The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 (part 4 of 10)

The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 (part 4 of 10)

=COX, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Ship’s Cook, 347466, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=COXHEAD, GUY TEMPLETON=, Gunner, R.M.A., 7834 (R.F.R., 767), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COYLE, JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1970S, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=COYNE, JAMES=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19994, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WALLACE-CRABBE, KEITH GEORGE=, Capt., 14th Battn. Australian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of George Wallace-Crabbe, of Gordon, Byrom Street, St. Kilda, Australia, Legal Manager, by his wife, Theresa, dau. of Francis Frederick Cluny, H.M.C., Adelaide, and step-brother of Douglas Wallace-Crabbe, of 34, Buller Road, Longsight, Manchester; b. Melbourne, 28 July, 1894; educ. Trinity Grammar School, Kew, Victoria, and held a good position in a large business firm. He had joined the 46th (Brighton Rifles) Regt. Australian T.F., some time prior to the war, and on the outbreak of war was a Captain and at once volunteered for Imperial service. He stood 6 feet 2 inches, and was given a commission as Lieut. of the 14th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, left Australia with the second reinforcements, and after some time in Egypt was sent with his battn. to the Dardanelles, where he took part in the landing on 25 April, and was almost continuously in action for six months. He was the officer in command when Corpl. Jacka won his Victoria Cross at Quinn’s Post, and throughout every action that followed showed conspicuous bravery. Writing to his father from Gallipoli on 20 May, he gave the following account of the incident: “We have just passed through two very strenuous days and nights here. The Turks were heavily reinforced, and made an attack on our position, and we inflicted terrible loss on the attackers. One little incident during the attack may interest you. The Turks, eight in number, got into a small section of our trench, and as I was near we had to clear them out. Lieut. Boyle was wounded, and Lieut. Hamilton killed in tackling the same job, before I came on the scene. I got four boys, who made a rush at them, but were repulsed with two wounded. Then I made as if we were going to attack again, and threw some grenades at them, and the L.-Corpl. whom I have written the memorandum about rushed in at the other end and fired ten shots. The copy enclosed is what I have written to get Jacka a medal for conduct. The General was greatly pleased with the way the attack was repulsed right along, and Major Rankine, who was in command of our trench, got great praise. All of us were personally congratulated by General Godley, Brigadier Monash and Col. Courtney. This is an extract from my report to headquarters: ‘I beg to report that at 5 a.m. on 19 May L.-Corpl. Jacka, No. 4 Coy., 14th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, under my instructions, rushed in at one end of the trenches whilst I had a party engaging them at the other end, and shot seven Turks who had forced and obtained a section of our trenches. L.-Corpl. Jacka and a party of four had tried a previous bayonet rush, but were repulsed with two casualties to us.’” Capt. Crabbe was mainly responsible for the ascendancy which the 4th Brigade established on the enemy in bomb fighting. He was killed while leading a desperate charge at Hill 60 at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 24 Aug. 1915; unm. “Men who saw this gallant officer lying dead,” wrote Sergt. Jacka, “say that he died with a sweet smile on his face. ‘Killed in action’ was, perhaps, all that you were told, but what death is there as noble as this, when you meet it while leading your men in the thick of battle and fighting for your King and country against such odds? The attack was made by 100 men from the 14th Battn., 100 from the 13th and 50 from the 16th. Lieut. Crabbe had been promoted to Capt. just previous to this, and being such a brave, cool officer he had charge of the men. It was in this ill-fated charge that he met his death. It was a desperate attack, and while leading his men, a smoking revolver in his hand, he fell, shot through the head. His sad and untimely death is greatly mourned by us. He was a great favourite with all the men who knew him, and had made a name for himself as a gallant leader, and had he lived through this engagement a very high honour would have been conferred upon him.” He wrote a treatise on platoon drill, and invented a new system of throwing hand grenades, and dealing with enemy grenades.

=CRABTREE, WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., only s. of the late William Henry Robinson Crabtree, Civil Engineer, by his wife, Helen (39, Thome Road, Doncaster), dau. of John William Blagbrough, of Manchester; b. Doncaster, 20 May, 1895; educ. North Eastern County School, Barnard Castle, and afterwards started his training at the Brodsworth Colliery, with the view to becoming a mining engineer. On the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, and meantime joined as a private in the Public School camp, then stationed at Epsom, where he stayed only a few days, when he was gazetted to the 8th Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 22 Sept. 1914. He was killed in a taxi-cab accident while training, 10 Feb. 1915; unm.

=CRACKNELL, FREDERICK=, Gunner, 7885, R.M.A., H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CRADOCK, SIR CHRISTOPHER GEORGE FRANCIS MAURICE=, K.C.V.O., C.B., Rear-Admiral, A.D.C. to His Majesty the King, 4th s. of the late Christopher Cradock, of Hartforth, co. York, by his wife, Georgina, dau. of Major Gordon Duff, 92nd Highlanders; b. Hartforth, Richmond, co. York, 2 July, 1862; educ. Richmond Grammar School, and Amyat Burney’s, Gosport; entered the Royal Navy 15 Jan. 1875; became Sub-Lieut. 21 Dec. 1881; Lieut. 30 June, 1885; Commander, 31 Aug. 1896; Capt., 18 April, 1901, and Rear-Admiral, 24 Aug. 1910; served during British occupation of Cyprus, 1878; present as Midshipman H.M.S. Pallas at hoisting by that ship of the Union Jack at Paphos and Limasol, 1878; in Upper Egypt, 1884; landed as Sub.-Lieut. with Naval Brigade for garrison duties; and with the Eastern Sudan Field Force as A.D.C. to the Governor-General of the Red Sea; present at the Battle of Tokar, 19 Feb. 1891, and subsequent occupation of Affafit (mentioned in Despatches; medal with Tokar clasps; Khedive’s Bronze Star; 4th Medjidie); was First Lieut. H.M.S. Dolphin on the occasion of the rescue by that ship of the officers and crew of the Brazilian corvette Almirante Barroza, which was totally wrecked off Ras Dib, 1892; Lieut. in Royal Yacht, 1894–6; when Commander H.M.S. Alacrity, commanded the Allied landing party at the storming and capture of the Taku forts, 17 July, 1900, and subsequently commanded the British Naval Brigade, and directed the British, American, Italian, and Japanese forces, on the advance to, and relief of, Tientsin, and in the relief of Sir Edward Seymour’s column at Siku (noted for promotion for gallantry; medal with Taku clasp); present with Naval Brigade at the capture of the Peiyang Arsenal, Tientsin, 27 June, 1900 (Relief of Pekin Clasp; 2nd Class Order of the Crown of Prussia with swords); created C.B., 26 June, 1902, and M.V.O. (4th Class), 21 April, 1903, on the occasion of the visit of King Edward VII to Malta; decorated with the Royal Spanish Order of Naval Merit, 1906; awarded Testimonial of the Royal Humane Society for jumping overboard at night in Palmas Bay, Sardinia, 1904, and saving the life of a drowning midshipman; was Flag Capt. to Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker, commanding the cruisers which found and shadowed the Russian Fleet after the Dogger Bank Incident; Naval A.D.C. to His Majesty King Edward VII, 9 Feb. 1909 to 24 Aug. 1910; Rear-Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet (3rd Battle Squadron) Aug. 1911, to Aug. 1912; was at Gibraltar when the P. & O. s.s. Delhi, with the Duke and Duchess of Fife and their daughters on board, stranded off Cape Spartel, on the night of 12 Dec. 1911; received the appreciation of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for “courage and energy displayed” on this occasion, and was created a K.C.V.O. (28 Feb. 1912), and awarded the Silver Medal of the Board of Trade for saving life; Commanding Training Squadron, 1912, to 8 Feb. 1913; appointed Rear-Admiral and Senior Naval Officer, West Atlantic (4th Cruiser Squadron), 8 Feb. 1913; hoisted his flag on H.M.S. Good Hope (Armoured cruiser) after the outbreak of war, and was lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. The Official report states “During Sunday, 1 Nov. the Good Hope, Monmouth, and Glasgow came up with the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, and Dresden. Both squadrons were steaming south in a strong wind and considerable sea. The German squadron declined action until sunset, when the light gave it an important advantage. The action lasted an hour. Early in the action both the Good Hope and the Monmouth took fire, but fought on until nearly dark, when a serious explosion occurred on the Good Hope, and she foundered.... The action appears to the Admiralty to have been most gallantly contested, but in the absence of the Canopus the enemy’s preponderance of force was considerable.” A Public Memorial was put up in York Minster: another at Dungavel Private Chapel by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton; a window at Gilling Church by Countess Fitzwilliam, and a tablet at Gilling Church by the Family. He was author of “Sporting Notes in the Far East,” “Wrinkles in Seamanship or a help to Salt Horse,” “Whispers from the Fleet,” etc., etc. He was unm.

=CRAGG, GEOFFREY ETHELBERT=, Solicitor, Sergt., No. 1745, 5th Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Anthony Richard Cragg. Estate Agent to Sir Jeremiah Colman, Gatton Park, of Warleigh, Eversfield Road, Reigate, Surrey, and Author of “Hints to Young Valuers” and many other works, by his wife, Alice Louise, dau. of the late Norcliffe William Glendinning, of Ambleside; b. Hereford, 25 Feb. 1888; educ. Hoe Preparatory School and Reigate Grammar School; served his articles with Morrison and Nightingale, of Reigate and Redhill, and was admitted a solicitor in July, 1910. He was appointed Deputy Coroner for East Surrey in 1912, and was probably the youngest Deputy Coroner in the country. He had joined the Royal West Surrey Territorials in 1912, and when war broke out was in training with his regiment on Salisbury Plain. He immediately signed on for the period of the war, and was sent to India with his regt. Cragg was one of those who volunteered for service in the Persian Gulf, when, in Aug. 1915, a call was made for a further draft of men from the 5th Queen’s to join the 2nd Norfolks, then in Mesopotamia, and his keenness is shown by the fact that he was willing to revert to the rank of Corpl. in order to go. He took part in the action on 27–28 Sept., and died of dysentery, at Kut-el-Amara, 17 Oct. 1915; unm. Col. Brodrick wrote to Mrs. Cragg: “Your son was a splendid fellow. His devotion to duty at all times was wonderful. We shall miss him terribly, but he died, as he would have wished, doing his duty, and the regt. is proud of him.”

=CRAMPTON, CHARLES THEODORE=, Stoker, P.O. 294717, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CRANE, CHARLES EDWARD=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., eldest s. of Charles Arnold Crane, of The Reddings, Cheltenham, by his wife, Georgina, dau. of the Rev. Thomas Walker, Rector of Abbots Morton, Worcestershire; b. Birlingham, co. Worcester, 18 Feb. 1892; educ. Oakfield, Rugby, Cheltenham College, and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. 4 Sept. 1912, and served with his regt. in Ireland in the spring of 1914 in connection with the troublous time in Belfast. On the outbreak of war he went with his regt. to the Front, was wounded in the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, and died from wounds, at Mont de Soissons Farm, four days later, being buried near Mont de Soissons, between the village of Nampteuil-sous-Muret and Serches, 7 miles from Soissons, and 1 mile from Serches, overlooking the Valley of the Aisne; unm. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. M. N. Turner, in writing to his father, paid a high tribute to his worth and courage: “Your boy was absolutely brave and good. We were all so very fond of him, and he was such an excellent officer. He was absolutely fearless, and one of the best.” An officer wrote: “He was hit on 14 Sept, when doing real good, brave work. He did his work before he was hit, and it took a bit of doing. Another good soldier and leader, and another gallant officer! We miss him very much; we all liked him so tremendously.” Sergt. Blaclock declared that “He was always to the front in the call of duty, and the men who have had the honour to serve with him at home or on the battlefield will, I am sure, always feel proud of him, and he will always be remembered as one of the bravest and best.” And L.-Corpl. J. Horan, 1st Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., wrote: “I had the pleasure of serving with your gallant son. All through the famous retreat from Mons it will always live in my memory his kindness to me; that was when we started the advance. He picked me up where I was lying by the road one night and put me in an ambulance wagon, and also another Private; we both owe our lives to him. He was most kind and considerate in all his orders, and would never ask his men to go to any place he would not go himself. We had trying times, especially on 26 Aug., when he took us out of the village Le Chateau. I don’t remember him losing any of his platoons. It was a dreadful ordeal, for they were firing upon us in all directions. His conduct was brilliant in the extreme; it was his coolness that got us out of it. I cannot express his kindness, for on the retreat I have seen him carrying the men’s rifles. He would give us chocolates and cigarettes, or whatever he had he would give to any one. I cannot speak too highly of him.” Numerous other letters refer to him in like terms of admiration and respect.

=CRASCALL, COULSON HENRY=, A. B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2577), 177293, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CRAVEN, EDWARD=, Stoker. 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7125), S.S. 101858, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CRAVEN, THOMAS=, Deckhand, R.N.R., 1386 D.A., Royal Naval Reserve; b. Cleckheaton, co. York, 26 Feb. 1872; educ. Church Schools, Liversedge, co. York; was in the employ of Messrs. Hillyer, of Hull; joined the Royal Naval Reserve at the outbreak of war, and was drowned in the North Sea by falling overboard during a gale, while surveying on H.M. armed trawler Viola in the North Sea, 7 Nov. 1914. He was buried with naval honours at Lerwick; unm.

=CRAVEN, THOMAS=, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., A. 1917/), 154699, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CRAWFORD, ALEXANDER PRATT=, Private, No. 7049, 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 2nd s. of Charles Crawford, of Leith, Wine and Spirit Merchant, by his wife, Agnes Lumsden (11, Annfield, Newhaven), dau. of the late Peter Seton, of Edinburgh; b. Leith, 17 Feb. 1887; educ. at Trinity Academy, Leith; enlisted 29 Sept. 1904, and was killed in action at the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; unm.

=CRAWFORD, EDWARD=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 7th surviving and yst. twin s. of the late Robert Crawford, of Stonewold, Ballyshannon, C.E., D.L., Professor of Engineering in Trinity College, Dublin, 1882–87, by his second wife, Anna, dau. of the late Thomas Troubridge Stubbs, of Ballyshannon; b. Stonewold, Ballyshannon, co. Donegal, 23 Nov. 1880; educ. Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, and Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th (now the 3rd) Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 30 April, 1906, and promoted Lieut. 14 July, 1908. He went to the Front, Oct. 1914. and was attached to the 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles in Flanders; he was invalided home in Dec. 1914, having contracted frostbite in the trenches. On recovery he again went to the Front, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Regt., and died at the British Hospital, Wimereux, France, 27 May, 1915, as the result of gas poisoning and wounds received while in action about 25 May. He was buried in the cemetery at Wimereux; unm.

=CRAWFORD, HUGH=, A.B. (R.F.R. B., 10852), S.S. 2908, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CRAWFORD, RICHARD GILPIN=, Lieut., Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., s. and only child of William C. Crawford, of Tilbury, Kent co., Ontario, President of the Windsor, Essex and Lake Shore Railway, a member of the Municipal Council of Tilbury for 23 years and Chairman of the Council for 13 years, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Richard Thompson Gilpin, of St. Mary’s, Ontario; b. Tilbury, 12 Jan. 1892; educ. Common and High School in Tilbury, Upper Canada College, Toronto, and The Royal Military College, Kingston, being a Graduate there. He joined the 1st Canadian Contingent in Aug. 1914; left with it for England in Sept. following, and after being attached to the 9th Battn. at Salisbury, England, proceeded to France, 25 March, 1915, and was transferred to Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I. He was twice wounded in the engagement at Bellewarde Lake, 8 May, 1915, and died in the Clearing Hospital at 2 p.m. the day following. He was buried at Bailleul, France; unm. Lieut. Crawford was recommended for distinguished service in the field by Major-Gen. Snow, commanding 27th Division, Canadian L.I., on account of his bravery in remaining under a very heavy shell and rifle fire to dig out some of his comrades from under their machine guns. The officer commanding Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I. (Hugh L. Niven) wrote to his father: “Lieut. Crawford was wounded early in the morning of 8 May at Bellewarde Lake by a piece of high explosive shell that lit in the trench where he was attending to his duties. He was carried by four of the men of his company, who were exposed to heavy shell and machine gun fire, to a dug-out some 100 yards in rear. He was there properly bandaged by the medical orderlies and made comfortable. About noon the same day a large high explosive shell fell on the dug-out and Lieut. Crawford was again wounded, this time on his right foot. He was got out of this dug-out at once and taken to another one to the left, and was taken to our dressing station at dusk by the stretcher-bearers, and sent on from there in an ambulance to the closest hospital about 9 miles away, and he died there from his wounds. I saw a great deal of Lieut. Crawford, and I say in all sincerity that this regt. lost one of its most promising officers. His bravery was most remarkable, and his officers and men reported this to me on several occasions. He did not know what it was to be nervous even under the heaviest shell fire, and on the morning of 4 May, when they were shelling his trench, he dug out the machine gun section which were completely buried by a shell, and although several fell within 10 feet of him he never even noticed them, but continued digging as if he were miles away from harm. I was with him at the time, and it was worth while to listen to the men he helped to rescue telling him what they thought of his action. This is only one of many cases where he displayed the greatest gallantry. In fact, he was idolised by his men, and the whole regt. mourns one of the bravest soldiers that ever lived. When he was so seriously wounded he objected to any one making a fuss over him, and was always telling the orderlies to attend to some one else, and, as he was going away, he said he would be back right away, just as soon as he could get out of the hospital.”

=CRAWFORD, WILLIAM JOHN=, Sergt., No. 7791, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Frederick Crawford, Chintz Glazer; b. Camden Town, 8 March, 1889; enlisted 9 April, 1908; served in Egypt, 6 Jan. 1909, to 11 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was wounded at Landrecies in Aug. 1914, and invalided home, returning to the Front, 7 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Cambrin, 8 July, 1915, by a rifle grenade. He m. at Clapton, 7 March, 1915, Clara Annie (94, Dunlace Road, Clapton, London), dau. of Alfred Leonard Hughes, of London; s.p.

=CRAWHALL, FRITZ PORTMORE=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. s. of the Rev. Edmund Isaac Laroche Crawhall, Vicar of Herriard, co. Hants, and later of Granton, co. York, by his wife, Isabella Duncan, dau. of Capt. James Grant, R.N.; b. Ryde, Isle of Wight, 15 Aug. 1897; educ. “Cordwalles,” Maidenhead, and Winchester College (scholar), and received his commission in the 6th King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 15 Aug. 1914. After the action at Neuve Chapelle on 10 March, 1915, he was officially reported “missing,” but his Capt. stated that he saw him fall dead in a German trench. He was captain of the College VI at Winchester, 1912–13 and 1913–14, and open classical postmaster of Merton College, Oxford.

=CRAWLEY, ARTHUR EDWARD=, Private, No. 10723, 1st Battn. Royal Scots, 4th s. of Alfred Thomas Crawley, of 14, Queen’s Road, Peckham, London, Printer, by his wife, Emma, dau. of T. Bennet; b. Bloomsbury, London, W.C., 23 March, 1891; educ. Colls Road L.C.C. School, Peckham; enlisted 10 Aug. 1910; served in India, 7 Oct. 1911 to Oct. 1914, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 19 Dec. 1914 to 22 Jan. 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Veirstraat; unm.

=CRAWLEY, HAROLD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7549), S.S. 102735, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CRAWLEY, JAMES=, Private, No. 12042, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of the late John Crawley (died 1900), by his wife, Mary Ann (5, Puddle Dock, Willmington, Dartford, Kent), dau. of John Austin; b. Battersea; was a Farm Labourer; enlisted 9 Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Givenchy, 10 Aug. 1915; unm.

=CRAYFORD, VICTOR=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./9027, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CREAGH, AUBREY OSBORNE=, Capt., 120th Rajputana Infantry, Indian Army, s. of Major-Gen. William Creagh, Indian Army, and gdson. of General Sir Michael Creagh, K.H.; b. St. Leonards-on-Sea, 18 Sept. 1883; educ. The Grange, St. Leonards-on-Sea; Southlea; Great Malvern; United Services College, Westward Ho (1897–1900); and Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1901); gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. 18 Jan. 1902, and promoted Lieut. 18 April, 1904, and Capt. 12 July, 1911. Left for India in March, 1902, and was attd. to the Suffolks at Karachi, and later transferred to the Cheshires at Quetta. After a year with them he was appointed to the 120th Rajputana Infantry at Poona (10 April, 1903), going afterwards to Baroda; served on detachment duty at Buxa, N.E. Bengal, and commanded a detachment of 50 men of the 120th at Gyantse, Tibet, from Aug. 1909, to May, 1911, where he guarded the British Trade Agency. When war broke out he was on leave in Chumba (beyond Kashmir), and only heard of it on reaching Simla, receiving orders to rejoin his regt. He landed in the Persian Gulf in Nov. 1914, took part in the capture of Basra and the fight at Sahil on 17 Nov., after which the regt. was entrenched at Kurna for several weeks. Capt. Creagh was killed in the Battle at Shaiba, 14 April, 1915, being shot through the head. His commanding officer wrote: “He fell while leading his double company in the fiercest action that has taken place in this campaign; the regt. was well in the thick of it all, and finally participated in the bayonet charge at the end of the battle. Young Creagh has helped to create a name for this regt. which will not be forgotten. The regt. attacked a strong position over very open country, losing nearly 200 in casualties out of about 660.” He was buried on the battlefield; unm.

=CREAN, THEODORE=, Capt., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., attached No. 4 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, only s. of the late Richard Crean, of Manchester, M.D., by his wife, Lucy Mary (Chester), dau. of Peter Bohngard; b. Manchester, 23 Oct. 1880: educ. Stonyhurst, and Gonville and Caius, Cambridge; received a commission in the 6th (Militia) Battn. of the Lancashire Fusiliers, Sept. 1900, and joined his regt. in South Africa in Jan.; served through the South African War, March, 1901 to 1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with five clasps. He then passed into the Regulars, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. of the Lancashire Fusiliers, 30 April, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 20 May, 1904, and transferred to Northants Regt. in May, 1908, and obtained his company, 14 June, 1913. He was attached to the West African Regt., 27 Oct. 1905 to 28 Sept. 1911, and was employed with the West African Frontier Force from 19 Feb. 1913; returning to England just before the outbreak of war. He was attached to the Royal Flying Corps, 4 Sept. 1914, and was shot down in an aeroplane while signalling to the artillery near Ypres, 26 Oct. 1914. He was buried at Gheluvelt, Flanders; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “Your son had done awfully good work with us, and at the moment of his death was doing splendidly in observing our artillery and signalling to them from the air. They had to fly low owing to clouds and were under a heavy fire. Your son and the pilot were killed instantly.”

=CREASER, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9275), S.S. 106492, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CREES, ERNEST JAMES=, Chief Shipwright, 341595, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CREIGHTON, ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10097), S.S. 107757, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CRESSWELL, ERNEST ALAN=, Corpl., No. 2205, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Walter Cresswell, of North Villa, The Vale, Hampstead, by his wife, Jessie, dau. of Robert Henderson, Miniature Painter; b. Elstree, co. Herts, 29 March, 1892; educ. Hampstead, and was a decorative designer of great promise. Immediately war was declared he joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, went to France, 24 Jan. 1915, and was wounded at the capture of Hill 60 in April, 1915, being with Lieut. Woolley (the first Territorial officer to win the V.C.) when he gained that distinction. He had only rejoined his regt. a few days after being in hospital when he was killed in action near St. Eloi, 4 June, 1915; unm. He was buried at Elyenwalle Chateau, in Wood H (35b, Reference Map, Belgium, 28’/40,000). The papers appointing him Sergt. had just been made out when he was killed.

=CRESSWELL, JOHN LESLIE=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 15838, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CREW, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I. Ch./9398, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CRICHTON, GERALD EDGECUMBE=, Private, No. 1928, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late William Crichton, of 18, Rotton Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, by his late wife, Bessie Eleanor, dau. of the late George Edgecumbe; b. Edgbaston, 8 Oct. 1886; educ. Edgbaston Preparatory School and King Edward’s School, Birmingham; went to Australia in Dec. 1907, and settled at Galong, N.S.W.; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action in a Turkish trench during the attack in Lone Pine district, Gallipoli, 6–7 Aug. 1915; unm.

=CRICHTON, HUBERT FRANCIS=, Major, Irish Guards, only s. of Col. the Hon. Charles Frederick Crichton, of Mullaboden, Ballymore, late Grenadier Guards, by his wife, Lady Madeline, née Taylour, 2nd dau. of Thomas, 3rd Marquis of Headfort, K.P., P.C., and grandson of John, 3rd Earl Erne, K.P.: b. 95, Eaton Square, London, 17 Dec. 1874; educ. Eton and Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Grenadier Guards, 15 Jan. 1896. He was promoted Lieut. 12 March, 1898, and two years later transferred to the Irish Guards, becoming Capt. 6 Oct. 1900, and Major, 25 March, 1908. He served with the Nile Expedition, 1898, being present at the Battle of Khartoum (medal with clasp), and in the South African war, 1902, when he was employed with the Imperial Yeomanry in the operations in Cape Colony; for this he received the Queen’s medal with two clasps. From 19 May, 1900, to 31 Dec. 1901, he had been Adjutant of the Irish Guards, and from 23 Oct. 1902, to 14 Feb. 1905, was A.D.C. to the Commander, 1st Army Corps. Aldershot. The Irish Guards formed part of the original Expeditionary Force to go to France, and Major Crichton was killed in action at Villers Cotterets, 1 Sept. 1914. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 7 Sept. 1914, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He m. London, 14 July, 1903, Esther, dau. of Llewellyn Saunderson, of Kingstown, co. Dublin, and had two daus.: Doris Madeline, b. 29 May, 1904; and Enid Irene Adelaide, b. 27 Feb. 1907.

=CRICHTON, JOSEPH MICHAEL SMITH=, Private, No. 2199, 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Alfred James Crichton, of Sunderland, by his wife, Ann (28, Sidecliff Road, Roker, Sunderland), dau. of Joseph Michael Smith; b. Sunderland, co. Durham, 16 March, 1889; educ. at Redby School, and went to Australia in April, 1912, where he took up farming. After the outbreak of war he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in April, 1915, went to Egypt with the 16th Battn. in July, and was killed in action on Lone Pine, 8 Aug. 1915; unm. He had volunteered with some other Australians and Indians on some very hazardous work when he met his death. His Adjutant said of him “That he always did excellent work, but, more particularly on the day of his death.”

=CRIPPS, GEORGE=, A.B., 206557, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CRIPPS, SPENCER HARRY=, Petty Officer, R.N.V.R., London 1/3501, Drake Battn. Royal Naval Division, only s. of William Henry Cripps, of Bradford-on-Avon, Draper; b. Buckingham, 24 June, 1882; educ. Bath; served in the South African War (medal), and on the outbreak of the European War, joined the R.N.V.R. in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 25 May, 1915. Lieut. Edward H. S. Bligh wrote: “He has been a great help to me ever since I first took charge of the 16th Platoon, and it did not take me long to single him out; it was not long before I was able to recommend him for the promotion he so well deserved. Just before his death I had lost him from the platoon, as he had been put in command of another platoon, and he was at the head of his men when he came under heavy fire and fell dead on 25 May, with a bullet through his brain. I was able to go out after dusk and to bury his body.” He m. at St. George’s Church, Brondesbury, 13 Feb. 1915, Winifred Louise, dau. of John Butler, of 8, Blenheim Gardens, Cricklewood; s.p.

=CRISP, JAMES FREDERICK=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3607C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CRITCHER, ALBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17494, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CRITCHLEY, SIDNEY HERBERT=, Shipwright, 2nd Class, 345723, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CROCK, THOMAS=, P.O., 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 4674), 158554, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CROCKER, FREDERICK CYRIL=, Sergt., No. 1865, No. 4 Platoon, 6th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), s. of Lieut. John Crocker, of Claremont, Portishead, Somerset, formerly of Lerwick and Stornoway, R.N., Divisional Officer of Coast Guards, Southend Division, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late James Bardsley; b. Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 22 Dec. 1887; educ. Tate School, Wexford, and Anderson Institute, Lerwick, Shetland, and prior to the outbreak of war was an Officer of Excise at Gateshead. He joined the Northumberland Fusiliers at the beginning of 1914, volunteered for Imperial service when war began, was severely wounded in action at St. Julien, 26 April, 1915, while leading the platoon in a bayonet charge after his platoon officer, Lieut. Garton, had fallen, and died in the East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich, 1 June, following. He m. at Glasgow, 10 June, 1911, Janet, dau. of Peter Macleod, of Stornoway, and had two daus.: Patricia Joan Mary, b. 28 April, 1912; and Annie Valerie, b. 4 Feb. 1915.

=CROCKFORD, CHARLES=, P.O., 1st Class., 198167, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CROFTON, CHARLES WOODWARD=, Major, 9th (Service) Battn. Worcestershire Regt., formerly North Staffordshire Regt., s. of the Rev. Henry Woodward Crofton, formerly H.M. Chaplain at Rangoon and Simla, by his wife, Janette, dau. of Charles Butter, of Ingateston, Essex (attd. 5th Dragoon Guards as Medical Officer in Battle of Waterloo); b. Rugby, 8 Nov. 1864; educ. Haileybury and Oxford Military College, and received his commission as Lieut. from the Militia to the North Staffordshire Regt. (the old 98th), 25 Nov. 1885, and became Capt. 6 March, 1895, and Major, 14 March, 1905. He served in the Dongola Expedition (Egyptian medal with clasp), 1896, and was Station Staff Officer of the first grade in India from 6 July, 1902, to 31 May, 1904, and Brigade Major from 1 June, 1904, to 31 March, 1905. He had retired 6 Dec. 1913, but after the declaration of war immediately placed his services at the disposal of the War Office, and on 31 Aug. was gazetted to the 9th Worcesters as second in command to Lieut.-Col. M. H. Nunn. He went out with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 10 Aug. 1915. A brother officer wrote: “I can assure you your husband was a great credit to our Army, fearless and brave. He was never happy unless in a position to be at the head of our regt., and at the time he was killed we were in a very tight corner, and it meant at the time British determination to withhold the severe Turkish attack, and he was one of those to show a great example to the men.” Major Crofton m. at Mussoorie, India, 26 Dec. 1901, Catherine Mary (Culverley, Goda Road, Littlehampton), dau. of the late Charles Frederick Waverley Stowell, and had two children: Hugh Charles Henry, b. 19 Feb. 1915; and Kathleen Louisa, b. 23 Dec. 1902.

=CROMIE, MAURICE FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, att. 2nd, Battn. Hampshire Regt., 2nd s. of the late Capt. Charles Francis Cromie, C.M.G., 37th Regt., Consul-General for Congo Free State at the time of his death, by his wife, Joanna Angela (Alresford, Hants), dau. of Julian Bargus Yonge, of Otterbourne, Hants, J.P., M.A. [Cadet of Yonge of Puslinch, Devon]; b. London, 29 July, 1895; educ. Blundell’s, Tiverton, and Dover College, where he was in the O.T.C.; obtained his commission, 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915: unm. His commanding officer wrote: “Lieut. Cromie’s loss was really a bitter blow to the regt. I had only known him a few days, and he had charge of the machine guns. When we went up to the front trenches prior to the assault he came twice with me on expeditions, and was so keen and cheerful about it all that I got him to come and live in my dug-out, and there we stayed together until the day. How it happened I do not know, but what I do know is that his guns arrived in the nick of time and later were instrumental in saving the situation.”

=CRONK, FRIEND=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3574), 187623, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CRONK, WILLIAM GUY=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. (The Buffs) East Kent Regt. att. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only s. of William Henry Cronk, of Suffolk Place, Sevenoaks, by his wife, Winifred Ruth, dau. of Lieut.-Col. C. N. Kidd; b. Sevenoaks, co. Kent, 28 April, 1893; educ. Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. East Kent Regt., 14 March, 1914, and attd. to the King’s Royal Rifles; went to France early in Oct., and was killed in action two miles S.E. of Zonnebeke, 26 Oct. 1914, while leading his platoon in an attack on the enemy trenches; unm.

=CROOK, ALBERT GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5113), 196640, H.M.S. Good Hope, lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CROOK, JOSEPH=, Painter, 2nd Class, M. 3641, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CROSBY, JOHN CLIFFORD=, A.B., Ch. J. 2146, H.M.S. Cressy, only s. of the late Robert Crosby, Constable, North Riding Police Force, by his wife, Eleanor (112, Holden Street, Grangetown, Yorkshire), dau. of James Pease; b. Halifax, 18 May, 1892; educ. Grangetown Council School; joined the Navy, 11 Aug. 1908, and was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=CROSLAND, JOHN HENRY=, A B. (R.F.R., B. 1661), 205430, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CROSLEY, CECIL=, 2nd Lieut. and Acting Adjutant, 5th (Service) Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, formerly 5th Lancers, s. of John Mechi Crosley, of 5–6, Great Winchester Street, E.C., Stockbroker and member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Mary May, dau. of E. Candler, of Bexhill; b. Purley, co. Surrey, 29 Oct. 1892; educ. Uppingham School, and then proceeded to the McGill University, Montreal, with the idea of taking up engineering. Abandoning this, he returned to England in 1913 and joined his father. He had joined the Reserve of Officers, 23 July, 1913, and on the outbreak of war was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th Lancers, Aug. 1914 and trained with them at Dublin. Being anxious, however, to go to the Front, he transferred to the 5th Royal Irish Fusiliers in May, 1915, and went out to the Dardanelles with them. He took part in the historic landing at Suvla Bay, was appointed Acting Adjutant early in August, and was killed in action at Keretch Tepe on the 16th of that month; unm. Shortly before his death. Lieut.-Gen. B. Mahon wrote; “Your Commanding Officer and Brigade Commander have informed me that you have distinguished yourself by good conduct in the field. I have read their report with much pleasure and have forwarded it to higher authority for recognition;” and Capt. E. M. Ilwaine wrote to his father: “From the moment we landed (at Suvla Bay) under shrapnel fire I was struck by your son’s coolness. He volunteered to remain beside the barge in which we came ashore, organised a party and unloaded the ammunition and stores in it, although the Turkish gunners had got the range and were shelling it steadily. Whenever I saw him during the few rests we had I found him cheery and apparently quite happy in his work, and I noticed that he had quite obtained the confidence of the men of his platoon, who followed him willingly. Personally I soon learned to put absolute trust in his knowledge and judgment, and he took over the command of the company when I was wounded. Two of our officers who were wounded after I was, both made exactly the same remark to me while on the hospital ship, ‘Crosley is doing good work.’” And later (12 Feb. 1916) he wrote again; “I have received a letter from one of our officers--Bennett--who was near your son when he was killed. With the exception of Bennett all the officers present were wounded, went to hospital in Alexandria or Malta, and rejoined the regt. in Serbia direct from hospital. I quote Bennett’s letter. The occasion he refers to is the one mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s despatch, when he says that the 5th Battn. held on to the ridge until only one officer was left, and then retired when ordered to do so from the rear. I might mention that Cecil was appointed Adjutant--after Kelly, the Adjutant, was hit--some days previously.” On Monday, 16 Aug., we advanced up a ridge overlooking the Bay of Saros. This ridge was Keritch Tepe Sert, and sloped down to the water’s edge. Our officers going into action were Johnson, Crosley, Bartley, Duggan, Fitzgerald, Blood, Figgis Kidd and myself. Kidd followed B Coy, with first half of D, and I followed with the remaining two platoons of D. I met Crosley when we got into position, and he instructed me to send D along to Kidd and take command of B, as both Duggan and Blood had been hit. B Coy. were lining a ridge and firing half left. The remainder were a little ahead and lining the ridge facing inland, also holding a small trench at right angles to the ridge and on the sea side of it. It was in this little trench that Crosley, Hartley, Sergt.-Major Mulligan and many others were killed. I was not actually in this place, but Fitzgerald and Kidd explained it clearly afterwards. Crosley, Hartley and Mulligan were all hit in the head. At about 8.30 p.m. we were instructed that we were to withdraw, and that two naval boats--which had helped us with their fire all day--would commence to shell the enemy at 8.45 p.m. The enemy were on a little knoll and entrenched about 20 or 15 yards in front of the trench we held. We withdrew in good order. Fitzgerald and Kidd were in the little trench all day, and, indeed, Fitzgerald got a bullet through his helmet at the same spot, for it was very closely sniped. Crosley was not up in this position for long, but was passing along the line and learning how matters stood. When I reached the position and was talking to Crosley two aeroplanes were overhead dropping bombs about, and he told us that the fumes from one bomb were all about him as he bandaged up Blood, who was hit in the shoulder. I chatted to him for a time, and he wanted me to take one of his famous automatic pistols, but as I had a rifle I refused. From where we were on to the ridge the ground sloped right to the sea, and this slope was covered with thick scrub, which scrub was fairly full of snipers, so we had a fire on both sides and plenty of shells. Crosley was, of course, very cheery, and his last word to me was ‘Keep down and don’t expose yourself. There are all sorts of things flying about here.’ I left him arranging about water and ammunition with Mulligan. I heard from Kelly, in Alexandria, something of how well Crosley had done, and from all he told me I am not surprised to see his name in the Despatch. He would seem to have merited that honour highly. This is the only first hand information I have been able to secure. If I obtain any more I shall forward it to you.” He was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916]. At Montreal he was instrumental in introducing and organising Rugby rules for the University football matches and was prominent in boxing, winning the amateur middle-weight championship of Canada. On his return to England he became a member of the London Rowing Club, and represented that club in eights at Henley and other Regattas.

=CROSS, DANIEL=, Private, No. 81195, 2nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late (--) Cross, and gdson. of Daniel Cross, of Harleston, co. Northants; b. Harleston, 9 July, 1894; educ. there; went to Canada in March, 1911, and settled at Killarney, Manitoba; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of war, and came over with the first contingent, going to the Western Front in April, 1915. He died on Active Service in No. 11 General Hospital, Boulogne, 25 Aug. 1915, of appendicitis. He was buried in the English cemetery there; unm.

=CROSS, DAVID RONALD=, M.C., Lieut. 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers, only s. of Adam Cross, of Brixworth Hall, co. Northampton, by his wife, Annie, dau. of David Guthrie; b. Midlothian, 18 Oct. 1889; educ. Marlborough and Christ Church, Oxford, at which latter he took his degree with honours. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 16 Lancers, 16 Aug. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 16 April, 1913. On the outbreak of war he went to France with his regt., was wounded in Oct., but after being in England for a few weeks rejoined, and was killed in action near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915; unm. Lieut. Cross was twice mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 20 Oct. 1914, and 17 Feb. 1915], and was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915]. He was a smart rider to hounds, and was well known in the Pytchley country. In 1914 he won his two regimental races at the Curragh, Lord Annaly’s Cup at the Pytchley point-to-point races, and at Punchestown the two military steeplechases in April.

=CROSS, EDWIN=, Officer’s Cook, 2nd Class, 141381, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CROSS, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4853), S.S. 104223, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CROSSIN, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6960, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CROUCH, JOHN WILLIAM=, Ordinary Seaman (R.N.V.R.), 5/193 (Sussex), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CROUSAZ, CECIL FRANCIS=, Lieut., 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., yst. s. of William de Prelaz Crousaz, of 8, de Beauvoir Terrace, Guernsey, jurat of the Royal Court, Guernsey, by his wife Emma Arnold, dau. of John LeCappellain; b. Guernsey, 7 Dec. 1888; educ. Elizabeth College (Sandhurst entrance), Guernsey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt. 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 28 March, 1912. He served with both the 1st and 2nd Battns. of his regt. in South Africa and Gibraltar, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, near Ypres, 31 Oct. 1914. Buried at Hooge; unm. His commanding officer, Col. R. M. Ovens, wrote to his father: “Your boy was in command of our scouts and was a most valuable officer--energetic and keen, and a splendid disciplinarian. His exceptional strength and keenness made him a great asset to his regt. I last saw your boy leading his men forward near Gheluvelt Village, under a heavy fire, and encouraging them by voice and example. He was a brave and determined soldier.” He won the featherweight boxing championship at Aldershot in 1913.

=CROWTHER, LESLIE TAYLOR=, 2nd Lieut., 1/5th Battn. The Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Norman Crowther, of Viso House, Huddersfield, by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of John Henry Sykes, of Huddersfield, J.P.; b. Viso House, Huddersfield, 27 Sept. 1892; educ. Wild’s, Huddersfield, and after leaving school taught there for a time, and after his death his master wrote: “Leslie was such a splendid boy, so vigorous and cheerful, so conscientious and reliable, and it must have been so constant a joy to you both to see how by his own steady efforts he was making his way to a good position in life, and winning the respect of all with whom he had to deal.” He had joined the 1/5th (Territorial) Battn. of the West Riding Regt. in 1909, and volunteering for Imperial service after the outbreak of the war, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the same, 21 Oct. 1914. He went to France with his regt., and was killed in action at Fleurbaix, 15 June, 1915, during a reconnaissance. His company officer, Lieut.-Col. Wilson, wrote: “When I recommended your son for a commission I felt certain I was doing the right thing, and I am pleased to say he has turned out a thoroughly efficient officer and keen soldier. The N.C.Os. and men in his platoon had become very much attached to him, and would follow him anywhere. Our loss is also very great. Every officer in the battn. admired and loved him.... He was always keen to go patrolling, and did his work well” and the following particulars were given by Lieut. A. B. Stott, who writing 16 June said: “Yesterday afternoon a reconnaissance was decided on. The party was to consist of Capt. Wheatley, Lieut. Leslie Liddell, and two men. During the evening Capt. Wheatley’s foot went very sore, so I took his place. Just before we left Leslie asked to be included in the party.... We got about 120 yards out from our trench quite easily. As the grass was very dry I then decided to go on alone with a man for about 40 yards more. I left Leslie and Liddell to guard our left flank. We were just about to return to them when we heard revolver shots, and a German patrol in full flight. Unfortunately. this was not the only patrol out, and another German patrol threw a bomb which gave Leslie his death wound. There was naturally some trouble to get him back to the lines, but he was carried in by a stretcher party, covered by a strong party of men, but he was dead before the lines were reached. The Doctor said that nothing could have saved him, and that he must have been unconscious almost from the first. He was buried the same day in the corner of a field, a quarter of a mile behind the firing line, where the officers and men of the 5th and 7th Duke’s have been buried, and lies near to his old school friend, 2nd Lieut. L. M. Tetlow. Ten officers and 20 men of his own company attended to the simple ceremony which marks these occasions, together with a number of men of his old A Coy., and Col. Wilson officiated at the service.... As my sub. in old C Coy., and as a platoon commander in D Coy., he has always been a splendid and devoted officer.” The D.C.M. was afterwards conferred on Sergt. Convoy for this act, he being in charge of the stretcher bearers.

=CROXSON, HENRY THOMAS=, 1st Class Ship’s Corpl., No. 350161, H.M.S. Formidable, s. of the late Jonathan Croxson, of Ipswich; b. Ipswich, 31 Dec. 1869; educ. there; entered the Navy, 31 July, 1888, and was lost on H.M.S. Formidable, 1 Jan. 1915. He received the Long Service and Good Conduct medal, 27 Nov. 1903. He m. at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich, 26 Oct. 1896, Mary Ann (156, Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich), dau. of John Hindle, of Ipswich, and had one dau.: Ethel May, b. 23 Feb. 1898.

=CROZIER, JAMES CYRIL BAPTIST=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, only s. of the late Rev. Henry Wilcocks Crozier, Vicar of St. Matthew’s, Stockport, M.A. (T.C.D.), by his wife, Susan Sinclair, dau. of James Spence, J.P., Birkenhead, and gdson. of the Rev. Baptist Barton Crozier, of Rockview House, Ballyhaise, co. Cavan, B.A.; b. Bowden, co. Chester, 24 Oct. 1890; educ. Loretto School, Edinburgh, leaving there for Edinburgh University, where he studied medicine for two years. He was gazetted to the 3rd Royal Scots (Special Reserve), 10 July, 1912, from which regt. he was transferred to the 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 10 June, 1914, and was killed in action during the retreat from Mons, near Etreux, 27 Aug. 1914; unm. In a letter to Archbishop Crozier, Primate of All Ireland, Capt. H. S. Jervis (a prisoner in Germany) described in detail the trying day through which the regt. passed on 27 Aug., being eventually cut off from the main body, and proceeded: “B Coy. extended at once, and an attack on the enemy’s position commenced. Your nephew was on the left--or east--of the attacking company, and was very much to the fore; a part of A Coy. extended the line eastwards, continued by my men (D Coy.) The enemy was holding a railway cutting in front of us, so D Coy. tried to rush this, the remainder of the men in that part of the field helping with rifle fire. Owing to lack of cover all my men in this part of the field save two were shot down before the hedge was reached, and the attempt failed. Crozier pushed on ahead of his men, clambered out of a hollow lane which he had just reached, and recklessly exposing himself in the open, shouted out, ‘There they are; come on, men,’ at the same time pointing out the enemy. As he ceased speaking he fell, killed instantaneously by a bullet through the body. It was noticed that he never moved once he fell. It is, therefore, a sad consolation to know that his death was painless, and he died with words on his lips which any of his brother officers would have been proud to be their last also.”

=CROZIER, WILLIAM KERR=, L.-Corpl., No. 9576, Machine Gun Section 2nd. Battn. Royal Scots, eldest s. of the late Walter Wright Crozier, by his wife, Robina (13, Tolbooth Wynd, Leith), dau. of the late William Kerr, of Leith; b. Portobello, 22 March, 1887; educ. Couper Street School there; enlisted 1905; served three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve, and worked as a Plaiter’s Labourer; rejoined on mobilisation 4 Aug. 1914; went to France Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. Sergt. C. Hiles wrote: “When we charged the Germans he was in charge of a machine gun team. His gun was put out of action and poor Will came back to me for another gun. He had to cover over 600 yards of ground beaten by murderous shell and rifle fire, for this act he has been recommended for the D.C.M. After getting his gun he went back to the trenches we had captured from the Germans. Just as he was about to enter the trenches he got wounded. He got his gun in action, and when he was found he was beside my gun. He was a good soldier and a very promising non-commissioned officer, and had he lived he would probably have been promoted.”

=CRUIKSHANKS, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12869, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CRUISE, PETER=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111533 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CULLINAN, ROBERT HORNIDGE=, B.A., Barrister-at-Law, Capt., 7th Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd surviving s. of John Cullinan, of 6, Bindon Street, Ennis, Solicitor, by his wife, Martha Frances, dau. of the Rev. Francis Faris, Rector of Dovena, co. Wicklow; b. Ennis, co. Clare, 9 Aug. 1881; educ. Tipperary Grammar School, and having obtained Senior Erasmus Smith Exhibition, entered Trinity College, Dublin, in Oct. 1899. Here he gained numerous honours and prizes in History and Political Science and Logic, and obtained on leaving a Senior Moderatorship with gold medal for History and Political Science. He was called to the Irish Bar in Trinity Term, 1904, and was a member of the Munster Circuit. On the outbreak of war he offered his services and secured a commission in Sept., being gazetted Lieut. to the 7th Munsters, 18 Nov. 1914, and as Tempy. (afterwards confirmed) Capt. 27 Feb. He was killed in action after the landing at Suvla Bay, 8 Aug. 1915; unm. Major Drage, commanding C Coy., wrote: “Capt. Cullinan, C Coy., with D on its left, and the 6th Munsters on the right of it, had to advance early on Saturday afternoon along, below and parallel to a high ridge, on which were many skilful Turkish snipers. Your son, on the 7th, commanded the first line of C Coy., and went on leading his men under heavy fire most determinedly and gallantly, till he got to an open patch, where he was struck down, mortally wounded. 2nd Lieut. Bennett bravely went to his side, to find Capt. Cullinan riddled with five or six bullets and dead.” And Major Hendricks: “I was in the firing line with him not half an hour before he was shot. We were in a thunder storm together and were wet to the skin. Suddenly I received an order to reinforce our other battn. on a flank, and sent Major Drage’s company, to which your son belonged, to carry out the duty. Your son died, as he had lived, a noble hero, never thinking for one moment of himself, telling the men to go on and leave him. He was then shot through the head. His death was practically instantaneous. After the 12 months I have known your son, I must say I looked on him as a dear pal, and one of the best officers in the regt. He had endeared himself to one and all.” At Dublin University he was a member of the Rugby football club, and played for the first fifteen for three years, obtaining his colours in the year 1900–1, and was also record secretary of the University Historical Debating Society.

=CULLIP, ALEXANDER GEORGE HOLLIS=, Bugler, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 16865, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CUMMING, COLIN EDWARD=, M.A. (Hons. Edin.), Lieut., 103rd Battery, R.F.A. 31st Brigade (28th Division), 2nd s. of Robert Charles Cumming, of Edinburgh, formerly of Stafford, retired Bank Manager, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late David Duff, of Calcutta, and grandson of the late Capt. John Cumming, 26th (Cameronians), 4th (King’s Own) and 80th Foot; b. Stafford, March, 1890; educ. at Royal High School, Edinburgh, 1902–7 (“Dux” in 1907 and gold medallist in Latin, Greek and French), and Edinburgh University (M.A. with first-class honours in Classical Literature, 1911). At the University, where he was highly esteemed and beloved, he was an active member of the O.T.C., and got his commission in the R.F.A. Reserve, 16 Sept. 1909. While preparing for the Indian Civil Service he was offered an engineering cadetship in the Transvaal gold-mining industry, and, solely with a view to the family interests, he accepted this, relinquishing his Indian aspirations, and went to Johannesburg in 1913. His one year in Africa gave promise of rare success, but, at his country’s call, he gained permission to come home with the Imperial troops, and, going straight to the Scottish R.F.A. headquarters, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 22 Sept. 1914, and was soon selected as Adjutant. Appointed to the 103rd Battery, then stationed at Winchester, where he did further strenuous work, he accompanied the Battery to the Front in Jan. 1915. He was killed in action by shell near Ypres, 24 Feb. 1915; unm. The Major in command (now Lieut.-Col. Hope, D.S.O.), wrote that they had been shelled for about an hour. Their dug-out was hit, and when the Major, himself wounded, became conscious, Cumming was trying to help him out of the débris when another shell arrived and they were both knocked senseless. Lieut. Cumming died during the night in hospital, never having regained consciousness. He was buried in the cemetery at Poperinghe. After his death he was gazetted to a full Lieutenancy, to rank as from 8 Dec. 1914.

=CUMMING, THOMAS SUMMERS=, Private, No. 14807, A Coy., 12th Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Archibald Matheson Cumming, of 9, Dobbies Loan, Glasgow, by his wife, Barbara, dau. of Walter Buchanan; b. Glasgow 3 June, 1896; educ. there; enlisted Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. From information supplied by the Red Cross, it appears that he was shot through the head when he had just got over our own parapet preliminary to the charge.

=CUNLIFFE, THOMAS HENRY WITHERS=, Capt., 1st Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, only s. of the late Robert Ellis Cunliffe, of The Croft, Ambleside, Solicitor, by his wife, Helen (The Croft, Ambleside), dau. of Henry Sharp, of Townend, Deepcar, Yorks; b. Pendleton, Manchester, 9 July, 1885; educ. Bilton Grange and Rugby; obtained his commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers from the Militia, 29 Nov. 1905, and was promoted Lieut. 6 Feb. 1910, and Capt. 17 March, 1915. Capt. Cunliffe was with his regt. in India when war broke out, and proceeded with it to Gallipoli, where he was killed in action on Gurkha Bluff, 4 June, 1915, while in charge of the machine gun section of his regt. He was buried in the regimental cemetery at Lancashire Landing; unm. Col. Ormond, Lancashire Fusiliers, wrote: “His handling of the machine guns, in the position after the Turks had been charged, was, I understand, masterly. He was well in front of the line screened from the enemy’s view by a bushy shrub. His guns pointed across the front of our position, so that when the Turks charged at night he raked their ranks right and left. His knowledge of his work, his command of his company and his great natural gifts marked him out for a great career.... The very gallant Cunliffe worked his machine guns and was killed. His great courage and skill had been of the utmost value in the operations.... Capt. Cunliffe was launched into deep water at the landing on the Peninsula, and swam to shore fully equipped with rifle and pack under heavy fire, a feat which only a very fine swimmer could have accomplished. His guns could not be landed, but he collected his gun teams on the beach and marched them up to fill the gap between Capt. Haworth and Capt. Shaw’s detachments, so linking up the battn. and restoring its internal communications.”

=PICKERSGILL-CUNLIFFE, JOHN CUNLIFFE=, of Cobb Court, Cootham, Pulborough, Sussex, Capt., 6th, attached 4th, Battn. Worcestershire Regt., elder s. of the late Charles Pickersgill-Cunliffe, of Beacon Hill Park, Hindhead, Surrey, by his wife, Audrey (Crossways, Cootham, Pulborough, Sussex), dau. of Charles Hoskins Master, and nephew of Harry Pickersgill-Cunliffe, of Staughton Manor, Huntingdon; b. Barrow Green House, Oxted, co. Surrey, 27 Jan. 1884; educ. Haileybury College; joined the Sussex Militia in 1898, and served in the South African War, 1901–2, receiving the Queen’s medal with clasp. He was gazetted to the 2nd Worcesters from the Militia, 4 July, 1903, and promoted Lieut., 4 April, 1907; served in Africa, Ceylon and India, and retired 1 July, 1913. He went on the Cape to Cairo Motor Expedition, arriving at Cape Town, 5 Aug. 1913, and leaving Broken Hill, Jan. 8, 1914. On mobilization, 4 Aug. 1914, he rejoined his old regt., was promoted Capt., 1 Sept., went to France, 27 Aug. 1914, and was wounded in action near Lille, 24 Oct. following, and invalided home. On recovery he left 12 May, 1915, to join his regt. at the Dardanelles and was killed in action there 4 June, 1915; unm. A comrade who was with him at the time he was killed wrote: “Cunliffe arrived with a few men who wavered under the hot fire, but he jumped on the parapet and told them he would show them the way. There he stood with the bullets whistling all round him while they climbed over. Later on as he was looking over the parapet a bullet struck him in the head and he died with a smile on his face and a cheery word for his men at the head of the advance”; and the Colonel: “If he had been spared I am confident he would have earned great distinction. I was not very near when the regiment made their most successful attack and all accounts tell of his coolness and dash, he is a great loss to us.” He was a keen sportsman and big game shot.

=CUNNINGHAM, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 18044, 4th Battn. (The King’s) Liverpool Regt., s. of Mark Cunningham; b. Liverpool, 24 Aug. 1893; educ. St. Anthony’s School there; enlisted following the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914; was wounded in the chest, and died in Boulogne Hospital 10 days later, 10 May, 1915; unm.

=CUNNINGTON, ERNEST=, Stoker, P.O., 304513, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CURRIE, JOHN MCLEAN=, Private, No. 46131, D Coy., 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of John David Currie, of Windsor, Nova Scotia, High Sheriff for Hants co., by his wife, Bessie, dau. of the late James Cutting, of Truro N.P.; and gdson. of the late John Currie, D.D., Professor of Hebrew, Pine Hill Theological College, Halifax, Nova Scotia; b. Maitland, Hants Co. N.S., 18 Oct. 1896; educ. Maitland High School and Windsor Academy, N.S.; enlisted in No. 1 Coy. Royal Nova Scotia Regt. (17th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force), in Aug. 1914, on the declaration of war; left Windsor for Valcartier, P.Q. on the 20th of that month, went to England with the first Contingent in Oct.; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter and after the 17th Battn. was disbanded, joined the 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders) under Col. John Currie; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Langemarck, 23 April, 1915; unm.

=CURRIE, THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./11225, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CURRIE, WILLIAM PERRY=, Gunner, No. 42467, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Bartlett Lingely Currie, of Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, by his wife, Martha J., dau. of Valentine Haines; b. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Lincoln, co. Ontario, 15 July, 1895; educ. Niagara afsd.; was a Painter; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; went to France 7 April, was wounded in action at St. Julien, and died in Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, 4 May, 1915; unm.

=CURRY, JOHN WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1644, Royal Marine L.I. (Reserve), eldest s. of Henry Curry, Drill Instructor, by his wife, Martha, dau. of James Slack; b. Kilburn, 5 April, 1880; educ. Nunhead Passage School; joined the Marines, 28 April, 1898; served on H.M. ships Majestic, Ocean and Empress of India, and two years at Devonport Dockyard, obtaining his discharge, 1 June, 1906, with the highest character. He was called up from the Reserve on mobilisation, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Peckham, S.E., 19 Dec. 1900, Mary Ann (41, Herman Road, Old Kent Road, S.E.), dau. of George Stout, and left five children: Henry William Felix, b. 20 Sept. 1904; John R. J., b. 20 Dec. 1905; Benjamin, b. 19 April, 1912; Sydney, b. 14 Sept. 1915; and Ivy Ethel, b. 1 June, 1902.

=CURRY, LEON HALL=, Capt., 42nd Battn. (affiliated to the Black Watch), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the Hon. Nathaniel Curry, of Montreal, Canada, Senator, President of the Canadian Car and Foundry Co., by his wife, Mary, dau. of David Hall; b. Amherst, Nova Scotia, 21 Oct. 1885; educ. Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S., and was an official of the Canadian Car and Foundry Co. He had received a commission as Lieut. in the 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada (Militia), 2 Jan. 1913, and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered and was gazetted Capt. 42nd Battn. in March, 1915. He left Canada 10 June, 1915, crossed to France early in Oct., went into the trenches with his company, 19 Oct. 1915, and was killed the same night, with two brother officers, by the bursting of a trench mortar. His Colonel wrote: “He was one of the most reliable and painstaking officers, who by his intelligence and thoroughness could always be depended upon to carry through successfully any duty that might be given to him, we all realise we have lost a most valuable officer as well as a true friend and lovable companion.” He was buried in the English cemetery at Armentières, and a stone was erected by his brother officers and company. He m. at Wimbledon, England, 9 July, 1913, Marion, dau. of John McKeen, Manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S., and had a son, b. 21 April, 1914, died in infancy.

=CURTIS, ROBERT HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3887), 183944, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=CURTIS ROY BARNETT=, Private, No. 6202, No. 2 Coy., 1st Battn. (7th Fusiliers of London), 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1st s. of the late Richard John Curtis, of London, Ontario (d. 1913), by his wife, Annie Maria (396, Ridout Street, London, Ontario, Canada), dau. of the late Samuel Barnett, of Logan Township; b. London, Ontario, 23 Feb. 1897; educ. St. George’s and Talbot Street Schools there; volunteered for overseas service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for England with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France in Feb.; was wounded at the Battle of Ypres, 23 April, invalided and sent into hospital at Calais and Boulogne, but returned to duty in two weeks, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915. A comrade wrote that they had taken the second line of trenches, and that besides the fire from the Germans in the third line trenches, some men were wounded by our own guns before word could be sent to our gunners to correct their range. It was then that Curtis was killed instantaneously by a wound just above the heart.

=CURTIS, WALTER=, P.O. (N.S.), 179917, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CURTIS, WALTER ARTHUR=, Private, No. 7676, 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., s. of Samuel Curtis, of 5, Pump Court, Lavenham, Suffolk, by his wife, Alphence, dau. of James Simpson; b. Little Waldingfield, co. Suffolk, 2 Oct. 1888; educ. Lavenham Council School; enlisted in the Suffolks, 24 Feb. 1908, and was with his regt. in Egypt when war broke out, and with it went to the Front in Jan. 1915. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle 16 March following; unm. The commanding officer of his company wrote that he “was doing his turn of duty in the trenches, and at 5.30 p.m. volunteered to go to a spring near his trench and fetch some water. He obtained the water and was on his way back when he was shot by a German sniper. Two of his comrades--one of whom was wounded in the attempt--went out and brought him back but it was seen at once that he was very dangerously wounded, and he had been hit through both buttocks, just below the body, and he died quite peacefully at 7 p.m. on the same day whilst being removed to the dressing station on a stretcher. He was buried the next day in a wood about one-and-a-half miles west of Ploegstraat, in Belgium; unm. A wooden cross, with his regimental number, was erected over his grave.”

=CUSACK, ERIC ATHANASIUS=, Private, No. 513, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late James Holmes Cusack, of Sydney and Melbourne, by his wife, Jessie Mabel (Toorak, Melbourne), dau. of (--) Austin, and gdson. of Samuel Athanasius Cusack, of Merrion Street, Dublin, M.D., F.R.C.S.; b. Sydney, 29 Jan. 1894; educ. Melbourne Grammar School; enlisted in Aug. 1914; left Australia with the 1st Division, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 3 or 4 May, 1915; unm. A N.C.O. wrote: “He was killed in a reinforcing action, for which his party was specially thanked by the General of a British regt.”

=CUSSELL, SIDNEY WILLIAM=, Blacksmith, 343850, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CUTFIELD, HAROLD=, Trooper, No. 6006, 16th Lancers, 3rd s. of the late Arthur Cutfield, of Ross, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., B.Sc.; b. Ross, co. Hereford, 3 May, 1895; educ. Eastman’s, Southsea, and Cheltenham College; enlisted on the outbreak of war, Aug. 1914, and was blown up with many others of his regt. in a trench near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915.

=CUTHBERTSON, NORMAN WILLIAM=, Major, Reserve of Officers, late Royal Highlanders, 4th s. of William Gilmour Cuthbertson, by his wife, Jane Agnes, dau. of James Lister; b. at Shanghai, 21 Oct. 1861; educ. Trinity College, Glenalmond; entered the Army as Lieut. Royal Highlanders, 9 Sept. 1882; and was promoted Capt. 7 Dec. 1888, and Major 13 July 1898; passed through the staff College 1894; was Instructor Royal Military College, 25 Aug. 1897 to 21 Oct. 1899; served in the Egyptian Campaign (medal and bronze star), and in the South African War in the 2nd Battn. Royal Highlanders; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the action at Magersfontein, at which he was severely wounded, and also those at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Driefontein and Vet River, and afterwards served on the Staff (mentioned in despatches, Queen’s medal with five clasps), retiring in 1901. On the outbreak of the European War he was appointed a General Staff Officer (second grade), 5 Aug. 1914. He died in London, 12 Feb. 1915, while serving as a Staff Officer at Plymouth.

