The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 (part 6 of 10)

The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 (part 6 of 10)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=IVES, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., 5624 (R.F.R., B. 1189), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=IVINS, JOHN HERBERT=, L.-Corpl., No. 7794, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of John Arthur Ivins, of 1, Flaxley Road, Stechford, Birmingham, Carpet Planner with Chamberlain, King & Jones, Birmingham, by his wife, Jessie Maude, dau. of James Nicholds, of Woodville, Selly Park, Birmingham; b. Yardley, Birmingham, 12 March, 1892; educ. Yardley School and St. John’s Sparkhill, Birmingham; enlisted 13 April, 1908; went to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was given his stripe at the Front; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and the advance to the Belgian frontier, etc., and was killed in action at Eppinette, 29 Dec. 1914; unm. Sergt. Leaman wrote: “We were being relieved when Jack, who was getting out of the trench, was hit in the head by a stray bullet, and before we got to him was dead.” He was buried in Le Touret Cemetery.

=IZZARD, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R. Ch. B. 7556), S.S. 102795, H.M.S. Aboukir lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JACKMAN, ALBERT EDWARD=, Chief Armourer, 341931; served some time in H.M.S. Cressy (discharged 24 July, 1914); then joined H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JACKSON, EDWARD PHILLIPS=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., attd. 1st South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of the Rev. William Edward Jackson, M.A., Rector of Loughton, co. Bucks, formerly scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, by his wife, Mary Louisa, dau. of John Broadhurst, of Congleton; b. Monks Kirby Vicarage, co. Warwick, 11 Dec. 1893; educ. Newchurch Grammar School, King’s School, Warwick, and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Royal Warwicks, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; left for France, 25 Dec. 1914, when he was attached to the 1st South Wales Borderers, and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 9 May, 1915. Buried there; unm. His Major wrote: “He was absolutely fearless and was very popular with those over him and under him.”

=JACKSON, FREDERICK JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 58, 1st Battn. The Rifle Brigade, Machine Gun Section, 2nd s. of Harry Mayland Jackson, of The Ben Jonson, Goodman’s Yard, Minories, E.C., by his wife, Louisa Greenslade, dau. of the late James Young, of the Ferndale Hotel, Manor Way, Woolwich; b. Woolwich, 16 Sept. 1892; educ. St. Leonard Road Board School, Bromley-by-Bow, E.; enlisted in the 1st Rifle Brigade, May, 1913; left for France, 8th Aug. 1914; att. to 1st Battn. (Special Reserve), and was killed in action, near Pilken, 6 July, 1915; unm. Sergt. P. Blent, of the Machine Gun Section of his Battn., wrote: “Firstly, I must tell you that if any man earned the V.C. in the war, he did, for the part he took in the attack of ours on 6 July. He was trying to get his gun into action when he was wounded, first of all in the shoulder; this did not deter him, for he still endeavoured to do what he had set out to do, but unfortunately he was wounded again, this time in the face. He then had to give up the attempt, and took to his right and opened fire, and it was while doing this he met his death, for a piece of shrapnel entered the back of his head, and he died almost instantly. His conduct throughout was magnificent and he died a real hero.” The two brothers of L.-Corpl. Jackson are serving in the Army, one of whom, L.-Corpl. A. E. Jackson, of the 3rd Wiltshire Regt., was wounded at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915.

=JACKSON, JOHN=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 3123, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JACKSON, JOHN GEORGE=, Private, No. 8972, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Frank Leighton, of Howden, Yorks, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Alice, dau. of James Jackson; b. Howden, Yorks, 13 Jan. 1880; educ. Church of England School there; enlisted in 1911, went to France, 1914, and died a prisoner of war at Schneidemühl, in Germany, 8 Feb. 1915; unm.

=JACKSON, JOSHUA GRAHAM=, Corpl., No. 10/570, 3rd Auckland Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Joshua Jackson, of Auckland, New Zealand, J.P., Sharebroker; b. Auckland, New Zealand, 3 Aug. 1881; educ. Northcote School there; and was in the employ of the Railway Service. On the outbreak of war he volunteered, left New Zealand with the main body in Oct. 1914; trained in Egypt during the winter; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April; was seriously wounded that day and invalided to England, where he spent several months; returned to duty in Nov. and had only been two days at Gallipoli when he was shot in the stomach by a sniper, while going to the beach to get water. He died on board the Hospital Ship Neuralia, 11 Nov. 1915, and was buried at sea between Rhodes and Alexandria; unm.

=JACKSON, SOLOMON=, Private, R.M.L.I., 11701 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1876), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JACKSON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 5451, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., s. of George Jackson, of 11, Smalley Street, Grimshaw Park, Blackburn; b. Primrose Hill, 28 Sept. 1891; enlisted in the East Lancashires, passed into the Reserve, 22 Oct. 1913; rejoined his Battn. on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action during the advance of the 8th Division against the German position at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=JACKSON, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 6620, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JACKSON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17559, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JACQUES, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS=, Lieut.-Col., 14th (King George’s Own) Ferozepore Sikhs, 3rd s. of the Rev. Canon Kinton Jacques, Rector of Brindle, co. Lancs. (died 24 April, 1915), by his wife, Caroline Augusta, dau. of the Rev. Gardnor Baldwin; b. Leyland, co. Lancaster, 9 April, 1867; educ. Rossall School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 6 Nov. 1887, and promoted Lieut. 22 March, 1890; served for a few months with the 11th Rajputs and was then posted to the 14th Sikhs; joined the Indian S.C., 6 Sept. 1890, and transferred to the Indian Army, becoming Capt. 16 Nov. 1898, Major 16 Nov. 1905, and Lieut.-Col. 16 Nov. 1913. He served with the Hazara Expedition, 1891 (medal with clasp); with the Waziristan Expedition in 1894–5 (clasp); in the Tochi Campaign on the North-West Frontier, 1897–8 (medal with clasp), and in 1900 with the force that went to China (medal), and was temporarily Second in Command of the 45th Sikhs from Dec. 1909 to Dec. 1910, and of the 29th Punjabis, April to Oct. 1911. After the outbreak of the European War he went with his regt. to Egypt, took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, afterwards proceeding to the Dardanelles, where he was killed in action, 4 June, 1915. A brother officer wrote: “I don’t think your husband knew what fear was, he was always so cheery when there was any show going on that it did one good to see him and be near him, and so it must have been to the last;” and his subaltern, who was two yards from him when he was killed, wrote: “I shall always appreciate your husband’s memory, not only as my double company Commander, but as a friend. Your husband was wonderfully cool and calm in action, much the same as when on parade. He knew that we had little chance of coming out of the advance alive, but he was cheerful to the last. His last words to me before breakfast were that he did not fear death at all, because you and his children were well provided for. That was about the only time I saw him in what one might call a serious mood.” He m. at Brindle, co. Lancaster, 27 July, 1904, Olivia Katherine, dau. of Burkill Jacques, of San Diego, California, and had two daughters: Barbara Caroline, b. 18 Jan. 1912; and Ruth Olivia, b. 6 Feb. 1914.

=JAGGER, OLIVER ROBIN OCTAVIUS=, Cadet Royal Navy, H.M.S. Bulwark, yst. s. of Arthur Edward Jagger, of Coundon Lodge, near Coventry, Chairman of Singer & Co., Ltd., Coventry, by his wife, Sarah Lucy, dau. of William Burton, of Allesley, near Coventry; b. Coundon Lodge, near Coventry, 27 Sept. 1898; educ. Pretoria House, Folkestone, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; appointed Cadet to H.M.S. Bulwark, 2 Aug. 1914; and was lost when that ship was blown up in Sheerness Harbour, 26 Nov. following.

=JAMES, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 6581), 354275, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JAMES, DAVID=, Petty Officer, 183045, R.N.; killed in action at Tsing-tau, 22 Aug. 1914, on board H.M. Destroyer Kennet, while engaged in chasing the German destroyer S. 90.

=JAMES, ERIC SAMUEL PENNANT KINGSBURY=, Capt. 6th (Reserve), attd. 4th, Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only s. of Edward Lewis James, of Holly Lodge, Larkhall Rise, S.W., F. Chemical S., F.R.H.S., by his wife, Sarah; b. Clapham, 4 Sept. 1887; educ. Manor House School, Clapham; St. Paul’s School (Foundation Scholar); Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (an Open Classical Exhibitioner, John Stock Exhibitioner and College Prizeman, B.A. (2nd Class Honours Classical Tripos) 1909; and M.A. 1914); and the University of Paris; was assistant-master and house-master at Oundle School, 1910; assistant-master at Merchant Taylors’ School, 1913; appointed 2nd Lieut. Territorial Force (unattd. list), 23 March, 1910; promoted Lieut. 18 Oct. 1912, and Capt. 15 Jan. 1914, and served in the O.T.C. at Oundle and Merchant Taylors’; gazetted Capt. to 6th (Reserve) Battn. K.R.R.C., 20 Sept. 1914; left for France, 6 Jan. 1915, and was attached to 4th Battn., and was killed in action about 21 miles from Dickebusch, at midnight on 17 March, 1915; unm. Capt. Hugo Watson, then temporarily in command of the 4th K.R.R.C. wrote: “He was shot in the head last night, about 11.45, while standing behind a breastwork, superintending his men at work filling sandbags. He was killed instantly. We buried him to-day in the Military Cemetery at Dickebusch, four miles from Ypres and 2½ miles from where he was killed.... I cannot tell you what a great loss he is. I was Adjutant of the 6th K.R.R.C., till recently when I came out here.... I know what splendid work he did at Sheerness, and how Colonel Brownlow depended on him. I was with him last Sunday, when we had a very nasty time; he was very cool and did admirably”; and Lieut.-Col. Brownlow, commanding the 6th Battalion, wrote: “He did excellent work for me down here, and I heard he was doing real well in France. He was most popular and looked up to by everybody, and was a very smart and efficient soldier.” The 4th Battn. K.R.R.C. was specially mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April, 1915, for “a very gallant attack on the enemy’s trenches on 2 March.” Capt. James was an excellent oarsman. He was Second Boat Captain at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, rowed in the College boat at Henley, 1909, and was a member of the Thames Rowing Club. He was also a good rifle shot and passed the School of Musketry at Hythe. He annually visited the Continent and was a good linguist, and at Merchant Taylors’ he attracted considerable attention by the success of his original methods of teaching history.

=JAMES, GEORGE MILLAIS=, Capt. 1st Battn. The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), and Brigade-Major, 22nd Infantry Brigade, 7th Division, elder s. of the late Major William Christopher James, Royal Scots Greys and 16th Lancers, by his wife, Effie Grey, dau. of the late Sir John Millais, 1st Bart., P.R.A., the eminent painter, and grandson of the late Lord Justice Sir William Milburn James; b. London, 15 Nov. 1880; educ. Cheltenham and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, 6 Dec. 1899; promoted Lieut. 17 Feb. 1900; and Capt. 30 May, 1904. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902; taking part in operations in Orange Free State, April to May, 1900, in the Transvaal, West of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, including action at Venterskroon, in which he was slightly wounded; in Orange River Colony, May to July, 1900, including action at Rhenoster River; in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to Jan. 1902; and in Cape Colony, Jan. to 31 May, 1902. For his services he was mentioned twice in Despatches [London Gazette, 9 July and 10 Sept. 1901] and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s with two clasps. After the war, he was stationed with his battn. at Wynberg, Cape Colony, in Mauritius, and in India, and was Adjutant from 1 Oct. 1903 to 30 Sept. 1906. He was transferred to the 1st Buffs, then at Aldershot, 20 May, 1908, and in 1910 entered the Staff College, and, having passed through it with distinction, was, on 7 Sept. 1912, appointed Brigade-Major, Pretoria District, South Africa. On the outbreak of war he returned to England and was appointed Brigade-Major, 22nd Infantry Brigade, 18 Sept. 1914. He left for France with the famous and ill-fated 7th Division, under Gen. Capper, on 4 Oct. his Brigadier being Gen. Lawford, and was killed in action near Ypres, during the first battle of that name, 3 Nov. following. Buried in a wood, about three miles S.W. of Ypres. Capt. James m. in London, 16 Oct. 1907, Hylda Madeleine, only dau. of Sir James Heath, of Oxendon Hall, Market Harborough, 1st Bart., and had two daus.: Eileen Alice, b. 19 June, 1909; and Daphne Millais, b. 13 Jan. 1911.

=JAMES, JOHN STEPHEN HARVEY=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only child of Quintus Stephen Harvey James, of Croft Lodge, Mill Hill, N.W., by his wife, Josephine, dau. of John Rees, of Stafford House, South Hampstead; b. London, 22 Jan. 1894; educ. Colet Court and St. Paul’s School, and at the outbreak of war was a student at Guy’s Hospital. He had joined the Artists’ Rifles in May, 1914, and on the outbreak of war was among the first to volunteer for foreign service, and left for the Front on 25 Oct. 1914. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 17 March following, and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué during a successful endeavour to capture some of the enemy’s trenches, in the Battle of Festubert, 15–16 May, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was under me all the time he was with us. He was always cheerful, imperturbable, and a thorough soldier. He died very bravely;” and Major Armstrong: “Your boy had actually reached the German trench when he was killed. We all deplore his loss.”

=JAMES, PERCY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8187), S.S. 1720, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JAMES, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7911), S.S. 103598, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JAMES, THOMAS SPENCER=, Rifleman, No. 2177, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Major Arthur James, Suffolk Regt., by his wife, Hannah Caroline (Newbury Quadrant Road, Thornton Heath), dau. of William Ling, of Bury St. Edmunds; b. Ely, co. Cambridge, 30 Oct. 1891; educ. Whitgift School, Croydon; joined The Rangers, 14 Aug. 1914; landed in France with the battn. on Christmas Day following, and died in the 1st N.M. Field Ambulance, 8 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Fortuin, near Ypres, on the 6th. Buried in Soldiers’ Cemetery, Hazebrouck; unm. His Platoon Officer wrote: “Your boy was so generally liked by all his comrades, whose spirits he greatly helped to keep alive, that his loss will be much felt, particularly when we do get together again. We went through so much together in my Platoon;” and a comrade: “24 April, we attacked in open order in support of 1st Suffolks, to back up the Canadians, who were gassed out. After this we were under continuous shell-fire both night and day, and our Platoon was reduced to four men, when in the early morning of May 6 a shell burst in our trench, and we were all put out of action. Your son was much liked in the Company, always ready to do a good turn to anybody; he was full of pluck and always the first to volunteer for any desperate task, in fact he was a soldier and a man worthy to be the son of a soldier.”

=JAMESON, ARTHUR GEORGE=, Lieut.-Com., R.N., 3rd s. of Robert William Jameson, of Campfield House, Dundrum, co. Dublin, F.S.I., J.P., by his wife, Katherine Anne, dau. of Tooke Luscombe; b. Dublin, 30 Sept. 1883; educ. Monkton Combe School, near Bath, and H.M.S. Britannia, which he joined in Sept. 1898; appointed Naval Cadet, 15 May, 1900, and Midshipman, 30 May following, and served on board the Theseus and Repulse on the Mediterranean Station; promoted Sub-Lieut. 30 July, 1903, and went through the various courses and examinations to qualify for the rank of Lieut., taking four “firsts”; served at home in the destroyer Waveney and on North American Station in the Ariadne, flagship of Sir Day Bosanquet. He was promoted Lieut. 30 July, 1905, and in the same year joined H.M.S. Forth to qualify in submarines, and was shortly afterwards appointed to the command of A8, in which he served until May, 1908. He was then appointed to H.M.S. Thames for command of C2, and in Jan. 1911, was appointed to H.M.S. Neptune, the flagship of the Home Fleet, where he served under Sir Francis Bridgeman and Sir George Callaghan. In April, 1912, he was selected for the War Staff Course, being the junior officer of the class and, after completing the course was, in Feb. 1913, appointed to the Antrim for War Staff duties, where he served under Rear-Admiral Madden and Rear-Admiral Pakenham. He was promoted Lieut.-Com. 3 July following, and in March, 1914, he returned to the submarine service, being appointed to the command of D2 in 8th Flotilla. He took part in the Battle of the Bight of Heligoland; was mentioned in the despatch of Commander Keyes, C.M., M.V.O., 17 Oct. 1914, and was drowned off Yarmouth on 23 Nov. following, being washed overboard from submarine D2 while on active service. His body was not recovered. He m. at St. Mary’s Church, North Huish, Devon, 5 Aug. 1908, Isabel, yst. dau. of Augustus J. Pitman, of The Manor House, North Huish, and had a dau., Isabel Valerie, b. 10 Dec. 1913.

=JAMESON, HAROLD GORDON=, 2nd Lieut., 65th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, 6th s. of Robert William Jameson, of Campfield House, Dundrum, co. Dublin, F.S.I., J.P., by his wife, Katherine Anne, dau. of the late Tooke Luscombe; b. Corgrig Lodge, Foynes, co. Limerick, 11 Oct. 1888; educ. Monkton Combe School, near Bath, and Trinity College, Dublin. Having completed his course at the University he was, in Oct. 1911, appointed Assistant Director of Works in the Sudan Irrigation Service (a branch of the P.W.D., Egyptian Government), and remained in this service until the summer of 1914, much of his time being spent in the Upper Nile Provinces, where he got some big game shooting, and secured several good specimens, including three elephants. He was in Ireland when war broke out, and, having applied for a commission, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Engineers (S.R.), 1 Oct. 1914, and subsequently attached to the 65th Field Coy. After training at Chatham and at the Curragh, he left for the Dardanelles with the 10th Division in July, 1915, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on the night of 15–16 Aug. 1915, on a ridge on the Karakol Dagh which his company had been called out to help to hold; unm. His commanding officer (who was himself wounded on the 14 or 15 Aug.) wrote: “He was a general favourite amongst officers and men. We had a hard time at the Dardanelles, but your son’s never-failing courage and cheerfulness under these adverse circumstances were of the greatest help to us all. His death is a great loss to the 65th Coy., and to the R.E. of the 10th Division.”

=JAMESON, HAROLD RISBOROUGH=, Rifleman, No. 1931, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Alexander Jameson, of Lynton, Warren Road, Purley, by his wife, Emma Risborough, dau. of Henry Risborough Sharman, Barrister-at-Law; b. West Norwood, S.E., 16 June, 1892; educ. Whitgift Middle School, Croydon; was employed in the Anglo-South American Bank; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles in Aug. 1914; left for France 22 March, and died 4 April, 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day at Richebourg, where he was shot by a sniper. Buried in Bethune Cemetery; unm. Capt. C. W. B. Heslop wrote: “I reached your brother about five minutes after he received his wound. He showed splendid pluck, for though in some pain, he remained quite cheerful and smiling, and when carried away by stretcher-bearers, called out greetings to all he knew.”

=JAMESON, MAURICE GURNEY=, Private, No. 1116, 1st Battn. The Honourable Artillery Company, 3rd s. of the Rev. Hampden Gurney Jameson, M.A., Vicar of St. Peter’s, Eastbourne, by his wife, Amy Agnes, dau. of Robert Bayly, Barrister-at-Law, and a nephew of “Edna Lyall” (the late Miss Ada Ellen Bayly), the novelist; b. St. Peter’s Vicarage, Eastbourne, 3 Jan. 1887; educ. Eastbourne College, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; was engaged in farming in Oxfordshire when war broke out; joined the H.A.C. 6 Aug. 1914; left for France, 30 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 6 March, 1915. Buried at Kemmel; unm.

=JAMIESON, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class, 308993, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JAMIESON, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7287), S.S. 102309, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JAMIESON, MABEL ELIZABETH=, Staff Nurse, New Zealand Army Nursing Service, yst. dau. of Thomas Jamieson, of Seddon Street, Kumara, Westland, South Island, New Zealand, Gold Miner, by his wife, Frances Jane, dau. of the late Capt. Thomas Payne; b. Kumara, 21 July, 1881; educ. Kumara District High School, and while there passed Senior Civil Service and Matriculation Examinations; entered Kumara Hospital as a probationer, 1904, and two years later joined Staff of Palmerston North Hospital, where she remained until her professional training was completed; was Sister in Grey River Hospital for four years, and then took up private nursing in Wellington; joined New Zealand Army Nursing Service, 12 April, 1915, at which time she was in charge of the Berhampope Military Hospital, Wellington; left for Egypt in the Hospital Ship Maheno, 10 July, 1915, and was stationed in No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, Port Said; left for Salonika in the transport Marquetta, 19 Oct. following, and was lost when that ship was sunk by torpedo fire in the Ægean Sea on the 23rd.

=JANASZ, JAMES GEORGE GEE=, 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Wiltshire Regt., only s. of Józef Janasz, of Boscombe, co. Hants; b. London, 4 Jan. 1893; educ. Sherborne (where he was for several years in the O.T.C.) and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 3rd Dorsets, 4 Nov. 1914; left for France, 24 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 15 June following, while leading his platoon in an attack on the German trenches; unm. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. W. S. Brown, wrote: “I must express to you our great admiration of your son. He died gallantly leading his men against the enemy, and was shot through the head about 200 yards in front of the German trenches. His Capt., who is the only officer not hit in the two leading companies, could not say enough in his praise to-day.”

=JARDINE, JAMES MAXWELL MULLIN=, Private, No. 16642, 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), eldest s. of Robert Maxwell Jardine, of 101, Blackburn Street, Plantation, Glasgow, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of James Maxwell Mullin; b. Glasgow, 3 July, 1896; educ. St. Saviour’s School, Summerton Road, Glasgow; joined the 13th Royal Scots, 18 Dec. 1914; left for France early in Sept. 1915; and was killed in action on the 17th of that month; unm.

=JARRAM, ERNEST=, A.B., 206322, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JARRETT, AYLMER VIVIAN, D.S.O.=, Capt., 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 4th s. of Col. Henry Sullivan Jarrett, South Lodge, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, C.I.E., by his wife, Agnes Delacour, dau. of the late Francis Beaufort, Bengal C.S.; b. Calcutta, 11 July, 1879; educ. Stonyhurst College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd York and Lancaster Regt. 12 Aug. 1899; promoted Lieut. 16 Dec. 1900; and Capt. 1 Jan. 1906; was Adjutant of his Battn. from 1 Dec. 1904, to 3 Nov. 1907, and from 29 Aug. 1908, to 19 Oct. 1911, was att. to the West African Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished service in the field and awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], his name having been sent up four times for special recognition, and died on 22 June, 1915, at Vlamatinghe of wounds received in action the same day near Ypres. Buried near Vlamatinghe; unm. His elder brother, Major C. H. B. Jarrett, was killed at the Dardanelles (see following notice).

=JARRETT, CHARLES HARRY BROWNLOW=, Major, 1st Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, eldest s. of Col. Henry Sullivan Jarrett, of South Lodge, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, C.I.E., by his wife, Agnes Delacour, dau. of the late Francis Beaufort, Bengal C.S.; b. Calcutta, 26 Nov. 1874; educ. Stonyhurst College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, 10 Oct. 1894, and promoted Lieut. 2 Aug. 1897; Capt. 14 Jan. 1902, and Major, 19 Aug. 1914; served in the South African War, 1901–2, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal, April to 31 May, 1902, and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. to April, 1902, and May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; and was killed at Beach V, Gallipoli, during the Battle of the Landing, 25 April, 1915; unm.

=JARROLD, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, Ordinary Seaman, R.N.V.R. (Sussex), 1/296, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JARVIS, EDWARD WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 311111, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=JARVIS, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 4636 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JASPER, WILLIAM=, A.B., 214626, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JAY, CHRISTOPHER=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9637), 202532, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JAY, JOHN HENRY=, Chief Electrician, 2nd Class, 345147, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JAYES, GEORGE WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4071), 191019, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JEFFERSON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9649, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DUNNINGTON-JEFFERSON, WILFRED MERVYN=, 2nd Lieut., 7th, attd. 3rd, Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), yst. s. of the late Capt. Mervyn Dunnington-Jefferson, 33rd Regt., by his wife, Louisa Dorothy (Ashcroft, Old Nunthorpe, York), dau. of the Rev. J. Barry, Rector of Great Smeaton, Yorkshire; b. at Middlethorpe Hall, York, 2 April, 1892; educ. Radley, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with honours; entered the Inner Temple, 1912; volunteered on the outbreak of war; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th Royal Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front in April, 1915, attd. to the 3rd Battn., and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 25 April, 1915; unm. His elder brother, Major J. A. Dunnington-Jefferson, is (1916) serving on the Headquarters Staff with the Expeditionary Force in France.

=JEFFERY, CLAUD GIFFARD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. A.P.W.O. Yorkshire Regt. (Green Howards), eldest s. of Herbert James Jeffery, of Oak Mount, Manningham, Bradford, Solicitor, by his wife, Bertha Greenwood, dau. of John Greenwood Sugden, of Eastwood House, Keighley, Yorks, and grandson of Charles Jeffery, of Swaffham, Norfolk; b. Manningham, Bradford, 13 April, 1880; educ. Bradford Grammar School and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; joined the Service Coy. of the Vol. Battn. Yorkshire Regt., Dec. 1899, and went to South Africa in Feb. 1900. He took part in operations in the Orange Free State, May, 1900, including actions at Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River (5 and 6 May), and Zand River; in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill; in operations East of Pretoria, July to Oct. 1900, including actions at Belfast (26 and 27 Aug.), and in those in Cape Colony. For his services in South Africa he received the Queen’s medal with six clasps, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Yorkshires (Green Howards) on Lord Kitchener’s nomination, 14 Sept. 1901. He served in India and again in South Africa, being promoted Lieut. 12 May, 1904, and Capt. 25 Aug. 1909, while from 1 March, 1910, to 12 April, 1912 (when he was seconded for service with the Egyptian Army), he was Adjutant to his battn. at York and Blackdown. He was restored to the Establishment, 12 April, 1914; left for France with his battn. 4 Oct. 1914, and died at Ypres on the 24th of the same month, of wounds received in action on the 22nd near Gheluvelt. Buried in the cemetery at Ypres. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. Capt. Jeffery was a keen all-round sportsman, his activities embracing pig-sticking, polo, big game shooting, hunting, athletics and regimental steeplechasing. He m. at Barbon, co. Westmoreland, 10 Feb. 1914, Nellie, widow of Spencer Anketell-Jones, and dau. of John George Wilding, of Preston, co. Lancashire; s.p.

=JEFFERY, ROBERT BERRY=, A.B., 195604 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JEFFERY, WILLIAM ALLEN=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 28350, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Wilfred John Jeffery, of 2, Elm Leigh Villas, Ash, Aldershot, co. Surrey; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JEFFREY, JOHN=, Trooper, No. 784, 1st Light Horse Regt., Australian Imperial Force, only s. of John Hogg Forrester Jeffrey, of 5, Albany Street, Blairhill, Coatbridge, co. Lanark, Analytical and Metallurgical Chemist, by his wife, Jeannie, dau. of John Brownlie; b. Coatbridge, 22 May, 1895; educ. Gartsherrie Academy, Coatbridge, and Allan Glens School, Glasgow; on leaving school was for three years in the Engineering Works of Messrs. Murray and Paterson of Coatbridge, and then went to Australia to take up sheep-farming; joined the 1st Australian Light Horse at Sydney, N.S.W. 27 Nov. 1914; left for Egypt, 6 Feb. 1915; proceeded to the Dardanelles, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, on the morning of 7 Aug. following, in the heroic charge of the 1st Light Horse, from which only 13 out of 300 returned; unm.

=JEFFRIES, HERBERT JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3423), 188870, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JENINGS, GEORGE PIERSE CREAGH=, Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., 3rd s. of Lieut.-Col. Ulick Albert Jenings, of Ironpool, co. Galway and Mervue, Monkstown, co. Dublin, late Army Medical Service, J.P., by his wife, Isabel, dau. of Simon Macnamara Creagh; b. Dublin, 4 Jan. 1885; educ. Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st King’s Shropshire L.I., 16 Aug. 1905, and promoted Lieut., 20 Jan. 1907; left for France in Aug. 1914; was Assistant Adjutant to his battn., and was killed in action at the Rue de Bois, near Armentières, 6 Nov. 1914. Buried at the Rue de Bois; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was machine-gun officer and was using his glasses at the barrier to find a target for his gun, when suddenly a volley was fired by the enemy and he was shot dead. He was a very promising officer, and is a great loss not only to the regt., but to the Army. He was very popular with officers and men, and had done real good work throughout the war”; and an A.D.C., Headquarters, 6th Division, wrote: “He had been most dashing and gallant ... and is a terrible loss.”

=JENKINS, JOHN REGINALD=, Sergt., No. 1853, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.). eldest s. of James Jenkins, of 24, Wallingford Avenue, North Kensington, W., Ironmonger, by his wife, Catherine Letitia, dau. of Daniel Howell; b. Hammersmith, 12 Dec. 1885; educ. Lower Latimer School there; was an Ironmonger’s Assistant; joined the Kensingtons about 1908; volunteered for Imperial service on outbreak of war; left for France, 3 Nov. 1914; and was killed in action in the advance against the Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, on which occasion the Kensingtons most brilliantly distinguished themselves, carrying three lines of German trenches with the bayonet, and holding them until the German fire made them untenable; unm. His Platoon Officer, 2nd Lieut. J. E. Lewin, wrote: “Sergt. Jenkins was my Sergt. in No. 6 Platoon, and when the two Platoons of ‘B’ Company, which were ahead of us, were left without officers, it became necessary for me to go to the front and lead. This I did, and my Platoon kept with me, with Sergt. Jenkins well to the front. We forced the German front trench, and proceeded to take up an arranged position. We had taken this, when I thought it necessary to find a better and safer one, and so I accordingly called for someone to follow, in order to go forward and scout for a proposed better line of defence. Sergt. Jenkins and another Sergt. (one on either side) came, and it was while thus doing one of the most important and vital acts upon which depended the safety of the whole of ‘B’ Company and probably the whole Battn. that I lost a comrade and friend. The two Sergts. were both shot by rifle fire and died instantaneously, and it is a sickening thought that I myself of the three was the only man to return. I cannot praise too highly the actions of Sergt. Jenkins on that day, which were but ordinary specimens of his everyday actions, and of a true and brave British soldier.”

=JENKINS, ROBERT=, Private, No. 3845, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), 3rd s. of Robert Jenkins, of Townhead, Glasgow, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of (----) Hamilton; b. Glasgow, 27 June, 1882; educ. Saint Rollox Board School, Glasgow; was in the employment of the Steel Company of Scotland at their Garthamloch Collieries; joined the 2nd Royal Scots, 7 Sept. 1914; left for France in Dec., and was killed in action near Hooge, 25 Sept. 1915. He m. at Glasgow, 31 Dec. 1908, Janet, dau. of Arthur Morrow, of Hogganfield, and had a son and a daughter: Arthur, b. 15 Jan. 1910; and Mary Jane, b. 8 Jan. 1911.

=JENKINS, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7610), S.S. 1394 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JENKINSON, JOHN BANKS=, Capt., Rifle Brigade, eldest s. and heir of Sir George Banks Jenkinson, of Eastwood, co. Gloucester, 12th Baronet, by his wife, Madeline (Eastwood Park, Falfield; Hawkesbury, Chippenham), eldest dau. of Arthur Holme Sumner, of Hatchlands, Surrey; b. London, 9 June, 1881; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Rifle Brigade, 10 March, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 18 March, 1901, and Captain, 6 May, 1908; served in the South African War 1901–2, being employed with the Mounted Infantry; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, April to Dec. 1901, and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); was Adjutant, School of Mounted Infantry, Egypt, 11 June, 1905, to 5 May, 1908; went through the Staff College, 1910–11; was G.S.O. (3rd Grade) to Sir James Grierson, Eastern Command, 1911–13, and Brigade Major, 3rd Infantry Brigade, at Bordon, and at the Front, 1913 to 14 Sept. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914. Buried at Vendresse. Capt. Jenkinson was a well-known big game hunter, and had secured rare trophies from countries, including South Africa, Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Rocky Mountains, the Canadian Prairies, and Southern Tunisia. He was also a keen polo player. He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, 9 Nov. 1907, Joan (The White House, Hook, Hants), only dau. of Colonel Joseph Hill, of Wollaston Hall, Northamptonshire, C.B., and had two children: Sir Anthony Banks Jenkinson, 13th Baronet, b. 3 July, 1912; succeeded his grandfather, 5 June, 1915; and Elizabeth Deborah, b. 27 Oct. 1908.

=JENNINGS, ALLEN WILLIAM MARK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2401), 165648, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JENNINGS, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6422), 305498, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JENNINGS, FREDERICK=, A.B., R.F.R., S.S. 2437, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JENNINGS, FREDERICK SINCLAIR WILLS=, Private, No. 63495, 23rd Battn., subsequently attd. 14th Reserve Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Frederick Wills Jennings, of 8, Selborne Place, Hove, formerly of Ealing and Streatham, B.A., retired H.C.S.; b. Wandsworth Common, co. Surrey, 11 Nov. 1881; educ. St. Paul’s School (foundation scholar), Wren’s; Edinburgh University and Bangor University (Agricultural Department); after finishing his course there, he went to Canada and took up land in British Columbia, but on the outbreak of war volunteered for active service overseas with the West Mounted Rifles, 23rd Battn., at Calgary, 4 Nov. 1914. After training in Quebec, he came over with the Reserve Battn. of the 1st Contingent to Shorncliffe in March, 1915, went to the Front in May, and was shot through the head by a sniper while on duty in the trenches, near the Bois de Ploegsteert, Belgium, 6 July, 1915; unm. He was buried the same day in a small cemetery in Ploegsteert Wood. His Platoon Commander wrote: “He joined my platoon from the 23rd Regt. early in May, after the Battle of Ypres, and I was struck from the first by his cheerfulness, quiet obedience, and a striking devotion to duty in face of the many obstacles we have to contend with. He received his baptism of fire shortly after coming to this country at the Battle of Festubert, and was with us at Givenchy, coming successfully through these ordeals.” Jennings was in the 1st XV. at St. Paul’s, and joined the Cadet Corps during the South African War.

=JENNINGS, JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 593V, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JENNINGS, REGINALD JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 2355, 18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of William Jennings, of West View, Blagdon Hill, Taunton, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Francis Lancashire, of St. Helier’s, Jersey; b. St. Helier’s, Jersey, 1 Feb. 1888; educ. Huish Grammar School, Taunton, and St. Mark’s College, Chelsea; was a Schoolmaster at Bridge Council Schools, Wealdstone; served in the 10th Middlesex Territorial Regt., 1907–11, and enlisted for Imperial service in Sept. 1914; left with his regt. for the Front, 9 March, 1915, served in France and Flanders, and was seriously wounded at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died the day following. Buried in cemetery at Noeux les Mines; unm.

=JENNINGS, RICHARD LOUIS=, A.B., 213174, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=JENNINGS, WILLIAM=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 13997, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JENOURE, GEORGE ETHELREAD=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 21192, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JEPHSON, JOHN NOBLE=, Major, 6th (Service) Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd s. of the late Dep.-Inspector-General William Holmes Jephson, M.D., by his wife, Mary Harden, dau. of the late Major Horatio Nelson Noble, Indian Army, and grandson of the late John Jephson, of Limerick, J.P.; b. Bangalore, India, 8 Oct. 1864; educ. Norwood (Exeter), Newton Abbot College, Kelly College, and Sandhurst; gazetted to Manchester Regt. in 1885, joining the Indian Army (5th Bengal L.I.) in 1889. He obtained his majority in 1903, but becoming subject to malaria, retired from the Indian Army in 1905, and joined the Territorial force in Devon, with the Command of the 4th Wessex Brigade, R.F.A. He resigned this command shortly before the outbreak of war in 1914, when he again offered his services, and was appointed second in command of the 6th Royal Munster Fusiliers in Sept. 1914. He took part in the landing of that Regt. in Suvla Bay on 7 Aug. 1915, and in the subsequent fighting on the Karakol Dagh; on his own initiative he took an important position there, which was subsequently officially named “Jephson’s Post”; he was shot through the head on 15 Aug. while charging at the head of his men in the attack on Kiretch Tepe Sirt, and died of his wounds in Mudros Hospital on 29 Aug. 1915. His Colonel wrote of him: “From the first the loyalty he always showed to me, though junior to him in years, never slackened or failed; when we got into the active sphere of operations, his energy and keenness were marvellous; he practically alone captured an important height which the Brigadier always afterwards in his orders called ‘Jephson’s Post,’ and it was in the defence of this post that he was shot. For absolute dash and fearlessness he had not an equal, and his loss is irreparable.” He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Dispatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916], for good work done in Gallipoli. Major Jephson was a keen sportsman and a first-class shot. He m. at Lucknow, 20 Dec. 1890, Lilian Bell Bere, only child of the late Capt. Edward Septimus Wood, of the Indian Forests Department (formerly of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), by his wife, Bessie Bella Gordon, dau. of the late Major B. Edward Baker Bere, 16th Lancers, and had issue two sons: Edward William Francis (gazetted to R.F.A. Feb. 1915), b. 5 Nov. 1897; and John Arthur Holmes, b. 13 March, 1902.

=JEROME, JOHN WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., 1st Class), 7427, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JEROME, RALPH CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 8502, 2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt., yst. s. of Charles Jerome, of 15, Ormeley Road, Balham, Solicitor, Freeman of the City of London by purchase (1883), formerly a member of the New Malden Local Board, and afterwards a member of the L.C.C. for Brixton (1895–1901), by his wife, Florence Elizabeth (died in his absence at the Front), dau. of John Jacobs, of Basingstoke; b. Locksley Lodge, New Malden, 15 Feb. 1888; educ. Malden College, Merchant Taylors’ School, Dulwich College, and Margate College; enlisted at Stratford, Middlesex, on 25 Oct. 1906, aged 18 years 9 months, was seven years with the Army and five years on the Reserve; served with his Battn. at Cairo, Alexandria, Khartoum, and other places, and finally at Sialkot in the Punjab; returned to England and received his discharge with an exemplary character; rejoined his old regt. on the outbreak of war; left for France on or about 21 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, two miles west of Aubers, on the morning of 12 March, 1915. Buried on the field; unm. Sergt. Wrist, who stood beside him when he was shot, wrote: “He died a gallant death; the men of his section miss him very much,” and 2nd Lieut. H.S.R. Montesole of the Royal Sussex Regt., attd. 2nd Yorkshires, since killed in action, wrote that he was “always a good soldier, and died as a soldier should.”

=JERRAM, HARRY ESCOMBE RAVENHILL=, Midshipman, R.N., H.M.S. Hawke, 2nd s. of the Rev. Arnold Escombe Jerram, of St. Augustine’s Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, M.A., S.P.G., Organising Secretary for the Midland Dioceses and late Vicar of Langford, co. Oxon, by his wife, Anna Christina, dau. of William Waldron Ravenhill, of the Inner Temple, Recorder of Andover; b. Bradley Vicarage, Huddersfield, 31 Aug. 1897; educ. Hinwick House, near Wellingborough, Osborne and Dartmouth; appointed Midshipman, H.M.S. Hawke, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was sunk by torpedo fire in the North Sea, 15 Oct. following. He was a cousin of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas M. Jerram, K.C.B., late Commander-in-Chief on the China Station, and great-nephew of the late Right Hon. Harry Escombe, P.C., Q.C., M.L.S., Premier of Natal.

=JERRED, FRANK=, Private, R.M.L.I., 15184, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JESSE, ROBERT TURVILLE=, A.B., 227397, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JESSOP, NAPIER ARNOTT=, Lieut., 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late George Henry Jessop, of Crediton, Devonshire, by his wife, Ethel Marian, only dau. of the late John Frederick Bell, Capt. Loyal North Lancashire Regt.; b. Taunton, co. Somerset, 28 May, 1889; educ. private school at Bishop’s Stortford; went to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in 1908, where he was first farming, and later went into real estate business, received a commission as Lieut. in 88th Victoria Fusiliers, 16 Sept. 1912, and served with them on strike duty at Nanaimo, B.C., from Aug. 1913 until the outbreak of war; appointed Lieut. in 7th Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 22 Sept. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; left for France, 10 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien during the heroic stand of the Canadians in the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Lieut. Jessop was on the right of our battn. line, the section which was first surrounded, and which was later practically wiped out. Lieut. Jessop, all agree, was perfectly splendid under the fierce attack that was thrown against us that day. He was an inspiration to his men. There is not much to tell, for his platoon were in trenches throughout, and merely fought the Germans off by rifle fire. There was nothing spectacular about it, but it was the height of enduring courage.”

=JOB, BERNARD CRAIG KEBLE=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st Battn., The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., only s. of the Rev. Frederick William Job, Vicar of Lower Gornal, co. Stafford, by his wife, Emily Frances, dau. of William Young Craig, M.P., for N. Staffordshire (1880–85); b. Liverpool, 9 June, 1887; educ. Radley College; went to Liverpool to enlist in the Liverpool Scottish the day War was declared, 4 Aug. 1914, and was sworn in 6 Aug. He received his commission 1 Nov., went to the Front with a draft of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, arriving in France on Good Friday, and a few days later was attd. to the 1st Battn. of his own regt. and was killed in action in the counter-attack on Hill 60, 18 April, 1915. Writing to his father, Major Robinson, commanding the 1st Battn., said: “He was shot by a bullet and died almost immediately on the morning of April 18 in the heavy fighting which followed our capture of a portion of the enemy’s position called Hill 60, 2½ miles S.E. of Ypres. I understand that he died almost instantly after being hit and that he could have felt no pain. It was not possible during the fighting to bury his body. I am, however, informed that all the dead have since been buried, so your son no doubt lies at rest among the other officers and men who fought with him. Your son had only joined this Battn. a few days before his death, but from the little I saw of him, I formed the opinion that he was a gallant and valuable officer.” Col. Sir Arthur G. Boscawen, of the 3rd Battn., wrote: “He was a universal favourite and the soul of courage, had he lived he would have made a very fine officer.”

=JOBBINS, THOMAS ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7733), S.S. 103098, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, ALBERT=, Ship’s Steward, 173611, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JOHNSON, ALBERT CHAPMAN=, Private, No. 73915, 28th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, Bombers’ Section, s. of John Johnson, of 44, Burton Stone Lane, Clifton, York, Gardener, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James (and Ann) Chapman; b. Wiggington Grange, near York, 13 Nov. 1883; educ. Skelton, near York, and Eythorne, Kent; was for some time a telegraph messenger at the Post Office, York, and later an attendant first at the North Riding Asylum, and after Aug. 1910, at the Mimico Asylum, Canada, and afterwards was successively employed on the Canadian Pacific Railway, at a lumber camp, and on the Grand Trunk Railway; joined the 28th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1 Oct. 1914, and came over with the 2nd Contingent in June, 1915; left for France, 17 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action during the advance from Loos, 8 Oct. following; unm. His Company Officer wrote of him as “a man ever ready to do his duty--no growler, but always bright and willing.”

=JOHNSON, ALFRED ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4543), S.S. 1613, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JOHNSON, DAVID=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 282), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, GEORGE ALBERT WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5028B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, GEORGE GUMBRELL=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 3069), 148022 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Shipwright, 2nd Class, 346902, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3644), 190781, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 10411, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of James Johnson, of 1, Field Street, North Road, Darlington; b. Stockton-on-Tees, 20 Nov. 1889; educ. St. Patrick’s School, Coatbridge, Scotland; enlisted 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, 8 Aug. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and died a prisoner of war at Field Moorslede, Germany, 19 June, 1915, of wounds received at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, on the preceding 12 March. Buried in Moorslede Parish Cemetery; unm.

=JOHNSON, LUTHER VINCENT BURGOYNE=, Capt., 8th Batt. Durham L.I. (T.F.), eldest s. of Major John Burgoyne Johnson, of Brockley, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, 8th Batt. Durham L.I., J.P., co. Durham; b. Middlemoor, near Richmond, co. York, 5 Sept. 1890; educ. Aysgarth School, Newton-le-Willows, Yorkshire; Charterhouse, Godalming; and King’s College, Cambridge (B.A.); joined the Hamsteels Company of the 8th Durham L.I., being gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 April, 1910; Lieut. 12 May, 1912, and Capt. 12 Sept. 1914. He went to the Front in April, and was killed a few days later, in action at Grafenstafel Ridge, N.E. of Ypres, 25 April, 1915. At the outbreak of war Capt. Johnson was serving his articles as a solicitor with the firm of Messrs. Cochrane and Belk, of Middlesbrough. He was well known in cricket and football circles, and had qualified in musketry course and machine gun course (distinguished) at Hythe.

=JOHNSON, RICHARD DIGBY=, Major, 3rd, attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, yr. surviving s. of the late Edward Mayson Johnson, by his wife, Emma Jane (28, St. Mary’s, York), dau. of the late William Emmerson Bowman, and gdson. of the late Richard Johnson, of York, the well-known racing judge and handicapper in the North of England in the middle of the last century; b. York, 30 June, 1876; educ. St. Peter’s, York; joined the staff of the York City and County Bank at the age of 17, leaving it four years later for a tour round the world, and on his arrival at Capetown, the South African War broke out; he at once returned to England and obtained a commission in the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, June 1900. He served with the 11th Mounted Infantry in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Aug. 1901 to 31 May, 1902; was invalided home with enteric fever, receiving for his services the Queen’s medal with four clasps. On returning home he qualified at Hythe, and became Instructor of Musketry to the Kildare Battn. and he was promoted Capt. 7 Oct. 1905, and Major 18 Dec. 1914. He went to France to join the 2nd Battn. of his regt. early in Dec.; was wounded near St. Julien, 25 April, 1915, and granted a week’s leave; rejoined his regt. on 10 May, falling in action a fortnight later, 24 May, 1915. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch, 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June] 1915. Major Johnson was a freeman of the City of York, and had the Coronation medal. He m. at St. Michael’s Church, Camberley, Surrey, 21 Sept. 1904, Claudine Trower (Camoys, Braintree), 6th dau. of Col. Theodore William Hogg, of Eastwick, Camberley, Surrey, late Indian Staff Corps, and had a son and dau.: Richard Edward Digby, b. 16 Dec. 1911; and Claudine Blanche Mayson, b. 8 July 1905.

=JOHNSON, ROBERT WARREN=, Capt., R.N., H.M.S. Cressy, 2nd s. of the late Vice-Admiral John Ormsby Johnson, R.N., by his wife, Edith Renira, dau. of the Rev. Charles Edward Twyford; b. Dovercourt, co. Essex, 10 May 1867; educ. Cornwallis, Maidenhead, and Foster’s Naval Academy, Stubbington; entered the Service as a Cadet, 15 July, 1881; appointed Midshipman, 13 Nov. 1883; promoted Sub.-Lieut. 13 Nov. 1887; Lieut. 1 April, 1891; Commander, 31 Dec. 1904, and Capt. 31 Dec. 1910, and after the outbreak of war, was appointed to the command of H.M.S. Cressy. He was lost when that cruiser, together with the Aboukir and the Hogue, was sunk by torpedo-fire while engaged in patrolling off the Dutch coast on the morning of 22 Sept. 1914. One of the surviving officers of the ill-fated Cressy wrote: “Our Commander, Capt. Johnson, died like a hero; he had his confidential book lashed to his arm when he went down. He deserved ten Victoria Crosses, for he stopped on board until the last moment,” and Stoker William Wake, of Sunderland, another survivor, stated that the Capt. remained on the bridge until he was up to his neck in water, and that he was cheered again and again by the men as he sank out of sight. A Petty Officer wrote that the last he saw of the Capt. was when he called out to a young sailor and gave him the bit of plank on which he was supporting himself, remarking: “Here, you are a young chap, take this.” Capt. Johnson m. at Portsmouth, 11 July, 1906, Grace Isobel (Fintry Cottage, Warblington, Havant), dau. of the late Algernon Paley, Barrister-at-Law, and had two sons and a dau.: John Paley, b. 12 June, 1907; Peter Warren, b. 13 Nov. 1908; and Elisabeth Freda, b. 11 Sept. 1913.

=JOHNSON, THOMAS=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8948), 20661, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 10850, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action 14 Oct. 1914.

=JOHNSON, WALTER=, Private, No. 6700, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Warrington, co. Lancaster; enlisted 5 March, 1907; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914.

=JOHNSON, WALTER=, Private, No. 2831, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; reported missing after the fighting at St. Julien, 21 Oct. 1914, and later to have been killed on or about that date, and to have been buried by the German authorities in the Cemetery of Ehrenfriedhof 2, near Poelkapelle; m.

=JOHNSON, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 15485, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JOHNSON, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5231), 205964, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CROOM-JOHNSON, BRIAN=, Lieut., 4th (Denbighshire) Battn. Royal Welch Fusiliers (T.F.), yst. s. of Harry Croom-Johnson, of the Elms, Wrexham, J.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Roden, dau. of the late George Bradley, of Wrexham, J.P.; b. Wrexham, 16 Sept. 1890; educ. Mostyn House School, Cheshire, and Clifton College (Spence’s House); after leaving school adopted the profession of an engineer and on the completion of three years’ articles was appointed Assistant Engineer to the Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the Welch Fusiliers, 3 May, 1913, and promoted Lieut. 8 Sept. 1914. He left for France 5 Nov. 1914, and on the 23 Dec. following was personally complimented by the General Officer Commanding for leading a party of 30 men laden with ammunition to the firing-trenches and carrying out this duty without a single casualty, though under fire the whole time; and on 25 Jan. 1915, he was one of three officers who, with a few men, recaptured a trench at Givenchy from which they had been ordered to retire and made prisoners 35 Germans, including two officers. He was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, France, 9 May, 1915, while leading his company against the German trenches; unm.

