b. Alveston, co. Warwick, 15 Oct. 1885; educ. Tiddington, near Stratford-on-Avon; enlisted at Birmingham, and was officially reported as wounded and missing after the fighting at Landrecies, 23 Aug. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that day.