=CUTHBERTSON, THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 1535, C (Belford) Coy., 7th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), 3rd s. of William Cuthbertson, of Bamborough Castle Hotel, Sea Houses, Northumberland, Trinity House Boatman and Pilot, by his wife, Marget; b. Bamborough Castle Hotel, 16 Sept. 1896; educ. Barnard Castle County School; and on leaving there entered the service of the North Eastern Banking Co., Ltd., and at the time war was declared was an assistant at the Belford branch. He had joined the 7th Northumberland Fusiliers in 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service, and went to France with his regt. in April, 1915. He was seriously wounded at St. Jean, 1 June, 1915, and died in the 14th General Hospital at Wimereux, Boulogne, 10 June following. He was buried in the cemetery there; unm.

=CUTLER, WILLIAM CHARLES=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 5100, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DABNER, ROBERT=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 198199, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DADD, STEPHEN GABRIEL=, Leading Seaman, Z 544, Anson Battn., Royal Naval Division, yst. s. of Stephen Thomas Dadd, of 26, Sunderland Road, Forest Hill, S.E., Artist, by his wife, Eva Elizabeth, dau. of John Hilton; b. Lewisham, 17 May, 1894; educ. Aske Hatcham School, New Cross, S.E., and received his art education at the Goldsmiths’ College School of Art under Mr. Frederick Marriot, Hon. A.R.C.A. (Lond.), A.R.E. He joined the Royal Naval Division on 7 Oct. 1914, after the outbreak of war, left with his battn. for the Dardanelles on 17 May, his twenty-first birthday, and was killed in action on 5 July, 1915; unm. Petty Officer William Arblaster, writing on behalf of his comrades, said: “He was in my platoon and was liked and respected by all, both by his seniors and by those he was in charge of.... He was killed yesterday morning about 7 a.m., and was quietly buried in the afternoon.” He early showed a preference for the sculptor’s art, in which he made rapid progress, and in 1912, when under 18, exhibited his first work at the Royal Academy, “Elfreda,” a bust of his sister; and in 1914 he was again represented in the Academy, this time by an animal group, “True Foes Once Met are Joined till Death.” This represented an Indian elephant with his massive head and trunk crushing into the earth, as he kneels over him--a tiger--who, in his last agony, with claws extended, tears vainly at his huge antagonist. In the 1915 Royal Academy was the portrait bust of “Winnie,” considered by many who are entitled to speak with authority as showing high technical experience. Also in this year’s Royal Academy (1916) he is represented by a group, “Lions and Prey,” modelled by him three years ago. He made many studies of animals and birds at the Zoological Gardens, in which he showed remarkable grasp of form, movement and character. He was well known as a fine swimmer, being a member of the Lewisham Swimming Club. He won, among other races, the 100 yards junior championship of London (under 16 years) in 1910, the 1,000 yards championship river race of the Lewisham Swimming Club in 1911–12, and on several occasions the old Askean quarter-mile championship. He was, besides, a member of the Blackheath Harriers, and was well known as a good cross-country runner.

=DADE, WILLIAM=, No. 10600, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Samuel Dade, of 5, St. James’ Street, Taunton; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 7 Oct. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action on or about 14 Sept. 1914.

=DADSON, FREDERICK=, Driver, No. 2247, R.E., 4th s. of Frederick Dadson, of Great Lodge, Tonbridge, Labourer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Moore; b. Burgess Hill, Tonbridge; educ. High Brooms Schools, Tunbridge Wells; was a driver for Tunbridge Wells Corporation; enlisted 31 May, 1915, and was drowned in the transport Hythe in the Aegean Sea, 28 Oct. 1915. He m. at Barning Church, Maidstone, 3 Aug. 1912, Annie Norris, 2nd dau. of Edward Ernest Fullagar, and had a dau.: Kathleen Ethel, b. 9 July, 1913.

=DADY, HENRY=, Private, No. 11544, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Norfolk; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Cuinchy, 25 Jan. 1915. Buried 300 yards south of railway and 250 yards west of Cuinchy Churchyard, and about 300 yards north-west of the Keep of the brickfields; m.

=DAGLISH, THOMAS REUBEN=, P.O. (N.S.), 192439, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAINES, HORACE WILLIAM=, Yeoman, of Signals (N.S.), 190565, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DALE, FREDERICK EDWARD=, Private, No. 4021, 10th Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Thomas Dale, of 9, Ash Grove, Wavertree; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died 11 March, 1915, aged 26. Buried at Lillebeck.

=DALE, HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2537), 193695, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DALE, JAMES WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 1782, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=DALE, JOHN CECIL=, Sergt., No. 46, Honourable Artillery Coy., elder s. of the late John Dale, of Chiswell Street, E.C., by his wife, Harriet (107, West End Lane, West Hampstead); served with the C.I.V.’s in the South African War, 1900; and with the Honourable Artillery Coy. in the European War, 1914; killed in action at Kemmel, Belgium, 26 Oct. 1914, being shot by a sniper; m.

=DALE, WELLINGTON TREVELYAN=, Sub-Lieut., R.N.R., only s. of the late Wellington Dale, of Penzance, by his wife, the late Louisa Harrison, dau. of the late Col. Harrington Astley Trevelyan, 7th Hussars; b. Penzance, 24 Jan. 1888; trained on H.M.S. Conway, and after a short period in a sailing vessel entered the service of the P. & O. Co. He joined the Royal Naval Reserve, 4 Aug. 1906. On the outbreak of war he was on the hospital ship Soudan; later he was appointed to H.M.S. Excellent for a short gunnery course; from there he received a submarine appointment, subsequently going out to the Dardanelles, where he was appointed Beach Officer to assist in the landing operations at Gallipoli. He was taken ill with acute appendicitis while out there, and died in No. 17 Hospital at Alexandria, 11 May, 1915. An extract from his commander’s letter said: “He was always so very efficient and keen at his work, and an officer and messmate of the sort we cannot afford to lose”; and a brother officer wrote: “He was one who helped to make our days brighter and our work lighter.” Lieut. Dale had the Royal Humane Society’s medal for saving life. He m. at Wymondham, 10 Sept. 1912, Florence (Tobé) (2, Meadow Road, Pinner), dau. of the late Harry Borras, and had a dau., Gwen Trevelyan, b. 10 July, 1913.

=DALEY, HERBERT=, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4321, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=DALEY, MICHAEL=, Private, No. 7909, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of Michael Daley, Ironworker (who served seven years with the Colours and on the outbreak of war re-enlisted and is now (1916) on active service), by his wife, Rose Ann (46b, Dalziel Street, Motherwell), dau. of James Murphy, of Coatbridge; b. Coatbridge, co. Lanark, 8 Feb. 1896; educ. Our Lady of Good Aid Roman Catholic School there; enlisted 19 Feb. 1914; went to the Front in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle between 11 and 18 March, 1915.

=DALEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 8025, att. 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Michael Daley, who served for 21 years in the Somerset L.I.; b. Accrington, co. Lancaster, 14 Dec. 1891; educ. St. Peters R.C. School, Blackburn; enlisted 1 Sept. 1908; went to France 1 Sept. 1914, and was killed in the trench at Givenchy, 5 April, 1915, by a bullet through the head. He m. at Windsor, 4 Aug. 1911, Elizabeth Annie, 2nd dau. of George Frederick Humphries, of Four Oakes Common, co. Warwick, and had a son, Vincent, b. 3 March, 1914.

=DALGLISH, CHARLES ANTOINE DE GUERRY=, Capt., 1st Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), s. of the late James Campsie Dalglish, of Wandara, Goulburn, New South Wales, by his wife, Marie Sophie (now wife of W. Dalglish Bellasis, of Sundorne Castle, Shrewsbury), dau. of the Marquis de Guerry de Lauret; b. Goulburn, N.S.W., 11 Feb. 1883; educ. Oratory School, Edgbaston; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Black Watch from the Militia, 5 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut. 29 Oct. 1903, and Capt. 8 Jan. 1910; served in the South African War, 1901–2, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal, Dec. 1900, and in the Orange Free State, Dec. 1900 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France, Aug.-Sept. 1914; and died at Sablonnières, 9 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action. He m. at The Oratory, South Kensington, Caroline, dau. of George Hurdes Purves, of the Middle Temple.

=DALLAS, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 13994, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of William Dallas, by his wife, Mary, dau. of (--) Livingstone; b. Glasgow, 14 Feb. 1871; educ. Milton Street Public School there; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914, and was killed in France, 18 June, 1915, while on sentry duty. He m. at Glasgow, 12 July, 1895, Elizabeth (384, Dobbies Loan, Glasgow), dau. of Thomas Williamson, and had five children: Alexander, b. 13 Jan. 1899; Thomas, b. 24 Feb. 1905; Mary, b. 25 Feb. 1902; Christina, b. 24 Feb. 1905; and Elizabeth, b. 13 Feb. 1913.

=DALLY, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17408. H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DALMAHOY, JOHN FRANCIS CECIL=, Capt., 40th Pathans, Indian Army, yr. s. of Major-Gen. Patrick Carfrae Dalmahoy, Indian Army, of 13, Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Edward Michael Wylly, Bengal Civil Service; b. Allahabad, India, 25 Feb. 1881; educ Edinburgh Academy and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; joined the Indian Army, 8 Jan. 1901; promoted Lieut. 4 Aug. 1903, and Capt. 8 Jan. 1910; was attached for one year to the King’s Royal Rifles at Rawal Pindi, then for a short time was with the 18th Bengal Lancers, being afterwards posted to the 40th Pathans in 1902, with which last named regt. he served in the Tibet campaign of 1904, taking prominent part in several engagements, including the action of Niani, the operations at Gyantse, and in the march to Lhassa, for which he received the medal with clasp. He again saw service in 1908 in the Mohmand campaign on the North-West Frontier of India, in the Khyber Pass, his coolness under fire being commented upon by his commanding officer (medal with clasp). On the outbreak of the European War his regt., which was at Hong Kong, was despatched to France, landing there on 1 April, 1915, its first action being the Battle north of Ypres, 26 April, 1915, when nearly all the officers were killed or wounded, including Capt. Dalmahoy, who lost his life while leading his double company to the attack. Although wounded in six places and advised to go back, he refused to do so, but continued to lead his men till he fell under machine-gun fire. His noble death is spoken of with admiration by the officers and men of the regt. and by others. “Eye-Witness.” in his report of the battle published in the “Times” of 6 May, 1915, speaks of the gallantry of a Pathan battn. Capt. Dalmahoy is specially mentioned in a letter published in “The Times” of 7 May, also by Mr. John Buchan in the account of the battle given in “The Times” of 13 July, and also in the seventh volume of his “History of the War.” Capt. Dalmahoy m. at St. Andrew’s, Fife, 19 Sept. 1911, Violet Cecily, dau. of the Rev. R. Arthur Hull; s.p.

=DALTON, WILLIAM HENRY=, Trooper, No. 7/185, C Coy., 10th Regt. (Canterbury Mounted Rifles) New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of William Henry Dalton, Farmer (died 9 Oct. 1915), by his wife, Annie (Canvastown, Marlborough, New Zealand), dau. of James Twidle; b. Canvastown, Marlborough, New Zealand, 3 May, 1885; educ. Canvastown School. He was a member of the Canvastown Defence Club and had been Capt. for the last three years, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial Service; joined the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 19 May, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “On the 19th, my troop was holding an outpost position Nelson Hill, we were under a heavy rifle fire, which we were returning to the best of our ability, when your son was instantaneously killed by a bullet. Your son was one of the most trustworthy men in the troop, and at the time of his death was taking part very gallantly in the defence of our post.”

=DALY, FRANCIS=, Corpl., No. 16949, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., s. of Patrick Daly, of Level Crossing, Carbury, co. Kildare, by his wife, Mary Bridget, dau. of Thomas Williams; b. Carbury, 13 Dec. 1891; educ. Derenturn National School, and was a post boy; enlisted 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

=DAMES, JAMES WILLIAM, D.C.M.=, Sergt.-Major, No. 1315, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, 2nd s. of John Joseph Dames, of London, England, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of James Raysbrook; b. London, 20 Nov. 1871; and enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.) in 1885 at the age of 14. In 1897 he was sent to India as Sergeant in charge of a draft for the 2nd Battn., and took part in the Tirah Campaign, receiving the medal. He was at Malta on the way back to England when the Boer War broke out, and at once volunteered for active service; went to South Africa with the Malta Mounted Infantry and served through that campaign. He was twice wounded and was three times mentioned in Dispatches, being awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Queen’s Medal with 3 bars. He was invalided home in 1901, and after being employed as a clerk at the War Office for eight years, went to Canada and settled at Derby town, Alberta. On the outbreak of the European War he again volunteered for active service and enlisted in Princess Patricia’s L.I.; came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent; went to France Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Bellewaarde Lake, near Ypres, 8 May, 1915. Sergt.-Major Dames m. at St. George’s Church, Stonehouse, Plymouth, 26 July, 1897, Florence (Derbytown, Mound P. O., Alberta, Canada), yst. dau. of the late John Coneybeer, of Ivybridge, co. Devon, and had two sons: Frank Coneybeer, b. 15 Sept. 1899; and Harold Victor, b. 28 Sept. 1902.

=DANIEL, ALFRED AUSTEN=, Private, No. 35, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Herbert Daniel of 50, Tunnel Avenue, East Greenwich, S.E., by his wife, Clara Matilda, dau. of William Austen, H.M. Customs; b. Rotherhithe, co. Surrey, 18 Nov. 1894; educ. Aske School, Hatcham, and matriculated at London University with second class honours in July, 1912. At the time war broke out he was with the Star Assurance Society; enlisted in the London Rifle Brigade with his two brothers, 6 Aug. 1914, the day following the declaration of war. He went with the battn. to France in Nov., and while doing fatigue duty was dangerously wounded on the evening of 24 Jan. 1915, and died fourteen hours later, on the 25th. His company officer wrote: “He was at all times a most willing and cheerful worker, a splendid example to others, and he will be much missed by all in the platoon, and by me as commander”; and a comrade: “He died as all soldiers would wish to die--on duty--and by that glorious death he has done all that a brave man could do for his country.” A memorial, in the form of a copy in oils of the famous picture “The Great Sacrifice,” was placed in St. John’s Church, Isle of Dogs. E., of which church he was a Server, by the parishioners. At Aske School he was a prefect, played for the Champion House cricket team, 1910–11, in the school football second eleven, 1911–12, and in the Champion House football team, 1911–12. He was the first Askean to fall in the war.

=DANIELS, ERNEST=, Private, No. G. 2468, 12th (Service) Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of William Daniels, of 5, Cardiff Road, Watford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 5 May, 1915.

=DANIELS, JAMES=, A.B., J. 1544, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DANIELS, JOHN=, S.P.O., 286387, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chilli, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DANIELS, JOHN ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14505, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DANN, DAVID GEORGE=, Private, No. 2249, 6th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, s. of the late David George Dann, Postman, by his wife, Annie (now wife of George Alfred Ernest Thorp, of 5, Boundary Road, Notting Hill, now serving with the 6th Royal Fusiliers), dau. of Henry George, Goldsmith; b. West Kensington, 8 April, 1897; educ. St. Paul’s Church School, Hammersmith, and Saunders Road School, Notting Hill; enlisted in the 6th Battn. Royal Fusiliers in Sept. 1913; served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 17 April, 1915; unm. A half-brother of his (James Baseley Goldsmith) is now (1916) on active service on H.M.S. Juno, and two of his maternal uncles, B. H. Goldsmith and I. M. Goldsmith, were killed in action, the first being lost in the Aboukir, 22 Sept. 1914, and the second dying of wounds in France, 25 April, 1915.

=DANN, FRANCIS JOSEPH=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 628), late Ch./11623, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; m.

=DARBY, MAURICE ALFRED ALEXANDER=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, only s. of Alfred Edmund William Darby, of Adcote and Coalbrookdale, co. Salop, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Frederica Louisa Juliana, dau. of the late Col. Sir Frederick Arthur, 2nd Bart. [by his wife, Lady Elizabeth, née Hay, dau. of Thomas Robert, 10th Earl of Kinnoull]; b. London, 6 May, 1894; educ. Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; joined the Grenadier Guards on 24 Jan. 1914, and obtained his Lieutenancy on 15 Nov. 1914. He went to France in Oct. 1914, with the 7th Division of the Expeditionary Force, served in the trenches throughout the winter of 1914–15, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; unm. His body was brought home and interred in Little Ness Churchyard, near Adcote. Lieut. Darby was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. He was a keen cricketer and fond of sports generally, and was a great-great-great-grandson of the famous Quaker ironfounder, Abraham Darby, whose firm invented the process of taking castings and built the first iron bridge.

=DARCHE, AUGUST RAOUL=, Capt., 4th Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Edouard René Darche, of Danville, Province of Quebec, Canada, M.D., by his wife, Hermine, dau. of Pierre Dansereau; b. Danville, Province of Quebec, 16 April, 1882; educ. St. Hyacinth Seminary; was Mercantile Agent for R. G. Dun & Co., Montreal; joined the 64th Chateauguay and Beauharnois (Canadian Militia) Regt. in 1909, and became Capt. in 1910; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war and was appointed Capt. of the Record Office at Lark Hill; left for England with the first contingent, 30 Sept. 1914; went to France, 6 April, 1915, and was promoted Capt. the same day; took part in the first Battle of Ypres, where he was the only officer of his Battn. who came through untouched; was wounded in action at the Battle of Festubert, 27 May, 1915, and died in hospital at Lillers the next day, from shock following the amputation of his leg. Buried in Lillers Cemetery, Pas de Calais (Grave No. 45. R4). He m. at Montreal, 8 Sept. 1904, Athala (1693, Rue Clarke, Montreal), now auxiliary of the Canadian Patriotic Fund, dau. of the late Adolphe Lafond, of Warwick, Province of Quebec, Merchant, and had three children: Maurice, b. 16 March, 1907; Philippe, b. 11 May, 1911; and Cecile, b. 7 July, 1905.

=DARLEY, ARTHUR TUDOR=, Commander, R.N., H.M.S. Good Hope, elder s. of Wellington Darley, of Violet Hill, Bray, co. Wicklow, by his wife, Anna Frances, dau. of Richard Tudor; b. Glensouthwell, Rathfarnham, co. Dublin, 29 Aug. 1876; educ. at Cheam and at Stubbington House, Fareham, Hants; joined the Britannia in 1890, passing in seventh out of 57 candidates. He was promoted Midshipman, 15 March, 1893; Sub-Lieut. 15 Sept. 1896; Lieut. 15 Dec. 1898; and Commander, 31 Dec. 1909. In Jan. 1910, he was appointed Flag-Commander to Admiral Winsloe, Commander-in-Chief on the China Station, and in June, 1912, was one of the first 15 Commanders selected for special appointment to the newly-formed War St.... In March, 1914, he was temporarily appointed to H.M.S. Good Hope, while waiting to take up an appointment to the Flagship of the China Squadron, and was killed in the naval action off Coronel on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. He m. at Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, 10 Nov. 1910, Charlotte Sinclair (Wraysbury House, Emsworth, Hants), eldest dau. of Major-Gen. Edward Sinclair May, C.B., C.M.G., commanding the Lucknow Division, India, and left a son and a dau.: Arthur Tudor, b. (posthumous), 5 Dec. 1914, and Evelyn Elizabeth, b. 25 Oct. 1911.

=DARNELL, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 22653, 4th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force; served in France; killed in action, 29 Dec. 1915.

=DARNELL, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 114438, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DARNILL, WILLIAM ALFRED=, Private, No. 8/358, 8th Southland Regt., Otago Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Francis William Darnill, of 218, Crinan Street, Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand, formerly of Richmond, co. Surrey, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomson McNatty; b. Otatara Bush, Southland, New Zealand, 25 March, 1882; educ. Otatara School; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force about 10 Aug. 1914, left for Egypt in Oct., and died of wounds, 25 April, 1915, received in the landing at the Dardanelles; unm.

=DARROCH, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 2866, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action near Kemmel, 21 April, 1915.

=DART, GEORGE WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2788), 214135, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DARTON, HENRY THEODORE=, Corpl., No. 929, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 17 May, 1915.

=DARTY, EDWARD=, Private, No. G. 63, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 20 April, 1915, of wounds received in action; m.

=DARVILL, PERCY HENRY=, Leading Seaman, 184384, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DARWIN, ERASMUS=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Horace Darwin, F.R.S., Chairman of Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co., by his wife, the Hon. Emma Cecilla (Ida) née Farrer, only dau. of Thomas Henry, 1st Lord Farrer, and grandson of Charles Darwin; b. Cambridge, 7 Dec. 1881; educ. at Horris Hill and Marlborough (Cotton House), and gained an exhibition for mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He went up to Trinity in Oct. 1901, and took the Mathematical Tripos in his second year, being placed among the Senior Optimes. Afterwards he took the Mechanical Sciences Tripos, and was placed in the second class in 1905. On leaving Cambridge, he went through the shops at Messrs. Mather and Platt’s at Manchester. After this he worked for some little while with the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co., of which he was a director, and then became assistant secretary of Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd., at Middlesbrough. Here he stayed for seven years, and at the outbreak of war occupied the position of secretary to the company. As soon as war broke out he decided to join the army and on 12 Sept. 1914, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the Yorkshires, which after training at Darlington and Newcastle crossed to France, as part of the Northumbrian Division, on 17 April, 1915, and was within a week called upon to take part in the second battle of Ypres. Here these Territorial troops fresh from home and tried at the very outset almost as highly as men could be tried, behaved with a steadiness and coolness which gained for them the congratulations of the Generals commanding respectively their Division and their Army Corps. Early in the afternoon of 24 April the Battn. was ordered to attack the village of Fortuin, close to St. Julien where the Germans had broken through. This attack they successfully carried out in the face of terrific shell fire, before being ordered to retire at dusk. By driving the enemy back a mile or more they had attained their object which was to prevent a breach in the line; and they had made good their front with the Canadians and Royal Irish on their right. It was during this advance that Darwin fell, killed instantaneously. His Commanding officer, Colonel Bell, wrote of him: “Loyalty, courage, and devotion to duty--he had them all.... He died in an attack which gained many compliments to the Battn. He was right in front. It was a man’s death.” Corpl. Wearmouth, who was in his platoon, wrote: “I am a section leader in his platoon, and when we got the order to advance he proved himself a hero. He nursed us men; in fact, the comment was, ‘You would say we were on a field-day.’ We had got to within twenty yards of our halting place when he turned to our platoon to say something. As he turned he fell, and I am sure he never spoke. As soon as I could I went to him but he was beyond human aid. Our platoon sadly miss him, as he could not do enough for us, and we are all extremely sorry for you in your great loss”; and Private Wood wrote to a friend in Middlesbrough: “I expect you would know poor Mr. Darwin.... I was in his platoon, and I can tell you he died a hero. He led us absolutely regardless of the bullets from the German Maxim guns and snipers that whistled all round him.” Just before he left England, when his Battn. was under orders for the Front, he was summoned to the War Office and offered a Staff appointment at home in connection with munitions of war. This would have given great scope to his capabilities. “It would have been interesting and important work,” he wrote, “but, of course, there are plenty of older men who can do it just as well as I can.” He felt that at that moment his place should be with his regt., and made, in the words of one present at the interview, a “fine appeal” to be allowed to go with his men. It was granted, and he went gladly and with no looking back. The Times (30 April, 1915) said of him: “Erasmus Darwin would, if he had lived, have added fresh distinction to the name of his family in a walk of life in which it has never before figured. Between Cambridge and a great iron works in the North there is something of a gulf fixed and one who knew Darwin only in his Cambridge home cannot say anything more than that all those who met him in business conceived a very high opinion of his grasp of his subject, his acuteness and administrative ability. It was, indeed, impossible to know him without realising that he combined with intellectual ability a calm, sound, and practical judgment, and a general capacity for doing things well and thoroughly. He had, too, what must have been invaluable to him in his work, a most genuine sympathy with and affection for working men, and this quality, which, amongst so many other things, had made him love his work at Middlesbrough, gave him intense pleasure when soldiering came to him as a wholly new and unlooked-for experience. He delighted in the men, and especially in long expeditions across the moors with his scouts. There is one more quality as to which all his friends would agree, namely, a conscientiousness that was eminently sane and wide-minded and completely unswerving. No one in the world was more certain to do what he believed to be right.”

=DASH, FREDERICK JOHN=, Officer’s Cook, 1st Class, 363215 (Ports.), H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=DASHWOOD, FRANK LEOPOLD=, L.-Corpl., No. 241, D Coy., 10th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, first and only surviving s. of the late Leopold Dashwood, of 180, Dereham Road, Norwich, Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Lottie, dau. of the late William Worts, of North Walsham; b. Norwich, 9 Feb. 1882; educ. Cambridge House and Higher Grade Schools, Norwich; joined the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1901 during the South African war, and served eight years with the Colours and four in the Reserve. He emigrated to Australia in 1911, and on the outbreak of the war joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 26 April, 1915; unm. His Capt. wrote: “He was a very fine soldier indeed, stood out from some others as a particularly smart example. It was not until we had been some time in Egypt that he would accept promotion, otherwise he would have been much higher in rank than he was. There is no question he was popular with the men in his section.”

=DAUN, EDWARD CHARLES=, Lieut. and Assistant Adjutant, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., 2nd Infantry Brigade, only s. of Charles James Daun, by his wife, Ada Margaret, dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Edward Arthur Williams, C.B., Colonel Commandant R.A., and great-grandson of Col. Henry Williams, R.A., who served at Waterloo; b. Streatham, Surrey, 15 June, 1885; educ. Sunningdale School and Harrow; joined the 3rd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. 27 Feb. 1904; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd Battn. 29 Nov. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 10 Nov. 1909. On the outbreak of war he left Woking for the Front, 12 Aug. 1914; was present in the fighting at, and retreat from, Mons, and was killed near Troyon at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; unm. A comrade wrote: “We were in the same company. I was unfortunately sent home with an injured leg, but last saw your son on 4 Sept. At that time he was in splendid health and in such good spirits. He was a splendid officer, and worked night and day for the good of his regt. and his company, and had a great future before him. He was to have been our next Adjutant, and will be a great loss to the regt.” The Colonel, senior Major and Adjutant all fell the same day. Lieut. Daun was a fine rifle shot, and won the Officers’ Cup at the Aldershot Command Meeting in 1912 and 1913, and was second in 1914. Of his uncles, Lieut.-Col. H. F. Williams, Royal Munster Fusiliers, and Lieut.-Col. E. G. Williams, C.M.G., commanding 1st Battn. Devonshire Regt., are at the Front; and Capt. A. L. Williams, Royal Scots (died 24 May, 1906) served with the Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884–85; while of his great-uncles, Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. F. Williams, K.C.B., 60th Rifles, served through the Mutiny and Lieut.-Col. the Hon. H. R. Handcock, 97th Regt., was killed at the storming of the Redan in the Crimean war; and his great-great-uncle, Admiral Sir William Pierson, K.C.B., was wounded as a Midshipman in the Belleisle at Trafalgar.

=DAVEY, ARTHUR JOHN=, Private, No. 11483, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Richard Soper Davey, of Broadway, Woodbury, Exeter, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Samuel Litton; b. Woodbury, co. Devon, 23 May, 1897; educ. Woodbury Council School; enlisted 31 Aug. 1914; went to France, 11 Dec., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. 1914; unm.

=DAVEY, WILLIAM ALFRED GEORGE=, Rifleman, No. 2080, 1/18th Battn. (London Irish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of James Best Davey, Sergt. 15th Middlesex Regt., by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth (42, Pretoria Avenue, Walthamstow), dau. of William Thomas Warner; b. Willesden, 18 May, 1894; was a student at the International Correspondence Schools, Kingsway, and had been employed for many years on the clerical staff of the Stores Department of the London County Council. After the outbreak of war he joined the London Irish on 31 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. He was in the first line of German trenches binding up wounds sustained by a comrade, when he must have been observed by a German sniper, for, as he was advancing towards the second line of trenches, he was shot in the head by a rifle bullet. Lieut. G. M. Slattery wrote: “The Capt. of your son’s company was struck by a shell, and your son was seen at once to make for him. On his way he was struck in the head and killed. He was a good lad and liked by everybody, and the action which led to his death was characteristic of him. He never seemed to trouble about himself, but was always the first to help others.” He was buried in a village just outside Loos.

=DAVID, CHARLIE=, Stoker, 1st Class, 311578, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAVID, JAMES STANLEY=, L.-Corpl., No. 30737, 1st Battn. Welsh Regt., s. of Walter David, of Uplands, Swansea; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, being buried in a trench on the night of 3 Aug. 1915, aged 23; unm.

=DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER BISSETT=, Private, No. 16166, 2nd Battn. (Queen’s Own) Cameron Highlanders, s. of James Brown Davidson, of 15, High Street, Portobello, near Edinburgh, an employee on the N.B. Ry., by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Alexander Bissett; b. Portobello, 12 Jan. 1891; educ. Tower Bank Public School there; enlisted 7 Dec. 1914; and was killed in action at the Battle of Hill 60, 29 April, 1915; unm.

=DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER MURRAY STUART=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6689), 185747, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=DAVIDSON, DUNCAN HAMLYN=, Capt., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, eldest s. of Duncan Davidson, of Inchmarlo, co. Kincardine, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Flora Frances (died 6 Jan. 1884), eldest dau. of sir Francis Burdett, of Foremark, 7th Bart.; b. Inchmarlo, 28 March, 1877, and was educated at Harrow. He served some time with the 3rd Gordon Militia, and during the South African War obtained (21 April, 1900) through King Edward a commission as 2nd Lieut, in the Seaforth Highlanders, although he was over the age, and was promoted Lieut. 19 April, 1902, and Capt. 25 March, 1911. He afterwards served with his regt. in Egypt and India, and was Adjutant to the 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the Seaforths from 1909 to 1913. Capt. Davidson was stationed at Agra when the European War broke out, and he went with his regt. to France, arriving there in Oct. 1914. He was severely wounded at Festubert, 17 Dec. 1914, and was invalided home. He returned to his own battn. on 28 March, and fell at Neuve Chapelle on 9 May 1915, while commanding the first company in the attack on the German trenches. His colonel wrote: “He was twice wounded in the advance, but still went on until he finally fell still leading his company. He was a good officer and a great favourite, and was much loved by officers and men. We miss him very much. He was a gallant fellow”; and again: “It was he who led us in everything, no matter what; and Ritchie told me it was Hamlyn who reached the German trenches in the fore front as usual. The 1st Battn. have lost their bravest and most gallant officer, and his brother officers their dearest pal. Both battns. have suffered so heavily, and how you have felt for us, I know, and I and others of the two battns. who knew and loved your son so well, grieve with you in your great loss. A brother officer tells me that the moment he crossed the parapet they came under heavy machine gun fire. He was hit, got up again, hit again; and again up at the head of what remained of his company. Then he was hit again and fell near the German trenches, and he could not or would not retire.” His younger brother, Capt. L. E. O. Davidson, R.F.A., Adjutant of the 55th Brigade, received the D.S.O. for gallant conduct on 16 Sept. 1914.

=DAVIDSON, JAMES=, Private, No. 9720, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Bothwell Belshill, co. Lanark; enlisted 4 Sept., 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 23 July, 1915. He m. at Blantyre, 14 Dec. 1907, Mary (34, Hale Street, Blantyre), dau. of (--) Kelly, and had four daus.: Mary, b. 4 Dec. 1908; Annie, b. 23 May, 1910; Catherine, b. 23 Aug. 1912, and Agnes, b. 25 Sept. 1914.

=DAVIDSON, JOHN HENRY=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 125, 9th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), s. of Robert Davidson, of 75, Thomas Terrace, Blaydon-on-Tyne, Foreman on the N.E.R. Co., by his wife. Ellen; b. Hexham, co. Northumberland, 17 March, 1885; educ. Blaydon Council School; enlisted in the 5th Vol. (now the 9th Territorial) Battn. D.C.L.I.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and greatly distinguished himself on Whit Monday, at the Second Battle of Ypres, when he carried four men who were gassed to a place of safety; was for this promoted Coy. Sergt.-Major, and was killed in action, 22 June, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm. Buried at Kemmel. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. Henderson spoke of him as a splendid soldier.

=DAVIDSON, WILLIAM=, Chief Petty Officer (N.S.), 156472, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAVIDSON, WILLIAM LESLIE=, C.B., J.P., Col. on the Staff, R.A., 2nd s. of the late Patrick Davidson, of Inchmarlo, co. Kincardine, LL.D., J.P., D.L., by his wife, Mary Anne, eldest dau. of William Leslie, 10th Laird of Warthill, co. Aberdeen; b. Aberdeen, 31 Jan. 1850; educ. the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (passing in twenty-seventh and out twenty-seventh), and entered the Army as Lieut. 7 July, 1869; was promoted Capt., 24 Jan. 1880; Major, 7 June, 1885; Lieut.-Col., 25 June, 1896; and Col., 23 Jan. 1900. He was for some time A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief in India, and subsequently to the Governor of Gibraltar; served through the Zulu Campaign (wounded at Ulundi--mentioned in Despatches, medal with clasps), 1879. Had charge of Cetewayo for some time in Cape Town. Took part in the Afghan War (medal), 1880. Served in the South African War, 1899–1900; commanded the R.H.A. on the forced march to the Relief of Kimberley; was present at Paardeburg, Poplar Grove, Driefontein and Karee Siding, and afterwards commanded the town defences of Bloemfontein (twice mentioned in Despatches, Queen’s medal with four clasps and C.B.). He retired in 1907, and in 1913 was appointed Gentleman Usher to the King. On the outbreak of the European War, in Aug. 1914, although 63 years of age, he immediately volunteered for active service and was sent to command No. 4 General Base Depôt at Rouen. There he fell a victim to over-exertion and died on active service, 3 Aug. 1915, from heart failure. He was buried with full military honours in the portion of the cemetery at Rouen reserved for British officers. A brother officer wrote: “He died when in the fulfilment of a duty to his country, towards which he devoted a life-time full of energy and heartiness. I felt sure that with his keen and vigorous sense of duty he would spare no pains to try and take his share of work in the Nation’s task.” Another: “A soldier to the backbone, he leaves a very fine record.” One from Rouen: “He was such a favourite amongst us all that we all feel the loss of a dear friend.” A naval officer: “He has given everything and laid down his life for the country like many another gallant gentleman.” A relation from France: “I can’t be thankful enough for those two afternoons that I saw him over this side, nor will I ever forget him, as I looked back, standing there in the sun, his hand raised in farewell, laughing with pure joy of life and the summer day. He was so smart and upright, with his rows of decorations, as he stood beside his pony, a British officer on active service. And he was so kind to everyone, all there seemed to be his friends and to want a word from him as they passed.” He m. at the Oratory, Brompton, 1 Feb. 1887, Lady Theodora, née Keppel, eldest surviving dau. of William Coutts, 7th Earl of Albemarle, and had two sons and four daus.: Donald Alastair Leslie, Lieut. Royal Flying Corps, formerly a Page of Honour to His Majesty King Edward VII, now (1916) on active service with the British Expeditionary Force, returned home severely wounded, b. 6 Oct. 1891; Colin Keppel, Lieut. R A., now (1916) on active service, b. 1 Sept. 1895; Doris, b. May, 1888 and d. 14 Oct. 1888; Hilary, b. 13 April, 1889; Vera Marian, b. 6 Aug. 1893, m. 17 Dec. 1914, Aylmer Probyn Maude, Lieut. Rifle Brigade; and Lena Theodora, b. 14 Sept. 1894. His nephew, Capt. D. H. Davidson, younger, of Inchmarlo, was also killed in action (see his notice).

=DAVIES, ALBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 16080, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAVIES, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 9579, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Thomas Davies, of Poole Hills, Nantwich, Cheshire, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Henry Halfpenny; b. Burslem, co. Stafford, 22 Feb. 1894; educ. Acton School, near Nantwich; enlisted 24 April, 1912; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914; was wounded in Sept. but rejoined; took part, with his company, in the assault on the German trenches on 4 Oct., for which Corpl. Russell was elected by vote to receive the D.C.M., and was mortally wounded at the First Battle of Ypres, and died in No. 13 Clearing Hospital at Vlamertinghe, Belgium, 7 Nov. 1914; unm.

=DAVIES, CHARLES=, Sick Berth Steward, 350753, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAVIES, FREDERICK ERNEST=, Corpl., R.M.L.I. 15356 (R.F.R., B. 1855), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAVIES, GEORGE=, Stoker 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9247), S.S. 106467, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAVIES, GEORGE ROLAND=, Gunner, No. 80826, R.F.A., s. of (--) Davies, of Moss Bank, 27, Richmond Road, Ashton-under-Lyne; b. 1893; was a clerk; volunteered and enlisted 8 March, 1915; was drafted to Newcastle-on-Tyne, and died in the Armstrong College Military Hospital there, 27 April following, from pneumonia, contracted while training; unm.

=DAVIES, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No. 8150, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., s. of the late John Davies, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Bright; b. Hansley, near Nottingham, 11 March, 1885; educ. Nottingham; enlisted 3 March, 1901, served three years with the Colours and eight with the Reserves, and was with the Militia in South Africa (medal). He was afterwards employed at Orgreaves Colliery, Truton, near Rotherham, but was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914. Went to the Front, 18 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 27 Oct. 1914. He m. at St. Mary’s Church, Sculcoates, Hull, 7 Oct. 1911, Lily (83, Stepney Lane, Beverley Road, Hull), dau. of John Brown, and had two children: George, b. 1 March, 1914; and Mary, b. 22 May, 1912.

=DAVIES, HAROLD=, Private, No. 10744, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Davies, of Sandy Lane, Middlestown, Wakefield; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing between 29 Oct. and 2 Nov. 1914.

=DAVIES, ISAAC=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7028), S.S. 101591, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=DAVIES, JAMES=, Private, No. 15761, A Coy., 9th Battn, the Welsh Regt., s. of Isaac Davies, of Old Royal Oak Saw mills, Pumpsaint, co. Carmarthen, Builder; by his wife Letitia, dau. of David Lewis of Llanybyther; b. Pumpsaint, afsd., 10 Dec. 1896; educ. Llandovery Intermediate School; was a joiner; enlisted after the outbreak of War, 25 Sept. 1914; went to France, 19 July, 1915, and died in the hospital at Etaples, 29 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action near Loos, four days previously. He was buried in the English Military Cemetery, Etaples (Grave D. 30); unm.

=DAVIES, JOHN ROBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5466), 178192, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAVIES, RICHARD=, L.-Corpl. No. 8557, 1st Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., eldest s. of John Aubrey Davies, Colliery Manager, by his wife, Rachel, dau. of William Thomas, of the Brecon Arms, Penderyn; b. Abercanaid, Merthyr Tydfil, 2 Aug. 1878; educ. in United States and Penderyn, co. Breconshire; enlisted in the Somerset L.I. 24 April, 1899, and served through the South African War, 1900–2, took part in the relief of Ladysmith and in the operations in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, receiving the Queen’s medal with three bars and the King’s medal with two bars. Afterwards he worked as a collier at the Tower Colliery of the Marquis of Bute, but was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France the third week in Dec. 1914; was wounded by a shell in the left shoulder and side, 8 April, and died in the 4th General Hospital, Versailles, 17 April, 1915, being buried in the cemetery there. He m. at Aberpergwm Church, Glyn Neath, Glamorgan, 31 May, 1906, Catherine (51, Station Road, Hirwain), dau. of Rees Thomas, and left a son and dau.: Austin, b. 7 Oct. 1912; and Gwyneth, b. 1 Nov. 1910.

=DAVIS, ALBERT HENRY=, Leading Stoker, 305137, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAVIS, ARTHUR ALBION=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 306743, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAVIS, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3865), 292225, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAVIS, EDWARD SAMUEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5119), 194384, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAVIS, ERNEST GEORGE FRANK=, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17054, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DAVIS, GEORGE DAVID=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8815), S.S. 105493, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAVIS, HENRY WILLIAM WARREN=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Welch Regt., eldest s. of Henry Warren Davis, of Tre Warren, Milford Haven, J.P., Major of Mining Engineers (Militia) from 1888 to 1902, by his wife, Christobel, dau. of Christopher Robson; b. Milford Haven, co. Pembroke, 27 Dec. 1891; educ. Malvern College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Welch Regt. 14 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1914. On the outbreak of war he went with the 1st Battn. of his regt. to the Front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, near Ypres, 18 April, 1915, being hit by a bomb on the head and killed instantaneously while assisting a wounded comrade. He was buried in the military cemetery there; unm. Lieut. Davis was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. He was a first-class swimmer, and won prizes at Malvern; was also a good boxer, and won the amateur heavy weight at Cairo in 1912. His captain wrote of him that “A more lovable and splendid fellow it would be impossible to find.”

=DAVIS, REGINALD WILLIAM=, E.R.A., R.N.R. 1011EA, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAVIS, SIDNEY JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7182), S.S. 1186, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAVISON, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Leading Seaman, 209911, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAVISON, CHARLES GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5469), 201505, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAVISON, CHARLES HENRY GEORGE= (alias =CHARLES HENRY PETTMAN=), P.O., 226607, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=DAVISON, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5032), S.S. 104650, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAVY, GEORGE HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111068, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=DAWDRY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7924), S.S. 103616, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAWES, ALBERT=, Gunner, R.M.A., 13515, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAWKINS, ALFRED=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 4885), 197385, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAWKINS, CHARLES JOHN RANDLE=, B.A., LL.B., 2nd Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. The Welsh Regt., only s. of Thomas Randle Dawkins, of Redhill, Haverfordwest, by his wife, Clara Vaughan, dau. of Charles Vaughan Simmons Bennett, of Haverfordwest, M.R.C.S.; b. Haverfordwest, co. Pembroke, 16 June, 1891; educ. at the Haverfordwest Grammar School, Clifton College, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., and LL.B. with honours, taking a second class (First Division) in the Historical Tripos, part I, and a first class in the Law Tripos, part II. He was articled to Mr. C. W. M. Price, of Lincoln’s Inn, but on the outbreak of war applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 9th Welsh Regt. 4 Nov. 1914, and proceeded on foreign service on 18 July, 1915. He took part in the great offensive at Loos, and was killed in action near there on 25 Sept. 1915. His capacity as an officer may be judged by the following extract from a letter written by his Company Commander: “He was always ready to volunteer for any task, more especially if it were of a dangerous nature; he was always ready to advise, and it was always the advice of a wise man, and was never proffered in anything but a good spirit; he was very interested in his profession and if ever any out of the way problem arose, one always appealed to him. He was the coolest man I ever met--his coolness under fire was almost uncanny and made the men look up to him with a sort of worship.” Huxley (his orderly) wrote: “I would rather have been struck by the shell myself than Mr. Dawkins, the best friend I ever had or expect will ever have. While he was with me, I did not know what fear was.” He m. at Camberley, 8 May, 1915, Enid Myfanwy, eldest dau. of David Evans, of Old Bridge House, Haverfordwest, and gddau. of Ceiriog, the Welsh Poet, and had a son, Thomas Charles Randle, b. posthumous, 29 Feb. 1916.

=DAWSON, ALBERT GEORGE=, Yeoman of Signals, 191036 (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAWSON, HENRY BEAL=, Private, No. 8/32, 10th Otago Coy. Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late A. Dawson, Settler, by his wife, Mary (Hampden, Otago, New Zealand); b. Hampden District, 8 April, 1891; educ. Hampden District High School; was engaged in farming, but on the outbreak of war was the first from his district to volunteer, and enlisted 12 Aug. 1914; left with the Main Expeditionary Force for Egypt in Oct.; took part in the landing at Gabe Tepe on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, and two days later was shot in the trenches by a Turkish sniper; unm. In letters from his comrades he was described as a brave, true soldier, afraid of nothing, and one who had done his duty and had done it well.

=DAWSON, JOHN THOMAS GIBSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9653), S.S. 2426, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DAWSON, WILFRED YELVERTON=, Private, No. 1173, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Yelverton Dawson, of Heathlands, Southbourne-on-Sea, co. Hants, M.D., by his wife, Alice Anne dau. of the Hon. Judge (Henry) Martley, of the Landed Estates Court, Dublin, M.A., Q.C., and gdson. of William Barry Yelverton Dawson, of Bellevue, Mallow, co. York; b. Aubrey, Shankill, co. Dublin, 3 Nov. 1871; educ. Sherborne and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1890); joined the Militia Battn. of the Sherwood Foresters in 1889, and the Cape Mounted Rifles in 1892, and went through the Bechuanaland campaign (medal). Returning to England he entered the Lincoln Theological College in 1895, but when the Boer war began joined Lock’s Horse and served in South Africa, receiving medal and clasp. Returning to England he finished his theological course, and was ordained in St. Paul’s Cathedral, 19 March, 1905. In 1911, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church, spent a short time in Canada, and then returned to South Africa. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he went to Sydney, N.S.W., joined the 1st Division of Australian Infantry, accompanied them to Egypt, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there two days later; unm.

=DAY, ARNOLD ELLIS=, L.-Corpl., No. 2088, 1/5th Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Edward Joseph Day, of 10, South Drive, Harrogate, Agent, by his wife, Adah, dau. of James Ellis, of Staincliffe, near Dewsbury; b. Dewsbury, co. York, 19 May, 1889; educ. Woodhouse Grove School, Apperley Bridge, Leeds; and was for seven years on the literary staff of the “Bradford Daily Telegraph.” After the outbreak of war he joined the 1/5th West Yorkshires, 28 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 13 July, 1915, being buried at Turcos Farm, near Ypres; unm. 2nd Lieut. Allen wrote: “He was in my platoon and a most promising N.C.O. He was shot in the head while carrying out his duties, and died a little while afterwards;” and a comrade: “I wish you could have seen Arnold with the children out here; how they loved him. It was common to see him with a crowd around him, all talking to him at once, all of them adoring him. It was the same with the old people.”

=DAY, AUBREY OLIVER FISHER=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27367 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DAY, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Rifleman, No. 3047, 1/17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), first s. of Frederick Charles Day, of 160, Usher Road, Old Ford, Bow, E., Labourer, by his wife, Matilda A., dau. of Samuel Williams; b. Bow, 9 Dec. 1894; educ. Monteith Road School, Old Ford Road; enlisted 15 Sept. 1914; left for the front, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 or 28 Sept. 1915; unm.

=DAY, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Gunner, R.M.A. 7880 (R.F.R., B. 1089), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; m.

=DAY, CHARLES=, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., B. 10277), 299330, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAY, CHARLES GEORGE=, Drummer, No 7037, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Charles George Day, of 47, South Street, Bishop’s Stortford, Maltmaker, by his wife, Mary Eleanor, dau. of Joseph Bavin; b. Bishop’s Stortford, 26 June, 1892; educ. National School there; enlisted in 1st Battn. 26 Nov. 1906, and was transferred to the 3rd Battn. in Oct. 1907, serving with it in Egypt, 1907, to April, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France, Aug. 1914, to Feb. 1915. He was shot through the head by a sniper while building a dug-out close to the brickfields near La Bassée, 22 Feb. 1915, and was buried at Cuinchy; unm. His N.C.O. spoke highly of him.

=DAY, HENRY JOHN=, Chief E.R.A., 1st Class 268182, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DAY, JOHN VICTOR=, Rifleman, No. 5018, Machine Gun Section, 1st Battn. Rifle Brigade, s. of Edmund Brassey Day, of 1, Green Road, Whetstone, co. Middlesex, Tramcar Driver, by his wife, Lydia Mary, dau. of Jabez Craddock, of Bradgate, Napier Road, Wembley, Middlesex; b. Kensal Green, 6 July, 1896; educ. North Finchley; joined the Rifle Brigade, 20 March, 1912; went to the Front with the 4th Division, served nine months in France and was present at the Battle of Hill 60, also at Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action in France, 6 July, 1915; unm. A comrade, Rifleman H. Rayner, wrote to his father: “Victor was killed in action after we had made an attack and taken the enemies’ trenches. Your son got his machine gun in position and did very good work with it, but it was the next day that he was killed, when the enemy gave us an eight hours’ bombardment; a big Jack Johnson burst on top of the trench, killing about six.” He was buried at Talana Farm [Map reference, Sheet 28, B 18 c, 9-4]. His eldest brother, Edmund Day, Sergt., 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., was very dangerously wounded at Richebourg l’Avoue, 10 May, 1915.

=DAY, JOHN WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9629), S.S. 2346, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAY MAURICE CHARLES=, Lieut. 13th Rajputs, Indian Army, eldest s. of the Very Rev. Maurice William Day, Dean of Waterford, by his wife, Katherine Louisa Frances, dau. of Charles Garfit, and grandson of the late Right Rev. Maurice Day, Bishop of Cashel; b. The Palace, Waterford, 26 Feb., 1891; educ. Aravon, Bray (1902–5), Marlborough College (1905–10, Foundation Scholarship, Senior Scholarship, Leaving Exhibition), and Trinity College, Cambridge (1910–13, Exhibition, T.C. 1910; Senior Scholarship, T.C. 1913; Bell’s University Scholarship, 1912; Wrangler, B.A. 1913); and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattached list for the Indian Army, 5 Sept. 1913, to rank as from 5 Sept. 1911, being awarded six months’ seniority for his University honours in addition to 18 months as a University candidate. He was attached to the Royal West Kent Regt. for his first year and was stationed at Multan and Dalhousie. He was promoted Lieut. 28 Sept. 1914 (to rank from 5 Dec. 1913), and the same day joined his Indian regt., the 13th Rajputs. They started on Active Service the day after he joined and left Bombay with the Expeditionary Force for East Africa on 16 Oct. He fell in action at Tanga, German East Africa 3 Nov. 1914, the morning they landed. Lieut.-Col. Stewart wrote: “The Commandant, Lieut.-Col. H. W. Codrington, and the Adjutant, Capt. R. Clothier, and Major B. Corbett were all hit at the same time and place. Your son was buried by the Germans subsequently. Mr. Day joined us before we came on service, and when we landed was acting as Brigade Transport Officer. During the short time he was with us, we realised what a keen and promising officer he was. There can be no doubt that he would have made a name for himself, and that soon”; and Lieut.-Col. H. W. Codrington: “First I must tell you that your son, although he only joined the regt. on the day before we started from Agra, had become a great favourite, and that his loss is very keenly felt by all. It was a great blow to me personally, as I had taken a great fancy to him. Professionally he was a most exceptionally able, keen and promising young officer.... His brother officers would very much like if we may put up a small memorial brass to the memory of your son in your church. We shall be so glad if you will allow us to do this.” Capt. Cole also wrote: “Your son was in my double company and I was with him when he was killed. Colonel Codrington, the Adjutant, your son, and myself had just got on to a small hillock to have a look round when a machine gun opened on us at close range and the first three named went down instantaneously. Your son was killed outright. I cannot tell you how very deeply we mourn his loss, for although he had been with us such a short time we knew him for a brave, capable and resourceful boy.” Previous to joining the Army he had worked in the Trinity Mission at Camberwell, and the Vicar of St. George’s there (the Rev. H. G. D. Latham) wrote: “Your son when at Trinity was one of those who would not be content simply to get the best out of life for ourselves. He came here to do hard Mission work among our people and to share with those who had not had his privileges whatever of the Cambridge spirit can be shared by a simple and sincere friendliness, and so he has helped to sweeten life for many and to make the strained relations between class and class easier, and he has helped on the good Cambridge tradition of coming to South London. There are many here who will feel his loss as a personal blow, while they will be proud to have had his friendship.” He was unm.

=DAY, REGINALD CHARLES WILLIAM=, Canteen Assistant, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DAY, THOMAS=, S.P.O. (R.F.R., B. 7958), 292498, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DAYSH, FREDERICK ARTHUR GEORGE=, Private, No. 8989, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; reported missing, 14 Sept. 1914.

=DEACON, STANLEY DOUGLAS=, Gunner, Immed. Class, R.M.A. (R.F.R., 37), 9576, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DEACON, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1386), 191882, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DEADMAN, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 18611, 12th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., eldest s. of Charles Deadman, of 48, Grove Road, Shoeburyness, Brickmaker, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of Philip Moss; b. Great Wakering, co. Essex, 28 Dec. 1894; educ. Shoeburyness Village School; was a bricklayer’s labourer; enlisted 9 Sept. 1914; went to France early in July, and was killed in action during the advance at Loos, 26 Sept. 1915; unm.

=DEAN, ALBERT HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17103, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DEAN, CHARLES ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., 2758), 283360, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DEAN, HORACE EDGAR=, Electrical Artificer, 1st Class, 345055, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept, 1914.

=DEAN, WILLIAM HUGH=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3924), 179131, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DEAR, JOHN=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R. Ch. B. 4482), 279327, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DEARDEN, HERBERT=, Private, No. 11435, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Herbert Dearden, of 9, Peel Street, Broomhill, by his wife, Alice, dau. of the late John Hill, of Sheffield; b. Broomhill, Sheffield, 8 Sept. 1884; educ. Council School there; enlisted at Sheffield, 4 Sept. 1914, and died of wounds received in action at Bethune, 10 May, 1915; unm.

=DEASE, MAURICE JAMES, V.C.=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Edmund Fitzlaurence Dease, of Culmullen, Drumree, co. Meath, J.P., and grandson of James Arthur Dease, of Turbotston, J.P., D.L., Vice-Lieut. of Cavan; b. Gaulstown, Coole, co. Westmeath, 28 Sept, 1889; educ. Frognal Park, Hampstead, Stonyhurst College (1903), Army College, Wimbledon, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 27 May, 1910, promoted Lieut. 19 April, 1912, and on the outbreak of war proceeded with his regt. to France. On 23 Aug. 1914, Lieut. Dease, who was Machine Gun Officer, was in command of the section placed to protect the crossing of a bridge at Nimy, north of Mons. During the action his position was heavily shelled by the enemy, all his men being either killed or incapacitated; he was several times seriously wounded, but refused to leave the guns, remaining near and working them until he fell mortally wounded. For this he was specially mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 7 Sept, and was awarded the Victoria Cross (16 Nov. 1914), the first officer to receive this distinction in the war. The action is thus officially described: “Though two or three times badly wounded, he continued to control the fire of his machine guns at Mons on 23 Aug. until all his men were shot. He died of his wounds.” His commanding officer wrote: “Lieut. Dease was wounded, and man after man of his detachment was hit. He appears to have received a second wound after neglecting a first wound in the leg; taking a little time to recover, he managed to return to the gun and kept it in action. He was then incapacitated by a third wound. Thus his conduct was heroic indeed, and of the greatest service in delaying the crossing of the enemy, which it was our object, in accordance with orders to effect.... I have brought his conspicuous gallantry to notice.”

=CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY, CLAUDE NORMAN=, Lieut., 2nd (Queen’s Bays) Dragoon Guards, 5th and yst. s. of Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, of Champion Lodge, Maldon, co. Essex, 4th Bart., by his wife, Georgiana Louisa Margaret, dau. of the late Robert McKerrell, Cadet of Hillhouse; b. Southsea, 14 June, 1888; educ. Hawtry’s, Westgate-on-Sea, and Cheltenham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Dragoon Guards, 2 Feb. 1907; promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1908, and transferred to the Queen’s Bays, 12 Nov. 1910. He acted as A.D.C. to General Allenby during the Army Manœuvres of 1913, and on the outbreak of war went to France with the Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action at Nèry, near Compiégne, France, 1 Sept. 1914. “The Brigade was hotly engaged, and on the Bays fell the brunt of the fighting on 1 Sept. Norman, with a few men, was holding an important tactical point, and he held it till every man was killed or wounded. No man could have done more, few would have done so much,” wrote General Allenby. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 4 Dec. 1914, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A brilliant horseman and polo player, and a former Master of the Aldershot Beagles; he was very handy with the gloves, having boxed in the Army Championships both at home and in India. While at Sandhurst he won that much coveted trophy “The Saddle,” and was champion swimmer at Hawtrey’s. Lieut, de Crespigny m. in London, 7 Sept. 1913, Rose Olive, only dau. of Capt. Albert Edward Gordon, Roberts’ Horse, and a grandniece of General Gordon, of Khartoum; s.p.

=DEED, JOHN CYRIL=, Capt., Royal Marine L.I., 3rd s. of the Rev. John George Deed, D.D., Vicar of Nuneaton, co. Warwick, Canon of Coventry and Rural Dean of Atherstone, by his wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Snowdon Gard, of Hampstead; b. St. Albans, co. Herts, 22 May, 1876; educ. St. Albans Grammar School, and Greenwich College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Marines, 1 Feb. 1894; promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1895, and Capt. 10 Oct. 1900. He served in H.M. ships Alexandra, 16 Jan. 1896–17 Jan. 1897, Coast Guard; Royal Arthur, Wallaroo, and Katoomba, 4 Feb. 1898–6 June, 1901, Australian Station; Minotaur, 20 June, 1902–19 Dec. 1902, Portland; and Vulcan, 22 Dec. 1902–5 Feb. 1905, and Suffolk, 6 Feb. 1905–18 Dec. 1905, Mediterranean Station; when he retired and joined the Reserve of Officers. He subsequently went to British Columbia, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he was asked to raise and command the 1st East Kootenay (Fernie) Contingent. He trained and commanded this till Sept. 1914, when he was ordered to return to England. He rejoined his old corps at Deal, 10 Oct. 1914, and was posted to H.M.S. Formidable, 16 Nov. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the Channel, 1 Jan. 1915; unm.

=DEIGHTON, FREDERICK HAMILTON= (“Jackie”), Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, eldest s. of Hamilton Deighton, Superintendent Imperial Police, Burmah, by his wife, Janet, dau. of the late Col. John Robertson, of Liddington Hall, Guildford, C.I.E.; b. Akyab, Burmah, 10 Sept. 1892; educ. Bedford Grammar School and Berkhamstead, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He passed out of the latter in two terms, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 4 Sept. 1912, and posted to the 1st Battn. at Lucknow, and was promoted Lieut., 15 Nov. 1914. While in India he passed his signalling course at Kasauli and a transport class with honours, and received “D” Certificate. On the outbreak of war the battn. was sent to Egypt and then to Rugby, where he passed the one-man range finder, the Vickers new machine gun, and the explosives of bomb throwing courses. The Scottish Borderers afterwards formed part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and took part in the landing at Y beach, Gallipoli, on 25–26 April, 1915. Deighton was shot through the lung in the big advance on 4 June, and was taken to Malta, where he died in the hospital of the Blue Sisters on 18 June, 1915; unm.

=DELAMAIN, HENRY CRESWELL=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., eldest s. of George Creswell Delamain, of Devona, Lymington, Hants, formerly a Cattle Ranchman in Mexico, by his wife, Annie Rosabel, yst. dau. of the late William Robinson Hill, of Lymington, M.D., and cousin of Major-Gen. W. S. Delamain, C.B., D.S.O.; b. San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., 19 Aug. 1896; educ. King’s School, Bruton, co. Somerset; joined the O.T.C. at the age of 13, and on the outbreak of war applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Dorsets, 19 Oct. 1914. He was severely injured while on active duty at Boscombe on Friday, 16 April, 1915, and died the next day in the Royal Boscombe and West Hants Hospital. His machine skidded on the tram lines and threw him under a passing motor car. The Bruton School magazine, “The Dolphin,” said: “There were two points about him which deserve record. One was his intense keenness alike in school and the playing field. The second was his extraordinary popularity. We shall never forget the ovation which his name evoked last Corpus Christi, the spontaneous testimony of his schoolfellows to the sterling qualities and natural charm which endeared him to all. That those qualities were fully appreciated by his regt. was shown by the testimony given to him by his Colonel and by the great gathering of brother officers at his funeral, which took place with full military honours at Lymington.”

=DELANEY, ERNEST=, Corpl., No. 1414, 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd s. of Christopher Delaney, Band Sergt., 1st Somerset L.I., by his wife, Annie, dau. of James Richard Weaver and Elizabeth (42, Penrose Street, North Road, Plymouth), his wife; b. Plymouth, 25 Oct. 1886; educ. St. James-the-Less Church School, Millbay there; was an engineer for tugboats, Queensbury, Scotland; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 7 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 26 May, 1915; unm.

=DELÉPINE, HELENUS GEORGE SHERIDAN=, M.Sc., 2nd Lieut., D Coy., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., only s. of Sheridan Delépine, of York Place, Rusholme, Manchester, and 15, Well Walk, Hampstead, N.W., M.B., M.Sc., Professor of Public Health at Manchester University, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Frederic Rose; b. Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London, 21 Oct. 1888; educ. Woodlands School, Manchester, spent a year in Geneva studying languages, and entered the University of Manchester in 1907, where he was one of the ablest of an exceptionally capable set of men in the Honours School of Engineering and took a good place in the final examination. After graduating in 1910, he went to Canada in order to gain further experience, and for one session was a Demonstrator in Engineering at McGill University. During this time he undertook, under the direction of Prof. MacKay, an elaborate investigation into the stress distribution of a certain type of built-up column. In April, 1911, he accepted a post as Assistant Engineer in the office of Messrs. Waddell and Harrington, of Kansas City, and became Principal Assistant in the Estimating Department. In 1903 he returned to Manchester, having been appointed Junior Instructor in Drawing and Demonstrator in the Engineering Department of the University. Whilst here he assisted Prof. Petavel in some of the experimental work carried out for the Home Office Department Committee on the “Humidity and Ventilation of Spinning Sheds.” Some of the results of this work are embodied in the two papers he submitted in support of his application for the degree of M.Sc., which he obtained in 1914. During this period he received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the O.T.C., which he joined as a Private in 1908, while at Manchester University, and did much valuable work for the corps. Always keen on gaining more experience, he accepted in the summer of 1914 a post as Assistant Engineer in the airship department of Messrs. Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. In Aug. of 1914 he was in camp with the O.T.C., and at the outbreak of war immediately volunteered for Active Service. For a time he was detained in Manchester assisting in the general training work of the corps, but while in camp at Mobberley he received his commission in the Special Reserve, was appointed to the 3rd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., Sept. 1914, and went to Falmouth for training. In Jan. he was sent to Northern France, where he was mortally wounded in action, in trenches near Ypres, on 16 April, 1915; unm. “We had been in the trenches,” says Private C. Lonworth, his servant, in a letter, “just one day, and about a quarter to midnight on the 16th he was sitting in the trench filling his pipe and talking and he suddenly stood up, saying, ‘I’m hit.’ So we found out where he was hit and bandaged him up. They got him down to the hospital with as little delay as possible, and when the doctor saw him he said he didn’t think he would live long, so I stopped in a little room next to him all day. He seemed to brighten up about mid-day, but he went off again and died at 4.45 p.m. on the 17th.... He was a good officer to his men.... I have lost a good master, he was a thorough gentleman....” The Manchester University Magazine for 24 June, 1915, affirmed of him: “As an officer his officer commanding found him ‘excellent, cheerful and full of go and life.’ He was very keen on his work, took an intense interest in his platoon, was very patient with recruits and ever ready to be of service to any who sought his help. In his profession he had already done good work in both academic and practical spheres. He was a hard and conscientious worker, keenly appreciative of new ideas in design and organisation, and would without doubt have attained to a considerable position in engineering.” Brig.-Gen. J. S. Maude, commanding 14th Infantry Brigade, wrote to his father: “Your son had done such splendid work with his fine regt., and it does seem sad that such a promising career should have been so all too soon cut short.... He set a fine example of courage and devotion to duty to those serving under him.”