=VINER-JOHNSON, PERCY JOSEPH VINER=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Wiltshire Regt., yr. s. of the late Joseph Viner Viner-Johnson, of Beech House, Market Lavington, co. Wilts, Capt. Imperial Yeomanry (who served in the South African War, 1900–1902), by his wife, Clara (The Nutgrove, Chew Magna, Bristol), dau. of the late Thomas Donders Perry, of Ealing; b. London 13 Oct. 1875; educ. St. Paul’s School; served in the 1st Vol. Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps from 1898 to 1902, when he went to South Africa, where he was for some time A.R.M. at Harrismith, and afterwards Relief Magistrate at various places in the Orange Free State. At home on leave when war broke out, he obtained permission from the South African Government, and was gazetted Capt. to 3rd Wiltshires, 18 Sept. 1914. He left for France on 24 Dec. 1914, when he was attd. to the 1st Battn. and commanded A Coy. and was killed in action at Spanbroek Molen, 12 March, 1915. Buried near Spanbroek Molen; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He fell most gallantly leading his men. His conduct was so gallant and brave that, although he is now dead, I have recommended him for the D.S.O. In addition to being a very gallant and brave man, he was a most valuable officer, and his death is a very great loss to his regiment. As a comrade he has endeared himself to all his brother officers and men, and his death is deeply deplored by us all.” Capt. Viner-Johnson was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915.

=JOHNSTON, BRUCE ALLEN=, L.-Corpl., No. 69474, B Coy. 26th Battn. (New Brunswick Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Andrew Charles Johnston, of Costigan, Victoria co., New Brunswick [b. there in 1849 of Scottish descent], by his wife, Sarah Jane, dau. of Henry Bowmaster; b. Costigan, 18 Nov. 1889, educ. Public School there; was a Farmer; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914, following the outbreak of war; left Canada with the Second contingent on 12 June, 1915, and died in Etaples, France, 13 Nov. 1915, from wounds in the head received in action on the 11th. He was unm. and was buried in the Camiers Road Cemetery, Etaples.

=JOHNSTON, GEORGE ALBERT=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4759), 293876, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOHNSTON, JAMES CECIL=, Capt. and Adjutant, 6th (Service) Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, eldest s. of Robert Edgeworth Johnston, of Glencore House, co. Fermanagh, by his wife, Edythe Grace, dau. of John Reynolds Dickson, of Woodville and Tullaghan House, co. Leitrim; b. Glencore House, co. Fermanagh, 29 Dec. 1880; educ. Charterhouse and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unatt. 8 Jan. 1901; posted to the 14th Hussars, 9 March following; served in the South African War, 1901–2, taking part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps); and resigned his commission in 1903. He was Deputy Ranger of the Curragh of Kildare, 1910–12; Master of the Horse to the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord-Lieut. of Ireland, 1910–15; High Sheriff co. Fermanagh, 1910; and Private Secretary to Lord Aberdeen, 1912–15. On the outbreak of war he offered his services and was gazetted Capt. 6th Royal Irish Fusiliers, 28 Sept. 1914, being appointed Adjutant of the Battn., 20 Oct. following. He left for the Dardanelles with the 10th (Irish) Division, under Major-Gen. Sir Bryan Mahon, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 9 Aug. following. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. F. A. R. Greer, wrote; “We reached the point we were making for, and your husband and I were trying to make out exactly how the situation was, when a shell from some sort of machine gun came over from our right front, caught me on the arm and exploded practically on him. His death, of course, was instantaneous. I saw that much before I had to clear out myself; there were none but dead and dying just there. It will comfort you to know he died a brave and gallant soldier, looked on by all of us as one of the best. I can safely add the sympathy of every officer and man to mine. He died at the farthest point the Battn. reached that day,” and a brother officer: “I saw Johnston in a redoubt early next morning and during Sunday (8 Aug.), like most of us, he was very tired that day, as we had no sleep and practically no food. He was in good spirits, however. His death has been a great blow to us, as he was very popular, and deservedly so, in the regt. He was confident that he would come back all right.” Capt. Johnston m. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 28 Oct. 1903, Violet Myrtle (Rosemont, Booterstown, Dublin), dau. of Samuel Abraham Walker Waters, Assistant Inspector-Gen., Royal Irish Constabulary, and had three daus.: Myrtle, b. 7 March, 1909; Marjorie Helen, b. 18 Jan. 1911; and Mary Nuala, b. 29 May, 1914.

=JOHNSTON, JAMES HOGARTH=, Private, No. 29230, G Coy. 14th Platoon, 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd and only surviving s. of Patrick Johnston, of Broomhill, Fivemiletown, co. Tyrone, by his wife, Susan Elliot, dau. of the late James Hogarth Rutherfurd, of Kelso: b. Cecil Augher, co. Tyrone, 21 Dec. 1886; educ. Carntall, Clogher, N.S. and Portora Royal School, Enniskillen; worked for a time at Combe Barbour’s Engineering Works, and at those of McLean at Belfast: went to New Zealand in Nov. 1905 at the age of 19, and remained there five years; returned to Ireland, and nine months later went to Winnipeg, Canada; joined the Canadian Scottish at Winnipeg, Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; left for France 4 Feb. and was killed in action in the heroic charge of the Canadian Scottish near St. Julien, on the night of 23–24 April, 1915. at the beginning of the First Battle of Ypres; unm.

=JOHNSTON, REUBEN JOHN=, Sick Berth Steward, 350469, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1915.

=JOHNSTON, ROBERT=, Armourer, 340521, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept, 1914.

=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 407, 9th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; a native of co. Ayr; served in Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there that day.

=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5958), 188608, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM HENRY, V.C.=, Capt. and Brevet Major, R.E., 2nd s. of the late Major William Johnston. R.A.; b. at Leith, 21 Dec. 1879; passed into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1897, and was gazetted to a commission in the Royal Engineers on 23 March, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 19 Nov. 1901, and Capt. 23 March, 1908. His first period of foreign service was passed in Gibraltar, from 1900 to 1905, during part of which time he was employed under the Intelligence Department. On his return to England he was attached to the Survey Department, and on leaving it in 1908 was gazetted as a General Staff Officer (3rd Grade) for service in China. From 11 July, 1908, to 26 Oct. 1911, he was employed in North China, travelling extensively, while engaged on Intelligence work, in the course of which he visited eleven of the eighteen provinces of China. During this time he was also employed in surveying the boundary of the New Territory of Hong Kong. In 1911 he was transferred to the South China Command as General Staff Officer. At the expiration of this period, 27 July, 1912, he was employed at the War Office for about 11 months (2 Sept. 1912 to 9 Aug. 1913), in the geographical section. He entered the Staff College, Camberley, in 1913, and began his course there in Jan. 1914. After the declaration of war he was posted to the 59th Field Coy. R.E., went out with the Expeditionary Force and served with it throughout the winter of 1914–5, including the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Aisne, the Marne, Neuve Chapelle, 1st and 2nd Battles of Ypres, etc. He was four times mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 19 Oct. and 25 Nov. 1914 and 17 Feb. and 22 June, 1915], and was awarded the Victoria Cross on 25 Nov. for conspicuous gallantry “at Misy on 14 Sept., when, under a heavy fire all day until 7 p.m., he worked with his own hands two rafts, bringing back wounded and returning with ammunition, thus enabling the advanced brigade to maintain its position across the river.” In March he was appointed to the command of the 172nd Coy., and on 2 May, Brigade Major of the 15th Infantry Brigade. He was made Brevet Major under date 3 June [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], and was killed in action four days later near Ypres, 7 June, 1915; unm.

=JOHNSTONE, MILLER=, Private, No. 1078, B Coy. 2nd Battn. 1st Australian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Alexander Johnstone, b. Bannockburn, co. Stirling, 12 March, 1892; educ. Larbert, Stirling; went to Australia in Jan. 1913, and settled at Lockhart, New South Wales, as an Agriculturalist; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted at Kennington, New South Wales, 27 Aug. 1914, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and died of wounds on H.M. Hospital Ship Derfflinger, 29 April. The Chaplain wrote that Johnstone had carried a wounded Lieut. down to the shore to a place of safety and was returning to the firing line when he was hit and mortally wounded. He was taken on board the hospital ship the following day, and died at sea on his way to Alexandria; unm.

=JOHNSTONE, PETER=, Private, No. 2938, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action near Ypres.

=JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 349, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 22 Dec. 1914.

=JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 8900, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of William Johnstone, of Newton Stewart, co. Wigton; b. Newton Stewart; enlisted 12 March, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

=HOPE-JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM GORDON TOLLEMACHE=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, formerly 32nd Lancers, Indian Army, 4th s. of William James Hope-Johnstone, of Brownleigh, Feltham [descended from the Hon. Charles Hope-Vere of Craigiehall, 2nd s. of Charles, 1st Earl of Hopetoun, K.T.], by his wife, Emily Mary, dau. of Capt. Edward Bailie, 10th Hussars; b. Esher, co. Surrey, 5 July, 1887; educ. Cheltenham and Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 6th Dragoon Guards, Feb. 1907, and was promoted Lieut. May, 1909. He transferred to the Indian Army in Sept. 1912, with the rank of Squadron Officer in the 32nd Lancers and retired early in 1914. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and was given a lieutenancy in the 4th Royal Fusiliers, 5 Sept., left for France on 8 Oct. and was killed in action at Laventie on the 25th of that month. His next elder brother, Henry Murray, is now (1916) serving with the Royal Fusiliers.

=JOLLIFF, JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2928C., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JOLIFFE, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109240, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=JOLLIFFE, WILLIAM JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3133), 306590, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, ADRIAN HERBERT=, Private, No. 1632, 1/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Herbert Daniel Jones, of 35, Osterley Park Road, Southall, Clerk in charge of Telegraph Dept. G.W.R. Southall Station, by his wife, Selina, dau. of William Hughes, of the Park, Clee Hill, Ludlow, Salop; b. Shrewsbury, 6 May, 1895; educ. All Saints’ School, Shrewsbury, and Featherstone Road School, Southall; was a clerk in the employ of the Great Western Railway at the Hotel Paddington, and afterwards Clerk Great Northern Railway, at King’s Cross; joined 1/3rd Royal Fusiliers, July, 1912; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and left for Malta at the end of 1914; proceeded to France, 2 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle about 5.30 p.m. on 10 March following, during a successful attack on a part of the German trenches which had held out all day; unm. One of his officers wrote: “He died a very gallant death. The Army has lost a very brave soldier.” From information received by his relatives it would appear that in the charge in which he fell he showed conspicuous courage and sang froid, and that his last words were: “Come on; give me a leg up,” as he was getting over the German parapet. Private Jones had a fine voice and was a member of the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Southall. His elder brother, Gunner S. W. Jones, was drowned while on active service, 21 July, 1916.

=JONES, ALFRED EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5794), S.S. 100725, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JONES, ALFRED POOLE=, Private, No. 2214, 1/24th Battn. (The Queen’s) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Arthur Daniel Jones, of 40, De Burgh Street, Cardiff, by his wife, Elizabeth Annie (now the wife of James Newton Paterson, of 5, Western Drive, Woodend Park, Grassendale Road, Liverpool), dau. of Jacob Lewis, Farmer; b. Cardiff, 4 Nov. 1890; educ. Higher Grade School, Cardiff; was in the milling and flour trade, first with Messrs. James Thomas Co., Newport, Isle of Wight, and latterly with Messrs. H. N. Bathgate & Co., London; joined the 24th London, 6 Aug. 1914; left for France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 26 May following, in an attack by his battn. and the 23rd London on the German trenches. Buried, Givenchy, in the Soldiers’ cemetery, about half a mile behind the trenches; unm. His Captain wrote: “We captured the trenches which were our objective, but lost over half the battn. in doing so. In C Coy. alone 44 were killed and 70 wounded.” A comrade wrote: “When Alf fell, I ran down the slope to see what I could do for him. He was lying on his back at the bottom. He said he was hit in the stomach, but would not let me attend to him. ‘Never mind about me, get on with the firing, lad,’ he said, and I had to, as our line was very thin then.” This was the action in which L.-Corpl. Keyworth, of the 23rd London, won the V.C., and several other decorations were earned by the officers and men of the two battns. engaged. Private Jones was a keen footballer and played for his regt. on many occasions.

=JONES, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 65503, 24th Battn. (Victoria Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late William Jones; b. Sedgeley, 27 Jan. 1884; went to Canada in June, 1912, and settled in Montreal. After the outbreak of war he volunteered for service overseas, joined the Victoria Rifles in Oct. 1914, and after a period of training came over to England in May, 1915; left for the Front, 15 Sept. 1915; and was killed in action in France in his dug-out by a shell, 12 Oct. 1915, and was buried in the Canadian Burial Ground; unm.

=JONES, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14776, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, ARTHUR WYNN=, L.-Corpl., No. 2352, 1/5th Battn. the Welsh Regt. (T.F.), third and yst. s. of Thomas Jones, of The Hall, Llanfyllin, Solicitor, Town Clerk and Clerk to the County and Borough Magistrates, by his wife, Elizabeth Alice, dau. of the late Thomas Edwards, of Penybontfawr, Montgomeryshire; b. Llanfyllin, co. Montgomery, 23 March, 1880; educ. The Grammar School, Oswestry; was for many years Cashier in the National Provincial Bank, first at the Horsefield Branch, Bristol, and then at Cowbridge Branch, Glamorgan; enlisted soon after the declaration of war; was promoted L.-Corpl. 18 July, 1915; left England with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 10 Aug. 1915; unm.

=JONES, CHARLES=, Sergt.-Major, 5th Battn. Welsh Regt. (T.F.); served through the South African War (medal), and was afterwards employed at the Bedlinog Collieries; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to the Dardanelles; was promoted Sergt.-Major, and was killed in action there, 21 Aug. 1915. He m. Annie (Greenfield Terrace, Gellefaelog, Dowlais), dau. of (--), and had three sons, of whom David John is (1916) a Private in the 5th Welsh and served with his father at the Dardanelles.

=JONES, ERNEST DAVID=, Rifleman, No. 22874, 1st Battn. The Rifle Brigade, yst. s. of Thomas Bowen Jones, of 18, Stockfield Road, Streatham, S.W., by his wife, Alice Louisa, dau. of John Hazell, of Kensington; b. Dulwich, 22 Feb. 1887; educ. the South London School, Dulwich; enlisted 1st Rifle Brigade, 10 Sept. 1914; left for France in March, 1915, and was killed in action while taking part in an attack on the German trenches, near Hooge, 6 July following. Buried, Talna Farm; unm.

=JONES, EDWIN=, Private, No. 10968, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Edgar Jones, of 1, Grove Avenue, Lawley, Birmingham, Gas Stoker, by his wife, Annie, dau. of George Tyler; b. Birmingham, 16 April, 1896; educ. St. Matthew’s School, Lupin Street, Birmingham; enlisted, 13 Aug. 1914; left for France, 26 Nov. 1914; and was killed in action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. following; unm.

=JONES, FENN=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (R.F.R., A. 1919), 128745, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, FRANCIS GEORGE=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 1st Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; eldest s. of the late Rev. Edward George Jones, of Cecilstown Lodge, Mallow, co. Cork, by his late wife, Eliza Wilhelmina, dau. of Abraham Symes; b. at Kilmurrey Rectory, 8 April, 1864; educ. Trinity College, Dublin; gazetted Lieut. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers from the Militia, 16 Dec. 1885, and promoted Capt., 1 Feb. 1893; Brevet Major, 29 Nov. 1900; Major, 23 May, 1903; and Lieut.-Col., 19 Feb. 1914; was Assistant Superintendent of Signalling in Burma, 1892–3; Adjutant of his battalion, 31 Oct. 1894, to 30 Oct. 1898, and of the Militia, 1 Aug. 1901, to 22 May, 1903; took part (1) in the operations in the Northern Chin Hills, Burma, 1892–3 (medal with clasp); (2) in the operations on the North East Frontier, India, 1897–8, with Peshawar Column of 5th Brigade, Tirah Expeditionary Force, including operations in Bara Valley, 7 to 14 Dec. 1897 (medal with two clasps); and (3) in the South African War, 1899–1900; was Adjutant, 1st Battn. R.I.F., from 16 Dec. 1899, to 24 Feb. 1900; took part in the relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; operations of 17–24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5–7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights (14–27 Feb. 1900) etc. (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. and 10 Sept. 1901]; Brevet of Major; Queen’s medal with three clasps); served in Crete, 1907, Malta, 1908–9, North China, 1909–12 and India, 1912–14, where he took over the command of the 1st Battn., 19 Feb. 1914. After the outbreak of war he brought the battalion home from Secunderabad in Jan. 1915, to Rugby, and left with it as part of the 29th Division, 87th Brigade, for Gallipoli, 17 March following; was in command during the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, and during the subsequent week’s severe fighting; was severely wounded near Krithia on 2 May, and died of his wounds three days later, 5 May, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in General Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 12 June [London Gazette, 5 Aug. 1915], for gallant and distinguished service in the field

=JONES, FRED=, Private, No. 2366, 2nd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of William David Jones, Miner; b. Upper Cwmbran, co. Monmouth; educ. Board Schools, Cwmbran; joined 2nd Monmouths, Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915. He m. at Pontypool, Matilda, dau. of (--), and had five sons and two daus.

=JONES, FREDERICK CHARLES=, A.B., J. 15499, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Chief Petty Officer (N.S.), 172545, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7306), S.S. 102172, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, HARRY=, Private, No. 38300, 5th Battn. Welsh Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the late Thomas Jones, of Brynhyfryd, Nelson; b. 1877; joined the 5th Welsh Territorials; served with the Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action, 13 Aug. 1915; unm.

=JONES, HARRY DUKINFIELD=, Private, No. 2504, Honourable Artillery Coy., yst. s. of Edward Dukinfield Jones, of Castro, Reigate, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of Holbrook Gaskell; b. Saõ Paulo, Brazil, 11 April, 1890; came to England when 12 years of age; educ. Liverpool College Preparatory School and Lancing College. From an early age he devoted himself to music, and decided to make it his profession, choosing the piano as his instrument. For about four years he worked in the Leschetizky method, under Mr. George Magrath. Early in 1912 he went to Vienna and studied under Frau Bree, with occasional lessons from Leschetizky himself. On his return to England in 1913 he continued his studies under Mr. Howard-Jones, at the R.C.M., taking singing as his second study. He joined the Honourable Artillery Coy. in Oct. 1914, went to the Front with a draft for the 1st Battn. at the end of Dec., in April was “doing very stiff work” somewhere near Ypres, and was killed in action in the charge of the Honourable Artillery Coy. at Hooge, 16 June, 1915; unm.

=JONES, HENRY DAVID=, Seaman, R.N.R., B. 5059, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, IAN MONTGOMERY=, Private, No. 5137, 20th (Service) Battn. (3rd Public Schools) Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Thomas Abraham Jones, of 5, Chatsworth Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, Branch Manager of the General Accident Company; by his wife, Marion, dau. of the late Rev. Wollaston Goode, M.A. [by his wife, Amelia Agnese, yr. dau. of Sir Charles Munro, 9th Baronet of Foulis, who served in the 85th Regt. under Wellington in the Peninsular War, 1811–14, being wounded at Badajos, and received the medal with clasps for Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, Nives, Orthes, and Toulouse]; and grandson of Thomas Jones, of Montgomery, who joined the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry at the outbreak of the Crimean War; b. Cirencester, co. Gloucester, 11 June, 1897; educ. Bromsgrove School, where he was a member of the O.T.C., and made his mark as a Rugby football player; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the 1st unit of the 20th Royal Fusiliers, 12 Aug. 1914, and died at the 3rd General Military Hospital, Wandsworth, of cerebro-spinal-meningitis, contracted while on service, 20 March, 1915; unm. Buried in Southern Cemetery, Manchester, with full military honours. His Coy. Commander, Capt. T. L. Boyce, wrote: “He was a smart soldier, trusted by his officers and appreciated and liked by his comrades.” And a comrade wrote: “No man was, no man could be, better loved and respected, and no man ever merited our love and respect more than Ian.” He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Battn. Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regt., 29 Sept. 1914, but being only just 17, had asked that the appointment might be cancelled for a few months.

=JONES, JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1883), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, JOHN RICHARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., 4685 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 162), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, OCTAVIUS=, Private, No. 1198, 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Edwin Jones, for 38 years a guard on Great Western Railway, by his wife, Martha; b. Snatchwood, Abersychan, near Pontypool, 8 Oct. 1881; educ. Snatchwood Schools, Abersychan; went to Australia, 11 May, 1911, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of war, and died from wounds received in action in Gallipoli, 22 May, 1915; unm.

=JONES, ROWLAND SAMUEL=, Private, No. 538, 2nd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Thomas Hanbury Jones, of 75, Monnow Street, Monmouth, Builder and Decorator, member of the Monmouth Town Council, by his wife, Rachel, dau. of Rowland Samuel Bevan, of Penlarken Farm, Pontypool, Mon.; b. Monmouth, 7 Dec. 1883; educ. St. Mary’s National School, Monmouth; was a Sanitary Plumber, etc.; joined the Monmouth Volunteers, which became, on the formation of the Territorial Force, the 2nd Monmouthshire Regt., 1902; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and went into training with his battn. at Pontypool, although barely recovered from a serious cycling accident which befell him on the day of mobilisation; left for France, 5 Nov. 1914; served in the trenches throughout the following winter, and was highly complimented by his officers on his ability as a practical plumber in keeping the pumps in working order, and was placed in charge of 18 pumps; took part in the 2nd Battle of Ypres in which his battn. acquitted itself most gallantly and suffered severe losses, and died in the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station, at Bailleul, 16 June, 1915, of wounds received while on sentry duty at 5.30 a.m. on the 14th, near Ypres. The Rev. A. T. G. Fletcher, Chaplain to the Forces (C.E.), wrote that he was admitted to the Clearing Station unconscious, with a terrible wound in the head, caused by shrapnel, and died without recovering consciousness. He added: “I buried him in Bailleul Cemetery in grave No. 1313. A cross has been erected on his grave bearing his name and regimental number and giving the cause of his death. He died nobly, while bravely doing his duty.” Private Jones had been repeatedly offered promotion to non-commissioned rank, but had always refused it. He m. at the Parish Church, Newland, Gloucestershire, 31 Aug. 1909, Sarah, dau. of Herbert Furneyhough, of Highbury Farm, Newland, co. Gloucester, and had two sons and a dau.: Thomas Hambury Herbert, b. 28 May, 1910; Rowland Leonard, b. 17 Aug. 1911; and Dorothy Rachael May, b. 26 May, 1914, died 19 March, 1915. Two of his brothers, Hambury John Jones, Bombardier, No. 43491, R.G.A. (volunteered in Aug. 1914 from Bristol City Police Force); and Thomas Hambury Jones, Sergt., No. 1430, The London Regt. (Auditor in Exchequer and Audit Department, Whitehall), are now (1916) on active service in France, and the 4th, Leonard Hambury Jones, Cadet, Monmouth Grammar School Corps, has been medically rejected.

=JONES, SAMUEL WILLIAM JOHN=, Driver, No. 935, Ammunition Column, 3rd Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd s. of Jabez Jones, of 52, Clifton Street, Swindon, co. Wilts; b. South Cerney, co. Gloucester, 6 Sept. 1887; educ. Swindon; joined the 3rd Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, from the Yeomanry in Feb. 1914; was thrown from a horse at Malmesbury, 23 Jan. 1915, while trying to catch another that had thrown his comrade, and died the following day. He m. at Winchcombe, co. Glos., 8 June, 1912, Alice, 3rd dau. of the late George Wasley, of Castle Street, Winchcombe, and had two children: Harry George, b. 14 March, 1913, and Winifred Mary, b. 6 Dec. 1914, d. 17 Dec. 1915.

=JONES, SYDNEY EVERARD=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Pioneers The Welsh Regt., 2nd s. of William Henry Jones, of Bhim Tal Estate, Kumaon, U.P., India; b. Bhim Tal aforesaid, 4 Sept. 1892; was educ. at Naini Tal up to the age of 15, and then went to England, and after a little study matriculated at London, and joined The City and Guilds Institute, where he obtained the Diplomas of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and completed two years in the Civil Engineering Course. He was two years a Cadet in the Naini Tal Volunteer Rifles, and later for another two years was in the University of London O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, and meanwhile joined the 3rd County of London Yeomanry as a trooper. In Nov. 1914, he was gazetted temp. Second Lieut. in the 8th Battn. The Welsh Regt., and qualified as a machine-gun officer at Erith. He proceeded to the Dardanelles for active service and on the 8th Aug. 1915, during the attack on Sari Bahr, his Battn. with New Zealanders took part in the storming of the Turkish position, from the crest of which they were relieved the following day. He was wounded early in the assault, but bound up his wound and rejoined his platoon. Later in the same day he was shot through the heart, while leading his men and he was buried in the Gallipoli Peninsula; unm. A Senior officer wrote: “I knew your brother well, and liked him immensely, and express my deep sympathy with you, and that of his men who were very fond of ‘Uncle Jack’ as they called him. He fell at the front of his men like the brave fellow he was.” His brother, Lieut. Bertram Owen Jones, is (1916) on active service with the South Wales Borderers.

=JONES, SIDNEY WILLIAM=, Gunner, No. 816, Royal Horse Artillery (T.F.), eldest s. of Herbert Daniel Jones, of 35, Osterley Park Road, Southall, Clerk in charge of Telegraph Department, G.W.R. Southall Station, by his wife, Selina, dau. of William Hughes, of the Park, Clee Hill, Ludlow, co. Salop; b. Shrewsbury, 11 Nov. 1891; educ. All Saints’, Shrewsbury and Featherstone School, Southall; was employed as a Clerk at Otto Monsteds, Ltd., Margarine Works, Southall, and afterwards with Morgan & Sons, Linen Drapers, Cardiff; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 4 Nov. 1914; transferred to the Shropshire R.H.A. Dec. 1915, and was drowned at 9.30 a.m. 21 July, 1916, while bathing; unm. He is supposed to have been seized with cramp. He was buried at Southall with full military honours. Capt. Darling spoke very highly of him, describing him as one of the best lads he had, and saying that he was universally liked by all the battery. His yr. brother, Private A. H. Jones, was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915.

=JONES, STANLEY=, Capt., 1st Batt. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, eldest s. of the late Sir Howard Sutton Jones, K.C.B., R.M.L.I., by his wife, Katherine, dau. of Major Adam von Beverhoudt, 58th Regt.; b. Plymouth, 26 Oct. 1880; educ. Cowley College, Oxford, and Hanover; after serving in the Militia was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Welsh Fusiliers, 5 Jan. 1901, promoted Lieut. 21 Sept. 1904, and obtained his coy. 21 Aug. 1911; served in China, with the West African Frontier Force, Oct. 1905 to May, 1910, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914 to May, 1915; he was wounded in October, and was killed at Festubert on the night of 16–17 May, when leading his coy. in an attack on the German trenches; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “His loss is a great one to the Regt. as he was an exceptionally able and keen officer. He was buried with seven of his brother officers,” between the Rue du Bois and the Rue de la Quinque, near Festubert.

=JONES, WALTER=, Private, No. 10/396, 7th Wellington Infantry Regt. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of John Jones, of Gelli Fanw, Llanbedr, Crickhowel, co. Brecon, by his wife, Caroline, dau. of William Peters; b. Crickhowel, 23 April, 1893; educ. Crickhowel National School and Brecon County School; went to New Zealand in Sept. 1911; joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on its formation, 15 Aug. 1914, and died of wounds received in action at Gallipoli, 11 May, 1915; unm.

=JONES, WALTER FREDERICK=, A.B., J. 9034, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, WILLIAM=, Chief Yeoman Signalman (A. 2234), 115951, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, WILLIAM=, Gunner, 9582, R.M.A., H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Signalman (R.F.R., B. 197), 143418, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JONES, WILLIAM JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5270), 218593, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JONES, WILLIAM PERCY=, Private, No. 10493, No. 2 Coy. 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of Thomas Jones, of 70, Salop Road, Oswestry, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Jones; b. Sweeney, near Oswestry, 7 Nov. 1892; educ. National School there; enlisted, 14 Nov. 1913; left for France, 22 Aug 1914, and was killed in action in the brickfields at Cuinchy, 13 Feb. 1915, being shot by a sniper. Buried at Cuinchy; unm.

=JONES, WILLIAM WALTER=, L.-Corpl., No. 506, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Day Jones, of 18, Birley Street, Lavender Hill, S.W., Clerk at the Labour Exchange, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Walter Shattock, of Taunton; b. Kensington, 19 Dec. 1886; educ. at Gideon Road, Lavender Hill, and St. Martin’s-in-the-Field’s Council Schools; was Head Clerk at the A.B.C. Coupler Co., Queen Anne’s Chambers, Tothill Street; joined the Queen’s Westminster Rifles in Oct. 1908; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Houplines, 14 Jan. 1915; unm. Sergt. Cecil C. N. Mighall wrote on the 16th: “During a heavy shelling of the German lines it was necessary for us to observe the result and it was in doing this that he was hit by a rifle bullet (through a loophole), death being instantaneous.” And Sergt. V. B. Finlayson: “He was easily the most liked N.C.O. in the company.” He was buried in the Military Cemetery there, side by side with Sergt. Mighall, who was killed shortly after.

=EVAN-JONES, HILARY GRESFORD=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Welsh Regiment, yr. s. of the Rev. Richard Evan-Jones, M.A., Vicar of Llanllwchaiarn, Newtown, co. Montgomery, Rural Dean of Cedewain, and Canon and Precentor of St. Asaph Cathedral, by his wife, Hannah Rose, widow of the late Samuel Richardson Bishop, of St. Helens, and dau. of the late Edward Evans of Bronwylfn, Wrexham, J.P. and D.L., and grandson of the late Rev. James Evan-Jones, M.A., formerly Vicar of Bagyillt, co. Flint; b. Llanllwchaiarn Vicarage, 22 Jan. 1889; educ. Charterhouse and Hertford College, Oxford, where he was Colour-Sergt. in the O.T.C., and won the Williams Prize which is given to the most efficient N.C.O. in the Corps, and was so enthusiastic in recruiting that he multiplied the strength of his College detachment by ten. He graduated B.A. in 1910, and on 5 Oct. of that year was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Welsh, being promoted Lieut. 20 Nov. 1911. He was stationed at Cairo, Cyprus, Chakrata and Agra, and when war broke out was on his way to Cyprus, where he was to have been married at Troodos, on 28 Aug. 1914, to Nancy, only dau. of Major W. N. Bolton, late of the Wiltshire Regiment, Commissioner of Kyrenia, but his leave was cancelled, and he was recalled to rejoin his battn. with which he landed in England on 22 Dec. 1914. He left for France, 16 Jan. 1915, and to judge from a letter written shortly before he met his death, must have had some exciting experiences: “We have just finished our first eight days--divided between the supports and the firing line. I had the worst bit of trench to look after with my platoon and did all right, but had a good few casualties, considering the 96 hours I was actually up--two killed and nine wounded. I made two night expeditions by myself with some bombs, which I successfully dropped into the German trenches. During my first I met a German gentleman apparently at the same job as myself. My revolver accounted for him all right, as we were only two feet apart. The trenches are from 30 to 75 feet apart in most places and sometimes closer. We are now off on a four days’ rest, which is absolutely ripping. It is splendid to get out of the noise and to get some proper food and sleep. I think, if anything, I am rather enjoying this. Cold feet are the worst part of the show, but my men are all such rippers, it makes up for lots. I hate having them hit, otherwise it is quite cheery. I had a sing-song in my trench the other evening, which did not please the Germans. I sat in a chair, which collapsed, and I went straight to sleep where I lay. The strain is fairly big up there.” He was killed in action near Ypres, 16 Feb. 1915, and buried with two other brother officers, Capt. G. A. Lloyd and Lieut. R. T. B. Pope, who were killed the same day in the trenches, in the gardens of the Chateau Rosendal, three miles S.E. of Ypres. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. T. O. Marden, wrote: “I regret most deeply having to inform you of the death on the 16th inst., in the trenches, of your gallant son Hilary. As far as we can ascertain, his death was instantaneous from a rifle bullet, but many of his platoon were shot down at the same time, and there was no one in the trench who could give accurate information as to what happened. He is a great loss to us, as he was such a good soldier and so popular with all ranks. As you know, probably, he was selected to lead the Second Grenadier platoon, and had behaved so gallantly during his former turn of duty in the trenches, where he kept the spirits of his whole platoon up by his energy and enterprise, that I brought his name specially to the notice of the Brigadier. He crept out of the trenches alone on several occasions and threw bombs into the enemy’s trenches.” Lieut. Evan-Jones was a keen sportsman and a well-known figure in the hunting field in Montgomeryshire. He was also an excellent shot. At Cairo he made a considerable reputation as a polo player, and both in Cyprus and at Agra he was Master of the Hunt. Lieut. Evan-Jones was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. His elder brother, the Rev. Basil Evan-Jones, M.A. (Charterhouse and University College, Oxford), formerly curate of Gaulsfield, co. Montgomery, a well-known antiquary, and sub-editor of the Powysland Collections, resigned his curacy on the outbreak of the war and joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers as a private, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. 15 Jan. 1915, Lieut. 1 Oct. 1915, and Capt. 10 June, 1916.

=LLEWELLYN-JONES, VIVIAN BRUFORD=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., att. 1st Welsh Regt., only s. of Arthur Llewellyn-Jones, of Ritherdon House, Upper Tooting, S.W., by his wife, Emelie Louise, dau. of Edward Round, of Streatham; b. Wallington, co. Surrey, 24 Sept. 1891; educ. Cranleigh School, Surrey; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Suffolks, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 22 Feb. 1915, att. 1st Welsh; was wounded on 18 April, and was killed in action near Ypres, 4 May, 1915; unm.

=WYNNE-JONES, MORYS=, Lieut., 54th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, only s. of the Rev. John William Wynne-Jones, of Treiorwerth, Anglesey, Vicar of Carnarvon, by his wife, the Hon. Jessie Frances née Bruce, dau. of Henry Austin, 1st Baron Aberdare; b. Carnarvon, 13 May, 1887; educ. Fonthill, Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he rowed in his college boat and won his oar. He graduated B.A. 1909, and after passing his A.M. Inst. C.E. examination, was for nearly two years an engineer on the Cardiff Railway, under the late Lord Merthyr, being subsequently appointed one of the engineers of the Mexican Eagle Oil Co., at Tampico, Mexico. He had joined the Special Reserve of Officers of the Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieut. 26 June, 1912, and on the outbreak of war, without waiting to be summoned, he at once returned to England. He was promoted Lieut. 4 Oct. 1914; left for France 4 Oct. 1914, with the 7th Division, and was killed in action at Zandevoorde, during the 1st Battle of Ypres on the 29th of the same month; unm. Capt. (now Major) Guy Williams, commanding 54th Field Coy., wrote that they were called upon to counter-attack with the Yorkshire Regt. at a point where the Germans had broken through the British firing line. “Lieut. Wynne-Jones was leading his section when the enemy’s shrapnel found them, and he was killed instantaneously. The Coy. feel his loss very much. He understood his men and his job. I miss him personally as an excellent and most efficient subaltern and as a good friend.” Capt. R. M. Burgoyne, 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, now a prisoner in Germany, also wrote of two engineer officers, Lieut. Wynne-Jones and Lieut. J. M. Smeathman, who, he said, “Did a lot of good work for them, both as engineers and infantry, always being ready to take a rifle and bear a hand. They were two very gallant fellows.”

=DE JONGH, FRANK=, Corpl., No. 2778, Lord Strathcona’s Horse, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Francis de Jongh, of 6, Avenue Theatre, Lausanne, by his wife, Nellie, dau. of Henry Lahee, of Croydon; b. Lausanne, 22 June, 1889; educ. there; went to Canada in Sept. 1906, and settled at Montreal; joined Lord Strathcona’s Horse in Sept. 1914, came over in Oct. 1914; went to the Front, March, 1915, and died of wounds received in action at Messines, 6 Aug. 1915; unm. Buried at Neuve Eglise, Flanders. An officer wrote: “He was a splendid fellow and beloved by everyone with whom he came in contact and deservedly enjoyed a respect and love of which very few men can boast.”

=JORDAN, ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3733), 182347, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JORDAN, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5111B., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JORDAN, GEORGE GRAEME=, Private, No. 2302, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Silas Jordan, of 21, Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, Director of Edwards & Sons, Ltd., Dairy Farmers and Dairymen, by his wife, Cecilia Annetta, dau. of Theodore Brooke Jones, of Harrogate; b. Lewisham, S.E., 10 June, 1896; educ. Colf’s Grammar School, Lewisham Hill; was in business with Messrs. Yencken & Co., Tower Hill, Australian Merchants; joined the 2nd Battn. London Scottish, with his elder brother, 20 Aug. 1914; transferred to the 1st Battn. and left for France, 16 Sept. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the Military Hospital, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), 20 Nov. following, of wounds received in the first charge of the London Scottish at Messines on 1 Nov. Buried, Aix-la-Chapelle; unm.

=JORDAN, WALTER JOHN LAVERNE=, Trooper, No. 2254, 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry (T.F.), only s. of Alfred John Jordan, of Montreal, by his wife, Laverna (36, Tivoli Crescent, Brighton), dau. of Frederick Walter Yateman, of Bound’s Green, N., and Preston Park; b. London, 3 June, 1891; educ. Brighton Grammar School; was a Motor Engineer; joined Sussex Yeomanry, 16 Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 26 Sept. 1915, and died on board H.M. Hospital Ship Assaye 20 Dec. following, of wounds received in action in Gallipoli. A comrade (L. J. Cooke) wrote: “The regt. was ordered to move off to support troops in the trenches, this move was carried out whilst a heavy bombardment from both sides was in progress. Whilst the Sussex Yeomanry were marching up the Gully, high explosive shells were falling in the Gully; these shells were endeavouring to silence a British battery which was situated on the left of the Gully on the high cliff. One of these shells fell near to the Squadron your brother belonged to, and six of them were wounded. I was coming up in the rear of the regt. with the Doctor, and we had a message that some ‘boys’ had been hit. When we arrived on the spot we found three badly wounded and three slightly wounded. Your brother had received a severe wound situated at the base of the left lung, the wound was large enough to put a person’s fore finger and thumb in, being a triangular shaped wound, the sides of which were about 2½ inches. While the party were dressing the wounded three more shells exploded about 8 yards from us, the second of which was nearer to us than the other two, and this shell knocked us all over and blew the dressing off your brother’s back which we had just got clean and in position, and covering him with dirt. When the dust had cleared I expected to find everybody blown to pieces, and marvelled at my own lucky escape of only being down away about 6 feet ... I should like to mention that your brother was absolutely one of the best liked fellows in the regt., and had all sorts of nicknames. He was always so jovial, and he is greatly missed by all the old boys.” He was the half-mile champion of Sussex, and a member of the Brighton and County Harriers. Buried at sea, 1 mile off Cape Helles. He m. at Brighton, 14 Oct. 1913, Edith Sarah, dau. of (--) Raymond; s.p.

=JORDAN, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, No. 5456, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; enlisted 5 March, 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 21 Aug. 1914; killed in action on or about 29 Oct. 1914.

=JOSEPHS, ARCHIBALD EDWIN=, Private, No. 9614, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action on or about 14 Sept. 1914.

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

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

=JOSLIN, JOHN FRANCIS=, Major, 2nd, attd. 1st, Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., only surviving s. of the late John Joslin, of St. Helier’s, Jersey, by his wife, Mary (7, Almorah Crescent, St. Helier’s Jersey), dau. of Francis Philip Cabot; b. St. Helier’s, 2 Sept. 1874; educ. Victoria College, Jersey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Royal West Kents, from the Militia, 7 Dec. 1895, and promoted Lieut. 13 Nov. 1897; served in the South African War 1900–2, taking part in the operations in the Orange Free State, April to May, 1900; in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen (1 to 29 July); in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1900; in the Transvaal, Aug. to Sept. 1901, and April to 31 May, 1902; and in the Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to Aug. 1901, and Sept. 1901 to April, 1902. For his service he was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1901], and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He was promoted Capt. 7 Jan. 1903, and from 16 Nov. 1904 to 15 Nov. 1907 was Adjutant to his Battn. After passing through the Staff College he acted as Brigade-Major to Gen. Braithwaite at the Durbar, for which he received the medal, and was promoted Major 3 Sept. 1914. He left for France 24 Oct., and in Nov. became Commandant on the lines of communication. Having been attd. to the 1st Battn. of his regt., he led the storming party (1st West Kents and 2nd K.O.S.B.’s) which captured Hill 60 on the evening of 17 April, 1915, but after holding the hill all night and repulsing three counter-attacks, he was killed as the West Kents were being relieved in the early hours of the 18th. He was the last to leave the position, and was shot in the act of leaving, death being almost instantaneous. He was unm. A brother officer wrote of him: “And in action he was splendid, quite without fear, and able by his example to inspire and encourage those around him. But in your sorrow should mingle pride, for to the very end he did his duty right well, and did much to keep the regimental standard of self-sacrifice as high as it now is. And such records never die.”

=JOURNEAUX, WILLIAM FRANCIS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21979, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JOYCE, LEUI HAROLD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25447, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JUDGE, FREDERICK DAVID=, L.-Corpl., No. 8439, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of George Judge, of 54, Yarmouth Road, Watford, Gardener, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Brown; b. Sarratt, co. Herts, 8 Feb. 1888; educ. there; enlisted, 12 Aug. 1909, served three years with the Colours and then took up his trade again as a Printer, until called up on mobilisation, 4 Aug. 1914. He went to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force, served through the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in a bayonet charge at Cuinchy, near La Bassée, 1 Feb. 1915, being buried in Cuinchy Cemetery; unm.

=JUKES, RONALD WORTHINGTON=, Sub-Lieut., Collingwood Battn. Royal Naval Division, only surviving s. of the Rev. Worthington Jukes, Rector of Shobrooke, near Crediton, co. Devon, by his wife, Emily, dau. of (--) Crossley, of Belfast; b. Shobrooke Rectory, 10 Dec. 1892; educ. Crediton Grammar School and King’s College, Taunton, and afterwards trained on H.M.S. Worcester for the Mercantile Marine, which he entered 12 April, 1911; gazetted Sub-Lieut. R.N.D. 14 Nov. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915, and was killed in action in Gallipoli during the attack on the Krithia-Achi Baba position, 4 June, following; unm. Lieut.-Commander West, of the Collingwood Battn. wrote: “Your son was one of our best platoon commanders.” And Petty-Officer Finnigan, of his Platoon (11th Platoon, C Coy.), wrote: “He had been last seen fighting gallantly with a few men, against the enemy, who had cut them off, the enemy being in such force that rescue was impossible.”

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

=JULIN, THOMAS FAWCETT=, Colour-Sergt., R.M.L.I., 17057, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JUPE, BRUCE DUNNING=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 784, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JUPP, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2524), 215170, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=JURY, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8886, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=JUSTICE, MAURICE=, Plumber’s Mate, 310303, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JUSTICE, PERCY HAROLD=, 1st Class Machine Gunner, No. 9032, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd. s. of Caleb William Justice, of Napton, Rugby, co. Warwick, by his wife, Janie, dau. of the Rev. Ravenor Edward Rose, of Colyton, co. Devon; b. Napton, 23 June, 1890; enlisted, in March, 1911, went to France with his regt. in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 24 Jan, 1915; unm. He was buried 25 yards S.W. of the Railway Bridge over the Canal, 400 yards N.W. of Pont Fixe, Cuinchy. His Commanding Officer, Lieut. T. A. Tapp, wrote: “I was in charge of the machine-gun section for some months in France, and among a splendid team your boy and W. Wright stood out as the two most brilliant members: poor Wright was killed on 25 Jan., and I feel it will be impossible ever to replace him and your boy. They could neither have been more perfect as machine gunners, or more brave, and always first to wish to take the place of danger. Your boy was killed on 24 Jan. by a chance shot in the head, just south of the La Bassée Canal, where he was with the machine gun, in a very dangerous and important position. I had come to feel I should always be safe to be able to get up my guns under no matter what fire, and have them brilliantly served as long as I had these two men with me. I had spent some months continuously with them, and now not only feel I have lost two irreplaceable men, but also two friends. Your son died doing his duty as he had always done, most gallantly.” Justice was one of the winning team for the Machine-gun Cup in 1913.

=KADWELL, WILLIAM=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./13957, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KAIN, STANLEY=, S.B.S., 250914, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KALLAWAY, EDGAR=, Private, No. 6761, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of the late James Kallaway, of 46, Grays Road, Taunton, by his wife, Jane, dau. of John Lewis, of Bridgwater; b. West Monkton, Taunton, co. Somerset 19 Sept. 1886; educ. Taunton; enlisted, 2 May, 1906; served three years with the Colours and then went to Canada in 1913 and settled in Manitoba. On the declaration of war he was called up, arrived in England, 7 Sept. 1914, and left for France, 7 Oct. following. His last post card was written on 26 Oct. In the action at Ypres, on the 29th of that month, the 1st Battn. suffered very heavily, and after it Kallaway was reported missing. He is now assumed to have been killed that day; unm.

=KANE, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, 302531, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KAVANAGH, THOMAS JOSEPH CUTHBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1521), 177201, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEABLE, JOSEPH WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14165, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEAM, GEORGE JAMES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 1893 D., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEATES, ARTHUR SYDNEY=, A. B., R.N.V.R. Mersey, Z/24, C Coy. Howe Battn., s. of William Keates, of Anfield, by his wife, Jane Ann, dau. of the late David Greenwood, of Liverpool, Ship’s Carpenter, and gdson. of the late John Keates, of Liverpool, formerly Coldstream Guards; b. Bessbrook, co. Armagh, 27 May, 1897; educ. Walton Lane Council School, Liverpool, enlisted following the outbreak of war, 7 Sept. 1914, and d. in No. 17 Hospital, Alexandria, 15 May, 1915, from wounds in the left hand and shoulder, received in action in Gallipoli on Sunday, 2 May. On the eve of embarking at Bristol he wrote to his father: “I am going without the slightest fear of death and with a true confidence in my Maker. My motto is duty.”

=KEATES, REGINALD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6237), S.S. 2565, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KEATES, THOMAS TRANCER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14113, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEELAN, JOHN=, Private, No. 14908, 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, eldest s. of Patrick Keelan, of 13, Greville Street, Mullingar, J.P., General Draper, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Skerrin Kilkenny; b. Mullingar, 13 Dec. 1882; educ. Christian Brothers Schools there; after the outbreak of war enlisted in the Royal Irish Rifles on or about 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Kemmel, in France, 30 Jan. 1915; unm.

=KEELER, SIDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7234), S.S. 102151, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEEN, FRED=, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, L. 2470, Portsmouth, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KEENE, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13675, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KEENE, OSWALD REES=, Private, No. 15866, 2nd Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt., eldest s. of the late Rev. Rees Keene, M.A., Oxon, Theological Lecturer at St. Bees College, and afterwards Rector of Gosforth, co. Cumberland, 1895–1910; by his wife, Louisa Margaret, 2nd dau. of the late Sir Augustus Helder, M.P.; b. St. Bees, co. Cumberland, 30 April, 1891; educ. Alton School, Plymouth; The School, Malvern Link, and Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Border Territorial Regt., 31 May, 1911, but was obliged to retire through ill-health. On the outbreak of war he volunteered, and enlisted in the 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 12 Dec. 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the Duke of Wellington’s. Left for the Front, 28 April, 1915, and was killed in action on Hill 60 by poisoned gas, 5 May, 1915. Buried at Ypres; unm.

=KEENLYSIDE, CECIL ALEXANDER HEADLAM=, Capt., 1st Cambridgeshire Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Francis Headlam Keenlyside, of Gally Law, Weybridge, Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Mary Anne Hales, 2nd dau. of Edward Charles Hales Wilkie, Lieut., 1st Dragoon Guards (gddau. of Lieut.-Col. Fletcher Wilkie, 35th and 38th Regt, and gt. gddau. of Thomas Wilkie, Lieut. 30th Regt., who died in the American War, 1781); b. Surbiton, 23 Oct. 1881; educ. Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Oxford; and while at the latter joined the Oxfordshire L.I. and served with them in the South African War. He afterwards obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Cambridge Territorials 24 Feb. 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 26 Aug. 1914, and Capt. 16 Sept. following. On the outbreak of the European War he volunteered for Imperial service; went to France with his regt., 14 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Armentières, 20 July, 1915. He was struck by a splinter of shell in the throat and immediately became unconscious, and died a quarter of an hour later. Col. Copeman, Commanding 1st Cambridgeshires wrote to his widow: “You ought to be told that his death is the most grievous blow that has yet befallen the Battn. That he was at all times an inspiration and help to us all and his loss is irreparable.” He was a very keen cricket and racquet player; played cricket for his school Charterhouse, and also several times for Cambridge county. A very active member of the National Service League. He m. at Weybridge, 14 Sept. 1910, Gladys Mary, dau. of the late Henry Ernest Milne, of Warrenhurst, Weybridge, Barrister-at-Law, and had two children: Francis Hugh, b. 7 July, 1911; and Phoebe Lavender, b. 28 Aug. 1914. His brother, Capt. G. F. H. Keenlyside, died of wounds (see following notice).

=KEENLYSIDE, GUY FRANCIS HEADLAM=, Capt., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., 2nd s. of the late Francis Headlam Keenlyside, of Gally Law, Weybridge, Barrister-at-Law, etc. (see preceding notice); b. 9 Jan. 1880, educ. Charterhouse and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal West Kent Regt., 12 Aug. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 5 June, 1901, and Capt. 21 Sept. 1904; was Adjutant of Volunteers, 16 July, 1906, to 31 March, 1908, and of Territorials, 1 April, 1908, to Aug. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died in Hospital at Boulogne, 29 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle. He m. 1906, Rose Margaret (Braemar, Kingston Road, Staines), dau. of Seymour Henry Knyvett, I.S.O., and had two sons: Richard Headlam, b. 13 May, 1909; and Christopher Headlam, b. 4 May, 1913.

=KEIGHT, JOSEPH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2842), 198973 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KELLAS, ARTHUR=, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., Capt., tempy. Major, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), attd. 89th Field Ambulance, 86th Infantry Brigade, 29th Division, yst. s. of the late James Fowler Kellas, Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine for the Port of Aberdeen, by his wife, Mary Boyd (48, Carden Place, Aberdeen), dau. of Peter Mitchell, of Ballater, Aberdeenshire; b. Aberdeen, 1 March, 1884; educ. Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.B. in 1906, and in the following year took the degree of D.P.H. In 1914 he obtained the new diploma of psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh. For a short time he was Resident Physician and Surgeon in the Sick Children’s Hospital, and subsequently held the appointment of Senior Medical Assistant at the Royal Asylum, Aberdeen. While a student at Aberdeen University he served for some time in the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) and afterwards in the University Corps of the Scottish Horse. He received a commission as Lieut. in 1st Highland Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 2 Feb. 1909, and was promoted Capt., 2 Aug. 1912. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service; left for the Dardanelles with the 29th Division on 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 6 Aug. following. Buried in Military Cemetery at Lancashire Landing, Gallipoli; unm. Lieut.-Col. Thomas Fraser, commanding 1st Highland Field Ambulance, wrote: “To everyone in the Ambulance, Arthur had endeared himself by his excellent qualities of head and heart, by his devotion to duty and by his keen interest in everything that pertained to the good of the Ambulance as a whole. The men of his own section adored him, and there was no better trained or harder working unit in the Peninsula. To myself personally his loss is irreparable. Amongst a group of excellent officers, I regarded him as outstanding. He had been the greatest possible help to me, first as Transport Officer and then as Commander of C Section. We had been working together for just a year, and our most intimate association had been absolutely without friction. He had a great capacity for work, was an excellent organiser with a firm grasp of detail, of cool and sane judgment and a high sense of discipline, which was an outstanding example to all. Of his personal qualities and his unswerving loyalty I shall say nothing, save that they leave with me a lasting and unclouded memory which is full of pleasantness and cannot be effaced. We are all shocked by the suddenness of his end, though glad that it was a painless one. He was hit in the head by a sniper while making final arrangements before an action, during which it was his turn to take charge of our advanced Dressing Station. This was over 4 miles from our camp, but I decided that his body should be brought back to the Military Cemetery at Lancashire Landing, near which we have been stationed so long. There we buried him, wrapped in the colours for which he had given his life, yesterday afternoon at 2.14. A Church of England clergyman officiated. It was a most impressive service, to an accompaniment of shells from Achi Baba, which has been our daily and nightly portion for so long. There he sleeps in the company of many heroes who have laid down their lives for their country on these inhospitable and deadly shores, none of whom did his duty more earnestly or gallantly than he. I have received the enclosed letter from Col. Yarr, who at the landing was A.D.M.S. of the 29th Division. It speaks for itself, and shows how your son was regarded and appreciated at Headquarters.” The letter from Col. Yarr was as follows: “I hope you will express not only the regret of his unit but the grief of the whole 29th Division at the loss of a gallant comrade. Both in the 29th Division and in the 8th Army Corps, of which it forms part, I have known Capt. Kellas well; his watchword was Duty, and he died as he lived, a fearless, gallant officer and gentleman.” In the course of a notice of Major Kellas’s death which appeared in “Nature” (28 Aug. 1915), the writer observed: “His tenure of office at the Royal Asylum was a strikingly successful one; on both the therapeutic and the administrative sides he evinced gifts of no ordinary type.”

=KELLEHER, CHRISTOPHER=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16289, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KELLEY, GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 98), lte. Ch./2399, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1916.

=KELLIE, ESMOND LAWRENCE=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., yr. s. of Lawrence Kellie, of 191, Portsdown Road, Maida Vale, London, W., Musical Composer and Singer, by his wife, Gertrude Mary, dau. of John Stonier, of Post Hill, Staffordshire; b. Portsdown Road, London, 27 April, 1894; educ. Loudoun House School, St. John’s Wood, N.W., and Westminster School, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; obtained a 1st Class in the London University Matriculation Examination; joined the Artists’ Rifles as Private, 3 Aug. 1914, and went with that regt. to France in the following Oct.; was gazetted 2nd Lieut., Unattached List, 1 Jan. 1915, and later posted to the 1st Bedfords. On 19 April following he was wounded in the thigh while defending a trench captured from the enemy at Hill 60, and while being carried from the trench, was killed by a shell, which also wounded the stretcher-bearers. Buried, Hill 60; unm. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. C. R. J. Griffith, D.S.O., wrote that he was “a most courageous and useful officer and very popular with all in the regt.” He was a keen all-round sportsman, and had also artistic and musical tastes.

=KELLY, ARTHUR=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., 1st Class 66), 211500, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KELLY, HARRY HOLDSWORTH=, Capt., R.E., yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. Henry Holdsworth Kelly, R.M.A. (ret.), of Montrose House, Southsea, by his wife, Elizabeth Eleanor, dau. of John Collum, of Bellevere, co. Fermanagh; b. Staff Officers’ House, Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth, 24 Aug. 1880; educ. Rugby and R.M.A., Woolwich (Feb. 1897–99); gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 8 March, 1899; promoted Lieut. 25 July, 1901, and Capt. 8 March, 1908; served with the Egyptian Army, 1903–13; was Resident Engineer for the construction of the Town and Harbour of Port Sudan, 1904–08, and received the 4th Class Osmanieh for services in connection with this, 28 June, 1908; was Inspector of Roads and Communications for the Sudan, 13 Nov., 1908, serving as a member of the Lado Enclave Commission in 1911; Commissioner for the Sudan Government in the Sudan-Uganda Boundary Commission, 1913, and was responsible for the Reconnaissance to the Boma Plateau, carried out in the same year; took part in the operations in the Atwot Region, Sudan, in 1910 (Sudan medal), was Intelligence Officer in the operations against the Beir and Anuak tribes in South Eastern Sudan (clasp to Sudan medal and 3rd Class Medjidieh) 1912; decorated with the 3rd Class Osmanieh, 1913; re-absorbed into the British Establishment, Nov. 1913. He served with the 38th Field Coy. R.E. in France, and was killed in action at Bois Grenier, near Armentières, 24 Oct. 1914, while superintending wire entanglement work between the British and German trenches; buried at Bois Grenier; unm. His Commanding Officer, Major F. M. Browne, wrote: “He was killed early this morning while on duty in the trenches. He was struck by two bullets, one in the head and one in the back, and I feel sure that death was instantaneous and painless. We were enabled to recover his body, which was to-day buried simply by the chaplain in the presence of all the Coy. His grave lies by the roadside near a pretty country town and we are at present erecting a cross and railings to enclose it.... I need hardly tell you what a great loss your son’s death is to me, both as a friend and an officer. He was invaluable to me in every way and the country has lost in him a most valuable officer”; and writing home from a Colchester Hospital, Lieut. Arthur Evans, Royal Engineers (of Carnarvon), paid a tribute to the bravery and kindness shown by Capt. Kelly, who commanded his coy., in attending to him when he was wounded, four days before Capt. Kelly himself was killed. The letter states: “It was a great blow to me to read of Kelly having been killed in action just after I had written him a letter thanking him for being so decent to me after I was hit. He came down to me some miles from Coy. headquarters to the trenches, which must have been under heavy fire, saw me into the dressing station, and did not leave me until just before I left in the ambulance wagon. The dressing station was under fire, and was struck by a shell just before I got away. He was a fine man, 6 ft. 6 in. in his socks, beautifully built, popular and known everywhere, and I was very proud of his friendship.” Capt. Kelly won the Army and Navy Heavyweight Boxing Championship in 1901. He carried out explorations in Abyssinia in 1907, 1911 and 1913.

=KELLY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3286), 302040, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KEMP, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 101861, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KEMP, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1818, C Coy. 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Sergt. Harry Kemp, of the same Battn., by his wife, Kate (Sunny Bank, Wadhurst, Sussex), dau. of James Patey; b. Moseham, Wadhurst, co. Sussex, 6 Oct. 1898; educ. Wadhurst Council School; joined the Sussex Territorials in March, 1914, and on the outbreak of war went with his Battn. to Dover and from thence to the Tower, where he volunteered for foreign service. He died in King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, 16 Jan. 1915, from pneumonia, contracted while trench digging at Whiligh. He had been a prominent member of the Wadhurst Boy Scouts, which he joined at its inception by Mr. E. Courthope. He was a patrol leader of the Rattlesnakes, and obtained a number of badges. He was also bugler of the troop.

=KEMP, SYDNEY=, Ordinary Seaman, No. J. 17067, Ch., 2nd s. of George Kemp, of 66, Plough Road, Battersea, S.W., by his wife, Anna Maria; b. Hoxton, N., 8 April, 1896; educ. Clapton Road School; joined the Royal Navy about 15 April, 1912; and was lost when H.M.S. Cressy, together with the Aboukir and the Hogue, were sunk by torpedoe-fire off the Dutch coast, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=KEMPSTER, JOHN DOUGLAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., A. 3714), B. 2226, 212890, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KEMPTON, HARRY LEONARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., A. 3714), 305750, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KEMSLEY, WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY=, Private, No. 2331, Royal Army Medical Corps (T.F.), 2/1st Home Counties F.A., s. of George Albert Kemsley, of 1, Railway Place, Lower Halling, near Rochester; b. Snodland, 20 June, 1896; educ. Halling Board School; joined the R.A.M.C. Aug. 1914, and died at Windsor, 10 Feb. 1915, of cerebral hæmorrhage, while training. Buried, Halling Cemetery; unm.

=KENDALL, JESSE=, Cooper, 282542, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KENNARD, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 8557, 2nd Battn. The Hampshire Regt., yr. and only surviving s. of the late Edmund Arthur Kennard, of Hartfield, Tunbridge Wells, Master at Ipswich Grammar School (who d. 13 April, 1891), by his wife, Annie M. (Cairo Cottage, Southwater, Horsham), dau. of the late George Greenfield; b. posthumous at Hartfield, co. Sussex, 21 July, 1891; educ. Southwater Council School; joined the 1st Hants. Regt. at Portsmouth, 1 Jan. 1910, going direct to Londonderry till the Autumn, and then to Aldershot, where he was transferred to the 2nd Battn. for foreign service in the autumn of 1911; served Wynberg, South Africa; Mauritius and Mhow, Central India; came home suffering with malarial fever and was unable to accompany his regt. to the Front in March, 1915, but went out to the Dardanelles with a draft the following July. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, in the great charge at Krithia, 6 Aug. 1915. On this occasion, out of the 900 who went into the action, only 250 returned.

=KENNARD, STANLEY CHARLES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1981), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KENNEDY, ARTHUR ST. CLAIR=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, yst. s. of Francis George Holland Kennedy, of Tivoli, co. Limerick, by his wife, Mary St. Clair, dau. of the late William Doyle Hobson, of Myler’s Park, co. Wexford; b. Shelbourne, co. Limerick, 12 Jan. 1892; educ. Aravon, Bray, co. Wicklow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.D.F. 10 June, 1914, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; was invalided home after the Battle of the Aisne, and subsequently sent on duty to Cork with the 3rd Battn. of his regt. There, while expecting to be again sent to the Front with a draft, he contracted pneumonia and died in the Royal Military Hospital, 6 March, 1915; unm. He was buried with full military honours on the 8th, in Cork Military Cemetery.

=KENNEDY, JOHN HORACE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Somerset L.I., attd. 2nd Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), only s. of Capt. William Horace Kennedy, of Annfield, Brannockstown, co. Kildare, late 60th Rifles; by his wife, Ada Constance, dau. of Surgeon Major-Gen. John Warren; b. Oaklands, Berkhamsted, co. Herts, 19 Oct. 1890; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Connaught Rangers, 27 March, 1912, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Oct. 1913; transferred as 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Somerset L.I., 10 June, 1914; left for France, and was killed in action in the trenches near Esterre when attd. to the 2nd Cameronians, 10 Jan. 1915. Buried near Esterre; unm.

=KENNEDY, JOHN PITT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd s. of the late Charles Napier Kennedy; b. London, 12 Aug. 1884; educ. Marlborough (House “Littlefield”) and Sandhurst: gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Cameronians, 10 Oct. 1903; promoted Lieut. 14 April, 1909, and Capt. 14 May, 1913; and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915. Buried near the village of Rouge Croix on the road between Neuve Chapelle and Estaires. Capt. Kennedy m. at Ootacamund, India, 13 July, 1908, Norah, dau. of Lieut.-Col. W. E. Baddeley, R.E., Indian Army, and had a son, Richard Pitt, b. 4 Sept. 1910.

=KENNEL, JOHN HENRY=, Private, No. 6802, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Timothy Kennel, of Arundel Road, Whittington Moor, by his wife, Sarah Ann; b. Ripley, co. Derby, 7 March, 1888; enlisted, 12 June, 1906, and was killed in action at Soupir, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914. He m. at Windsor, 17 May, 1913, Emily (5 Red Lion Row, Thames Avenue, Windsor), dau. of Thomas Hobbs, of Windsor, and had issue, John Henry Ernest, b. 4 Nov. 1913.

=KENNETT, PERCY WILLIAM BISHOP=, Private, No. 12009, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of George Bishop Kennett, of Yellands, South Zeal, near Okehampton, co. Devon, Civil Servant (retired), by his wife, Ada (Grace), dau. of W. Cone; b. Finchley Road, London, N.W., 13 Sept. 1893; educ. Bradley High School, Newton Abbott, Devon; enlisted 8 Sept. 1914; left for France, 7 Jan. 1915, and died in the 3rd Field Ambulance, 4 March, 1915, of wounds received in action near Givenchy, 2 March, 1915. Buried Bethune Cemetery; unm.

=KENT, ALEXANDER JAMES=, Ch. E.R.A (Pensioner), 132323. H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KENT, ALFRED HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3666), 203801, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KENYON, JOHN DE WINTON=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., 2nd s. of the late Ernest Kenyon, of Manchester, Drysalter, by his wife, Eliza Gertrude (14 Farnborough Road, Birkdale. Southport), dau. of Edwin Muir, C.E., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., F.G.S.; b. Birkdale, Southport, 13 Sept. 1896; educ. Giggleswick, Yorkshire, where he was in the first Rugby Football XV and first Cricket XI for two years, was co-editor of the School Chronicle, a cadet officer of the O.T.C. and a preposter; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. The King’s, 15 Aug. 1914; was transferred to the 1st Battn., 13 Sept. 1914; went to France, 9 April. 1914, with the 6th Brigade (2nd Division), and was killed in action at Richebourg St. Vaast, 16 May, 1915, while engaged in locating the exact position whence the heavy rifle fire kept up by the enemy was proceeding. Buried at Richebourg St. Vaast; unm. Lieut.-Col. C. J. Steavenson, commanding 1st King’s Liverpools, wrote: “He had only been with us a few days, but had shown that, had he been spared, he would have made an excellent officer,” and Mr. R. N. Douglas, Head Master of Giggleswick School, wrote: “Only last Sept. I was looking to having Jack here as Head of the School, and was feeling the greatest confidence that now all would go well with us, and that we should have a strong and upright leader. Of all the boys I have had in my five years here, his has been the character which has interested me most and given me the most pleasure. And I looked forward to a life of infinite usefulness for him. Now it is over, but I am sure that his usefulness has been exerted, his strength of character has justified itself, and his example has been an inspiration.”

=KEOGHAN, LESLIE OWEN=, Gunner, 2/1594 C. Battery, New Zealand Artillery New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Sigismund Owen Keoghan, of Denniston, Westport, New Zealand; b. Bainham, 15 Sept. 1894; educ. Bainham, Collingwood, Nelson. He left school at the age of fourteen and was employed for a time in a cheese factory, after which he studied agriculture on his father’s farm at Bainham. At seventeen he went with his parents to reside at Denniston, Westport, and engaged in farming and other occupations until the outbreak of war. He joined the New Zealand Artillery, 20 Dec. 1914, and after six weeks’ training at Trentham, Wellington, sailed with the third contingent for Egypt; served at the Dardanelles; was admitted to the Egyptian Military Hospital, 28 May and died 1 June, 1915, of fever. Buried, Cairo; unm. Gunner Keoghan was a young man of exceptionally fine physique and remarkable strength.

=KEOHAN, PATRICK JOSEPH=, W.T. Operator, R.N.R., W.T.S. 149, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=KER, ARTHUR MILFORD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. (92nd) Gordon Highlanders, only s. of Sir Arthur Milford Ker, C.I.E., M.V.O., Knight of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Peter Mitchell; b. Simla, 7 Sept. 1882; educ. Tunbridge Castle School and Cheltenham College. When the Boer War broke out he joined the East Surrey Militia and went out to South Africa with them, receiving a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 19 March, 1901, and served through that campaign, 1900–2, including the operations in the Orange Free State, June to July, 1901, and in the Transvaal, Nov. 1901 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps). Promoted Lieut. 21 Feb. 1906, and Capt. 19 May, 1911; he was killed in action near Bethune, 14 Oct. 1914; unm. Buried in Bethune Cemetery.

=KER, CECIL HOWARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of George Darling Ker, of Milcote, Branksome Park, Bournemouth, formerly Secretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Madras, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of the late Capt. Charles Thomas Bently, 78th Highlanders; b. Madras, 4 Nov. 1883; educ. Cheltenham College; served in South African War, 1902, with the 4th Battn. Cheshire Regt. (Militia), taking part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Bedfords, 4 July, 1903; promoted Lieut. 27 March, 1905, and Capt. 20 Nov. 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, in which his Battn. formed part of the 15th Brigade (5th Division), took part in the Battle of Mons, the subsequent retreat, the Battle of the Marne, and the advance to the Aisne, and was killed in action near Missy-sur-Aisne, 15 Sept. following, being shot through the heart by a rifle bullet. Buried at Missy-sur-Aisne. His Commanding Officer wrote: “We have lost in him a very gallant officer and a dear friend.” He was a good all-round sportsman. He played cricket and football for his school, was a first-class rifle shot, and an excellent racquet and hockey player. In 1910, he and Capt. Leader of the Bedfords, were the runners-up for the Military Doubles Racquets Championship, and in 1909, when the Bedfords won the Army Hockey Championship, he captained the regimental team. He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 31 Dec. 1912, Dorothy, yst. dau. of Lieut.-Col. William Hill-Climo, of Fir Glen Yateley, co. Hants, Army Medical Staff (ret.), and had a son, Johnnie George Skipton, b. 4 June, 1914.

=KERBY, ALFRED=, Private. No. G. 7453, 2nd Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 14 March, 1915; m.

=KERFOOT, HARRY VICTOR=, Private, No. 5214, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Henry Kerfoot, of 77, Malmesbury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, Compositor, by his wife, Hannah Maria, dau. of the late Edward Ford, of Wolverhampton, Painter; b. Leicester, 25 March, 1887; educ. Birmingham Council School; enlisted in Oct. 1903; went out to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force, lost his right arm in the action at Landrecies, 25 Aug. 1914, and was taken prisoner in hospital. He was conveyed to the Garrison Camp, at Zerbst, Anhalt, where he died of double pneumonia, 1 March, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Garrison Cemetery there. Kerfoot had served three years in Egypt, and in a letter to his father the Bishop of Khartoum said: “He was a very earnest and sincere soldier when I knew him, and just the kind of man to do his share in that wonderful fight at Landrecies which kept the Germans from enveloping our whole Army.”

=KERL, WILLIAM AUSTEN=, Rifleman, No. 1910, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt., only s. of William James Kerl, Auctioneer and Surveyor, of Old Jewry, E.C. and a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Curriers (died 17 Feb. 1903), by his wife, Emily (19, Solon New Road, Clapham, S.W.), dau. of the late Henry Jeffrey Austen, of Wadhurst, co. Sussex, Auctioneer; b. Beckenham, co. Kent, 9 Sept. 1893; educ. City Freemen’s School, Brixton, and on leaving school entered the wholesale drapery warehouse of Messrs. John Howell & Co., Ltd., St. Paul’s Churchyard, E.C.; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined The Queen’s Westminster Rifles, 6 Aug. 1914; went to France with his Battn. 1 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action, 4 June, 1915, by a shell bursting in the reserve trenches in front of Ypres while waiting to occupy the first line fire trenches. Buried at “Cross Roads,” Potyze, Ypres-Zonnebeke Road; unm. Letters from officers and men testify to his great courage and lovable disposition.

=KERLEY, HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3838), 192057, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KERR, ALEXANDER=, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269478, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KERR, ARCHIBALD DAVID=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9932), S.S. 2542, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KERR, DAVID ANSELM=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, yr. s. of Major-Gen. Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, late Col. 10th Hussars, K.C.B., by his wife, Lady Anne, née Fitzalan-Howard, 6th dau. of Henry Granville, 14th Duke of Norfolk, and grandson of John Williams Robert, 7th Marquis of Lothian; b. Curragh Camp, Ireland, 21 April, 1893; educ. Oratory School, Birmingham, and New College, Oxford, at which latter he was a member of the Officer’s Training Corps; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, 7 Aug. 1914; served in France and Flanders, and was killed near Bethune, 13 Oct. 1914. Buried, Croix Barbée, near Bethune; unm.

=KERR, HERMAN HENRY=, Private, No. 8/63, 10th (Otago Infantry), Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late (--) Kerr; b. Hamilton South, New Zealand, 5 Dec. 1893; educ. there; joined the 10th Battn. Otago Infantry after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the Main Force in Oct., took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915 and died 19 May, following, of wounds received in action there; unm.

=KERR, HUBERT RAYNSFORD GORDON=, Lieut., 1st Battn. (71st) Highland L.I., only s. of Frederick Kerr, of 27, Hereford Square, London, S.W., by his wife, Esther Barbara Nicloux, dau. of the late Robert Raynsford Jackson, of 31, Harrington Gardens, S.W.; b. at the British Consulate, Santiago, Chili, 16 March, 1892; educ. St. Cyprians, Eastbourne; Cheltenham College (Newick House, Mr. Scot Skirving), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Highland L.I., 13 March, 1912, and joined 21 April following; left for India to join the regt., 12 Sept. 1912, was promoted Lieut. 21 Sept. 1914; went to France with his regt. in the Lahore Division, and was killed at Givenchy, 19 Dec. following. Col. (now Brig.-Gen.) R. W. H. Ronaldson wrote: “he was killed on the 19th Dec. gallantly leading his men in action against a machine gun. I fear not one of them escaped and all were shot down. Gallantly he led, and as gallantly he died with all the honours of war, a soldier’s death.... I hope it may be some consolation to you all to know that he was so absolutely happy here on service among us all, and that he went to his death without a moment’s hesitation, determined to do his duty, come what might. He spoke to me a few moments before and was full of life and go there in the thick of it all. He was seen to fall just as the dawn came up for we had made a night attack on the German trenches. It seems so hard such a young life should have been so quickly cut down but you must find consolation in that he did his duty without a thought for himself, and met his death like the fine young soldier he was.”

=KERR, WILLIAM JOHNSTON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7865), S.S. 105934, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=RAIT-KERR, SYLVESTER CECIL=, Capt., 22nd Trench Howitzer Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd s. of Sylvester Rait-Kerr, of Rathmoyle, Edenderry, King’s co., Ireland, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Major-General Charles Scrope Hutchinson, C.B., R.E.; b. Rathmoyle, afsd., 14 Oct. 1887; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Rugby School, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 18 Dec. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 18 Dec. 1910; went to South Africa in Oct. 1910, with the 100th Battery, R.F.A. and afterwards proceeded to India and was home on leave from India when war broke out. He was employed for some weeks in training men in various places, being promoted Capt. 30 Oct. 1914, and on 6 Nov. left for France with “G” Battery, R.H.A., but was subsequently transferred to the 41st Battery, R.F.A. In April, 1915, he was given the command of a Trench Howitzer Battery, with which he went into the trenches near Wieltje on 6 May, and was killed in action on the 13th, being shot through the head by a German sniper whilst carrying bombs to his guns. Buried in the trenches close to the spot where he fell; unm. The General Officer Commanding the 11th Infantry Brigade, wrote: “I have been informed that you would like a few particulars of the gallant work done by your son and the 22nd Trench Mortar Battery while they were under me in the hard fighting of May 9 to 13, during the 2nd Battle of Ypres. Your son was posted in the trenches to the left of a building, named by the troops ‘Shelltrap Farm,’ which was about the hottest part of the line, and his duty was to assist the infantry in keeping back the enemy from sapping up to the farm buildings, and to endeavour to blow in their saps. The enemy’s shelling was so intense that time after time the trench mortars were silenced and the crews buried, but they were dug out and started on again, and they refused to be relieved. Cooke, the subaltern, was hit and his shoulder dislocated, but he refused to go to hospital, and the whole battery displayed a similar spirit all through the fighting, the severity of which may be judged from the fact that Shelltrap Farm was lost and retaken with the bayonet three times in twenty-four hours.” And the General Officer Commanding the 4th Division: “I remember Rait-Kerr and his 22nd Trench Mortar Battery well. It was the best battery of that sort that we ever had with the 4th Division, and under him it did invaluable service in the front trenches during the fighting from the 6th to the 13th of May (1915), which was some of the worst we had in France. I know he was a great loss to the Division and to the service.” The officer in charge of the Trench Howitzer School, 2nd Army Corps, wrote: “He had done magnificently with his Trench battery and had received the congratulations of the Divisional and Brigade commanders to whom his battery was attached. He was a great friend of mine, and without doubt the finest officer who had passed through the Trench Howitzer School. There was no officer in the British Army who could have done it better. He was a gallant fellow. He was the ideal British officer, a real tiger with his men, but loved and admired by them. In this Army (the 2nd) he made trench howitzers. He was, of course, recommended for a decoration, and he richly deserved it,” and the subaltern under him in his battery wrote: “His death was a great blow to all of us in the battery. He was a splendid fellow, and did not know what fear was. He was recommended to General Commanding 4th Division for gallantry during the action by officer commanding the 2nd Monmouths, who told me he had upheld the best traditions of the Royal Artillery.” His brother, Capt. W. C. Rait-Kerr, was killed in action at Veldhoek, 10 Nov. 1914 (see following notice).

=RAIT-KERR, WILLIAM CHARLES, D.S.O.=, Capt., 57th Howitzer Battery, R.F.A. eldest s. of Sylvester Rait-Kerr, of Rathmoyle, Edenderry, King’s co. Ireland, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Major-General Charles Scrope Hutchinson, C.B., R.E.; b. Rathmoyle, afsd. 6 Aug. 1886; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Rugby School, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 23 July, 1907; and promoted Lieut. 23 July, 1910, and Capt. 30 Oct., 1914; went to France 16 Aug. 1914, with the 1st Division, commanded by Sir Douglas Haig, as Lieut. in 57th Howitzer Battery, 43rd Brigade, R.F.A.; took part in the Battle of, and retreat from, Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and the 1st Battle of Ypres, and was killed in action at Veldhoek, near Ypres, 10 Nov. following, whilst in charge of an advanced gun 250 yards from the enemy, being shot through the head by a German sniper. The rest of his battery had gone to the rear to rest and refit, having been out since the beginning of the war. Buried at Veldhoek, beside the gun “he had commanded so well”; unm. He was awarded the D.S.O. “For gallant conduct in bringing up a gun to within 250 yards of the enemy in a wood, and blowing down a house in which the enemy were working a machine-gun” [London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1914]; and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. His Colonel wrote: “He was in charge of a gun which had for some days been placed in a forward position for a special purpose, to destroy some houses from which some German snipers were causing heavy losses in our trenches. He had been doing splendid work, which had been specially noticed by the General, and only the day before his death the Commander of the French troops on our left had sent a letter of thanks for one particularly useful lot of shooting which he had put in and destroyed some German trenches in front of them. He was a brave and excellent officer and man. He had just appeared in the Gazette as Capt. and was so delighted that I had been able to get him posted to one of my batteries.” Another officer wrote: “He was up in the infantry trenches with one gun close behind, in communication by telephone with him. He was there about a fortnight, and in that time did very fine work, knocking houses down with Germans and machine-guns in them, and various other jobs. He was highly praised by all the people up there, and by the General in command of the Infantry Brigade. He had a very rough time from both shell and rifle fire, but had done great execution in spite of it.” His brother, Capt. S. C. Rait-Kerr, was killed in action 13 May, 1915 (see previous notice).

=KERRAY, JAMES=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3918), 284967, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KERRISON, ARTHUR JAMES=, Boy Servt., L. 4831, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KERWIN, ALBERT=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115602 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=KESSELL, HARRY=, Lieut., Commanding Machine-Gun Section, 15th Infantry Battn. (Queensland), Australian Imperial Force, only s. of Thomas Norman Kessell, of Leederville, Western Australia, by his wife, Sophia: b. Leamington Spa, co. Warwick, 13 Jan. 1874; went to New Zealand with his parents and was educ. at the Normal School, Dunedin, afterwards settling in Australia. He joined the Victorian Rangers, 11 Dec. 1892, as a gunner in the Nordenfelt Battery; became Senior Sergt. 17 April, 1893; Lieut. G Coy., 23 Nov. 1895, Acting Signalling Inspector, 1 May, 1896, and after obtained the Flag Signalling Certificate (No. 600) 1 Aug. 1896, Signalling Instructor. He passed for promotion to the rank of Capt. Victorian Rangers, 10 Oct. 1897, and for the Militia with Special Certificate, No. 78, and obtained the extra Musketry Certificate, No. 12, 22 Oct. 1898, and re-qualified as Flag Signaller, 17 Dec. 1898. He served through the South African War, was appointed Lieut. to the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles: at Middleberg, 1901, acting as Troop Leader and Squadron Commander on various occasions, and was mentioned by Lord Kitchener in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902] and awarded the Queen’s medal with four clasps. After the close of the campaign he acted as Adjutant for the returning Australian Troops on board H.M.S. Britannia. On the outbreak of the European War, in Aug. 1914, he joined the Australian Imperial Force, serving with the 15th Infantry Battn. (Queensland), and died at No. 1 General Hospital, Heliopolis, 3rd July, 1915, of shrapnel wounds received in action in Gallipoli on May 9; unm. Of Lieut. Kessell’s last hours an Army chaplain wrote as follows: “He was grand, a regular inspiration to some other patients, who ceased worrying over their own troubles in the presence of a man who suffered greater things and yet never ceased to be a cheerful pattern to them.”

=KETTERIDGE, JAMES WILLIAM=, Bombardier, No. 63852, 11th Battery, R.F.A., and First-Class signaller, s. of William Ketteridge, of Waggon Lane, Lower Tottenham, co. Middlesex, Munition Worker; b. there 5 Nov. 1891; educ. St. James’ School, Fore Street, Upper Edmonton, enlisted, 12 Jan. 1911; awarded 2nd Class Certificate at Army School, 27 June, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and while reconnoitring at midnight on 21 Aug. 1914 at le Cateau was shot by the French by mistake. He m. at Kildare Parish Church, 1914, Mary Florence, dau. of Benjamin Robert Singleton, late of the Northamptonshire Regt., and had one child, Rosary Annie Le Cateau, b. 20 Dec. 1914.

=KIDBY, ARTHUR=, Rifleman, No. 2894, C Coy., 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt., 2nd s. of Frederick Arthur Kidby, of 19, Hertford Road, Hoddesdon, Clerk, Building Department, Hoddesdon Brewery, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Stephen Elkins; b. Hoddesdon, co. Herts, 4 Jan. 1896; educ. Hoddesdon Church of England School and Broxbourne, Herts; was Clerk in wholesale drapery trade; joined Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 20 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Wulverghem 3 March following; unm. His company commander, Capt. Herbert Fleming, wrote: “He was shot through the head on the 3rd inst. during a heavy burst of fire from the German trenches. He had only been here a short time, but he proved himself a keen and brave soldier. I deplore his loss more than I can say. I was with your boy when he died; he was unconscious, and only lived for a few minutes after he was shot. He has been buried in the churchyard at Wulverghem, and I will see that a cross is erected to his memory.” Private Kidby was a good athlete, and was captain of his school football team. He had a good voice and was a member of the Hoddesdon Church choir.

=KIDD, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7865), 299560, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KILBEY, ALBERT JOHN=, Private, No. 2881, 7th Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.); only s. of John Charles Kilbey, of 11, Royston Street, Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, Waterside Labourer, by his wife, Harriet Rossetta, dau. of George Frederick Walker; b. Bethnal Green, 29 March, 1895; educ. Wolverley Street School there; joined the 7th London, 23 Sept. 1914; left for France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 17 May following; unm.

=KILBOURNE, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 16154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KILGOUR, WILLIAM=, Sapper, No. 615, 51st Signal Coy., Highland Division, Royal Engineers (T.F.), elder s. of William Thomas Kilgour, of Tighnabruaich, Fort William, co. Inverness, by his wife, Annie Hossack, dau. of William Macdougall, of Fort William; b. Fort William, 23 Nov. 1895; educ. Fort William; gained a very high place in the competitive examination for entrance to the Post Office service and was employed as a Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist at Grangemouth, Bo’ness, Linlithgow and Fort William; volunteered and joined 4th Battn. Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), in Aug. 1914, and, while training at Bedford, transferred from that corps to the 51st Signal Coy., Highland Division, R.E. (T.F.); left for France, 30 April, 1915, and was killed in action at La Coutiere, 27 May, 1915, by a high explosive shell, death being instantaneous. Buried at Vieille Chapelle; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “As your son worked his instrument in the same room that I occupy myself, I had the opportunity of watching him closely, and without any exaggeration I can truthfully say that he was one of the finest young soldiers I ever met. He was always willing and ready to do his work at any time, and when we were very busy he was quite pleased to work his 12 hours on end without grumbling. He had such a happy disposition that we all feel we have lost a very good comrade and an excellent worker.”

=KILLICK, ALFRED HENRY=, C.E.R.A. (Pensioner), 154516, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KILLING, JOHN WILLIAM=, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269868, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=KIMBERLEY, ARTHUR=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ply. 11904, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KING, ALEXANDER DUNCAN CAMPBELL=, Tempy. Lieut., 11th Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, attd. 18th Hussars, s. of Robert King, of Craigpark, Torphichen, co. Linlithgow, by his wife, Sara, dau. of Duncan Campbell, of Paisley; b. Torphichen aforesaid, 20 May, 1886; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 11th Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, 20 Sept. 1914; promoted Tempy. Lieut., 24 Feb. 1915; left for France, 17 May; was attached there to the 18th Hussars, and died at Hooge, near Ypres, 24 May, 1915, from the effects of poisoned gas, which on that day was employed by the enemy against the British front between Shelltrap Farm and the Bellewaerde Lake for 4½ hours without intermission, the cloud in some places rising to a height of 40 feet. Buried west of Ypres, between Poperinghe and Vlamertinghe; unm.

=KING, ALFRED CHARLES LAWRENCE=, Stoker, 2nd. Class, K. 17463, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KING, CHARLES GLAZIER=, Private, No. 9936, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Henry King, of Lower Vobster, Coleford, near Bath; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914.

=KING, CHARLES SEALY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, yr. s. of Charles Sealy King, of Richmount, Bandon, co. Cork, J.P., by his wife, Beatrice Ada, dau. of William Jocelyn Bradford, M.D., T.C.D.; b. Bandon, 18 Aug. 1894; educ. Catherington House Preparatory School, Hordean, Hants, from which he gained a scholarship to St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate; passed his Army Qualifying Examination in 1911; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 27 Jan. 1912, and after serving six months’ probation with the 2nd Battn. was promoted Lieut. 22 Aug. following, and on the outbreak of war was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Munsters, 14 Aug. 1914; was promoted temporary Lieut. from 30 Aug. 1914, and substantive Lieut. from 30 Nov. 1914; joined his Battn. in France, 18 Feb. 1915 and was killed in action at the Rue du Bois, near Festubert, 9 May, 1915; unm. His Adjutant, Capt. T. W. Filgate, wrote: “During an attack on the German trenches just south of Neuve Chapelle on Sunday morning your son was killed while gallantly leading his platoon. He was perfectly wonderful, and as cool and collected as if nothing was happening. He dashed forward ahead of his men, and was killed right up against the German parapet. It may be a little consolation to you to know that it was very largely owing to his and a few others’ gallant leading and dash that we were the only regt. in the brigade of which part reached the first line German trenches. We are all very proud of the gallant fellows that fell, and their names will never be forgotten in the regt. We were not able to recover your son’s body, which is close up to the German trenches.”

=KING, EDWARD=, Private, No. 7647, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Marston, Bedford; enlisted 24 May, 1910; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was severely wounded in action in the arm and thigh, admitted to the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, 3 Nov. 1914, and died there on the 16th of that month.

=KING, EDWARD=, Signal Boy, J. 22608, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KING, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1949, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John King, of 97, Sumatra Road, West Hampstead, Bootmaker, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Charles Chaffey; b. South Hampstead, 8 Feb. 1898; educ. Broomleigh Street Council School, West Hampstead; joined the 3rd Battn. London Regt. June, 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. Lieut. Reeves in giving some particulars of the action wrote: “F. A. King was under me when he was killed, I saw him lying right on top of the captured German trench--I believe he was killed by a high explosive, because I noticed his face was black. He was quite a good youngster.”

=KING, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7995), S.S. 103737, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KING, HENRY WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1419U., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KING, HORACE ANDREW=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9004), 190503, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KING, JAMES=, Private, No. 4444, 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, s. of John King, of Blackhill, Cookstown, Millworker, b. Clogog, Cookstown, co. Tyrone, Aug. 1893; educ. Cookstown; joined 3rd Inniskilling Fusiliers, 8 Aug 1914; left for the Dardanelles with a draft for the 1st Battn., and died 14 Aug. following, of wounds received at Suvla Bay; unm.

=KING, NICHOLAS MAINGER=, Stoker, R.N.R., U. 1640, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=KING, ROBERT NEAL=, Capt., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., only s. of the late Robert King, M.D., F.R.C.P., London, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Thomas Case; b. in London, 14 Sept. 1874; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Lincolns, from Militia, 6 June, 1896; promoted Lieut. 31 July, 1899, and Capt. 19 Nov. 1904; served in the Nile Expedition, 1898, and was present at the Battle of the Atbara (medal; Egyptian medal with clasp); in the South African War, 1902, where he was employed with Mounted Infantry in operations in the Transvaal and Cape Colony, April and May, 1902, and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. to March, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and from 24 Dec. to 31 Dec. 1901, was on special service. He retired 21 June, 1911, and was placed in the Reserve of Officers, but rejoined his regt. on the outbreak of war; left for France, Sept. 1914, and was reported killed in action at Wystchaete, 1 Nov. following. Capt. King m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 19 Dec. 1910, Klara Alice Fanny, 2nd dau. of Robert Shand Kynoch Shand, of Hillside, co. Kincardine, and the Linn Keith, co. Banff, and had two sons: Robert McKerrell, b. 24 Nov. 1911, died 3 Nov. 1914; and Philip Marshall, b. 23 March, 1914.

=KING, SAMUEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5284), 203896, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KING, SIDNEY HORACE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15574, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KING, THOMAS=, Sailmaker, 175250, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KING, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110209, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KINGSTON, SYDNEY=, S.B.S., 2nd Class, 351152, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KINKEAD, RICHARD CROFTON GEORGE MOORE=, M.B., M.Ch., B.A.O. Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 10th Royal Hussars, only s. of Richard John Kinkead, of Galway, M.D., Dublin, J.P., Professor, Queen’s College, Galway, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Hubert Moore; b. Galway, 12 June, 1883; educ. Erasmus Smith’s School, Galway; Portora Royal School, Enniskillen; Queen’s College, Galway, and Royal University of Ireland, where he graduated, M.B., M.Ch. and B.A.O. While a student at the University he joined and went through a course of training in the South of Ireland Yeomanry (now the South Irish Horse). After serving for a year as house surgeon to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, he passed into the R.A.M.C., being gazetted Lieut., 31 July, 1909, and promoted Capt. 31 Jan. 1913. He was stationed in the Cork district, Ireland, 1909–11, and in South Africa, Jan. 1912, to Sept. 1914, when he was recalled to England with the regular troops and attd. to the 10th Royal Hussars. He left for France with that regt. which formed part of the 3rd Cavalry Division, 7 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Klein Zillebeke, during the 1st Battle of Ypres on the 31st of the same month; unm. Lieut.-Col. Barnes, commanding the 10th Hussars, wrote: “He was a gallant officer and loved and respected by all ranks of the 10th Hussars. I especially asked that he might go to the war with the regt. and so I feel that fate has scarcely been kind.” Major the Hon. C. B. O. Mitford, D.S.O., of the same regt. wrote: “He with two other officers got one of my men and myself out of the trenches at considerable personal risk. He was just as cool helping the wounded under fire as if he was in a surgery. I hope it may be some slight consolation to you to know how he will be missed in the regiment and that his good work was appreciated by all.” Major, afterwards Lt. Col. Shearman, wrote: “You will be proud to know that he was possessed of great personal courage and his one thought here was his duty and care of the wounded, which he in many cases personally collected. Your son was buried by the Rev. C. S. Ensell, in the cemetery at Ypres. His grave is next that of Lord Charles Nairne, who was killed at the same time.” And a colonel of the R.A.M.C. wrote: “Capt. Kinkead was regarded as a daring and fearless soldier, with strikingly attractive qualities, and was immensely popular with the men of the regiment. Over and over again he risked his life in the discharge of his duties in the field.”

=KINNAIRD, HON. DOUGLAS ARTHUR=, Master of Kinnaird, Capt., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, eldest s. of Arthur Fitzgerald, 11th Lord Kinnaird, K.T., by his wife, Mary Alma Victoria, dau. of Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lochnaw, 8th Baronet; b. Rossie Priory, Inchture, co. Perth, 20 Aug. 1879; educ. Cheam School, Surrey; Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1901, M.A. 1905); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Scots Guards, 22 May, 1901. and promoted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1904, and Capt. 3 Feb. 1912; transferring to the 2nd Battn. when the 3rd was disbanded; went to Antwerp with his Battn. in the 7th Division; served through the retreat from that place and was killed in action, 23 Oct. 1914, during one of the numerous rearguard actions, to protect the retirement of the Belgian Army. Buried with another officer at Zonnebeke Farm, near Poligne, Belgium; unm. Capt. Kinnaird was in the Volunteer Corps at Eton and Cambridge, and travelled much on the Continent to study Art and Literature. In 1906, he went to East Africa for big game shooting, and made a large collection of heads and trophies. He also visited India for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi in 1911.

=KINNAIRD, FRANCIS JOSEPH=, Capt., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., 2nd s. of the late Francis Henry Kinnaird, of London; b. London, 16 March, 1875; educ. privately; obtained a commission in the 4th South Stafford in 1907; passed the School of instruction and qualified as Instructor of Musketry; became Capt. 4 Nov. 1910; went to France 16 March, 1915; was wounded in action at Richebourg, 16 May, 1915, and died in King Edward’s Hospital, London, 10 June, following; buried at Astley, Worcestershire. He m. in London, 5 Oct. 1901, Gertrude (16, Titchfield Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.), dau. of Robert Green, and had a dau.: Mary Gertrude, b. 21 Sept. 1904.

=KIPLING, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4772 B., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KIRKBY, BERTRAM JAMES=, 1st Writer, 220342, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=KIRBY, HENRY JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8167), S.S. 103966, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KIRBY, JOHN RUSSELL=, Private, No. 2517, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late John William Kirby, of Ivy House, Wortham, co. Suffolk, Farmer, by his wife, Annie M., dau. of John Rash; b. Wortham, 13 Nov. 1886; educ. Eye Grammar School; was a Motor Bodymaker at Messrs. Barkers & Co., Kensington; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Kensingtons, 1 Sept. 1914; left for France, 7 Feb. 1915, and died at No. 2 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 27 March, 1915, of wounds received at Neuve Chapelle on 10–12 March. Buried at Boulogne; unm.

=KIRK, ALAN=, Gunner, No. 57708, 49th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd s. of John Robert Kirk, of Belton, near Doncaster, Schoolmaster, by his wife, Betsy, dau. of John Rookledge; b. York, 13 June, 1891; educ. Ackworth Church School, of which his father was head master; joined Pontefract Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I. (T.F.), ... 1909; enlisted R.F.A., June, 1909; left for France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. following. Buried midway between Braine and Chessemy; unm.

=KIRK, GERALD=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Alfred Samuel Kirk of Greenwood Leghe, Ingleton, and of Leeds, and the only s. by his 2nd wife, Isabella Ann, widow of William Norman Greenwood and dau. of Richardson Balderstone; b. Bramley, near Leeds, 14 July, 1883; educ. Ilkley and Pocklington, but after the declaration of war enlisted in the King’s Own, 2 Sept. 1914, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the same, 3 Jan. 1915. At the Second Battle of Ypres the 5th Battn. of the King’s Own were with the Canadians in the great charge on Friday, 23 April, and Lieut. Kirk was severely wounded and died on the night of the following day at Poperinghe. Col. Lord Richard Cavendish wrote: “He was mortally wounded when bravely leading his men against a very strong position of the enemy. Although he had only been in the Battn. a comparatively short time he had endeared himself to us all, and he will be deeply mourned and long remembered. He had proved himself an extremely efficient officer.” Capt. Gerald W. Sharpe wrote: “He died a noble and gallant death, leading his platoon across an absolute inferno of shot and shell, he was wounded through the chest by a bullet. Four of his men carried him back to the dressing station where he was made as comfortable as possible and he was the first to be sent off in the motor ambulance.” He was buried in the hospital cemetery at Poperinghe. Kirk was the well-known amateur centre half-back, and had played for both Bradford City and Leeds City. He was the first Hon. Secretary of the Ingleton Conservative Club, and the originator and first Hon. Secretary of the Ingleton Farmers’ Association, etc., and a sidesman at St. Mary’s Church. He was also an ardent follower of the Vale of Lune Hounds, an excellent shot, and a keen cricketer and tennis player. He m. at Casterton, near Kirkby Lonsdale, 21 April, 1909, Jane, dau. of Edmund Capstick, of Barnoldswick, Burton-on-Lonsdale; s.p.

=KIRK, RANDAL=, Private, No. 8716, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of the late Bruce Kirk, of Newland, Hull, by his wife, Cecilia (49, Linnaeus Street, Hull), dau. of the late Thomas Clarke, of Goole, and grandson of the late William Kirk, of Hull, Printer; b. Hull, 22 Sept. 1885; educ. The Crossley and Porter School, Halifax; was nine years (1900–09) in the Hull Rating Department, Posterngate, and for six years held the rank of Sergt. in the Hull Rifles (Cyclist Corps); joined the 1st Coldstream Guards the day previous to King Edward’s death, 1910, and served three years with the Colours; rejoined the battn. on the outbreak of war; left for France with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the German XV Army Corps Hospital at Laon, 27 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action during the first days of the retreat from Mons; unm.

=KIRKLAND, THOMAS LINDSAY=, Petty Officer, 170934, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KIRKPATRICK, ALEXANDER DOUGLAS=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force (1st Canadian Contingent), s. of Alexander Mainwaring Morris Kirkpatrick, of 204, Rusholme Road, Toronto, by his wife, Caroline Adelaide, dau. of Col. George Taylor Denison, the Veteran Canadian Cavalry leader and writer on Imperial Defence; b. Toronto, 1 Jan. 1891; gazetted Lieut. in Governor General’s Body Guard, 10 July, 1910, transferred to the 2nd Regt. (Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada), 14 Aug. 1914, went overseas with the 3rd Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 26 Sept. following, and was killed in action, near St. Julien, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm.

=KITCHING, ABNER PERCIVAL=, Private, No. 8620, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Abner Kitching, of Crouch Farm Highworth; b. Chadlington, co. Oxon, 1883; enlisted 28 Feb. 1910; left for France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; and died 24 Sept. following, of wounds received at the Battle of Mons on 23 Aug. Buried, Military Cemetery, Netley. He m. in Swindon, 14 April, 1914, Elizabeth, dau. of William Collins, of the Buildings, Highworth, and had a dau., Elise, b. posthumous, 12 March, 1915.

=KLITZ, EVELYN ANTHONY=, Private, No. 9512, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of William Lawson Klitz, of 88, High Street, Lymington, co. Hants, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Thomas Gossling; b. Lymington, 7 Nov. 1894; educ. Gillingham Grammar School; joined the London Rifle Brigade early in 1913; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; and died at the Rawal Pindi Hospital, Wimereux, near Boulogne, 12 March, 1915, of wounds received in action on the preceding 12 Feb. at Ploegsteert. Buried in a private grave in Wimereux Cemetery; unm. Private Klitz was one of the company of the London Rifle Brigade who took part in the march in full kit from the Duke of York’s Column to the Aquarium at Brighton, on 18 April, 1914, in 14 hours 23 mins., thereby breaking the world’s record. For this feat he was awarded a bronze medal.