=DELLER, HARRY GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1854), 192696, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DELMEGE, CLAUDE PHILIPPE=, Midshipman, R.N. 3rd and yst. s. of Alfred Gideon Delmege. M.V.O, Hon. Surgeon to His Majesty the King, Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets, R.N., by his wife, Mary Elizabeth. dau. of the Right Hon James Anthony Lawson, Judge of the High Court; b. Southsea, 15 March, 1898, entered the Navy as a cadet at Osborne in Jan. 1911, became Midshipman August, 1914, was appointed to His Majesty’s ship Cressy the same month: and was lost in the North Sea 22 Sept. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed by a German submarine.

=DELMEGE, JAMES O’GRADY=, Lieut., 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, 2nd s. of Capt. James O’Grady Delmege, of Castle Park, co. Limerick, J.P., D.L., late South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry and South Irish Horse, by his wife, Caroline, dau. and co-heir of Marmaduke Coghill Cramer, of Rathmore, Kinsale, D.L.; b. Limerick, 18 March, 1891; educ. Clifton, Bath College (where he took, when 14 years of age, 60_l._ and 40_l._ Scholarships, open to all schools), and Trinity College, Dublin; and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Dragoon Guards, 23 Jan. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following. After the outbreak of war he went to France with the Expeditionary Force and was appointed Assistant Adjutant, and put on the Headquarters Staff. On 24 May, 1915, the 4th Dragoon Guards, after a long spell in the trenches, were relieved by the 18th Hussars, but Lieut. Delmege was left behind to instruct the 18th in the plan of the trenches. During the night and early morning they were heavily gassed by the enemy, and he succumbed to gas poison, on 27 May, 1915. He was buried at Bailleul; unm. Numerous letters received from all ranks testify to the estimation he was held in. Major C. Hunter wrote: “I personally had a high opinion of his prospects as a cavalry officer”; and Lieut. E. G. Warlock, 4th Dragoon Guards: “He has left behind him a splendid name, being so popular with all who knew him, not only officers, but N.C.Os. and men. He was an officer of great promise, and had it not been for his untimely death ‘In Action,’ would have had an illustrious future.” Sergt. W. Jones, 4th Dragoon Guards, also wrote: “Lieut. Delmege was picked up unconscious. I was very sorry to hear of his death, as he was a brave young officer, so cheerful and patient with all ranks, and I know he will be missed by all, especially our Rugby team as he was a fine sportsman, and took a great interest in his troop, and we were very sorry when he was transferred from his troop to Head Quarters.” Lieut. C. Jackson, York and Lancaster Regt.: “The last time I saw him, he was going on in front with a patrol to find out where their place in trenches was, in order to lead the regt. up after dark, he was in such good spirits, and I am sure enjoyed every minute of the war”; and Capt. R. D). Brownson, R.A.M.C.: “Being in hospital with some of the regt., I thought you would like to hear what a very high opinion they all seem to have had of him. He was so popular, and such a good officer, in fact he was kept specially to go up into any special trench or take any special message, because he could always be trusted to get there, ‘Somehow.’”

=DENHAM, FRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15731 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DENHAM, WILLIAM=, Petty Officer, R.N., 1st s. of William Denham, of 2, Paradise Place, Stockton-on-Tees, by his wife, Jane A., dau. of Henry Lambert; b. Stockton-on-Tees, 10 Oct. 1886; educ. Secondary School there; joined the Navy in 1903, and served in both the Home and Mediterranean Fleets, receiving while with the latter the Messina medal from the King of Italy, for services rendered during the earthquake there. He passed his qualifying examination for Warrant Officer 30 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action, going down with H.M.S. Formidable, when that ship was sunk by a German submarine, 1 Jan. 1915; unm.

=DENISON, BERTRAM NOEL=, Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, yr. s. of Admiral John Denison, of Rusholme, Alverstoke, R.N. by his wife, Florence, dau. of William Ledgard, of Roundham, Yorkshire, and nephew of Col. George Taylor Denison, of Toronto, author of “Modern Cavalry”; b. Greenock, 21 Dec. 1883; educ. Eagle House, Sandhurst and Harrow; and entered the Navy in Dec. 1898, passing at the head of the list in and out of H.M.S. Britannia. He served as a midshipman on H.M.S. Doris during the South African War, 1900, and was aide-de-camp to Capt. Bearcroft, R.N., with the Naval Brigade. He took part in the operations in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria, including action at Belfast (26–27 Aug.) and in the Orange Free State, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 12 March, 1901], and received the Queen’s medal with 3 clasps. Later he was transferred to the Army, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. Yorkshire Light Infantry, 8 Jan. 1902, and promoted Lieut., 15 Nov. 1905, and Capt., 5 Aug. 1914. He served in Ireland, South Africa, and Crete; and was seconded for services in Canada, from 1906 to 1908, and on his return became Adjutant to the 2nd Battn. K.O.Y.L.I. In 1912 he went to the Staff College, which he left in December 1913, receiving a Staff Appointment at the War Office shortly before the European War broke out. He immediately rejoined his regiment, went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was dangerously wounded in action at Le Cateau on 26 Aug. 1914, and died there of his wounds 15 Sept. following. He was buried in the cemetery there. Capt. Denison m. at St. James’s Cathedral, Toronto, 2 Oct. 1907, Gladys, dau. of Albert Nordheimer, of Toronto, and had a dau. (Gladys Audrey) Yvonne, b. 12 Dec. 1908.

=DENMAN, CLARENCE BENJAMIN=, Private, No. 25944, C Coy., 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 5th s. of Walter Frederick Denman, of 2321, Hutchinson Street, Montreal, Canada [b. London, 5 Jan. 1857, 3rd s. of the late William Henry Denman, Chaser and Embosser, who went to Canada in 1859], by his wife, Amelia Mary, dau. of Christopher Fryer; b. Outremont, Montreal, 18 Jan. 1893; educ. Outremont Lower Grade School and St. François College, Quebec; was a clerk in Electrical Supplies Store, Richmond; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force; came over with the first contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France 12 Feb., and died in the Military Cottage Hospital, Holmsfirth, near Huddersfield, 25 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Battle of Langemark on 27 April; unm. He was buried in St. John’s Churchyard there.

=DENNIS, CLARENCE FRANCIS VICTOR=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115546, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=DENNIS, EDWARD HENRY=, A.B. (B. 305), 148120, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DENNIS, RICHARD HENRY=, Senior L.-Corpl., No. 6675, C Coy., 1st Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Richard Henry Dennis, of Barnfield Place, Plumstead, near London, by his wife, Mary; b. Bexley Heath, co. Kent, 29 July, 1871; educ. All Saints’ Church School, Plumstead; went to Canada, 28 July, 1907; was for a number of years an employee of the Pere Marquette Railroad; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 12 March, 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 15 June, 1915. He m. at Woolwich Church, 26 March, 1892, Margaret (117, Wellington Street E., Chatham, Ontario, Canada), dau. of John William Hazlett (a Crimean veteran), and had three sons: Richard Henry, Junior, L.-Corpl. 7th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, b. Plumstead, 29 March, 1893, now (1916) on active service in France; John William, Private, 186th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, b. Plumstead, 21 March, 1898; and George Arthur, b. Plumstead, 23 Feb. 1903.

=DENNIS, RUSSELL=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./14052, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DENNY, BARRY MAYNARD RYND=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., 2nd surviving s. of the Rev. Edward Denny, of Moorstown, co. Tipperary, and Drumlone, co. Fermanagh, M.A., Rector of Codford St. Peter’s, Bath, formerly Vicar of St. Peter’s, Vauxhall, and Member of the L.C.C. [gt.-gt.-gdson. of Col. Edward Denny, M.P., yr. brother of Sir Barry Denny, of Tralee, 1st Bart.], by his wife, Alma Mary, dau. of Charles John Chesshyre, of Bennington, co. Gloucester; b. at Pontrewydd, co. Monmouth, 2 Jan. 1885; educ. King’s College, Taunton, and London University, where he graduated B.A. in 1909. He took a leading part as an officer in Worksop College Cadet Corps, and trained for a commission in the Army Special Reserve at York in 1913 and at Aldershot, obtaining the highest place in the respective examinations. Gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the King’s (Liverpool) Regt. (Special Reserve), 4 April, 1914, he was shortly afterwards given the command of a fort at Crosby, in the north of England. Subsequently he went to the Front in command of a hundred men, being specially selected for the post, and was mortally wounded near Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914, and died two days later. The following account of the action is taken from information given by officers and men of his regt.: The Liverpools were required to take a village occupied by the enemy, between Ypres and Roulers. Advancing to the attack they found that all the houses were filled with Germans, who greeted them with a devastating fire. After four days’ fighting the position was taken, but at a terrible sacrifice of life. Of the officers, five, including the Col., were killed, and six wounded, only a Capt. and a subaltern being left. Lieut. Denny ‘gallantly led a charge not only once, but a second time against some houses strongly held by the enemy,’ and fell mortally wounded in the second charge, with his last words urging on his men. His three brothers, Edward Maynard Coningsby Denny, 2nd Lieut., Duke of Cornwall’s L.I.; Mowbray Charles Maynard Denny, Lieut., 11th King’s Liverpool Regt.; and Michael Maynard Denny, Sub-Lieut., H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, are all (1916) on active service.

=DENNY, ROBERT EDMUND BARRY=, Private, No. 28612, 50th Gordon Highlanders, 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Edmund Barry Denny, of Barkwith House, co. Lincoln, L.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.E., by his wife, Emily Barclay, dau. of Henry Colclough Allen, and gdson. of the late Rev. Henry Denny, of Churchill Rectory, Tralee, B.A. [3rd son of Sir Edward Denny, of Tralee, 3rd Bart., M.P.]; b. Wragby, co. Lincoln, 19 March, 1891; educ. Sutton Valence School, Kent; after which he was a medical student for some time at the London Hospital, but went out to British Columbia in May, 1913. There he enlisted, with a brother, immediately on the outbreak of war, coming to England with the first Canadian Contingent. Both were offered commissions in Dec. 1914; his brother accepted, but he declined. He left for France with his regt. in Feb. 1915, came safely through the famous charge for the wood near St. Julien, but was seriously wounded by a shell, while on observing patrol, at Festubert, and died in hospital at Bethune, 22 May, 1915, having been recommended for a commission a few days previously. He was buried in Bethune R.C. Cemetery; unm. One comrade wrote of him: “He was one of the most courageous of comrades and I have seen him perform several deeds worthy of recognition”; and another: “He was wounded doing his duty as a soldier should, and evidences of his coolness and bravery under heavy fire were numerous. I once assisted him (at great personal risk to himself but very little to me) to bandage a wounded comrade. The King has lost a good soldier, and we a good pal.” Two of his brothers--Henry Allen Maynard Denny, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Lincs. Regt. (previously 50th Gordon Highlanders, Canadian Scottish), and Thomas Hamilton Denny, Lieut., 6th Devon Regt.--are now (1916) on active service, and the third, Arthur de Courcy McGillycuddy Denny, is at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

=DENTON, MARK=, Private, No. 13262, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Arthur Denton, of Victoria Street, Moor Top, Ackworth, near Pontefract, by his wife, Jane; b. Higham, near Barnsley; educ. Moor Top; enlisted 21 Oct. 1914, and was killed at Vermelles, Flanders, 19 Oct. 1915, while on sentry duty. He m. at High Ackworth, 25 Dec. 1913, Martha (2, Leight Street, Moor Top, Ackworth, Yorks), dau. of William Reeve, of Leight Street, Ackworth, and had a son, Frank. b. 9 June, 1914.

=DENYER, CHARLES PETER=, C.P.O. 186636, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=DERING, FREDERICK CHARLES=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 269692, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DERISLEY, FRANK MARTIN=, L.-Corpl., No. 73211, C Coy., 28th Battn. (2nd Canadian Rifles), 6th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Harry Derisley of Old Buckenham, Norfolk, Farmer, by his wife, Julia Jane, dau. of William Fincham; b. East Farm, Docking, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, 12 Jan. 1886; educ. National School, Palgrave, Diss; went to Canada in March, 1911, and settled in Rouleau, Sask.; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Moose Jaw, Sask., in Oct. 1914, and died 6 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day; unm. His company officer, Capt. F. G. D. Quick, wrote “he died of wounds on 6 Nov. 1915. Corpl. Derisley was severely wounded at noon on the 5th, being struck in the head by a bullet. He was taken to hospital and died at 1.30 a.m. next morning without regaining consciousness. He was buried on 8 Nov. in the Cemetery at Bailleul, Belgium. Corpl. Derisley enlisted at Moose Jaw in Oct. 1914, and has been in my company ever since. His loss is felt keenly by myself and all the other officers, N.C.Os. and men in the company, in which he was a general favourite. He was an excellent soldier, and was held in the highest esteem by all his comrades.”

=DERISLEY, HERBERT=, L.-Corpl., Middlesex Regt., s. of Harry Derisley, of Old Buckenham, Attleborough, Norfolk, by his wife, Julia Jane, dau. of William Fincham, Farmer; b. Valley Farm, Hillington, King’s Lynn, 23 Jan. 1884; educ. Palgrave, Diss and Eye Grammar School, Suffolk; was a Draper; volunteered and joined the Middlesex Regt., Jan. 1915; went to France Oct. 1915, and was killed in action 1 June, 1916; unm. Buried in the Military Cemetery,... His brother, L.-Corpl. R. M. Derisley, died of wounds, 5 Nov. 1915.

=DERRICK, TOM=, Private, No. 2044, 2nd Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., 4th s. of Joseph Derrick, of Curry Mallett, Taunton, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Thomas Edwardes; b. North Curry, near Taunton, co. Somerset, 12 Feb. 1857; educ. Hatch; joined the Navy, 30 Oct. 1875; invalided out 3 Sept. 1880; then worked as a Cab Proprietor, enlisted 3 Dec. 1914, after the outbreak of war, and was killed on the railway near Chatham, 30 June, 1915, while on sentry duty. He m. at Plymouth, 30 July, 1876, Louisa E. (5, Gloucester Place, Plymouth), dau. of Edward Lawrence, of Plymouth, Dockyard Pensioner, and had three children: Thomas Herbert Hartman, b. 5 May, 1880; James Henry, b. 30 Nov. 1885; and Mabel Ellen, b. 29 Dec. 1886.

=DESMEULES, JOSEPH EDGAR=, Private No. 32/792, 1st Field Ambulance, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Nazair Desmeules, of Chambord Lake, St. Johns, P. Quebec, Canada, by his wife, Eleanore; b. St. Irene, P.O., 8 Oct. 1890; educ. Chambord Lake; volunteered for service overseas, on the outbreak of war; came over with the first Canadian Contingent; went to France in Feb., and died, 28 April, 1915, of wounds received in action at Langemarck; unm.

=des VŒUX, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, yst. s. of the late Sir G. William des Vœux, G.C.M.G., by his wife, Marion Denison, yst. dau. of Sir John Pender. G.C.M.G., and nephew of the late Sir Charles Champagné des Vœux, 6th Bart.; b. at Government House, Hong Kong, China, 29 Nov. 1889; entered the Navy, 1905, as a cadet on H.M.S. Britannia, but owing to ill-health, left that Service in 1909, his admiral (Lord Charles Beresford) expressing his regret in writing, and saying “he felt sure, if he had remained in the Service, he would have made a very brilliant officer.” He joined the 3rd Battn. Grenadier Guards, as 2nd Lieut. from the special reserve, 28 May, 1910, and was promoted Lieut., 25 Oct. 1911. He served with the 2nd Battn. of his regt. through the retreat from Mons, and at the Battle of the Marne in France, being killed in action at La Court Soupir Farm, near Vailly on the Aisne River, 14 Sept. 1914; unm. He was buried in Soupir Churchyard.

=DETTNER, WALTER JOSEPH=, Private, No. 2657, 1/18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles), London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Charles Ephraim Dettner, of 22, Glasgow Terrace, Pimlico, S.W., Coachman, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Charles King; b. Westminster, 6 May, 1896; educ. St. Mary’s School, Vincent Square, London; volunteered and joined the Irish Rifles, 6 Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 17 May, 1915, being buried close to the front line of trenches in Bethune Wood; unm.

=DEVANNEY, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Rifleman, No. 1688, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the late Simon Devanney, of 22, Essex Street, Kingsland Road, E., Market Porter, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Thomas O’Shea; b. Shoreditch, 24 Feb. 1898; educ. St. Monica’s R.C. School, Hoxton Square, W.; joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles about Sept. 1913; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to the front in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Loos, 26 Oct. 1915. A companion wrote that he and the officer whose servant he was, went to the rescue of some men who had been buried by the explosion of a shell, and while they were digging them out another shell came and blew the two to pieces.

=DEVEREUX, CHARLES EMILE=, Private, No. 2359, Machine Gun Section, 1/5th Battn. The Manchester Regt., 2nd s. of Patrick James Devereux, Accountant, Great Western Railway, Cardiff, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Morgan, of Gower; b. Cardiff, 20 Feb. 1894; educ. Roath Park Board School there, and prior to the outbreak of war was employed as Machine Attendant, Semet Solvay Coke Ovens, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. He joined the 5th Manchesters in Sept. 1914, and after training in Egypt, went with his battn. to the Dardanelles, and was killed instantaneously in action there, 1 June, 1915; unm. Writing to his sister, Mrs. McQuillan, of Pemberton, Private William Rowland, A Coy., said: “On Monday night last, 31 May, I, along with several comrades belonging to A Coy., 1/5th Manchesters, were ordered to dig ourselves in at a certain distance. This we did, and whilst we were digging ourselves in two gun sections belonging to our battn. advanced, and with one of these sections came your brother, Private C. Devereux. He took up a position four or five yards away from myself and commenced digging in. He had been thus engaged about two hours, and was getting nicely covered in, when, whilst on his knees, and apparently in the attitude of reaching something, a bullet from a Turkish rifle entered his body near the heart and emerged beneath his right armpit.” He was buried close to where he fell, and a small wooden cross with his name was erected by his comrades.

=DEVONSHIRE, ALFRED JOHN=, Painter, 1st Class, 341934, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DE VOY, JAMES WILSON=, E.R.A., 1st Class, R.N.R., 249EB, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; m.

=DEWAR, THOMAS CLARK=, Private, No. 20295, C Coy., 3rd, attd. 12th, Battn. Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Alexander Dewar, of 41, Naysmith Place, Kelty, Fife, Colliery Worker, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of the late Thomas Clark; b. Kelty, co. Fife, 9 May, 1895; educ. Public School there; was a coal miner; enlisted 21 Jan. 1915; trained four months at Weymouth and four months at Edinburgh; was selected as a signaller; went to France, 10 Oct., and was killed in action there, 19 Dec. 1915; unm. His company officer, Capt. W. Skinner, wrote: “Last Sunday morning, about 5.45 a.m., we were submitted to a severe shelling, concurrently with a gas attack delivered on our left. Private Dewar and another man were standing speaking to one of my officers. A shell burst amongst them, and Private Dewar and the other men were killed, the officer having his right arm blown off. I regret the casualty very much, as Private Dewar was a most promising man and one who gave no trouble, and was of exemplary conduct.”

=DEWEY, NOBLE=, Corpl., No. 1357, 1st Battn. Cambridgeshire Regt. (T.F.) 5th s. of the late Thomas Henry Dewey, of Chesterton, co. Cambs., by his wife, Elizabeth (6, Serle Street, Chesterton), dau. of William Rayner, of Old Chesterton; b. Cambridge, 28 Sept. 1885; educ. St. Luke’s School, Chesterton; joined the 1st Cambridge Territorials in Jan. 1912; volunteered for Imperial Service after the outbreak of war, went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action 4 March, 1915. He was shot by a sniper, and died about 5.30 a.m. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. C. E. F. Copeman, in a letter to “The Cambridge Chronicle,” said: “Corpl. Dewey was shot through the lungs as he was getting into a trench, and died a few hours afterwards. He was most plucky and never once complained, his only regret being that he could not get at the Germans”; and in a letter to Mrs. Dewey he wrote: “His platoon commander tells me he was the best N.C.O. that he had, and I know that he was one of the most useful men in the Battn.” He was buried in the churchyard at Dickebushe. Corpl. Dewey was a well-known Cambridge athlete, a member of the Town and County Cycling Club, and earned a great reputation as a trainer.

=DE WINTON, WALTER=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, elder s. of Major Walter de Winton, of Maesllwch Castle, co. Radnor, J.P., D.A.A.G. to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1915, formerly (1882–92) Lieut. 1st Life Guards, by his wife, Hylda Therise Jane, 2nd dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Frederick Marshall, K.C.M.G.; b. London, 22 Feb. 1893; educ. Wixenford School, Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd. Lieut. 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 5 Feb. 1913; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force in Aug.; served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Marne, 6 Sept. 1914. He was buried in the garden of Monsieur Muraband, at La Fortelle, Rosoyen Brie, Seine et Marne; unm.

=DEXTER, GEORGE HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, 309475, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=DIBSDALL, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., 13195 (R.F.R., B. 1421), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. m.

=DICK, SAMUEL THOMAS=, P.O., 1st Class (R.F.R., A. 1680), 122365, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DICKENSON, LAURENCE AUBREY FIENNES WINGFIELD=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., attached 1st Royal Irish Rifles, only s. of the Rev. Francis Wingfield Dickenson, Rector of Inworth, Kelvedon, Essex, by his wife, Florence A., dau. of the late Rev. Henry Battiscombe, M.A., and gdson. of the late Frederic Boughton Newton Dickenson, of Siston Court, co. Gloucester, J.P., D.L.; b. Inworth Rectory, 1 Feb. 1894; educ. Forest School, Walthamstow, and Selwyn College, Cambridge; obtained his commission through the O.T.C. 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 19 March, 1915, and died in No. 6 Casualty Station, 10 May, 1915, of wounds received at the Battle of Ypres, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=DICKESON, HENRY EDMUND=, Rifleman, No. 3143, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Robert Walter Dickeson, of 41, Hardinge Street, Stepney, employee at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, W., by his wife, Esther, dau. of John Thomas Maloney; b. Stepney, 30 May, 1893; educ. Cable Street Secondary L.C.S. School; was a clerk in the employ of the Apollinaris Co., Ltd., and joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles after the outbreak of war, 8 Sept. 1914. He went through his training at the White City, Hatfield and St. Albans, left for France on 10 March, 1915, and was killed in action in the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915. A comrade (Rifleman P. W. Everett) wrote that he was killed by a shell from a trench mortar, and that he had buried him on the 26th, an officer of the 23rd Regt. reading the burial service. He had volunteered with Everett for a dangerous piece of work, and was killed while carrying it out.

=DICKEY, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8572), S.S. 104940, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=DICKINSON, RONALD FRANCIS BICKERSTETH=, Capt., 10th Battn. (The Liverpool Scottish) King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Dickinson, of Red How, Cumberland, J.P., C.C., by his wife, Mary Florence, dau. of Edward Robert Bickersteth, of Liverpool, F.R.C.S.; b. 23, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, 19 Jan. 1888; educ. Rugby, and was admitted a Solicitor in 1910, and at the time of his death was a manager with Messrs. Hill, Dickinson & Co., of Liverpool. When the war broke out and his battn. was mobilised, he with the rest of his battn. volunteered for foreign service, and they went to the Front on 1 Nov. 1914. He was continuously engaged in the trenches and trench fighting from then until his death, which took place after the capture of four German trenches at Hooge on 16 June, 1915. Owing to reinforcements not coming up in time, his men were eventually partially driven back by the German counter attack, and he was left lying wounded in six places in the fourth German trench. It was believed that he died shortly after capture by the Germans. Eventually the first German line of trenches and part of the second were held, but only two officers and about 120 men of the battn. answered the roll call when they were relieved at night. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. His Col. wrote: “He was absolutely lion-hearted, and I think all will agree that he was pre-eminent in a battn. which I am proud to say numbers many brave men in its ranks. It was my duty on many occasions during the winter months to tramp round the front line trenches at night, and invariably Ronald was to be found wherever a dirty or dangerous job had to be done.” One of his men wrote: “As brave a man as ever held charge. The company idolised him; wherever there was danger he was there.” Another: “We absolutely adored him. He was a leader worth following.” Another said: “Time and again when any of his men were lying wounded outside the trench, he ordered his men to keep under cover while he himself ran the greatest risk in bringing the wounded in. If anyone deserved the V.C. it was Capt. Ronald Dickinson; he had won it over and over again. He was a little god to his men.”

=DICKSON, GEORGE=, Private, No. 11295, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 24 Nov. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action at Kemmel on or about that date.

=DICKSON, GEORGE=, Private, No. 3405, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. co. Perth; enlisted 9 May, 1900; served in South African War (medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914; killed in action, 18 Nov. 1914. He m. at Edinburgh, 21 May, 1907, Emma (48, Dundee Street, Edinburgh), dau. of (--) Johnson, and had two children: William George, b. 5 April, 1908; and Mary Gerrand, b. 30 Oct. 1909.

=DICKSON, GEORGE AITKEN=, Private, No. 11295, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of the late William Dickson, Carter, by his wife, Christina (13, Melburne Place, North Berwick), dau. of George Aitken; b. North Berwick, 11 March, 1895; educ. Public School there; enlisted 6 Nov. 1912, and is supposed to have been killed in action during the retreat from Mons. Official letters give the date as 24 Nov. 1914, though a private communication says he was killed on 26 Aug. 1914.

=DICKSON, JAMES=, Private, No. 2700, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action near Ypres, 20 July, 1915.

=DICKSON, JAMES STRUTHERS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6192), 185733, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DICKSON, JOHN=, Private, No. 6283, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Musselburgh, co. Midlothian; enlisted 29 Dec. 1905, aged 18; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 11 Nov. 1914; m. at Edinburgh, 14 April, 1911, Mary Ann (16, Sandfont Street, Leith), dau. of (--) Brown.

=DICKSON, THOMAS=, Driver, No. 86791, 18th Battery, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Richard Dickson; b. Upper Ballinderry, co. Antrim, 26 April, 1881; educ. Village School there; served with the 83rd Battery, R.F.A., in the South African War, was invalided home after one year and ten months’ service, but later went out again and served till 31 May, 1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps; obtained his discharge and went to Canada; acted as a Recruiting Sergt. from the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 to 12 May, 1915, when he joined for service overseas; came over with reinforcements and died while on service in England, 13 Oct. 1915. Buried in the Military Cemetery, Shorncliffe. He m. at Ballinderry Parish Church, 25 Dec. 1901, Lillee (Rayanton P.O., Manitoba, Canada), dau. of Robert Cairns, late Colour-Sergt., York and Lancaster Regt. (served in Egyptian War), and had seven children: Alfred W., b. 3 Sept. 1903; Robert C., b. 7 Aug. 1905; Lewis Meighin, b. 16 Sept. 1911; Terance Richard, b. 6 March, 1913; Thomas, b. 18 Aug. 1914; Kathleen M. E., b. 21 Sept. 1906; and Beatrice McKeown, b. 9 March, 1908.

=DIEHL, RALPH=, Bombardier, No. 2/1613, New Zealand Field Artillery, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd but elder surv. s. of the late Gustav Diehl, of Wellington, by his wife, Anna Jane (7, Elizabeth Street, Wellington, New Zealand), dau. of the late John Mitchell; b. Oamaru, New Zealand, 9 July, 1892; educ. Wellington; was a Clerk and Bookkeeper; volunteered after the outbreak of war and enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, April, 1915; left for Egypt with the fifth reinforcements, 13 June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 21 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action there 23 Oct. 1915; unm.

=DIGBY, JOHN KENELM, B.A.=, 2nd Lieut., 7th (Service) Battn. Norfolk Regt., elder s. of Algernon Digby, of Highfield, Fakenham, Norfolk, M.A., Solicitor [nephew of Edward St. Vincent, 9th Lord Digby], by his wife, Richenda Catharine, eldest dau. of the late Capt. Philip Hamond, 34th Regt.; b. Fakenham, co. Norfolk, 21 Nov. 1890; educ. Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford, and after taking his degree there, joined the lay staff of the Mission at Edmonton, Alberta, under the Archbishop’s Western Canada Scheme, and worked there for a year and a half until the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914. He then volunteered and enlisted as a private in the 9th Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sept., being afterwards promoted L.-Corpl. He came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct., and trained with them on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15, and on 20 Feb. 1915, was given a commission in the 7th Norfolks. He went to the Front, May, 1915, and was killed in action at Ploegsteart, Flanders, 4–5 Aug. 1915; unm.

=DIGGLE, JOHN HAROLD=, Private, No. 2510, 6th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), s. of James Edward Diggle, of Liverpool; b. Liverpool, 10 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Margaret’s Higher Grade School, Anfield; enlisted following the outbreak of war, 19 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 March, 1915; buried, Zillebeke.

=DILKE, HUGH STANLEY=, L.-Corpl., No. 2107, Polytechnic Coy., 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th and yst. s. of Charles Wentworth Dilke, of Park Avenue North, Hornsey, N., co. Middlesex [a cadet of Dilke of Maxstoke Castle, co. Warwick], by his wife, Ellen, dau. of William Smith, of Cheddleton, co. Stafford; b. 7, Vincent Road, London, N., 2 Dec. 1889; educ. North Harringay School, London; and prior to the outbreak of war he was a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Napier Motors, Ltd., Acton Vale, W. He had joined the Rangers in 1908, but had retired in 1913, having completed his term of five years, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, immediately rejoined and volunteered for foreign service. He went to France 25 Dec. 1914, and after five weeks’ training at St. Omer went into the trenches at Ypres. He was wounded in the left foot while on patrol duty at Zillebeke, during the second Battle of Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915. A brother officer wrote: “Bob went up again to the trenches, and was unlucky enough to get hit very slightly. We were happily able to tie him up on the spot, and take him to the nearest hospital. He called out to us quite cheerily as he passed us in an ambulance waggon.” After three operations in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, he was sent home, and died in Queen Mary’s Hospital, Southend, 21 March, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “He was always so cheery, and did his work so well that we miss him sorely. He did his duty nobly.” He was unm., and was buried in the Sutton Road Cemetery at Southend with full military honours on 24 March.

=DILKES, SAMUEL RICHARD=, Private, No. 5298, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Dilkes, of Rose Cottage, South Croxton, near Leicester, by his wife, Henrietta, dau. of Richard Clarke, of Great Dalby, Melton Mowbray; b. Barsby, near Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, 9 March, 1885: educ. Gaddesby, near Leicester; enlisted 28 Dec. 1903; served in Egypt, 9 March, 1906, to 23 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 25 Aug. to 14 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action on the latter date, at the Battle of the Aisne; unm.

=DILLON, LESLIE FRANK=, Private, No. 1330, 10th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of John Dillon, of Constantia, Houghton, formerly of Millbrook; b. 1894; went to Australia; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war, left for Egypt; went to the Dardanelles; was at first reported missing, but later information showed that he was killed on active service.

=DIMMOCK, CHARLES=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 192556, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DING, DOUGLAS GEORGE=, L.-Corpl. No. 12435, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of William Ding, of Sutterton, co. Lincoln, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Bull; b. Kenure Park, Rush, co. Dublin, 27 Feb. 1892; enlisted Sept. 1914; went to France in a draft in Feb., and was killed in action during the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. 1915, while making a reconnaissance with two men in front of the Guards position near the Chalk Pit, north of Loos; unm. An officer wrote: “The late Capt. of this coy. was very sorry to lose such a valuable man as Corpl. Ding, who was a very good and brave man.”

=DINGWALL, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Private, No. 533, B Coy., 19th Battn., 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of William Macdonald Dingwall, of Dingwall, Bank Agent, by his wife, Isabella Banken, dau. of the late William Turnbull Dobson; b. Inverness, 14 May, 1896; educ. Royal Academy Inverness, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh; went to Australia, 15 May, 1913; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in the spring of 1915; left for Egypt with his battn. in June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles by the Saturnia on 17 Aug. 1915, and died at Lemnos, 4 Jan. 1916, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted on active service; unm. Buried in Portianos Cemetery, Lemnos.

=DIPPER, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Private, No. 5550, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Frank Dipper, of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Stockman, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of Edward Turrall, of Stretton-on-Dunsmore; b. Stretton-on-Dunsmore, near Rugby, 24 Nov. 1884; educ. there; enlisted 6 May, 1904, and after serving seven years passed into the Reserve. On mobilisation he rejoined, left England with his regiment early in Aug., and served through the retreat from Mons and the various subsequent engagements on the Aisne and Marne. On 2 Nov. he had a narrow escape, a bullet going through his coat, and after striking a tin he was carrying in his breast pocket, passed along his chest, and came out the other side of his coat. He was wounded in the foot on 2 Dec., and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 28 Feb. 1915, by the explosion of two shells close to his head. His brother, Private George Dipper, was standing by his side at the time, but escaped with a few scratches. He was buried at Cuinchy, near La Bassée. He m. at Coventry, 20 July, 1911, Annie, dau. of George Wall, of West Bromwich, co. Stafford, and had a son, George, b. 5 Nov. 1913.

=DISSPAIN, JOSEPH CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9027), S.S. 2090, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DIVERS, PATRICK=, Private. No. 13689, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots. 2nd s. of James Divers, of 248, Charles Street, St. Rollox, Glasgow, employee in the Steel Works of Scotland (Blochaim, Ltd.), by his wife, Mary, dau. of Patrick O’Neil, of co. Tyrone; b. Glasgow, 28 Oct. 1895; educ. St. Mungo’s R.C. School, Glebe Street, Glasgow, and St. Rock’s R.C. School, Townhead, Glasgow; was working with Hyde Park Locomotive Works before the war. Enlisted soon after the outbreak of war, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, 18 Dec. 1914. and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. While at St. Rock’s R.C. School, he was captain of the football team, and that year they won the Glasgow Observer Cup and the Petershill F.C. Tournament for elementary schools; he also won a five-a-side football badge the month before he enlisted.

=DIXON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 18636, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. s. of John Dixon, of the Foundry, Castle Eden, co. Durham, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Andrew Hunter, of Middle Rainton; b. Castle Eden, 18 July, 1892; educ. there; went to Canada in 1912, and settled at Edmonton; enlisted in Aug. 1914, after the declaration of war; went to the Front, 26 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unm. He was buried at Duck’s Bill, Givenchy. For their conduct this day, the deceased company officer, Lieut. F. W. Campbell, was awarded the V.C.; the official report stating: “For most conspicuous bravery on 15 June, 1915, during the action at Givenchy Lieut. Campbell took his two machine guns over the parapet, arrived at the German first line with one gun, and maintained his position there under very heavy rifle, machine gun and bomb fire, notwithstanding the fact that almost the whole of his detachment had been killed or wounded. When our supply of bombs had been exhausted, this officer advanced his gun still further to an exposed position, and, by firing about 1,000 rounds, succeeded in holding back the enemy’s counter attack. This very gallant officer was subsequently wounded and has since died.”

=DOBEDOE, HERBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2017), 204430, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOCKER, LEONARD GEORGE=, Private, No. 13106, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 5th s. of Oliver Atkins Docker, of 155, Grosvenor Road, Rugby, by his wife, Martha, dau. of Simon Freer; b. Rugby, 7 July, 1896; educ. Murray Street School there; went to Canada and settled at Boissevain, Manitoba. On the outbreak of war, he immediately came home (paying his own passage) and enlisted at Birmingham, 8 Oct. 1914, the day after he landed. He went to the Front early in May, and was killed in action at Cambrin on 7 July, 1915, his nineteenth birthday.

=DODDS, VINCENT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 4611 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DODMAN, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 6822, 1st Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 8 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action; m.

=DODS, WILLIAM HENRY GORDON=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Leicestershire Regt.; s. of the late Major William Sandars Dods, of Uvedale, Norfolk Regt., by his wife, Emmie Alice Gordon (Glengariff, Roundham Road, Paignton), dau. of Col. Henry Charles Wright, Indian Staff Corps; b. Uvedale, Needham Market, co. Suffolk, 27 Oct. 1891; educ. Bishops Stortford and Marlborough College, and was afterwards sent with a company of 60 cadets to Woolwich (there being no room that year for the cadets at Sandhurst), where he was promoted Colour-Sergt., and received the Sword of Honour and Coronation medal. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Leicester, 11 Sept. 1911, and joined 25 Oct.; commanded the King’s Guard of Honour at the Pavilion at Aldershot in May, 1912, and was promoted Lieut. 18 May, 1913. On the outbreak of war he went with his regt. to France, and was killed in action near Armentières, France, 21 Oct. 1914; unm. He was buried at La Houssaie, in the angle formed between La Houssaie-Wez Macquart Road and Armentières Ecquingham Railway. Lieut. Dods played in the final of the Rugby Army match, won by the Leicester Regt. in 1912, and passed the test as marksman in the musketry course in 1914.

=DOE, ALFRED=, Private, No. 9525, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., s. of John Doe, of 16, William Street, Brighton; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Troyon, 7 Oct. 1914.

=DOEL, JAMES=, Private, No. 11205, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of James Doel, of 1, Brougham Street, Brockhurst, Gosport; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Richebourg, 16 May, 1915.

=DOHERTY, CHARLES=, Private, No. 16959, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915.

=DOIDGE, GEORGE=, Stoker, P.O., 299015 (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOLAN, BERNARD=, Private, No. 2452, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Zillebeke, 20 May, 1915.

=DOLLER, COLIN=, Private, No. 8370, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Croix Barbée, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DOLPHIN, ERIC JOHN WESTERN=, Capt., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., 4th and yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. Harry Edmund Dolphin, of Oak Lodge, Guildford, late Royal Artillery, by his wife, Margaret Louise, dau. of Capt. James Dolphin, Rifle Brigade; b. The Glen, Queenstown, Cork Harbour, 27 Dec. 1885; educ. Stubbington (Mr. Foster), co. Hants, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the Hampshire Regt., 24 Jan. 1906; promoted Lieut. 9 May, 1907, and (accelerated promotion to) Capt. 23 Oct. 1914. He was killed in action near Ploegsteert Wood, Flanders, 8 Nov. 1914, and was buried in the Cemetery there; unm. Major Parker wrote: “Your son was killed yesterday morning. He is a very great loss to the regt., just one of those who could ill be spared. He was one of the best of comrades and a real good soldier, always cheery and putting his best into all his work.”

=DOLPHIN, JOSEPH SAMUEL=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 268386, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DOMINEY, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 8827, 2nd Battn. The Scots Guards, only s. of the Rev. George William Dominey, Rector of St. Vincent’s, Edinburgh, by his wife, Ellen Maud, dau. of the late Richard Roberts, of Sherborne; b. Stoughton, Guildford, co. Surrey, 19 April, 1891; educ. King’s College, London; enlisted in The Scots Guards, 14 Jan. 1914; promoted Corpl. 24 Aug. 1914; went to the front, 19 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Armentières, 18 Dec. 1914; unm.

=DONACHEY, WALLACE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10413), 299952, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=DONALD, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 7118, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.; b. Port Glasgow, co. Renfrew, 1880; was a French Polisher; enlisted in the 1st Battn. Highland L.I. at Hamilton, 3 Jan. 1900; served in the South African War (King’s medal with two clasps, “1901,” “1902”), and obtained his transfer to the Army Reserve at Gosport, 2 Jan. 1908, on completion of his eight years with the Colours, of which 6 years and 41 days was abroad. Mobilised 4 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action there, 14 Nov. 1914. He m. at Glasgow, 31 Dec. 1909 (--) (11, Martin Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow), dau. of (--), and had two children: Christina Smith Smart, b. 5 Nov. 1910; and Thomasina Smart, b. 1 Nov. 1914.

=DONALD, MARTIE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10346), 107927, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=DONALDSON, JOHN=, Private, No. 1714, 6th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), only s. of James Donaldson, of 45, Jordan Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Steel, of Kirkmuirhill, co. Lanark; b. Edinburgh, 7 Aug. 1895; educ. South Morningside Board School there; was an engineer and oven builder with D. Thomson. Ltd., of Edinburgh, Engineers; joined the Territorial Battn. of the Royal Scots, mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed at Festubert, 18 May, 1915; unm. He was a member of St. Matthew’s Parish Church, Edinburgh.

=DONKIN, REGINALD LYONS=, Private, No. 817, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Edward Francis Donkin, formerly of Wyfold Court, co. Oxford, and afterwards of Maitland, Australia, by his wife, Grace, dau. of (--) Lyons, of Melbourne, and great-grandson of General Sir Rufus Shawe Donkin, K.C.B., Governor of Port Elizabeth, by his wife, Elizabeth Frances, dau. of the Most Rev. William Markham, Archbishop of York; b. Victoria, Australia, June, 1895; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 15 Aug. 1915; unm.

=DONNAN, JOSEPH GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Sergt., No. 357, B Coy., 1/6th Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Joseph Donnan, of Aigburth, Liverpool, Merchant Tailor, by his wife, Margaret Webster (172, Upper Warwick Street, Liverpool), dau. of the late George Lawrenson, of Aigburth; b. Dingle, Liverpool, 1 Nov. 1881; educ. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic School there; was a clerk with Messrs. J. H. & S. Johnson, Wholesale Druggists, Liverpool, and had completed his fifteenth year with this firm when war was declared. He had joined the King’s (Liverpool Rifles), then the 2nd Battn. King’s Liverpools (T.F.) in 1903, and at once volunteered for foreign ser.ce. He left for France, 24 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action, 30 March, 1915, by a sniper while on duty in the trenches; unm. He was buried on the side of a railway cutting at Zillebeke. In a letter from one of his Sergts. he was spoken of as being a “most conscientious N.C.O., and one of the best.” During his twelve years’ service in the King’s Liverpool Rifles he became one of its crack shots, and won many prizes, in addition to two silver shooting cups. In July, 1912, he won the “Queen Mary” prize at Bisley.

=DONNELLEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2248, 1/4th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.) eldest s. of Philip Donnelley, Labourer, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Johnson McGuire; b. Hexham, 2 March, 1877; educ. St. Mary’s Catholic School there; was a Labourer; enlisted 11 Nov. 1914; went to France, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 April, 1915. He m. at Hexham, 9 Aug. 1902, Annie Oliver (Gilesgate, Hexham), dau. of Frank Young, of Hexham, and left seven children: Frank, b. 7 Dec. 1904; James William, b. 10 May, 1907; Johnson McGuire, b. 26 June, 1908; Edward, b. 20 Jan., 1912; Jane Anne, b. 6 March, 1906; Mary, b. 25 March, 1913; and Elizabeth, b. 25 Sept. 1914.

=DONNELLY, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8868), S.S. 105635, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DONOVAN, ALFRED NORMAN=, Corpl., No. 12033, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., s. of the late William John Donovan, of Ballygoran, Celbridge, co. Kildare, Coachman, by his wife, Rose Frances Emma, dau. of the late David Richard Ellis, of West Kensington, Dyer and Cleaner; b. Dublin, 6 Feb. 1894; educ. Christian Brothers’ School, Inchicore; enlisted at Glasgow, 30 Sept. 1912; gained Third Class Certificate of Education, 12 Dec. following, and Second Class, 3 May, 1913; promoted L.-Corpl. Dec. 1913, and Corpl. 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 21 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action there, 17 May, 1915; unm. His brother William, A.B., No. 239892, R.N., is now (1916) on active service.

=DOONER, ALFRED EDWIN CLAUD TOKE=, Lieut. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 3rd s. of Col. William Toke Dooner, of Ditton Place, near Maidstone, J.P., late Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and Chief Staff Officer, Thames District, by his wife, Augusta, 5th dau. of William Paul Metchim, of Petersham Lodge, Surrey; b. Victoria Barracks, Portsmouth, 3 April, 1892; and went to the King’s School, Rochester, in 1902, from which he gained a scholarship at Tonbridge in 1905. There he became Coy. Sergt.-Major in the O.T.C., and afterwards Cadet Officer in 1909. He was in the shooting eight, 1907–10, and in 1908 and 1909 won the Warner Challenge Cup, and in the latter year helped to win with a record score--66 out of 70--the Hansard Cup for his House. In 1908, 1909 and 1910 his House won the Mitchell Cup, the section being under the command of Lieut. Dooner. In 1910 he represented the School in the contest for the Spencer Cup. He was also in the School XV. He passed third into Sandhurst from Tonbridge in 1910, and joined the Woolwich Coy., where he gained the drill prize, also the prize for German. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Welsh Fusiliers, 20 Sept. 1911; was promoted Lieut. 4 Sept. 1912; and became Adjutant of the 1st Battn. in July, 1914. He passed as a first-class interpreter in German in 1912, having previously, in 1908, when at Tonbridge, gained the first prize in that language in the examination open to all members of all public schools. He went to Belgium with his regt., 4 Oct. 1914, landing at Zeebrugge, and was reported as missing after the fighting on 30 Oct. 1914, and later information was received from the German Government that he had been killed in action on or about that date at Zandvoorde, near Ypres. From reports received from officers and men who were present on this occasion, it would appear that on the date mentioned, the struggle at Zandvoorde was most severe--as the Germans were endeavouring to get through to Calais, and the line occupied by the 7th Division was extended and thinly held. On the right of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers there were some trenches occupied by dismounted cavalry fighting as infantry, and how well these trenches were held is described by an officer, who says it was “one of the finest feats of the war.” So well did the cavalry fight that nearly all were killed or wounded, and the trenches were eventually captured, thus leaving the right flank of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers open to a flank attack. Lieut. Dooner, seeing the danger, ran across a fireswept piece of ground to the company on the right, and, having carried out his instructions, was returning to rejoin his commanding officer, when he was seen to fall wounded. Lieut.-Col. Cadogan, commanding the battn., then ran to his assistance, accompanied, it is stated, by Sergt. H. Evans, D Coy. They found that Lieut. Dooner had been killed, and as they were returning Sergt. Evans states that Lieut.-Col. Cadogan was also shot down about 10 yards from the trenches. The 7th Division, since its disembarkation, had now lost over 80 per cent. of its strength, and the Royal Welsh Fusiliers belonging to it was left with only one officer--Capt. Parker, the Quartermaster--and 86 men out of a total of 31 officers and 1,100 rank and file which left Lyndhurst for the seat of war on 4 Oct. Lieut. Dooner at the time of his death was the youngest Adjutant in the Regular Army. He was a member of the Junior United Service Club, and unm.

=DOPSON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, P.O. (Pensioner, R.F.R., A. 3401), 152717, H.M.S Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOREY, WILLIAM HENRY=, Gunner, R.M.A. 6064 (R.F.R., B. 843), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; m.

=COTTRELL-DORMER, CHARLES MELVILLE, D.S.O.=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd and elder surviving s. of Charles Walter Cottrell-Dormer, of Rousham Hall and Middle Aston, co. Oxford, and of Heath House and Stapleton Park, co. Gloucester, J.P., D.L., Capt. late 13th Hussars, by his wife, Ursula, yst. dau. of Thomas Robert Brook Leslie-Melville-Cartwright, of Melville House, co. Fife, J.P., D.L., and of Lady Elizabeth, née Leslie-Melville, his wife; b. 18 Feb. 1892; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the Coldstream Guards, 6 Jan. 1912; was posted to the 3rd Battn. 10 June, 1914; and promoted Lieut.; went to France with his regt.; was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French on 8 Oct., and was awarded the D.S.O., the official announcement recording that “after all his men had been driven out of the trenches by enfilade fire he remained to the last, and got his wounded men away.” He was invested with the Order by the King 13 Jan. 1915; returned to the Front, and died 8 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action at Bethune; unm. His eldest brother was killed in action 27 Oct. 1914 (see following notice).

=COTTRELL-DORMER, CLEMENT=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, eldest s. of Charles Walter Cottrell-Dormer, of Rousham Hall and Middle Aston, co. Oxford, and of Heath House and Stapleton Park, co. Gloucester, J.P., D.L., Capt. late 13th Hussars, by his wife, Ursula, yst. dau. of Thomas Robert Brook Leslie-Melville-Cartwright, of Melville House, co. Fife, J.P., D.L., and of Lady Elizabeth, née Leslie-Melville, his wife (see previous notice); 6 Feb. 1891; educ. Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; served one year with the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Yeomanry); was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Scots Guards, 1 Feb. 1913; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Krusick, near Ypres, 27 Oct. 1914; unm.

=DORMER, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Private, No. 6548, 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 2nd s. of Charles Dormer, of Wood Cottage, Courser’s Farm, Colney Heath, co. Herts, by his wife, Dorcas, dau. of Charles Yarrington; b. Waterferry Common, co. Oxford, 25 June, 1890; educ. Roydon, Essex, and had worked as a farm labourer for Mr. W. C. B. Giddins at Courses, and Mr. W. B. Field, of Bowmans Green, London Colney, and at the time war broke out was in the service of Messrs. Adams & Sons, Cartage Contractors, St. Albans. He was on the Special Reserve of the 4th Bedfords, and was called up, 5 Aug. 1914, going to the Front the same month with a draft for the 2nd Battn., to which he was then attached. He was killed in action at Festubert, 18 May, 1915; unm. Several of his brothers are (1916) on active service.

=DORNING, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4010), S.S. 102101, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DORRAM, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 112173, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DOUGALL, ANDREW=, [Private, No. 2474, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), 4th s. of Andrew Dougall, of 8, Wolsey Place, Edinburgh, s. of the late John Dougall, of Househill, Larbert, Farmer, by his wife, Christina Marshall, dau. of the late Robert Taylor; b. Edinburgh, 16 Aug. 1896; educ. Parson’s Green School there; unlisted 8 Sept. 1914; left with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 May, 1915; unm.

=DOUGALL, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2137), 170245, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DOUGLAS, ALFRED SYDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15466, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DOUGLAS, LESLIE HALL=, Lieut., 2nd Field Coy. Northumbrian Divisional R.E. (T.F.), only s. of John Douglas, of 33, Brighton Grove, Newcastle, by his wife, Dorothy Jane, dau. of Thomas Hall, Civil and Locomotive Engineer; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 14 Nov. 1887; educ. Royal Grammar School and Armstrong College there, and qualified as a Marine Engineer, being Assistant Surveyor with Messrs. Swan & McFarlane, Newcastle-on-Tyne. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Sept. 1914. He went to the Front, 16 April, 1915; was promoted Lieut. 12 June, 1915, and was killed in action near Dranoutre, Belgium, 9 July, 1915; unm. A brother officer wrote: “He has done excellent work for us under the most trying and dangerous conditions. He was a brave, painstaking officer. His loss is greatly felt not only by his company and me, but particularly by his section, which he commanded so well.”

=DOUGLAS, LESLIE STUART=, Corpl. and Despatch Rider, No. 1624, Signal Coy. 2nd London Divisional Engineers. R.E. (T.F.), s. of James Henry Douglas, of Dalry, Cossington Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, by his wife, Florence Helen, dau. of George Turner; b. Holloway, London, N., 30 Oct. 1893; educ. Stationers’ School, London; was a Bank Clerk; joined the 15th London Regt. (P.W.O. Civil Service Rifles) in March, 1911; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war and was transferred to the 2nd London Divisional Engineers in Jan. 1915; went to France, March, 1915, and died at Bethune, 24 Sept. 1915 from a fractured skull, while carrying Despatches; unm.

=DOUGLAS, WILLIAM SHOLTO=, Major, R.E., of the Headquarters Staff, only s. of Col. John Charles Douglas, of Lansdowne House, Bath, late Worcester Regt., and nephew of General Sir Charles Douglas, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; b. St. Peter’s, Jersey, 18 Sept. 1875; educ. Bath College; joined the Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieut. 22 Oct. 1895; promoted Lieut. 22 Oct. 1898, Capt. 22 Oct. 1904, and Major, 30 Oct. 1914; was attached to the Egyptian Army, 1898; served with the Nile Expedition, 1899 (Egyptian medal and clasp), and in the South African War, 1899–1900, being present during the operations in the Orange Free State, including the actions at Wittebergen (1 to 19 July), where he was slightly wounded while destroying arms (Queen’s medal with two clasps). On his return home at the end of 1900 he was specially employed in the Intelligence Department at Headquarters, and from Aug. 1910, to 28 May, 1912, he was Assistant Director of Army Signals (2nd Division) at Aldershot, when he was appointed General Staff Officer (3rd Grade), Scottish Command (29 May, 1914). On the outbreak of war he was appointed to the Headquarters Staff of the 7th Division, Expeditionary Force, was badly wounded in the action at Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914, and died at Boulogne 14 Nov. following. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. Major Douglas m. King’s Walden, Herts, 21 Oct. 1903, Gladys Mary, elder dau. of Thomas Fenwick Harrison, Lord of the Manor and Patron of King’s Walden, and had an only child, John Willoughby Sholto, b. 17 Jan. 1906; died 13 Dec. 1913.

=BLACKER-DOUGLASS, ROBERT ST. JOHN, M.C.=, Lieut., Irish Guards, elder s. of Maxwell Vandeleur Blacker-Douglass, of Bellevue Park, co. Dublin, and Elm Park, co. Armagh, and Lareen, co. Leitrim, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Alice, only child of the late Robert MacGeough, of Silver Bridge, co. Armagh; b. Dublin, 30 Nov. 1892; educ. Hazelwood, Surrey, Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Irish Guards, 7 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 27 Jan. 1913. He went to the Front with the first Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons; was wounded at Compiègne on 1 Sept. and invalided home, but rejoined his regt. in Flanders on 22 Jan. 1915. He was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915. “He continued to lead an attack after being wounded, and in so doing was killed” [official record, London Gazette, 11 March, 1915], and was awarded the Military Cross. His commanding officer, Major Trefusis, Irish Guards, wrote: “He was ordered with some men to retake a post which had been lost in the early morning of 1 Feb. He gallantly led his men to the attack and was soon wounded, but in spite of this he got up and shouted, ‘Come on, the Irish Guards,’ and was immediately killed. I feel it may be some comfort to all to know that he met his death in a very gallant manner, and by his example thoroughly inspired the men to make a great attack later on which was completely successful. I can only say what a loss he is to the regt. I have known him ever since he joined.” Lieut. Blacker-Douglass was unm., and was buried in Cuinchy Cemetery.

=DOVE, CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4086), 213475, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronet, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOW, ANDREW THOMAS=, Private, No. 81226, 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Peter Dow, of Bankfoot, co. Perth, Farmer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Liston; b. Airntully, co. Perth, 29 May, 1891; educ. Murthly Public School and Sharp’s Institution, Perth; went to Canada in Nov. 1911, and settled at Winnipeg. After the outbreak of war he enlisted in Oct. 1914, came over in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 21 May, 1915; unm.

=DOWDEN, STEPHEN WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 9604, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of William Dowden, Salesman at Covent Garden, by his wife, Christina Emma Beatrice, dau. of William Reynolds Floyd; b. Peckham, 13 April, 1885; educ. Wimbledon and Leatherhead; enlisted in May, 1912; went to France with the first Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, served through the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne, etc.; was wounded in action and invalided home in November; returning to the Front on 16 Dec. and died in No. 13 General Hospital, 28 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action four days previously. He was buried in the Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne, in Trench A/248, No. 1008; unm.

=DOWLING, JOHN JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 10005, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; m.

=DOWLING, JAMES THOMAS=, Corpl., No. 7086, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, eldest s. of James Thomas Dowling, of 25, Mundesby Street, Reading, Working Painter, by his wife, Patience, dau. of John Sanders; b. Reading, 7 Nov. 1880; educ. St. Giles’ Elementary School there; enlisted and was eight years with the Colours and eight in the Reserve; served through the Boer War (medal with five bars), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was shot through the body in a communication trench at Neuve Chapelle, 1 May, 1913, and died in No. 16 General Hospital at Le Treport on the 31st; unm. He was buried in the Military Cemetery there. His younger brother, Albert John, Royal Scots, is now (1916) on active service.

=DOWLING, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Signal Boy, J. 22588, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOWN, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2469B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; m.

=DOWNES, ALBERT ERNEST=, Officer’s Cook, 2nd Class, L. 3873, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOWNES, ANDREW=, Driver, No. 6190, Army Service Corps, 4th s. of Thomas Hodgson Downes, of Sunderland, Cab Driver, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Liddle, of Philadelphia; b. Sunderland, 6 May, 1888; educ. Rectory School there; was groom to Mr. T. Parrington, of Southwick-on-Wear; enlisted 27 Feb. 1915, and died of pneumonia in No. 5 Stationary Hospital at Dieppe, 3 April, 1915, while on Active Service. He m. at Southwick-on-Wear, 6 March, 1909, Emma (18, Morgan Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Thomas Hall, of Seaham Harbour, and had three children: Thomas, b. 22 Dec. 1912; Andrew, b. 18 Jan. 1915; and Violet, b. 6 Sept. 1910.

=DOWNES, ARCHER CHERNOCKE=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Cheshire Regt., 4th yst. and last surviving s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Charles Villiers Somerville Downes, of Aspley House, Aspley Guise, co. Beds, E. Lancashire (59th) Regt., by his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Anne, dau. and h. of Frederick Thompson, of Wimbledon Park; b. Aspley House aforesaid, 5 Aug. 1892; educ. The Knoll, Woburn Sands, Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford; obtained his commission in the 1st Battn. Cheshire Regt. 2 Sept. 1913, went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and died at Poperinghe, Flanders, 20 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at Neuve Eglise, near Bailleul. He had left the trench to help a wounded man of his regt. when he was shot. He was unm., and was buried in Poperinghe Cemetery. His brother, Lieut. V. C. Downes, was killed in action, 18 Oct. (see following notice).

=DOWNES, VILLIERS CHERNOCKE=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 3rd and elder surviving s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Charles Villiers Somerville Downes, of Aspley House, Aspley Guise, co. Beds, E. Lancashire (59th) Reg., by his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Frederick Thompson, of Wimbledon Park (see previous notice); b. Aspley House aforesaid, 5 March, 1891; educ. The Knoll, Woburn Sands, Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford, and was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt. (T.F.), 15 July, 1913. On the outbreak of war he was posted to the 1st Battn. 4 Aug. 1914; went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, served through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Marne, and was instrumental in saving three guns. He died at St. Omer, 18 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm. Lieut. Downes had passed as a musketry instructor, and was nearly due for his captaincy.

=DOWNEY, JOHN MICHAEL=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 16000, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DOWNIE, JAMES=, Private, No. 17098, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., eldest s. of John Downie, of 479, Stretford Road, Manchester, by his wife, May, dau. of James Curley; b. Peebles, 15 Aug. 1884; educ. St. Joseph School, Peebles; enlisted 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed, 25 Sept. 1915.

=DOWNIE, PETER HOUSTON=, Private, No B/9021, 11th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., 2nd s. of Thomas Downie, of 41, Annette Street, Glasgow, Journalist, by his wife, Isabella Mitchell, dau. of the late Peter Houston; b. Glasgow, 1 Dec. 1893; educ. Annette Street Public School and Albert Road Academy, Glasgow; was Shipping Clerk to J. & R. Tennent, Brewers; enlisted in the 4th Highland L.I. 6 Sept. 1914, and after serving at home for 10 months, was transferred to the 11th Battn. of his regt. and went to France in June, 1915. He was badly wounded in both legs at the Battle of Loos on 25 Sept., and was assisted into a crater by a comrade, who then started to crawl back to obtain material to bind up the wounds. He never returned, being probably killed on the way, and Downie lay on the field for two days before he could be brought in. He died in Rawal Pindi General Hospital at Wimereux on 6 Nov. 1915, after three operations; unm. Lady Hadfield, who nursed him in hospital wrote: “He lived well and he died well.”

=DOYLE, JOHN JOSEPH=, Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 4th s. of Joseph James Doyle, of Fairview, Clontarf, P.L.G., Merchant, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Edward Fegan, of Broadfield, Naas; b. Clontarf, co. Dublin, 13 March, 1893; educ. Blackrock College, Dublin, and the National University of Ireland, where he was an engineering student and was within a year of being qualified. When war broke out he volunteered, joined the Trinity College (Dublin) O.T.C., 6 Aug. 1914, and was given a 2nd Lieut.’s commission in the Dublin Fusiliers on 19 Sept. following, and promoted Lieut., 5 Feb. 1915. He left with his regt. for the Dardanelles on 9 July, 1915, and was killed in action there, 9 Aug. 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer, Col. P. Cox, wrote: “He fell early on the morning of the 9th when most gallantly leading his platoon. His death must have been instantaneous, as the poor boy was shot through the temple. His death is a great loss to me and the regt. He was a right good boy, who was always keen, always did his very best, loved his work, and had no idea what the word ‘Fear’ meant. Your son and his young brother subalterns have done splendid work for the regt., and it is due to their great devotion to duty that the regt. has done so well.” Lieut. Doyle was a well-known footballer. His two brothers, Capt. E. C. Doyle, A.V.C., and Lieut. F. H. Doyle, A.V.C., are (1916) on active service.

=DRAKE, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 113476, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DRAKE, THOMAS HAROLD=, Trooper, B Squadron, East African Mounted Rifles (Bowker’s Horse), yr. s. of the late Arthur John Drake, of Stratford, co. Essex, Surgeon, by his wife, Emily (Wyke Hill House, Winchester), dau. of William Courtney; b. Stratford, co. Essex, 2 Dec. 1883; educ. Temple Grove, East Sheen, and Marlborough College; went out to East Africa as a settler in 1906; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the East African Mounted Rifles on formation, and was killed in action in the Longido Hills, German East Africa, 3 Nov. 1914; unm. He was buried where he fell, and a stone was erected by his friends to his memory and that of seven others who fell on the same day.

=TYRWHITT-DRAKE, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Private, No. 15678, 19th Hussars, elder s. and heir of William Wickham Tyrwhitt-Drake, of Shardeloes, co. Bucks, J.P., late Master of the Old Berkshire Fox Hounds, by his wife, Augusta, 3rd dau. of the late Rev. Herbert Richard Peel, of Thornton Hall, co. Bucks (Baronet coll.); b. Thornton Hall, 10 Oct. 1885; educ. Uppingham and Eton; enlisted in the 19th Hussars in Aug. 1914 on the outbreak of war, with several other gentlemen jockeys, went to France, and died in the General Hospital, Boulogne, 11 March, 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while on active service. He was buried in Wimereux Cemetery; unm. He was a well-known amateur jockey and a brilliant cross-country rider, and came of a great hunting family, and when only 16 years of age won a point-to-point race over 4 miles on a horse called Old Berkeley. As a gentleman huntsman he gained some distinction with the Old Berkeley (West) Hounds during the Mastership of his father, Mr. W. W. Tyrwhitt-Drake. He won many races under National Hunt Rules, and trained some of the winners himself, including his father’s Irish Mail, on whom he won the valuable Lancashire Steeplechase at Manchester, the horse being sold a little later to Sir C. Assheton-Smith. Mr. Drake rode Carsey into fourth place in the Grand National in 1912, and into third place in the same race in the following season.

=DRAPER, HARRY THOMAS=, Stoker (R.N.R.), S. 1901, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of George Draper, of 32, Faulder Road, Long Hill, near Hartlepool; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DRAY, THOMAS=, Corpl., No. 8510, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt., s. of James Dray, of 1, Albert Lane, Hythe; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 11 April, 1915.

=DRAYNER, WILLIAM BRUCE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6684), 205138, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DREDGE, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. 14589, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DREVER, GEORGE=, Private, No. 4655, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of George Drever, of 6, Warrens Walk, Victoria Street, Kirkwall, Orkney; enlisted 8 Nov. 1902; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died 27 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action.

=DREW, ALAN APPLEBY=, Lieut., 4th (Reserve), attd. 2nd, Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), yr. s. of the late Daniel Drew, of Lowerhouse, Burnley, a partner in the Lowerhouse Printing Works; b. 1884; educ. Charterhouse, 1904–7; left England in 1907 to go into business with a firm of merchants in Shanghai. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Cameronians, 16 Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 4 Nov. following; left England on 13 Feb. to join his regt. at the Front, and was killed in action, 10 March, 1915; unm.

=DREW, ALBERT JAMES=, Private, No. 3178, 3rd Home Counties Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, s. of Stephen Drew, of Portland Road, Kingston, Surrey; served with the Expeditionary Force, and died on service, 6 March, 1915, of cerebro-spinal meningitis.

=DREW, EDWIN JOSEPH=, Private, No. 7787, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 28 May, 1915; m.

=DREW, LEONARD VICTOR=, Private, No. 10969, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards, only child of Thomas Drew, of Stert, Devizes, Ganger on Great Western Railway, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of John Trueman, of Trowbridge, Wilts; b. Bradford-on-Avon, co. Wilts, 17 May, 1897; educ. Christ Church School, Bradford-on-Avon; Church School, Stert; and St. James’ School, Devizes; was engaged as Porter at Holt Station, Great Western Railway; enlisted, 13 Aug. 1914; left Windsor for France, 13 Nov. following, and was killed in action at Vermelles, Belgium, 19 Oct. 1915, during the Battle of Loos; unm. He was buried in Lillers Cemetery the following day.

=DREW, WILLIAM REGINALD CAPLE=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345737, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=DREWETT, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./9628, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=DRISCOLL, CORNELIUS=, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., A. 1911), 159919, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DRIVER, ARTHUR MAURICE=, A.B., J. 14398, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DRIVER, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9724), 202065, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DROLET, NARCISSE EDOUARD=, Private, No. 61584, 22nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Augustine Drolet, of 108, Latourelle, Quebec, Canada; b. Quebec, 7 Jan., 1880; educ. Christian Brothers’ School there; enlisted at St. Jean d’Iberville, P.Q., 15 April, 1915, and died at Monks Horton, co. Kent, 22 July, 1915, from heart failure, while training at Shorncliffe, and was buried at Shorncliffe. He m. at Montana, 22 Nov. 1910, Ida, dau. of (--) Guertin; s.p.

=DRUITT, EVERARD JOSEPH=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., only s. of Lieut.-Col. Edward Druitt, of 91, Iverna Court, Kensington, W., late R.E., by his wife, Christina, eldest dau. of Sir Frederick Aloysius Weld, of Chideock Manor, co. Dorset, G.C.M.G.; b. Gillingham, co. Kent, 7 July, 1895; educ. Downside; joined the Honourable Artillery Company at the outbreak of the war, 14 Aug. 1914, and served in the 1st Infantry Battn. in France from 18 Sept. 1914, to 1 March, 1915. He was then recommended for a commission, and went through the Cadet School of Officers at Bailleul during March, and received his commission in the Royal Berkshire Regt. 4 April, 1915, and was killed near Fromelles, 9 May, 1915, while leading his platoon into action. He was buried behind the regimental breastwork; unm. Capt. C. Nugent wrote: “He died as I am sure he would like to have died, that is, the first man of his platoon towards the enemy. His death was very merciful, as he was shot through the heart, and he died instantaneously.... Although he had only been a short time with us, he had endeared himself to the men, who simply loved him and would have followed him anywhere”; and Sergt. J. A. Gray: “I was with your son when he fell, and I felt sure you would like to know how he died. Mr. Druitt had only been with us a short time, but I can honestly say that every man in the platoon loved him, and would have followed him anywhere, as, during our few tours of duty in the trenches, he had proved himself to be absolutely without fear, and had gained the assured confidence and respect of his men. On the morning of the attack he was full of confidence, and when the order came for us to assault the position he was first over the parapet at the head of his platoon, and was smiling and cool as if on parade. He shouted ‘Come on, boys!’ and started to lead us across the open, but had only advanced a few yards when he fell dead, shot straight through the heart. He was killed instantaneously, and I am sure he suffered no pain, for I looked at him as I went on, and I saw that the smile was still on his face, and he was quite dead.”

=DRUMMOND, ERIC GREY=, Major, late 4th Gurkha Rifles, attached 3rd Gurkha Rifles, 4th s. of the late Major-General Henry Drummond, R.E. (Bengal), by his wife, Annette Macpherson, dau. of Capt. Charles Henry Gascoyne Boisragon, and gdson. of the late Col. John Drummond, of Strageath, Abernchill and Balquhandy, Perthshire, C.B.; b. Simla, India, 10 Sept. 1875; educ. Bedford and Sandhurst (passing in and out with honours); gazetted 2nd Lieut. Somerset L.I., 28 Sept. 1895; served on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897–8, during the operations in the Mohmand country; took part in the engagement near Shabkadr, 9 Aug. 1897 (severely wounded; medal with clasp); gazetted Lieut. Indian Staff Corps, 16 Nov. 1898, and posted to the 4th Gurkhas, 1 April, 1900; promoted Capt. 28 Sept. 1908, and Major, 28 Sept. 1913; was A.D.C. on the Staff of the Lieut.-Governor of the Punjab, 6 March, 1902–7; to the General Officer Commanding Quetta Division, and (18 Oct. 1907) to the Governor of Bombay; retired 13 Nov. 1913, and was appointed a King’s Foreign Service Messenger in 1914. At the outbreak of war was at Constantinople with despatches from the Foreign Office. He had some difficulty in returning to England with despatches from the British Ambassador at Constantinople owing to the activities of the Goeben, but managed to do so and arrived in England viâ Alexandria and Port Said. He immediately offered his services and was appointed to the 60th Rifles. After serving at Sheerness crossed to France on 8 Nov. 1914; and was ordered to join the 2/3rd Gurkha Rifles then in the trenches near Bethune. He only reached his new regt. on 13 Nov., and was killed the same night; unm. The Rev. Ronald Irving wrote: “Your brother, Major Drummond, arrived here on Thursday last (12 Nov.) and stayed the night in the same mess as I am. On Friday I had to go out to the Brigade Headquarters in which the 2/3 Gurkhas are, so I took him out in a car at 3 p.m. ... and he went into the trenches that evening. At 9 p.m. the regt., with the ‘Garhwals,’ had to make an attack on the German trenches. Things did not go too well, and the Major, who was the C.O., volunteered to lead the men out of the trench, and he had only gone a few yards when he was killed outright from a bullet wound. His body was recovered and I took it yesterday to Bethune Cemetery for interment.” Major Drummond was thus only six days in France, and a little over six hours in the trenches when he was killed while gallantly leading his men.

=DRUMMOND, FREDERICK JOHN=, Trooper, East African Mounted Rifles (Bowker’s Horse), eldest s. of Major John William Ainslie Drummond, of 27, Stanhope Gardens, London, S.W., and Hollycombe, Englefield Green, late Scots Guards, a Partner in Coutts’ Bank [E. of Perth coll.], by his wife, Florence Charlotte dau. of John George Blencowe, of Bineham, Sussex; b. Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 15 June, 1891; educ. Evelyn’s and Eton; settled in East Africa; joined the East African Rifles on formation in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action in the Longido Hills, 3 Nov. 1914; unm.

=DRUMMOND, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 1889, A. Coy., 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late David Kininment Drummond, Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Henrietta Mabel (70, Cambridge Road, King’s Heath, Birmingham), dau. of William Goodman Porter, of Liverpool; b. Acocks Green, co. Warwick, 30 April, 1893; educ. Wellesbourne House School, Acocks Green, and King Edward’s Grammar School, Edgbaston; joined the London Scottish in June, 1913, and with the whole battn. volunteered for foreign Service after the outbreak of war, and went to France, 15 Sept. 1914. He took part in the famous charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 31 Oct. 1914, and died at the Base Hospital, Boulogne, 27 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action five days previously. He was buried in the cemetery there; unm. A comrade wrote: “We were all very fond of him, he was a splendid fellow, very quiet and unostentatious and absolutely reliable; if he had a job to do he always did well.... You have many unknown to you who share your sorrow.”

=DUCAT, RICHARD=, Major, 20th Infantry (Brownlow’s Punjabis), Indian Army, 3rd s. of the late Major-General Charles Merewether Ducat, Bombay Staff Corps; b. Ahmedunggar, India, 12 July, 1871; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 13 Aug. 1892; promoted Lieut. 31 Aug. 1894, and transferred to the Indian Army, 31 Aug. 1896; became Capt. 13 Aug. 1901 and Major, 13 Aug. 1910; served on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, where he took part in the fighting at Malakand, Utman Khel, Buner, and in the attack on, and capture of, the Tanga Pass (medal with clasp); in China (medal) 1900, and in Tibet (medal), 1903–4. After the outbreak of the European War he accompanied his regt. to the Persian Gulf and died 11 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at Fao. He was buried at San-i-yek, on the Shat-el-Arab River, Persian Gulf. His commanding officer wrote: “In the position your husband’s companies occupied when he fell, he was rendering me an invaluable service in protecting the left of the regt., and left me free to operate with confidence on the right. His last words to his men before he became faint from loss of blood, were ‘push on and don’t mind me.’” Major Ducat m. at St. Mary Abotts, Kensington, 5 Jan. 1910, Dora Margaret, 2nd dau. of the late Bayley Moore Collyns, of Morebath House, Somerset; s.p.

=DUCK, ALBERT EDWIN=, Chief S.B.S., 350302, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DUCK, EDWARD=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16642, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=DUCKETT, JAMES THOMAS=, Private, No. 7840, 3rd, att. 1st, Battn. Norfolk Regt., s. of Samuel William Duckett, by his wife, Matilda; b. Norwich, 12 March, 1869; educ. Carrow School there; enlisted in the 4th Battn. Norfolk Regt., 10 March, 1889, and re-enlisted 30 April, 1900, and again in the 3rd Battn. Norfolk Regt., 10 Aug. 1914; went to France, 19 Sept.; was killed in action at Givenchy, near Festubert, 25 Oct. 1914. He m. at St. Mary’s Church, Norwich, 25 Dec. 1889, Catherine Eleanor, only dau. of William Rix, and left nine children: William, b. 10 July, 1891; James, b. 26 Jan. 1896; Samuel, b. 10 Jan. 1899; George, b. 1 May, 1902; Edward, b. 9 May, 1910; Eleanor, b. 6 Feb. 1890; Alice, b. 21 Feb. 1894; Martha, b. 31 May, 1904; and Kitty, b. 13 May, 1908.

=DUDDY, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4784), S.S. 104153, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DUDLEY, DAVID=, Capt., 91st Punjabis, attached 2nd Jats, s. of the Rev. Francis Dudley, late Vicar of St. Thomas’, Overmonnow, Monmouth, by his wife, Alice (24, Gordon Avenue, St. Margarets-on-Thames), dau. of the Rev. John Dixon Frost; b. Wrenthorpe Vicarage, Wakefield, 14 March, 1881; educ. Monmouth Grammar School (1892–1900); received his commission from the Militia in the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 27 Aug. 1902, and served in the South African War, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He was promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1904, and transferred to the Indian Army in Feb. 1906, and was gazetted to the 91st Punjabis. He was appointed Double Company Officer, 12 Feb. 1906, and became Capt. 27 Aug. 1911. At the outbreak of the European War, Capt. Dudley was one of those selected for service in the Expeditionary Force in France, and arriving at Marseilles in Dec. 1914, he proceeded to the Front, where he was attached to the 6th Jats. He took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, after which his commanding officer wrote: “I had very great pleasure in recommending him for reward for the work which he had done, whether granted or not, he thoroughly earned it.” He was killed in action in the attack on the Auber’s Ridge, 9 May, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “He led his men with his accustomed gallantry, but in the first few yards was mown down by the enemy’s machine-gun fire. He was a very sterling fellow, a most excellent officer of great personal courage, and a charming and modest companion.” He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Neuve Chapelle; unm. Capt. Dudley was a good all-round athlete, a fine Rugby footballer, a good cricketer, oarsman and swimmer. In Burma he won the Indian Army Hockey Medal, and was one of the best polo players, winning many cups both for that and for tennis.

=DUDLEY, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4329), S.S. 103188, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DUDLEY, LEONARD GREY=, Capt. and Adjutant, 6th Jat L.I., Indian Army, 2nd s. of William Edmondson Dudley, of 18, Portland Place, Bath, Brigade Surgeon, Lieut.-Col. A.M.S. (retired), by his wife, Anne Marion, dau. of General George Prince Sealy, R.A.; b. Poonah, India, on Lady Day (which that year was also Easter Day), 25 March, 1883; educ. Bath College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he gained a good place in the Competitive Examination, came out in the Honours List as 3rd of those winning commissions and was awarded the prize for Military History. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the unattached list for the Indian Army, 27 Aug. 1902, and on arriving in India, 10 Dec. following, was appointed to the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders, then at Calcutta. They left there in Oct. 1903, for Poona, where he served with them till 3 Jan. 1904, when he was posted to the 6th Jats at Meerut. He was promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1904, and Capt. 27 Aug. 1911, being appointed Adjutant, 19 July, 1911. The Jats were moved to Jhansi in 1905 and then to Secunderabad in 1910, and on the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, formed part of the Meerut Division which went with the Indian Expeditionary Force to France. He died at Festubert, 24 Nov. 1914, of wounds received four hours previously in recapturing a trench from the Germans, in the early morning. He was keen on all sports, and the 6th Jats were noted for their triumphs in hockey, cricket and tennis. Capt. Dudley m. in Bombay Cathedral, 12 Nov. 1908, Ada De la Mere Doveton, only dau. of William John Deane, and had two children: John Leonard Grey, b. (posthumous) 18 March, 1915, and Monica Vivian Grey, b. 29 March, 1913.

=DUFFIELD, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 3437, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of John Duffield, of Station Road, Watlington, near Downham Market, Norfolk, State Labourer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Page; b. Watlington, co. Norfolk, 29 May, 1879; educ. there; enlisted 16 March, 1900; served in the South African War (Queen’s medal with three clasps), 1901–2, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 13 Aug. 1914–25 Jan. 1915, on which latter day he was killed in action at La Bassée; unm. He was buried under the south wall of Cuinchy Church.

=DUFFUS, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private, No. 3354, 1st/14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Duffus, of 7, Hafer Road, Battersea Rise, S.W., Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Alice, dau. of the late Thomas Edward Watkins, of Brighton, Builder; b. Lavender Hill, Battersea, 10 June, 1892; educ. Wix’s Lane Institute, Lavender Hill; was in the employ of Messrs. Clark, Jewellers, of Brixton, but after the outbreak of war volunteered and enlisted in the London Scottish in Oct. 1914. After going through his training at Dorking, he went to France, 7 March; was wounded at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died at 6 Ambulance Field Hospital on the 28th; unm. He was buried at Noeux Le Mines Cemetery (Row C., Grave 25). For his good work at the Front he had been nominated for a commission. He had submitted two inventions, one for a bomb carrier to carry 40 bombs, and the other in connection with a sapping machine, and shortly before his death he had been summoned by telegram from headquarters to appear before Sir Douglas Haig, Major-Gen. Hakin, and the Inventions Committee, by whom they were approved and forwarded to London.

=DUGGAN, CON=, Private, No. 5470, G Coy., 3rd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, 2nd s. of the late Bartley Duggan, of Calhame, Annagry, by his wife, Bridget (Calhame, Annagry, co. Donegal), dau. of Michael Duggan, of Denybeg, Gweedore, co. Donegal; b. Annagry, co. Donegal, 22 March, 1893; educ. Mullaghduff National School; was an electric tram car driver, Lanarkshire Tramway. Enlisted, 14 Jan. 1916, and was killed during the fighting in Dublin about 30 April, 1916; unm. Buried in the grounds of the Royal Hospital there, 2 May. His yr. brother was killed at Loos (see following notice).

=DUGGAN, GEORGE GRANT=, Capt., 5th (Service) Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, 3rd s. of George Duggan, of 5, College Street, Dublin, and Ferney, Greystones, co. Wicklow, Manager, Provincial Bank of Ireland, Ltd., Dublin, by his wife, Emilie Asenath, dau. of Col. Charles Coote Grant, late Bedfordshire Regt. (died 23 Aug. 1914); b. Birr, King’s Co., 12 April, 1886; educ. High School, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1908; and on leaving there entered the service of the Irish Lights Commissioners. He was one of the original members of the Dublin University O.T.C., and was one of the first N.C.O. to be appointed, being promoted Corpl. 1910, and the following year was one of the small body of N.C.O. and Cadets, specially selected for exceptional efficiency and smartness, to attend the coronation. He subsequently (27 Jan. 1912) received a commission on the unattached list (T.F.) for service with the D.U.O.T.C., and was promoted Lieut. 8 Feb. 1913. He qualified at the School of Musketry, Hythe, in March, 1914, and was appointed to the command of a platoon in the School of Instruction for officers of the new Armies established in Trinity College in Sept. of the same year. On the temporary closing of this school, about the middle of the following month, he joined the 5th Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers as Lieut., and was at once promoted to the command of a company, with the rank of temporary Capt., 28 Oct. 1914. He left with his regt. for the Dardanelles, early in July, 1915; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, 6 Aug. 1915, and in the severe fighting there during the following ten days; was severely wounded on the 16th on the Ridge over the Bay, and died the same day on board H.M. hospital ship Gloucester Castle. Buried that night in the Ægean Sea. His yst. brother fell in action there the same day (see following notice). Capt. Duggan, of a bright and genial disposition, was one of the finest long-distance runners that Trinity College has ever possessed, and it would be no light task to compile a list of his many triumphs in the College Park, with the D.U. Harriers, in inter-University and in International contests. For several years he organised the College Races, and managed the affairs of the Dublin University Athletic Union with conspicuous success. But his greatest work was, undoubtedly, the inauguration of Trinity Week, an enterprise to which he devoted himself heart and soul, and of the original Committee of which he was the foremost member. He was also a former Scoutmaster of the 6th South County Dublin (Leeson Park) troop; a member of the Executive of the County Dublin Association and an active member of the Sea Scout Committee, in whose interests he worked until the outbreak of war. He m. at Christ Church, Leeson Park, Dublin, 24 Aug. 1910, Dorothy Isabella Tuthill (12, St. Keven’s Park, Rathgar, Dublin), only child of the late Henry Johnson, of Oaklands, Upper Assam, and had two sons: George Villiers Grant, b. 31 May, 1911; and Dermot Harry Tuthill, b. 5 July, 1912.

=DUGGAN, JOHN ROWSELL=, Lieut., 5th Battn. (Pioneers) The Royal Irish Regt., 5th and yst. s. of George Duggan, of 5, College Street, Dublin and Ferney, Greystones, co. Wicklow, Manager, Provincial Bank of Ireland, Ltd., Dublin, by his wife, Emilie Asenath, dau. of Col. Charles Coote Grant, late Bedfordshire Regt. (died 23 Aug. 1914); b. Dublin, 31 Oct. 1894; educ. The High School, Dublin, where he won a 1st Class Scholarship, and passed into Trinity College, Dublin, in 1912. There he joined the Medical School and became, like his brother, a prominent Member of the O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he relinquished his medical studies and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th Royal Irish Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 28 Jan. 1915. He left with his regt. for the Dardanelles early in July, 1915, as part of the 10th Division, and was killed in action on the Karakol Dagh Spur, above Suvla Bay, 16 Aug. 1915; unm. He was at first reported wounded and missing and no officer saw him fall, but the Medical Officer of the Dressing Station at Suvla Bay, to whom Lieut. Duggan went when shot through his (left) wrist and with shrapnel injury to face and side, told him he should go to the Hospital Ship. He said his men were without an officer so he rejoined them in the firing line, and the subsequent story is briefly told by his Sergt. P. J. Nolan (on whose testimony his death was officially reported). “He left the firing line, had his wounds dressed and returned shortly afterwards, when he was hit in the face with an explosive bullet and killed.” To his father, Sergt. Nolan wrote: “Your son could have saved his own life, but he was always good to his men and he died encouraging them to fight till the last”; and his Col., the Earl of Granard, wrote: “I am sorry to tell you that your son has been missing since 16 Aug. He went with his company into action on that date, and we have not seen him since. I have enquired from several of the men of his company and they all tell me that he was wounded whilst gallantly leading his men. I sincerely hope that he is a prisoner, and it is always a consolation to know that the Turks treat their prisoners with the greatest consideration. I have now soldiered for a great many years and can honestly say that I never came across a better subaltern; and as regards his social qualifications, he was beloved by all ranks of the regt.” Lieut. Duggan was a noted rifle shot and won many medals and prizes, including “Daily Express” and “Lord Roberts’” Medals; Adjutant’s Cup of Trinity College, O.T.C., and he was presented with a rifle for the highest aggregate score in Leinster Schools, 1912.

=DUGGAN, PATRICK=, Private. No. 871, C Coy., 10th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., 4th s. of the late Bartley Duggan, of Calhame, Annagry, co. Donegal, by his wife, Bridget (Calhame, Annagry, co. Donegal), dau. of Michael Duggan, of Denybeg, Gweedore, co. Donegal; b. Annagry, co. Donegal, 18 June, 1896; educ. Mullaghduff National School; enlisted 2 Nov. 1914; went to France on 13 May, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915.

=DUKE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1306, D Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2nd s. of the late Michael Duke, of Iona, by his wife, Mary (Fox Harbour, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland), dau. of William Whiffin; b. Iona, Placentia Bay, 28 May, 1894; educ. there; was a Fisherman; volunteered and joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, 22 March, 1915; left for England, 6 April; went to the Dardanelles, and died at Alexandria, 26 Dec. 1915, of meningitis, contracted while on active service. Buried in the Military Cemetery there (Grave No. 139); unm.

=DUMMA, JAMES=, Private, No. 4377, 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Ypres, 26 April, 1915.

=DUNBAR, FRANCIS GRANT=, Deckhand, No. 533 D.A., Trawler Section R.N.R.; lost when the mine-sweeping trawler, No. 106 (Crathie, of Aberdeen), was sunk by a mine, Aug. 1914.

=DUNBAR, JOHN MAXWELL=, Private, No. 8823, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of Joseph Dunbar, of 63, St. Andrew’s Street, Kilmarnock; b. Skye; enlisted 13 Jan. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914.

=DUNCAN, ALEXANDER ROBERTSON=, Stoker (R.N.R.), S. 2872, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DUNCAN, GEORGE=, Private, No. 51138, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., s. of George Duncan, General Delivery, Toronto, Canada; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 March, 1915.

=DUNCAN, JOHN HOPKIRK=, Private, No. 1498, 6th, att. 1/8th, Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) (T.F.), s. of the late William Duncan, of Edinburgh, Coachman, by his wife, Beatrice (Craigewan, Peebles); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915, aged 19.

=DUNCAN, STUART=, Capt. 3rd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late James Duncan, of 24, Chester Street, S.W., M.D.; b. 25 May, 1865; obtained his commission as Lieut. 1st Gloucesters, 6 Feb. 1891 and promoted Capt., 31 Dec. 1891; served through the South African War, 1899–1900, taking part in the operations in Natal, 1899, including the actions at Reifontein and Lombards Kop, where he was slightly wounded, and in the subsequent operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, 1900, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He retired, 16 April, 1904, and joined the Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered his services and was posted to the 3rd Gloucesters, from which he was sent out to the 2nd South Lancashires at the Front. He was killed in action in France, 13 Nov. 1914; unm.

=DUNDAS, CECIL HENRY=, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Welsh Regt., yst. s. of Sir George Whyte Melville Dundas, of Beechwood, 5th Bart., by his wife, Matilda Louisa Mary, dau. of Minden James Wilson; b. Birkenhead, 7 Jan. 1892; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and Fettes College, Edinburgh; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Welsh Regt. 20 Sept. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 13 Aug. 1913; served at Cairo, Khartoum, in India, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died at Ypres, 20 Feb., 1915, of wounds received while making a reconnaissance the previous day. He was buried there; unm. His Capt. wrote: “He was in my company at Cairo, Khartoum and in India, and has always been one of the best. His nature was so bright and sunny and nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. In the trenches he was always cheery and his good spirits infected his platoon, who were always a happy crowd and used to sing under even the most trying conditions.” In 1913, he and another officer of his regt. were sent from Khartoum to find a channel between the Rivers Toole and Jur to facilitate communication with Wau and Khartoum, this entailed their going through country where no European had ever been before.

=DUNDAS, HON. KENNETH ROBERT=, Lieut., R.N.V.R., Anson Battn. Royal Naval Division, 4th s. of Charles Saunders, 4th Viscount Melville, I.S.O., by his wife, Grace Selina Marion, only child of William Scully; b. Teneriffe, Canary Islands, 10 May, 1882; and was educ. in Hamburg until 1897, and then at Christiania, 1897–1906, when his father was H.M.B. Consul-General at these places. From Norway he joined the Civil Service, and at the early age of 24 went out to British East Africa as Assistant District Commissioner. There he did much useful work, taking a very great interest in the native tribes, whose laws and customs he studied. His unique collection of their many strange customs was published by the Royal Anthogeological Society. In 1906 Lieut. Dundas was appointed political officer to the Nandi Field Force, for which he received a medal and clasp. In 1907 he became District Commissioner. In Jan. 1915 he returned to England with five months’ leave due to him. Finding there was so much for every Britisher to do, he felt he must try and do his best, so it was arranged he should be seconded from the Colonial Office to the Admiralty for the duration of the war. He was then given a commission in the Royal Naval Division, and appointed to the Collingwood Battn. After training at the Crystal Palace and at Blandford, the battn. left England in May, sailing for the Dardanelles. Four days after Lieut. Dundas landed the Collingwood Battn. went into action on 4 June. Exceedingly heavy fighting took place, and the battn. was almost “wiped out.” The Col. and 12 officers were killed, 9 were wounded and 4 missing, whilst the men suffered greatly also. Lieut. Dundas and two other officers were the sole survivors. After this Lieut. Dundas was transferred to the Anson Battn., as the Collingwood ceased to exist. For two months he served on the Gallipoli Peninsula, enduring great hardships and toil, but always hopeful and uncomplaining, till the morning of 7 Aug., when he was killed at the landing at Suvla Bay. He was buried on the Kuchuk Kemikli promontory of Anafarta Bay. He m. at St. Paul’s, Brighton, Anne Claudia Whalley (Melville Castle, Lasswade, Midlothian), yr. dau. of the late Capt. Charles Edward Foot, R.N., and had issue a son, Claud Kenneth Melville, b. Machakos, British East Africa, 6 July, 1911.

=DUNK, ALFRED AUGUSTUS=, 1st Class Torpedo Gunner (No. 201234), H.M.S. Cressy, s. of John Osmond Dunk, of 24, Thorold Road, Ilford, Carpenter, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of Alfred Selman; b. St. Peter’s Square, Hackney, N.E., 7 Oct. 1882; entered the Royal Navy 1898, serving in H.M. Ships Magnificent, Sutlej, London, Edgar, Furious, &c.; discharged 1914; called up on mobilisation Aug. 1914, took part in the action off Heligoland Bight and was lost in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914, when serving in submerged torpedo-flat; unm. While serving in H.M.S. London, he assisted in rescuing the passengers (including the Duke and Duchess of Fife) in the wreck of s.s. Delhi off Cape Sparta in Dec. 1911, for which he was presented with the medal for saving life by H.M. the King at Buckingham Palace, 10 Oct. 1912. He took part in the competitive gun crews of the Royal Naval Military Tournaments of 1908 and 1912, and was also one of those who formed two gun crews of H.M.S. Pembroke and completed a record march from Chatham to Portsmouth, with field guns, of 110 miles in four days.

=DUNLOP, FREDERICK CLEAVE STRICKLAND=, Capt., 1st Battn. Manchester Regt., 4th s. of the late Andrew Dunlop, of Belgrave House, Jersey, M.D. (died 30 Dec. 1915), by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Joseph Strickland; b. St. Helier, Jersey, 14 Dec. 1877; educ. Victoria College, Jersey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the Manchester Regt. 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 11 March, 1899, and Capt. 12 March, 1901, serving as Adjutant from April, 1902 to April, 1905, also as Adjutant to an Indian Volunteer battn. (Malabar Rifles) from Nov. 1906 to Nov. 1911; served in the South African War 1899–1901, taking part in the defence of Ladysmith, and in the operations in the Transvaal, Feb. to Aug. 1901, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action while in the trenches, near La Bassée, 8 Nov. 1914. Capt. Dunlop m. at St. Helier, Jersey, 13 Oct. 1902, Maud, dau. of the late Deputy Surgeon-Gen. Williams, of Heathfield, Jersey, Madras Medical Service, and had a son and dau.: Andrew, b. 2 Feb. 1907; and Mavis, b. 22 Aug. 1905. His next elder brother, Capt. J. S. S. Dunlop, had been killed in action 24 Oct. previous, and his yst. brother, 2nd Lieut. K. S. Dunlop, was killed 26 Sept. 1915 (see the following notices). Another brother, Valentine, died in Ladysmith during the siege.

=DUNLOP, GEORGE ARTHUR=, Canteen Manager, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DUNLOP, JULIAN SILVER STRICKLAND=, Capt. 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late Andrew Dunlop, of Belgrave House, Jersey, M.D., by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Joseph Strickland; b. St. Helier, Jersey, 15 Sept. 1876; educ. Victoria College, Jersey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Royal Jersey Militia to the South Staffordshire Regt. 7 Dec. 1895; promoted Lieut. 1 May, 1898, and Capt. 9 Feb. 1904. In Oct. 1899, he was appointed A.D.C. to the Lieut.-Governor of Burma, a post he held until 31 March, 1903, and was from 1905–10 Adjutant of the South Staffordshire Militia and Special Reserve. On the outbreak of war he accompanied his regt. to the Front, as part of the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action while leading a bayonet charge, near Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.

=DUNLOP, KENNETH STRICKLAND=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., 8th s. of the late Andrew Dunlop, of Belgrave House, Jersey, M.D., by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Joseph Strickland; b. St. Helier, Jersey, 17 Aug. 1882; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, and University College, London; went to South America in 1905, was engaged first in the nitrate industry, then as a mining engineer, and when the war broke out was manager of a mine in Bolivia; he returned home in the spring, 1915, qualified as machine-gun officer, went to the front early in Aug. and was attached in that capacity to the 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt. there. He was killed in action on the Western front, 26 Sept. 1915, and was buried in the Military Cemetery at Vermelles; unm.

=DUNN, ALFRED=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1794S, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DUNN, FRANK=, Leading Seaman, 200087, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=DUNN, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11888, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DUNN, ROBERT WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3849), 187689, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DUNN, SPOTTISWOODE ROBERT=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 1st Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), (T.F.), s. of the late Robert Dunn, who saw service in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny; b. Pimlico, London, 7 June, 1863; educ. London; going to Scotland in 1882, he joined the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles, and in 1893 was gazetted 2nd Lieut. He was appointed Capt. and Instructor of Musketry, June, 1899; served through the South African War, 1901–2, as Commandant, Howard’s Mine, and took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Cape Colony and Orange Free State, being awarded the Queen’s medal with five clasps. In 1902 he was appointed Major of the 4th Battn. of the Royal Scots, being given the rank of Hon. Capt. in the Army, 9 Oct., having previously received the Volunteer and Territorial Decorations, and in the following year he was awarded the Long Service medal. In 1906 he was Brigade-Major of the 1st Lothian Volunteer Infantry Brigade, became Hon. Lieut.-Col. 25 June, and on the formation of the Territorial Force was appointed Secretary of the Mid-Lothian Association. Here his powers of organisation soon became apparent, and throughout recent years his administration was quoted as an example. When mobilisation was declared the perfection of his work was seen, when the units affiliated to his Association took the field, equipped, complete in every detail. With mobilisation completed, his duties as Secretary of the Territorial Association practically terminated, and, on the call of the military authorities, he became, in the absence of the Colonel through ill-health, Colonel Commanding the 4th Battn. The Royal Scots (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles). He raised the battn. to a high state of efficiency before going out with it to Gallipoli in 1915. On 16 Jan. 1915, he was gazetted to the command of the 14th Battn. The Royal Scots, was wounded in his first action, on 28 June, 1915, and died on the following day; buried at sea. Colonel Dunn m. Edinburgh, 18 July, 1890, Jane, dau. of the late Thomson Kirkwood, of Glasgow; s.p.

=DUNN, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 19386, Machine Gun Section, 11th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., eldest s. of Robert Dunn, of 320, Cornish Row, Gartsherrie, Coatbridge, Iron Worker at Gartsherrie Works, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William King; b. Gartsherrie, 30 April, 1894; educ. Gartsherrie Public School; was an Iron Worker at Gartsherrie Works; enlisted, 1 Sept. 1914; trained at Bordon Camp, Aldershot; went to the front, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26 Sept. 1915; unm. His company officer, Lieut. C. A. Scott, wrote “besides being one of the most valuable gunners I had, he was a real nice boy and one for whom I had a great liking”; and a comrade: “It was after our boys had made the attack the Sunday night the 26 Sept. we got word the Germans were making a counter attack, so we had to mount our gun; your brother was in the act of doing so when he was hit with a bullet, and he died almost immediately after.”

=DUNN, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2730, 1/7th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), eldest s. of Edward Greevis Dunn, of 97, Baring Street, South Shields; b. South Shields, 27 Dec. 1890; educ. Weston Senior School; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, and died 29 June, 1915, of wounds received while on listening post duty. Buried at Bailleul; unm.

=DUNN, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, 150585, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=DUNNE, PATRICK=, Private, No. 73537, D Coy., 28th Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Patrick Dunne, of Mountainstown, Wilkinstown, Navan, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Denis O’Neill; b. Slane, co. Meath, 11 Feb. 1893; educ. Fletcherstown School, co. Meath; went to Canada, 12 July, 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the 28th Battn., went to France, 15 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action there, 8 Oct. 1915; unm. On that day “D Coy. were occupying trenches G1 and G2. About 5 p.m. the Germans blew up two mines under our front trench, and Private Dunne was immediately after reported ‘Missing’ along with a number of others. His body was found a day or so afterwards a considerable distance away from the scene of the explosion, and was buried in Kemmel Cemetery. As he was on duty at the time of the explosion in a section of the trench where one of the explosions occurred, there is no doubt that he met his death through the explosion.”--Canadian Official Report.

=DUNSDON, SIDNEY JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109428, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DUNSTER, ARCHIBALD FRANK (NIP)=, Private, No. 2070, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Frank Charles Dunster, of Sunnyside, Cinque Ports Street, Rye, by his wife, Lottie Julia, dau. of Albert Smith; b. Rye, co. Sussex, 21 Dec. 1890; educ. Rye Grammar School; was an Artist; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted 11 Aug. 1914; trained at Dover and was then stationed at the Tower and was for some time on guard at Olympia; went to France, 18 Feb., and died at Bethune, 21 March, 1915, from wounds received in the trenches the previous day; unm. When Dunster was wounded, Private J. Adams ran to his assistance, and was himself wounded, and he was eventually carried in by Private Baker Guy, son of the Organist of All Saints’, Hastings. The portrait here reproduced is from a drawing made of him by a German artist interned at Olympia while Dunster was on guard there.

=DURAND, FRANCIS WILLIAM=, Capt., 3rd, attached 2nd, Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, eldest s. of the late Rev. Havilland Durand, for 13 years Vicar of Earley, co. Berks, by his wife, Mary (Moulin Huet House, Guernsey), dau. of the Rev. Montague John Gregg Hawtrey; b. Earley Vicarage, 29 Jan. 1875; educ. Elizabeth College, Guernsey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Royal Guernsey L.I. (Militia), 1891; joined the Rhodesian Horse in 1895, and took part in the Matabeleland Campaign with Gwelo Field Force in 1896 (medal, “Matabeleland, 1896”) and the Mashonaland Campaign in 1897 (clasp, “Mashonaland, 1897”). From 1899 to 1901 he served with the African Transcontinental Telegraph Survey through German East Africa, under O. Berringer, Chief Surveyor, Northern Rhodesia, and in 1901–2 with the Tanganyika Concessions Expedition to Katanga, Congo Free State. In 1903 he was employed as Secretary and A.D.C. to the First Minister of the Zanzibar Government. He obtained his company in the 3rd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 10 Feb. 1906, to remain seconded under the Foreign Office for service in Zanzibar. He was employed under both the military and civil administration of Zanzibar until 1913, being successively Acting-Commandant, Zanzibar Military Police, and Acting-Governor, Central Jail, 1907; 2nd Class Magistrate and Governor of District Jail, 1909; 2nd in Command, Zanzibar Armed Constabulary, 1911. He received the Zanzibar Orders of El Aliyeh (4th class) in 1907 and the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar (3rd class) in 1913, in which year he retired on a pension. He had passed the School of Musketry at Hythe in 1908 and in all subjects for promotion to rank of Field Officer in 1912, being one of only five officers specially mentioned in the Examiner’s Report (May) to the Army Council. On mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914, he joined his regt., the 3rd Munster Fusiliers, and on 8 Sept. 1914, was attached to the 2nd Battn. in France. He was present at the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and also at Ypres, and was killed in action between Givenchy and Festubert, 22 Dec. 1914, while leading his men in an attack to retake trenches lost the day before. On the evening of 20 Dec. 1914, the 2nd Munsters, commanded by Col. A. M. Bent, were billeted in the outskirts of Bailleul, when at 5 p.m. an urgent message was received by Col. Bent that the 3rd Brigade, to which the battn. belonged, was to be ready to march “as soon as possible.” They started at 6.15 p.m., and after marching for six hours in a tearing blizzard of rain and hail, over roads ankle deep in mud, they reached Merville, where a short halt was called. At 8 a.m., outside Bethune, the battn. halted again, awaiting orders. By 3 p.m. orders were received that the battn. was to occupy the trenches at Festubert vacated by the Indians; the leading brigade deployed for attack and, shortly after, the 3rd Brigade, consisting of the 2nd Welsh Regt., the 1st Gloucester, the Munsters, the 1st South Wales Borderers and the 4th (T.) Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was placed on the left of the 1st Guards Brigade. The brigade then resumed its march, through Gorre to Festubert, where the battn. remained in reserve, but on the night of the 21st received orders that there was to be a general attack upon the German line. All that night the Munsters waited, and all that night it rained and snowed and stormed, until the hour arrived when the battn., led by Col. Bent, started to the attack. The men swarmed over the parapets and raced across the fields, carrying their heavy equipment and following their officers over the shell-scarred, churned-up earth. Strands of barbed wire beset their way and the ground was broken by great shell holes. Before them, from the German trenches, the machine guns hammered out their deadly message of welcome; and the men went gamely on, most splendidly led by their officers. Major Thomson, second in command, fell across the first German trench, but would not permit himself to be removed, continuing to issue orders from where he lay; he was wounded again, the second wound proving fatal. Col. Bent fell in the earlier part of the charge, desperately wounded; Major Day was killed a little later, and Capt. Hugh O’Brien fell as he shouted to his company, “Get a bit of your own back, boys.” Not 20 yards from where Capt. O’Brien fell, Capt. Durand met his death, leading at the extreme point of the advance made by C Coy., under fierce enfilading fire. Men fell on the right and left, and again and again they rallied and stumbled over the broken ground, holding steadily on under the wail of tearing shrapnel, and at last the Munsters reached their goal, the given point, and in the fierce counter-attack they did not lose an inch of what they had taken. Capt. Durand m. at St. Mary Abbotts Church, Kensington, 4 June, 1903, Geraldine Vesey (40, Arundel Gardens, Kensington Park Road, W.), yst. dau. of the late Rev. John William Hawtrey, of Aldin House, Slough; s.p.

=DURAND, HAVILLAND MONTAGUE=, Private, No. 720, 13th Battn., Australian Imperial Force, yst. s. of the late Rev. Havilland Durand, for 13 years Vicar of Earley, co. Berks (died 1884), by his wife, Mary (Moulin Huet, Guernsey), dau. of the Rev. Montague John Gregg Hawtrey; b. Earley Vicarage, 21 Dec. 1883; educ. Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and University College, Durham; went to Australia in Sept. 1911, and settled at Brisbane, where he was engaged in teaching. Volunteered on the outbreak of the war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, Sept. 1914; left for Egypt in Jan. and was killed in action two days after the landing at Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915; unm. His Capt. wrote: “His comrades having expended nearly all their ammunition, volunteers were asked for, to go to the beach for more; it was necessary to proceed down a fireswept gully, then on to a shell-swept beach, and return. Havilland volunteered to do this. He got to the beach and returned by way of the gully again. He had done his duty and saved our line. I should like to mention that he was loved by officers and men alike. He was selected and especially trained for a battn. scout, work that always requires a lot of intelligence and tact. The Colonel assured me that if Durand had not arrived with the ammunition his comrades, who were in an isolated position, would have been annihilated and our line would have been broken.” He was supposed to have been killed after bringing up the ammunition, but another letter gave the information that he was killed the day after, whilst working in the trench. He was buried by his comrades on a hill at Gaba Tepe, and a rough wooden cross marks the place where he lies. Another letter said: “The landing must have been awful, and all who lived, if only for a day, did heroic work, as the few remaining officers say each man deserved a V.C. The Australians were simply magnificent.”

=DURRANT, CYRIL GEORGE POPLE=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7271, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=DURRANT, WILLIAM BLENCOWE WELLS=, 2nd Lieut., 6th, attd. 4th, Battn. The Rifle Brigade, only s. of the Hon. Frederick Chester Wells Durrant, M.A., K.C., Attorney-General of the Bahamas, and Member of Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony, by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of the late William Blencowe, of Brackley, Northants; b. Bath, co. Somerset, 8 May, 1894; educ. Beach Lawn, Leamington Spa; Westminster (1908–13, King’s Scholar); and Magdalene College (Exhibitioner), Cambridge. He joined the Cambridge O.T.C., Aug. 1914, and was gazetted to the 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade Nov. following, joining the 4th Battn. on active service in France,--March, 1915, and was killed in action at or near St. Eloi between 8 and 11 May, 1915; unm.

=DURWARD, QUENTIN=, Private, No. 9552, 3rd Battn. (Queen’s Own Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of William Durward, Manager, Anglo-American Cable Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 24 Oct. 1895; educ. Northumberland; went to Toronto, Canada; joined the Queen’s Own Rifles of Toronto at the end of 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unm. His Capt. wrote: “He was a splendid soldier, always first and never shirking his duty.”

=DUSTIN, CLAUDE=, Corpl., No. 10/1229, 7th Wellington Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th s. of William Samuel Dustin, Pastrycook and Confectioner, Managing Director of Dustin, Ltd., Wanganui and Palmerston North, by his wife, Celia; b. Wanganui, New Zealand, 19 Dec. 1892; educ. High School, Wanganui; was for three years a Sergt. in the Wanganui Guards (T.F.), and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service, 8 Oct. 1914. After some months in Egypt, he took part in the famous landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action on the 27th, being shot through the forehead while rescuing a wounded comrade at Walker’s Ridge; unm.

=DUTCH, WILLIAM BENJAMIN=, Sergt., No. 83812, 47th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, s. of William Dutch, of Bladud House, Bath, Accountant, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Alderman Alfred Taylor, of The Red House, Bath; b. Lower Weston, Bath, 21 April, 1894; educ. Bathforum, and Bath City Secondary School (3 years’ Scholarship), and was employed in the engineering works of Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., of Bath. He joined the Army, 17 Aug. 1914; was made Bombardier, 1 Nov. 1914; Corpl., 14 Nov. 1914; and Sergt., 1 Jan. 1915; and died at the Thornhill Isolation Hospital, Aldershot, 11 April, 1915, of septic scarlet fever; unm. He was buried at Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath, with full military honours. His Capt. wrote: “I cannot exaggerate the loss he is to me personally and to the whole battery, had picked up a wonderful knowledge of gunnery and his work in general, was out and out the best sergeant I had, and would have gone far in the service.” He was a keen sportsman and a popular football player.

=DUTFIELD, WALTER THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14094, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Dutfield, of 37, Randall Place, West Greenwich, S.E.; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DUTTON, CHARLES EDMUND FERGUSON=, Rifleman, No. 2366, 1 Coy., 1st/16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Edmund Alfred Dutton, of 53–55, Pembridge Road, Notting Hill Gate, W., Boot Manufacturer, by his wife, Susannah Spencer Biggs (21, Elgin Crescent, Notting Hill, W.), dau. of the late Joseph Henry Ferguson, of Dublin; b. Notting Hill Gate, 22 July, 1890; educ. St. Mary Abbots Higher Grade School, Kensington; entered the employ of the Fore Street Warehouse Company, Ltd., in 1907, and at the time war was declared held a good position in the blouse department; volunteered, and enlisted in the Queen’s Westminsters, 18 Aug. 1914; went to France, 24 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Houplines, Flanders, on the night of 7 March, 1915; unm. He was buried in the cemetery there in the Rue Emile Zola by the Rev. Webb Peplow. The Sergt.-Major wrote that he “was such a nice boy and one of our best ... and is a great loss to his company and also to the battn.”

=DUTTON, RALPH=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 5172), 177334, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DUVAL, GEORGE LOUIS JOSIAH=, M.D., Major, Commanding No. 1 Coy., Field Ambulance, C.A.M.C., only s. of the late Louis Duval, of Grande Ligne, P. Quebec, Canada; b. Grande Ligne aforesaid, 10 March, 1876; educ. Filler’s Baptist Institute there; entered as a Medical Student at McGill University in 1894, and graduated there with honours, 17 June, 1898; practised in Waltham, Mass., U.S.A., and then in St. John’s, Quebec, later going to St. John’s, New Brunswick; joined the C.A.M.C., at St. John’s, P. Quebec, in April, 1908, being given a commission as Lieut., and was promoted Capt. June, 1911, and Major, in France, April, 1915; transferred to No. 8 Field Ambulance on going to St. John’s, N.B., and in 1914 became M.O. 28th N.B. Dragoons; volunteered for overseas service on the outbreak of war, and his own unit not going, he was given charge of the section of No. 8 F.A., leaving his home and practice at a day’s notice; left Valcartier for England with No. 1 F.A., 30 Sept. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was severely wounded in both legs during the Second Battle of Ypres, on Sunday, 25 April, 1915. At this action the Canadians suffered heavily, and No. 1 F.A. were ordered to open an advanced dressing station, which Major Duval did at St. Jean; later it had to be abandoned, and he had just succeeded in evacuating the last patient when he was hit about 8.30 p.m. by an explosive shell which burst about 20 yards from him. He was sent from Vlamertinghe to hospital at Boulogne and from there invalided to England, and died in London, 26 Aug. 1915. Col. Foster wrote: “No braver officer ever lived or would be found in our Division, and I shall always remember him for his splendid work at Ypres.” Gunner H. T. Warene, who was wounded in this action and invalided back to Canada, said: “When I was struck Doctor Duval was the first to rush to my aid. We were both exposed to the fire, but he did not seem to mind. He was a kind, gentle and capable surgeon, and the boys all liked him and admired him as a physician, a soldier, and a man. I was most sorry to learn of his death.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April/31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. His body was being taken to Canada for burial on board the Hesperian when she was torpedoed and sunk. He m. at Montreal, 23 Oct. 1901, Maude (330, Charlotte Street, St. John’s West, New Brunswick, Canada), dau. of Andrew Byrd, of Montreal, Building and Bridge Contractor, and had two children: Charles Louis Neville, b. 18 July, 1906; and Irene Byrd, b. 9 Sept. 1902.

=DWERRYHOUSE, EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10200), 204457, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DWYER, EDWARD MUNDEN=, Private, No. 1077, 8th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of John Thomas Dwyer, of Ignace, Ontario, Canada (originally from co. Tipperary); b. Ignace, 24 Nov. 1887; educ. there; was for some years in the Mechanical Dept. of the C.P.R., and was then transferred to the Traffic Dept., and when war broke out was a Conductor. He enlisted 20 Aug. 1914, came over with the first contingent in Oct., and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to France, and was killed in action at Festubert, 23 April, 1915; unm.

=DYASON, JAMES NASH=, Act.-Bombardier, No. 162, R.G.A. (T.F.), s. of James Nash Dyason, of 63, Coronation Road, Sheerness, Shipwright, Sheerness Dockyard, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of James Lambkin; b. Sheerness, 17 Feb. 1889; educ. Council School there; was a dockyard employee; joined the Territorials, 1910; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war; died at Shoeburyness, 21 Nov. 1914, on active service; unm.

=DYBALL, WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 10521), 208734, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=DYER, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Private, No. 10672, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of James Dyer, Sergt.-at-Mace, at Poole, Dorset, by his wife, Annie Eliza, dau. of John Phillips, of Poole; b. Milton Abbas, near Blandford, co. Dorset, 15 April, 1894; educ. Branksome Heath, Poole; was an assistant for Messrs. Bacon and Curtis, of Poole, Iron-mongers; enlisted, 23 March 1914; went to France, 11 Sept. 1914; was wounded in action at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and died in the German military hospital at Courtray, 22 Nov. following; unm. His brother, Private P. E. Dyer, was also killed in action. (See his notice.)

=DYER, PERCIVAL ERNEST=, Private, No. 9136, 2nd Battn. The Scots Guards, 4th s. of James Dyer, Sergt.-at-Mace, at Poole, Dorset, by his wife, Annie Eliza, dau. of John Phillips, of Poole; b. Milton Abbas, near Blanford, co. Dorset, 3 Dec. 1895; educ. Branksome Heath, Poole; was a Plumber and Gas Fitter in the employ of Mr. Hardy, of Poole; enlisted, 6 Aug. 1914; went to France in Oct., and was killed in action between La Bassée and Armentiéres, 18 Dec. 1914; unm.

=DYER, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 750), 135247, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DYKE, GEORGE WALKER=, Pensioner Armourer, 136000, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=DYKES, ALFRED McNAIR=, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. The King’s Own, Royal Lancaster Regt., yst. surviving s. of the late William Alston Dykes, D.L., by his wife, Agnes Andrea (The Orchard, Hamilton), dau. of the late John Urquhart, of Fairhill, co. Lanark; b. Hamilton, 15 March, 1874; educ. Trinity College, Glenalmond, and received his first commission in a militia battn. of the Cameronians, passing in first with 2,130 marks out of a total of 2,400, 12 Dec. 1894, and a few months later joined the 2nd Battn. of the King’s Own in India. He was gazetted Lieut., 4 Nov. 1896; Capt., 24 Feb., 1900; Major, 13 Dec. 1902; and Lieut.-Col., 1 Aug. 1913; and was Adjutant at the age of 23 in 1897. On the outbreak of war in South Africa he was selected for special service duty, and having his battn. at Lichfield did Staff duty as Embarkation Officer at Port Elizabeth, Natal, till the arrival of his own regt., which he immediately rejoined, afterwards taking part in the Relief of Ladysmith, and the Battle at Spion Kop in Jan. 1900. In the course of this engagement he rallied a small party of men of another regt., from whom he learned that the enemy was in possession of a position which was believed to be held by our own troops. Calming his men with cigarettes, and leaving them to regain their nerve in the shelter of a boulder, he went forward alone to prove the truth of this assertion, which he doubted. He had almost reached the spot indicated and had satisfied himself that the fugitives were right when he fell shot through the head. Determined at all costs to carry back the news, he struggled three times to his feet and three times fell; but managed by discarding his rifle to stagger back, in a semi-conscious condition and nearly blinded by the blood in his eyes, over the crest of the hill to our own trenches, luckily without further wounds. The information was at once conveyed to the General, and offers were made to help him to the dressing station 100 yards or so in the rear; but it was only to be reached across a fireswept area, and Capt. Dykes resolutely refused all offers of help. He attained his goal in safety, when he fell unconscious. The wound, which was at first classified as serious, rapidly became dangerous; and when the over-worked army surgeons at the field hospital asked whether he could wait a little longer for attention, he cheerfully gave up his turn for others. Gangrene set in, and it was feared that his eyesight must suffer, the bullet having entered just below the right temple and passing through the mouth, blowing away the left check. Sheer determination to live helped to pull him through. In March he came home and underwent two operations, and despite his surgeon’s most emphatic advice rejoined his regt. at the Front in Sept., resuming his post as Adjutant, which he held till 31 May, 1902, a special extension of his time being granted at the request of his Colonel. In the later phases of the war he did a good deal of convoy work, as Adjutant of his regt., and distinguished himself at the defence of Vryheid 11 Dec. 1900, when the town was held by four companies of the King’s Own and a handful of mounted infantry against an attack under cover of darkness, by Louis Botha in superior numbers. For this and general good service he was mentioned twice in despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901, and 29 July, 1902], and on being offered the choice of the D.S.O. or a Brevet Majority, chose the latter, being then (1902) barely 28 years of age: he also received the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two. On relinquishing his post as Adjutant, he became Staff Officer to the Commandant of Maritzburg. From 1904–08 he held the post of Staff Capt. at the War Office. He then passed brilliantly through the Staff College, and on his return from service with his regt. in India was appointed in 1912 to the command of a company of Cadets at the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He was promoted in Aug. 1913, at the age of 39 (the youngest Lieut.-Col. of the line) to the command of the 1st Battn. of the King’s Own, then stationed at Dover. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he accompanied the Expeditionary Force to France, and was killed in action early in the morning of 26 Aug. 1914, at the battle of Cambray-Le Cateau, while covering the retreat of the Allied forces. He was shot through the head, and was almost the first man of his regt. to fall. Referring to his death, one of the Generals under whom he had previously served, wrote: “It was with more than ordinary feeling of sorrow that we learnt of the death of Col. Dykes at the head of his regt.... in the act of cheering on his beloved regt. against tremendous odds. Col. Dykes’ loss to the battn. is great indeed. I had a very high opinion of Col. Dykes’ capabilities as an officer, and I watched his career in the King’s Own with more than ordinary interest. After recovery from his wound in South Africa, I brought him to the War Office to assist me at a time of great pressure, and I never regretted it. The bravery and example of their Colonel will not be forgotten by the King’s Own, and it will ever act as an incentive to all ranks to do their duty to the end”; and a brother officer: “He loved his regt. with absolute devotion; and well have they repaid his love by dying with him.... He was a man far above the ordinary in ability, one of our best soldiers, a man who knew not fear, the very staunchest of comrades, and a gentleman without reproach. He never made an enemy, everyone who knew him loved him, he never spoke ill of anyone, and he never did anything that was not absolutely downright honest and good.” Singularly gifted both in mind and body, a man of unusual achievements, the keynote of his character was straightforward simplicity. His humility, his gaiety, and above all his power of self-less devotion, endeared him to all with whom he came in contact. “I am almost afraid to say how much I hope from him,” wrote the Warden of Glenalmond in one of his school reports. “He never thought of himself, only of others,” was the verdict of one of his officers after his death. Lieut.-Col. Dykes m. at Southwick Crescent, London, 21 April, 1914, Rosamund Ann, dau. of the late Frederick Willis Farrer, of 16, Devonshire Place, W., and had a dau., Andrea Mary, b. 23 Feb. 1915, exactly six months after her father’s death.

=DYNES, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (M.), 289177, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DYSON, CECIL VENN=, Private, Malay States Volunteers, yst. s. of the late Rev. Samuel Dyson, of Koilash, Stevenage, co. Herts, D.D., Vice-Principal Church Missionary College, Islington, by his 1st wife, Matilda Julia, dau. of the Rev. Charles Henry Blumhardt; b. Calcutta, 7 Aug. 1873; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School, and Queen’s College, Cambridge (Senior Classical Scholar, Bell’s Scholar); entered the Malay States Civil Service in 1896, and was District Judge of Singapore. He was killed while assisting to quell the riots there, 15 Feb. 1915; unm.

=EADE, REGINALD JOHN=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 10142), 202124, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=EADES, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. 7291 (Ply.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=EADY, JOHN=, Private, No. 1095, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late John Eady, of 5, Fisher Street, Birmingham, by his wife, Emma, dau. of Joseph Sarty; b. Sheep Street, Birmingham, 6 March, 1868; served for 12 years with the South Staffordshires; then went to Canada, and to Australia, 1910. Enlisted at the end of 1914, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 13 Aug. 1915; unm.

=EAGAR, FRANCIS RUSSELL=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, 3rd s. of the late Capt. Edward Boaz Eagar, 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (who was killed in action at Belmont, South Africa, 23 Nov. 1899), and his wife, Ada (now wife of Edward Franks, of The Priory, Bishop’s Cleeve, co. Gloucester), dau. of Col. Newman Burfoot Thoyts, of The Mythe House, Tewkesbury, J.P.; b. Fawdon House, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, 27 Sept. 1893; educ. Connaught House (J. R. Morgan), Weymouth; Sherborne, Dorset, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1913–14); gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery, 12 Aug. 1914, and left with his battery for active service in France in November, and was killed in action at Fleurbaix, France, 9 May, 1915, while on observation duty. He was buried in the Rue Petillon Cemetery, Fleurbaix; unm. His two brothers, Capt. E. F. Eagar, Royal Berkshire Regt., and Capt. H. St. G. Eagar, Lincolnshire Regt., are now (1916) on active service.

=EAMAN, ALFRED=, P.O., 192106. H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EARL, STEPHEN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1388), 201346, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EASON, JESSE HERBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 6007), S.S. 100950, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EASON, SAMPSON=, Lieut., 5th (Service) Battn. Dorsetshire Regt.; yst. s. of Robert Eason, of Crewkerne, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of John Marks; b. Crewkerne, co. Somerset, 20 April, 1876; enlisted in the Dorsetshire Regt. 7 March, 1893; served in India, and in the South African campaign (Queen’s medal with two clasps); and was Colour-Sergt. Instructor to H Co., 4th (Territorial) Battn. Dorsetshire Regt. at Blandford, 1909–14. He obtained his discharge with the same rank, 6 March, 1914, after 21 years’ service, and received the Long Service medal, and went to live near Dorchester. On the outbreak of war he at once volunteered for active service, and after helping as Coy. Sergt.-Major to train the 5th (Service) Battn. of the Dorsets, he was offered a commission, and was gazetted Lieut. to his own battn. 8 March, 1915. He left with his regt. for the Dardanelles, 1 July, 1915, and was killed in action at the landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915, being shot through the head whilst directing the men to their companies. In the official report from Brig.-Gen. C. C. Hannay, lately commanding 5th Dorsets, he said: “Lieut. Eason was shot through the head, dying shortly after, on the 7th instant at Suvla Bay, about a quarter-of-an-hour after he landed. It was about 4 a.m. and dark at the time; I was within two yards of him at the time. He never spoke after he fell.” A Sergt. of the same company wrote: “It was the duty of Mr. Eason and myself to direct the men to their proper companies as they came ashore in the dark. About half-an-hour after landing, I was talking to Mr. Eason, and he had only left me two or three seconds when the Colonel called me to come to him and pick somebody up. I did, and when I turned him over I found it was Mr. Eason. Everything was done for him that could be done, but he did not speak. The doctor was with him almost at once. He died doing his duty, which he always did, and was always considered a good N.C.O. and afterwards a good officer, and we were very sorry to lose him.” And Colonel Woodhouse, 4th Dorsetshire Regt., declared: “I knew him very well, and always found him one of the best, he never spared himself to do his men good and was just the same in civilian life. Unfortunately, there are very few such men to be found now, and I am sure he will be greatly missed in his regt.”; a brother officer also wrote: “I always looked on him as a friend from whom I could get advice and help in my work. The last time I saw him, which was on the destroyer before we landed, he did me a good turn which I shall not forget. Earlier in the evening I, being orderly officer, had to see to the issuing out of hot coffee to the men, and it was a long job, as the space is very cramped. Later in the evening there was an issue of rum to be served out. It really fell to my lot to superintend this, but your husband, with his usual kindness of heart, relieved me of it. I am sorry to say I was not near him at the end. It was before we had got off the beach.” Lieut. Eason m. at St. Simon’s Church, Southsea, 5 Dec. 1907, Mabel Ellen (Southsea), yst. dau. of the late James Lewis Adams, C.C.S., late District Magistrate of Flat and Gabriel Islands, Mauritius; s.p.

=EAST, ALFRED CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9621), 199377, H.M.S Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EAST, GEORGE=, Rifleman, No. 3098, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Joseph East, of Westminster, London, by his wife, Susan (36, Grosvenor Terrace, Camberwell, S.E.), dau. of Francis Smallcombe; b. London, 24 May, 1893; educ. L.C.C. School, Westminster; enlisted, 30 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 25 May, 1915; unm.