=KLOSS, SIDNEY ALBERT EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, 310981, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KNIGHT, ALBERT ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11029, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=KNIGHT, HENRY ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3397), S.S. 101168, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KNIGHT, HENRY CHARLES=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 2701), 160065, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KNIGHT, JOSEPH=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1363), 128345 (Port.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KNIGHT, STEPHEN=, Leading Stoker, 1st Class (A. 1584), 126510, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KNIGHT, THOMAS=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 3041), 307737, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KNOCKER, ARTHUR PAGET=, Capt., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., only s. of Col. Herbert Paget Knocker, of Bushey Ruff, Eastbourne, late R.E., by his wife, Maud, dau. of Major-Gen. Philip Ravenhill, C.B., R.E.; b. Kensington, 3 Aug. 1889; educ. Eastbourne College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st Hampshires, 18 Sept. 1909; promoted Lieut. 9 Aug. 1911, and temp. Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; left for France, 22 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 8 Feb. 1915. Buried, Ploegsteert Cemetery; unm.

=KNOTT, HENRY=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 354781, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=KNOWLES, JONATHAN EDWARD=, Capt., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt. eldest s. of the late Edward Sugden Knowles, and grandson of the late Jonathan Knowles, of Rawdon, co. York; b. Sandgate, Queensland, Australia, 21 May, 1882; educ. Sedbergh School; joined the 2nd Vol. Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., as 2nd Lieut.; served with the 4th Durham L.I. (Militia) in the South African War, 1902, and took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st Middlesex, 4 July, 1903, and served with his Battn. in India, Burma and at Aden; promoted Lieut. 14 Jan. 1906, and Capt. 1 Feb. 1914, when he was transferred to the 4th Battn.; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, in which the 4th “Diehards” formed part of the 8th Brigade (3rd Division), and was killed in action at the Battle of Mons, on the 23rd of the same month. Buried in Cemetery at Maisieres. He m. at St. Peter’s Church, Bexhill, Sussex, 3 June, 1909, Viva Brabazon, dau. of the late C. F. Bagot, and had three children: Jonathan Maynard, b. 11 Oct. 1913; Nina Mary, b. 21 April, 1910; and Viva Joan, b. 14 Aug. 1912.

=KNOWLES, WILLIAM ALFRED=, A.B., 239360, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KNOX, RALPH=, Private, No. 9748, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), eldest s. of Ralph Knox, now serving as a private in the Canadian Highlanders, by his wife, Isabella, 2nd dau. of John Flood; b. Berwick-on-Tweed, 9 May, 1888; educ. Boys’ National School there; enlisted 9 Oct. 1906: went to France 23 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, on the night of the 14–15 May, 1915, being shot by a sniper while engaged in carrying rations to the trenches; unm.

=KOCH, WILLIAM JAMES=, Trooper, No. 2518, Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary’s Regt.) (T.F.), yst. s. of Oswald Hugo Koch, of 24, Cranmer Road, West Croydon, by his wife, Frances (24, Cranmer Road, West Croydon), dau. of William Wood, of Shirley; b. Croydon, 25 July, 1896; educ. Brighton Road Board Schools, Croydon; was a Grocer’s Assistant with Francis of Brixton; volunteered and joined the Surrey Yeomanry, 6 Jan. 1915, and died at 73, King’s Avenue, Clapham, 5 Feb. following, from injuries caused by a fall from his horse two days previously. Buried Mitcham Road Cemetery, Croydon; unm.

=KYDD, JAMES PHILLIP=, Leading Seaman, 215363, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=KYLE, ROBERT BRUCE=, Private, No. 1781, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late John Kyle, M.I.C.E., Resident Engineer, Harbour Works, Colombo, Ceylon, by his wife, Agnes (100, Station Road, Barnes, London, S.W.); b. Colombo, 30 April, 1893; educ. Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, and Royal High School, Edinburgh; was a member of the foreign staff of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank; joined the London Scottish Jan. 1913; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for France, 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 1 Nov. following. He was at first reported missing, and it was not until the 15 Feb. 1915, that definite news that he had fallen was received. He was unm.

=KYNOCH, COLIN SMITH=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Robert Kynoch, of Stocksfield-on-Tyne, by his wife, Jennie, dau. of Silvanus Smith; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 8 Sept. 1883; educ. at a Private School, Newcastle-on-Tyne; was a Traveller in the Corn and Flour Trade; volunteered on the outbreak of war and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6 Oct. 1914; went to France, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien, Ypres, 26 April, 1915. Buried near Hill 60; unm.

=KYTE, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Private, No. 9332, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Kyte, of Horton, near Devizes, co. Wilts, a pensioner, Royal Marines, by his wife, Eliza Jane, dau. of James Wiltshire; b. Easterton, co. Wilts, 9 Dec. 1893; educ. Easterton National School; joined 1st Coldstream Guards, 18 Nov. 1911; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; was wounded and invalided home in Nov.; returned to the Front, 17 Dec., was reported missing after the fighting at Givenchy, 22 Dec. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; unm.

=LACEY, CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1250), late R.M.A. 11447 H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LACEY, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4724), S.S. 104080, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LACK, PERCY EDMUND=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4868), S.S. 104284, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LACY, FRANCIS PRIOR, M.C.=, Capt., Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, attd. 170 Coy. Royal Engineers, s. of Dyson Lacy, Hobart, Tasmania, by his wife, Francis Amelia, dau. of Capt. J. Irwin, R.N.; b. Mackay, North Queensland, Australia, 28 Jan. 1887; educ. Stubbington, also Felsted, Essex, England, and the Royal School of Mines, Kensington, London; on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, 14 Oct. 1914, and was killed by a counter mine, 13 Aug. 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], and awarded the Military Cross.

=LACY, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 11087, Royal Marines, only s. of Frederick Lacy, Sweep; b. 1882; lost in the North Sea on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Stepney Parish Church, 19 Oct. 1913, Sarah Catherine (115, Shandy Street, Stepney, E.), dau. of Thomas John Dobson, and had a dau., Sarah Elizabeth, b. 24 June, 1915.

=LADD, ERNEST WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 18430, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LADD, ROBERT JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3295 A., H.M.S. Cressy, s. of the late Edward Ladd, of Southwold, Mariner, by his wife, E. (3, School Green, Southwold); b. Southwold, 13 Nov. 1888; educ. National Schools there; joined the R.N.R. in 1909; lost in action in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

=LADDS, FREDERICK=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3435C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAFONE, CLAUDE ALEXANDER, D.S.O.=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., elder s. of Alfred William Lafone, of Springfield, Walton-on-Thames, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of the Rev. James Lawrence, M.A., b. Hanworth, co. Middlesex, 24 Feb. 1877; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to 2nd Devons from 3rd Devon Militia, 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 9 March, 1899, and Capt. 20 Dec. 1901; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the Relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; in operations of 17–24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; in operations of 5–7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; in operations on Tugela Heights (14–27 Feb. 1900), and action at Pieters Hill; in Natal, March to June, 1900, including action at Laing’s Nek (6–9 June); in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], Queen’s medal with five clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); went to France, 8 Nov. 1914, and on 26 Jan. following was awarded the D.S.O., “for conspicuous gallantry on the night of 18 Dec. 1914, near Neuve Chapelle, in capturing a trench from the enemy” [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915], and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm.

=LAIDLAW, CHARLES GLASS PLAYFAIR=, Private, No. 3375, D Coy. 1/14th (The London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th s. of the late Dr. Robert Laidlaw, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., sometime Medical Government Officer in the Seychelles Islands, by his wife, Elizabeth (Woodside, Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge), dau. of Patrick Playfair, of Ardmillan, co. Ayr; b. Stoke Newington, London, N., 13 Dec. 1887; educ. The Perse School, Cambridge, from which in Dec. 1906, he was elected to an Entrance Scholarship for Natural Science at St. John’s College. At school he was football capt., sergt. in the cadet corps, a member of the cricket team, and head of the school. While still at school he played water polo for the university when the team was one short. Later he played, lacrosse for his college and sometimes for the University. He commenced residence in Oct. 1907. He obtained a First Class in Part 1 of the Natural Science Tripos in 1909, and in June of that year was elected a Foundation scholar of the College. He took the Second Part of the Tripos in 1910, obtaining a First Class for Botany. In June, 1911, he was elected a Hutchinson Student of the College, and took up research in Plant Physiology at the Botany School of the University, under the direction of Mr. F. F. Blackman, the University Reader in Botany. The subject of his research was an electrical method of determining carbon dioxide in relation to photo-synthesis. In 1912 he was elected by the governing body of Gonville and Caius College to a Frank Smart Studentship, a recognition of the promising nature of his investigations. At the same time he was offered a Research Scholarship by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; after some hesitation he accepted this latter offer, which necessitated his removal to London. From the autumn of 1912, until the outbreak of war, Laidlaw worked at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, under the direction of Prof. V. H. Blackman. Here he entered on an investigation of the Physiological conditions of plants forced under glass, working also at the effect of temperature on the rate of growth of a fungus, Sclerotinia libutiana. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and joined the London Scottish as a Private, 21 Oct. 1914, and after a period of training, embarked at Southampton with a draft of some 600 officers and men for the 1st Battn., 10 March, 1915. On Good Friday, 2 April, his (D) Coy. were in some barricades at Richebourg l’Avoué, south of Neuve Chapelle. After having been in the trenches all night, he was smoking after breakfast in what seemed a perfectly safe place, when a stray bullet passed through a sandbag and penetrated the right side of his chest. To his comrades the wound seemed a slight one, and after first aid was given he was removed to No. 3 Field Ambulance, near Bethune. There it was discovered that internal hæmorrhage had set in, and he died in the early hours of the morning on 3 April, 1915, and was buried in Bethune Cemetery.

=LAING, THEODORE=, Private, No. 2131, 1/14 Battn. (The London Scottish) London Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of William Arthur Laing, of Dalmahoy, Horsell, Woking, an old member of the London Scottish, by his wife, Lucy Glanvill, dau. of William Walters; b. Tooting Graveney, 16 May, 1897; educ. City of London School, where he was for two years in the O.T.C.; enlisted in his father’s old regiment the day before the declaration of war, 4 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, 15 Sept. and fell in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 1 Nov. 1914. His Capt. wrote: “Your brave son was shot through the head, and death must have been almost instantaneous. He was one of our keenest soldiers in the company, and his loss will be greatly felt by all his comrades with whom he was a great favourite. I, personally, shall miss him intensely.” Though not 18, Laing was over 6 ft. in height, big and broad in proportion, also he was a first-class shot.

=LAIRD, JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 2852, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of John Laird, of 6, Ann Street, Greenock; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LAKE, TOM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2598), 169200, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAMBERT, CHARLES HENRY=, Private, No. 2136, A Coy., 1st Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Charles Lambert, of Newport, Monmouth, by his wife, Louis, dau. of Charles Henry Collins; b. Loughborough, co. Leicester, 14 April, 1895; enlisted two days after the declaration of war, 7 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 23 March, 1915; unm. A letter, evidently written shortly before his death, in which he says: “We have just finished our four days in the firing line, and our casualties are very small,” was found on him and sent to his mother.

=LAMBERT, CHARLES HENRY=, Lieut., A.V.C. attd. 58th Brigade, R.F.A., eldest s. of John Henry Lambert, of Redmount, Ballinasloe, co. Galway, J.P., by his wife, Adelaide, dau. of William Tombes Dewè; b. Redmount, Ballinasloe, 20 July, 1882; educ. privately, and when war broke out had been for some years with Mr. H. S. Persse, the well-known trainer at Chattis Hill, Stockbridge, Hants. He joined the Army, May, 1915, and was appointed temporary Lieut. in June 1915; left for Egypt in May, 1915, and died in the General Hospital, Alexandria, 16 Aug. 1915, two weeks after a severe operation, while on active service; unm. He was buried at Alexandria. Lieut. Lambert was a good all-round sportsman; and rode several point-to-point winners.

=LAMBERT, FRANCIS HENRY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., only s. of Fitzgerald Gage Lambert, of Rockbourne, Salisbury, Civil Engineer (retired), by his wife, Nina Marie Louise, dau. of the late Francis Bradley Dyne, of Gore Court, Kent, and grandson of the late Capt. Edward Henry Gage Lambert, R.N. [3rd s. of Sir Henry John Lambert, 5th Bart.], by his wife, Renira Anna (who m. secondly Admiral the Hon. Fitzgerald Foley), dau. of the Rev. Richard Fortescue Purvis, LL.B.; b. Province of Lucknow, India, 17 Oct. 1895; educ. Charterhouse and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Hampshires, 1 Oct. 1914, and was attached to the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. until 26 Dec. following, when he went to France to join the 1st Battn.; was accidentally wounded there, and returned to England on sick leave and remained until 29 April, when he left for the Dardanelles in charge of a draft to the 2nd Battn.; was promoted Lieut. 27 May following; was wounded in the British attack on the Krithia-Achi-Baba position, Gallipoli, on 5 June, and taken on board the hospital ship “Somali,” where he died on the 7th. Buried at sea; unm.

=LAMBERT, JACK FELLOWS=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, eldest and only surviving s. of the late Ernest Lambert, Financier (d. 1898), by his wife, May (23, Terlingham Gardens, Folkestone), dau. of the late Hon. James Israel Fellows, Agent-General for New Brunswick (d. 1894); b. Coombe, Malden, co. Surrey, 3 Sept. 1891; educ. Marlborough, and Merton College, Oxford, where he was in King Edward’s Horse; was manager of a cocoanut estate in the Malay States when war broke out; came home and applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the K.R.R.C., 27 April, 1915; went to France in May, was in action near Ypres early in June; and was killed in the counter-attack on the German position at Hooge, 30 July, 1915; unm. He was at first reported missing, and it was not until March, 1916, that he was officially returned as killed. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was a splendid Platoon Commander and his men loved him.”

=LAMBERT, JOHN MOUNSEY=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, only s. of the late Major-Gen. George Craster Lambert, of Bolton Hall, Alnwick, late 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers, by his wife, Isabella, 3rd dau. of Major Alexander Browne, of Doxford Hall, Chathill; b. Breamish House, Alnwick, co. Northumberland, 21 Dec. 1883; educ. Mr. Moore’s School, Alnmouth, and Wellington College; joined the Northumberland Militia, now the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 1903, promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1906, and Capt. 29 Aug. 1914; went to France, 30 Aug. 1914, when he was attached to the 1st Battn. of his regt., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 27 Oct. following. Buried near where he fell; unm.

=LAMBERT, STAMFORD LEIGH=, Private, No. 2106, 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (R.F.), 29th Division, 4th s. of John Lambert, of 86, Chesterton Road, Cambridge, late Postmaster of that town, by his wife, Annie M., dau. of John Mostock; b. Lincoln, 10 Sept. 1890; educ. Perse School, and Training ship Worcester; served in the Milne and Ellerman and Bucknall S.S. lines as 3rd officer; joined the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, 28 Sept. 1914; left for the Dardanelles with the 29th Division, 21 March 1915; was present at Beach W., Gallipoli, during the landing on 25 April and following days, at the actions of 24 June and 4 July, near Krithia and Gully Ravine, and at the Aug. landing at Suvla Bay, and the subsequent operations, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 26 Aug. 1915. Buried Suvla; unm. On the day preceding his death his name was sent up for mention in Despatches for his work during the campaign. One of his officers wrote: “He was a brave, fearless fellow, one of the best boys we had in my section.” And another: “Voicing the opinion of the whole corps, he was one of the most popular men, ready to assist in anything which was required, and to help anybody who was in trouble.”

=LAMBERT, STEPHEN HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 10268, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LAMBRE, JOHN=, Chief Shipwright, 344348, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAMKIN, CHARLES AMBROSE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7786), S.S. 103257, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAMONT, HENRY McCUAIG=, Private, No. 9410, D Coy., 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), 2nd s. of John Lamont, of 125, Norfolk Street, Glasgow, by his wife, Maggie, dau. of Henry McCuaig, of Queensland, formerly of Islay; b. Port Ellen, Kildalton, Islay, 18 April, 1888; educ. Kinning Park Public School, Glasgow; enlisted, in Oct. 1906, and served seven years with the Colours and then passed into the Reserve, and obtained employment in the G.P.O., but on the outbreak of war rejoined his regt.; left for France with the Expeditionary Force (9th Brigade, 3rd Division), and was killed in action at the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 Aug. following.

=LAMPARD, TOM SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111443 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANCHBURY, ALFRED=, Sergt., No. 5402, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Alfred Lanchbury, of 81, Grange Road, Longford, near Coventry, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of James Blackford; b. Coventry, 13 April, 1883; educ. Foxford Council School; enlisted 19 Feb. 1904; appointed L.-Corpl. 29 Nov. 1905; Corpl. 1 Jan. 1907; L.-Sergt. 24 Sept. 1907, and Sergt. 5 Feb. 1913; served in Egypt, 6 Jan. 1909, to 23 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 12 Aug. 1914, to 27 Sept. 1915, on which day he was killed in action, near Vermellen, during the Battle of Loos. He m. in London, 3 Oct., Ida Margaret (33, St. Thomas Road, Longford, Coventry), dau. of Frederick (and Margaret) Simmonds, and had three children: Donald Crawford, b. 4 June, 1913; Norah Ida, b. 15 Sept. 1909: and Muriel Rosamund, b. 15 Nov. 1914. His brother, L.-Sergt. W. C. Lanchbury, was also killed in action (see following notice).

=LANCHBURY, WILLIAM CHARLES=, L.-Sergt., No. 8711, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of Alfred Lanchbury, of 81, Grange Road, Longford, near Coventry, co. Warwick, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of James Blackford (see preceding notice); b. Longford aforesaid, 9 Oct. 1889; educ. Foxford Council School; enlisted 28 April, 1910; appointed L.-Corpl. 9 Jan. 1912; Corpl. 21 Aug. 1913, and L.-Sergt. 7 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914; and was reported wounded and missing after the fighting on the 25th of that month during the retreat from Mons; and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; unm.

=LANCHESTER, THORNTON=, Seaman, R.N.R., 1577C, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANDELLS, JOHN OLIVER=, E.R.A., R.N.R., 244 E.B., H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LANDEN, JAMES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, R.F.R., B. 2871, 308019, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LANDER, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Chief Shipwright, 340787, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LANE, FRANK EVERETT=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16811, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LANE, JOHN HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8033), 293067, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANE, JOHN WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9786), S.S. 107274. H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANG, HENRY ASTELL=, Major, 4th Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late George Lukis Lang, of the Indian Civil Service, by his wife, Louisa Wynyard, dau. of Henry Godfrey Astell, of Ickwell House, Biggleswade; b. Biggleswade, co. Bedford, 12 March, 1874; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford; Marlborough College, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Worcestershire Regt. Dec. 1895; and promoted Lieut. 10 May, 1899, Capt. in Sept. 1900, and Major 24 May, 1913; was Adjutant of his Battn. 23 Nov. 1904, to 22 Nov. 1907; A.D.C. to Sir Henry Fane Grant, Governor of Malta, 1906–8; served (1) in the South African War from 1899 to 1901; took part in advance on Kimberley, including actions at Modder River, and Magersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg (17 to 26 Feb.); Poplar Grove and Dreifontein; operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including action at Bothaville; operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to Dec. 1900, in the Orange River Colony, Dec. 1900, and in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900 to March, 1901 (slightly wounded; Queen’s medal with five clasps); and (2) with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 6 June, 1915; unm. Buried in Gulf Ravine, Gallipoli. Major Lang was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 22 Sept. [London Gazette, 5 Nov.] 1915. A brother officer wrote in Berrows Worcester Journal: “It is not stretching a point to say that seldom has there been in the regt., a more popular officer with all ranks than the late Major Harry Lang, who fell in action at the Dardanelles. Possessing a marked charm of manner, he endeared himself to all men. He was a fine sportsman; at polo he was a bold and fine player. He rode hard and hit hard from the moment the ball was thrown in till the bell rang. As a cricketer and capt. of the 4th Worcestershires cricket team, he did yeoman service for his side, and led them to many victories. His loss will be much felt throughout the whole regt. As a soldier he was respected by and for his smart appearance and knowledge of his duties. He served with distinction in the South African War, and in the most adverse circumstances was always bright and cheerful. He was Adjutant to Col. Edwards, now commanding at the Depôt, when the Col. commanded the 4th Battn.,” and another: “He was the first up to every trench, armed with a walking stick; walking straight across to prospect amidst a perfect hail of bullets, and then would saunter back to his troops and head them forward. Never was he excited--fear he knew not; courage and confidence flowed from him to all of us.” Major Lang was a very keen fisherman and naturalist. He did a great deal of big game shooting in Nepal, Kashmir and the Tirai and secured several exceptionally good heads of gond, barasingh, and sambhur, besides tigers, leopards and bears.

=LANG, VIVIAN=, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, 356268 Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LANG, WILLIAM BRYNMER=, Capt., 1/5th (Renfrewshire) Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), yr. s. of William Lang, of Elmbank, Gourock, Quarrymaster and Contractor, by his wife, Margaret Jane, dau. of Alexander Robertson, of Chesterfield, Gourock; b. Gourock, co. Renfrew, 26 April, 1882; educ. Greenock Academy; served with the 1st Vol. (now the 5th Territorial) Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 15 Sept. 1899, to 22 March, 1905; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 May, 1906; and promoted Lieut. 9 April, 1911, and Capt. 1 Nov. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, left for the Dardanelles, 31 May, 1915, and was killed during the attack on the Krithia-Achi-Baba position, 12 July following; unm.

=LANGFORD, ALBERT GEORGE=, A.B., (R.F.R., I.C. 509), 235942, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LANGFORD, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1394, 4th Battn. L.I., Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of John Langford, of 34, Cross Row, Westmoor, Killingworth, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Archibald Whitehead; b. Spittal, Berwick-on-Tweed, 9 Sept. 1890; educ. Blaydon and Gateshead Council Schools; went to Australia, 28 Aug. 1914, and worked as a Miner; volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Dec. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force, Feb. 1915; took part in the landing at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 25 April, and died of wounds between that date and 28 April following; unm.

=LANGFORD, WALLACE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B 6017), 182043, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANGHAM, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Rifleman, No. 1564, 1/6th (Rifle) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Horton Henry Langham, Chief Officer s.s. William Cliff, by his wife, Florence Edith, yst. dau. of John Coulson of Manchester, Solicitor; b. Liverpool, 24 Jan. 1896, educ. Seamen’s Orphanage, Newsham Park, Liverpool; was a Clerk in Liverpool Gas Co.; joined the 1/6th Liverpools, about March, 1914; volunteered for Imperial service and went to France, 24 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 3 May following. Buried south of Verbranden Molen; unm. One of his comrades wrote: “It was a great shock to us when this (? news) was passed to us that Freddie had been killed. He was a splendid chap, liked by all, so everything possible was done to give him a decent burial.” A Church worker in Liverpool wrote: “He was a member of the St. Mary Magdalene’s Church Choir and a Sunday School teacher; in the Church his valuable help and cheery presence will be sorely missed.” His brother, Horton Egerton Langham, R.F.A., is now (1916) on active service.

=LANGLANDS, ALAN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of the late Major John Shakespear Langlands, 43rd Oxfordshire L.I., sometime Adjutant, Montgomeryshire Militia, by his wife, Lucy Alice (now wife of Major Charles Harold Longfield Beatty, of Borodale, co. Wexford, D.S.O.), dau. of the late Edward Peck; b. Longrood, Rugby, 25 Sept. 1895; educ. Stubbington and Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd South Wales Borderers, 7 Oct. 1914; transferred to the 1st Battn., went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action near Bethune, 9 May, 1915; unm. Buried at St. Vaast’s Post.

=LANGLEY, WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 27), 9807, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action of Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LANGRIDGE, FRANCIS BERTRAM=, Private, No. 10/1553, Canterbury Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Harry Montague Langridge, of 16, River Bank, Wanganui, New Zealand, formerly of Sussex, England; b. Westport, New Zealand, 3 Nov. 1891; educ. Wanganui District Boys’ School; enlisted after the outbreak of war and left for Egypt in Feb. 1915, with the third reinforcements; was for some time a L.-Corpl. in the Wellington Battn., but on being transferred to the Canterbury Battn. had to go back to the ranks; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and was killed in action, 8 May, 1915; unm. His brother, Sergt.-Major J. W. Langridge, was twice wounded at the Dardanelles.

=LANGRISH, HENRY WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13463 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LANSLEY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 301754, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LARBY, WALTER=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 20455, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LARDNER, RODERICK DONALD=, Yeoman of Signals, 221290, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LARKING, CHARLES ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9130), 208699, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LARVIN, JAMES=, Private, No. 10562, 6th Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., s. of Thomas Larvin, of No. 3, Marsh Street, off Scott Street, Hull, co. York, builder for Levitts, Contractors, by his wife, Mary Elisabeth; b. Hull; educ. St. Paul’s Schools there; was an employee of Messrs. Crosslands, Stevedores, at the Hull Docks; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 18 Aug. 1914; trained at Belton Park, Grantham; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 21 Aug. 1915; unm.

=LARSON, OKEN FRANK=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 31), 8553, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LASHBROOK, HENRY CHARLES=, Petty Officer, 177834, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LASLETT, FRANK ROLAND=, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, L. 1791, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LATHAM, CHARLES EDWARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 288526, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LATTA, CHARLES KEITH=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Gordon Highlanders, 3rd s. of the late John Latta, of 17, Royal Circus, Edinburgh, S.S.C., by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late John Jopp, writer to the Signet; b. Edinburgh, 2 Dec. 1889; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 10 Aug. 1911; killed in action near Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm. His Commanding Officer, Col. Uniacke, in notifying his death, wrote: “He gave his life for his country in a gallant fight which was necessary for the safety not only of his own regt. but of a larger force.... He has always proved himself a fine example, and you may well be proud of him as we are, and also all those of his own command. He is a great loss to us and the Army.”

=LAUDER, STANISLAUS JOSEPH=, Private, No. 4070, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Charles Lauder, Supt. Royal Alfred Sailors’ Home, Bombay; b. Bombay, 8 Nov. 1885; educ. St. Mary’s College, Bombay, and London School of Medicine; served with the Red Crescent Medical Mission in Tripoli for seven months in 1912, and with the British Red Cross in Montenegro during the Balkan War, was present with the Montenegrin Army during the siege and capture of Scutari; received the Order of Danilo (3rd Class) from the King of Montenegro, and the British Red Cross Medal with clasp; joined the London Scottish, 5 Dec. 1914, and volunteered for foreign service; went to the Front in July, 1915, and died of wounds received while attending wounded men under fire, 14 Oct. 1915; unm. He was buried in the soldiers’ cemetery at Lapugny, near Bethune.

=LAURENCE, ANDREW=, Sapper, No. 11982, 38th Coy. R.E., s. of the late Andrew Laurence, of Craiglockhart Terrace, Edinburgh, Mason, by his wife, Christina B., dau. of David Brunton, of Kinross; b. Muckhart, co. Perth. 16 Nov. 1882; educ. Muckhart School; served in the South African War with the 3rd Vol. Battn. Royal Scots (Queen’s medal with three clasps); joined the R.E., 11 Nov. 1902; went to France, 7 Sept. 1914, and died in Motor Ambulance, 27 May, 1915, of wounds received in Belgium the same day. Buried in field adjoining the Convent School, Brandholk; unm.

=LAURENCE, EDWARD JAMES=, Private, No. 1945, 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of William George Laurence, of 9, Argyle Road, Teddington, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Alexander Mellish; b. Windsor, 2 Nov. 1892; educ. Teddington Public School; was a Barman; enlisted at Hampton about 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and died of wounds received in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

=LAURIE, NATHANIEL JOHN=, Rifleman, No. 3224, 1/12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Robert Turner Laurie, of 153, Eswyn Road, Tooting, S.W., Corrector of the Press, by his wife, Amy, dau. of John Saunders; b. London, 3 April, 1891; educ. L.C.C. Schools; was a Clerk to Advertisement Contractors; joined The Rangers, 14 Sept. 1914; went to France on Christmas Day following, and died at Casualty Clearing Station, near Rouen, 29 April, 1915, of wounds in the head caused by fragments of high explosive shell received on the 26th at St. Jean during the Second Battle of Ypres. Buried in Bailleul Cemetery; unm. A comrade wrote of him: “In all that he did Laurie acted as a soldier and a gentleman.” Private Laurie was an active Free Church worker, chiefly amongst children.

=LAVERTY, DANIEL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10565), S.S. 108512. H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LAW, JOHN THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 15121, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LAW, PAUL=, Private, No. 1650, 1/4th Battn. West Riding Regt. (T.F.), s. of Joe Law, of Luddenfoot. Halifax, Teamer; b. Lower Oldfield, Luddenfoot, 1 Sept. 1895; educ. National School there; joined 1/4th West Ridings, March, 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action 10 May, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm.

=LAW, PERCY PEACOCK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9963), S.S. 2587, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LAW, THOMAS PAKENHAM=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Irish Guards, 3rd s. of the late Thomas Pakenham Law, K.C., by his wife, Amelia Catherine (Elsinore, Howth. co. Dublin), dau. of Horace Rochfort, of Clogremane, co. Carlow; b. Dublin, 27 May, 1879; educ. Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his degrees in Arts and Law; called to the English Bar, Lincoln’s Inn, 1905, and practised at the Chancery Bar; gave up this on the outbreak of war and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Irish Guards, 4 June, 1915; went to France and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. following, dying three hours later. Buried in a garden at Loos; unm.

=LAWES, FREDERICK JOHN=, Private. No. 10693, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Benjamin Lawes, of Swanington, near Norwich, Labourer, by his wife, Susanna Elizabeth, dau. of George Carr; b. Swanington, 17 July, 1889; educ. Elementary Church School, there; worked on the land from the time he left school until he enlisted, except for two years (1911–13), when he worked in a coal pit at Newcastle-on-Tyne; enlisted in April, 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

=LAWRENCE, CHAS. EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110970, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LAWRENCE, CHARLES SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6360, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAWRENCE, CHRISTOPHER HAL=, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. s. of the late Hon. Henry Arnold Lawrence, by his wife, Constance Charlotte (9, Chantry House. Eccleston Street, S.W.), only surviving dau. of the late Rev. George Irving Davies, Rector of Kelsale, Suffolk, and grandson of John, 1st Baron Lawrence; b. Harrington Gardens, London, S.W., 11 Nov. 1893; educ. Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the University O.T.C.; applied for a commission on the day war was declared, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th K.R.R.C. 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 20 Sept. 1914, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. of his regt. (2nd Brigade, 1st Division), and was killed in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Oct. 1914, being shot by a sniper. Buried at Bourg, near Troyon; unm. His only brother, Lieut. M. E. Lawrence, was killed in action near Givenchy, 10 Jan. 1915 (see his notice).

=LAWRENCE, EDGAR ERNEST ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3634), 191271, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5216), 179879, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAWRENCE, MALCOLM EYTON=, Lieut., 6th (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only surviving s. of the late Hon. Henry Arnold Lawrence, by his wife, Constance Charlotte (9, Chantrey House, Eccleston Street, S.W.), eldest surviving dau. of the late Rev. George Irving Davies, Rector of Kelsale, Suffolk, and grandson of John, 1st Baron Lawrence; b. Harrington Gardens, London, S.W., 10 March, 1889; educ. Eton; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., 1 Oct. 1908, and served for one year; went to British Columbia in Feb. 1910, where he bought and cleared land, built a house and was latterly given Government employment (sub-warden of the Isles); enlisted in the 88th Victoria Fusiliers on the declaration of war and came over with the first contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th K.R.R.C. 4 Nov. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915; went to France 3 Dec. 1914, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. and was killed in action near Givenchy, 10 Jan. 1915, while leading his men in a charge. Buried in village of Cuinchy; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “On reaching the position he found that a brother officer, who had led another storming party, was in need of assistance as he had lost more than half his men. Lawrence dashed over the intervening 70 yards with some of his men, and was no doubt responsible for getting back his brother officer who was now left alone and would have been cut off.”

=LAWRENCE, WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 9794), 297574, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAWRIE, ERNEST NORMAN=, 2nd Lieut., 13 Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington Rifles) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John Lawrie, Managing Director of Whiteleys’, London, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Elliott; b. West Hampstead, 30 April, 1893; educ. County School, Richmond, and Haberdashers’ School, Cricklewood; entered the employment of Messrs. Elkington, of Regent Street, in Feb. 1912; enlisted in the Kensingtons a few days after the commencement of war, 10 Aug. 1914, and after training at Abbots Langley left to join the British Expeditionary Force at the Front, 31 Oct. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut, in his own regt., 3 April, 1915; was present at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, near Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm. His body was not recovered as the spot where he fell remained in the possession of the Germans. Major H. J. Stafford, writing on behalf of the Colonel, said: “He met his death leading his men in the true British way, and under circumstances as exacting as any that troops could be called upon to face. I knew your son very well, as prior to his gaining his commission he was attached to me as my runner, and was constantly with me. I soon discovered his fearless nature, and his devotion. As an officer he had already won the esteem of all ranks, and showed great promise as a leader of men.” An interesting account of how he captured a German flag appeared in the “Daily Mirror” of June 9, 1915.

=LAWRIE, JAMES BLACK=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 268155, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAWSON, FREDERICK HENRY=, Capt., 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), eldest s. of Frederick Lawson, of Dalton, co. Northumberland, late of Nelthorpe, Gosforth, Merchant, by his wife, Eleoner Francis, dau. of the late John Walker; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 23 July, 1887; educ. Durham Grammar School; served his articles with Messrs. Newcomb and Newcomb, Architects, of Newcastle, and was afterwards with Mr. Arthur Stockwell, of that City; joined the Northumberland Yeomanry in 1907; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, 15 May, 1909; promoted Lieut. 17 July, 1910, and Capt. 1 Nov. 1912; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 13 April, 1915; and was killed in action at St. Jean, near Ypres, 24 May following; unm. His Col. wrote: “Capt. Lawson was one of my best officers, thoroughly capable and reliable.”

=LAWSON, WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 2433), 290533, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LAWTON, JOSEPH SYDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9403), 296679, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAWTON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9652), S.S. 106992, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAYDON, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9332, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Laydon, of 17, Dunns Terrace, Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, by his wife, (----), dau. of William Wild, of Newcastle; b. Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 22 Sept. 1882; educ. St. Dominic’s Catholic School there; enlisted 22 Oct. 1911, and was killed in action at Soupir, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; unm.

=LAYTON, FRANK THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10003), S.S. 107616, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LAZENBY, ARTHUR=, A.B., J. 4916, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEA, THOMAS LAMPIT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5043), 201762, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEACH, GERALD KEMBALL=, Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. Border Regt.; 2nd s. of the late Arthur Francis Leach, of 34, Elm Park Gardens, London, S.W., Charity Commissioner, by his wife, Emily Archer, dau. of S. Kemball Cook; b. London, 10 Aug. 1883; educ. Ashdown House, Forest Row, Sussex, from which he obtained a scholarship at Bradfield College, where he was senior Prefect and Captain of the Association Football Team, afterwards gaining an exhibition at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he rowed in the College boat; was in the Association Football and Cricket teams, and became a Lieut. in the University O.T.C. He was appointed an assistant in the Chinese Maritime Customs in 1904, and was quartered successively at Chefoo, Wuhu, Peking, Hankow, and Changsha. He resigned his appointment in Jan. 1915, in order to return home and join the army and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th Border Regt., 1 March, 1915; left for the Dardanelles with the 11th (Northern) Division, 1 July following, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on 10 Aug., during the operations which followed the landing on the 6th and 7th; unm.

=LEADER, FRANCIS WILLIAM MOWBRAY=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Connaught Rangers, elder s. of Francis Henry Mowbray Leader, of Classas, Coachford, co. Cork, late Lt. Royal Field Artillery, by his wife, Agnes Letitia, dau. of Thomas Broderick; b. Plymouth, 6 Nov. 1881; educ. Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy, and in France and Germany; joined the Manchester Militia as 2nd Lieut. 1901, and served with them in the South African War, 1901–2, taking part in the operations in Cape Colony, Oct. 1901, and in Orange River Colony, Oct. 1901 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps), being specially recommended by his Colonel for a regular commission; was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Connaught Rangers, 28 Jan. 1903, and promoted Lieut. 30 Dec. 1905 and Capt. 1 Aug. 1914; served with the 1st Battn. for several years in India, and after its return home was attached to the West African Frontier Force, and saw service in Southern Nigeria, 1909–10 (medal with clasp); was at home on leave when war broke out, went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action while in command of a rearguard of 50 men covering the retirement of his regt. at Le Cateau, 26 Aug. following. A prisoner of war in Germany wrote: “Got back to cross road with some stragglers and French wounded, and found Capt. Leader and 50 men with Turner left as rearguard to the battn. Joined them, and we started to gain the rest when suddenly we received news of two battns. of Germans on our right and quite close. Soon after we came under a hot fire from them, and poor Leader was killed.”

=LEAKES, BERTRAM ALFRED=, A.B. (B. 3610), S.S. 979, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEAMAN, JOSEPH HERBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26743, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LEARY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3391), S.S. 101169, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEATHER, CHRISTOPHER=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st. Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 6th and yst. s. of the late Frederick John Leather, of Middleton Hall, Belford, co. Northumberland, J.P., by his wife, Gertrude Elizabeth Sophia (The Friary, Tickhill, co. York), dau. of the Rev. Charles Walters, M.A. Oxon; b. The Friary, Tickhill, 15 July, 1882; educ. Hazelwood, Limpsfield, and privately; received a commission as Lieut. in the 3rd Battn. Durham L.I. (Militia), 23 Dec. 1899; served in South African War, Jan. 1900 to May, 1902, being att. to the Mounted Infantry. For his services he was given a regular commission in the 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He retired in 1904; but on the outbreak of the European War rejoined his old regt., 20 Aug. 1914; went to France, where he was attd. to the 1st Battn., and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 26 Oct. following. Buried behind the trenches, near Neuve Chapelle; unm. He was an enthusiastic motorist and fisherman, and is described as “a good officer and friend.” He was one of six brothers, all of whom served both in South Africa and in the European War. The third and fifth brothers were also killed in action (see their notices), and the second and fourth, Capt. P. C. du Sautoy Leather and Lieut.-Col. Kenneth J. Walters Leather, were severely wounded, and the eldest, Major G. F. T. Leather, Northumberland Fusiliers, is now (1916) on active service.

=LEATHER, EDWARD WILBERFORCE=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt., attd. 2nd King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., 5th s. of the late Frederick John Leather, of Middleton Hall, Belford, co. Northumberland, J.P., by his wife, Gertrude Elizabeth Sophia (The Friary, Tickhill, co. York), dau. of the Rev. Charles Walters, M.A., Oxon; b. The Friary, Tickhill, 23 Nov. 1879; educ. Hazelwood Preparatory School and Wellington College; joined the 3rd Battn. Yorkshire Regt. (5th West Yorks Militia) in 1899, and was promoted Lieut. 13 Dec. 1900; served in the South African War, 1899–1900, 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps and King’s medal with two clasps), and retired in 1904. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he at once rejoined his regt.; was promoted Capt. 1 Feb. 1915; went to the Front, 11 Nov. 1914, attd. to the 2nd King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., and was killed in action at Hill 60, 18 April, 1915; unm.

=LEATHER, ERNEST ARTHUR=, Major, Northumberland Fusiliers, 3rd s. of the late Frederick John Leather, of Middleton Hall, Belford, co. Northumberland, J.P., by his wife, Gertrude Elizabeth Sophia (The Friary, Tickhill, co. York), dau. of the Rev. Charles Walters, M.A. Oxon; b. at South Penge, co. Surrey, 18 Oct. 1868; educ. privately; joined the 5th Militia Battn. of the Northumberland Fusiliers as 2nd Lieut., 23 May, 1900; and served at Malta during the South African War, 1900 (medal), retired with the rank of Capt. in 1910, but on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914 joined his old regt., and obtained his Majority 20 Oct. following; went to France, 11 Jan. 1916, and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 10 Feb. 1916. Buried at La Croix Marechal. He m. at Hexham Abbey, 25 Oct. 1904, Mildred Louise, dau. of Charles Augustus Harrison, of Beacon Grange, Hexham, and had two children: Vivien Mildred, b. 22 March, 1907; and Anne du Sautoy, b. 13 Sept. 1913.

=LEATHWOOD, JOHN PEARSON=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 219283, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LE BRUN, CHRIS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21950, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LECKIE, MALCOLM, D.S.O.=, Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, yr. surviving s. of James Blyth Leckie, of Monkstown, Crowborough, co. Sussex, and Peebles, formerly of Blackheath, co. Kent, by his wife, Selina, dau. of Robert Bousfield; b. Eltham, co. Kent, 18 April, 1880; educ. Blackheath Preparatory School, privately abroad, and Guy’s Hospital; gazetted Lieut., R.A.M.C., 4 Feb. 1908, and promoted Capt. 4 Aug. 1911; was attd. to the Egyptian Army from 1 Feb. 1910 to Feb. 1914, and served in Upper Egypt, the Soudan, and in an expedition up the Blue Nile; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, being attd. to the 1st Northumberland Fusiliers (9th Brigade, 3rd Division), and died at Frameries, near Mons, on the 28th of that month, of wounds received there on the 24th. Buried in the cemetery at Frameries; unm. He was awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 8 Dec. 1914] “for gallant conduct and exceptional devotion to duty in attending to the wounded at Frameries, where he was himself wounded.” Capt. Leckie was one of the best hockey players of his day. He was a member of the Blackheath Hockey Club, and Captain of Guy’s Hospital Club when there; played for the Kent Hockey Club, for the Army, and for England against France. He was a descendant of the Leckies of the Barony of Leckie in Stirlingshire, 1352. One of his ancestors, Sir Walter Leckie, of King Charles VII of France’s Bodyguard, commanded the Scottish troops at the Battle of Lagny on 10 Aug. 1432--the last exploit of the Maid of Orleans--when these troops were instrumental in the utter defeat of the English under the Duke of Bedford. Sir John French, in his first Despatch, said that for the advance from the Marne his left wing rested on Lagny.

=LEDGER, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4248), 220386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEDGER, RAYMOND KIRWOOD=, Lieut., 6th (Reserve) Battn. Rifle Brigade, attd. 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 4th s. of the Rev. Charles George Ledger, M.A., Vicar of St. Paul’s, Tupsley, co. Hereford, by his wife, Isabel Mary, dau. of the Rev. George Henry Kirwood; b. Hereford, 26 Oct. 1891; educ. Marlborough (Scholar), and Wadham College, Oxford (graduated B.A. with honours in Modern History, and was Captain of his college tennis, hockey and Association football teams); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 19 Dec. 1914; went to France 13 Nov. 1914; was attached to 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 13 April, 1915, being shot by a sniper while in the trenches. He was buried the same night near Picantin, side by side with Lieut. Gladstone; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He had done more reconnaissance work than any other officer in the battn. He volunteered for everything possible, and carried out successfully whatever he set himself to do. What he did at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle was characteristic; he volunteered to go and find where the 21st Brigade was when it had got out of touch with his own Brigade (the 22nd). The way he took was sprinkled with the dead bodies of those who had tried, before him, to get across; he managed to do it and returned with valuable information. He was away seven hours.” He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915.

=LEDIARD, FRANCIS=, Private, No. 7948, B Coy., 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of the late Henry Lediard, of Birmingham, Cab Proprietor, formerly a Police Constable in the Birmingham Force, by his wife, Sarah; b. Birmingham, 25 Nov. 1867; educ. St. Thomas Church Schools there; was a Cab Driver in Birmingham, but enlisted in the Royal Scots in 1902; served eight years with the Colours and four years with the Reserve, during which time he held a good position in a motor garage in Birmingham; was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; rejoined his old regt.; went to France about 18 Aug., and was killed in action on the 26th, during the retreat from Mons; unm.

=LEE, ALBERT ALFRED=, Private, No. 2132, A Coy., 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Alfred Lee, of 16, Waltham Road, Southall, Basketmaker, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Ruben Kempster; b. Southall, 29 Dec. 1896; educ. Featherstone Road Boys’ School there; was employed in the Boxmaking Department of Messrs. Otto Monsted, Ltd., Margarine Works, Southall; joined the 1/8th Middlesex Territorials in April, 1913; mobilised from the training camp on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; volunteered for foreign service; went to Gibraltar with his regt. in Sept.; returned to England in Feb. 1915; went to France, 8 March, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, 1 May, 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres; unm. Buried there. Capt. A. H. Woodbridge, Officer Commanding A Coy., wrote: “It is with infinite regret that I write to tell you of your son’s death, which occurred in the fighting near Ypres on 1 May. In your great grief it may be some comfort to you to know that he suffered no pain and met his end nobly doing his duty.”

=LEE, CHARLES=, Private, No. 5086, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., eldest s. of Samuel Herbert Lee, of Alnwick Street, Burnley, by his wife, Margaret Ann, dau. of William Whittaker; b. Burnley, 20 Feb. 1893; educ. St. Peter’s School there; joined 2nd East Lancashires, 16 May, 1912, previously to which he was employed at Towneley Collieries; went to France, 1 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm.

=LEE, CHARLES=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 3954), 155422, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LEE, GEORGE FRANCIS=, Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5473), 301936, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEE, LENNOX CLELAND LEE=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Irish Guards (Special Reserve), elder s. of Lennox Bertram Lee, of How Caple Court, near Ross, co. Hereford, by his wife, Edith, dau. of the late Malcolm MacLellan, of Clairmont Gardens, Glasgow; b. Knutsford, co. Chester, 27 March, 1893; educ. St. David’s, Reigate; Eton, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; and when war broke out was awaiting examination for the Diplomatic Service; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Irish Guards (Special Reserve), 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915. Buried there; unm.

=LEE, LEWIS (DICK)=, L.-Corpl., No. 9915, 6th Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd s. of George Lee, of 26, Trafford Street, Scunthorpe, Steel Worker, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Richard Walker; b. Crowle, co. Lincoln, 23 Sept. 1890; educ. Scunthorpe; was employed in steel works; enlisted after the outbreak of war, Aug. 1914; trained at Frensham Camp, Farnham; went to the Dardanelles in June, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 29 Aug. 1915; unm. Two of his brothers are (1916) on active service.

=LEE, REGINALD=, alias =THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 1574, 5th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Thomas Lee, of Elsted, Sussex, Police Constable, by his wife, Ellen; b. Brighton, 29 Jan. 1895; educ. Amberly, Bognor, and Funtington, co. Sussex; enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery, 9 Nov. 1910, and served three years, taking his discharge while at Simon’s Town, Cape Colony, 9 May, 1913; he then went to Adelaide, and was getting on well when war was declared. He immediately joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and after a short period of training at Melbourne, was sent to Egypt and from there to the Dardanelles, where he was wounded by a shell while fetching up ammunition and died on board the Hospital Ship Royal George, between Alexandria and Malta, 16 May, 1915; unm.

=LEE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9000), S.S. 105811, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEECH, WILLIAM LEONARD BOGHURST=, Rifleman, 1/9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late Arthur Herbert Leech, M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A. (who was in practice at Woolpit and afterwards at Broseley, where he died in 1894), by his wife, Annie Madeline (28, Egerton Gardens, West Ealing, W.), dau. of William Philip Boghurst; b. The White House, Woolpit, co. Suffolk, 22 Nov. 1887; educ. Epsom College; passed his A.R.I.B.A. in June, 1913, and was assistant in the firm of Messrs. Wratten and Godfrey, London; volunteered on the outbreak of war, but was five times refused at the recruiting station on account of wearing glasses, and acted as Special Constable from Aug. to Nov. 1914, when he was at last accepted by Queen Victoria’s Rifles, and joined the 1st Battn.; trained at Crowborough Camp, where he twice refused Corporal’s stripes, as he thought it would keep him in England longer; went to France with a draft, 27 March, 1915; was severely wounded in the head on 8 April, 1915, and died at Overcliff Red Cross Hospital, Westcliff-on-Sea, on 14 May following; unm.

=LEEK, WILLIAM=, A.B., 218963, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEES, EDMUND HASTINGS HARCOURT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Border Regt., s. of Thomas Orde Hastings Lees, of Guilsborough, co. Northampton, Barrister-at-Law, formerly Chief Constable of that county; b. Northampton, 21 Dec. 1875; educ. Marlborough, Royal Academy, Gosport, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Border Regt., 5 Sept. 1896, promoted Lieut. 10 Feb. 1900, and Capt. 24 June, 1906; was Adjutant to a Territorial Battn. (The Artists’ Rifles), 19 Oct. 1909 to 20 Oct. 1912; served in the South African War, 1899–1901; took part in operations in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1899; in Natal, 1899; relief of Ladysmith, including actions at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5 to 7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights (14 to 27 Feb. 1900), and action at Pieter’s Hill; operations in the Orange Free State, April and May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal, June, 1900; in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July, 1900; in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to Nov. 1900, in Orange River Colony, May, 1900; in Cape Colony, north of Orange River, May, 1900; in the Transvaal from 30 Nov. 1900 (was wounded and mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], received Queen’s medal with six clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Sept. 1914 to 26 Oct. 1914, was killed in action at Ruiseek, near Ypres (whilst defending Calais) on the latter date. An officer referring to this action wrote: “Our men fought desperately from nine o’clock till six, when the Germans withdrew, and our little remnant was ordered to retire. We have only about 400 men left out of over 1,000 and hardly any N.C.O’s.”