=EASTERBROOK, WILLIAM THOMAS=, A.B., 206711 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EATON, ARTHUR ERNEST WILSON=, Private, No. 1335, 11th (West Australian) Battn. Australian Expeditionary Force, s. of George Wilson Eaton, of Park Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gardener, by his wife, Harriett Elizabeth, dau. of Frederick Arthurs; b. Tiddington, near Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, 27 March, 1892; went to Perth, Western Australia, in 1913, and was employed as a farm hand; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 2 Nov. 1914; left Australia with the second reinforcements; and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 1 Aug. 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “He was killed outright on 31 July, 1915. The sad event happened at night. Although he was wounded, he volunteered to carry ammunition for a machine gun. It was while doing this he met his death. He was buried at Anzac and a wooden cross was erected with the names of those who fell in the taking of Leans trench.”

=EATON, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Stoker, P.O., 302154, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EBSARY, FREDERICK ERNEST=, Private, No. 1138, 1st Newfoundland Regt., 5th s. of Newman Ebsary, of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Engineer, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of the late Joseph Hinds, of Cupid, Newfoundland, and granddaughter of the late Alexander Hinds, of Whitehaven, England; b. South Side, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 30 Aug. 1898; educ. St. Mary’s C.E. School there; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt., 19 Feb. 1915; left for England on 20 March, 1915, and died at Cairo, 23 Sept. 1915, of Tubercular Meningitis contracted while on active service. Two of his brothers, Regtl. Sergt.-Major S. J. Ebsary and Private H. Ebsary, are both now (1916) on active service with the Newfoundland Regt.

=EBY, ALEXANDER RALPH=, Private, No. 13627, No. 2 Coy. 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Alexander Eby, of Berlin, Ontario, Foreman of Glove Manufactory, by his wife, Nellie, dau. of the late James Bennett Watson, of England, and gt. gt. gdson. of Bishop Benjamin Eby, of the Mennonite Connection, who was b. in Pennsylvania in 1785 and settled in Canada in 1807, and founded the town of Berlin; and 6th in descent from Christian Eby who came to Pennsylvania from Switzerland as a boy in 1715; b. Berlin, Ontario, 3 Aug. 1891; educ. Berlin Public and High Schools, matriculating at the latter in 1908, and two years later took up a homestead at Abbey, Saskatchewan. He enlisted for Overseas service at Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in Aug. 1914; left Valcartier for England with the first Contingent in Oct., and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15, crossed to France in Feb., 1915, and was killed in action there, 21 March, 1915; unm. Major G. S. Pragnell wrote: “He was one of the best and most willing men of the Company and at the time that he was actually shot he was working hard helping to strengthen the trench”; and Lieut. L. F. Page: “Ever since your brother came under my commission at Valcartier I always found him most cheerful and willing. He was making a good soldier and always doing his duty well.” Three of his comrades also wrote: “Your brother’s death was severely felt by the remainder of the boys of his company as he was a general favourite with all who knew him. He was buried [at La Boutillerie Chateau, a few miles east of Laventie, France] in the evening of March 21, by the chaplain of our Battn., beside two of his comrades.”

=ECCLESHARE, THOMAS BERNARD=, Cook’s Mate, M. 4167, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Thomas Eccleshare, of 10, Merchant Street, Derby; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=EDBROOKE, FRANK THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5159, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EDDISON, JAMES=, Corpl., No. 9446, C Coy., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., eldest s. of James Eddison, of Aberdeen, by his wife, Jemina, dau. of (--) Wilson; b. Aberdeen, ... March, 1886; educ. there; enlisted 31 May, 1904; served three years with the Colours and then passed into the Reserve and worked as a Packing Case Maker; mobilised 4 Aug. 1914; went to France and was killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. Buried in Givenchy Cemetery. Eddison was well-known in Aberdeen Football circles and played for the Regimental Football Team and the Shamrock Club. He m. 9 Oct. 1908, Jeannie (55, Gallowgate, Aberdeen), dau. of William Sutherland, of Aberdeen, Contractor, and had two children: James, b. 27 July, 1912; and Martha Sutherland, b. 23 May, 1909.

=EDDISON, JOHN RADLEY=, 2nd Lieut., 1/8th Battn. Sherwood Foresters (T.F.), yst. s. of Robert Eddison, of Mount Vernon, Retford, Notts; b. Woodlands, near Worksop, 6 March, 1889; educ. Stancliffe Hall, near Matlock, Giggleswick, and Pembroke College, Cambridgeshire, at which latter he was in the O.T.C. He was gazetted into the Sherwood Foresters, 14 Oct. 1914, went with his regt. to the front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, being shot through the body while superintending repairs of wire entanglements, at or near Kemmel, 21 April, 1915. He was buried in the Sherwood Foresters’ Cemetery at Kemmel, Belgium; unm.

=EDEN, ROBERT JAMES=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 9842), 297722, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EDGE, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 24245, 13th Battn. (Royal Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late George Edge, of Eyton-on-Severn, Blacksmith, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of Alfred Downes; b. Eyton-on-Severn, Wroxetter, co. Salop, 19 July, 1886; educ. Donnington School, Wroxetter; went to Canada in April, 1912, and settled at Cranbrooke, B.C., as a railway mechanic; enlisted at Cranbrooke in Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914; went to France, 26 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 29 May, 1915, being shot by a sniper while he was leaving the trenches; unm.

=EDGINTON, ROBERT WALTER LAURENCE=, Lieut., 5th Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Robert William Edginton, of 70, Portland Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, M.D.; by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Walter Showell, of Stourton Hall; b. Edgbaston, Birmingham, 14 Sept. 1895; educ. Bradfield College and Birmingham University; received a commission in the Territorial Battn. of the Warwickshire Regt. 28 Nov. 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 21 March, 1915; was promoted Lieut. 27 May, 1915, and was killed in action in France, 3 June, 1915. He was buried at White Gates, Petit Pont, Ploegsteert Wood; unm. Some three weeks before he was killed, on 9 May, Lieut. Edginton performed a very gallant action, and was recommended by his commanding officer for bravery. This was described in letters from his brother officers as follows: Two privates were in front of the trenches acting as snipers, when one of them was wounded, his comrade was trying to get him back to the trench when he was also wounded. Lieut. Edginton, seeing this, went out to his assistance and brought him safely into the trench, and then went back to rescue the other man, who, when he reached him, he found was dead. In order to do this Lieut. Edginton had to make a detour of 40 or 50 yards to get through the wire entanglements and during the whole time was under severe rifle and shell fire.

=EDLMANN, ERNEST ELLIOT, D.S.O.=, Major, R.A., 5th s. of the late Major Joseph Ernest Edlmann, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, by his wife, Caroline Sim (Kent House, Leamington), dau. of William Elliot, Madras Civil Service; b. at Leamington, 24 Nov. 1868; educ. at Leamington College (1879–85) and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.A., 17 Feb. 1888; and promoted Lieut. 17 Feb. 1891, Capt. 24 Oct. 1898, and Major 15 Dec. 1908; served in the Chin Hills, Burmah, 1892–3 (medal with clasp); in the Sudan; expedition to Dongola, 1890 (medal, Egyptian medal), and in the operations on the North West Frontier, India, 1897–8, first with the Mohmand Field Force, and then with the Tirah Expeditionary Force; present at the actions of Chagru-Kotal and Dargai, and the capture of Sanpagha and Arhanga Passes, the actions of 9, 16 and 24 Nov., the operations in Bara Valley, 7–14 Dec., and the affair at Shinkamar, 29 Jan.; and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 5 April, 1898], and received the medal with two clasps, and the D.S.O. (invested by Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace, 16 Nov. 1908. The Madras Weekly Mail of 18 Nov. 1897, in its account of the taking of the Sanpagha Pass, wrote: “Part of the 5th Bombay Mountain Battery shelled the position at 500 yards range, under a hot fire from the sungar. The only position which the battery could get was on the top of a sort of pinnacle, and two guns fell off this from their own recoil. The greatest credit is due to Lieut. Edlmann for the way he fought his guns under great difficulties, and with a fire being poured in at him from a short range,” and Capt. MacNunn, D.S.O., the Artillery expert, writing in the Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution on the same incident, said: “This was almost entirely an artillery battle, and the effect of combined fire completely drove off the enemy; heavy infantry fighting had, however, been looked for and a big casualty list. The fight ended by No. 5 Bombay Mountain Battery being pushed forward, when Capt. de Butts, R.A., was killed on rounding a bluff at the head of his battery, which suddenly came under a fire from the ridge in front. Lieut. Edlmann at once assumed command, and, taking a section, closed in to 500 yards and cleared the ridge of the enemy, a most dashing feat, for which he was commended in despatches. It is no small thing to stand to your guns at 500 yards’ range from marksmen armed with Martinis and Lee-Metfords, but so does audacity bring its own reward in war, that, wonderful to relate, there were no more casualties in the section.” In 1900, Major Edlmann was appointed to raise and command the Abbottabad Mountain Battery (now No. 30 M.B.). This he did with great success, obtaining a second class classification for shooting in the spring of 1902, and first class every subsequent year of his command. He took this battery on service in the Aden Hinterland in 1903–4. In 1902 he was selected to command the Indian Contingent of Native Mountain Artillery, which was present at the Coronation of King Edward VII., on which occasion he was described in The Times as being the best range-finder in the Royal Regt. of Artillery. He was appointed to No. 1 British Mountain Battery in 1910, subsequently transferring to No. 23 Peshawar Mountain Battery, which he was commanding in the 1914–5 operations in the Persian Gulf. In Mesopotamia he took part in the operations of 11, 15 and 17 Nov., near Mohammerah, Saihan, and Sahil respectively. The most skilful and dashing counter-attack carried out by his battery in connection with an infantry unit on the 11th and the admirably directed and highly effective artillery fire of the 15th and 17th are both mentioned in despatches. In the Turkish attack on our position at Shaiba on 11 April, Major Edlmann is mentioned in despatches for the clever handling of his battery and accuracy of fire in silencing the enemy’s guns and repelling his attack. The despatches also speak of the magnificent support given by the artillery throughout the campaign. Major Edlmann was mortally wounded at the Battle of Barjisijah on 14 April, having just taken over the duties of C.R.A., that officer having been wounded. Our troops, over open ground, were attacking a superior force of the enemy skilfully entrenched and concealed over a front of 3 miles. Major Edlmann was much beloved by officers and men alike, while in Military circles it was recognised, in the words of the obituary in the Court Journal, that “he was a fine officer and should have gone far in the service. He was certainly the first gunner in the service.” An officer wrote to his family after his death: “He was one of the bravest men I have ever met, an ideal artillery officer, always absolutely cool--quite indifferent to the heaviest fire.” The entire battery voluntarily paraded at the funeral, and his character was summed up by one of the native officers, whose grief on hearing the news was most touching: “He was such a good and brave Sahib.” Major Edlmann was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a very keen naturalist, preferring shooting in the mountains in the north of India to all other forms of sport. Except for an expedition in Burma, he always selected fresh areas in Kashmir, Ladak, Zaskar, Baltistan, and the many other districts of that part of the Himalayas between India proper and Russian and Chinese Turkestan. He knew all these districts well, and made a very good and varied collection of heads and birds. He presented a collection of rare birds to the Leamington Museum. On these expeditions he always travelled very light, and his powers of walking being almost phenomenal, he was able to cover large tracts of country. He was a keen polo player, though of recent years he had been obliged reluctantly to give this up, owing to the results of bad enteric fever. He m. at Abbottabad, 19 Sept. 1908, Evelyn, dau. of Major-Gen. Lorne Campbell, C.B., 38th Dogras, and had four children: Joseph Campbell, b. 24 Jan. 1909; Ernest Lorne Campbell, b. 28 April, 1914; Antonie Lorne Campbell, b. 13 Oct. 1910; and Adine Lorne Campbell, b. 24 Aug. 1912.

=EDMOND, ALFRED THOMAS=, Private, No. 11804, 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, 4th s. of the late Seaward Richard Edmonds, Sapper R.E. (see following notice), by his wife, Esther Jane; b. Cardiff, 5 Aug. 1897; educ. Lansdown School, Cardiff; enlisted the day war was declared, 5 Aug. 1914; and was killed in action, 29 Jan. 1915; unm.

=EDMOND, SEAWARD RICHARD=, Sapper, No. 606, 1st Glamorganshire Fortress Coy., Royal Engineers (T.F.), s. of Seaward Richard Edmond, Brewer; b. Haverfordwest, 6 July, 1865; educ. there; and was a Commission Agent in Cardiff. He had joined the Glamorgan Garrison Artillery Volunteers, and at the time war was declared was a bandsman with the rank of Sergt.-Major. He joined the Royal Engineers as a sapper, 4 Aug. 1914; went to France, and died there of heart failure, 25 Jan. 1915. He m. at Roath Church, Cardiff, 23 Jan. 1887, Esther Jane (Kingsland Road, Cardiff), dau. of (--) and had 11 children: William Seward; Albert Ernest, Private, R.F.A., on active service; Harry Lewis; Alfred Thomas, Private, South Wales Borderers (killed); Archie Bernard; Gordon Stanley; Elise Marie: Esther Jane; Kathleen; Doris Mullar; and Irene. Sergt.-Major Edmond was well known in the Cardiff District as a musician and had the Long Service medal.

=EDMONDS, JOSEPH LEONARD=, Chief Petty Officer (N.S.) (R.F.R., A. 1942), 147080, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EDSELL, GEORGE ALFRED=, M.D., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., Lieut.-Col., 83rd Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C., yst. s. of the late James Edsell, of Beulah Hill, Norwood [a direct descendent of Capt. James Cook, R.N., the discoverer of Australia], by his wife, Phœbe Caroline, dau. of (..) Jones; b. Aberdovey, co. Merioneth, 18 Jan. 1859; educ. King’s College and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; qualified L.R.C.P., London, 1886; M.R.C.S. England, and L.S.A., 1886; M.D. Durham, 1902; D.P.H., R.C.P.S., London, and D.P.H. Camb., 1905; was Res. Obst. Asst. and Clin. Asst. Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark, and afterwards Hon. Surgeon Home for Cripples, Surbiton, and Clin. Asst. Samaritan Hospital for Women. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health, a member of the British Medical Association, an Hon. Life Member of the St. John Ambulance Association, and Surveyor of the Medical Department at the Admiralty, and author of “Successful Reposition of a Completely Severed Finger.” He had joined the Oxfordshire L.I. in 1889 as Surgeon-Lieut., and retired 10 years later as Capt., but when the Territorial Force was organised in 1908, he joined the R.A.M.C. with his former rank. He was promoted Major shortly afterwards, and in 1911 became Lieut.-Col., and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered for foreign service. He proceeded to Flanders with the 27th Regular Division, and was present throughout the operations round Ypres and the Battles at Hill 60 and St. Eloi. At the latter place he contracted pleurisy, but continued to do his work until he was invalided home at the end of April, and after a long illness died at Surbiton, 15 Aug. 1915. He was exceptionally good at all games, a fine shot, and for many years hunted with the Bicester and South Oxfordshire Hounds. He was exceedingly popular with the officers and men of his unit, and even after contracting his fatal illness never spared himself but worked unceasingly at his arduous duties, never giving to anyone a task which he was not prepared to perform himself. He m. at Byfleet, 14 July, 1887, Annie Isabel (The Cedars, Surbiton), eldest dau. of William Haines, of The Cedars, Byfleet, Surrey, and had six children, of whom survive: George Lynton, Capt. 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., b. 23 April, 1888; Arthur Reginald Kepp, Capt. 6th Battn. East Surrey Regt., b. 10 July, 1889; Eric Valentine, Lieut. 6th Battn. East Surrey Regt., b. 13 Feb. 1891, all three (now 1916) on active service; Phœbe Ella, b. 8 Jan. 1893; and Kathleen Isabel, b. 8 Nov. 1895.

=EDWARDS, ALBERT=, Armourer, 342029, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EDWARDS, ALBERT GEORGE=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27375 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Alfred Edwards, of 8, Gorton Street, Hyde Road, Ardwick, Manchester; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=EDWARDS, ERIC LEA PRIESTLEY=, Capt., 1st Battn. East Yorks. Regt., eldest s. of Lea Priestley Edwards, of Warberry Court, Torquay, by his wife, Emily Gertrude, 2nd dau. of Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Bart., C.B.; b. Scarborough, 2 March, 1877; educ. Harrow and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. East Yorkshires, 20 Feb. 1897; promoted Lieut. 31 July, 1898, and Capt. 15 May, 1903; was Adjutant to a Volunteer battn. July, 1907–March, 1908, and in the Territorial Force, April, 1908–July, 1910; served with the Tirah Expedition, 1897–8, being present at the operations in the Bara Valley, 7–14 Dec. (medal with two clasps). On the outbreak of war he joined the Expeditionary Force with his regt. and was killed while leading his company near Troyon, at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914; unm.

=EDWARDS, ERNEST IRVING=, Private, No. 130, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 3 May, 1915.

=EDWARDS, FRANK THOMAS=, Private, No. 7605, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Silas Edwards, of 342, Long Acre, Nechells, Birmingham; b. co. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

=EDWARDS, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 1191, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 10 June, 1915.

=EDWARDS, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B 3925), S.S. 1204, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EDWARDS, GEORGE THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16518, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EDWARDS, HAROLD THORNE=, Capt., 1st Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of Thomas Stephen Edwards, of 24, Stow Hill, Newport, Monmouth, Solicitor, by his wife, Alice Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Nathaniel Thorne; b. Newbridge, co. Monmouth, 9 Nov. 1883; educ. Brighton House School, Clifton, Bristol, and was admitted a solicitor in 1907. For some time he was with his father at Newport, and then took charge of the Blackwood branch. He joined the 1st Monmouthshires, then known as the 2nd South Wales Borderers, about 1905, becoming Capt. 8 April, 1911, but in 1913 went to Rhodesia to take up farming, and at the time of the declaration of war held an important appointment under the British South Africa Co. there. He returned to England at once and rejoined his old regt. on 22 Sept. 1914, and went to the Front in Feb. 1915. He was killed at Zonnebeke, 8 May, 1915, during the Battle of Ypres. The following report of his death was received: “On 8 May, 1915, at Zonnebeke, two battns. were forced to retire, a gap was created and the Germans swarmed over the trench. Capt. Edwards and most of his Coy. were surrounded, and the Germans shouted ‘Surrender!’ Capt. Edwards was heard to exclaim: ‘Surrender, be damned! Rapid fire, boys!’ and was seen by the men firing at the enemy. He was then shot.” A brother officer wrote: “He was a fine skipper, and the men worshipped him.”

=EDWARDS, HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., I.C. 695), 197733, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EDWARDS, HERBERT MARTIN CHARLES=, Artificer, No. 326 E.B., E.R.A., R.N.R., H.M.S. Cressy, 4th and twin s. of the late Alexander Edwards, Chief Gunner’s Mate, R.N. (who served 22 years in the Navy, and was subsequently for 25 years, keeper of the Aberdeen Custom House), by his wife, Jessie; b. Aberdeen, 2 April, 1880; educ. Gordon’s College, Aberdeen; and was a Free Burgess of Aberdeen; joined the Navy in 1905, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=EDWARDS, JOHN EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2472), 218697, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EDWARDS, RICHARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1201), 126314, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EDWARDS, ROBERT GARNET CHAWNER=, Yeoman of Signals, 202620, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=EDWARDS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1963, C Coy., 3rd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt., s. of John Richard Edwards, Engine Driver, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of David Thomas, Colliery Manager; b. Cwmback, Aberdare, 17 April, 1879; educ. National School, Bassaleg, Newport, co. Monmouth; joined the 2nd Volunteer Battn. South Wales Borderers, 19 May, 1896, in which he served 12 years, retiring 31 March, 1908, but on the outbreak of the war he rejoined with the contingent from Messrs. Whitehead’s Iron and Steel Works, Tredegar, where he had been employed as an Ironworker. He went to France, 15 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Messines Ridge, 27 March, 1915, being buried in Wulverghem Churchyard. His commanding officer, Capt. O. W. D. Steel, wrote: “Private Edwards had been in my company for some six months, and we had all come to regard him as a thoroughly reliable and excellent soldier. He was most popular with the company, and despite the fact that he had taken up soldiering somewhat late in life, had made himself most efficient in every way. I was with your husband soon after he was wounded, and was with him till his death. He lived only a few minutes and his end was quite painless.” He m. at Bassaleg, Monmouth, 29 Sept. 1906, Rose (3 Varteg Place, Sirhowy, South Wales), dau. of William Clift; s.p.

=EDWARDS, WILLIAM=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7332, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EDWARDS, WILLIAM HENRY=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 10146), 298659, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EDWARDS, WILLIAM JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 6479), 302949, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=EGERTON, ROWLAND LE BERWARD=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd. attd. 1st, Battn. The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, yr. twin s. of Sir Philip Henry Brian Grey-Egerton, 12th Bt., Major, 2nd Cheshire (Earl of Chester’s) Yeomanry, late Capt. and Hon. Major Earl of Chester’s Imperial Yeomanry, formerly Capt. 4th Battn. Cheshire Regt., by his 1st wife, Mary Carolyn Campbell, dau. of the late Major James Wayne Cuyler, U.S.A.; b. 8, Seymour Place, London, W., 4 April, 1895; educ. Evelyn’s, Wellington and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 8 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force; and was killed in action near Zonnebeke, 30 Oct. 1914; unm.

=EGLINGTON, ROBERT CECIL=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1075), 171790, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ELDER, CHARLES=, Sergt., No. 7903, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., s. of the late William Elder, by his wife, Frances (now wife of Robert Orr Templeton, of 93, Pitt Street, Glasgow), dau. of John Sutherland, of Nairn; b. Glasgow, 28 Jan. 1885; educ. Albany Academy there; enlisted July, 1902; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Verneuil, 20 Sept. 1914. He was wounded in the foot, but in spite of this went on until he was killed; unm. Buried at Verneuil. A comrade wrote saying that “he died as a true British soldier, gallantly leading his section.” He was a good all-round sportsman.

=ELDRIDGE, THOMAS HENRY=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2410A, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ELEMENT, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, 289064, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=ELEY, ALBERT EDWARD=, A.B., 224960, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

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

=ELKINS, WILLIAM JAMES=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (O.S.), 174504, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=ELLAWAY, ALFRED HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4654), S.S. 103868, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=ELLENDER, RICHARD STANLEY=, Leading Seaman, 239356, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=ELLINGHAM, WILLIAM ALBERT HENRY=, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./17902, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ELLIOT, JAMES=, Carpenter’s Mate (Pensioner, 3700), 133049, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ELLIOT, JOHN AMYAND=, Q.M.-Sergt., No. 162, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late Capt. Charles Sinclair Elliot, R.N., Chief Magistrate of Norfolk Island, 1907–14 [who on the outbreak of war offered his services to the Commonwealth Government and was appointed Naval Officer in charge of Largs Bay, South Australia, where he died suddenly, 30 March, 1915, from heart failure], by his wife, Florence Louisa (Braemar, Eastwood, Sydney), dau. of Frederick Leacroft Dudley; b. Plymouth, England, 6 April, 1891; went to New South Wales with his parents in 1904; educ. The King’s School, Parramatta, Church of England Grammar School, North Sydney, and Hawkesbury Agricultural College. On leaving there he went to Gillendoon, Warren, and later to Illilliwa, Grenfell, and at the outbreak of the war was managing Grawlin, near Forbes, for Mr. J. M. Holland. He joined the 2nd Infantry Battn., and was appointed Colour-Sergt. to B Coy., commanded by the late Major C. C. Gordon, and on the re-formation of the battn. in Egypt was appointed Coy. Q.M.-Sergt. to D Coy., under the late Major D. Wallack. He was killed in action during the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; unm. He was a good all-round sportsman, excelling particularly at football, representing S.C.E.G.S. in the great Public Schools’ Competition, and winning his honour cap both at S.C.E.G.S. and at the Hawkesbury College, and representing Warren as a member of the team that won the District Cup in 1912. Three of his brothers are (1916) on active service, W. A. Elliot is a Sub-Lieut., R.N., Lieut. Dudley Sinclair Elliot, A.I.F., went with the Expedition to New Guinea, and was in charge of the Native Affairs Department at Rabaul, and 2nd Lieut. Alban Charles Elliot, A.I.F., is in England prior to going to France.

=ELLIOT, MATTHEW TAYLOR=, L.-Corpl., No. 6311, No. 3 Coy., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Elliot, of 19, Albert Street, Shieldfield, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Cooper; b. Tyne Dock, South Shields, 28 Feb. 1882; enlisted 21 Aug. 1905; appointed L.-Corpl. 23 Feb. 1915; served in Egypt 31 Oct. 1907 to 23 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 12 Aug. 1914 to 8 Oct. 1915, on which day he was killed in action at Vermelles, Belgium; unm.

ELLIOT, THOMAS, Private, No. 14373, 10th (Service) Battn. Yorkshire Regt., s. of Joseph Elliot, Miner, by his wife, Edith, dau. of Thomas (and Jane) Hall; b. Frimdon Colliery, co. Durham, 20 Aug. 1886; educ. Ryhope Colliery School; was a Miner; volunteered and enlisted Sept. 1914; went to France in Sept. 1915, and was killed in action between Albert and Fricourt, 1 July, 1916. His commanding officer wrote speaking highly of him as one of the best and bravest of his men, and saying that had he lived he would have gained a D.C.M. He m. at Sunderland, 11 April, 1911, Florence, dau. of Charles (and Mary) Hindmarch, of 28, Fulwell Road, Sunderland, and had a son: Charles Hindmarsh, b. 25 Jan. 1914.

=ELLIOTT, FREDERICK JOHN=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 5471), 295811, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=ELLIOTT, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No. 16885, 7th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the Rev. William Elliott, of Jubilee, British Columbia, Methodist Minister, formerly a missionary in Japan, by his wife, Maria, dau. of George Willan Robinson; b. Toyama, Japan, 17 April, 1893; educ. various public schools of Manitoba, 1899–1902; privately, in Japan, 1902–08; and at Victoria and Vancouver (B.C.) High Schools, 1908–10; for some time worked as a house carpenter, with a view to becoming an architect; enlisted in the 88th Victoria (B.C.) Fusiliers in Nov. 1913, for special service (to assist in quelling the strike troubles at Vancouver Island) and, when, nine months later, the European War broke out, volunteered for Imperial Service; left Canada with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914, and, after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to the Front in Feb., and was killed in action at Langemarck, 24 April, 1915, being shot through the head; unm. His brother, Lieut. F. F. Elliott, who volunteered at the same time, is now (1916) on active service with the same battn. in France.

=ELLIOTT, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, 231737 (Ports.), H.M.S Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ELLIOTT, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8165), S.S. 104009, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=ELLIS, BASIL HERBERT=, Lieut., 5th (Service) Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I. 2nd s. of Rev. Henry Maitland Ellis, Vicar of Hedge End, co. Hants, M.A., by his wife, Ida Mary, dau. of the late Capt. Herbert Reid Lempriere; b. Exbury Rectory, co. Hants, 20 May, 1895; educ. Highfield Preparatory School, Liphook, and Shrewsbury; at which latter he won a scholarship, was subsequently head of his house. He should have gone into residence at Oxford, as a Scholar of Wadham College, in Oct. 1914, but, having been in the O.T.C. while at Shrewsbury, was given a commission in the King’s Shropshire L.I. 22 Sept. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Oct. following. He went with his regt. to the Front in May, and was killed in action at Hooge, 16 June, 1915; unm. He was buried in the garden of a Farm House, on the left side of the Ypres to Zillebeke Road. An officer wrote of him: “He was an excellent scout officer, and had done some good work since our arrival in France--absolutely fearless and perfectly calm under fire--greatly liked by the men of his platoon, which he had in excellent order”; and another, describing his death: “It was while going out across the open to get water for several men who had been badly wounded that he was killed.” Lieut. Ellis was a keen sportsman; while at Shrewsbury he was in the 1st XI. Cricket Team, and also had his Fives Colours, and was Editor of the “Salopian.”

=ELLIS, EDMUND ALBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./68O6, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=ELLIS, GEORGE WILLIS=, A.B., J. 1773, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ELLIS, JOHN THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9481), S.S. 106864, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ELLIS, JUDSON HAROLD=, Private, No. 33326, 3rd Canadian Field Ambulance, eldest s. of William Sandford Ellis, of Alliston, Ontario, Canada, Grain and Seed Merchant, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late John Gallaugher; b. Thornbury, Grey co., Ontario, 24 March, 1891; educ. Alliston Public and High Schools; graduated (Phm. B.) from Toronto in 1913, and on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914, at once volunteered, and enlisted in the Canadian A.M.C. at Winnipeg on the 18th of that month. He came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; went to France in Feb., and died, 21 May, 1915, of wounds received while attending to the wounded at the Battle of Festubert; unm. He was buried at Hinges, France. His Lieut.-Col., Walter L. Watt, wrote: “From the very first he did his duty and did it well. He had no fear and was always a willing volunteer for anything requiring deeds and not words.”

=ELLIS, LEONARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 8084 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ELLISON, REGINALD=, A.B., No. Mersey Z/38, R.N.V.R., 2nd s. of James Ormrod Ellison, of Tarbock Road, Huyton, and Boundary Road, St. Helens, Lancashire, by his wife, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of William Robinson; b. at St. Ann’s, St. Helens, Lancashire, 27 Feb. 1897; educ. Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School, was articled as an Electrical Engineer, but on the outbreak of war enlisted (7 Sept. 1914) in the 1st Battn. 2nd Royal Naval Brigade, was transferred to the Howe Battn. and sailed from Avonmouth, 27 Feb. 1915. He was wounded in action at Gallipoli, 1 May, while advancing under heavy fire, and died in the 17th General Hospital, Alexandria, 27 May, 1915, aged 18 years.

=ELLISON, ROBERT=, Gunner, No. 36235., R.F.A., eldest s. of Ted Ellison, of Bishopwearmouth, Miner, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Murphy; b. Wheatley Hill, co. Durham, 3 April, 1874; educ. St. Benett’s School, Sunderland; was a quarry worker; enlisted 6 Sept. 1914; trained at Wycombe, Bucks, and died 13 Dec. 1915, of wounds received in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. previous. He m. at Sunderland 22 May, 1896, Jane (6, Carley Place, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of James McGreavy, and had issue: James Edward, b. 13 Oct. 1901; Thomas, b. 6 Jan. 1904; Robert, b. 22 May, 1907; John, b. 21 Feb. 1913; and Florence May, b. 29 Aug. 1910.

=ELLISTON, ARTHUR EDWARD=, Sailmaker’s Mate (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9489), 201530, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ELLOT, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 1517, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Maidenhead, co. Berks; enlisted 30 July, 1897, aged 20; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; reported missing after the fighting on 25 Jan. 1915. He m. at Windsor 18 Dec. 1905, Elizabeth (209, Campbell Buildings, Westminster Bridge Road, S.W.), dau. of (--) Farrell, and had six children: William, b. 7 Feb. 1907; Claude, b. 1 Feb. 1913; Harry, b. 11 April, 1914; Cicely, b. 7 April, 1908; Marterl, b. 28 Feb. 1910; and Gwendoline, b. (twin) 1 Feb. 1913.

=ELLSWORTH, ERNEST MALVERN=, Private, No. 46141, 13th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late Alden Ellsworth, of Laconia, New Hampshire, U.S.A. (died 9 March, 1897), by his wife, Mary (now wife of Paul S. Allen, of Cobourg, Ontario), dau. of Daniel Lockhart, of Nova Scotia; b. Laconia aforesaid, 1 March, 1894; educ. Ottawa; was a farmer’s hand; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2 Sept. 1914; came over with the first Contingent, from Windsor, N.S.; went to the front, April 20, and was killed in action in France, 21 May, 1915; unm.

=ELLSWORTH, JAMES=, Private, No. 625, 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of Henry Ellsworth, of Carmanville, Newfoundland, by his wife, Emelia; b. Carmanville afsd., 4 Jan. 1889; educ. there; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war, and joined the Newfoundland Regt.; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 4 Nov. 1915; unm. He was buried in the Borderers Ravine (Cem. 117, J. 3, grave No. 32).

=ELLWOOD, CHARLES HUGH=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Col. Arthur Ellwood, of Mareham-le-Fen, co. Lincoln, V.D. (died April, 1915), by his wife, Caroline (Manor House, Mareham-le-Fen, Boston), dau. of Robert Addison Hogsthorpe; b. Mareham-le-Fen, 2 Dec. 1887; educ. Lincoln Grammar School, and assisted his father farming. With his elder brother, now Capt. A. A. Ellwood, he joined the Horncastle Coy of the old Lincoln Volunteers in 1903, of which Company their father was Colonel Commanding, and on the organisation of the Territorial Force was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 17 June, 1911, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he and his brother both volunteered for Imperial service and went to France with their regt. 28 Feb. 1915. Capt. Ellwood was appointed to the charge of a machine-gun section, and Lieut. Ellwood was given charge of a section in the trenches. He was killed in action at Wytschacte, near Messines, Belgium, 1 June, 1915, and was buried in Dranoutre Churchyard; unm. His commanding officer, the late Col. Jessop, wrote: “He was doing splendidly.... I have sent his name up more than once for good work”; and Lieut. H. B. Riggull, of the 5th Battn., in a letter dated 14 June, said: “I was very sorry about Ellwood’s brother. It was very bad luck, especially as he had been doing such good work. He often used to crawl right out to the German line at night and gave a lot of valuable information; the General sent for him, and personally congratulated him.” He was very keen on miniature shooting, and had won many prizes.

=ELMER, JOSEPH HENRY=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R.. Ch. B. 7906), 168002, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ELRINGTON, GERARD GORDON CLEMENT=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., only s. of the late Gerard Gordon Elrington, Capt. Dorsetshire Regt., by his wife, Mary Tilly (now wife of General John Miles, of 35, Fitzroy Road, Regent’s Park, N.W.), dau. of the late Alexander Watson; b. Bruges, Belgium, 28 April, 1894; educ. Cranleigh School, Surrey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd East Yorkshires, 1 Oct. 1912, went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Festubert, France, 30–31 Oct. 1914; unm. Capt. H. K. Umfreville, 2nd Battn. Duke of Wellington’s Regt., wrote: “During the time I commanded the battn., during the Aisne fighting and the later operations north of Arras, 2nd Lieut. Elrington has shown conspicuous gallantry, and his company commander repeatedly expressed to me his admiration of the cheerfulness and carelessness of danger displayed by this officer.... I may briefly add the circumstances under which 2nd Lieut. Elrington met his fate. Near Festubert, on the night of the 30th to 31st, a company of this battn. was ordered to co-operate with the Sikhs in recovering a trench captured by the Germans the previous night. 2nd Lieut. Elrington was leading his platoon in this attack, and was shot through the head within a few feet of the trench. The trench was not taken, but I assured myself later that he was quite dead, and his burial was carried out by the officers of the Sikh (58th Rifles) company in the trench later on.”

=ELSON, GEORGE EDWARDS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4845) S.S. 104229, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=ELVES, THOMAS=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R.. B. 5123), 292957, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=ELWIN, FRANK HAROLD=, 2nd. Lieut., 2nd Battn. Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regt., only s. of James Elwin, Tea Planter, Manager of the Kuttal Tea Estate, Cachar, India, by his wife, Isabel Mary, dau. of John Henry Weaver; b. Darjiling, India, 22 Sept. 1895; educ. Shrewsbury School, and left there in July, 1914, with the intention of going on to King’s College, Cambridge, to study Science, a subject in which he had shown considerable ability. On the outbreak of war, the following month, however, he enlisted in the Shropshire L.I., 9 Sept. 1914. On 7 Nov. following he was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. of the Wiltshires, and was afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battn.; he went to France on 24 Feb., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle on the early morning of 12 March, 1915. His Col. wrote very highly of him and his work.

=EMERY, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B., 195662 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EMMERSON, WALTER=, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 7698, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EMMOTT, JOHN BARLOW=, 2nd Lieut., 10th (Oldham) Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.). yr. and only surviving s. of George Henry Emmott, M.A., LLM., Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, Queen Victoria Professor of Law, and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Liverpool University, by his wife, Elizabeth, 4th dau. of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, Barrister-at-Law, and nephew of Alfred, 1st Baron Emmott of Oldham, P.C., G.C.M.G.; b. at Nantucket, Mass., U.S.A., 9 Aug. 1888; educ. Birkenhead School and Victoria University of Manchester; was studying the cotton spinning and manufacturing business in the mills of Messrs. Emmotts and Wallshaw, Ltd., Oldham; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 10th Manchester Territorials, 9 March, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles from May to 4 June, 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Achi Baba, Gallipoli. He m. 27 Aug. 1913, Doris Lees, sister of 2nd Lieut. R. G. L. Ascroft (killed in action the same day as his brother-in-law), dau. of the late James Henry Ascroft, of Oldham, Solicitor; s.p.

=EMPSON, RICHARD WILLIAM HENRY MACARTNEY=, Lieut., Royal Marine L.I., elder s. of John Empson, of Knock-na-cree, Milborne Port, Somerset, M.D., late Surgeon North Somerset Yeomanry, by his wife, Esther Katherine, 2nd dau. of the Rev. Charles Morgan Watling, Rector of Upcerne, Dorset; b. Milborne Port, co. Somerset, 26 May, 1896; and was educ. at Connaught House, Weymouth, Marlborough College and Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He passed into the Royal Marines in June, 1913; served with them during the siege of Antwerp, also at Lille and Lierre, and was promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1914. He sailed for the Dardanelles, 27 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action, 1 May, 1915, at Gaba Tepe. He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 22 Sept. 1915, and his commanding officer, Col. Luard, wrote: “The young officer in command, Lieut. Empson, displayed great gallantry up to the time when he was killed”; and in a further report, stated: “Lieut. Empson was wounded on 30 April, and continued to actively direct the defence of the trench until he was killed on 1 May, while delivering fire on the enemy at close range. I beg to recommend him for a posthumous honour for his services on 29 and 30 April,” Capt. Syson also wrote: “I cannot rate Lieut. Empson’s defence of his isolated trench too highly. From the reports of those who survived him, he never let there be any doubt as to his procedure should ammunition give out and the hundreds who were attacking them reach this trench. He upheld their courage and called forth the qualities which made them stand up to attack by day and by night, exist with little or no sleep, food or water, and face the fact that their chance of relief from outside was very small.” He played for the Royal Naval College in the Kent Cup Final in March, 1914. He was only 18, and was unm.

=EMPTAGE, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2960), 160112, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=ENFIELD, CHARLES JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2781), S.S. 77, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=ENTWISTLE, BENJAMIN=, Pte., No. 5791, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt.; was in the employ of Proctor Bros., Cotton Manufacturers, Wheatley Lane Mills, Burnley; enlisted, went to France, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, April, 1915; unm.

=EPPS, WILLIAM JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 2nd Class C.G., (R.F.R., Ch. A. 1834), 154131, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SWEET-ESCOTT, MURRAY ROBERTSON=, Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., yr. s. of the Rev. Edward Herbert Sweet-Escott, of Hartrow Manor, Taunton, a Master of Dulwich College, S.E., by his wife, Anna Frances, dau. of Henry Robertson, of Over Stowey; b. Over Stowey, Bridgewater 14 Dec. 1887; educ. Dulwich College, and Marlborough; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (Special Reserve), in Dec. 1909, and, after a year’s training with the Irish Fusiliers, was promoted Lieut. 24 Feb. 1911. Three years later he was seconded for service as A.D.C. to Sir E. B. Sweet-Escott, K.C.M.G., the Governor of the Leeward Islands, and in the same year followed him in the same position to Fiji. He returned in the autumn of 1913, and on the outbreak of war at once volunteered for foreign service, being transferred to the 1st Battn. 5 Aug. 1914. He went with his battn. to the Front, and was killed in action on the Aisne, close to Missy and near the town of Brayne, 20 Sept. 1914, and was buried where he fell; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “Your son was killed while leading his platoon to repel a very heavy attack made on my battn. by six German battns.; and it was in great part due to the gallant behaviour of his company that we were eventually able to repel the attack. I cannot speak too highly of your son’s behaviour, and, although he had been with us so short a time, he had endeared himself to both officers and men.”

=ETHERTON, CHARLES EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5096), 199736, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=ETHERTON, HENRY JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./16052, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EVANS, ALEXANDER EASSON=, C.E., Lieut., No. 2 Field Coy. Canadian R.E., s. of the Rev. Maurice John Evans; b. Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, 6 Jan. 1872; educ. Herriott-Watt College, Edinburgh; went to Canada, and became a Civil Engineer; volunteered for service overseas on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the 3rd Battn. in Oct. 1914; promoted Corpl.; left Victoria, British Columbia, for England, 14 Feb. 1915; trained at Shorncliffe, where he was drafted into the 7th Battn.; crossed to France the first week in May, and went straight up to the trenches; took part in the fighting at Festubert, 23–26 May, where he displayed great gallantry and was given a commission as Lieut. and posted to the Canadian Royal Engineers in Oct.; appointed Brigade Wiring Officer, and was shot by a sniper while attending to wire entanglements on the night of 5 Jan. 1916. His commanding officer wrote that he was mourned by all his brother officers as an efficient officer, and an unselfish comrade. Lieut. Evans m. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1899, Ethel A. B. (d.), 6th dau. of J. G. Fenwick, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and had two children: Maurice John, b. 3 May, 1900 and Helen Margaret, b. 2 Oct. 1902.

=EVANS, ARTHUR=, 2nd Lieut., 18th (Service) Battn. The Welsh Regt., only surviving s. of John Evans, of Broniarth, North Road, Aberystwyth, Solicitor, Coroner for North Cardiganshire and Deputy Town Clerk of Aberystwyth, by his wife, Jane, dau. of John Jones (Ivon), of Aberystwyth; b. Aberystwyth, 26 Feb. 1892; educ. Towyn County School, and on leaving there was articled to Mr. Bassett, A.R.I.B.A., Aberystwyth. On completing his articles he entered the service of Mr. Sydney Moss, F.R.I.B.A., Manchester, and gave promise of a successful career as an architect and land surveyor, but after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he returned home, joined the University College of Wales (Aberystwyth) O.T.C. in Oct., and on 19 Feb. 1915, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 18th Welsh Regt., then in training under Col. Homfray at Porthcawl, Glamorgan. On 31 March, 1915, he was thrown off a motor cycle while out riding with some brother officers near Porthcawl, and died the same day at King Edward VII Hospital (Bedford House), Cardiff; unm. He had been very eager to get to the Front, and his commanding officer wrote that he “had proved himself to be a very capable officer.”

=EVANS, EDWARD=, Private, No. 1682, 2nd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of the late Edward Evans, by his wife, Abigail (2, Gibson’s Steps, High Street, Pontypool); b. Cardiff, 27 Oct. 1897; educ. National School there; enlisted early in 1912, and was killed in action in France, 30 Dec. 1914. Capt. L. P. A. Rolls wrote: “Your son had been my servant ever since the beginning of Oct., when we were in Northampton, and had been with me till he met his death. I cannot tell you what a good willing lad he was in all that he did for me. He was killed like so many other--nobly doing his duty in the trenches.”

=EVANS, EDWARD FRANK=, S.B.A., M. 4751, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Edward Evans, of 2, Clisby Cottages, Iver Lane, Cowley, co. Middlesex; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=EVANS, HERBERT CLYDE=, B.A., LL.B., Barrister-at-Law, Lieut.-Commander, Nelson Battn. Royal Naval Division, yst. s. of the late John Thomas Evans, of Gisborne, New Zealand, shipowner, by his wife, Emma; b. Oamaru, N.Z., 26 April, 1883; educ. Gisborne (N.Z) High School; and was apprenticed in one of his father’s ships, and served eight years in the mercantile service. He was first officer in a ship in the service of the Russians during the Russo-Japanese War, and was at the fall of Port Arthur; he was wrecked near Siberia, where his eyesight was so injured by the frost that he had to relinquish the sea. He then entered St. John’s College, Cambridge, taking a second-class B.A. and second-class LL.B., and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he was appointed lecturer to officers by the Admiralty, and given a commission as Lieut.-Commander in the Royal Naval Division, 1 Oct. 1914. He left for the Dardanelles on 3 March, and was killed in action there, near Achi Baba, 5 June, 1915. Lieut.-Com. Evans was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatches [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1915], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He m. at Fairwarp Church, Sussex, 25 March, 1913, Constance (Clevedon, Newick, Sussex), dau. of the Rev. George Whelpton Johnson, Vicar of Fairwarp, and had two daus.: Constance Joy Nelson, b. 7 Aug. 1914; and Grace Nina Clyde, b. posthumous, 9 Aug. 1915.

=EVANS, JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 12922, 11th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots, 5th s. of William Evans, of 19, Main Street, Thornliebank, near Glasgow, employee in the Thornliebank Calico Print Works, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Robert Williamson, Fireman; b. Thornliebank, afsd., 14 July, 1888; educ. Thornliebank Public School; worked for some time in the Thornliebank Calico Print Works, and was later a warehouseman in the employ of Cerebos, Ltd., Drysalters, Glasgow; enlisted, 31 Aug. 1914; and died in Field Lazarette 9, Bauvin, 29 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action at Loos; unm.

=EVANS, JAMES=, Able Seaman, Ch./167339 R.F.R.B. 3892, 2nd s. of James Evans, Coal Miner, by his wife, Annie Elizabeth; b. Ludgate, Durham, 3 Dec. 1875; educ. Sunderland; joined the Navy, 27 May, 1892; Boy, 2nd Class, H.M.S. Boscawen, 4 June, 1892–30 June, 1893; Boy, 1st Class, H.M.S. Boscawen, 1 July–2 Dec. 1893; Ordinary Seaman, H.M. Ships Pembroke, 3 Dec. 1893–8 Jan. 1894, and Sabellite, 9 Jan. 1894–30 April, 1896; A.B., H.M. ships Sabellite, 1 May, 1896–6 Aug. 1897; Pembroke, Aug. 1897–23 Feb. 1898; Wildfire, 24 Feb.–20 July, 1898; Pembroke, 21 July–9 Aug. 1898; Galatea, 10 Aug. 1898–10 April, 1899; Forte, 11 April, 1899–14 May, 1902; Pembroke, 15 May–26 Sept. 1902; Anson, 27 Sept. 1902–4, and Pembroke, 7 May–31 Dec. 1904, when he obtained his discharge with conduct “Very good.” Served in the Gambia, 1894, and through the South Africa War, 1899–25 June, 1900; landed for the protection of Durban, 24 Nov. 1899; took part in the operations with Natal Field Force, including the Battles of Botha’s Pass and Allman’s Nek and occupation of Utrecht, Volkorust and Wakestroom, and was awarded the Ashanti medal with clasp (Gambia, 1894), 21 March, 1896; the South African medal with five clasps (Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Transvaal, Orange Free State), 1 Dec. 1902; and the Good Conduct medal. On leaving the Navy he entered the P. & O. service, but on mobilisation was called up, 5 Aug. 1914, and appointed to H.M.S. Cressy, in which he was lost when she was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at St. Luke’s Church, Tidal Basin, 6 Jan. 1906, Annie Elizabeth (113, Jersey Road, Custom House, London), dau. of Alexander James George Tyler, and had four children: James George Alexander, b. 3 March, 1909; Annie Elizabeth Lilian, b. 16 Sept. 1910; Hilda Violet, b. 15 April, 1912; and Doris Ivy, b. 8 Aug. 1914.

=EVANS, JAMES WRIGHT=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 20456, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EVANS, THOMAS HATFIELD=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Australian Imperial Forces, only s. of the late Thomas Evans, of Huyton, by his wife, Alice Stewart (Honors Mead, Bovington, Herts), dau. of John Smyth Hatfield, of Innellan, Argyleshire; b. Huyton, co. Lancaster, 18 May, 1881; educ. Sedbergh; joined the Leicestershire Imperial Yeomanry when 18 on the outbreak of the South African War, and served through that campaign, 1899–1901, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps (Rhodesia, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa). He went to Australia about May, 1913, but when war was declared in Aug 1914, he volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was given a commission as Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915. He was killed at Gaba Tepe during the landing at the Dardanelles, 26 April, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch [London Gazette, 5 Aug. 1915], for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. His commanding officer, Col. Owen, C.M.G., wrote: “On landing at Anzac Cove he showed great energy, courage and ability in the handling of his machine gun section, and notwithstanding the difficult country and absence of day transport, he had his gun in action at an early hour in the front line of defence, where he remained till he fell. It devolved on him to stop the firing of a machine gun of another battn. which was firing too close to our troops, and the ground was swept by a heavy rifle and machine gun fire. However, he safely returned, to my great relief. Later, whilst I was temporarily at another part of the firing line, the same gun again became dangerous, and a message reached your son to that effect from Major Brown, of my battn. Lieut. Evans again went over, and when returning stopped to succour a wounded man who had been left in the open. Having bound up the man’s wound, he tried to carry him back to safety, but was hit repeatedly. Though badly wounded he still tried to save his man, to the admiration of all those who saw his gallant conduct. An attempt was made by my men to rescue them, but your son was riddled with bullets and died a hero. I may mention that I recommended your son for the V.C. on account of his distinguished valour in the field, and his name is one of three in my battn. who were specially mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatches”; and one of his men (Private F. G. Hallett): “Your son was a man to be proud of, for he carried four wounded men to the stretcher-bearer station under heavy fire.” He also wrote: “We had to cross a deep gully which was infested with Turkish snipers. It seemed as if some of us would be killed, but we reached our destination without a single casualty, entirely owing to the cool and skilful way in which Lieut. Evans handled us. He was a fine example to us all.” Capt. White also wrote: “From all accounts by men near him he died a hero’s death. As a machine gunner himself he must have realised it was certain death that awaited him when he rushed to rescue a wounded comrade from a zone of bullets from one of the enemy’s machine guns.” Lieut. Evans was a keen sportsman and athlete, and exceptionally powerful swimmer and a first-class shot.

=EVANS, WILLIAM ALFRED=, Petty Officer, 199251, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EVANS, WILLIAM HERBERT=, Major, 11th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of James S. Evans, of Montreal, Canada; b. Montreal, 27 Feb. 1872; educ. there; was for some time a member of the Victoria Rifles, Montreal; afterwards served in the North-West Mounted Police for two years; on returning to Montreal joined the 5th Battn. Royal Scots of Canada, and subsequently took command of the Prince of Wales’ Fusiliers of Montreal. He served through the South African War, and on the outbreak of the European War, came over to England and was given a commission in the 11th (Service) Battn. of the Royal Scots, 22 Oct. 1914. He went to France, and was killed while in Billets, 14 Aug. 1915. He m. at Montreal, 19 Dec. 1894, May L. (791, University Street, Montreal, Canada), dau. of (--) Romeril, and had three children: William, b. 25 Dec. 1902; Enid, b. 17 Sept. 1895; and Doris, b. 17 Feb. 1898.

=EVANS, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B., 221679, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=EVASON, WILLIAM DODD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1131), 162903, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EVATT, GEORGE RALEIGH KERR=, Capt., 1st Battn. (57th Foot) Middlesex Regt., only s. of Surgeon-General George Joseph Hamilton Evatt, of Wayside, Camberley, co. Surrey, late of the Army Medical Staff, and Hon. Colonel of the Home Counties Division Territorial R.A.M.C., M.D., C.B., by his wife, Sophie Mary Frances, dau. of William Walter Raleigh Kerr, Treasurer of Mauritius, and granddau. of Major-Gen. Lord Robert Kerr [4th s. of William John, 5th Marquis of Lothian, K.T.]; b. Royal Military Academy, at Woolwich (where Surgeon-Gen. Evatt held the post of Medical Officer in Charge), 30 Sept. 1883; educ. Cheltenham College, and afterwards prepared by private tutor for University Matriculation. He entered the Middlesex Regt. as a University candidate 12 March, 1904, having passed through the necessary studies at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where his tutor was Sir Donald MacAlister, now principal of Glasgow University; was promoted Lieut. 9 May, 1906, and Capt. Sept. 1914. He served with the West African Frontier Force from April, 1909, to Dec. 1914, when he came home and rejoined his regiment. He was killed while in the trenches only 400 yards from the German lines, near La Boutillerie, about 3¼ miles south of Armentières, by a bullet in the temple, fired by a German sharp-shooter, 13 Nov. 1914, and was buried in the grounds of a private château near the trenches; unm. At the time of his death he was in command of A Coy. of the same battn. (57th Foot) in which his great-grandfather, Capt. John Hamilton Evatt, served at the battle of Albuera, in Spain, 1811, and who was severely wounded in that desperate fight. In the 301 years that have elapsed since the Evatt family passed over to Ireland in 1613 not less than 21 members of the family have served in the British army. While several were wounded, only two, however, were actually killed in action on the field of battle, viz., Capt. George R. K. Evatt, the subject of this notice, and Capt. Henry Evatt, of the 16th Lancers, who served in the revolutionary war in America (1775–7), and was eventually shot dead on the gate of Lord Moira’s House in the battle of Ballinahinch in 1798 by the Presbyterian rebels while serving with the Monaghan militia.

=EVERALL, EDWARD HENRY=, A.B., 233891, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EWELL, LESLIE=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 269768, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EWEN, ERNEST CECIL=, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4650, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EYERS, WILLIAM JAMES=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 4768), 195096, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=EYKYN, GILBERT DAVIDSON PITT=, Capt. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), attached 4th Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt., only s. of the late Rev. Pitt Eykyn, sometime Vicar of Magor-cum-Redwick, co. Monmouth, and at the time of his death Chaplain of Parel, Bombay, India, by his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth (82, Prince of Wales Mansions, Battersea Park, S.W.), dau. of James Davidson, Bengal Civil Service; b. France Lynch Parsonage, co. Glos., 22 Aug. 1881; educ. Haileybury College and Clayesmore School. He received his first commission in the 3rd Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 1899, was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Manchester Regt., 4 May, 1901; was promoted Lieut., 24 Dec. 1901; transferred to Indian Army, 12 Feb. 1904; joined the Royal Scots, 4 Feb. 1905; was appointed Adjutant to the 4th Yorkshires (T.F.), 13 Feb. 1913, and promoted Capt. Royal Scots, 26 June following. He served for 11 years in India, and in the South African Campaign, taking part in the operations in the Orange River Colony and in the Transvaal, for which latter services he received the Queen’s medal with three clasps (Cape Colony, Wittenbergen and Transvaal). Capt. Eykyn fell in the first engagement of the 4th Yorks at the Second Battle of Ypres, after only a few days at the Front, while gallantly leading his regt. into action at the storming of St. Julien, 24 April, 1915, and was buried in a wood to the left of the reserve trenches. Col. Maurice Bell wrote to his wife: “Remember this, he trained the battn. and the General (Plumer) has personally thanked us for our behaviour at a critical moment. His is the credit”; and Corpl. Wearmouth: “It is only natural we looked up to our Adjutant, as he was responsible for all our training whilst at home, and naturally he having been through the African Campaign we followed him. The Adjutant never drew his revolver, all he thought about was the regt.’s first conduct under fire, and I am glad to say that we are mentioned in the General’s despatches, and it was all due to our Adjutant. The loss is being avenged, as every shot fired by our lads, they say as they pull the trigger ‘There’s one for the Adjutant.’” The following is an extract from the “Yorkshire Evening Post,” 29 April, 1915: “Capt. Eykyn was an ardent worker on behalf of the military forces long before the war broke out, and he addressed public meetings on the advantages of joining the service. He was also an amateur actor of considerable talent, and took part in playlets given on behalf of the National Service League.” The “Green Howards” Gazette for May, 1915, said: “The splendid work that he did as Adjutant has borne fruit in the gallantry displayed by the battn. in action, and the death of this fine young officer is deplored by all.” Capt. Eykyn had passed examinations in Hindustani and Russian, also as an Instructor of Gymnasia, and had obtained a D in Musketry. He m. at Bombay Cathedral, 28 Nov. 1902, Constance (The Cottage, Northallerton, co. Yorks), elder dau. of the late Arthur Norton, of Guildford, and had one son: Duncan Arthur Davidson, b. 11 Aug. 1906.

=EYRE, JOHN=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 425), 174716, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=EYRE, WILLIAM=, Capt., 12th Battn. Welsh Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, only s. of William Eyre, of 21, Babworth Road, Retford, retired Miller, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late John Pagdin, of Morton, Gainsborough, Merchant; b. Creswell, co. Derby, 25 March, 1879; educ. King Edward VI Grammar School, Retford, and Sheffield University. He took the B.Sc. degree at London University with honours in chemistry, and returned to Retford Grammar School as Science Master, where he was for several years, and, after a short period in a similar capacity at Cranbrook School, joined in 1907 the staff of Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, as Science Master and House Master of Thornton B., where he remained until the outbreak of the war. An In Memoriam notice in “The Blue” said: “As an officer in the O.T.C., as president of the Natural History Society, in the house and in the playing fields, he worked hard for the good of Christ’s Hospital. His whole-hearted interest in all that would make for the good of the boys or of his colleagues and his affection for the ‘lads’ of this House, are known to us all. He was a most valuable member of our community.” He was appointed 2nd Lieut. in the Christ’s Hospital O.T.C. (T.F.), 17 July, 1908, and volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted Capt. in the 8th (Service) Battn. of the Welch Regt. 14 Dec. 1914. He was afterwards transferred to the 12th Battn., and subsequently attached to the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers, with which he went to the Dardanelles, 17 July, 1915. He was wounded near Gully Beach, Gallipoli, 6 Aug. 1915, and died in the 19th General Hospital at Alexandria on the 19th, being buried in the English cemetery there; unm. Col. Ommanney, 12th Battn. Welch Regt., wrote: “During the five months he was with us he not only did his work well, but made himself respected and beloved by all ranks. I feel I have lost in him a real friend, and I know that this feeling is shared by very many of his brother officers.”

=FADE, HAROLD=, A.B., 219145, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=FAGG, ALBERT=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. A. 1846), 154116, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FAIR, ROY NICHOLS=, L.-Corpl., No. 6914, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the Rev. Hugh James Fair, of Arkona, Ontario, Methodist Minister, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of Henry Nichols; b. Londesborough, Ontario, 17 May, 1894; educ. Exeter and Watford High Schools and Albert College, Belleville; was a Bookkeeper; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; came over with the First Contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unm.

=FAIRCHILD, EDWARD JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5973 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FAIRCLOUGH, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10324), 203995, 3rd s. of the late Thomas Fairclough, of Mossley Hill, Liverpool, by his wife, Sarah (20, Bearton Road, Hitchen, co. Herts), dau. of William Rawlinson; b. Holmfield, Aigburth, Liverpool, 19 Jan. 1884; educ. Beachwood, co. Herts; joined the Navy at the age of 18 in 1899, and served his full time, passing into the R.N.R. 19 Jan. 1914. On the outbreak of war he joined H.M.S. Cressy, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=FAIRES, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3911), 194391, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FAIRS, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9551, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Fairs, of 32, Beaconsfield Road, Croydon, Surrey, Joiner, by his wife, Ellen Sarah, dau. of Skillington Medwell; b. Banstead, co. Surrey, 15 Dec. 1895; educ. Sydenham Road Council Schools, Croydon, and was employed at Messrs. Giddy & Giddy, Regent Street, Auctioneers & Estate Agents; joined the London Rifle Brigade in Aug. 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914; went to France, 5 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 3 May, 1915, and buried at Forturn; unm.

=FAIRWEATHER, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6889, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FAIRWEATHER, JOHN=, 2nd Engineer, R.N.R., yst. s. of William Fairweather, Gas Engineer to the Corporation of Kilmarnock, by his wife, Marjory, dau. of Peter Young, of Glamis, Forfarshire; b. Kilmarnock, 25 Jan. 1887; educ. Kilmarnock Academy; served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Andrew, Barclay, Sons & Co., Ltd., taking his second certificate as a marine engineer, and gaining considerable experience not only in shipbuilding yards on the Clyde, but in the service of the British India Co. and the Red Star Line; he was afterwards engaged in transport service between Canada and Liverpool, and after the outbreak of war joined the Royal Naval Reserve at the end of Oct. 1914. He was posted to the Clan MacNaughton which left Birkenhead just after Christmas, 1914, on her first patrol. The last signal made by her was at an early hour on the morning of 3 Feb. following, and it is supposed, according to the Admiralty report, that she was lost during the bad weather which prevailed at that time. Fairweather was unm.

=KEAY-FALCONER, WILLIAM=, Jun., Lieut., 7th Battn. Princess Louise’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of William Keay-Falconer, Clerk of Lieutenancy and Sheriff-Clerk and County Clerk of Kinross-shire, by his wife, Margaret More, dau. of James Thomson Morrison, of Coatbridge; b. Kinross, 29 Nov. 1894; educ. Edinburgh Academy (1907–13), where for the last two years he served in the O.T.C., and at the Institut Polyglotte, Namur; afterwards being employed in his father’s office. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 20 Sept. 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 7 Sept. 1914. On the outbreak of war he immediately volunteered for service abroad, went to France with his regt. in Dec. following, and was killed while leading his men in a charge against the enemy, at Ypres, 25 April, 1915; unm. The Brigade of which his battn. was a unit had been called from a rest camp to help the Canadians whose flank was exposed through the troops acting with them having fallen back owing to gas. Col. Craig wrote: “While I was with the battn. in France I had many conversations with him on the subject of his work and have frequently remarked to Capt. Murdoch, and others who interested themselves in him, upon his coolness. He knew his work well, and was devoted to it. He didn’t know what fear was, and he seemed fully to realise the responsibility of his men’s comfort that rested upon him as a platoon commander, and the men were devoted to him.... I will never forget your son’s interest in his work, and his valuable services from the time of mobilisation in Aug. last till I left the battn. on 11 March.” Col. Carden who succeeded Col. Craig, wrote: “During the short time I have been in command of the battn. I had formed the highest opinion of your son’s military capabilities. He died bravely leading his men, and is mourned by all his brother officers”; and Capt. Murdoch: “Keay fell like a hero in front of his men.” Lieut. Keay-Falconer was a keen golfer, and a member of Edinburgh Academical Golf Club. He was also a prominent and enthusiastic member of Kinross Club, and held both the gold and silver medals for 1914. He spoke French fluently, and was consequently of much use to his comrades when abroad. Memorial brasses were erected to his memory in the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Princes Street, Edinburgh, and in St. Paul’s Church, Kinross. The tablet in the former church was placed there by the children of the church to perpetuate Lieut. Keay-Falconer’s memory, as he was Warden of their special services during the greater part of his school days in Edinburgh. The last five words of the inscription on the brass sum up his character as the subscribers to the memorial knew it: “Gallant and true and tender.” The brass in St. Paul’s Church, Kinross, was dedicated by the Bishop of St. Andrews on 1 Feb. 1916.