=LEES, PERCY BERESFORD=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., s. of Col. Charles Percy Lees, of Herne Lodge, Oundle, co. Northampton, by his wife, Anna Madeleine, dau. of Edward Whetham Allpress; b. Newton Hall, Middlewich, co. Chester, 12 June, 1890; educ. Wellington College and the School of Mines, Camborne, where he took his degree; was engaged in mining in Canada when war broke out, and at once returned to England, applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Northamptons, 14 Oct. 1914; went to France, 1 March, 1915, where he joined the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. Buried at Neuve Chapelle; unm.

=LEES, THOMAS PRIOR=, Major, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Alfred Lees, by his wife, Rosa Matilda, dau. of Thomas Flood; b. at the Old Priory, Bedford, 3 Sept. 1874; educ. Bedford Modern School and Clare College, Cambridge (M.A. and 8th Senior Optime). Entered the Home Civil Service, Senior Division, and was Assistant Secretary, Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens. Joined the old Victoria and St. George’s Rifles, 22 May, 1889; became Capt., March, 1905, and Major, 15 Aug. 1913; obtained Special Certificate, Chelsea Barracks, and passed the Army examinations for Field Rank (distinguished). He volunteered with the officers of his regt. for active service during the South African War, but only a limited number were required, and he remained in England. Volunteered for the present war, landed in France, 5 Nov. 1915. The battn. went straight into the trenches and was afterwards attached to 13th Infantry Brigade. On 17 April the brigade was detailed for the capture of “Hill 60.” The fighting was so severe during the 17th, 18th and 19th that the West Kents, Scottish Borderers, Yorks L.I and West Riding Regts., who had fought magnificently, were withdrawn and another brigade brought up. The Queen Victoria’s had been occupied in carrying munitions to the front trenches, but miraculously escaped with few casualties. They were not relieved with their brigade. On the night of the 20th the enemy took the trenches on the top of the hill, and Major Lees counter-attacked with two companies, the rest of the battn. being held in reserve in dug-outs near the foot of the hill, where they were subjected to a terrible bombardment lasting for hours. Major Lees’ night assault was successful. He then found he was the senior officer left alive on the hill and reorganised the defence. The German artillery and machine-gun fire was continuous, save when they launched repeated infantry attacks against our trenches. About 5 a.m. on the 21st, Major Lees had gone to the most exposed trench held by the Bedford Regt., in which there were nearly 300 of our killed and wounded. The enemy were assaulting, showering grenades into the trench and sweeping the parapet with machine-gun fire. It was at this critical moment that he was shot through the head and heart, only 10 yards from the Germans, while shouting orders to hold on. He fell off the parapet into the arms of a Sergt. of the Bedfords and never spoke again. The N.C.Os. and riflemen were heroic. Out of the 150 men with Major Lees all were killed and wounded, except 20 who were still holding on with 2nd Lieut. Wolley, V.C., when relieved by the Devons and Camerons. Lieut.-Col. Shipley, C.M.G., wrote to his brother, Major Lees, late 3rd South Wales Borderers: “He died like a hero, having retaken and made good a position of primary importance which the enemy were on the point of re-occupying. His last gallant charge was, as he would have wished it, to the assistance of his county regt., the Bedfordshires. The last words I heard him speak as he led his company off into the trenches were: ‘Now, remember, if anyone is wounded, the others must carry on. If I am hit, go on.’ It was his initiative and courageous behaviour that has enabled us to hold on to the position. I cannot even attempt to tell you what a stupendous loss his is to the regt. and myself, but we must console ourselves by remembering and trying to emulate your brother’s unswerving devotion to duty and the unflinching gallantry shown by him in all times of stress; his life so earnestly devoted to others will live in our memories for all time.” He was buried in the larch wood near Hill 60.

=LEGGAT, WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 7th Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (T.F.), eldest s. of James Leggat, of 89, Wilson Street, Glasgow, Wholesale Provision Merchant, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Robert Carswell, of Duncarnock, Newton Mearns; b. Strathbungo, Glasgow, 29 Jan. 1883; educ. Bellahouston Academy, Glasgow; was a Wholesale Provision Merchant in Glasgow, served four years with the Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers until they were disbanded on the organisation of the T.F.; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 7th Cameronians, 21 March, 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for the Dardanelles, May, 1915, and died at Malta, 2 July following, of wounds received in the Allied attack on the Krithia-Achi Baba position, Gallipoli, on 28 June. Buried Pieta Cemetery, Malta; unm.

=LEGGATT, EDWARD=, E.R.A., 1st Class (Pensioner), 159975, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEGGE, RONALD GEORGE=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., 7th and yst. s. of the late Hon. Charles Gounter Legge, H.M. Inspector of Constabulary, by his wife, Mary, eldest dau. of the late Very Rev. Thomas Garnier, Dean of Lincoln, and grandson of William, 4th Earl of Dartmouth; b. Southgate, co. Middlesex, 4 July, 1878; educ. Sherborne School; served with the 59th Coy. Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War, 1900–1 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Devons, 23 April, 1902; and promoted Lieut. 13 March 1906, and Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; was Adjutant to the Territorial Force, 30 April, 1910, to 29 Oct. 1913; went to France, 5 Nov. 1914, and was killed near Neuve Chapelle, 18 Dec. following. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth, 19 Nov. 1910, Phyllis Mildred, dau. of the Rev. Mortimer Ford, of Yarcombe, co. Devon, and had a son, Rupert Mortimer, b. 8 Sept. 1911.

=LEGGE, STAFFORD HENRY=, Private, No. 847, 16th (Service) Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 1 March, 1915.

=LEGGETT, ALAN RANDALL AUFRÈRE=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Prince of Wales’s North Staffordshire Regt., yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. Frederick Octavius Leggett, of Underhill House, Cheriton, co. Kent, late Army Ordnance Dept., by his wife, Maria (Minnie), dau. of Thomas Browning; b. Delce Grange, Rochester, co. Kent, 31 May, 1893; educ. Oxford Preparatory School, Tonbridge School, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he was Hon. King’s Cadet, 1911–12; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st North Staffords, 4 Sept. 1912, and was promoted Lieut. 18 Sept. 1914; went to France, 4 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches near Armentières, during the First Battle of Ypres, 31 Oct. 1914. Buried St. Martin’s Churchyard, Cheriton, Kent; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914–14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], in respect of an action on 20 Oct. 1914, when he was sent with his platoon to support the Leinster Regt., which was hard pressed, and by “his steadiness, good leadership, and well considered action held up the enemy’s attack and enabled the offensive to be resumed.” His commanding officer wrote: “He did his duty cheerfully and fully, without a thought of self.”

=LEGGETT, GEORGE=, Stoker, R.N.R., 2068U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEGGETT, GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./15320, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEIGH, ALBERT EDWARD=, L.-Corpl., No. 9814, 1st Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 Sept. 1915.

=LEIGH, CHANDOS, D.S.O.=, Major, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, elder s. of the late Hon. Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, K.C., K.C.B., by his wife, Katherine Fanny (Knuston Hall, Irchester, Northants; 45, Upper Grosvenor Street, W.), dau. of the late James Rigby, of Moss House, Lancashire, D.L., and gdson. of Chandos, 1st Lord Leigh; b. 29 Aug. 1873; educ. Harrow and Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, from the Militia, 29 May, 1895, and promoted Lieut. 22 Sept. 1897, Capt. 1 April, 1901, and Major, 17 June, 1914; served (1) in the South African War, 1900–2, employed with the Mounted Infantry; took part in the advance on, and relief of, Kimberley; operations in Orange Free State, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal, May–June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill; operations in Orange River Colony, 1900, including actions at Wittebergen and Bothaville; and in operations in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901]. Queen’s medal with five clasps, D.S.O.); (2) with the Egyptian Army, 17 April, 1902, to 1912; took part in Bahr-el-Ghazal Expedition against the Nyam-Nyam Tribes 1905–6 (Egyptian medal with clasp; Medijidich and Osmanich Orders); and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 13 Aug. 1914; was reported missing and wounded after the Battle of Mons, 23 Aug. 1914, and died at Boussu shortly afterwards. When last seen, though severely wounded, he told his men to go on and never mind him, as the enemy were in great strength, and it was imperative to get back to blow up the canal bridge against their advance. Major Leigh was a fine horseman and polo player, winning his regimental cup the year he joined the Army. He was well known with the Meath, Pytchley and other packs, won honours in the open jumping at the Dublin Horse Show, and headed the winning record for steeplechase riders, both amateurs and professional, on the Cairo Turf. He m. 6 June, 1912, Winifred Madeline, dau. of the late Rt. Hon. Arthur Frederick Jeffreys, of Burkham, Hampshire, P.C., M.P.; s.p.

=LEIGH, CHARLES=, Petty Officer, 174539, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LEIGH, EDWARD=, Major, 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., yr. s. of the late Francis Augustine Leigh, of Rosegarland, co. Wexford, Ireland, J.P., D.L., formerly Lieut., 10th Hussars, by his wife, Augustine, dau. of Charles Perrier, of Metz, Lorraine; b. Rosegarland, 25 Aug. 1867; educ. St. Columba’s, co. Dublin; gazetted 2nd Lieut., from the Militia, to the Hampshire Regt., 9 May, 1888; and promoted Lieut. 4 Jan. 1890, Capt. 22 April, 1894, and Major, 22 July, 1905; joined the 2nd Battn. at Chatham in 1888, but transferred in 1897 to the 1st Battn. then serving on the Indian Frontier at Mooltan, Lundi Kotal, Peshawar, etc.; volunteered for active service in the South African War, in which he was employed with the Mounted Infantry, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to Jan. 1902; in Orange River Colony, Dec. 1900 to Oct. 1901; in Cape Colony, Feb. to March, 1901; commanded the 7th (Hampshire) Mounted Infantry in the operations against De Wet, until he was severely wounded at Onverwacht, near Ermelo, 4 Jan. 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 25 April, 1902], Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); was Adjutant to 4th (Volunteer) Battn. Hampshire Regt., from 20 May, 1904, to 21 July, 1905, when, on promotion to the rank of Major, he rejoined 2nd Battn. as second in command and served with it (temporarily commanding at various times during 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914, and at the time of his death) whilst in Bermuda, South Africa, Mauritius, India and Gallipoli; left for the Dardanelles, 19 March, 1915; took part in the landing there on 25 April, and was killed in action during the Turkish attack on the Allied trenches S.W. of Krithia, Gallipoli, on the night of 1–2 May, 1915. Buried close to where he fell. Major Leigh m. at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, 11 April, 1912, Mary Meade (Ladies’ Empire Club, 69, Grosvenor Street, W.), only dau. of the Hon. Sir John Buchanan, of Clareinch, Claremont, South Africa, LL.D., Knight of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem, and had a son, Edward Buchanan, b. at Vacoas, Mauritius, 19 June, 1913.

=LEIGH, EDWARD HENRY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, yr. s. of the late Hon. Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, K.C., K.C.B. (who died suddenly, 18 May, 1915, three days after hearing of the death of his last surviving son), by his wife, Katherine Fanny (Knuston Hall, Irchester, Northants; 45, Upper Grosvenor Street, W.), dau. of the late James Rigby, of Moss House, Lancashire, D.L., and grandson of Chandos, 1st Lord Leigh; b. 14 July, 1888; educ. Harrow and Cambridge; gazetted Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, 17 April, 1913; left with his regt. for France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in the attack upon the Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915; unm. Lieut. Leigh was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

=LEIGH, THOMAS HORATIO ALFRED=, Private, No. 5624, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. s. of Samuel Leigh, of Jubilee Terrace, New Road, Armitage, co. Stafford, Potter, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Dissington, of Cobridge, Staffs.; b. Armitage, 25 May, 1886; educ. Elementary School there; enlisted 21 July, 1904; served in Egypt, 16 Jan. 1908, to 23 March, 1911, where he was attached to the Camel Corps, and was one of a company sent up the Nile to suppress a native rising; passed into the Reserve, 20 July, 1912; called up on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 21 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914; unm. Buried on the battlefield. He had two good conduct badges, and two first-class badges for shooting, and had passed classes in swimming.

=LEIVERS, JOHN ROBINSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5638), 229452 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LE MARCHAND, JOHN WHARTON JONES=, Lieut., 56th Rifles, Frontier Force, Indian Army, attd. 1/6th Gurkha Rifles, s. of Walter John Le Marchand, District Supt. of Punjab Police, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of J........ G...... Jones, P.W.D., Punjab, India; b. at Gujranwalla, Punjab, 30 Dec. 1887; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.), 25 Jan. 1908; posted to Indian Army, 14 March, 1909, and promoted Lieut., 25 April, 1910; served on N.W. Frontier of India, 1908, including the operations in the Mohmand country and engagement at Mutta (medal with clasp), and with the Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, 1915; killed in action at Sari Bagh, 9 Aug. 1915; buried on the field. Col. Sir Cecil Allanson, commanding the 1/6th Gurkha Rifles, wrote: “Your son was killed with this regt. on 9 Aug. Every single officer in it was killed or wounded; he only joined it about 20 July and we only came under fire after a three weeks’ rest on 5 Aug. The following brief report is what the regt. did and what I have said (in my diary) about your son. No words of mine can express my admiration for his gallantry, his magnificent compliance with difficult orders and his superb control of men whom he hardly knew and who hardly knew him. His death is an example to all on the Peninsula.... The following are the entries referred to: ‘7 Aug.--Advance towards the Ridge 791, 6th Gurkhas leading, Le Marchand leading them; reach a height about 450. Few casualties through skilful use of ground. 8 Aug.--Advance to Hill 791 to within 100 yards. No digging in took place as ground extremely hard and we dare not move. Through the night we had to retain an immensely difficult position with the Turks right above us, every man in the regt. in the firing line. 9 Aug.--Attacked at dawn on the portion of the Ridge 791 in front of us, which was successfully carried, though subsequently evacuated. The position of the night before was held throughout the day.’ The reference made to Lieut. Le Marchand in report sent in to 90th Indian Brigade was as follows: ‘Lieut. Le Marchand led the leading double company to the attack on 7 and 8 Aug.; he had only been with the regt. 15 days and did not know the Goorkha language. His great personal gallantry gave him an extraordinary influence over his men, and he stopped two further rushes of the enemy on the night of the 8th and 9th in a most gallant manner. He remained on the Ridge 791 till the very last and was killed gallantly tackling single handed a large number of Turks.’ The only officer actually unwounded at this moment was Capt. Phipson, I.M.S., who succeeded in obtaining your son’s body and gave it a proper burial that night as near the spot he died as possible, and we have very carefully marked the position.... His death was absolutely instantaneous and painless, as he was shot through the base of the brain”; and in his report to the Colonel of the 5/6th Rifles he said: “Le Marchand’s conduct on the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th was superb. We were very short of officers, and during that time he never had a wink of sleep and very little food or water. No commanding officer could have been better served. No regt. could have wished for a better officer to maintain its reputation. We alone succeeded in getting on the key of the local position, and we fought for three days and three nights and were never for one second out of fire throughout that time. We lost 100 per cent. of our officers and 45 per cent. of our fighting strength in men. It would be a long story to give you all the details, but before Le Marchand died (a few minutes) he placed his foot on the long ridge which surrounds this Peninsula, and had we been able to stay there it would have been splendid. It was no fault of ours whatever that we could not. Gen. Godley, in congratulating the regt., said that had Le Marchand lived he would have recommended him for the V.C.” In his official report of the battle, Sir Cecil wrote: “Lieut. J. W. J. Le Marchand, 56th Rifles, Frontier Force, attd. 1/6th Gurkha Rifles, led the leading double company to the attack on the 8th and 9th. He had only been with the regt. 15 days and did not know the language. His great personal gallantry gave him an extraordinary influence over his men, and he stopped a forward rush of the enemy on the night of the 8th and 9th in a most gallant manner. He was shot dead immediately after landing his company up on the ridge after two days and two nights continuous fighting, during the whole of which time a steady advance was made. No officer could have done finer work than he did and the regt. is deeply indebted to him for his great personal gallantry. I can only thank your regt. for sending us so fine an officer and regret extremely that he should have lost his life with us.”

=LE MARCHANT, LOUIS ST. GRATIEN, D.S.O.=, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 6th and yst. s. of the Rev. Robert Le Marchant, Rector of Little Risington, by his wife, Eliza Catherine, dau. of D. Tupper, of Guernsey; b. Little Risington, co. Gloucester, 2 Dec. 1866; educ. Somerset College, Bath, and privately; gazetted Lieut. to the East Lancashire Regt., from the Gloucestershire Militia, 10 Nov. 1886, and promoted Capt. 11 Dec. 1895, Major, 11 April, 1906, and Lieut.-Col. 23 Sept. 1913; was Adjutant, 1st Battn., 29 Oct. 1898 to 28 Oct. 1902; Brigade Major, India, 9 July, 1906, to 1 March, 1908, and D.A.A.G., India, 2 March, 1908, to 3 July, 1910; served (1) with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895 (medal with clasp); (2) in the South African War, 1900–2; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Karee Siding, Vet River (5–6 May), and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal, May and 30 Nov. 1900 to Oct. 1901, including action near Johannesburg; and operations in Orange River Colony, Oct. 1901 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps, King’s medal with two clasps, D.S.O.); and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug. to 9 Sept. 1914 (mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French, 9 Oct. [London Gazette, 18 Oct.] 1914), and was killed in action at La Ferté sous Jouarre, during the Battle of the Marne, 9 Sept. 1914; unm.

=LE MASURIER, JOHN EDWARD=, Gunner, No. 2708, 3rd Brigade Ammunition Column, 3rd F.A. Brigade, 1st Australian Division, 2nd s. of Charles Henry John Le Masurier, of 3, Elizabeth Terrace, Tower Road, Jersey, Seaman, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Philip Edward Beaugié; b. St. Heliers, Jersey, 19 Aug. 1889; educ. National Boys’ School there; went to Australia, 19 Aug. 1910, and worked as a Steam Navvy on the North Coast Railway at Telegraph Point, N.S.W.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the 3rd Ammunition Column, Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt, 18 Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles in April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 29 May following, while attached to the Indian Mountain Battery; unm. A comrade wrote: “He was killed in action on the evening of 29 May by a shrapnel shell. There was only a small party of us together. We were attached to an Indian Mountain Battery looking after field telephones and doing such work as the Indians could not do, and they could not speak English. I cannot say how sorry we were to lose Jack, as he was one of the best--in fact, what we call, a white man. He was recommended for the D.C.M. for keeping up communications under heavy fire the morning of 29 May, but do not know if it ever went through. We buried him at night on the top of a high headland overlooking the sea at Anzac. The head is known as Pluggy’s Plateau, and was the first place taken on the morning of the Australian landing.”

=LE MESURIER, ALFRED CLIVE=, Lieut., 12th Indian Cavalry, attd. 33rd Q.V.L.H., yst. s. of the late Col. Andrew Alfred Le Mesurier, C.B., Commandant of the 8th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., by his wife, Kate Josephine (Jersey, Channel Islands), dau. of William Henry Vyse, of Cornwall; b. Weymouth, co. Dorset, 8 Sept. 1888; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, and Wellington College, co. Bucks; settled in Upper Assam as a tea planter; joined the Assam Valley Light Horse; obtained a commission in the 12th Indian Cavalry after the outbreak of war, 30 Oct. 1914; went to Mesopotamia early in Feb., attd. to the 33rd Q.V.L.H., and was killed in action there, 29 April, 1915; unm. He was buried beside Major M. H. Anderson, 33rd Q.V.O.L.C., and Lieut. Bailward, 26th K.G.O.L.C., at Brackey, some 30 miles from Ahwaz, near the Karum River, in Persia. It appears that two squadrons were sent out on a reconnaissance some 15 miles from camp. They were met by Arabs, who pretended to be friendly, and warned them that the Turkish army were only three hours’ march away and to go back. They went back about one mile and watered their horses, and stayed there for some time. When the squadrons had finished watering their commander mounted the men and, wheeling them about, marched them off. The hostile Arabs, who had been collecting round under the cloak of the friendlies, opened fire. More mounted Arabs closed in, and Lieut. Le Mesurier was hit and fell from his horse, killed.

=LEMMON, MONTAGUE HAGUE=, Private, No. 1001, Honourable Artillery Coy. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late John Lemmon, of Chichester, by his wife, Martha Elizabeth (afterwards wife of Arthur William Wyatt, of South Gate), dau. of Jonas Hague; b. Chichester, 23 June, 1887; educ. Prebendal School there; was a member of the London Staff of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance, Co., Ltd.; volunteered and joined the H.A.C. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; trained at Headquarters and Aveley Park; went to France in Sept. 1914, and died at Bailleul, 8 June, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres on the 5th; unm. Buried at Bailleul.

=LEMON, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1375S, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LENCH, JAMES SYDNEY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 93), 145290 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEONARD, ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5112), 207650, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEONARD, THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16977, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LE PAGE, EDMOND JOHN=, A.B., B. 4180, S.S. 1351, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LE SUEUR, CLEMENT GEORGE=, Private, No. 3158, 1/5th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only child of Clement George Le Sueur, of 155, Chevening Road, Brondesbury Park, N.W., Clerk in the War Office, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Thomas Cull, and grandson of Clement Le Sueur, late of Jersey; b. Hampstead, N.W., 23 March, 1893; educ. Kilburn Grammar School and King’s College, London; was a Clerk in the Metropolitan Water Board; volunteered and joined the Seaforth Highlanders, 7 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action while on sentry duty in the trenches near Laventie, 17 July, 1915; unm. His company officer wrote: “I hear from his comrades in the ranks that he was a fine soldier, and that his never failing good spirits helped others over the many depressing times we have here”; and the Church of England Chaplain: “It fell to my lot to lay him to rest in the little soldiers’ cemetery [by the roadside, Rue de Bacquerot], not far from Laventie. I know how greatly he is missed and mourned.” A comrade also wrote: “It should be some consolation to you to know that Clem’s high character and good spirits stood the very searching test that this life out here enforces with complete success. His loss was keenly felt by all who had been brought into contact with him”; and the magazine “Aquarius” referred to him as follows: “Mr. Le Sueur entered the service (Metropolitan Water Board) in 1910. He possessed marked ability and great business aptitude and a successful future seemed in store for him.”

=LESTER, JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 283924, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LETFORD, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3739 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEVERINGTON, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 2677, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LE VESCONTE, JOHN THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, 302978, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEVI, KEITH MAURICE=, Capt., A.A.M.C., attached as Regimental Medical Officer to the 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt. 29th Division, yst. s. of Joseph Levi, of Liverpool Buildings, 153, William Street, Melbourne, formerly of Lulinghi, Princes Street, St. Kilda, J.P., by his wife, Katherine S. dau. of Maurice C. Davies, and gdson. of the late Hon. Nathaniel Levi, M.L.C.; b. St. Kilda, Victoria, 6 Oct. 1890. He was educated at Cumloden and Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, afterwards proceeding to the Melbourne University. He was a student at Ormond College and took his M.B. degree in April, 1914. Whilst at the University he took great interest in the Sports Union and was for some time Capt. of B grade hockey team and played in inter-varsity matches. He was also a member of the University Rifles. After graduating in medicine he was appointed a Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital, and later on joined the Staff of Perth Public Hospital. Volunteering for active service on the third day after war was declared, he served as Medical Officer at Blackboy Camp, W.A. and afterwards at the Broadmeadows Camp, Victoria. He left Victoria on Feb. 6 for Egypt, with the Light Horse reinforcements, and was stationed at the First Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, for two months. Proceeding thence to the Dardanelles he was for a time on hospital ships bringing wounded back from Lemnos to Alexandria. He was sent to organise a rest camp on the island of Imbros, and it was from there on June 29th he was ordered to Cape Hellas, and attd. to the 2nd Hampshire Regt. 29th Division, as Regimental Medical Officer. Major J. G. Bell, R.A.M.C., Acting Director of Medical Services, 29th Division, wrote: “I am writing to you about your son’s death. Being separated as he was from his own Australian Troops, it is possible that no one else may write you any particulars. He joined this division (29th) and was placed in medical charge of the 2nd Hampshire Regt. This suited him; he liked his work and became most popular with the regt. He was one of the best regimental Medical Officers in the Division. On the 6th of this month [Aug.] the brigade to which his regiment belonged became engaged and suffered severe casualties. He worked splendidly just behind the firing line all that afternoon and all night getting back the wounded, dressing and attending to them. At about 6.30 on the morning of the 7th when his work was practically over, and he was standing with another officer, a Turkish shrapnel shell fell close to him killing him dead, together with some five other men. He was buried where he fell, next to a Captain of the Hants, with two officers of the Essex Regt. close by. He is buried in an open nullah. I saw his grave this morning, and a suitable cross is being put up this afternoon by the regt. Your son’s death is a great loss; he took such an interest in his work, was so keen about it, and had done so well”; and in a letter to his mother, Lieut. and Q.M. A. Smith, of the Hampshire Regt. wrote: “I was within two yards of your son when he was killed. I am the Quartermaster of this Battn. and knew your son more intimately than anyone else in the Battn. as we were almost always together. All the officers and men liked and respected him for his calmness and coolness in all the trials and dangers of this campaign; I am asked to convey to you and yours the sincere condolence of the officers of this Battn. in your great bereavement, and I am sure it will be of great comfort to you to know that he was killed instantaneously and did not suffer any pain. On Aug. 6 an attack was made by our Brigade on the Turkish trenches, your son being in the same place as myself. When the attack was launched about 3.45 p.m. the wounded began to come in and they came through the Battn. Dressing Station all night, about 220 officers, non-commissioned officers and men were dressed (their wounds being attended to) and sent down to the base, your son working continuously all through the night. At 6.45 a.m. we were ordered to move back and a fresh battn. was sent to relieve us, your son and myself were having some breakfast before starting (as the dressing station was being taken over and cleaned up), when a high explosive shell came from the enemy and exploded close to us, killing three, and wounding four, all of whom had been attending on the wounded. Your son was amongst the killed, a piece of the shell killing him instantaneously. He was buried in a separate grave close to the spot where he was killed, a stone with his name marking the spot.” Col. A. Thackeray Beckwith, Commanding Officer 2nd Hampshire Regt., also wrote: “Though I was not present on 7 Aug. when he was killed I heard exactly about it from Lt. & Q.M. A. Smith of my Battn. who was with him, and I know the spot intimately. Your son had worked like a Trojan, attending to the very large number of wounded in the attack of 6 Aug., and with the Quartermaster and about five other N.C.Os. and men was curiously enough in a hollow just behind the front trench where no shells had ever pitched before, when two shells came down quite close to each other, a piece of one hitting your son in the chest, killing him instantaneously by shock and not by laceration. His loss was a very great one to us, he had done sterling work for the Battn. and in spite of the danger was never absent from our trenches, used most conscientiously to go round them seeing to all the sanitation, attending the wounded, etc. And on one particular occasion went out of his way to help bring in a wounded Canadian officer from a dangerously exposed place.” Capt. Keith M. Levi was mentioned in General Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916]. He was unm.

=LEVINGE, SIR RICHARD WILLIAM=, 10th Bart. of Knockdrin, D.L., co. Westmeath, Lieut., 1st Life Guards, eldest s. of Sir William Levinge, of Knockdrin Castle, 9th Bart., by his wife, Emily Judith (Knockdrin Castle, Westmeath), 2nd dau. of Sir Richard Sutton, 4th Bart.; b. Ryde, I.W., 12 July, 1878; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 8th Hussars, 27 May, 1899; transferred to South Irish Horse and served with them in the South African War, 1900–1; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, and in those in the Transvaal, Dec. 1900 to Jan. 1901, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He succeeded his father 17 April, 1900, and on his return from South Africa retired from the Army, but offered his services again immediately the European War broke out, and was gazetted Lieut. to the Reserve of Officers, 8th Hussars, 19 Aug. 1914, and posted to the 1st Life Guards, 1 Sept. following. He went to France, 4 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914. Col. Stanley, 1st Life Guards, wrote: “The trenches were very small, and your husband was passing from one to another when he was shot dead by a bullet in the neck. I need hardly tell you the awful shock it has given the squadron officers and men, and the loss of one to whom we were devoted will remain with us for ever. Your husband knew no fear, and was always so ready and willing to help me in any way he could with the squadron.” He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, W., 15 Feb. 1910, Irene Marguerite (10, Hans Place, London, S.W.), elder dau. of the late John Henry Charles Pix, of Bradford, Yorks, and had an only son, now Sir Richard Vere Henry Levinge, of Knockdrin Castle, 11th Bart., b. 30 April, 1911.

=LEVISTON, JOSEPH JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 12740, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEVITT, LOFTUS GEORGE=, Leading Seaman, 218265, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEWCOCK, ALGERNON GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16871, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEWES, ERNEST=, Chief Stoker, 276271, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEWES, PRICE VAUGHAN, C.B., D.S.O.=, Capt., R.N., 2nd s. of Col. John Lewes, of Llanlear, co. Cardigan, The Buffs (who served through the Crimean War), by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of the Rev. Charles Griffith; b. Llanlear aforesaid, 27 Feb. 1865; educ. Reading, H.M.S. Britannia, and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; entered the Royal Navy, 1878; and became Lieut. 1888; Commander 1898, and Capt. 1905. He served in China, 1885–88, and in the operations against the Somalis in British East Africa for the murder of Mr. Hamilton, an officer of the East African Company, and the relief of two Englishmen on board the s.s. Kenia in the Juba River, and as Sub-Lieut. of H.M.S. Blanche, landed at Kimayu, Zanzibar, in command of 40 volunteers from that ship and so successfully led this small force, exposed as it was to the attack of 150 riflemen and 600 spearmen, that they captured and destroyed the village of Magareda, up the Juba River, succoured the Englishmen and struck so decisive a blow against the enemy that a punitive expedition was rendered unnecessary. For this service he received the D.S.O., and the general Africa medal with Juba River clasp, and was officially thanked by Government. In 1898, being in command of H.M.S. Hazard and Senior Naval Official, Crete, he landed during the Moslem attack on 6 Sept., and after heavy fighting rescued and brought off the Col. commanding the troops and his soldiers, and for this he was again thanked by Government, and promoted Commander. From 1907 to 1909, he served on the Pacific Station, and was afterwards Deputy Commissioner, Western Pacific, and was officially thanked for his services as such by the New Zealand Government. He received the C.B. on the King’s birthday, 1913. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he was on sick leave, but immediately resumed command of his ship, H.M.S. Superb, but in the beginning of Nov. was invalided home and died in the Naval Hospital at Devonport, 10 Nov. 1914. He m. in London, 30 April, 1894, Anne Josephine, dau. of Lieut.-Col. J. G. M. Tulloch, 21st (Royal Scots) Regt., and had a son, Martyn Vaughan, Lieut., 3rd Welsh Regt., attd. R.F.C., b. 21 April, 1895; killed in flying accident, 15 July, 1916.

=LEWINGTON, ALFRED CHARLES=, Private, No. 1637, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Lewington, of 14, Eresbury Road, Kilburn, Lamplighter; b. Kilburn; joined the Royal Fusiliers about 1912, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915. Three of his brothers served with the Expeditionary Force.

=LEWINGTON, WILLIAM=, Yeoman of Signals, 188764, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEWIS, ALFRED EDWARD=, Leading Stoker, 302447, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LEWIS, CHARLES VERNON=, Lieut., 11th (Service) Battn. (2nd Gwent), South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of Thomas Charles Lewis, of The Sycamores, Conway, by his wife, Catherine Maria Lloyd, dau. of Thomas Lloyd Roberts, of Garthgyman, near Ruthen; b. Frondeg, Bangor, 14 March, 1883; educ. Rydal Mount School, Colwyn Bay; served three years with the Denbighshire Yeomanry, and afterwards represented Messrs. Harrisons and Crosfields, Tea Merchants, London; joined the South Wales Borderers after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914, and died at Weymouth, 18 Aug. 1915, after an operation for appendicitis, contracted while in training. He m. at Langbank, Renfrewshire, 16 June, 1915, Edith Isabel Collingwood, dau. of the Rev. Archibald B. D. Alexander, D.D., of Langbank; s.p.

=LEWIS, DAVID=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9616), S.S. 106974, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEWIS, DAVID WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4638), S.S. 1630, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEWIS, EDWIN CHARLES=, Petty Officer, 195389 (Chatham), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LEWIS, GEORGE ARTHUR DUNALLEY=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder s. of Col. Arthur William Drummond Lewis, of 31, Midvale Road, Jersey, by his wife, Emilie Mary, dau. of Mark Morris, and grandson of the late Hon. Arthur James Lewis, Advocate-General of Bombay, ..., member of Council, ..., and of Guestling Lodge, Sussex; b. St. Helens, Hastings, 24 Jan. 1895; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, where he was for four years a member of the O.T.C.; was employed as a Clerk in the Capital and Counties Bank at Weymouth, but on the outbreak of war obtained a commission in the South Staffords, 3 Oct. 1914; trained at Jersey; passed through a machine-gun course during the winter and was machine-gun instructor to the battn.; went to France in May, 1915, when he was attached to the 1st Royal Warwicks, and was killed in action, 8 July, 1915, just after having got his men into position to go to the relief of the Lancashire Fusiliers; unm. He was buried on the banks of the Yser Canal, north of Ypres and south of Pilken. The officer commanding the 1st Warwicks wrote: “We all admired him, he had made himself very popular and we all deplore his loss. His Adjutant, Company Commander and servant all speak in the highest praise of his character, bravery and cheerfulness when under fire, and that he was a fine soldier, and beloved by all ranks.”

=LEWIS, HARRY FRANCIS=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3891), Ch./174438, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEWIS, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6215), 187617, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEWIS, HENRY EDWARD=, A.B., J. 20038, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LEWIS, HERBERT BENJAMIN THOMAS=, Corpl., No. 16296, 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late Robert Lewis, of Hackleton, Northampton, Farmer, by his wife, Mary, 2nd dau. of the late Benjamin (and Elizabeth) Thomas, of Waunfawr Farm, Llanboidy, near Whitland, South Wales; b. Whitland, 22 March, 1879; educ. Northampton Grammar School; was Managing Clerk for Mr. J. S. Campion, Auctioneer and Valuer, Northampton; enlisted in the 3rd Northamptonshire Regt. 31 Oct. 1914, afterwards transferring to the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 2 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915; unm. Lieut. Haldane wrote: “I am sorry to say that details as to what happened on 9 May are very hard to get, but I do know that Herbert B. T. Lewis advanced with his company in the attack. They were the leading company, and he with many of his company were caught by machine-gun fire, and were killed whilst advancing to the enemy’s trench. I was very sorry to lose him, as I had already noticed him when inspecting his company, and had realised what a very excellent N.C.O. he was, and had hoped he would have been spared to rise to much higher rank, which he deserved.”

=LEWIS, ISAAC=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10496), S.S. 108181, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LEWIS, JAMES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7473), S.S. 102603, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LEWIS, JOSEPH=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 7208, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LEWIS, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, No. 2019, 5th Battn. Welsh Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Daniel Lewis, by his wife, Mary (26, Castle Street, Dowlais); b. Dowlais, co. Glamorgan, 12 Aug. 1892; educ. Elementary Schools there, and was a Blacksmith at the Dowlais Iron Works; served with the Welsh Territorials for four years, and rejoined, 10 June, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of the European War; went to the Dardanelles, 14 July, 1915, and was killed in action there, 2 Sept. following; unm.

=LIBBITER, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9591, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LICKFOLD, EDWARD=, Private, No. 2160, 11th Battn. 3rd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of John Lickfold, of Billinghurst, co. Sussex, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Henry Criswick; b. Southampton, 27 Feb. 1878; educ. Wokingham Church School; went to Perth, West Australia, in 1907, and joined the Australian Imperial Force early in 1915; left for Egypt; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 6 Aug. 1915; unm.

=LIDBETTER, ALBERT WILLIAM=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24716 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of William Lidbetter, of 13, Holden Cottages, Broadwater, near Worthing; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LIDDELL, CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3631), 186862, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LIDDLE, FRANK CHARLES=, Private, No. 9166, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 26 March, 1915, of enteric fever, while on active service.

=LIEBERT, FREDERICK ALEXANDER CHARLES=, Capt., North Somerset Yeomanry (T.F.), only s. of John Frederick Liebert, by his wife, Lena Henrietta, dau. of Jean Spreet de Bay, and grandson of Edmund Liebert, of Swinton Hall, co. Lancaster; b. Bruges, Belgium, 9th March, 1882; educ. there, and Beaumont College, and on leaving there received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, from which he retired in 1905, and joined the North Somerset Yeomanry (T.F.), as a 2nd Lieut., 20 Dec. 1905, being promoted Capt., 5 Aug. 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action during the First Battle of Ypres, 17 Nov. following. Buried in Ypres Cemetery. The particular action in which he lost his life was the first action in which the North Somerset Yeomanry took a prominent part, was only over a space of ground some 500 yards square and B Squadron, led by Capt. Liebert, held the first of a series of trenches, upon which a vigorous shell fire of an appalling character was directed. The Germans got to within 15 yards of the trenches, but the attack was repelled, with very heavy losses to them. Letters from his Colonel and brother officers testify to his valuable services as an officer, his high sense of duty combined with much cheerfulness in difficulties and also to the great respect and affection his squadron had for him. Capt. Liebert was Assistant Secretary to the Blackmore Vale Hounds and Secretary to the Wincanton Races; was devoted to hunting, a keen golfer and cricketer, and Freemason. He m. at Pinhoe, 21 July, 1905, Frances (The Elms, Charlton Musgrove, Wincanton, co. Somerset), yr. dau. of Arthur Chamberlayne Chichester, of Gipsy Hill, Pinhoe, co. Devon; s.p.

=LIFTON, ALBERT HUMPHREY=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 342645, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LIGHT, ARTHUR PERCY=, Ship’s Steward’s Assistant (Pensioner), 148076, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LIGHTWOOD, JAMES=, Leading Seaman, 233265, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LIHOU, THOMAS ELISHA=, A.B. (B. 3473), 226505, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LILLY, EDWARD AUGUSTUS=, Private, No. 8582, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 8 Oct. 1914; m.

=LILLIE, JAMES=, Private, No. 904, 18th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; died 30 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action there.

=LILLEY, ALBERT EDWARD=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21849, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LINCOLN, WILLIAM HARRY=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 208647, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LINDLEY, HARRY=, A.B., J. 2174, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LINDRIDGE, CHARLES MALCOLM=, Private, No. 10023, 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Edwin Lindridge, of Spitzbrook Cottage, Marden, Kent; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing 29 Oct. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date.

=LINDSAY, ALEXANDER CAMERON=, Private, No. 2462, 1/9th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of the late William Lindsay, Clothier, by his wife, Jane (55, Montpelier Park, Edinburgh), dau. of Alexander Cameron; b. Edinburgh, 18 Aug. 1895; educ. George Heriot’s School; joined the Royal Scots after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915, while helping a wounded schoolfellow after being twice wounded himself. Buried near St. Jean, two and half miles N.E. of Ypres.

=LINDSAY, DAVID SAUNDERS BROWN=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26630 (Devon.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LINDSAY, GEORGE LAWRENCE=, Chief Stoker, 176607, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LINDSAY, JAMES HARPER=, Capt., No. 1 Coy., Forth Royal Garrison Artillery (T.F.), yr. s. of the late James Lindsay, J.P., by his wife, Ann (Edzell Lodge, Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of James Harper, of Edinburgh; b. Edinburgh, 15 April, 1885; educ. Edinburgh Institution; was a partner in firm of Wm. Lindsay & Son, Cannon Mills, Edinburgh; joined the R.G.A. as 2nd Lieut. 1905; promoted Lieut., 1909, and Captain, 1 June, 1913; was called up on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and died in Craigleith Military Hospital, Edinburgh, 24 June, 1915, from the result of injuries received in a motor accident, while on service; unm. He was a keen Rugby footballer and played for the Edinburgh Institution F.P’s. for ten years, six of which he was captain of the team, and on retiring from play he was elected to the Scottish Rugby Union, of which body he was a member until his death. He took great interest in his artillery work, and took his company, which was qualified to shoot for the King’s Cup, to the Isle of Wight for the contest.

=LING, GEORGE BATTELY=, Rifleman, No. Y211, 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd s. of the late William Page Ling, of Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer, by his wife, Christina Morrison (252, Spring Road, Ipswich), dau. of George Mitchell, of Alloa, and grandson of the late William Girling Ling, of Brooks Hall Road, Ipswich; b. Auckland, 4 Jan. 1891; educ. Ipswich Municipal Secondary School; was an Ironmonger; joined the King’s Royal Rifles after the outbreak of war, 29 Aug. 1914; went to France, 5 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 10 May, 1915; unm.

=LING, WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 8008, 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., s. of Samuel Ling, of Theberton, Suffolk, by his wife, Maria; b. Lowestoft, 20 April, 1888; educ. Board School there; enlisted 6 June, 1906; served in Malta and Egypt, from 18 Jan. 1911 to Oct. 1914; and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from Nov. to 10–14 March, 1915, between which latter dates he was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle. He m. at St. Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft, 8 Dec. 1910, Barbara Ellen, 3rd dau. of Edward Cannell, of Lowestoft; s.p.

=LINNEY, ALFRED=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class, R.F.R. (B. 1996), 194089, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LINSDELL, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3328), 162235, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LINTERN, ALFRED TENNYSON=, Private, No. 13189, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Edward George Lintern, of Hill Side Road, St. George’s, Bristol, Foreman under the Bristol Council, by his wife, Clara (144, Two Mile Hill, Kingswood, Bristol), dau. of the late James Hicks, of St. George’s, Bristol; b. Bristol 18 July, 1892; educ. Summer Hill Board School, St. George Glou, Bristol; was for three years a member of the 6th (Territorial) Battn. of the Gloucestershire Regt., and in 1912 joined the Metropolitan Police Force. After the outbreak of war he enlisted, 14 Oct. 1914; went to France, 28 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Laventie, 29 Dec. 1915; unm. Buried Fauquissart.

=LINTON, JOHN THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 2539), 303386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LINTON, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11369, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, yst. s. of John Paterson Linton, of Knowepark, Heriot, co. Midlothian, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Anderson, Blainslie; b. Knowepark aforesaid, 15 Aug. 1896; educ. Heriot Public School, Dalkeith, and Lasswade Secondary Schools, and was about to enter upon his college and University course when war was declared; enlisted in the Scots Guards, 22 Sept. 1914; went to France, 31 March, 1915, and died a prisoner of war in the German Field Hospital at Seclin, 21 May, 1915, from wounds received in action at Festubert on the 18th. It is said that he was one of the 80 Scots Guards who, at Festubert, sold their lives so dearly and fell to a man, after firing their last cartridge. At Heriot School he won all the chief prizes of his years, including a Secondary Education Bursary, open to the county, and at Dalkeith and Lasswade Schools the Intermediate and Junior Students’ Certificates respectively. As a rifle shot he did yeoman service to the Heriot Ride Club in their interclub matches, won the club championship (Mathison Cup) twice, and at the International Meeting in Glasgow he won the cup as boy champion of Scotland and the same cup at Edinburgh in the following year.

=LINTORN, JOHN THOMAS=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1288), late R.M.A., 9658, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LINTOTT, ALBERT EDWARD=, L.-Corpl., No. 7987, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 8 Sept. 1914; unm.

=LINTOTT, CHARLES FRANK=, Private, No. 8776, 2nd Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Zonnebeke, 21 Oct. 1914.

=LION, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private, No. 265, 3rd City of London Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), only s. of Juan Joaquin Lion, of 28, Frognal, Hampstead, N.W., Agent, by his wife, Anna, dau. of Henry Boehmer; b. Stanmore, co. Middlesex, 23 Jan. 1895; educ. Lower School of John Lyon, Harrow-on-the-Hill; was a member of the staff of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.; volunteered and joined the R.A.M.C. (T.F.), after the outbreak of war, 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, 16 Jan. 1915, and died at a Field Hospital, 28 Sept. 1915, of wounds received during the Battle of Loos. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. His section officer wrote: “He was one of those upon whom one could always rely to undertake any duty at any time and to do it well and cheerfully, and with good will. He was one of those competent men in whom his officers always had confidence, and they were never disappointed. He died gallantly in this battle, being hit by a shell in the trenches at the very outset, and died the same night in the Field Hospital. Two other members of his stretcher squad were killed at his side. He fell doing his duty and after having done it well for many months.”; and a friend: “He was a fine fellow in every sense of the word, always ready to do anything, and there is not a man in the Corps that was not cut up about it.”

=LIPSETT, WILLIAM ALFRED=, Barrister-at-Law, Private, No. 20330, 10th Battn. Canadian Infantry, yst. s. of the late Robert Lipsett, Ballyshannon, Ireland; b. at Ballyshannon, 29 Jan. 1886; educ. St. Andrew’s College, Dublin, and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of the Irish Bar, but in the spring of 1914 went out to Canada and was engaged in legal work in Calgary, Alberta. Two days after war broke out he volunteered, enlisting as a private, and refusing a commission. He came home with the 1st Canadian Contingent, and went to France with them in Feb. 1915. He was killed on the night of 22–23 April, 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres during the charge of the 10th and 16th Canadian Battns. on the wood to the west of St. Julien. It will be remembered that these regts. charged through the wood, against far superior numbers, under the heaviest machine-gun fire, and actually reached a point 500 yards in advance of the wood, retaking the four British guns which had been lost in the afternoon of 22 April. Unfortunately the casualties were very high. The 10th Battn. went into the wood 1,000 strong, and came out only 200 strong. Mr. Lipsett played a gallant part in this attack. As Major Ormond, who took over command of the 10th Battn. after Col. Boyle was killed, wrote: “I saw Lipsett the night that he was killed; we went into action charging the wood west of St. Julien at 11.50 p.m., April 22. The Grenadiers were grouped on our left flank and did exceptionally well, Lipsett being one of them. As soon as we had taken the trench, they continued along to the left until they were stopped. Lipsett like the others was very cool and appeared to have no fear. They were subject to the most severe machine-gun fire I have known, but pressed on until all were killed and wounded. I regret to say that as he was killed within 10 or 15 yards from the German redoubt at the corner of the wood we were unable to recover his body. He was an excellent soldier.” His Adjutant also wrote: “He was a gallant soldier and is deeply regretted by all ranks,” and again, “He rendered valuable service to his Battn. and is universally regretted.” His eldest brother, Captain Lewis R. Lipsett, also a member of the Irish Bar, is (1916) serving in the Army Service Corps, with the Expeditionary Force in France. His cousin, Brigadier-General Lewis J. Lipsett, formerly of the Royal Irish Regt., was appointed a C.M.G. for his services at the Second Battle of Ypres, while in command of the 8th Battn. Canadian Infantry.

=LIPTROTT, ERIC CARR=, Lieut., 6th Jat. L.I., only s. of the Rev. Boulton Brander Liptrott, M.A., Vicar of St James’s, Teignmouth, co. Devon, by his wife, Louisa Constance, dau. of George Carr, of Greenlawalls, Northumberland; b. Plymouth, 14 Oct. 1887; educ. Sutton Valence, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; was attd. to the West Yorks; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached Indian Army, 17 Aug. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 17 Nov. 1909; was attd. to the West Yorks Regt. for his first year, then joined the 6th Jats.; served in the Mohmand Expedition of 1908, with the West Yorkshire Regt. (medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 20 Oct. to 26 Nov. 1914, on which later date he died in the Casino Hospital at Boulogne, from wounds received in action at Festubert on the 21st; unm. Buried in the New Cemetery at Boulogne. Col. H. I. Roche, Commanding Officer of the 6th Jats., wrote: “It was with the deepest sorrow we heard of your son’s death, and you have the sympathy of all his brother officers in the sad loss you have sustained. We hoped so much he was going to be spared as, though he had sustained a very severe wound, there seemed some hope he might pull through. He is a great loss to the regt. as he had been doing so particularly well, and indeed, he had been specially brought to notice for his gallant behaviour in an attack on the night of 16 Nov.”; and Major P. H. Dundas: “I am very sorry indeed to see from the papers that your son succumbed to his wound. He had been my subaltern since 1911, and I never wish to have a better. He was always keen, full of energy and cheery as possible at anything he was asked to do. Four days before he was hit he helped me in a night attack on some German trenches, and it was very largely due to his cool leading of the left half of the attack that we brought the affair off successfully. Believe me you have the sincerest sympathy of the whole regt. in your loss.” He was the best revolver shot of his year at Sandhurst, and also represented Sandhurst against Woolwich in the revolver shooting competition. He was an expert at all games, especially golf, rugby football, for which he gained his cap at Sutton Valence, and tennis, for which he also won two firsts at the Teignmouth Tournament in 1914, and when in India he captained the West Yorkshire Rugby football team which won the cup at Lahore.

=LITSON, CHARLES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17688, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LITTLE, ANDREW (DREW)=, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Andrew Little, of Hexham, Miller and Corn Merchant, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Shanks; b. Hexham, 25 May, 1886, educ. Bilton Grange, Harrogate; was with his brother John George Little, joint Managing Director of Messrs. A. & G. Little, Ltd., Millers, and a partner in the County Roller Flour Mills at Hexham, but on the outbreak of war joined the Army. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3 Nov. 1914, left Newcastle for the Front, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, six days later (Sunday, 25 April); unm. Writing to his mother, Capt. J. E. Raine of the B Coy. said: “He died at the head of his platoon, leading his men in an advance. We were being shelled and I had just walked up to him to say something, when a shell burst. Death was instantaneous, and we buried him later in a little churchyard near Voloerenhook, Belgium, and marked the place with a cross. This was Sunday, about 6 p.m. Nothing could have been better than the magnificent way in which he behaved throughout the few days we were in this zone.” Little was a playing member of the Tyneside Athletic Association, took a keen interest in lawn tennis, and acted as joint secretary of the annual open tournament promoted by the above Association. Alongside with his brother, Mr. J. C. Little, he regularly used to figure in the matches of the Tynedale Hockey Club, and for several years represented Northumberland County.

=LITTLE, WILLIAM ERIC=, Private, No. 2594, 1/15th Battn. (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Little, of Nile House, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, Tea Dealer and Provision Merchant, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late W. Aynsley, of Consett, J.P.; b. Whitley Bay, 12 Oct. 1896; educ. Park County Council Schools there and Rutherford College, Newcastle; passed his examination for the Civil Service and was appointed to National Health Insurance Office, London; joined the Civil Service Rifles in Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and died at St. Omer Hospital, 6 April, 1915, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Buried in the French Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer. His Lieut. wrote: “Your son was a good soldier and did his duty, and I personally am very sorry to lose him. He was always in the leading four of my platoon, and I used to love his merry face. He died as soldier; he was ready, and that is all a soldier can do.”

=LITTLEHALES, RICHARD=, Private, No. 11988, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of the Rev. Walter Gough Littlehales, of 21, Princes Avenue, Muswell Hill, N., Clerk in Holy Orders, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the Rev. J. E. Robinson, Vicar of Chieveley, Berks; b. Bulvan Rectory, near Romford, co. Essex, 21 Sept. 1881; educ. Forest School, Walthamstow, and Chelsea Technical College, where he trained as an engineer; after working for several well-known firms, joined the staff of the East Surrey Traction Co.; volunteered and enlisted in the Coldstreams in Sept. 1914; went to France, 22 Jan. 1915, and died at Netley Red Cross Hospital, 13 June, 1915, of shell wounds received in action at Givenchy, 22–25 April; unm.

=LITTLEJOHN, ERIC GEORGE=, Private, No. 2596, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of George Littlejohn, of 245, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Christina, dau. of William Gardner; b. Edinburgh, 30 Nov. 1894; educ. George Heriot’s School; was an employee in the firm of Messrs. Dowell, of George Street, Edinburgh, but after the outbreak of war joined the Royal Scots, Sept. 1914; volunteered for foreign service; went to the Dardanelles, 6 May, and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915. Letters from his officers and comrades all speak of his popularity, courage and soldierly capabilities. He was a football player at George Heriot’s School, played forward for his Battn.’s Rugby XV during the winter 1914–15, and was one of the team that secured the second Gold Medals at the Military Sports at Melrose in April, 1915. His yr. brother, Sapper Arthur William Gardner Littlejohn, is (1916) on active service with the City of Edinburgh (Fortress) Royal Engineers.

=LITTLEWOOD, ARTHUR FRANCIS BEWICKE=, Corpl., No. 1603, 1st Battn. Pioneer Section, Honourable Artillery Coy. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the Rev. Elijah Harrison Littlewood, of Lingfield Lodge, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, formerly vicar of Biggleswade, co. Beds, by his wife, Julia Fanny, dau. of Henry Bellmam; b. Peterboro’, 18 July, 1884; educ. Haileybury and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a member of the O.T.C., was Assistant Master at Haywards Heath and Eastbourne; volunteered and joined the H.A.C. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Sept. following; worked for six months on the communication lines, and was then sent to the firing line, where he was attd. to the Pioneer Section, and it was while in command of this section that he died at No. 23 General Hospital, Etaples, 7 July, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres on the 5th; unm. Buried at Etaples. His Capt. wrote: “He was a very fine fellow, and will be a great loss to me,” and a comrade: “He was one of the nicest fellows I ever knew, and men of many regiments thought the same. He had been promoted Corpl. since he came out and was thought very highly of.” At Haileybury he played for the 1st XI and for the Rugby XV.

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

=LIVINGSTONE, WESTLEY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3031), 197062, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LLOYD, EDWARD RAYMOND=, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, elder surviving s. of Lieut.-Col. Edward Lloyd, of Bedford, late Indian Cavalry, by his wife, Mary Katharine, dau. of the Rev. John Harding; b. 13 Nov. 1882; educ. Bedford Grammar School and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. of the Inniskillings, 22 Oct. 1902, promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1905, and subsequently transferred to the 2nd Battn. then in Egypt, of which corps he was successively assistant adjutant and (29 Aug. 1911) adjutant. He received his coy. 21 Feb. 1912, went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, was wounded in the fighting about Cambray Le-Cateau on 26 Aug. and died of wounds in the hospital at Cambray, 3 Dec. following; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A good all-round sportsman, he represented his school in the Public Schools Boxing Competition held at Aldershot in 1899, and was a keen follower of the hounds and a frequent rider in point-to-point hunt steeplechases. He was also a good shot both with gun and rifle.

=LLOYD, FREDERICK ALLAN=, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./18106, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LLOYD, FRANK=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12644, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LLOYD, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, 298028, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LLOYD, GERALD AYLMER=, Capt., 1st Battn. The Welsh Regt., yr. s. of Francis Aylmer Lloyd, of Eastwood, Bridgwater Road, Weybridge; b. London, 17 April, 1888; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Welsh Regt., 19 Sept. 1908; and promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911, and Capt. 16 Nov. 1914; passed through the Hythe Musketry School with distinction in 1912; served in the Camel Corps, Egypt, 1912–13; was Adjutant of the Missouri Volunteer Rifles in India from March to Aug. 1914; returned to England in Dec. 1914; went to France, 14 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 16 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried at Chateau Rosendal. His brother, Lieut. Francis Charles Aylmer Lloyd, Highland L.I., died of wounds, 8 Oct. 1915.

=LLOYD, LEWIS JOHN BUCKNALL=, Lieut., Acting Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., only s. of John Bucknall Lloyd, of Dorrington Grove, Shrewsbury, J.P., by his wife, Adela Maud, dau. of the late Percival Spearman Wilkinson, of Mount Oswald, Durham, J.P.; b. Toronto, Kansas, U.S.A., 19 Sept. 1886; educ. Charterhouse and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. Shropshire L.I., 9 Oct. 1907, and promoted Lieut., 24 July, 1912; transferred to the 2nd Battn. in 1912 and served with it at Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, India, returning to England in Nov. 1914; went to France, 19 Dec. 1914, and from early in March, 1915, was acting Capt., and was killed in action during the Second Battle of Ypres, 28 April, 1915, while leading an attack on a German trench near Zillebeke; unm. He was last seen wounded and leaning against the wire of the German trench he was charging. Buried near Zillebeke.

=LLOYD, THOMAS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115871, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LLOYD, WALTER=, Capt., 8th (Service) Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Thomas Lloyd, of Leghorn, Italy, and of Minard, co. Argyle, by his wife, Anne, 2nd dau. of John Campbell, of Kilberry, Argyleshire; b. Casa Mansi, Bagni-de-Lucca, Italy, 17 July, 1874; educ. Farnborough School and Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, from the Militia, 24 June, 1896; and promoted Lieut. 21 April, 1898, and Capt. 1 Jan. 1905; served in Malta; Cairo; Crete, where, during International occupation, he acted as Interpreter at the sittings of the International Committee; Hong Kong; and India; was Adjutant of Volunteers from Jan. 1905 to 31 March, 1908, and of Territorial Force from 1 April to 9 July, 1908; joined the Reserve of Officers; was called up on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and posted to the 8th Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers; went to the Dardanelles, 28 June, 1915, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. following, while leading his coy. in an attack on a Turkish trench. Buried at Quinn’s Post. He m. at St. John’s Cathedral, Hong Kong, 8 Nov. 1899, Phyllis, 2nd dau. of Admiral Sir Francis Powell, K.C.M.G., C.B., and had two daus.: Phyllis Joan, b. Hong Kong, 25 Sept. 1901; and Alma, b. at Minard Castle, Argyleshire, 21 May, 1904.

=LLOYD, WALTER REGINALD=, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 5th and yst. s. of the late Sampson Samuel Lloyd, of Dolobran, co. Montgomery, and Janoway Hill, co. Surrey, M.P. for Plymouth (1874–80), and South Warwickshire (1885–86), Chairman of Lloyd’s Bank, and yr. s., by his 2nd wife, the late Marie Wilhelmine Sophie Christine (Danesrood, Guildford), dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Frederick William Menckhoff, Prussian Army; b. at The Farm, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, 18 Aug. 1868; educ. Eton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd North Lancashire Regt., 22 Aug. 1888; and promoted Lieut. 21 June, 1891; Capt. 2 Dec. 1895; Major 1 June, 1906; and Lieut.-Col. (two days before his death) 12 Sept. 1914; was Adjutant, 3 July, 1897, to 3 July, 1901; served in the South African War with 1st Battn., 1901–02; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, July, 1901, to March, 1902, and in those in Cape Colony, March to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from Aug. 1914, and was killed in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. following; unm. He rowed in the Eton Eight in 1886.

=LOBB, RICHARD JAMES=, Leading Carpenter’s Crew, No. M. 2882, R.N.; killed on H.M.S. Highflyer in action with the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, off the Ouro River, on the West African Coast, Aug. 1914.

=LOBJOIT, WILLIAM BENJAMIN=, Private, No. 3474, 2/10th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Benjamin Lobjoit, of 1, Glebe Street, Chiswick, W., Plumber, by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Philip Buckland; b. Chiswick, 20 Dec. 1894; educ. Hogarth Boys’ School there; was a Milk Carrier; enlisted, 5 April, 1915; left England with his Regt. for the Dardanelles on 17 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 14 Aug. following; unm.

=LOCK, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3845), 231925, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LOCKE, ARCHIBALD CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7470), S.S. 102630, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOCKE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 13927, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Henry Locke, of 44, Gloster Road, Upper Edmonton; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 11 May, 1915.

=LOCKSMORE, RICHARD JAMES=, Private, No. 9867, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 16 May, 1915; m.

=LOCKWOOD, MARK=, Private, No. 7346, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. York; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital, Coulommiers, 9 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action. Buried at Boitron in a field adjoining road, and a cross erected; unm.

=ELIOTT-LOCKHART, PERCY CLARE, D.S.O.=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 59th Scinde Rifles, Frontier Force, only s. of Col. William Eliott-Lockhart, of Glentromie, Camberley, Royal (Madras) Artillery (died 23 Aug. 1915), by his wife, Ada Clare, dau. of Henry Clan Cardew, Lieut., 94th Regt.; b. Kamptee, India, 21 Sept. 1867; educ. Somerset College, Bath, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.) Indian Army, 23 Nov. 1887; served for one year with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and then for two years (1888–90) with the Indian Staff Corps, 14 Nov. 1890; was appointed to Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides in 1892; and became Capt. 23 Nov. 1898; Major 23 Nov. 1905, and Lieut.-Col. 16 Nov. 1913; served (1) as Brig. Transport Officer in the Waziristan Expedition, 1894–95 (medal with clasp); (2) with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895, present at storming of the Malakand Pass (medal with clasp); (3) on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897–98; took part in the defence, and relief of, Malakand; the relief of Chakdara, Malakand; operations in Bajaur and in the Mamund country; Utman Kiel and Buner (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1897], medal with two clasps, D.S.O.); (4) in China, 1900 (medal); (5) in East Africa, 1903–04 as D.A.A. and Q.M.G., 2nd Brigade. Somaliland Field Force; took part in operations in Somaliland; action at Jidballi (again mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 2 Sept. 1914], medal with two clasps): and (6) with the Expeditionary Force in France, in command of the 59th Scinde Rifles from 28 Jan. 1915, and died 12 March, 1915, from wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle, a few hours previously. Buried about a mile to the west of Neuve Chapelle. He m. at High Leigh, Cheshire, 26 April, 1905, Katherine Mary, dau. of James Worrall, of High Leigh, and had two children: William, b. 11 Feb 1906; and Katharine Clare, b. 3 March, 1909.

=LOFT, ALMA JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1847U, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOFTS, BERNARD=, Private, No. 1966, 6th, attd. 8th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of Alfred Lofts, of Amersham, co. Bucks, Provision Merchant, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of William Hicks, of Looe, Cornwall; b. Canonbury, N., 20 April, 1891; educ. Watford Grammar School, and Bethany House School, Goudhurst, co. Kent; was apprenticed to the drapery trade at Uxbridge; and was successively employed by Eaden and Lilley, Cambridge; Hitchcock Williams, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and C. Jenner and Co., Edinburgh; joined the Royal Scots after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915; unm. Buried near Festubert.

=LOFTS, JAMES=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 306070, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1915; m.

=LOGAN, JAMES AIRD=, A.B., 215575, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOGAN, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9595), S.S. 106972, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOMAX, GERALD DAVID=, Lieut. 3rd Battn. The Welch Regt., 2nd s. of the late Capt. David Alexander Napier Lomax, Welch Regt. (killed in action at Driefontein, 10 March, 1900 during the South African War), by his wife, Annette (now wife of Major Frank Towle, of 3, Clarence Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.); b. Manorbier, co. Pembroke, 6 Jan. 1895; educ. Marlborough College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., The Welch Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 14 March, 1915; went to France, 12 March, whilst there was attd. to the 2nd Royal Berkshire Regt., and died in the hospital barge, 11 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Fromelles two days previously; unm. Buried at Estaires, in the English Cemetery. His Doctor wrote: “We did all we could to make him comfortable, but his wounds were so severe that medically speaking he never had a chance; fortunately he suffered very little pain, and died as I fancy he must have lived, bravely thinking of others more than himself.” His brother, Capt. C. E. N. Lomax, also Welch Regt., is now (1916) on active service, being a Temporary Major in the Manchester Regt.

=LOMAX, HARRY=, Private, No. 2164, 2nd Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Robert Lomax, of 4, Birmingham Street, Bolton, Mechanic, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Smith; b. Bolton, co. Lancaster, 10 Jan. 1885; educ. St. Matthew’s Church of England Schools and Bolton Municipal Secondary School; sometime employed at the Bolton Post Office; emigrated to New Zealand in Sept. 1909, and later went to Sydney, Australia, where he was a member of the Lancashire Association; volunteered for Imperial service, 4 May, 1915, and joined the 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt, 16 June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 1 Aug., and was killed in action there, 6–9 Aug. 1915, during the fighting at Lone Pine; unm.

=LONG, FREDERICK RICHARD RANDOLPH=, Bugler, R.M.A., 10307, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LONG, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Cl. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7397), S.S. 102426, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LONG, STEWART SHACROFT=, Leading Seaman, 231412, H.M.S Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LONGBOURNE, WILLIAM LOUIS JENNINGS=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (F.), 4th surviving s. of the late Charles R. V. Longbourne, of Ripsley, co. Sussex, by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Ainslie, dau. of the late Rev. and Hon. James Norton, of Anningsley Park, co. Surrey [4th son of Hon. Fletcher Norton, a baron of the exchequer in Scotland, and gdson. of Fletcher, 1st Baron Grantley, P.C.]; b. Ripsley, 24 Aug. 1887; educ. Malvern College, passed all the Law examinations for a Solicitor; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Battn. The Queen’s, 9 May, 1914, promoted Lieut., took part in the landing at Suvla Bay on the early morning of 9 Aug. 1915, and in the subsequent attack on Chocolate Hill, the same day; while leading his platoon in the attack he was badly wounded when near the top of the hill, but refused to allow his men to help him, telling them to go on. Afterwards, owing to the cross fire and nature of the country, it was found impossible to get to him and he was never seen again.

=LONGHURST, CHARLES=, Private, No. 10029, 2nd Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Charles Longhurst, of 68, Regent Street, Whitstable, Kent; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Gheluvelt, 29 Oct. 1914.

=LONGMAN, FREDERICK=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Charles James Longman, of Upp Hall, Braughing, Ware, and 39, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., M.A., J.P., Publisher, by his wife, Harriet Ann, 2nd dau. of Sir John Evans, K.C.B., F.R.S.; b. Norfolk Square, London, 9 May, 1890; educ. Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge; joined the Hertfordshire Territorials in 1910; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Fusiliers, 13 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 24 Aug. 1914; went to France 13 Aug.; was wounded in the arm at the Battle of the Marne, but rejoined his regt. after a short stay at a base hospital, and was killed in action at Herlies, 18 Oct. following; unm. On this day his regiment was holding the village of Le Riez close to Herlies and he was resting in a farm with some brother officers, when a shell burst over this house. Lieut. Longman ran to put on his equipment and join his men; but another shell exploded just outside the window, and a pellet struck him in the temple, killing him instantaneously. His Colonel (since killed in action) wrote: “Please accept my deepest sympathy and be consoled with the thought that his work on active service was as sound and valuable as his conduct has been brave and dutiful. His rapid return to duty after the wound received after crossing the Marne marked him specially as a genuine soldier, and his loss will be very much felt by all of us, professionally and socially.” A brother officer also wrote: “He was always cheery, and it did us all good to see the way he did his job, and never grumbled at anything. He was one of the gallantest fellows I ever saw, and nothing ever frightened him. We are all proud of him, and his name will always go on in the Regiment’s history as a hero”; and another said he noticed, on the retreat from Mons, how he carried far more than his share of the necessaries, and constantly cheered his men by word and example in their temporary depression. While at Harrow, he was a member of the School Corps, and of the Football XI in 1907, in which year he was also a Dolphin and champion featherweight boxer. He was a member of the O.T.C. at Cambridge, and later held a commission in the Hertfordshire Territorial Regt., for which he recruited a section of 41 men in the neighbourhood of his home at Braughing. He was an active member of the local rifle club and gave much time to training lads from the village school at the miniature range, some of whom became excellent shots. In the army he devoted himself to training his men in shooting and boxing, and represented his battn. in the competition for the Army championship at rifle shooting. In regard to his boxing in the Southern Command Boxing Meeting of 1914, the judge remarked that his fight was the finest thing he had ever seen, and held it up to the men as an example of British pluck and endurance.

=LONGSDON, ALFRED ALLEN=, St. John Ambulance Brigade, s. of the late Robert Longsdon, of Bromley, Kent, Civil Engineer, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Richard (and Sarah) Allen; b. Bromley, 16 Feb. 1866; educ. Wellington College, was a scientist; joined the St. John Ambulance Association after the outbreak of war, in Oct. 1914; went to France in the early part Dec., and was accidentally killed at Havre, 6 Jan. 1915, while on service. In returning to the hospital situated on the docks, Mr. Longsdon, who was owner-driver of a Fiat motor ambulance, had to pass near the edge of one of the quays. In the darkness he must have misjudged the distance, for the ambulance car fell into the basin and when he was got out of the water he was found to have sustained a fractured skull, and he died without recovering consciousness. Buried at Havre. He m. at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 5 Sept. 1896, Ellen Mary (Addison Mansions, Kensington), yst. dau. of Joseph Allen, and had five children: Robert Cyril, b. 28 March, 1900; Grant Allen, b. (posthumous) 2 June, 1915; Nancy, b. 22 July, 1902; Marion, b. 1 May, 1908; and Merritt Jean, b. 23 June, 1911.

=LONSDALE, ARTHUR CARR GLYN=, Lieut., 6th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yr. s. of the late Rev. John Henry Lonsdale, M.A., Rector of Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, by his wife, Katharine Carr (The Further House, Wimborne, co. Dorset), dau. of Capt. Carr Stuart Glyn, of Wood Leage, Wimborne, and gdson. of the late Canon John Gilby Lonsdale, of Lichfield; b. Wall Vicarage, Lichfield, co. Stafford, 7 Sept. 1891; educ. Summerfields, Oxford; Radley, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was intending to take orders, but on the outbreak of war, obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, from the C.U.O.T.C., 15 Aug. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915; went to France in Nov., 1914; was subsequently attd. to the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915, while leading his platoon; unm. Buried there. While at Summerfields, he won an Eton and a Radley Scholarship; at Radley he was capt. of rackets and of fives, and at Cambridge where he graduated in 1910, he represented his college at tennis.

=LONSDALE, DAVID=, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 1005), 284049, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LOOS, CECIL GEORGE BERTRAM=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., yr. s. of the late Hon. Frederick Charles Loos, C.M.G., by his wife, Isabel (Roseneath, Darley Road, Colombo, Ceylon); b. Colombo, 3 Oct. 1884; educ. Bedford Grammar School; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Buffs (Militia), 1904; transferred to the 1st Worcestershire Regt., 27 May, 1908, and joined the Reserve of Officers, 1912; on the outbreak of war rejoined the 3rd Battn. of his regt.; was promoted Lieut. in Dec.; went to France, 3 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 12 March, 1915. Buried there near the chateau. He m. at St. Leonards-on-Sea, 16 April, 1912, Helen, dau. of John Hines, of Seddlescombe Lodge, St. Leonards-on-Sea, and had one son, Frederick Charles, b. May, 1913.

=LORAM, ALLEN=, Stoker, 1st Class, 294257, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LORD, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2358), 184692, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LORD, HERBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, B. 4301, S.S. 103147, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LORD, WILLIAM HERBERT=, A.B., J. 13484, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action, 22 Sept., 1914.

=LOUCH, THOMAS=, Private, No. 13590, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late Thomas Louch (died 17 June, 1905), by his wife, Mary Ann (Newbold-upon-Avon), dau. of the late Matthew Davies, of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire; b. Newbold-on-Avon, near Rugby, co. Warwick, 12 May, 1883; educ. Council School there, and afterwards attended night schools and gained several certificates. He was engaged in the building trade, but after the declaration of war, answered his country’s call and enlisted in Nov. 1914. He was sent to the Front in July, 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 8 Oct. 1915; unm. He was a member of the Newbold Football Club and of the Committee of the Cricket Club. He was also a member of the Church Choir and for several seasons spent most of his leisure time in helping to beautify the churchyard.

=LOVATT, WILLIAM HENRY TURNER=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports. 7248), R.F.R., Ch. B. 1203, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOVEDAY, ARTHUR EDWARD=, Private, No. 9411, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Joseph Joel Loveday, of 58, Yew Tree Road, Witton, Birmingham, late Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of William Green, of Berkshire; b. Saltley, Birmingham, 15 April, 1893; educ. College School there, enlisted 8 Jan. 1912; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 5 Nov. following; unm.

=LOW, ANDREW LESLIE=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 1084, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOW, DAVID=, Private, No. 4104, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Alexander Low; b. Edinburgh, 23 Dec. 1881; educ. Cranstoun Street School there; enlisted 1897; served in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s and King’s medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action near Kemmel, 21 Jan. 1915. He m. at Edinburgh, 1903, Catherine (16, South Richmond Street, Edinburgh), dau. of Hugh Flaherty, and had four children: Alexander, b. 15 Feb. 1909; Hugh, b. 31 Jan. 1914; Catherine Muir, b. 18 Nov. 1903; and Helen Pringle, b. 24 Oct. 1912.

=LOW, ROBERT THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8900), 199042, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LOWE, BERTIE GUY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1713), 10813, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOWE, HENRY STANLEY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late Rev. Edward Jackson Lowe, Vicar of Stallingborough, and only s. by his 2nd wife; b. Stallingborough, co. Lincoln, 7 Feb. 1891; educ. Glengarth Preparatory School, Cheltenham; Bilton Grange, near Rugby; Rugby, and in Sandhurst Company at Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1913; joined his regt. in Jhansi, India, in Jan. 1910; returned to Aldershot in 1913; went to France, and died at Paris, 21 Oct. following, of wounds received in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept.; unm. Buried at St. Germain-en-Laye.

=LOWE, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7944), S.S. 1554, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Thomas Lowe, of 6, Shepherd Place Buildings, Lees Mews, Park Street, London, W.; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=LOWE, THOMAS=, A.B., B. 1529, 190575, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LOWERY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1236 U., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOWIN, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9654), S.S. 107099, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOWRIE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115510, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LOWRY, JOHN=, A.B., R.F.R., B. 3218, S.S. 741, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LOWTH, JAMES FRANCIS ALEXANDER=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./14721, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LOXLEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 14657, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of the late William Loxley, Engine Fitter, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of the late Edward Stringer; b. Ecclesfleld, co. York, 26 Oct. 1885; educ. there; was a stove and grate fitter; volunteered and enlisted 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, 15 Aug. 1915, and died in Convalescent Home, Westbury, co. Wilts, 27 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action during the Battle of Loos, 27–29 Sept. 1915. He m. at Grimsby, 4 Aug. 1912, Edith Mary (3, Burton Street, Langsett Road, Sheffield), widow of Philip Munty, and dau. of the late Frederick Charles Unwin; s.p.

=LOXTON, CHARLES EDWARD HOLDEN=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Charles Adshead Loxton, of Shoal Hill House, Cannock, LL.B., Solicitor, of Walsall, by his wife, Emily Clara, youngest dau. of Sir Edward Thomas Holden, of Great Barr, formerly M.P. and Mayor of Walsall; b. at Walsall, 3 June, 1892; educ. Sandroyd School, Stanmore; Harrow (Druries), and University College, Oxford; was a student at the Inner Temple, and after passing Moderations with honours (Classics) at Oxford, became a student also in the faculty of Medicine and Surgery; volunteered on the outbreak of war and gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th North Staffordshires, Aug. 1914; went to France, 3 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, early on Sunday morning, 23 May, 1915; unm. Soon after midnight he was with his men repairing some wiring in front of the trench, when he was struck by a bullet, and died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital. Buried at Neuve Eglise, Belgium. His commanding officer, Col. Knight, wrote: “He was certainly the bravest man I have seen out here, and endeared himself to all of us. We did our best to make him more cautious, but he would set the example--as he did to all of us--to his platoon, and he made them into a splendid lot of men.” The President of the Officer’s Mess also wrote: “I need only say that he was universally beloved by both officers and men, and his platoon would have done anything for him and followed him anywhere, and by his splendid behaviour in the face of danger he has left us a grand example.” The Platoon Sergt. writing on behalf of the platoon said: “In any work one or more of us were engaged in, he was always ready with a helping hand, thus in no small way in his capacity of an officer, displaying his desire to encourage us, and he always proved himself to be of an unselfish and thoughtful disposition.” Lieut. Loxton was fond of yatching and had just returned from a yatching cruise on the West of Scotland when the war broke out. While a boy at Stanmore, he became a member of the University and Public Schools Camp, and attended each year with the Anglesey Camp. He regarded these camps with real affection, and said they taught a boy the manliness of religion and not to be ashamed of it. His Housemaster at the Druries Harrow, wrote: “Edward Loxton came to Harrow in 1906. A steady worker if not an accomplished scholar in the technical sense, he had a strong appreciation of the best in literature, and spent a year in the highest form in the school. But it was in the house that his gifts of character were most clearly to be discerned. To a personality of great charm, and an exceptional talent for friendship, he added an unostentatious force of character, a self-less devotion to duty and all the simplicity of a finely touched spirit. Passionately loyal himself, he abhorred all that was mean or base. It surprises none who loved him to read of his bravery in the field, as he was sans reproche, he would be sans peur. He is deeply mourned in a house which has given many lives of bright promise in England’s cause.”

=LUCY, REGINALD ERIC=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Northamptonshire Regt., elder s. of Major Reginald Horace Lucy, of 9, The Crescent, Plymouth, M.B., F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth, by his wife, Emily Susan, dau. of Robert Shackleford Cross; b. Plymouth, 28 July, 1893; educ. Ellerslie, Fremington, N. Devon, Malvern College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 22 Jan. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 8 July, 1914; served with his regt. in Malta and Egypt until the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; returned to England in Oct.; went to France with the 8th Division, in Nov., and died at No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 19 March, 1915, of wounds received in action near Neuve Chapelle on the 12th; unm.

=LUFF, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, No. 10450, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Frederick Luff, of 2, Court, 2, Newton Lane, Sheffield, by his wife, Lily, dau. of Thomas Clarke; b. Sheffield, 27 June, 1895; educ. St. Mary’s Church School there; enlisted in Nov. 1913; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 27 Oct. following.

=LUKIS, THEODORE STEWART=, M.D., M.R.C.P., Capt., 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Surgeon-Gen. Sir Charles Pardey Lukis, K.C.S.I., M.D., F.R.C.S., Director-Gen. I.M.S., by his wife, Lilian, dau. of the late Col. John Stewart, C.I.E., R.A.; b. Cawnpore, India, 7 Dec. 1885; educ. Tonbridge School; entered at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, in 1903, M.D. (Gold medal) London, 1912; M.R.C.P. London, 1913; Assistant Physician Queen’s Hospital for children; Demonst. Physiol. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Fellow of London Medical Society, some time Home Physician to the Children’s Hospital in Great Ormond Street, and House Physician and Opth. Surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s. On the outbreak of war enlisted in the Kensingtons, 20 Aug. 1914, for service in the ranks; was gazetted Lieut. 15 Dec. 1914, and Capt. 13 March, 1915; severely wounded at “Port Arthur,” Neuve Chapelle, on 12 March, 1915, he died in No. 7 Base Hospital at Boulogne, 15 March following; unm. He won the open science scholarship in 1904, and the gold medal in medicine at the London University in 1912, and was elected to the Junior Staff of St. Bartholomew’s, and the Queen’s Hospital for children. “His great ability was recognised by all, and he was profoundly interested in medical research. But his deepest interest was in the condition of the London poor, and he early tried to give practical relief by throwing himself heart and soul into the Boy Scout movement. He commanded the East London Torynbee Hall Scouts for some years. On the outbreak of war, after much heart searching, he decided to enlist and thus set an example in its simplest form, and he was followed to the recruiting office by 80 ex-scouts, and scoutmasters.”

=LUMSDEN, ANDREW STEEDMAN=, Private No. 2153, 1/4th Battn. The Royal Scots,(T.F.), 2nd s. of Andrew Steedman Lumsden, of 14, Bruntsfield Avenue, Edinburgh, A. Mus. T.C.L., Teacher of Music, by his wife, Lillias Ellen, dau. of William Gray Tennant, Merchant, of Leith; b. Edinburgh, 2 Dec. 1891; educ. Bruntsfield School, Edinburgh; was assistant to Mr. Alex. G. Pyrie, Grocer, Edinburgh; volunteered and joined the Royal Scots, 7 Sept. 1914; left Larbert for Liverpool on the morning of 22 May, 1915, just escaped the railway disaster at Gretna Green on that date, being in the train that preceded the one that was wrecked; left Liverpool on or about the 23rd May, 1915, for Gallipoli, and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915; unm. On 10 June, 1915, he wrote; “We have now left for Alexandria, started yesterday morning and are on our way to an unknown destination”; and on 25 June, 1915, he wrote from Gallipoli stating; “We have been in the trenches and are now in the rest camp.”

=LUMSDEN, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 25), 135850, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LUNON, ARTHUR JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14117, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=LUPTON, REGINALD=, Capt., 9th (Service) Battn. Prince of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regt., yr. s. of William Charles Lupton, of 14, Claremont, Bradford, Member of the firm of John Lupton and Son, Ltd., Wine Merchants, Bradford, Leeds and Leith, three years Mayor of Bradford, by his wife, Sarah Woodhead, dau. of the late William Bentley, of Greenside, Bradford; b. Claremont, Bradford, 17 June, 1882; educ. Sedbergh; was a Director of John Lupton and Sons, Ltd.; served for many years in the 6th West Yorkshire Regt. (Bradford Rifles), and was on the Reserve of Officers when war broke out. He obtained a commission as Capt. in the 9th West Yorkshire Regt., 9 Sept. 1914; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1 July, and died on H.M.H.S. Valdivia, of wounds received after the landing at Suvla Bay, 7 Aug. 1915, and was buried at sea the following day; unm. He was carrying a wounded man to the dressing station, when he was shot in the abdomen. His elder brother, Major A. W. Lupton, 2nd West Yorkshire Regt., was invalided home from the western front early in 1915.

=LUSH, ARTHUR GEORGE=, Private, No. 12407, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of Thomas Lush, of The Buddens, Bower Chalk, co. Wilts, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Williams; b. Bower Chalk, 24 March, 1895; educ. National School there; was a Baker by trade; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, 21 Jan. 1915, and died in a General Hospital, Rouen, 14 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action on 17 Oct. previously; unm. Buried at Rouen.

=LUSH, CHARLES ARTHUR=, 1st Class Chief Petty Officer, Ch. Sh. Ck., 353904, 2nd s. of Jesse Lush, Naval Pensioner, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Richard (and Elizabeth) Freemantle; b. Portsea, co. Hants, 2 June, 1878; educ. there; joined the Navy, 3 May, 1895; and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea. He held the Long Service and Good Conduct medals. He m. at St. Margaret’s Church, Leiston, co. Suffolk, 25 Dec. 1905, Ethel (49, Sizewell Road, Leiston), eldest dau. of John Forsdike, of Leiston, and had three children: Kenneth Charles, b. 18 Jan. 1907; Charles Frank Trevor, b. 5 Sept. 1914; and Clare Helen Ruth, b. 28 Sept. 1910.

=LUSTY, SAMUEL MORLEY=, Petty Officer, 160608, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LYDALL, HERBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1584), 285739, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=LYDEKKER, CYRIL RICHARD=, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Richard Lydekker, of Harpenden Lodge, co. Hertford, F.R.S., J.P. (died 16 April, 1915), by his wife, Lucy Marianne, elder dau. of the Rev. Canon Owen William Davys, Rector of Wheathampstead, co. Herts; b. Harpenden Lodge, 8 Nov. 1889; educ. Haileybury and on leaving there entered Messrs. Barclay & Cos’. Bank (8 Oct. 1906), where he remained until the outbreak of war. He joined the Hertfordshire Artillery (4th East Anglian Brigade, T.F.) in the autumn of 1910, and after serving his three years in the Battery, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 5th Bedfordshire Territorials, 14 March, 1914, and promoted Lieut., 29 Aug. following. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he was away on the annual fortnight’s training with his Regt., and immediately volunteered for foreign service. After training on the East Coast, and at St. Alban’s, he left for the Dardanelles with his Regt., 26 July, 1915; landed at Suvla Bay, 11 Aug.; went into action with his Regt. on the 15th, and was killed in action the same day, being shot through the head, while leading his platoon in a charge; unm. His Commanding Officer, in writing to his sister, said: “He died most gallantly leading his platoon. We found your brother right up in the front and he now lies close up behind the trenches, on the ground that he helped to win.” He was fond of all outdoor sports, especially riding and cricket, and was a great lover of animals, his life being spent almost entirely in the country. He was very fond of music. His brother, Lieut. and Qr.-Mr. Gerard Owen Lydekker, is now (1916) on active service with the same Regt.

=LYMN, JOSEPH EWART=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3305), 218307, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LYNCH, HAROLD JEROME=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd s. of the late Francis Lynch (d. 4 June, 1913), by his wife, Josephine (Glascoed Hall, Wrexham, co. Denbigh), dau. of Francis Reynolds, of Hillside, Woolton; b. Glascoed Hall, 9 Dec. 1895; educ. Stonyhurst College, left there 1 Aug. 1914, and on the outbreak of war applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., Reserve of Officers, 9 Sept.; promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915, and posted to the 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers as 2nd Lieut., 4 April following; went to France 26 Jan., and was killed in action at Festubert 16 May, 1915, while leading his men in a successful attack on the German trenches. Buried near Essar, off Rue Calloux, with six other officers of the R.W.F. who fell that day. He was captain of his College, 1913–14, and also of the football team, and a member of the O.T.C. For two years in succession he won the mile, half mile, quarter mile and hurdles, and his class won the shooting medal in 1914.

=LYNCH, JOHN=, Private, No. 12191, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in No. 2 Ambulance Flotilla, 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=LYNDEN, JOHN HENRY=, Private, No. 2848, 2/7th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Benjamin Lynden, of 57, Farrant Avenue, Wood Green, N., Clerk, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Pearmain; b. Wood Green, co. Middlesex, 30 July, 1892; educ. Higher Grade School there; was a Clerk; enlisted, 7 Sept. 1914; went to Gibraltar for garrison duty, 1 Feb. 1915, and died in Hospital at Gibraltar, 9 March following, while on active service; unm.

=LYNDSELL, PHILIP=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ports. 12672, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LYNES, BERTIE FREDERICK=, Private No. 6835, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; enlisted 2 July, 1906; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 13 Aug. 1914; died in the Hospital train near Willereaux, 18 Sept. following, of wounds received in action.

=LYNN, ERNEST=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3784), S.S. 1077, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LYON, ALBERT EDWARD=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345360, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=LYON, JOHN JAMES=, Private, No. 4011, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Charles Lyon, Colliery Manager at Chorley, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of John Thurlby; b. Chorley, co. Lancs., 8 Nov. 1881; educ. St. George’s School there; enlisted 22 Jan. 1901; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 12 Feb. 1909, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 26 Aug. 1914, to 8 Oct. 1915, and died at No. 5 General Hospital, Rouen, 16 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action at Loos on the latter date. Buried in St. Sivier Cemetery there. He m. at St. Edward’s R.C. Church, Palace Street, London, S.W., 4 April, 1904, Catherine (1, Hill View, Eastwood Road, Bramley, near Guildford), dau. of Jeremiah Donovan, and had two children: Sidney Francis, b. 15 July, 1912; and Kathleen Lucy, b. 27 Feb. 1914.

=LYON, ROBERT MAIR=, Sergt., No. 1239, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Robert Lyon, of Galston, co. Ayr, and of Tottenham, N., M.D., C.M., by his wife, Annie (10, Baskerville Road, Wandsworth Common), dau. of Robert Mair; b. Newmilns, co. Ayr, 24 Jan. 1891; educ. Grocer’s Company School, Hackney Downs, and La Villa, Lausanne; was in the London office of Browne and Tawse, Iron and Steel Merchants; joined the London Scottish in 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Hulluch, 13 Oct. 1915, while leading a platoon; unm.

=BOWES LYON, CHARLES LINDSAY CLAUDE=, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st. Battn., The Black Watch, eldest s. of the Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon, formerly Lieut.-Col. commanding 5th Battn. Black Watch, by his wife, Lady Anne, dau. of Alexander, 25th Earl of Crawford, and gdson. of Claude, 13th Earl of Strathmore; b. 15 Sept. 1885; educ. Eton, studied at the Royal College of Science, Newcastle, for electrical engineering, Member of the Inst. C.E. He joined the Forfarshire and Kincardine Militia Artillery in April, 1906, and in 1910 was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. (Special Reserve) of the Black Watch. In 1911, obtaining an engineering appointment in India, he spent two and a half years at Bombay, and on his return home with a friend via Japan and Canada in May, 1914, was one of the few survivors in the terrible disaster and loss of the Empress of Ireland liner on the St. Lawrence. Shortly afterwards, his battn. was mobilized on the outbreak of war. He was attd. to the 1st Battn. of the Black Watch in the First Army Corps, and joined the Expeditionary Force in France early in Sept.; served through the memorable battles of the Marne and Aisne, and the fierce struggles in the first battles round Ypres. He was twice slightly wounded, and after three days’ incessant fighting from 20 Oct. was killed in action on 23 Oct. at Pilken, during an attack to recover the lost trenches. He was buried in the churchyard at Boesinghe; unm. A keen cricketer and sportsman, his scientific career had been of brilliant promise, and his attractive disposition had endeared him to a wide circle of friends. A well-known chaplain with the Expeditionary Force wrote: “Capt. ---- spoke most splendidly of B. L. and his example, and said, amongst other things, that he was one of the finest characters he had ever met.”

=LYONS, ERNEST=, Private, No. 13344, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Edward Lyons, of 52, Princess Street, Plumstead; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 14 March, 1915.

=LYTTLE, DAVID JOHN ALBERT=, Lieut., 14th Battn. South Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of John Lyttle, of Chatton Road, Gore, New Zealand, formerly a Master at Longridge School, Gore, by his wife, Catherine (Rina), dau. of the late David Gardner, of Stanley Hill Gore, formerly of Blairmains Farm, Shotts, Scotland; b. Waikaia, New Zealand, 1888; educ. at his father’s school, Longridge, and Southland Boys’ High School, Invercargill (Scholar), and took a prominent part in the school sports; started his career as Third Assistant in Gore School, and was later transferred to Kaitangata as Second Assistant. After two years’ service there he returned as First Assistant in Gore School; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the New Zealand Territorials, while at Kaitangata; volunteered for Imperial service immediately the European war broke out, and was given a commission as Lieut.; left for Egypt with the main body, 16 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 2 May following; unm. While at Gore School he founded the Boy Scout movement there, and acted as District Commander for several years. He was an authority on local geology and botany; was well-known as a mountaineer, especially in connection with the exploration of the West Coasts Sound’s Region, and during one of these trips discovered falls 1,000 ft. high, now known as the “Lyttle Falls.”

=McALLISTER, ANDREW=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7656), S.S. 103005, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MACATEER, JOHN=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21973, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACAUSLAND, OLIVER BABINGTON=, Lieut., attd. 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, yr. s. of Lieut.-Col. Redmond Conynham Samuel Macausland, of Woodbank, Garvagh, co. Derry, J.P., Indian Army (ret.), by his wife, Jane Isabella, dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Henry Keown, 15th King’s Hussars and Royal North Down Militia; b. Rawalpindi, Punjab, India, 28 Nov. 1895; educ. Haileybury College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (prize cadet); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. list, Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and the same month joined the 4th Battn. (Special Reserve) Royal Irish Rifles, at Holywood, co. Down. In March, 1915, he was posted to the 1st Battn. of that regt. then on active service in France, and given the rank of Lieut. He was killed in action during the advance of the 8th Division from Rouges Bancs towards Fromelles, and the northern part of the Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, in which our men came up against unbroken wire and parapets and sustained very heavy casualties. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was a young soldier with a soldierly faculty; gentle, just, and clear-sighted.”; and the Adjutant wrote of him: “He was always more than ready to do any dangerous patrols that were to be done; and it was so nice to know that we could depend on him to do whatever was to be done without any further supervision. When he met his death, he was gallantly leading his platoon in the charge at Fromelles early on the 9th.” He was unm. A marble tablet to his memory was placed in Errigal Church, Garvagh, co. Derry.

=MACBEAN, DUNCAN GILLIES FORBES=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only child of Major-General Forbes Macbean, C.V.O., C.B., formerly A.D.C. to H.M. the King, late Gordon Highlanders, by his wife, Mary Katharine Fishburn, dau. of the late Capt. Forbes Jackson, R.N., and gdson. of Col. Forbes Macbean, 92nd Gordon Highlanders, Sergt.-at-Arms to Queen Victoria, and great-grand-nephew of Sir William Macbean, K.C.B., K.T.S., also of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders; b. R. M. C. Terrace, Yorktown, 19 July, 1893; educ. Aysgarth School, Wellington College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Gordon Highlanders, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 30 Oct. 1914. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he went to France with his regt., was wounded at Gheluvelt, 28 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Festubert, 18 June, 1915; unm. He was buried in the garden of the Chateau de Gorre, near Bethune. Lieut. Macbean was a fine all-round sportsman. He excelled as a Rugby football player, and was a member of the XV at Wellington and Sandhurst. He was also a very good shot with both gun and rifle, and most popular with all who knew him.

=McBRIDE, GILBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7954), S.S. 103628, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McCABE, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 1603, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Alexander McCabe, of Killagorman, Killishandra, by his wife, Rose Ann, dau. of Daniel Kelly, of Killagorman, Killishandra; b. Dumnlara, Killishandra, co. Cavan, 30 April, 1877; educ. Killagorman National School; went to Sydney, Australia, 1907; when war broke out volunteered and joined the Australian Imperial Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 July, 1915; unm.

=MACCABE, ROBERT MAXWELL=, Lieut. 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Thomas Maccabe, of 22, Landscape Terrace, Belfast, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Robert Maxwell; b. Belfast, co. Antrim, 25 Aug. 1884; educ. Clifton Park National School and Queen’s University, Belfast and was Telegraphist, G.P.O. He joined Queen’s University O.T.C. in 1910, and gained his “A” certificate in infantry training and entered for his “B” certificate. He also acted as Musketry Lecturer, and received a medal from Count Gleichen for excellent work in the O.T.C. After the outbreak of war he was given a commission in the Post Office Rifles as 2nd Lieut. 5 Sept. 1914, and went to France with his battn. where he acted as bomb officer. On 23 April a small detachment of the battn. was stationed in a dug-out near Givenchy when a shell burst, wounding him severely. He was taken to the Military Hospital at Bethune, where he died, 23 April, 1915, and was buried in the Civil Cemetery there. Lieut. Maccabe was a keen sportsman and was for a long period captain of the Glendorra Lawn Tennis Club. He was also Hon. Treasurer of the Silverstream Hockey Club, and was a member of the committee of the Clytonville Football and Cricket Clubs. He m. at Belfast, 21 Nov. 1914, Amy Constance Robb, yst. dau. of Thomas McDowell, of Belfast; s.p.

=MACCABEE, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Private No. 7379, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Reg., s. of late William Maccabee, Royal Garrison Artillery; b. Portsmouth, 20 May, 1881; enlisted Feb. 1902, and was killed in action at Troyon, France, 7 Oct. 1914. He m. at Portsmouth, 23 Feb. 1914, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Ford, of Glastonbury, and had a posthumous dau., Eva Winnifred, b. 3 March 1915.

=McCALL, ROBERT JAMES=, Private, No. 8/1276, Otago Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of James William McCall, of York Bar, Wellington, Plumber; b. Blenheim, Nov. 1884; educ. at Terrace End School; worked as an assistant to his father and afterwards with his brother, J. McCall, of Main Street, Palmerston; volunteered on the outbreak of war; enlisted and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; was drafted to Otago Infantry Battn., and left New Zealand in Dec. 1914, with the Second Contingent; died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915; unm. McCall was well-known in football circles as a member of the Old Kai Toa Club, and later of the Orientals.

=McCANN, FRANK RICHARD=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 24018, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McCAROGHER, JOHN OMMANNEY=, Private, No. 1848, 1/14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Ernest Joseph Chilton McCarogher, of Croydon, Bank Manager; b. Croydon, 19 May, 1895; educ. St. Dunstan’s College; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 and was killed in action at Messines, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. Buried on the battlefield.

=McCARTEN, WILLIAM JAMES DANIEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3556), 216332, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=McCARTHY, DENIS=, Rifleman, No. 289, 3rd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of the late Denis McCarthy, of Cardiff, by his wife, Kathleen; b. Cardiff, 30 July, 1882; educ. St. Patrick School, Grangetown, there; enlisted in 1904, and, on completing his term of service with the Colours, became a tram conductor at Cardiff. When war broke out he rejoined his Battn.; went to France, 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Armentières, 23 Oct. 1914. He m. at Cardiff, 24 Dec. 1907, Mary Ann (16, Tyler Street, Roath, Cardiff), dau. of the late Ambrose Turner, of London, and had three children: William Denis, b. 25 Feb. 1911; Kathleen May, b. 15 Dec. 1909, and Eileen Mary, b. 6 Aug. 1913.

=McCARTHY, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3235), S.S. 748. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=McCARTHY, JERRY JOSEPH=, L.-Corpl., No. 870. 2nd Battn. 1st Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, s. of Florence McCarthy, of Bantry, co. Cork, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Denis McCarthy; b. Bantry, 6 Jan. 1876; educ. there; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, about 1895, became corpl. about 1897; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with clasps and King’s medal with clasps), and afterwards went to Australia, about 1905. When the European War broke out he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 3 May, 1915, during an attack on the Turkish trenches; unm.

=McCARTHY, WILFRED CYRIL=, Private, No. 1573, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late David McCarthy, of Derby, Coal Merchant, by his wife, Edith Annie (34, York Street, Derby), dau. of Joseph Hirst; b. Derby, 14 Aug. 1884; educ. Ashbourne Road Council Schools, Derby, and emigrated to Australia in July, 1913; enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force shortly after the outbreak of war, and was killed in the Gallipoli Peninsula, 8 May, 1915; unm.

=McCARTNEY, JOSEPH DONKIN=, Petty Officer, 175178, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McCARTY, MARTIN=, Private, No. 8357, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of John McCarty, of Glenmash, Westport, co. Mayo; b. Glenmash aforesaid; enlisted 5 Aug. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

=McCAUGHERTY, DAVID=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3079), 176815, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=McCLELLAND, CHARLES STEEN=, Private, No. 2086, 1/4th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots (T.F.), 2nd s. of the Rev. Robert McClelland, Minister of Inchinnan, by his wife, Isabella Coutts, dau. of the Rev. William Corson, Minister of Girvan; b. Inchinnan Manse, co. Renfrew, 27 Jan. 1889; educ. Inchinnan Public School and Paisley Grammar School, and on leaving there entered the Union Bank of Scotland, Paisley, where he served his apprenticeship to banking, and was afterwards employed as ledger clerk in the Govan and Kinning Park, Glasgow branches of the same. In March, 1910, he accepted a post in a bank in Canada, but returned to Scotland the June following, and entered the Office of Messrs. McAndrew, Murray and Wright, of 9, Albyn Place, Edinburgh, where he was for some three years. On the outbreak of war he joined the 1/4th Royal Scots, in Sept. 1914, and after training at Edinburgh and Larbert, left for the East at the end of May, 1915. He arrived at the Dardanelles, 12 to 15 June, and was killed in action in the attack on the Turkish position on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, on 28 June, 1915; unm.