=FARDELL, HUBERT GEORGE HENRY=, Lieut., 3rd, att. 2nd, Battn. East Surrey Regt., only child of Hubert Askew Fardell, of 16, Brechin Place, S.W., late Capt. 4th East Surrey Regt., by his wife, Henrietta Alice, dau. of Henry Woods, of Warnford Park, Hants; b. London, 7 July, 1895; educ. Eton (R. S. de Havilland’s House), where he was Sergt. in charge of G Coy. in the O.T.C.; left there on the outbreak of War to join the Inns of Court O.T.C., and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd East Surrey Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 9 March, 1915; went to the Front, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915. He was killed instantaneously, about 2.30 in the afternoon, whilst passing through a communication trench to see how one of his brother officers was faring as the shelling had been heavy. His servant wrote: “He was a very brave man, one of the bravest I’ve seen out of my seven months in the trenches.” He was buried in the graveyard by the ruined church just behind the firing lines. His C.O., Col. Shipley, wrote: “Your son showed such great promise of being a very capable officer and leader of men.” He had been intended for the Diplomatic Service, his strong intellect and quickness in acquiring foreign languages, clearly marking him out for such a career. “The Eton College Chronicle” of 20 May, 1915, said: “Mr. Fardell did well at Eton, both in school and on the river. He was in the boats, rowing in the Victory in 1914. He won Junior Sculling in 1913, and did well in School Sculling the following year. As a coach he had a wonderful power of getting the utmost out of a crew, and was an admirable captain of a football team. In fact, as a coach and as a leader he found the work that suited him. Had he lived he would undoubtedly have been a very valuable officer and a first-rate leader.”

=FARMER, HORACE=, Colour-Sergt., R.M.L.I., 6271A., (R.F.R., Ch. A. 640), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FARMER, HENRY CHARLES MACLEAN=, 2nd Lieut., 6th, attd. 4th, Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. s. of the Rev. James Edmund Gamul Farmer, Rector of Waddesdon with Upper Winchendon, Aylesbury, Bucks, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Captain Charles Bampfield Yule, R.N.; b. Arundel Vicarage, co. Sussex, 8 Aug. 1892; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford; Eton (Mr. Ramsay’s House), and Trinity College, Cambridge; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and applied for a commission, and while waiting for it enlisted in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, 3 Sept. 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th King’s R.R.C., 22 Sept. following; went to the Front in March, 1915, to join the 4th Battn. of his regt., and was killed in action near Ypres, 10 May, 1915. He was buried at the East Boundary of Bellewaarde Wood; unm. Col. Brownlow, K.R.R.C., wrote: “He worked hard down here (Sheerness) and was very keen to get to the Front”; and Capt. Field: “He was in my company the whole time he was at Sheerness, and King’s Ferry; a most excellent, cheery fellow, and a very conscientious, good, young officer.”

=FARNDON, WILLIAM=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26735, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FARNSWORTH, JOHN=, Private, No. 562, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of Henry Farnsworth, of the Buck Hotel, High Street, Clay Cross, Wine and Spirit Merchant, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Joseph Cutts, Builder & Contractor; b. High Street, Clay Cross, co. Derby, 3 Sept. 1880; educ. Board School, Clay Cross, and Collegiate School, Kettering; emigrated to N.S.W., Australia, 25 Sept. 1903, and worked for a year and a half in the copper mines at Cobar. He then took a position on the G.W. Ry. under his uncle, Mr. B. Farnsworth, Inspector of Permanent Way, which he held until war was declared in Aug. 1914. He immediately proceeded to Sydney, and joined the Australian Imperial Force, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe, 2 May, 1915, while repelling an attack by the Turks on the Australian trenches; unm. Sergt.-Major E. H. Stone wrote the following description of the incident: “I daresay you read in the papers about our Coy. relieving the marines, and how our Major got his D.S.O. Well, for the next two days, the Turks were persistent in their attacks, and it was as much as we could do to beat them back. On the afternoon of 2 May, they made a very determined attack which lasted about two hours. We manned the parapet and fired into them as fast as we could load, and after we had beaten them back turned and found many of our own lads in the bottom of the trench, and among them, John, shot through the head--not a moments’ pain, thank God. We took them out to the back of the trenches and buried them and put up a large wooden cross over them. I can safely say there is not a man in the Battn. who is more regretted than John.”

=FARQUHARSON, LEWIS SHAW=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots, only s. of the Rev. Alexander Farquharson, of Spital, Aberdeenshire, and 41, Camden Square, London, N.W., by his wife, Mary Walker, dau. of Lewis Shaw, of Chesterfield; b. Chesterfield, co. Derby, 23 April, 1884; educ. Cottesmore, Charterhouse, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 10 Oct. 1903, and promoted Lieut. 5 April, 1906, and Capt. 31 Aug. 1914; served in India successively as Station Staff Officer at Kamptee, and as A.D.C. to General Keir, and was Adjutant of the 1st Battn. from 28 Aug. 1911 to 28 Aug. 1914. He also had the honour, with Col. D. G. Wemyss, of being selected to represent the regt. as extra A.D.C. to the King in Calcutta, during the Durbar tour. On the outbreak of war Capt. Farquharson was in India, and he went to the Front with his Battn. early in 1915. He saw much fighting, went through the varying phases of the long and severely contested Second Battle of Ypres, and had different narrow escapes. On 11 May, 1915, when the British line had been broken and a trench captured, on his own initiative Capt. Farquharson led forward his company, from the reserve line, drove back the enemy, and regained and held the lost ground. For his promptness and gallantry on this occasion he received the special thanks of his C.O., and Gen. Allenby sent his congratulations for what he described as “a splendid and successful counter attack.” Early the following morning (12 May) while superintending fresh protections for the shattered trench, he was shot through the head and killed instantly. He was subsequently mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916] for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was buried in Valmertinghe Cemetery, near Ypres. Col. Callander wrote that the whole regt. mourned his loss and that Capt. Farquharson was in every sense, one of the best of the younger officers in the Army and the most sterling good fellow he had ever known. Gen. Sir John Keir also wrote saying that “his future as a soldier had been assured, and that his name would be honoured for all time.” At school and college he took many prizes and represented each of them at both cricket and football. He played cricket twice for All India.

=FARR, JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3525C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FARRAR, SIR GEORGE HERBERT=, 1st Bart., D.S.O., Col. and Assistant Q.M.-General, Central Force, Union Defence Forces, late Hon. Col. South African Light Horse, s. of the late Charles Farrar, of Chatteris, co. Cambridge, M.D., by his wife, Helen (The Crescent Lodge, Bedford), sister of Sir Frederick Howard, and dau. of John Howard; b. Chatteris, 17 June, 1859; educ. Bedford Modern School, and on leaving there entered the engineering business of his uncle Sir Frederick Howard, going in 1879 to South Africa to the Port Elizabeth and East London Branches. Eight years later he and his brothers established themselves at Johannesburg, where in a few years he became one of the leading men in the mining industry of the Witwatersrand. His chief enterprise was the formation of the East Rand Proprietary Mines, of which he was chairman from its inception to the day of his death. He was for some time a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Transvaal and Leader of the Opposition. For his share in the Jameson Raid he was tried for treason and sentenced to death, but the sentence was remitted on payment of a fine of £25,000. When the South African War broke out he raised two regts. of South African Horse, and was appointed Major, Kaffrarian Rifles, 1 Dec. 1900, and served in this campaign as Major on the Staff of the Colonial Division, 1899–1900. He took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, including the defence of Wepener; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, Aug. to Sept. 1900; operations in Orange River Colony 1900, including actions at Wittebergen (1–29 July), and in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River. His services were mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 16 April, 1901], and he was awarded the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the D.S.O. (1900). After the conclusion of peace in 1902 he took an active part in the work of re-organisation, and when Responsible Government was granted to the Transvaal, he was unanimously elected leader of the Progressive Party in the House of Assembly, in opposition to the Ministry of General Botha. In 1903 was elected President of the Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines, and took a leading part in the negotiations which led up to formation of the Union of South Africa. He had been knighted in 1902, and on 2 Feb. 1911 was created a Baronet for his services on this occasion. He was M.P. for Georgetown in the first Parliament of the Union of South Africa, 1910–11, but in Dec. 1911 business demands in connection with the East Rand Co. compelled him to retire from political work in order to devote his whole energies to the re-organisation of that enterprise. When the European War broke out he was in England on a visit and was about to join General Sir Hubert Hamilton’s Staff with the Army in Belgium, but the day before he was to have left he was ordered by the authorities to South Africa. On arrival he was appointed to General McKenzie’s Force with the rank of Col., and was despatched to German South-West Africa as Assistant Q.M.-General. Proceeding to Luderitz Bay in advance of the main force he was engaged in the organisation of the base camp, and subsequently had charge of the restoration of the railway and of providing the water supply to the force, an operation of primary importance in that country. On 19 May, 1915, he was returning from a tour of inspection when the motor trolley in which he was travelling collided with a construction train at Kuibis, near Gidson, German South-West Africa, and Sir George succumbed to his injuries early next morning. Sir George Farrar was one of the best-known men in South Africa, to whose advancement he had, by legislative work, by attention to mining progress, and to practical sympathy with agriculture, powerfully contributed. He m. at Johannesburg, 3 June, 1893, Ella Mabel (Chicheley Hall, Newport Pagnell, Bucks; Bedford Farm, near Johannesburg, Transvaal), dau. of the late Charles William Waylen, I.M.S., and had six daus.: Helen Mabel, b. 2 Oct. 1894; Muriel Frances, b. 6 April, 1896; Gwendoline, b. 14 July, 1897; Georgina Marjorie, b. 17 Aug. 1901; Kathleen Elizabeth, b. 9 May, 1907; and Ella Marguerite, b. 28 April, 1911.

=FARRAR, JOHN=, Private, No. 7725, 4th Battn. Durham Light Infantry, only s. of William Farrar, of Southwick-on-Wear, by his wife, Treaser, dau. of Matthew Crawford, of Sunderland; b. Southwick, co. Durham, 12 Aug. 1890; educ. St. Benett’s R.C. School, Monkwearmouth; enlisted in 1907 in the Special Reserve of the Durhams and was discharged in 1913, when he rejoined for another term and was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914, went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in France, 5 Dec. 1914, while on sentry duty; and was buried on a farm, Du-Bix; unm.

=FARRAR, LUKE=, Private, No. 10735, 2nd Battn. Durham Light Infantry, 4th s. of Luke Farrar, of Southwick-on-Wear, Shipyard Labourer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Clark, of Southwick; b. Southwick, co. Durham, 25 July, 1884; was employed in Pickersgill’s Yard, Sunderland; enlisted 26 Sept., 1914; trained at South Shields; killed in action “somewhere” in France, 6 Feb. 1916, and was buried in Rotize Cemetery. He m. at Sunderland, 22 May, 1906, Mary Jane (4, Stoney Lane, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of James Foster, of Sunderland, and had four children: Luke, Burliss, b. 8 June, 1912; James, b. 13 April, 1915; Sarah Elizabeth, b. 19 July, 1905; and Esther Jane, b. 13 Sept. 1908.

=FARRER, JOHN EDWARD=, Private, No. 7152, 2nd East Lancashire Regt., s. of John Edward Farrer; b. 28 Jan. 1879; educ. Brunswick Day School, Burnley; was a Weaver; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 18 Sept. 1914; went to France, 26 Dec. following, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 14 March, 1915. He was formerly a cornet player in the local Volunteers. He m. at Gannow, Burnley, 4 June, 1904, Clara (37, Haslam Street, Burnley), dau. of William Sagar, and had two children: William Edward, b. 5 Nov. 1905; and Hilda, b. 4 May, 1914.

=FAUGHNAN, FRANCIS=, Private, No. 2972, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of John Faughnan, of Briskillbeg, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Patrick McAvey; b. Briskillbeg, Newtonforbes, co. Longford; educ. Cloonteagh National School, Newtonforbes; enlisted after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action on the Western front, 17 Nov. 1915; unm.

=FAUGHNAN, PATRICK=, Private, No. 2707, 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, s. of John Faughnan, of Briskillbeg, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Patrick McAvey; b. Briskillbeg, Newtonforbes, co. Longford; educ. Cloonteagh National School, Newtonforbes; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action on the Western front, 10 Oct. 1915; unm.

=FAULKNER, VICTOR=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16023, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FAULKS, PHILIP ALBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27543 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of John Thomas Faulks, of 4, Cobden Street, Loughboro’; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FAWCETT, ROBERT HEATH=, 2nd Lieut., 4th (Special Reserve), attached 1st, Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., eldest s. of Henry Heath Fawcett, of Berkhampsted, and of the War Office, by his wife, Colina, dau. of John Colin Sharp; b. Wimbledon, co. Surrey, 5 March, 1893; educ. Hillside, Godalming; Uppingham, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (where he was an Exhibitioner, and a member of the O.T.C.); gazetted 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 15 Aug. 1914; went to Flanders 10 April, 1915, where he was attached to the 1st Battn., and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 April, 1915; unm. He was buried at Zillebeke, near Ypres.

=FAWLEY, FRANCIS HENRY BUCKLEY=, Private, No. 1862, Honourable Artillery Company, s. of Henry John Buckley Fawley, of 35, Queen Elizabeth’s Walk, Stoke Newington, N., Journalist, by his wife, Emily, dau. of the late James (and Eliza) Smith, of Lordship Lane, Wood Green, N., formerly of Sittingbourne, Kent; b. Harringay, London, 16 Aug. 1895; educ. Finsbury Park College, London, was on the clerical staff of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways Company; joined the H.A.C. after the outbreak of the war in the beginning of Sept. 1914, went to France, 23 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 15 May, 1915. He was buried in the grounds of the Chateau of Elzenwalle, near Voormezeele; unm. His Sergt. wrote: “He was killed on the night of the 15th inst. He lived for some hours after he was struck, and was quite conscious when I last saw him.... His pluck was wonderful; he knew he was mortally wounded yet possessed himself like the gentleman and man he was; never giving a sign of any pain--his main concern being for the safety of his comrades.... We all liked him and shall miss him greatly.”

=FAY, WALTER EDWARD=, Rifleman, No. 2407, 18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late James Charles Fay (died 13 Nov. 1915), by his wife, (--) (79, Limerstone Road, King’s Road, Chelsea, S.W.); b. Fulham, S.W., 24 July, 1894; educ. St. Mark’s College, Chelsea; enlisted after the outbreak of war 2 Sept. 1914, and died of wounds received in action at the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. 1915; unm.

=FEATHERSTONE, ALFRED CHARLES=, Rifleman, No. 2472, 1/8th (Leeds Rifles) Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Alfred Charles Featherstone, of West Normans, Park Avenue, Castleford, by his wife, Jane Harriet, dau. of Alfred Watson, of East Hardwicks, Yorks; b. Castleford, co. York, 30 April, 1891; educ. King’s School, Pontefract; entered the employ of the London City and Midland Bank at Morley, Yorkshire, when 16, and at the outbreak of the war was holding the post of Assistant Cashier. He enlisted 21 Sept. 1914; sailed for France, 15 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 May, 1915, and was buried in Rue de Bacquerot, France; unm. His officer wrote: “He was one of the most popular men in the company, and we all feel his loss very keenly.”

=FEATHERSTONE, CECIL FREDERICK=, Lieut., 3rd, attached 2nd, Battn. East Surrey Regt., eldest s. of Frederick Featherstone, of Mount Pleasant, Plough Lane, Purley, member of London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Minnie Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas W. Dean; b. Lewisham, 13 Feb. 1897; educ. Holmwood, Bexhill-on-Sea (1906–1910), where in 1907 he joined the School Cadet Corps, which was affiliated with the 2nd Home Counties Royal Engineers (T.F.). In 1911 he went to Dover College, where he won prizes in English, Latin, and other subjects, and joined the O.T.C., in which he had reached the rank of Sergt., when gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. of the East Surreys, 16 Dec. 1914. Joining his regt in Jan. he left for France on 20 March, 1915, was attached for a while to C Coy. 1st Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., and later transferred for duty to the 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., being confirmed in his rank as 2nd Lieut. 9 April, 1915. He was killed in action, being shot through the heart while bravely leading his men in the repulse of the German attack on the British trenches near Ypres, 25 April, 1915. He was buried in the Officer’s Graveyard, 1½ miles east of Zonnebeke; unm. Sergt. Buckingham, of the East Surreys, gave the following graphic account of the incidents from 17 to 27 April: “Our headquarters were at Zonnebeke, near Ypres. About 3 p.m. on the 17th an order was given to pack up and move. There was some heavy shelling at the time, and it took about one hour to get everything on to the transport. We were then given another 150 rounds ammunition to carry and about 4.30 the order to move was given. We took a road to the left of Ypres. Our company officer, Capt. Fuller, was sick, so he was not with us, but Lieut. Rottman took charge. We had only three officers--Lieuts. Rottman, Featherstone and Ward--and we reached our destination, about a mile from Langemark, about 7 p.m. We were then under heavy shell fire. A, B and C Companies were put into position and we were to be the supports. We were in position all that night, but nothing happened. As it was getting daylight we retired a bit further back--this was the 18th--but had to stand to nearly all day as there was heavy rifle fire and shells. About 5 p.m. we pushed forward, going through the Canadians and some French infantry who had been pushed back, and we had to retake their trenches, which we did without much trouble. The French were made secure and got their trenches, and we took the Canadian’s and had orders to stop in them. We worked all night repairing the breastworks with sandbags, the officers and sergts. relieving one another for a rest. At dawn on the 19th the enemy started with their trench mortars, which were dropping just in rear of our trenches. We were expecting a big shelling then, but they must have been laying their guns or had brought more up for we were only getting a shell here and there and were pretty quiet and remained so until the afternoon of the 20th. From the 17th to the 20th we had no casualties amongst the officers and not many men. On the afternoon of the 20th the bombardment started, but they did not have a good range that day. At night the Middlesex brought our rations up and a working party, who made us a bit stronger. They left us about 3 a.m. on the 21st. Toward dawn we were bombarded again, this time a little closer. As it got lighter we saw about half a dozen German aeroplanes coming towards our trenches, they flew up and down dropping smoke bombs, and the shells were dropping all round us, so we had to lay close up to the parapets. Here we stayed all day, this night--21st, or rather early 22nd--no rations could be brought to us and no working party, so we dug ourselves right in as messages came that we were to hold on at all cost. We still had all our officers. As day dawned it was a bit quiet. That night we had our rations and hot soup brought up and were told we were going to be relieved the next night, 23rd. On the morning of the 23rd it was still quiet, but about 3 p.m. they started something terrible, only taking our regiment. They were then using gas shells and breaking our parapets and shelling the roads. Again a message came to hold on and that we would not be relieved, we then lost a few men. This lasted all day. On the early morning of the 24th Lieut. Fardell was killed, and gas was used all day. Lieut. Featherstone got some handkerchiefs and soaked them with water and handed them around and we lost about 40 men that day. As night came on, I think it was about 2 a.m. on the 25th. Mr. Featherstone, who was then taking his rest, came, and he looked very upset, and said to me: ‘Poor Mr. Rottman is killed.’ I said: ‘I am very sorry to hear that,’ and went and had a look at him. I came back and he was still standing, and I and Sergt. Lower said: ‘Why don’t you go and finish your rest, we will come and let you know if anything is wrong.’ So he went, but he did not stop long as it was getting on time to stand to arms, so we stood, and when it was light they sent shells in front of our trench and smashed the barbed wire, therefore we knew that they were going to attack, and while we were getting ready a shell struck the parapet, and me and Mr. Featherstone had the sandbags over us. We got out of that and laughed at one another. As it went on the parapets were being blown to bits, so an order came to get the men to the right and at some parts we had to crawl. Sergt. Lower led the way and Mr. Featherstone and I saw every man safe. It was while we were crawling past a gap in the parapet a piece of shell struck me, I did not stop, but he saw I was hit and said: ‘Are you all right? I said: ‘Yes, come on.’ We got past the gap and he said: ‘Where are you hit?’ I thought it was my arm and dropped my rifle. He picked it up and said: ‘We must get out of this,’ and we went on a bit and found we were in the Northumberlands and stayed there, and then the enemy were in our trenches. I had had my shoulder dressed and the order to spread out came. I then saw Mr Featherstone had lost his hat and getting close up to him I said, ‘the supports are driving them out so they were all shouting hurrah.’ Mr. Featherstone was then firing out of my rifle and I gave him another clip. I then saw him go up a little way further and fall. He was struck by a bullet and we sent for the stretcher bearers. He was then dead.” The Adjutant of his Battn. wrote to his father: “Like all our young officers he carried out his duty to the end and by his example the men remained steadfast and the trenches were held in spite of poisonous gases and rifle and shell fire. We have been so fortunate in having such good officers that the battn. has earned special praise from all, and General French thanked us yesterday for the work of 25 April, during which your son fell”; and a subaltern: “2nd Lieut. Featherstone was killed during the German attack on 25 April under circumstances which proved him a very brave officer. The enemy having got all round us our men were firing in all directions, generally at no particular object as often happens in times of excitement. It was in trying to stop the men wasting their munitions that Lieut. Featherstone was twice wounded. He still continued, however, to calm his men till he was shot in the heart by a stray bullet.” While at Holmwood School, Lieut. Featherstone was a sapper and shot in the School XI, winning the Sheffield Trophy on outdoor competition, at 200 and 500 yards with the service rifle; he also shot in the team for the Holman Cup, an indoor competition at 20 yards. At Dover College he was in the 1st Football XI, as well as playing cricket; and shot for his school at Bisley in 1913 in the Cadet pairs, likewise in the Team of the Ashburton Shield in 1914. Lieut. Featherstone was promoted Lieut. subsequent to his death.

=FEE, SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7543), S.S. 102801, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=FEE, SAMUEL=, Corpl., No. 12808, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., 3rd s. of Robert Fee, of 33, Muslin Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Slater’s Labourer, by his wife, Lily, dau. of (--) Arnell; b. Bridgeton, Glasgow, 19 June, 1892; educ. Hozier Street Public School there; was a Miner, Old Farm Colliery, Rutherglen; enlisted 17 Aug. 1914; went to France in May, 1915, and was killed in front of the parapet during the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. The Coy. Sergt.-Major wrote that “he was a good soldier and N.C.O.”

=FEE, WILLIAM JOHN=, Bugler. R.M.A., 11537, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FEENEY, THOMAS=, Leading Signaller, 220726, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FEGAN, WILLIAM PATRICK=, Sergt., No. 26519, 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal), Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of Francis Fegan, of Waggarandall, near Melbourne, Australia, Landowner, by his wife, Mary, dau. of (--) Homer; b. Major Plains, Melbourne, 29 Jan. 1877, and was educ. at Dookie College, near Melbourne. He was surveying in South Africa when the Boer War began; he immediately joined the Victorians, and served through that campaign, 1899–1902, being wounded twice and receiving the Queen’s and King’s medals. He then became an expert for the International Co., of Buenos Ayres, and went round the world eight times for them, and after some seven years at Buenos Ayres went to Canada where he was in Aug. 1914, when the European War was declared. He at once volunteered; enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; went to France Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, 27 Nov. 1915. His company officer, Capt. Whitehead, wrote: “Your husband was one of the finest men I ever met, and one of my most reliable N.C.O.’s, and his loss will be felt very heavily: he was killed almost instantly, the bullet entering the base of the neck, and passing through the body”; and Lieut. Gordon Leighton: “I can bear a few words of testimony of his courage and worth, having been associated with him since his arrival in France. He was a brave and soldierly man. He had been through some very trying times with us, but never lost his coolness and courage in the face of the gravest danger and difficult situations. Moreover he had voluntarily undertaken work he knew was of a dangerous character. I personally, and I think all the officers of the company, regret exceedingly the loss of Sergt. Fegan, as we feel we have lost a man who was far above the average and whose soldierly worth was invaluable.” He m. at St. Brigid’s Roman Catholic Church, Fitzroy, Melbourne, 10 June, 1911, Kathleen, sister of Private Arthur Moore, 5th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, who died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 29 Feb. 1916 (see his notice), and dau. of Henry Albert Moore, of Park House, Whatley, near Frome, Somerset, and had two children: William Ernest Patrick, b. 10 Jan. 1913; and Kathleen Joan Florence, b. 5 Oct. 1915.

=FEILDEN, GRANVILLE JOHN HENRY=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, only s. of Major Granville Cholmondeley Feilden, D.S.O., late Seaforth Highlanders, now commanding the London Division of the Corps of Commissionaires (who served through the South African War, wounded at Paardeberg, 18 Feb. 1900, Queen’s medal three clasps, King’s medal two clasps), and his wife, Edith Margaret, 2nd dau. of the late Sir Henry Cockburn MacAndrew, of Aisthorpe, Inverness; b. Drummuie House, Golspie, co. Sutherland, 27 Aug. 1895; educ. the New Beacon, Sevenoaks, Wellington College (“Blucher”), and Sandhurst (Prize Cadet) and on passing out from the last was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, 12 Aug. 1914, and was ordered to join the 3rd Battn. at Cromarty on the 25 Aug. On 12 Sept. he went to France with a draft joining the 2nd Battn. on the Aisne. He moved from there with the 4th Division in the middle of Oct. to the Belgian frontier, and took part in the severe fighting around Frehlingham and Messines during the end of October and beginning of November, and spent five months with his regt. in the trenches near Messines. He came home on a week’s leave in Feb., returning to his regt. on the 10th of that month, and was killed in action on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, during the attack on St. Julien, in the second Battle of Ypres. His C.O. wrote: “You know how your son was loved by us all, he was so brave, so gallant, so cheery, and beloved by his men.... On the morning of 25 April I reached the right of the line about 9 a.m., and was close to your son when he was killed.... We have lost many gallant officers, but none more gallant than your son”; and the second in Command: “We advanced at dawn on Sunday, 25 April. The old Corps were as steady as ever.... our losses were very severe. Your son was killed instantaneously while doing his duty most well and gallantly.... We were all so fond of him, he was an absolutely first-class officer with any amount of initiative and ‘go’.” A fellow subaltern also wrote: “I was with John most of the night of the 24th and 25th, and he was very cheery then and full of spirits. I did not see him in the actual attack until we were about 40 yards from the German trenches, when he helped me to straighten out the company behind a defensive position. I was hit then, so did not see him again.” He was buried at Burnt Farm on the left of the St. Jean-St. Julien Road, with four of his brother officers, including the Capt. of his company.

=FELLOWES. ARTHUR ROSS=, Private, No. 6/226, 12th Nelson Regt., Canterbury Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Robert Ross Fellowes, of Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand; b. Takaku, Nelson, 14 Sept. 18..; educ. at Wakefield, Nelson; volunteered on the outbreak of war, leaving home to join up 12 Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the Main Force in Oct., took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and was killed in action near Gabe Tepe, between 25 April and 1 May, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm. As a school cadet and in Egypt he proved himself a remarkably good shot, winning several prizes. He was the first Wakefield man to fall in action.

=FELLOWES, WILLIAM JOHN=, Sick Berth Steward, 350884, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=FELTHAM, ARTHUR=, Signalman, J. 14117, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=FENDLEY, JOHN ROBERT=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 5634), 284849, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FENERAN, FRANK EDWARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., 2nd s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Edward Feneran, 1st Northamptonshire Regt, (who served in the Crimea), by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of the late Charles Herring-Cooper, and gdson. of Col. Francis Feneran, Derbyshire Regt. (who served at Waterloo); b. Kensington, 23 April, 1881; educ. privately and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the King’s Liverpool Regt., 12 Aug. 1899, and was promoted Lieut. 21 July, 1900, and Capt. 18 Sept. 1909. From April 1904 to April 1907, he was Ordnance Officer (4th class) and in 1911 was appointed Adjutant to the Special Reserve. He passed the school of signalling and in 1914 the examination for the Staff College. On the outbreak of the European War, he went to France with his regiment, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 Mar. 1915, while leading his men; unm. A brother officer, writing to Lord Derby, graphically described the heroism of the Liverpool Regt. at Neuve Chapelle, stating A Coy. was commanded by Capt. Feneran, who was killed leading his men, adding that he was a very sad loss indeed to the Regt. in which he had spent his life, but that his was a gallant end. Capt. Feneran was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

=FENN, DAVID=, Private, 10906, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Harry Fenn, of 36, Leader Road, Hillsboro’, Sheffield; b. co. York; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Richebourg, 2 April, 1915. Buried Rue des Berreaux, Bethune.

=FENNELL, JOHN=, Chief Petty Officer (R.F.R., A. 907), 121737, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FENNESY, RICHARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 603), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914].

=FENWICK, BASIL MIDDLETON=, Sergt., No. 109, A Squadron, 10th West Australian Light Horse, only s. of Charles Richard Fenwick, of Ben Rhydding, Yorks, and 26, Park Row, Leeds, M. Inst. C.E., F.S.I., by his wife, Margaret, dau. of William Middleton, Solicitor; b. Pool, co. York, 3 Sept. 1885; educ. Haileybury College; went to West Australia in 1909 to the Murchison Goldfield; volunteered on the outbreak of War in Aug. 1914, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt in Feb. 1915, went to the Dardanelles; volunteered for special duty on 30 May, 1915, in the counter attack at Quinn’s Post, was there wounded and invalided into Hospital at Alexandria, being mentioned by his C.O., Maj. Thomas J. Todd, in his report; was promoted Sergt. June or July; returned to duty at Anzac in Aug. and was killed in action there a few days later, 7 Aug. 1915, on Russell’s Top, in the attack on the Turkish position at Walker’s Ridge. In this terrible charge some 700 men were killed in the course of a few minutes. Major Todd wrote, 22 Oct. 1915: “It may be a consolation to know that your son was specially mentioned for conspicuous bravery and I had him picked out for a commission, he was indeed a fine soldier.” Sergt. Arundel in hospital told a friend: “Sergt. Fenwick was one of the bravest, finest men on the Peninsula, a born soldier--a hero--he first distinguished himself at Quinn’s Post, bomb throwing in the most extraordinary brave way. He picked up and returned live bombs thrown by the Turks.” Trooper Sydney G. E. Robson wrote, 2 Oct. 1915: “In the charge at Quinn’s Post (30 May) we were side by side. Here your son showed great courage, he was first over the parapet, his coolness and initiative in the captured Turks’ trench undoubtedly saved our lives.” Major Love asked for names to be mentioned for distinction, a memorial was signed by the survivors, unanimously Basil Fenwick’s was voted. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Alexander Godley, C.B., K.C.M.G., also wrote: “I understand that he was looked upon by his comrades and officers as a particularly fine soldier and an exceptionally brave man.”

=FENWICK, FREDERICK RICHARD WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 11044, s. of John Fenwick, of 85, Oriel Street, Hirst Ashington, Northumberland; b. Durham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. 1914, aged 22.

=FEREDAY, THOMAS HAROLD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10391), 108085, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FERG, EDWARD CHARLES=, Private, No. 840, 8th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Fannin Ferg (born in Germany, went to Canada at the age of five), by his wife Sarah (Monkton, Ontario, Canada), dau. of William Blighton, of Newark, England; b. Elma Township, Perth co., P. Ontario, 23 July, 1887; educ. local Public School; was a Locomotive Engineer; joined 90th Winnipeg Rifles, in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of War; left Canada with the 1st Contingent, and was killed in action at Langemarck, 22 April, 1915; unm. He was buried at St. Julien, near Ypres.

=FERGUSON, JAMES=, Private, No. 10202, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of James Ferguson, of 43, Lorburn Street, Dumfries; enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, aged 19; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915; unm.

=FERGUSON, JOHN=, Private, No. 3361, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots. 2nd s. of the late Thomas Ferguson, Wool Factory Worker, by his wife, Mary (16, Lothian Street, Hawick), dau. of John Watts; b. Weensland, Hawick, co. Roxburgh, 20 Sept. 1879; educ. Trinity School there; worked on North British Railway, enlisted 10 Sept., 1914, went to the front 10 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Petite La Bloise, near Kemmel, Belgium, 14 Dec. 1914; unm.

=FERGUSON, MATTHEW=, Private, No. 11699, 1st Battn. Highland L.I.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle 11–18 March, 1915.

=FERGUSON, PETER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10201), 298040, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=FERGUSON, ROBERT=, Private, No. 7060, 1st Battn. Highland L.I.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Richebourg, 17–23 May, 1915; m.

=FERGUSON, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 13355, 11th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 27 Sept. 1915.

=FERGUSON, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1799, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland Light Infantry, eldest s. of the late Archibald Ferguson, Electric Crane Driver, by his wife, Helen (106, Green Street, Calton, Glasgow), dau. of the late William Thompson; b. Calton, 26 Nov. 1894; educ. Campbellfield Public School, Glasgow; was employed as machine man with Singers, Clydebank; enlisted 15 Dec. 1914; went to France in May, 1915; volunteered as a bomb thrower, and was killed at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, when in advance with a bombing party; unm. He is believed to have been buried at Cambrin.

=FERGUSSON, JAMES ADAM HAMILTON=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., 4th s. of Sir James Ranken Fergusson, of Spitalhaugh, co. Peebles, 2nd Bt., J.P., by his wife, Alice Fanny, dau. of the late John Price Simpson; b. London, 22 March, 1892; educ. Ardvreck, Crieff, Winchester College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Highland L.I., 14 Feb. 1912, was promoted Lieut. June or July, 1914, went to France with his regt., Aug. 1914, and was killed at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914, being shot through the forehead after rising from assisting a wounded man; unm. He was a good golfer, a keen sportsman, and a most dutiful son.

=FERGUSSON, ROBERT FRANK=, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers (T.F.), elder s. of David Fergusson, of 7, Park Terrace, Ayr, Scotland, Bachelor of Laws, Solicitor, by his wife, Mary K., dau. of the late Andrew Galloway, of Ayr; b. Ayr, 6 April, 1893; educ. Ayr Academy, and Glasgow University; served his apprenticeship with his father, and afterwards completed it in the office of Messrs. Russell & Duncan, Solicitors, 105, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, with whom he was when the war broke out. During the two years he was in Glasgow he completed his law course for the B.L. degree and had passed three of his examinations. He received his commission, 1 Sept. 1914; was promoted Lieut. on the 30th of that month; left with his regt. for the Dardanelles on 20 May, 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July, 1915; unm. Lieut.-Col. J. B. Pollok M’Call, Commanding the 5th Battn., wrote: “Whilst leading his men about 4 p.m. on 12th July he was struck in the heart. He was immediately carried down and at once attended to by our doctor. The doctor told me he was afraid he had no chance, as he feared a large blood-vessel was severed. Your son was sent on to try and get him to hospital, but he died on the way down, three hours after he was hit. He was partly conscious, but I do not think he suffered. He had been in the thick of the fight since early morning, and had done splendidly. I feel his loss to the 1/5th greatly. We buried him next day, and put a cross on his grave.” Capt. Cook also wrote: “He was killed on the 12th inst., in an action lasting from the 11th to the 15th. He did his part right nobly, leading his men across an open space of 200 yards amidst shell, rifle, and machine-gun fire. He reached his objective with few losses owing to his vigour and determination and the inspiring example he set his men. But unfortunately while busy with the work of reversing and consolidating the captured trench, he was struck down with shrapnel which at this stage was continuous. All was done that could be to make him comfortable and when night began to fall we had him taken back over the open to a dressing station where he received skilled aid, but he died the same evening. He was a gallant officer and a fine comrade and his loss is greatly deplored by all ranks.”

=FERNS, HAROLD JOHNSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3516), 196242, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FERRAND, HERBERT HAROLD=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 6, 4th Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Thomas Watson Ferrand, of 6, West View, Grove Street, Beverley Road, Hull, Plumber, by his wife, Sarah Nicholls, dau. of the late John Fayers, of Hull; b. Hull, co. York, 15 May, 1876; educ. St Paul’s School, Hull, and on leaving there entered the employ of the Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Co., Lowgate, in which he held a responsible post at the time of his death. He joined the 1st V.B. East Yorkshire Regt. April, 1894; volunteered for service in South Africa, 8 March, 1900, and served there for one year and 92 days, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps, and after his return was for a long time Signal Instructor (Aldershot certificate, 31 Aug. 1903). On the outbreak of the European War, his regiment were at Camp at Deganway, they were ordered home, and went straight into training at Darlington and later at Newcastle, and from there went to the Front, 18 April, 1915. He came safely through the night attack at Ypres, on Saturday the 25th, and was killed by shrapnel on Sunday, 26 April, 1915; unm. He had the King’s T.F. medal for efficiency.

=FERRIS, CORNELIUS PERCY SPARLING=, Petty Officer, Tel. 178611, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MOCKLER-FERRYMAN, HUGH=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., elder s. of Lieut.-Col. Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman, of St. John’s House, Tavistock, Devon, late Oxfordshire L.I., by his wife, Evelyn, dau. of the late Sir Charles Whitehead; b. Maidstone, co. Kent, 3 May, 1892; educ. St. Neots, Eversley, Wellington College, and Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut., 20 Sept. 1911, and was promoted Lieut., 27 April, 1914; went to France with his regt., on the outbreak of war; took part in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action near La Soupir, 16 Sept. 1914, by a shell which burst in the middle of his company, killing and wounding several officers and men. He and two of his brother officers were buried that night in the churchyard of La Soupir; unm. A senior officer wrote: “The whole regt. mourns the loss of one of its best and most popular officers. You would be proud if you could hear the way in which the N.C.O.’s and men speak of him”; while a Corpl. in his company described him in a letter home as “a thorough sportsman, liked by everyone, and loved by his company.” Lieut. Mockler-Ferryman, who was a good cricketer and an excellent bowler, played for Berkshire County, Wellington College, and the Aldershot Command. In Switzerland, where he spent his winter leave, he came rapidly to the front as a curler, and in his last season as the youngest “skip” he contributed largely to Villars victories. He was a good shot and a keen fisherman.

=FESTER, WILLIAM ERNEST=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7345), 224906, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FETHERSTONE, ROSS LEA=, Private, No. 108219, 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles, s. of Walter Fetherstone; b. North Bay, Ontario, Canada, 25 Nov. 1890; educ. Calgary, Alberta; joined the C.E.F. March, 1915, and died at Etaples, 30 Nov. 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while on active service. He m. at Akotoks, Alberta, 18 March, 1911, Kathleen (2060, Hamilton Street, Regina, Sask.), dau. of (--) Tabor, and had two children: Ernest Joseph, b. 18 Dec. 1913; and Sylvia Ethel, b. 3 Dec. 1911.

=FFIELD, BERNARD OSBORNE=, Flight Sub-Lieut., R.N., eldest s. of Bernard Ffield, of the Old Bank House, Coleshill, Warwickshire, Manufacturer, by his wife, Beatrice, elder dau. of the late William Hays, of Nevern Square, S.W., and Kilcraggan, co. Kilkenny; b. London, 17 Aug. 1894; educ. Wimbledon College; gazetted Sub-Lieut. R.N.A.S., 9 Sept. 1914, and received his brevet from the Royal Aero Club on 10 Dec. following. On 24 Dec. 1914 he was coming down from a height of about 2,000 ft. after a good flight, at the Royal Naval Air Station, Hendon, when, at about 200 ft. from the ground, the machine was seen to take a sudden vertical dive to earth, and was so smashed that it was impossible to ascertain what had gone wrong. He died the same evening, Christmas Eve, after receiving the last rites of his Church; unm. A senior brother officer wrote of him: “He was quite the best of all the others who had gained their certificates some three weeks before him. I watched most of his flights as I had to look after the flying. He was one of the neatest men I have seen; he was so beautifully gentle with his hands, and that is one of the secrets of a good pilot.”

=FFITCH, HARRY HERBERT=, Lieut., 1st Canterbury Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Henry Ffitch, of 34, Glandovey Road, Fendaton, New Zealand, Farmer, by his wife, Florence, dau. of George Dunnage; b. Springfield, New Zealand, 28 July, 1888; educ. High School, Christchurch; was a Lieut. in the New Zealand Territorial Force; passed his examination for Capt. 6 Oct. 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and was gazetted Lieut. 14 Sept. 1914. He was killed in action at the landing at Gabe Tepe, 26 April, 1915. Sergt.-Major F. G. Hall-Jones, in describing the action in which Lieut. Ffitch met his death, wrote: “You will have read how we landed in the morning of 25 April, and advancing over a shrapnel-swept hill, were split up into small groups of tens and twenties. I took a small party to where reinforcements appeared to be urgently needed, and this locality appeared to be the apex of the triangle (based on the beach) which formed our front. It was, I think, a little to the right of what subsequently became Quinn’s Post, and I understand that the exact position subsequently became a ‘no man’s land,’ untenable by either friend or foe. The fire all the afternoon was very hot, the Turks having been reinforced, and the Australian officer (Capt. Leer) withdrew us from the scrub-covered open to the crest a few yards back, and met his death in so doing. At dusk, the fire ceasing somewhat, we again advanced, brought in the wounded, and endeavoured to keep the Turks from advancing up the other side of the hill; but eventually they outflanked us, and we again sought the crest and dug in. It was then that I first saw your son, although he was probably there all the afternoon, and gave him a message that our Major Dawson (3rd Auckland Coy.) wished to confer with him. The plans hastily improvised by these two undoubtedly saved the situation, and incidentally prevented the Turks from piercing our lines and firing down the big gully (Shrapnel Gully) behind us. The tactics adopted were: Dig in, send forward occasional scouts and organise small flanking parties. You will understand that our small party, consisting of 50 to 80 men, drawn from various Australian and New Zealand battns., was quite ‘in the air’ at the apex of the triangle, and the Turks were able to fire at us from three directions. Your son organised a party on our right flank in such a way that they not only prevented the enemy from troubling us from that quarter, but also enfiladed a body of Turks attacking our men 500 yards away. Let the facts speak their own tribute. The Turks advanced to the crest--they must have been at least 300 strong--and dug in only 20 yards away. Their jabbering was consistent throughout the night; they even talked to isolated units of our men, said they were Indians, and passed us false words of command. We fired rapidly the whole night through, and deceiving them as to our numbers prevented them from charging. I cannot even now remember with equanimity our condition--exhausted, cold, and over-strained--desirous only of hurling ourselves at the enemy and ending the tension one way or another. Mr. Dawson and Mr. Ffitch passed along frequently during the night with words of advice, encouragement and restraint, and I realised later their good sense in preventing us from charging. Had we gone forward we should have been wiped out. At dawn the Turks sent small parties creeping forward in the scrub, and we continually jumped up and took a pot shot at them. In this your son excelled, and the word was occasionally whispered near me, ‘Ffitch has got another one.’ I understand that he accounted for six that morning. Then, after another shot, he ejaculated, ‘Missed him,’ re-loaded, and jumped up to fire again. But the enemy was waiting, and even as he took aim a bullet cut through the belt of his wrist-watch, entered his cheek and killed him instantaneously. But his example and the spirit he had inspired in us did not pass with him, and by adopting his tactics we succeeded in beating back wave after wave of the enemy during that exhausting morning until a large party of Australians relieved us.”

=FIDDES, JAMES WILLIAM DICK=, Private, No. 8/783, 10th North Otago Coy. Otago Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of J. Fiddes, of Duntroon, Otago, New Zealand, by his wife, Margaret; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war; left for Egypt in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died of wounds received in action there, 8 May, following; unm.

=FIELD, EDWARD WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4765), 293724, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FIELD, FRANCIS HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1629), 198808, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FIELD, STEPHEN=, Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, only surviving s. of the late George Purdey Field, M.R.C.S., Aural Surgeon to St. Mary’s Hospital, London, and for 15 years Dean of the Medical School, by his wife, Pauline (By-the-Brook, Mortimer West End), dau. of Robert Faulder White; b. London, W., 16 April, 1880; educ. Mr. Hall’s School, Potters Bar, co. Herts; Framlingham, and Harrow, and St. Mary’s Medical School; gazetted Lieut. R.A.M.C., 28 Jan. 1907, and was promoted Capt. 28 July, 1910; served in Jamaica, Somaliland (medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was taken prisoner during the retreat from Mons, and died at the Prisoners’ Camp, Wittenberg, Saxony, 10 April, 1915, from typhus fever, contracted while tending soldiers ill of the disease. He m. in London, Margaret, dau. of (--) Price, and had a son and a dau.: Stephen, b. 15 Aug. 1906; and Stephanie Margaret, b. 15 Aug. 1904.

=FIELDER, ALBERT EDWARD=, Leading Stoker, Coastguard, 299691 (Po.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FIELDER, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2197, 1/5th Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I. (T.F.), eldest s. of George William Fielder, now serving as Mate in the Navy on H.M. Patrol Ships; b. Goole, co. York, 15 April, 1895; educ. Alexander Street Council School there; enlisted March, 1914; went to France, and was killed in action in Flanders, 9 July, 1915. Buried in Poperinghe; unm. His comrade spoke of him as “the Little man with the Big heart.”

=FILLEUL, LEONARD AMAURI=, B.A. Oxon., 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Somerset L.I., attd. to the Oxford and Bucks L.I., 2nd s. of the Rev. Philip William Girdlestone Filleul, Rector of Alfold, Billingshurst, Sussex, late Rector of Devizes, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of (--) Rodway and niece of Rowland Rodway, Adcroft, Trowbridge; b. Bath, 6 Feb. 1888, and was educ. Cleveland House, Weymouth; Trent College, Derbyshire; and Lincoln College, Oxford. He was in the University O.T.C., and rowed four years in his College Eight, and the last year in the winning trial Eight, and on leaving Oxford in 1911, became a master at Monkton Combe School, Bath. The same year he became attached to the 3rd Battn. Somerset L.I. as supplementary officer, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and after a short period of training with the Somerset Special Reserve Battn., Plymouth, was sent to the Front, 25 Sept., with a draft of the Oxford and Bucks. L.I. He was killed in action near St. Julien during the first Battle of Ypres, 21 Oct. 1914, and was buried midway between St. Julien and Poelcappelle, on the Ypres-St. Jean-Poelcappelle Road; unm. The Colonel of his own regt. wrote: “It was a great disappointment to learn on my arrival here that Filleul had been appointed to another regt., and was not coming out to join us at the Front, for he was a most capable officer, and very popular with his brother officers.” The former Colonel of his battn. wrote: “Filleul was my subaltern in two separate years, and of all the young fellows who were attached to the battn. he was far and away the best soldier. And not only the best soldier but one of the pleasantest and most delightful companions I have ever met. Always willing, keen and cheery, I loved having him with me, and I placed more reliance upon his judgment and ability than on many a more experienced man”; and the editor of the “Oxford Magazine” wrote: “He was one of the very best of his time, an inspiring leader, devoted to the College, and enthusiastically beloved.” At Trent College he won the Gold Medal of the National Service League for military proficiency, and at the same time received a book prize from Earl Roberts.

=FINCH, EDWARD TERENCE DOYNE=, Torpedo Lieut., Royal Navy, elder s. of Arthur Edward Finch, by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of the Rev. Philip Walter Doyne; b. Madras, India, 6 Nov. 1887; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth, and H.M.S. Britannia (1902–3); entered the Navy as a cadet, 15 Sept. 1903; became Midshipman, 15 Oct. following; Sub-Lieut., 15 Dec. 1906; Lieut., 15 June, 1908, and served in H.M. ships Hannibal, Prince George, Cornwall and Suffolk. He then commanded in turn H.M.T.B. 85 and H.M.T.B. 078, and afterwards H.M.T.B.D. Dasher and H.M.T.B.D. Brazen. He left this last destroyer in order to qualify as a Torpedo Lieut. in H.M.S. Vernon, and on obtaining this qualification he was appointed to the Bulwark, 13 Aug 1913, and was killed when that ship was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914; unm.

=FINCH, LEONARD EDWARD=, Quarter-master-Sergt., No. 3793, 9th Lancers, s. of the late Alfred John Finch, of Brockley, Kent; b. St. John’s, co. Kent, 27 June, 1874; educ. there; enlisted 2 March, 1895; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps and King’s medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug.-Sept. 1914, and died at the Military Hospital, Colchester, 17 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action in France, 29 Sept. 1914. He m. at St. Thomas’ Cathedral, Bombay, 1 Oct. 1904, his cousin Ethel (3, Norham Villas, Hillingdon Heath, near Uxbridge, Middlesex), dau. of James Finch, of Greenwich, and had two sons and a dau.: Kenneth Leonard, b. 12 April, 1908; Edwin George, b. 3 Aug. 1909; and Eileen Margaret, b. 15 April, 1906. Quartermaster-Sergt. Finch had the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

=FINCH, SYDNEY GEORGE=, Stoker P.O. (R.F.R., B. 4716), 280524, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FINDLAY, GEORGE HALLIDAY=, W.T. Operator, 2nd Class, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FINDLAY, NEIL DOUGLAS=, C.B., Brig.-Gen., Commanding Royal Artillery, 1st Division, Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Thomas Dunlop Findlay, of Easterhill, co. Lanark; b. Easterhill, co. Lanark, 7 May, 1859; entered Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 19 Jan. 1877; gazetted Lieut., 18 Dec. 1878, and promoted Capt., 28 April, 1887; Major, 21 Dec. 1896; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 29 Nov. 1900; Lieut.-Col., 1 Sept. 1904; Brevet Col., 15 Oct. 1905; Col., 2 March, 1908; and Temp. Brig.-Gen., 14 July, 1910; and was Adjutant R.A., 1 March, 1894, to 14 Jan. 1896. He served with the Hazara Expedition in 1888, being mentioned in the despatches, and receiving the Medal and Clasp; and in the South African War, 1899–1900. He took part in the operations in Natal in Dec. 1899; the relief of Ladysmith; operations in Natal, March-June, 1900; and in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria, July to Nov. 1900. For his services in this campaign he was twice mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. and 22 Feb. 1901], and twice by General Sir R. H. Buller (30 March and 9 Nov. 1900), and received the brevet of Lieut.-Col. and the Queen’s medal with six clasps. On his return from the Cape he was immediately (5 March, 1901) appointed Brigade Major, Royal Artillery, Aldershot, 1st Army Corps, which post he held till 14 April, 1904. He was A.A.G. at the War Office, 2 March, 1908 to 1910, and on 14 July, 1910, was appointed to the command of R.A. 1st Div. Aldershot Command, consisting of the 25th, 26th, 39th and 43rd Field Artillery Brigades. Brig.-Gen. Findlay took the Royal Artillery (1st Division) to France with the Expeditionary Force, 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, near Courchamp, 10 Sept. 1914, while directing the fire of the batteries. He was made a C.B. in 1905. He m. at St. Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, 17 Feb. 1892, Alma (Alphington, Frimley, Surrey), dau. of Thomas Lloyd, of Minard, co. Argyle, and had two daus.: Anne, b. 18 Dec. 1892; and Constance, b. 3 Dec. 1894.

=FINES, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No. 47995, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Charles Fines, of Spaldington Howden, by his wife, Jane, dau. of the late George Danby Cottingham; b. Blacktoft, near Howden, co. York, 16 July, 1889; educ. Little Weighton Church of England School; emigrated to Canada along with a brother in 1911, and was engaged on farm work. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and was wounded in the trenches in France while on night duty, and died while being conveyed to the hospital, 23 Nov. 1915; unm. He was the first Spaldington man to fall.

=FINK, GORDON=, Private, No. 674, A Coy., 16th Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of Hon. Theodore Fink, of Melbourne, Barrister and Solicitor, ex-Minister of the Crown, Member of the University Council, etc., by his wife, Kate, dau. of the late George Isaacs; b. Broceliande, South Yarra, Melbourne, 21 Nov. 1884; educ. Ormond College, Melbourne University; Bachelor of Laws, 1907; admitted a Barrister, Victoria, 1908; served in the Australian Field Artillery, 1907–9, being promoted 2nd Lieut. in the later year; went to the Malay States in 1910, but returned in 1911 and settled in Western Australia; called to the Bar there 1913. On the outbreak of war he enlisted at Perth, left for Egypt with the second Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action near Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, while gallantly carrying ammunition to the firing line, 2 May, 1915; unm. A comrade (Private Harry W. Leake) wrote: “On the evening of 2 May our battn. made an advance forward to take up a new position, and Gordon, who was Major Mansbridge’s observer, left the Major to assist the ammunition carriers get the boxes of ammunition up to our new trenches. There was one place where they had to go through a perfect hail of bullets, and Gordon was the only one who would face it. He got across safely with two or three boxes, and was then unfortunately shot through the head. Death was evidently instantaneous.” Major Mansbridge, in a letter to the “Perth Daily News,” said: “Gordon Fink, who was my observer and always at my side, asked if he could give a hand carrying ammunition up the side of a hill we call ‘Bloody Angle.’ I reluctantly gave permission, and that was the last I saw of him. His body was found 14 days later shot through the head.”

=FINLAY, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 5492, 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., s. of Edward Finlay, of Swalwell, Durham, by his wife; b. Scotswood, co. Northumberland, about 1890; enlisted 10 Aug. 1909, and was killed in action at Ypres, 18 Oct. 1914. He m. at Gateshead, 7 Feb. 1914, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Somerville, and had one child, John Somerville, b. Blaydon, 19 Feb. 1913.

=FINLAY, ROBERT CHRISTIE=, Private, No. 8353, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd s. of Thomas Finlay, of 233, Morningside Road, Edinburgh, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Peter Heatly; b. Edinburgh, 21 Dec. 1887; educ. South Morningside Board School there; enlisted 4 Dec. 1902, and served three years with the Colours, and was at the time of the outbreak of war a Bricklayer in the employ of Colin McAndrew, of Lauriston Gardens. He went to the Front, 11 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action in a bayonet charge at Petit Bois, near Kemmel, 14 Dec. 1914. He was a member of St. Matthew’s Parish Church, Edinburgh. He m. at Edinburgh, 18 June, 1909, Jane Johnstone (22, Wardlaw Place, Edinburgh), yst. dau. of David Purves Hall, and had a dau., Margaret Johnstone Hall, b. 11 May, 1914. His brother, Lieut. James Heatly Finlay, 9th Battn., 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, is now (1916) on active service.

=FINLAYSON, CHARLES TULLOCK=, Seaman, R.N.R., No. 1757C, H.M.S. Aboukir, 7th s. of Donald Finlayson, of Lossiemouth, Morayshire, by his wife, Catherine; b. Lossiemouth, 21 May, 1878; educ. there; joined the R.N.R. about 1900; called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914, and was lost in H.M.S. Aboukir, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Aberdeen, 18 Aug. 1908, Maggie Taylor (30, Gladstone Street, Blyth), dau. of William Black; s.p.

=FINLAYSON, GEORGE RUSSELL=, L.-Sergt., No. 9864, 2nd Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), yst. s. of the late Alexander Finlayson, Railway Goods Checker, by his wife, Jemima, dau. of George Russell, Coal Agent, Edinburgh; b. Edinburgh, 7 Dec. 1888; educ. Grammar School, Dunkeld, Perth; enlisted in the Black Watch at Perth, 25 April, 1904; and joined the 1st Battn. at Edinburgh Castle; went to India with a draft, and joined the 2nd Battn. in Dec. 1906; formed one of His Majesty’s Bodyguard at the Delhi Durbar (medal), 1911; left for France with the Indian Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Festubert, 12 Nov. 1914; unm.

=FINNETT, HENRY CHARLES=, Private, No. 1217, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The City of London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Finnett, of 76, Jersey Road, Custom House, E., Labourer, by his wife, Mary Ann Amelia, dau. of James Pleasant; b. London, E., 25 April, 1892; educ. Russell Road School, Custom House; and joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1912. At the time of the outbreak of war he was employed as an electrician at the India Rubber Works, Silvertown, but immediately volunteered for foreign service. He was sent first to Southampton, afterwards to Alresford for a time, being finally despatched with a draft to Malta. From there he proceeded to France, where he was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm.

=FINNIGAN, JAMES=, Corpl., No. 3293, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of the late Thomas Finnigan, for 20 years an employee of the Edinburgh Tramway Co., by his wife, Robina, dau. of James Tague; b. Edinburgh, 9 July, 1883; educ. St. Mary’s R.C. School, York Lane; joined the 11th Hussars, 8 Oct. 1900; served through the South African War, receiving the Queen’s medal, with three clasps, and obtained his discharge on 8 Oct. 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he re-enlisted in the 2nd Royal Scots, 20 Aug. 1914; went to France, 19 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action there, 20 June, 1915, by the bursting of a shell. Lieut. R. C. Blackwood, of the 2nd Royal Scots, wrote: “He had gone to act as a guide to the men who were to relieve us after a long time in the trenches. He was waiting for the new troops to arrive when a shell burst near him. His death happened in the night and as we had to hurry off I regret that we were unable to bury him, but this duty would be carried out by the troops who relieved us. I am exceedingly sorry to lose such a good corpl. His section was always the smartest on parade, and he kept them all up to the scratch. Only the day before his death he had been very active in carrying wounded soldiers into the trench, and in so doing must have brought comfort to many.” Corpl. Finnigan m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, 30 June, 1911, Helen Brodie (31, Eyre Place, Edinburgh), dau. of the late William (and Janet Knowles) Brodie, and had two children: James, b. 22 Sept. 1912; and May Helen, b. 19 May, 1914.

=FINNIGAN, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5192), 208508, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FINNIS, STEPHEN=, Stoker P.O., 174441, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FIPPARD, HERBERT JOHN=, Corpl. No. 2087, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of Herbert Samuel Bradshaw Fippard, of 11, Oakington Road, Maida Hill, W., by his wife, Anne Stephens, dau. of John Thomas Clift; b. Oakington Road aforesaid, 14 Aug. 1885; educ. Regent Street Polytechnic; joined Queen Victoria’s Rifles shortly after the outbreak of war, 20 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres while attending a wounded comrade (the same day as his younger brother, see following notice), 4 June, 1915; unm. Capt. R. H. Lindsay Renton wrote: “He met his death while helping a wounded comrade, an act characteristic of his life out here. He was a man who always did his duty, a man respected by his comrades and trusted by his officers. I feel that his death is a great loss to my company, and I shall find his place difficult to fill”; and a comrade testified that: “In the recent trying experiences the company has gone through at Ypres, Hill 60, and with the Canadians his coolness was remarkable and gave confidence to every one around him.” He was mentioned in Orders, 1 May, by Lieut.-Col. R. B. Shipley, commanding 9th London Regt., who said: “In such operations as these it is difficult to pick out individuals who particularly distinguish themselves. All have done their duty so nobly and without the slightest hesitation. I, however, wish to call attention to the services of the undermentioned, and to thank them in the name of their battn. for the invaluable services on Hill 60 and during the operations east of the Yser Canal: Capt. W. F. Roe, R.A.M.C., and all stretcher-bearers; Lieut. G. H. Woolley, Sergt.-Major E. W. Andrews, Sergts. G. R. Warrington, F. Hooper and E. H. Pulleyn, Corpl. H. D. Peabody, L.-Corpls. F. A. Swoffer, P. G. Clarke and G. F. Selfer, and Rifleman A. B. Ashford, A Coy.; Sergts. M. Brown, S. D. Ramus, R. Browett and H. J. How, B Coy.; Coy.-Sergt.-Major Sherriff, Sergt. C. Arnold, L.-Corpl. Bell, and Rifleman A. Payne, C Coy.; Coy.-Sergt.-Major F. T. A. Brehant, Sergt. H. E. Soundy, L.-Corpls. C. H. Rose and H. J. Fippard, and Rifleman J. Darrell and C. A. Spooner, D Coy.”

=FIPPARD, RICHARD CLIFT=, F.I.A., Capt., 14th (Service) Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. (The Prince of Wales’s Own), attd. Lancashire Fusiliers, yr. s. of Herbert Samuel Bradshaw Fippard, of 11, Oakington Road, Maida Hill, W., and yr. brother of the preceding; b. Oakington Road afsd., 30 Dec. 1887; educ. Regent Street Polytechnic; matriculated at London University; admitted a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, 14 June, 1910, and was Assistant Treasurer of the Prudential Approved Society, and joint author of a Primer on the Construction of Mortality and Sickness Tables. After the outbreak of war he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 14th West Yorkshire Regt., 14 Dec. 1914 and promoted Capt. 30 March, 1914. He was attached to the Lancashire Fusiliers, drafted to them at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Achi Baba, 4 June, 1915; unm. He was at first reported missing, but on 21 Nov. 1915, was officially reported to have been killed on the former date, the two brothers thus being killed the same day--the one in Flanders, the other in Gallipoli.

=FISH, FRANCIS EDWARD=, of Winterslow, Salisbury, Capt., 3rd (attd. 2nd) Battn. (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’ Own) Yorkshire Regt., s. of the late Ralph Fish, of Manchester and Blackburn, by his wife, Elizabeth Margaret, dau. of H. Loxon, of Leeds; b. Heaton Chapel, Manchester, 24 March, 1876; educ. King Edward’s School, Birmingham, and Askern College, Doncaster; joined the old 2nd Volunteer Battn. of the Yorkshire Regt. (The Green Howards) in 1901, and was transferred to the 3rd Battn. (Knaresborough Militia) in May, 1904, getting his company in 1909, in which year he retired. On the outbreak of war he rejoined, was gazetted Capt., 3rd Yorkshire Regt., Sept. 1914, and was for some time employed on Coast Defence, being blown off his feet during the bombardment of Hartlepool by a shell which burst some yards away; embarked for France with a draft of 350 men of the 2nd Battn. on 19 March, 1915, and was killed in action by a shell near Festubert, 17 May, 1915. He m. at Southport, March, 1912, Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Ackroyd, of Southport. She died s.p. June, 1914.