=McCLELLAND, SIDNEY=, Private, No. S. 6895, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of John McClelland, of 3, Dowsett Road, Tottenham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 28 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=McCLELLAND, THOMAS=, 2nd Lieut., 7th Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Thomas McClelland, of St. Anne’s Mount, Aigburth, Liverpool, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of David Smart, of Liverpool; b. Liverpool, 7 Feb. 1893; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool; Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in B.A., with honours in Jurisprudence, July, 1914. On the outbreak of war he joined the King’s Liverpool Regt., 12 Aug. 1914, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 Sept. 1914, and went to the Front early in March, 1915. He was killed in action, while leading his platoon in the attack on the enemy’s trenches at Richebourg L’Avoué, 16 May, 1915, and was buried in the Rue du Bois, about 2 miles west of Neuve Chapelle; unm. A cross bearing his name marks the spot. He was a keen fisher and motor cyclist.

=McCLUSKEY, ALFRED JOHN=, L.-Corpl. No. 450, 10th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Andrew McCluskey, Ship’s Steward, by his wife, Hannah Louisa (17, North Church Street, Bute Dock, Cardiff), dau. of Alfred Budding, of Cardiff, Shipwright; b. Cardiff, 20 May, 1877; educ. Mount Stuart Square National School there, and on leaving started work as a wagon builder in the North Central Wagon Works, Cardiff. Tiring of wagon building he followed in his dead father’s footsteps and took to the sea. In Feb. 1907, he emigrated to Australia, and catching the “get rich quick” fever started out as a prospector with varying success. What money he made he speedily lost in speculation. Later he took up sheep farming, and worked in Western Australia until the outbreak of war, when he joined the Commonwealth Force, and was killed in action at Walkers Ridge, Anzac Beach, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “I personally knew that he was a good soldier, as during the whole of our training he personally came under my notice a great deal.”

=McCOMB, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5565), S.S. 100505, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=McCORMACK, JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 28), 10131, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=McCORMICK, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class, 304180, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=McCREADIL, CHARLES=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26680 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McDERMOTT, FREDERICK AYLWARD=, Private, No. 857, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, yst. s. of the late Cornelius William McDermott, Paymaster-in-Chief, R.N., by his wife, Mary Anne (7, Leigham Terrace, Plymouth); b. Rhyd-y-Gors, co. Carmarthen, 29 June, 1879; educ. Richmond (Yorkshire) Grammar School and Mannamead College, Plymouth; after the declaration of war enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Sydney, 1 Sept. 1914, and was killed, 7 June, 1915, while on observation duty in the firing line by the bursting of a Turkish high explosive shell, a piece of which pierced his heart. He was buried by the padre in the Anzac Beach cemetery; unm. General Sir William Birdwood wrote his sympathy in the loss of a son, who died so gallantly for his King and country. The Adjutant wrote that the late Private F. McDermott was thought very highly of by his late Capt. A. J. Shout, V.C., in whose company he was.

=McDIARMID, KENNETH=, Capt., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, s. of the late John McDiarmid, of Auchenvin, Dalbeattie, Scotland, Shipowner, by his wife, Mary A. J. dau. of the late James Hosack; b. Liverpool, 26 Oct. 1881; educ. Sedbergh School and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; held an appointment in Burma with the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, Ltd., and being home on leave at the outbreak of war, applied for a commission; was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. on 4 Sept., and later was transferred to the 2nd Battn.; promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. subsequent to his death, 5 May, 1915, to date as from 2 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action on Hill 60 near Ypres, 18 April, 1915; unm. Writing to his mother, his commanding officer said: “He not only showed a splendid example of leadership, but of great heroism. Though wounded he refused to go away from the fighting line, and, finally, when his platoon was very much reduced in numbers and the Germans were in consequence pressing on to the parapet, he leapt on to the parapet himself and met his end most valiantly fighting at close quarters. He was an officer whose brave deeds will never be forgotten in the regt. and whose charming personality made a great impression on me for the short three weeks I knew him.” A brother officer wrote: “He was wounded through the arm first, but refused to leave the firing line. About 6 a.m., while cheering on the Scottish Borderers, he was shot clean through the head and killed instantaneously. Your son was beloved by his men and fellow officers, and in losing him the regt. has lost one of its best officers, and myself one of my best chums. It is some little consolation to know that his bravery pulled his men together at a very critical point, and his memory will never be forgotten.” And another officer: “The conduct of A Coy. was extraordinarily good. They had between 120 and 130 casualties out of 160. Lieut. McDiarmid did extraordinarily well there. Although severely wounded he kept up a rapid rifle fire behind a blockade until he was killed. I was told his conduct was absolutely heroic, for he succeeded in holding a very important communication trench, thus saving a rather dangerous situation, as but for his action it might well have resulted in our communications being cut.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

=McDONALD, ALEXANDER TOM CLARK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11267, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=McDONALD, ARCHIBALD=, Private, No. 10076, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Barony, Glasgow; enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, aged 40; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914; m. at Glasgow, 31 Dec. 1902, Annie, dau. of (--) Fay, and had two children: Archibald, b. 7 April, 1915; and Isabella, b. 5 June, 1904.

=MACDONALD, ARCHIBALD=, Private, No. 10151, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died 31 Oct. 1914.

=McDONALD, ANGUS=, Private, No. 10741, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of Donald McDonald, of 47, Hopehill Road, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 20 March, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=MACDONALD, REV. CHARLES GORDON=, 2nd Lieut., 1/6th Scottish Rifles (The Cameronians) (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Edward Ellice Macdonald, Rector of Hillhead High School, Glasgow, by his wife, Johanna Margaret, dau. of the late John Adam, of India; b. Hillhead, Glasgow, 7 March, 1889; educ. Hillhead High School and Glasgow University, where he graduated M.A. and B.D. and where he was actively associated with the O.T.C., and in May, 1914, was licensed by the Presbytery and appointed Assistant Minister in Hamilton. On the outbreak of war he resigned his position and was gazetted to the 1/6th Scottish Rifles as 2nd Lieut., 5 Sept. 1914; went to France early in March, and was killed in action at Festubert, 15 June, 1915, in an attack on the enemy’s trenches. The attack was planned on the night of the 14th, Lieut. Macdonald, with his company, was appointed to lead the charge, and his own platoon, with himself at their head, was the first to advance. They had to traverse 300 yards of open ground to reach the German first line trenches, and in his last letter, written that night, Lieut. Macdonald said that he was proud at having been selected to lead the charge, but that it was very unlikely that he would come out of it with his life. He was unm. A brother officer wrote: “Your son was brave beyond all words; Lieut. Macdonald was asked to lead that charge, and he did lead that charge. He had smiles all over his face and shouted: ‘Come on, men!’ He had a rifle with the bayonet fixed, and he ran in front of his men to encourage them. It was a brave piece of work. He knew no fear.” The Rev. J. H. Dickie, Minister of New Kilpatrick, to whom Lieut. Macdonald acted as assistant for a time, in the course of an appreciation of the deceased, wrote: “The Church of Scotland is poorer to-day, because of the death of Gordon Macdonald. For he was a man of not only outstanding ability, but of exceptional spiritual power. A brilliant student, Master of Arts, with first-class honours in literature, he had all the makings of a powerful preacher, for he possessed a soul--soul all afire with vivid sense of the Divine. I was privileged to know him well, to share his inmost thoughts, and with sincerity I can say that Gordon Macdonald was one of the most spiritually-minded men I ever knew.” His brother, Lieut. Edward Ellice Macdonald, is now on active service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France.

=McDONALD, DONALD=, Stoker, 1st Class, 284481, Petty Officer, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACDONALD, EVAN RONALD HORATIO KEITH=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Highland L.I., 2nd and only surviving s. of the late Keith Norman MacDonald, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., the well-known collector of, and authority on, Highland music, by his wife, Eliza Mary (21, Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh), dau. of Francis Burgess Niblett, of Ermston, Wardie, near Edinburgh, and grandson of Charles MacDonald, of Ord; b. Edinbane, Isle of Skye, 10 April, 1893; educ. Edinburgh Academy, Harrogate, Southport, and the Edinburgh Institution, also receiving private tuition from Capt. Johnstone, R.E., of Edinburgh; joined the 3rd Battn. Highland L.I. 3 July, 1912, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. 10 June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with his regt. 13 Aug. 1914, came into action at Paturages on 24 Aug. and was killed, being shot through the right temple, at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914; unm. He was buried near where he fell, about 1 mile north of the village of Verneuil, and 6 miles east of Vailly, on the River Aisne. A cross of wood was erected over his grave and a description of the place taken. His commanding officer, Col. Wolfe Murray, wrote to 2nd Lieut. MacDonald’s mother: “I am thankful to say it was quite instantaneous, while he was most pluckily directing the fire of his men. I feel his loss very much. He was an excellent young officer, keen, quick and reliable, and his company commander. Capt. Mayne, who has seen a good deal of service, told me how cool he was under fire and that he showed great promise.” He was keenly interested in everything Highland, and was a keen athlete, and loved to play the slower music of the pìob mhór. While at school he captained the first fifteen in seasons 1910–11–12 and afterwards played in the former pupils’ team. At the school sports in 1911 he won the cup for the mile race, and at the time of his death was one of the secretaries of the Institution Athletic Sports. His diary from 13 Aug. to 20 Sept. 1914, was printed in the Highland L.I. “Chronicle” for Oct. Lieut. MacDonald was predeceased a few years ago by his elder brother, the late Lieut. Reginald Francis Norman Keith MacDonald, 4th Battn. Highland L.I., who served in the South African War.

=McDONALD, GEORGE=, Private, No. 11457, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Alexander McDonald, of Milton of Culloden Farm, Allanfearie, co. Inverness, Cattleman, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Alexander Ross, Ploughman; b. Tomich, Muir of Ord, 6 Aug. 1895; educ. Urray Public School; was a Gardener at Forres; joined the Royal Scots 22 Feb.; went to France 7 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

=McDONALD, GEORGE DUFFUS=, E.R.A., R.N.R., 31 E.C., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACDONALD, JAMES=, Corpl., No. 15171, 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, yst. s. of John Macdonald, of Kilnhillock, Glenrinnes, co. Banff, Crofter, by his wife, Jane, dau. of William Gordon; b. Dufftown, 28 Feb. 1895; educ. Mortlach Higher Grade School there; was apprenticed as a draper to the Central Cash Drapery Warehouse, Dufftown, and afterwards proceeded to Greenock; joined the Royal Scots soon after war was declared, 3 Sept. 1914; went to France July, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. 1915; unm.

=McDONALD, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9968), 296416, H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McDONALD, JOHN WILLIAM SCOTT=, Private, No. 1991, 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), only s. of John McDonald, of 22, Downfield Place, Edinburgh, by his wife, Agnes Taylor, dau. of William Scott; b. Edinburgh, 14 Oct. 1895; educ. Dairy Public School there; enlisted, 14 Aug. 1914; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot through the chest, 22 March following, while erecting barbed wire entanglements before our trenches at St. Eloi. He was removed to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died on 3 April, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He was a brave and plucky lad”; and his company commander: “I knew him well as being always keen on his work and ready to do anything to help at any time.”

=McDONALD, KENNETH STUART=, Corpl., No. 1534, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Thomas McDonald, of Beauly, co. Inverness, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Richard Mathews, of Compton, Berkshire; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 23 Jan. 1881; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School; joined the Victoria and St. George’s Rifles (1st Middlesex), 24 April, 1900, retiring 29 Jan. 1907, and joining the London Scottish, 4 Feb. following, and was promoted Corpl., 1 Nov. 1913. He served in the South African War of 1899–1902 with the Imperial Yeomanry, and received the Queen’s medal. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered for foreign service; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 Nov. 1914, while assisting a wounded comrade from the firing line. He was buried near a chateau, 1¼ miles west of Ypres, on the Ypres-Vlamertinghe road. He m. at Brixton, 8 Feb. 1902, Caroline, only dau. of Edwin Chambers Macreight, of Hauteville, Jersey; s.p.

=MACDONALD, RONALD MOSSE=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (the 79th), elder s. of Capt. William Mosse Macdonald, of Glenmore Cottage, Bournemouth, formerly 3rd Battn. Cameron Highlanders, by his wife, Helena, dau. of Samuel Harvey Twining; b. Bombay, 9 Dec. 1890; educ. Horris Hill, Newbury; Winchester College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Cameron Highlanders, 16 Nov. 1910, and promoted Lieut., 1 May, 1914; left Edinburgh with his regt. for the Front, 12 Aug. following; was wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, during the heavy fighting to the west of the sugar factory at Troyon, 14 Sept. 1914, on which occasion the 1st Camerons lost 17 officers and 500 men, and was invalided to Angers, France; rejoined his battn. 8 Oct., and was killed at Veldhock, near Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. Lieut. Macdonald was an excellent cricketer and played for the Aldershot Command for two years. He was also an accomplished violinist. His only brother is serving in the same regt.

=McDONNELL, THOMAS=, A.B., Sapper, No. 14, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, yst. s. of the late Thomas McDonnell, of Newfound Well, Drogheda, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of William Keeley, of Drogheda; b. Newfound Well, 12 Feb. 1885; educ. at the Christian Brothers School, Drogheda; joined the Royal Naval Reserve in 1902, was for several years in the employ of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co., went to Australia in 1911, and in the early part of 1915 enlisted in the Australian Contingent at Victoria. In a letter to his mother announcing this he said he knew she would be glad to know he was doing his bit. He died on board H.M.S. Canada, 27 Aug. 1915, of enteric fever, contracted while serving in the Dardanelles; unm.

=MACDUFF, ALEXANDER=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, only s. of Alexander Macduff, of Bonhard, co. Perth, J.P., by his wife, Edith Alexandrine, dau. of John Shiell, of Smithfield, co. Forfar; b. Bonhard, aforesaid, 6 July, 1884; educ. Cargilfield, Winchester, and New College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Cameron Highlanders, 19 April, 1905; promoted Lieut. 11 Jan. 1911, and Capt. 12 Oct. 1914; went to France, 20 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. Buried near where he fell.

=MACE, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9390), S.S. 106745, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McEVOY, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1500U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McEVOY, PATRICK=, Leading Stoker, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 2899), 285115, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=McEWAN, ROBERT=, S.B.A., M. 5850, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACFARLANE, JOHN SHEPHARD=, Private, No. 1819, F Coy., 9th Battn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Macfarlane, of 65, Reidvale Street, Dennistown, Glasgow, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Cockburn; b. Glasgow, 10 Feb. 1897; educ. Thompson Street Public School; was in the employ of Messrs. Barclay, Curle and Co., Glasgow, Boilermakers; joined the Glasgow Highlanders, 4 March, 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Richebourg, 17 May, 1915, by the bursting of a shell. Buried there. A comrade wrote: “I suppose you know now of our losses when in the trenches last time. One shell killed Hugh Macpherson, George Laing, Wee McFarlane, and three others, also wounded Lieut. Spens. I was at the door of the dug-out with my head outside when this big shell came through the roof and burst inside. When I got rid of the debris with which I was covered and looked in I nearly collapsed. All were dead except the Lieut.” His elder brother. L.-Corpl. David MacFarlane, was killed in action at the Persian Gulf, 7 Jan. 1916.

=MACFARLANE, ROBERT CRAIG=, Midshipman, R.N., 2nd s. of Robert Craig Macfarlane, of Roode Berg, South Africa [s. of Alexander Macfarlane, Jun., of Thornhill, Stirlingshire], by his wife, Jessie Wardlaw, dau. of James Wardlaw Reid; b. Glendenning, Graaff Reinet, South Africa, 5 July, 1897; educ. Ascham St. Vincent’s, Eastbourne, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; entered the Navy, June, 1914, and was lost in H.M.S. Hawke when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McFARLANE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10630), S.S. 108637, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MACFIE, CLAUD WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of the late Claud Macfie, of Gogar Burn, Midlothian, by his wife, Mary (Warrix, North Berwick), dau. of W. S. Young, of Burntisland; b. Gogar Burn aforesaid, 8 Dec. 1892; educ. at Cargilfield, Midlothian, from which school he obtained a scholarship for Marlborough, where he was in the Hockey XI and the Gymnasium VIII, and won the Fisher Divinity Prize; afterwards proceeding to New College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in Modern History. It had been his intention to enter the Diplomatic Service, but on the outbreak of war he enlisted in Lovat’s Scouts, but being nominated by his college for a University commission, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd South Staffordshires, 11 Nov. 1914. He went to the Front, 20 May, 1915. and was there attached to the 2nd Bedfords. He was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, while leading his platoon in an attack on a German trench. The official report of his death is as follows: “2nd Lieut. Macfie, C. W., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshires, attd. 2nd Battn. Bedford Regt., Givenchy, June 16, killed, was in command of the first platoon which assaulted the Crater. He led his platoon most gallantly and fearlessly, and was killed shortly after his men obtained a footing in the enemy’s lines.” The report was accompanied by the following message from the General Officer Commanding, 7th Division, British Expeditionary Force, to the deceased officer’s mother: “The enclosed is a report of the action of 2nd Lieut. C. W. Macfie, 3rd South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., as brought to Gen. Gough’s notice, and he thinks you would like to have a copy. He cannot express too deeply his opinion of this officer’s gallantry or his sympathy for you in your great loss.” The Officer Commanding 2nd Bedfords wrote: “He died a glorious soldier’s death, leading his platoon gallantly against the enemy. We took the enemy’s trench, but unfortunately were unable to retain possession of it for long, and those who were left got themselves away with difficulty and were unable to carry the dead back, so I am very sorry to say that your son’s body was left where he had met his end. I think I am allowed to tell you that I am reporting to the Brigadier-General that he led his men with great dash and gallantry, which was witnessed by several people. He had not been with us long enough for us to get to know him well, but he showed signs of making an excellent officer, and I am very sorry indeed to have lost his services.” His company commander wrote of him: “He was an excellent officer and a very good friend, and his behaviour under fire was the finest example his men could have. He fell leading his men on after we had captured the German trench on the top of the old Mine Crater. This spot is quite close to the village of Givenchy, near Festubert”; and an officer of his company: “He showed splendid spirit all the way through and constantly went down along the trench to see that the men were keeping their spirits up. When the attack was ordered, we had to charge, one platoon at a time, and No. 8, your son’s, was the first to leave the trench. Several officers of the other regts. besides those of our own who were near, remarked upon the way your son led the charge; he was easily the first man at the Germans, and he was seen climbing up over the German ‘crater’ while the rest were still streaming across the open. Soon afterwards he was killed.” 2nd Lieut. Macfie was mentioned by Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French in his Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was unm.

=McGEACHIE, JAMES ANDERSON=, Private, No. 1218, 18th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of William McGeachie, of 60, Jameson Terrace, New Milns, Ayrshire, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of James Anderson, of Dalrymple, St. Girvan, Ayrshire; b. New Milns, aforesaid, 22 April, 1889; educ. Public School there; went to Australia in Feb. 1911, and settled at Stockenkingle, New South Wales; was a Bushman; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force shortly after the outbreak of war; left for Egypt about June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action near Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 22 Aug. 1915; unm.

=McGINNITY, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6631), 215701, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MCGEE, JAMES MICHAEL=, Private, No. 3 605, No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, s. of Bernard McGee, of Greymouth, New Zealand, Goldminer (a native of co. Donegal, who died 5 July, 1916); b. Westland, New Zealand, 6 July, 1879; educ. Convent of Mercy, Greymouth, New Zealand; and was a Merchant Sailor; joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 20 May, 1915; and was drowned on the transport Marquette, when that ship was torpedoed in the Ægean Sea, 23 Oct. 1915; unm. Three of his brothers, viz.: Timothy, Lawrence and Daniel, are on active service with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.

=McGINTY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 16982, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots, s. of William McGinty, of Addiewell, Midlothian, Candlemaker; b. Blackburn, West Lothian, Aug. 1870; educ. Addiewell; was a Coal Miner; joined the Royal Scots, 4 Jan. 1915; went to France, July, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 70, during the Battle of Loos, 26 Sep. 1915. He m. at West Calder, Midlothian, 26 Feb. 1908, Martha (23, Westwood Rows, West Calder), dau. of Alexander Watson, and had four children: William and Alexander (twins), b. 1 March, 1913; Elizabeth, b. 24 Dec. 1911; and Margaret Calder, b. 20 May, 1915.

=McGLASHAN, JOHN EWING=, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 2nd s. of Walter Charles Stuart McGlashan, of Moidart, Gourock, and the firm of Messrs. McGlashan, Sons and Co., Ltd., of Glasgow, by his wife, Agnes Templeton, dau. of the late David James; b. Shawlands, Glasgow, 16 March, 1884; educ. Greenock Academy, and afterwards entered his father’s business. He joined the Volunteers, 1900, and became 2nd Lieut. 1904, and having passed the school of instruction for regular service as Lieut. in the Renfrew Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 26 Aug. 1914, was gazetted as Lieut. to 1/5th Argylls. He left with his Battn. for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action near Krithia, 12 July, 1915; unm.

=MACGREGOR, CORTLANDT RICHARD=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. South Wales Borderers, elder s. of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan, J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; b. Orange County, Florida, U.S.A., 7 Feb. 1894; educ. abroad and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1912–1913); gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, 5 Feb. 1913, and joined at Chatham; but, having applied for foreign service, was transferred to the 2nd Battn., and sailed with it for China in Sept. 1913. He took part in the siege of Tsing-tau, and was promoted Lieut., 17 Sept. 1914. Returning to England in Jan. 1915, he left for the Mediterranean in March, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; unm. His only brother, 2nd Lieut. Kenneth Cortlandt MacGregor, of the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, had fallen in action near Ypres on 26 Feb. preceding (see following notice).

=MACGREGOR, KENNETH CORTLANDT=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, yr. s. of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan. J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; b. Brecon, 21 Jan. 1896; educ. Lancing College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 30 Sept. 1914; joined at Portland the following day, went to the Front with a Draft for the 2nd Battn., 5 Dec., and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 Feb. 1915. He was buried at Verbranden Molen.

=McGREGOR, SAMUEL BEGG=, Sergt., No. 183, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of John McGregor, of Aberfoyle, Perth, Blacksmith; b. Leith, 15 April, 1882; educ. Bells School there; enlisted 4 Jan. 1900; served in South Africa, 1900–02 (Queen’s and King’s medals); promoted Sergt. Aug. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and died 11 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day at Kemmel.

=McGUFFICK, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9257), S.S. 106438, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McGUILEY, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9103), S.S. 105931. H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McGUINNESS, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1472U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HART-McHARG, WILLIAM FREDERICK RICHARD=, Lieut.-Col., 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late Hon. Major William Hart-McHarg, 44th (Essex) Regt., by his wife, Jane Scott (10, Netherhall Gardens, N.W.), dau. of the late Capt. Thomsett, 44th Regt.; b. Kilkenny, 16 Feb. 1869; educ. Bruges; went to Canada about 1885 and was a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, practising at Vancouver, where he was a partner in the firm of Abbott, Hart-McHarg & Duncan. He joined the Canadian Militia about 1895 as a Private and rose to the command of the 7th (Vancouver) Regt., receiving the medal for 20 years’ service. He served in the South African War, 1900–2, with the first contingent (Royal Canadian Regt.) and obtained the Queen’s medal with four clasps (Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg and Cape Colony), and in 1911 was one of the Canadian contingent present at the Coronation of King George V. On the outbreak of the European War, Lieut.-Col. Hart-McHarg was given command of the 7th Regt. and came over with the first contingent and went to France in Feb. 1915. At the Second Battle of Ypres, the 7th formed part of the 3rd Brigade, and on Friday, 23 April, occupied a position on the forward crest of a ridge, with its left flank near St. Julien. This position was severely shelled by the Germans during that day, and about 4.30 Col. Hart-McHarg, Major (now Lieut.-Col. Commanding) Odlum and Lieut. Mathewson, of the Canadian Engineers, went out to reconnoitre the ground. The exact location of the German forces opposed to them was not known, and they moved down the slope to the ruined village of Keerselaere--a distance of about 300 yards--in broad daylight without drawing a shot, but when they reached there they saw the Germans not 100 yards away, and they accordingly turned and began to retire. They were followed by a burst of rapid fire the moment they cleared the shelter of the ruins. Col. Hart-McHarg and Major Odlum managed to get into a shell-hole near by, but not before the former had been severely wounded. When Major Odlum discovered this, he raced up the hill under heavy fire in search of surgical aid. He found Capt. G. Gibson, Medical Officer, 7th Battn., who, accompanied by Sergt. J. Dryden, went down to the shell-hole immediately. They managed to move the Colonel into a ditch and there dressed his wound and remained with him till after dark, when he was carried back to Battn. Headquarters. He died the following day, 24 April, 1915, in hospital at Poperinghe, and was buried there in the New Cemetery with Col. Boyle, who fell the same day. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. Col. Hart-McHarg was well known as a fine rifle shot. In 1908 he gained the Gold Medal of Canada after a close contest with three redoubtable antagonists from Toronto and Ottawa. He had shot several times in Canada’s national teams, and had distinguished himself in the matches for the Palma International Trophy against the selected teams of the United States, Great Britain, Australia and other countries. He held the record individual score in the match, being in this respect a world’s champion. He had also shot for Canada in the Empire Trophy match, founded by the Australians as an inter-Empire competition. He was a member of the Canadian team at Bisley in 1907, 1910 and 1914, and was spoken of as the next commandant of the Canadian team for Bisley. He shot for the Dominion here in both the Mackinnon and Kolapore Imperial matches, and in 1910 he tied for the Prince of Wales’s Prize with the British Army champion, the famous Capt. Wallingford, who is now with the New Zealand Force. Each scored 85, the highest possible, with 17 bull’s-eyes at 300 and 600 yards. Col Hart-McHarg lost on shooting off the tie, but he won the Bronze Cross of the Bisley Grand Aggregate. In Aug. 1913, he won the Governor-General’s prize for the second time--the Blue Riband--at the Dominion of Canada rifle meeting at Ottawa and the Long Range Championship of the World with army rifle at the international matches, Camp Perry, Ohio. He was unm.

=MACHIN, CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 10028, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Machin, of Tunstall, by his wife, Annie (3, Cardigan Road, Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury), dau. of Thomas Walker; b. Longton, co. Stafford; educ. Catholic School, Tunstall; enlisted, 17 March, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914, during the desperate fighting on the Aisne. He was unm.

=McHUGH, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1879S, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McINTOSH, ALFRED JAMES GRAHAM=, A.B., 221937, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McINTOSH, LAURENCE SCOTT=, Stoker, 1st Class, 283715 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McINTOSH, ROBERT RAE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, yst. s. of the Rev. Robert McIntosh, D.D., Senior Minister of the Alva West United Free Church, by his wife, Helen, dau. of the late Thomas Stevens, of Ardline, Helensburgh; b. The West Manse, Alva, near Stirling, 8 May, 1888; educ. at the Dollar Academy and Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A., 1908, and when war broke out was working for his LL.B. degree; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the Cameron Highlanders, 14 April, 1914, and joined his regt. 1 July following. He went to France 20 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the night of 23–24 April, 1915. Buried near “Hill 60” to the east of the Ypres-Lille railway; unm.

=MACK, FRED=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21187, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACK, JAMES WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2793), 193570, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACK, WILLIAM BELL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8084). S.S. 103925, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKAIN, JAMES FERGUS=, Capt., 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army, elder s. of the Rev. William James Mackain, of Ardnamurchan, Aubrey Lodge, Merton Park, formerly Rector of Parham, Sussex, and subsequently Vicar of Little Waldingfield and Poslingford, Suffolk, by his wife, Helen Clifford, dau. of the late John Johnstone Elton Morecroft, of Hollymount, West Derby, Liverpool; b. Bognor, co. Sussex, 28 Oct. 1885; educ. Warden House School, Upper Deal; Clifton College (where he was a member of the Bisley VIII of 1902), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached, Indian Army, 9 Jan. 1904, and after serving for his first year with the Gordon Highlanders at Sialkote and Peshawar, was posted to the 34th Sikh Pioneers, 8 March, 1905. During the great earthquake in the Punjab in 1905 he was in charge of a relief convoy from Lahore to Kulu and did good work there, and his name appeared in a telegram from the Viceroy to the Secretary of State. He entered the Kasauli Army Signalling College, and on the completion of his course received a special certificate. He was engaged in the Mohmand Expedition of 1908, for which he received a medal with clasp. Seconded from his regt. in 1901, he was one of the first officers appointed to the newly raised Signal Companies of the Sappers and Miners and served with the 31st Signal Coy. as second in command for three years at Futtehghur and other stations. He was promoted Lieut., 9 April, 1906, and Capt., 9 Jan. 1913. Home on furlough when the war broke out, he rejoined his regt. in Egypt in Aug. 1914, and proceeded with it to France. He fell in action near Festubert, Flanders, on 23 Nov. 1914, while gallantly defending his trench against a determined assault of the enemy. Capt. Mackain, though wounded in the face from the splinter of a shell, rallied his men and while he lived kept the enemy at bay. He was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. A brother officer wrote: “He was commanding his company (No. 4) at the time, and was shot through the head in a very gallant attempt to stem an attack in great force by the enemy through breaches blown in our trenches. The enemy were armed with hand-grenades, which they threw into the trenches. Your son, while shooting down the grenadiers with his revolver over the top of the trench, was unhappily himself shot dead through the head. His loss to us personally, and to us as a regt., I cannot yet realise. He was such a fine stamp of Christian soldier, and we looked on him as one likely to go a very long way.” The “Civil and Military Gazette” of India, of 4 Dec. 1914, said: “Capt. Mackain was known throughout Northern India as a keen Churchman and one of the main stays of the Church of England Men’s Society.” A memorial tablet to the memory of Capt. Mackain, erected by his father, was unveiled in the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W., by the Chaplain-General on 29 Sept. 1915, and another was placed in Lahore Cathedral by his friends in India.

=MACKAY, ALASTAIR SUTTON=, Private, No. 2113, 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of William Falconer Mackay, of Invergordon, Merchant, by his wife, Flora, dau. of Thomas Morrison; b. Moose Factory, Hudson Bay, Canada, 7 Dec. 1889; educ. Invergordon and Aberdeen; in his sixteenth year passed for a boy clerkship in the Civil Service, and was sent to the G.P.O., West Kensington. From here he passed as assistant clerk, and was transferred to the National Health Insurance Office in Edinburgh. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 9th Royal Scots (the Dandy Ninth), left for the Front on 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot by a stray bullet while carrying rations from the transports on 29 April. He died the same day, and was buried on the 30th on a farm at Hooge, near Ypres; unm.

=MACKAY, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13442 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKAY, JOHN=, Petty Officer, 175154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACKAY, WALTER EDWARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 174303, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=MCKECHNIE, WILLIAM GEORGE ERNEST=, 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 1777, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MCKEE, JAMES=, Signalman, 224740, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 14 Oct. 1914.

=MACKENZIE, COLIN LANDSEER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., only s. of Landseer Mackenzie, of St. Bernard, Bournemouth [Cadet of Mackenzie of Redcastle], by his wife, Laura, dau. of David Dobell, and a great-nephew of Sir Edwin Landseer, the celebrated painter; b. Malvern, 4 May, 1892, and was educ. at Haley Preparatory School, Bournemouth; Stubbington Naval School, and Cheltenham College, where he entered the O.T.C. at so early an age as to be physically unfit to carry his rifle on a march, and won the school prize for German. On leaving Cheltenham, he joined the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders as 2nd Lieut. on probation, in which rank he was subsequently confirmed, and, after passing his “Army Competition,” was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., 24 May, 1913. On 13 Aug. 1914, he proceeded with his battn., which formed part of the 5th Brigade, to France, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne on 20 Sept. following. His company commander, Capt. Chichester, wrote of him: “He was in the trenches at the time, defending a position, and was watching a charge of our men on his left front, and had turned round to tell his men to cease fire, in case they hit any of their own side, when he was shot in the head, death being instantaneous. He was a gallant fellow and a good officer; his death is much deplored.” He was buried on the ridge above Vernieul; unm.

=MACKENZIE, CORTLANDT GRAHAM GORDON=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; b. Toronto, 3 Nov. 1889; educ. Upper Canada College, Toronto, and the Royal Military College, Kingston; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Scots Fusiliers, 30 Aug. 1911, and promoted Lieut., 17 Feb. 1912; went to France with his regt. about 30 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Gheluvelt, near Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and was buried there; unm. His eldest brother, Lieut. G. A. G. Mackenzie, was killed at Festubert (see following notice), and his yst. brother, Lieut. John G. Mackenzie, is in the 92nd Highlanders, Canadian Expeditionary Force.

=MACKENZIE, GORDON ALEXANDER GORDON=, Lieut., 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law, of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; b. Toronto, 22 Aug. 1882; educ. Ridley College, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, and at the Royal Military College, Kingston; joined the Queen’s Own Rifles, Toronto, about 1901, being placed on the Reserve of Officers about 1907, and when the war broke out was fruit farming in British Columbia. He immediately offered his services and was appointed to the 30th (British Columbia) Battn., being afterwards transferred to the 16th Battn. He came over with the second contingent, Feb. 1915; went to France about 1 May, and was killed at Festubert, 21 May, 1915; unm.

=MACKENZIE, JAMES, V.C.=, Private, No. 8185, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of the late Alexander Mackenzie, by his wife, Marion, dau. of Hugh Miller, of Meikle, Borneleugh, Irongray, Dumfries, Farmer; b. West Glen, New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire, 2 April, 1889; educ. Laurieknowe Public School, Maxwelltown; enlisted 16 Feb. 1912; killed in action at Rouges Bancs, France, at 2 p.m. 19 Dec. 1914, while acting as stretcher-bearer, in a brave endeavour to bring in a wounded comrade. For a similar act of bravery on the same day he was awarded the Victoria Cross, 18 Feb. following, the official record stating: “For conspicuous bravery at Rouges Bancs, on 19 Dec., in rescuing a severely wounded man from the front of the German trenches, under a very heavy fire, and after a stretcher-bearer party had been compelled to abandon the attempt. Private Mackenzie was subsequently killed on that day whilst in performance of a similar act of gallant conduct.” A comrade wrote: “He was returning to the trenches along with me and another stretcher-bearer when it occurred. We had only two or three cases that morning, so the last one was taken by us three. After we took the wounded soldier to hospital, we returned to see if there were any more. There was a very dangerous place to pass. I went first, followed by another, then James came behind, which caused his death. He was shot in the heart by a sniper, and only lived five minutes.” A memorial tablet, erected by friends in the Burgh of Maxwelltown and parishioners of Troqueer, was placed in the east vestibule of Troqueer Parish Church. A portrait has also been hung in his old school.

=MACKENZIE, JAMES=, L.-Sergt., No. 806, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late John Mackenzie, Coachman, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John McKenzie; b. Strathpeffer, co. Ross, 10 June, 1881; educ. Lochbroom Public School, and after working for some time in an engineering shop in Glasgow, went to Queensland about 1902, and was employed there in well sinking; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to Egypt in Dec.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 23 May following. He was a widower; s.p. On hearing of his death, his brother William enlisted in the R.G.A., and is now (1916) on active service.

=MACKENZIE, KEITH BETHUNE=, Capt., 2nd. attd. 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, attd. 1st Gordon Highlanders, elder s. of the late James MacKenzie, of Daresbury, Malvern, Worcestershire, by his wife, Jane (Woodham House, Horsell, Woking), only dau. of the Rev. Neil Bethune, of Thamesford, Ontario; b. Shanghai, China, 1 Dec. 1879; educ. Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia, 5 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut., 5 April, 1904, and Capt., 3 June, 1911; served in the South African War, 1900–2, taking part in the operations in Cape Colony, Aug. 1900–Jan. 1902; Orange Free State, Jan.-March, 1902; and in the Transvaal, March-May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 14 Oct.-12 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 12 Nov. 1914. He was buried at Hooge. He was a Knight of the Saxe Ernestine Family Order. He m. at St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, 22 Jan. 1912, Louise, dau. of the late James Scott, of Craigholme, Edinburgh; s.p.

=MACKENZIE, KENNETH=, Blacksmith, 342118, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=McKENZIE, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 8876, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, eldest s. of William McKenzie, of 5, Ritchie Place, Edinburgh, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Robert Stuart, of Logie-Almond, Perthshire; b. Edinburgh, 8 Oct. 1886; educ. Fountainbridge Public School, Edinburgh; enlisted, 20 Aug. 1904; went to France with his battn., 21 Aug. 1914, and was wounded at Hazebrouck, 13 Oct. 1914, and invalided home, but returned to the Front, 19 Jan. 1915. Early on the morning of 25 April, 1915, the 10th Brigade, in which were the 2nd Seaforths, received orders to retake the village of St. Julien, which had been captured by the enemy on the previous day. The attack was pushed up to the very edge of the houses, when it was checked by a murderous maxim-gun fire. The 10th Brigade suffered terrible losses and Sergt. McKenzie was mortally wounded. He was removed to the Dressing Station at Hazebrouck, where he died early the following morning (the 26th). He was buried near a burned farmhouse to the left of the St. Jean-St. Julien road, 1,000 yards south of St. Julien. Sergt. McKenzie m. at Edinburgh, 18 May, 1909, Annie (2, Roseburn Street, Murravfield, Edinburgh), dau. of Henry Dunnet, and had a dau., Marion Margot Stuart, b. 15 Aug. 1912.

=MACKEY, HARRY=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 789), late R.M.A. 5753, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKIE, REGINALD ERNEST=, Lieut. and posthumous Capt., 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Councillor James Wyse Mackie, J.P., of the firm of I. W. Mackie & Sons, Ltd., Princes Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth (16, Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh), dau. of the late John Burnett; b. Edinburgh, 6 July, 1884; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and studied at the Surgeon’s Hall, and then entered his father’s firm. He joined the Queen’s Own Edinburgh Rifles, which on the formation of the Territorial Force became the 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots, in 1907, and on 10 March, 1910, having passed in tactics and obtained a certificate from the School of Instruction, was gazetted Lieut. On the outbreak of war, he volunteered for Imperial service; left with his battn. for the Dardanelles, Saturday, 22 May, and was killed in the attack on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; unm. He went out as Capt., but was not gazetted until after death, and to rank as from 26 May, 1915.

=MACKIE, ROBERT COLE=, Private, No. 6/499, 2nd South Canterbury Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; b. Cathcart, Glasgow, 26 Feb. 1885; educ. Public School there; went to New Zealand; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the 2nd South Canterbury Regt.; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there between that date and 1 May; unm.

=McKINNON, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 537, 1st Australian Light Horse, 2nd s. of Alexander McKinnon, of Brownhill, Pitglassie, Turriff, co. Aberdeen, Farmer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Myles Morrison; b. Easter Elchies, co. Moray, 13 Aug. 1882; educ. Craigellachie and Aberlour Secondary School; was a Coppersmith; went to Australia in 1912, and settled in Queensland. He joined the Scottish Horse on the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, and served with that corps in South Africa, and when the European War began in Aug. 1914, he enlisted in the 1st Australian Light Horse, and died in hospital at Malta, 1 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli on or about 8 Aug.; unm.

=MACKINNON, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7581), S.S. 102965, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKINTOSH, JAMES LAWTON=, Lieut., attd. 1st Battn. Highland Light Infantry, yr. surviving s. of the late Hugh Mackintosh, of Braeval, Nairn, Shipowner, by his wife, Henrietta (12, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh), dau. of Richard Lawton; b. Nairn, 4 Jan. 1895; educ. Nairn Academy, Edinburgh Academy, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. List, Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and was given a temporary lieutenancy in the 1st Highland L.I., Dec. 1914; went to France, 26 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 1 May, 1915; unm. Buried near Ypres. Lieut.-Col. Hill, of the 1st Highland L.I.. wrote: “I had recognised his rare promise as an officer and he had endeared himself to all. He was leading his platoon in the attack when he was shot in the head, and died at once, without any pain.”

=MACKIRDY, PETER MACKAY=, Lieut.-Commander. R.N.V.R., Anson Battn. Royal Naval Division, twin s. of Robert MacKirdy, of Greenock and Glasgow, Sugar Broker, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Mackay of Greenock; b. Greenock, 1 Sept. 1888; educ. Collegiate School, Greenock; was an Engineer; Sub-Lieut., R.N.V.R., 17 July, 1910; Lieut., 10 April, 1913. and Lieut.-Commander, 10 April, 1913; died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 29 May, 1915; unm. His twin brother. Capt. R. F. MacKirdy, was killed in action there, 12 July following (see next notice).

=MACKIRDY, ROBERT FINGLAND=, Capt., 5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.). twin s. of Robert MacKirdy, of Greenock and Glasgow, Sugar Broker, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Mackay, of Greenock; b. Greenock, 1 Sept. 1888; educ. Collegiate School, Greenock, and was a Commission Agent; joined the 5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 22 March, 1907; became 2nd Lieut., 23 March, 1908; Lieut., 20 Jan. 1912. and Capt., 1 Nov. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for Southampton; went to the Dardanelles, 3 June, 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July, 1915; unm.

=MACKLIN, ALFRED HENRY=, Private, No. 5064, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; eldest s. of William Macklin, of Long Street, Enford, near Pewsey, by his wife. Emily, dau. of the late John Cox; b. Enford, Wilts, 18 Oct. 1881; educ. there, enlisted on or about 4 Aug. 1903; killed in action at La Bassée, 25 Dec. 1914, and buried close to the west wall of the brewery at Givinchy. He m. at Enford, 1 Aug. 1908, Ellen Beatrice (Enford, Pewsey, Wilts), dau. of William Eyres, of Enford, Pewsey, and had a son, Reginald William, b. 24 June, 1909.

=MACKRELL, THOMAS=, Canteen Manager. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACKWORTH, FRANCIS JULIAN AUDLEY=, Major, Royal Artillery, 3rd s. of the late Col. Sir Arthur William Mackworth, 6th Bart., R.E., C.B., D.L., J.P., by his wife, Alice, dau. of Joseph Cubitt, of Park Street, Westminster, C E.; b. Clifton, Bristol, 15 Sept. 1876; educ. Cathedral School, Llandaff, Malvern College (scholar) and Selwyn College, Cambridge (scholar, Mathematical Tripos, 1898); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 June, 1898; promoted Lieut. 16 Feb. 1901, Capt. 15 April, 1906, and Major 30 Oct. 1914; was employed with the West African Frontier Force from 2 April, 1904, to 25 June, 1908; passed into the Staff College in 1909; was Adjutant, 26th Brigade, R.F.A., from Feb. 1912 to Sept. 1913, and Brigade Major, R.A., 3rd Division, Oct. 1913 to the time of his death; went to France, 16 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near La Couture, Pas de Calais, 1 Nov. 1914. Buried at Fosse, Pas de Calais. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.], 1914. He m. at Llantilio, Pertholey, co. Monmouth. 4 Aug. 1910, Dorothy Conran (The Mardy. Abergavenny), only dau. of Arthur Hastings Lascelles, and had two daus.: Cecily Joan, b. 15 Aug. 1911; and Helen Margaret, b. 18 Feb. 1914. His eldest brother, Capt. Digby Mackworth, was killed in action at Ladysmith in Jan. 1900. His yr. brother, Capt. Harry Llewelyn Mackworth, D.S.O., is now (1916) at the Front with the Australian troops. Another, Commander Geoffrey Mackworth is in the R.N.; and Capt. John Mackworth is (1916) on active service with the Royal Flying Corps.

=McLARDY, HENRY=, Staff Sergt.-Major, No. 1122, 8th Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Donald McLardy, of Glasgow, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late (--) Slater; b. Glasgow, 26 June, 1875; educ. there; enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders at Glasgow. 4 Aug. 1891; served in Chitral, 1895, including the attack on, and capture of, Dargai Heights; and through the South African War. 1899–1902, and received the Queen’s medal with four bars (Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast) and the King’s medal with two bars (1901–02). He then returned to India, was present at the Delhi Durbar (medal), and obtained his discharge, 31 Aug. 1910, with the rank of Sergt. after 19 years’ service with the Colours, seven of which were abroad. He went to New Zealand the same year and joined the Defence Staff as Drill Instructor Sergt.-Major, and on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, volunteered for foreign service and left for Egypt with the main body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and was killed in a bayonet charge on Walker’s Ridge on the night of 2 May, 1915, being buried in the Infantry Cemetery at the foot of that ridge. He m. at Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand, 28 Feb. 1913, Elizabeth (Nen Street. Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand), eldest dau. of the late John Fraser, and had two sons: Donald Gordon, b. 1 Dec. 1913; and Henry Thomas, b. 17 Jan. 1915.

=MCLAREN, ERIC ANDREW=, Private, No. 12/1740. A Coy,. 3rd Auckland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Thomas McLaren, of Waitahuna, Miner (b. in Ireland), by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Andrew Chapman; b. Waitahuna, Otago, New Zealand, 11 July, 1891; educ. Union Street School, Dunedin, and Richmond Road School, Auckland; enlisted 14 Dec. 1914; left for Egypt with the third reinforcements, 13 Feb.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, and was killed in action at Daisy Patch. Cape Hellas, Gallipoli, 8 May, 1915; unm.

=MACLEAN, ALISTAIR ALLAN=, Private, No. 1730, 14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.); 3rd s. of Alexander Maclean, of Gordon Hall, Kingussie, co. Inverness, Farmer, by his wife, Margery, dau. of Finlay McGillivray; b. Gordon Hall aforesaid, 4 May, 1894; educ. Kinguissie Higher Grade School; was a Clerk in the London Branch of the Bank of Montreal; joined the London Scottish in 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 15 Sept.; was wounded at the First Battle of Ypres, 11 Nov. 1914, during the famous charge of the London Scottish, and died at Poperinghe three days later, 14 Nov.; unm. He was buried at Poperinghe.

=MACLEAN, ANDREW DE VERE=, Capt., 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., only surviving s. of Kaid Sir Harry Maclean, of Tangier, Morocco; b. Morocco City, 18 Oct. 1882; educ. Wellington; and served with the Militia in the South African War. 1901–02 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and was gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the 1st East Surreys, 28 April, 1902. He was promoted Lieut. 2 April, 1904. and Capt. 1910, and retired 23 April, 1913, when he joined the Special Reserve. He rejoined his Battn., in Dublin, on the outbreak of war; went with the 14th Brigade to France, and was killed in action at Missy-sur-Aisne, 19 Sept. 1914, and was buried there. He m. at Bombay, 20 Nov. 1907, Dulce (Westlands, Ewhurst, Surrey), only dau. of the late Major-Gen. T. J. Maclachlan, R.H.A.; s.p.

=MACLEAN, ANGUS ROBERT=, Private, 1363, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force. 3rd s. of Angus Maclean, of Korrumburra, Victoria, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of George McGregor; b. Deep Creek, Victoria, 16 June, 1889; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, took part in the landing and was killed in action there, 17 July, 1915; unm.

=MCLEAN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 2583, 2nd Battn. (Prince of Wales’ Volunteers) South Lancashire Regt., s. of Michael McLean; b. Liverpool, 34 years ago; educ. St. Sylvester School, Liverpool; enlisted following the outbreak of war, 11 Aug. 1914, and died of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle, 13 March, 1915; buried Bailleul Cemetery. He m. Liverpool, 8 Aug. 1906, Sarah, dau. of Felix Grimes, of Liverpool, and had five children: Michael, b. 2 June. 1907; Felix, b. 17 March. 1909; Gerard, b. 15 Jan. 1913; Sarah, b. 14 March, 1911; and Mary, b. 8 April, 1915.

=MCLEAN, WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., R.N.R. 5329A, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea. 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACLEHOSE, NORMAN CRAWFORD=, Lieut., 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Norman Macmillan MacLehose, of 18, Harley Street, London, W., and of Little Heath, Berkhamsted, Herts, M.B., Ophthalmic Surgeon, by his wife, Olive, dau. of the late Alexander Macmillan, Publisher; b. London, 21 April, 1889; educ. at Rugby, where he was “King’s Medallist,” and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A., with 2nd Class honours in Modern History, 1911; was a student of the Inner Temple and a member of the staff of the “Umpire’s Office” in connection with the Insurance Act (Part II for Unemployment). For some time after leaving Oxford he resided at, and worked for, Toynbee Hall, and he kept up his connection with that institution until the war broke out. He joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1912, and in the following year obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Post Office Rifles. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and was promoted Lieut., 19 Aug. 1914. He left for France with his battn. in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert on 26 May following; unm. He was buried at Lindez Farm, Festubert. In a letter written a few days before his death he said; “Well, the war is a bad business, but there are compensations. People had so often told us the race was degenerate that I had almost begun to wonder whether it was not true, but I know now.... Some of our fellow’s used to grouse and seem soft in England, but there is no doubt about them here. They are made of the right stuff, as I believe the whole nation is.” His commanding officer wrote of him: “He was a very valuable officer and will be greatly missed”; and a brother officer said: “His men loved him.”

=MACLENNAN, IAN DOUGLAS=, Sergt., No. 2690, 5th Battn., Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of the Rev. George Robert Maclennan, M.A., Parish Minister of Thurso, by his late wife, Barbara Johnston, dau. of the late Robert Johnston, Jeweller, Glasgow; b. Campbeltown, co. Argyle, 16 April. 1894; educ. St James School, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh; won the medal for junior vocalists at the “mod” of “An Comunn Gaidhealach” in 1907; and on leaving Edinburgh in 1911 entered the Thurso Branch of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, and was an active and enthusiastic worker in his father’s church at Thurso. He joined the 5th Battn., Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.) in May, 1911; volunteered on the outbreak of war for foreign service; was promoted Sergt. 19 April, 1915; went to France on the following Saturday, and was killed in action at 6.30 on the evening of 15 June, 1915, in an attack upon the German trenches a few miles N.N.E., Festubert; unm. His chaplain, the Rev. D. Macfarlane, wrote: “Sergt. Maclennan was killed in action last night when our battn. had severe losses. His coy. (C) was chosen to lead an attack, and he with several others, among them two of the officers, were cut down by machine gun and shell fire. He always willingly led the praise for me at the coy. services. On Friday afternoon I had a service with his coy. in preparation for the trench work and its hazards, and he led the hymns for us so lustily. He was an influence for good among the men, and was most highly respected and beloved by his own coy.” A comrade wrote: “Everyone here has great reason in feeling very proud of Ian. I saw him last just before we left the trench to charge, and as usual, he was cheerily talking to us and looking as cool as could possibly be. It is a comfort for you to know that Ian’s remains have had a very decent burial just behind the trench from which we charged, and a Sergt. from B Coy. has put up a very neat cross on the grave.” Another comrade paid the following tribute to his memory: “Happiness was one of his great possessions, he was never downhearted. He was one to march with or to rest with, a man in a hundred to fight alongside, for he had the two essential qualities of a good comrade--great spirits, and ceaseless unselfishness. His death, like his life, was a glorious one, and I am sure that he met it as he met good and bad fortune alike--with a smile.”

=MACLEOD, ALASTAIR RODERICK=, Lieut., “Y” Battery, R.H.A., yr. s. of Simon John Fraser Macleod, of 26, Albert Hall Mansions, Kensington. S.W., K.C., one of H.M. Commissioners of the Board of Control, by his wife, Catherine Florence, dau. of the late William Nelson, of Salisbury Green, Edinburgh; b. 44, Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, W., 20 Jan. 1892; educ. Cheltenham, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., 23 Dec. 1911; appointed to 135th Battery, and promoted Lieut. 23 Dec. 1914. He proceeded with his battery to France in Aug. 1914, his brigade being attached to the 4th Division, and took part in the memorable retreat from Mons to Melan, and subsequently in the general advance and the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne. While on observation duty for his battery in our first line trenches near Le Gheir before daybreak on the morning of 21 Oct., the trenches were captured by a battn. of the 104th Saxon Regt. and he himself and some 40 men made prisoners. They were well treated by their captors and placed in the cellars of a convent for protection from the bombardment of their own guns, and later in the day, when a counter-attack recovered the lost trenches, were released. In Nov. he was wounded by shrapnel in the shoulder and got concussion from the effects of high explosive shells, and was invalided home. He rejoined at Woolwich in Jan. 1915, and getting his “jacket” was in March appointed to “Y” Battery, R.H.A., and proceeded to the Dardanelles with the 29th Division. He was mortally wounded at Beach W, Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915. Having been selected on 23 April by the officer in command of the R.H.A., of the Division to act as observation officer to certain of the ships, whose guns were to cover the landing of the troops near Cape Helles, he, with his servant and five signallers, went on board the Caledonia, and on the morning of the 25th he and his men landed with the Lancashire Fusiliers at Beach W, between Capes Tekke and Helles, to control and direct the fire of the warships. Lieut. Macleod was the only R.H.A. officer to participate in this gallant feat of arms. Our men suffered heavily while still on the water, and, on landing, came up against unbroken lines of barbed wire, while, from the cliffs, snipers and concealed machine-guns and quick-firers rained death upon them. Lieut. Macleod and his signallers, with the exception of one, who fell severely wounded directly he left the boat, succeeded in crossing the beach and gaining some shelter on the cliffs; but, in attempting to move forward to a more commanding position, he was mortally wounded by a pom-pom bullet. Just after being hit, he sent off a military message to the Fleet, ending with the words: “I’m done for!” His servant, Gunner McCarthy, raised him up and dragged him into some slight shelter, and he was within a short time placed in a boat and taken to H.M.S. Euryalus, but died as he was being lifted on board. He was buried at sea the following day together with 16 other officers, the Brigadier-General and all the officers of the Headquarters’ staff being present; unm. The officer commanding his battery in France wrote: “I had an extremely high opinion of the boy, both as a friend and an officer, and the regt. has lost one of a type which is rare to find. He combined every virtue that one could wish to find; a charming companion, very popular with the officers and equally so with the men, and they had a great respect for him. Hard working, always thorough at his duties and keen on his profession, he was an absolutely straight gentleman. His one fault I fear may have been his undoing, and that was his total disregard for his own safety”; and the Colonel commanding the R.H.A. Brigade at the Dardanelles wrote: “He had a particular charm about him with his very boyish appearance and manner, and I had taken a great liking to him. His selection for so important a job is a sufficient proof of what was thought of him as an officer. The desperate enterprise succeeded on that beach, and you, with many others, will have your grief tempered by pride in one of the most glorious achievements of this war.” Lieut. Macleod was a fine rider, and on 25 April, 1914--exactly a year before his death--won the Bar Point-to-Point Open Steeplechase on his own horse in a field of 23. He was known to his intimates as “Hamish.”

=McLEOD, ARCHIBALD ALASTAIR=, Capt., 1st Battn. Gloucester Regt., 3rd s. of the late Lieut.-Gen. William Kelty McLeod, Col., The Highland L.I., by his wife, Emilie Godfrey, dau. of the late James Thomson, of Gibraltar, nephew of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir John McLeod, G.C.B., Col., Black Watch, and gdson. of the late Col. Alexander McLeod, C.B., 61st Regt.; b. Singapore, 3 June, 1877; educ. Wimbledon School, the Oxford Military College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., 8 Sept. 1897, and promoted Lieut. 24 Feb. 1900, and Capt. 13 Oct. 1905; served (1) in the South African War, 1900–02, was employed with Mounted Infantry, took part in relief of Kimberley operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg (17–26 Feb.), Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River (5–6 May) and Zand River, operations in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11–12 June), operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, operations in Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Wittebergen (1–29 July), Bothaville, Caledon River (27–29 Nov.), in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1900, and in Cape Colony, north of Orange River, operations in Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to Aug. 1901, and Oct. 1901 to 31 May, 1902, and operations in Cape Colony, Feb. to March, 1901, and Sept, to Oct. 1901 (Queen’s medal with six clasps, King’s medal with two clasps); (2) in Nigeria being employed with West African Frontier Force, 29 Sept. 1906 to 1908, when he joined 1st Battn.; and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914; went to the Front with the 1st Division, was present at the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action while leading his Coy. in an attack on a farm held by tin-Germans, 2 Nov. 1914. Capt. McLeod was distinguished in musketry, and had the Special Certificate of signalling granted to him at Pretoria in June, 1904. His Coy. were winners of the Douglas Shield (a Regimental trophy) in 1912. His recreations were hunting, polo and shooting. He m. at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, 18 June, 1914, Marie Jeanette Amelia, yst. dau. of Lord Henry Fitzwarrine Chichester, and gdson. of Edward, 4th Marquis of Donegall; s.p.

=MACLEOD, DAVID FERGUSON=, L.-Corpl. No. 270, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late David Ferguson Macleod, of 29, Polworth Gardens, Edinburgh, and of the General Post Office, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Henry John Gibson, Aberdeenshire; b. Edinburgh, 12 Sept. 1889; educ. George Heriot’s School; went to Australia, Oct. 1913, and settled at Sydney, New South Wales; was a Secretary; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of the European War; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died on the hospital ship Devanha, 10 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action after Lone Pine, 9 Aug. 1915; unm. He was buried at sea 10 miles south-east of Mudros Harbour, Lemnos Island.

=MACLEOD, IAN BREAC=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Black Watch, only s. of the Rev. Roderick Charles Macleod, Vicar of Mitford, Morpeth, by his wife, Katharine Louisa, dau. of the Rev. William Edward Jelf, of Caerdeon, Dolgelly, and gdson. of Norman Macleod of Macleod, of Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye, J.P., D.L., 22nd chief of his clan; b. Bolney, co. Sussex, 4 Sept. 1893; educ. Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Black Watch, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 9 Sept. 1914; joined the 2nd Battn. in India, Nov. 1912, with it went to France in Oct. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches near Neuve Chapelle, 17 April, 1915; unm. Buried in the cemetery at Veille Chapelle. Col. Harvey wrote: “Your son was a most excellent young officer, and since the Battn. has been in France he has done most sterling work, especially when his Coy. Commander was wounded before Christmas--a time which tried all ranks very highly. Your son was killed while he was carrying out his duties in the trenches, and I understand died without pain.” And Major Wauchope: “Believe me that for all great and important qualities such as truthfulness, courage, kindliness, a most ready sympathy (most rare in one so young), consistent unselfishness--in all these he was, I believe, superior to most.... I have seen no one more cool and collected in hours of great danger.... As his Capt., and I do indeed trust as his friend, I can say there are few indeed I know who have qualities that are so ‘becoming to an officer and a gentleman.’ You can guess how all the men loved ‘Mr. I. B.’ All who knew him, officers and men, mourn his loss. I do not think he ever had an unkind thought for anyone, but it is only since the war began I understood his value as an officer.”

=McLEOD, DUNCAN=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9671), S.S. 201449, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct 1914.

=MACLEOD, TORQUIL HARRY LIONEL=, Midshipman, R.N., H.M.S. Goliath, 2nd s. of Roderick Willoughby Macleod, of Invergordon Castle and Cadboll, co. Cromarty, and 10, Ovington Gardens, London, formerly Capt., Cameron Highlanders (who served in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882), by his wife, Alice Olivia, 2nd dau. of Edward Tierney Gilchrist Darell; b. Invergordon Castle, aforesaid, 11 Sept. 1899: educ. Hillbrow, Eastbourne, and the Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; joined H.M.S. Goliath as a Naval Cadet, 1 Aug. 1914, and was drowned when that battleship was sunk by a torpedo from a Turkish destroyer in the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915. His Commander, H. Peel-Ritchie, V.C., wrote of him: “All the time he was my A.D.C. I had every reason to be more than pleased with his keenness and zeal and the cheery way he did everything. He was a great favourite with officers and men, and I feel sure that, as he had made such a very good start, he would very quickly have made his mark in the Service.”

=McLOUGHLIN, FRANCIS=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3640, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McMILLAN, ALEXANDER=, Driver, No. 5/692 A., New Zealand Army Service Corps, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Archibald McMillan, Farmer, by his wife (--), dau. of Andrew Gilmour, of Waipawa, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, Engineer and Surveyor; b. Kumeroa, 26 Feb. 1888; educ. Waipawa District High School; enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, left for Egypt with the Main Expeditionary Force, and died of enteric fever, 3 Nov. 1915, in the 17th General Hospital, Alexandria, and was buried there; unm. He was a most prominent cricketer and Rugby football player, and prior to his departure from New Zealand represented the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in a football match against the Christchurch Rugby Team.

=McMILLAN, JAMES=, Blacksmith (Pensioner), 163582, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McMULLEN, THOMAS=. Sergt., No. 7360, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of the late William McMullen, of 40, Bell Street, Sunderland, Labourer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Richard Copping; b. Sunderland, 8 May, 1889; educ. St. Joseph’s there and Albert Road School, Darlington; was a Shipyard Labourer; enlisted, 28 July, 1908, and reached the rank of Sergt. after about five years’ service; went to France with his battn. in Aug. 1914; took part in the Battle of Mons and the other engagements in which the 2nd Coldstreams so greatly distinguished themselves, and was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant conduct in the field. He was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915, in the same affair in which L.-Corpl. Michael O’Leary, 7th Irish Guards, won the V.C. Buried at Cuinchy; unm. Immediately the news of his death was received, one of his brothers, John McMullen, a married man with three children, enlisted in the Royal Engineers, in order that the family might still be represented in the Army, but was invalided out after six months’ service.

=McMURRAN, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7687), S.S. 103004, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McNALLY, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9696), S.S. 107103, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McNAMARA, JAMES=, A.B., 196451 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=McNEALE, FRANK HANSFORD=, Petty Officer, Tele. 233305, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McNEALY, MATTHEW=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 637), 281510, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=McNEILL, HENRY GEORGE=, Trooper, No. 735, 10th Australian Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 3rd s. of John O’Brien McNeill, of 13, Diamond (--), Londonderry, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of Charles Howard Cullen, of Drumbawn, Newport, co. Tipperary; b. Queenstown, co. Cork, 10 Jan. 1896; educ. there and Mallow, co. Cork; went to Western Australia early in 1914 with the intention of taking up farming, but gave this up on the outbreak of the European War and joined the 10th Australian Light Horse at Perth, 5 Jan. 1915; went to Egypt, 9 March, and, after training there, volunteered to go as an Infantryman with his regt. to the Dardanelles; served there from 14 May to 7 Aug. 1915, on which date he was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge during the famous charge of the Light Horse. A comrade wrote: “It was on the morning of 7 Aug. when our unlucky regt. and another charged from Walker’s Ridge, and almost all got wiped out. When we had to retire back to the trenches that we started from, I looked for your son and to my sorrow could see him lying a few yards out. I watched him for a few minutes and could not see him move. I knew that he had given his life doing his bit. We could not get him in until it got dark, as it was only 50 yards off the Turkish trenches and it was death to show your hand over the trench. But that night we got him and several more in and carried them down to our medical station. We could not bury them that night, as we could not be spared from the firing line for long, but the next night we carried your son down and gave him a decent burial, our Army Chaplain reading the burial service and saying a short prayer. We mounded his grave up with stones and put a small wooden cross at the head of it with his name and regt. on it.” His 2nd brother, Corpl. John Elder McNeill (No. 7266), serving with the R.A.M.C., then attd. to the 2nd Inniskilling Fusiliers in France, was officially announced to have been awarded the D.C.M. the same day as his brother was killed, and his eldest brother, Gunner Charles Simpson McNeill (No. 31907), Royal Garrison Artillery, is also at the Front. Of his mother’s brothers, two served in the South African War and four are now on active service.

=MACNEILL, WILLIAM MACKINNON=, 2nd Lieut., 16th Lancers, 2nd s. of the late Duncan Macneill, of Winchester House, Old Broad Street, E.C., by his wife, Louisa Lucia, 4th dau. of Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lochnaw Castle, 8th Baronet, Wigtonshire; b. Tyndale House, Wimbledon Common, 7 March, 1890; educ. Repton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 16th Lancers (Special Reserve) from the Carmarthenshire Militia, 22 June, 1909; obtained his Pilot’s Certificate, qualifying to serve as a flying officer, 1 Jan. 1913; went to France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Mont des Cats, near Hazebrouck, 12 Oct. 1914, being buried in the Monastery there; unm.

=MACNICOL, HORATIUS BONAR=, 2nd Lieut., 1/10th Royal Scots (T.F.), elder s. of the late Rev. Duncan Clarke Macnicol, B.D., United Free Church Minister of Stockbridge, Edinburgh, by his wife, Emily Florence (74, Grange Loan, Edinburgh), dau. of the Rev. Horatius Bonar, of Grange, Edinburgh, D.D.; b. Glasgow, 13 April, 1896; educ. Edinburgh Academy, and Trent College, Derbyshire; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1/10th Royal Scots, 17 April, 1915, and was drowned in Belhaven Bay, Dunbar, 30 July, 1915, in a gallant attempt to save a private named Watson, of his battn., who had been seized with cramp; unm.

=MACNIVEN, ROBERT=, Private, No. 606, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; a native of co. Lanark; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed, 6–9 Aug. 1915.

=McNULTY, JAMES=, Private, No. 3385, 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); a native of co. Sligo; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action near Ypres, 15 May, 1915.

=McNULTY, PETER=, Private, No. 1455, 1/4th Battn. East Lancashire Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late John McNulty (died 8 March, 1912), by his wife, Ellen (37, Eldon Place, Blackburn), dau. of (--) Ingham; b. Blackburn, 25 April, 1894; educ. St. Albans Higher Grade School there; was an engineer; joined the Lancashire Territorials in Nov. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for Egypt in Sept. following; served at the Dardanelles, and died 1 July, 1915, of wounds received in action there; unm. Buried in Cape Helles Cemetery.

=McPHERSON, DONALD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13741, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACPHERSON, DUNCAN STUART ROSS=, Lieut., 7th, attd. 2/8th, Gurkha Rifles, only child of Surgeon-Gen. William Grant Macpherson, Army Medical Service, C.B., C.M.G., K.H.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Anne, dau. of J. Clunas, of New Orleans and Nairn; b. Bushey Heath, co. Herts, 23 Aug. 1889; educ. Westminster, Fettes College, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattd. List, 20 Jan. 1909; served his first year in India with the 2nd Black Watch; was appointed to the Indian Army, 11 March, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 20 April, 1911; served in India with the 7th Gurkha Rifles at Quetta and, during the winter of 1912–13, on the Persian Frontier; was in England on leave when war was declared in Aug. 1914, and was appointed Assistant Adjutant of the 8th (Service) Battn. The Black Watch at Aldershot, where he took an active part in the training of the battn. He went to France early in Nov. 1914, and was attd. to the 8th Gurkha Rifles. They were in the trenches at Festubert until the night of 22 Nov., when they were relieved. Shortly afterwards the enemy attacked and took the line of trenches they had handed over, and the battn. was ordered to return and counter-attack on the 23rd; this they did, eventually regaining the lost positions. It was during this attack that Lieut. Macpherson was killed while in command of the leading coy.; unm. Buried at Bethune. Lieut. Macpherson was a keen golfer and polo player, and had passed the examination for promotion to Capt. with distinction.

=MACPHERSON, JOHN=, Cadet, R.N., elder s. of John Lumsden Macpherson, Lieut.-Col. commanding 7th (Reserve) Battn. The Gordon Highlanders, T.D., Solicitor, by his wife, Mabel Jeanie, dau. of the late Rev. Robert Nimmo Smith, L.L.D., Minister of the First Charge of Haddington; b. St. Andrews, Fifeshire, 6 Nov. 1898; educ. Clifton Bank, St. Andrews and privately; entered Osborne in Sept. 1911; joined H.M.S. Bulwark from Dartmouth on the outbreak of war, and was lost when that ship was blown up at Sheerness on 26 Nov. 1914; unm.

=McCRAE, GEORGE=, Capt., 6th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), attd. 1/4th Royal Scots, eldest s. of Col. Sir George McCrae, of Torluish Grange, Edinburgh, Vice-President of the Local Government Board for Scotland, and Commanding Officer 16th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots, by his wife, Elizabeth Cameron, dau. of William Russell; b. Edinburgh, 10 Dec. 1883; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and on leaving there entered his father’s firm, Messrs. McCrae (Ltd.), Hosiers, of Princes Street, Edinburgh, of which he became managing director. On 23 May, 1898, at the age of 15, he joined the 4th Royal Scots (Volunteer), afterwards the 6th Royal Scots (T.F.), as a bugler; he became a private, 23 May, 1901, 2nd Lieut., 12 June, 1901, Lieut., 22 April, 1903, and Capt., 26 Sept. 1905. Volunteering for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, he was transferred to the 1/4th Royal Scots and placed in charge of a double company. He left with a draft of this battn. for the Dardanelles in April, 1915, and was killed in action during an attack on the Turkish position on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, on 28 June, 1915. He was first wounded in the leg, but continued to lead his men on, until he was shot through the head and killed instantly. He was buried in the battlefield. “A keen and hard-working officer,” said the “Watsonian”; “his cheery and generous disposition made him popular alike with men and officers. On the voyage out, at a time of great danger, he insisted on giving his lifebelt to a private. His men here, who are left, will miss him.” He m. at Glasgow, 24 Sept. 1910, Jemima, dau. of Alexander Ross, of that city; s.p. Two of his brothers are (1916) on active service, Lieut. W. K. McCrae, in the 1st Lowland R.G.A., and Capt. K. McCrae, in the Cameron Highlanders.

=MACRAE, IVOR ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn., King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only s. of Donald MacDonald MacRae, of Stenhouse, Thornhill, co. Dumfries, by his wife, Rosalie, dau. of the late Edward Lloyd, of Sittingbourne; b. Stenhouse aforesaid, 8 March, 1895; educ. Aldro, Eastbourne, and Harrow (The Grove); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. K.O.S.B., 10 Jan. 1914, and attached to the 2nd Battn. for training at Dublin, 14 April following; went to France, 8 Sept. 1914, and died at Bethune, 14 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action near Cuinchy, the previous day, while leading his platoon. They had been ordered to drive the enemy out from an entrenched position and during the attack nine-tenths of his men were killed or wounded. He was buried in Bethune Cemetery; unm.

=MACRAE, KENNETH CHARLES ERNEST=, L.-Corpl., No. 1348, 14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Kenneth Macrae, of Durham Road, East Finchley, N.W., by his wife, Frances Gertrude (18, White Hall Park, Hornsey Lane, N.), dau. of Henry Double, of Ramsgate; b. Highgate, 5 June, 1893; educ. Highfield, Muswell Hill; was a Civil Servant, Somerset House; joined the London Scottish in Sept. 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France with his battn. in Sept. 1914, and died of wounds in the 13th Hospital at Boulogne on 26 Nov. following. He was shot in the spine by a German sniper at Ypres; unm.

=MACRAE, VICTOR CHARLES JAMES=, Corpl., No. 5327, 4th Battn. Gordon Highlanders (T.F.), 3rd s. of Donald Macrae, of 123, Blenheim Place, Aberdeen, formerly Station Master of Plockton, Ross-shire, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Alexander Ferguson, of Inverness, Goldsmith; b. Inverness, 12 Oct. 1892; educ. Plockton Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, and Aberdeen University, where he graduated in classics with 1st Class honours and was captain of the University Shinty Club and won his blue; had been in the Territorial Battn. of the Gordon Highlanders but had retired. On the outbreak of war he re-enlisted, 2 Oct. 1914; went to France, 22 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Frierstraghte, Belgium, 21 April, 1915, while succouring a wounded comrade; unm. His Commander wrote of him as one of his best non-commissioned officers, and Major G. H. Smith, of the 4th Gordons, wrote: “Your son was a brave soldier, and it was just characteristic of him that he gave his life for his comrade. He was shot through the heart while attempting to lift up a wounded comrade and hold a cup of water for him to drink.”

=MACREIGHT, ARTHUR WILLIAM JAMES=, Lieut., 18th Battn. (London Irish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Albert Francis Henry Macreight, of The Cottage, Gammaton, North Devon, by his wife, Alma Jane, dau. of the late Joseph Ede Hamley; b. Kenython, St. Just-in-Penwith, Cornwall, 21 Jan. 1892; educ. Worcester Royal Grammar School, and H.M.S. Worcester, Thames Nautical Training College, and was for 18 months a Cadet on board the British Indian steamship Chyebassa. He joined the London Irish Rifles as 2nd Lieut. 9 June, 1913, on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and went to the Front with his regt., but was invalided home, and died at Bournemouth, 23 Nov. 1915, after undergoing several operations; unm.

=McSPARRON, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private. No. 541, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of George McSparron, of Straidarran, co. Derry, Farmer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Matthew Millar; b. Straid, afsd., 16 June, 1891; educ. Tyrglasson National School; went to Australia in 1912, and was working in Sydney when war broke out; volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt, 18 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was wounded shortly afterwards; returned to duty in June, and was killed in action in the fight for the Lone Pine trenches, between 6–9 Aug. 1915; unm.

=MACSWAN, ANGUS=, Private, No. 6247, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 4th s. of the late Donald MacSwan, Diver to the Leith Dock Commission, by his wife, Flora (139, Great Junction Street, Leith), dau. of the late Ronald Macdonald, Registrar, of Sleat, Skye; b. South Leith, 16 Dec. 1881; educ. Dr. Bell’s School there; enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders, 23 Aug. 1898; served with the 2nd Battn. through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); after this campaign transferred to the 1st Battn. in India; obtained his discharge, 28 Sept. 1905, and joined the Reserve; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914, and rejoined the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 16 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 25 April, 1915, while acting as orderly to the Capt. of B Coy.; unm. He was buried at a farm close to where he fell. Private MacSwan was a good all-round sportsman; was a marksman; a great footballer, and a member of the Regimental XI when they were the champions of India in 1905.

=McTURK, HORATIO ANDREW DAVID=, Trooper, No. 1269, Essex Yeomanry, yst. s. of Robert McTurk, of Frieze Hall, South Weald, Brentwood, Essex, Farmer, by his wife, Janet, dau. of John Crawford, of Sproulston, co. Renfrew; b. Frieze Hall afsd., 12 March, 1896; educ. High School, Brentwood; enlisted Sept. 1914; went to the Front, Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres in the famous charge of the 8th Cavalry Brigade, the 10th Hussars, the Blues and the Essex Yeomanry, on 13 May, 1915; unm.

=McVEIGH, GEORGE=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4826B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McVEY, JAMES=, Gunner, 11425, R.M.A., H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=McVITTIE, GEORGE HENRY=, 2nd Lieut. 2/4th Battn. The Border Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Richard McVittie, of 34, Brunswick Square, Penrith, Boot and Shoe Merchant, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Henry Hill, of Carlisle; b. Penrith, 24 Sept., 1895; educ. Brunswick Road Council School, Penrith; Penrith Grammar School (Sept. 1908 to July, 1914, Scholar), and Christ College, Cambridge (Exhibitioner); was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Border Regt. 4 Jan. 1915; left for India on 6 March, 1915, on H.M. Transport Dongola, and died on active service on H.M. Transport Tunisian the following day of strain and exposure caused by a collision between the Dongola and another ship in the Bristol Channel. He was unm.; and was buried at sea with full Military honours off the Scilly Isles. Col. Haswell wrote: “It is very sad that such a promising boy should be cut off so early, and the only comfort I can give you is that he did not suffer any pain, but quietly slept away. He was a good lad, keen at his work, and would have made a good soldier. We wrapped him in the Union Jack this afternoon (8 March), and buried him in the Atlantic.” While at the Grammar School he passed the Oxford Junior Local in 1910, the Senior in 1911, and took second-class honours in 1912. Having chosen the scholastic profession, Mr. McVittie in March, 1913, took the teacher’s preliminary certificate, with distinction in mathematics and geography, and taught for a year at the Boys’ National School. Prior to going Cambridge he was extremely anxious to respond to his country’s call and enlist as a private, but as the arrangements for going to Cambridge had been completed he went there and joined the Officers’ Training Corps. As a boy he was an enthusiastic member of the Penrith Boy Scouts, and he was also keenly interested in the Penrith Y.M.C.A.

=MACWHINNIE, NORMAN HENRY, D.C.M.=, Regimental Sergt.-Major, No. 5177, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only s. of James Tait Macwhinnie, of Ayr, Marine Engineer, by his wife, Elizabeth (14, St. Michael Street, Dumfries), dau. of the late John Carruthers, of Maxwellbank. Kirkcudbrightshire; b. Glencaple, co. Dumfries, 9 Aug. 1877; educ. St. Joseph’s College, Dumfries, subsequently entering the office of Charles M’Kie, the Sheriff clerk. He attached himself to the Dumfries Volunteers, and as soon as he had reached the age of 18 joined the 1st Battn. of the Scottish Borderers at York, 22 Jan. 1895, being promoted Corpl. in October the following year. During the South African war he accompanied his regt. to the Front and served with Lord Roberts’ column all the way to Pretoria, passing through the campaign without a scratch, and receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps; he also took part in the engagement at Karee Siding, near Bloemfontein, in which the Scottish Borderers were badly cut up, and for this gained the Distinguished Conduct Medal. In Jan. 1900 he became Sergt., in the following year Colour-Sergt., and while stationed at Cairo in 1908 Quartermaster-Sergt., having in the meantime seen service in Egypt and the Soudan; his final promotion came when he left Khartoum to take up the Sergt.-Majorship of the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Berwick in 1910. On the outbreak of war he was offered a commission, but preferred to stay with his regt., with which he proceeded to the Front, being killed in action at the Aisne River, 13 Sept. 1914. He was buried about two miles from Saarcy. Sergt.-Major Macwhinnie was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 9 Oct. 1914, and was awarded the Military Cross and the French Medaille Militaire; he also held the regulation medal for long service and good conduct, and King George’s Coronation Medal. He m. at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Belfast, 28 April, 1904, Caroline Christina, dau. of William Hart, 1st Class Staff Sergt.-Major, A.S.C., and had a son and dau.: Norman, b. Cairo, 29 Jan. 1908; and Elizabeth Madge, b. Colchester, 1 Dec. 1905.

=McWHIRTER, HUGH WALTER=, Private, No. 902, 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of Henry McWhirter, of Humbermouth, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, by his wife, Lottie, dau. of Henry Lilsed Harris; b. New Richmond, Quebec, 18 March, 1894; educ. Bay of Islands; volunteered and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt. in 1915; left for Britain 20 March, 1915, went to the Dardanelles, 19 Sept., and was killed in action there, 22 Sept. 1915; unm.

=MACWILLIAM, JAMES JULIAN GORDON=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only child of James MacWilliam, of 22, Forbes Road, Edinburgh, Solicitor in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, by his wife, Ella Julie de Lorn, dau. of Charles William Gordon MacDougall; b. Edinburgh, 16 Aug. 1895; educ. Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Gordon Highlanders, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 11 Dec. following; was for some time A.D.C. to Major Oakeley, Commandant of the O.T.C. at Barry Camp; went to France about 10 Sept.; joined his battn. at Fère-en-Jardenois; marched to La Bassée early in October, and was wounded by shrapnel on the 12th; rejoined the battn. about 19 Nov., when he took over his coy. temporarily, and was killed in action at Maedelsted Spur, Wytschaete, 14 Dec. 1914, while leading his platoon. His Commanding Officer, Major Baird, wrote: “On 14 Dec. three companies of his battn. were ordered to attack a German trench. Your boy’s coy. was one of these. The artillery previously bombarded the German trench, and it was hoped that it would have been made practically untenable. So far from this proving to be the case, as soon as our men advanced they were met by a terrific fire, through which they pushed forward in spite of heavy losses to within fifty yards, and in some places nearer still, of the German trench. It was when your boy was gallantly rising to lead his men for a final rush from this forward position that he was shot through the head and killed instantly. These are the particulars given me by a sergt. who was with the body of men under your son and who saw him fall. The Germans’ fire was so heavy that our men, in spite of their splendid advance, could not assault and carry the trench; their losses during the advance had been terrible, yet they hung on all day from 8 a.m. till dusk, and then had to withdraw. It was to my deep regret impossible to bring your boy’s body back for burial. Even after dark, the Germans kept up a heavy fire at this very close range, but he was lying so near the German trench that there is no doubt that they will have taken him behind their lines and buried him. I cannot express sufficiently the deep sorrow which I, and all of us, feel at the loss of a brother officer, who, though but so recently joined, had already on more than one occasion shown his sterling value. I have felt it my duty to bring to official notice the gallant manner in which your son was leading his men when he met his death. I know how little there is I can say that can bring consolation to you in your great sorrow, and will only add that your son’s death occurred in an action which, though it failed in its purpose, has been as fine an exhibition of sacrifice and determination as any in the annals of this regt., and I hope that you may be able to feel that your boy has died in covering himself with glory.” And Sergt. P. Benzies (since killed) on behalf of the N.C.Os. and men of C Coy., wrote: “On the morning of 14 Dec., the Gordon Highlanders made a glorious charge, two platoons of C Coy. leading, the other two to support. Your son was in charge of Nos. 9 and 11 Platoons which led, and, when the order came to advance, he was the first out of the trenches; smiling and waving his stick, he encouraged his men on. When we had got to within fifty yards of the German trenches we had to lie down for a minute to get our breath before the final assault. It was when he raised his head to give the order to advance that he was killed. He died instantaneously, and therefore suffered no pain. You ought to be very proud of yourself to have had such a gallant son, for he was a thorough hero, and we all admired him very much. I was also with your son when he was wounded on 12 Oct. 1914. I gave him a snapshot photograph, which was taken about the beginning of Oct., and which I hope he sent home. He gave a few of us cigarette lighters just a few days before the charge, and we all treasure them very much now.” Another officer writing home said: “Poor young MacWilliam, who had just rejoined after recovering from a wound, was shot dead through the head. I have since then taken over temporary command of C Coy., and in drawing up a report of its work during the day of the attack (14 Dec.) find that the men speak in the most glowing terms of the bravery of George and Mr. MacWilliam, and of the gallant way in which they led up their men to the advance under heavy machine gun and rifle fire. In fact the Commanding Officer has expressed extreme satisfaction and praise for the altogether splendid way in which they led their men in face of overpowering odds. Although victory was not achieved, the glory of unselfish bravery, such as reaches the highest achievements of the British Army, is attached to the names of the men who took part in that charge.” At Edinburgh Academy he was a L.-Sergt. in the O.T.C., and a member of the Shooting VIII, and shot for his school at Bisley.

=MADDANS, FREDERICK=, Private, No. G6535, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 3 May, 1915; unm.

=MADDEN, THOMAS HYLTON=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., only s. of the Ven. Thomas John Madden, Archdeacon of Liverpool, and Vicar of St. Luke’s Church there, by his wife, Jane, dau. of William Henry Horrocks, M.D.; b. Liverpool, 30 April, 1895; educ. Liverpool College and was to have entered Emmanuel, Cambridge, in Oct. 1914, but war breaking out he gave up his studies and applied for a commission. He had joined the Liverpool College O.T.C. in 1909, and at 16 commanded a coy. of the “King’s” Cadets under the late Lieut.-Col. A. T. S. MacIver. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (Reserve of Officers), 2 Aug. 1914; mobilised 5 Aug. following, and after training at Seaforth left there for the Front, 29 Sept.; reaching the firing line, 13 Nov. He received a regular commission in the 1st Battn. of his regt., 2 Feb. 1915; led the charge of his platoon against the German trenches on 10 March following, and was in the act of throwing a bomb over the barbed wire entanglements when he was shot down by a machine gun and fell mortally wounded. The Adjutant (Capt. S. E. Norris) wrote: “He fell leading his platoon in an assault on the German trenches at Givenchy about 8.15 yesterday (10 March). Capt. Feneran and Lieut. Young were also killed, and Lieut. Millar (all the officers of your son’s Coy., A) was wounded. From the evidence of the few men who returned I am sure they were all killed instantly. The whole history of the British Army has nothing finer to show than the work of A Coy. yesterday. Col. Carter was wounded, so I am writing this for him. Your son was one of the most promising young officers in the regt.”; and a Capt. of the 5th King’s: “On 10 March there was a general attack by the whole of the 1st Division, and on the whole it succeeded. The 6th Brigade, of which ‘The King’s’ Liverpool Regt. formed part, attacked at Givenchy, and in the attack by his regt. Hylton led the second party on the left. The first party had come under exceptionally heavy fire, and he must have known that he had to face more than the usual risk. He never faltered nor hesitated. He led his men well, and fell a victim to machine-gun fire. I think he must have died instantaneously. When the history of this war comes to be written, the story of ‘The King’s’ charge at Givenchy will rank equally with any of its heroic deeds in the past. The attack of our brigade failed, and the King’s Royal Rifles, the Liverpools and the South Staffords lost heavily in officers and men. But the force of their attack caused the Germans to bring reinforcements to Givenchy, and enabled success to be achieved elsewhere.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A memorial tablet and window has been placed in St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool, and a memorial tablet in Christ Church, Southport.

=MADDISON, ALFRED=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26723 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Arthur Maddison, of 7, Railway View, Dringhouses, near York; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MADDOCK, THOMAS HENRY=, Private, No. 10066, 1st Battn. Royal Scots, s. of George Maddock, of Stratford, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Henry Rand; b. Stratford, co. Essex, 21 March, 1890; educ. Carpenter’s Road Council School there; enlisted 19 July, 1907; went to France, 30 Jan. 1915, and died at a Clearing Station on 27 Feb. 1915, of wounds received at St. Eloi the previous day. He was buried in Bailleul Cemetery; unm.

=MADIGAN, JAMES FRANCIS JOSEPH=, Private, 12 1703, Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war; joined his unit at the Dardanelles, 8 May, 1915, and was killed in action, 8 June following.

=MAGEE, RICHARD EDWARD=, Master-at-Arms, 164813, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=MAGILL, HUGH=, L.-Corpl., No. 11355, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of Hugh Magill, of 17, Ardenlea Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11–18 March, 1915.

=MAGUIRE, CHARLES=, Private, No. 8081, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of James Maguire, of Newton Farm, East Wemyss, Fife; b. Carnoustie, co. Forfar; enlisted 13 Nov. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; dangerously wounded in the spine in action; admitted to hospital at Aldershot, 6 Nov. 1914, and died there, 12 July, 1915.

=MAHONEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 12317, 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt., s. of John Mahoney, of Convent Street, Bandon, co. Cork, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Gilman; b. Convent Hill, Bandon, co. Cork; educ. Convent School, Bandon; enlisted in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and served nine years with the Colours, going through the South African War, for which he received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He then enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery at Tralee, 4 April, 1901, and served his time in Halifax. On the outbreak of the European War he again enlisted in the 2nd Welsh, 22 Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 Dec. 1914. He m. at the R.C. Church, Dowlais, 29 Aug. 1897, Emily (29, Greenfield Terrace, Penydarren, near Merthyr), dau. of William Mitchell, and had two children: Daniel, b. 17 June, 1905; and Minnie, b. 11 June, 1898. While with the Munster Fusiliers Mahoney was a prominent regimental athlete.

=MAHONY, FREDERICK HENRY=, Capt., 1st Battn. Cheshire Regt., only s. of Capt. Frederick Henry Mahony, late York and Lancaster Regt., for some years Adjutant of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Hounslow, by his wife, Elizabeth Mary, dau. of Lawrence Cahill; b. Lucknow, 24 Aug. 1874; educ. Dover College, and by Mr. Miller Maguire, the Army Tutor, etc.; enlisted in 1892 in the York and Lancaster Regt., and served for five years in the ranks. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Cheshires, 24 Aug. 1898, and promoted Lieut., 2 June, 1900, and Capt., 10 Feb. 1906; served in the South African War, 1900; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, attd. to the A.S.C., including actions at Dreifontein, Vet River, (5–6 May), and Zand River; in the Transvaal, May to June, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11–12 June), and in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria, July to Nov., including action at Belfast (26–27 Aug.), etc. (Queen’s medal with five clasps); was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 28 Nov. 1900 to 9 July, 1904, first in Northern Nigeria, during operations against the Emir of Yola, 1901 (medal with clasp), and subsequently in Southern Nigeria with the Aro Expedition 1901–2 (clasp). From 8 Jan. 1906 to 31 March, 1908, he was Adjutant of the Durham L.I. Volunteers and of the Territorial Battn., 1 April, 1908, to Jan. 1909. He went to France with his battn. which formed part of the 15th Brigade, under Major-Gen. Count Gleichen, in Aug. 1914, and which he commanded in Oct. during the first desperate fighting in which the 2nd Army Corps was engaged in the neighbourhood of La Bassée. During this time he led a successful bayonet charge under very heavy artillery fire, and showed excellent coolness and courage, and was complimented by General Count Gleichen on the excellent work of his battn. On 22 Oct., near La Bassée, while on his way to give orders to some men in the trenches, he was mortally wounded by a bullet from a German sniper, who fired at him from a cottage window, over 1,000 yards distant, the bullet striking him in the shoulder and penetrating to the lungs. He was removed to the Clearing (114) Hospital at Bethune, where he died a couple of hours after his arrival. Before starting on his fatal journey to the trenches he had been asked, “Why not send a man with the message?” to which he replied: “I won’t ask a man to do what I won’t do myself.” He was buried in Bethune Cemetery. Capt. Mahony was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 14 Jan. 1915. He had been strongly recommended for the D.S.O. by General Count Gleichen, and according to information received by his relatives from the War Office this honour would have been duly awarded him had he lived. He m. at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, 12 July, 1905, Ethel, dau. of John Paterson, of 42, Holland Park, W., and 1, Wallbrook, City, and had issue: Frederick Henry Patrick, b. 11 Feb. 1911; and Cynthia Patricia, b. 14 March, 1909.

=MAINE, JOSEPH LESLIE=, Corpl., No. 10399, 7th (Service) Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., s. of Thomas Maine, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of Thomas Preece; b. Grangetown, Cardiff, 1 Aug. 1888; educ. Grange Schools, Cardiff; enlisted, Aug. 1914; promoted Corpl., 26 Sept.; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the 13th Division at the Dardanelles from 17 June to 8 Aug. 1915, on which date he was killed in action there. He was a well-known member of the Bream Rugby Football Club. He m. at the Baptist Chapel, Parkend, 26 Dec. 1912, Hannah (Breams Tufts), dau. of Thomas Preece.

=MAINWOOD, WILLIAM RICHARD=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., 10397 (R.F.R., Ch. A. 666), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MAIR, JOHN=, Private, No. 3334, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Walter Mair, of Church Street, Newarthill, Motherwell, by his wife, Annie Glen, dau. of (--) Buchanan; b. Newarthill, co. Lanark, 13 May, 1880; educ. there; enlisted 12 Nov. 1901; went to France, 6 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines, 17 Nov. 1914. He m. at Forsyth, Newarthill, 8 April, 1910, Annie (now wife of James Reid, of 25, Drygate Street, Larkhall), dau. of John Dobbie, and had three children: Mary Sneddon, b. 26 June, 1910; Annie Glen Buchanan, b. 29 Jan. 1911; and Margaret Dobbie, b. 8 Dec. 1913. He was awarded the Second Class Certificate of Education, 9 April, 1908, and had the Mounted Infantry Certificate.

=MAIRS, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7130), S.S. 101872, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of John Mairs, of Kellswater Station, Randalstown, co. Antrim; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=MAISEY, FRANK DOUGLAS=, Rifleman, No. 2326, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Arthur George Maisey; b. London, 28 Feb. 1893; educ. Commercial Travellers’ Schools, Pinner; enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to France, March, 1915; and was killed in action at Hill 60 21 April following, on the occasion on which the Q.V.Rs. so greatly distinguished themselves, and 2nd Lieut. Geoffrey H. Woolley of that battn. won the V.C.; unm.

=MAISEY, WALTER SRAFFORD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8384), 203623, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MALCOLM, JAMES (HAMISH) WADDELL=, 2nd Lieut., 5th (City of Glasgow) Battn. Highland L.I. (T.F.), s. of John Malcolm, of 3, Kensington Gate, Dowanhill, Glasgow, Shipowner and Shipbroker, by his wife, Margaret Black, dau. of the late James Waddell, of Airdriehill; b. Hillhead, Glasgow, 19 Sept. 1894; educ. Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 9 April, 1913; on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service with the battn., and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 12 July, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916], for gallantry in the field. Writing to his father, July 16 his Colonel stated: “A Coy. was detached as support to the 6th Highland L.I., and early on the evening of the 12th was ordered up to reinforce that battn. which had captured several trenches, but was held up at one advanced trench running diagonally across its front. Our men carried the near end of the trench, but the Turks retained the far end, and for a long time the struggle raged up and down at very close quarters between hurriedly constructed barriers of sand bags. Major Downie was severely wounded early in the fight, and for some time Hamish was the only officer of the company at that part of the trench. The men all speak in the highest terms of his pluck and the manner in which he cheered them on and kept them at it. They say that he fainted from exhaustion, but as soon as he came to, insisted on getting forward again although he was urged to rest for a little. A good deal of hand grenade work was going on on both sides, and he set the example of picking up the enemy’s grenades and throwing them back. Eventually he was struck by a grenade which exploded and killed him on the spot.”

=MALET, HUGH ARTHUR GRENVILLE=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, elder s. of Allan Arthur Grenville Malet, of The Butts, Harrow-on-the-Hill, M.I.C.E., Madras P.W.D. (ret.), Deputy Chief Engineering Inspector, Local Government Board, by his wife, Elizabeth Anne, dau. of William Lysaght, of Beechmount, co. Cork; and gdson. of the late Lieut.-Col. George Grenville Malet, 33rd (old 3rd) Queen’s Own Bombay Light Cavalry [killed in action at Bushire in the Persian War, 1857; 4th s. of Sir Charles Warre Malet, 1st Bart., F.R.S., F.S.A.]; b. Duggirala, Kistua, India, 22 Sept. 1892; educ. Harrow, and Caius College, Cambridge; was in the O.T.C. at School and College, and on entering the Inner Temple in 1913; joined the Inns of Court Squadron; volunteered for active service the day war was declared, and obtained a Special Reserve Commission in, and joined, the 3rd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Aug. 1914, and was given a commission as a University Candidate in the Connaught Rangers, 26 Sept. 1914, but at the special request of the Col., 3rd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, was transferred to them; was promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following; joined the 2nd Battn. of his regt. 26 Nov., and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 18 April, 1915; unm. Buried at Hill 60. An officer wrote: “Everyone here speaks very highly of him. And they all say he was absolutely fearless. I understand his name was sent in for ‘mention in Despatches’ for some very useful work he did in scouting. Those who were present on Hill 60 say that he was killed while trying to take a communication trench which was held by German bomb-throwers. I am told he was killed instantaneously, which is a blessing. I am really proud to have known him.” A wounded Private of his platoon wrote from a Base Hospital: “At the request of Major Bindloss, R.A.M.C., I will endeavour to the best of my ability to describe to you how your son conducted himself during his period of active service. I cannot say for certain when he joined us out here, but it was either the end of Nov. or the first days in Dec. that he was posted to No. 3 Platoon of A Coy., which I belonged to. I know we were not exactly delighted at the time, for he just looked like a young boy, and we of No. 3 did not like the idea of being led into action by a lad whom we thought had no experience, but he was not with us many days when we changed our opinion regarding him. It was our first turn in wet trenches when we began to take a little more notice of him. He came amongst us cheering us up and giving us all the help he possibly could to make things more comfortable until we were relieved. The next time we went in, your son, at a very great risk to himself, went about looking for different ways into the trench, so that we should not have to go through the communication trenches which were full of water, and he always found a way which took us into the trench with dry feet, which meant a great deal to our comfort. He was always the same every time we went into the trenches. The comfort of the men came first; this continued during the hard winter which we put in. Spring came, and with it dangerous work. Your son was always the first to volunteer, in fact he was the only officer in A Coy. who ever did any of that work. He used to go out in front of the trench scouting along with six men, perhaps he would stay out one hour, perhaps two, and then again I’ve known him stay out from 8 o’clock at night until 4 in the morning, trying to find out who were in front of us. Then came the order we were to help at Hill 60. We lay in dug-outs while our artillery shelled the Hill; the Germans replied; the air seemed to be alive; it was awful, but we sat tight until the hour arrived, 7 a.m. It was then the Hill went up; it was like a huge crater, and shook the earth for miles around. We then advanced on the Hill, and, of course, we took it. We could not see a German anywhere, but bullets and bombs came amongst us, doing frightful damage. Your son then said, ‘Follow me, men, I’ll find the Germans for you.’ We went after him, he found them, but I regret to say, they found him first. His death was instantaneous, he suffered no pain. Madam, your son died a hero, and he should have had the V.C., but unfortunately there was no one there to recommend him for same. His death was deeply regretted, not only by the men of his platoon, but by every man who was left alive in his Coy. We not only lost our best officer, but we had lost a friend.” The Medical Officer, after taking a statement from two wounded men of his platoon, wrote; “Lieut. Hugh Malet took command of the trench, and in less than an hour he was killed in an exactly similar way by a rifle bullet. His death was instantaneous. He fell within five yards of the place where Capt. Wingate was lying.... Lieut. Malet was considered by these men to be a wonderfully brave officer, he invariably volunteered for all dangerous duties; quite recently he had gone out four nights in command of scouts in front of the British trenches to try and capture German ‘listening’ posts and snipers who were suspected of using explosive bullets. The two men said that we men always said that he would either get a V.C. or be killed; Lieut. Malet used to come back from these night scouting expeditions covered from head to foot in mud, from the ditches he had crawled through.”

=MALKIN, PERCY=, Private, No. G. 2941, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 8 May, 1915.

=MALLINS, CLAUDE JOSEPH O’CONOR=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Batt. Connaught Rangers, eldest s. of the late Capt. Frederick William Mallins, 3rd East Lancashire Regt., by his wife, Eliza (now the wife of Henry O’Connell-Fitzsimon, of 31, Pembroke Road, Dublin), yst. dau. of the late Roderic Joseph O’Conor, of Milton, co. Roscommon, J.P.; b. Dublin, 3 Oct. 1894; educ. Stonyhurst College, Wimbledon, and Sandhurst; was gazetted from the Reserve of Officers to the Connaught Rangers, 14 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force on 2 Sept. and was killed close to Mollemsarrelhoek, near Ypres, while directing the fire of his platoon, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. He had been acting as Adjutant for some weeks. His Commanding Officer wrote deploring the loss of a very valuable officer who “knew no fear.”

=MANCER, ARTHUR JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3083), 210896, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.