=FISHBOURNE, CHARLES EUSTACE=, Capt., Royal Engineers, eldest surviving s. of the Rev. Edward Alexander Fishbourne, Vicar of Gresford, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of the Venerable William Crawley, Archdeacon of Monmouth, and Rector of Bryngwyn, Mon.; b. Llandyssil Rectory, co. Montgomery, 15 Jan. 1885; was educ. St. George’s, Windsor; and Malvern College; and after passing through Woolwich and Chatham, obtained his commission in the R.E., 21 Dec. 1904, and was promoted Lieut. 23 June, 1907. Subsequently he was employed under the Colonial Office from June, 1907 to 1908 in Uganda upon survey work, for which he was highly commended, and the Royal Geographical Society awarded him the Cuthbert Peek grant. In Oct. 1909, he was appointed under the Board of Trade upon the London Traffic Commission, and on 4 Jan. 1913 retired into the Special Reserve R.E. on taking up a post as Assistant General Manager to the London General Omnibus Company. On the outbreak of the war he rejoined, went to the Front with the 9th Field Company R.E., 21 Aug. 1914, and served till 18 Nov. 1914, when he was wounded at Ploegsteert Wood, and invalided home. On his recovery he was appointed Adjutant to the R.E. Reserves at Chatham. He died at Field House, Beaconsfield, 10 June, 1915, of spotted fever contracted at Chatham. He m. at Llanbedr, 8 June, 1911, Mary Elizabeth (89, Overstrand Mansions, Battersea, S.W.), dau. of William Gaskell Holland, and left two sons: Patrick Alexander, b. 10 Feb. 1913; and Charles Michael Eustace, b. 2 Nov. 1915. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir J. French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915.

=FISHER, ALBERT WILLIAM=, Gunner, Immed. Class (R.F.R., 90), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FISHER, ALFRED=, Engine Room Artificer, No. 1523, Royal Naval Reserve, 3rd s. of Robert Fisher, Master Mariner, by his wife, Henrietta, dau. of John Myers; b. Boston, co. Lincoln, 15 April, 1888; educ. Hull Technical College; served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Earle & Co., Shipbuilders, Hull, and then went to sea. After obtaining his 1st Class certificate, he was appointed Resident Engineer at the Robert College, Constantinople, for three years, and on the outbreak of war returned to Hull; joined the R.N.R., and was appointed to H.M. auxiliary cruiser Viknor. He was drowned when this ship was lost off the North Coast of Ireland, 13 Jan. 1915. His body was recovered and buried in the island of Aronsay, Argyle. He m. at the British Consulate, Constantinople, 7 Oct. 1912, Elsie (10, Myrtle Avenue, Williamson Street, Hull), dau. of George Sloper, and had two sons: Alfred, b. 16 Dec. 1913; and Frank, b. 1 Aug. 1915.

=FISHER, ARTHUR ERNEST=, A.B., 205321, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FISHER, CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3992), 197064, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FISHER, EDWARD=, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 7255), S.S. 102176, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FISHER, EDWARD HERBERT=, Private, No. 10/1166, Wellington Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Edward Herbert Fisher, of Wellington, New Zealand, Clerk in Valuation Department, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late Ralph Milligan, of Drumderryglass, co. Cavan, and gdson. of the late James Temple Fisher, Postmaster-General in Sir George Grey’s Government; b. Ingham, Herbert River, North Queensland, 13 Oct. 1891; educ. Townsville, North Queensland, and at Wellington, New Zealand; was in the Telegraph Department, Wellington, but after the outbreak of war left 13 Oct. 1914; joined the Wellington Infantry Battn. the following day, and sailed for Egypt in the Arawa (Transport No. 10) two days later. On the voyage to Egypt was transferred to the Limerick (No. 7) as Wireless Operator, and was on duty during the engagement between H.M.A. Cruiser Sydney and the German Cruiser Emden, near Cocos Island; also on duty in Telephone Bureau on the banks of the Suez Canal during the Turkish attack; after being on the Canal for about a month he returned to Zeitoun Camp and from thence to Gallipoli, where he was killed a few days after landing, 29 April, 1915; unm. Fisher was an enthusiastic Rugby footballer, and was one of the team that won the Ranfurly Shield in Taranaki in 1914. It was reported that he was shot through the head while helping a wounded Australian.

=FISHER, HENRY RAYMOND=, Corpl., No. 25710, 14th Battn. (1st Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Charles Frederic Fisher, of Rollingdam, New Brunswick, Farmer, by his wife, Mary Ellen, dau. of Henry Johnston, of Rollingdam; b. Rollingdam, 1 April, 1883; educ. Rollingdam School; was for 15 years with the Canadian Pacific Railway as a fireman and engineer; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and enlisted at Montreal; came over with the first Canadian Contingent in Oct.; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France on 15 Feb.; took part in the Battle of Ypres, where the 14th Battn. is said to have saved the day, and died 2 May, 1915, from shrapnel wounds in the head, received in action in the reserve trenches. He was buried in Poperinghe Cemetery. His brother, L.-Corpl. Charles D. Fisher, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders of Canada) is now (1916) on active service in France.

=FISHER, JOHN EDMUND=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 341), late Ch./6698, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FISHER, LESLIE BENITO=, Lieut., 12th (Service) Battn. King’s Royal Rifles, only s. of the late William Edgar Fisher, Accountant, by his wife, Emma Louisa (Brampton Park, Brampton, Huntingdonshire), dau. of Benjamin Beasley; b. Fulham, S.W., 25 June, 1885; educ. privately; went to the Federated Malay States (Klang) in 1910 to take up a post with the North Hummock Rubber Co. Here his promotion was rapid, and at the time of his return home on leave in 1914 he was making an excellent position for himself. He arrived in England in August of that year, and three weeks later joined the Royal Fusiliers (Empire Battn.). In Nov. he was offered a commission in the 12th Service Battn. of the King’s Royal Rifles, which he accepted, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 17 Nov. 1914, and promoted Lieut. and machine gun officer in April, 1915. He was killed instantaneously by a shell in action at Bois Grenier, France, 14 Aug. 1915. As a schoolboy his great hobby was physical culture, and he was an ardent follower of Sandow, being remarkable for his splendid athletic physique and physical fitness. In 1909 he competed in a Marathon race at Bapton, Wiltshire, the course being 20 miles, and out of 32 entries only three ran the whole course, Lieut. Fisher being one of them. He was a brilliant hockey player, playing for Sussex and Dorset, and obtaining his colours for the latter county. In 1908 he joined as a trooper the Dorsetshire Yeomanry, and was offered a commission, which, however, he declined. His grandfather, the late Mr. Benjamin Beasley, was a noted shot, and in 1862 competed at Wimbledon for the Elcho Challenge Shield, becoming one of the first famous “English Eight.” Lieut. Fisher was unm., and was buried at Bois Grenier, France. A monument was erected to his memory in the chancel of St. Mary’s Church, Brampton, Huntingdonshire, Brampton being the village in which a great part of his life was spent.

=FISHER, ROBERT=, Leading Car. Crew, 344814, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=FISHER, WILLIAM HENRY=, Bandsman, No. 2710, 6th Battn. Welsh Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Ebenezer Fisher, of Cockett Farm, Cockett, labourer, by his wife Ann, dau. of William (and Rachel) Richards; b. Swansea, 2 April, 1888; educ. Plasmarsh Council School; was a brickmaker; joined the Army, 17 Nov. 1914; went to France, 7 March, 1915, and was killed in a motor lorry collision at Calais, 30 May, 1915, while on active service; unm.

=FISK, ALBERT ARTHUR=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26689, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FITZCLARENCE, ARTHUR AUGUSTUS CORNWALLIS=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, and Adjutant, 15th Battn. (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Henry Edward FitzClarence, of 41, Ovington Square, S.W., by his wife, Mary Isabel, only dau. of John Parsons, and gdson. of the Rev. Lord Augustus FitzClarence, Chaplain to Queen Victoria [4th s. of King William IV]; b. Ceylon, 16 March, 1880; educ. Radley College; enlisted in the City of London Imperial Volunteers on the outbreak of the South African War, and served in that campaign 1900; took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, Feb. to March and May, 1900, and in Cape Colony, Feb. to March, 1900, and operations in the Transvaal, May, 1900, to Aug. 1901 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); recommended for a commission by Col. (now Gen. Sir) W. H. Mackinnon; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Fusiliers, 4 Aug. 1900, and promoted Lieut. 11 Feb. 1904, and Capt. 22 Nov. 1909; was employed with West African Frontier Force, 12 Sept. 1903 to 29 July, 1908; served in South Nigeria, 1904–5, where he patrolled the unsettled portions of the Ibibio and Kwa country (medal with clasp), and in Northern Nigeria, 1906 (clasp); Adjutant Civil Service Rifles (15th London Regt., T.F.), 22 Nov. 1909 to 21 Nov. 1913; left for the Dardanelles, 4 June, 1915, and was killed there, 29 June, 1915. He was mentioned in despatches for conspicuous gallantry, in reorganising the defence, and keeping the Turks at bay until he was shot [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1915]. He received his certificate for signalling in 1902; that for musketry on passing his examination at Hythe in the following year, and in 1909 he obtained one for gymnastics at the Aldershot Gymnasium. At Radley he rowed in the college boat at Henley, in 1896–7–8, being Capt. of the boats in 1898. He was also in the school football eleven. He rowed for Kingston both in the Eights and Fours, and he won the Wyfolds in 1902. He was a fine athlete-- a good boxer and long-distance runner. In latter years he went in for fencing and sabre play, competing at the Royal Naval and Military Tournament and winning the second prize in the epee in 1913, and second prize in the sabre v. sabre in 1914. He m. at St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, 7 April, 1910, Lady Susan, née Yorke, only dau. of John Manners, 7th Earl of Hardwicke; s.p. His cousin, Brig.-Gen. C. FitzClarence, V.C., was killed in action, 11 Nov. 1914.

=FITZCLARENCE, CHARLES, V.C.=, Brig.-Gen., formerly Lieut.-Col., Commanding Irish Guards, eldest s. of the late Hon. George FitzClarence, Capt., R.N., by his wife, Lady Maria Henriette, née Scott, eldest dau. of John Henry, 3rd Earl of Clonmell, and gdson. of George, 1st Earl of Munster [eldest s. of King William IV]; b. Bishop’s Court, co. Kildare, 8 May, 1865; educ. Eton and Wellington; gazetted Lieut. from the Militia to the Royal Fusiliers, 10 Nov. 1886; promoted Capt. 6 April, 1898; transferred to Irish Guards, 6 Oct. 1900; and became Brevet Major, 29 Nov. following; Major, 2 May, 1904; Lieut.-Col. 14 July, 1909; Col. 6 March, 1913; and Brig.-Gen. 5 Aug. 1914; served in South African War, 1899–1900; was Special Service officer with Protectorate Regt., 15 July, 1899, to 28 Aug. 1900, and Brigade Major, on Staff, 29 Aug. 1900 to 4 Feb. 1901; took part in defence of Mafeking (twice wounded; mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. 1901]; Brevet of Major; Queen’s medal with three clasps; decorated with the Victoria Cross for three specific acts of bravery [London Gazette, 6 July, 1900], viz.: on 16 Oct. 1899, taking with him about 50 unseasoned men of the Protectorate Regt., he went to the relief of an armoured train which was in difficulties. Capt. FitzClarence advanced his men under a furious fire. At one time the squadron was nearly surrounded but it was saved with few casualties through coolness and clever handling on the part of its leader. About a fortnight later he led a night sortie of 60 men and drove the Boers from their trenches at the point of the bayonet. On that night Capt. FitzClarence was the first to leap into the trenches sword in hand, and it is said that he himself killed four of the enemy and was wounded. On Dec. 26 he again distinguished himself in the action at Game Tree, where he was shot through the legs); Brigade Major, 5th Brigade, Aldershot Army Corps, 22 April, 1903 to 31 March, 1906; Brigade Commander, 5th London Infantry Brigade, and Mil. Member London Territorial Force Association; Lieut.-Col. Commanding Irish Guards, 14 July, 1913 to Aug. 1914; commanded 29th Brigade, 10th Division at Curragh from 23 Aug. to 22 Sept.; went to France, 23 Sept. and took over command of the First Guards Brigade, 27 Sept.; killed in action leading his Brigade in the night attack at Ypres, 11–12 Nov. 1914. He was specially mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. [London Gazette, 30 Nov.] 1914, where he said: “His loss will be severely felt.” He m. at The Citadel Church, Cairo, 20 April, 1898, Violet (12, Lowndes Street, S.W.), 4th and yst. dau. of the late Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill, M.P., and granddau. of John, 6th Duke of Marlborough, and had two children: Edward Charles, b. 3 Oct. 1899; and Joan Harriet, b. 23 Dec. 1901. His twin brother, Edward, Capt., 1st Dorsetshire Regt. attached Egyptian Army, was killed in action at Abu-Hamed, 7 Aug. 1897, and his cousin, Capt. A. A. C. FitzClarence, was killed in action in Gallipoli, 29 June, 1915.

=FITZGERALD, EDWARD THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./12363, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FITZGERALD, GERALD HUGH=, Capt., 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, only s. of the late Lord Maurice FitzGerald, of Johnstowne Castle, co. Wexford, by his wife, Lady Adelaide, dau. of George Arthur Hastings Forbes, 7th Earl of Granard, K.P., and grandson of Charles William, 4th Duke of Leinster, P.C.; b. Johnstowne Castle, 11 April, 1886; educ. Eton; joined the Royal North Devon Hussars (Yeomanry) in Nov. 1904; gazetted from them to the 4th Dragoon Guards, 11 Dec. 1907; promoted Lieut. 17 Nov. 1908, and Capt. 25 Nov. 1913; accompanied the Expeditionary Force to France; was slightly wounded during the first week in Sept., and fell shot through the head in the Battle of the Aisne when in charge of the machine gun section of his battn. 13 Sept. 1914; buried in the cemetery at Bourg. Col. R. L. Mullens, his commanding officer, wrote: “It happened early in the morning of the 13th. We were fighting in the village of Bourg-et-Comin, about 17 miles east of Soissons, which is about 63 miles north-east of Paris. Gerald was as always, working hard and doing good work with his maxims. Some Germans were on the canal bank about 500 yards away, and I had warned him and his men to keep their heads down. Some little time after I had to leave him to attend to other matters he was hit. Major Bridges was close to him at the time, but there was nothing to be done--the end was instantaneous.... His loss to the regt. is immense. He was universally popular and loved by his brother officers and men.” Capt. FitzGerald was a keen sportsman, a fine rider, and took great interest in polo. He m. at South Tidworth, 5 Aug. 1914, Dorothy Violet, yst. dau. of Spencer Charrington, of Winchfield Lodge, Winchfield, Hants; s.p.

=FITZGERALD, JAMES=, Chief Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., A. 1818), 147643, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=FITZGERALD, JOHN MARTIN=, Private, No. 295, A Coy., 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2nd s. of the late John Fitzgerald, of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Cooper (died 24 Aug 1886), by his wife, Mary Ann (20 Carter’s Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland), dau. of John Patrick Crowdell; b. St. John’s aforesaid, 19 Sept. 1884; educ. Convent of Mercy (1892–93), and St. Bonaventure’s College (1893–1901; Scholarship 1899; Graduate Druggist 1901) there; entered the employ of Mr. J. J. Canning, Druggist, 1 March, 1901, and on the latter’s death in April, 1913, became Manager of the business and so continued until 30 June, 1914, when he started a business of his own at 90, New Gower Street; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt., 8 Sept. 1914, sacrificing his newly started business; left for England, 3 Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, leaving Aldershot, 19 Aug. 1915, and arrived in Egypt 19–20 Sept.; was attached to the Ambulance Section of the Regt., and acted as dispenser and dresser with Dr. Frew, R.A.M.C.; killed in action there 1 Dec. 1915, while binding up the wounds of a comrade. Buried in No. 52 Borderers Ravine 117. J.S. Surgeon-Capt. Frew wrote: “I feel I must tell you of the noble death he died this morning. Some men were shot by snipers behind our lines this morning, and though, as dispenser, he might have sat still and let the stretcher bearers bring in the wounded, he was on his feet at once and rushed out to render first aid services. In so doing he fell a prey to the deadly snipers. While he was dressing Sergt. McLeod, he was wounded, but still went on with his work, receiving, unfortunately, three or four more wounds, one of which proved fatal.”

=FITZGIBBON, RICHARD APJOHN=, Lieut., 128th Pioneers Indian Army, only s. of Harry Macaulay FitzGibbon, of Greystones, co. Wicklow, Barrister-at-Law, formerly Capt. and Instructor of Musketry in the 4th (late 5th) Battn. Connaught Rangers, and now serving on the Musketry Staff as Capt. and Brigade Musketry Officer, by his wife, Helen Rebecca, dau. of John Kellock Barton, Surgeon; b. Dublin, 5 July, 1889; educ. Strangway’s School, Dublin, Lickey Hills Preparatory School, Barnt Green, and Radley College, from which latter he entered Christ Church, Oxford, taking his B.A. degree in 1911. On 6 Jan. 1912, he was appointed to the Unattached List for the Indian Army, and--after serving for a year with the 3rd Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers in India--he was appointed a double company officer in the 128th Pioneers, 5 Jan. 1913, and later went through a course of engineering with the Sappers and Miners at Rurkee, India, becoming Lieut. 17 April, 1913. He was in charge of the escort to the Artillery Regt. near Tussoum, on the Suez Canal, and was attacked at about 3.30 a.m. 3 Feb. 1915, when the Turks attempted to cross the Canal. His men sank the first pontoon boat, but the second got across. Though wounded quite early in the fight, after a short retirement to the rear to bind up his wound he returned and continued to direct his men. Some two hours or so later it became necessary to transmit an important message to the commander of the artillery. Lieut. FitzGibbon undertook to take it himself, and crossing an open space of about a quarter of a mile--all the while exposed to heavy fire--he delivered the message. Not till then did he mention that he was wounded. His wound on receiving attention was found to be serious, and he was removed to the Signal House at Tussoum Ferry, where, after being bright and cheerful all day, he succumbed early next morning, 4 Feb. 1915. He was buried with full military honours in the Ismalia Cemetery, the New Zealanders furnishing the firing party (as his own regt. was at Serapeum). He was especially mentioned in Gen. Sir John Maxwell’s Despatch, dated 16 Feb. 1915 [London Gazette, 21 June, 1916], as follows: “128th Pioneers, Lieut. R. A. Fitzgibbon behaved with conspicuous gallantry. When severely wounded he ran a considerable distance under fire with a message to the 5th Egyptian Battery. He has since died of his wounds.” He was also mentioned in the second list of recommendations, dated Army Headquarters, Cairo, 19 Aug. 1915. Lieut. FitzGibbon, who was unm., was a keen sportsman, and twice coxed the Radley boat at Henley Regatta; he was also for a time cox of Christ Church, Oxford, and subsequently stroke of their second eight. He was a member of the Leander Rowing Club.

=FITZHERBERT, CHARLES EDWARD=, Private, No. 1496. 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Archibald Malcolm Fitzherbert, of St. George Maranoa, Queensland, by his wife, Bridget Agnes, dau. of Michael Lacken; b. Charleville, Queensland, 14 Feb. 1888; educ. Brisbane; enlisted in the Australian Expeditionary Force in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 4 May, 1915; unm.

=FITZMAURICE, MAURICE ALEXANDER ROSS GERALDINE=, Lieut., R.E. 21st Field Coy., 3rd Sappers and Miners, Lahore Division, elder s. of the late John Day Stokes Fitzmaurice, Judge of Dharwar, Bombay Presidency, Indian Civil Service, by his wife, Emily Grace Ellen (The Haven, Haslemere), dau. of the late Professor Samuel Cooke, M.A., etc., Principal Coll. of Science, Poona, India; b. Satara, India, 9 June, 1892; educ. South Lodge, Lowestoft, Felsted School, Essex (where he gained entrance and leaving scholarships), and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.E., 23 Dec. 1911; joined the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, 1 April, 1912, and on passing out in Dec. 1913, elected to go to India. He was promoted Lieut. 31 Jan 1914, and was attached to the 3rd Sappers and Miners, Kirkee, in March following. When war broke out he was employed as Garrison Engineer at Bareilly, and was recalled to the 3rd Sappers and Miners, Lahore Division, joining the 21st Field Company. He went to France with the Indian Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; was severely wounded in the fighting at Neuve Chapelle on 28 Oct. 1914, and was invalided home, the 20th and 21st Field Cos., 3rd S. and M., being specially mentioned in the despatch of 20 Nov. 1914. He returned to the Front on 19 Feb. 1915; took part in the storming of Neuve Chapelle Village on 10 to 15 March, and was with the Lahore Division in the fighting for Ypres at the end of April, 1915, being for a time in command of his company, all the other officers being wounded. He was killed when on night duty at an outpost near Neuve Chapelle, 6 Aug. 1915, by a stray bullet: unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field, and his commanding officer. Col. Coffin, R.E. said of him: “His loss to us is very great; always devoted to his work and cheery, he was a great favourite with all with whom he came in contact.” His company commander, Capt. Rawlence, R.E., also wrote; “His loss will be deeply felt in the company in which he has always set such an example of hard work and cheery endurance. He was shot between the shoulders whilst supervising the construction of loopholes in a post just behind the firing line at 2 a.m. on 6 Aug.” He was buried in the Cemetery at Vieille Chapelle, side by side with Capt. Glenday, R.E., of the same company, who was killed two nights later, at the same spot.

=FITZPATRICK, WILFRED=, Lieut., 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the Rev. Henry Fitzpatrick, of Hyderabad, Deccan, India, Chaplain of St. George’s Church there; b. Hyderabad aforesaid, ... March, 1877; educ. in England and India; settled in Canada; served through the South African War as a trooper, and on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action during the Second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915, being buried near where he fell; unm.

=FITZROY, EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2509), 194087, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FLACK, FREDERICK JAMES=, Gunner (R.F.R., B. 368), late R.M.A., 6403 H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FLAHERTY, ROY LESLEY=, Private, No. 18495, 1st (Western Ontario) Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late John Edward Flaherty, of St. John’s, New Brunswick, Canada, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Patrick McGrath, of Cork, Ireland; b. St. Stephens aforesaid, 24 Dec. 1879; educ. St. Malachi’s School, St. John’s, N.B.; went West about 1907, and finally settled at Grouard, Alberta, and had a homestead of 160 acres at Dunvegan in that province, and land in Price River Crossing, Alberta. When war broke out in Aug. 1914, he was with a Dominion survey party in the Peace River district, 200 miles north of Edmonton, and, with eight of his comrades, he set out at once for Edmonton and joined the 9th (101st Edmonton Fusiliers) Battn. After training at Valcartier he was transferred to the 1st Battn., left with the first contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Oct., and after spending the winter on Salisbury Plain, went to the Front on 4 Feb. 1915. He took part in the actions at Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60, Langemarck, and was wounded in the thigh at the Battle of Festubert, 24 May, 1915, and died at Rawal Pindi, British General Hospital, Wimereux, two days later; unm. He once rode 700 miles from Missoula, Mont., over the mountains to Calgary, in 17 days, a feat which attracted some attention in the West. One of his brothers, Private Fred E. Flaherty, No. 111175, is now (1916) on active service in France, with the Hospital Staff, D Coy., 4th Battn., C.M.R., 8th Brigade.

=FLAXMAN, CHARLES, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, 11031, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FLAXMAN, WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 2666, 1st Life Guards, eldest s. of Arthur Charles Flaxman, of Burgh Castle, Suffolk, Thatcher and Reed-layer, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of Sergt. John Ellis, 52nd Oxford L.I. (who served in the Crimean War and lost his right arm in the Indian Mutiny); b. Bradwell, co. Suffolk, 26 Sept. 1888; educ. there; enlisted in the 1st Life Guards, 9th March, 1908, promoted Corp., 14 Oct. 1913; went to France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 May, 1915, by a shell; unm. His commanding officer wrote that he was “a real good soldier, and a great loss to B Squadron.”

=FLEMING, GEOFFREY MONTAGUE MASON=, M.B., T.C.D., Lieut., Royal Army Medical Corps, only s. of Alfred George Fleming, of Beechfield, Blackrock, co. Dublin, Deputy Cashier, Bank of Ireland; b. Wilton Lodge, Blackrock, co. Dublin, 8 Feb. 1890; and was educ. Avoca School, Blackrock, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a Moderatorship in 1911, and subsequently obtained the degrees of M.B. and B.Ch. with honours. At the outbreak of the war he was House Surgeon of the Meath Hospital and Co. Dublin Infirmary, and volunteering was gazetted Lieut. R.A.M.C. 16 Aug. 1914. He was sent to Egypt to meet the Indian Troops, and was attached to the Lahore Indian General Hospital at Marseilles, Boulogne and Montreuil. Subsequently he joined the 26th Field Ambulance, was in the attack on Fromelles 9–10 May, 1915, and was killed in action near Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, while attending to the wounded. He was buried in the Guards Cemetery there; unm. His Col. wrote: “He was loyal and devoted to his profession and gallantly performed his duties with us. He had endeared himself to all of us, and we all deplore his loss most sincerely.”

=FLEMING, GEORGE JAMES=, Officers’ Steward, 1st Class, L. 4352, Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FLEMING, MALCOLM JAMES HENDERSON=, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of James Fleming, of Kilmory, Skelmorlie, co. Ayr, J.P., by his wife, Jane, dau. of Andrew Henderson, of Glasgow, merchant, and grandson of James Fleming, of Newlandsfield, co. Renfrew, J.P.; b. Kilmory, 27 April, 1883; educ. Boutenburn Raspur School, Largs; and Fettes College, Edinburgh; afterwards going to Hanover for six months, and then to Lausanne for a like period, to perfect his German and French. He served his apprenticeship as an engineer with engineering firms in Paisley, and with Siemens, Berlin, and on returning home was offered a post with Messrs. Fleming, Reid & Co., Worsted Spinners, Greenock, and at the time of the outbreak of the war had become a sub-manager with them. He had joined the 5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 11 June, 1911, and obtained his commission as Lieut., 30 Oct. 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service. He left Dunfermline with his regt. for Egypt, 31 May, 1915; went to the Dardanelles at the end of June; was wounded at Achi Baba on 12 July, and died on board the hospital ship Asturias, 14 July, 1915. He had volunteered to lead a bombing party, and it was while doing that that he was hit. He was unm., and was buried at sea. His Commanding Officer wrote that “he went forth to the arduous work full of courage and determination and was an inspiration to his men.” After he was wounded he greatly lessened his chance of recovery by insisting on giving up his place to others at the dressing station. One of his men who met him being carried to the surgeon spoke to him saying: “Sir, I am sorry you have been hit.” Lieut. Fleming replied: “Marvellous charge. Glorious death.” Another wrote: “He was a splendid officer. He was daring, and feared not death. He was most thoughtful of his men.”

=FLETCHER, EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./8922, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FLETCHER, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Private, No. 1014, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Richard Fletcher, of Hill Farm, Steventon, co. Berks, Labourer, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of William Denton, of Steventon; b. Hill Farm, Steventon, 4 April, 1891; educ. there; went to Canada in July, 1913, and settled at Portage La Prairie as a mill hand; enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914, and trained on Salisbury Plain. He went to France, 17 Feb. 1915; served through the Battles of Ypres and Langemarck, when the Canadians, to use Lord French’s words, “saved the situation,” and was killed in action at Langemarck, 24 April, 1915, while returning from binding up a comrade’s wounds; unm.

=FLETCHER, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110730 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FLETCHER, REGINALD WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher, of Norham End, Oxford, formerly Fellow of All Souls’ and Magdalen Colleges; b. Oxford, 19 March, 1892; educ. Eton, and Balliol College, Oxford, and was gazetted, with a University Commission, to the 8th Brigade, R.F.A., on the day war was declared; went to France, 20 Aug., and was killed in action at Veldhoek, Belgium, 31 Oct. 1914, while serving with the 118th Battery. He was stroke of a Trial Eight at Oxford in three successive years, 1911–12–13, and also for four years stroke of his college boat; he rowed in the Leander Four at Henley Regatta in 1913, and in the Oxford University Eight in March, 1914.

=FLETCHER, WALTER BELL=, Private, No. 445, 4th Platoon Coy., 14th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of James Fletcher, of 2, Fletcher Street, Cockermouth, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of John (and Elizabeth) Atkins; b. Cockermouth, co. Cumberland, 11 April, 1879; educ. Board School, Cockermouth, afterwards joining the Cockermouth Volunteers when 18 years of age. He went to Australia in 1911, and settled at Traralgon, Victoria, and on the outbreak of war he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 5 May, 1915. He had been 10 days in the trenches at Gaba Tepe, and was shot by a sniper when going for water. He m. in Edinburgh 15 years ago, (--) (Ethel Street, Lock Park, Traralgon, Victoria, Australia), dau. of John Walker, of Portobello, and had three sons and two daus.: James, b. 1902; John William, b. 1906; Walter, b. 1908; Winifred, b. 1904; and Emily Isabel, b. 1913.

=FLETCHER, WALTER GEORGE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher, of Norham End, Oxford, formerly Fellow of All Souls’ and Magdalen Colleges; b. Oxford, 7 Jan. 1888; educ. Eton (1901–6, rowed No. 7 in the Eton VIII. at Henley in 1906, and was Capt. of the School, 1906, and won the Jelf Verse Prize); and Balliol College, Oxford (1907–10, rowed in the Balliol College VIII. in 1907); was for six months in 1910–11 teacher of English in the Real-Gymnasium at Schleswig, and in the autumn of the latter year went as a classical master to Shrewsbury School. In September, 1913, he became an assistant classical master at Eton College, and on 22 Oct. 1913, was gazetted a 2nd Lieut. in the Eton O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he was selected as an interpreter in the Intelligence Corps (6 Aug. 1914). He went to the Front with the first contingent on Aug. 12, served through the retreat from Mons, and in the subsequent advance to the Aisne. In Sept. he was attached to the 2nd Battn. of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, in which regt. he was constantly employed on patrol work, his accurate knowledge of German proving of great service. He was twice mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches, those of 14 Jan. and 31 May, and was killed in action near Bois Grenier, France, 20 March, 1915; unm. His yst. brother, 2nd Lieut. R. W. Fletcher, was killed 31 Oct. (see his notice).

=FLEURY, LEOPOLD M’CLINTOCK=, A.B., No. T.Z./359, C Coy., Hood Battn., R.N.V.R. (2nd R.N. Brigade), 5th s. of the Rev. Louis Richard Fleury, of 4, Seafield Terrace, Castle Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin, M.A., late Rector of Kilworth Parish and Chaplain to the Forces at Kilworth Camp and Moore Park, by his wife, Alice Dora, dau. of the late Rev. Canon Robert Gilbert Eccles, and grandson of Capt. John Franquefort Fleury, 36th Regt.; b. The Glebe, Kilworth, co. Cork, 25 Feb. 1892; educated privately, Elphin Grammar School, and Dublin, and having just completed his course of Marine Engineering on the Tyne when war broke out, volunteered in the Hood Battn., R.N.V.R., in Oct. 1914. He left England with that corps for the Dardanelles in March, 1915, and was killed in action there, 6 May, 1915, being shot through the brain; unm. A comrade wrote: “He is deeply missed, as he was such a fine fellow, and he was very much liked both by officers and men.” An elder brother, Assistant Paymaster Richard Chenevix Fleury, is (1916) on the Staff of Vice-Admiral Sir F. D. Sturdee, on board his Flagship in one of the Squadrons of the Grand Fleet in the North Sea, while his two yst. brothers, John Charles, 4th Battn. New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and Hugo Valentine, 95th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, are, respectively on active service in France and at Shorncliffe Camp, Kent.

=FLINTOFF, ARTHUR JOHN=, Private, No. 1121, 4th Battn. Australian Contingent, 5th s. of the late Churchill Flintoff, of Hill House, Alnwick, Dentist, by his wife, Susan H. (West House Haighington, Darlington), dau. of the Rev. Francis P. Gladwin Miss; b. Alnwick, co. Northumberland, 17 March, 1886; educ. Grammar School there, and Padcroft School, West Drayton; went to Australia in 1909, and on the outbreak of war joined the Australian Imperial Force, going to Egypt with the 4th Battn. in April, 1915, and shortly afterwards to the Dardanelles, where he was killed in action 1 May, 1915. He m. at Sydney, Australia, 13 June, 1913, Ida, dau. of the late (--) Reid; s.p.

=FLINTOFT, JOHN WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11658, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of John Flintoft, of Lastingham, Sinnington, Hull, Stonemason, by his wife Mary Jane, dau. of Charles Ward; b. Lastingham, co. York, 26 Nov. 1891; educ. Darley Memorial School; was an Asylum Attendant; enlisted, 7 Sept. 1914; went to France, 22 Jan. 1915, and died in No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, Choques, 6 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action. Buried in Choques Cemetery.

=FLIPP, CHARLES COLLINS=, S.P.O. (R.F.R., B. 3465), 294461, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FLITTER, JESSE=, Private, No. 10056, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of David Flitter, of Drury Lane, Mortimer, Reading, Labourer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Bushnell, late 33rd Regt. of Foot (with 21 years 7 months service); b. Mortimer, co. Berks; educ. there; enlisted 31 March, 1913; went to the Front with his regt. in Aug. 1914; was wounded while assisting some wounded comrades 7 Sept., and died at No. 10, Station Hospital, Orleans, 4 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action at the Marne; unm. He was buried in the Grand Cemetière, Orleans.

=FLOCKHART, ADAM=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27403 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FLOOD, ARTHUR HENRY=, Corpl., No. 25671, 14th Battn. (1st Grenadier Guards of Montreal), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 5th s. of Samuel Flood, late of Balham, Carpenter and Joiner; by his wife, Sophia; b. Balham, London,] 7 Jan. 1891; educ. there; went to Canada in June, 1911, and was an engineer with the Marconi Wireless Co. in Montreal, and gained his N.C.O. certificate; volunteered after the outbreak of war, left Canada with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France, 10 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action in the attack on Hill 60, 29 April, 1915. He m. at Montreal, 15 Aug. 1914, Jennie Bowes (Delorimier Avenue, Montreal), dau. of the late William Brown, of Auldtree, Townend, Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Hairdresser; s.p. Two of his brothers--Leonard John and Charles Percy--are now (1916) serving in the Royal Navy, and a third brother, Walter Christopher, is in the Grenadier Guards of Montreal.

=FLOOK, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private, No. 3119, 15th Battn. (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Joseph Thomas Flook, of 56, Crooke Road, Deptford, S.E., Paperhanger (for 22 years a member of the 3rd Vol. Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.), by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Thomas Lowe, Watchmaker and Jeweller, Citizen and Freeman of London; b. Rotherhithe, 2 June, 1893; educ. Deptford Park School and Christ’s Hospital, Horsham; and on leaving there became articled to Mr. William Strachan, F.S.A.A., of Messrs. Martin, Farlow & Co. He passed the preliminary examination in May, 1911, and took the first place and prize. At the intermediate examination in May, 1914, he was placed third, but was awarded the 1st prize, the first and second candidates being over age. After the outbreak of the war he joined the Civil Service Rifles in Sept. 1914, went to France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May, 1915; unm. He went out with a party of about 60 at 2 o’clock in the morning to carry some trench mortar bombs up to the breastworks. The last piece of road was under frequent shell fire, and the party sustained several casualties, Flook and two others being killed. His body was subsequently recovered, and buried at Festubert by two of his old schoolfellows, and a cross, with an inscription, was erected over his grave. His Platoon Sergt. (W. B. Lambert) wrote: “He was one of my best men, keen, willing and coolly bold.” Two of his brothers are (1916) on active service.

=FLOWER, WILLIAM EVELYN FRANCIS DI DELLE=, Lieut., 6th Hauraki Regt., Auckland Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late George Flower, by his wife, Annie (Heatherleigh, Alexandra Road, Parkstone, Dorset); b. Maida Vale, London, 26 Jan. 1885; educ. Winchester College, joined the New Zealand Territorials in Oct. 1912; was appointed 2nd Lieut. 24 Feb. 1913; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for Egypt in Oct.; was promoted Lieut. there and was killed in action during the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915. He m. at Renwicktown, Marlborough, New Zealand, 12 May, 1913, Margaret Isobel (Gray Street, Shortland, Thames, New Zealand), dau. of James Brydon, and had issue a son, Richard Evelyn, b. Oamaru, New Zealand, 22 Feb. 1914.

=FLOWERDAY, SAMUEL=, A.B., 219736, H.M.S. Liberty; died of wounds received in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=FLOWERS, GEORGE=, Joiner, 341781, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FLOYD, WILLIAM=, Colour-Sergt., No 6350, Royal Marine L.I., Marine Brigade, Portsmouth Battn., only s. of the late William Floyd, of 25, Haymarket, London, and York Road, Weybridge, for over 30 years with Messrs. Garrads & Co., Crown Jewellers, by his wife, Martha (Yarborough Villa, Sandown, Isle of Wight), dau. of Henry Jones, of Westbury Leigh, Wilts; b. Pimlico, London, 1 Sept. 1873; educ. Weybridge, Surrey, and after working for a few years with a firm of Goldsmiths in London, joined the Royal Marines, 23 April, 1894. He became Colour-Sergt. 1909, left England for France with Marine Brigade in the early days of the war, and returned to Dover after the fall of Antwerp; went to the Dardanelles the following March, took part in the landing there 25–26 April, and was killed in action, 10 June, 1915; unm. An officer wrote that “he felt he had lost a brother, let alone a comrade, as they had been together since the formation of the Battn.”; and another officer wrote of him as “a gallant and well-beloved old soldier whom the whole Battn. mourned.”

=FLUCKER, THOMAS=, A.B., 213727, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=FLUKE, ARTHUR CHARLES=, Lieut., 116th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, elder s. of Arthur John Fluke, of Nunnery Road, Canterbury, by his wife, Sarah; b. Nasirabad, India, 9 Sept. 1891; educ. King’s School, Canterbury, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 19 July, 1912, and promoted Lieut. shortly before his death; went to France, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 10 Jan. 1915; unm. He met his death while rallying some men of another regt., their own officers having all been killed or wounded. Lieut. Fluke, with one N.C.O., stuck to his mortar, and continued to work it till it was put out of action, although he himself was wounded in four places, and then, unarmed and wounded as he was, he rallied the men who had been driven out of their trenches and led them back to the attack, only to fall himself by the fifth and fatal wound at the moment of success. Capt. Guy B. Oliver wrote: “I felt I must write you a few lines to tell how very greatly I feel for you in the terrible loss you have sustained. I am the only representative now in the Battery who has been with it since the beginning of the war, and before that at Aldershot, and the loss of your brave son has been a great personal loss to me, and as I know to all ranks in the Battery, for his presence had helped to reduce the various trials of this campaign. Much as we deplore his loss, the Battery is proud in the knowledge of the very gallant way your son conducted himself, and it is very sad indeed to think that he has not been spared to enjoy the honour he so richly deserved. Major Charlton has, I know, written to you and given you details. I am so sorry that none of us were with him at the last, but, as you know, the particular work he was on took him right away from the Battery. From what I can gather, he cannot have suffered much, and his death must have been almost instantaneous.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, and Major C. A. Graham Charlton, Commanding 116th Battery, wrote he “was killed yesterday evening in rallying some men of the 60th Rifles, who were driven out of their trenches after all their officers had been killed or wounded. I have not heard many details yet, but, from what I hear, your son behaved in a very gallant manner, and, had he been spared, I am sure his heroism would have been rewarded. Many artillery officers have been trained in the use of trench mortars, and yesterday afternoon an order came for your son to proceed to the front trenches, occupied by the 60th Rifles, with one of these mortars. He had an artillery non-commissioned officer with him. There had been an attack earlier in the day, when this particular trench had been taken from the Germans. After dark the latter counter-attacked, and the 60th were driven out of their forward trenches after all their officers had been killed or wounded. Your son, however, with his N.C.O., stuck to his mortar and continued to work it, although he was wounded in four places. The mortar was then put out of action, and he then, wounded as he was, rallied some men of the 60th and led them back to the attack. He died, being wounded in five places. I cannot tell you how much all his brother officers feel his loss, and on behalf of them I send you our deepest sympathy. The only consolation I can offer you in your great sorrow is that he died a noble and gallant death, a credit to his Battery and his regt.” He was in the XI and XV at King’s School, Canterbury. He was third in the batting averages in 1908 with 38·23, second in 1909 with 30·11. and first in 1910 with 39·40. He was also in the XI at Woolwich, and was a member of the famous Woolwich Rugby XV in 1911, which K. F. Q. Perkins, of the Engineers, captained.

=FLUX, HENRY JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9068), S.S. 2129, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FLUX, HENRY JOHN=, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 65, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FLYNN, JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1894T, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FOLEY, MARTIN=, Private, No. 19717, 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of James Foley, of Kilmurry, Kenmare, co. Kerry, Shoemaker, by his wife, Margaret; b. Killarney, co. Kerry, 15 June, 1874; educ. there; went to Canada, 10 May, 1911, settled at Brandon, Manitoba, was a Butcher; enlisted, 4 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 21 May, 1915. He m. at Kenmare, 2 Sept. 1902, Elizabeth, dau. of Timothy Callaghan, and had five children: James, b. 8 Sept. 1903; Timothy, b. 20 Sept. 1904; Mary Angela, b. 15 Sept. 1906; Margaret, b. 20 June, 1908; and Elizabeth, b. 10 April, 1911.

=FOLEY, THOMAS ALGERNON FITZGERALD=, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Norfolk Regt., only s. of the late Vice-Admiral Francis John Foley, by his wife, Frances Jane (The Moat, Britford, Salisbury), dau. of De La Bère P. Blayne, and gdson. of Admiral the Hon. Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley [4th s. of Thomas, 3rd Baron Foley, P.C.]; b. Egerton Gardens, London, S.W., 29 Dec. 1889; and went to Eton (Mr. F. H. Rawlins’ and Mr. H. de Havilland’s Houses) in 1904. There he was in the Army Class, took prizes for history, mathematics, etc., and was in the O.T.C. From Eton he passed direct into the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1908, passing first in order of merit in the Junior Trials; he was in the revolver team in 1909 which won many competitions, and he himself made the highest score against Woolwich. He passed sixth out of Sandhurst and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in The Norfolk Regt. 18 Sept. 1909, joining the 1st Battn. at Brentwood, from which it went to Aldershot; there he shot successfully in several of the Aldershot rifle meetings, and was in the company’s team for the Inter-Regimental Grand Challenge Shield, which they retained, and was promoted Lieut. 14 Oct. 1911. On 3 Aug. 1914, his battn. being then at Holywood, Belfast, he was sent to take charge of Grey Point Fort; on the 6th he was recalled for mobilisation to his battn., and sailed with it for the Front, 14 Aug. 1914, landing at Havre. The battn. almost immediately proceeded to Dour in Belgium and was in action there. He took part in the retreat from Mons, and was in every action after proceeding to Dour, including Le Cateau, the Marne and the Aisne, till he fell at Festubert on 25 Oct. 1914. The following account of the circumstances of his death was given by the Colonel and others: “He had just made a most gallant advance to the trenches with his men under a very heavy fire, and had reached there safely. He was in the very foremost of the British lines when he fell, and he died at the head of his men, driving back a most desperate attack by overwhelming numbers of the enemy. He was buried, like a soldier, where he fell. The actual place where he was laid to rest is close to the most advanced trenches, as our line in that part of the battlefield has not advanced a yard since the day when he fell gallantly defending it.” Lieut. Foley was a keen soldier, an excellent shot and horseman. He was unm.

=FOLEY, THOMAS FRANCIS=, Sick Berth Attendant, M. 5213, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FOLJAMBE, HUBERT FRANCIS FITZWILLIAM BRABAZON=, Major, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 3rd s. of the Right Hon. Francis John Savile Foljambe, P.C., by his wife, Lady Gertrude Emily, née Acheson. eldest dau. of Archibald, 3rd Earl of Gosford, K.P.; b. in London, 16 Nov. 1872; educ. Eton; gazetted to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 6 March, 1895, and promoted Lieut., 18 Feb. 1898, Captain, 20 July, 1901, and Major, 17 July, 1912. He served in the South African War, 1900–2; took part in the operations in Natal, May, 1900, also in those in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900, to 31 May, 1902, and was for some time Commandant at Helvetia. For his services he was awarded the Queen’s medal with two clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. When the European War broke out, Major Foljambe went out with the first Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action on the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914. Our troops had crossed the river and he was leading his men in a flanking movement when he fell. Major Foljambe was a typical regimental officer and Company Commander, sincerely attached to his men and by them deeply loved and implicitly trusted. His Colour-Sergt. wrote: “He was killed instantly. He was brave and I miss him. The men all loved him.” He was a good shot and rider, and a very keen cricketer, and played for the Eton Ramblers, Free Foresters and “Greenjackets.” He m. at Sprotborough, co. York, 16 Nov. 1909, Gladys, dau. of Gen. Robert Calverley Alington Bewicke-Copley, of Sprotborough Hall, co. York, C.B., J.P., D.L., and had a son, John Savile, b. 6 Oct. 1911.

=FOLLOWS, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 11742, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Richard Follows, of Sunny Bank, Ansley Village, near Atherstone, Miner; b. Norton Canes, co. Stafford; educ. Church Schools there; enlisted 9 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Guinchy, 25 Jan. 1915, the same day as his brother Richard, who had enlisted with him; unm.

=FOLLOWS, RICHARD=, Private, No. 11743, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Richard Follows, of Sunny Bank, Ansley Village, near Atherstone, Miner; b. Norton Canes, co. Stafford; educ. King Edward’s Grammar School, Nuneaton; enlisted 9 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Guinchy, 25 Jan. 1915, the same day as his brother Arthur, who had enlisted with him; unm.

=FOOT, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4259), S.S. 102948, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FOOTITT, JACK FREDERICK LIONEL=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27414, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FORBES, DUNCAN=, Corpl., No. 1003, D Coy., 12th Battn. 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 5th s. of Roderick Forbes, of Muirton Cottage, Fairburn, Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, Gamekeeper, by his wife, Jessie, dau. of the late Duncan McKay, of Knockfarrel, Dingwall; b. Fairburn, aforesaid, 6 Jan. 1892; educ. Marybank School, Urray, Ross-shire; went to Western Australia in Oct. 1910, and settled at Pingelly; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main force, was promoted Corpl., 25 April, 1915; landed at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed there, 25 May, 1915, while returning to the trenches from patrol duty; unm. He was buried in Anzac Cove. Corpl. Forbes was mentioned in despatches by Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. Capt. J. A. W. Kayser, the Officer Commanding his Company, wrote: “Duncan was under my command since I took over the command, and my report on him is that he was a brave, trustworthy, honourable soldier and gentleman, and I cannot speak too highly of the way he carried out every mission entrusted to him”; and Archdeacon Richard, Chaplain, 12th Battn.: “His Company Commander told me yesterday, ‘I have lost one of my most reliable men. I have known him for nine months and I have never heard him say or seen him do anything that was unbefitting the character of a true soldier.’ His brother, T. Finlay Forbes, Private, No. 998, who enlisted in the same Company with him, has been missing since 2 May, 1915, and three other brothers are (1916) on active service, one being a 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Seaforths.

=FORBES, GEORGE FRANCIS REGINALD=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 1st Battn. The Royal Irish Regt., eldest s. of the late Col. the Hon. William Francis Forbes, Resident Magistrate at the Curragh, by his wife, Phillis Gabriella, 2nd dau. of John Rowe, of Ballycross, co. Wexford, D.L., and grandson of George, 6th Earl of Granard; b. Castle Forbes, co. Longford, 6 Sept. 1866; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Irish Regt. (which was raised by the 1st Earl of Granard in 1684) from the Militia, 6 July, 1889, and promoted Lieut., 25 March, 1891; Captain, 30 Jan. 1895; Major, 7 Sept. 1904; and Lieut.-Col., 12 March, 1912. He served through the Tirah Campaign, 1897–8, including operations on the Samana, and received the medal with two clasps; was Adjutant of the Bombay-Baroda Railway Volunteers, 17 May, 1899, to 16 May, 1904, and Staff Capt. No. 12 (South Irish) District, 1 June, 1905, to 31 May, 1909. He succeeded to the command of the 1st Battn., then serving in India, 12 March, 1912, and after the outbreak of war came home with his regt., Nov. 1914; went to France, 18 Dec. 1914, and died at Bailleul, 17 March, 1915, of wounds received at St. Eloi three days previously, and was buried at Bailleul. Col. Forbes was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s despatch of 31 May, 1915, for distinguished conduct. He m. at Windsor, 4 Aug. 1904, Agnes Margaret, dau. of the late Walter Ewing Crum, of Thornliebank, Renfrewshire, and had a son, Walter Arthur Hastings Forbes, b. 18 Dec. 1905.

=FORBES, SPENCER DUNDAS=, Commander, R.N., yr. s. of the late George Edward Forbes, of Colinton, Queensland, by his wife, Louisa Lillias (4, Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh), dau. of Archibald Trotter, of Dreghorn, co. Midlothian; b. at Keswick, 29 May, 1874; educ. at St. Ninian’s, Moffat; Aysgarth, Yorks; and at Mr. Littlejohns’; entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet in 1887, and became a Midshipman two years later, serving in the Cordelia, on the Australian station, Feb. 1889, and in the Immortalité, in the Channel Squadron, Oct. 1891. As an acting Sub-Lieut. he was lent to the Galatea for the naval manœuvres of July, 1894, and in Feb. 1895, was confirmed as Sub-Lieut. and appointed to the Collingwood, on the Mediterranean Station. He became a Lieut. 30 Sept. 1896, and in the following month was transferred to the Melita on the same station. For nearly four years he was associated with the training service, as watch-keeper in the Volage, Dec. 1898, and in the Juno, Oct. 1899 (both in the training squadron), and as 1st Lieut. in the Cruiser, sailing training vessel for ordinary seamen in the Mediterranean, April, 1900, to Aug. 1902. After a short course at Whale Island he was first and (G.) of the Hermes in the Channel Fleet and as tender to the Royal Naval College, Osborne, April, 1903, and of the Eclipse, which relieved her in the latter duty, Jan. 1906. On 31 Dec. 1907 he was promoted Commander, and served in the Suffolk, in the Mediterranean Cruiser Squadron, from April, 1908, to May, 1910. In Sept. 1910, he joined the war course at Portsmouth, which was followed by a course at the Military Staff College, Camberley, Jan. to June, 1911. He was Commander of the London, as flagship of Rear-Admiral Cradock in the Atlantic Fleet, Aug. 1911, and of the Hibernia, as flagship of the same officer and of Rear-Admiral Thursby in the Third Battle Squadron, May, 1912, to Aug. 1913. During the last four months of 1913 he was member of a Committee, presided over by Rear-Admiral Hood, on the question of training young seamen and boys in sea-going ships. Previous to her being commissioned by Capt. Brandt at the end of July, he commanded the Monmouth, in the Third Fleet at Devonport, from 30 Jan. 1914, and went down in her when, with the Good Hope, Rear-Admiral Cradock’s flagship, she was lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. He m. at Malta, 21 Feb. 1913, Ethel, yst. dau. of Col. Selby Walker, late of the Black Watch, and had a son, Spencer Malcolm Edward, b. 17 Nov. 1914.

=FORD, ATHOLE STANLEY=, Rifleman, No. 1993, 16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Stanley Ford, of 1, Ardlui Road, West Norwood, S.E., by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of William Armstrong; b. Dulwich, S.E., 9 March, 1896; educ. Dulwich College, where he was a corpl. in the O.T.C. and a member of the “Gym” Six; joined the Queen’s Westminsters for foreign service, 6 Aug. 1914, the day following the declaration of war; trained at Hemel Hempstead, went to France, 1 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915. One of his officers wrote that he “made a fine, plucky little soldier and was universally popular”; and his Corpl.: “He was a good lad, a fearless soldier, a splendid comrade--one I was proud to call my friend. By his courage, sympathy and cheerfulness, even under the most trying circumstances during all these months, he endeared himself to us all, and deeply we feel his loss.”

=FORD, FRANCIS JOHN=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., 3592), 196782, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FORD, FRANK=, Private, No. 6713, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of the late Elijah Ford, by his wife, Emily Jane (Bathpool, near Taunton), dau. of John Wilkins, of West Monkton, Somerset; b. Gosport, co. Hants, 21 March, 1888; educ. West Monkton, Somerset; enlisted 22 March, 1906, and served seven years with the Colours, then going to the Reserve. He joined the Cardiff City Police, and prior to the war was stationed at Canton. On mobilisation he rejoined, left Windsor for France on the last day of Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 25 Oct. 1914; unm.

=FORD, GEORGE=, Stoker, P.O., 285093, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FORD, HORACE FISHER (“RED”)=, Private, No 12982, 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of George Robert Fitzroy Ford, of 2, Cavendish Mansions, Langham Street, W., by his first wife, Charlotte Diana, dau. of the late Capt. John Kendall, 4th West Yorkshire Regt.; b. Hitchin, co. Herts, 14 Dec. 1889; educ. privately; The Roan School, Greenwich, and St. Francis Xavier’s College, Bruges; went to Canada in 1906, and settled at Moose Jaw, and had been Sporting Editor of the “Moose Jaw Morning News” since 1912, and was, according to his editor, responsible for the initiation of clean sport into Western Canada. It was in the Y.M.C.A. building at Moose Jaw where his influence for good athletics was most felt. After the declaration of war he enlisted in the 27th Light Horse, under his friend Col. Tuxford, afterwards transferring with him to the 5th Battn.; left for England with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; went to the Front, 7 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May, 1915. Col. Tuxford wrote of him: “His conduct was always good and he never gave trouble; during the Battle of Festubert, when we took the German trenches and machine-gun emplacement at a cost of nearly 400 casualties, a position that had been attempted on three previous occasions by other units and failed; Ford was wounded, not seriously, and was walking down the trench to the dressing station when another shell caught and killed him. His death was instantaneous;” and in his letter to the “Moose Jaw Morning News,” chronicling the events of the Battle of Festubert, he said: “Private Ford came to me to enlist, and said he was determined in his course and that I could rely on him to ‘play the game.’ He died as he declared to me in my office ‘playing the game.’” The “Winnipeg Telegram” said: “‘Red’ Ford was a character of the great West, and in the days to come he will be remembered as a first-class sporting editor, a fighter and a hero.” His brother, Ernest Kendall Ford, is a Sub-Lieut. in the Royal Naval Division.

=FORD, PERCY GORDEN=, Rifleman, No. 3250, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F), 2nd s. of John William Fletcher Ford, of 57, Friday Street, London, E.C., and Rozel, Roydon, Essex, Linen Merchant, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Thomas Strout; b. Hornsey, London, 11 Sept. 1891; educ. Tollingham School and Christ’s College, Finchley; was a Traveller; joined the Queen Victoria Rifles immediately on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914; went to France, 14 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, Flanders, 24 April, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “He was in hospital when we went up to Hill 60, but joined us up there in the dug-outs when we had been relieved from the firing line. I remember him, Claude, coming up to me and saying, as we shook hands, ‘By Jove, Ashford, old man, I’m glad to see you; you fellows have had a rough time.’ Not a word about the narrow escape he had had with our transport in Ypres. We left on the Thursday morning, 10 men at a time; they were shelling us and it was dangerous to offer too large a target. We assembled outside the hospital at Ypres and Smith-Dorrien inspected us. We marched back to huts as we thought to a well-earned rest. The huts were not completed and we had to bivouac. About 6.30 p.m. we saw the French coming pell mell across country, a regular rout, we spoke to them and found they were retreating. We had to fall in and dig ourselves in by hedges in some fields near. We did not know which way the Germans were supposed to be coming, and had to change our position three times during the night. We were fagged out and had had no proper sleep since the Saturday previous--we couldn’t get much at Hill 60. At about 2.30 a.m. we had orders to stop digging; marched back some way and spent the remainder of the night in a field. In the morning we had to sit in ditches along the road, in order to be out of sight of aeroplanes, awaiting orders. The cookers came up and we had some tea, I remember as well as if it were yesterday; Percy gave me some of his condensed milk, and I sat down beside him and we laughingly arranged to go to Golder’s Green in the afternoon. Shortly afterwards we had to march off with the rest of the 13th Brigade, to which we were attached. We were in support on the banks of the Yser. The Canadians had driven the Germans back after the French retreat. During the night we had to go up to the firing line, but only for a few hours. The morning of Saturday found us on the banks of the Yser, awaiting orders. We had dug ourselves in as a protection against shrapnel. We moved off about 11 o’clock in single file along the banks of Yser, towards Ypres, then we cut inland and gradually wound our way forward, moving in zig-zag manner, taking as much advantage of hedges, etc., as we could. Shells were flying all around, but Percy was there then, and that was Saturday. Amy tells me you were told Friday; I feel certain that it was Saturday. Well, we must have marched about 3 to 4 miles and we then got right into the thick of it, it was raining shells. We deployed and were told to take shelter behind some semicircular parapets. The Germans seemed to have them taped and dropped shells right in amongst us. It was flat country and evidently they could see us approaching and shelled us very heavily indeed, the air was thick with shells. We advanced by short stages about 100 yards, and then I got hit by a shell in the right shoulder, and missed Percy then; he was in the right half platoon and I was in the left half, so that we got separated. Those that were comparatively lightly wounded were the fortunate ones, Claude. I am sorry that I cannot give you more news of Percy; the last I saw of him was coolly smoking a cigarette as we marched along over those fields in that awful hail of shells.” He was junior sidesman in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Finchley.

=FORD, ROBERT JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., 15137 (R.F.R., B. 1785), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FORD, WILLIAM FRANK=, A.B., 212470, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FORD, WILLIAM GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1469), 211586, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FOREMAN, SAMUEL JOHN=, Private, No. 1713, 12th Battn., Australian Imperial Force, 3rd s. of the late Samuel Foreman, Carter, by his wife, Anne; b. Ladywood, Birmingham, 27 Feb. 1875; educ. Foundry Road Board School there; went to Australia, and was an employee with the Commonwealth Salt Company in Kangaroo Island; enlisted shortly after the outbreak of war, and died at the 10th Australian Clearing Station, 14 June, 1915, of wounds received in action; unm.

=FOREST, HENRY SCOTT=, Private, No. 41781, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 5th s. of John Forest, of Coaticook, Quebec, Canada, Farmer and Teamster, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Neil McGeehan; b. Coaticook, Quebec, 8 Oct. 1897; educ. Coaticook Academy; enlisted July, 1914; left Canada with the first contingent; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 25 April, 1915; unm. Buried on the St. Julien Road.

=FORFEITT, FREDERICK WILLIAM LAWSON=, Private, No. 2739, 1st Battn. Hertfordshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Frederick Joseph Forfeitt, of Medburn, Elstree, A.C.P., Schoolmaster, by his wife, Lucy Jane, dau. of Charles Cooper; b. Elstree, co. Herts, 22 July, 1889; educ. Medburn School (his father’s), and St. Alban’s School (Scholar and Member of the Cadet Corps), and on leaving there entered Messrs. Barclay’s Bank, St. Albans. After the outbreak of war he joined the 1st Hertfordshire Regt. 4 Sept. 1914, went to the Front 5 Nov. following, and died 20 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Festubert the previous day; and was buried in Bethune Cemetery; unm. A letter from a comrade showed that he met his death in a most gallant fashion. His friend had been killed near him, and though sorely wounded he said: “Never mind me, have a look at poor old ‘Mal,’ I’m afraid he’s gone.” Another wrote: “I have never known a man bear a wound more bravely than he”; and his Capt., writing later, described him as being “much loved by us all, and one of the bravest men in his company.”

=FORREST, JOHN=, Private, No. 13451, 12th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, eldest s. of Robert Forrest, Engine Driver, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Hugh Fraser; b. Leith, 4 Aug. 1890; educ. St. Thomas School, Leith; was a Riveter at Ramage & Ferguson’s; enlisted soon after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 11 May, 1915, and died of wounds received in action at Loos, 25 Aug. following; unm. 2nd Lieut. R. B. Stewart wrote: “Your son was wounded last night when he along with some others was carrying out a difficult piece of work in front of our trenches.... He was a fine and plucky fellow and a man in whom I could place my implicit trust. He was always one of the first to volunteer if there was any ‘ticklish’ work to be done.”

=FORREST, WILLIAM LYON=, Third Writer, M. 2759, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FORRESTER, ADRIAN ANDREW=, M.B., Fleet Surgeon, H.M.S. Implacable, only s. of William Forrester, of Glenmiln, Campsie Glen, co. Stirling, by his wife, Jessie Ann Hill, dau. of Archibald MacFarlane; b. Glenmiln, afsd., 20 Jan. 1874; educ. Larchfield, Helensburgh, co. Dumbarton, and Glasgow University, graduating M.B. in 1897; entered the Navy as a Surgeon, 8 Nov. 1898; and was promoted Staff Surgeon, 8 Nov. 1906, and Fleet Surgeon, 8 Nov. 1914. He was appointed to H.M.S. Implacable in Feb. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles 25 April, 1915. He married at Sydney, N.S.W., 20 Jan. 1904, Ruby Westwood, dau. of Charles Andrew Guesdon, of Hobart, Tasmania, and had a dau., Thelma Westwood b. 10 March, 1905.

=FORRINGTON, CHARLES HOARE=, Signalman, J. 10092, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FORSTER, ANDREW FORRESTER=, Private, No. 1713, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of William Forster, of Mainsoflaig, Newluce, co. Wigtown, Farmer; b. Brownknowe, Nicolforest, co. Cumberland, 17 Sept. 1887; educ. Newluce and Stramuir; went to Australia; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 16 Aug. 1914; went to the Dardanelles and was killed in action there, 17 May, 1915, and buried behind the trenches; unm.

=FORSYTH, ARCHIBALD JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 10/1054, 9th (Hawkes Bay) Wellington Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Archibald William Forsyth, of Gisborne, New Zealand [a native of Scotland]; b. Frasertown, Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, 6 Feb. 1894; educ. Frasertown, and High School, Gisborne, at which latter he passed the Junior Civil Service, and matriculated, gaining a first in Hawkes Bay Education Board. On leaving there he started teaching, and when war broke out was Assistant Master at Patutahi School, Gisborne. He was a Territorial and immediately volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; left with the main body for Egypt in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and was killed in action there at Walker’s Ridge, 29 April following; unm. Chaplain Major Grant (since killed) wrote: “His time of service was soon over, but he was of the heroic band who climbed and conquered this hill.”

=FORSYTH, PETER=, A.B., J. 19371, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=FORTES, THOMAS=, Sergt., No. 7687, 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., s. of Harry Fortes, of 4, Clark’s Pace, Wilbert Lane, Beverley, by his wife, Mary Kidd, dau. of Philip Spencer; b. Cherry Tree Terrace, Grove Hill Road, Beverley, 25 Oct. 1888; educ. Minster School there; enlisted in the East Yorkshire Regt., 20 Nov. 1903, and joined the 1st Battn. at Shorncliffe; after a few months was drafted to the 2nd Battn. in Burmah, with which he served first in Burmah and after 1909, in India, till 1913, when he came home and rejoined the 1st Battn. at York. He was promoted Sergt., 6 June, 1914, and after the outbreak of war, went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 10 Sept., and was killed in action at Parride Hill, 28 Oct. 1914. He m. at Shorncliffe, 1904, Louisa, dau. of Henry Kent; s.p. His brother, Private William Fortes, No. 7651, was with him in this engagement and is still (1916) on active service.

=FORTUNE, JAMES=, Private, No. 6844, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of the late Henry Fortune, of Foxham, co. Wilts, Platelayer on the Great Western Railway, by his wife, Hannah (Little Alne, Wooten Wowen, Birmingham), dau. of the late George Lovelock; b. Foxham, 5 Dec. 1887; educ. there; enlisted July, 1906, and served seven years with the colours, including two in Egypt, when he passed into the Reserve and obtained employment at Farnborough. On mobilisation he rejoined, went to the Front 12 Aug. 1914, served through the retreat from Mons and the subsequent engagements, on the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed instantaneously at Rentel, by a bullet while on sentry duty 27 Oct. 1914; unm. While living at Farnborough he was connected with the Gospel Mission and was an earnest worker and devoted Sunday School teacher.

=FOSTER, ARCHIBALD COURTENAY HAYES=, Lieut., Hampshire Regt., attd. 4th King’s African Rifles, 4th s. of the late Montagu H. Foster, of Stubbington House, Fareham, co. Hants, by his wife, Mary Henrietta Foster (The Lodge, Stubbington, Fareham), dau. of the Rev. Richard Foster Carter; b. Stubbington House afsd., 19 May, 1886; educ. Stubbington House and Cheltenham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Hampshire Regt. 24 Jan. 1906; promoted Lieut. 19 Oct. 1907, and seconded for service with the King’s West African Rifles, 8 Oct. 1913; took part in the Jubaland campaign, 1914, and was killed in action at Marabu, British East Africa, 19 Sept. 1914; unm. It appears from the official report of this action that on the night of 6 Sept. orders were given for Lieut. Foster and A Coy. King’s African Rifles to start at dawn and regain touch with the enemy, Lieuts. Phillips and Hardingham, with 80 King’s African Rifles, to support him. No sign of the enemy was seen on the 7th or 8th. On the 19th the three section A Coy. 4th King’s African Rifles (Lieut. Foster, King’s African Rifles), with one maxim, one section Somali Mounted Infantry (Capt. Isaacson, East African Rifles, and Lieut. Miles, East African Mounted Rifles), “were occupying Campa Ya Marabu. The Somalis and mules were occupying a thorn boma ‘A.’ and the King’s African Rifles a similar boma ‘B.’ It was arranged between Capt. Isaacson and Lieut. Foster that, in case of attack, the mules were to be taken out of the boma ‘A’ and crossed over to the north bank of River Mol Turesh at point ‘D’ through bushes at point ‘E.’ A picquet, composed of Somalis, was posted at point ‘G.’ At 5.30 a.m. the enemy advancing up the river came into touch with the picquet at ‘G.’ Capt. Isaacson immediately ordered the mules across the river and then proceeded towards the picquet, shortly afterwards meeting a wounded Somali retiring on the boma, who reported the enemy to be in strength. The enemy, estimated at three or four white officers and rank and file, had now opened out on either side of the track at point ‘G’ and kept up a heavy fire; seven of the mules were hit in crossing the river. Lieut. Foster, on being informed that the enemy’s strength was only about 100, ordered his company to advance to bushes ‘E’--one section King’s African Rifles, one section Somalis, two sections King’s African Rifles on the right, with Capt. Isaacson and Lieut. Miles. The enemy kept up a very heavy fire to our front and left. As our men reached point ‘E’ Lieut. Foster was hit, but continued to urge on his men in a very gallant manner.... The whole action lasted about two hours, and from reports received later from the Masai the enemy appear to have retired in disorder.... This little action was fought with spirit and determination. Lieut. Foster died a gallant death, and the British officers and rank and file of the Somali section and A Coy. 4th King’s African Rifles gave him courageous support.”

=FOSTER, ARTHUR CEDRIC=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, yr. s. of Capt. Arthur Wellesley Foster, of Brockhampton Court, co. Hereford, M.A., J.P., D.L., T.D., late Master of the South Herefordshire Foxhounds (now serving as Brigade Instructor of Musketry, attd. to the Staffordshire Infantry Brigade), by his wife, Alice Madeline, dau. of the late Eben Dyer Jordan, of Boston, U.S.A.; b. Caton Green, co. Lancaster, 26 April, 1891; educ. at Remenham, Eton, and Exeter College, Oxford; entered the Diplomatic Service in Feb. 1914, and was for some time Hon. Attaché to the British Legation at Stockholm. When the European War broke out he was home on leave, and obtaining his release from the Foreign Office, volunteered and joined the Public Schools Battn., 18 Sept. 1914, from which he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Grenadier Guards, 24 Oct. following. He went to France, 12 Jan. 1915; was wounded in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915, and died in Merville Hospital the following day; unm. He was buried in Merville Churchyard. He was a good all-round athlete, and at Eton won both the Junior and Senior Long Jump, the latter in 1909, when he created a record of 20 ft. 1 in. He also played frequently for the Hereford County Cricket Club. His brother, Lieut. Cuthbert Foster, R.M.A., is (1916) on active service.

=FOSTER, DAVID=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9343), S.S. 106620, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FOSTER, FREDERICK=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, R.N.V.R. (Sussex), 298, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of John Foster, of 4, Nelson Road, Hastings; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FOSTER, HERBERT KNOLLYS=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Gloucester Regt., only s. of the Rev. Herbert Charles Foster, T.D., Vicar of Groombridge, co. Sussex, and Hon. Canon of Gloucester Cathedral, by his wife, Susan Edith, dau. of Rev. Prebendary Robert Shuttleworth Sutton, of Winkenhurst, Hellingly, formerly Rector of Rye, Sussex; b. All Saints’ Vicarage, Gloucester, 18 Oct. 1895; educ. Glyngarth Preparatory School, Cheltenham, Marlborough College, and Sandhurst; obtained his commission in the 1st Battn. Gloucester Regt. 8 Aug. 1914; went to France, 20 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Gheluvelt, near Ypres, Flanders, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

=FOSTER, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8497), S.S. 104740, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FOSTER, JOHN THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 12374, 10th (Service) Battn. Durham Light Infantry, eldest s. of Robert Foster, of 28, Wear Street, Southwick-on-Wear, Shipwright, by his wife, Dorothy Ann, dau. of John Rames; b. Southwick, co. Durham, 15 July, 1886; educ. National School there; was employed in a shipyard at Sunderland; enlisted 10 Aug. 1914; trained in Surrey, went to the Front in May and was killed in action in France, 31 July, 1915, and buried at Sanctuary Wood, near the dressing station; unm.

=FOSTER, LAURENCE TALBOT LISLE=, Lieut., 16th (Service) Battn. Durham Light Infantry, 4th s. of the Rev. Albert John Foster, Vicar of Wootton and Rural Dean of Haynes, by his wife, Edith Margaret, dau. of the Rev. T. A. Voules, Rector of Beercrocombe, Somerset: b. Wootton Vicarage, co. Bedford, 15 Feb. 1885; educ. Eastbourne College (Scholar); was a Forest Manager in the Bombay and Burma Trading Corporation; gazetted Lieut. 16th Durham L.I., 21 Nov. 1914; left England for the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915, was attd. to the 5th Manchesters, and was killed in action at Anafarta 7 Aug. 1915; unm. His Colonel wrote: “As an officer he was splendid, always steadily doing his duty and quite fearless. He led his men with the utmost bravery, and was killed, as he would have liked to have been, at the head of his men, and without suffering. He is a great loss to the Battn. and you have every right to be proud of him, as we are.”

=FOSTER, ROBERT=, Private, No. 8/137, Otago Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Edward Foster, of Lowburn Ferry, by his wife, Christine (Lowburn Ferry, via Cromwell, Central Otago, New Zealand), dau. of George Dalziell, of Shetland; b. Lowburn aforesaid, 10 Aug. 1894; educ. Lowburn Public School, and was engaged in farming. He volunteered for Imperial service six days after the declaration of war, joined the Otago Infantry Battn., 11 Aug. 1914, and left New Zealand with the main body. He took part in the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, and remained in the trenches until 4 Aug. 1915, on which day he was killed in action. His second brother, William, died on active service (see following notice), and his eldest and now only surviving brother is now (1916) on active service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

=FOSTER, WILLIAM=, Trooper, No. 9/698, Otago Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late Edward Foster, of Lowburn Ferry, by his wife, Christina (Lowburn Ferry, via Cromwell, Central Otago, New Zealand), dau. of George Dalziell, of Shetland (see preceding notice); b. Dunedin, 25 May, 1888; educ. Lowburn Public School; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war, and joined the Otago Mounted Rifles, 10 Oct. 1914; left New Zealand with the second reinforcements and landed at Anzac on his 27th birthday. He served in the trenches for three months, when he was removed to Malta suffering from pneumonia, and afterwards contracted enteric fever and died at St. Andrew’s Hospital there, after four months’ illness, 16 Nov. 1915; unm. He was well known as a footballer, and before the declaration of war was for some years one of the representatives for Vincent County in the interprovincial Rugby matches.

=FOTHERINGHAM, ALEXANDER BOYNE=, Leading Seaman, No. 2/2693, Anson Battn. R.N., yr. s. of John Fotheringham, of 34, Dudley Avenue, Leith, Baker, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Alexander Boyne; b. Leith, 26 April, 1894; educ. Bonnington Academy, Leith, and George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh; and was employed as goods clerk in the Leith Walk branch of the Caledonian Railway until the outbreak of war. He had joined the R.N.V.R. in July, 1913, and after the outbreak of war was called up and attached to the Anson Battn. Royal Naval Division; served at Antwerp Sept. 1914, and afterwards at the Dardanelles, took part in the landing at Cape Helles, 26 April, and was killed in action there, 6 May, following; unm.

=FOUCAR, CLEMENT AUGUSTE=, Rifleman No. 1931, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F), 4th s. of the late Ferdinand Louis Foucar, of Rangoon and Moulmein, Burma, Teak Merchant [of a Huguenot family, who came from Proisy in Picardy, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685], by his wife, Martha, dau. of the late (--) Grasemann; b. Rangoon, 11 Sept. 1892; educ. privately and at Doncaster Grammar School, etc.; joined the Queen Victoria Rifles after the declaration of war, in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action on Hill 60, near Ypres, 21 April, 1915; unm.

=FOULKES, HERBERT=, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10294), 299552, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FOUND, JOHN=, Mechanician, Po./279973 H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FOURNIER, EMILE=, Private, No. 26321, 14th Battn. (65th Regt.), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Adelard Fournier, of Hull, P.Q., Canada; b. Hull, aforesaid, 1 Feb. 1896; educ. Hull Brothers’ College, and with the Capucin Fathers at Ottawa; enlisted early in Aug. 1914, immediately after the declaration of war; left Canada with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France in Feb., and died in hospital at Rouen, 10 May, 1915, of wounds in the right leg received in action at Langemarck, 27 April; unm. His commanding officer, Capt. D. E. Serres, wrote that “he was one of his best men,” adding, “I praise you to have in your family such a courageous and brave child.”

=FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD=, Private, No. 1465, 1st Battn. H.A.C., 2nd s. of Arthur Christopher Fowler, of 12, Grange Park, Ealing, W., Printer and Bookbinder, by his wife Laura Jennie, dau. of Richard Clarke Pauling, C.E.; b. London, 27 Feb. 1893; educ. Xavierian College, Mayfield, Sussex, and St. Edmund’s College, Old Hall, Ware, co. Herts; was apprenticed to his father as a Printer and Bookbinder through the Stationers’ Company; on the outbreak of war enlisted in the H.A.C.; served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in Flanders, 13 March, 1915; buried at Lochre, nine miles from Ypres; unm. His Capt., Ernest Boyle, wrote: “An attack was made upon the German position, and our company held a trench immediately in front. We were subject to very heavy firing from German machine guns and your son was unhappily hit in the head. He was unconscious from the first and cannot have even been aware that he was hit, so he suffered no pain at all. He survived his wound some hours. As he still lived, as soon as it was dark he was taken away to the hospital, where he died, so I do not know whether he ever recovered consciousness, but I do not think he did. Two others of his company gave their lives for their country the same day ... Personally I had not known your son very long, as I have only recently joined his company, but I soon came to know him and greatly admired him. He was the heart and soul of the football teams, and I had a long talk with him on the morning of his death about future matches. He was so keen in all he did, so determined, so plucky and so willing, showing all those characteristics which endear a man at the front to his comrades and to his officers”; a Sergt., Geoffrey Ernst: “At the time we were supporting an attack by keeping up a heavy rifle fire on the German trenches, and unfortunately they turned a machine gun on us, which, I am afraid, was the cause of all our trouble. At the time, too, he was blazing away with his rifle most cheerily.” Private Brown also wrote to his own father: “During the last time up I have lost my great pal, Dicky Fowler.... We have had a very hot time, and this last time up we had twelve good days of it. Dick was hit on the Friday (12th inst.) in the afternoon and died early on Saturday morning. Glad to say the old boy lived long enough to be brought back to this village, as now he is buried in the churchyard. He was a grand fellow and such a ‘White man.’ We were always together, whether in the firing line or back here; naturally I feel his loss, but it must be cruel for his people and his girl. He hadn’t missed a single trench, and both he and I were proud of our record, but he could not have died a finer death, as his shoulder was hard against the parapet. This was how it happened. We were assisting in a charge by some well-known regulars (great pals of ours) by firing straight in front of us to keep the Huns opposite down below their parapet, and avoid them firing on our chaps, who were making the charge on our right. We were to fire straight and then sweep along to the left as our boys came along, but the blighters swept a machine gun along the top of our parapet and poor Dick got one right through the head. When I got to him he was unconscious and he never regained his senses. Of course I was with him until night, and then he was carried back on the stretcher. The bullet went right through his head and it was a marvel he lived so long, but he was a fine healthy chap and any amount of natural pluck.” Private Fowler was a keen sportsman and played cricket and football for the Neasden Sports Clubs.

=FOWLER, GEORGE=, Transport Sergt., No. 128, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), 2nd s. of Colour-Sergt. George Fowler, of 55, Lochend Road West, Edinburgh (who served with the 5th Royal Scots for 35 years), by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Malcolm Kirk, of Musselburgh, Painter; b. Edinburgh, 25 Aug. 1887; educ. Regent Street Public School there; was a Clerk in Midlothian County Council; joined the 5th Royal Scots, then the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers, 16 Feb. 1905; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, left England for the Dardanelles on 21 March, 1915, and was shot by a sniper on 21 May, 1915, and died there the next day; unm. Buried at B. Line, W. Beach. Sergt. Fowler was the Battn. representative at the King’s Coronation in London, and was secretary of the Sports Committee (1912–13), the two years that the Battn. sports were held.

=FOWLER, THEODORE HUMPHREY=, Corpl., No. 2446, Honourable Artillery Coy., s. of Oliver Humphrey Fowler, of Cirencester, M.D.; b. Cirencester, co. Gloucester, 25 Sept. 1879; educ. Lancing College; volunteered after the outbreak of war and enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Coy., 3 Oct. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; was wounded at Kemmel, and died in the County of London War Hospital, Epsom, 17 Aug. 1915; unm. His brother, Capt. R. C. Fowler, Northants Regt., is now (1916) on active service.

=FOWLER, WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., T. 2294, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=FOWLER WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, No. 21600, 7th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of John Busteed Fowler, of 8, Sidneyville, Bellevue Park, Cork, Member of Cork Stock Exchange, and Insurance Agent, by his wife, Annie Louisa, dau. of William Henry Hill, B.E.; b. Summount, Cork, 7 Aug. 1893; educ. Cork Grammar School and University College Cork; went to Canada in Feb. 1912, and settled at Calgary, Alberta; was an official of the Bank of Commerce, volunteered on the outbreak of War, and enlisted, 11 Aug. 1914; left with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15; went to France, March, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 27 April, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “I was right there when it happened, and we buried him. We had not time to do very much, for the bullets were flying all round us, but we wrapped him in his blanket, and we put a cross up.” His two brothers both enlisted when war was declared and served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France. Private Richard T. Fowler, Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry, was invalided home in Nov. 1915, and Private John G. Fowler, 5th Battn., was wounded at Festubert in May, 1915. Another brother, Frank R. Fowler, is now temporary 2nd Lieut. 3rd Leinsters.

=FOWLING, BERTIE EVELYN=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 342885, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FOWLOW, RICHARD=, Corpl., No. 886, D Coy., 1st Newfoundland Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Jenkins Fowlow, of Trinity East, Newfoundland, Owner and Master of 50-ton Fishing Schooner, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John P. Fowlow; b. Trinity East aforesaid, 18 Jan. 1893; educ. High School there; was a Clerk in a Dry Goods Store; joined H Coy. of the Trinity East Church Lads Brigade, 4 Oct. 1912, was appointed L.-Corpl. the same year and promoted Corpl. in 1913; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war, and joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, Jan. 1915; left for England with the second contingent, 20 March, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, and died at Malta, 23 Nov. 1915, of typhoid contracted while on active service there; unm. Buried in Pieta, Malta (Row 8A, No. 6).

=FOX, HARRY=, Stoker, P.O., 301863, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FOX, HARRY EDWIN=, Leading Telegraphist, J. 6260, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1913.

=FOX, JOHN=, Private, No. 12768, 4th (Service) Battn. South Wales Borderers, yst. s. of the late Arthur Fox, of Bradford, Yorks, Police Constable, by his wife, Ada S. (27, Layard Street, Splott, Cardiff), dau. of Maurice Devine, Army Pensioner; b. Bradford, 5 Aug. 1897; was employed as a boy at the Cardiff Cinema Theatre, which he left in May with an excellent character; enlisted Aug. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, from 4 July to 12 Aug. 1915, on which date he was killed in action there; unm. His brother, Private M. A. Fox, was killed in action in France (see following notice), and the only surviving brother, L.-Corpl. William Kenneth Fox, is serving with the A.S.C.

=FOX, MAURICE ARTHUR=, Private, No. 4634, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, s. of Arthur Fox, of Bradford, Yorks, Police constable (see preceding notice), b. Bradford, 6 Jan. 18..; served three years with the Colours and then joined the Reserve; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 4 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action on the 20th of that month; unm.

=FOX, WALTER HENRY=, Lieut., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., elder s. of George Martin Fox, of Walsall, M.D., by his wife, Emily, dau. of Henry Vaughan, J.P.; b. Walsall, co. Stafford, 30 Nov 1895; educ. St. Ninian’s, Moffat, and Bromsgrave School, where he was in the O.T.C., and in the Cricket XI and Football XV; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the South Staffordshires, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. ... April, 1915; went to France, 29 May, and there was attached to the 2nd Bedfords, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 June, 1915; unm. His Capt. wrote: “I feel that in losing him, I lose a very good subaltern and a very good and cheery comrade.” He was an enthusiastic golfer, and won numerous prizes.

=FOX, WILFRID ARMSTRONG=, 2nd Lieut., 1/4th Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late George Fox, of Horncastle, by his wife, Mary H., dau. of Henry Nicholson; b. Horncastle, co. Lincoln, 12 Oct. 1892; educ. Clevedon House, Woodhall Spa; Aldenham School, and Keble College, Oxford, where he had just finished his second year when the war broke out; joined the 4th Lincolns, 4 Aug. 1914, serving as a Private until he received his commission in Oct. to rank as from 20 Aug. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Zillebeke, 29 July, 1915; unm. Buried in Dranoute Churchyard. Lieut.-Col. Barrell, commanding 4th Lincolns, wrote: “During the time he was with us he endeared himself to everyone of us, and he had the makings of a very good officer”; and a Horncastle soldier: “The unfortunate death of Lieut. Fox occurred in these trenches. It would have been a job to find a more capable man in the battalion. His cheery manner was just the thing that’s wanted out here, and although he was not in our company and had not been with us very long, his loss was felt acutely by the whole of the battalion, who all appreciated his readiness to help in any concert or sport that was arranged to pass the evenings while we were resting. Most of us knew him as a Private, and all agree that he was a jolly good Private and an ideal officer.”

=FOX, WILLIAM=, Stoker, P.O., 172400, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronal, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FOX, WILLIAM ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7020), S.S. 101584, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FOXELL, FREDERICK JAMES=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 209944, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FOXTON, JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., A. 3049, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=FOYER, WILLIAM=, Petty Officer, 176217, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=FRAMPTON, JOHN THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3007), S.S. 350, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FRAMPTON, JOSEPH HENRY=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R, B. 4207), 292170, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FRAMPTON, WALTER JOHN=, Sergt., No. 648, 16th Battn., 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late Walter Frampton, of the Civil Service, by his wife, Fanny (3, Lennox Mansions, Southsea, Hants), dau. of Edward Kirk Horn, of Adelaide, South Australia, and grandson of the Rev. Canon John Frampton, of the Priory, Tetbury, Gloucestershire; b. Adelaide, South Australia, 20 Dec. 1867; educ. St. Edward’s School, Oxford; enlisted as Pay-Corpl. in the Australian Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of war, about 14 Oct. 1914; left with his Battn. for Egypt in Jan.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April; was seriously wounded at Gaba Tepe on the 27th, and died in the 17th Royal General Hospital, Alexandria, 3 May, 1915. Buried in Chatby Military Cemetery, Alexandria: unm. Sergt. Frampton was most highly spoken of for his bravery by his commanding officers, who said that, but for his death, he would shortly have received his commission. A tablet to his memory was placed in the chapel of St. Edward’s School, Oxford.

=FRANCIS, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 8146, 1st Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., s. of Job Francis, of 95, Abercynon Road, Abercynon, co. Glamorgan; b. Ashton Gate, Bristol, 4 Feb. 1895; educ. Board School there; enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; and died from the effects of gas poisoning at Hill 60, 4 May, 1915; unm.

=FRANCIS, BASIL HUGH=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Capt. Harold Hugh Francis, late Royal Scots; b. Firth House, Rosslyn, 8 Oct. 1895; educ. Rugby and University College, Oxford (admitted March, 1914), and on the outbreak of war was gazetted to his father’s old regiment, 14 Aug. He was killed in action near La Bassée, 4 Feb. 1915; buried Château de Gerve, near Bethune.

=FRANCIS, GILBERT BRYAN=, Private, No. 10/2138, Wellington Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, only s. of the Rev. David Francis, B.A., Vicar of Llandygwydd, Cardigan, R.D., by his wife, Amy, 3rd dau. of J. M. Bryan, of Northampton, M.D., F.R.C.S.; b. Llandygwydd Vicarage, 17 Oct. 1886; educ. Llandovery College; went to New Zealand, 4 Dec. 1912; enlisted, 15 Feb. 1915; left New Zealand with reinforcements, 12 June, 1915, and died of enteric fever at St. George’s Military Hospital, Malta, 13 Nov. 1915. Buried in Pieta Cemetery, Malta; unm.

=FRANCIS, HENRY WILLIAM=, Private. No. 11133, 4th Battn. 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of Henry Francis, of Georgetown, Ontario, Canada, by his wife, Barbara Wells, dau. of William James Saunders; b. Poplar, London, E., 6 Feb. 1897; educ. Hermit Road Council School, London, and Georgetown, Canada; started work at the age of 13 at the Barber Paper and Coating Mills; Georgetown, Ontario; volunteered 6 Aug. 1914, two days after the declaration of war; left. Canada with the first contingent; went to France, 6 Feb. 1915, took part in the various engagements, including the repulse of the German gas attack at Langemarck, until 17 June, 1915, when he was shot through the temple by a sniper, while taking a message down the trench. His Commanding Officer wrote: “As a soldier there was none braver and none who played the game more manfully than did Henry.”

=FRANCIS, JAMES THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./11729, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FRANCIS, JOHN=, Capt., 1/5th Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt. (T.F.), only child of John Horace Francis, of 7, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, member of the firm of Deakin & Francis, Birmingham, and his wife, Ethel, yr. dau. of the late John William Botsford, of Manchester; b. Edgbaston, 30 June, 1887; educ. Uppingham and Gottingen, Germany; and was Director and Secretary of Deakin & Francis, Manufacturing Jewellers. He joined the 5th (Territorial) Battn. of the Warwicks on its organisation in 1907, and became Lieut., 30 Oct. 1909. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial Service; was promoted Capt., 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 21 March, 1915, and was killed in action in France, 12 June, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm. Buried in the 5th Battn. Warwicks Cemetery, White Gates, Petit Pont, Ploegsteert. The Col. of the battn. wrote: “He belonged to a fine battn. He was proud of the battn. and the battn. were proud of him,” and after remarking on the loyal spirit of the corps, pointing out that 900 of the 960 men volunteered for foreign service, continued: “It was the officers of the type of Johnny Francis, as he was known in the mess, that made the regt, what it was. Francis loved the regt., loved his company, and his men were devoted to him. Amidst 30 or 40 officers there are bound to be degrees of character, force and capacity, but in Francis I had a perfect soldier. As to character, he was the soul of honour, a disciplined officer, a true friend. He had a keen sense of justice and a sort of rough lovingkindness to his men which made them value him. As to force, he was a born commander, a leader of men. As to capabilities, he was clever, knew his job thoroughly and had a way of imparting his knowledge to his men, and he was hard-working; he was never idle. As to courage, there never was a braver man. He was not merely a brave fool who saw no danger. I think he was the kind of man who enjoyed danger. He would take a fearful punishment on the football field or in a boxing match with the utmost good temper. There was about him a joyous courage. I doubted some men’s courage, I doubted my own, but I never doubted his.” A Memorial Cross was erected in the Churchyard at Fladbury, and was dedicated by the Bishop of Worcester, June, 1916. Capt. Francis, who was the first officer to fall of the 5th and 6th Warwicks, was the great grandson of John Francis, who was the first man to be given a commission as Lieut. in the Volunteer movement of 1803. He was a well-known player for the Moseley Rugby Club.

=FRANCIS, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2086), 290778, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FRANCIS, WILLIAM SAMUEL=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17236, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FRANKLIN, ALBERT EDWARD=, Private, No. 1752, 1st Battn. Australian Expeditionary Force, s. of George Franklin; b. Poplar, London, E., 25 Nov. 1892; educ. Daubeney Road School, Clapton Park; went to Australia, 18 June, 1914, and settled at Glen Innes, New South Wales; enlisted in Jan. 1915; left with the fourth reinforcements, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 10 Dec. 1915; unm. He was buried on the slope of the hill where he fell, overlooking Anzac Bay.

=FRANKLIN, ARTHUR=, Chief Stoker, 286935, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3262), 164423, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FRANKLIN, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4902B, H.M.S. Cressy lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FRANKS, JABEZ=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8075), S.S. 103825, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FRASER, ALEXANDER=, V.D., Lieut.-Col., 1/4th Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Alexander Fraser, Provost of Inverness, Agent of the Commercial Bank of Scotland there, by his wife, Elizabeth (Island Bank House, Inverness), dau. of the Rev. John Spray, M.A., Vicar of Kinneagh, Ireland; b. Beauly, co. Inverness, 6 May, 1865; educ. the Royal Academy, Inverness, Inverness College and Edinburgh University, and was admitted a Solicitor on 25 March, 1890, and made a Notary Public on 18 Oct. 1892. He practised in Inverness and became Senior Partner in the firm of Fraser & Ross of that town. He joined the ranks of the 1st Volunteer Battn. of the Cameron Highlanders, 9 May, 1883, and served with them until 10 Nov. 1887, and with the Q.R.V.B. Royal Scots from 20 Feb. 1888 to 13 Nov. 1889, and received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the former, 17 May, 1890. He was promoted Lieut., 20 Dec. 1890; Capt., 10 Aug. 1898; Hon. Major, 5 April, 1902; Major, 25 Feb. 1905; and from 24 Feb. 1909 to 23 Aug. 1913, was Lieut.-Col. Commanding. He then retired and joined the Reserve of Officers (T.F.). On the outbreak of the European War he immediately volunteered for foreign service and rejoined, 19 Sept. 1914, on a reserve unit being formed at Inverness; and his successor in command of the 4th, being incapacitated for active service by an accident, he was re-appointed Lieut.-Col. Commanding, 29 Oct. following. He went to the Front with his Battn. in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, France, 18 May, 1915. On the 16th, the first day of the British attack on the German trenches south of La Bassée, the 4th Camerons were in reserve, and occupied trenches and dug-outs made by themselves, about 1,000 yards behind the British line, and on the afternoon of the 17th were ordered forward to the attack, and moved via the village of Festubert up to the trenches captured by the British the day before. The objective was a long trench, previously a communication trench, but now used as a fire trench by the enemy, with a group of houses on the enemy’s right. Two Battns. were ordered to attack, and the Camerons were allotted the houses and the portion of the trench next them; the other Battn. being on the right. Our artillery bombarded the enemy during the day and at 7.30, just as dark was coming on, the attack was launched. They had to advance over what was apparently a perfectly level piece of greasy ground, about 800 yards across, but which was found to be intersected by deep ditches full of water. The Battn. on the right suffered so severely that they had to fall back, and some of D Coy. had to retire with them, but the remainder successfully rushed the enemy’s trench. Every effort was immediately made to put it in a state of defence, but the houses had not been captured and our supports failed in the dark to find the trench where the Battn. was, and when, just at dawn, the Germans made a strong counter-attack and assailed both flanks with hand-grenades, Col. Fraser saw that it could not be held and ordered a retreat. He himself refused to leave his post of danger before the last of his men was away, and just as he was starting to go he was shot at the edge of the ditch. The Chaplain, in a letter to Mrs. Fraser, wrote: “Shortly after I joined the Battn. as Chaplain, we were ordered to take up a certain position. The date was 11 May. The Battn. waited there in reserve until last night. At four o’clock in the afternoon the order came to march out to ---- and turn due east. The front British trench was reached without any casualties, and, led by your brave husband, the gallant Camerons crossed over the backbone right into the German trench. It had been evacuated by the enemy, but a communication trench was still held by them, leading to their reserve trenches. The task allotted to our Battn. was to cut off the German retreat from this communication trench. Officers and men behaved like immortal heroes.... Lieut. ----, A Coy. told me that he saw Col. Fraser at an advanced point. He was then wounded, but was giving orders. Lieut. ... was sent with orders to another point, and when he returned he could find no further trace of the Colonel. When the Battn. had to fall back under a withering fire and the roll was called, there was still no word of the Colonel. At 11 a.m. to-day Dr. Lindsay and I went out to look for him, and though we reached to within a few hundred yards of the spot, no trace of him could be found.... In the few days that I had been with the Battn. I was led to cherish the profoundest admiration for your husband. He was a wise leader, a considerate commander, and one of the finest men that I ever had the good fortune to meet.... I was very much struck with the religious note in his life, and it is a source of inspiration to me to recall how earnestly he counselled his men to guard against all manner of excesses.... It will comfort you to know that the Brigadier-General told me that the Camerons crowned themselves with glory.” He was twice mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French (31 May, 1915, and 15 Oct. 1915). Col. Fraser was Factor for the Estates of Culloden and Ferintosh; a military member of the County Territorial Force Association for Inverness; a member of the Town Council of Inverness, and for some time a Magistrate; Clerk to the Deacons Court of the United Free High Church; President of the Sanitary Association of Scotland, 1912–13; convenor of Public Health Committee of Inverness, and secretary of the northern branch of the Royal Arboricultural Society. He was Right Worshipful Master of St. John’s Lodge of Freemasons, Inverness, and Provincial Grand Treasurer of Inverness-shire. He passed the School of Musketry, Hythe, 18 Oct. 1899, and had certificates for Tactics (May, 1892), Organisation and Equipment (May, 1903), and Military Topography (Nov. 1903). He had the Long Service medal, the Volunteer Decoration, and the Coronation medal (1911). Col. Fraser m. at the West Parish Church, Inverness, 27 April, 1893, Ella (Westwood, Inverness), only dau. of the late Col. Duncan Menzies, Blarich, Sutherland, Scotland, who for many years commanded the 1st Sutherland Highland Rifle Volunteers, and left two sons and seven daus.: Duncan Menzies, b. 15 April, 1894; Alexander Redmond Hugh, b. 25 Jan. 1908; Elizabeth Sibell, b. 9 June, 1896; Mary Millicent, b. 14 March, 1898; Muriel Jess, b. 26 June, 1900; Alexandra Dorothy, b. 1 Jan. 1903; Eleanor Beatrice Stewart, b. 31 Dec. 1905; Margaret Iris, b. 30 July, 1910; and Frances Alice Murray, b. 10 Nov. 1912. Col. Fraser’s elder s. Menzies obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers (S.R.) at the outbreak of the war and is now (1916) Lieut. in the 75th Field Company R.E. attd. to the Guards Division in France.

=FRASER, DONALD ALEXANDER=, Trooper, No. 862, 1st Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late William Fraser, by his wife, Mary (Loloma, Barry Street, Neutral Bay, Sydney, N.S.W.), dau. of John Oswald, of Melbourne, Victoria; b. Louth River, Darling, New South Wales, 15 Feb. 1889; educ. Scotch College, Melbourne; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 12 Jan. 1915, left Australia with the fourth reinforcements and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

=FRASER, GEORGE JAMES=, Private, No. 2276, 4th Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of James Fraser, of 3, Reeves Place, Hoxton, N., Labourer, by his wife, Flora, dau. of William Nixon; b. Bethnal Green, 13 Dec. 1892; volunteered following the outbreak of war and joined the 4th London Regt., 22 Aug. 1914; went to France, 5 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 27 April, 1915; unm.

=FRASER, THE HON. HUGH JOSEPH=, M.V.O., Major, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, 2nd s. of the late Simon, 15th Lord Lovat, by his wife, Alice Mary (Beaufort Castle, Beauly), dau. of Thomas Weld Blundell, of Ince Blundell; b. Beauly, co. Inverness, 6 July, 1874; educ. Fort Augustus Abbey School. Inverness-shire; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the Scots Guards, 12 Dec. 1894, promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1897, Capt. 16 March, 1901, and Major 12 June, 1907, and served in the South African War, 1900–2; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittenbergen (1–29 July), also in those there and in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1901 to 31 May, 1902, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps; was Adjutant in Lovat’s Scouts (Imperial Yeomanry) from 1 April, 1903 to 31 July, 1907, and Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India from Nov. 1910 to April, 1913. On the outbreak of war with Germany he went to the Front with the 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, which formed part of the 7th Division, and was killed in action in the 1st Battle of Ypres, 27 Oct. 1914; unm. He was made a M.V.O. (4th Class) 1912.

=FRASER, JAMES HOWIE=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only s. of Edward Cleather Fraser, C.M.G., Member of the Council of Government, Mauritius, and a Partner in the firm of Ireland, Fraser & Co., of Port Louis, by his wife, Mary Josephine, dau. of the late Thomas Howie, and gdson. of the late James Fraser, of Newfield, Blackheath Park; b. Blackheath, London, 4 April, 1888; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford, Rugby and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, out of which he passed first in Summer Term 1907, with prizes for Tactics and Military Engineering; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Gordon Highlanders, 9 Oct. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 20 March, 1909; joined the 2nd Battn. in India, and served with it there and in Egypt, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action 30 Oct. 1914, in the attack on Zillebeke Farm House. He was unm. and was buried at Klein Zillebeke. Lieut. Fraser was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=FRASER, JAMES O’NEILL=, Private, No. 1341, 5th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Evan Fraser, of 4, Caledonian Place, Newton, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Railway Signalman, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John O’Neill; b. Beith, co. Ayr, 6 June, 1894; educ. Hallside School, Cambuslang, and after being for some time a clerk with the Caledonian Railway Co., emigrated to Australia in April, 1914, to take up farming. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Australian Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt, 1 Feb. 1915; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, 1915, and was killed on the latter day; unm.

=FRASER, LACHLAN HENRY VEITCH=, Lieut., 4th Battn. The Middlesex Regt., yst. s. of Major Francis Fraser, of Tornaveen, co. Aberdeen, by his wife, Alexia Mary Beatrice de Dombal, dau. of Capt. John Henderson MacDonald, of Caskieben, co. Aberdeen, 78th Highlanders; b. Tornaveen, 22 April, 1894; educ. Malvern and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt. 8 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following; went to France, Sept. and was killed in action in the trenches at Ypres, 24 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried at Goderzom Farm, Vierstraat. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=FRASER, ROBERT=, Private, No. 8313, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., only s. of Robert Fraser, of Glasgow, by his wife, Mary; b. Glasgow, 1881; educ. Dobbies Loan School there; enlisted in the 3rd Battn. Highland L.I.; served through the South African war and retired in 1905 with the rank of Corpl.; re-enlisted in the 2nd Battn. on the outbreak of the European War; went to France in Nov. 1914; was wounded at Neuve Chapelle and again at Hill 60, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 25 Sept. 1915. After the fighting that day he was officially reported “Missing,” but on 29 Nov. a letter was received by a wounded comrade who stated that he saw him buried that night. He m. at Glasgow, 25 May, 1906, Mary (130, Taylor Street, Townhead, Glasgow), dau. of James McLaughlan, of Glasgow, and had four children: Robert, b. 22 Dec. 1908; James, b. 6 Oct. 1913; Mary, b. 23 March, 1907; and Janet, b. 13 Jan. 1912.

=FRASER, WILLIAM ST. JOHN=, Lieut.-Commander, Royal Navy, 4th s. of Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, of Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, and Druimbeg, Acharacle, co. Argyle; M.D., F.R.S., LL.D., Professor of Materia Medica and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh; Hon. Physician to the King in Scotland, by his wife, Susanna Margaret, dau. of the Rev. Robert Duncan; b. Edinburgh, 18 Sept. 1883; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Stubbington House, Fareham; entered the Navy, Britannia, 1898; became a midshipman, 1899; and was promoted Sub-Lieut., 1902, Lieut. 1904 and Lieut.-Commander, 1912; served in China, 1899–1902, on board the Endymion (medal), and in the European War, 1914–15, and was killed while on active service in the North Sea, near Heligoland, Jan. 1915, in command of Submarine E 10, which was destroyed with all hands. Admiral Sir George Warrender wrote: “I knew him well, for he was with me in the Shannon and I admired and respected him as one of the finest of our young officers.” He m. at Colinton, Midlothian, 9 April, 1908, Kathleen Lilias (Colinton, Midlothian), dau. of Capt. Abel Chapman, 19th Hussars, and had two daus.: Mary Kathleen, b. 16 Aug. 1911; and Rachel Margaret, b. 22 Jan. 1913.

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

=FREDERICK, JOHN EDWARD=, Gunner (R.F.R., I.C. 43), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FREDERICKS, WILLIAM=, A.B., 198858, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FREEBOROUGH, CHARLES HENRY=, Leading Seaman, 228949, H.M.S Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FREEMAN, CHARLES WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15937, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=FREEMAN, GEOFFREY WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1201, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Edward Freeman, of 77, North Side, Clapham Common, S.W., L.D.S., R.C.S. Eng., Dental Surgeon, by his wife, Maud, dau. of the late John Hopkins, of Sydney, N.S.W.; b. Narrabri, New South Wales, 11 Sept. 1896; came to England with his parents, 1903; educ. Manor House School, Clapham Common; and when war broke out was studying to enter Guy’s Hospital. He immediately volunteered and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 4 Nov. 1914, and, after training at Crowboro’ and Haywards Heath, went to France, 12 March, 1915. He wrote home regularly and cheerfully, his last letter being dated 8 May when the battn. was resting from a long spell in the trenches. A day or two later they were rushed up to take part in the Second Battle of Ypres, and he was one of the gallant band of nine who were with Sergt. D. W. Belcher when he won his V.C. on 13 May. Sergt. Belcher, with his handful of men, elected to remain and endeavour to hold a portion of an advanced breastwork south of the Wieltje-St. Julien Road, which was under heavy bombardment from the enemy’s artillery, after the troops near him had been withdrawn, and there is little doubt that the bold front shown by Sergt. Belcher and the few men with him prevented the enemy from breaking through and making a flank attack on one of the divisions. They held on during the whole day, and at nightfall reinforcements came up and the position was saved. Unfortunately, however, Freeman was killed during the course of the day. He had volunteered to take a message under heavy fire to Capt. Somers Smith of the L.R.B.; the message was taken and delivered, but almost immediately a shell burst and he and all around him were killed. He was named in Battn. Orders, and 2nd Lieut. A. G. Sharp wrote; “He was always popular wherever he went, and everyone who came in contact with him, liked him. During the whole time I knew him I never met one person who had anything but good to say of him. In his last term at Manor House he won the Gold Medal, and everyone who was with him during his short but glorious career in the Army says that they have lost in him a great pal. During his whole life he upheld the traditions of his school, which was very dear to him, and he died as every Manorian would wish to die. Truly when one thinks of him one is convinced that Manor House makes no idle boast when she says that all her sons are ‘Sportsmen and true gentlemen.’”

=FREEMAN, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3402), 217667, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FREER, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 7890, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., 6th s. of George Freer, of 18, Cameron Street, off New City Road, Glasgow, by his wife, Barbara Park, dau. of William Ferris, of Dundee, Carpenter; b. Glasgow, 31 June, 1894; educ. Oakbank School there; was an apprentice shipwright with Messrs. Berdmore & Dalmuir; enlisted 30 Jan. 1914; went to France, 4 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. His yst. brother, Robert, died on active service (see his notice), and of his other brothers, James and John are both on active service, the former with the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders and the latter at Salonika.

=FREER, LEACROFT HOWARD=, Sapper, No. 5089, 1st Coy. (6th North Vancouver Engineers), Canadian Engineers, 2nd s. of the late Howard Freer, of Bidford Grange, Warwickshire, by his wife, Gertrude Louisa (Port Hammond, P.O., British Columbia, Canada), dau. of Peter Davis, of Bickmarsh Hall, co. Warwick; b. Bidford Grange, co. Warwick, 26 Aug. 1884; educ. Bedford Grammar School; went to Canada in 1903, farming, afterwards taking up carpentering; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the North Vancouver Engineers, 11 Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent; went to the Front in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915, by shell-fire; unm. A comrade wrote: “On the evening of 15 June, the Canadians were making an attack, a party of engineers, including your son and myself, were waiting with some infantry in a communication trench immediately behind our front line for the word to go forward. Before the word came a large German shell exploded quite close to us, killing seven of our men, your son being one. He was killed instantly, as he was nearest to the explosion. Your son was thought much of by both officers and men. He was always so willing to help others. His services to the company will be greatly missed. He was so capable, being able to turn his hand to such a variety of works”; and another: “He was the ideal type of an Englishman, I always thought, and I know that everyone who had anything to do with him liked and admired him.”

=FREER, ROBERT=, Private, No. 3351, 3/5th Battn. Highland L.I. (T.F.), 7th and yst. s. of George Freer, of 18, Cameron Street, off New City Road, Glasgow, by his wife, Barbara Park, dau. of William Ferris, of Dundee, Carpenter; b. Glasgow, 28 Oct. 1897; educ. Oakbank School there; was an apprentice with a boat builder; enlisted 7 April, 1915, a month after his brother Alexander was killed at Neuve Chapelle, and died in the Military Hospital at Ripon, 26 Dec. 1915, of pneumonia contracted while training; unm.

=FREIGHT, STANLEY GEORGE=, Corpl., No. 123, 1/4th Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Edward James Freight, of 40, Windmill Road, Croydon, Builder, by his wife, Jessie, dau. of Samuel Cross, of Frome, Somerset, Farmer; b. Brixton, 1884; educ. Croydon; was a Builder and Decorator in partnership with his father; joined the 4th Surrey Territorials in 1908; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to India with his regt. 29 Oct. 1914, and died on active service at Lucknow, 1 May, 1915, of enteric fever; unm.

=FRENCH, ALFRED=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./11057, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chile, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FRENCH, ARTHUR ROBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26373 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FRENCH, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2469), 196044, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FRENCH, HERBERT=, Private, No. 7145, 1st Battn. (33rd Regt.) 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of John French; b. Kimer, co. Sussex; enlisted as a Driver (No. 40744) in the R.F.A. about 1894, and was 18 years with the Colours; served in the Sudan (medal), 1897–98, and in the South African War (medal with two clasps), 1899–1902; went to Canada about 1912 and settled at Vingham, Ontario; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 16 Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent Oct., and died on service in Bulford Manor Hospital, 24 Dec. 1914, following an operation. He m. at Brighton, Sussex, 22 April, 1894, Jane (Broughdale Avenue, London, Ontario), dau. of Harry Hayles, and had six children: Hezekiah George, b. 7 June, 1878, m. with three children; Harry, b. 8 April, 1883; Herbert John, b. 21 June, 1900, now (1916) on active service in France; George, b. 9 Aug. 1910; Daisy, b. 9 Dec. 1897; and Maude Gladys, b. 4 March, 1903.

=FRENCH, JOHN EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10100), 202476, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FRENCH, JOSEPH ROBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16365, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FRENCH, VALENTINE DOUGLAS=, 2nd Lieut., 5th (Service) Battn. Shropshire L.I., 3rd s. of [the Hon.] John French, of Miramar, Queenstown, Resident Magistrate, J.P. [2nd s. of Charles, 3rd Baron De Freyne], by his wife, Nani, dau. of Valentine Blake Dillon; b. Peatra House, Frenchpark, co. Roscommon, 3 Jan. 1889; educ. Jesuits College Limerick; gazetted to the 5th Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 9 April, 1906; but retired in 1907 and became Manager of the Shelford Rubber Estate at Klang, Malay States. On the outbreak of war he returned home and received a commission in the 5th King’s Shropshire L.I., 10 March, 1915; went to France with his regt. 20 May, and died 16 June, 1915, of wounds received in action, and was buried in Dickebusch Churchyard, at the corner of the south wall of Sanctuary; unm. Capt. H. Measor wrote: “When we knew at the last moment before leaving England that he was coming with us, all of us, and we C Coy. officers in particular, were delighted that we should have him with us. His wonderful good spirits and cheeriness at all times was a tonic of inestimable value to those of us who are not blessed with as stout a heart and as great courage as he was. I last saw him standing in a field which was swept with a hail of shrapnel, cheering the men of his platoon on, and seeing them all into the comparative safety of a concentration trench before he took any advantage of the cover himself, and even after he was hit I am told that he went on encouraging his men and giving them heart.” Lieut. French’s elder brother was wounded in the same action, and has since died of his wounds. His cousins-german, Lord De Freyne and the Hon. George French, were killed in action a few weeks previously.

=FRICKER, ALFRED HENRY=, Private, No. 6463, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Fricker, of Wookey Wells, Somerset, by his wife, Elsie; b. Radstock, co. Somerset, 4 Aug. 1885; educ. Radstock and Wells; enlisted 5 Dec. 1905; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Chivy, France, 14 Sept. 1914. He m. at Wells, 20 March, 1909, Emily (63, Thomas Street, Miskin, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan), dau. of William John Berryman, and had three children: George William Henry, b. 3 Feb. 1910; Alfred John, b. 16 June, 1913; and Ellen Norah, b. 17 Jan. 1911.

=FRICKER, BASSELL SAXE=, Private, No. 3/894, Ambulance Division, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Henry Charles Fricker, of Greymouth, New Zealand; b. Greymouth, 22 March, 1884; educ. Greymouth High School; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war; left New Zealand with the sixth reinforcements, and was drowned while on active service in H.M.S. Marquette, 23 Oct. 1915; unm. He was a keen sportsman and powerful swimmer, and held several medals for swimming.

=FRICKER, JOSEPH HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110662 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FRIEND, GEORGE BURTON TADDY=, Capt., 6th (Service) Battn. (The Buffs) East Kent Regt., eldest s. of the late James Taddy Friend, of Northdown, D.L., by his wife, Mary Stewart (Northdown, Isle of Thanet, Kent), dau. of George Irvine, of Bruckley House, Mossley Hill; b. Northdown, afsd., 1 Oct. 1879; educ. Wellington House, Westgate-on-Sea and Harrow; gazetted to the 1st Battn. E. Kent Regt., from the Rifle Brigade Militia, 7 March, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 2 Nov. 1900; served with his regt. in India 1900 to 1903, retiring in 1906 to take up farming. At the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. he rejoined his old regt. and was gazetted Capt. to the 6th Battn. 1 Oct. 1914. He went to France, 1 June, 1915, and was killed in action in Flanders, 25 July, 1915, while with a party repairing barbed wire entanglements in front of the trenches. He m. 1 June, 1906, Susie Frances Selby, 2nd dau. of the late Richard Copley, of Thrapston, co. Northants, and had two sons: James Irvine, b. July, 1907, d. 17 Aug. 1911; and Geoffrey Francis, b. 26 Jan. 1909. His three brothers are (1916) on active service.

=FRIEND, HARRY EDWIN=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27538, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FROGGATT, ALEXANDER=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./15598, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FROST, EDMUND LIONEL=, Lieut., 4th Battn. South Lancashire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Edmund Frost, of Chesterfield, Meads, Eastbourne, M.D., Mast. Surg., etc., by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, 2nd dau. of the late Walter Theobalds, of Birkenhead, Cheshire; b. Lasswade, Midlothian, 30 May, 1891; educ. Dover College Junior School, and Uppingham, where he was a Præposter, Captain of Games, Captain of the School Football and Hockey teams, Captain of his House (Fircroft), and Champion Heavy Weight Boxer; and Trinity College, Cambridge. He passed his “Little Go” at the age of 16, but remained at Uppingham till old enough to go to Cambridge. He graduated with honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1912, and during his three years there, he obtained sixteen medals, two silver spoons, a cup, and three oars, for Boxing, Rifle and Revolver Shooting and Sports. He was the ’Varsity champion heavy weight boxer in 1910, for which he received his half blue, and gained another half blue for Rifle Shooting. He only became a “wet bob” his last year, but so excellent an oarsman was he that he narrowly missed inclusion in the Cambridge Crew of that year; as it was, he was awarded the Trial Eights Cup. He was Captain of the ’Varsity Revolver Team and obtained the ninth place in the International Revolver Championship, N.R.A., at Bisley in 1912; he made a remarkable record in marksmanship with a revolver, by scoring 82 out of a possible 84, under service conditions. On leaving Cambridge he became actively associated with the firm of Messrs. Peter Stubs, Ltd., File and Steel and Tool Manufacturers, Warrington, of which his uncle, Mr. F. A. Frost, was Chairman and Managing Director. The following year, 1913, he went to France with the object of perfecting his knowledge of the language and coming into touch with the Continental trade of the Company. He received a commission in the 4th (Territorial) Battn. South Lancashire Regt., 1 Nov. 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, was promoted Lieut. 24 Sept. 1914; went to France 11 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, Flanders, 16 June, 1915; unm. On this occasion his Battn. with three other regts. assaulted the German position at Hooge, and carried three trenches at the point of the bayonet, and the Brigadier-General, addressing the Battn. after the battle, said: “The Battalion did splendidly. You have proved that the 4th South Lancashires can never be broken.” Lieut. Frost was shot through the head, and though he lived three-quarters of an hour, never regained consciousness. He was buried in Sanctuary Wood, near Ypres. Major Crosfield wrote: “I was speaking to him only ten minutes before, and though we were in the thick of it, he was just as bright and cheery as ever. The whole Battalion mourns his loss.” The Rev. W. Bracecamp, Chaplain to the Battn., wrote: “When the Battalion left to make the charge he was thoroughly cheery and said to me, ‘Good-bye, Padre. We shall soon meet again.’ Your son was one of the finest characters it has ever been my privilege to meet. He was beloved by officers and men alike. His fine physique, his noble character, endeared him to everybody. He was one of the noble fellows whose life could not be spared, but he has voluntarily laid it down in a noble cause for God, King, and Country.” Lieut. Frost had travelled a great deal in company with his father, both in Europe, America, and the Far West.

=FROST, GERARD GARTON STACY=, Private, No. 2692, 16th Platoon, D Coy., 9th (Highlanders) Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of Charles Edward Frost, of 30, St. Mark’s Terrace, City Road, Lakenham, Norwich, Private House Agent for Bullard & Sons, Ltd., Brewers, by his wife, Annie; b. Lakenham, Norwich, 20 Nov. 1884; educ. Norwich, and had been in business in Manchester, holding a very good position with Vincent Smethurst there. After the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Scots with his great friend Charles Newsham (who was afterwards killed by the same shell as himself), 10 Nov. 1914, and after training at Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, left for the Front towards the end of Feb.; he lost his life during the bombardment of Ypres, three shells dropping into the billets of his company and killing him and six of his comrades as they lay sleeping, 7 April, 1915. He was buried on the ramparts of Ypres close to the Porte de Lille; unm. Lieut.-Col. R. S. Blair, commanding 9th Royal Scots, wrote: “He died a soldier’s death, and we are grateful and proud of his courage and devotion to duty and his Corps.” Private Frost was a member of the Cheadle Golf Club, and was well known in the amateur rowing world of the North, being for two or three years captain of the Didsbury Rowing Club, the junior four of which he stroked to victory at the Northwich, Agecroft and Lancaster regattas in 1912. He was also on the committee of the Norwich Swan and Dolphin Swimming Clubs and winner of many swimming trophies; his two younger brothers are in a Canadian regt.

=FROST, KENNETH=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., yr. s. of Ralph Frost, of Wandsworth Common, London, Managing Director of J. Miles & Co., Ltd., 68–70, Wardour Street, member of the Westminster City Council, by his wife, Sarah (died 1895), dau. of John Bolton, of Manchester; b. London, 28 April, 1892; educ. Reading School, and afterwards entered the employ of a firm of wholesale stationers in London. He joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1909, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and as a corporal left with his Battn. for France, 22 Oct. 1914. Three months later he was given a commission in the South Staffordshire Regt., being transferred to the 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., 16 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Zillebeke, Flanders, 22 Feb. 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer in the South Staffordshire Regt. described him as one of the promising young officers in his command both for resource and bravery.

=FRY, HORACE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7348), 291257, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FRY, JAMES=, Sergt., No. 7267, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of the late John Fry, of Timsbury, Bath, Farm Labourer and ex-soldier, by his wife, Emily; b. Southstoke, co. Somerset, 21 Oct. 1889; educ. Marksbury National School, near Bath; enlisted 24 Feb. 1907; went to France with the Expeditionary Force; killed in action at Langemarck, near Ypres, during the Battle of the Aisne, 23 Oct. 1914. He m. at Greenwich, Amelia Ann (100, Brookmill Road, St. John’s, S.E.), dau. of Henry George Shephard, and had two children: James Arthur George, b. posthumous, 12 Dec. 1914; and Ida Edith, b. 30 April, 1913.

=FRYER, EDWIN SAMUEL=, Rifleman, No. 2902, B Coy. 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd London Infantry Brigade, only surviving child of Samuel Fryer, of the Harvest Home, Bury Cross, Alverstoke, Hants, Beer Retailer, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of James Day, of Manwell, Somersetshire; b. London, 20 Jan. 1887; educ. Archbishop Tenison’s Grammar School, London; and after a short time in the Civil Service, left at the age of 21 to enter a private firm. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France 4 Nov., and was killed in action at Lindenhock, 18 Dec. 1914; unm. Buried at Lindenhock, Belgium. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He always did his duty well and cheerfully under often very trying conditions, and showed a fine spirit, setting a splendid example to the rest of the men, by whom he was much liked and respected, and who, in common with myself, will feel his loss very much.” He was a Freemason and a highly esteemed member of the Equitable Friendly Society, having been Worthy Master during the year 1912.

=FRYER, ERNEST GEORGE=, Sub-Lieut., R.N.R., s. of the late Robert Edward Fryer, of Bristol, by his wife, Mahala Rebecca (now widow of the late Thomas Alfred Paczensky, of Abberton Glebe, near Colchester), dau. of David Rhamm, of Wisbech; b. Writtle, Chelmsford, co. Essex, 20 Jan. 1887; educ. St. James’ Collegiate School, Jersey; entered the P. & O. S. N. Company’s Service about 1908, and was a Second Officer when the war broke out. He was appointed a Probationary Midshipman, 25 July, 1905, rank confirmed in 1908, and became Sub-Lieut. in 1912; commissioned to H.M.S. Triumph, 4 Aug. to 4 Sept. 1914, he was placed on the German H.A.L. Frisia and navigated her with a prize crew from the neighbourhood of Tsing-tau to Wei-hai-Wei. On 4 Sept. he was placed on board H.M. Destroyer Jed, which proceeded to the Eastern Mediterranean, where, in Feb. 1915, he was appointed to H.M.S. Vengeance. On 12 June he was sent with a party to blow up a rock at the entrance to an island harbour in Asia Minor, when some accident caused a hose of gun-cotton to ignite. Several of the party were badly burnt and the boat had to be abandoned. Fryer died on board H.M.S. Vengeance three days later, 15 June, 1915, and was buried at sea, off the coast of Mitylene; unm.

=FRYER, NORMAN MOODY=, Private, No. 13740, 5th (Western Cavalry) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Thomas Henry Fryer, of Wells, co. Norfolk; b. West Kensington, London, 1895; educ. Gorleston High School, Suffolk; went to Canada; joined the 16th Light Horse, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered for service overseas; left with the First Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Oct.; went to the Front in Feb. and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May, 1915; unm.

=FUCHSBALG, MAURICE MARCELLE=, Private, No. 1450, Honourable Artillery Coy., only s. of Edward Bernard Fuchsbalg, of Ovingdean, Trinity Road, Tulse Hill, S.W., Managing London Partner of Schenker & Co., by his wife, Adele, dau. of the late Edward Frankel, of Vienna; b. Brixton, S.W., 29 May, 1888; educ. Dulwich College, and on leaving there spent four years in Austria, Belgium and France, and then entered his father’s business in London, where he held an important post when war broke out. He joined the Honourable Artillery Coy., 21 Aug. 1914; went to France, 27 Dec. 1914; was wounded in action at Ypres and admitted to the Canadian Stationary Hospital at Le Touquet, 15 Feb. 1915, and died there on the 23rd; unm. Buried in the Cemetery there.

=FULCHER, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 4450, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Charles Fulcher, of Easton, Wickham Market, co. Suffolk; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FULFORD, WILLIAM IRA=, Private, No. 109346, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, 3rd s. of Henry York Fulford, of Silcote, Ontario, Canada, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late Samuel Greenfield; b. Sydenham, Grey co., Ontario, 29 Nov. 1888; educ. Owen Sound and Toronto; was a first class mechanic and was employed in the Russell Automobile Factory of Toronto; enlisted 12 April, 1915; left Canada with a draft for the 2nd Contingent, went to the Front about 1 Nov. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres 1 Dec. 1915, by a shell which burst over the tent he was then in. He was buried at Chateau Rosenburg (grave E. Ref. B. 670, 11); unm. His officers all spoke highly of him, one wrote: “As his troop officer I found your son to be a thorough soldier, always dependable and filled with a patriotic desire to do the most for his country.”

=FULLER, COLIN MELVILLE=, Private, No. 2271, H Coy. 1/4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), yst. s. of Robert Henry Fuller, of 10, Epsom Road, Croydon, Tea Merchant, by his wife, Janet Hellen Innes, dau. of Colin Wright, of Perthshire; b. Croydon, co. Surrey, 13 Sept., 1894; educ. there; was in the Motor Trade; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted Aug. 1914; went to France in November, 1914, and was killed in action at the battle of Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; unm.

=FULLER, FRANK ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 1676, 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Alfred Fuller, of 11, Laurel Villas, New Road, Bedfont, Middlesex, Gardener, by his wife, Belinda, dau. of William Bowden; b. Hoddesdon, co. Herts, 4 Jan. 1894; educ. Ivor Heath, Bucks; was a gardener; joined the Middlesex Territorials in 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke in the fight for Hill 60, 26 April, 1915; unm. His brother Thomas, 1/8th Middlesex, was killed in action the same day as himself (see his notice), and four other brothers are now on active service: William, Bombardier, No. 55760, R.F.A.; James, Private, No. 77739, R.H.A.; Harry, Private, No. 1281, Royal Fusiliers; and Victor, No. 10881, Army Cyclist Corps.

=FULLER, HARRY=, Ship’s Corpl. 1st Class, 208912, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FULLER, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R.. B. 5769), 179913, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FULLER, LEONARD=, Private, No. 1170, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, 5th s. of the late Alfred Fuller, of Ramsey, co. Hunts. J.P. and Alderman of Hunts County Council, by his wife, Augusta Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Pope Bates, of Ramsey, M.R.C.S.; b. Ramsey, co. Hunts, 2 Sept. 1881; educ. Aldenham School, Herts; went to Canada in 1912, and settled at Montreal as a Real Estate Agent; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined P.P.C.L.I. in Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France, Dec. 1914, and died at Dickebusch, Belgium, 8 March, 1915, from wounds received in action at St. Eloi. He was buried in the Regimental Cemetery at Dickebusch; unm.

=FULLER, THOMAS=, Private. No. 7681, 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Alfred Fuller, of 11, Laurel Villas, New Road, Bedfont, Middlesex, Gardener, by his wife, Belinda, dau. of William Bowden; b. Hoddesdon, Herts, 27 Oct. 1889; educ. Iver, Bucks; was employed on the Metropolitan Railway; joined the Middlesex Territorials in 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke in the fight for Hill 60, 26 April, 1915.

=FULLER, WILLIAM JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 106984, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FULLICK, ROBERT STANLEY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13038 (Po.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FUNNELL, THOMAS EDWARD=, Leading Stoker, Coast Guard, 299136 (Po.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FUREY, IGNATIUS=, Private, No. 1312, 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of George Furey, of Harbour Main, Newfoundland, Fisherman and Farmer, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Michael Murray; b. Harbour Main, aforesaid, 29 July, 1896; educ. High School there; joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, 27 March, 1915; left for England, 27 April, 1915; served at the Dardenelles, and died in the Third Canadian Stationary Hospital at Mudros, Gallipoli, 7 Dec. 1915, of tetanus and frostbite; unm.

=FURNESS, ARTHUR=, Sapper, No. 20130, 55th Coy. Royal Engineers, 2nd s. of George Furness, of 64, Gibraltar Road, Halifax, Fruit Merchant and Commission Agent, by his wife, Mary Ellen, dau. of George Hodson; b. Halifax 5 Dec. 1889; educ. Halifax Council School; enlisted in May, 1910, and when the war broke out had been stationed at Singapore for three years. He was ordered home with his regt., went to France in Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Fauquissart, 21 March, 1915; unm.